yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G3 General] Kameirus:
That's why with your 5 posts you need to read alittle more and you would've learned that you can't have a custom ROM without a unlocked boot loader or some kind of exploit ....
[G3 General] force70:
wow...just wow.

did it occur to you that the reason for that might be that maybe the bootloader is locked?

"In my opinion" its better to keep your opinions to your self until you actually have a clue about the topic lol.

:banghead:

sent from my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] jfhanny:
You are truly a special kind of idiot
[G3 General] azoller1:
i didnt even realize this until i bought the device, oh well....
[G3 General] force70:
I was almost in your shoes also..didnt buy it opening day cause it didnt come in white here in canada. That kinda saved my butt lol.

Unlock will come, there are some damn talented people working on it here.

LG are full of crap though..they care less about our small community. Really their attitude has put me off spending my money on another one of their devices. .but the G3 is so good it will be hard not too lol

sent from my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] twistedspace:
Can we unlock it with boltcutters
[G3 General] CheesyNutz:
LoLwut
[G3 General] hungmung:
Hey you do realize that's because you need an unlocked bootloader in order to load a custom recovery or Rom right?
[G3 General] TYMO68:
My friend, you've just slid down a rusty razor blade into a pool of alcohol by making that comment in this thread.... Smh
[G3 General] Cuzz1369:
Pretty please...I'll be your best friend for ever.
[G3 General] Cuzz1369:
Edit because tapatalk sucks.....
[G3 General] nerdo:
This is the thread:

http://xdaforums.com/lg-g3/general/bounty-lg-g3-d855bootloader-unlocking-t2807900

But it's closed and thus unfortunately buried away in general forum!

AT&T one, closed too.

Verizon one, only one still open.

It's a shame that [MENTION=4454500]samg77[/MENTION] (OP Verizon bounty), [MENTION=5284644]Pure+[/MENTION] (OP AT&T bounty) and [MENTION=5046575]557953[/MENTION] (OP International bounty) aren't coordinating together especially when a potential bootloader unlock will most likely work on all versions as I read somewhere by a dev, please correct me if I am mistaken ;)
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
I'm not officially going into the bounty but when these guys do their magic I'm gonna donate and make it worth the while. I'm down with how the m8 was for s-off. I didn't need to pay but one of the guys on the m8 forum was crying why should he have to pay $25 to get it. So I surprised the guy and sent him the money. Haha. That shut him up. Anyway. It's worth a few bucks to make this phone what we want.
[G3 General] THEbigSWEEN:
I believe they were working together with updating the spreadsheet that kept track of the pledges (updating from pledges made in their respective threads) if that's what you were referring to. Also you are correct that it was stated the unlock should work for all variants. Hopefully the Verizon thread won't be closed as well, because I know we're on our last warning now. It's pretty sad that three different threads all created for a good reason, to help support the developers, were bombarded by trolls, trouble makers and naysayers. Just because some people don't have faith or just aren't patient enough is no reason to ruin it for the rest of us, and it boggles my mind that there are so many entitled people who think they have to share their negativity with the rest of the community like anyone gives a damn, but then again empty vessels make the most noise!
[G3 General] ngray13:
I have been on XDA for a long time but have just made an account and I'm well aware that you can't have a custom ROM without and exploit/ unlocked boot loader. Back in the days of the s4 the only way you could use a custom aosp ROM was with the Loki exploit. What I meant by this post is lg hinted that they may have a boot loader unlock for non T-Mobile g3s so I thought maybe developers would get a jump on and try to work out some porting issues so they can flash it as soon as the boot loader becomes unlocked.
[G3 General] force70:
I may be wrong here but I highly doubt LG will unlock the g3...they havent even provided an unlock for the g2 yet and thats been out for a long time now.

Hope I am wrong but doubt it sadly.

sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] ngray13:
I may be wrong but I think the lg g2 had the Loki exploit. I heard something on a different post that Loki did not work on the lg g3 and that the boot loader was patched, which really sucks.
[G3 General] steveria79:
I think for g3 international version open bootloader is a dream!all the dev and hard works in the last time no unlock, this is very hard
[G3 General] adiif1:
Same i donate!
[G3 General] zwenneke:
Would love to see support from your side. So I can finally do whatever the hell I want with my device.
[G3 General] nerdo:
That's pretty reassuring mate, though I was on impression Team Codefire was already on it!

Anyways great stuff, the more beautiful minds the merrier ;)

Off topic, is that you in avatar? always wondered what on earth do you have on your face?
[G3 General] Tankslappa:
Indeed! Lets keep the moaning in the direction of LG, and via their support routes (I've already started a conversation via their website asking technical details... At the moment I'm still trying to get past their 1st line numpty who replied to my initial query with "Do you mean being able to use any simm"... It's going to be a long journey!).

Too all the devs who are working on this (in their own time, as I expect they have real jobs and maybe even private/social lives), thanks so much for all the work you have put in on this, and other devices. You rock!

I'm sticking with my Nexus 4 for the time being. If a solution to the G3 issue comes up, then I might throw my money at LG, but the Nexus 6 might be revealed soon too, and at least with that you *know* it's going to be unlockable.

LG... Wake up, it's not 2010.
[G3 General] jbradt:
While I personally wish it wasn't the case, I can't say I blame them or the carriers. Take a look around the forums at all the people that bork their phones and then try to return/exchange them and claim they have no clue what happened. I'm sure there are plenty more that don't bother posting about it.
[G3 General] acparker18:
Yeah you're completely right. There's only roms for the T-Mobile G3 BECAUSE the bootloader is already unlocked. So we just shouldn't bother unlocking any of the other model's bootloaders because there's no roms available yet. But you need an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery to flash those roms, but that's right, don't bother because there no roms yet. See where I'm going with this? It's cyclical, a catch 22 really. You need one for the other and once a bootloader unlock is available,the roms can be easily made or ported. Think before you post please.
[G3 General] Jank4AU:
So how many Nexus owners bork their phones? Not nearly as many; therefore, if they followed that model they'd have even less returns. Just leave it unlocked and few people would screw it up trying unlock it...because you know are going to try.
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
If we had some kind of backup recovery if we did jack up our phone we would be able to fix it ourselves. Well we can fix it our selves but a custom recovery and backup would help so many of us out.
[G3 General] Tankslappa:
The great unwashed are trusted with the ability to flash the BIOS on a PC. I've yet to see a motherboard that wouldn't let you, and that's just as potentially dangerous.

Why can they not just take the method used by other manufacturers, provide an app or website that gives you an unlock code, but doing so invalidates you're warrantee. That way it's on your own head.

The cynic in me realises that when they give up supporting updates for the phone 18 months down the line, they don't want you installing the latest and greatest release on by using a custom ROM. With the spec of the G3, you wouldn't need a new phone for a long time.

Has the G3 even got 4.4.3 or 4.4.4 yet? That's exactly the reason I want it unlocked... If they're that bad with a phone when it's the current flag ship, you know how bad things will be when it isn't! Even more worrying, those two updates address serious security issues.
[G3 General] jaythenut:
Please don't consider it do it please it's killing us here :D

As you just jailbroke iPhone 6 show us some love :laugh:
[G3 General] HAvoktek:
Tru that....some of us know the magic you guys do..we just want to be included in the lovin' G3 is waiting...

---------- Post added at 07:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:52 AM ----------

Its troll bait....re links to a YouTube plug.. Lol..
[G3 General] ChrisM75:
The updates in 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 can be added to 4.4.2 without the need to update the entire OS. A number of OEMs are skipping the full OS update because its not necessary.
[G3 General] lossah:
Just to clarify. There is still no bounty thread for this up AND active? Why lock those threads instead of just removing the posts that's not relevant?

Make a thread where ppl only will be allowed to post amount donated, nothing more.
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
You can pm your donations to the op of those to threads. It would be a full time job deleting the nonsense on those threads. So I'm sure once there is any news they will reopen and add all the new donations. Nobody wants to get excited when they see something new on those threads just to see some unhappy owner is crying and selling his phone.
[G3 General] lossah:
Sadly it's only in Verizon and bla bla and I, together with probably everyone else with another carrier outside USA never visit those forums. :p
[G3 General] roughneckboren:
Look at jcase's twitter. He says he and beaups are making progress on g3 bootloader. I can't link because I don't tweet
[G3 General] tschmid:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TeamAndIRC/status/514152903011860481

Gesendet von meinem LG-D855 mit Tapatalk
[G3 General] Cuzz1369:
Here it is

For the lazy people. No more detail other than "progress"
[G3 General] bazalicious:
Yay, that's me!

Hopefully these guys get it unlocked :D
[G3 General] vestaviajag:
I'd def. pay $25 for an unlocked bootloader. I'd go and buy this phone THE minute this came out!
[G3 General] lossah:
Thanks! I'm not using Twitter. :P

Keep it up devs!
[G3 General] youngchaos:
Same thing. Just waiting them to buy the G3 :laugh:
[G3 General] sabret00the:
Someone should create a poll: Are you waiting for an unlocked bootloader to buy the G3

If it was yes by a thousand or so, you'd get the attention of LG Electronics.
[G3 General] youngchaos:
Let's do this!

Edit : done , vote please so we can show it on LG official facebook page.
[G3 General] bdogan1912:
Give me link so i can vote and call other friends whoones wants to vote!
[G3 General] youngchaos:
Here we go , vote when we have big numbers we send it to LG

http://xdaforums.com/lg-g3/general/waiting-unlocked-bootloader-buy-t2885351
[G3 General] bdogan1912:
Did. So http://www.change.org/p/lg-electron...lock-bootloader-in-lg-phones?lang=en-GB#share here is a petition that we need to get signed it. So come on people maybe they can hear us!
[G3 General] reas0n:
Please upvote my reddit post to make the bootloader problem more public:

http://pl.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2h8edy/support_the_petition_to_force_lg_to_release_the/
[G3 General] Cuzz1369:
It's cute that you guys are keeping busy while [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] and [MENTION=711482]beaups[/MENTION] unlock it. Personally I lay all my hopes and faith in them.
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
I'm happy everyone is doing their part. Can't hurt that we all get together on this. Even if it's just giving some people an out to complain to. Better we complain to LG than on the donation threads.
[G3 General] thznutz87:
Also [MENTION=1157052]thecubed[/MENTION] is working in it
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
I had a thought. What if we pooled enough money to buy one of these guys a g3 they could tinker with. Would that help out or do the devs working on it already all own this phone.
[G3 General] lossah:
http://xdaforums.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/bounty-lg-lg3-bootloader-unlock-t2819618 :D
[G3 General] strix75:
I am excited and I hope someone crack this beast open to freedom. I see before me CM 11 installed and running.

I hope this will come.
[G3 General] bmtdan:
No other g3 's have those things because are bootloaders are not unlocked... One has to come before the other.
[G3 General] wackygoose:
Yeah... lol
[G3 General] tabenf:
https://plus.google.com/102627130547921254073/posts/cugVGNLENRJ

Is this possible?
[G3 General] autoprime:
nope
[G3 General] oska3:
Why not :)
[G3 General] Skin1980:
that guy must post something else better then words. For me is scam but, if not, i'm pleased to eat my own words.
[G3 General] Mistertac:
If Auto said it's not possible I'd have to say... It's probably not possible.

He knows his sh%t

- Tapatalked from the G3 -
[G3 General] autoprime:
could be wrong and there may be rad things going on behind the scenes.. but it seems his focus is on recovery.. which would indicate we're only going to see a repeat of what's already been shown off in various posts on XDA..

example: the chinese fake flash recoveries or the leaked D855 temp twrp from team codefire/dees_troy.

i wish him the best and hope he surprises me though.
[G3 General] Skin1980:
me too but i don't think that will happen... i personally put in you my hopes
[G3 General] myredfast:
This post really made me LOL... It's been awhile, thanks!!
[G3 General] steveria79:
g 3 International unlock is a dream or?
[G3 General] nerdo:
Short answer is NO!
[G3 General] steveria79:
no?I think no on future by lg community is many people on work!
[G3 General] nerdo:
Didn't quite get what you are trying to say....

Anyways it's unlikely to see official boot loader unlock from LG in the near future BUT some capable devs are tinkering with this and hopefully will see something positive soon ;)
[G3 General] Troop4Christ:
Sign the petition

Looks like this may be our only hope to get LG to move on this.

Tweet it, share it on FB. I did so w/ the tag #unlockG3Now and tagged [MENTION=2731872]lgu[/MENTION]S and [MENTION=2731872]lgu[/MENTION]SAMobile

I also made it very clear that, as a home owner, if they don't unlock it, I will NEVER buy another LG product ever again. Not an AC, fridge, microwave, TV... NOTHING.

Get the word out: change.org / p / lg-electronics-seoul-we-would-like-to-get-the-opportunity-to-unlock-bootloader-in-lg-phones
[G3 General] Robin2:
Don't be ridiculous. Just because they won't let you install custom software, you want people to boycot an entire company that makes high quality and affordable hardware?
[G3 General] constantG:
Lets get this in perspective

How many different products from HTC/Sony/LG/Samsung etc have been released over the last decade with some sort of software/hardware protection methods and how many of them have had their protection overcome by the devs here. Put that number up against the number of these devices that have had the protection removed by the original manufacturer. I don't know the stats but I would say that the former has the higher ratio.

The problem we've got is that the devs are working on this but for how long. If they don't find a 'cure' what is the alternative? Staying with stock and modding like crazy or dipping your feet in dodgy flashing territory with semi working ROMs. I'm currently going down the modding route and TBH I'm pretty impressed with the outcome.

This is a great phone but the next one is only an upgrade away. Will I stick with LG? Maybe not, but what will be the alternative at the time of upgrade, will my next phone have a locked bootloader, S/On or some other bulls**t protection, who knows. We'll have to wait and see!
[G3 General] bugzy:
Honestly, this would be my last LG phone if they don't supply something as simply as a bootloader unlock.
[G3 General] twistedspace:
Hey guys LG hasn't turned into Samsung yet. Something These big south Korean phone companies just doesn't like freedom
[G3 General] tom13mcpherson:
A huge thanks to all the XDA devs and in particular the ones who persist with such a daunting challenge. I'm sure that its a matter of time either way but no-one should take for granted how frustrating, disappointing, and all-consuming this important work can be.
[G3 General] steveria79:
I tell lg support and the support say !

not official bootloader unlock for international lg g 3!!!

I hope all the devs work for a fast unlock!
[G3 General] MisterRio:
Stop thinking an LG supported bootloader unlock is going to happen. It's not going to happen.

LG confirmed this once more;

Yesterday I sent this e-mail to LG

Today, I received this answer. It doesn't get any clearer than this

I received another one from LG Benelux stating more or less the same

---------- Post added at 02:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:03 PM ----------

Do we have a 'general bootloader unlock status for non US T-mobile G3's' topic somewhere?

I find this highly unclear atm.
[G3 General] steveria79:
that I say yesterday!!

hope for fast work on xda !!!
[G3 General] Arjohns:
That makes no sense... One answer was it can't be unlocked. The other that it's not in current planning to be unlocked... So confusing.
[G3 General] force70:
The clear answer there reading between the lines from LG

"We aren't unlocking it so f-you basically"

sent from Canada via my Note 3, Note 2 or One X+
[G3 General] Jank4AU:
Do we really blame them? There must have been a record set with the number of retards who jacked up their G2's flashing stuff that wasn't meant for their phones and had to return it under warranty. That will have a major impact on these decisions about whether or not to unlock a bootloader.
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
True but for most of us were already Rooted. And have plenty of chances of ruining this thing. If they gave us an unlock and documented that we unlocked they could be off the hook. I think that it's a huge company and they have already made the decision and us few will never change all their minds. I've worked at semi large company's and getting anything done was impossible cause so many different opinions on the subject of change.
[G3 General] paratox:
maybe the whole dead displays after android 4.4 aosp port for the LG-G2 is one of their reasons for not unlocking it.
[G3 General] Arjohns:
Yes but according to the link you provided it was also happening on completely stock g2s as well. So that was clearly a hardware issue was it not? Which means that it was a fault of LG, and not custom roms.
[G3 General] shaarky:
FYI - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2890349

...very interesting reading, some observations etc.
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
Great news just knowing people are still interested in giving this phone some love.
[G3 General] Selim873:
This is pretty much a brand new phone, why would people NOT want to develop for this? I thought this phone would be SWARMING with developers right away. Hopefully this thing's bootloader will be unlocked soon so I can hopefully see MIUI v6. :P
[G3 General] Mistertac:
We've got our very own G3 Tweak Box mod, along with Themes an all sorts of things popping up.

T-Mobile is the only one with a true recovery and able to easily run AOSP Roms and that took quite some time as well. They have to build device trees and get everything working like Sound, SD Card, etc....

Having only one variant with the unlocked bootloader is why people think there's nothing going on with these phones because they come from Sammy or Nexus where development was through the roof. But keep in mind you had many more people across many more variants working on things... Because their bootloaders weren't locked.

Once our devs crack this phone and more people are working on Roms , Kernels and Mods across more variants things will take off!

- Tapatalked From The G3 -
[G3 General] Batfink33:
Even IF the bootloader gets unlocked, it will still take a few months to get Roms working on the G3,by then the G4 will be getting released.Remember the G2 was never unlocked. I'm not at all hopefull for an unlocked G3.
[G3 General] Mistertac:
Well what they're doing over on the TMobile side with AOSP Kernel and the device tree will pretty much take care of all the leg work so once this thing does get unlocked were close.

TheCubed already said this thing will get unlocked. Now if this was a locked down Sammy with Sha256 and Knox and all that BS then I'd say... No deal probably won't happen.

I understand where your coming from... Im just over on the thinking positive side.

If it doesn't pan out I'm leaving Verizon when I can and going with TMobile and a Nexus that's all.

The G3 is still a sick phone stock rooted, Debloated and with xposed so I'm happy.

- Tapatalked From The G3 -
[G3 General] kennypow3rs:
Dear baby Jesus,

If you're up there, could you please grant the power to someone who can find and create an unlock solution for my G3. I would really not like to sell this phone because I'm stuck with only LG Android version.

Love,

Kenny

PS, i really do try to go to church a couple times a month but I don't always make it. Hope you can see passed that.
[G3 General] digitallure:
LOL

you do realize Jesus is no longer a baby. He died as an adult (in human form mind you) LOL just an fyi :angel:
[G3 General] Mahapederdon:
9lb 6oz baby Jesus is the one we like to remember at trying times like a locked bootloader or a cancer diagnosis. Haha.
[G3 General] atrix4gtransamgta:
I was hoping for the same thing... but the Z3/Note 4 look reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly tempting right now. If something doesn't get done by the end of this month, i'm jumping ship.

JK lul i can never go back to samsung... or sony for that matter. had a z1s for a good 4 months, nothing. legit a week after selling it, bam towelroot was released. bootloader unlock, rom support.

moral of the story, it will get better, especially when you least expect it. at least being on tmobile, i have access to roms of some kind. not as varied as i might like, but way better than nothing at all. (thank you zone rom dev)
[G3 General] Upstreammiami:
https://www.change.org/p/lg-electro...opportunity-to-unlock-bootloader-in-lg-phones
[G3 General] kennypow3rs:
I'm looking into a Z3, I like Sony's minimalistic take on android along with the better screen, camera, and battery life. Sucky part is I won't get as much for this phone as the price is rapidly declining on swappa. If this bootloader isn't unlocked by end of October I'm selling it. I had such high hopes for this phone, LG even gave me a free battery and dock which is sweet deal. Too bad this phone was dead on arrival with little to no interest in devs hardcore supported this phone.
[G3 General] HAvoktek:
Hey dude, not to come at you sideways but if you feel the need to jump ship....make sure you go in feet first..These devs have lives and time is not ours to dictate to them. So ultimatums won't fly...You're either patient with what you got, or roll on. Hacking code especially put on by a manufacturer is not an overnight adventure, so have a little respect and consideration given that we've been spoiled into thinking that this is how it should be. Just my FYI while I sit in the shadows and live my life while watching to see if some rock star devs have the time and resources to crack this.
[G3 General] atrix4gtransamgta:
I certainly wasn't trying to come off as entitled or spoiled to any degree... but I guess I did it without realizing it.

Apologies for that. I tend not to think things through as much when I post later in the morning.

When I referred to "something not getting done" I meant LG, nor the folks at XDA. Hope this clears up any misconception.
[G3 General] HAvoktek:
It's all good bro' our eagerness gets at us sometimes....I am definitely guilty of it as well!
[G3 General] wvebert:
I keep reading that manufacturers won't unlock because only 1% of us want it, and they don't want to pay for damaged phones. But what percentage of that 1% actually screw them up?

I'm not saying it's up to LG to replace those phones, but that percentage can't be any different than actual warrantable defects, right?