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excuse the question , since i searched the forum and found nothing related to the subject, but is there any dual boot option available for the lg g2?
was thinking about the possibility of running both factory rom (since im very pleased with what lg provided plus a lil tweaking of my own to suit my needs better) and a test/2nd rom (Ex. cm10.2/11/aokp.... )
people are jumping around roms and this might solve a lot of problems people are having due to bad flashes/errors/etc....
anybody around working on it? any plans of something similar?
i know i had that on my old n trust samsung s2 but i couldn't help keeping up with the latest hardware (actually sold my samsung s4 n got the G2 due to many factors. main factor was the s4 simply was an unfinished product)
+1 for Dual booting capabilities!
+1 would love this feature
i think i got way to dualboot , what the name of SDCard partition? i mean the mmcblk0pxxx etc..
I was really surprised to learn that LG don't have a bootloader unlocking service like even HTC have done and given that the LG never managed to unlock the bootloader, I'm quite surprised that there wasn't more of a community outcry. What is up with that? Have LG ever spoken of supporting the development community? Is it unlikely that we'll see it happen within the flagship lifetime of our device?
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I was really surprised to learn that LG don't have a bootloader unlocking service like even HTC have done and given that the LG never managed to unlock the bootloader, I'm quite surprised that there wasn't more of a community outcry. What is up with that? Have LG ever spoken of supporting the development community? Is it unlikely that we'll see it happen within the flagship lifetime of our device?
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whoa is this 100% correct? if that's the case I will strongly reconsider getting the G3 and will probably go for either M8 or Z2...
Well, coming from an LG Nexus 5, I can tell you that the development community is booming over there. But that's to be expected with a Nexus device. I'm planning on switching from the Nexus 5 to the G3 (ordered yesterday) in an effort to no longer sacrifice hardware in order to get the vanilla Android experience. These days I'd rather give up some of the software advantages in AOSP ROMs in order to get significantly better hardware.
Unfortunately, it's a sacrifice one way or another. And if you buy a phone such as the G3 you must do so expecting that the development for it will take significantly longer and will likely have less options. However, in my opinion the interface/features offered in the latest stock LG interfaces are quite improved and look/feel much better than the interfaces provided by other manufacturers. I don't think I'll have any issue using the stock interface with the LG for many months after coming from the previous 4 generations of Nexus devices.
The vanilla Android experience has gotten quite boring in my opinion and I welcome the features that will be available on LG's stock ROM.
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whoa is this 100% correct? if that's the case I will strongly reconsider getting the G3 and will probably go for either M8 or Z2...
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Sadly yes, it's something I should've looked into in the six months of waiting for this phone. But it's sadly the case. Even on the G2, they couldn't unlock the bootloader and instead had to bypass it.
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Well, coming from an LG Nexus 5, I can tell you that the development community is booming over there. But that's to be expected with a Nexus device. I'm planning on switching from the Nexus 5 to the G3 (ordered yesterday) in an effort to no longer sacrifice hardware in order to get the vanilla Android experience. These days I'd rather give up some of the software advantages in AOSP ROMs in order to get significantly better hardware.
Unfortunately, it's a sacrifice one way or another. And if you buy a phone such as the G3 you must do so expecting that the development for it will take significantly longer and will likely have less options. However, in my opinion the interface/features offered in the latest stock LG interfaces are quite improved and look/feel much better than the interfaces provided by other manufacturers. I don't think I'll have any issue using the stock interface with the LG for many months after coming from the previous 4 generations of Nexus devices.
The vanilla Android experience has gotten quite boring in my opinion and I welcome the features that will be available on LG's stock ROM.
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If you have the patience, I'd recommend waiting a little while to see if they announce a GPe of the G3. That could provide you with the best of both worlds.
Development will improve for sure - the phone has only been out less than a week (D855) with most people still not having received their devices yet and is not even released in the US. It seems the Korean models have shipped with an unlocked bootloader (from what I have heard) and as for the D855 no one has yet confirmed it a) it is locked and b) if it can be unlocked.
I have certainly not looked into it yet myself, although if it is locked, unlocking via any "hacking" method, is beyond my knowledge, someone smarter than me will have to tell us how to do that.
Give it time, development is always slow in the first month of a new device (unless its a nexus), and tends ot only pick up after release in the USA.
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If you have the patience, I'd recommend waiting a little while to see if they announce a GPe of the G3. That could provide you with the best of both worlds.
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Eh, if they release a GP edition G3 it will still pay to have this one because any AOSP ROMs for the GP edition will be quickly ported over to the non-GP edition anyway. I plan on keeping this phone but will also still be happy if they come out with a GP edition as well so we can get some AOSP source code up and running for this device.
And I'm not worried about the bootloader being locked. Someone ALWAYS finds a way to unlock it rather quickly these days.
Personally, my goal with this phone is to root it to get my DPI settings where I want them and get rid of any bloat that may cause the phone to slow down. If I can manage to accomplish those two things, I'll be happy (and it's already doable). My days of rooting, flashing ROMs, bricking, unbricking, and flashing more ROMs are over. At this point I just want a solid phone that works flawlessly.
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Development will improve for sure - the phone has only been out less than a week (D855) with most people still not having received their devices yet and is not even released in the US. It seems the Korean models have shipped with an unlocked bootloader (from what I have heard) and as for the D855 no one has yet confirmed it a) it is locked and b) if it can be unlocked.
I have certainly not looked into it yet myself, although if it is locked, unlocking via any "hacking" method, is beyond my knowledge, someone smarter than me will have to tell us how to do that.
Give it time, development is always slow in the first month of a new device (unless its a nexus), and tends ot only pick up after release in the USA.
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I'm not so much talking about from the community side, I have faith the community will find an unlock or bypass method. I'm more so talking about from LG's point of view. They don't seem to be supportive hence no official channel to unlock the G2 bootloader despite the G3 launching globally this week.
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I'm not so much talking about from the community side, I have faith the community will find an unlock or bypass method. I'm more so talking about from LG's point of view. They don't seem to be supportive hence no official channel to unlock the G2 bootloader despite the G3 launching globally this week.
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Remember it took years to get HTC to provide an unlock tool (and the company nearly going bankrupt!), Moto and Sony were the same - moto becoming better when Google acquired them and Sony nearly gave up making android devices completely before they decided to become more dev friendly.
Basically companies only provide unlock methods as a last resort, when they feel its the only way to improve their sales. LG haven't needed this yet.
There are still plenty of devices where you cannot officially unlock the bootloader, its not just an LG thing.
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Remember it took years to get HTC to provide an unlock tool (and the company nearly going bankrupt!), Moto and Sony were the same - moto becoming better when Google acquired them and Sony nearly gave up making android devices completely before they decided to become more dev friendly.
Basically companies only provide unlock methods as a last resort, when they feel its the only way to improve their sales. LG haven't needed this yet.
There are still plenty of devices where you cannot officially unlock the bootloader, its not just an LG thing.
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I totally hear you, but with the success Sony have enjoyed, you'd hope manufacturers would get involved early on.
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and as for the D855 no one has yet confirmed it a) it is locked and b) if it can be unlocked.
I have certainly not looked into it yet myself, although if it is locked, unlocking via any "hacking" method, is beyond my knowledge, someone smarter than me will have to tell us how to do that.
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Is this something that is easy to check?
Dubhar said:
Is this something that is easy to check?
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I can't even access the bootloader. Despite turning USB debugging on, I can't get ADB to recognise the phone. I started a thread to check if others have a similar problem.
It's a flagship, I'm not worried about development support. Look at the g2, it got cm support. Plus the LG software looks decent, not too basic like HTC or too intrusive like Samsungs touchwiz
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I can't even access the bootloader. Despite turning USB debugging on, I can't get ADB to recognise the phone. I started a thread to check if others have a similar problem.
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I rooted D855 yesterday using ioroot and as a part of the process "adb devices" did show the phone with USB debugging on.
I had to install lg unified driver so windows 8 had a right driver for it.
Heisenberg420 said:
It's a flagship, I'm not worried about development support. Look at the g2, it got cm support. Plus the LG software looks decent, not too basic like HTC or too intrusive like Samsungs touchwiz
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This thread is about development support from LG. Please read threads before commenting. The G2 you mentioned was given as an example of the lack of support previously provided by LG.
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I rooted D855 yesterday using ioroot and as a part of the process "adb devices" did show the phone with USB debugging on.
I had to install lg unified driver so windows 8 had a right driver for it.
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Perhaps I need to update my drivers then. Though that's nearly unheard of as I'm on Linux.
If i can atleast root the phone to remove the bloatware, I'll be happy for a little while.
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This thread is about development support from LG. Please read threads before commenting. The G2 you mentioned was given as an example of the lack of support previously provided by LG.
Perhaps I need to update my drivers then. Though that's nearly unheard of as I'm on Linux.
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Hm, i've not check on Linux yet, but it is recognised on windows with the right USB drivers installed. Maybe its lacking some udev rule to properly recognise the device?
The LGD855 boots into recovery with adb reboot recovery, but not the bootloader using adb reboot-bootloader its just reboots. I goes into download mode with power+volume up, that about all ive tried.
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If i can atleast root the phone to remove the bloatware, I'll be happy for a little while.
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towelroot worked.
on Win 7 by flashing sphinxrom for d855 and s,k,l :
when i was installing the lg driver, it installed the AndroidNet Sooner Single ADB Interface
i had to change it Android ADB Interface
what the hell the device just came out give it some time
daddioj said:
what the hell the device just came out give it some time
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What the hell can't you read & understand what OP has said or trying to say? (sorry no offence intended). He isn't talking about the support of the development community to this device(G3), which by the way will certainly pick up from what it is now, but he is talking about LG's support to the development community(being more developer friendly as Sony & HTC).
And even if we talk about how much active Android development this device(& it's variants) will see, then let me tell you that the development activity of this device will(probably) never be as much as you see with other flagship devices like HTC One(M7 & m8), that is because a) HTC is more developer friendly by letting you to unlock the bootloader & thus making easy for developers to port(make) ROMs, recoveries & what not, where as with LG & G2 it is entirely different case(ask any developer involved in G2 development, how difficult it is or was to make a recovery or a ROM for G2 and for common flahers the risk factor of flashing those recoveries & ROMs that much more because all the solutions based on a bypassing solution with many permutations & combinations rather than a fully unlockable bootloader just as with HTC devices and b) they are more popular devices among people(as much successful the G2 was it wasn't sold as many as S4s & S5s or M7s & M8s).
We all hope that LG will follow HTC & Sony in being developer frienly. No doubt they are making beautiful devices like G2 & now G3. But sadly, as one of other member pointed out above, it is at the stage of extinction that a manufacturer tend to be more friendly with developer community.
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What the hell can't you read & understand what OP has said or trying to say? (sorry no offence intended). He isn't talking about the support of the development community to this device(G3), which by the way will certainly pick up from what it is now, but he is talking about LG's support to the development community(being more developer friendly as Sony & HTC).
And even if we talk about how much active Android development this device(& it's variants) will see, then let me tell you that the development activity of this device will(probably) never be as much as you see with other flagship devices like HTC One(M7 & m8), that is because a) HTC is more developer friendly by letting you to unlock the bootloader & thus making easy for developers to port(make) ROMs, recoveries & what not, where as with LG & G2 it is entirely different case(ask any developer involved in G2 development, how difficult it is or was to make a recovery or a ROM for G2 and for common flahers the risk factor of flashing those recoveries & ROMs that much more because all the solutions based on a bypassing solution with many permutations & combinations rather than a fully unlockable bootloader just as with HTC devices and b) they are more popular devices among people(as much successful the G2 was it wasn't sold as many as S4s & S5s or M7s & M8s).
We all hope that LG will follow HTC & Sony in being developer frienly. No doubt they are making beautiful devices like G2 & now G3. But sadly, as one of other member pointed out above, it is at the stage of extinction that a manufacturer tend to be more friendly with developer community.
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i am Guilty of not reading the whole Thread
i was a bout to get me a n5 but read the battery was not that good, so i had to pass. now am looking to get me a g2, but i want to know as of now wich variant has more rom support?? not talking aabout the international, i need to know wich usa company variant tmobile,sprint,at&t,verizon has more rom support so i can get me one of them.. thanks
by the way is there any way to unlocked carriier on our own we had the on the s2 .
You can check out how many posts in the LG G2 subcategory under xda and see for yourself which variant has more active participants. I personally would consider which variant is best for your network that you're going to use, and then consider if the community development support is enough. A lot of LG G2 ROMs seem to have multivariant support.
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You can check out how many posts in the LG G2 subcategory under xda and see for yourself which variant has more active participants. I personally would consider which variant is best for your network that you're going to use, and then consider if the community development support is enough. A lot of LG G2 ROMs seem to have multivariant support.
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well i end up getting at&t i have s2 at&t and it works ok.. thanks
Am I in the right area? I havent found any other section on XDA for it. I just bought this phone and I like it a lot! If someone could guide me in the right direction it would be great!
I'm in the same boat, there's a little chatter at Android Central, but nothing else for this device. I'm just hoping for root and custom recovery.
Also literally in the exact same boat, I'd love to run AOSP or CM on this thing. I don't even see any posts for the normal Stylo 2
Yeah, there's not much chatter at all. On the other hand, kingroot just went over 400 requests, I don't know at what number of requests that they decide to work on an exploit.
I've heard people breaking their phone using kingroot and so on so I will just wait until someone who for sure is rooted there LG Stylo 2 plus and then I will move forward from there. Although it would be nice if XDA would make a little section for us to hang out in. I hope someone on here will hear us out.
I hear ya..been searching for a root, but no luck so far. Im livid over lg opting out of adoptable storage..i wouldn't of bought this phone had i known before hand..oh well with root all things will become possible
Same guys I bought the LG Stylo 2 Plus on MetroPCS and I just want a root that will work I used KingRoot and I was a simi root I restarted 2 times and the root was removed just hope someone will work on a root and a port of CyanogenMod 13
​Maybe we can some how reach out to XDA staff to create a section dedicated to us LG Style 2 Plus users. If someone could help me do this that would be great!
Your biggest issue is that metro pcs is such a small a regional carrier most developers don't get the device which means no development for it. Also you need to have full kernel source for the device and device trees. Which seldom happen for budget devices.
As for adoptable storage, most oem are disabling it or removing it completely.
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Your biggest issue is that metro pcs is such a small a regional carrier most developers don't get the device which means no development for it. Also you need to have full kernel source for the device and device trees. Which seldom happen for budget devices.
As for adoptable storage, most oem are disabling it or removing it completely.
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So no chance of xda ever getting an LG Stylo 2 Plus section?
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So no chance of xda ever getting an LG Stylo 2 Plus section?
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That depends on how much development it gets. Your best bet is to make things happen and then come back with things like bootloader unlocks, root, roms and development for the device. Also make sure the kernel source for the device is available.
zelendel said:
That depends on how much development it gets. Your best bet is to make things happen and then come back with things like bootloader unlocks, root, roms and development for the device. Also make sure the kernel source for the device is available.
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Well I'm not a developer or anything that's why I come to XDA to appreciate other people's work. Let's hope someone comes along soon to show off their stuff. Hey zelendel, you seem like a smart man why don't you give it a go. Lol help us fellow brothers out ????
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Well I'm not a developer or anything that's why I come to XDA to appreciate other people's work. Let's hope someone comes along soon to show off their stuff. Hey zelendel, you seem like a smart man why don't you give it a go. Lol help us fellow brothers out ????
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I only work with devices I own and I only buy nexus devices due to the availability of the source code and kernel source. Sorry
The original Stylo (MetroPCS/T-Mobile) was very fortunate to get as much dev support as it did. I don't foresee much happening for its successors, however.
Lg stylo 2 plus..root please!!! Ill come clean your pool and mow your lawn devs!!!! Someone please be my freakin hero and come up with root.. Oh mighty DEVS ( bows ) i pray to thee
Sd storage crippled
Severance5 said:
I hear ya..been searching for a root, but no luck so far. Im livid over lg opting out of adoptable storage..i wouldn't of bought this phone had i known before hand..oh well with root all things will become possible
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Yes this is bull i think it may be possible to re activate the adaptive storage with adb but adb wont stay connected on the stylo 2 plus but for 1 seconed with the 6.0.1. Whats the piint in having thia phone with 1 terabit expandable storage if you just get a crippled sd card slot that only works for pictures this phone is awesome hardware wise but a pile of **** everywhere else
zelendel said:
Your biggest issue is that metro pcs is such a small a regional carrier most developers don't get the device which means no development for it. Also you need to have full kernel source for the device and device trees. Which seldom happen for budget devices.
As for adoptable storage, most oem are disabling it or removing it completely.
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Where do you get that MetroPCS is a small regional carrier? They have over a hundred and fifty million subscribers according to their parent company T-Mobile who has less than 70 million subscribers. That makes MetroPCS better than twice the size of T-Mobile one of the big four carriers in the United States. They have a subset of the exact same phones that T-Mobile carries as well. Everything from the little small Samsung Galaxy knockoff phones to the Galaxy S 7 is available with Metro PCS. The only difference is that your bill is half as much and you have to pay for your phone up front. Essentially you are not financing all of the other phones of all of the other users on the network which is why their service is so much less expensive.
We had one dev for a brief period of time for the OG Stylo and he left.
Like Revenant Ghost said, don't expect much.
Root hasn't even been achieved yet permanently for the Stylo 2 or Stylo 2 Plus.
Open source code for the stylo 2 plus is here
http://opensource.lge.com/osSch/list?types=ALL&search=lgms550
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Open source code for the stylo 2 plus is here
http://opensource.lge.com/osSch/list?types=ALL&search=lgms550
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And now someone who has the device and is capable enough needs to step up and do something with it.
Anybody know if/when this update is coming? Verizon updated their version of the G6 last week. Also, is anyone else frustrated that it is taking LG so long to update Android? Oreo was released August 2017 and it is May 2018. I like LG hardware a lot on the G6 and G7 models. But I am having a lot of second thoughts about buying their phones in the future due to the lack of software support. Maybe I should just get a Pixel next time.
LG says they have created a new division in the company focused on improving the speed of Android updates. I am not sure they will focus on older devices though.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/12/l...-bringing-android-updates-to-its-smartphones/
Would it help at all to contact LG and tell them I am switching to Pixel due to their poor software support?
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Also, is anyone else frustrated that it is taking LG so long to update Android?
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No, no one else is frustrated with it. Nobody else has even thought about it. It's literally only you. That's why when you searched, you didn't find any other threads about this.
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Would it help at all to contact LG and tell them I am switching to Pixel due to their poor software support?
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It could help you feel better. LG won't give a shit, though. You wouldn't be telling them anything they don't already know. They won't even reply to your email. I'd take that to mean, "Okay. Enjoy your Pixel, then."
I mean no disrespect to the initiator of this thread, but I really wish there would be some moderation and conglomeration of the threads, I requested this elsewhere.
Basically the whole Q and A forum has become useless-- just a bunch of unrelated and random threads about Oreo with unanswered questions and random observations, often without any relation to the title.
Everytime I visit the forum, there is yet another pointless "oreo" thread started, which divides people's time, attention and effort to answer.
There should be one thread on Oreo updates and that's it!!!
People, please stop posting of new oreo threads!
The thing is that the other Oreo threads did not have details on unlocked model us997. In any case, for a person with medium tech skills, how hard is it to load a custom Oreo rom to this model LG G6?
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The thing is that the other Oreo threads did not have details on unlocked model us997. In any case, for a person with medium tech skills, how hard is it to load a custom Oreo rom to this model LG G6?
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You have to unlock your bootloader first
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g6/how-to/official-lg-g6-bootloader-unlock-t3614719
I received us99720a last night
Anyone know how long it takes after they roll out a software update for us to get a kdz to flash I still don't have the update yet.
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Anyone know how long it takes after they roll out a software update for us to get a kdz to flash I still don't have the update yet.
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No one knows
LG continues to be indifferent to software updates especially for non-carrier unlocked phone. I am also not going to buy LG cell phone once I switch to G5 in 6 months.