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Can someone explain md5 a little more for me? I understand that you check the md5 to make sure the download is right, but why is that? Do all downloads have md5 or is it something that has to be prepared first?
 
Updated the MD5s for the zv5 ROMs and added the debloated ROM. Also added a clean install warning to the zv5 upgrade process. :)
 
CrimsonToker said:
Can someone explain md5 a little more for me? I understand that you check the md5 to make sure the download is right, but why is that? Do all downloads have md5 or is it something that has to be prepared first?
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All files have an MD5. It is generated from the data content of the file. Exactly how, I don't know, some fancy algorithm. You can see the MD5 of any file at any time, but checking the MD5 of a download without knowing what the original files MD5 is useless unless you know that the copy you have is good.
 
Another issue I had is that I was unable to boot the phone into the mode that the drivers should have enabed it to. I held down the volume button but that did not work. Do you have any suggestions?
 
Is the LG flash mode supposed to show anything on its logs,or some sort of progress bar on the phone? Do we have any means of tracking the progress??
 
Tormenator1 said:
Hi,OP and thanks for posting this. How do we know once the LG flash tool is finished?? Does it give any alerts?

Another issue I had is that I was unable to boot the phone into the mode that the drivers should have enabed it to. I held down the volume button but that did not work. Do you have any suggestions?

Is the LG flash mode supposed to show anything on its logs,or some sort of progress bar on the phone? Do we have any means of tracking the progress??
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You boot into download mode by holding volume up while plugging in the phone with the phone off. The drivers have nothing to do with this. Yes, progress is indicated on both the phone and in the flash tool. The phone will reboot when it's done. You will get errors from the flash tool after the phone reboots. This is normal, ignore it.
 
bg4m3r said:
You boot into download mode by holding volume up while plugging in the phone with the phone off. The drivers have nothing to do with this. Yes, progress is indicated on both the phone and in the flash tool. The phone will reboot when it's done. You will get errors from the flash tool after the phone reboots. This is normal, ignore it.
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I've been wondering why it gives that error message even though it works. Any idea, bg4m3r?
 
bg4m3r said:
You boot into download mode by holding volume up while plugging in the phone with the phone off. The drivers have nothing to do with this. Yes, progress is indicated on both the phone and in the flash tool. The phone will reboot when it's done. You will get errors from the flash tool after the phone reboots. This is normal, ignore it.
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However,no progresss was indicated on the boot mode even though I left it for quite a bit. How long on average does this take?
 
Tormenator1 said:
However,no progresss was indicated on the boot mode even though I left it for quite a bit. How long on average does this take?
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Did you read the instructions thoroughly? Did your phone look like the screenshot? I guarantee you missed a step and never started the flash.
 
After following these instructions and installing the heavily debloated zv5 ROM (with radio), my home screen only has one screen and tapping on "Home screen" in Settings causes Settings to crash. Any ideas why?
 
Okay, so it's been a minute since I posted here. I successfully got big apps moved to the external SD card after deleting Data, moving OBBs to the SD, and then moving the app to SD card in the app settings. Now I am curious about flashing to zv5 from my downgraded zv3. I understand that I need to make a recovery image, and that I should probably use the odexed zv5 rom instead of the deodexed one. The question I have now, is do I need to redo anything I've already done after flashing to zv5? Will my bigger apps continue to work from the external SD?

Or is it better to uninstall xposed and move everything back to the internal SD before I flash to zv5? Also, I've been having trouble getting CWM or TWRP to do anything on my volt. Neither one support the device directly (Volt does not show up in the device list) and backing up doesn't seem to be doing anything. I patched the SD like TWRP wanted me to, installed busybox like it wanted me to, and then tried to backup the current rom, but now I can't find it anywhere to verify that it actually backed it up.

It went through a reboot sequence and now I'm just kind of worried if I should proceed to flashing zv5 or not. I also installed flashify, which seems to be working better as a backup tool. Now it actually sees the backup I made of my rom.
 
eaarthman said:
After following these instructions and installing the heavily debloated zv5 ROM (with radio), my home screen only has one screen and tapping on "Home screen" in Settings causes Settings to crash. Any ideas why?
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Because the debloated ROM has Google Now Launcher, not the stock launcher.
There is a list of changes in that thread.
 
Baeloro said:
Okay, so it's been a minute since I posted here. I successfully got big apps moved to the external SD card after deleting Data, moving OBBs to the SD, and then moving the app to SD card in the app settings. Now I am curious about flashing to zv5 from my downgraded zv3. I understand that I need to make a recovery image, and that I should probably use the odexed zv5 rom instead of the deodexed one. The question I have now, is do I need to redo anything I've already done after flashing to zv5? Will my bigger apps continue to work from the external SD?

Or is it better to uninstall xposed and move everything back to the internal SD before I flash to zv5? Also, I've been having trouble getting CWM or TWRP to do anything on my volt. Neither one support the device directly (Volt does not show up in the device list) and backing up doesn't seem to be doing anything. I patched the SD like TWRP wanted me to, installed busybox like it wanted me to, and then tried to backup the current rom, but now I can't find it anywhere to verify that it actually backed it up.

It went through a reboot sequence and now I'm just kind of worried if I should proceed to flashing zv5 or not. I also installed flashify, which seems to be working better as a backup tool. Now it actually sees the backup I made of my rom.
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Hard to say exactly what will happen. If you were using link2sd, then I would say you're going to have issues, but I don't know about this. You may also have to do a factory reset after updating. This is why I suggested going all the way through at once. Backup your apps and hope for the best?
 
I'm not using link2sd atm. I'm only using xposed framework and the obb to sd module. Is that still going to present an issue?
 
Baeloro said:
I'm not using link2sd atm. I'm only using xposed framework and the obb to sd module. Is that still going to present an issue?
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That was my point. I don't know. The safest thing to do would be to get everything back on internal memory and make backups because you might have to do a factory reset after updating.
 
Volted said:
Yes, those HTC backups might be the problem. It's strange, but perhaps something from old HTC might have written to the phone itself somehow. Malaci, disconnect your phone from the computer.

Do this on your computer and then your mother in law's HP without connecting the phone:

Make sure (very important) any and all drivers and software for LG and the old HTC are uninstalled. Reboot. Open from "Start Menu" and right click on "Computer" and then select "Properties". From the left side panel of the system window, click on "Advanced system settings" and then go down on the middle tab named "Advanced" to click on "Environment Variables". Now, under the "User variables" box at the top, click on "New" and type "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices" without the quotation marks in the top "Variable name" text box and then the number "1" without the quotation marks in the bottom "Variable value" box. Click "OK" to close out each open window and finally close the system window. Now, log off the computer and then log on again. Open "Device Manager" from inside "Control Panel" and click on the "View" tab on the menu bar at the top of the device manager window and then select "Show hidden devices". Scroll all the way down to "Universal Serial Bus controllers" and expand it by clicking on the little triangle and you will see branches in the device tree. Look for the faded icons. These indicate unused device drivers. Right click on each one and select "Uninstall". Go up a few to "Portable Devices" in the device manager window and expand it if available. Look for faded icons and uninstall these as well. Close out device manager and reboot computer. Install LG drivers and software. Computers should now recognize your LG Volt if the phone was properly working.

Let's try and find the problem with the phone now. Can you back track all that you have done or tried to the phone in order? Take out the SD card and leave it out. Reboot the phone. What happens? Can you do a factory reset?
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Still Running into the same problem. heres what I did, I did a LG Backup. Then I downloaded and installed everything required, Put the phone in download mode and began the flashing process. The flashing process worked and booted into MiniOS, held power and tapped normal boot. I dialed ##72786# and then it rebooted, however, after the phone powered off and began to restart, the only thing that would load is the first LG screen and had the message in the top left corner of the screen...

[360] fastboot_init()
[460] USB init ept @ 0xffdf000
[480] udc_start()"

After several battery pulls I figured I would try to do a factory reset, I hold the Vol - and Power, the phone gets to the "Factory Reset Processing" screen then goes black. I left it that way for hours to no avail. So that is when I decided to try to start over from step one, but now my phone thinks its an HTC. So in conclusion, I can not factory reset and reflashing is not working. Let me just say thank you for all the help. I have had several android phones and rooted and used custom roms on all of them. So I know my way around rooting and all that jazz, but this has me completely stumped. I had TWRP on my HTC too, so im thinking that the system just used the same folder that my HTC back ups were in instead of making a new folder, but that also makes no sense because TWRP installs its directory on the internal storage and not the SD card correct? So thats where I am, Stumped and running out of hair to pull out :P
 
While i was trying to flash z3 yesterday, the power went out and my computer went off, stopping the process. Now, my phone cannot get past the LG screen as it goes straight into download mode. I tried to factory reset it, but nothing changed. Can anyone help me as I am not sure what to do and I am afraid that I may have fully bricked it.
 
Bloobo88 said:
While i was trying to flash z3 yesterday, the power went out and my computer went off, stopping the process. Now, my phone cannot get past the LG screen as it goes straight into download mode. I tried to factory reset it, but nothing changed. Can anyone help me as I am not sure what to do and I am afraid that I may have fully bricked it.
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You're going to have to reflash. It probably didn't finish due to the power loss. You're lucky you still have download mode access or you would be completely hosed.
 
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