yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
That is great news!

We'll still have some work to do to get GMail+Market installed, but I think we can just deodex the odex files back in to the apk and re-sign. I'll start looking in to that since it seems like you're quite close to having the base image working... Very exciting!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] madmack:
Glad to see someone taking this path. I had previously worked on AOSP's framework to make it rild compatible with our kernel and got it working successfully but stopped there due to lack of time. I have a question, how is the screen's response when your switching homescreens ? It was terribly laggy when I was porting any Android > 1.6. Hope you got that figured out as well.

This will not be a problem, I successfully had both Gmail + Market installed. All we gotta do is get one of the many roms out there that use Android 2.1, get the framework and the apks from system.img and we're good to go :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Polytheus:
Yeah, deodexing with baksmali/smali works really well.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
What did you do to get rild working? Curious.

OT: Picked up an HTC Desire while in Hong Kong. Wow. Just a night and day difference. On the plus side, it lets me use the GW620 as a hobby phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kokojojobobo:
you mean ''night and day'' only for the software ( android version) or the hardware ( & user experience) also??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kim_b:
Hi.

Hi. My android gw620 crashed saying that the "arm 11" crashed.

i noticed a lot of messages here but could any one of you specifically tell me what i can do? step by step? thanks. that would be a lot of help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Hi Kim,

try deleting your cache: "adb erase cache"

If that doesn't do the trick then you'll probably have to delete all the userdata too with "adb -w"
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Torontonian:
Can you guys believe that LG said they will be sending 1.6 to Rogers for testing in Septamber? They also said they will not upgrade past 1.6 because the hardware supposedly is not compatible.

I hope you guys prove them wrong. Those guys are liars and will never earn another dime from me again.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Retez:
add information

it is able to use under-fastboot

so at first u install v10g ver. for kh5200

v10r does not applicate fastboot mode:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] connora:
no title

I'm wondering if I replace the XIM.apk in v10r with one from the rogers 10g rom(with donut kernel),will this solve the sms problem when I use other language(for example chinese) ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BigBear67:
Yes, it supports multiple POP accounts out of the box. I've got mine retrieving email from 4 accounts.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
GW620 Rooting guide

This guide assumes you already have ADB access to your device. If you don't you need to google for the android SDK and get yourself connected.

Let me know how this works for you all, or if anything is unclear. :)

1) Download this version of Superuser Whitelist and unpack it somewhere safe

2) On the GW620 dial "3845#*620#" to get in to the secret menu

3) Tap "Module Test" then tap "Stability Test" then tap "Enable Root Permission"

4) Open a shell/command prompt/terminal. (cmd, or bash, or zsh, or whatever you use)

5) Type "adb shell" (You may need to use "/path/to/android/sdk/tools/adb shell")

6) You should get a #. If you get a $ then something didn't work. Shutdown the phone and PC and start again from 2)

7) If you get a # then all is well. Type "exit" to return to your PCs command prompt.

8) Type "adb remount" to remount the GW620's file system as read-write so we can make changes.

9) Type "cd /path/to/the/unzipped/superuser.zip"

10) Type "adb shell cat /system/xbin/su > /system/xbin/su.original"

11) Type "adb push bin/su /system/xbin/su"

12) Type "adb push bin/su /system/bin/su" (You need this one too, as some apps look for it there. E.g. Quickboot)

13) Type "adb shell chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su"

14) Type "adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su"

15) Type "adb install bin/Superuser.apk"

Done. That's it. You should now be able to run apps that require root. If an app needs root access a window will pop up on the phone asking for permission to use root.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Awesome, I'm rooted. I gave up with Windows. Linux steps

-> Get SDK

-> Plug in phone

-> adb shell

-> done.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
You're missing the > in step 10

cat file > backupfile
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Thanks! Fixed. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Never had a rooted Android.. time to start nuking things. Moxier and all the other Rogers BS comes to mind. Any risks in doing so? I figure I should be safe as long as I stay away from uninstalling core applications?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
I think so... Not sure if you can uninstall them from the applications screen, even with root, and I don't know what effect just deleting the APK /Obex from /system/app would have... Only one way to find out, really. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] surfdev:
Driver's Solution!

alright guys,

been through the hassle of getting my windows (Vista 32) and (win7 64) to get to know my eve like everyone else. However, I finally came up with a solution that worked on both :)

here is the trick:

1) (turn Debug mode on before proceeding)

2) plug the USB in.

3) install the device regularly, (with out using any modem drivers). it should install as a "USB Composite Device" and two other uninstalled devices (yes it should fail to install the other two).

4) go to Control Panel-> System -> Device Manager. you'll see two USB MODEM devices (under Modems!) as unknown devices with a (!) mark.

5) select the second one (the bottom one) and then right click and select "update driver software...". then choose "Browse my computer for driver software" then "Let me pick from a list of device....." then "Have a disk" then.. oh it stops here haha..

6) now browse the driver selection screen to the .inf file located in the "\android-sdk-windows\usb_driver" folder. (i.e. "android_winusb.inf")

7) select it and it'll display three drivers (Andriod ADB, Andriod Interface ADB, and a third one I can't remember now).

8) Select the first one (Andriod ADB) and it then select "install this driver anyway"

9) proceed with running the "adb shell" located in the sdk folder. you can also use "adb devices" to see if the device is recognized.

just as a side note, the adb file has to run "As an Administrator" in order to "pull" or "push" anything to the device.

I hope this solves the mystery for others ;)

Thank you everyone for the efforts! what a wonderful community we have!!

cheers!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
I'll give it a shot. First step to remove the built in Terminal Emulator. So we can then install the REAL one ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Grats! That should help all the windows users. ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
How to install terminal emulator

1. Connect to your phone using "adb shell", make sure your file system is read/write (remount)

2. If you want to make a backup copy of the non-functional terminal emulator to your sdcard

# cd /system/app
# dd if=Term.apk of=/sdcard/Term.apk
28+1 records in
28+1 records out
14630 bytes transferred in 0.005 secs (2926000 bytes/sec)
# dd if=Term.odex of=/sdcard/Term.odex
97+1 records in
97+1 records out
49960 bytes transferred in 0.017 secs (2938823 bytes/sec)

3. Delete terminal emulator

# rm Term.apk
# rm Term.odex

4. Using Android Marketplace, search and install Terminal Emulator.

5. Enjoy!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Awesome! I'm just about to leave for a movie, but when I get back I'm going to nuke all the craptastic rogers crapware on this phone! W00t!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Removing Rogers bundled apps

Copy and paste the following code into your shell session. This will make backup copies in /sdcard/backup

mkdir /sdcard/backup

cd /system/app

dd if=MoxierMail-2.1.20.2-GW620-Rogers.apk of=/sdcard/backup/MoxierMail-2.1.20.2-GW620-Rogers.apk
rm MoxierMail-2.1.20.2-GW620-Rogers.apk

dd if=Linkbook.apk of=/sdcard/backup/Linkbook.apk
dd if=Linkbook.odex of=/sdcard/backup/Linkbook.odex
rm Linkbook.odex
rm Linkbook.apk

dd if=MySpace.apk of=/sdcard/backup/MySpace.apk
rm MySpace.apk

dd if=RingsExtended.odex of=/sdcard/backup/RingsExtended.odex
dd if=RingsExtended.apk of=/sdcard/backup/RingsExtended.apk

rm RingsExtended.odex
rm RingsExtended.apk

dd if=Rogers.odex of=/sdcard/backup/Rogers.odex
dd if=Rogers.apk of=/sdcard/backup/Rogers.apk

rm Rogers.odex
rm Rogers.apk

dd if=tn55-android-LG_Eve-2003.apk of=/sdcard/backup/tn55-android-LG_Eve-2003.apk
rm tn55-android-LG_Eve-2003.apk
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dukeraoul911:
All good

@Zacpod

I tried your manipulation and it works perfectly. Now I can su in connectbot and do pretty much what I want

So I tried using ssh which is working . But scp isn't working for me yet.

It recognizes scp command...but when I type:

scp user@host:~/myfile /sdcard/

It returns: /system/bin/ssh: No such file or directory

I guess I have to make a copy of xbin/ssh in bin/ssh right?

@enkoopa

Tried term emulator, works also very well.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Trying to rip out MY5 from the contacts list now.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dukeraoul911:
Again for those still trying to make it work under windows, you can give up for the moment as me and use linux, a simple copy of ubuntu live cd will do the job.

On top of that you'll be able to use your phone as a modem using proxoid (which can be useful in trains or if you still don't have internet at home because your provider is doing ****..)

Just add one file "11-android.rules" in /etc/udev/rules.d which contains :

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1004", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6171", MODE=="0666", OWNER="ubuntu"
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Sweet.

Modifying browser bookmarks so you can delete them

cd /data/data/com.android.browser/databases
sqlite3 browser.db "update bookmarks set readonly=0;"
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
Rogers wouldn't let me swap my handset out today without the receipt. Gotta take that in tomorrow so I can get a new one. Have been trying vigorously to flash myself out of Emergency Mode. No specific luck yet.

Found this file:

http://www.zshare.net/download/6724173758a89bd5/

seems to have all the firmware bits broken down. Not sure if this is the same as what you've already gotten from other sources.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
I managed to half-recover my GW620 from brick in emergency mode.

I installed the LG SP USB Modem drivers and used the KP500-Utils-EN.exe app to flash the stock fw on to the device. It didn't complete successfully, and I had the battery/sim/sd card out during this process.

Device now boots and gets to the android logo and adb is running (rooted). The LG GUI doesn't load at this point yet, but I can work with this.

So there does appear to be a somewhat safe way to recover from a complete brick as I had done.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
@Routehero:

I think the LG utility and bootloader will only burn/boot LG signed images. In the LG flash utility there's a recovery item under tools, I think... It should be able to download + burn the original firmware on to the phone. If you haven't already, give FrustratedDeveloper's post a read.

Oh, and Fantastic Mr Fox is awesome! Wes Anderson is genius!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] anarchymisc:
@Polytheus

Great to hear this! I pretty don't care about GPS and lightness sensor - just need a faster rom with better battery/process management. In fact my record is 5 days without charging (V10R, 5-10 minutes talking and 15 minutes internet a day, wireless on all the time) but this phone regularly decides to warm and drain battery very fast. If you post your work in progress I'm pretty sure a lot of people will give it a try :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] OhHai:
Hi guys :) Very nice to know there are developers working with this phone thatI love...

Im having a problem lately... Im running Tolemac's ROM. Thing is, im noticing some laggyness on occasion... for example, when I receive an SMS, I unlock the phone, pull down the notification bar and nothing happens... freezes for 5 seconds. Or when I go to the contact list, and select a number to dial... it takes a few seconds now... This didnt happen before. I didnt install any abnormal applications.

Also, I have some applications that insist on opening by themselfs although the settings dont tell them to, and I usually dont have that much RAM available.. usually only around 70 if I clean all the unecessary apps. But sometimes I have more... sometimes less... with teh same apliccations.

When I installed Tolemac's ROM, I didnt erase the user settings. My phone was locked to an operator... is it possible that Im still running some of there garbage processes and they are eating my RAM and causing lag sometimes ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] connora:
As the V10R has some problems with SMS sending when I'm using chinese,I want to replace some files with that in Rogers V10G(1.6),but I can't find any place to download the special version ROM,the mediafire saved V10G is just a 1.5 ROM,bot the one I need.

Could somebody upload the Rogers V10G(1.6) to somewhere so I can try to solve the problem.There are lots of chinese using this phone,we also want to install the 1.6 ROM except for the SMS problem.

Best regards!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
The (old) 1.5 Apps2SD image on my site is based on Rogers V10C - you can grab that and extract the required files...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] connora:
Re: zacpod

Thanks! I'll have a try.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] connora:
I replaced the XIM.apk AND mms.apk of 1.5(V10G) and 1.6(V10r),1.6 still has SMS problem.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] giorgio130:
For those with SMS problems: I can suggest using Handcent SMS, it's a free app you can find in the market. With it here in Italy I can send multiple messages without problems. I don't know if it would work in China but it's worth a try ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] giorgio130:
Anyone knows how to type the '€' symbol?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Oh, I didn't realize that was the file you were talking about... The XIM.apk is already replaced with an older one in the image - that was the only way to make the keyboard work. I don't think that's where the problem is with SMS.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Presumably it's because it's forcing unicode SMS, in order to make bit headroom for all the Korean characters. (Default SMS encoding is 7-bit I believe.) There may be a bunch of differences in the Korean ROM with regards to character encoding bit depth.. it's probably somewhere more fundamental.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Cloudscout:
If you'll recall, I ran into a problem with flashing my device to V10K_00 about 2 weeks ago. The flashing process reached 9% complete and then the application crashed.

I was able to reboot my device and it seemed to be working (albeit prone to locking up once or twice a day) but now I am unable to reflash it with anything else. When I try to use the LG utility to reflash the V10K or even the V10G that it had before, I get an error from the utility that says, "Updating is not possible any longer due to a fatal error while the LG Mobile Phone Software Update." (the grammatical errors are not mine, that's what the actual error message said)

I can't get the device into Fastboot mode now either. I've tried many, many times. I can get it into Emergency Mode without any trouble but Fastboot is a no-go.

So do I have any options here? Is there any way for me to "fix" this device or do I need to send it to LG for repair?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
Android 1.6 KH5200's source has been released to me.

I have sent details to raburton, zacpod and polytheus regarding the source. We have until June 30th to download it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
Great news, hope you guys have the time to make a nice 2.0 mod :cool:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kokojojobobo:
yeah,like it too!!but what about the fastboot problem?is there any method to flash new rom without getting into fastboot mode?? :eek:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
Sure. Use the debrick method to go back to v10g_00.

Fastboot processing is contained in amsboot.mbn, and is still in v10r_00 -- see attached picture. My ARM/ASM-fu hasn't been strong enough to divine what triggers fastboot yet, but I am by no means an expert.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
just downloaded the source.

i see this in the readme.txt and i like the look of it.

1. Àü´Þ ¹ÞÀº KH5200 Open Source¸¦ ´Ù¿î ¹ÞÀº donut Directory¿¡ Ç¬´Ù.

2. Kernel Build
dount$> source ./build/envsetup.sh
donut$> choosecombo 1 1 generic 3
donut$> cd kernel
donut/kernel$> make eve_defconfig
donut/kernel$> make
-> Build °á°ú¹°Àº kernel/arch/arm/boot/ ÇÏÀ§¿¡ »ý¼ºÀÌ µË´Ï´Ù.

3. Android Source Build
donut$> source ./build/envsetup.sh
donut$> choosecombo 1 1 generic 3
donut$> make
-> Build °á°ú¹°Àº out/target/product/generic ÇÏÀ§¿¡ »ý¼ºÀÌ µË´Ï´Ù.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gsp_forum:
froyo update for gw620 !!!

Hi All,

are you yet able to identify and extract HAL of GW620 ?

I think we should aim for that. we may try reverse assembly of binary code of firmware.

Thanks

:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
I uploaded the source to megaupload, here you go.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6IW2LW9Y

Let me know if you have any problems downloading it, somehow I was uploading it at over 2mb a sec so I think something went wrong ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Wicked! Thanks!

Downloading it now! :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] YeopKiS:
1. Unzip the KH5200 Open Source into the donut Directory.

2. The result of Build is in kernel / arch / arm / boot / sub.

3. The result of Build is in out/target/product/generic.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Eiles:
Hey everybody, newcomer here.

I have the AZERTY version of this phone, once a ROM with 2.0 is released (I'm confident with the KH5200's sources released and after seeing how talented some here are), will I have to do something to get a keybord working properly ?

(Sorry for my horrible english...)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ustrucx:
Guys i found out this *#*#4636#*#* in a blog somewhere, its a testing menu with alot of info like battery and system usage it works on alot of android phones out there.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mikerhinos:
Nice find !

Working on the GW620 :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] zezke:
LG Costumer Service (that's what the mail said) promised that the European 1.6 update is coming this month, but there will be no updates to 2.1 or 2.2.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Cloudscout:
Did they say whether it would be dressing up as Batman for Halloween?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Bahaha! That took me a few seconds to figure out... Well-played. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] LevyM:
1.6 or higher

In a mail I received today LG Consumer Service stated that they didn't bring out an update yet (at least in Holland) since they're still busy deciding whether the update will go to 1.6 or higher.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nico1722:
Hello, I installed the rom yesterday zacpod 1.6 v2,

I find how to configure the APN without going through the shell.

Simply call 3845*#5200#, modem setting, pdp setting, Access point name.

By cons for sms it does not work, I try handcent and 2 or 3 other apps but nothing.

I put the sim from my girlfriend who is from Orange France is his work without any configuration, I Bouygues France.

Do those who have the sms works can post their settings so that other can compare to find what's wrong?

I continue my research because there have that sms that does not work.

Excuse my google translation english.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
Hi nico,

thanks for your try and report.

please keep us posted, I am currently running stock "LG" 1.5rom on my orange phone (to get back the gmail etc programs), and if zacpod's rom works great i might give it a try.

Do you have french keyboard/menus?

Salut nico,

merci pour tes essais et rapport d'experience.

C'est super de nous tenir informé de l'etat de fonctionnement, je tourne actuellement avec la version 1.5 "LG" sur mon GW620 orange, afin d'avoir les applis gmail etc dispos. Si la rom de Zacpod marche completement, je pense bien faire le pas.

As-tu les menus en francais ainsi que le clavier physique en AZERTY?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nico1722:
Yes I find a method to this address forum.frandroid.com for the AZERTY keyboard. The replacement of XIM.apk nas never worked for me.

For the menu in French must install MoreLocale 2.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
thank you!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tolemac:
Building 1.6

Hi guys.

I have downloaded the 1.6 source code.

I suppose that it isn't than easy, but I have compiled the source (kernel and android) and I have flashed the result images, but don't work.

I haven't experience building android and I would like to learn.

I have downloaded android donut source and I have extract the KH5200 source code over donut source. I have compiled kernel and android following the Readme.txt instructions. No error found compiling but when I flash the result images the device don't start.

What steps must to follow to build a working images for my device?

Thanks in advance.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kokojojobobo:
take a look at Zacpod's site, he also has problems in getting 2.1 to work on eve.we all hope you can achieve it together guys!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tolemac:
Yes, I have saw it but I want to compile 1.6, not 2.1
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] levelik:
How can i enter fastboot with the V10R firmware? (tried almost everything)

Thanks,
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
I think the only person who's had any luck so far is Polytheus, and I believe he's working with the 1.5 sources...

There may be a problem with the 1.6 kh5200 source that we have - I can't get working images out of it in Linux or OSX - I just end up with an image that goes in to a boot-reboot-boot-reboot loop, which suggests the kernel is crashing hard. :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
1) Remove Battery

2) Unplug USB

3) Plug in USB

4) Wait approx .5 seconds and hold down space or menu+space

5) Try again with different timing until it works.

If you try 5+ times with wait-times between .1 and 2.5 seconds and it still doesn't work then you'll have to revert to an older firmware using Routehero's debrick method - just be VERY careful about which firmware you're putting on as you have to perfectly match the radio freq's your wireless provider uses.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] zezke:
I am currently building Android, which method do you guys use to try this on your actual device? I would like the safest method possible since I don't really feel like bricking my device.

EDIT: I was building with combo 1 2 generic 3 (so debug), but compilation failed:

I wonder how LG debugged this?

EDIT2: same error when compiling use choosecombo 1 1 generic 3. Has anybody solved this yet?

EDIT3: It's apperently an Ubuntu bug. Problem and solution are described here.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
I get similar errors when compiling in x64 Ubuntu 10.4 and when compiling in OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. I think it has to do with compiling in an x64 environment. :(