How far can you push the LG GW620?

Hello guys,

As the title says really, my wife has this phone on contract with T-Mobile, I have the HTC Legend on Vodafone and she is getting mighty jelous of the features/apps.

I have read that some ppl are running Android 2.x and will probably try this for her, my worries are that I mess it up and end up with a bricked phone.

I have a few questions to ask to make sure I'm looking in the right places

1. Is the GW620 also called the EVE?
2. Is the only way to upgrade the OS via ROOT?
3. Can the phone be restored back to origanal state via a backup?
4. What is Rogers?

just for info

Model Number
LG GW620

Firmware Version
1.5

Kernal Version
2.6.27
LGE@new1 #4

Software Version
GW620-V106

I would really like to push this phone as far forward as possible, any pointers would be fantastic

Thanks for reading

Bill

 

thanks for the reply, can anyone confirm this is the correct order to do things

1.back up contacts (i'm presuming they can be added when froyo is installed)
2.reset to Factory
3.back up phone (if anything goes wrong I still have a working phone)
4.root
5.install froyo
6.add contacts

if im missing anything please let me know, I intend to update this thread as I go as a reference for myself and anyone else wanting to try this

 

hmmm the more i read (while waiting for the 53.8mb file to download (40mins), the more complicated it looks, im already wondering what this means

• Note: For windows, you need to add this to your android_winusb.inf in the android sdk usb driver in the [Google.NTx86] section for x86 or in [Google.NTamd64] section for 64bit windows:
  ;LG eve
  %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_D00D
  %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_D00D&MI_01

 

installed the android sdk and avd manager, its asking to do a few updates everytime i run the programme, ill just install everything it asks for


backed up sd card to comp

what does this mean, ive sen it twice now, ill have to look into this

'As root/admin, do:'

 

android sdk and avd manager installed and fully updated

disc image file downloaded and unpacked

took out battery and connected usb (phone came on straight away,phone is in fastboot mode (space and enter) driver installed automaticly when connected via usb



STUCK!!!

 

im in the cmd prompt , having trouble with it got this far, just trying to copy whats in the video, no luck yet

 

had to add 'fastboot -w' to the last command line


phone now says erasing 'usadata' - OKAY
erasing 'cache' - OKAY

guess theres no going back now, just gotta load the image file now i think

 

ok and thanks for your help today,

ive manegd to get to stage 2 in your order of things, i have a problem with stage 3 when i get this, not sure what to do, unless i download the file again, or maybe just unzip it again

 

seems im missing a file i think, im trying to write the system file img and not the boot file image, yup just checked and i only downloaded 1 of the 2 files...oops, should be plain sailing now

 

DONE IT YEHAAAAAA

gotta say thanks to johnsolo for your input, very kind of you to help out, thankyou

hope the wife is gonna understand how to use it now lol, im happy that ive managed it, time will tell if it was worth it. ill post back in a few days with an update

no market oops, am i missing something, downloaded the google zip and placed it on sd card, rebooted, navigate to sd card and see the file but does not open, maybe needs unzipping and placed in folder?

 

yes worked a treat, just have to wait for the misses to come home for her gmail password and i think we should be good to go

many many thanks, this site and the people on it are awsome

 

just got the appbrain installed thanks for the tip

just one more thing if I may, do you know if I can put the htc widgets on this phone?

after looking through the menus and stuff I came across a whole load of apk files, some of them with htc in the name, i installed them but cannot see where they went to and am a bit lost here, would be nice to get the friends widget and the weather widget from htc

 

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