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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dennijr:
checked the wiki today and edited, adding all tildes
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
I'm currently working on getting CM's recovery rom working on the Eve.

I've extracted the kernel and ramdisk's from the eve's boot and from the CM Recovery.

I'll going to glom the eve's kernel + the recovery's ramdisk together and see what I need to change to make it boot.

Since there's not a recovery partition on the eve this image will only be accessible via the adb boot <img> command, but it should give us an easier way to backup/recover than reflashing with the LG util every time. That'll allow us to be a little more agressive with our testing, knowing that it'll only take a few mins to restore the phone to a usable state. :)

I was trying to get the Nandroid script working, but the result is that it takes a TAR of the live system and data partitions. Not quite what we're looking for. We need the filesystems mounted, but NOT booted, and I think CMs recovery is probably a good place to start with that. I'll keep y'all informed of my progress and (assuming I get it working) will post a recovery.img when I'm done. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Having great success with the recovery rom!

I need to somehow change the button it's looking for to select, as there's no ball to push on the Eve, and there's no Alt key to hotkey... I can use the arrow keys to go up and down but no other key or key combo that I could find would work to start the selected process.

But... Whle I was booted to the recovery rom I was able to take a nandroid.sh backup from my laptop. I need to make a few more mods, but I'll be making the modified rom+script available soon. :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dukeraoul911:
I dont know exactly what's your issue and what you wanna do but if you need anything im french..(one more) ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
confirmed: the LG GW620 in france (orange) is WITHOUT gmail!

can someone send me the apk? would that work or will i miss a lot of other components?

ideally, if you can send me the apks of all the major google apps (I only have the market and agenda)

I have tried installing my gmail.apk from my dream (cupcake, running cyanogen), it says that gmail cannot be installed on my device?????
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
found the 7z archive with all the apks, I guess this will help.

will try to get the rooting etc done only afterwards.

If I screw up with the apks, can I do a full reset of the phone? (key combination or through menus)?

edit: the thing is: if I can't get gmail, I don't want the phone and will leave it "new" so anyone can use it (need to remove my google account etc). If I get email working, I can do the switch and then play with the rooting, custom roms (hopefully soon?).....
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Nice work!

I'll try to get my 1.5 source to compile the Contacts.apk, then we can just copy that one over.

Anyone know how to compile just one apk? Or do I have to make everything? 1.5 and 1.6 builds have errors straight out of the box. 2.0 built just fine.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
just tried the gmail.apk from your archive, it does not work.

if you have a working rom for the gw620, I would be interested. thanks.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] elfassy:
Did you put both Gmail.apk GmailProvider.apk in the /system/app folder? Also make sure to chmod to match the other apps.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Alright, so I got the Contacts.apk to compile in 1.5 by running a "make Contacts".

I removed Contacts.apk and Contacts.odex from /system/app.. and uploaded the compiled APK.

Contacts/Dialer would not show up in my menu. Clicking on existing shortcuts said I didn't have that app installed.

When I restored, the same issue was there until I rebooted.

Unfortunately, I'm at work so I'd rather not break my phone :) If someone wants to volunteer, I found some instructions from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=599194 that might help!

1) Make a backup of your /system/app/Contacts.*

2) Download the plain Android 1.5 Contacts.apk - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MBSERHOQ

3)

rm -r /system/app/Contacts.*
rm -r /data/dalvik-cache/system@app@Contacts.apk@classes.dex
rm -r /data/data/com.android.contacts/shared_prefs
rm -r /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/shared_prefs

4) Copy the new Contacts.apk to your /system/app folder

5) Possibly reboot? With removing the cache perhaps not needed now.

Usual disclaimer goes here.. :P But if it does not work, I personally didnt' have any issues copying the original Contacts.apk and Contacts.odex and rebooting my phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Android 1.5 (Cupcake) Contacts.apk

Remove .zip extension.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
I did just copy the gmail.apk and gmailprovider.apk on my sd, run it using OI filemanager... did not root yet so I guess I cannot remount the system partition?

edit: just redid install gmail and gmailprovider, it does not crash but blank screen. looking at the control panel (sync) I see only the agenda and the contacts, no gmail sync settings?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
in the meantime, got K-9 mail client installed. seems to work pretty well I have to say. I just don't like the very small font they use (ideas how to set that?).

I will still follow your topic, really looking forwards to a 1.6 or 2.0 build!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
No dice unfortunately, still can't get the Contacts.apk to install. That's probably all that's required to get MY5 to disappear.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] elfassy:
It might also remove some "SNS" integration (facebook ect) in the contacts.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Core_5:
"Newbs should be cared for, and nurtured tenderly"

Greetings. I'm new and found this forum because I am getting a GW620 LG Eve tomorrow. I am excited that so much work and talent has gone into this new phone. Basically I have been stuck with Fido's crappy choice of phones for too long, and decided to upgrade. I'm even managing to get it for under $300, basically mint off Kijiji :)

I am very interested in unlocking it's full potential as this project proceeds. But right now I have just been looking for a simple way to unlock the phone for use on Fido. Rooting it will probably be the first thing I do. But then once rooted, it was not made clear if there a way to unlock it without purchasing a code.

If so, please let me know the quickest way to get around that. Thanks Guys!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
An unlock code will run you $6 CDN on ebay. 2% of your purchase price is a sound investment.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Core_5:
Thanks. I will probably end up doing that since it now looks like rooting it alone won't let me just unlock the phone right away. Besides, it's practically free ^_^
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
I may have spoken too soon. In testing the backup I made I erased my phone and reflashed with the test backup I'd made. I reflashed, and now the phone freaks out when I boot. Gives lots of "Aplication (whatever) stopped responding." with a force quit button. I can't get to the launcher. I tried erasing everything again, downloaded a fresh copy the V10C_00.kdz image, and reflashed it using the LG Utility. After booting with the factory default image I still got the same errors. Arg!

it's the default image and I deleted the phone first, so ADB isn't enabled.

I even tried changing the ramdisk and building a new boot.img with adb enabled in the defaults.prop file, but adbd still doesn't start. FrackFrackFrack!

Fastboot -w does erase userdata and cache, but the errors still happen.

I manually erased every flash partition and then reimaged to factory default. Same errors.

I'm going to try booting up the recovery image again as I can get to ADB in there. Maybe with that I can fix whatever is wrong with the factory image. :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
realized I just burnt 35€ of my plan on email check during the night.... imap is really not gonna be the solution! I really need gmail..... (running on port 80 if i'm not wrong)

I would like to know a couple things then:

-does the rom you are running have french support? does it work with azerty or qwerty keyboard only?

-how do I get your standard rom? how do I install it?

many thanks guys.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] CyrilLD:
Aie aie..vilain les 35€ d'hors forfait...Orange c'est vraiment des gros enc... :(

@DJ_Spray: I'm really disappointed and sorry for your extra-cost trying to connect to your gmail account... I hope this error you made will avoid other people to do again, but I don't understand why Orange don't include all-ports connexion in their fu...ing plans...

My phone is waiting for shipping since yesterday...I hope I'll receive it tomorrow or maybe on Saturday.

Once received, my first attempts will be :

- Learn the process for unbricking before trying to play with it...

- Root the phone

- Understand all the SDK tolls functionalities (adb ans others)

After these steps, I'll try to boot the factory image on the emulator (fist try yesterday...nice tool !), try to remove all the Orange customization or install a default LG 1.5 system, get gmail, and others google apps working, a lot of exciting things, etc ...

@Zacpod : I hope you could get your phone working soon...;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
can't wait for you cyril to do all that!!!

in the meantime, got myself the orange and bouygues roms from lg website:

orange http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/GW620/AORFBB/V10h_00/V10H_00.kdz

bouygues http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/GW620/ABYTBB/V10b_00/V10B_00.kdz

I think i will flash the bouygues rom on my orange phone :P as it is supposed to have all the nice goodies (gmail, facebook integration etc). The orange rom (as usual with them) is really sh*tty!

where to get the LG flash utility now? (I have the kdz, need to flash that!)

EDIT: think I got it? http://uk.lgmobile.com/web/web.support.retrieveSoftwareUpdate.laf

edit2: doesnt vseem to work.....

Edit3: ok, got the thing to work, needed to disable the USB mass storage function so it detects the phone as a modem.... makes sense...

still, I could not choose the kdz to install (downloaded it from their server). So I got the same "orange" rom.... how do you load your own?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
I've seen the "force close" button on a factory wipe also. This usually goes away after it does some internal processing, though.

You can enable adb on a factory image by using a boot.img with the default.prop having persist.adb.enable=1
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
houray!!

got the french "open" (not customized) version: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/GW620/AFRABB/V10b_00/V10B_00.kdz

now, please someone tell me how to feed my phone, it's hungry (and me angry....)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
You can use the debrick method to flash that. Basically, you need to use LG-Utils to flash the kdz file while the phone is in emergency mode.

Read back in this thread a bit and you'll see it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] CyrilLD:
SMS from Orange

Orange info : le mobile que vous avez commandé dans le cadre du programme Changer de Mobile à quitté nos entrepots

The phone you've ordered with the "Change Your Phone" programm has just leaved our warehouse.

Youhou !!! it's comming !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
cool Cyril!

by the time you get it, I guess I will (hopefully) have solved the thing and get the "open" rom running.....

now let's find the unbrick method....
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
yessssssssss!!!!!!

gotcha!!

I just did the flash using the KP500 utils, works great! no more Orange customization, blank LG firmware with all (and nothing more) than what we want.

Gmail is there, as well as Gtalk etc....

love it!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
That sounds pretty sweet! I'm guessing it's in French though?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] CyrilLD:
Great job DJ_Spray !!

Could you quickly explain the steps you've followed to do this ?

EDIT: your link for the french-clean ROM don't work
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
it's in french yes.

regarding the link, it seems to work fine for me?? here it is again: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/GW620/AFRABB/V10c_00/V10C_00.kdz

I did the following steps:

1. download the "open" rom from the link above.

2. install LG B2C software

3. download the KP500 utility to generate from the kdz file a cab file, then install it on the GW620 using still the KP500 utility.

4. cross your fingers, pray, shout once finished!

I am currently at work, so can't really give indepth details of the procedure. will try to give you more later if you need.

Edit: source for the KP500 tool http://www.assembla.com/spaces/ks360/documents/cCrKUYI_4r3QndeJe5afGb/download?filename=LG-Utils-0.4.2.zip

B2C program: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/client/app/B2CAppSetup.exe

Edit2: will now see if the KP500 tool can also do sim unlock??? (tell me if you already know?)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
enter in 2945#*620# on dialer and then the unlock code you have.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
thanks, only thing is that the KP500 tool seems great but I don't have the needed file to find the unlock code for the GW620 (I guess it is not the same....).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
That is the utility you need. Press J and answer the questions and it will flash the phone with whatever firmware you tell it. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] madmack:
You'll need to buy the unlock code, they run at $6 on eBay. Once you have that, dial 2945#*620# and when prompted, enter that code.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Ya, that's what I thought too, but ADBD still doesn't start when I have persist.adb.enable=1 set in the default.prop, and I left the phone overnight and it's still throwing the errors. :(

When I booted up with the recovery image and logged in via adb I was able to mount all the file systems. It looks like something went sproing with lgdrm - the system.id file was missing, and the system.id file in the /system filesystem was empty. Thankfully, I had a backup, and copied the file back in to place. I've reflashed boot, and wiped usedata/cache. We'll see if the phone boots up properly now.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Yep, that was the trick! It's booting up properly again. :D

Now back to testing/tweaking the EveNandroid. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
I wonder if 1.6 would be a decent stepping stone? Without the LG source might work?

I emailed LG as well asking for the source. Doubt they will comply given the history with the LG TV's and GPL complaints. Had to get dragged into court before anything happened.

Anyone know the difference between just copying an APK file and using adb install? Wondering if I should try that next with Contacts.APK..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
Android 2.0.1 works. I'm having problems getting the radio to initialize, but that's it. It's very straight forward to do.

Simple steps:

- fastboot flash system system.img [from android 2.0.1 build]

- fastboot -w

- fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

- fastboot boot boot.img [attached earlier in this thread]

Once this is done, you're in 2.0.1. I posted instructions a few posts back on how to get radio to load (library dependencies, permissions, etc).

The boot.img I attached automounts the system and root partitions as r/w. Any changes you make are persistent on reboot. Upon your next reboot, you'll see rild launched, it just isn't quite working right. Need to debug it further.

strace is included and has helped me get this far.

I haven't had a lot of time to debug further, but the weekend and holidays are coming up.

If you want to use strace: strace -v -x -q -F -o/system/out.txt -s15000 -p <pid>

Copy the file back to your workstation and view the output to see what the pid was doing while you were attached.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] CyrilLD:
routehero... You're wonderful :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Alrighty then :) Glad you're on top of it! I was under the impression the radio issues were going to be quite difficult!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
seems great RouteHero!!!!! looking forwards to people running that, once sure it works (all features ok), I would certainly go for it!

I have been playing with gmail and moxier all night. For some reason, gmail would not sync and I would never receive my email by push (had to manually sync). Moxier works great, but i really appreciate the gmail interface (mostly the 1 line per topic and search features). I also don't really know if "exchange pushmail" always means port80 (it uses HTTP right?).

now anyway, it does work fine again with gmail, don't know why but hey!

gonna follow you guys, Android 2 build sounds like magic!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Spray, try cleaning your cache and disabling/reenabling sync.

As an aside.. We really should start two threads, one for specific rooting/firmware porting, one for general EVE questions.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] fraps:
I agree... On the same note, my gmail will not sync, did the clear data, remove and readd the sync data numerous times and still no go. I'm starting to think it's 1.5 but it works for others... I'll give it till Monday.

If you need testers let me know.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Wooo! I've now been able to take a nandrroid image of the phone from from factory defaults, no prob.

It's still not quite ready for primetime tho... Whenever I take an image of a modified/personalized phone it gives me grief and won't remount userdata after a restore. Very odd, but I'm working on it.

Also, since the mess with the system.id + lgdrm partition I've been unable to use HSDPA. Wifi works fine, but cell data doesn't work at all. I can make and receive phone calls though, which is odd.

Still plugging away though. Hopefully I'll have a fastbootable image + nandroid script that's stable enough to share by tomorrow. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Awesome man! Nice to hear, keep up the good work!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
Have the radio working for about 2 seconds on restart. Have modified my build.prop and init.rc to make the various permission changes for rild to execute.

This lead me to /system/etc/flex/flex.xml. After restoring this file in 2.0.1, rild launches and works temporarily. It terminates and goes in to a restart loop.

The file seems to control whether or not the device is locked, which could possibly mean the device can be soft unlocked, but I don't have a way to test that.

/system/etc/flex/settings.db has the My5 stuff you have all been looking for:

sqlite3 settings.db "select * from flexinfo where flex_name='PB_SUPPORT_RGS_MY5_I'"

But, there's a lot of other good stuff in there too. Haven't gone through it all yet.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
is your system.id still set as your IMEI?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Ya. It's working fine now. It was really weird. My system.id was showing up as my imei, and the radio was synching (i.e. it would switch up from 3g to H) and I could use the test menu to flip it between gsm/3g/hspa freq's, and I could see data going out, but nothing was coming back. The fix was, strangely enough, to pop my SIM out and drop it in to my wife's phone - I let it boot up and tell me the phone was locked to a different carrier. When I popped it back in to my phone everything worked fine. *shrug* Maybe Rogers saw something weird with my sim since I was constantly rebooting and probably lost my imei when I lost my system.id and locked me out. When they saw traffic coming from that sim on another phone they unlocked? That's my wild guess. I'm just happy it's working now. :)

I have a solid backup of my rooted system.img and boot.img.

Userdata.img, however, isn't working right. When I restore the image I get kernel panics and the Android equivalent of a BSODs. When I "fastboot erase userdata" it works fine. I need to look thru the script some more and make sure it's getting the image of userdata right.

Also, as an aside, I've made a system.img that is pre-rooted, has bash, a proper terminal, the nano editor, terminfo (so curses, nano, etc, will work) and Superuser. After ensuring there's no data on there that would set someone else's phone to my IMEI or something, I'll make it available to anyone who's interested. It may save someone some time rooting their own phone, since all they'd have to do is boot up to fastboot and flash the system.img. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
yep, one really good thing would be to get a new section (even though it's not a HTC phone......) or a subsection on the android part.

Regarding the gmail sync, I did clear and resync several times yesterday, never worked until suddenly! now works great so will not touch it!

one quick question as I look at the differences between my G1 and the Eve: is there any way to set display of only contacts with phone numbers on the contact application? I now have more than twice a much contacts on my list.....
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Great success. Nandroid totally works now from the host. It's not working from the device yet, but I have a program that shows me keycodes, so I should be able to map something to the wheel-in button and make the on-device interface functional. But, booting the modified recovery image and then running (from a linux host) my modified nandroid.sh results in a set of files that you can flash back to the device to recover from in case of bricking. This means we can now recover without having to boot in to windows. :D And, even better, we can recover to where the device was configured instead of recovering to the factory image. It's laaate and I'm sleepy, but I'll post my modified nandroid tomorrow. :D

I'll post this too. It makes life a lot easier having a tooled-up system.img. :)

Off to sleep now. It's been a looong day. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dukeraoul911:
congratulation!

this is great news that we do not depend on LG and windows to restore image.

You guys have been doing great work. We're all grateful for this:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Snap, at this rate we'll have 2.1 by next week! :P hahaha.

Thanks for the lead routehero I will dig around this my5 stuff :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Question - Do we have any non-Rogers users here that are rooted? If so, can you please do the following?

cd /etc/flex
sqlite3 settings.db
select * from flexoperator;
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
really great work guys!

I feel also like next week we'll be running systems LG had no plan on making :P
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
mmm, I don't know how to type that as I don't have a shell on my eve (installation of the terminal emulator crashes from the market...)

tell me how to get the terminal, and I'll run that with pleasure!

edit: looked at the wiki, will try connecting with my home pc tonight as it has adb installed (used it for my G1) and will drag files over. I guess we need to do a remount,rw to get write access?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Yes, you have to do a remount.

Also, anyone who's rooted and UNLOCKED their phone (routehero?) can you do this as well?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dukeraoul911:
I've got this:

1 IT TIM 222 01

2 FR BYT 208 20

3 BR TIM 724 02

I guess BYT is for Bouygues Telecom my phone company.

why do you need this?

PS: there isn't any desc command to describe the fields, I tried .schema but it doesnt show anything