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Yes, they are identical to the last person who sent them and we could never get this device to boot up properly. One guy tried forcing ramdisk and bricked his completely. Everything is 'right' in the recovery but the system just wont boot it. I think there is something larger going on with lge's newer devices.

Do you have the partition layout information at all? I found all the ones needed for recovery but I never got dumps of other partitions. There might be something being set in misc that cwmr is not doing that is causing it to not boot the code. If there is a misc or a param or some other similar partition I'd love a dump of that.

They would never get past the LG splash.
 
recovery filesystem table
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0 /tmp ramdisk (null) (null)
1 /cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 (null)
2 /misc emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0 (null)
3 /boot emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 (null)
4 /system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 (null)
5 /data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p13 (null)
6 /recovery emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p14 (null)
7 /sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 /dev/block/mmcblk0
8 /sdcard/_ExternalSD vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcblk1

major minor #blocks name description

179 1 2048 mmcblk0p1 (First stage bootloader - dbl.mbn)
179 2 2048 mmcblk0p2 (Second stage bootloader - osbl.mbn)
179 3 7168 mmcblk0p3 (fota)
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4 (EBR)
179 5 16384 mmcblk0p5 (/persist)
179 6 237568 mmcblk0p6 (/cache)
179 7 4096 mmcblk0p7 (blank, Unknown)
179 8 24576 mmcblk0p8 (Misc.)
179 9 8192 mmcblk0p9 (boot.img)
179 10 4096 mmcblk0p10 (modem fs1)
179 11 4096 mmcblk0p11 (modem fs2)
179 12 368640 mmcblk0p12 (/system)
179 13 925696 mmcblk0p13 (/data)
179 14 8192 mmcblk0p14 (recovery.img)
179 15 2023424 mmcblk0p15 (/sdcard)
179 16 28672 mmcblk0p16 (amss.mbn, FAT16)
179 17 4096 mmcblk0p17 (appsbl)
179 18 8192 mmcblk0p18 (adsp, same as mmcblk0p20)
179 19 28672 mmcblk0p19 (amssbak, FAT16)
179 20 8192 mmcblk0p20 (adspbak, same as mmcblk0p18)
179 21 16384 mmcblk0p21 (/mpt)
 
thank you guys for all the help as soon as me and utkanos get recovery working i will post on this thread right here
 
he said this:Yep, this is the same problem as last time. I will send you my device config if you want to keep trying but this phone will not boot anything that isnt the stock recovery. I am at a loss as to why. I think the answer may lie on one of those unidentified partitions.

Do you want to try the recovery I made last time for the tester?


i will post the recovery if anyone wants to give it a shot
 
slutyman said:
he said this:Yep, this is the same problem as last time. I will send you my device config if you want to keep trying but this phone will not boot anything that isnt the stock recovery. I am at a loss as to why. I think the answer may lie on one of those unidentified partitions.

Do you want to try the recovery I made last time for the tester?


i will post the recovery if anyone wants to give it a shot
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Did he take a look at the information about the LG Revolution?

We could try with the ZV5 firmware, but I bet we'd have the same problem.
 
elgecko said:
Didn't someone offer to send their phone off to someone a few days ago?
If he did not send it off, maybe we should see if he would send it to this guy so we do not have to donate money.
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Drew is definitely a good dev. If he can't do it, it may not be possible.
 
bobloadmire said:
Thanks for showing up, hopefully you can be our Optimus Jesus and liberate this thing.
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You are quite welcome. Obviously I don't come around here often (Android Central is my home :D).

Anywho, I know some people who know some people who know some people...blah blah blah. Basically I may be able to reach out to the LG engineering team and get some answers, but I won't be able to do much without an Elite in hand, even if said Elite is simply a donor (for an unspecified amount of time).

The bottom line is that it is extremely difficult to support a device I don't own (or have personal access to). So help me help you ;)

EDIT: In case anybody was wondering, no I won't disclose any info on how to get in touch with LG engineering.
 
@ drewwalton1921,
If someone does not donate a phone to you, can you keep a running tab of the amount of money you have received to purchase a phone.
I know someone was willing to donate a phone in another thread a few days ago.
I'll be willing to help out some $ if one is not donated.
 
drewwalton1921 said:
My source code is ALWAYS made public. Period. :D

I think a good way to keep track of donations and whatnot would be some sort of crowdfunding site. I'm open to suggestions.
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Since some members prefer not to use Paypal, how about https://www.wepay.com/ ?

They allow setting up a donation page, it seems simple and less expensive than Paypal. I would like to mention that I have never used this service, so I'm not sure if there are any issues we may encounter.

There is a 3.5% transaction fee (50
 
he said:The issue isnt compiling or building it, it's that it refuses to boot anything except the stock recovery.

As a test with the other guy, I took the stock recovery, unpacked it and changed nothing at all, repacked it, and it wouldn't boot at all. I think there is some sort of sum checking or some such nonsense going on, I couldn't really get a straight answer out of the last guy about it. The device config is right and it builds properly, there's just something else in the way.
 
slutyman said:
he said:The issue isnt compiling or building it, it's that it refuses to boot anything except the stock recovery.

As a test with the other guy, I took the stock recovery, unpacked it and changed nothing at all, repacked it, and it wouldn't boot at all. I think there is some sort of sum checking or some such nonsense going on, I couldn't really get a straight answer out of the last guy about it. The device config is right and it builds properly, there's just something else in the way.
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LG engineers would know whether or not that is true. Which is why drew needs his hands on this phone :)
 
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