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The VS740ZV8 update. it went out over the air. What version software does her phone say it has? Goto Settings>About Phone>SW Version (Its at the bottom)
 
She has the VS740zv8.... when did it come out. she has only had the phone for about 3 weeks. We had issues with it last week adn I had to do a factory reset. I am still not sure what she did but it kept running out of memory... now I am wondering if this is what screwed it up.
 
V8 came out just a couple weeks ago. she may have installed the update when it prompted her. and v8 was actually supposed to help things like make the screen more responsive. less lag, more free memory. add corporate calendar and backup assistant
 
drellisdee said:
Trident if you need it this is the stock boot.img and the stock recovery.img from a v8 ally. Boot is mtd0 and recovery is mtd2. Has anyone yet figured out the key combo to manually get to recovery?

ally.zip
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death2all110 said:
Hey drellis where did you find those files at?
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He extracted the boot.img and recovey.img files using cat. Cat is a Unix command that can be used to pull files files from Android. Unfortunately, you can't split them without corrupting the .img files. Thanks for the effort, but this simply won't work.

The only way to get uncorrupted .img files is to grab them before they have been flashed to the nand chips. Really the only ways to get them is through an update.zip file (assuming it includes a full .img and not a img.p patch file) or if they were by some odd chance leaked to us.
 
Trident question for you. I've hunted the internet for info on building a custom recovery and have found CM recovery source, stock android recovery source, koush and amon_ra sources too. The thing I can't seem to find info on is what steps you have to take to customize the source for a specific device? I'm a long time win mo chef and have made quite a few modifications to android-x86 and frequently build from source for -x86. I don't think it would be too difficult to build a recovery if I could find that info out. Have you happened to find anything out on it in your research or from your friend?

That info on rebuilding boot.img from a cat source is dead on right. I split the boot and changed ro.secure and remade boot.img and fastbooted it and killed an ally already.
 
drellisdee said:
Trident question for you. I've hunted the internet for info on building a custom recovery and have found CM recovery source, stock android recovery source, koush and amon_ra sources too. The thing I can't seem to find info on is what steps you have to take to customize the source for a specific device? I'm a long time win mo chef and have made quite a few modifications to android-x86 and frequently build from source for -x86. I don't think it would be too difficult to build a recovery if I could find that info out. Have you happened to find anything out on it in your research or from your friend?

That info on rebuilding boot.img from a cat source is dead on right. I split the boot and changed ro.secure and remade boot.img and fastbooted it and killed an ally already.
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I'll point my friend to this thread, he'll be able to explain it better than me.
 
Hello, just wanted to put in my wife will be getting an Ally probably Tuesday, if you still haven't gotten anything I'll see if I can catch the OTA update. I have a fairly good knowledge of Android, almost done with a .32 kernel for the Eris for 2.2 so hopefully can help you guys out.
 
hey guys i have the v9 update download. it is a full image, the thing is rather large as well, would that suffice as a platform to work from? or does it have to be v6??
 
zacwhite15 said:
hey guys i have the v9 update download. it is a full image, the thing is rather large as well, would that suffice as a platform to work from? or does it have to be v6??
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I doubt it..

Go through the files and look for a file called boot.img. You will probably only be able to find boot.img.p which will not work. I could be wrong though.. if you are able to find a complete boot.img, please upload the entire update folder.

Thanks :)
 
Trident said:
I doubt it..

Go through the files and look for a file called boot.img. You will probably only be able to find boot.img.p which will not work. I could be wrong though.. if you are able to find a complete boot.img, please upload the entire update folder.

Thanks :)
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all i have in the folder is .bin's .wdb's and .wdh files, if any of those help i could upload it. they all range in size from about 1 meg to about 400 megs...
 
zacwhite15 said:
all i have in the folder is .bin's .wdb's and .wdh files, if any of those help i could upload it. they all range in size from about 1 meg to about 400 megs...
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You have to split/extract the .BIN to get it and I have hunted for a tool to split it and have found none that are capable. Trident can you ask your buddy if a boot.img taken from phone with mkyaffs2image & dump_image or yaffs2tool called mkfs.yaffs2 would cause corruption like one taken with cat?

Info on mkfs.yaffs2 is at http://jiggawatt.org/badc0de/android/index.html
 
hmm, ya if i can somehow split that bin file into the image files that would be perfect. ill see what i can find as well....
 
i found what was called firmware modification kit and started it up on my linux virtual machine and it started extracting the bin file but then i got ERROR: filesystem not extracted properly. and it stopped..

any ideas?
 
Found the key combo to boot stock recovery on ally. Warning : It also does a factory wipe and gives you no options to select a no wipe. With phone off hold "HOME" and "Vol Down" and also press and hold power. When you see the lg boot splash let go of all three keys. I didn't test but you should be able to copy ota updates.zip to sd card and install them this way.
 
i learned that the hard way, thank god for titanium backup. it helped me recieve the OTA update again though. so i guess if youve had problems getting it a hard reset would be the best bet
 
Member, drellisdee, has successfully created a custom recovery.img for the LG Ally. Please visit his release thread for more info and installation instructions. Also, don't forget to buy him and energy drink!

Happy rom flashing! :)

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