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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] R800x_user:
Well the first time it was attempted we had only flashed one partition. That lead to a insta brick which is why most of us have stayed away from attempting. seeing how you have to select all in partition dl now. there is slim to no chance of knowing until it's been verified. If you're willing to try go for it but just hope it's a recoverable soft brick instead of the dreaded 9008 mode. Anyhow it's at your own will to try. I would try but my ? is in good hands right now.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jubeldum:
I have a few questions.

What is the difference between the H932 and the H932PR?

Is the H932PR bootloader unlockable like the H932?

Has any H932PR owners downloaded a H932PR KDZ before they started crossflashing?

Did any H932PR owners unlock their bootloader before crossflashing?

After crossflashing the H932PR to the US998, have the H932PR owners tried to see if the removed flash commands are now reinstated with the US998 firmware?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
I asked the guy who did and says that his phone was never on the unlock list so I'm sure he never tried or bothered.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
H932 is also not on the LG Developer Bootloader Unlock list but has a (useless) simple OEM bootloader unlock option. Problem is, all the flash commands have been removed.

If H932PR has the same option, bootloader was unlocked then converted to US998 would it still have unlocked bootloader but now have full fastboot flash commands?

That's the question.

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
Yeah I know, I'm just saying when I pm'ed him his response was that his phone was not on the list so I'm pretty sure he never bothered to see if his phone was unlockable being his was a h932 but PR version. I mentioned to him that the H932 has boot loader unlock but no fastboot commands but we didn't get anywhere since he's already on us998 with a locked boot loader.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] poncespr:
I can get to bootloader but my only options are read device id, write unlock key and check bootloader unlock.

This are the same options I had before flashing US998. And bootloader is locked, as it was before crossflashing.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jcsww:
You need to request the bootloader unlock key from LG directly through their developer site. Only devices sold as US998's that weren't sold by carriers are eligible for the official bootloader unlock.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] poncespr:
I know. Just trying to answer some of the previous questions.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
We were asking if the H932PR had the same (useless) OEM bootloader unlock option as the parent company H932. Apparently, it does not.

We were hoping it could be converted to full flash commands model, while still keeping unlocked bootloader.

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
This guy went from AT&T H931 to Canada H933. So, it seems we should be able to go the other way? I don't know.

H933 is one of the Frankenstein choices, along with AS998 and US998 (most popular).
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Who-Lep:
The interesting, thing is that when I downloaded the source files from lg under h931 the file name had h931_h33_nougat. The h933 is handicapped as well?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Not sure what you mean by handicapped?

The H933 is the Canadian V30, which all the carriers there use, and it's carrier unlocked/SIM card unlocked by law for Canada.

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Who-Lep:
My bad, no fastboot commands.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
FLASHING AT&T H931 TO CARRIER UNLOCKED CANADA H933

More information:

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ranafahad:
can you share some link or post, to fix the Hard Brick for LG V30 H932PR
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ranafahad:
My phone is Hard Brick now Due to small error of uploading H932 file except of H932PR file. Now phone is in "hs usb qdloader 9008" when connect to computer. Not detecting on Lg Up. Would be very thank ful if share some post or guide me to fix it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
I do not know of any way. However, for the past year I have been busy with family and have not participated as much in the V30 development scene, here and on Telegram. Maybe someone else has found a way.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] RyRy9901:
Hi ChazzMatt,

Excellent thread. I am struggling to get into Dev Mode in LGUP. I have tried using the given batch files as well as manually replacing the dev.exe and the dev.dll in the LGUP program files folder.

LGUP recognizes my VS996 device with no issue, and I have the Nougat .kdz selected in LGUP. I assume we are required to get dev LGUP working so that we can cross-flash.

UPDATE: For my 2017 VS996 device, I was able to get the Frankenstein conversion done with the standard user-version of LGUP. By using PARTITION-DL options both times, I got no error message. The flashes were successful!! Using the Upgrade or Refurbish options, I received an error akin to "Cross flash not allowed" (0x4 if I remember correctly).

I now have a rooted V30 running Verizon Pie, with ALL Verizon apps removed! VoLTE, WiFi calling, and Voicemail all work without My Verizon, Location Manager, etc.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raistlen0:
I hope some one can help. I flashed with LGUP LG998 oreo to US998 nougat and it keeps boot looping and only briefly flashes on the screen the on the back droid. I am trying to do step 2 Master Reset and I get there but once I let go of the buttons to select yes that screen disappears and goes right to the LGV30 screen and then back into the boot loop. How can I reset? Or get back into download mode?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raistlen0:
Oh wait got it to master reset. Can not hold the buttons long. Immediately must let go when the reset screen appears.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Glad you got it to work. Yeah, it's a matter of timing and eye/hand coordination.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Master-Blaster:
Ok, I have an H931 (ATT) I picked up for 42 bones but was stuck on A8 and it easily flashed to US998 A7 and A8 but nothing I could do would get it to A9 (stuck on logo and tried everything). Then I discovered that on US998 (A7 or A8) it's missing a few Bands that the H931 had, and it happens that I apparently need those bands for decent signal where I live in the "sticks". So, I need to Frankenheimer to something that has those bands and the Canadian H933 has them. It's really no big deal if I brick this thing as I have phones coming out my ears right now, but does anyone know if I can take my Franken'd H931/US998 and bloody Franken the thing to the Canadian H933?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Yes, you can go from US998 to H933. However, you have to go through Nougat H933 first, then go up to Oreo or Pie. Many of the Oreo and Pie variants have block to keep you from crossflashing to other variants and have incessant bootloop you can't get rid of. So, the solution is to first cross flash to Nougat H933, THEN update from there. You will still have a temporary bootloop you can easily get rid of.

For H933 you have to flash with Partition DL mode in LGUP. Do it for all stages -- Nougat, Oreo, etc. Use these instructions as a template, but really you are going in reverse.

https://xdaforums.com/t/frankenstein-phone-using-lgup-for-crossflashing.3780969/page-9#post-76510671
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Master-Blaster:
Alright, thanks for the quick response brother. I got it back down to US998 Nougat and I'll Franken it over to the H933 Nougat and then up to Oreo and then Pie using Part DL. I got all the KDZ files from your storage so thanks a bunch for that!

Just an FYI, me and the "boss lady" have been using our V30's with the 2 Android hacks (check_state "0" and tether_dun "0") with unlimited hotspot on Straight Talk and on Cricket for years. All of a sudden, those hacks no longer hid us from the network. Somehow ATT network started seeing us with both those hacks and the Windows TTL hack in place. I was stumped for several months and then I realized what happened. Several months ago, I went up to the V40 which has Android 10. I recently went back to my V30 (playing around) and POOF! The 2 Android hacks hid my hotspot from the ATT network again! I racked up 174GB hotspot last month, no issue. Put the sim back into my V40 w/A10 and my Cricket account showed my hotspot racking up the GB's again. I also have an A11 phone that the hacks don't work on. So, I'm guessing, Google did something on Android 10 and up to foil the Android hotspot hacks. Bottom line is, with my V30's with A8 and A9 and my V20's with A8, I have unlimited hotspot with the 2 Android hacks but as soon as I go up to A10 and A11 those simple hacks no longer work. Interesting. The V30 is my all-time favorite anyway.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Master-Blaster:
Well, that was a total bust.

I successfully Frank'd over to the Canadian 9. I didn't have the Canadian 8 like I thought so I went from 7 to 9 and it worked without a hitch. However, I didn't realize that this firmware apparently doesn't have Volte capability. Everything worked perfectly except no calling out or receiving calls. After the ATT network change a few months ago, the phone has to have Volte or it doesn't work on ATT. Anyway, I went back to US998 Oreo and experimented with it a bit more with the sim card installed and found it actually has better and way faster Data signal than my ATT V30. I also noticed the US998 is a Dual Network phone, both GSM and CDMA. But unlike my Dual Network Verizon V30, this one has Volte and works great on ATT.

Another thing I noticed is this firmware hides Mobile Hotspot from the network by default. It doesn't request authorization, so it initiates immediately without detection and has "tether_dun_required" already set to 0. And since it's by default it stays that way after reboot. I quickly racked up 12GB download and my phone service account doesn't show it in my Hotspot usage. Nice.

A strange thing is happening though. For the past week ATT has been terrible in my Northern Arizona area, probably due to the bad weather we've had and are still having. With my ATT phones, I'm lucky to get 100kb speed either on my phone or using Hotspot. But when I put my sim card in my Frank'd US998 phone I regularly get 10mb to 30mb speed from the Hotspot. I switched back and forth to and from my ATT firmware phones several times and every time I get that speed with the US998 but with my ATT phones total dirt so I'm keeping the sim in the frank'd phone. I sure would like to know why that is and what is going on with the US998 firmware to cause that nice result.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] schwinn8:
I was surprised to hear you wanted to go OFF US998 with ATT, because I always heard it worked well. Glad to hear that still holds true.

I'm am also surprised you're getting VOLTE with it on ATT. Last I heard, ATT refuses to do VOLTE on anything but H931, which is not a ROM you can flash (ATT refuses to release it)... but you are getting it? Interesting. What carrier is your phone's IMEI? Or are you using an already active SIM in the US998 phone? Once activated, yes, you may be able to "carry over" the VOLTE activation into the other phone, but if you ever need to activate on the US998, they may not do it unless the IMEI is ATT. I ran into this same problem with a VZ phone (and a non-VZ IMEI).

Your other V30 is what ROM? H931, I assume? Assuming that's true, is it up-to-date?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Master-Blaster:
Yeah brother, I have two ATT H931 branded V30's that have latest Pie (30h) and one ATT H931 V30 I recently got that had Oreo 8. All three are ATT branded with ATT IMEI numbers. Since this 3rd one I got won't up to Pie I tried to get it to Pie with US998 rom but it just won't take it, but it takes the US998 Oreo rom just fine. This is the one I'm using now. Using the "SetEdit" app, under "Global Table", it shows "volte_vt_enabled" "1". It's obviously enabled otherwise I wouldn't be able to make calls with it. When I flashed the Canadian 9 on this phone it wouldn't make or receive calls and I didn't see any setting to enable Volte. I recently read somewhere that the H933 doesn't have Volte but I don't know for sure. I didn't think to use "SetEdit" and try to enable it. This is all being done on the ATT/Cricket network and the sims were first activated on our ATT branded V40's.

I also have several LG Verizon phones (V50, V30, V20's, G7, G4) I'm going to sell as I can no longer use them on ATT network. I've done so much reading I can't remember if I can Frank the US998 rom to my Verizon V30 or not. Or maybe try a Godzilla-stein and push the US998 rom to my Verizon V20's or maybe my ATT V40's. I've collected over a dozen stinking phones the past few years so I figure I can afford to brick one or two, lol.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Master-Blaster:
Well, I couldn't get my ATT H931 V30 to Pie but I Frank'd my Verizon VS996 V30 and it easily went to US998 Oreo, then to Pie. Probably would have gone to Pie directly. So, now I have another US998 to experiment with, lol. Has anyone done any Godzilla-steins? Like the US998 V30 rom to a V20 or a V40? Or better yet, are there any US Cellular US996 V20 and V40 Pie roms floating around? I got one ATT V20 and two Verizon V20's stuck on the cookie.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
In step #2, did you "select all" in the pop up box?

FRANKENSTEIN - CONVERTING ANY NORTH AMERICA V30/V30+ (except T-mobile H932) TO US998 OREO

https://xdaforums.com/t/frankenstein-phone-using-lgup-for-crossflashing.3780969/post-76510671

The new_unlock.bin step is after this, if you are unlocking your bootloader and then rooting. For your H931, the first step is converting to Nougat US998, then updating to early Oreo US998. But this Frankenstein method pre-dates bootloader unlock and root, and is also useful just to change modem frequencies for the North American phones -- for except T-Mobile H932! We happened to find it was a necessary step for bootloader unlock and root then for most of the North American LG V30.

Since your question is specifically about Frankenstein method, I answered here in this thread.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] poprockdev:
There is no popup box... I'm unfortunately away from home for the weekend so I can't get a recording, but I'll try to describe it the best I can.

I put my phone into download mode and have the USB cable connected. I open LGUP via the shortcut on the desktop. It says "Loading ENV". It opens up LGUP successfully recognizing my phone. I select the Nougat file that I need to flash as the "BIN File". I select Partition DL from the modes. I hit "start" and no popup box is shown. It immediately starts installing it (it's not actually installing it) and is done within 20 seconds saying it was completed successfully.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
It's "completing" so fast because no options are being chosen in the pop up box, which you are not seeing for some reason. It will show you a choice of partitions and this case you want to select them all. Since you haven't chosen any, then nothing changes and that's it "finishes" the process in a few seconds.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] poprockdev:
I'll try reinstalling patched LGUP tomorrow, deleting all existing files for the current installation. One thing I found on my computer was the logs file for LGUP, which a screenshot is shown below saying something about not enough memory. My computer is not the highest end computer, and I had to delete like 7 apps just to get LGUP to install.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
uhh, my canadian h933 isnt turning on after i did dl partition
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Sorry, I don't know of any way to fix the hard brick of flashing incompatible encryption system over another. The blame is on LG for confusingly using the same model number for 2 completely different V30 phones in 2 different countries. As I said prior, the Puerto Rico model should have been H934 or something -- not re-using the U.S. T-Mobile H932 model number with PR stuck on the end.

North America

U.S. Cellular and Open Market - US998

Verizon - VS996

AT&T - H931

U.S. T-Mobile - H932 (totally different encryption system from all the others)

Puerto Rico - H932PR

Canada - H933

All of these -- EXCEPT for the T-Mobile H932 -- can be cross flashed over each other to basically convert to another model, another modem. Flashing US998 firmware will give you the fastboot flash commands necessary for bootloader unlock and rooting.

But the T-Mobile H932 is an island unto itself. Flashing that firmware to any of the others or flashing the others firmware to T-Mobile H932 will hard brick the phone. Whereas, the Puerto Rico H932PR is in the same universe as the US998, VS996, H931, H933. It's a "normal" North America V30 which can be cross flashed with the others.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
Do you have a H933 ROM?

I converted my H933 to US998 and thought I can unlock the bootloader, I converted to US998 then I went into fastboot, but ADB didnt want to flash the unlock.bin, so now I'm just stuck here, can't update from US998.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Yes. I have stock Canada H933 KDZ posted with mirror links over in the ROMs thread.

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But for US998 firmware, to unlock bootloader you need to flash early Oreo 20A or 20B for the exploit to work. After that you can update to newer firmware.

When you flashed US998 to convert from another North American variant, you probably flashed Nougat? You then need to flash 20A or 20b, then you can use the WTF bootloader unlock exploit.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
I think I flashed the correct one, I think it said in the unlock bootloader thread, you need a security patch date on the phone lower that the one listed below, im not sure the version of US998 my V30 has because I lost it somewhere
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
If I were to switch back to H933 firmware, would i have to switch to Oreo then Nougat?

Edit: I meant Nougat then Oreo
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
You lost your V30? Or you lost the file you flashed to the V30?

If you still have the phone, go to Settings and see the software version. It will say 20A or 20H or something. 10* is Nougat, 20* is Oreo on the V30. I would suggest flashing US998 20A again. Yes, I listed the security date, but people don't understand that was before July for 2018. Double check by looking at the actual version number. US998 20A or 20B.

Go here: https://xdaforums.com/t/us998-stock-oreo-lg-v30-us998-us99820h_00_0318-kdz.3786337/

Scroll down until you see 20A. REGULAR KDZ, not the TWRP flashable (yet).
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
That is safest, to go back to US998 Nougat, THEN go to H933 Oreo.

The main thing about flashing to US998 Oreo from another model was LG put in a bootloop to try to prevent you from cross flashing. So, we had to go down to US998 Nougat first, THEN go up to Oreo. The only model that was exempt was the Verizon US998 -- but we didn't like to talk about that because then ALL idiots would try to flash straight US998 Oreo first on their H931, H933, etc. then complain when they got the bootloop. Like, WE told you what you needed to do! :cautious:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
I lost both, but I found my V30, its still on US998
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
The software version is US99810d.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Unixity:
Ok so slight problem, I got the bootloader unlock, i got magisk, then i installed the other 2 things (+ the bootloader unlock warning), then while trying to install lineageos, i kinda wiped the os, (i dont know how) but my lgup says its on 20a, but i cant find a nougat download
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Well, we can't unlock the bootloader of the H933 to find out.

I have two theories --

1) Only the H932 has OEM bootloader unlock with fastboot commands stripped out. All the others (H931, H933, H930DS, etc) DO have fastboot commands, but we just can't get to them, due to locked bootloader -- EXCEPT for the open market US998, H930, H930G (all with LG approved bootloader unlock). When you unlock THOSE bootloaders, there's fastboot flash commands. IF you could unlock the others, they would also have fastboot flash commands.

2) All the variants -- EXCEPT for the open market US998, H930, H930G (all with LG approved bootloader unlock) -- have fastboot commands stripped out, and LG let the H932 have simple OEM bootloader unlock to show there's no simply use trying to unlock the bootloaders of all those other phones.

Obviously, both theories can't be true. So, which is it? :confused:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] LinhPhi9x94:
You can't flash for LG V30 H932PR , Your phone will brick
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
He already flashed to US998 successfully.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
You didn't read far enough. ;) He converted his H932PR to US998:

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] poncespr:
I already did. Just not to H933 as I had first planned but to US998.

And it's working beautifully.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkthugs:
So one question to the people who successfully converted ls998 to any other variant ,does OTA updates are available ? And finally since seems many people was able to unlock those devices you can add or edit apn on Oreo ? Many people seems with problems of their apn .
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
With any of the conversions, like to US998, why would you need OTA? I flashed

Oreo KDZ on all three of my V30/V30+ US998

days BEFORE the Oreo OTA was officially available. XDA dev [MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION] gave us the link, and I created a thread. I used "upgrade" in LGUP -- took two minutes, kept all my data, all my apps, all my pictures, etc.

Last month, I also used LGUP + KDZ download to update from 10C to 10D (still Nougat, just a security update) on two of the three phones. This month, the Oreo. So, I don't need OTA.

Besides this XDA forum, there's also sites like LG-Firmwares.com (user supplied repository, not afffiliated with LG corporation) where you can find firmware.

The KDZ for the carrier unlocked models, like US998, AS998 (regional US carriers, basically identical to US998) and Canadian H933 are easy to find. Whereas you cannot find the Oreo KDZ for Sprint LS998 or AT&T H931 online. Especially for the H931, you HAVE to be connected to AT&T network to even get the OTA. For many people who may own the phone, but not use AT&T -- may not even live in the U.S. -- how are they going to get Oreo? Easy -- convert to a better variant, like US998, and flash the KDZ updates for that as they become available.

I just edited the Oreo APN on one of my US998. I admit do not have a "converted" US998 phone yet. I'm going to do that this weekend when I have more time, with the mint LS998 V30+ I bought to give to my sister. However, I own three open market US998 V30/V30+ with Oreo and I am able to edit the APN on them.

The APN edit issues are on the Sprint LS998 -- as it's Sprint's desperate attempt to lock users to their network.

Having a carrier unlocked phone, of course you should be able to edit the APN. Oreo or not. I assume the people here who carrier unlocked their phones by converting to AS998 or US998 are able to edit the APNs, because how else could they use their former Sprint phones on another network? That's the whole reason why they did it, and they still have Oreo.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Moriatier:
you can have OTA updates only if your IMEI is also changed.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] poncespr:
I cannot delete my service provider APN, but I can add new ones.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] rambu_1:
So, at the end...can we go from Oreo LS998 to Oreo US998? :)