yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
There's a tool "WindowsLGFirmwareExtract" around here somewhere.

Download a stock ROM from here or the latest stock firmware for your phone (use the extractor to build the system image) and extract the system part..

You can use ext2explore (sourceforge) to browse the image, in here navigate to /app and extract HiddenMenu.apk and .odex. Copy these to your /system/app folder (don't forget correct owner/permissions - not sure if you may have to run the apk in a file manager for it to install, dunno), then try again if it works or crashes.

In the latter case, you'd have to figure out what it depends on and get/install these packages as well.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
SnapPea is software like AirDroid?

You tried connecting with wi-fi instead of usb cable?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
You should be able to enter no matter you are on custom rom.

Which variant you have?

3845#*855# (for International model)

3845#*851# (for T-Mobile)

3845#*850# (fot AT&T)

5689#*990# (SPRINT G3)

Dial: ##228378 + send (VERIZON G3)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilx:
I have tried to disable OTA update by

Open LG Hidden Menu (3845#*851#) --> WLAN Test --> OTA Setting --> OFF

*Replace "851" with your devices model number, 850, 852, 855 etc...

But I still keep getting the Nag to update software. Do I need to do anything else?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Which update nags exactly?

If you turn off OTA but have an OTA update downloaded already, from what I know it will ask you to to install until you remove the cached download.

If an LG app update is offered, this is independent from OTAs. Settings for this can be changed in Settings -> About phone -> Update Center -> App Updates, I am not sure if you can disable it completely.

You can (backup first!) freeze/remove App Updater, Software Updater and Update Center. Like this you can't (re)install or update LG's own apps, but also won't receive any form of other update.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunnygoldfish:
Is any camera mod who can lgg3 record 1440p @60fps?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samuelaviv:
International and ive tried all the codes.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Please check (using some explorer, or adb shell) if you have /system/app/HiddenMenu.apk.

Check the G3 Index Thread.

Under the section MODs you should find at least two camera modifications.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samuelaviv:
Thanks, Im not a DEV though and this sounds a bit tricky, Ill try it if I dont find a simpler solution soon.

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Nope, no HiddenMenu.apk
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Flash this.

All it does is copy the hidden menu files to /system/app folder and set the correct permission.

You can verify this thing by opening the zip, navigating to META-INF\com\google\android and opening updater-script with a text editor - it only does what it says in there :)

Let me know if the hidden menu code works afterwards.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samuelaviv:
Thanks a lot for the effort but no go, I flashed it and tried the intl' version code,

nothing happens when I finish entering the code, if I press send itstill gives me the MMI error :( .
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Weird.

Are you on stock ROM or some custom?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecclesiastes:
Hey guys,

pretty new here. So a week or so back I bought a G3, pretty happy with it until I decided to root it. I accidentily deleted the download manager without back up, so now im unable to update or download any apps from the playstore... Does anyone have the apk to install this again? Im on D855 stock rom..

Thanks!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samuelaviv:
Custom, Carbon Rom.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Will upload it later
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilx:
Thanks for that, I think maybe it is the cached download. Where will I find this to delete it?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Check the Thread "PSA: No OTAs" in G3 -> General

Am on my phone right now and don't have the link handy.

Might also be linked in the first or second post here
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
Hey all,

Is it possible to use T-Mobile. USA version in Tawain and the Philippines?

I've looked for the answer and I think I know it already but I'm hoping I'm wrong.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Using with their SIM card or with your USA SIM card?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Here's the download manager from 10L.

Just flash through recovery.

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My most educated guess would be to look up the GSM/3G/LTE frequencies your intended provider uses, and compare them to the list of supported frequencies given on the LG homepage, at pdadb.net, or at a similar source.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
Thanks,

I will use either. If i have to buy one in Taiwan I will because I will need data connection mostly.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aszti713:
missing files

Hello!

Just got the G3 for 2 days and there are some problem that i don't understand. My photos dissapear from gallery app. I can see them in file manager and from PC, but gallery app dosent show them. Second thing is, music player app does not recognize music files. I tried to copy to the phone's music library and tried with lg pc suite to import them. They are on the phone, in filemanager they show up, but music player app cannot see the music files. Can somebody help me with any solution? I dont have sd card, using the phone memory.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thot Ctrl:
have you tried going into the 3-dot menu thing on the top right (sorry i dont know what it is called) and try the Hide/show album option to see if the folder has been hidden some how?

And I am not sure what is wrong with the music player. What type of song files are they? .mp3?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aszti713:
I tried it, theres no hide/show option. I know theres a feature to hide pictures and albums with a code lock, but i didnt use that. The music files are .mp3 and some .m4a (just a few m4a)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Do you have maybe .nomedia file in that folders?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thot Ctrl:
That's weird. Are you using a different ROM?

I am on stock and I do see an option to show or hide an album in the menu. It is right above the "settings" option for me.

I am sorry for not being able to help :(
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aszti713:
Im using the stock rom. I take a photo, it shows up in the gallery and after some hours it disappears, only can be see in the filemanager. Music the same. I beamed a track to this phone, set it to ringtone and some hours later the stock ringtone was in use, and the music disappeared.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kashif Hashmi:
I convert apps update into system app after this Google+ stop working.It shows "Unfortunately Google+ has stopped" how to fix it.

Sent from my LG-D855
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mangtas_666:
Hi is there a mod made yet for the mms limitation?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Which updates did you integrate exactly?

If Play Services, you are best off restoring some kind of backup, they really f*** things up, at least they did on mine...

Otherwise I would try to delete the app and reinstall it from Play Store into userspace, should work without a problem.

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MMS limitation?

Sorry I am not from the US and hardly use SMS, never MMS at all, so I don't know anything about it.

You most probably are better off looking through the general G3 index thread.

I can integrate it if you find something, though ;)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
I believe there is not.

Maybe some ASOP rom has it, but I would not know.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Now I have a question regarding Recovery and Windows drivers.

I can plug the phone in and it works.

But as soon as I enter recovery, Windows only shows an "other devices -> G3".

If I search for drivers, a get a big list to chose from, this is a small snippet.

Does anyone know which driver I have to chose exactly so Windows finds the phone in Recovery as well?

Thank you :)

Regards,

sub
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vagelis74:
Look here for lg drivers

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
I have them all installed, thank you.

But when selecting "I have a driver", navigating to the LG folder and opening the .inf file, I am offered 7 different LG interfaces, on each Windows claims that the driver was not written for my device:

- ADB Testing Interface x2

- Android Platform Sooner Single ADB Interface x2

- Android Sooner Single ADB Interface

- AndroidNet Sooner Single ADB Interface

- LGE Mobile Sooner Single ADB Interface

For ADB to work, I already had to select a driver as Windows would not chose it automatically.

This was LGE Mobile Sooner Single ADB Interface.

Edit: Got it, selecting LGE Mobile Sooner Single ADB Interface made ADB work.

Thank you anyway :)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vagelis74:
Uninstall all the drivers,after install only this[emoji4]
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheNetwork:
Is there any root for the latest AT&T firmware or am I SOL? (10f)

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Also, is there a way to fix the stock camera app with just root? I swear it takes over 15 seconds to take a picture sometimes if the subject is moving, even if it's focused perfectly fine. Fast picture taking my ass.

more edit: Stump brute confirmed working on D850 10f
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tom13mcpherson:
Can't download and cant transfer files from computer

I've been running AndroidNow 4 and 5 without any problems until yesterday

I can download and install through playstore, and I can download a file from an email.

What I can't do, is download a file from the internet or transfer anything from my computer to my phone (either internal sd or external sd).

I did a factory reset using twrp and it didn't fix it (I had thought that maybe I had installed an app that was causing a problem). I tried reverting to a previous backup and that didn't fix it.

I'd really like some help to know what is the cause and how to fix it because I am well and truly stumped.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
Did you remove Download Provider, by any chance?

"Downloads" is the app showing what you downloaded, but "Download Provider" is the actual downloader.

Although, if you can still install through Play, that should still be there.

That you can't transfer to/from phone stumps me as well, did not hear this before.

Maybe DelBoy has an idea.

Sorry and best of luck.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iBolski:
I'm new to this phone (coming from a Droid RAZR HD that had an unlocked bootloader via an exploit). I've been flashing custom ROMs since my LG Vortex days (then Droid X2, then RAZR MAXX and then the RAZR HD).

I just picked this phone up at Verizon and it wanted to download an update. I refused as I don't know what it might do to my ability to root and bump. Already know what it could do to block people from doing customization to their phones.

Currently, the phone is at the following version:

KVT49L.VS98510B

The update it tried to push was:

LG_VS985_10B_TO_11C.

Is this still rootable/bumpable or would I have to downgrade?

Also, is there an official Lollipop for the Verizon phone version yet or is it still on KK? From what I'm reading, if we take the official KK (if available for Verizon), then in order to root, I'd have to go back to the KK version, correct?

That is the other thing I want to know. If I take the software update I mentioned above, will it patch the phone and not allow me to downgrade? On the Motorola phones, you could only downgrade if your bootloader was unlocked. I know with this phone, the bootloader is not really "unlocked" but instead, using the bump technique, it acts as if it is, unless I misunderstood something in all the research and reading.

I just like to figure things out on my own first, and then ask questions if I can't find the answers.

Thanks!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tom13mcpherson:
Downloads is not in my app list, but I would have thought a factory reset would have gotten it and Download provider back.

Any more suggestions...?

I'm grateful for your help though :)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
You sghould check first post. There is a link with spreadsheet. You can check which version is supported by root methods

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hs0qlcGP80gl9wC0r9bs0AWMD-1D9iGgC9ulCG9roMs/edit#gid=0

There is no official Lollipop for Verizon.

You want to downgrade from Kitkat to Kitkat?

You will always be able to downgrade. It is not like on some other phones. You can always downgrade.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iBolski:
No, downgrade from LP to KK, but since there is no official LP at this time, it's a moot point.

Thanks!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Once it will get out you will be able to downgrade any time.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcamp504:
New To Vigor LG G3 wanting root

Hello, I just got an LG G3 vigor from Sprint and immediately looked to root. However i find now way to root this phone. Do any of you know how long it will be for a root to come. About for my device? Id rather not have it if i can not root.

Thanks
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Would not know as this is subforum for normal G3.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcamp504:
vigor

Is there a Vigor forum here?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
I think theres not. Only dedicated topic probably.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjjcb:
I've never tried overclocking, and I want to test out different speeds. I'm running BarRin, and I don't see an option to tweak the cpu.

Do you know if this has a noticeable difference on this device? Is this something I need to download an app to do? I don't want to pay for something if it's not going to make a difference anyway. Thanks.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
You can overclock up to 2.7 GHz.

Use TricksterMod to play with CPU settings.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpoocyMan:
Hi. How do i copy large files from my pc to sd over usb?

got a message telling me "device don't support that large files" or somting like that...

Plz help :p
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sourceavenger:
Rooted my LG G3 removed bloatware phone barely functions now HELP!

Hello guys I was told to write here regarding this,

I have ran into some rather severe complications of rooting my LG G3 and I don't know where to find the needed information to repair the damage done to my advices functionality.

Okay so to summarize what led to my phones current state I had to downgrade the firmware to vs98510b to root the phone. The downgrade and rooting went fine, however once I got root access I decided to remove a good portion of the bloatware software on the phone to try and increase performance and security. I used a root access level program to uninstall a total of 42 bloatware apps installed by LG and Verizon. After I rebooted the device I discovered that somehow the lg keyboard had been removed with the other bloatware, seeing as thats the only keyboard app installed by default I basically had no on screen keyboard at all in order to fix that I had to use bluetooth to send a keyboard apk to my phone to install.

After I finally got my keyboard back and functioning again I discovered that my phone was no longer being detected when plugged into my computer. on the phone it stated that I needed to install the USB drivers or plug and unplug the device back in to fix the issue, it would not get resolved by either method. So I looked more into what apps had been removed when I removed the bloatware and it looks like the file manager, keyboard and a few other apparently important bloatware had been removed.

If I connect the phone to the computer adb claims no device is connected, and if I boot the phone into download mode it never goes past 0% however it wont get detected by my computer itself at all. From what I have found so far it appears I need to flash the phone back to the complete stock state to get the bloatware reinstalled, however without a pc connection about 99% of the tutorials I have found cannot be used since it wont connect to the pc anymore. I am completly stuck and need advice and possibly a set of links to read on or guide to follow to repair the phone. Finally the last thing I noticed was the phone battery status cannot be detected through the android ui I have to actually use different battery monitoring software just to even know the correct charge level.

I look forward to yours alls response .

PS I have attached a copy of the list of the system apps running on my phone now if you note there is only 160 when before I removed the bloatware there was 202(so I removed 42 system apps). I do not know exactly what apps I removed as soon after when attempting to repair the damage I tries to do a complete factory reset but discovered the bloatware is not fixed in that method. From what I have found so far I need to flash the device with the stock rom from the phone itself without the computer since I cannot connect it to the computer anymore due to the bloatware removal.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
SD is formatted to FAT32?

FAT32 has 4GB limit size per file.

You have removed to much.

Do a factory reset or flash rom again and follow this with bloatware: [Debloat] Remove unwanted apps | make G3 faster
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sourceavenger:
Do you happen to have a guide for how to flash the stock rom back onto the phone for the LG G3. I can't seem to find any workable method that doesnt incorporate a pc usb connection. I dont really care about losing the data on the phone so I just need to get help regarding flashing the phone from the phone itself. Thanks for the help I look forward to your response.

PS I didnt flash any custom rom or modded rom onto the device so I just need to flash the vs98510b firmware back onto the device to reinstall all the bloatware.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
What about this or this?

Next time you can use ImproveG3 which lists which apps are safe to remove.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachukaki:
Hey i just bought my g3 i try it in haste to root it with towelroot i couldn't do it it said unsupported device...i buy the D855 version but i see there are alot of variables on this perticular device...how i can see which exacly device i have??thanks!

Its the software version and i have the 10I thats why towelroot didn't work...any special info about the software versions???incompatibilites etc etc???
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Read first post of this topic. You will find your answer.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sourceavenger:
SUCCESS!!!!

Well after a few days of what I can only describe as a nightmare I did manage to repair my phone back to a stock state, I even managed to get a customer rom on it called Ressurrection Mod!

Woot woot overcame my epicfail!!! :P

EDIT: In case anyone wants to know how I resolved the situation my fiances phone me and her got the same exact phones and models. When I rooted her phone last night the idea came to me to use a Nandroid backup from her phone to overwrite the data on my phone to restore all the bloatware. After doing so my phone is back to functioning correctly again! :). All I had to do was rename the backup from her phone to match the generated hash on my phone so that TWRP would recognize the backup!!!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bloodfart:
?

Dumbish question......

why aren't there any "Unified" roms to cover most models?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flemko1:
Hello.

Currently have Android L currently install on my LG G3 32gb D855 but i wish to go back to Kit-kat 4.4.2 and get the latest Software which is K, from LG PC SUITE
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jharone23:
Guys anyone having problem with facebook messenger after flashing v20a on your g3 d855?

Coz im having problems with my facebook messenger after flashing v20a on my g3, i cant call on fb messenger and it crashes.

Anyone who knows the solution? Tnx
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subworx:
From what I know the latest is 10N, the latest KDZ I have access to would be 10L.

Flashing is not done using LG PC Suite, but LG Tool 2014.

After flashing stock firmware, you will lose root and custom recovery plus all apps and settings.

This thread describes how to do the actual flashing.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Have you tried new firmware? For D855 is v20e available.

Wouldnt know for sure, but probably its not easy to port them.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GGL-Daz:
So most likely getting a G3 at xmas, some questions ;)

So I'm most likely getting a LG G3 for xmas (in UK so the D855). Was just wondering if I update lollipop straight away I would have to downgrade to KK to get root/rec etc. I am only asking this as I will most likely be flashing another rom/kernel onto it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DelBoy:
Yes, you will be able to downgrade to KK.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GGL-Daz:
Hmm, I didn't really ask the right question sorry, I know I can downgrade. What I'm really asking is since I am going to be flashing roms etc I may as well not update when I get the phone. So root/rev etc and then just to flash modified stock lollipop rom instead of just do a normal update since it brakes root/recovery?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] butthurtlocker:
d852 modem

Thanks for creating a noob friendly thread. Nothin worse than being a newbie and asking a question a bunch of developers scoff at, smhh. Anywho i'm wondering if anyone out there at all has a link to the D852 KK modem/baseband?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meyerweb:
Different versions have different hardware (e.g., different Bluetooth chipsets) and, I think, different partitioning. Including all those variations in one ROM is probably difficult.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scott M:
Lollipop Sloooowwwww

Am I just not giving this OS enough time to adjust to my phone.... or are there other issues.

In the last hour I updated to 5.0 when my phone notified me of the update. It went very smoothly but once it was all said and done that was the end of the smooth for me. I press home, it takes ages, I try to create a guest account, it takes ages, I press the menu button... you guessed it, it takes ages.

I've rebooted the phone twice now and I'm getting absolutely nowhere. Also, I noticed that the guest account isn't like the old guest account. The previous version was far better for my needs, in that I could choose exactly which apps were on the homepage and there was no access to ANY settings. I had confidence when handing over my phone.

With that in mind I'm thinking about downgrading back to the original OS which was flawless for my needs.

Am I the only person with these issues?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IJustWantToGetLollipopPls:
How do I get Lollipop on the LG G3 F400L?

I have the South-Korean model and I`m still stuck with KitKat. Is there a Lollipop version for F400L?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scott M:
Whatever you do, make sure you do a full backup of your phone so that you can roll back if you wish. I'm finding lollipop horrible.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogzhnpcmn:
Hello,

I saw at CouldyRom page that i should backup modem. But im already using CM 12 and didnt backed up while i was at stock. Should i do the backup now? and also why should i backup modem?

Thanks a lot, i look at it i know how to do that but couldnt find the reason.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalmeida94:
this topic is awesome... really thanks
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boxy52:
I tried asking this in a new thread before I saw this Q&A. I guess I'll quote myself here hoping someone can help! Thanks in advance.