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Episode: 2126
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Title: HPR2126: My new (old) tablet
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2126/hpr2126.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 14:36:56
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This is HPR episode 2,126 entitled, My New Old Tablet.
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It is hosted by Alpha 32 and in about 8 minutes long.
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The summary is how I got the cruft of my LGG Pad 7.
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Good afternoon, HPR.
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This is Alpha 32 coming to you from St. Louis.
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I wanted to talk to you today about a tablet that I've been working on.
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It is my LG V410.
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It is a LG G Pad 7.
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It is a 7-inch tablet, obviously.
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I got it for a dollar from the AT&T folks because I can't say no to cheap tech.
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I got this thing, it came stock with Android and all of the stuff that LG puts on their devices.
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Which was not very awesome, I really didn't like how it was set up and all the cruft they put on there.
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It was just really unpleasant.
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So pretty well from the time that I got it, I was trying to route the thing
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and install custom recovery and a different image, you know, flash a different image on there.
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But it wasn't working.
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I just couldn't figure out how to do it at all.
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I kept googling and trying different applications and different route kits and whatnot.
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I tried all those one-click route solutions, all those different flashing utilities.
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I tried Sionagens, Auto-Route, install all that stuff.
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Their app that's on a Play Store and it didn't work for me.
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Apparently this guy has some peculiarities about it.
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That make it dang near impossible to route, make usable.
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I tried that, tried the Torp app, tried different route methods,
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you know, purple drake and all those different guys and just nothing was working.
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I struggled with this thing for about six months, just on and off.
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I picked it up half a while and tried out again, not making progress,
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just be frustrated, put it back in the drawer.
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I tried ADB and ADB in fastboot, you know, doing stuff from a terminal in Linux.
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That didn't work very well either.
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What ended up working for me was this application called Flashify.
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I was a little leery at first because it looks kind of sketchy
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or it looks kind of sketchy to me.
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But I wasn't using this tablet.
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It didn't have any information on there that was sensitive.
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And really it had been sitting at a drawer for a while.
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So I didn't really care if it broke the thing or not.
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It wouldn't make any difference.
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But it worked.
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I downloaded a Torp.
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It's a Team 1 recovery protocol or whatever.
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And flashed that and it worked.
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It booted it back up into recovery, which is a little awkward on this device.
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On this V410, you got to hold down power and bite down until you see the LG logo.
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You let go of power and hold all three buttons down.
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And then it'll ask you if you want to wipe the device to do a factory reset.
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You guys like yes and are you sure?
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Yes.
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It's kind of scary.
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I think you're going to just wipe this thing and ruin all your work.
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And you may well, it could happen, I suppose.
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But that's how you get into recovery.
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Once you select yes, I'm sure it'll act like it's going to do a factory data reset.
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That's what it says.
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It's going to do.
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And then it boots up into recovery.
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And luckily, for me, it booted up into TWRP.
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And I was able to load images and flash a different ROM on there, which is nice.
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I started out.
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I tried to flash, signage it straight off the bat.
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I just picked the latest release, flashed it, and booted it up.
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But I didn't flash Google Apps at that time.
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I booted it and it worked fine.
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It wasn't really buggy at all.
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I did all change when I turned it off and flashed Google Apps.
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I used open G apps, the nano package that I usually use.
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And when I booted it back up after doing that, it was freaking out.
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It just wouldn't work.
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It kept saying such and such as stock working.
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It seemed like every service that was on the thing had stopped working.
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The two zips just weren't getting along.
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I think it might be because the signage mod that I downloaded was a nightly, or it could
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be because I didn't clear the Dalvik cache.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, it didn't work.
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I shut it down, cleared the cache, reflashed signage mod, reflashed G apps, booted it back
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up at the same deal.
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So I think those guys just wouldn't get along.
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So I went back and found a stable release, which was trying to last November or something.
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They don't build images, I guess, for these obscure devices very often.
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It was Android 5.1, but they had a stable release for it, so that was a little disappointing.
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I flashed that, flashed G apps, then I found out, oh, I flashed 6.0 G apps on a 5.1 image,
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so I'd read it all over again.
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I'll tell you, I probably reflashed this thing five or six times before I got it right.
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I was a little annoying, but I eventually got the 5.1 image flashed, flashed the G apps for
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the 5.1, the nano package, and it works.
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It works great.
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I've got a nice skin on there, an Android Nougat skin, CM13 or CM14 style skin, all the
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material design.
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It looks pretty nice.
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And now it's just working.
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Pretty happy.
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I'm not sure about security aspects of it.
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If we're going to get some updates with these devices from the scientific folks, but I'm
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just happy to have it work.
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So there you go.
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That's my experience with flashing or trying to flash an LG G tab 7 and how I did and
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did not flash it.
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That's how you don't do it and then how you do do it.
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So there you go.
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All right.
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You'll have a good day.
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