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LG G4 has been out for the same amount of time the Galaxy s6, yet the S6 has endless amounts of custom ROMs and all kind of tweaks, while our ROM forum sections are virtually empty. May someone colaborate on what the problem is? Because thats the only thing keeping me from buying this phone. Thank you.

Soulblinded said:
LG G4 has been out for the same amount of time the Galaxy s6, yet the S6 has endless amounts of custom ROMs and all kind of tweaks, while our ROM forum sections are virtually empty. May someone colaborate on what the problem is? Because thats the only thing keeping me from buying this phone. Thank you.
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Main problem is locked booloader.

montusk said:
Main problem is locked booloader.
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Not on the H815 variant... well, at least you can quite easily unlock it.
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kylothow said:
Not on the H815 variant... well, at least you can quite easily unlock it.
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I think people prefer to unlock it with an unofficial method (without losing warranty?) like happened for root

montusk said:
I think people prefer to unlock it with an unofficial method (without losing warranty?) like happened for root
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Sure, not losing warranty is a big advantage over the official method; but on the other hand Knox and the sure loss of warranty didn't stop the S6 development (or any other Samsung's)...
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take it the wrong way... The stock Rom is very good. All we need is root to have full control of it.
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Problem is still, that only 2 variants can be unlocked or are unlocked per default: H815 EU Open Market version and the TMo G4 in the US (I don't know if EU and RoW TMo G4s are unlocked by default.), so you have only a very limited (1-2%) userbase with unlocked bootloaders around. And only a few of them are here.

kylothow said:
Sure, not losing warranty is a big advantage over the official method; but on the other hand Knox and the sure loss of warranty didn't stop the S6 development (or any other Samsung's)...
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Right, but IMHO, samsung community is much bigger than lg ones. But hey, the g4 is my first lg (coming from a s3) im pretty sure you know much more than me (about lg devs etc..)

montusk said:
Main problem is locked booloader.
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...and it doesn't look very promising for all the other G4 variants! Autobot n friends haven't had any progress from what I've been reading.
I love the 5.5" inch size factor and have my eyes on the S6 Plus which will probably have a 1.6 gazillions dev's swarming to it! To bad the Nexus 2015 is only going to be 5.2" which is the same size as my 3 year old G2.

montusk said:
Right, but IMHO, samsung community is much bigger than lg ones. But hey, the g4 is my first lg (coming from a s3) im pretty sure you know much more than me (about lg devs etc..)
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I only had Samsung and LG devices since I bought my first Android phone. From what I can read here and there HTC and Samsung have the best third party development support, and coming from a Note 4 I can confirm about Samsung.
Last year I followed the G3 development, Bump and CyanogenMod.
The G3 needed an alternative to the stock ROM, mostly because it had several LAG problems, and we had it after months.
I only had this phone three days now, but from what I can see we don't exactly NEED an alternative, as we have the latest main release of Android and runs great, little LAG and we need just a few little fixes... Having root let us customize as much as possible without losing, for example, manual camera mode.

All the new sammies don't have an sdcard slot which is a huge NO for me. As for the G4 devs, don't forget we are in August meaning 90% of the xda devs are on vacations, the G4 would have new breakthrough in root and roms in September.
It's too bad to see the G4 so good in many things but hurt by LG because of locked bootloader.
I hate HTC to not make a 5.5 or 5.7" flagship

vegetaleb said:
All the new sammies don't have an sdcard slot which is a huge NO for me. As for the G4 devs, don't forget we are in August meaning 90% of the xda devs are on vacations, the G4 would have new breakthrough in root and roms in September.
It's too bad to see the G4 so good in many things but hurt by LG because of locked bootloader.
I hate HTC to not make a 5.5 or 5.7" flagship
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Im scared that the g4 will be left out by devs for the new g4 pro..

montusk said:
Im scared that the g4 will be left out by devs for the new g4 pro..
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Have faith there are several devs actively working on getting CM running, once that happens I suspect the flood gates will open. But the Samsung dev community is much bigger than that of LGs, been watching it for years and LG never seems to have the same volume as Samsung. Though most of the ROMs around for Samsung devices are just kit hen builds, only very few actual custom built ones.
Do not try to absolve me by some quirk of quantum mechanics.

I would love to try CM or AOSP on here. But without an unlocked bootloader, would it be possible to flash?

IIIIkoolaidIIII said:
Have faith there are several devs actively working on getting CM running, once that happens I suspect the flood gates will open. But the Samsung dev community is much bigger than that of LGs, been watching it for years and LG never seems to have the same volume as Samsung. Though most of the ROMs around for Samsung devices are just kit hen builds, only very few actual custom built ones.
Do not try to absolve me by some quirk of quantum mechanics.
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Samsung will never have cm based roms. Dev community is way smaller than it used to be during s3 days. I think g3 last year had more devs working.
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jaxbierley said:
I would love to try CM or AOSP on here. But without an unlocked bootloader, would it be possible to flash?
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If they can boot with the stock kernel/ramdisk (boot.img), we should be able to flash a modified version (that doesn't touch the boot.img on the device) via flashfire.

Soulblinded said:
LG G4 has been out for the same amount of time the Galaxy s6, yet the S6 has endless amounts of custom ROMs and all kind of tweaks, while our ROM forum sections are virtually empty. May someone colaborate on what the problem is? Because thats the only thing keeping me from buying this phone. Thank you.
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Well the Release Date of the Galaxy S6 was the 1st of March while the LG G4 was released on the 29th of April and really available was the LG G4 in June...
...having said that - No, the LG G4 is by no means out as long as the Galaxy S6 is.
And the bootloader seems to be harder to unlock than the S6 bootloader.
...and the G4 was released with Android 5.1 while the S6 was released with 5.0.2 where more exploits exist...
Well we have to wait a while and when a bootloader unlock will be widely available, we will see a rom development explosion.
But one without immediately loosing warranty by directly sending your IMEI to LG...
Greetings
Medzinmann

jaxbierley said:
I would love to try CM or AOSP on here. But without an unlocked bootloader, would it be possible to flash?
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No so they can only build for the unlocked version at present. If your looking for a custom ROM and hacking get the version that can be. Always one of the Rings I look for in a new device.
Do not try to absolve me by some quirk of quantum mechanics.

Soulblinded said:
LG G4 has been out for the same amount of time the Galaxy s6, yet the S6 has endless amounts of custom ROMs and all kind of tweaks, while our ROM forum sections are virtually empty. May someone colaborate on what the problem is? Because thats the only thing keeping me from buying this phone. Thank you.
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all the s6 really has is tweaked touchwiz roms no aosp cm or nothing

I also unlock bootloader just to have TWRP custom recovery...
I am having great time with my LG but I am a little disappointed for not having options to install a custom Rom as there are not...
But I think it is a matter of time for the devs to create some...
This device has many possibilities and many things that need to fix
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Note 4 & Manual Camera features

I have recently got Note 4 910G. Though I was going to get LG G4, I chose Note 4 due to being familiar with Touchwiz and also using S health app. But the G4 camera is something I sorely miss on Note 4.
So since Lollipop allows manual camera controls, What do you think will we likely see Manual camera controls on Note 4 in future updates (Like in S5 etc). Or is there any custom rom that has these features already??

You will continue to get modified kitkat camera app. No manual mode no 720p slow MO nothing. And for me it's a wrong decision choosing note 4 over g4. Return it if you can and take LG g4 and install s health on it
BTW I only used LG g4 international and it was über. I don't know about carrier specific versions.
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beypazari said:
You will continue to get modified kitkat camera app. No manual mode no 720p slow MO nothing. And for me it's a wrong decision choosing note 4 over g4. Return it if you can and take LG g4 and install s health on it
BTW I only used LG g4 international and it was über. I don't know about carrier specific versions.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes I intend on getting the Int. model too. I really wish note 4 can get manuals...

NHS2008 said:
Thanks for the reply. Yes I intend on getting the Int. model too. I really wish note 4 can get manuals...
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Yeah me too also the new camera app, new touchwiz, themes etc... [emoji2] but I think it's normal that they hold these features from a marginally old phone. It's what I would do if I would Samsung, to make customers bug new devices so I can profit. The bad thing is, my device is exynos so no 3rd party development over here.
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beypazari said:
Yeah me too also the new camera app, new touchwiz, themes etc... [emoji2] but I think it's normal that they hold these features from a marginally old phone. It's what I would do if I would Samsung, to make customers bug new devices so I can profit. The bad thing is, my device is exynos so no 3rd party development over here.
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Except its NOT a marginally old phone. It was thier FLAGSHIP until few months back!! Hey, there's some cool rom in Exynos too. I was a big fan of Wanam light rom on S4 and the sixperience rom looks cool too.

Well I don't like custom roms except cyanogenmod. Because there is always something broken in other stock customized roms so I tend to stay away from them. There is word going around cyanogenmod will support exynos, but we will see.
Good luck with your device mate.
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The future of OPT

Is oneplus gonna release the source for the finger print scanner? Is that why that development is lacking for this phone? I'm really regretting my purchase. Kinda let down.. I'm late to the game but was just reading that some devs sold their devices! Uugh. Anyone interested in a new OPT?

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Oneplus will not release its Lollipop fingerprint scanner code. Instead Carl said they will switch to standard Google Fingerprint API on Marshmallow.

What is the point of this thread imho oneplus said they will use a standard API for the fingerprint sensor.
I think we just have to wait.
The oneplus 2 is a well build phone and oos is not the best os i agree but hey just buy a Samsung with touchwizz?
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I think what Carl meant was the scanner binary driver for mm would work on custom roms
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The future of op2 seems like shining brighter...
Looks like they will start an developer program and invite some well-known devs
https://mobile.twitter.com/andip71/status/682120706742710272

vergilbt said:
The future of op2 seems like shining brighter...
Looks like they will start an developer program and invite some well-known devs
https://mobile.twitter.com/andip71/status/682120706742710272
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I'm very new to my OPT and even less savvy about this boeffla kernel/person but they are hiring him sounds... Extremely promising no?
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vletrmx21 said:
I'm very new to my OPT and even less savvy about this boeffla kernel/person but they are hiring him sounds... Extremely promising no?
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He is a well known kernel developer here in OPT and he developed his reputation over the development and support of over 5 devices.
Not sure what to expect but it sorta give us hope that maybe stock oxygen kernel in marshmallow and forward would be baked better
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MIUI Interest

Just wondering how interested people are in getting a CM12 based MIUI rom for our X Play. I'm not saying I would be doing it as I don't have the skill however I think it would be amazing to have. Add to the variety we already have.
I would have bought a Redmi but it doesn't support LTE on O2 UK
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When I was using the mi3 I wished it had aosp/stock rom

Literally nobody then after over 100 views ha ha. Must be on my own...
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+1 MIUI

Nah, I'd love to have MIUI on the MXP too, but I don't think someone wants to spend the time and energy building it. It might happen in the future, but I doubt it'll be before we have official support for CM (which might never happen)

I just dont like MIUI. I feel like its animations and skin dont go along with Material Design. Coming from Redmi Note 2

I dont think so.

Keep your Nougat expectations in check guys

https://plus.google.com/+NolanRoell/posts/J8FhGxcRSLo

Millennium2 said:
https://plus.google.com/+NolanRoell/posts/J8FhGxcRSLo
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https://github.com/cyanogenmod/android_device_lge_d855/tree/cm-14.0

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https://github.com/cyanogenmod/android_device_lge_d855/tree/cm-14.0
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Just because they have a cm14 branch does not mean they have found out the solution. They are just preparing. If you try and build with the cm 14 tree you will still face issues.

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https://github.com/cyanogenmod/android_device_lge_d855/tree/cm-14.0
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Just because they have a cm14 branch does not mean they have found out the solution. They are just preparing. If you try and build with the cm 14 tree you will still face issues.

@up
Dev from i9300 has more problems than those with msm8974 ...

but how Google just stop supporting msm8974 ? what will OEMS do? and thus render all devices that have msm8974 stuck at MM ? and doesn't the Nexus 5x have msm8974 ?

Shady282 said:
but how Google just stop supporting msm8974 ? what will OEMS do? and thus render all devices that have msm8974 stuck at MM ? and doesn't the Nexus 5x have msm8974 ?
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No the nexus 5x has Qualcomm MSM8992

N is already booting on nexus 5 but needs a lot of fixes for bluetooth etc calls work..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/orig-development/wip-aosp-nougat-nexus-5-t3446875

It is not google! it is qualcomm !! doesn't want to add support drivers to Vulkan API, to make people buy new devices, killing support to many devices ! no wonder why Samsung is trying to move to Exynos !! and i guess that is what my next phone is going to have. #Noqualcomm

At Wednesday next week I will finaly get my internet connection and I do have a server machine I will provide my server for nougat compilation and working if anyone needs it pm me I'm sure I can let you use it
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How long did it take before the Galaxy Nexus got KitKat? If I could recall they were having the same issue because Google dropped driver support for it.

Support is back there guess from who.
Right cyanogenmod added it back
https://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/158100/
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Shady282 said:
but how Google just stop supporting msm8974 ? what will OEMS do? and thus render all devices that have msm8974 stuck at MM ? and doesn't the Nexus 5x have msm8974 ?
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Render all those devices stuck at marshmallow? Yep. Everybody got mad the other day when Sony announced the Z3 wouldn't get Nougat. The Z3 has a snapdragon 801 (MSM8974-PRO). Coincidence? I think not

J0SH1X said:
Support is back there guess from who.
Right cyanogenmod added it back
https://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/158100/
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Can cyanogenmod create driver for snapdragon 800/801 ???
josephsteven41 said:
Render all those devices stuck at marshmallow? Yep. Everybody got mad the other day when Sony announced the Z3 wouldn't get Nougat. The Z3 has a snapdragon 801 (MSM8974-PRO). Coincidence? I think not
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Can't we sign a petition and demand driver update? I think there are lots of people who won't receive android 7.

Shady282 said:
Can cyanogenmod create driver for snapdragon 800/801 ???
Can't we sign a petition and demand driver update? I think there are lots of people who won't receive android 7.
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Well, we could. I doubt it would do much, as this is very much a business move and CAF (CodeAuroraForum - AKA, the open source part of qualcomm) pretty much have their minds set on it. It sucks that this happens, but they'd rather make money :/

josephsteven41 said:
Well, we could. I doubt it would do much, as this is very much a business move and CAF (CodeAuroraForum - AKA, the open source part of qualcomm) pretty much have their minds set on it. It sucks that this happens, but they'd rather make money :/
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They did it on nexus 5 for snapdragon 800 so they will do it for snapdragon 801 msm8973 as well
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Lol the cm 14 brunch of g3 is still there but it changed from edited by 6months ago a few day ago to last edit 4 month ago and the files are gone
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I don´t get it, why the hekk did they release the nougat preview for the Xperia Z3 (=snapdragon 801 device) and also updated the GPU drivers ín June http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/themes-apps/mm-6-0-1-qualcomm-adreno-drivers-june-t3415394
...and now all SD 801 devices are fukced because they decided we have to buy their newest s h i t because they haven't got enough millions over millions of $ or what?
Pfff I hate this profit horny disposable society crap and really hope CM can fix it :<

Another one of these threads?? C'mon now, unless anyone is actively working on an eventual solution, please stop creating these useless threads. I'm sure crushing people's hopes is so much fun , but lets all just be patient and stop wasting board space please.

i just want to point out about LG G3 LTE-A or F460 which have the same chip as Nexus 6.. i have one but because lack of custom rom.. i choose to keep using my F400L which using SD801.. i'll understand if they drop support for normal G3 because SD801 is pretty old but for G3-A, why not gives it another update because the Nexus 6 which have SD805 is upgradable to Android 7, why not G3-A? it have SD805 too..
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