Folks, assuming we do get the update in the next few days (probably the OTA will start Monday or Tuesday), there are some smart people on the LG support site recommending some actions for us to make so the update proceeds as smoothly as possible. I think the intent is to design updates to work without the user going through extra work. On the other hand, if you experience problems during or post-upgrade... you may wish you did this prepatory work. If this all seems to much for you, well, then maybe you want to let as much of it happen for you as possible. However, you'd still probably want to perform a Hard Reset following the installation of the update.
YMMV
Once you receive the notification that the software update is available, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT right away. Follow these steps:
1. First back-up all the stuff you need like contacts, pics whatever.
((write down your ingoing and outgoing server settings for any email client you are using. do you remember your passwords? write down your list of "have to restore apps" (although most of these are captured in Google Play and can be reinstalled easily, you might have downloaded some from Amazon or even side-loaded them from somewhere else. You could even take a snapshot of your homescreen (Power and Home Key Simultaneously) so you know where your icons and widgets were. You can do an export of your contacts to the microSD card. Back up the contents of your microSD card onto a PC)) for good measure. In applications that don't necessarily store their data for easy recovery (Richnote perhaps)? Write that stuff down. Make sure you know your WiFi SSID and password. have that handy.))
2. Perform a hard reset.
((doing this will free your phone from any apps that might have been added, but will also free up memory so the update program has as much memory as possible available to do it's thing with success)).
3. Download and install update
4. Once the update is successful, perform another hard reset
5. Put back contacts/media etc
6. Re-install apps.
