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How to update the CM 10.1 NIGHTLY of LG Optimus 2X (SU660)

1.     Download the desired P990 NIGHTLY version to update to.

  LINK: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=p990&type=nightly

2.     Download fix for P990 NIGHTLY, to make it compatible with SU660. Follow instructions to convert P990 rom to a SU660 compatible rom.

  LINK: https://code.google.com/p/openstar2x/download /detail?name=su660-cm-nightly-v0.15a.zip&can=2&q=

3.     Download the latest Kowalski Kernel for SU660

 

LINK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226251

 

4.     Download the IntSD-MountFix.zip (in case internal SD card won't mount)

 

LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tg8sal0j34r5258/Uwq9kz8vlD/IntSD-MountFix.zip

5.     Copy all files into external SD card and flash them in order (NIGHTLY, Kernel, Fix) in recovery mode.

List of all NIGHTLIES with change logs for P990 (http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/#/p990/next)

NOTE (VERY IMPORTANT):

1.      Links here may or may not be updated with the latest version of each zip file (I'd say about 90% chance they are updated).

Refer to google (xda-developers, etc.) to verify the latest versions of each software just in case.

2.     This guide only works if you are running an LG Optimus 2X (SU660) currently running on any build of CM10.1 NIGHTLY, and you wish to update to a later version.

3.     This can also be followed to downgrade your NIGHTLY.

This text is from,

Kristen Cyril Aquino (mail - the_dancing_robot@yahoo.com)

Thanks mate!

[Guide] Cyanogenmod 10.1 aka Jelly Bean 4.2.2 on LG Optimus 2X SU660 Korean Variant.

Hey Androiders,

Its been a while I blogged, since I changed my phone to Galaxy S Korean to LG Optimus 2X Korean. I do not know why always I get a Korean variant but, as in my personal experience Korean phones carry the same hardware with little changes than the international version, but the same performance. So the change in the hardware results different android solutions, that you have to suffer a bit to search and try different things and optimize it.

Having said that, let we start the porting of Jelly Bean to a Korean device. Thanks to all developers behind scene who has implemented it so far so good!

The following are required for the successive port of jelly bean to L2X SU660.

1. The Dropbox Folder which has all the installation files.
2. Rooted L2X SU660 Phone. (If not rooted follow the this link)
3. A Windows 7 Machine. 

Steps

1. Download all files from the Dropbox Folder.
2. Copy the following files to a External Micro SD. Keep it safe.

1. cm-10-1-NIGHTLY-su660-fixed.zip
2. gapps-jb-20121212-signed.zip
3. IntSD-MountFix.zip
4. kowalski-kernel-100p5-oldbl_CM10.1.zip

2. Go back to the Dropbox folder and find the "Root Tools and Drivers".
3. Install the LG United Mobile Driver.exe
4. Then remove the battery from the phone, by pressing both the VOLUME UP and DOWN keys connect the phone to the PC via USB.
5. In your Windows 7 task-bar, a driver will try to install but it will fail. DON'T PANIC!!
6. Now go to Start and search for "Device Manager"
7. You will see a Other or "APX" is there with a yellow warning icon.
8. Right click it and select the option to install the drivers manually. 
9. Now go to downloads folder and extract APX Driver.zip
10. Install the driver manually and again connect the phone to the PC as in the 4th step.
11. Now you will see the driver has been installed. 
12. Now go to "Root Tools and Drivers" folder of Dropbox again and extract nvflasher-cleaner-v0.2.zip. Run the flash.bat file.
13. A command window will popup and this process take you to the CWM recovery mode.
14. Wait until the command window says "press any key to continue...."
15. Remove the phone from PC and insert the battery and external SD card which carries all the installation files in step 2.
16. Now switch on the phone. You will see the recovery menu where you can install and flash new ROMs and kernels.
17. In the recovery mode, go to "install zip from sdcard" and go to "choose zip from external sdcard".
18. There you will see all these four .zip files.
19. First flash the ROM. cm-10-1-NIGHTLY-su660-fixed.zip
20. Then the Kernel kowalski-kernel-100p5-oldbl_CM10.1.zip
21. Next the Google Apps for Jelly Bean gapps-jb-20121212-signed.zip
22. In these steps your internal SD card may not be mounted. To avoid the risk, flash the fourth file as well. IntSD-MountFix.zip

23. Now go back, wipe data/ factory and wipe cache respectively.

24. Reboot the phone!

Here we go! Your L2X Su660 will be starting with Jelly Bean 4.2.2 CM10.1! Enjoy!!

Issues 

I have tested the phone with the jelly bean, it works flawlessly fine. I can say there are some little issues certainly those wont make any difference, you can live without those additional features :D
The issues are,

1. WiFi tethering seems to be NOT working, I have tried, but I think a fix is coming up soon.

2. A special Jelly bean feature is Photo Sphere. I have tried to flashed in many ways, still the feature is not available for the device it seems! Anyway I will keep an eye on it and update whenever it is available!

Enjoy guys! Bravo Cyanogenmod Team :)

Questions and Comments are welcome :)

[Guide] Root the LG Optimus 2X SU660 Korean Variant

Hi Guys,

Rooting the L2X SU660 is quite simple with only few steps involved(Using a Windows machine).

1. Go to this Dropbox Folder and download all the files here.
2. Install LG United Mobile Driver.exe

3. Extract it and Connect your phone to the PC via the USB.
4. Then take the phone, go to Settings -> Developer Options -> USB Debugging and tick it.
5. In the extracted file, there will be .exe file. Double click and it will recognize your phone.
6. Hit on "Root" and wait for a while. Your phone will be rebooted. 


There you go! You L2X SU660 is rooted now!

Thanks!

When I buy new flip-flops :D :D

This is the new flip flops I purchased recently :D :D Enjoy :)

Flashing Samsung Galaxy S SHW M110S Variant with CyanogenMod 9

Hi Guys!

This blog post is about flashing Samsung Galaxy S SHW M110S Variant with CyanogenMod 9 custom rom.
If you are not familiar with what is happening with this rom I would please you to take a hard look at cyanogenmod.com. This article I written is for an educational purpose. You may face issues with the rom. Lot of configuration issues such as Wi-Fi issues, data activation issues. Yet this is the best solution that you can get for the phone in order to get ICS.

What you need for this flashing operation?

1.     The Odin for flashing the phone to Recovery Mode (01_CM9_2.tar file)

2.     The CyanogenMod ROM (CM9_M110S_Say.zip file)

3.     The Basic Google Apps for the ROM (gapps_ics_404_01042012.zip file)

Download the files by the links attached.

Precautions

1.     Please charge your phone up to 70% or more.

2.     Understand the phone’s Reboot mode, Download mode and Recovery Mode.

Download Mode will be the Home Button + Power Button.
Recovery mode will be the Volume Down Button + Home Button + Power Button.

Take a big breath before doing it, Please understand this process may brick or semi-brick your phone, but still you can unbrick and flash with the stock rom. Please ask questions if you have any clarifications about the installations.

How to do?

1.     Connect the phone into PC. Copy the CyanogenMod ROM (CM9_M110S_Say.zip file) and the Basic Google Apps for the ROM (gapps_ics_404_01042012.zip file) to your phone.

2.     Switch off the phone. Remove the battery, re-insert and put the phone into Download mode.

3.     Run Odin, when you run the software with the phone connected the Odin will detect a yellow bar with a COM port. Find the button PDA. Click the PDA and select 01_CM9_2.tar file. It will take a few seconds to finish. Unplug the USB and put the phone into Recovery mode.

4.     In the recovery mode you will see options like WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET. Press YES and DO it.

5.     WIPE CACHE Partition.

6.     Go to advanced and WIPE DALVIK CACHE.

So these steps actually clean your phone off the from the previous ROM / Stock ROM

7.     Go back and select INSTALL UPDATE FROM SD CARD.

8.     Select CM9_M110S_Say.zip and click update. It will take up to a minute to install.

9.     After that repeat that with gapps_ics_404_01042012.zip file.

10.  Do it again the 4^th 5^th and 6^th steps again.

11.  Reboot now

12.  In the first boot of a new ROM it will take a few minutes to load. Be PATIENT!

13.  Here we go! The CyanogenMod 9 for SHW M110S where you are!

Issues I faced,

1.     I could not switch on my Wi-Fi

2.     I could not switch on data packet enabler

3.     I could not switch on the Bluetooth

4.     My camera got a miserable look. Not correctly focusing or capturing.

But I really like the UI, my phone become speeder and smoother than the stock rom. I repeat this is an educational article. Please think twice before doing anything. Believe me you may brick your phone for nothing.

Cheers!

Virtuous

Not everyone is virtuous to everyone.

Someone is praying for someone and cursing someone else at the same time.

Killer and the Victim has two different justifications.

There is a reason for given and taken.

Every judgment makes someone happy and the other one sad at the same time.

When you enjoying the breeze of rain, someone else is suffering even without a hut.

Someone who is selling and someone who is buying has some need to be fulfilled.

Someone sells their body to buy clothes.

There are forgives which never been told or accepted.

A friend of yours can be enemy for someone else.

Not everyone is virtuous to everyone.

This is the direct translation of its Tamil edition here.

நல்லவர்

எல்லோருக்கும் எல்லோரும் நல்லவரில்லை.

யாரோ ஒருவன் யாருக்காகவோ வேண்டுதல் செய்கிறான் சபிக்கவும் செய்கிறான்.

கொலைகாரனுக்கும் கொல்லப்பட்டவனுக்கும் இருவேறு நியாயங்கள்.

எடுக்கப்பட்டதற்கும் கொடுக்கப்பட்டதற்கும் ஏதோ ஒரு காரணம்.

எல்லாத் தீர்ப்புகளிலும் ஒருவன் சிரிக்கிறான் மற்றொருவன் அழுகிறான்.

நீங்கள் மழையை ரசித்த தருணங்களில் குடிசை இல்லாதவன் குளிரால் நடுங்குகிறான்.

விற்கிறவனுக்கும் வாங்குகிறவனுக்கும் ஏதோ ஒரு தேவை.

உடம்பை விற்ற பணத்தில் உடைகளும் வாங்கப்படுகின்றன.

சொல்லப்படாமலும் ஏற்கப்படாமலும் – சில மன்னித்தல்கள் மனதிலேயே விக்கி நிற்கின்றன.

கர்ணனின் பார்வையில் துரியோதனன் நண்பன். திரெளபதிக்கு ?

எல்லோருக்கும் எல்லோரும் நல்லவரில்லை.

நன்றி – தஞ்சை சூர்யா

How did I solved issues with Windows 8 – WAMP Server issues

I was not a huge PHP fanatic, yet I got to use it to do my University project. So in that case I was instructed to use WAMP Server for my localhost server which in-build with Apache, MySQL, PHP and Web Grind. I installed Windows 8 few weeks ago, but I could not figure out a way which I can install WAMP Server in it. Because the error message says

“Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.”

But when I type 127.0.0.1 it is working indeed.

So I was thinking with my previous experiences it should something has to be done with the httpd.conf file and the regedit of Windows 8.

Here I how solved the issue.

1.     Test the port which Apache runs. Go to WAMP Server -> Apache -> Service -> Test Port 80. It will give a command prompt message whether it is running on port or not. If it is not running on port 80, you can edit the httpd.conf file. Go to Apache and open up the file in a text editor. Go to line 45 and 46 and check whether the correct port number has been entered. Change it accordingly.

2.      Let’s see what we can do with the registry editor.

Open console (cmd.exe) and execute 

netstat -aon | findstr 0.0:80

to check if the port is controlled by process with ID 4 (System). Otherwise we should kill it (the process with PID != 4) using a task manager.

But what eventually worked for me is to disable a HTTP service of Windows 8:
1) Go to registry editor (execute regedit);
2) proceed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP;
3) create a new DWORD param with name "NoRun" and set it to "1" (without quotes); 

4) Select the DWORD param according to your OS bit version. I did it with 32-bit;

5) set "Start' param to "0"; 

Now Reboot!

3.     After rebooting, open the httpd.conf again and go to line no 188 and it is a <Directory> tag. Check whether the line 4 of that tag has this -> “Deny from all”. Now change that to “Allow from all” (Without the quotes)

4.     Scroll down to line no 231 and see this -> “#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove”. See the last line says -> “Allow from 127.0.0.1” Change it to “Allow from all”.

Now refresh and see if the localhost works? I guess it will not work until you restart the services again. Once you restart, you are done!

Thank you guys!
Cheers!

How did I started tweeting :D

Hi Guys!

I am writing this post after a long time since I left blogging for a while. Yes! It is a return J
this time I am going back to my old days (Not very old though), how did my Twitter Guru Indulekha guided me to start tweeting in a routine based :D
Please read the chat conversation of me and Indu had, and watch out the tips she gave me. 

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me: indu indu indu

Indulekha: y?

me: how do I get 500 twitter followers ??

Indulekha: LOL!

me: i tried alot it aint going upper than 170

 :(

Indulekha: what's your twitter handle again?

me: nar7esh

Indulekha: Number 1 - Un-protect your tweets you fool!

me: :D

i have a doubt

when etisalat want to tweet for promotional offer, I did when its protected

but that tweets dint reach them :(

so I opened it to public

now its protected

so next ?

Indulekha: No men, I said make it public

 "un-protect it"

me: okays

:D

Indulekha: haiyo haiyo :P

how do u expect ppl to follow u when u protect your tweets ah? :P

me: :D

Indulekha: aiyoooooo lol

what sort of tweets do u do?

me: tech cricket for the most part :D

Indulekha: On the twitter bio you've written this - Royalist | UCSC | Undergrad | Follower | RightHanded | LeftHandedBatting | OpenSource | SLCricketFan | MoreThan160Characters | AskMe |

me: yes

Indulekha: why do u say RightHanded?

and - MoreThan160Characters

and - AskMe ?

me: because I use to write in my right hand and bat and bowl and do rowing in my left side hand*

Indulekha: so what's the purpose of mentioning it on the twitter bio?

I mean, is it for a particular reason?

If not, take it off

me: i have nothing to write like so special :D

Indulekha: doesn't matter

me: ill wipe off the things make ugly ne

Indulekha: Royalist | UCSC | Undergrad | Follower | OpenSource | SLCricketFan | Techie | Team-Wedding Wish |http://mywish.lk

Use that :)

me: superb !

Indulekha: :)

 Now make sure you tweet at least couple of times a day

 You have twitter on your mobile?

me: yes I do

Indulekha: you got a smart phone?

me: yes I do

Indulekha: great

me: no, un-smart phone

Indulekha: then it's not that hard ne?

me: :D

Indulekha: ah..

okay lol

not android ah?

me: sms tweeting

i always be online

Indulekha: shape

still you can keep up

me: tweeting is not an issue at all

Indulekha: post at least a few times a day on topics those are relevant. FOSS, Cricket, Techie stuff

me: yep sure

Indulekha: Have a few websites that you check regularly and do the latest updates over twitter

Then converse with others...

me: hmmm

Indulekha: It's easier when you're on web of course :)

don't but into conversations too much

but when someone makes a 'statement'

And if you're interested in that topic, go ahead and ask a question.

Just don't ask dumb questions LOL!!!

 :P

kidding

hehe

Anyways,

me: i do ask dumb some times

:D

Indulekha: Once or twice, RT interesting tweets of others

me: i do

:)

Indulekha: hehe it's okay you'll learn :P

yeah I see you're already doing the right things

The biggest issue must have been the protected tweets

Oh, also,

you like photography? cuz your profile pic has you with a camera

or was it done just to cover your face?

:P

me: i do take snaps

Indulekha: Photo tweets get a lot of RTs and following

me: recently had one night outing

Indulekha: Put up some of your photos once in a while

 at least 1 in two days would be good

Admire other ppl's nice photography

RT some of them

you know?

me: :)

23:39 Indulekha: You'll get 500 before the end of the month :)

me: :)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.388018224583224.113747.100001251490285&type=3

Indulekha: Oh, and don't forget to #FF your favorite tweeps, you'll get the favor in return :)

me: hmmm sure :)

i never done that

wanna start

:)

im gonna blog this chat

with your permission madam

Indulekha: LOL

 fine fine :P

me: seriously good one indu

Indulekha: If you wanna link me, link my Twitter

Not facebook k?

Or my website

me: i red some articles regarding 500 tweeps and that’s all wasters

Indulekha: I don't add ppl on FB unless I know them pretty well :P

me: your one is perfect

yes I do

Indulekha: lol really? hehe thanks

Let's hope you achieve your target

soon!

Then only I will know if my advice was effective

me: yea yeah :D

you'll see it :)

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