I have an Android LG G2 L01F contracted with DoCoMo in Japan. Can you add any more bloatware DoCoMo?? Geez there is a lot of unnecessary crap that you can't uninstall. And don't get me started on their Phone app, it's like a prepubescent kid who spent 3 hours at Android kiddy school developed it. It's buggy and the UI/UX is horrible as. If I click the call button I expect it to call, not react a minute later!
Anyway, for the reasons above and more I decided to take the brick risk and ROM my phone. And it worked. And it was rather simple. I did a temporary root, then upgraded from the ugly DoCoMo 4.2.2 to KitKat 4.4.4 with the CyanogenMod 11 ROM.
Download the USB serial driver for LG from here. Install it. I did it on Windows 7 64bit.
Make sure your phone is in Developer Mode (Google if not sure: Hint: Press Build Version 7 times) and USB Debugging is enabled.
Download the latest nightly build of CM11 from here.
Re-zip the file with the above modifications.
Also copy gapps to the same place.
Download the rootkit here, unzip it, plug in your phone and run Rootkit.bat. This rootkit seems to use some exploit to gain temporary root access. When prompted, press a key/enter to finish the batch script's installation. Your phone will reboot into CMW. If you reboot your phone normally you'll lose your root access and need to run Rootkit.bat again.
If all went well you'll be booted into something called CMW, ClockworkMod W??? (forgot). You can use this to back up your current system and install a new one. DO A BACKUP NOW!
Then choose install from zip and choose the CM11 zip file your copied to the sdcard. If all goes well it should install.
Repeat the same for gapps.
Reboot and wah-lah you should have CM11 4.4.4 on your Japanese LG G2 L01F!
thanks a lot for this tutorial. I am using a LG G2docomo /L01F11K/JB 4.2.2. When I tried to install latest CM11 ROM for L01F - the installation aborted. I am not able to go ahead from here. Can you please suggest what to do.
Not understand. How to do adb push to sd card.
The explanation was not complete. Just basic steps.
(It's like i will explain. To fix car engine very easy. Just remove engine. Change cylinders. Put new one. And you are ready to go...).
Not everybody as smart as you.
Better not to start at all.
I started this blog in order to share my trials and tribulations in the realms of smartphone (Android and iPhone) and augmented reality programming, with the odd bit about my life in Asia. I hope in some way the experiences I blog about can help anybody who endeavours to follow similar roads as I have trodden down. I'm from New Zealand but have spent the past 12 years living in Hong Kong, Korea, China, Thailand with most of my years spent in Japan. Now I am based mainly in Fukuoka with my family. I'm happy to be able to make new acquaintances in similar fields so please feel free to contact me if you like.
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