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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] rootNoob:
thank you for the reply... one quick question... since the phone is rooted, does that mean you can also unlock the phone as well w.o an unlock code? if so, how would you do this?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Anyone know where to get a LG USB Modem driver?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Google around for "LGUSBModemDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver_4.9.4_All.exe" and you should find them.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Thanks, found it. Installed, rebooted, plugged in the EVE, Windows is still unable to find drivers. Pointed it to "c:\Program Files (x86)\LG Electronics\LG USB Modem Driver", still says no drivers found.

This is on both my main Win7 64-bit machien and also an XP32 machine, just incase the 64 bit was causing an issue.

Trying to force an actual INF using "have disk"... we'll see what happens. Lots to choose from for those ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Ya, porting Android 2.0 over is probably going to be a long process, and until we can ensure that we can re-flash the factory firmware via the bootloader it's going to be a very risky endevour to test. E.g. right now we have root on the factory firmare, and can use that to flash a new firmware, but if we flash something that won't boot up we may not be able to recover.

I think the next step is to ensure the LG utility can see the phone in emergency mode and burn the factory firmware to it. If it can do that, then we can start testing builds.

This is very similar hardware to a number of other phones - It seems a lot like a ADP2 with a hardware keyboard, so we may be able to use something like Cyanogen... Time will tell!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Let me know if you have any luck on Win7 - I didn't.

I'm using the USB drivers that come with the Android SDK for ADB access, but the flash utility doesn't see the device, and I can't use it as a modem with the LG drivers. I /think/ it has to do with being on a 64 bit system.

Later this week I'll install XP32 on an external drive and see if I can get the flash utility working there.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Alrighty, I could definitely use some assistance in getting the LG USB Modem driver up and running.

I'm reading this a bit as well http://www.devfrustrated.com/devBlog/how-to-upgrade-the-fw-of-lg-eve-gw620/ however, I'm not sure what step #4 is referring to?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Alrighty, so, forcing an INF file using "Have Disk" is *not* the solution, on either Win7-64 or XP32.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Open device manager, find the device, right click on it and select update driver.

Then you want to make a bunch of choices that amount to "I want to choose - let me choose!" E.g. "Let me choose the driver from a list" + "Have Disk" sorry I can't be more specific - I'm booted in to Linux right now and am not near another Win7 machine.

Once you've pointed "Have disk" at the LG drivers, you'll see two driver sections. One just has 2 drivers in it - the modem driver and the multi function driver. The second has a few other's in it as well.

However, anytime I installed anything other than the LG Modem Driver my laptop would bluescreen. I assume it's because I'm running Win7/64. I think I'll have to install XP32 before the flash drivers will work, but I've been procrastinating.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] routehero:
FTP for GW620

Install FTP:

1) Copy the following in to a local file named stupid-ftpd

mode=daemon
serverroot=/
changeroottype=virtual
port=21
maxusers=10
user=anonymous * / 5 A
login-timeout=120
timeout=240

2) On the shell of the GW620, remount /system rw:

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

3) Make an ftpd config dir:

mkdir /system/etc/lge

4) On your local system, push the file:

adb push stupid-ftpd.conf /system/etc/lge/stupid-ftpd.conf

5) Connect in your favourite FTP client.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
Even on XP32.. I pick Let me choose and have disk... then I choose Modems.. then I browse to the LG folder.. and I see the list of ~12 INF files...

? So, still not sure where the folder reference is coming from?

Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Don't choose modems. Just choose "all devices" and then click have disk. When you browse for the driver you don't have to pick a specific inf file, just browse to the directory adn hit ok or select or whatever. It'll scan the dir and show you all the drivers in a driver selection window that's split in to the two categories mentioned on that site.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Nifty!

I've been working on getting the init.rc file modified, but it reverts every time I reboot. I think I may have to use a dump of the boot mtd and rom-cooker to do the job. Good time. :)

I have Magic SU installed now, so I can get root access from BetterTerminalEmulator which is nice, but apps (like quickboot) that require root access still aren't working right.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zacpod:
Woo!

With root access I was able to cat the /dev/mtd# devices. I now have .img files for each MTD device.

I have been able to unpack the initrd from the mtd2.img file!

(The kernel unpacked with it, but it doesn't want to boot up in the emulator. It just pegs one of the cores and hangs.)

The emu also wouldn't boot with the mtd3.img in place as it's system.img. It gave the same error as before. I think we can get it booting with the system.img in place if we can turn the ramdisk file in to a standalone img (i.e. without the kernel) and use it as the emu's ramdisk. That's what I'm working on now. If I can get the system booting on the emu then I can test any changes we make to the firmware before burning it back to the device. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BigBear67:
Way to go!

Congratulations on the rooting guys! I'm sure I speak for hundreds of other observers of this thread when I say thank you, great work. I've been following along since the thread started and you really made quick work of this. I am very excited to see what comes next. This is all just gibberish to me, but all very exciting.

Way to go...I really appreciate all your hard work!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dukeraoul911:
great work!

For those who can't manage to do it on windows, try linux: no drivers needed.

That being said I cant manage to root it.

When I go to the hidden menu and I press the root mode, it doesnt show any confirmation, is that normal?

Then I don't know if I understood well what I have to do.

In adb shell I typed

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) but it doesnt allow me to do this

the '(' arent recognized.

If I type uid=0 gid=0, it doesnt change anything in the id.

It still show that I'm not root.

I think I really misunderstood something,

Can anyone tell me what I need to do.

Thanks anyway for your efforts!! I was following this thread pretty much from the beginning and it sounded like a Prison Break episode ;) and finally we made it:) (next season install eclair)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] enkoopa:
When you click Have Disk, you get an explorer dialog where you do indeed have to pick an inf file?

This is via Upgrade Driver -> (no window update) -> install from specific location -> don't search, i will choose the driver -> all -> Have Disk

Any assistance apprieciated! Also good work on getting the system image up and running, looking forward to working on Android!

Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Mikerhinos:
As it is official LG facebook page i think it has to be a "pure" rom :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] nileshvedi:
Unable to Sync

Hey friends,

I just got my wife the GW620 on her birthday, I am having a problem syncing it to the PC. I am running Windows XP SP3 with all LG USB Drivers loaded.

But the phone just does not install and cannot find the right USB Modem Driver for the phone. Shows "Installation Failed - Cannot find USB Modem Driver"

I have tried using everything "Android USB Drivers" ; "LG USB Modem Drivers 4.7, 4.8, 4.9" ; "LG PC Sync" ; "LG PC Suite" and many more drivers but no luck.

Also tried the LG Software Update which shows that there is an update available for the software from Version 10F to 10G but it fails to download.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Regards.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] d4m4s74:
This thread is only about installing android 2.0/2.1/a better android version onto the LG Eve

for whatever you want go to http://androidnetwork.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
hmm.

I noticed something with LG Singapore's rom development.

The official latest version for LG Eve GW620 is 10G.

However, there are two versions that have not been released: 10I and 10K.

A week ago, i updated to version 10K. The release date was marked as 1st April.

Today, I had it downloaded again. The file size was a few kb smaller. Release date: 9th April.

Speed improvement was very noticeable. I had more memory space.

What I'm saying here is, even if you have flashed 10K before (or any rom that matters), if you re-download it again, there might be a chance that the rom is different ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] inberno:
Now, the official latest version for Lg GW620 is 10N, (installed yesterday by LG Mobile software Updater Agent), which blocks access to root from the Hidden Menu, and in my GW620 (3 days old) active gmail and gtalk. The mobil is from Orange Spain with software from Orange.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Different releases (county & operator combos) have different version numbers, so you can't compare version numbers between them. Dates are probably the most useful way to compare, but still can't be sure - while you know it's newer you don't know what's actually in it. The Orange Spain v10N has been out a little while now.

As for versions changing, I guess that's not a surprise if they are only development versions (i.e. they haven't been officially released and you found it by guessing the url).

We are all hoping that there might be a 1.6 rom pop up in these development versions soon, so do let us know if you find one of those.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
yeah alright. I'll check it on a weekly basis. I won't be surprised if 1.6 is like 11a or something
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] scdcan:
Hello, I have a problem

(link to another post, but I can't link) LG GW620 firmware v10n access root with password

but whith the V10I, and does not work very well

First I rooted my V10K and flashed the mobile with V10I and I had V10I rooted, but later I reset with factory reset. and now i dont have root access and I can't flash again because the "enable root permission" needs a password, and the mobile don't have root permissions

somebody knows the pass?? or someway to flash V10G?? the only thing I can think is flash with the original upgrade tool, but its probably that it flash V10N and I will be in the same situation... what can I do?? maybe I can wait to 1.6 upgrade... but now i need to use titanium backup to restore a lot of things and I not have root :mad:

thnks
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Why can't you flash? What tool are you using and what error do you get?

Have you tried flashing with KP500-Utils? See my tutorial here: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=LG Eve

p.s. Since this request is off topic if you have any further issues please take it here: http://www.androidnetwork.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] inberno:
The LG V10N software has extra security when trying to enable root permissions. Unless you can somehow find out what the password is, you may be out of luck in rooting V10N.

Somepeople that had pre-rooted in V10G, re-rooting without enable root permissions on the Hidden Menu, can use root aplications in V10N, try it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] scdcan:
thanks a lot

I dont know the reason of the errors but the phone is flashed

sorry for the inconvenience, but this forum is too big :o

and thanks for the links too interesting ;)

I used rooted aplications on V10I that have the pass like the "N" because I had before the V10K, and there are the files of the previous root but I did a factory reset erasing all... there was the problem
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Can any of you guys that have installed one of the newer roms (i.e. those with password protected root) confirm if fastboot is still available (by pressing and/or holding the space bar immediately after powering on the phone)?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
hi, fastboot is gone from my phone. the hidden menu code doesnt work either
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Do you mean the hidden menu has gone altogether or just that you need a password to enable root?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
the entire hidden menu. i tried typing the code to show the menu. but it just doesnt show. does anyone know of any alternative code that i might try ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
I was afraid that would happen when 1.6 came out, wasn't expecting it to happen in a pre-1.6 build but if it is we can probably expect the same to happen when 1.6 hits. :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
I doubt they'll take it out. It's there for a reason. They obviously don't like people getting root, but they didn't remove it as a result - they just put a password on that function.

I've had a look at the latest rom from Singapore (v10K, 9th April 2010) which I assume is what cwhchew is running (he hasn't replied to my pm, so it's guess work), and that appears to have the hidden menu and the same code to launch it, so I'm not too worried.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Yeah, but we'll have to figure out what the password might be... hopefully that'll squeak its way out in the same mysterious way that the hidden menu code did.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
It would be a very bad thing for the password to get out, or some other workaround to be found, before 1.6 is out. If that happened they might really remove it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
Agreed.

Right now, if we're able to gank the radio binaries out of the 1.6 release and package them with a 2.1 build, we have an upgrade path that maintains root access.

BUT, if they start shipping the phones with 1.6, or for anyone who upgrades to 1.6, there'll be no upgrade path to AOSP 2.1 (assuming we get a build working) without that password.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Considering that they are putting the effort in to doing a 1.6, and they keep churning out development releases of 1.5 for various countries/carriers, I'm sure they have enough man power there to just do 2.1 for us. All the recent phones out there seem to have 2.x promised, except this one. This phone isn't all that old, and only very recently released over here, so I it amazes me that they seem to plan to leave it as just about the only modern phone on 1.5. Especially considering it's such a nice phone otherwise (aside from the lack of an led notification - seriously LG, what were you thinking?).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
hey yeah. i'm running on 10K. hmm. sorry, i didnt see your personal message. >< didnt receive an email notification..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Email notification for private messages isn't on by default. This is unfortunate, because unless you send a lot of messages you're never likely to notice you've received one.

Can I recommend everyone check the top right of their screen to see if they already have any, then go to 'User CP' -> 'Edit Options' link on left -> 'Messaging & Notification' Section -> 'Private Messaging' box -> tick 'Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages'
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
yeah done so. hmm. may i know what code did you use ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jorgi22:
Hi! Does somebody know where can I find "Hungary v10b" fw??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] pafel9:
Hi everyone!

My english is bad, so it is hard to me read all posts. I would to simply ask, and I hope, that somebody can help me :-)

I have LG GW620 with Android 1.5 version GW620-V10b from UK T-mobile. My phone is now unlocked, and i can using my polish Orange sim card.

In T-mobile website i see, that "Upgrade is available". And here I have a questions:

1) When i upgraded my LG GW620, I will have simlock locked again?

2) Is this possible upgrade newer than I have at the moment? Is it for example Android 1.6 ? Or only Software with another name (i.e. GW620-V10g), which change nothing important?

Thanks for help.

I hope, my post is not a SPAM.

Best Regards from Poland

Pawel
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] d4m4s74:
read the last three pages for all your answers

1: no

2: not yet, and don't even try upgrading to 1.6 if you want 2.0 later on

3: yes, you should have posted this question elsewhere.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] purdeaandrei:
fm radio?

I may be wrong, i haven't slept all night, but here's what my conclusions are after some heavy searching:

1) The GW620 has a Broadcom bcm4325 (compatible?) chip that has wlan, bluetooth, and fm radio all in one.

2) the broadcom wlan has opensource driver somewhere in the android source tree

3) the bluetooth and FM radio share an UART port.

4) the open source bluez (i think this is the linux bluetooth stack) implementation doesn't allow both the FM radio and the bluetooth to be used at the same time.

5) a modified, aparently non-opensource bluez from broadcom allows to use both at the same time. (TODO check if the device can do FM and bluetooth at the same time)

6) i can't find a proper datasheet for bcm4325 (maybe someone else will have better luck), and have no idea where to find the FM commands documented. One way would be to snoop the serial port while the original program is running. After all it's just FM, it can't be that hard to reverse engineer.

7) Implement the fm radio with a big if - if the bluetooth is running show an error message. Modifying bluez to cooperate with FM might be non-trivial.

is the fm radio the only essential proprietary code that wasn't published?

disclaimers: i never worked with android,bluetooth, or any broadcom stuff before, my phone arrives sometime this week, so sorry for any bull**** i'm saying.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Grank:
my impression is that when people say "radio" in this thread, they mean it's the GSM radio. So, no phone calls, no text messages, no cellular data. I didn't think the wi-fi was working either, but that's neither here nor there if it ceases to be a phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] DJ_Spray:
yes, when we talk about radio we mean the GSM radio, FM is honestly not the biggest priority for us.... :P
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
haha. i swear i'm getting overly excited when i receive email notifications when someone replies on this thread. with May drawing near, i half expect someone to post a link to android 1.6 rom any moment.

anyway, i have been monitoring LG's server for quite awhile now. no updates since version 10K (9th April).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
Now that we have a 2.6.29 kernel from the donut build I'd like to start playing with making a new image. But I really don't know where to start.

Does anyone know of a beginners guide to porting a new version of android to a phone? Aside from the kernel and it's modules (all 1 of them), how much of the other stuff needs to be rebuilt to go from 1.6 to 2.1? Are all the libs and everything at the linux level the same between the 2, is it just a case of rebuilding the android layer and dropping that on top of the rest of the 1.6 system image?

I'm just in the process of downloading the source for android 2.1 and maybe some of this will become more clear when that's done.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
We could use route hero's version of android 2.0. and replace the rild binary :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
finally finished building!

i've got 3 images, boot, system & userdata

i think that we would need to (/i think this is what routehero did) :

1 - extract the kernel and ramdisk from the new boot.img, and the kernel from the 1.6 image

2 - merge lg specific stuff from the lg init.rc files into the one from the new ramdisk, then rebuild the ramdisk

3 - rebuild the boot.img using this updated ramdisk and the lg kernel from 1.6

4 - drop the extra ril files from the lg 1.6 image into the new system.img (i probably actually need to rebuild ril because i think it needs to be pointed at the real library (libril-qc-1.so) shipped with 1.6, as indicated in the build.prop file from the lg image)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
Hello all !

raburton has provided a link to the korea rom of LG Eve (they call it LG KH5200 over there.

csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/LGKH5200/AKTFBQ/V10m_00/V10M_00.kdz

this is the link to the rom. I have managed to flash it with success to my phone. Ran it for one day and here are my results:

Whats working

SMS/MMS

HSDPA Connection

Better Battery Life

Youtube in HD

Nearly everything

Whats not

Voice Search

Google Maps Navigation

Installation Preparation

Backup your contacts (and your APNs)

XIM.apk from your current rom.

Installation Procedures

Please note that I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone. I'm just posting my installation results.

Bug Fixes

HSDPA Connection

You should have problems connecting to your 3G mobile data network.

This is because the APNs have been lost from the update.

Korea has removed the option to configure APNs in the Mobile Network settings menu.

Don't bother to add it via apns-conf.xml. It won't work either.

Instead, run this command

and configure your APNs accordingly.

Note: You can use Any Cut to gain access to this menu too.

Key Mapping

While typing a message, you may realise that the keyboard mapping seems to be wrong.

To resolve this, take XIM.apk from your previous rom and push it to your phone.

And yes, you will have a nearly perfect rom
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] giorgio130:
Hi! just registered :)

Does the new rom require a password to enable root like the latest 1.5 firmwares?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
yes, but of course any roms we create based on these (hopefully v2.0/2.1) won't
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Lesiroth:
Finally, been lurking this thread as a non-member waiting for a 2.0/2.1 breakthrough :)

So this sounds exciting!

So is this Korean rom based on 2.0/2.1? That would be pretty cool, we don't have to wait for LG to release the update now :)

Also, according to GSMArena, the KH5200(which this rom is for) can record video in D1 resolution, did any of you guys who tried the Korean rom see if our phones can record in this resolution?

Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
No it's 1.6.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Lesiroth:
So what exactly about it is better than the normal GW620 roms?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cwhchew:
you get most of the features of 1.6.

some of the improvements to this rom includes

An option to watch youtube videos in high definition.

Improved battery life and improved battery management

Improved system performance

Ability to save a location on Google Maps

A compass application

Improved Google Sync

Additional features in the Camera Application
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] raburton:
I thought you said you'd been lurking for a long time? You don't appear to know anything about the eve or its software.