LG Optimus L3 II (lg-vee3e)

Features
Flashing	Partial
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage
SD card
Battery	Partial
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration	Broken
Audio	Partial
Camera	Broken
Camera Flash
Connectivity
WiFi	Partial
Bluetooth	Broken
GPS
Modem
Calls	Broken
SMS	Broken
Mobile data	Broken
Miscellaneous
FDE
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Haptics
Barometer

LG Optimus L3 II
	; The device running Weston
Manufacturer	LG
Name	Optimus L3 II
Codename	lg-vee3e
Released	2013
Type	handset
Hardware
Chipset	Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 (MSM7225A)
CPU	1.0 GHz Cortex A5
GPU	Adreno 200
Display	240x320 3.2" IPS
Storage	4 GB
Memory	512 MB
Architecture	armv7
Software
Original software	Android
Original version	4.1.2
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	no
postmarketOS kernel	3.4.0
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score	170.3

Contributors

LegoLivesMatter

Maintainer(s)

LegoLivesMatter

Users owning this device

LegoLivesMatter
Stupidenbyace (Notes: In a drawer somewhere)

How to enter flash mode

While the device is off, hold Volume Up (for fastboot) / Volume Down (for recovery) + Home + Power until the screen turns on. When it turns on, release the power button, but keep pressing the other buttons until the device boots into fastboot (it will stay on the LG splashscreen, but will be visible with "fastboot devices") or recovery (will be obvious).

Installation

Only the boot image can be flashed using fastboot (requires flash:raw instead of flash, otherwise you will get a "Couldn't parse partition size '0x'" error), the rootfs must be flashed using an Android recovery zip.

WiFi

Firmware can be found here. It should be put in /lib/firmware/postmarketos/wlan/volans.

The steps to get it working manually are roughly:

Make sure network services like NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant are disabled (doesn't work with them)
Write 1 to /sys/devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/polling
Modprobe the wlan module
Write 0 to /sys/devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/polling (this might not be strictly necessary, but the Android init.rc script does that)
Create config for wpa_supplicant and run it
Run dhclient wlan0 (dhcpcd doesn't work)

The support is not packaged yet. Also, it would be nice to get it working with NetworkManager (currently it goes into a connect-disconnect loop).

Modem

~~Firmware has been extracted from an unofficial CM11 ROM, and the files are the following:~~

yamato_pm4.fw

yamato_pfp.fw

These firmware files appear to be kgsl/downstream 3D related, at least according to GNUtoo on #replicant. This entire section might be invalid.

When tested with oFono, the following worked:

Enabling and setting modem online
Detecting and configuring SIM card
Scanning for operators
Sending USSD codes (I tested the one for balance)

However, SMSes initially do seem to work, but the receiving party never gets the SMS. Judging by the balance, the SMS never got sent in the first place or it failed to send. If you successfully send an SMS, please contact me on GitLab or Matrix and make sure to include the exact procedure you used to send the SMS (including whether or not you added/removed one or more firmware files or perhaps used another modem service, such as ModemManager.

Known issues

Xorg triggers a lot of FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument errors, reason is still unknown. Xfce crashes the system when started by LightDM, but works when started with startxfce4. MATE and Sxmo can be started by LightDM/TinyDM without any issues, except the FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument spam.