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[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mistaliu:
Can anyone tell me what version Telus is on? I have a freedom (wind) one running N h83120a and I switched to public mobile (telus). Should I change my CSC to Telus? Would that give me a software update to their version of N or would I need to flash it myself?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] nash211:
Telus NRD90U Telus H83120a
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
That's the same build # and firmware version I have. I'm with Rogers and my phone was originally locked to Wind.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Canstone:
LG Stock Firmwares

lg-firmwares. com/lg-h831-firmwares

Wind(Freedom) is AVC, hope this helps.

Sorry can't post links
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] n01z:
Looks like you all are running into the same issues as the G4.. I'd ask ChainFire.. We got root.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChongoDroid:
I wonder what they mean by screen improvements. I enjoy the security bulletin updates tho.

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[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] batkinson001:
What is avc? My g5 was from wind, got it unlocked and now on virgin.

I haven't received an update since the one to go from marshmallow to nougat before I got my phone unlocked.

Update: my phone got the new update the other day.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Invisibrune:
Any updates on root for lg g5 h831 running Nougat?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ramsey:
I got a new update today on my Telus G5. v20b. It's a bit over 400mb and says something like "Screen (LCD, OLED, etc.) performance improvements".

I don't see nor feel any difference :( but it does have March 1, 2017 as security in software version.

I still have to use Twilight permanently to make the screen less blueish.

Edit: Actually, it could be a bit more responsive now to the touch. Quicker to react. I hope it's not placebo. I wasn't testing but it felt more responsive when swiping up and down quickly with my finger on the screen, then I started to test.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] RD274:
Still nothing for my Bell G5. Any chance I can flash a Telus or Rogers 20B on my 20A phone?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ramsey:
To answer your question, I really don't know. I've been using this phone non-rooted and as it is. When I get an update, I get one. If I don't get one, I don't play around with it.

You're not missing out on anything, so if I were you, I would wait.

The bug of setting the time to military time and then it reverts back to PM AM is still present.

The little lag that occurs sometimes when pulling down the notification bar is still there.

Android is still 7.0 instead of 7.1.x, not sure why they're not updating that. I don't know if it's Canadian carrier's fault or LG's.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] RD274:
Flashing rogers 20B on my phone was successful but I get this feeling it didn't full reset it and resolve my battery drain issues. Any suggestions for completely reseting and wiping my g5?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shreyu:
Any luck buddy??
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ilphrin:
Anything relatively easy to do with the dirty cow exploit has already been tried. You can check [MENTION=7479791]Honestly Annoying[/MENTION] history to see what he did. The real problem here is the lack of devs looking to unlock the h831. If there was enough interest, it would probably already unlocked but thats not the case. I don't even think theres one dev with the required knowledge that own our specific variant..
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shreyu:
So my guess is then, that's it for our beloved Canadian lg g5's.. No more root love, especially for those who are on nougat..
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] thalamix:
Hello!

Can you please describe how you flashed Roers 20B?

I did not found DLL for my H831 (native Rogers) to use LG UP method. Trying to OTA received "You product not registered yet" message.

Thanks!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kevotwo:
Has there been a update past March for this phone ?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kjwaugh:
Updates?

There have been a couple of updates out there - one or two in the states. I am expecting an update on our version possibly in the next week if it follows the usual pattern. I have no actual knowledge of any update for the 831H except that when you see it happening elsewhere it often flows through eventually to us. Raising Faint Hopes.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] nanaandoh:
what have the updates on the status contained? Just bug fixes and performance improvements?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] tetrahedonism:
It usually just says something to the effect of "bug fixes and performance improvements", and also comes with a security update. I don't think there's been an update since January for the H831 though, at least on Fido.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ahilliard:
Having intermittent mobile radio crap outs since upgrading to v20b (7.0 with March update). Every few hours zero service and a reboot required. Anyone else?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] NihanthK:
Can i manually update my LG G5 H831 to nougat using this file http://csmgdl.lgmobile.com/dn/downloader.dev?fileKey=FW93OK0A72NCARIEB187ZAM/H83120b_00_0309.kdz

I stay in india, so i am not getting the FOTA update.

Also will i lose the unlock ability of the Carrier. right now its unlocked.?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zigiz1:
No. You can manually update only from this site: lg-firmwares.com Find your model and original carrier (what was in Canada or USA) download and update.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] batkinson001:
How do I figure out which version works for my phone?

I took a look at the v20 h915 and there's several versions of firmware

https://lg-firmwares.com/lg-h915-firmwares/
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zigiz1:
1. Turn on phone

2. Dial *#546368#*831#

3. Go to SVC Menu

4. Go to Version Info

5. Go to SW Original Version; for me LGH831AT-00-V20b-BLM-CA-MAR-09-2017-ARB00

In this You see Your original carrier. For me is BLM
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] SickBeast:
Guys I have an H-831 from Koodo and it won't let me edit or delete my APNs. My wife's phone is running the Bell stock ROM and it does not have this same issue. How can I flash my phone to the Bell ROM? I have looked into LG UP but there is no DLL file for the H-831. If any of you guys have experience with this I would really appreciate some info. Otherwise if you know how to unlock my APN settings without re-flashing anything that would be even better. Thanks!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] rick.galbraith@gmail.com:
I got my G5 through MTS (now BellMTS). As per their former arrangement with Fido-Rogers, my SW Original version is LGH831AT-00-V20b-RGS-CA-MAR-09-2017-ARB00
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] seuth666:
how can i root my LG G5 H831 form koodo ?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] idontkn1:
Short answer is you can't.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] peteve:
anyone facing the same problem like me?

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn-krGRay_Q[/YOUTUBE]

Purchased from Koodo(Telus)
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
I have a G5 to Freedom and I don't have the LTE mode. I only have GSM/WCDMA auto.

When I had the phone to Fido I was able to see GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto.

Do you know how to enable the LTE?

Freedom is refarming the towers in order to support LTE band 4/7
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] cheeze.keyk:
did you tried accessing *#*#4636#*#* ?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
I tried that and does not work.

I also tried another code where I go to RAT selection and I choose as network mode the GSM/WCDMA/LTE

and I see "success" but at the end I still dont have the option enabled
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kibmcz:
Update WTF

Out of nowhere i suddenly got a update being offered.. i thought it was some sort of security update but things were fishy. The odd thing is its the V20B update I installed months ago via LG Bridge.

LG Bridge even says there is no update as well.

Any idea on this???

Edit: Still does it after full reset :(
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hardeepsaini91:
Same is happening on my phone. This update has security patch from March 2017. And some improvements for lcd. I am getting error installing this. Is anybody able to install this update?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] djparent:
I can confirm same error on mine. Seems to be a push for an update that was already installed months ago. It does not install but persists with update notifications. I'm on Sasktel, how about others? Maybe a carrier issue? Screenshot of current software below:
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kibmcz:
Once it fails to install go RIGHT in and disable update checking... that is all you can do for now.

I'm Sasktel too and it happened on my dads and mine.. we contacted Sasktel and well not will come out of it.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gmantablet:
2nd user account, HOW?

Guys,

I have a Fido LG G5 H831. My son asks to borrow my phone sometimes. I would like to add a guest account or a 2nd account so he can use the phone without us seeing each other's data. I don't see a user profile or avatar to access and add a 2nd account. LG chat were stumped and "promised to get back to me.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance for the help.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] recordman:
I think the multi-user or guest feature has been disabled on the G5. On the G3 when running stock does have the guest mode. It's really too bad the bootloader of the Canadian G5 is locked. LOS has great multi-user support.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] jephimax:
Does anyone know how to determine to what carrier from G5 was from? Got it used, though it is an H831 and already unlocked.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DzJoker:
i got new update today on my H831 V20c
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kjwaugh:
Yup almost a year since the last one

Jan 1 2018 security patch. Maybe some new config/order in settings.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ASicard:
I had also (Vidéotron). Secutity patch of January. About time, last one was March 2017!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DzJoker:
Yep it was a security patch of 1st January :/
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zed011:
Any ideas how to make H830 dll work with H831? Still trying to find a way to flash phone back to stock...

Nevermind uppercut works fine with LG UP 1.14
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] wondermel:
Darn, I was hoping it would be Oreo, but it looks like I'm downloading a huge security patch then?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThermoDyn:
Has anyone else noticed a rather severe battery fall off since installing the January Security update patch?

Almost immediately after installing my battery life turned to crap. I tried factory resetting last week and it doesn't seem to have improved things. I also have a new battery on the way just in case this one was getting old. (It's about a year old).

I don't seem to making any headway against it with the normal troubleshooting practices (BBS, GSAM, etc) to identify the source of drain.

There do seem to be some reports of battery issues with this patch on other phones - but don't see much about the G5. I just hope LG and Bell keep the support going. It was a long time between patches and no Oreo in sight anywhere it seems.

Bell - LG G5.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] cbpneuma:
Battery life had been on a downhill despite replacing the battery so I don't know if it's related to the new firmware.

That being said, the new firmware seems to be more memory intensive. The phone is now closing a lot of background apps including the home screen as a result. (Which almost never happens before despite playing games occasionally). The constantly redrawing of apps negatively impacts performance and potentially also battery life.

On a slightly unrelated note, uninstalling quickmemo+ helped recover about an hour of use time for me. For those interested look up "pm uninstall". YMMV. Do at your own risk

On Fido H831
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThermoDyn:
Good to know.

>On a slightly unrelated note, uninstalling quickmemo+ helped recover

>about an hour of use time for me. For those interested look up "pm uninstall".

>YMMV. Do at your own risk

Interesting - I will definitely be doing this as I never use that. There are a few other things I need to debloat as well.

Thanks!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThermoDyn:
I pm uninstalled a bunch of bloatware and also received a new battery.

Couple of things seemed to have been driving the battery drain including nextcloud and the CBC Olympics apps for some reason.

All better now though.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ruadus:
Hi guys,

I received the following update v20e-feb-02-2018, it says security update from google.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DzJoker:
[MENTION=4681930]ruadus[/MENTION] me too, i hope the battery drain will be fixed
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Walt69:
Fulmics ROM on Canadian H831's?

Sorry to jump in here guys.....Can we put Fulmics ROM on our Canadian H831's? Thanks
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] jimrfraser:
Nope.No root or custom recovery for our 2 year old phone lol what a joke
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThermoDyn:
My LG G5 on Bell updated to Oreo last night. Software Info Android Version 8.0.0, Security patch level Aug 1, 2018. Kernel 3.18.71
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ruadus:
Me too got an update this morning.

Is everything working fine for you, I have mobile data issue, can't connect.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThermoDyn:
No issues here at all. You might need to manually specify your AP though network settings.

https://apn-settings.com/canada/apn-settings-bell-mobility/
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ruadus:
The AP is already set, but I'm not in canada so it's not the ones you set me.

But strange that it doesn't work. Maybe I should do a full reset.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] qwahchees:
Welp, guess root ain't coming anytime soon, but heck, I'm Canadian and I want CFLumen!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hoiguen:
Why there are some sellers in Ebay say their LG H831s are factory unlocked? Is there something different from the situation you mentioned?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kjwaugh:
I think what you are seeing is the classic misunderstanding between Sim (or carrier) unlocked and Bootloader unlocked.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hoiguen:
So what does the seller mean?SIM unlocked or BL unlocked?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kjwaugh:
I think that you have very good question for the seller (I hope they can answer that). There are bound to be lots of questions about the phone, like what region or what carriers would this phone used in - what LTE bands would be needed/available etc. Canadian models are built and designed to work best with CDN providers naturally. An "unlocked" H831 would I assume be carrier unlocked because bootloader unlocking for this model (and many others) does not yet exist as far as I know - it's way too early for that - the phone has only been avail from official sources (in Canada) since April 8.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hoiguen:
What I want to confirm is that will a h831 is SIM unlocked? Because the seller said it's factory unlocked. I doubt that.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] futures:
It is indeed an issue, that I (my family) has experienced with a Note 2 and Note 3, and many others have discussed on the web. The issue mostly occurs when you have the screen on, display the same image / frames for a long period of time. The Note 2 has a burn in of a menu, I believe from a custom launcher that was left on, the Note 3 has an outline of an Alarm clock app that was left on every night for a long period of time.

From what I've read this is an inherent issue with AMOLED screen and supposedly not an issue with IPS LCD type screens. However, I wont be testing that on our LG G5s.. no more useless Alarm clock screen apps.

Cheers
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
Still nobody able to confirm that VoLTE works on the Rogers network?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] batkinson001:
I have a h831 and cant find the options you speak of... closest i found is force gpu rendering for 2d gpu hardware cceleration in apps. I wonder if they combined the options you have into one on mine...
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] qwahchees:
Under Developer Options, go to Force 2D GPU Rendering and Disable HW Composite or something like that.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
Anybody managed to get the G5 SIM unlocked? Looks like it's been an issue for some people.

Sent from my SM-G935W8 everything stock...
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] nabate79:
I've un locked the LG G5 using unlock.canadagsm successfully.

I had tried an ebay seller, however to success there.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
My usual go to is Cellunlocker.net but no dice, unlockunit.com was a but as well. Now I'm trying the one you recommend. Never had so much trouble unlocking a SIM. The most I've ever waited is 12 hours. Usually 2 hours and I have my code. Now 3 days in still no code. I actually sold the phone to someone and he can't even use it yet...

Sent from my SM-G935W8 everything stock...
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] cy88:
VoLTE works... At least there's a setting for it.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
Thanks for replying. I know there is a setting for VoLTE but the only way to know that it works is to make a phone call. If your data goes from LTE to 4G then it doesn't work. I have it enabled too. Still doesn't work though.

Sent from my SM-G935W8 everything stock...
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] cy88:
The fact that I can see LTE connected while making calls means it's working fine. Otherwise it would just drop to hspa.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
Awesome! Thanks.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] xda45:
I was able to get my G5 SIM unlocked from an Ebay seller, but he did message me that he couldn't get the code from the fast server and would need more time. It took him a day but unlock code worked perfectly.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
Thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting four days now. Nothing...
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
It worked. Thanks again. They're my new go to. Forget cellunlocker.net.[emoji3]
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] unibombz:
No root yet I take it?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
Not even a little.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] cdnsnOw:
Are you able to unlock the Canadian lg g5 bootloader
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] batkinson001:
Not yet. Read the thread.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] unibombz:
So there is no root, and the boot loader is locked as well? for the Canadian G5 (H831) ?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
I was lucky enough to win a new LG G5 when Wind Mobile launched it. I asked if I had to have a Wind account to use the phone and was told no. Mistake #1 - I should have clarified to find out if the phone was unlocked, but I didn't and just assumed it was. I have an active account with Rogers and tried using my SIM card from my current phone on the G5 and of course it asked for the code to use the SIM card. Mistake #2 - I contacted Rogers and they told me to just use random #'s until it asks for a PUK code which they could then give me. When I reached the max # of failed attempts the phone indicated that it's now permanently locked and cannot be locked! After a long back & forth with the 2 carriers, they suggested I contact LG customer service - very long and painful experience! After what seemed like forever dealing with them, they finally told me that the phone is now permanently locked to the original carrier I got it from (Wind Mobile) and not even LG can unlock it - apparently a security feature of the phone. So, after this long winded sob story, has anyone else had this experience and is the phone really unlockable now and I'm doomed to either stay with Wind if I want to use it, or am I stuck with a very expensive paper weight? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
I can't believe that Rogers told you to put in random numbers until you got yourself locked out. That has to be the worst advice ever. I would ask to speak to a manager and have that call reviewed. It's his fault. You could have gotten an unlock code for under 20$ and that would have been the end of it. Your only options at this point is either to talk Roger's into giving you a new phone (since it's their fault you locked yourself out) or go with wind.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
I was kinda hoping Rogers would have offered something to at least compensate me for what happened. At that point I was in no mood to argue or grovel. If I can get good service/reception with Wind I would go with them but from what I've heard they have terrible service right now.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] xZhongCheng:
Canadian celluar companies are the biggest thieves in the world. Over priced to max and they treat their customers horribly. I can't believe they would tell u to input random numbers till your phone locks out.

I recently bought a G5 off a guy on Kijiji and I love it. Much better than my OnePlus 2. The phone was currently locked to Rogers... and they said that unless the phone is owned for over 3 months, they will not allow you to unlock it.

Luckily for me, i was able to unlock it using cellunlocker.net. Only costed me 10 CAD =D

I honestly hope you can get your phone exchanged... sad to hear someone is missing the G5 experience thanks to horrible phone companies..
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
Worst part is I just bought the Asus Zenfone 2 a month before all this happened and I told my wife she can have it since I got the G5. So now she's still stuck with an ancient phone when there's a perfectly good phone not being used at home!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
Just got this email from Crackerz so looks like there is still hope of getting the phone unlocked:

"I just updated my unlock software and the G5 appears to be in the list, I should be able to perform a brute force unlock on it. Bring all of the cables that came with the phone.. especially the usb-c to USB cable."

Anyone else out there with similar experience or dealt with Crackerz?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
Got a call from Crackerz and apparently they've unlocked the phone! Will pick it up tomorrow and see for myself if it worked - fingers crossed!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] A-Gunn11:
Success! Unlocked!
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kjwaugh:
Saw a very sketchy Bootloader unlock method for 831 - looked incomplete and not very convincing. Hope it means something real but I am really suspicious.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] JF-GINO:
Where did you see this?

Do you have Links and sources?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] kjwaugh:
I won't post a troublesome link. I don't need the unnecessary feedback. I believe that the website is offering the wrong or misleading info. I used google. The instructions seem to assume that our phone (h831) has arrived with the bootloader unlocked - which we know is not correct. I am posting this notice to advise the unwary
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ahilliard:
Just got a H831, was locked to Wind but the unlock.canadagsm.ca code worked and I now have it running LTE speeds on Bell/Telus.

Weird thing is the software version is 10a, but the Stock Firmware thread says Rogers offers a 10d update to their users. Am I stuck with the Wind releases, or does the G5's world radio mean that any h831 software release should work across all carriers?