[wookieballa]

well, I give up.
tried three computers, three cables, about 9 usb ports two different motochopper files, updates, restarts, put the file on my desktops, nothing changed. It HAS to be my phone or a setting that i've missed.

I cant believe that I'm the only one having this problem.

thanks for the advice, I will check back again in a few days and see if anyone else has had this problem too.

[wookieballa]

well, i got it to work, when i plugged the phone in, the pop-up screen on the phone gives you that option to pick what you want the phone to do, like media sync, or camera, or two other options.

when this comes up you have to pick "internet connection"

then start Motochopper.

then it roots within a second or two.

all in all its a very fast process.

[xXxGeek]

JELLY BEAN CWM RECOVERY FOR THE SPECTRUM 2

"FOR ROOT USERS ONLY"

JELLY BEAN RECOVERY DOWNLOAD > "lte2jbrecovery.apk"

SOURCE WEBSITE LINK >http://vegaviet.com/...m/threads/5525/

Edited by xXxGeek, 08 June 2013 - 05:51 PM.

[F3L0N]

Anyone hear anything or have any news about unlocking the bootloader or if there are any custom roms available as of yet for the Spectrum 2? Having the root is fun and all, but I want to be able to do more!! lol!

[xXxGeek]

REPAIR OR UPDATE YOUR SPECTRUM 2 WITH THE

“LGMobile Support Tool”

SECURITY ERROR OR OTHER ISSUES

• If you want to update to the latest Jelly Bean, but you’re running into a few issues like, updating, getting root, received a “Security Error” or even soft bricked your spectrum 2.
  
• The method below will restore your Spectrum 2 to the latest Jelly Bean.

BACKUP YOUR SPECTRUM 2

• Always backup your Spectrum 2 before updating, rooting or a hard reset.
  
• See this post for more information >How to Back up Your Spectrum 2

REQUIRMENTS: The process below will take some time to do, it’s not a 5 minute job.

• DOWNLOAD >Spectrum 2 USB Drivers
  
• DOWNLOAD >LGMobile Support Tool
  
• Make sure to charge your battery to 100%

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Pull Battery and SD Card
  
• Replace Battery “Not SD Card”
  
• Hold Down Both "Volume Up + Volume Down" Buttons
  
• Connect USB Cord to CP & Phone
  
  • Wait for “DOWNLOAD MODE” to show on your phone
    
  • now you can release the Volume Buttons

• Double Click on “LGMobile Support Tool” on your PC to Start Program
  
  • You will see a dialog box pop up checking for new updates
    
  • Now you should see the LGMobile Support Tool box

• Click on >“Customer Support” in the upper left corner, then >”Recovery Phone”
  
  • A dialog box will pop up, in the first box it should show your phones “MEI” number
    
  • Next to this is a button, Click on >“CHECK”

• Now you will see the LGMobile Support Tool start “Analysis” your phone then “Downloading the LG Mobile Phone Software Update Program”
  
  • This will take some time to complete.

During the “UPDATE” process

• “Do not disconnect the USB cable and battery from your phone until Upgrade Complete Message Appear”
  
• you will see your phone reboot several times,
  
• One’s the LGMobile Support Tools says “LG Mobile Phone Software Update completed”
  
  • Click on >”Exit” a dialog box will open asking you “Do you want to quit the LG Mobile Phone Software Update?” Click >”Yes”
    
  • Click on >”File” >”Quite” and unplug your USB cord from your computer.

Now you should see a normal boot process and your phone is back to stock.



ROOTING YOUR SPECTRUM 2

• If your Spectrum 2 was already rooted before you updated or recovered from a security error, you will need to do a "Hard Reset" before rooting again.
  
• After you have updated to jelly bean and your looking to Root or want to know more about root, click on >Rooting Your Spectrum 2 Phone Faq
  
• If you would like to root your Spectrum 2, see this link for more information >How to Root your Spectrum 2 VS930

HOW TO "HARD RESET" THE LG SPECTRUM 2

• Remove and reinsert the battery.
  
• Press and hold both the "Volume Down" and "Power" button until you see a message "Factory Hard Reset" then let go of buttons.
  
• It will ask you if you want to do a factory reset. Confirm with Power Button.
  
• When asked are you sure, confirm with power button
  
• You’re Done. Factory Restored!

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Edited by xXxGeek, 10 June 2013 - 04:21 PM.

[xXxGeek]

HOW TO USE QUICKMEMO AND IT'S NEW FEATURES ON JELLY BEAN 4.1.2

LG has created QuickMemo, an exclusive feature that allows users to handwrite personal notes, draw quick sketches, and jot down ideas, or save memos to the photo gallery or share them via text message, email, and social networks. It is quick and easy to access, just press the up & down Volume Buttons simultaneously and you'll immediately capture a screen image!

QuickMemo captures everything that matters to you, whether it's a sneak peek at a new car, a map, a fashion accessory too good to keep to yourself or a key paragraph in a business document. Quick, you've got the image! Just as quick, you're adding your own words and messaging, and communicating on a whole new level.

Recent updates to QuickMemo with Jelly Bean 4.1.2 operating system have added more cool features within QuickMemo which allow users to navigate their phone while keeping a note on the screen so they don’t have to keep switching between screens nor memorize something like phone number! These new QuickMemo features are available on the LG Spectrum 2.

As mentioned above, to open up QuickMemo simply press and hold the up & down Volume Buttons simultaneously. The red arrow highlights the new feature option in QuickMemo which allows you to switch back and forth between the QuickMemo home screen and the regular phone home screen.

Edited by xXxGeek, 10 June 2013 - 12:40 AM.

[xXxGeek]

WHATS NEW IN ANDROID 4.1 JELLY BEAN

Android 4.1 is an incremental release that contains a several nice features for users, including:

• Faster, more responsive, interface throughout the system. Google started an internal effort called "Project Butter" to make the JellyBean UI "buttery smooth", and you can definitely tell a difference based on side-by-side comparisons. Using a technique that I first suggested to the team months ago, Android will actually use your finger's speed and direction to predict where it will be a few milliseconds ahead of time, and make sure the UI is there to follow it. This should finally (I hope) put to rest complaints that operations like scrolling are slower on Android than other platforms.
  
• Offline voice. This is a Big Deal. Until now, when you pressed the voice icon and spoke a command or query, Android had to digitize your voice, upload it to the cloud, process the waveform, turn it into text, and send the text back down to your phone. Now the phones are powerful enough that this can be built into the device, with no extra network I/O needed. As you can imagine this results in *much* faster voice recognition than previous versions.
  
• Google Now. Remember that combined privacy policy that Google instituted across all its sites and apps? That enables them to combine all the information they have about your work habits, appointments, location, and more. You can opt out of this if you like, but it enables new services such as reviews of restaurants as you walk by them, and sports scores of teams you care about delivered automatically to your device. I think this will be especially important for Project Glass, which is supposed to immerse itself unobtrusively into your real life environment. But even now the combination of Offline voice and Google Now provide direct and compelling competition to Apple's Siri program.
  
• Richer notifications. Android already has the best notification system of any mobile OS, but in JellyBean Google is taking it to the next level. Notifications won't just be a couple of lines of text - they can be pictures, lists, or whole paragraphs, and they can have action buttons for direct access to do things like reply to email, call somebody back, or vote up an article without opening a separate app to do that. Users can expand and collapse notifications, and even block notifications from apps they don't want to hear from.
  
• Home screen widgets will be easier to use in JellyBean. When you drag a widget to the home screen, other widgets will move out of the way, or the one you are dragging will resize itself to fit.
  
• New locales and fonts for Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and others. Right to left text is much improved in this release.

Developer features
Underlying every feature for the user is one or more new Developer features or API that make it possible. Here are the ones I feel are most important:

• New Notifications API. Google added a priority and bigContentView field to Notifications, plus a number of styles such as BigTextStyle, BigPictureStyle, and InBoxStyle to make it easy for developers to provide richer notifications. During the developer talk they showed screen shots from third party apps that have already adopted the new APIs including Foursquare, Pulse, Spotify, Path, and Pocket Gems.
  
• Widget improvements. Memory limits can be put on widgets, and they can supply both portrait and landscape orientations. Widgets can be hosted in third party apps, and be notified of size changes.
  
• Animation improvements. New APIs simplify animations and provide new functionality such as zooming up from a specific point on the screen (such as where the app icon was).
  
• New navigation. The Up button can be handled automatically by adding one line of XML code. New APIs let you set your back stack to a more predictable state so user's won't get unexpected results when they hit the Back button.
  
• Accessibility APIs. Enhanced APIs allow handicapped users to do gesture based traversal of all onscreen elements. Text reading is supported by word, line, or paragraph. Custom views with extra semantic structure can be explained to the API so it can do a better job of accessibility.
  
• READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. This is a new permission that will be required in a future release for apps that want to read the contents of the SD card. Up to now, anybody could read the SD card. It's not enforced in JellyBean unless you turn on a special developer option. Google strongly encourages all developers that read from the SD card to include this permission now.
  
• Audio latency. JellyBean shortens the time between when you take an action like pressing a button and when you can hear a sound caused by that action such a click or a gunshot in a game. In current Android versions this delay can be as great as 80ms, which is several frames of a 30 or 60fps game.
  
• Anti-piracy measures. Starting in JellyBean, applications will be encrypted with a device-specific key so they can't simply be copied and uploaded to the Internet. This means more legitimate sales for developers.
  
• Incremental APK updates. Let's say you have a 50MB app in the store and you push a bug fix by changing one line of code. In JellyBean (actually in Gingerbread and up now) the Play store will only download the difference between the version the user has installed and the version you pushed, instead of the entire 50MB app again. This is automatic.
  
• Better NDK support. Now you can build and debug apps that have native components. Previously you had to use a separate tool for debugging the C/C++ parts that was different from what you used for debugging the Java parts.

The good news is that most of the new APIs have been added to the Android Support library, which is used by developers to support older versions of Android. And there are no new icon style guidelines, something all the developers and designers in the crowd applauded.

Edited by xXxGeek, 10 June 2013 - 05:35 PM.

[xXxGeek]

ANDROID SECURITY FOR ROOT USERS

• Enable Lock Screens: Under Settings\Security. Enable Face Unlock, Pattern, PIN, and Password to increase physical security to the device. Slide doesn't do much.
  
• Disable USB Debugging: Under Settings\USB debugging. When enabled, the data on mobile devices can be accessed without first passing a lock screen challenge unless Full Disk Encryption is also enabled.
  
• Enable Full Disk Encryption: Under Settings\Security. This will prevent even USB Debugging from bypassing the lock screen.
  
• Maintain Device Up-To-Date: Ensure the device is current with the latest official software. Unfortunately, users are largely at the behest of their carrier and cell phone manufacturer for this, but when you are finally prompted to upgrade your operating system, do so. Using only official software and keeping devices up-to-date is the best way to minimize vulnerabilities and increase security overall.
  
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN): If you browse the internet on an Android smartphone on public Wi-Fi, then you are at risk. You might know about VPNs – Virtual Private Networks, but for one reason or another you don’t use one. Being a mobile internet browser, you should be aware of the possibility of someone intercepting sensitive data that you transmit from your phone while browsing. VPN creates a virtual network of two or more servers over a public network. This allows you to browse the internet anonymously. It also allows you to bypass any firewalls which normally restrict the users on the public network. Most importantly, all of the information you transmit once connected to the VPN is encrypted, so any and all of the sensitive information you send or receive is no longer at risk of being intercepted and misused by others. See this link >VPN Services Using the LG Spectrum 2
  
• Secure Your Android Device with SecDroid: SecDroid achieves this by disabling several services on your device that most users will not require to be running all the time. These services include SSH, SSHD, Telnet NC (net cat), and Ping, to keep others from gaining access to your device via a remote terminal. SecDroid also disables Package Manager so that no apps can be installed remotely to your device (you can still install them from Market or using APK files directly on the device itself). Lastly, it also allows you to disable ADBD (the ADB service running on the device that allows you to connect to it through command line from a remote computer) until the next reboot.
  
  • SecDroid is currently in active development, and this is its first alpha release. The developer has also released the source code of SecDroid under the GPLv2 license. You can find more details and the download from this link xdadevelopers, also the Android Market.

• Extra Security: With root privilege, a malware app can certainly do heavy damage, but it doesn't work like that.
  Just because an app is on a rooted device, it doesn't mean it gets root privilege automatically. With modern rooting standards, you'll have to permit it. When an app requests root access, a pop-up from SuperUser or SuperSU app appears asking to allow it or not. If you don't know much about the app, simply block access. If you don't pay attention to this, you deserve to experience bad things.
  
• Stick to official app stores. This is far less likely, but an attacker can also discover your PIN lock (which is necessary for him to root your phone) if you accidentally install a malicious app that records your personal data, including PIN. Most malicious apps are distributed through shady Chinese/Russian app stores; to be on the safe side stick to the
  
  • Android Market
    
  • GetJar
    
  • Amazon App Store
• Always read through app permissions, as malicious apps typically make unusual requests. Most mobile security apps come with an app auditing feature to help you keep tabs on permission requests like
  
  • avast! Mobile Security
    
  • McAfee Antivirus & Security
    
  • Lookout Security & Antivirus
    
  • F-Secure Mobile Security

LINK> LG SPECTRUM II VS930 ESSENTIAL TIPS & TRICKS

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Edited by xXxGeek, 17 June 2013 - 12:34 AM.

[xXxGeek]

Preparing For and Activating Your New LG Spectrum 2.

Preparing for Your Device to Arrive

Here are some things you should do to prepare, before your device arrives.

• Back up your contacts from your current device. Learn how to back up your contacts or backup & restore apps/data to SD, cloud & pc.
  
• Check your email. You will receive order and shipment confirmation emails that contain tracking and support information to help you prepare for your device's arrival.
  
• New Android Users - Create a Gmail account. If you don’t have a Gmail account, you’ll need to create one for your Android phone. You can create a free Gmail account now.
  
• Back up your media (pictures, video, music) from your current device using one of the following options:
  
  • Click on this link to see >How to backup your Spectrum 2 Device, for all your backup needs!
    
  • Backup AssistantSM Plus (formerly V CAST Media Manager): Refer to the Backup Assistant Plus website for more information and support.
    
  • SD (memory) card: Copy files from your previous phone to your computer by inserting your phone's SD card into your computer's SD slot.
    
  • USB cable: Copy files to your computer by connecting your phone to your computer with a USB cable.

• Sign up for My Verizon. Register now if you aren't already signed up.

Activating Your LG Spectrum 2 VS930

Follow these instructions to activate your new Spectrum 2.

1. Save contacts from your old device.

Note: If you are new to Verizon Wireless, cannot access your old device or have already backed up your contacts using Backup Assistant, go to step 2.

Contacts and media will not automatically transfer to your new device. You will need to back them up so you can restore them later on your new device.

a. Back up contacts

Refer to the How to Use Guide: Backup Assistant for instructions on backing up your contacts.

b. Back up media

You can back up pictures, videos and music by saving them to a memory card or with V CAST Media Manager. Refer to the V CAST Media Manager website for more information on using this service.

2. Activate your 4G SIM card.

Notes:

• If you are using your existing Verizon Wireless 4G SIM card, skip to step 3.
  
• If you are a business customer and this is your first 4G device, your 4G SIM card is preinstalled on your new Smartphone, skip to step 4.

To activate your SIM card, dial (877) 807-4646 from any phone and follow the prompts to activate your 4G service.

Have your Customer Receipt with you because you may be asked to confirm information from it, including the mobile number assigned to your 4G SIM card.

3. Insert your SIM card and battery into your 4G Smartphone.

a. If you received a 4G SIM card in your shipment, snap the SIM card out of its holder without touching the gold electrical contacts.

Or

If you are using your existing Verizon Wireless 4G SIM card, remove the SIM card from your old device without touching the gold electrical contacts.

Note: The actual insertion process varies by device, so refer to your device manual for instructions on how to insert the SIM card. You can find your device manual by going to the Support page specific to your device and clicking on Device Manual.

b. Insert the battery and battery cover.

c. Charge your new device.

4. Activate your new 4G Smartphone and transfer your contacts.

a. Turn on your new 4G device; activation will begin automatically.

b. Follow the on-screen prompts to set up your device and download or activate Backup Assistant to transfer your contacts. Refer to the How to Use Guide: Backup Assistant for instructions on backing up your contacts.

c. If you back up media from your old device, restore it to your new device using one of the following methods:

• If you backed up your media to a memory card, insert the card into your new device.
  
• If you backed up your media using V CAST Media Manager, access the application and follow the prompts for restoring. Refer to the V CAST Media Manager website for more information on using this service.

• Only available to consumer customers with compatible devices who are enrolled in My Verizon. Airtime or megabyte charges, as applicable, will apply for all downloads. Does not apply to business customers, federal / state government customers or Smartphone users.
  
• For prepaid customers, data charges may apply for download (1 MB) and usage. Compatible device required.

Edited by xXxGeek, Yesterday, 10:20 PM.