VS98024A - OTA manual install + Patched Stock Kernels

[scififan68]

New updates:

24A to 25B:
https://pvzwmdmcdn.vzw.motive.com/firmware/LG_VS980_24A_TO_25B.bin


25B to 26A:
https://pvzwmdmcdn.vzw.motive.com/firmware/LG_VS980_25B_TO_26A.bin

Use same methods as OP to apply. Have not tried yet.

https://pvzwmdmcdn.vzw.motive.com/firmware/LG_VS980_24A_TO_26A.bin
I also found a 24A directly to 26A update too.

 

[Lawlrus]

@MicroMod777

Glad to see you back in the G2 mix, I thought you had gotten rid of yours?

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

 

[Enter The Nexus]

@MicroMod777

Glad to see you back in the G2 mix, I thought you had gotten rid of yours?

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

He just switched to Cricket. That's all.

 

[MicroMod777]

Has anyone tried making a flashable zip

Not yet. If i get time I'll try.

https://pvzwmdmcdn.vzw.motive.com/firmware/LG_VS980_24A_TO_26A.bin
I also found a 24A directly to 26A update too.

Sweet. I'll use that.

@MicroMod777

Glad to see you back in the G2 mix, I thought you had gotten rid of yours?

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

Not yet. Using my G2 with Cricket Wireless. Its 1/4 the price and I get decent coverage.

 

[MicroMod777]

Well, did a full restore to 24a and couldn't get either 24 to 25 or 24 to 26 to work. It just reboots and says software update fails. Sucks. Guess once the LG Software Upgrade tool has it I'll be able to cook up a rom.

 

[simon_lefisch]

So whats the 26a for? I know 25b introduced VoLTE....

 

[Lawlrus]

So whats the 26a for? I know 25b introduced VoLTE....

Don't k ow if anyone even found a change log for it yet. Doesn't seem like much of a difference though. @HueyT found out that it blocks root

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

 

[ganggreen30]

Don't k ow if anyone even found a change log for it yet. Doesn't seem like much of a difference though. @HueyT found out that it blocks root

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

so root won't carry over if u update

 

[Lawlrus]

so root won't carry over if u update

Correct.

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

 

[kbuck13]

I routed on 24 then took both the 25B and 26A OTA and maintained root.

 

[MicroMod777]

I routed on 24 then took both the 25B and 26A OTA and maintained root.

How u get 24 installed?

---------- Post added at 09:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 PM ----------

Got it working. Had to set write permissions to the recovery folder, command, and dlpkgfile!

 

[HueyT]

I routed on 24 then took both the 25B and 26A OTA and maintained root.

So you started with nonrooted 24A, rooted it with IOROOT25, then took the OTA to 26A, and it kept root? Huh, very interesting !!!

Maybe where I went wrong was that I was already rooted on Liquid AOSP with TWRP 2.8.0.1, nandroided back 25B stock rooted with TWRP 2.8.0.1, and then took the 26A OTA which then made me stuck in TWRP 2.8.0.1. I had to be rescued by JackpotClavin when he pointed me towards 2 phone-saving dd commands that got me out of the TWRP bootloop and allowed me to KDZ back to nonroot 24A.

So we basically have 3 choices now:

1) Wait for XDABBEB to make 26A bootstack (I know he can't resists )
2) KDZ to 24A nonroot, IOROOTED, take the OTA to 26A which should keep root. Then AutoRec to get TWRP 2.7.0.0 after on 26A rooted?
3) Be happy with 25B as 26A is minor update

I think I'll wait for choice 1 as I thought I lost my 2 day old, refurbed G2 (warrantied after the black lines from PA 4.6 beta2)

I also think the key is NOT to take any OTA once you've AutoRec to TWRP recovery as it can cause TWRP bootloop. Root will let you OTA safely but not TWRP as it interupt stock recovery with TWRP recovery.

 

[Lawlrus]

Well that would explain it, you can't take an ota with a custom recovery.

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone

 

[xdabbeb]

vzw hasn't removed stock recovery yet, so the latest io root method still work fine.

 

[njstein]

vzw hasn't removed stock recovery yet, so the latest io root method still work fine.

Just for clarification, if I take the latest ota, ioroot25 will still root it? That would be awesome!

 

[jonstrong]

Just for clarification, if I take the latest ota, ioroot25 will still root it? That would be awesome!

I'm still on the 24A from the front of this thread, and guessing I must have modified something that's causing the update to cough up the 0X1111004 error.

Phone is rooted, I uninstalled xposed framework, unfroze all the Verizon apps (ugh) -- except I believe I actually uninstalled one of them at some point (silly me - should have saved notes somewhere, or just frozen it). I uninstalled busybox -- no idea if that matters, but can always put it back. Only other change I can think of is the xdabbeb's 3.0 camera (never installed updates since then). I ran the apk again and ran a "restore" to get back the stock camera -- no errors, and hopefully I didn't overwrite my original backup with a copy of the modded files (how can I tell?) -- I'm guessing this may be causing the error though:

If I go into system\cache\fota\log I can see a file called, "FSUA_LOG_000.txt". Near the bottom of this (huge) file, I see:

FOTASF_Open/system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so, handle : 7
FOTA_GetFileSize : 7
[LGFOTA_GetFileSize : /system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so, 1913672

LGFOTA_CloseFile : /system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so

FOTAFS_Close 7

UpdateAPi_Update Restult - 1111004​

There's more below this, but my interpretation of this is that the install checked the file size on this camera file, didn't like it, set the error return code to 1111004 and proceeded to exit the installation. This leads me to believe that this file is the culprit.

Can anyone share any intel on this? Also - if this is the issue, and anyone can share copies of the correct file(s) to restore the camera back to stock, that would be great. BTW: I'm looking at the camera file on the phone right now. The size is 1913672 bytes. The checksum info is:

File: System (Root)/system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so
MD5: d2:f8:9c:29:93:e7:c5:f4:49:4b:3c:79:7c:d4:cb:e5
SHA1: d6:ff:0f:76:30:cc:5a:e7:36:65:a6:3e:8b:75:b9:37:da:08:2f:fe​

thanks!

 

[HueyT]

Can 12B stock recovery.bin be used to FLASHIFY over TWRP 2.8.0.1 and 25B so I can take 26A OTA without TWRP bootloop?

 

[wilkster]

I'm still on the 24A from the front of this thread, and guessing I must have modified something that's causing the update to cough up the 0X1111004 error.

Phone is rooted, I uninstalled xposed framework, unfroze all the Verizon apps (ugh) -- except I believe I actually uninstalled one of them at some point (silly me - should have saved notes somewhere, or just frozen it). I uninstalled busybox -- no idea if that matters, but can always put it back. Only other change I can think of is the xdabbeb's 3.0 camera (never installed updates since then). I ran the apk again and ran a "restore" to get back the stock camera -- no errors, and hopefully I didn't overwrite my original backup with a copy of the modded files (how can I tell?) -- I'm guessing this may be causing the error though:

If I go into system\cache\fota\log I can see a file called, "FSUA_LOG_000.txt". Near the bottom of this (huge) file, I see:

FOTASF_Open/system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so, handle : 7
FOTA_GetFileSize : 7
[LGFOTA_GetFileSize : /system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so, 1913672

LGFOTA_CloseFile : /system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so

FOTAFS_Close 7

UpdateAPi_Update Restult - 1111004​

There's more below this, but my interpretation of this is that the install checked the file size on this camera file, didn't like it, set the error return code to 1111004 and proceeded to exit the installation. This leads me to believe that this file is the culprit.

Can anyone share any intel on this? Also - if this is the issue, and anyone can share copies of the correct file(s) to restore the camera back to stock, that would be great. BTW: I'm looking at the camera file on the phone right now. The size is 1913672 bytes. The checksum info is:

File: System (Root)/system/lib/hw/camera.msm8974.so
MD5: d2:f8:9c:29:93:e7:c5:f4:49:4b:3c:79:7c:d4:cb:e5
SHA1: d6:ff:0f:76:30:cc:5a:e7:36:65:a6:3e:8b:75:b9:37:da:08:2f:fe​

thanks!

Mine is stock camera on 24A and here is what I get for that library.
File: camera.msm8974.so
CRC-32: a699bf79
MD4: 2ef5d1e525285e9892eb1b4599a933e7
MD5: e1fe474415b101fc6944dc6d63722755
SHA-1: 979ff9be2197d5573af3a5eae70b0ee64a381a37

Zipped file for upload.

 

[MicroMod777]

If you can't get update to go through getting error, then you need to return to full stock.

BTW, I got a rom that flashes for 26A using 24 kernels but knock-on not working. Doing some more testing.

 

[mjones73]

vzw hasn't removed stock recovery yet, so the latest io root method still work fine.

I thought I read they took ADB sideload or whatever ioroot was utilizing out of the stock recovery on 25B and up. I'm on your rom with TWRP, can't check myself.