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[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] BenG7:
Hi

can anyone help please

Just got my phone, un locked the bootloader, flashed twrp, flashed supersu 2.85, then flashed latest lineage (1212) (got an error 7 the first ime so did a factory reset and then could flash lineage ok) and I am stuck on the lineage boot animation...

I have tried to go back to bootloader mode / recovery but my device is not found

I do not even know how to switch off the g6...

everytime i press vol down + power key it just restarts, and goes into lineage boot animation loop

I am familiar with flashing lineage on samsung devices but this is my first lg device

Please advise

Thanks a lot
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
Hi Ben!

When you have TWRP installed, you can always go back into TWRP (and switch off the phone). When you hold the volume down button together with the power button, as soon as you see the LG Logo, let go of only the power button for one second (but keep holding the volume down button), then again, repress the power button together with the volume down button you kept on pressing, and wait shortly till you see a menu option asking you to factory reset the device. Select yes twice with the volume button, confirming with the power button (even if you don't want to factory reset), and this is the way to get into TWRP.

Try reformat, and reflash again. When you see boot animation, did you wait for at least 5 to 10 minutes for the install to settle?

Did you install the latest TWRP 3.2.1?

By the way, instead of superSU, you can use Magisk 14.0 root, and manager. I've noticed it runs a bit more nicely, not altering system files as I've read.

Greetings,

Dennis
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
I was one of those to have issues with that. After flashing a new nightly, I didn't flash gapps, and everything was messed up. Firstly, Google apps were gone after full boot. Then reflashing Gapps, brought them back, but made all Gapps crash when opening. Uninstalling, reinstalling or clearing cache of those apps didn't help, so had to restore a backup (which I luckily was able to make with TWRP, since I read reports that didn't work for some). Now when I flashed latest nightly, I also flashed Gapps with it (as well as Magisk), and I didn't have any issues.

There's only a strange bug left I reported. A bug that is just slightly annoying to me, and hasn't been solved yet in latest Nightly. It's that aac files are playable in players that rely on system-wide codec, but when used within a container (m4a), then not. It's being played, but with no sound.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] BenG7:
Hi Dennis,

Thanks A LOT, that really helped! I thought the phone's battery was gonna die on me and I would not be able to switch the phone back on.

Actually, I remember I did not format the phone the phone before but then again if I format the phone I will have to copy the lineage rom again afterwards, right?

I installed the twrp from here (Joshx if I remember well); is it the right one?

well I am pretty expereinced with supersu vs magisk so i'll give it another go

Thanks a lot
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
You're welcome Ben.

Use the wipe option in TWRP, then wipe cache, system and data, (basically everything except internal storage/SD card where you have the zips to use for flashing. Then flash the Lineage ROM, Gapps, and SuperSU. (Magisk is just as easy by the way, just less intrusive.)

Also, I think you'll always be able to turn back on the phone. When it runs out of battery and switches off, you can still charge it, and turn it back on.

I have the official TWRP 3.2.1 for LG G6. Works fine for me.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] fusk:
Latest certainly isn't stable. It hasn't even been two days and mine is now permanently boot-looping.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Dounngin:
i almost happy with this ROM, but if me record video then sound it to low to hear, same if is use callx the sound is to low for record, is there a fix or still buggy ?

i see it record on mp4, but if record on wav then you can hear the sound,
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] davidjb20:
Anybody else having problems with Netflix only playing audio? I'm getting a black screen when streaming or playing downloaded videos.

I have already tried disabling LiveDisplay and rebooting.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] asdfoiuqwer:
The DRM blobs for G6 on LOS14.1 aren't working correctly which breaks L1 secure video playback in a bunch of apps. There's a workaround which is to manually delete the liboemcrypto.so file which forces everything to fall back to the less secure L3 playback mode which works correctly. Netflix and other apps will only play SD quality when the DRM is in L3 mode but at least it will work.

Someone testing the LOS15 ROM in the other thread mentioned that L1 playback is working on that ROM, but I haven't been able to test it myself. If that is the case, then we can just wait for LOS15 for it to be fixed, unless anyone knows how to fix the L1 widevine blobs on 14.1.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] BenG7:
Hi Dennis

THANKS!

When I restarted the phont and booted into twrp, I got asked for a password on launching twrp

Mount decrypt > Enter password

but I did not set any password so I just ignored it but when I tried to wipe parts as you advised, it said "failed" to decrypt data!

so I did a bit of searching and found it could be an issue with twrp so I downloaded the official version you mentioned and flashed it (while in twrp - remember no working rom - I did an "adb reboot bootloader" and then flashed the official twrp image, then went back to the 1st post and did all the necessary wipes (I had to copy back the lineage rom, supersu and fdroid app to the folder as the "format data" deleted them, then flashed lineage.

Indeed it took a couple of minutes but eventually the phone booted to the lineage setup wizard so I'm all good now, i will now flash supersu, install fdroid and give microG as I even want to do away with gapps

Actually - can you please clarify - do I need to flash supersu/magisk when the lineage rom includes a root option under developer options?

Thanks again!
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
Hi Ben!

I was also once locked out of TWRP on a previous phone, having some sort of unknown password set. But I was able to still boot the system, so I could delete the following files in /data/system:

- Locksettings.db* (three files)

- Password.key

That solved it for me.

Regarding your question about root, that's a good question! I do remember on another phone I owned, Cyanogenmod not coming with build-in root. At least I read that somewhere at the time, I may be wrong, and it always has had root capabilities build-in. Does it have now? I'm curious to know. I installed Magisk root separately (and SuperSU before), because an app I used wouldn't really work nicely with build-in root, which was a common issue with the app.

Anyway, I'm glad things are working for you! :)

Best regards!
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] CereSG6:
Hi dxml,

you say, that deleting the files resets also password?

Is this valid for TWRP only?

Otherwise we would have a serious attack vector..

Will try that on my G6 tonight.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
I think I might have been wrong, now when I come to think about it. Removing those files actually only affect the security of Android itself. And as I now remember, when I restored a backup, my Android security pattern was suddenly, strangely, different. And so via TWRP I could remove those files, and it solved it, I could set a new pattern in Android.

But still, if you have set a security pin on TWRP, these files aren't accessible without entering TWRP (neither via usb I suppose), so not too much of a security threat I guess.

And as I also remember, TWRP can copy the pattern set in Android. I think this happens when you encrypt your system? But then this pattern is stored separately.

It was a while ago, so perhaps others can collaborate on all this. :)
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Moldeb:
Encryption would be great!

Same here and I don't want to use the SD as internal, had trouble on another system with a broken SD card. Being able to encrypt /data would be absolutely great - and needed IMHO for daily use. Rest works well for me using the 1212 nightly with MicroG, stock camera can now handle all 3 cams just doesn't store video (or panorama).

But without encryption the phone is entirely open. Lock screen does not help, you can easily erase passwords, fingerprints by deleting 2 files in /data/system using the twrp file manager, reboot phone and are back to "swipe to open" security...
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] two_handed:
Exactly. And I personally always find it astonishing that only a few users seem to care.

What I am currently trying is:

- creating a large container with EDS app on internal SD card and mounting it.

- creating symlinks for all highly privacy sensitive apps (Signal, Telegram, Expense Manager, Pictures, Titanium Backup) pointing to created container

- syncing all data within that container to my personal cloud once a day

What I read about but not further investiagte is this: https://guardianproject.info/code/luks/
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] ST Dog:
Android hasn't had encryption for most of it's existence.

Got by fine for years without it. So this sky-is-falling spiel is a bit of hyperbole.

I'm also not keen to store sensitive data on a phone to begin with.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] two_handed:
Which does not mean it is a good thing. Rather the opposite. Besides, most manufacturers nowadays implement it by default. Even Apple, right?

And yeah, I know, it is not that easy to migrate it to AOSP because of HW relations, FBE and FDE.

Ever lost your phone/got it stolen? Would really bother me if some person has all my personal pictures, communications and lots of other really personal data. Not sure what you mean with "sky-is-falling" spiel. This is a very real scenario which happens every minute basically.

Don't you store anything on your phone? In my opinion, any data that is about/from me is sensitive. Be it a number or a message, does not matter, it is personal and hence sensitive.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] ST Dog:
It's a nice to have, but we've generally done fine so far. Not beIng implemented / working is not going to prevent me from using a ROM /recovery.

And no, never lost a phone. I tend go keep expensive item close, any decent phone rsnks as expensive to me. In 45 years I've only list a wallet once, 20 years ago (fell out of a door pocket when I made an unexpected stop).

I'm more concerned with government / corporation access to/storsge of my data than some random person getting my phone. I don't even password lock my phone.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Moldeb:
I wouldn't force encryption on anyone but at the same time will not use a phone without (except for playing around). I like LOS a lot and also MicroG but using it without encryption is a nogo for me. Yes I consider my contact data sensitive and be it because I don't want them to be spammed ;)

Signal I thought was encrypting its storage locally. My bigger issue is e-mail really, haven't found a container I could use instead of full encryption. EDS is a thought but requires root to mount volumes and again, root is nice for playing around but I don't want it on my phone day to day (some of my apps also don't work on rooted devices).

My 2ct on the other points discussed here (12 Dec nightly):

- Mic works fine in handset mode but does not work in speakerphone / handsfree mode

- Mic on BT handset very distorted/jittery (works fine on other phones)

- Stability seems good, device stays fast also when on for a while (day)

- Battery life is very good (with MicroG)

- Camera ok for photos (all 3 lenses work), video / panorama not saved using stock app.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Kaleidosc0pe:
[MENTION=7800604]Moldeb[/MENTION]

For videos you can edit the build.prob

media.camera.ts.monotonic 0 to 1

Videos save after change.

There is still a low sound.

I buyed the app Root Volume Mixer and raised up the Microphone volume on videos +20.

Best solution for now.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Moldeb:
Update after testing new nightly of 18 Dec:

- Video and Panorama safe OK using the stock app.

- Mic seems OK at least on Recorder.

- Encrypt phone does not work (just briefly robot, then normal reboot)

- BT I could not test yet

Making progress - very good! Now with encryption I would be very inclined to use it :)
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] motshek:
Link to download nightly 18 Dec?

Wysłane z mojego LG-h870 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] mingo_mgx:
https://download.lineageos.org/h870
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] motshek:
Last 20171212 i not see 20171218...

Wysłane z mojego LG-h870 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Moldeb:
sorry I'm on the MicroG forked version: https://download.lineage.microg.org/h870/ don't just flash, read howto first as signatures are different
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] mingo_mgx:
Why is their no nightly this week? is LOS 15.1 comming? on the wikipedia page says its gonna release in Q4
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] iAbhishekh:
I'm planning to buy a G6 and what I have noticed is that the variant sold in the Middle East is H870S (32GB/Dual Sim) and this variant isn't listed anywhere other than the middle east sites. Will this ROM work? Or it's strictly for H870?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] sascha6982:
There is no bootloader unlock for 870s. So no custom recovery and no ROM.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] xMaariie:
Yup, mic is dead

At first I thought it was Whatsapp not having permissions but then I remember someone wrote it here

sad, sad, hope it'll be fixed soon
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] pesc96:
Got my LG G6 today, normally I root & install a Custom ROM on every phone I have. Can you guys tell me how the camera is on LOS? And how about battery? :)
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Faint333:
*EDIT:checked lineage site and found it has a nightly!* hopefully us997 will be supported soon? =D
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] orrorin:
https://www.lineageoslog.com/14.1/us997
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] jimbomodder:
There are many on Google play, best I find is called "battery calibration" by NéMa
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] 0tti:
After trying to OTA Update my G6 I faced the issue that the device stays in a recovery bootloop.

If anyone faces the same issue here is the fix:

Connect your device to your computer via USB and run this command as root:

adb shell dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/soc/624000.ufshc/by-name/misc count=1 bs=32

You can also go to the TWRP terminal and run:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/soc/624000.ufshc/by-name/misc count=1 bs=32

With that beeing said I really appreciate your great work OP! Thanks :good:
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] odysseus84:
[MENTION=5646556]J0SH1X[/MENTION] maby it would be intelligent to mention the last remaining major bug in the OP or in one of the "reserved" posts... so people will immediately see if it's fixed. (This should also be done in your other rom threads).

Thanks
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] FrankRr:
There are 2 bugs. Mic and camera focus.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] J0SH1X:
Just to end this focus thing once and for all I have no idea why it isn't working and rashed won't look into since he thinks cam is awesome

Gesendet von meinem LG-H870 mit Tapatalk
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] FrankRr:
Sad that rashed don't care about it. Let's pray and hope another dev will fix it..
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] J0SH1X:
Yeah he thinks cam is awesome he also showed some pics but of solar eclipse that isn't hard to take a pic of

Gesendet von meinem LG-H870 mit Tapatalk
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] FrankRr:
I am speechless...
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] FourOne82:
For many people this is not going to work as a daily driver without a proper focus, but lets not try to publicly bash someone for his opinion.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] J0SH1X:
I can look into it some time but I want oreo so badly I will first work on it when I have some crappy oreo Version booting im calm again then I will look into it [emoji23] [emoji23]

Gesendet von meinem LG-H870 mit Tapatalk
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] ZkPro1991:
Is this rom good as daily rom? Caz i have lag with the stock rom right now.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] J0SH1X:
No cam focus

Gesendet von meinem LG-H870 mit Tapatalk
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] EvilHowl:
https://xdaforums.com/lg-g6/development/rom-dirty-unicorns-11-6-t3659943/post73501289#post73501289

Did you see this? I think it can help.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] xMaariie:
How can y'all not have a proper focus? I am using Open Camera and everything works fine.

Some pics to show you that I can even focus on "small" objects (I didn't edit the pics at all, just blurred out the pic on my wall):

pics are resized to 1920x2560 because of uploading problems
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] EvilHowl:
Oh, I didn't expect this. I have even compiled my own LineageOS build and tried a lot of configs and it doesn't work... Can you tell me if you have us997 or h870?

Also, can you post a pic of something a little far? Thanks!
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] xMaariie:
I have a H870 device and yup, of course~
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] iAbhishekh:
Ouch.. That's sad to hear :( Thanks for the heads up anyway.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] mingo_mgx:
Only US997 and the H70 have an unlocked bootloader so you are out of luck bud
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Electric87:
Anybody knows why I can't find the Play Store App? I've installed gapps, obviously (tried with stock, nano, full...)

Thanks!
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] motshek:
Wysłane z mojego LG-h870 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Cameron581:
English only on XDA
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] wizzardsk:
It was only a signature from Tapatalk :)
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] MacLaughlin:
You are the guy who has done dirty unicorns right? Do you plan to make some new builds?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] odysseus84:
Hello friends,

After a couple of months I finally revisited LOS and I'm glad that everything works so far... all the cameras, Video... very great. But maybe I haven't tested all the things. Are there still bugs I should be aware of?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] fusk:
How do you get the dual cameras to work ?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Kaleidosc0pe:
Newest nightly.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] odysseus84:
just loop through the cams... it worked since the first unofficial builds. normal -> wide angle -> selfie -> normal... asn
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
Do others also notice video recording doesn't seem to work (yet)?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Kaleidosc0pe:
Change build.prop the media ts thing from value 0 to 1
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
Hm, I just did, now stuck in bootloop......I just learned I have to figure out how to chmod via ADB, to restore permissions.. Hm, no such file found, when I'm via ADB in system, trying to chmod 644 ... Did it get deleted? Would it help if someone sent me latest build.prop?

Hm, I restored a system image. Gotta try again. But still curious as to know why chmod via ADB/shell says no such file. Do I need to mount the system first or something?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] fusk:
Am running newest nightly, but no wide angle in the camera app, the loop is selfie -> normal -> selfie. Open camera works tho.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] odysseus84:
set the resolution to 720p

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I just checked it again... it works for me. strange.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Oniska:
What will i loose if i switch from stock to this rom? Will i also loose my warranty permanently?
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] dmxl:
Worked! Thanks! Just volume a bit low. But worked.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Kaleidosc0pe:
You are welcome!

This is right. Mic is low.

I raised up the microphone recording sound with the app Root Volume Mixer Pro.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] MartinIrrelevant:
I dont know exact if now something has been changed for other g6 ... But the only bootloader unlockable devices are h870/us997 all other g6 like your h870s are not unlockable... This means.. no costum recovery ... And no way to flash anything (like a costum rom)or root.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] Windforce0511:
Please post G6 Lineage OS review on youtube. There is no single one review on YT, except bad screen records.
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] BenG7:
Hi

I just want to report the latest OTA update (26.12) got me into a twrp loop (I cannot boot to system, it keeps booting to TWRP) :

downloaded the update through the updater then chose to install the update through the updater, this got the phone to boot to twrp but when i looked for the update in /data/data/org.lineageos.updater the update is not there to be found; so I flashed the copy of the previous (first) lineage rom I had kept at the root of sdcard and I was back to normal.

I attempted the OTA update again and same story only now when I try to flash the original rom I get "unmont of system failed (-1) device or resource busy" and although it attempts to flash the rom, it reboots to twrp!

I already searched the issue but could only find this: Loop on recovery after an OTA update.

My question is: is there any less drastic solution than using uppercut? I would like to preserve my apps and not have to reinstall all of them!

For example, could I relelase the busy device or resource thru twrp and then proceed normally?

thanks in advance

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[EDIT] as read here, https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74546781&postcount=402 (thanks to porg-ameteur!), this https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73506183&postcount=47 (thanks 0tti!) did it for me, citing it here for the sake of others facing the same issue:

although the message "unmount of system failed (-1) device or resource busy" is still showing, I could flash the original rom (please be patient first reboot into system is quite long), it flashed the rom.

Now I will download the newest rom from the lineageos download site and NOT through the updater! copy it to my phone sd and flash it with twrp from there
[LG G6 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] fusk:
Thanks for letting us know the updater still isn't stable. I'll wait updating.