I'd been waiting for the update for ages like many, and have been tearing my hair out trying to get the crappy amateurish software to work. You cant do it on Vista, installing XP in VirtualBox just crashed my PC (BSOD) as soon as the phone was plugged in so i installed everything in work on one of our XP Pro machines. After downloading the firmware it then came up with a problem "between PC and phone" and halted. Today i tried again and now it tells me my phone cannot be updated!:eek::eek:. Now the firmware has been removed from the LG site. I just don't know what's going on.
The cookie is my first and will be my last LG phone. :mad:
I had this horrendous phone for around 2 months and still think it was the worst handset ive ever had. Laggy, unresponsive when you want it to be yet overresponsive when you are barely touching it, AWFUL sync software...the list goes on. Best advice to wannabe owners...look elsewhere. Best advice for current owners? RETURN OR SELL.
take it to carphone warehouse...theyll upgrade it for you
The shop near me said i would have to take mine to a larger store a few miles away to do the upgrade, and it would take a couple of days to do :eek: . Anyone taken theirs in and had it done quickly?. Obviously, 'while you wait' would be ideal.
Update wouldn't work for me.
The software on the Phone is all "O...2.... RULEZ YOU!!"d up, so the updater doesn't know wtf it's supposed to do. (The update available is open and unlocked)
Aw well..
Phone's nice, easy to use, and has a memo on the frontscreen. Unlike my previous phone (Samsung U600), and can also take photos in less time, too.. (About 0.5 secs, compared to the 3 seconds the U600 used to stupidly take)
Anyhoo, less moaning.
Java Trick
Open up a Java .jar file with WinRar, and add the following lines to the file Meta-inf/Manifest.MF (open in notepad)
(Not my tweak.. Found online, but closed that ages ago, so can't remember who's it was!!)
That'll get rid of those ugly DPad+stuff buttons on the bottom. But, probably best to only do that with games/apps that you KNOW won't use 'em!!
Additional oddity. If you stick a .swf in the obscure "Flash" folder, it can understand it enough to display a thumbnail as an icon.
Not really sure what that's all about, as it won't then play it..
Go figure.
Now, does anyone know how to set a java app to "ALWAYS ALLOW", as opposed to "Until 5 minutes time when I open it again."?
hi, first post 4me, i updated my daughters kp500 yesterday, it took 2 attempts, it's now version d from version b. First i downloaded the lg suite in the previous post, got it running to connect to phone, then went to the lg site(link on previous post) and downloaded the software for kp500, installed it, unzip it, there are lots of files, there is a file from that download called B2CAppSetup.exe, this is the updater and works with the suite, so when u attach the phone, click on suite, it runs then click on the above exe file, when it opens click, customer support, start upgrading, follow it through, it looks for phone, battery power then downloads a file 98mb,(40 mins) first time it could not se the phone, had to do it all again, this time it worked and update successful, phone been fine since.
How come whenever I turn on my Cookie (without having had the battery out or changing the SIM card) I get the message: "Welcome to KP500! To fully enjoy KP500, essential settings are going to be guided..." and it tries to take me into the options to set the date and time and put me through the first-time users' guide? I can just click "exit", but it's a bit odd.
My software version is KP500AT_V10d and my network is O2. (Despite having used a PAC to bring my number in, the SIM's original number still shows in the "handset information" screen. Another strange annoyance.)
How come whenever I turn on my Cookie (without having had the battery out or changing the SIM card) I get the message: "Welcome to KP500! To fully enjoy KP500, essential settings are going to be guided..." and it tries to take me into the options to set the date and time and put me through the first-time users' guide? I can just click "exit", but it's a bit odd.
My software version is KP500AT_V10d and my network is O2. (Despite having used a PAC to bring my number in, the SIM's original number still shows in the "handset information" screen. Another strange annoyance.)
If you press EXIT every time it will ask again at every start. Go through the guide to the end (its actually quite short) and it shouldn't ask again.
i tried to upgrade the firmware on my kp500, but comes up saying model not upgradable.
anyone got any suggestions on how to get firmware upgrade. regards popp
i tried to upgrade the firmware on my kp500, but comes up saying model not upgradable.
anyone got any suggestions on how to get firmware upgrade. regards popp
You can enter either model & serial OR imei - each has it's own 'continue' button
If you enter imei no but click serial continue (or vice versa) it reports that error
I've had this handset, on Virgin, for a couple of months now and am overall quite happy with it.
However, I've noticed a slight glitch when texting using the QWERTY keyboard. Every once in a while you'll enter a word, hit the space-bar, and the word will vanish. At first I doubted my sanity and thought I'd just not typed the word, but then it happened again, and has happened occasionally since then.
I'm currently on firmware -V10C and notice in this thread that there is an update to this.
My question is, is it worth updating (if it will),is it any different to the version I have, and has anyone else had this 'disappearing' word problem?
I got my Cookie yesterday and have a question about the Gallery. I took some pics with the phone but they aren't in the Gallery. I can only access them by going into 'my stuff' and 'images'. I'd like to be able to see them from the Gallery widget on the main screen.
Bought mine [KP501 on Orange and had it unlocked at the market £10] from Argos £77 2 days ago and just upgraded the software by downloading LG's LG Mobile software updater......Software now KP501AT_V10i .Definately faster but haven't had time to look for any changes yet......Love this phone.
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The latest version of LG PCSuite Software for LG KP500 V4.G.2.89.090128
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/KP500/AGBRVB/PCSYNC_20090223/R008-2009-00718_KP500%20BundleCD%20V0.9.19%20-%2020090128.zip
http://uk.lgmobile.com/web/web.product.manualSoftwareRF.laf
The cookie is my first and will be my last LG phone. :mad:
The firmware keeps appearing and disappearing from the LG site. It's currently available but the update software constantly refuses to work.
The shop near me said i would have to take mine to a larger store a few miles away to do the upgrade, and it would take a couple of days to do :eek: . Anyone taken theirs in and had it done quickly?. Obviously, 'while you wait' would be ideal.
The software on the Phone is all "O...2.... RULEZ YOU!!"d up, so the updater doesn't know wtf it's supposed to do. (The update available is open and unlocked)
Aw well..
Phone's nice, easy to use, and has a memo on the frontscreen. Unlike my previous phone (Samsung U600), and can also take photos in less time, too.. (About 0.5 secs, compared to the 3 seconds the U600 used to stupidly take)
Anyhoo, less moaning.
Java Trick
Open up a Java .jar file with WinRar, and add the following lines to the file Meta-inf/Manifest.MF (open in notepad) (Not my tweak.. Found online, but closed that ages ago, so can't remember who's it was!!)
That'll get rid of those ugly DPad+stuff buttons on the bottom. But, probably best to only do that with games/apps that you KNOW won't use 'em!!
Additional oddity. If you stick a .swf in the obscure "Flash" folder, it can understand it enough to display a thumbnail as an icon.
Not really sure what that's all about, as it won't then play it..
Go figure.
Now, does anyone know how to set a java app to "ALWAYS ALLOW", as opposed to "Until 5 minutes time when I open it again."?
http://uk.lgmobile.com/web/web.product.manualSoftwareRF.laf
My software version is KP500AT_V10d and my network is O2. (Despite having used a PAC to bring my number in, the SIM's original number still shows in the "handset information" screen. Another strange annoyance.)
If you press EXIT every time it will ask again at every start. Go through the guide to the end (its actually quite short) and it shouldn't ask again.
anyone got any suggestions on how to get firmware upgrade. regards popp
You can enter either model & serial OR imei - each has it's own 'continue' button
If you enter imei no but click serial continue (or vice versa) it reports that error
However, I've noticed a slight glitch when texting using the QWERTY keyboard. Every once in a while you'll enter a word, hit the space-bar, and the word will vanish. At first I doubted my sanity and thought I'd just not typed the word, but then it happened again, and has happened occasionally since then.
I'm currently on firmware -V10C and notice in this thread that there is an update to this.
My question is, is it worth updating (if it will),is it any different to the version I have, and has anyone else had this 'disappearing' word problem?
I'm on Tesco and it updated from V10d straight to V10e
The latest official Virgin firmware is V10f
Latest 'un'official firmware is V10y
Updating is pretty straight forward and quite quick
Downloaded the update from the LG website which seemed to load some sort of USB update, but after that what do you do?
Can't see the USB Modem update as a program to run, and there's nothing in the LG Suite for updating.
According to the instructions on-screen all you do is highlight the update part in the program menu and that's it, but where is this menu & program.
Any help would be appreciated.
http://uk.lgmobile.com/web/web.product.manualSoftwareRF.laf
follow the prompt "Phone Software update"
Thanks for this. Finally worked out where I was going wrong.
Updated this evening and am now on V10-D.
Not sure what difference that will make, but we'll see.
Is it just a stability issue or is there something new & whizzy that I'm missing?