[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
No one can tell you that. The answer right now is no.

Buy another V30/30+/V30S use it on T-Mobile? All the others have bootloader unlock, TWRP, root. I see people on here with rooted V30/V30+ phones on T-mobile. Any North American V30/V30+ variant -- except H932 -- can be easily converted to US998 and rooted.

"Mint" V30+ LS998 can be bought on eBay for $315

, and eBay often has flash "holiday" sales of 10%, 20% off ANYTHING. A bunch of people on here bought those mint LS998 V30+ during Father's Day week 20% off sale for way less than $300.

[MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] can correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but from past statements -- as he's researched more over the past few months -- I gathered his V20 methods will not necessarily apply to the T-Mobile H932 V30/V30+. I hate to pull quotes from months ago, as things change, but that was the last definitive public statement I remember. He's been very helpful across all the forums -- like this information from our WTF bootloader unlock thread:

But as far as I know (I may be wrong), he's the only developer who was actively working on the H932, who had a framework of ideas to attack the problem. We got lucky with the

WTF method

, in that [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION] accidentally discovered a HUGE wonderful Oreo bootloader unlock exploit. Initially he even bricked his phone and [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] had to help him recover. Thank you, Brian, for that! ;)

Because when the dust settled, suddenly we realized all the V30 (and variants) could have bootloader unlock and root. Well, almost all... Regrettably, the H932 is excluded from this because it's on an island by itself with completely different RSA encryption. So, H932 cannot (temporarily) convert to North American carrier unlocked US998 (to get fastboot flash commands) like all the other North American variants can:

AT&T H931,

Canadian H933,

Sprint LS998,

Verizon VS996,

regional carrier AS998.

All the other V30/V30+ phones (H930, H930D, H930G, H930DS, all the Korean variants) either have fastboot flash commands or can temporarily convert to one that does (H930, H930DS).

With the wonderful LG Oreo bootloader unlock exploit, development has now taken off with the V30. There are VERIZON users who are buying SPRINT LS998 V30+, temporarily converting to US998, rooting, then converting to TWRP/ROOTED Verizon VS996.

Thinking back on it, if [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] (Brian) had not helped [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION] recover his phone -- to then discover the bootloader was indeed unlocked -- if the phone had just stayed bricked, we would have just chalked it up to someone doing something seemingly stupid and they should have known better. Instead, [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION] is a hero and Brian had a huge supporting role in that saga:

To try to unlock his bootloader and install TWRP, [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION] first converted his AT&T V30 to US998 and then tried to convert it to European H930 (we now know this is not wise) and somewhere in there FLASHED A HUAWEI M8 BOOTLOADER UNLOCK CODE via fastboot flash commands. :rolleyes: Yes, NOT an LG G4 bootloader unlock code (a different LG model), as first reported, but Huawei (a different brand altogether). He got a failure notice. Of course. Oh, and he bricked his phone. Of course.

But (after Brian helped him recover from the brick) he found the bootloader was indeed unlocked (despite the failure notice), and he had fastboot flash commands, so he installed TWRP and rooted. So, who's laughing now? :silly: It's such a crazy story, we really didn't believe it. But [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION] did a video replicating his procedure and provided proof.

It wasn't the Huawei unlock code that did it -- it's that ANY "fake" bootloader unlock code will unlock the phone on the then-current Oreo KDZ. But you need fastboot flash commands to run the command and to install TWRP, which is why you need to have (or temporarily convert to) US998, H930, H930DS. Since then, the method has been streamlined and you no longer get a failure notice and you no longer use a Huawei unlock code. After that, you can actually flash KDZ back to your original firmware if you wish (or another V30 firmware), and still retain TWRP and root!

That's why I put my

V30/V30+/V30S bootloader unlock guide

IN [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION]'s thread. He deserves full credit for the amazing discovery, but [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] is a major supporting player.

LG has since tried to patch that Oreo bootloader unlock exploit, but they can't prevent us from converting/downgrading firmware to still use it.