May 2012

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Find your LG mobile phone's Model and Serial Number. e.g. My phone model is P690F and its S/N is 123ABCD123456(it is labeled under battery).
Type the following address in your web browser's url field:
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/svc/popup/model_check.jsp?model=[model]&esn=[serial_number]
replace the [model] and [serial_number] with your LG phone's model and serial number.
Type return to load the page. It should returns a string. You need to view the page source:

On Firefox: Tools -> Web Developer -> Page Source (Ctrl+U or Command+U)
On Safari: Right click blank area in the page, select View Source in the context menu
On IE: View -> Source

Find the number inside <ESN></ESN> tag
Type the following address in your web browser's url field:
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/csmg/b2c/client/auth_model_check2.jsp?esn=[esn_number]
substitute the [esn_number] with the ESN number we get from last step.
Load the page and view page source, you can the ROM update url inside <sw_url></sw_url> tag.

Install OI File Explorer from Google Play Store
Install SaveAPK from Google Play Store
Run SaveAPK and select the application(apk) you want to save, then select the directory to store the apk (on SD card)

Install Astro File Manager from Google Play Store
Start Astro File Manager then select Application Backup, backup the applications and the apk files will be store in backups/ directory on SD card.

On some Android 2.3.X phones(e.g. my Acer Liquid Metal S120, WIFI proxy settings are missed in WIFI settings. The work around are below:

Install from Google Play, or if you dont have internet connection you can download the apk from http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/android/mobile/1200/ on another computer, transfer to your phone and installed it
Open the Opera browser app, in the URL field, type opera:config, at this time the Preferences Editor should have opened in your screen.
Scroll down to proxy menu, in the HTTP Server and HTTPS Server, enter your proxy setting with the following format <Proxy IP>:<Port>. E.g. 192.168.1.1:3128

Options 2: Install "HTTP proxy settings" app in Google play. (It may not work on some phones.)

You need a Windows PC (Windows XP sp3 or Windows 7 32/64 bit)
Download the V10F_00.kdz ROM(China Chinese/English)
Download and install Windows USB driver
Download and install Software Update utility
Download and extract KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.7z
Configure your phone: Settings -> Applications -> Development, Tick USB Debugging
Connect your phone to the Windows PC using USB cable and wait until all the drivers are installed automatically
Connect the phone but DO NOT turn on USB storage
Run KDZ_FW_UPD.exe as Administrator
Set Type: 3GQCT Phone Mode: DIAG
Select the V10F_00.kdz file
Press Lauch Software Update to start and wait (for 6~10 minutes) until you see --FINISHED-- line. (In the meantime, your phone gets into Emergency mode.)
The phone should reboot itself. For me, it failed to reboot, it hangs in the LG splash logo then reboots again infinitely. To fix it, turn off the phone and then press and hold the Power + Volume Down + Home buttons. Wait till you see the droid with the progress bar under it then release the buttons.