Originally Posted by da_reeseboy (Post 2150394)

Just an update to anyone watching this thread over here on ppcgeeks -
Successfully built a standard rom and flashed my phone a few times now on both WinXP 32bit and Win7 64bit. Now to move on to modifying the rom.

Thanks again to both spocky and trueg - if you like the fact that flashing a fathom is possible please let them both know. They put ALOT of time into making this possible.

Originally Posted by da_reeseboy (Post 2150422)

Its good to be in the kitchen again lol. I just hope I don't burn anything down... I've gotten a little rusty at cooking.

Originally Posted by pizzaboy192 (Post 2150431)

How did you get the .dll to register? I can't get mine to. It keeps saying that it cannot find the file.

Originally Posted by pizzaboy192 (Post 2150640)

Just remember to make plenty of backups of your NV... I lost mine and am now in the process of waiting for a warranty to replace it.

Originally Posted by pizzaboy192 (Post 2150644)

I was able to pull it by changing 4 keys in the registry of the ROM.
The simple way is to search for "Transport.exe" and replace four of the five. The one you don't want to replace is "Transportlocation" or something like that. There should be four in a cluster. Replace it with tmail.exe and you'll have standard SMS. Then bake in a standard Arcsoft client and you'll have it all gone. Delete ArcMSG.exe and it'll all go away.

Originally Posted by Spocky

Now the steps to flash the phone :

1- Install drivers
- LGUnitedMobileDriver_S4981CAN33AP22_ML_WHQL_Ver_3. 3
- LGWindowsMobile_USBDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0
- LGSmartPhone_ModemlinkDUNDrive_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0
You should easily find them (or more recent version) using your favorite search engine.

2- Install the flash tool
The only one that I know of being able to flash decrypted roms is LGNPST. Sorry, you'll have to search for it on the web (shouldn't be too difficult to find).
If using lgnpst, you'll also need to register this dll (using regsvr32 vs750.dll in a dos command prompt)

3- Connect the phone
To be able to connect the vs750 to lgnpst, you have to be in composite mode (on the phone, go to "settings/connections/Switch usb" then select "VzAccess Manager", click "save" and finally wait for it to reboot.

It's possible to flash this phone in emergency mode (if anything goes wrong and the fathom doesn't boot), but if you do so, you might lose your nv (and MEID info). To boot in emergency mode, shutdown your phone, unplug it, then press the "5" key on the keyboard and while keeping it down, plug the usb cable.
Don't do it unless necessary.

4- Save NV (just to be able to recover in case of problems)

- Put your phone in composite mode
- Plug the phone to your pc
- Launch LGNPST.exe, it should detect your phone (filename on the top right panel should be "VS750.dll").
- Click on "phone settings", wait a few secondes for a new window to appear
- Click on read button
- It will create a VS750_COMx.nvs in C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST
- Close the windows and click on "click here to continue".

5- Flash the Rom

- Put your phone in composite mode
- Plug the phone to your pc
- Launch LGNPST.exe
- Go in provision Tab (should be selected by default)
- Select Upgrade
- BIN file : "c:\VS750\BIN\VS750XXX5.BIN"
- Check SCR File, then select "C:\VS750\SCR\VS750VZ7_04.scr"
- Check PRL, Nam1 (uncheck nam2), select "C:\VS750\PRL\58006 - EVDO OEM Factory Default.prl"
- Don't check Eri file
- Click on "start"
- Keep fingers crossed for approximately 10min. The phone will reboot a few times, this is normal.
- Enjoy your 1st VS750 custom rom

Also note that for lgnpst to accept your rom, its name will need to start with "vs750".
And don't worry, there is almost no risk of really bricking the phone (especially if you saved the nvs).

Originally Posted by pizzaboy192 (Post 2150843)

I'm just thinking of more crap that you could remove...
There's a .cab file in the windows folder called "LGEDefault" that's just a theme that LG installs. All it does is remove the dismiss buttons on notifications. It's 512K, but it's still something that we don't really need.
If you could also bake out the annoying file security warning, that'd be nice.
I'm just going by what I usually do to my phone to make it work better.

If possible, the settings menu that LG provided was always nice, if that could be ported from V7, it would be very useful. (or even cloned to allow us to turn certain features on and off)
I personally don't like the LGVolume because it breaks the ability to mute incoming calls, but it's as simple as removing the startup shortcut to get back the standard volume, so I think that one can stay in.

If when you get far enough along, to completely bake out the Verizon settings, and have a .cab available for people to choose between Verizon and the standard GSM set of carriers.

I personally think that Manilla isn't all that great, but if you can slim it down enough, a Manilla ROM would be a fun thing to mess around with eventually. 2.6 might be too much, but atleast 2.0 or 2.5 since they're decently small.

Be sure when you're removing Verizon junk, that you remove it from the Init section of the registry. Broken keys there will lead to dramatically longer startup times (I have about 5x as long because I had a few bad keys and shortcuts in my init section)

Originally Posted by da_reeseboy (Post 2150852)

Pizzaboy - what went wrong on the bad flash? Did windows boot but for 1 reason or another you couldn't navigate thru the menu?
On my bad flash I forgot to include the SQM package so Windows booted and was running but the interface was not functioning. I could plug the phone up to my pc and browse but couldn't move thru the start menu and switch the usb setting for a reflash. Because of this I had to flash in emergency mode... thankfully I had a good nvs backup to reload. This got me thinking that I should change the default usb setting to VZAccess Manager so a damaged interface won't keep us from reflashing normally. Thoughts?

Originally Posted by da_reeseboy (Post 2151767)

Got the 3G Hotspot app working, and the LG phone canvas removed. Now to start on the Camera removal for size crunching.

Originally Posted by da_reeseboy (Post 2151777)

Nothing to replace it. This was a specific request from Cac2us, so I went ahead and did it, putting removed items into EXT's in the kitchen so I can easily reinsert them.

Got it done. Uploading a stripped ROM. It doesn't seem to be making much of a difference on the storage space - its like the space set aside for the ROM is locked, but it is clearing up used program space.

Originally Posted by pizzaboy192 (Post 2151773)

Do you have something to replace the LG Camera app? I'd rather have a working camera app than no app at all.

Originally Posted by cac2us (Post 2151789)

I was hoping for a way to turn the camera off and on through a reboot like the way the 6800 Mogul has that worked into the kernel. It recovers about 10 megs of RAM on it. Not sure what it would do for Fathom RAM wise.

Originally Posted by cac2us

I only use mine for a WiFi office device and would only use the phone or data if I had to report my primary line failed or MIA.

Originally Posted by cac2us

Not to brag or anything, but since I have to keep my wife (here in MT.) and her daughter (AZ.) happy, the family plan allows me to get a good deal on a new phone 5 times every 2 years. And as long as I buy from VZW, I can switch equipment without penalty. Son in law won't see an upgrade for his w755 until Jan. lol

Originally Posted by cac2us

How about that hardware keyboard function? The stock v7 I was running required that the FN or Shift key be HELD down while the other key was pressed. And double tap was useless.
This ROM rocks...