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Root Updating from Velocity 0.4 (don't laugh)

jdmc

jdmc

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On 1/1/2011, I rooted my LG Ally and installed Velocity 0.4. I was pretty happy with it at first, but the phone has gradually gotten slower and glitchier over the past 18 months. So, I finally decided to come back here and look for an update. I see that Velocity 1.2.1 is the current version, and that it's based on Android v2.2 "Froyo". Do I need to do anything special to prepare before simply flashing the Velocity 1.2.1 ROM onto my phone? Phone Info shows the following:


  • Firmware version: 2.1-update1
  • Baseband version: VS740MV7.5210.1013
  • Kernel version: 2.6.29.6
  • SW Version: VS740ZVC

Thanks...
 
yes you do. you can not just flash. on velocity 1.0 thread I believe. there was a guide to use the lg updater to help upgrade the decice to froyo. after flashing the first froyo velocity rom successfully. you can choose from the following roms... After a successful boot ofcourse.
Velocity 1.2 (im currently building final rom)
Stormdroid
Bionx
Reason being, you need to upgrade the boot image and radio image in the device which user flashing methods dont do well with usually.
 
Hmmm well it seems I suddenly have a bigger problem: I can't boot my phone. It either self-reboots or crashes with a kernel panic before it completes the startup process. All I did was use ROM Manager to correct file permissions. Also, earlier today the AppBrain app was crashing when trying to sync. I tried to update it via the Market app, but the installation kept failing due to an "invalid package file" despite repeated attempts. Then I had the Market app try to "Update all", and a bunch of things started downloading, but the next time I looked a few minutes later, the phone had crashed. Since then the phone kept insisting I needed to plug in my charger, but when I did, the phone would give no indication that I had done so. Then I did the permissions fix described above and now it's just endlessly recycling through reboots. I have a baaaad feeling about this...

Help?
 
I'm terribly sorry, but I don't remember how to do that. I can at least tell you that when I rooted the phone and flashed Velocity 18 months ago, I installed the Amon Ra recovery tool.
 
jdmc said:
I'm terribly sorry, but I don't remember how to do that. I can at least tell you that when I rooted the phone and flashed Velocity 18 months ago, I installed the Amon Ra recovery tool.
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send+menu+power will send you into system recovery.
 
jaison80 said:
send+menu+power will send you into system recovery.
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Thanks Jaison! That worked. It says the Build is "RA-aloha-v1.2.5_getitnowmarketing".

Unfortunately, after letting it just sit there for about 10 seconds, the phone spontaneously blacks out, with the indicator LED blinking red for a while, and then the neverending reboots start up again.
 
Well, all this time I had had the phone plugged into my computer via the USB port. Normally this charges the phone, but for some unknown reason, that wasn't happening. Finally I got the bright idea to plug the phone's USB cable into my wall-socket power adapter instead, and... whaddya know, it started charging, and the phone booted normally. The battery had been completely drained, having been plugged into the computer all day but without being recharged, so the repeated reboots happened because of a dead battery... even though the phone would only reboot at all while it was connected to the computer. Bizarre.

Stranger still is that after leaving the phone plugged into the wall adapter for a bit, I brought it back over to the computer and re-plugged it into a USB port. Whaddya know, now the phone is being recharged via USB. I have no explanation for any of this; your guess is as good as mine.
 
Unfortunately, the Market app itself seems to be corrupted now. When I launch it, the screen turns white, it says "Loading...", and it stays that way forever, until I get the "not responding" dialog and kill it. *sigh*

I was going to use the Market app to update to the latest versions of various root utilities before attempting the flash upgrade. Now what?
 
I have ROM Manager v3.0.1.4 installed. When I try to do almost anything with it, it says I have to install ClockworkMod Recovery first. But I already have RA_GNM Recovery v1.2.5 installed, and ROM Manager recognizes this. So why the insistence on ClockworkMod Recovery?
 
OK, I went to Settings > Applications > Manage applications, selected Market, and tapped the "Uninstall updates" button. I'm pleased to report that Market now launches properly.

As before, I attempted to use the Market app to download and install AppBrain App Market. It downloaded, but installation is still failing with the error message, "Package file is invalid." I find it hard to believe that there's actually a corrupted copy of AppBrain being distributed by the Android Market, so what's really going on here?

And another thing: I just attempted to update Titanium Backup - Root via Market, and it too failed with a "Package file is invalid" error. WTF?
 
jdmc said:
Well, all this time I had had the phone plugged into my computer via the USB port. Normally this charges the phone, but for some unknown reason, that wasn't happening.
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That has happened to me before on my old computer which actually lead me to these forums and i ended up rooting my phone.
 
jdmc said:
I have ROM Manager v3.0.1.4 installed. When I try to do almost anything with it, it says I have to install ClockworkMod Recovery first. But I already have RA_GNM Recovery v1.2.5 installed, and ROM Manager recognizes this. So why the insistence on ClockworkMod Recovery?
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When i rooted and flashed my first rom i used http://androidforums.com/ally-all-t...-3-2011-3-40-pm-est-now-easier-than-ever.html I never installed a rom manager or clockworkmod thing from the market.
 
Well, this process is going nowhere fast. The instructions presented while running froyo.bat say:

The device manager will now open.
Expand "ADB Interface" (or something similar - should be under other devices)
Right click and choose "Update Driver"
Select "I will choose driver to install"
Navigate to where the Android USB drivers are (eg: C:FROYO\DRIVERS\usb_driver)
Choose "android_winusb.inf" and accept that this is an unsigned driver
it should notify you that the driver was successfully updated.
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Well, there is no "ADB"-anything to be found anywhere in the Device Manager hierarchy. The only thing that appears under "Other devices" is five copies of "LG Mobile USB Modem", which all get created when I plug the phone into the USB port. (The computer I'm using is a laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium.)

And I gather that getting this "ADB" somesuch running is required in order for the "KP500-Utils-EN.exe" utility to work, because when I try it now, it keeps insisting that the phone is not plugged into a USB port, when in fact it is.

I had forgotten just how frustrating and time-consuming this stuff can be, and I'm not enjoying being reminded.
 
Another frustrating thing about froyo.bat is that right at the beginning, it asks you...
(1) Windows 7
(2) Windows XP
Choice? (1/2) _
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...leaving it an unspoken secret how you're supposed to answer, or what you're supposed to do, if you're using Windows Vista. (I guessed "1", but why should I have to guess?)
 
jdmc said:
had forgotten just how frustrating and time-consuming this stuff can be, and I'm not enjoying being reminded.
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I can feel your frustration. I think i have the original froyo this guide is referring to at home. I can link it to you if i find it then it wont be so frustrating.
 
I got it taken care of guys. Just had to use adb.bat through the Froyo.zip I have in my dropbox and then update recovery and ROM and voila. If anyone has questions, come to IRC and leave me a PM (Sora1995|FFVII right now, usually Sora1995|Cloud) and I'll try to answer it.
 
As it turns out, I lost about half of my phonebook, and all of my call and text-message history, in the process of upgrading. I would much rather those had been preserved. Oh well.
 
jdmc said:
As it turns out, I lost about half of my phonebook, and all of my call and text-message history, in the process of upgrading. I would much rather those had been preserved. Oh well.
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you never synced your contacts?
 
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