yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
Some thoughts about the project :

- Why the older *.img have been removed from the project page ? I won't mind if 6.0 was able to do as fine as 4.X but it's not really true.

People using Open Etna and needing volume control on the device can't use 6.0... and can't download 4.X versions. Even if they are "not supported" anymore they are still useful ! Would be great to re-upload them !

- It would be great to clear a little the issue list on the google code project page.

There is still plenty of issues from 4.X that are completly useless now as further versions will probably stay on Froyo... If someone can do so, please clean that issue list :)

- I feel it's getting more and more urgent to create a forum dedicated to Open Etna, dev could continue using this thread for very techy discussions but lambda users would appreciate of forum where they can exchange informations and tutorials...

Anyway Open Etna is kind of ressurecting my phone, Thumbs up !!

(Only concern is the no volume control problem, making my Spotify app quite useless)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] erdna1980:
The older images aren't removed, simply choose "All Downloads" at the search field and then click on "search".

Now you can see all downloads
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
Ah :/

My bad :(

Thanks !

What do you think of the other ideas ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lotuong:
Problem while upgrading to android 2.2

I tried to upgrade my LG GW620 follow instructions on Open Etna website. But I forgot the line:

fastboot -w

then because the device keep running with the logo of CyanogenMod for a very long time, I decided to add the missing line mentioned above. After that, all I have is the error notice just like in post 17 of this thread.

Please tell me what I should do to recover my LG "brick".

Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Polytheus:
OpenEtna 6.0-rc5 is out!

- Volume buttons should work again.

- Keyboard layout can be changed under Settings->Language & Input->Physical Keyboard

Full Changelog and Downloads are available under openetna.com.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
thats why http://www.openetna.com exists for a reason.

Anyway, OpenEtna 6.0 rc5 has been released. Check it out on the website.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mark.moby:
when to use fastboot -w

Hi all!

Could anyone clarify when it is necessary to wipe user-info and when it is not?

fastboot -w

The docs on openetna seem to hint that, once you have installed the cyanogen dist once, you don't have to -w ever again... but they don't EXPLICITLY say that... so I may be mis-interpreting them.

Clarification please?

Cheers all!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] nr1:
Hi guys,

i have stock firmware (v10B) on my gw620 but want to try the OpenEtna firmware. Unfortunately i wasn't able to access fastboot mode, so i think this firmware version doesn't support it. What is the best / fastest way to get a fastboot-mode-enabled firmware on my device? (to be able to flash openetna firm)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
fastboot -w erases user data and cache, you must do this when switching from diferent android versions, if you use 2.1 and are going to flash 2.2 you must fastboot -w BEFORE flashing the 2.2.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
I don't get it :/

I mean there isn't any forum on openetna.com.

Sure people can ask you to put content on it but it's far from a forum.

I love the work you did on that website, trust me, but it's not replacing a forum at all. The only place to discuss for now on is here, and it's not right !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
I hear what Tetsuo's saying. We could just throw a forum up on the openetna.com wordpress instance? We're drowning this thread in 190 pages of ongoing comments that'd be a lot easier to digest if it were multiple threads rather than crammed into one...

We do also have the LG GW620 Eve forum over at AndroidNetwork.org for anything that isn't specific to openetna.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
http://code.google.com/p/openetna/d...=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount

This link show all the versions over openetna, you can download any build you wish :)

Actually since we bring up this forum issues i am wondering whats next step on openetna, not as development but as logistc, i mean, are we cyanogen? if so we could be on their supported devices list make use of their OTA update tool and all their comunity stuff. Maybe sorting this out kinda give directions on where to head now, comunity wise.

I got some domains and host storage, i can provide a forum but i certainly cant admin alone, i need someone to help with the administrator part and such. We really need a forum, like half of the posts here could be a topic in another forum :p.

Any ideas?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lotuong:
Tried to upgrade to V6.0-RC5 but still fail. There must be some other solution. Can anyone tell me what it is?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
Hey bro if you have a backup of your original rom, do a fastboot -w and flash that rom to recover, you can use toleROM 1.5 or Zac's 1.6 to recover also then with the phone recovered you can try again 6.0rc5.

Hope it helps good lucky
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
i have uploaded a 1.5 kdz file to dropbox.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1145024/V10E.kdz

will be posting on openetna soon.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
I'll be opening a forum tonight on OpenEtna.

It would be good if you guys out here can propose a forum structure. If you are interested to be a moderator please drop me an email @ cwhchew@coxiar.com

We need a decent theme too !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
I would say a dev section for the devs and ppl who are not dev but can help with stuff, a help section for trouble shoting and a general section for stuff related but not exclusive to openetna.

There could be a language/nation section by request, we got alot of Asian folks here they can help each other in their own language, those who dont speak english, i could moderate a Portuguese section if theres enough portuguese speaking people too.

For the theme, anything that goes with that sweet header image on openetna.com, that picture is just great!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
hmm sounds good ! i'll see if i can port the theme over.

hopefully the site will run fine without me incurring too much bandwidth charges. the website itself receives a total of 3k visits daily.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lotuong:
Wanna say thanks to Ustrucx

From your suggestion, I've go through quite complicated steps to unbrick my GW620. Start from toleROMv0.8, then LG Mobile update, then downgrade with LG Ultis, then upgrade again with 6.0-rc5... It's took me 6 hours but worth my effort. I'm singing like a bird now! :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
Glad to hear it works for you!!!

cwhchew i have some bandwidth its a standard linux host service if you wana split things up or host some stuff with me just let me know ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] grunf:
summary

Hi to all

I heave been watching this thread for some time. lately i didn't heave enough time to read all posts and to check openetna site.

can someone post what is status?

ie

sound:

bt:

wifi:

gsm:

gprs:

keyboard:

touch_buttons:

etc.

since im using all functions of mobile i can not flash it with something that doesn't fully work. (some functions are less significant so i can live with limited functionality bit i need to know this)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DeathLT:
Hey guys, nice work all! Amazing efforts gives amazing rezults! :) "in your face LG!"

I am using a ToleRom (1.5) now and i have one question. There is possibility to move apps to SDcard. For that, you need to have ext2 partition. I tried to create it with TolePart, but unsuccesfully. Maybe you know other way to do that? I am using windows 7.

Thanks for help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Giuvi72:
Request for Zacpod

@Zacpod

While waiting for the froyo firmware, is it possible for you to provide us a v10U based version of your 1.6 (excellent) firmware?

It should fix some minor bugs of V10T (like goggles crash and so on)

Many thanks in advance!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
alright (: i'll give the forum a run on my server first and monitor the bandwidth usage. thanks for the upfront offer !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
\o/

That's great ! A real forum where people can ask their questions ! It's a relief since some questions landed even in the issue tracker :/

Think about a Design/Graphic section where people can do some Theming of Open Etna.

For example:

- Theming home (ADW since we are on Cyanogen ?)

- Boots animations.

- Black top statusbar tweak.

There is plenty of neat things to do to make Open Etna even better :p
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] floydogi:
The only way to make multiple partition on SD is under linux. Try some linux live cd. Search google for instructions.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trystan2k:
Hi

Anyone already seen this ? http://blog.lge.com/471

Could your Korean friends help us to translate ?

A guy in opnetna ( trustin ) said:

"It says: the official Froyo update is coming between late Nov and early Dec."

Could this be true ? Is this blog LG´s official ?

If it is true, it will be pretty easy to have our opetna release working 100% right ?

Trystan
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
Just installed boot 2.1.1 and rc5.

First thoughts compared to stock 1.5:

-No FM Radio app (figured this was LG exclusive?)

-browsing pictures (Gallery) is painfully slow off the Sandisk class 4 microsdhc card

-opening a picture is slow

-Seems sluggish. Simply rotating the phone takes longer to register.

-RockPlayer stated that it has a 382mhz CPU?

-Can't play any mp4's that I had encoded using Handbrake set for Ipod Touch compatibility. I get no video, sound is there. Tried Rock Player (can't play), Arcmedia (can't play) and the default player

I haven't tried bluetooth yet.

Is it normal that I am noticing the slowness in performance? Having it search through the photos (there are 118 but they are maybe 50-100kb each) is very very very slow.

Is the 2.1 release better in respect to the above? I know the FM radio app was from LG and won't be there (which I'll miss sadly) but I would really like for it to be snappier than what it is now, and be able to watch videos/photos.

*Edit*

2.1 is worlds faster than 2.2. Gallery was like night and day. Videos still not viewable though, and bluetooth doesn't work. I keep getting calendar crashing on 2.1 though (4.5 RC1), very annoying. And it still can't be shut down/rebooted without removing the battery.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Oh wow. I actually thought that the gallery wasn't working at all... apparently I just didn't wait long enough. That's a testament to how insanely unusably slow the gallery is, that I was under the impression it was non-functional because it didn't show anything for sooo long :|

I'm assuming this is due to the lack of hardware acceleration, as the current gallery seems to be openGL?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
No idea, I just noticed how freakingly painful it was to try to view a photo. I tried arcmedia to view with but it doesn't seem to view jpgs (wth?).

So if I do decide to try to rollback to Boot 1.7/4.5rc1 to go back to 2.1 Eclair, will it be faster than the current Froyo 2.2 implementation?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] nr1:
thank you very much.

now there is just the question left how to flash this image. i found an manual somewhere. Is it the same procedure as described here?

1. Install BC2APPSetup.exe

2. Plug in your device (not in debug mode Settings-Applications-Development-debug mode)

3. Execute KP500-Utils-EN.exe

4. Enter I

5. Write the path to the V10G_00.kdz

6. Enter J

7. Enter GW620

8. Enter path to V10G_00.cab file.

9. Enter V10G_00

10. Then the LG Updater is open and trying to flash your phone with the selected firmware.

11. Enter in your LG Eve/Etna GW620 and make factory reset (3845#*620# -> Factory Reset -> Factory Reset)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DeathLT:
Ok, so that is not true :) i have found the way. Almighty google :D

http://www.allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5870

in this post it is shown how to create ext2 partition in windows with one software.

have tested, working :) uhu! :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
Let me know if that works for you, to get you back to 1.5. I miss having videos on my phone :mad:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
Guys i have v10b on my phone since ever and i got fastboot and openetna 6 :o
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
I know that Bluetooth support is being worked on, is it something that might be coming sooner rather than later? With the laws around here forbidding us to talk on our cellphones while driving, I need BT support.

Thanks!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
It's impossible right now to say how long it's going to take (if we knew exactly how to fix it it'd probably be fixed already). Not to be a Luddite or anything, but if you're tearing your hair out waiting for this feature, a wired headset will work just fine.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] floydogi:
Do we must have linux partition on SD card to make Froyo install apps on it?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
As far as i know nobody achieved to do Apps2SD yet on 6.0 RC5.

It's just not tested and not really a priority...

Things like OpenGL fix is more urgent ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Giuvi72:
As far as i remember... shouldn't froyo support SD install natively?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
I know, thats my only route at this time, just spoiled by BT and having the phone on the dash to see who is calling.

On a side note, Just Pictures is a great replacement for picture viewing instead of Gallery.

Will fixing OpenGL allow for multimedia video viewing? MP4 and the like?

I really appreciate all the effort that has been put into this. Keep up the good work. I will make a donation soon! Once I get one more new feature support :D:D:D JK!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trystan2k:
News from LG:

http://www.allaboutphones.nl/nieuws...voor-de-GT540-en-22update-voor-d­e-GW620.html

(need to translate from Dutch to English (or whatever)).

It more recente (09/21/2010). I think they are waiting Openetna be ready to copy the source code ! :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MuffinsFTW:
Great work on the open etna guys :)

But now my phone is bricked... i made the stupid mistake of a LG update when i had open etna installed (What i was thinking i dont know)... It is now stuck on the android boot logo and i can't acess fastboot can only get into emergency mode. Is there any hope?

I might like to add... i dont have a back up :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mark.moby:
Perfect thanks! Just upgraded from rc4 to rc5 without fastboot -w and it worked perfectly. Love having the volume control back :-)

I still haven't figured out how to put the phone into USB Mass Storage mode to get pictures and stuff on/off of it...?? when I plug it into my computer, it plugs as a device, not a drive, and i can't find any way to switch it over...???

Any ideas?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Yes, now if only that volume was controlling stereo audio... ;)

When you plug in, do you not get a notification at the top that says in the pull-down "USB connected - Select to copy files to/from your computer."? If so, you just need to click on that.

If not, try enabling USB debugging; I think I read at some point that some things are accidentally tied to it right now
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mark.moby:
I thought about doing that, but the "secret number" (whatever it was 3845#*620blahblah) doesn't work for me anymore, so I can't get to that menu either.

No notification comes up for me when I plug in the phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
Go into Settings -> applications -> development and enable usb debugging

when you plug the phone in, you should get a "USB Debugging connected" status in the status bar. Click and hold onto the top, and then drag down, and you should be able to enable the usb connection b selecting "USb connected". You'll see android and then the option to "Turn on USB Storage".

It should then tell you that USB Storage in use.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mark.moby:
perfect! thank you :-)

as an aside, whichever driver windows was trying to install when I did that, failed installation; however I was still able to browse the Droid so I got the functionality I needed.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
I think usually a LG USB modem driver. Can't remember.

Glad that worked for you.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
Absolutely true !

But somehow people on the issue tracker report that Apps2SD doesn't work.

Looks like that the SDCard is not correctly used by the phone when there is multiple partitions on it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
i made an openetna flasher. however, netbeans kinda screwed up the interface and i have no time to fix it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1145024/OpenEtnaFlasher.zip

here's the link; it would be good if someone could improve on my work.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] bandur:
Maybe useful drivers?

I don´t if this is helpful at all, maybe for fixing the OpenGL problem.

The Vogue/Kaiser/Polaris android port started from almost from scratch, as those phones are native VM phones, but have fully functional Froyo running on them with almost all the hardware working. Everything that has been developed for those phones is open source, including the drivers. Some of the hardware on the phones is similar to the Eve.

The Kaiser and Vogue has hardware graphics acceleration working (only in Android, not in WM ;-)), The driver was written by Martin Johnson (Alias DZO).

Maybe there is useful information in the Vogue/Kaiser Android development XDA threads?

The git they use can be found here:

http://androidhtc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] frankmaier111:
an other source for opengl-drivers might be the open-source-project for the t-mobile pulse. is phone is based on the same chip and it looks like they have drivers for opengl-es.

discussion about the project is in this forum: http://android.modaco.com/content-p...ave-released-the-2-1-source-at-last/page/200/

the source can be found here: http://github.com/pulse-android-dev

and an image can be downloaded here: http://flibblesan.co.uk/android/froyo/Froyo-Pulse-0.60.zip
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
SO... uh... This happened...

To clarify, I didn't do anything special or actually even TOUCH my phone between 9pm and 9:30pm, but it dropped more or less straight down 30% of my battery in the space of about 15 minutes.

Then proceeded to slowly crawl UPWARDS while I continued to not charge it so it should have been discharging...

Do we have some sort of weird bug with the battery level reporting then?

Edited to add: If you turn your head a bit and imagine if the ordinary slope recorded before 9pm had continued down at the same grade, then look at where it starts recording discharging again at like 11:15pm, it does seem like a really plausible slope, which suggests whatever happened between 9pm and 11:15pm is just measurement error...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goofball2k:
my battery life is terrible now with rc5. I go from full charged to 59% in a matter of hours. Then it slows down on draining.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
One thing I've found with regards to the battery life in 6.0-rc5:

Apps might still be running when you think you've killed them.

I habitually hit the Free Advanced Task Killer widget "press to end" every time I lock my phone, which worked great on stock 1.5 and on OpenEtna 4.3... but it seems that Froyo is much more of a ***** about terminating applications that are running. Supposedly, however, we're not supposed to USE a task killer now, with the way Froyo reoptimized the multitasker, the garbage collector, and Froyo's own itnernal app kill...

Unfortunately though, that's not been my experience; I keep finding stuff like Maps running, and killing some of the stuff like that does seem to help me. (App killing seems to "stick" more if you open up the task killer than if you just hit the kill widget.) I started to get more like 25 hours out of it with a combination of careful and judicious task killing, and UltimateJuice.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] asiqueir:
Only one network

Hi guys,

I need some help with my GW620.

I bought it on USA and I live in Brazil.

But here in Brazil the phone finds only one network, and it is an unlocked phone.

What can I do to make the phone work in other network?

Thank you!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trystan2k:
What do you mean 'only find one network' ? You say 3G network or GSM ?

You changed the SIM card from order operator and the problem and do not have signal ?

I´m Brazil also (brought my from Portugal) and it worked ok with Oi and Claro.

Give us more detail about it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mark.moby:
Really?! that's amazing... I generally get less than 6 hours... and my phone gets HOT when I have it connected to WiFi - battery life about 3 hours! (Froyo rc5). Don't know if this is an OS or a firmware (or a hardware?) problem, but these phones are notorious battery hogs... I'm pretty sure that most of my battery goes into creating the worlds most expensive hand-warmer, though ;-)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Well it's dependent on use... I never turn wi-fi on unless I'm plugged in or I need to fetch a big chunk of data and know I'm at a hotspot. I only ever turn GPS on if I need live navigation; for just getting static directions the cell tower location works well enough for me (unless of course I didn't actually know where I was, but I'm talking about like in your home city kinda thing)

But yeah, give JuiceDefender a try, and maybe check out a task manager to kill apps you're not using sooner...

Edited to add: Oh, yeah, even though it only checks like every 15 minutes or whatever, a surprisingly HUGE chunk of battery life is reclaimed by turning off auto-sync.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Tetsuo6995:
Well in my opinion it's not a measurement error.

I think I've already seen battery doing things like this. When the usage is very intensive, the battery has trouble keeping the voltage high. When the usage gets a lot lower, the battery may be able to give for a short time, a little more juice.

Even temperature can explain that kind of "magic charge".

When your battery goes from 45° (seen that already) to 30° it can change the apparent charge.

What would be interesting is knowing what actually did pump so much energy so suddenly on your battery. Even more if your phone was locked at this time.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] hne:
Before flashing openetna I kept WiFi on all the time and only very seldom had to charge the phone other than during the night. Now, with the current lack of hardware accelerated video driver, I do expect the battery to last a bit less. Even so, I get by without day-time charging most of the days even with the android 2.1 based version of openetna. If you're down to three hours just by turning WiFi on, something is wrong. Very wrong.