The LG Optimus One Thread

[kaz]

if you are ready to install why why take risk playing with KDZ again?

i was thinking that if i need back my stock rom due to some reasons then?
thats why I will first try to flash stock rom and then will install other custom roms

cant be a kdz file can be flashed using recovery?????

any other way to flash my stock rom??????

 

[coderunknown]

you take nandroid backup and if at a later date want to go back to LG firmware, restore the nandroid. else flash the V20C using KDZ updater.

no. you can flash a .kdz file using kdzupdater only. to flash it though recovery, you have to make it as a flashable zip.

 

[Vyom]

stock rom = drivers straight from IC manufacturer & so can control the chip in a better way.
custom rom = generic driver (remember yesterday LFC_Fan said this) and so you are left with a strangely acting piece of electronic we call mobile

Hmm, that explains it. So that means radio would take more battery on a custom ROM. Good that radio on mobile is not my primary source of entertainment. But I wish the radio could turn bluetooth off also, when I close it down. (Yes, it let it turned ON).

factory reset? Custom recovery > wipe > Wipe everything (factory restore)
but why try factory restore? why not upgrade baseband & flash the nightly builds.

Patience is virtue!
Actually I am arranging for some useless SIM's. You know this, that I don't rely much on chance.

i was thinking that if i need back my stock rom due to some reasons then?
thats why I will first try to flash stock rom and then will install other custom roms

Nandroid backup explained in plain English ahead...

First of all you don't want to "flash" stock rom now. You want to backup the stock rom. Nandroid backup is the BEST way to take a backup of your stock ROM. And you can take a nandroid backup using any of the recoveries available like TWRP and AmonRa recovery. Also, sometimes the term, "nandroid" is not mentioned in the recovery. You may find just the tems, "Backup/Restore" in such recoveries.
I would recommend to take a nandroid backup using atleast TWO recoveries.
You know.. just in case!

TWRP takes backup in a folder named, "TWRP" in the card. Whearas, AmonRA recovery does that in a folder named, "nandroid". After taking the backup, you can save them onto your computer, so that in case anything happens to card, your backup's remain safe.

Offtopic:
@Sam: So you finally changed your Avatar! But a nice one!

 

[kaz]

Hmm, that explains it. So that means radio would take more battery on a custom ROM. Good that radio on mobile is not my primary source of entertainment. But I wish the radio could turn bluetooth off also, when I close it down. (Yes, it let it turned ON).



Patience is virtue!
Actually I am arranging for some useless SIM's. You know this, that I don't rely much on chance.



Nandroid backup explained in plain English ahead...

First of all you don't want to "flash" stock rom now. You want to backup the stock rom. Nandroid backup is the BEST way to take a backup of your stock ROM. And you can take a nandroid backup using any of the recoveries available like TWRP and AmonRa recovery. Also, sometimes the term, "nandroid" is not mentioned in the recovery. You may find just the tems, "Backup/Restore" in such recoveries.
I would recommend to take a nandroid backup using atleast TWO recoveries.
You know.. just in case!

TWRP takes backup in a folder named, "TWRP" in the card. Whearas, AmonRA recovery does that in a folder named, "nandroid". After taking the backup, you can save them onto your computer, so that in case anything happens to card, your backup's remain safe.

i knew this....i already have 3 nandroid backup
but of the same recovery .. i forgot the name..but i guess it was thunder or something like that

but the problem is that i have the nandroid backup of the stock rom after i flashed a mod which changed the notification style and few more things..

you take nandroid backup and if at a later date want to go back to LG firmware, restore the nandroid. else flash the V20C using KDZ updater.

and the chances of bricking using kdz updater?

 

[Vyom]

i knew this....i already have 3 nandroid backup
but of the same recovery .. i forgot the name..but i guess it was thunder or something like that

but the problem is that i have the nandroid backup of the stock rom after i flashed a mod which changed the notification style and few more things..

Well, if you have 3 nandroid backup's but with the SAME recovery, I am sorry, but it's of less use here. As I said, you should have one more backup taken by some other recovery.

I don't want to scare you, but the backup which I took from TWRP was unable to restore by the same recovery. And TWRP 2 has changed, so it's incompatible with the old backup. So I can't move back to stock now.
Hoping you got the point.

and the chances of bricking using kdz updater?

In Sam's own words, "50% if you follow each and every step carefully. And 99% if you were unfortunate enough to perform a step wrong! "

 

[coderunknown]

Hmm, that explains it. So that means radio would take more battery on a custom ROM. Good that radio on mobile is not my primary source of entertainment. But I wish the radio could turn bluetooth off also, when I close it down. (Yes, it let it turned ON).

never used radio on my mobile. so no idea. why don't you try it?

Patience is virtue!
Actually I am arranging for some useless SIM's. You know this, that I don't rely much on chance.

then reflash same ROM again. new baseband got really odd restrictions. can't detect 32k & 128k sim. WTH !!!

Offtopic:
@Sam: So you finally changed your Avatar! But a nice one!

thanks

i knew this....i already have 3 nandroid backup
but of the same recovery .. i forgot the name..but i guess it was thunder or something like that

thunderg? its the name of O1 when LG was designing it. thats why all recovery have the thunderg name.

but the problem is that i have the nandroid backup of the stock rom after i flashed a mod which changed the notification style and few more things..

i think if you factory reset your mobile, those mods may get removed. not sure though. but leave these things for later. if ever by chance something goes wrong, then flash a new stock rom. when your mobile is working fine, why play with that brick maker?

In Sam's own words, "50% if you follow each and every step carefully. And 99% if you were unfortunate enough to perform a step wrong! "

lol. this is true actually. check the baseband upgrade/downgrade and Optimus One unbrick thread. peoples brick mobiles just like that. you follow the instructions and while flashing kdz closes or freezes. you close it or restart PC and its game over. my mobile had near death experience while playing with KDZ & LGMDP.

never ever trust LG made softwares. they don't know how to make softwares.

 

[AndroidFan]

@Vyom
I am still on the same old Amonra 1.2.1 recovery which I had pushed to my phone in March 2011... Why jump through different recoveries if one works for you?

 

[Vyom]

CM7 gives you 3 options for your battery...

Go to Settings >> CyanogenMod settings >> Interface >> Status Bar Tweaks >> Battery Status Style...

Actually I was taking about that thin "line" at the top of screen that represents the level of battery. But I don't care now. So it's ok to be left like that.

@Vyom
I am still on the same old Amonra 1.2.1 recovery which I had pushed to my phone in March 2011... Why jump through different recoveries if one works for you?

That is the thing. The TWRP's nandroid backup didn't worked for me to restore stock OS. So I had to try AmonRa later. But sadly the format of backup by AmonRA was different than that of TWRP. So stock was lost, forever!
I hope this clears the confusion.

 

[coderunknown]

have you tried this?

slide your finger over the status bar. looks like brightness control bar. this feature was added on CM7.2

 

[Neo]

box: 50Gb data but no pc app.
dropbox: less data but pc app. create 2-3 dropbox account

for schedulers it depends. i use BFS. i doubt our mobiles will show much difference if shifting from cfs to bfs.

yes, will update OP but doubt anyone checks it.

So, which one is better? Box or dropbox?

What?? CFS AND BFS are I/O schedulers ? Then what are noop , sio etc.

 

[kaz]

thanks Vyom and Sam....
@sam which cm9 rom are you using? ???? alpha1/2 or beta1/2 ?

 

[coderunknown]

i am using beta2 now. joined cm9 with beta1 as it introduced working gprs.



@tarun, that depends. if you are ok with no desktop apps, get box else dropbox is better. data provided by 1 dropbox account is enough for me.



yes noop, vr, cfs, bfs, simple, deadline, anticipatory are all schedulars. but most are disabled in kernels. only noop & vr are available for selection through overclocking apps. some say noop is not designed for mobile, deadline has sort of -ve effect. governors are more important than schedulars here.

 

[guru_urug]

Im using CM 7.2 (Kangs F3) ROM based on .35kernal and Old BB.
I recently bought new earphones(without mic). The phone's mic gets disabled/muted when I can call someone with my headphones plugged in and hear what they are saying, but I cannot talk back to them because the phone seems to disable the built in microphone when I plug my earphones in. Is there anyway to disable this so that i can use the built in microphone while my earphones are plugged in?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

[Vyom]

have you tried this?

Originally Posted by Sam
slide your finger over the status bar. looks like brightness control bar. this feature was added on CM7.2

No. Doesn't seem to work. But was able to remove the battery line that bugged me for a while through settings.
Although the net connection still hasn't started from Airtel! :'(

 

[coderunknown]

updated Apex launcher. top search bar can be disabled now, finally

 

[Neo]

^^ out could be disabled before also. every launcher has that functionality including Nova, Trebut , Apex.

 

[coderunknown]

have you tried nova? i flashed it but damn thing didn't work

today will try to install as a standard app.

 

[Neo]

I installed it as a standard app. And it was working fine. Didn't take the efforts of flashing it. After all, what difference will it make. My advice will be to keep using Apex.

 

[coderunknown]

yes installed as a standard app & it asked for root straightway. a bit more option but nothing new. back to Apex.

 

[guru_urug]

@sam
Im shifting to new BB too, pls just confirm whether gprs speed is slower due to new BB?

EDIT:
I couldnt wait, jumped the gun and now on new BB...enjoying ICS