[Sprint LG G3] engine95:
V3 along with my ramblings

V3 is up in the OP.

Clean install highly recommended. SuperSU is installed a different way. I'm guessing because of "L".

Make sure to read the changelog. My rambling is optional. :silly:

MAKE SURE YOU DISABLE ANY "SET ON BOOT OPTIONS" IN TRICKSTER/FAUX!! Right now this is a stockish kernel.

We've decided to go the route of supporting MultiRom. So V3 has a stock ZV6 kernel with kexec support. Skin1980 built it from Tectas/Rin source and I modified it for init.d support.

BarRin will only install as Primary ROM. It turns out MultiRom can't handle Rom's this large. If you don't believe me try it and see what it says. :p

You can also run BarRin V3 as a standalone Rom. Meaning you don't have to use MultiROM. But it's ready if/when you decide to.

Just some of my ramblings….I’m due.

SuperSU, Root, L

As near as I can tell, SuperSU is having a lot of issues with “L” and backwards compatibility. Meaning it needs to install differently than in the past. I had to go through a lot to get it to install correctly so we didn’t have to keep updating binaries. The other option is to install SuperSU on each install. But we shouldn’t have to now.

With ZV7 and now ZV8 still showing us as getting 4.4.2, I really don’t see us getting “L” anytime soon. Given LG/Sprint’s track record with the OG, and G2, they let these 2 awesome phones die an early death. Hell, the Samsung Galaxy III has 4.4.4 and its specs don’t even come close to either of these older phones.

Personally, and again, given LG/Sprint track record, they’ll probably kill the G3 at 4.4.2. IF we are lucky enough to get “L”, I don’t think it’ll be til summer.

Another thing I’m seeing is we still don’t have root for ZV6. What makes us think we’ll have it for ZV7, ZV8? Or if we luck out and get “L.” We got lucky to even be able to work with ZV6 thanks to autoprime. I’m pretty sure Sprint/LG will fix those mistakes on their future releases.

TEAM Codefire did us a great service giving us root/unlock for ZV4. But things have changed since then and they’ve moved on to better things.

MultiRom

I’m just learning how to use this, and I’m really liking it. I think it’s going to become something we are going to need/use a lot. That’s why BarRin is going to go in this direction. To support MultiRom.

We’re using a stock ZV6 kexec kernel so it’ll be compatible with it and hopefully we can work out the kinks so that Rin can be used in the future.

BarRin will only run as the Primary Rom, as it is too large for Multiboot to handle. So install this just like normal, and your other roms install through MultRom.

BarRin’s future

So with all that said, I think we’re going to have more time than we wanted to improve on the Stock look of ZV6 and try to move away from xposed. I actually notice a speed improvement by not using xposed. But that gawd awful Messaging app color!!

We’ve actually spent a lot of time trying to decompile/recompile apk’s, but LG has done some screwy stuff to them. Wonder why there are so few themes for us? There ya go.

The major ones as far as I know, are the Messaging app, SystemUI, and Settings apk’s.

So look for appearance changes in future BarRin releases. I can hope at least.

If you’ve read my little tirade, thanks. If you didn’t, you might have missed some good points. I do make those on occasion. lol

Thanks everybody!!