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First of all, do:

• Define your TV model
  
• Make backup
  

Depending on your TV:

• Install Custom Firmware
  
• Activate USB port
  

WARNING! Everything here applies ONLY to European LG TV models (unless otherwise is stated explicitly)! Do not try to flash firmware into North American/Asian/South American LG TV models - you will brick your TV! If you plan any modding now or in the future, do not update your TV yet, especially Broadcom platform based (with Ethernet and Netcast), even if using Netcast forces you to update! The newest firmwares bring more problems and close many modding paths! So always backup current firmware first before applying any official LG update!

How to connect to TV

• Basic RS-232C connection setup
  • Bootloader connection
  • Debug mode connection

Service menus / modes

• Hidden service modes / menus
• Access hidden service menus / modes
  • LG TV USB IR-Hack with Arduino
  • Using a generic microcontroller board as an LG service remote

LG USB Port Hack

There are several ways to activate the player. For owners of the LH/LG, and PK/PJ based on Saturn 6, the easiest way is:

• LH/LG series USB video player activation
• PK/PJ series USB video player activation

Other ways:

• LG USB Port Hack
• IR Hack
• How to activate USB player via serial

Enabling support for multiple media:

• USB Hub - How to enable USB hub support in Saturn 7 and Broadcom based TVs

Useful Articles

• Debug status
• How to backup TV firmware
• Recovery of bricked device
• Configuration editor
• Remote keys service combinations
• Firmware versions history (Saturn 6 models)
• Troubleshoot Wireless Ready
• WIFI
• Tutorial: How to extract movies from an LG DVR/PVR HDD

Custom firmwares

• Compatibility Matrix
• LGMOD - modded rootfs for Saturn 6 and 7 based models.
  • How to install and troubleshoot LGMOD
  • Customizing LGMOD
  • Unsolved problems
• OPENRELEASE
• Openlgtv - yet another custom firmware for Saturn 6 TVs.
• OpenLGTV BCM - custom firmware for Broadcom based TVs.
  • CIFS shares from Windows 7 on OpenLGTV BCM

Firmware customization

• Partition Editing
• How to modify Saturn 7 firmware
• How to modify Broadcom firmware
• Enable additional Netcast services

Research & Development

• Enable debug logging
• Reverse Engineering Hints
• Remote control key codes
• Custom Netcast browser app
• Country group codes
• Country feature table investigation
• About RELEASE (The main program that implements a graphical user interface and interaction with the hardware.)
• How to patch RELEASE and add functionalities on your TV
• How to log your TV
• Flashing NAND from user-level
• System memory map
• Websvn repository
• Anonymous svn. Run: "svn co http://svn.openlgtv.org.ru"

Firmware file format

• EPK file format
• Firmware unpack tools
• Firmware pack tools
• Packing lgapp partition

Platform specific articles

• Broadcom platform

GPL and LGPL violations by LG

• GPL and LGPL violations by LG

LG sites

• http://opensource.lge.com
• Opensource packages list
• http://www.lgservice.co.kr/cs_lg/download/SoftwareDownloadDetailCmd.laf?parentCode=1041,1005,1000 (in korean)
• LG Apps TV Developer Lounge: http://developer.lgtvapp.com/

Publicism

• Article about the history of the development of free firmwares. (in Russian)

Other resources

• IRC:
  1. openlgtv @ irc.freenode.net
  2. openlgtv-sv @ irc.freenode.net | Swedish Community for OpenLGTV.
• http://lg-hack.info/