[G3 General] thecubed:
Hey guys! It's IOMonster from IRC, and one of the main devs working on the unlocking project for the G3.

We've been working behind the scenes a lot to create these recoveries (Dees_Troy is awesome!), test them on devices (autoprime, shelnutt2, everyone else), and continue to work on unlocking the phone's bootloader across all variants.

While we're really glad that this recovery is helping people mod their phones how they see fit, we're really concerned about this trend of internal testing builds becoming public without our knowledge or permission.

Wolfgart has been helping us out greatly by providing us with stock firmware for these phones so everyone can recover their phones from bricks with LGFlash, and by testing these files on his own phone too. However, as far as I can see, we never gave permission to release these recoveries to the world either on XDA or the Italian forum that he originally posted it on. As such, we do not endorse the use of this software.

This really isn't a big deal, and I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but the reason we keep these things secret and available only to people who are testers is because we *really* want to make sure that these files are safe.

We haven't released any Tethered TWRP builds (and we won't be for the time being), because I've learned from my Optimus G experience with Tethered recoveries. Tethered recoveries require a certain level of skill that the average user may not be comfortable with, and that can lead to people accidentally bricking their devices. This recovery requires people to wipe certain partitions, and plug the phone into USB any time they want to enter recovery - which could be fairly often if a user is installing/testing many system-based mods. We don't want to release anything that could prevent the average user from being able to use their phone on a day to day basis because we weren't able to test the software to it's full extent and guarantee that it won't prevent them from using their phone as it's intended.

Here's a scenario that we worry about routinely: a user wipes recovery, somehow manages to corrupt their phone's system/data partition, and is out in a place where they need to make an emergency call. If the phone had the stock recovery on it, they could simply hard reset (losing their data, but gaining the ability to make the emergency call). But, since this user has erased their recovery partition, they'd have to plug into a computer to do anything to restore their phone to working order.

The take away from this is that we're not upset at wolfgart for publishing this, we totally understand the want to release something useful to the community - but we just ask that people consider the reasons why we ask to not publish software before we're ready.

We're happy that this is out and many people are finding it useful, just *please, please, please* be careful with what you do with your phone before we release an unlock. We can't be held responsible for software that you use that's released before it's ready.

Alright guys, I'll let you get back to your ordinarily scheduled XDA conversation. If you have any questions, hop on irc.freenode.net and join #lg-g3 and just ask for IOMonster and I'll be around.

Thanks!