[FIRMWARE] Sprint LG G3 LS990 ZV6 TOT, OTA and .IMG's

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Warboy

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Nov 23, 2014 at 2:55 AM
autoprime said:
I'm officially stumped :confused:
everything looks right. just not meant to be on your device I guess.

I'm reaching here.. but maybe there's some issue if you used MTP? Versus using ADB push to put the image on your phone?

Have you noticed if the modem or boot image has updated (those would be fast flashes) and just system is not working? or all 3 not working? You'd have to check the software settings under About Phone to see if baseband(modem) or kernel changed.

you could always use the dd command to try and flash the image while in TWRP..
Code: 
adb shell
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system
dd if=/sdcard/flash2/system.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system
The 2 dd commands should take a minute or three to complete.

Or just wait for engine95's stock rooted ZV6 rom.
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I wiped and used the ZV4, rerooted, and installed TWRP. Then somehow that did it, I was able to use the flash2 zips in TWRP fine for some reason. But I noticed in ZV6 I don't have wifi calling.
 
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Nov 23, 2014 at 8:17 PM
running this joker as is, nothing fancy and WOW, i actually like my phone again....I was literally on the verge of dumping this joker because I was sick of the lag etc.... This update has SIGNIFICANTLY improved performance.. Thanks!
 
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Nov 26, 2014 at 6:29 PM
Warboy said:
I wiped and used the ZV4, rerooted, and installed TWRP. Then somehow that did it, I was able to use the flash2 zips in TWRP fine for some reason. But I noticed in ZV6 I don't have wifi calling.
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odd. is this still an issues? if no, what fixed it? if so..when you wiped did you perhaps wipe data at all.. or only system/boot/modem? perhaps there is a chance the the wifi calling feature is something that gets downloaded after activation.. but if phone is wiped and phone is already activated there are sometimes issues with the Sprint "bloat" not being downloaded again. Sometimes a sign of this is having the LG boot animation instead of the Sprint animation. To be honest I'm not sure if the Wifi Calling is part of that bloat download... and I'm not even sure you wiped data so I could be off completely.. but just a thought.

other options would be.. trying to reactivate the phone: ##72786# (NOT ##786.. don't do that if you don't have to). This will only wipe your activated information(phone number and data profiles) then reboot your phone.. on boot up your phone will reactivate.. perhaps that can eventually lead to something kicking in and enabling the extra Sprint stuffs. OR you could just flash the ZV6 TOT and start off fresh.. which I can only assume would mean everything working perfectly again. TOT will wipe internal SDcard so you'll have to backup anything on it if you need it saved.



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Moving on... it looks like Android Police has an article on the new Sprint Flex and G3 updates which are set to start rolling out on Monday. So we got the update that early... pretty good! You can see that article here- http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...i-fi-calling-starting-on-monday-december-1st/

We finally can see what Sprint has listed in the changelog:
  • Google Security Patches
  • Qualcomm Security Patch
  • International Voice over WI-FI
  • Improve unlock algorithm when phone is in the pocket
  • Enhancements to the LG Home (Sluggish UI fix)
  • Enhancement to the compass application
  • Enhancement to the Auxiliary cable recognition.
  • Mobilize Device Content Caching - An application caches HTTP web and app data on the device (not the Network), making the retrieval of data faster and saving bandwidth on the network
 
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Nov 26, 2014 at 6:40 PM
autoprime said:
We finally can see what Sprint has listed in the changelog:
  • Google Security Patches
  • Qualcomm Security Patch
  • International Voice over WI-FI
  • Improve unlock algorithm when phone is in the pocket
  • Enhancements to the LG Home (Sluggish UI fix)
  • Enhancement to the compass application
  • Enhancement to the Auxiliary cable recognition.
  • Mobilize Device Content Caching - An application caches HTTP web and app data on the device (not the Network), making the retrieval of data faster and saving bandwidth on the network
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YES! The one thing I desperately needed in there is finally confirmed! Can today get any better?
 
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Nov 28, 2014 at 12:32 AM
garwynn said:
YES! The one thing I desperately needed in there is finally confirmed! Can today get any better?
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If you could find us a Lollipop leak for our G3 :p


autoprime said:
odd. is this still an issues? if no, what fixed it? if so..when you wiped did you perhaps wipe data at all.. or only system/boot/modem? perhaps there is a chance the the wifi calling feature is something that gets downloaded after activation.. but if phone is wiped and phone is already activated there are sometimes issues with the Sprint "bloat" not being downloaded again. Sometimes a sign of this is having the LG boot animation instead of the Sprint animation. To be honest I'm not sure if the Wifi Calling is part of that bloat download... and I'm not even sure you wiped data so I could be off completely.. but just a thought.

other options would be.. trying to reactivate the phone: ##72786# (NOT ##786.. don't do that if you don't have to). This will only wipe your activated information(phone number and data profiles) then reboot your phone.. on boot up your phone will reactivate.. perhaps that can eventually lead to something kicking in and enabling the extra Sprint stuffs. OR you could just flash the ZV6 TOT and start off fresh.. which I can only assume would mean everything working perfectly again. TOT will wipe internal SDcard so you'll have to backup anything on it if you need it saved.
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It seems once the system accepts the Sprint bloatware, It won't allow flash2 to work correctly and detect the images in flash2 folder.

So I had to TOT ZV4, root, recovery flash, use FLASH2, then do ##RTN# if I did ##RTN# on ZV4. It will produce the error code I showed. It's pretty strange.

MTP is broken in recovery. I also noticed that lol.
 
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Dec 1, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Flashed manually and everything looks kosher, even though I use Solo Launcher it feels just a bit snappier.

Thank you Autoprime for the precise instructions, very easy to do.
 
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JDinAZ74

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Dec 1, 2014 at 11:05 PM
I followed your guide and flashed using the flash2 zips. Like warboy, the flash went really really fast and I dont think it really flashed as when I check in about phone my build and software still have zv4 at the end. Everything else seems unchanged.
 
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Dec 1, 2014 at 11:46 PM
JDinAZ74 said:
I followed your guide and flashed using the flash2 zips. Like warboy, the flash went really really fast and I dont think it really flashed as when I check in about phone my build and software still have zv4 at the end. Everything else seems unchanged.
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I had the same issue, when I downloaded the system.img it had a bit of extra characters in the name (14-system.img) or something, I renamed it to just system.img and flash it that way. It worked just fine, system flash took a bit, I had stuck the flash2 files in the same folder with the img files as well.
 
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JDinAZ74

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Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 AM
Yes, I made sure I renamed the file first. I'm not sure at this point why It didn't take.

Finally got it to work. I had placed the files on my external SD card instead of the internal one. I can tell a pretty substantial difference in the performance of my phone now. Any lag I was experiencing due to the ui is gone. Great update.

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Dec 2, 2014 at 3:26 PM
JDinAZ74 said:
Yes, I made sure I renamed the file first. I'm not sure at this point why It didn't take.

Finally got it to work. I had placed the files on my external SD card instead of the internal one. I can tell a pretty substantial difference in the performance of my phone now. Any lag I was experiencing due to the ui is gone. Great update.

Sent from my LGLS990 using XDA Free mobile app
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Glad you had that sorted, strange issue.

Don't know if I was missing it or something, but I never noticed the drag to launch camera icon on the lock screen (Right hand corner)

Is that new?
 
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