Interesting. I'm like Ryan and started into the Android Kiddy Pool with the LG Ultimate2 .  Like yourself, I want to enable Download Mode so that I can literally begin to understand the mechanics of the LG Flash Tool for doing Hard Bricks. I'm jonesed to see if I can resurrect an LG from scratch , and in the case of the LG Realm (big brother of the Ultimate2) I'm wondering if I can flash its KDZ into the Ultimate2 inside LG Flash Tool and revive it ?  They're both w5c's but, Tracfone are like children with how difficult they make it for their clients to expand our horizons.  They're isn't going to be a lot of variation in how the Realm's partitions are packed and how the U2 is packed.  It might actually work. Somebody on androidforum said that it does work. Oh, damn !  That would be a major rush.