I did install the toolkit software using WINE but since Linux doesn't use COM ports for serial hardware I wasn't sure how to configure my device. The program (LGFlashTool) requires the device to be set to COM41 which is easy to do in Windows but doesn't seem to have a Linux counterpart. I've been looking hard for a…

I know this post is a little old so I'm sorry in advance for resurrecting it if that bothers anyone. So far though, you're the only one to explain it in a way that made sense to me and answered my question about the difference between NANDroids and pre-root backups like titanium (or even the adb backups you can do…