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[G4 General] karendar:
Rogers and Videotron have the battery/SD promo, if you buy through them directly for a new line or contract renewal only. Telus' excuse for not having the promo is that they supply the leather and plastic backings inside the box. (Little white lie if you ask me)
[G4 General] bitbitbit:
[MENTION=2826966]karendar[/MENTION], here is the rar of the Rogers imgs https://www.dropbox.com/s/46qi55665b3stuk/img.rar?dl=0
[G4 General] Selig91:
Thanks for all the hard work in this thread, guys.

Does anyone have a succinct list of the steps for Bell? I read the entire thread but I am a little mixed up on the exact steps.
[G4 General] oxxshadow:
How are my fellow Canadians liking their G4? I was originally going for the S6 but changed my mind due to all the memory and RAM issues it has, plus bad battery life despite turbo charge. The only gripes I have with LG are its UI, how is it in day to day use on the G4? Is it laggy and slow like touchwiz? I am coming from a Nexus 4 so I am in love with Stock Android. Hopefully AOSP ROMS start coming in the near future. Also is the Canadian variant plagued with all the touchscreen issues I have been hearing about? How far along are we in terms of achieving root?

Thanks in advance.
[G4 General] Spudnubs:
Had a galaxy since the Telus s2 and never switched companies since. I've always hated touchwiz. Always went with open source stuff and liked it more. S6 came out and instantly I knew the only phone I could easily get here in Canada would be the g4 and I've owned it since day one, also gf bought one for herself. I've loved it ever since, no looking back. It was a welcome change to android for me. I haven't experienced anything negative. Phone is blazing fast. I can get it to lag if I'm trying to but day to day use is fluid. Also with root, which was easily obtained through the guide in the dev thread in under 5 minutes, battery life for me is better than I could have ever hoped for. Greenify and CPU sleeper keep my battery flat lining while the screen is off. I bought a tempered glass screen protector for it also which has been on since day one on both phones and neither of us has had any screen issues. Touch is responsive and there were no weird loco lines or whatever they were called that I can see. Love the phone.

Forgot to mention my one issue with the phone. The dpi was disgusting. Changed that to 540. Also edited the dual window functionality to enable all apps to be used with it as stock could only allow their ****ty apps only to be used with it. So stupid.
[G4 General] mrTGF:
Hey everyone, I've just jumped onto the LG G4 train from my old s4, it's a great phone, it's just unfortunate our booloader are locked, I wonder if anyone here could provide me the exact root commands for the Wind H812 version, I read on the main root thread that the commands differed on all the Canadian variants, would love to run adaway amongst other root apps to regain some control over this beast!!!
[G4 General] oxxshadow:
Thanks for your input! Right now where is the best place to pickup a G4? Kijiji?
[G4 General] sharky2010:
rooted my rogers g4, so awesome. Thanks for all the hard work!
[G4 General] Spudnubs:
My so renewed hers with a contract and I bought mine from them so I own it. We got them the day they came out so the Telus store was really our only option. Right now though I would say kijiji is a pretty good place. I see them for 5-6 hundred where as they are 900 at the store
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Hey guys. I just got my G4 yesterday and my phone refuses to detect my sd card. I have two of them formatted one in exfat and one in fat32. I've done a factory reset and still no dice. Any ideas?
[G4 General] force70:
I thought this was fixed on LP but did you try the sd card fix from the play store?

Sent from my Nexus 6 or Note 4
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Hey Force70, fancy meeting you here :D The problem is not that I'm not able to store things on my sd card. It's that the phone does not detect it at all. No matter what format I use. Does SD card fix make your phone detect your SD card?
[G4 General] chriskwarren:
Humm....are you saying that T-Booth is giving away accessories with the G4? Or is this something that all carriers might have?

I am buying my device outright, and was planning on going to a Bell store to pick it up. If T-Booth will sell me one outright and are the only ones offering up accessories, I might be tempted to make the drive out to one of their stores instead.
[G4 General] antoniro:
At Vidéotron, they are giving an extra battery, charger and a 32GB SDcard!!!

I'm at my job right now. Heading there as soon as I finish :)
[G4 General] HighTowerDV:
Once you get over the excitement of your new LG G4 please let the rest of us know if you have any touchscreen issues on the Canadian model. I wanna wait to hear from some new Canadian owners before going to pick one up. It is killing me a bit to wait

Thanks
[G4 General] AegisValour:
Wireless Wave also offers the bundle

However, I feel like you can only get the bundle when you get a contract plan, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also does anyone know for sure that the all models of the G4 are the same. Meaning I can buy one outright from Rogers/Bell and once it has been unlocked it will work with WIND.
[G4 General] GibMcFragger:
Good luck everyone! Apparently supply is low, and a lot of stores won't be getting stock today.

I already got a call from my Costco guy, he put one in hold for me. $75 Costco card free with the G4 also, sweet!
[G4 General] Eternith:
Is the Costco one unlocked/outright or under a carrier contract?

Apparently Wind has a sale for $50 off, not sure how long it will last. Can't link to it because I don't have enough posts here yet though.
[G4 General] HighTowerDV:
I don't think Costco sells unlocked phones so my guess is no (the only exception would be Google's Nexus phones). The wind deal is pretty sweet in terms of costs (outright for $650 or $600 with this sale on) as opposed to the S6 at $750.

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LG Canada only has one model for all Canadian carriers which is the H812. I assume the HW is compatible with all the carriers and they have different baseband software to turn off the cellular bands. For e.g. the Wind mobile device will not search any LTE frequencies and the Bell, Telus and Rogers will not search for HSPA Band 4 (AWS / 1700/ 2100) band. Need to see some labels from the retail boxes to tell what they have installed. Can anyone post the label from their retail box?

I saw some 815 models which had all the bands specified that it supported. It would be sweet if the phone did have all bands enabled and just left it to the SIM installed.
[G4 General] spartan268:
Anybody pick one up yet? I'm curious to know cause I'm seeing some good promotions from it. Wind has the $50 off, and rogers has the battery bundle. Looks like no case is included though which sucks, and it appears to be online/phone only which is stupid.
[G4 General] AegisValour:
Hm, I assumed that all CDN models were the same H812, but it states that the Rogers one has VoLTE. Meaning is this the same hardware wise or is the VoLTE a software / network related function.

I never considered that Bell / Rogers would disable the HSPA as previous devices I have bought once unlocked worked on WIND, but I suppose it's possible like how WIND has disabled LTE on their devices.

It seems like the 'safest' bet is to either buy from WIND with 50$ off deal or wait until someone unlocks a Rogers / Bell model and see if it works on WIND.

The accessory bundle really seemed like an incentive to buy and unlock though, but I'm not sure it out weighs the unlocking fee plus the WIND discount. :confused:

Anyone know the price of the battery and charger and good sites to unlock a phone?
[G4 General] spartan268:
It's apparently including a 32GB MicroSD Card, 3000mAh Battery and a Battery Charging Cradle. Which is a $130 value

Which is pure inflated BS.
[G4 General] chriskwarren:
Got my G4 today at Bell. I can verify the following:

1 . the first phone presented to me had a small mark at the top left of the screen. The 2nd one did not. Be sure to inspect the screen before leaving the store, with the factory screen protector off

2. Bell has the free accessory bundle only for corp clients. Not for regular users.

3. Box included black leather and plastic cover

4. I never purchased the quick circle cover, but they had stock

5. I purchased the last one the store had at noon. Sold quickly.

6. Used the multitouch test software and all screen taps and swipes register normally so far.

7. I was eligible for the 100gb Google drive promotion. Added to my acct successfully

8. I don't see any evidence of fm tuner being available.
[G4 General] HighTowerDV:
I think VOLTE is a software feature on phones since they are in theory packetizing voice and sending it over the same connection as your data pipe (very simplified description). And it is definitely a network feature as the carriers have to implement more protocols on their end (google IP Mulitmedia Subsystem or IMS) to get it to work
[G4 General] HideYoKids:
Cost on the Cradle/Battery/MicroSD is $79 at Wireless Wave.
[G4 General] HighTowerDV:
Just checked out the G4 at the Rogers store

Model number is H812

Software version is H81210c

Didn't try out too much else but the screen seemed responsive and didn't miss any taps. THe device was in demo mode so it was a bit annoying as the display wouldn't go to sleep.
[G4 General] chriskwarren:
I have noticed as the night moves on that I miss a tap if typing quickly. Running 210c as well on Bell.
[G4 General] WorldIRC:
Probably a dealer promotion; definitely not a Bell policy to have accessory bundles specifically for CORP clients.
[G4 General] brownk2j:
Would also be very interested in finding out if the WIND edition of the G4 could easily be tweaked to enable LTE.

Additionally, a full list of the bands covered by the LG G4 812/CDN edition would be awesome to have---I can't seem to find this info anywhere :/
[G4 General] AegisValour:
From my experience, WIND phones that use a general CDN model like the G4 / Note 4 / S6 will all be usable else where unlocked. However, it will not search for LTE via software disabling. Although I'm not sure if it could 'tweaked' on the G4.

On my previous WIND Note 4, it could not be tweaked and I believe the only solution was to flash another ROM.

I also had a Bell S6 that once unlocked worked fine with WIND as I think they don't disable anything.
[G4 General] HighTowerDV:
There is this thread that talks about enabling different bands via software here. It is for the International version with an unlocked boot loader but it would work on these models as well once you can unlock the bootloader and get to the Diag USB interface on the device. All Qualcomm chips have this capability as this is how Qualcomm and integrators (like LG) test and debug the chipset at the radio and protocol level. I assume the other ROMs just enabled those bands via software.

http://xdaforums.com/g4/general/guide-enabling-lte-bands-t3137818

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I saw on an android central forum that the bands for hte models were listed on the label on the box of hte phone. At least for the international model. That would be a good start if someone took a picture of that label on their G4 box.

See this example http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g4/527756-lg-g4-models-cellular-frequencies.html#post4450213
[G4 General] rgs2:
Just picked up one at the Telus store. There's a $100 promotion going on this weekend with Telus and probably the other carriers. May last till the end of the month but the Telus rep said definitely today and tomorrow. On contract it's just $100 instead of $200.
[G4 General] force70:
Yeah i still have alot of interest in LG devices... G4 pro may be my next buy since sammy killed the note 5 looks like.

I remember needing to use that app on KK when i had a card in my device and it didnt even see it. It could be a hardware issue i guess but that's the first time ive read about it if it is (doesn't mean its not possible lol). Install it and see if it helps?

How do you like the device other than the sd issue?

Sent from my Nexus 6 or Note 4
[G4 General] Eagle1337:
it's odd that sd support flat out died after root usually it's just exfat support that dies.
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Yeah it does look like hardware to me.

Other than that I'm liking it. After my s6 edge I didn't want to go back to phablet size but this is a good compromise.

There are a couple of things that are a bit off like when I'm typing sometimes the first letter of a word does not register. I guess it has to do with the touch screen issue.

The Bluetooth is better than both the note 4 and the s6 edge. I have beats wireless headphones and every time I put the phone on my right it got choppy. Thought it was bad headphones turns out it was Samsung. Also I can finally see meta data on my car radio.

Overall solid phone. Can't complain but to be honest I just got it to fill the void until the moto X pure comes out, then back to nexus. I don't think I'll be going back to Samsung anytime soon. At least not as my DD that's for sure.

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I have 2 SD cards one exfat and one fat32 it doesn't read either.
[G4 General] force70:
sent from Canada via my Nexus 6, Note 4, 3, 2 or S3
[G4 General] rgs2:
So do I understand correctly that after rooting, when LG releases 5.1.1 or Android M, to obtain that update we would have to either put the original system image back on or wait till a rooted version of the update became available?
[G4 General] DLM2583:
I just read that the lg g4 international 815 came with beats headphones..... Wtf is it just me or did we get ripped off
[G4 General] karendar:
Did you root already? Or is this OOTB?

If it's OOTB, it's most likely a hardware defect. Don't take too much time trying to fix it, return it ASAP...

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We did get ripped off, but I knew about this going into this. Rogers/Vidéotron got the battery/charger kit, international got the beats headphones + Unlockable, US got kits all around...
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Thanks. I'm on it. Called LG already and they're being dicks asking me for a receipt and ****. Got it off of a friend who got it after doing that trial thing. So he's handling it for me. I thought Samsung had bad customer service sheesh!
[G4 General] spartan268:
Returning just about anything in life would require a receipt...
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
No one said anything about returning. We're talking about repair under warranty. I've had my s5 and s6 repaired, my nexus seven, to name a few and I was never asked for a receipt. As long as it's under warranty samsung doesn't ask you for a receipt.
[G4 General] AegisValour:
When I emailed LG that told to go through my carrier. Samsung never asked me for a receipt just told me to through the carrier or they'll send me an address to ship it.
[G4 General] maddog497:
My sim card reader failed on my G3 just before the G4 released. I was not the original owner. When I first contacted LG via email in regards to fixing it they responded with a generic response and gave me a contact number.

I called it and at first was advised the repair would be $149 plus taxes and I was responsible for shipping one way.

I questioned her about the phone being released less than one year ago, and thought it might be covered under the one year warranty?

I was put on hold and when she came back on she stated the repair would be covered but I was responsible for shipping the phone to their repair center.

I shipped it out and had it back in 7 days.

Maybe I was just fortunate but I thought it should be covered under warranty regardless if I was the original owner.
[G4 General] LarryChen21264:
I couldn't find the WIND Image for download yet, has it been uploaded yet? (Which command would we use to flash it?)

Thanks so much!
[G4 General] bluezz:
I bought an unlocked LG G4 from kijiji. It works great with my Koodo but I don't know which carrier was the phone originally locked to.

Hardware info says "H812" but from some quick search, Rogers, Bell, Telus etc. are all H812 variants. Right? Any easy way to find out so I can try rooting this beast?
[G4 General] bitbitbit:
The WIND image is here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=36289

I believe the command is the same as all other Canadian variants but you better search again before you do it (I think it's mentioned earlier in the thread)
[G4 General] okovacevic2011:
I'm assuming it's the same line for WIND also...
[G4 General] bitbitbit:
Try going to http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/csmg/b2c/client/auth_model_check2.jsp?esn=YourIMEIGoesHere (remember to change the last part to your IMEI) When I go there, it shows "RGS" under Buyer (and I got my phone from Rogers). I am not 100% sure if that's what the Buyer field means but give it a try. You can find out for sure from reading build.prop but I don't know if you can read that without root.

BTW, there is no carrier software on the phone at all?

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Looks like it. See http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62099698&postcount=297
[G4 General] miladio2:
Hi guys. Unfortunately I have forgotten my pattern password. I tried to hard factory reset but i couldn't go to resrt mode. I pressed power and vol down together and when i watched the logo realesed the power button and pressed it again, it doesn't work. What should i do?

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Now i could hard reset my device. But unfortunately even after hard reset the phone wants my email and i have forgotten my email. Im really confused. Can anybody help me?
[G4 General] bluezz:
Thanks for your reply. I too was surprised that there was no carrier apps on the phone at all!

I see "AVC" under buyer. Any idea which carrier might have the code AVC? Videotron maybe?

EDIT : YES! AVC = Videotron!

<response req_cmd="auth_model_check" status="OK">
<auth_model_check>
<result>2</result>
<esn>3598030*******</esn>
<model>LGH812</model>
<suffix>AAVCLK</suffix>
<msn>506KPPB006***</msn>
<esn_date/>
<sw_version/>
<sw_url/>
<sw_locale_url/>
<sw_recommand_uri/>
<app_version/>
<app_url/>
<cs_em_flag>N</cs_em_flag>
<cs_em_uri>N</cs_em_uri>
<chip_type/>
<prod_type/>
<buyer>AVC</buyer>
<file_name/>
</auth_model_check>
</response>
[G4 General] maddog497:
If you can't remember your password and then you can't remember your email, I'm going to say what everyone else is thinking. It most likely isn't your phone.

If it is your phone don't buy another smart phone until you are smarter than the phone. Either that or get an iPhone.

Sorry but this has stolen phone written all over it.
[G4 General] miladio2:
Come on man. The phone is for my brother and he is just 10 years old. Thats why he has forgotten password and email.
[G4 General] karendar:
There is always a way to recover the phone... If he doesn't remember his gmail password or gmail account info, then I don't think anyone here will feel comfortable to help someone gain access to a phone.

I suggest you go through Google for this, not this forum... Sorry.

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Hey everyone,

I've been away for a while... So I didn't get back to everyone concerning the dumps I asked for.

Thanks to everyone who did dump their modem! I did a comparison between telus, Bell and Rogers modems and the verdict is that there are differences between each modem images. This leads me to believe that it might be necessary to flash these modems to be able to fully convert a phone from one carrier to another.

As soon as I have more time, I'll upload the different modem sets that I already received to their respective folders for everyone.

I'm currently running the V10c Bell ROM on my Telus LG G4... I get some crashes once in a while, but it does work.

The only thing I would NOT recommend to flash (If anyone is tempted to) is the boot.img (Kernel), as doing this would most likely cause a security error and render the phone unusable.

So... That's it! Now the wait for bootloader unlock begins... :)
[G4 General] miladio2:
Guaranty service solved my problem easily. I think here people only like to accusation, Im really sorry for these people.
[G4 General] karendar:
Well good for you if it was fixed.

People don't accuse, but are wary, as many people do attempt to use these forums as a way to unlock phones that aren't theirs. If you don't understand that, then I'm sorry for you as well. No offense!
[G4 General] bitbitbit:
Considering all the modem images came out at the same time, I don't suppose flashing a modem image from another carrier will improve the reception, right? The reception on my Rogers G4 is horrible. I was using a Nexus 5 on Virgin and that was a lot better. Not sure if it was the phone or the network. :(
[G4 General] karendar:
Rogers G4 on which network? Personally, I'm running the Telus modem on a Fido SIM and I get amazing reception... Better than my Nexus 5 ever did.

I haven't done any testing yet, but there's a possibility it might help.
[G4 General] bitbitbit:
On Rogers. Perhaps I should look into it when I have time. The chance of the phone bricking when flashing modem img is pretty low, right?
[G4 General] AegisValour:
Does anyone know any trusted sites that can unlock my G4 from WIND?

Speaking of WIND does anyone know if it has disabled LTE bands and would there be possible way of getting it enabled without BL unlock?
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Hey Guys I'm trying to root my phone using the low effort method and I did everything up to step 7 where you run commands. I inserted this command

dd if=/data/media/0/system.rooted.telus.v10b.img bs=8192 seek=65536 count=548352 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0

I found it on that thread I just substituted the rogers for telus since it's a telus phone (unlocked for my rogers sim). When I ran the command nothing happened. Did I miss a step? Is it the wrong command?

Thanks in advance.
[G4 General] karendar:
So the system image is on the sd card? And the filename is case sensitive, very important.

Are you using the right diag com port?

What was written when you typed id?

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There's a risk, because if you need to recover from bootloader for any reason, you might need to figure out the proper command through there.

Also, you'd need to flash modem, rpm and tz... And keep a copy of the original ones on hand just in case.
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Yes the system (rooted) image is on the sd card. I believe that was step 4. The filename being case sensitive might even the issue as I'm not sure what you are referring to. Where would the filename be in the command? Yes I'm positive I have the right port. 41 in my case.

Thank you.
[G4 General] karendar:
When you type in the dd command, there's a difference if your filename on the sdcard is system.rooted.img or System.Rooted.IMG. The command has to refer to the exact case sensitive filename for it to work.

Also, you're doing this from download mode, correct?
[G4 General] mrnovanova:
Thanks a million Karendar. Your first reply made me go back and look at both the command and the actual file. The command had v.10b and the file had no v. I simply removed the v from the command to be identical to the file name and it worked like a charm.

Thanks again.
[G4 General] mickliq:
FYI, if anyone is looking for an unlocked H815 (SEA version) with leather back located in Canada, please PM me.
[G4 General] Tiexemius:
Is there a guide for rooting the Bell version?, this is my first non Nexus device
[G4 General] okovacevic2011:
Answered my own question....Deleted the original msg :)