KitKat is now raising its boundaries to almost all the Android devices, from high-end to low-end devices, everyone is enjoying, no matter complete or a little bit of its taste. Here we have today with us a relative to the LG Nexus 4, its the LG G2 locked to Verizon. The LG G2 is one of the remarkable LG flagships, which is way ahead famous for its finger operations, offering beautiful yet cool features. The G2 is a True HD-IPS device, running on a Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 chipset, Quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400 CPU and Adreno 330 GPU. With configurations as such, the device is a legend. LG G2 bound to Verizon is a 4G LTE pack bringing the best of LG to Verizon users.
The device comes with Jelly Bean 4.2 out-of-the-box and is unfortunately not yet upgradable to KitKat 4.4 and not even Jelly Bean 4.3 for reasons unknown, which might often sound as a disgrace to such a capable hardware. Hey! why let your head down, you’re here with us in Android’s custom world and its possible! Forget Jelly Bean 4.3, jump off directly to the taste of KitKat 4.4 by Installing the legendary CyanogenMod 11 ROM on your Verizon LG G2. The ROM is brought to you by masri1987 from the RootzWiki community. The very point that will catch you is that the ROM is almost bug-free, as stated by the developer himself. But since its an early build, we might somehow expect just maybe a few minor issues.
To know about what CyanogeMod ROM offers, visit the CyanogenMod website and to know more about the build, visit the Rootzwiki thread. Now, lets begin to Install this very KitKat 4.4 based ROM on your Verizon LG G2.
Preparations
- Install Android SDK: Click Here
- CWM 6.0.4.4 or latest TWRP Recovery: Click Here
- Backup device’s storage, SMS, contacts and other stuff to avoid any mishaps
- Take a Nandroid Backup of your current ROM, so in case you’re not comfortable, you can switch back to where you were.
- Charge your device to have at least 60% of battery level to avoid any sudden shutdowns during the Installation process.
Instructions
- Connect your device to the PC via USB cable. Transfer the ROM and GApps zip files to a suitable location.
- Open a CMD window and type in the following command to reboot your G2 into recovery mode:
adb reboot recovery
- Once rebooted, disconnect the device.
- From the recovery menu, wipe the System, Data, Cache, Boot & Dalvik-Cache partitions.
- Flash the ROM zip file: cm-11-xxxxxxx-UNOFFICIAL-vs980.zip (Here xxxxxx denotes the build date)
- Flash the GApps zip file: gapps-kk-20131119.zip
Once done, you can reboot your device normally and enjoy the amazing taste of KitKat on your Verizon LG G2. If you’re a developer, visit the Github.
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Every time I try to install cyanogenmod, I brick my phone and have to restore with the LG Flash Tool. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
Did you try any other AOSP based ROM?
No I haven’t. Can you recommend any?
I presume that you have Vzw G2. Try Carbon ROM: https://carbonrom.org/downloads/?device=vs980&type=nightly
Google Apps: http://www.androidfilehost.com/gapps
Let me know about the result.
I will…thanks!
Flashing Carbon also bricked my device. Do I need to have an external usb sd card? I am confused as to why flashing would brick the phone.
I don’t thing that can be any issue.The reason is something else. Does your device has KitKat?
Yep!
What steps do you do in TWRP while installing the ROM?
First I clear cache and dalvik cache, then flash both cm and gapps ROMs, and reboot. The first couple times I didn’t know about the hard reset and didn’t backup. I learned my lesson. Also the first time, I cleared the sdcard which I thought was the issue but apparently not. When I tried to flash carbon, I used either Goomanager or ROM manager…I forget which. Does that help?
Before installing the rom and gapps, wipe data, dalvik.system.NativeStart.main, cache, system. It should work. Let me know.
Nope and I even tried both ROMs! I always get a bootloop!
You are making some mistake.
I tried the second way you said and bootloop.
I am unable to figure out what is causing the problem.
It’s ok, I do like the stock ROM anyway. Also, I am considering switching to T-mobile and having them buy out my contract when the G3 comes out.
Good decision! I am also waiting for the G3.
Before installing the rom and gapps, backup your cunt ROM first. Then wipe data, cache and system. When you’re done with installation, also wipe dalvik cache. It should work. Let me know.
I was able to upgrade to kit kita, but my wifi has stopped working. What is going on?
Which model do you have and which ROM did you install?
I have the LG G2 with the CM11 mod
I just checked. The latest official CM 11 has no such issues with WiFi. Download this ROM instead: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=vs980
The last one one you gave me is the one that I used. Are you suggesting that I do a factory restore, wipe the cache, and re-install them again?
If you downloaded the ROM from our link in the post, it was unofficial version.
Vs980
Okay Greg, download and install this ROM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unofficiallgg2vzwcm11/
Latest Google Apps: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps
Please let me know if the WiFi issue is fixed after installing this ROM or not.
Thanks, getting mine soon!