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[G3 General] thecubed:
Not sure what you mean here - this doesn't require anything special at all. You install an image and it's like that forever. No battery tricks, no cables, nada.

You can backup/restore to your hearts content. The only thing special is the images have to be "bumped" by me first. I'm working on an API to let devs bump custom images (kernels, etc) and the users don't have to do a thing.

This *is* an unlock, no further work on unlocks on this device will be attempted. We're now focusing our energy on AOSP and L Preview.
[G3 General] TwinHeadedEagle:
Amazing, I cannot wait to test AOSP on G3. It will be a rocket :)
[G3 General] Jagdish84:
Wow, the G3 running L would be awesome covered with awesome sauce!

Sent from my caseless LG G3, because I believe in myself
[G3 General] vestaviajag:
I do have a question; With all the variants seemingly unlocked, will the G3 development happen as unified builds (like the d2lte), or carrier specific? I'm wondering how hard it would be to have a unified build for this device, as it seems in the first half of the S3's life, the sprint variant (d2spr) missed out on a lot of cool ROMs that others (d2vzw, d2att, d2tmo) had. It wasn't until recently (year or so) that the S3 had a unified development, opening all ROMs up to all variants; how likely is this to be repeated for the G3? Thanks!!!
[G3 General] thecubed:
Not too hard, we're just using the stock kernels right now, hence the separate builds. Once we put together an autokernel or whatever it'll be able to use one kernel for all devices. ROMs will still most likely be carrier specific because of GSM/CDMA split RILs in AOSP.
[G3 General] D0MINO:
Oh wow great! Thanks for this! Sometimes it's not clear on the threads and then the information is lost in the pages of the thread. I will try it out this weekend and thanks for the good work! :good:
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
I just wanna say thanks for this man. Without people like you us flash a holics would be Sol. This is great.
[G3 General] n0credit:
Can you repartition the device?
[G3 General] HAvoktek:
Sometimes a little reading and understanding of what your saying....goes a lonnnnngggg way. But you got it and we are all on the same page. Kool.
[G3 General] suljo94:
I read this, rubbed my eyes read it again then started to glow the words "focusing" and "l preview" in one sentence are awesome, were you the guy that liked cheap wine because I need to know what your favourite cheap wine is, to donate accordingly
[G3 General] tmord1:
AMAZING NEWS!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Donation to follow on verizon posting:good:

. . . . . . . . . . . **donation sent to all**
[G3 General] gutikuvc:
Best news ever, im really happy with this phone now... Will fly with a custom rom+kernel. Thanks u all developers that make this possible.
[G3 General] Skin1980:
But the dts in the kernel is different... D'you think is possible to bypass that?
[G3 General] malichevich:
I didn't doubt even a second that will not happen, i know it before it started it was just matter of time, and the time is now. I don't need to thank you guys you have lot of that, but i will do something better...

And to not forget all those unbelievers, selling their phones and bla bla, i am so happy now.:laugh:
[G3 General] constantG:
Gotta ask the obvious here, why is this thread still active? Does it even matter that LG are not releasing a bootloader unlock since it's been more or less unlocked any way with the bump exploit. Get over it it was never gonna happen.
[G3 General] jamm513:
Thanks a lot for your hard work, I'm an D855P (South America Variant) owner, and this variant doesn't have a sub-forum on XDA, I hope you consider to support this variant whit this unlock or bump work, just post the .img on the d855 thread or please make a new thread for the D855P variant.

Thousands of people's in south America have this device variant, I'm sure you're going to receive many donations if you support it.

Thanks.
[G3 General] autoprime:
have you tried flashing the regular D855 bump'd twrp? It may work.

If it has already been confirmed that it will not work I apologize.. it's hard to keep up with everything in all the threads... and supporting so many variants.

1. Download the D855 pre-bump'd TWRP image from the official thread HERE and place it on the root of your internal /sdcard. If you want to keep in it in your /sdcard/download folder then you will need to add /download to the commands below where necessary.

2. Use the following command using adb to backup stock recovery partition. (if you want to use "flashify app" instead.. that's on you)

Make sure to accept the SU root request on your phones screen when entering su command below.

adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/stockrecovery.img

3. Now flash the bump'd twrp..

dd if=/sdcard/twrp-2.8.0.0_d855-signed.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery

4. Reboot into recovery(twrp) to test that it worked.

reboot recovery

5. If you boot into twrp.. it worked! If you are in fastboot mode(says fastboot in top left corner of screen) then it is likely the D855 version will not work on the D855P. But be sure to follow the steps above properly to be sure.

6. If you are in fastboot and want to get out..

If you have fastboot on your computer set up..

fastboot reboot

otherwise... take battery out of phone to power off fastboot. Put battery back in and boot up normally. Use adb to restore stock recovery that you backed up.

adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/stockrecovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
exit
exit

Stock recovery should now be restored. The above steps will work for all models... just be sure to put change the device model number in the twrp img name to match what you are trying to flash.

If it works or doesn't work.. please confirm either way. If there is success... please tell all your friends ;)
[G3 General] jamm513:
Thanks [MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION] for your attention to my post.

1. I try the D855 bump'd twrp, and it works on my D855p.

2. I have a problem when I try to restore my device, because the kdz flash process recognize my device like a D855 and not a d855p, a the flash process stop at 50 percent, the flastool recognize my device like a D855 even if I restore my stock recovery.

3. There is not tot files yet for the D855P, so I can't unbrick my D855p for that way.

4. I restore my nandroid backup with twrp, but now I can't go back to stock.

5. I think is better a bump'd twrp for D855p specific.

Thanks.
[G3 General] autoprime:
Flashing a D855 bump'd TWRP should have nothing to do with messing up a kdz flash process.

It is only touching your recovery partition.

Flashing back stock recovery and you'd be 100% back to stock.

KDZ flashing is based on your device model in build.prop (in system) and your IMEI. Recovery would not change that.. no matter what is flashed.

Flashing a D855 TWRP did not change anything on your phone for KDZ flash tool to think your phone is a D855.

If we made one specific for D855P.. it'd be no different than the D855 file.

If it works (which it does) then it is good to go. :good:
[G3 General] Tectas:
Nevermind.
[G3 General] jamm513:
[MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION] I can confirm, it works. Before many tries I flash the kdz successfully.

Thanks.
[G3 General] Turtle_Cookies:
Well, there goes my G Pro 2! The depreciation for this phone is unreal. I bought it 4 months ago for $600 and now it's worth $450. I'm just gonna save up and buy a Nexus 6.
[G3 General] griddark:
I was very excited for this phone, I didn't know android had phones where the bootloader wasn't unlockable so I didn't check before buying it.

It's a sad day when my new phone is worse in everyway to my old one, LG doesn't know software at all. Last LG product I'll own. You wouldn't think it was worth it to not bother with letting people who want to unlock to do so.

Just waiting on the Xperia Z3 now.
[G3 General] force70:
Is the bootloader locked on the g pro 2 also?

It had so much potential but development never really took off for it

sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] autoprime:
G3 is unlockable with Bump!
[G3 General] force70:
Figured everyone would be up on that already..biggest news on here in awhile!

F460 not yet I don't think though :(

sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] griddark:
Found that out right after I hit post :P
[G3 General] bothgoodandbad:
oh the horror:(

:silly:
[G3 General] smurph101:
So there isn't a way to unlock bootloader on my g2. I've yet to figure that out since I rooted
[G3 General] Archon810:
Check this out http://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveBootloader.dev?categoryTypeCode=ANRS.

G4 only for now.
[G3 General] force70:
Normally I would just pass this off as BS as i am a total skeptic...However as i owned a G2 and spent alot of time in the LG forums wolfgarts name, rep and work is well known to me and anyone who has owned an LG device.

That said i take him for his word.

I do think that one of our devs here will unlock it before LG does though :D

sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X +
[G3 General] reas0n:
THAT GUY (it was me, lolz) said, that they released it for 4X HD, no G2...

[MENTION=2999829]PlayfulGod[/MENTION] yup, LG's replies are always the same for everyone, but I think it's not important. When I had my P880, firstly we had mails about 'preparing a solution', then some time ago we were informed about getting a unlockable bootloader in Jelly Bean update. Everything is in my thread.

Just check, firstly LG was like http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33782262&postcount=138 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34837357&postcount=150 then like http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.com/1/6/7/4/8/5/9/lgos.jpg?key=BDzRLY4s04UCf-_bSwyllA&ts=1407526300 aaand http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37247044&postcount=176
[G3 General] hyoga1979:
Yahoo [emoji16][emoji16]
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
wth is with this broken ass emoji crap???

We on the iphone forum??? lol
[G3 General] LeVvE:
Emoji16 sure looks awesome.
[G3 General] hyoga1979:
This is the emoji...sure via tapatalk can visualize
[G3 General] scy1192:
oh god your font
[G3 General] the_third:
My bad, it has been a week or so since I read your thread, and I got the 2 mixed up, but I signed the petition for the g3 anyways, but, this still show some sort of progress right?
[G3 General] reas0n:
[MENTION=3016847]cliffistheman[/MENTION] I hope so, it's really hard to answer. We just have to wait. I'm waiting now for answers from LG, maybe they'll tell something more
[G3 General] the_third:
[MENTION=3371513]reas0n[/MENTION] I hope so, because that would open so many doors for development! I mean this phone is great, but it can be so much better with root and roms and kernels
[G3 General] helikido:
See its not LG its the damn Carriers.
[G3 General] southern87:
Moto x can unlock the bootloader except for AT&T and Verizon...
[G3 General] Iloudsan:
If it's because of the damn carriers why don't unlock the boot loader for D855
[G3 General] helikido:
Maybe it would have been cheaper if all of them where locked? Idk but i bet most carriers still might deny unlocking and only the international version will get it.
[G3 General] Iloudsan:
This is what I think of also

Sorry for my lousy English.

Otaku?
[G3 General] helikido:
Otaku?
[G3 General] wolfgart:
This time i think we have Bootloaders officially unlocked .

Trust in LG Developers this time
[G3 General] pRo_lama:
You are saying that devs already cracked bootloader?
[G3 General] Turtle_Cookies:
I hope this will also let me unlock my G Pro 2's bootloader, locked bootloaders ruin all the fun.
[G3 General] wolfgart:
I don't know this :)

i think they (LG Devs) have all need to quicky unlocking...

Success or not for LG G3 in the world it depends from unlocking availability of the International variant D855. The most sold and popular in the world.

I hope on their promises this time.
[G3 General] Billy Madison:
But I think that BL unlock will automatically void warranty, same as with Sony and HTC and Motorola
[G3 General] wolfgart:
no problems for this.....
[G3 General] lossah:
Idd.
[G3 General] Iloudsan:
Otaku --------->anime lover
[G3 General] Joao Oliveira:
Simple. Because in Europe alone, there are probably dozens and dozens of carriers selling the D855 locked, branded, and/or on contract.
[G3 General] Iloudsan:
Well we will see what's going to happen

But I see this device is the device we will enjoy putting custom Roms in it

Sorry for my English
[G3 General] wolfgart:
Best thing should be LG now at the end of the day send an OTA for all variants for update bootloaders and make them Loki'able another time. So cm recovery could be Untethered and development could start.

Best solution, quick time to realize, No project to wait .
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
I doubt that will happen, no OEM is going to intentionally revert a security patch etc.

Now LG could push a OTA that would allow adb reboot bootloader and fastboot oem unlock, that would rock. ;)
[G3 General] reas0n:
They always did that recently, i mean pushing OTA to make the bootloader unlockable (2X, 4X HD, some L-series phones), but it seems that they prepare the solution like HTC, Sony and Motorola.
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
yea def sounds like what they are doing and has been rumored they been doing for months now. Thing is how long is it going to take them?
[G3 General] wolfgart:
Personally i grant LG until the end of August.

If in this time they don't officially release nothing, i'll let my final considerations about this device....
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
It would surprise me if they got it up and working by the end of the year. lol
[G3 General] YoungStarDC:
Sounds great. Just hope it will be within a month or something.
[G3 General] 3f62011:
I'm not buying LG G3 unless the bootloader unlock is available.
[G3 General] jaythenut:
I think the devs on xda will unlock way before LG :p
[G3 General] kingofdevils:
+1

+1

I wait before a unlock bootloader from developers than LG, LG is silencing temporarily everybody was signed, or I believe it.
[G3 General] turbo50t:
LG Bootloader unlock

This is just Tap Dancing around the issue from LG. If you think that they will release a bootloader unlock tool for any current version of the phone from VZW and Att with the restrictions required on thier phones, you are in for a long long wait. What they say and what they do are two different things. They have specific contracts with VZW and Att that they cannot and will not break. These two power houses required LG to specifically lock the bootloader before they would allow it on their networks. Don't be fooled into thinking LG will ever release a bootloader unlock tool on either on these two tagged phones. It ain't going to happen, at least not until VZW and Att drop this phone from their network.

A more likely senerio is that someone will very shortly come up with a way to unlock this bootloader. That's what I put my money on.
[G3 General] belovedson:
i came to celebrate but this is the first post i see. waa. the fact lg even considers unlocking FUTURE PHONES is a big deal. LG if your reading this and you plan on releasing the phone or phones, I will be swapping over from Samsung/HTC brand. the sooner the better!
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
yea the wont unlock any devices they are contracted to lock by the carrier (vzw/att). And to do would be a breech of contract in which they could be sued for.

And most def our devs will come up with something first. ;)
[G3 General] tin2404:
Yes it is my friend..And finally we could start to develop goodies for this "damned" device.I presume that first condition is to have possibillity to make full backup from recovery...and that is not possible without unlocked bootloader at this moment.Meanwhile,I am back to Samsung.
[G3 General] 573W1E:
Do OEM's really care though once you've sent it back? HTC knew my bootloader was unlocked when I sent back my old M7 to have the camera fixed. All they did was relock it (but the work was still carried out for free, "under warranty").
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
rooting voids the warranty. If one is worried about voiding the warranty they are on the wrong site. ;)
[G3 General] force70:
Yep....i always lol when someone mentions warranty here.

Sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] radeonxt:
will my warranty be void if i root my G3?

hehe

on topic: LG will make our lives Good if not a little better if they unlock bootloader. :)
[G3 General] ChrisM75:
Rooting doesn't void the warranty in the EU. Even a custom ROM wont, unless LG can prove a hardware failure was caused by the custom ROM.

However if you brick it, thats your doing. Sometimes they will try to refuse warranty, but if you persist they give in eventually.
[G3 General] D-FUSE:
Unbricking kings! [emoji12] Who cares about a warranty?
[G3 General] wolfgart:
[MENTION=3042344]D-FUSE[/MENTION] Welcome here .

Help us in this section to unlock BL on this Bastard :)
[G3 General] Huck33:
wait and see
[G3 General] B4rnzEE:
Can someone please link me to the thread where some dude (thecubed i think?) was posting updates and pastebin code about a dev based bootloader unlock they are making progress on? Cant find the thread and it sounded like he was getting somewhere... :(
[G3 General] ANDROID_S3:
This one?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54665933&postcount=230
[G3 General] B4rnzEE:
Thanks bro ;)
[G3 General] mysky911:
signed. for my LG G Pro 2 (D838) :D
[G3 General] zolom:
LG respones

Sounds like "don't call us we will call you" :confused:
[G3 General] Lennyuk:
Yeah, I wouldn't get excited until we actually have seen a proper solution, they can easily backtrack on the contents of this email - they have not made any public statement yet.
[G3 General] wolfgart:
Get Up LG !

and let us know you on your official channel you are working on it and release is soon...
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
I wouldnt hold my breathe. ;)
[G3 General] Mistertac:
Although I'm very hopeful.... I tend to agree with PlayfulGod... Not holding my breath

- Tapatalked from the G3
[G3 General] wolfgart:
not sure.

On leaked V.10J for D855 it was created a secret menu "dfuse" , maybe something is on the way....
[G3 General] tschmid:
Let's hope
[G3 General] edowar:
I dont think so...AT&T G3 already have Qfuse menu since one month ago :p

http://xdaforums.com/att-lg-g3/general/root-counter-qfuse-t2819471
[G3 General] wolfgart:
let's hope .

I'm waiting some official announcement by the end of august..
[G3 General] wolfgart:
If you hear some leak info by LG about Bootloader unlock, post here guys.

Hope...
[G3 General] sonspot:
I'm reading a lot of "lets hope"
[G3 General] force70:
That would be nice then i can finally go buy one.

Wolfgart would you think that that the roms between the f400 series would be cross compatible with the f460? Id really like an 805 soc device but not if there isnt a reasonable amount of development for it.

Sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] jsbutran:
LG must know by now that lot of people refer to "xdadevelopers" to look out for information on stuff like unlock bootloader, rom development etc before deciding on a mobile handset to go with. In a way developments on xda helps buyers to decide on where to go. We all are waiting for till August end for an announcement from LG on unlocking bootloader or else may dump with G3.
[G3 General] Mistertac:
I agree they probably do lurk on XDA , however I think we're just a very small part of their sales. The world's a very big place lol the amount of people who don't mod their phones far outweighs people like us who do...

- Tapatalked from the G3
[G3 General] force70:
Sadly this is true, they probably could care less.

Mind you sony and htc do and samsung for the most part dont lock bootloaders (att and Verizon excluded) so if LG truly wants to make a mark and compete with the big boys they better follow suit.

Right now they are the odd man out and in that position every sale counts for something

Sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] Batfink33:
The problem is (for us) Im sure 95% of people don't unlock their bootloader or even know what it means. Unless sales are affected and profits are hit LG really won't care.
[G3 General] Trunkam:
Sure xda users and people that mod/flash phone are not the majority, but surely a lot of people refers to friends/family and similar to have suggestion.

I, in this moment, am suggesting "wait" g3 is probably the best but until bootloader is locked I won't suggest it 100%

Having support from xda community is great for the life of the device.. Think at s3 I'm still loving that
[G3 General] JasonJoel:
Out of my friends, coworkers, and family I know almost no one that unlocks their bootloader/installs custom roms.

So for them I would have no problem recommending the G3.

I think the previous poster was way high on how many people care about an unlocked bootloader. I bet it is way less than 1% of customers.
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
correct, we mod/hack/flash types equal about 1% of total users. And as I have said before I was told by someone with LG contacts that LG had no intentions of providing a unlocking process, reason being "no demand".

This isnt the first time email replies have sparked rumors, been misinterpreted, or the reply just been flat out misleading.

Now I am with everyone else, I hope LG does give use a unlock method like htcdev & motodev, or just stops locking them if not requested by the carrier. I'm not going to put much stock into it though until LG officially announces they are working on it etc (not a canned email reply). ;)
[G3 General] 903tex:
Everything is security. Even the gs5 and note 3 on att all you can do is install touchwiz roms. Att note 4 will be the same way unless somebody figures tho boot loader for good. But it's getting to the point that oppo, one plus one, nexus line are going to be the phones that offer dev friendly option. Luckily with the g3 the devs seem to find a way to unlock to boot loader But down the road it's only going to get harder
[G3 General] Trunkam:
Probably I was not completely clear ?

What I think is that the most of the people ask to someone they trust who they consider can give right advice in mobile environment.

At least that is my situation a lot of people ask me what to buy, and I'm sure a lot of xda reader even if not developers are in the same situation like me.
[G3 General] force70:
Yeah but that's an at&t thing not samsung choosing to lock. LG has chosen to lock their device bootloaders...tmo must have specifically asked for theirs not to be locked.

Sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] 903tex:
But I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung stop shipping their phones unlocked bootloader for everybody like lg has done. But if lg and Samsung would have something like htcdev or motodev etc. Then this wouldn't even be a issue...
[G3 General] customworx:
When LG can lock the bootloader, then they can also unlock it :)
[G3 General] twistedspace:
It looks like they used a canned email for something else and replaced the topic with the words bootloader unlock
[G3 General] KiNG OMaR:
FACT: 93% of all statistics posted on the internet are made up on the spot :p
[G3 General] PlayfulGod:
Thats what I think too. ;)
[G3 General] duecefromcleveland:
Well we can still flash roms at least.... i just came from verizon note 2 i couldnt even root the phone but thanks to the freedom flex i flash the 4 roms we do have everyday lol
[G3 General] donsultan:
Thanks for the Info
[G3 General] suljo94:
I think that it is safe to say that lg doesn't officialy announce the bootloader unlock on ifa next week they never will :crying:, it is a shame acctually that this beast of a phone has so much easy solvable issues but that we can't do anything about it because 1 stupid thing says Security on instead of Security off:rolleyes:.
[G3 General] Joao Oliveira:
...also the G3 is not getting the best reviews. Which makes it harder for devs to get it, work on unlocking // exploiting bootloader, etc..

I'm probably going to sell mine for a One Plus one! :P

Real shame!
[G3 General] yoavst:
Well, any news?