yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G4 General] Abort Retry Fail?:
More Arrow H815-SEA Oddities

I've noticed one thing in common among all the data posted by those Arrow device owners who gathered info from LG based on their IMEI numbers. The data elements that were returned all reveal that the Arrow devices have no firmware. The field <sw_version/> should contain something like "SEA_H81510B.KDZ," and the <sw_url/> field should contain a long url that you could simply copy and paste into your browser to access a download page with a link to your firmware KDZ file. These two fields are both empty in all the posts containing them. Not only are Arrow device owners unable to unlock their bootloaders at this time, but we have no firmware we can download from LG and flash if needed. (Yes, I know the phone must have firmware, but I'm just trying to make a point about these Arrow devices. My phone tells me I'm running V10d-SEA-XX.) I did find a link to SEA H81510B.KDZ posted by some user, but I suspect he is not one of the unfortunate owners of an Arrow H815.
[G4 General] brianmoyano:
[QRCODE][/QRCODE]

If it helps, i bought mine in Argentina and says this:

Original: OK

Model: LGH815AR

Color: VK

Serial number: ACTIVK

Provider: CTI

Provider Name: Claro

Network type: CTI

CSN number:

Stolen information: NOTKOREAN

Latest firmware: N

Download firmware: N (Doesn't give me a link)
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
Did someone that unlocked ever pm autoprime their imei?
[G4 General] Mangtas_666:
I emailed LG ( Singapore) about bootloader unlock, this is what they replied me....
[G4 General] glukinz:
"Unfortunately, your device(Singapore, (ARROW(SINGAPORE)) )does not support unlocking the bootloader"
[G4 General] Pterka:
Oh, great :(

only way is to pray that smbdy will release unofficial unlock :(

BTW, no answer on my email to LG Support...
[G4 General] cimbom:
"Unfortunately, your device(Singapore, (ARROW(SINGAPORE)) )does not support unlocking the bootloader"

Me to Do you have a solution to this kind
[G4 General] shiboby:
Is it possible that the reason some of us can't unlock is because we put on a different region's firmware? I know I put on the european rooted firm ware.
[G4 General] Pterka:
New phone, stock firmware, no flashing anything - unsupported.
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
Nist boight a raspberry pi 2. Gonna test to see if i can unlock when i gets here in a week. I think i wont be supported though but i am gonna hope
[G4 General] Pterka:
well, great... they technically CAN do it, but DON'T WANT TO...

recieved answer from LG (why some SEA could be and was unlocked and other couldn't):

Hello,

Unfortunately, unlocking the bootloader is not available on the LG H815 SEA.

Unlocking the bootloader for the H815 SEA was temporarily available only for internal use, but this doesn’t mean that the H815 SEA supports the bootloader unlock officially.

Currently, only the LG H815 (G4) for the European market supports unlocking the bootloader and we have no plan to support bootloader unlock on the H815 SEA.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience or confusion this might cause you.

Best Regards,

LG Developer site Team

it seems strange to me that "for internal use only" were worldwide individual SEA-phones.

Guys who unlocked, you were just very lucky, very :(
[G4 General] WTF?:
I realize this is a bit off-topic, but just to add to the knowledge base, I was able to unlock the bootloader on my G4 H815 - CZE version (Czechoslovakia) successfully using the LG unlock utility. :good:
[G4 General] boxa72:
Thx for getting back to us with that. Well all I can say is that they have lost a customer in me because of this and I buy flagships regularly and I will be steering everyone I know away from LG because of this decision. It is not based on customers needs, it's based on the fact that they still think they own the phone! For a lot of people like myself who bought online, now have zero way of flashing our proper regions firmware, to have the phone as optimized as possible for where we are in the world. I live in Australia and because I have TWN firmware I'm missing features that Aussie firmware has. It's not like everyone is going to start unlocking their bootloader, it's a small subset of power users that they have now lost as customers. End of rant lol ?
[G4 General] Pterka:
Read carefully LG V10 TWRP

near the end of first post - unlocking bootloader via OEM unlock in developers menu (settings menu).

Ahm... Is it so? As I understand from many posts in web V10 and G4 are very similar - smbdy tried OEM unlock in our phone?

/can't check for myself - phone left home, in other city/
[G4 General] shiboby:
if I understand correctly, you enable oem unlock in order to use the unlock bin that the manufacturer supplies you. nevertheless, i tried this, no success
[G4 General] r3al_0g:
That makes two of us.. I also e-mailed them about support for other versions not just the SEA version and i was told that there will be no support for no other appart from the euro G4. If they had made that publicly known from the beginning it wouldn't have been so bad. I've been a long fan of LG as I started with the LG P500 many moons ago but this will officially be my last.. Probably join the Nexus fan club lol (well if they make the next nexus then maybe)
[G4 General] tfat1000:
Am frustrated ,i want to unlock my h815 eu bootloader

I WANT TO UNLOCK MY H815 EU BOOTLOADER , I WANT FREEDOM ,I FEEL LIKE LOSING MY HEAD , I NEVER HAD A PHONE WITHOUT UNLOCKING THE BOOTLOADER ,NOW I FEEL TRAP , CAN ANYONE TELL ME SOMETHING PLEASE , I NEED TO UNLOCK IT , I WANT TO YELLLLLLLLLLLLL :eek::mad:
[G4 General] boxa72:
You're totally right! I also emailed them bcoz I come from Aussie I wanted to flash the correct Aussie firmware/modem, etc. They should have made this known bcoz I wouldn't have bought the phone otherwise, I would've gone back to the Galaxy S6 or maybe even a Note 5. Yup I'm joining the Nexus army myself next time and like you won't be buying an LG unless it's a Nexus. Just about everyone I know comes to me for phone recommendations before buying and I will 100% be steering them away from LG, which is a shame bcoz it's great hardware. OEM's have to recognize that when we spend close to $1000 on a phone we expect to own that phone totally and having a locked down bootloader even prevents us repurposing the phone when we move onto bigger and better things when these phones are outdated in just a few months time. I buy a flagship every 3 months and I'm sure a lot of others do too and this ridiculous decision from LG is eventually going to cost them dearly when everyone moves to Nexus devices bcoz of their petty limitations. I'm a dev but I haven't done ROM work or anything so I can only imagine how frustrating this would be for devs that wanted to build custom stuff and are expected to test it in an emulator which is utterly ridiculous!
[G4 General] daniel4653:
You can start by not using caps lock.
[G4 General] r3al_0g:
That's what i can't understand either, we pay so much for a phone we are not free to use. I was going to buy the Nexus 5x but because it got such poor reviews i said "hey the G4 and the 5x has same CPUs so development will be pretty fast" so i grabbed one online rushed to the lg dev site to get the disappointment of a lifetime.. I completely change my mind this is my last LG device nexus or not.. I like the note 5 but i can't do without my sdcard the none removable battery isn't so bad. Let's hope LG wakes up and allow the BL unlock for all G4s I'm sure sales would increase
[G4 General] WTF?:
here is a fairly complete list of the G4 variants (country codes) that are unlockable

xdaforums.com/g4/general/lg-g4-models-bootloader-unlockable-t3253750
[G4 General] boxa72:
I wish someone had of posted this before I bought mine!
[G4 General] WTF?:
just sell yours on ebay or swappa and get one of those, you probably can do it as a straight swap if your phone has been kept in mint condition! - 99% of G4 buyers do not know about or care about country codes!
[G4 General] boxa72:
When I bought this piece of s#it I thought to myself "I'll buy this, flash Cyanogen and I'll have the perfect phone". Great idea that never happened unfortunately
[G4 General] r3al_0g:
same plan i had. i like the phone a lot but its getting hard to look at because of this lol
[G4 General] boxa72:
It's funny how dirty u get on LG aye ? I'm filthy on them now!
[G4 General] shiboby:
if someone who managed to get their SEA variant unlocked could get me the unlock bin they go from LG, I can try to figure out what needs to be modified to unlock our phones. If I'm successful, I would certainly share it with the community
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
Cant unlock either arrow singpore error
[G4 General] Pterka:
Think you'd better search for users who reported positive unlocking their SEAs and write them in QMS.

They are already unlocked - they can not read this very topic - they're not interested in it already.
[G4 General] shiboby:
If I could get anyone's unlock file it could be useful
[G4 General] ABotelho23:
hyperfriend seems to be one of the users who got an SEA variant unlocked.

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=5511209

Also, donkanmcklaus

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=5056264
[G4 General] shiboby:
Already messaged them both, but got no response
[G4 General] ABotelho23:
Bleh :/
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
I love the lg g4 but having a locked bootloader sucks.
[G4 General] ABotelho23:
It really is a bootloader unlock away from being the best phone I've owned.
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
Yeah very true
[G4 General] boxa72:
Totally agree ? I love it but everytime I look at it I get this uncontrollable urge to hurt an LG employee bcoz of the locked bootloader lol
[G4 General] hyperfriend:
Check your PMs ;)
[G4 General] r3al_0g:
Really hope your idea work [MENTION=4676584]shiboby[/MENTION] you would be king of the G4 and well all with locked bootloader will praise you lol
[G4 General] subkm:
TWN...

Oh my god... Why they don't support Taiwan version....:(((((

REALLY want to use cm13... I can get use to this stock ROM
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
I already looked at a eu version users system including every partition on the phone before and after bootloader unlock. I also looked at the unlock.bin

I failed to figure it out. I hope you figure it out though
[G4 General] shiboby:
major thanks to hyperfriend! With work and thanksgiving, I may not get to it before Sunday, but will let you guys know as soon as I know something ;)
[G4 General] subkm:
What the heck

Few days ago, I emailed to the lg developers center to ask about my Taiwan version bootloader unlock and I got email like this.

안녕하세요,

LG G4에 대한 관심에 감사드립니다.

죄송하지만 현재 H815 유럽향 모델에 대해 부트로더 언락을 지원하고 있으며, 현재 H815 타이완 버전에 대한 지원 계획은 없습니다.

이용에 불편을 드려 죄송합니다.

감사합니다.

They say there's no plan to support Taiwan model and currently they just support European model.

And after I recieve this mail, I saw this thread and ask them again about South East Asian model(SEA) and I got reply today like this;

Hello,

We are sorry to inform you that currently we have no plan to support bootloader unlock on the LG H815 SEA.

If we add more devices, we will update that through LG Developer site.

Best Regards,

So if this thread is true(If they currently support SEA model to unlock the bootloader), That will be really ironic

Sorry for my horrible English.:silly:
[G4 General] Carl24:
Deleted!
[G4 General] reiko09:
Is that cm13?
[G4 General] Carl24:
MM Stock from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3232282
[G4 General] AzharYusri:
Already change IP address but still can't get through so how?
[G4 General] montrealguy:
I've been looking for you everywhere. You are the only person here who seems to have tried flashing an H815 stock rom onto an H815T. From your posts it seems to have turned out well and it worked perfectly! Did you manage to unlock the bootloader using the bootloader unlock tool after you installed the H815 rom? If so, you could easily flash the H815 Marshmallow!

Many of us with the H815T would like to do exactly that: convert out H815T into an H815. We'd lose a band or two, but it's not really a concern.

I created a thread for you to comment on: http://xdaforums.com/g4/help/people-flashed-h815t-h815-firmware-t3242529. Excited to hear back from you!!!
[G4 General] rirozizo:
What model do you have? What error does it give before and after trying a proxy?
[G4 General] reiko09:
so it is possible to unlock the H815 SEA variant then huh?
[G4 General] Carl24:
It was possible in October to do this for only 2 weeks...Someone posted a responsed from LG mentioning this. It wasn't supposed to be a public unlock, that's why they disabled it or something like that.
[G4 General] zaibrockstar:
Hi guys,

Can anyone please confirm if this still works ?
[G4 General] Medizinmann:
As the post directly before your post says...

It seems that official bootloader unlock for the SEA-Variant was a glitch in LGs system - a mistake(from their point of view) - and only available for a short time (two weeks apparently) and now it's over.

Greetings

Medizinmann
[G4 General] AzharYusri:
I got H815 SEA
[G4 General] atm1991:
I also have the H815 SEA.

With no VPN/public IP address: "Service Unavailable. Please contact the site administrator (developer@lge.com)."

Using Singapore VPN: "Unfortunately, your device(Singapore, (ARROW(SINGAPORE)) )does not support unlocking the bootloader."

Several users in another thread have received responses from LG claiming that the ability to unlock your SEA variant was an accident as it was being tested internally and was inadvertently exposed to the public via the unlocking site. Which makes it even worse in my opinion because they can reenable unlocking of this variant which has been confirmed to work literally with the flick of a switch.
[G4 General] rirozizo:
They can allow any variant with a flick of a switch ;)
[G4 General] atm1991:
Looks like you got the bootloader unlocked prior to them stopping it for SEA. Any chance you could flick me the files you received? Pm'ed you :)
[G4 General] Pterka:
any news?

guyz who asked for unlock.bin of already unlocked phones do you have any progress?
[G4 General] shigi1231:
Soo not yet working with H815 TWN variant :(
[G4 General] shiboby:
Not yet. I got one file but could use a second to compare with. It goes slower without a second. That combined with two jobs and a master thesis means this could take a while.
[G4 General] Pterka:
By the way, I'm not very close to subject but what if to take dump of already unlocked BL and then try to _fastboot flash bootloader *unlocked_bootloader_dump.bin*??
[G4 General] Bikey100:
Ix-Nay

No the LG site sates that it will only support unlocking the bootloader on the European variant of the H815. I tried with my SEA version.." H815 Singapore not supported". :crying::crying:

---------- Post added at 03:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:28 AM ----------

LG now only allows unlocking the bootloader of the H815 European variant. I tried the procedure with my Singapore version despite what the site says, and it refused to issue an unlock code. "H815 SEA (Singapore) not supported. I hate to be a Negative Nelly, but the reason LG will not allow most of their phones to have their bootloaders unlocked is because users may put in a custom ROM without the LG software/bloatware that comes with a stock phone.

It's as simple as that.
[G4 General] shigi1231:
every time i see this thread pop up, my heart beats quite unusual for a second lol
[G4 General] Pterka:
Idea #2

we all know command fastboot oem unlock but G4 writes unknown command so

maybe it's a way:

1. to find phone-based part of fastboot

2. find phone-based part of fastboot on, for expamle, Nexus

3. look in "2" for code of command oem unlock

4. insert this code in "1"

5. PROFIT!!..

?

Of course it's strange that first we have to get root (for editing phone part of fastboot), but for those, who want unlocked bl it will be not such a problem.
[G4 General] shiboby:
I'm not clear on what your proposing. Can you clarify?
[G4 General] Pterka:
Mmm, English is not my native, you see...

Well, as I know, Nexuses are unlocked via

1. adb reboot bootloader

2. fastboot oem unlock

3. profit.

If we try do this with G4 in command prompt it'll write "unknown command"

So, there is some phone-based part of code that work with fastboot commands. And I supposed that in that code procedure with name "oem unlock" just not written.

So If we find file wich store those fastboot procedures. Then compare it with "oem unlock"-ing Nexuses.

After that we could insert "oem unlock" procedure code (we pull it from mentioned Nexus f.e.), reboot in fastboot mode once more and G4 will unlock 'cause it will find code of "oem unlock" command in own file.

and when we send "fastboot oem unlock" command - our G4 will understand it.

Get it?
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
Would modifying the html on the bootloader unlock page on chrome allow bootloader unlocking. I wonder if they are limiting it in the html. Hm
[G4 General] Pterka:
asked a friend to look on unlocking page. As he said: after pressing "Confirm" there one check, could go over it, but then there is another check, which is leading somewhere else. And that check he couldn't pass.

Maybe smbdy else will be more lucky....
[G4 General] shiboby:
Still not quite sure what needs to be done, but willing to help however I can. What do go I need from me.
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
Interesting.
[G4 General] Shadicbypass:
I wonder what happens on the g4 when you delete the laf partition. Supposedly it should go into fastboot mode instead of download mode but i dont want to just delete my laf without being sure. Is there any way to make the phone boot to fastboot instead of download mode.
[G4 General] NingaR:
Why are they Doing this????
[G4 General] boxa72:
Yeah good question! It's not like the whole world is gonna all of a sudden wanna unlock their bootloaders. It's just power users so I don't see what the big deal is with letting us unlock something that we own!
[G4 General] jjhaohao:
Here, an idea: the deviceId is linked with IMEI? What if we change the IMEI of the H815 using QPST, the device ID changes too? Maybe we can change the imei, for the imei of an international G4, and then re-check the deviceID, maybe its regenerated and the bootloader can be unlocked via offical site. Other guess: the unlock.bin, its maybe generated using only the device id, and maybe lg uses only imei for version checking, so, anyone has tried putting any unlockable variant imei on the web unlocking tool, and non-unlockable device id, and see if that works? Maybe they have the device id stored in they servers and check it, buuut, maybe not. Sorry for my bad english.

Edit: Second option: not working, just googled and found an H815 imei, and tried using that imei and my device-id on the unlock tool, and i get the "Device ID is unmatched. Please check your Device ID. Your account will be locked if you enter the wrong Device ID more than 9 times." error. So, they have both numbers, or there is an algorithm that links the imei with the device id. We can still try the first option anyway.
[G4 General] core720:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
[G4 General] Diatomix98:
After reading the researches I found, I am really disappointed in very unfortunately getting a SEA device which its bootloader cannot be unlocked. Before buying it, I told myself that I am getting the H815 version instead of the dual-sim variants to have fun with the custom roms and kernels! On my very first day after getting this device(which is today), I was so excited doing research on how to unlock its bootloader since it's my first LG smartphone. When I type in the device id on the bootloader unlocking LG site, it said "Unfortunately this device cannot be unlocked blablabla", it was at this moment I knew I was FXXKED. Really feeling very helpless now, can anyone at least guide me how to root this device without unlocking it? :crying:
[G4 General] renguer0:
You can root but need to stay on Lollipop. Next time you can search what devices are unlockable before buying a crappy one... Or go for a more serious company.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] JacobAndrew07:
Hey everyone, I just picked up a Note 5 yesterday and love it so far. I have a Note Pro 12.2 already so I am familiar with most of its features. The only issue jm having is when I turn on notification reminders my phone goes off every minute, like I have a pending notification even though I don't. I went through the list of apps and turned every one to off and it still goes off every minute. Is there any way to figure out what app is causing this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Jacob11701:
Is the notification reminder that you turned off the one under accessibility?

Verizon Wireless Technician using Tapatalk on Note 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] JacobAndrew07:
Yes that's correct. That's also where I turned off all the apps individually.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfresh:
I understand there is model different, but could we just hard flash this leaked FTF file to our D6708 model?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_d8uWGbkaetbVNCUGFQbXI4N1k/view
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdudeman:
Try it and let us know. ;)
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfresh:
I had tried and phone won't boot:(

I think I need to change build.prop or unzip all tft file and port this to Z3V
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joy525d:
See Standard Battery Eater and get rid of it

First should

Open Task Manager (long press on the Start button.) Close any unneeded programs

Test to see if programs are open that need a lot of power, such as: antivirus, pedometer

The WLAN on your smartphone is a bad battery eater - turn it off but if you are not at home, for example.. This is also true for GPS & particularly Bluetooth.

Live Wallpaper also consume immensely on the battery. Even a high screen brightness consumed on the battery; You may in your A dropdown menu

tuning settings.

install or disable any apps you do not need or are double
[G Pad 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bethnesbitt:
Bricked my LG Gpad 7.0 pretty badly. Here are the steps I did

First I found the KDZ for a test version for the LGV410, worked but when I tried using Cygenmod root and recovery, the boot screen became washed out. Once the tablet booted up, the screen was okay, but the washed out boot screen was bugging me.

Next I went into fastboot mode and erased EVERYTHING.

Now I couldn't get anything to work, every time I tried flashing an .img via ubuntu, it would just reset.

Last, oops, I formatted the EMMC :( ya ya I know dumb.

Anyways, got my hands on the LG Smart Boot Diagnosis Tool, this appears to work, only if I had the correct rom, which by the way also is the same AP Chip ROM for the LG G Pad 10.1 (MSM8226 Snapdragon Qualcomm 400 Chipset)

So my question is, does anybody know how I can get this or do they have themselves. The directory structure looks like this:

View attachment 3518793

Help?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danielovich86:
Hi guys,

I think I hard bricked my zenfone 2... I successfully rooted it, opened bootloader , but when I tried to install TWRP recovery I chose the wrong image as it was TWRP_Z00A_v24 and it should have been TWRP_Z00A_V20 because my firmware was updated to 2.20.40.

I lost recovery...I cannot normal boot because the Asus splash screen keeps loading and never ends and I cannot use adb coomands because device is not detected.

Any idea will be much appreciated :(