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Root Gingerbread 2.3.3 rooting technique! (Tested and works)

There is nothing that says "android phone" or "android adb interface" and I see no yellow interrogation points. Every time I either connect my phone, reboot my phone while connected, or change to usb debugging when my phone is connected, windows update always starts downloading drivers. Before windows update does anything, the lg mobile update tool recognizes the phone without any problem. It managed to stay that way, but then when I switched to usb debugging on my phone, windows update started up again and downloaded drivers that would cause me to go through to whole process again, restarting my phone and re-installing the lg usb drivers.
It seems as if I'm getting some kind of driver conflict, but that's the best explanation I can come up with.

EDIT:
After some more mucking around, I found out the following: While restarting the phone after enabling usb debugging (while connected to the computer), in the device manager there is an "android sooner single adb interface" (or something along the lines of that) listed. The lg mobile update tool is also able to communicate with the phone without any issue.
After the phone is completely restarted, anything labeled with "adb" or anything along the lines of that disappears, and the lg tool can no longer properly communicate with the phone.

Now what happens when I restart the phone without usb debugging enabled:
While restarting, the lg tool communicates with the phone with no issue. Nothing to do with adb shows up in the device manager. Lg tool no longer can communicate with the phone when it is completely started up.

I should also note that windows update is longer downloading any drivers.

I'm thinking something is misconfigured inside the phone, which causes it to not detect as an android ADB device after boot. When the android logo is on, your ADB interface is activated and when the launcher appears, all parameters set in settings fire up. Did you check in settings/storage? There's an option there I think that forces the phone to detect as a mass storage device, that usually deactivates the ADB interface on boot...

If that still doesn't work, factory reset maybe?
 
sigh...
unchecked "Mass storage only" under storage in the settings menu.
Phone connected with ADB flawlessly.
Phone rooted, flawlessly.

All the help is much appreciated. I'm really glad there's actually a community out there supporting this phone..

EDIT: Does anyone know if it's safe to uninstall the facebook app? I don't have facebook and I don't see any reason to have it on my phone. Just figured it's too small of a question to start a new topic for.
 
sigh...
unchecked "Mass storage only" under storage in the settings menu.
Phone connected with ADB flawlessly.
Phone rooted, flawlessly.

All the help is much appreciated. I'm really glad there's actually a community out there supporting this phone..

EDIT: Does anyone know if it's safe to uninstall the facebook app? I don't have facebook and I don't see any reason to have it on my phone. Just figured it's too small of a question to start a new topic for.

No problem. ;) Glad I can help.

The facebook app was actually deleted from my custom ROM, so answer is yes. :) Easiest way is to uninstall with Titanium Backup. Saves up some space on system partition too, even though that doesn't change much.
 
Ok, I used this teqnique and it WORKED! Updated Superuser, rebooted, and now I can use Android Mate Free to go into /system/app/ and delete crap like Facebook and the super-anoying Voice Control app. Yeah! I'm so happy now, I could burst. Now if only I coukld set some of the other apps to not start themselves when the phone boots. :sigh:
 
And while I'm at it, can I ask if anyone knows how to get rid of the useless "PC LG Suite" contacts account? I hate it because every time I want to make a new contact, the contact type defaults to PC LG Suite, not the Google synch account I want it to, and there's no way to change the default!

If someone makes a new ROM for this phone, be sure to NOT load it up with a ton of useless apps that nobody asked for that start themselves repeatedly and that you can't get rid of without rooting the dam phone. Oh, and be sure to NOT include the ****ing useless LG PC Suite crapware.
 
And while I'm at it, can I ask if anyone knows how to get rid of the useless "PC LG Suite" contacts account? I hate it because every time I want to make a new contact, the contact type defaults to PC LG Suite, not the Google synch account I want it to, and there's no way to change the default!

If someone makes a new ROM for this phone, be sure to NOT load it up with a ton of useless apps that nobody asked for that start themselves repeatedly and that you can't get rid of without rooting the dam phone. Oh, and be sure to NOT include the ****ing useless LG PC Suite crapware.

Go to settings, accounts and sync, click on LG PC Suite and select remove account... Of course, removing account will nuke all the contacts and messages you had savec on that account... So very important, BACK EVERYTHING UP FIRST! ;) hehe.
 
Go to settings, accounts and sync, click on LG PC Suite and select remove account... Of course, removing account will nuke all the contacts and messages you had savec on that account... So very important, BACK EVERYTHING UP FIRST! ;) hehe.
Erm...no. That doesn't work. If I do what you say, I get "This acount is required by some applications. You can only remove it by resetting the phone to factory defaults (which deletes all your personal data). You do that in the Settings application, under Privacy." Well that's just ****ing great. If I reset the phone, guess what will still be there and still unremoveable because it's still "required" by the Contacts app. Go on, guess.

What I really want is the name of the apk that I need to delete in order to get LG Bloatware Suite the hells off my phone. And the name of the asshole over at LG who thought that making LG Bloatware Suite the default new-contact was a good idea. :mad:
 
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