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[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well Krap That don't Work...

Can't put cricket's spree system on zone3 I really want to be able to use this hardware on the Cricket Network
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Update:

Team_Astr4y4L

Will be having Half-price Thursdays

Every service Half-off on thursdays

Thanks
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
VS425PP8 Works

Picked up another LG Zone 3 today for cheap. Today's was PP8... Opened the box and flashed it with no problem...

Easy Peasy.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Team_Astr4y4L Strikes Again

Easy Peasy....

Lol God I Love that! :good:

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@Motojunkie01

So how did it go?

Are you diggin this?

;)
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
And a new (to me) PP7 from eBay.

Hopefully, this is enough testing to prove that [MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION] hack is awesome.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Here's something else

Just made a freak hybrid.

Zone3

Force flashed...

K4. Lgl121

Twaaahahahaha

tehehe....

But seriously ...

Wifi not working usb not functioning . Or rather my pc can't see it now...

Probably drivers and krap....

Hmmmmm.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well.

Guess they should call me cpuSlayer.

2 nd one in a couple months.

All development is hereby delayed until I can get a suitable replacement PC.

Everything up to this point is still available on my server at my site thankfully.

But my workstation is toast.

R.I.P.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
New pc has been ordered.

I really. can't afford it but I'm hopeful that donations from my work here will be enough to offset the cost.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Ive got an idea that we may be able to open gsm etc by porting the system and radio firmware from a k4 .

The method i want to use will require mounting both system images under linux and swapping apps and firmware folders libraries etc from the k4 to the zone3.

And then flashing the resulting image useing a specially crafted payload in lgup as with the new easyflash root method we just finished developing.

I wont personally be able to do this untill...

A - my new workstation gets delivered next week.

And

B - i get a new device to test this on.

But if any of our brothers here want to give it a go ,thats the direction we are headed.

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Hi everyone recently asked a question by an associate how to get rid of a persistant notification.

(Thanks again for the zone 3 root! I just have a quick question since you’re great with androids. Do you know of a way to disable the “app is not responding” notification?)

From adb shell

Or android terminal

su

pm disable (packagename)

Where packagename is the apps actual name

a list of all available packages can be found with

pm list packages
[General Topics] Heimish:
Would root allow me to enable diag mode for flashing? I see flashed ones available on eBay so it must be possible...
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Hmmmm.

Well by rooting you Get access and authority to make any low-level changes you want.

I know for fact I've seen the diag setting listed in build.prop

And you are correct with out root access you can't change it.

As to flashing the device... not sure what you mean.

I flash them using lgup and download mode.

We have not been able to use fastboot with this device.

Lg disabled it in boot. Since the fiasco with the

G2 and G3 and all the contraversy concerning

Team codefire and that guy that ripped off thair work and

Posted OpenBump.py openly...

What an arse.
[General Topics] Heimish:
By flashing I mean using CDMA workshop to edit prl or meid etc., not firmware flashing
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Ah ha

Well if that's what your after I'm sure by rooting the device

You're going to be able to set usbsettings and diag mode through build.prop edit.

Though I myself am not super familiar with cdmaworkshop.

As a sidenote after useing one of my hacks.

There will be available in lgup an option called.

(Phonesetting) and it deals with a lot of prl settings rvnuim and such.

But honestly I don't know what changing those settings does.

I would say root it and let us know how it go's
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Moving foward...

We are going to try to adapt our quick-root to other lg devices.

And for the zone 3 we have moved our focus to gsm unlocking.

To adapt our method to other devices we will need to aquire new testing devices.

If anyone has a lg device that you woul like to see this done to you may make suggestions.

If your suggestions include sending us a device to work on we will be more apt to put it top of the list.

You know if we own a device. It will be top of the list.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Great News :

I saved a ton of $$$$ by switching to Geico. ;)

No not really. But Team Astr4y4L's New workstation is now functional.

8 Gb ram

Dualboot on seperate Hdd

Ubuntu 17. 1.5 Tb

Windows 10x64 250Gb

We are setting up our work environment as I speak. An soon will spread our hacks like a virus to all other Lg devices compatible with LgUp
[General Topics] Heimish:
Thanks for your great work on this device! Ordered one off eBay and will donate when I get it rooted :) Do you have a recovery for this yet?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Congrats !!!

The zone3 is getting some attention but the problem with custom recovery is that we are basically blocked in boot and we can't fix that YET because of aboot...

But I Use one of these every day and its really a great fone.

right now i'm focused on gsm domestic sim unlock by remote usb connections

having absolutely nothing to do with the conventional methods useing IMIE and dialer codes and all..

we're going to offer it as a service once we've got it all worked out.

currently waiting on a box of zone3's and possibly other Vs425 varients to test on.

As a byproduct of the research and development on gsm enableing

I've Got a neat toy that i'm sending to a friend to tinker on ...

Zone3 Dirty-Forced flashed to K4 firmware... but it's buggy and can't connect to a network .

He has quite a selection of simcards to test with it so...

But it does SEE the verizon, and Cricket networks thats all I've tested in it.

If nothing else it's an Odity that reflects that we will with time and effort accomplish full GSM on these phones

So [MENTION=5943400]Heimish[/MENTION] Have you decided on which method you'll use for your Zone3 Root needs?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
UPDATE:

---------------------------MURPHY'S LAW-----------------------------

IF IT CAN GO WRONG IT WILL GO WRONG AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, ofcourse I got us all set-up workstation for modding out lg firmware for you all,

workstation is working sooo nicely !

BUT...

Murphy strikes again .

they hit my Bank account for the money to pay for the CO/Pay's and stupid fee's associated with the Wife's Emergency-room Visit and subsequent Emergency Surgery....

SO , when it came time for Auto-pay to Pay the bill for my Phone-Service (which is also my ONLY internet connection for anything) the money was not there and auto-pay couldn't pay.

and Now I'm Broke... (see 4 line's above)

So I Will Be placing any New Development on Hold untill such time as I can Raise the Funds to Pay the Phone Bill... ($50.00 plan on verizon) so that I have My tethered Android connection to provide Internet Access for the Whole Workstation...

Idea's

1: Maby someone wants things to continue

in a timely manner so they donate $55.00 at my website....

2: maby someone needs remote root on two devices... that would do it.

3: Break out the old lawn-mower and talk someone into paying for cut grass...

4: Wait 30 days untill I get My Monthly Pay-check from My Regular job deposited in the Bank and let Auto-pay handle the details...

So that's Where thing's Sit At Team_Astr4y4L

But on the bright side...

the server at Amazon is still UP so the stuff

we already have remains fully functioning and available..

and Now I'm Actually seriously looking into the Fone-Farm thing...
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Hi there , I read through almost every page of this thread and it's pretty crazy all the progress you have made :) I have an LG K4 k121 and I was wondering if what you guys done with the zone 3 could somehow apply to my k4. I read here and there that the K4 and some others are the sister phones of zone3.. which is pretty cool but I have not found anything anywhere for the K4. I did try all the new root methods for LG devices but didn't work.
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
I tried (asked this question) and was shot down.... :)

Thinking out loud... Wonder if this method would destroy the "phone" ability, but keep the wifi which is all I care about anyway. Unfortunately, don't have one to play with yet.

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I tried (asked this question) and was shot down.... :)

Thinking out loud... Wonder if this method would destroy the "phone" ability, but keep the wifi which is all I care about anyway. Maybe the entire stupid thing.

Unfortunately, don't have one to play with yet.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Shotdown ?

WOWZERS !!!!

First, anyone who "SHOT you Down" for asking this question is an idiot !

Second, [MENTION=7110888]Chekm8Qc[/MENTION]

I want to say this is absolutely possible to apply to K4 and I'm already in possession of a fully modified and rooted system.img for the Vs425PP K4. 8gb version

the only thing is that the one I posses is for a Canada version of the K4 running on The subsity that uses At&t towers..."can't remember the actual name" - could examine build.prop later to get it if need be.

And I actually accidentally ended up with a zone3 that now thinks it's a K4 by flashing a .kdz that I was Modding.

{GSM research}

so yes I believe with a bit of work we can probably quickly get that going for you on your k4.

BUT...

as I said, if you flash it you will be on At&t towers afterwards. ON THE UPSIDE the

device that was used to prepare the flash file was actually GSM unlocked and so you may be able to use any of the compatable sim cards and get service...

Can I promise it will work and not turn your device into a FLAMING TURD ? :p

NO .

Am I Willing to try ? :good:

Yes !

but you will have to accept that I'll be basically testing an untested Process on your Phone. :crying:

So if it's your daily driver I'd recommend you wait until I've had a chance to test it on a test device

I'd feel real bad if I tell you to Flash this or that and end up killing your only phone or whatever....

ALL THAT BEING SAID....:fingers-crossed:

If anyone has a K4 8gb version and wants to try we can give it a shot....

just post here on the thread.

and Team_Astr4y4L will be watching.:cool:

[MENTION=7986894]Cubcadetlover[/MENTION]

Hi Brother ! how's it going ? Hows the farm? Lol

I'm actually looking at the potential income involved in these fone-farm things...

just don't see much point in continuing until I get a high-speed internet connection

to pipe my local network through...

Looking at at&t .

but yea, how's everything been going? Have you encountered any issues with all those zone3's you flashed with my root?

I'm working on integrating the GSM-Unlock into the Root so that it's basically an all-in-one

GSM + FRP + Root

but the lack of high-speed internet is killing me on the time it takes me to download a firmware to modify and the time it takes to upload my results to the server for testing and distribution .

Uggh!!!

but soon we will have all that taken care of hopefully .

and I was wondering.... Do you happen to have an 8gb Lg K4 to test this on?

Astr4y4L

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absolutely possible !!!

but see the post above...

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74097221&postcount=760
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Not upset on the "shot you down"... No big deal.

The farm is rocking and rolling... Picking up broken/used ones on ebay where possible as my goto phone. Otherwise new with discounts/sales. By far my most stable phone. My only concern is 5.1.1 vs something newer, but I will run them into the ground... Oh and MASSIVE battery bloat.

No other LG phones for me.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Awesome , I'm so glad things are working !

but quick question when you say

I'm wondering exactly what you mean are your batteries not lasting very long?

Or are the batteries lasting a good amount of time?

I ask because if your having battery issues we can try to kill some more pre-load apps and background services , etc.

I definitely don't want anyone to be dis-satisfied with the results of our work.

and as always thankyou so much for your feed-back

Astr4y4L
[General Topics] Gunhot15:
Need help with bootloop issue

I have the vpp8 version of the phone I have the vpp2 software downloaded can u guy send me a email of steps my email is bljhawks54@AOL.com
[General Topics] Gunhot15:
Yea root

I will pay $50 next week for your help with this we can do it then thanks allot for the response
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
[MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION]

Thanks for the quick response and so detailed hehe. So to start .. I hate option #2 lol. I really don't have the time to start doing a bunch of research for LG UP .. I have two kids and my wife hates when I'm pinned in front of the the computer for hours haha.

What your saying is pretty encouraging, that probably means that the other firmware I have is good after all and would probably work on my k121. If it doesn't .. I just have to flash the current kdz that Im on right now.

I will look into donating, I think it's worth a try.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Awesome

Sounds great. Just Pm me when your ready.

I'll connect you to my server, give you my phone number to call me and we will go through it together step by step.

When we are finished you'll have root.

And you're going to be able to repeat the process as needed to root as many Zone3's as you like!

Welcome to the rooted club, Lol ;)

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Sounds great. Let us know when your ready to try it.

I would like to try to flash ONLY your system partition,

Firstly because that's where we did the root modifications,

And secondly because that way we can be sure that we get back into download mode if anything go's wrong.

Since you're willing to give this a shot, and since its untested on K4.

I'm willing to cut you a break on the donating,

Meaning, if we do this and it works, then you donate because your happy that it worked.

But if it doesn't, then I help you back to stock and I go back to my server to make changes so we can try again.

Like Ive stated previously, I won't stop trying to port this method to every LG device We can find.

It's so freakishly easy once I get it to work the first time with a device.

Astr4y4L
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
[MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION]

Something scares me though .. You said your test device wad an 8gb k4 ? Mine is 4gb, maybe the rest of the specs are the same though ( msm8909 quad snapdragon) Are these details important ?

Oh and if it bricks .. what kind of brick are we talking about.? Will LGUP still be able to flash my stock kdz ?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well , firstly I truly believe your mistaken about your device, as far as being 4gb....

I truly believe that what you mean is YOU have "about" 4gb of space in your ROM and what that in turn means is that you've got the 8gb version of the K4.

because the system +boot+ modem,etc adds up to roughly 4 gb and the userdata + grow partitions make up the rest of the 8gb...

basically everyone with a stock Lg phone regardless of make & model , unless of course you buy the flagship version has roughly an 8gb ROM and you have half of that space to use for your apps and pictures,music,files,etc.

AND The fact that your on

K12110f_00_0912.kdz Firmware , Correct ?

Means for sure that you have the 8gb ROM.

Now about the bricking ,

We will not touch your Boot partitions nor your Laf partitions only your System partition.

That means you should have no issues getting back to Download Mode By the normal method (volume-up + plug-in usb) as that is controlled by Aboot + Boot + Laf partitions in that order...

So if we fail the first time, we should have no issues going stock again to be able to come back and try again ;)

So No Worries :good:
[General Topics] XeeheroX:
Hello [MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION] .

I've received an LG Zone3 425pp6 ..

I had to unlock it so i might be able to use it in Egypt. I didn't have any possible way to pay for the unlocking cause online payments in Egypt were blocked long ago ..i asked a friend in the US to get the unlock code for me .. And once i used the unlock code the phone got actually unlocked ... But with no services .. I made some search that took me to multible threads here .. As i just want to get a signal for the phone to be able to use it for GSM/3G networks in Egypt ..

I have the PP6 .. I don't know where to start

I've downloaded the PP2 kdz . i have no idea how to get it flashed .

I've tried .. LGUP .. Only to get the message of Unknown model .

I also tried VZW UTILITY ... and it's not even starting as it gives a message that says no internet connection .. While my connection is fine ..

I even tried the LG FLASHTOOL .. but i don't know how or where to get the .dll file that suits the PP2

Please help i just urgently need a working phone before the 12th of october ..

Thanks in advance guys .. I've read almost everything on this thread and i can see the effort and how long it took you to get this done ..
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
When I say bloat, the batteries physically expand. They actually push into the LCD display and cause bad spots on the display. I could care less other than if the battery stops working and I need to replace it. Cuts into the earnings. :cool:

The issue occurs for me after about 1 year of use. For me they are constantly plugged into the USB chargers. I’ve read it happens whether you periodically discharge them or not.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Hmmmm

So are you Bricked or trying to Root ?

If your bricked and the device still go's to download mode I can probably get you back to stock.. I gots an ace in the Hole as they say.

But if your looking for root we can do that too.

I don't however know if you will loose whatever your friend has had done to the device.

I'd love to do a full dump of the device first if we can get lgup to see it.

But today was the 9th and you need a phone by the 12 just don't know if we can get it done in that time frame.

And if you go stock again it may not work on your network. ..

Are they using Verizon towers in Egypt?

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Oh thanks so much for clearing that up !

I was actually worried my mods were draining your battery or some crazy thing....

I imagine what is occurring is the battery is expanding because the lithium gets HOT after a lot of use..

Its to be expected if you run them continuously

That the base metals that make up the lithium ion battery

Will expand with heat and contract with cold,

And the lithium will decay at a certain rate(talking nuclear physics) causing the release of gas which will intern cause the casing of the battery to warp.

I was scared you meant the battery was dyeing extremely fast or something and that would indicate a problem in your ROM.

Boy in glad you chimed in to clear that up !

Hey don't worry though,

Team_Astr4y4L will always have your back!

;)
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Omg I'm such a noob lol.. Okay so that sounds not too risky :) I would definitely be willing to try that system img if it means getting that darn device rooted eventually hehe.

Would u be interested in the K12110c_00_0224.kdz at all ? Thought maybe that one would be usefull since it's an earlier version .. and I think it's" rootable" cause I read that some k121 owners were able to root via Kingroot before they updated. I noticed that this "C" version isn't on any firmware websites anymore but I still have it on my pc.
[General Topics] XeeheroX:
Thanks [MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION] for replying

i didn't try anything yet it still untouched with PP6

and as far as i know if the phone can get GSM activated and work on AT&T networks ,that also will work on all Egypt's GSM/3G Networks, which i think it can be done if i can root it..
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Brother if root is what you need we can arrange that in a matter of 30 minutes

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YESSSSS!!!!!

upload that sucka somewhere that I can use wget or Curl to grab it PLZ!
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
UPDATE : FRANKIN_MOD_PROJECT

we are very close to being able to turn zone3's into Canadian K4's

I have a zone3 now running K4 firmware and tested with Cricket Sim card.

Working:

mostly everything,

wifi, LTE-Data, Text-messaging , Apps.

NOT-WORKING:

voice telephone-calls

I believe the issue with voice telephone calls is that it's still trying to route Voice over CDMA-EVDO Network and the Cricket/At&t Network is LTE/GSM

I truly believe with a bit more time I will most likely be able to tweak some build.props to tell it to default to LTE/GSM instead of the other and then technically speaking I will Have GSM-UNLOCKED it....

So what do ya' think guys?

IS this worth pursuing ?

Has ANYONE ever heard of anything like this before?

I personally am ecstatic because if I get Voice working (with-out having to use hangouts-dialer) I will not have to be stuck with Verizon and the supper shi*ty Data throttling BS

also If I can further this to work with T-Mobile towers

I can run the sim from my free-Obama-phone in it and pay exactly $1.00 for a year of service !!!

:) :) :) :) :) :) ;) :p

IF anyone with actual android knowledge has any tips tricks or advise that I should be aware of concerning

the Voice-Service

Please share !

Thanks,

Astr4y4L
[General Topics] XeeheroX:
[MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION]

thanks a lot where do i start .. if i have to downgrade to PP2 from PP6 , i wold have to get LGUP to recognize my device

and if i dont need to flash an older PP2 then where do i start?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Ok buddy I'm going to get you to stock (no-root) but recognized in lgup

I will Pm you a link and after you download that pm me back...

after we get you recognized in lgup it's no prob to get you rooted.
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
I've seen that a few times... In most instances, just close LGUP and unplug the USB... Replug and its happy.

Did you install the LG MTP drivers in Windows?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
True

Very true . Sometimes. ...

Iv even been able to trick it by connecting one phone getting lgup ready.

Then quickly replacing the good phone with the bad one....

But sometimes that doesn't work.

In cases where those dont work i have another method

That involves my hacked version of

Lg_flashtool_2014

And after that lgup works every time ;)

I sent him a link. If i can help him get stock and working with lgup im hoping that he will donate for the full root access.

Hey did u catch the news on frankin_mod?

A freekin zone 3 running as K4.

Im posting from it now.

Im freaking blown away !!!

Can call over ip. Hangouts etc.

But haven't gotten around to fixing voice over lte yet.

Its pretty kool though ?
[General Topics] Merazomo:
My downgradable LGVS425PP5 starts with 610CQXXXXXXXXX; it doesn't have display issues.