How far can you push the LG GW620?

[illm4tic]

Why did you hi-jack my thread?

If you had read this thread properly you would have seen that I was keeping this thread going for reference, it was reading perfectly till you came along.

anyway, phone is going great no problems at all, maybe a bit slugish at times but well worth putting up with

My bad.
But NVM i solved the problem.
Continue on...and Rogers is a Canadian phone/cable/internet provider

 

[Kayen]

Just flashed to 2.2 RC-4
I've been staring at the Cyanogen mod screen for a good hour.
The blue swirl goes around a few times and then stops at 3 o clock. Stops, and starts again.

 

[billpayer]

Just flashed to 2.2 RC-4
I've been staring at the Cyanogen mod screen for a good hour.
The blue swirl goes around a few times and then stops at 3 o clock. Stops, and starts again.

how did you flash?

cmd like this?

C:\Users\****>****\***\android-sdk-windows\tools\fastboot boot systemV6-rc4.img

 

[droiduzr2]

Does everything work after the upgrade?

 

[billpayer]

+1

how is everthing after the upgrade, im having a few issues with the install I have done (rc-3), phone drained battery pretty bad on one day, also deciding to turn itself off from time to time

 

[gherre]

I am trying to do what you did but im stuck in the beginning where im supposed to write fastboot -w and it says its not recognized.

 

[billpayer]

To make things a little easier, try putting all of the files (fastboot, boot*.img and system*.img) into the tools directory.

1) Go to the tools directory withing the SDK using CMD.

2) From there (with the phone is fastboot mode, will look like a bunch of text at LG screen) run the command "fastboot -w" (no quotes of course)

3) Next run the command "fastboot flash boot BOOTFILENAME.img" (replace with the version you are using)

Hopefully that's successful (can't see why not if you have the files available).

4) Run the command "fastboot flash system SYSTEMFILENAME.img"

5) Make sure you have the google apps zip file on your SD Card (DO NOT UNZIP), just put it in the top folder (i.e. root).

This post helped the most, try going through the points here

 

[gherre]

first of all, do i need to root my phone?

 

[billpayer]

first of all, do i need to root my phone?

no.

 

[illm4tic]

Anyone tried the 2.2 RC-4?
how is it?
Is the camera back to 5 Megapixel?

 

[billpayer]

been trying to go to the rc4 build but cannot get it to boot

any ideas? my wifes phone has become incresingly unstable, not good at all

 

[illm4tic]

is the boot image in tools?

 

[billpayer]

is the boot image in tools?

yes it is, along with the previous boot image which also will not load

 

[AmazonAnnie]

For anyone contemplating this I found an easy solution:

Open Etna Windows Flasher (WinFlasher V1.2.1 as of Nov. 17th)

I used that and it automated everything for me. I tried to do the commands myself but ran into problems. The Windows Flasher (there's a Linux version too) did the trick for me.

Look in the OpenEtna Forums for the latest version.
Open Etna flasher for Windows/Linux

Anne

 

[billpayer]

hey guys, ive been trying on and off to update this phone but without any luck, cannot even get the boot.img to load using cmd, so tried the open etna flasher for windows posted by amazonannie and managed to get the boot img to load but not the system img

any ideas?

ps using bootV2.4.4 systemV6.1-rc5

doh I was sleeping, didnt unpack the sys image how stupid

 

[AmazonAnnie]

Hi Billpayer,
I used boot V2.4.1 and system v6.1-rc5 and it worked. It was recommended to try the older boot version as there were some problems with the newer one.

I kept getting errors and "ewing" suggested the following:

Just try to update your SDK in windows, then unzip the file system and boot image on tools. After that do a fastboot again. Hope this way will work...

If you want to follow my trials and tribulations:
[SOLVED] writing 'system'...FAILED (remote: flash write failure)

Annie