How to Unlock the LG Rumor Touch - VM510 from Virgin Mobile (possibly others)

[Crogon]

If anyone wants to tell me how to link to a specific post rather than a whole thread, I'll stop reposting file links and link direct to the originals instead.

You can get the post link from the number in the upper right hand corner of the post. For example, your last post says #48 and if you point at the #48 you will see it is a link, to your post.

Thanks for helping out!

[jrtran]

It works!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[tmwmott]

re: How to Unlock the LG Rumor Touch - VM510 from Virgin Mobile (possibly others) #1

Thanks so much for this thread.

I hope I can contribute. I am going through this post, trying to get "connected" to my VM510. Somethings in the process provided remain unclear to me. I hope to help out by providing "clarifications" to the information I didn't understand. I don't mean to suggest the information is unclear to anyone else, "It's not you, it's me", just that there are places where I am not satisfied with going by rote, I want to understand, and other places I don't see the behavior I expect. When I figure it out, I may be able to help make it clearer for people like me. I will post more notes in subsequent replies.

[Crogon]

tmwmott - Absolutely! I would be more than happy to try to clarify things for you.

[tmwmott]

re: How to Unlock the LG Rumor Touch - VM510 from Virgin Mobile (possibly others) #1

... Somethings in the process provided remain unclear to me ... I am not satisfied with going by rote, I want to understand, and other places I don't see the behavior I expect. ...

Ultimately, once I have timeout working, one additional reboot solved my problems. Previous efforts, including change COM port numbers and speeds, left LG Download getting errors on all COM ports. A reboot fixed this.

Step 1) <This step provides "Install USB Drivers", which installs a number of things, the obviously needed one is the CDMA Modem driver.>
...
Step 10) <toughest only because it took so long. My effort using Method 3 did not work. Method 1, with 953 files, 2+Gb, worked best with a timeout length of 2:20. Getting those files on to the phone took a while.>

Now that I've succeeded I am SOOO THANKFUL.

[testu]

I wanted to go to Verizon. Now I can finally do it. I will buy that phone used on Ebay and then unlock it. Thank you very much.