Software Update for Expo? v10g?

@Phatride: Thanks for the info.

@Dark: The update page for this on LG's site specifically mentions Vista when it says "....after finish s/w update restore your data by ActiveSync [Windows Vista use Mobile Device Center]"  This would lead me to believe that just like when my Tilt went from WM 6 to 6.1, a firmware upgrade from the OEM can be done on my Vista box. And I was wondering: if that is true, can you possibly tear apart this updater and use parts of it to make a flasher that is Vista-compatible?

I can give it a go, but I will need someone to test it since I don't have a Vista box anymore.

EDIT: Good news. I removed some of the files in the flasher that the v10g stock rom was packaged with so now that it can't properly check the s/w version installed on your phone. This means we can flash all we want with this new flasher. Supposedly this flasher is suppose to work with Vista. I can't check this claim since I no longer have a Vista box, I upgraded to win7. I'm going to upload the latest Dragonstorm rom in this new flasher and post a link for those with vista to try. Please though:

IF YOU HAVE VISTA AND DON'T HAVE A XP OR WIN7 MACHINE I ASK FOR YOU NOT TO TRY THIS UNTIL IT IS CONFIRMED. IT MAY RESULT IN YOU PHONE NO LONGER WORKING. IF YOU DO TRY IT IT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Here is the link:

Flasher test

I don't have a vista box but can have a vista hard drive for my laptop in about an hour.

OK. Got Vista up and running on my laptop. Gonna download the rom now. I'll let you know.

Edit: Oh this is gonna take a while. Tethering over bluetooth.

AWESOMENESS

Thanks for volunteering for guinea pig duty VG!

Did you run into any menus/errors/screens/steps/etc. that were unique to doing it on Vista?
Also, were you using a 32 or 64-bit version?

Thanks,
RC


EDIT: Wait, now I'm confused - did you flash the straight V10g upgrade or Dark's test flasher with the Dragonstorm ROM?

Update. I was unable to get Dark's test flasher to work. It installed OK but after the message of a new version (V10G available) I get an error message that is mostly question marks. I thought of making sure the flasher installed to the same place, I tried deleting the LGMOBILEAX folder, I made sure it was installing into the same folder. The LG flasher does not run after I installed avast anti-virus. I have one more idea to try to get it to work. Will post back later.

Edit: It wasn't the anti-virus. Don't know what it was, was surfing in that "bay" without protection. Re-imaged to a fresh install of Vista. LG's flasher is running again.

Flash via usb, tether via bluetooth.

Successfully flashed the LG V10g ROM update last night using my Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP2 machine. Followed the same steps VanillaGorilla listed above except I downloaded and installed the LG Software Updater utility and then installed the USB drivers ahead of time. No problems at all. Took about 33 minutes start-to-finish.

Initial findings:

1. Fingerprint sensor does seem to be more responsive and accurate.

2. Have not had any problems at all with Opera Mobile 10 or Mini 5 yet.

3. Signal strength does seem a little better.

4. Doing a Sprite restore and forgetting to uncheck the "System files" option = BAD IDEA. Yay for hard resets.

5. Does NOT fix the MMS issue receiving from a Pantech Impact -still slowed phone to a crawl, but didn't freeze up to the point that I couldn't open a task manager and kill the MMSTranportLoader process like before. May have discovered a workaround for us on that....more later after some more testing.

6. Camera preview does seem a touch "grainier" in the preview before snapping the shot, and FPS as I panned around seemed to lag a bit, unlike before. Picure taken, when opened for review seemed just slightly lower quality than before with a little digital color scatter on dark items. To be fair though, I only tried in low-light nighttime conditions. Will try again in full daylight and report back.

RC