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Good evening all,
Basically I'm looking to root my girlfriends fathers U8800, it's currently running android 2.2. He's complained that its got major battery drain so I figure I can find a ROM here that can help that.
I've read there are 3 different types of models for this handset. How do I know which one we've got? If that's relevant?
I've found this thread that seems dead easy to follow, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420728 , am I ok to proceed?
When I've rooted it, do I just flash a rom via CWM like I would with my galaxy s? And will I be caught out with bootloader issues or little things like that?
Thanks in advance.
If the device is the U8800 regular model(not pro or plus) you can follow the guides of the link.
And yes, you can flash a rom from cwm recovery.
Only one suggestion. If you flash the latest stock gingerbread rom(I think is the 522), search for a thread called "get your pink screen back" on developing section. The after 518 versions have the bootloader locked, and on the above thread you will find how to flash the unlocked bootloader from 518 stock rom.
Thanks for that, I'll get on it tomorrow with an operational head. I'll do the pre root checks and make sure I have everything I need in place before I get going.
dancer_69 said:
If you flash the latest stock gingerbread rom(I think is the 522)
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It's 528
dancer_69 said:
The after 518 versions have the bootloader locked, and on the above thread you will find how to flash the unlocked bootloader from 518 stock rom.
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*locked pink screen.
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If the device is not yours I suggest you to do nothing. There's no better Rom, in terms of bug free than the original one.
Custom roms always have this or that and will require attention, which I'm sure your fatherin law can live better without these issues and concerns.
This devices have an high consumption and he has to get used to it.
Now if the device was yours meaning you would be using it daily, than i would advise you to install aurora. I don't like it but have to admit that is very good and stable.
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Dave759 said:
He's complained that its got major battery drain so I figure I can find a ROM here that can help that.
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Did you look to see what is causing the battery drain? I have a friend with a stock GT540 that had serious battery drain. Turns out it was the GoSMS program. Deleted the app and now his phone lasts 5 days between charges. Switching a rom won't help if the problem is an app.
1) Get cpu spy and see if it is going to deep sleep
2) If not sleeping, turn off running applications one by one and test via cpu spy to find out which one is causing it not to sleep.
3) Either remove the offending app or use Autorun Manager to modify the receivers (if rooted)
You can fix his problem without changing his rom. If he wants root, superoneclick can root 2.2, I just used it the other day. Also make sure he is on the latest 2.2: b138sp04 or b163. I prefer b163, even though it is the China rom, because I like the Huawei launcher better that stock.
A.C.A.B. said:
If the device is not yours I suggest you to do nothing. There's no better Rom, in terms of bug free than the original one.
Custom roms always have this or that and will require attention, which I'm sure your fatherin law can live better without these issues and concerns.
This devices have an high consumption and he has to get used to it.
Now if the device was yours meaning you would be using it daily, than i would advise you to install aurora. I don't like it but have to admit that is very good and stable.
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That's not true... official 2.2 is the slowest thing in existence. If he just needs stability then Ezets CM7 is the answer. There are no bugs with it (except wifi tethering) and it's much much faster than stock...
Also he can undervoltage it to preserve battery life more than stock ROM.
Sent from my U8800
You want the best 2.2 you try Void Eridanus. Everything works.
Want the speed, OEX rom it's a Ferrari. Everything works less the mms with data off.
You can also keep the stock Rom, root it and just apply a ffranco kernel. This way you gain the speed.
3 good solutions here.
I'm don't revert to stock Rom for 2 reasons, cam quality and battery life, otherwise i would use stock Rom without a shadow of a doubt.
In terms of stability and all working it's stock 2.2 Rom and this is unquestionable!!!
I have been trying ALL roms and ALL respective versions since July 2011 therefore I do speak by personal extended experience
I repeat once again, in the conditions you mention leave the phone as it is. If you want to do something just root it and that's it.
as a matter of facts i had my phone with so many rooms that i can even say how many but if u want stability i recomend oxygen... if u want stability and good looks use miui 32...
last .32 miui that i used was from miui portugal in english and nothing to say about that...
battery for 2 days and all smoth...
but my phone is weird... he can take almost every rom and be usable...
The issue with miui pt versions it's the cam quality that is horrible. It's just this detail that it's not very good. The rest it's perfect.
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Hey everyone, back for an update and some other steps. basically, he got frustrated with how the battery so he went out today and bought the newer huawei. Reading eveyones comments here i think its due to the ammount of apps and being on froyo hasn't helped any thing, but anyways its now my new toy to play with. So far, followed the link i posted in the first thread, rooted and installed the latest CWM (v5). I'm now a little confused when it comes to the get the pink screen back, should i follow this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457490 now before flashing a new rom or afterwards?
Again thanks for all the help, I'm almost done bothering you all for now
Edit: Reading on some ROM's and the comments above, i should install B518 stock ROM then flash the bootloader fix from the thread posted above then i can install other ROM's? If so where can i get the stock B518 ROM and how do i know which version I'm using? Sorry and thanks again.
First, which rom you have now?
You can find the version from settings -> about phone.
If you have a newer than 518 version you need to change the bootloader with the one from 518. If you have 518 you don't.
Also check which version of kernel you have(is on about phone also)
If you have a 2.6.32 version(which mean that you have froyo rom), you can flash only roms with this kernel version. If you have a 2.6.35 version, you can flash roms with 2.6.35 kernel or 3.0.8(as aurora ICS).
Basically its a stock froyo rom, im looking to get to gingerbread by the end of tonight but currently im stuck on the huawei splash screen after i did a data reset in CWM. Can still get to CWM though.
What rom you want to flash now?
A custom gingerbread based of froyo's kernel 2.6.32 like CM7.2, oxygen or miui, or the official gingerbread?
Im not particularly bothered, something that won't brick the phone and is stable. I'm more worried as to why it wont boot now after a data reset.. any suggestions for that?
You can use adb and logcat function to see where the problem is. Usually when some errors prevent device to complete the boot proccess, this piece of code loops. You need to have some knowledge of programming though, but maybe is something easy.
and now i have blue screen.. what can i do? or have i bricked it?
Where you have blue screen and what you did?
Usually blue screen instead of recovery mode, means that the recovery.img is deleted from .cust_backup/Image folder
basically, i formatted something, reboot and soon as the huawei logo appear a blue scrren rolls down. when i plug the phone into the pc it detects a folder but its empty, the phone is detected as qualcomm now..
Yes, seems that you formated the partition which has the Image folder with all system images. So, now you need to flash an official rom. You can either flash a froyo or a gingerbread rom. You can avoid this only if you previous had take a backup of this folder. In this case just put all files in (empty now) image folder.
Hi all,
For those with the AT&T version of the LG G Pad 7 the Android 5.0.2 update is here. Looks to have been released 2 days ago actually. See http://www.att.com/esupport/softwareUpdateArticle.jsp?sid=KB425003&cv=820
My tablet is not rooted or modified in any way. I checked for updates, says none available so no upgrade for me yet. Will post back once I get it. I've upgraded other devices from KitKat to Lollipop and they are always laggy after the upgrade. I plan to upgrade then factory reset the tablet as that seems to work out much better.
Finally received the update. All went well since I as not rooted or anything like that. Not used it for long but seems a bit more responsive. I did factory reset and set up as new after doing the Lollipop upgrade.
Does anyone know a successful root method. I've tried everything with no luck. There's got to be some way.
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Finally received the update. All went well since I as not rooted or anything like that. Not used it for long but seems a bit more responsive. I did factory reset and set up as new after doing the Lollipop upgrade.
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hi, were you connected to att network when recieved the update?
Yes my G Pad 7 has a valid/active AT&T Sim card in it. I have it on my mobile share value plan.
Is there a way to root 5.0.2? Everything I have tried seems to fail.
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Is there a way to root 5.0.2? Everything I have tried seems to fail.
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Anyone???
No way to root lollipop. I'm back on KK and working on PAC Rom build.
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I have the KK source code for the v410. Is there no way to build a KDZ from it? I am guessing there is not because someone would have though of this by now.
I still don't see this update available. Im using it on wifi only, with no sim card. Can this be the issue?
The mobile(SIM) network is used to access protocols(most common is time/date and OTA) that routers ignore. To update go to AT&T and ask for a new SIM or root; custom recovery; flash update.
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Hi all,
For those with the AT&T version of the LG G Pad 7 the Android 5.0.2 update is here. Looks to have been released 2 days ago actually. See http://www.att.com/esupport/softwareUpdateArticle.jsp?sid=KB425003&cv=820
My tablet is not rooted or modified in any way. I checked for updates, says none available so no upgrade for me yet. Will post back once I get it. I've upgraded other devices from KitKat to Lollipop and they are always laggy after the upgrade. I plan to upgrade then factory reset the tablet as that seems to work out much better.
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hay man i am too waiting for the fu***in thing to come up but it doesn't know the way out there. Now i think you guys should find a way to diggout that OTA bur****d and please share it here @talvigi
wrtechnopath said:
The mobile(SIM) network is used to access protocols(most common is time/date and OTA) that routers ignore. To update go to AT&T and ask for a new SIM or root; custom recovery; flash update.
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theres a zip with the update? or you mean things like blisspop or cm?
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theres a zip with the update? or you mean things like blisspop or cm?
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Hay, dear , you mentioned a zip update here but you didn't provided the link, if you have seen such thing please give me a link of that thanks.
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theres a zip with the update? or you mean things like blisspop or cm?
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Hi, dear, I have been looking for that zip for a long time, can you please give me a link of that as you have said there's a zip with the update, But you didn't share the link of that update kindly do please.
As far as i don't have an AT&T SIM and if i would have one i don't live in the US of America so the OTA on the SIM card is impossible, that way i have asked you guys to share a link you have or someone might have seen it somewhere around the world.
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Anyone???
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I downloaded KingRoot from app store and that does the trick.
Is there a manual zip file or something for lollipop? Att with no sim. No OTA available
KingRoot APK worked for me..took two tries..then I replaced their flavor of SU with SuperSU....I still have not been able to custom recovery the beast tho.. Lollipop 5.0.2..tried to Flashify with TWRP 3.0.0.0 Bumped..I get boot certification error when I try to go into recovery.. But I can reboot back into Stock ROM..kinda got cold feet..don't want to hose the device!
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KingRoot APK worked for me..took two tries..then I replaced their flavor of SU with SuperSU....I still have not been able to custom recovery the beast tho.. Lollipop 5.0.2..tried to Flashify with TWRP 3.0.0.0 Bumped..I get boot certification error when I try to go into recovery.. But I can reboot back into Stock ROM..kinda got cold feet..don't want to hose the device!
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Any body have stock lollipop update of this device either zip or kdz file please share your thoughts with us. Some us really in great need of that.
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Memory woes
I've been running my v410 with lollipop for a while now and was getting pretty discouraged that apps keep crashing. Large apps like games will crash when a calendar notification pops up, etc.
I used KingRoot to gain root and then SuperSUme to replace SU and remove KingRoot bloat. Mostly to kill ads since I'm running stock with no custom recovery (there are only about 6 apps I use that require SU)
So anyway, I recently installed Kernel Adiutor to take a peek at some kernel tweaks. Low and behold, the default low memory killer settings are set super aggressive! The most aggressive preset available in Kernel Adiutor is still only half of the default values. I knocked it down to "moderately aggressive" and my memory problems are gone (mostly). I'm now playing with the Z-RAM settings to try and get my memory usage to be more efficient.
I was afraid I would have to downgrade to KK to get this thing back to usable. Perhaps not...
katsmacker said:
I've been running my v410 with lollipop for a while now and was getting pretty discouraged that apps keep crashing. Large apps like games will crash when a calendar notification pops up, etc.
I used KingRoot to gain root and then SuperSUme to replace SU and remove KingRoot bloat. Mostly to kill ads since I'm running stock with no custom recovery (there are only about 6 apps I use that require SU)
So anyway, I recently installed Kernel Adiutor to take a peek at some kernel tweaks. Low and behold, the default low memory killer settings are set super aggressive! The most aggressive preset available in Kernel Adiutor is still only half of the default values. I knocked it down to "moderately aggressive" and my memory problems are gone (mostly). I'm now playing with the Z-RAM settings to try and get my memory usage to be more efficient.
I was afraid I would have to downgrade to KK to get this thing back to usable. Perhaps not...
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Wait - you have root on 5.0.2?? Can you post a zip?
Hello,
I have installed the android 6 to my p8 lite dual sim phone. C432b574 - I got the OTA update recently but it didn't update, and others told me to update manually, so I did.
I updated from b170.
The problem is the battery started heating up like never before with normal usage. Besides that when I checked the consumption levels it showed that hardware used 95-99% and softwares used the remaining. It is unnatural because I use the phone like I used to use with lollipop. I had been using it for 2 weeks now.
I tried wiping cache partition, updated all of the apps and someone told me the google services may screw up with the new system so I deleted those too, the problem still on.
Should I take it to the repair shop for a battery exchange? Maybe mine is faulty?
Regards, Ghostmuffin - thanks in advancew
I've also had those problems, the high hardware consumption is probably a first time error. For me, the one's causing havoc are the Google Play Services, actually you didn't remove anything, you can't remove them without basically turning your phone useless. Time to consider a deodexed ROM and using amplify (requires Xposed)
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I've also had those problems, the high hardware consumption is probably a first time error. For me, the one's causing havoc are the Google Play Services, actually you didn't remove anything, you can't remove them without basically turning your phone useless. Time to consider a deodexed ROM and using amplify (requires Xposed)
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I could remove the updates.
And you installed deodexed update or how did you manage to solve it then?
I'll wait for other replies before rooting the phone.
I have never rooted a phone before, one thing is not clear for me, can I install a custom android 6 while it is currently on the phone or should I downgrade it first? The other question is, does it wipe my data?
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I could remove the updates.
And you installed deodexed update or how did you manage to solve it then?
I'll wait for other replies before rooting the phone.
I have never rooted a phone before, one thing is not clear for me, can I install a custom android 6 while it is currently on the phone or should I downgrade it first? The other question is, does it wipe my data?
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This is emui problem don't worry it's normal. This occurs on every Huawei device.
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This is emui problem don't worry it's normal. This occurs on every Huawei device.
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Well I worry because with the heating up the battery life is reduced. And I wonder if it can be solved because in general the marshmallow is much better than lollipop
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Well I worry because with the heating up the battery life is reduced. And I wonder if it can be solved because in general the marshmallow is much better than lollipop
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Well my device also heats up when playing heavy games like gta san andreas, modern strike,asphalt 8 etc.... I think this is due to octa core processor. Which generates more heat as compare to quad core. I haven't used any octa core devices other than this so might be wrong.
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Well my device also heats up when playing heavy games like gta san andreas, modern strike,asphalt 8 etc.... I think this is due to octa core processor. Which generates more heat as compare to quad core. I haven't used any octa core devices other than this so might be wrong.
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I am not playing games, and it didn't warm up before while just browsing or texting.
GhostMuffin said:
I could remove the updates.
And you installed deodexed update or how did you manage to solve it then?
I'll wait for other replies before rooting the phone.
I have never rooted a phone before, one thing is not clear for me, can I install a custom android 6 while it is currently on the phone or should I downgrade it first? The other question is, does it wipe my data?
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Removing updates fixes nothing, as it seems to be a problem with Marshmallow itself, and yes, I downloaded a custom ROM, it's not a very advanced procedure but you should be careful. You should install it over the current ones, making wipes with a custom recovery, and yes, it will wipe your data, however you can back it up from recovery.
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Removing updates fixes nothing, as it seems to be a problem with Marshmallow itself, and yes, I downloaded a custom ROM, it's not a very advanced procedure but you should be careful. You should install it over the current ones, making wipes with a custom recovery, and yes, it will wipe your data, however you can back it up from recovery.
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But if it is with marshmallow, a custom rom will still have this problem, won't it? - and which custom rom should i install? from where did you download it?
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But if it is with marshmallow, a custom rom will still have this problem, won't it? - and which custom rom should i install? from where did you download it?
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Maybe you should try custom kernel before flashing a rom.
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Maybe you should try custom kernel before flashing a rom.
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From my own experience, it seems like it's a wakelock problem. And using Xposed on a stock Rom broke calls, so that's why I was suggesting it
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But if it is with marshmallow, a custom rom will still have this problem, won't it? - and which custom rom should i install? from where did you download it?
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Yes, but they're much more customizable, as I said, if it's a wakelock problem, Amplify will solve it. I recommend Sokoban's ROMS and Nautilus
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From my own experience, it seems like it's a wakelock problem. And using Xposed on a stock Rom broke calls, so that's why I was suggesting it
Yes, but they're much more customizable, as I said, if it's a wakelock problem, Amplify will solve it. I recommend Sokoban's ROMS and Nautilus
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Well, I give it a try, I can return to stock lollipop if it doesn't help after all. I don't think a battery extender will solve the problem, though.
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Hello,
I have installed the android 6 to my p8 lite dual sim phone. C432b574 - I got the OTA update recently but it didn't update, and others told me to update manually, so I did.
I updated from b170.
The problem is the battery started heating up like never before with normal usage. Besides that when I checked the consumption levels it showed that hardware used 95-99% and softwares used the remaining. It is unnatural because I use the phone like I used to use with lollipop. I had been using it for 2 weeks now.
I tried wiping cache partition, updated all of the apps and someone told me the google services may screw up with the new system so I deleted those too, the problem still on.
Should I take it to the repair shop for a battery exchange? Maybe mine is faulty?
Regards, Ghostmuffin - thanks in advancew
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Yes, there is few problems with Marshmallow and battery.. Flash Custom ROM, i haven't had any problem since flashing custom rom ..
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I'm currently running the latest version of PureNexus and debating installing Android Oreo. Are there any huge downsides? Is it buggy, slow, etc? In other words, is it daily driver ready for someone who uses their phone all day for music, video, games, EVERYTHING and still wants to tweak the os to their needs.
?
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I'm currently running the latest version of PureNexus and debating installing Android Oreo. Are there any huge downsides? Is it buggy, slow, etc? In other words, is it daily driver ready for someone who uses their phone all day for music, video, games, EVERYTHING and still wants to tweak the os to their needs.
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Unless you're worried about the security updates, just stay on PN. PN for Oreo should be out soon as well.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks.
Etheralrealm said:
I'm currently running the latest version of PureNexus and debating installing Android Oreo. Are there any huge downsides? Is it buggy, slow, etc? In other words, is it daily driver ready for someone who uses their phone all day for music, video, games, EVERYTHING and still wants to tweak the os to their needs.
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I was on PN since I got my 6P and updated to Oreo as soon as it came out. I don't regret the decision at all. Battery life is as good or better than PN (I routinely end the day with 4+ hours of SOT and 35-40% left. Your experience may vary depending on usage), performance is wonderful, and I haven't found any major bugs yet. All of my favorite mods work (EX kernel, Pixel mod, Camera NX, WakeBlock, and a few others I'm forgetting).
The only downside is some modifications require a bit more work. For example, to resize the navigation bar and add dynamic coloring I had to extract, modify, and push framework-res.apk instead of having those options built right into the settings menu. There's no custom quick settings tiles and I can't change the number of rows/columns, but that isn't a big deal and I've learned to live without it for now.
As stated above PN based on Oreo should be out within the next month or two. Beans posted an announcement on G+ yesterday explaining that he had a family emergency that slowed down development on PN O, but he is actively working on it as much as he can.
Etheralrealm said:
I'm currently running the latest version of PureNexus and debating installing Android Oreo. Are there any huge downsides? Is it buggy, slow, etc? In other words, is it daily driver ready for someone who uses their phone all day for music, video, games, EVERYTHING and still wants to tweak the os to their needs.
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I went from PN to 8.1. Honestly, stick with PN. I used it for a couple days and I am downgrading right now. My battery life was significantly worse (on 7.1.2 I ended the day at ~40-50% battery. On 8.1 I was at ~20-30). I didn't notice anything great about Oreo and found myself missing PN.
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I went from PN to 8.1. Honestly, stick with PN. I used it for a couple days and I am downgrading right now. My battery life was significantly worse (on 7.1.2 I ended the day at ~40-50% battery. On 8.1 I was at ~20-30). I didn't notice anything great about Oreo and found myself missing PN.
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Maybe your battery is just getting tired I'm finding the opposite Oreo 8.1 giving me excellent results.
Exodusche said:
Maybe your battery is just getting tired I'm finding the opposite Oreo 8.1 giving me excellent results.
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Might be Xposed then. My sot dropped by 1.5hrs.
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Might be Xposed then. My sot dropped by 1.5hrs.
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I'm gonna go back and try Pure Nexus again now that I have a new battery I could use extra 1.5 hours.
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I'm gonna go back and try Pure Nexus again now that I have a new battery I could use extra 1.5 hours.
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Good luck.
Not sure aware of this or not, but beans posted in the PN thread he's working on Oreo for the angler. So you'll soon have the best of both.
Poebat said:
I went from PN to 8.1. Honestly, stick with PN. I used it for a couple days and I am downgrading right now. My battery life was significantly worse (on 7.1.2 I ended the day at ~40-50% battery. On 8.1 I was at ~20-30). I didn't notice anything great about Oreo and found myself missing PN.
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Hey man, how did your downgrading go? I had the intention of downgrading today but somewhere messed up and now my phone is in a bootloop. What steps did you take?
Thanks!
Ritser said:
Hey man, how did your downgrading go? I had the intention of downgrading today but somewhere messed up and now my phone is in a bootloop. What steps did you take?
Thanks!
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I had that issue too. Spent waaaayyy to long trying to figure it out. I think 8.1 has a different encryption method. You need to wipe the phone completely and then do a nandroid restore (or flash PN)
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I had that issue too. Spent waaaayyy to long trying to figure it out. I think 8.1 has a different encryption method. You need to wipe the phone completely and then do a nandroid restore (or flash PN)
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Don't mean to sound like a complete noob, but how did you go on about wiping the phone completely? I've now tried so many things, reflashing TWRP, reinstalling stock firmwares, using Wug's Nexus Rooting kit, ... I can acces fastboot, what do I need to do to be able to reinstall TWRP? Because when I try it right now, I can't acces it. It goes back into the boot loop.
Cheers
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Don't mean to sound like a complete noob, but how did you go on about wiping the phone completely? I've now tried so many things, reflashing TWRP, reinstalling stock firmwares, using Wug's Nexus Rooting kit, ... I can acces fastboot, what do I need to do to be able to reinstall TWRP? Because when I try it right now, I can't acces it. It goes back into the boot loop.
Cheers
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In TWRP, format /Data and the internal storage. I also formatted /system just to be safe.
Dear friends,
Here is what I found after one full year of using this device. This is not intended to be used as installation guide. Please reffer ro appropriate thread for that.
One confession: I'm a flashoholic.
- It has a great camera setup. The images are rarely rivaled even by Galaxy S8+
- Removable battery!
- It has 3 main issues: LCD ghosting/burn-in, GPS connectivity and erratic fast-charging.
These issues made this great phone dirt cheap. Luckily ghosting and fast-charging are software issues (or software fixable issues) and GPS can be fixed.
ROMs:
Marshmallow stock is blazing fast. I'm actually using it now after having tried all other, including Oreo. Fast-charging has not issues here and the ghosting can be fixed by using sFilter Lite. Just set it to black, 10% (you'll get it)
Nougat stock is the slowest I've used. Battery hungry too. It also features notification delay which was unacceptable for me. Nougat introduced the fast-charging issues on some G5s. If you like Nougat, go for Fulmics 5.5 (thank you @xpirt) or H-Rom H30 Port 3.0 (thank you @Astrako). These are beautiful and great. Also, don't forget to flash mk2000 1.5.5 kernel (thank you @askermk2000). It will fix the fast-charging and enable you to use Kernel Adiutor to set Screen to 238 R/G/B to fix ghosting without overlay (sFilter).
Lineage 14.1 is the most stable of all the LOS/RR family. The only problem for me is the camera. You can install GCam port, but it will not use the Laser Autofocus which was to much of a compromise.
Lineage 15.1 and RR 6.2.1 are feature packed and fast but with small niggles might bother you. Make sure you flash these with Nougat bootloader as it will not boot with stock Oreo bootloader. Note that this may soon change.
Oreo stock fixed fast-charging again and restored some of the speed and battery life Nougat lost, but it is not as fast as Marshmallow and, for me at least, it has notification lag issues. I have 7 e-mail accounts and I can't have this. Make sure you install mk2000 2.0 (check for latest) for ghosting fix. Also, try the amazing new H-Rom.
Check out the thread about GPS Issues to demystify them... or just squezze the top right of the phone when you need GPS.
I'm happy with my LG G5. It is trully an amazing device!
Waiting to see how the Project Treble will work out.
That's it from me for now.
Hold up.. How do you remove ghosting with mk2000 kernal..
Otherwise great little review
Mk2000 kernel supports color calibration. You then just need an app to tune the kernel, such as Kernel Adiutor, to set the RGB values and remove ghosting.
tremalnaik said:
Mk2000 kernel supports color calibration. You then just need an app to tune the kernel, such as Kernel Adiutor, to set the RGB values and remove ghosting.
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Just set R/G/B to 238 in Screen section of Kernel Adiutor. Ghosting will be gone.
I see it...man I feel a dumbo not knowing this
russy23 said:
I see it...man I feel a dumbo not knowing this
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It took me a year to find and test everything. That's why I decided to share.
thanks for the tip, i never experienced MM as bought the phone around 6 months back, but for me oreo is very snappy and smooth
the 2 negatives for me are: -
1. GPS, we all know the troubles with it, weirdly oreo helped, but its only decent outside, inside forget it..
2, fingerprint scanning, dont use it now..back on 7.0 it sometimes worked..but more often than not i would get an error saying not working or something,
now on 8.0, i cant register a print, get an error about enrolment...i just stick to pincode so its not a problem
1. I am using my H850 for 2 years and have seen burn-in only for one single day (about half year ago), after that it just vanished an I have never seen ghosting anymore. My brightness is always set to 100% and I have never used any color filters or custom kernels with color calibration features on my Fulmics 4.5 (exactly 4.5 version, because I am too lazy to update it and it works just good, but I don't say that new versions is bad).
2. never had any problems with stock Qualcomm fast charging on Nougat. Speed of charging is the same as speed of Power Delivery for iphone 8. Don't understand what are you talking about, guys...
3. there is very laggy expanding and scrolling in notifications list on Nougat ROMs. Yeah, it is true.
4. russy23, my fingerprint scanner successfully scans in 99 cases of 100. G5 has not the fastest scanner on the market, but it is very accurate. But maybe it is just my skill, because I am using smartphones with back-mounted fingerprint scanners since 2014
5. can't say anything about GPS, I don't need 1 meter accuracy, so GPS on my G5 just works when I call a taxi and that's fine
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Just set R/G/B to 238 in Screen section of Kernel Adiutor. Ghosting will be gone.
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Hey man, i ran kernel auditor on rooted phone, running Nougat stock... Can't find the screen section anywhere... Any help? can you send a screenshot to see where exactly the setting is?
MCL95 said:
Hey man, i ran kernel auditor on rooted phone, running Nougat stock... Can't find the screen section anywhere... Any help? can you send a screenshot to see where exactly the setting is?
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You need to flash mk2000 kernel. I suggest version 1.5.5
Reboot to TWRP, flash mk2000 and wipe cache/dalvik, reboot and you will have Screen in Kernel Adiutor
vkeza057 said:
You need to flash mk2000 kernel. I suggest version 1.5.5
Reboot to TWRP, flash mk2000 and wipe cache/dalvik, reboot and you will have Screen in Kernel Adiutor
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Hey bro, just tried it. it says "updater process ended with error:1
Error installing zip file '/external_sd/h850_v1.5.5-mk2000.zip'
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Hey bro, just tried it. it says "updater process ended with error:1
Error installing zip file '/external_sd/h850_v1.5.5-mk2000.zip'
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That's strange. Make sure you have the latest TWRP 3.2.3.1 as you are on stock Nougat, not LOS based rom. Also, try redownloading the file. Maybe it is corrupt.
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That's strange. Make sure you have the latest TWRP 3.2.3.1 as you are on stock Nougat, not LOS based rom. Also, try redownloading the file. Maybe it is corrupt.
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Hey. I run on 3.2.3.2. Stock nougat. Only rooted with SuperSu 2.79. Redownloaded the file. Still this is what i get
MCL95 said:
Hey. I run on 3.2.3.2. Stock nougat. Only rooted with SuperSu 2.79. Redownloaded the file. Still this is what i get
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Strange indeed. I didn't have any issues even with encrypted stock and believe me, I flashed a lot. I'll look into it.
Edit: Some people report issues with Magisk, bu you are on SuperSu.
If you don't like experimenting with instaling Magisk (removing SuperSu), then you can install sFilter Lite and enjoy. See above for details.
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Strange indeed. I didn't have any issues even with encrypted stock and believe me, I flashed a lot. I'll look into it.
Edit: Some people report issues with Magisk, bu you are on SuperSu.
If you don't like experimenting with instaling Magisk (removing SuperSu), then you can install sFilter Lite and enjoy. See above for details.
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Hey. It was something.wrong with the twrp. Went on to 3.2.3.1 and i flashed the kernel alright ? now time to test it!
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Hey. It was something.wrong with the twrp. Went on to 3.2.3.1 and i flashed the kernel alright ? now time to test it!
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I saw your post in mk2000 thread. Great!