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I found on C-list a nexus one for T-Mobile all for $300 he will be giving me the memory card, case and Some other things, and the phone has no scratches according to the owner since he always kept it safe but now switched to Verizon. So should I buy? I think either way it is an investment if I don't like it as some on eBay go from 360 to 400.
I'm currently on a mt3gs which isn't so full of devs... I'm sure I can sell that for a good 200$ or more and enjoy a much better device
Win for me yes? Only thing I ask is, upon trying to test the device in person, all I have to do in pop in my sim card correct and if turn it on, and if all works well, calls, data, text then... its clean right?
Thank you!
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CaliBoyPhillip said:
All I have to do in pop in my sim card correct and if turn it on, and if all works well, calls, data, text then... its clean right?
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Yes
Do you care if the bootloader is unlocked tho?
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Yes
Do you care if the bootloader is unlocked tho?
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Hmmm... I have no idea if I care haha, should I care? Being stuck on this mt3gs made me forget all about s-off and what not even was
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Make sure the device is physically good, does not have the power button problem and does not have bad memory blocks in the recovery partition (which would prevent you from flashing a custom recovery)
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Make sure the device is physically good, does not have the power button problem and does not have bad memory blocks in the recovery partition (which would prevent you from flashing a custom recovery)
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Thanks! Well to make sure it has no power button issue, I just have to press it correct? Hold it and make sure it works right? As to check for memory blocks, how can I do so in a public area since we are meeting a local Walmart
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you'll have to gamble for the memory block then
power button --> press it quite a few times making sure it responds
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you'll have to gamble for the memory block then
power button --> press it quite a few times making sure it responds
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Gamble it is! Chances are though it wont have that I hope.. if not I will sale it and make someone else gamble LOL
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Thank you all who gave me advise, I just thought, I'd update the thread...
phone was in pretty much brand new state, person who had it is a phone tech person, even has a zagg screen protector on, no sdcard though, new headphones and charger/usb cable and box great deal?
in progress from downgrading from 91 atm to root... any advise on which ROM to settle with?
CaliBoyPhillip said:
Thank you all who gave me advise, I just thought, I'd update the thread...
phone was in pretty much brand new state, person who had it is a phone tech person, even has a zagg screen protector on, no sdcard though, new headphones and charger/usb cable and box great deal?
in progress from downgrading from 91 atm to root... any advise on which ROM to settle with?
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good deal
i hope you enjoy your new phonw
CaliBoyPhillip said:
Thank you all who gave me advise, I just thought, I'd update the thread...
phone was in pretty much brand new state, person who had it is a phone tech person, even has a zagg screen protector on, no sdcard though, new headphones and charger/usb cable and box great deal?
in progress from downgrading from 91 atm to root... any advise on which ROM to settle with?
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Nice i hope you will enjoy your phone
if its on FRF91 you dont need to downgrade
use this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736271
i used it as well and it worked fine for me EU FRF91
i can flash custom roms and recovery what i like without unlocking the bootloader.
also about customs roms, just try a few. i was quite happy with CM6.1RC1
and now im using MIUI wich is also a lot of fun
Flash the latest nightly from cm its full of win
So, did you get it?
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So, did you get it?
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I sure did! I'm using it now, trying to sell my mytouch 3g slide for at least 190$ or less to get back some money. well... silly me was looking at first rooting guide on xda nexus wiki, so i cut off the tap on the battery a bit with the blade haha..
wow this phone is so snappy and fast! loving it already
hi all , i bought an AP w8 and the problem for my w8 is literally endless ...from lagging music player , FC apps , SD card errors , tons of bricks and so on ...i used to have a x10 mini i rooted it but back then i dunno what root does so it's rooted nothing else ...but the my x10mini is flawless,,,no lags watsoever it's perfect...so it raises a question is there a difference between AP and Ori?
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hi all , i bought an AP w8 and the problem for my w8 is literally endless ...from lagging music player , FC apps , SD card errors , tons of bricks and so on ...i used to have a x10 mini i rooted it but back then i dunno what root does so it's rooted nothing else ...but the my x10mini is flawless,,,no lags watsoever it's perfect...so it raises a question is there a difference between AP and Ori?
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i dont know what u meaning?
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what i meant was that my ori x10 mini was significantly better in most parts compared to my AP w8 ..and IMO these two phones are extremely similar in UI , but the performance between these 2 device is felt ...and spec wise they are nearly similar
oh and in malaysia AP is like a secondary seller? i am not so sure about AP while Ori means original from a authorised seller ..something like that
AP?
Is that your shortcut for Android Phone? Or some other word?
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what i meant was that my ori x10 mini was significantly better in most parts compared to my AP w8 ..and IMO these two phones are extremely similar in UI , but the performance between these 2 device is felt ...and spec wise they are nearly similar
oh and in malaysia AP is like a secondary seller? i am not so sure about AP while Ori means original from a authorised seller ..something like that
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ok ok but what your question?
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The X10mini has got smaller screen, and it's resolution is smaller than the X8/W8. This is why it is faster: the 600MHz is farly enough for its screen, but the HVGA is sometimes too much. It's like when you gaming on PC and change the Game's resolution from 720p to 1080p. It need much more HW.
AP erm...not so sure what it stands for...i only know it's like the same exact phone but the parts are not original ...i thought other countries have AP phones...does anyone else knows about ap? in malaysia everyone knows about it
oh...so it's not about wether it's ap or ori?
my question is does
AP and ori phones affect the phone's performance?
from my understanding, AP or original dont affect the performance. BTW,i'm from Malaysia.
AP-Approved Products. from what i understand, the difference between AP and original stands at the warranty and the seller. AP product are sell by 2nd party provider,example:SE give some companies some of their product to be sell by the 2nd party. this is where the warranty changes. by this method, ur warranty is not 100% covered by SE. what i mean is,they will repair ur phone but if ur phone is so badly damaged to point of no recovery, they will not replace it with a new one or with the same price phone.
Original-They are phones sold at provided Sony Ericsson centre,where sometimes if u buy a phone,it might come with add-ons. for example,if u buy a walkman phone, u might get a set of earphone or dock that come with the phone. the warranty also cover ur phone whole-ly, which means that they might raplace ur phone if its so badly damaged
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my question is does
AP and ori phones affect the phone's performance?
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yes second hand phone reduce phone performance too!!
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nono it's not second hand it's a secondary manufacturer
bro tell us more about AP ? never heard of that,do that have SE name on it or another one?what about other things?any physical difference ?
"Original" = products distributed by the authorized distributor appointed by SE, 100% original accessories (charger, battery, earphones, etc)
AP = products distributed by 3rd party distributors not recognized by SE and thus are not covered under SE warranty. usually includes non-original accessories. however the phone itself is fully 100% original although some may be refurbished defective dead-on-arrival units.
note: distributors are NOT the shops where you buy them from. those are called "retailers"
but i think all of product that not original it not so good like original
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junghyun01 said:
but i think all of product that not original it not so good like original
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it is original, but sell by 3rd party and the warranty changes a little bit. it is still the same..
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it is original, but sell by 3rd party and the warranty changes a little bit. it is still the same..
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hmmm...want to know it good or not u go to buy it then test it u will know :/
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junghyun01 said:
hmmm...want to know it good or not u go to buy it then test it u will know :/
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im using AP (i guess cause i dont buy it from sony center,and there is no "thorus" or "midland" marking...and it works awesome. root in one try,flash first custom rom without bootloop,unlock with only one try. its just great..
as far as i know
ap has shorter warranty but cheaper
ori longer warranty but more expensive
difference is quite much about RM20 worth of diff
seems ppl here only read the last post or nothing at all so my post up there is wasted. lol
I need some help here. The wife is getting a new phone and I want it to be one that runs great and has plenty of support for me to root it. What would suggest and why? Thanks guys.
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Is your wife a techie? I find that rooting the phone of a non-techie can lead to complications.
Yeah she is not a phone techie but her last 2 phones I put roms on. Motodroid and thunderbolt.
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z33dev33l said:
Is your wife a techie? I find that rooting the phone of a non-techie can lead to complications.
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I would listen to z33, he knows from experience (now he is using wp7...the OS for the technically handicapped). I would get the galaxy nexus. Great phone, and super easy to root, unlock bootloader, and flash.
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I would listen to z33, he knows from experience (now he is using wp7...the OS for the technically handicapped). I would get the galaxy nexus. Great phone, and super easy to root, unlock bootloader, and flash.
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Just a $100 bucks more than we want to spend. Gonna be a sweet phone though no doubt. I love samsung. The wife thinks they are too light weight and thus feel cheaply made. :/
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Just a $100 bucks more than we want to spend. Gonna be a sweet phone though no doubt. I love samsung. The wife thinks they are too light weight and thus feel cheaply made. :/
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Hmm, I don't know then. The Rezound isn't really a good phone for a wife, and I am hard pressed to recommend a "Droid" anything...
She is really iffy about htc because her thunderbolt keeps dropping 4g all the time and my charge doesnt
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snsangston said:
I need some help here. The wife is getting a new phone and I want it to be one that runs great and has plenty of support for me to root it. What would suggest and why? Thanks guys.
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The DROID RAZR maxx seems to be a good phone. The battery life appears to be amazing on it which is half the problem with most phones.
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Yeah that is actually what we are leaning towards.
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Waddle said:
The DROID RAZR maxx seems to be a good phone. The battery life appears to be amazing on it which is half the problem with most phones.
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It's not the battery life that is amazing..it is the size of the battery.
The lte dropping isn't the phone. Its Verizon's CDMA and LTE authentication methods in place. My gnex drops data completely at times BC they haven't figured out how to successfully authenticate sim cards 100%yet. Its dumb....I lose data once a day at least. Recently 45minutes ago on my ten minute drive home steaming spotify
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You gotta go with the nexus, everything about it is far superior. Unless you want to print poster size pics from the phone camera, if so apple wins.
The Rezound is terrible, the Razr Maxx is alright but has too much bezel and i'm not a huge fan of motoblur. She'll out the extra $ and get the Nexus, it'll also be first in updates and rooting it is ridiculously easy.
Please Guide me i am in very difficult situation...
i am going to buy mytouch 4g but i am really afraid of that so called " Bad Chip " issue ..
i am in asian country so no return or no warranty ..
so any one please help me what to do should i buy or not to buy i like to flash roms and etc
and i want to use it like a android should be used please need a little time of you to save my money...
This is not the best phone on the market...but if you buy it anyway, you should not have problem with bad chips unless you start flashing different rom on your phone..
I agree with above, this is not the latest phone out so you will be outdated by almost over 2 years, but if you still buy it just don't start flashing ROMS like a maniac. I have had no problems on either my phone or my wife's phone.
It's still an awesome phone. Go for it, the chip issue isn't a dealbreaker, I've had 4 "bad chips" and thus far, no 'Failed pu'
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It's still an awesome phone. Go for it, the chip issue isn't a dealbreaker, I've had 4 "bad chips" and thus far, no 'Failed pu'
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I agree with jjbadd, my friend has been flashing roms on his "bad chipped" MT4G for a good year and change now with no problems at all. I'd say go ahead and buy it, we get a lot of good roms on our phone. There is the risk of getting a faulty chip, but if you're willing to take that risk you'll enjoy the phone a lot.
did everybodies G4 bootlooped? i see no updates and forum had very little activity. seems to me like its dead.
Well there's no development unless someone develop a way to bump the phone's bootloader so that we all can install TWRP, and therefore custom ROMs...
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1 will it turn on?
2.what happened to cause bootloop.
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1 will it turn on?
2.what happened to cause bootloop.
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Bootloop is common.... It's a known problem you don't have to do anything.
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Well there's no development unless someone develop a way to bump the phone's bootloader so that we all can install TWRP, and therefore custom ROMs...
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Been out of the G4 community for awhile but thinking about getting one (I found a deal that's pretty cheap on a working model) - did something change with an update that has now proven to be a problem for the bootloader and being unlocked?
I'll do more research of course but I figured I'd just ask and see if that gets me the info faster.
I had heard that over heating had cause some the bootlope problem.
Mine use to get hot i took care of that issue that i was having.
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Well there's no development unless someone develop a way to bump the phone's bootloader so that we all can install TWRP, and therefore custom ROMs...
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true that kills it thanks to bootloaders locked. and so is the bootloop issue keeping people away from G4.. hope someday steadyfasterx can make it happen. soon.:fingers-crossed:
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1 will it turn on?
2.what happened to cause bootloop.
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no. mine is working fine .. ( knock on wood) i was beign a little sarcastic. why forum has little activity.
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Been out of the G4 community for awhile but thinking about getting one (I found a deal that's pretty cheap on a working model) - did something change with an update that has now proven to be a problem for the bootloader and being unlocked?
I'll do more research of course but I figured I'd just ask and see if that gets me the info faster.
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did you get a h811 or european h815 unlockable.?
i belive its been the same.
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I had heard that over heating had cause some the bootlope problem.
Mine use to get hot i took care of that issue that i was having.
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it plays a role but this just makes the problem show up earlier. very slim chances if you get a 601 onwards.
It's 'dead' because of bootloader obviously. Bootloop causes people to go away from this phone, but we would have something left after them. We don't even have a proper G5 Port while G3 is rocking it for a year... More of that, we can have Nougat UX 6.0 port 'easily' but it requires experts to work on that. 2015 was a hard year for smartphones. Every of major phones was a flaw. G4 bootloop, S6 RAM battery camera, HTC M9 was bad at everytbing, Sony? It's just Sony who buys it. Till nexus 6p(which also loops?????) there wasn't a good phone in 2015. 2016 is much better. We got Galaxy S6 2.0(or did they call it S7 afterwards to increase sales? jk), we had HTC comeback in style, LG failed once again, OnePlus released their best phone. Compare those two years... 2015 is at loss
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I took my g4 apart and added a small layer of thermal compound and a very small heat sink.
No over heating any more.
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It's 'dead' because of bootloader obviously. Bootloop causes people to go away from this phone, but we would have something left after them. We don't even have a proper G5 Port while G3 is rocking it for a year... More of that, we can have Nougat UX 6.0 port 'easily' but it requires experts to work on that. 2015 was a hard year for smartphones. Every of major phones was a flaw. G4 bootloop, S6 RAM battery camera, HTC M9 was bad at everytbing, Sony? It's just Sony who buys it. Till nexus 6p(which also loops?????) there wasn't a good phone in 2015. 2016 is much better. We got Galaxy S6 2.0(or did they call it S7 afterwards to increase sales? jk), we had HTC comeback in style, LG failed once again, OnePlus released their best phone. Compare those two years... 2015 is at loss
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G5 port we are talking a real true full G5 port?? are you sure ... lets hope we get it soon.
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I took my g4 apart and added a small layer of thermal compound and a very small heat sink.
No over heating any more.
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you should make a tutorial.. i wish mine run cooler. this year april my warranty expired..
you know what i ***** about. its SOT wich they did same size more mah battery and that our kernel or not sure if its kernel related would allow us to charge over the 3000mah limit.
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G5 port we are talking a real true full G5 port?? are you sure ... lets hope we get it soon.
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Yeah just Google fulmics rom G3 you will see I guess we will get it with Nougat update
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you should make a tutorial.. i wish mine run cooler. this year april my warranty expired..
you know what i ***** about. its SOT wich they did same size more mah battery and that our kernel or not sure if its kernel related would allow us to charge over the 3000mah limit.
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Funny i use 5000 battery it last for ever.
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did you get a h811 or european h815 unlockable.?
i belive its been the same.
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No, actually it's an F500S, oddly enough. Because I live in Las Vegas and we have tourists from all over the planet here constantly there's always a chance that when I buy a device from someone on craigslist it's either a lost one that some tourist left behind in a cab or at a bar or something or somebody flat out stole it from them and the risk is that it'll be blacklisted. This one I just bought for $35 is working, in good condition but with some cosmetic issues on the frame, the front glass it pristine without a mark on it thankfully. It was apparently sold by SK Telecom so it's the Korean model (I think, I literally just got home and sat down as I'm typing this).
I have no idea what it's capable of but it does have a PIN code lock on it. I put my T-Mobile SIM card in it and it connected fast so I know it'll work but I've got to do some research on either bypassing the PIN code lock or just doing a clean flash of the factory ROM (if I can track that down) and going from there. It could always have the Google FRP on it so I'd have to figure out how to get around that as well (there's always a way it seems, sometimes it's just a pain in the ass to do it but it can be done).
So, at the moment it works, no guarantees if it'll suffer from the bootloop, of course, but the serial number is 505KPMZxxxxxx and the date code on the battery is 2015.04.28 so it literally is a 1st production run model.
I know it could die at any moment, sadly, but I'll see what happens. I don't play games on smartphones so really the only time a smartphone ever gets warm because of CPU usage in my experience is running a benchmark like Antutu (which I'm just not going to do with this G4, I know how it performs already) or installing a ROM/the initial first boot which churns along like crap by design.
Wish me luck...
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Yeah just Google fulmics rom G3 you will see I guess we will get it with Nougat update
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well theres someone trying G5 true port. last thing i know he get it to optimizing apps. :fingers-crossed:
ihh xpirit hes good. :good:
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Funny i use 5000 battery it last for ever.
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my stock oem its getting weak. i used accubattery and out of 3000mah it charges 1880mah.
still have another trend on 3000mah that last like stock.. i use fecebook app. since my carrier gives me 9GB and i must use the app not browser.. i get around 3 hour using data connection and with trend on i get 4 hour.
are you charging yours with battery in phone and stock charger or you take battery out and use a separate charger. they say our phone stops at 3000mah if you have 5000mah or 8000mah. wich battery you got?
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No, actually it's an F500S, oddly enough. Because I live in Las Vegas and we have tourists from all over the planet here constantly there's always a chance that when I buy a device from someone on craigslist it's either a lost one that some tourist left behind in a cab or at a bar or something or somebody flat out stole it from them and the risk is that it'll be blacklisted. This one I just bought for $35 is working, in good condition but with some cosmetic issues on the frame, the front glass it pristine without a mark on it thankfully. It was apparently sold by SK Telecom so it's the Korean model (I think, I literally just got home and sat down as I'm typing this).
I have no idea what it's capable of but it does have a PIN code lock on it. I put my T-Mobile SIM card in it and it connected fast so I know it'll work but I've got to do some research on either bypassing the PIN code lock or just doing a clean flash of the factory ROM (if I can track that down) and going from there. It could always have the Google FRP on it so I'd have to figure out how to get around that as well (there's always a way it seems, sometimes it's just a pain in the ass to do it but it can be done).
So, at the moment it works, no guarantees if it'll suffer from the bootloop, of course, but the serial number is 505KPMZxxxxxx and the date code on the battery is 2015.04.28 so it literally is a 1st production run model.
I know it could die at any moment, sadly, but I'll see what happens. I don't play games on smartphones so really the only time a smartphone ever gets warm because of CPU usage in my experience is running a benchmark like Antutu (which I'm just not going to do with this G4, I know how it performs already) or installing a ROM/the initial first boot which churns along like crap by design.
Wish me luck...
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i see. well not sure if korean is unlockable and doesnt seem to be any roms for that phone. not on XDA as far as i know.
best thing i guess is to KDZ using LGUP but not sure about wich firmware .
maybe try autoprimes uppercut
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/development/uppercut-lgup-loader-g5-variants-t3511295