*official* Lg Keybo aka Lg Env2 Hacking thread

[amillie]

my keybo can't be detected by bitpim...i did everything correctly..=/

[azmanian_devil]

You don't need to get it detected. Just plug it in, select the LG Venus and expand the filesystem. You should be able to see it if you've followed the steps in the earlier pages.

[RileyFreeman]

i got it to work using aplens instructions using lg vx 8800 as the phone. i even got ringers over 300k but now it wont let me back in i might have to delete them to get back in. ah well i got what i need for now im good

[jgon9]

Well I got Opera Mini installed thanks to this awesome thread. Looks like I need to dump my Spark 16 and go to Spark 15 for the unlimited browsing because this thing is awesome. I never go over a 100 messages in a month anyways.

[Pr0metheus]

Holy crap, the number of people having problems is ridiculous! Here's a hopefully more clear explanation than the first given:

1. Install the latest version of Bitpim

2. Download the LG USB Drivers here: http://members.driverguide.com/drive...riverid=602944

Don't buy them, just view the ads. They take seconds to skip through.

3. Unzip the files and put them all in one folder. There will be a setup.exe and three folders. Run the Setup.exe. You should get a message saying they were successfully installed. You don't need the files after this. Feel free to delete them.

4. Plug your phone into your computer via the USB cord. The tiny front screen of you phone will ask you if you wish to connect your phone to the PC via USB. Select "NO". Your phone should go back to its regular screen with the time and stuff being shown. Now leave the phone alone.

5. Start up BitPim. Run "edit/detect phone". It should detect an "other CDMA phone" or something along those lines. Click ok and go to Edit/Settings.

6. inside the settings menu, click the button that says "Phone Wizard". It'll bring up a new window. Select the VX-8800 as your phone model. Click next. It'll then ask you to choose a COM port. Just select "Auto" and click next. From here just click finish. Finish or close the settings menu.

7. You should be on the standard BitPim window now. Click on "File system" from the tree branch on the left. In the next column over, click on the + symbol next to the folder icon. Give it a moment to read your phone. After a few seconds, your phones entire file system should be open. From there it's happy sailing. You can follow my other guide on this page to get Opera running, or you can add some ring tones. WHatever you do from here is up to you :P Just be careful when mucking with the phones file system.

PS: A power cycle just means you turn the phone off and on. typicaly when adding ringtones, you add the ringtone, delete the "Myringtone.dat" from the dload folder, power cycle the phone, and they should show up.

thx buddy!

EDIT: in my Brew/Shared folder, there is nothing. I don't have a folder named ringtone...

[Wess88]

Followed the instructions and BAM !
even loaded a 5mb song on there, and still works like a charm!

As for the > nothing under /brew/shared, did you click on the little "+" sign?

[mitts2010]

Is there any way to change the theme of the phone? Or am I stuck with the default one?

[candan9019]

I was wondering if anyone has tried to get Gmaps to work? From what I remember some people got it to work on the chocolate flip and krzr.

I haven't messed with the phone yet since I just got it (and am busy trying to get rid of my iphone and rogers) but gmaps would be a nice way to save $8 a month, even if there is no turn-by-turn.

[arcane86]

Yep shme is right.

If you want Opera on this phone and your under the Telus network, just do this:

1. Download the generic Opera Mini Advanced (NOT BASIC!) browser

2. Follow the instructions on the first page of this thread to get into the file system

3. Open Brew/ams

4. You should be faced with several folders here that are numbered. This is where you're going to have to decide which java program to overwrite. Personally I just overwrote the Telus navigator since I'll never use the bugger. If you can't figure out what's what since everything is labeled by numbers and not names, save out the folders .Jad file to the desktop or something. Open the file with Wordpad. Within the first 10-20 lines of text, you should see the description of what program the .jad is for. #12 on my phone turned out to be Telus Navigator. #11 was Telus Mobile music.

5. Once you've picked out which program to overwrite, rename the Opera .jad and .jar files to whatever number the program is on your phone. Drag and drop the opera files into the folder on the phone. They should overwrite them, and you'll see their size value change.

6. You don't even have to turn off your phone. Go to whichever program it was that you overwrote. It'll have the same name and icon as it always did, but when you open it it should run whatever program you replaced it with. My Telus Navigator thing now loads Opera Mini

Hope that helps!

i love you lol.
i finnally got it hacked
my new txt msg song rocks. "requiem for a dream" most epic ringtone out there lol

[amillie]

You don't need to get it detected. Just plug it in, select the LG Venus and expand the filesystem. You should be able to see it if you've followed the steps in the earlier pages.

i did do everything as in the previous instructions and it expanding the filesystem always fails.

[K-Wagon]

I keep getting the message: "Failed to auto-detect the port to use. I couldn't detect any candidate ports", when trying to expand the filesystem after following the instructions. I dont know what I'm doing wrooooong!

[cassiadawn]

Ha! I downloaded IM, which I don't have the bundle to use for free (and which doesn't seem to work on my Keybo anyway), and overwrote that with Opera.

[K-Wagon]

I can't figure out what's wrong with my filesystem expanding problem >.<

[amillie]

I can't figure out what's wrong with my filesystem expanding problem >.<

i have the same problem!..wheather using the auto com port or the COM4 port.

[arcane86]

any ideas of where or how to put games on the keybo?