[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Can you clarify exactly how it is that it calls it the V496? What I mean is, if you go to LG's website and use the search or support function and type V495, are you saying that it takes you to the information for the V496?

I just looked on LG's website. There's the main page for the V495 http://www.lg.com/us/tablets/lg-V495-g-pad-f-8.0, and the Manuals and Downloads/Documents section http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-LGV495#manuals. There's also http://www.lg.com/us/lgeai/drivers and you can type V495 there.

FYI, you won't find KDZ or TOT downloads through the official website - not that way, anyway. I'm only familiar with how things work with Verizon LG devices so I don't know if there's something similar, but for us there's an official means to (temporarily) get KDZs through a Windows LG Repair tool. We choose "Update Recovery" from a menu and it temporarily downloads the latest KDZ, flashes it and then deletes the KDZ unless you're savvy and copy the KDZ elsewhere while it's busy flashing so you have a copy to use with the unofficial "LG Flash Tool 2014" tool that's on XDA, without having to have the official tool redownload the KDZ every time you want to use it.

I think AT&T and T-Mobile might not have an official tool to get KDZs/TOTs, from what I've read but my memory wouldn't be perfect on the subject since I've only read it in passing.

You *could* try the T-Mobile KDZ since you're likely not going to make it any worse than it already is at this stage. It still remains to be seen if you can even flash a KDZ - we don't know if it will even go that far until you try. I see the 496 KDZ also here http://devtester.ro/projects/lg-firmwares/country.php?country=United+States if you type V49 in the search field. You can also try the IMEI search and type in your IMEI although it won't surprise me if it still won't come up with a KDZ.

Edit: hold the horse, doing a search for V495 TOT right now, might have something. We'll see in a sec.

Edit 2: Well, I'm not having enough luck. There's a questionable search result for "V49510 TOT" for a likely Chinese website but I just can't get the site to load properly. Even if I load a cached and translated version of the webpage, the download links just spin and then eventually fail for me: LG V495 PAD Firmware V49510A_00 USA ATT Edition - LG G Pad F ...:

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Okay, time to start a new post I hope. Here's the TOT in this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66946050&postcount=13. Make sure and thank him. But it's useless without the correct .DLL and all I've seen is other people around the web looking for the .DLL too. Possibly unless you can make it go into QHSUSB_BULK 9008 mode. I don't think the program for recovery from that, which uses the TOT, requires the .DLL. *Maybe* you can use a .DLL extracted from the V496 KDZ.

I'm downloading the TOT and going to 7-Zip it and re-upload it so it's a lot smaller. Also for archiving purposes since it's too rare to leave it to only one download source just in case. I'm also uploading the .DLL that comes from the V496 10B KDZ, for testing to see if it'll work with the V495 TOT. Will update and advise when files are finished uploading. You'll have to extract them with 7-Zip after downloading.