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[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] livinstyle:
Original KDZ file for firmware

Hi All,

i found this site and it seems to have the original firmware available for download. it's not from the lg-firmwares.com site, but i was able to download it. unfortunately, it's only for ver. 8.0, but better than nothing i suppose?

https://www. androidsage .com /2018/06/15/download-usa-lg-g6-android-8-0-oreo-stock-firmware-kdz-verizon-att-sprint-t-mobile/
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] meesy:
can i update to a oreo with the same region?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] robnitro:
It's not the original sprint firmware kdz but the Canadian one that works with our phones. I'm still not doing the flash until I can find or backup the sprint firmware in case I have issues.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] meesy:
Ok.. I hope i can help!

---do not google the firmaware---

---Go to lg firmwares and search for LG G6 H873--

--- not hard to find at all--- --- look or select from list--

--LG H873--

Download these..

"H87315c_00_OPEN_CA_OP_1026.kdz"

"H87320h_00_OPEN_CA_OP_1112.kdz"

Follow the tutorial above as he says for the first firmware... After its all done and working.. Just do the same tutorial but you will notice it will be even easier because it will be more like an update..

----I can confirm it!----
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sbkjuggalo:
So u said ls993 is this working for boost Mobile lg G6?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] manuss:
I was able to do it with the boost mobile variant however, it did not work under boost at all anymore. I had to get it reflashed to the stock firmware at a sprint store, because boost is my primary service provider. From what I'm getting this will open the phone up for GSM but you will lose practically all CDMA support (at least from my experience).
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sbkjuggalo:
bummer! is there anyone working on a way to do it for the CDMA phone? thank you for the reply back.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Junziie:
Yes I am also wanting to do this for boost Mobile G6 does anyone have a solution or at least a way to literally stop all the crap that keeps my phone at 75% memory usage at all times :(
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sbkjuggalo:
lgg6 uninstall system bloat non-root

if you want to be able to delete the system bloat apps that require root i have found a way to delete them and am currently doing it using adb. no credit to me i only stubbled accros this i have deleted two so far but be careful to not uninstall any that is of great use

https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
Look at my post earlier.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Brian9285:
This worked for me on boost. I don't have active service, but I popped in the Sprint sim and it worked. I just use H873 for Metro and this one will work on Boost. Thanks for the find.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sbkjuggalo:
Sorry but just to clarify by saying you dont have active service you a refering to prier right? l know i know... just extra precatious. And you used the a metro one and that is all or... im about to go back through tread post by post and read through and maybe attemt this,

any response would be apprictiated.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Brian9285:
I had active service on boost Mobile. I flashed the H873 and got GSM only. I had that active on MetroPCS. It worked fine. I then flashed the other kdz file. This one, AS99320b_02_0809.kdz . Just Google it and get it on the LG-Firmwares website. After flashing that I popped in the Boost Sprint branded Sim card and called 611 customer service and it went through and everything was fine. I'm pretty sure that it would work flawlessly. If not there are minor edits you can make in the Hidden Menu you get it working which I don't think will be necessary, but if you've already flashed the H873 kdz this other kdz is a good option to get boost signal back minus the bloatware and I'm sure a few other minor things, but overall as far as I can tell it's a good solution if you want to stay on Sprint/Boost.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sbkjuggalo:
thanks for the reply back. im tempted to do it but havent since this is my daily use phone with one of my jobs being dependent on me staying with a way for people to call me. will more than likely be doing this soon thanks again
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
The one I posted is better in every way. It works on all the carriers the H873 works on, as well as Sprint and Verizon (though the phone is missing Verizon's main band, so Verizon coverage is spotty)
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ramil7419:
Lg g6 ls993zvc

Hello. I'm new here. I'm from Russia. Bought a LG G6 LS993 on ebay. The smartphone is registered in Boost Mobile, it has firmware LS993ZVC. I would like to flash the device in H873. Can I consistently perform all these items and unlock GSM? (The operation of the device in GSM networks is important for me, there is no CDMA operator in our country). I would be very happy for your help.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Os_A:
There is no guarantee at all because it is a brute force hack. Initially it was tested on Sprint LS993s. For me it worked on Sprint. If you are not sure buy the unlock service on e-bay they do the same thing but via Windows PC and TeamViewer Client.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
Flash it to the firmware I posted the name of in an earlier post, not to 993VZVC. The firmware I linked is better, supports more bands & has CDMA support as well as GSM support. Yes, it will unlock GSM consistently. Yes, it works on the Boost Mobile G6.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zapatas_blood:
According to LG my NIB LS993 was actually a Boost phone.. when I got it, the hardware info said H873 and it was unlocked and working with Sprint. I did an update to Oreo with the instructions above. So it should work on your Boost G6... at least it does for me on Tmo...I am not getting OTA however.

EDIT: Also does anyone know what kdz I should use to get the latest security updates? I'm on Oreo on my H873 and it works great, but I'm looking to get the Jan security patches since I won't get them OTA from Tmo? Thanks!
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
The latest KDZ we have is the AS99320b_02_0809 one. It's old, but no one has pulled anything newer from LG's servers. Sadly.

LG delivers OTAs based on the IMEI of the phone requesting the OTA. Since your IMEI is not valid for AS993, the service returns nothing.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zapatas_blood:
Oh bummer. Well I still feel pretty happy with the device given it was NIB for $200 and required very little work to get onto Oreo... the hardware is very nice so far, feels like a good upgrade from a broken Moto G6.

Can I use that KDZ with my "H873" LS993 to at least get to September security update? Is there any reason I should stay on the April one? Anything really broken on that update?

Thanks for the info.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
Actually, wait, you are on H873 and not AS993. If you don't need CDMA support, there's a newer build for H873. Gimme a sec, let me flash one of the ones I have here with a newer KDZ and report back.

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This firmware will take you up to the November patch and works fine. Latest one we have for H873. https://lg-firmwares.com/downloads-file/17099/H87320h_00_OPEN_CA_OP_1112.kdz

If we had someone with a real, Canadian H873 (and/or a C-Spire AS997) we could capture the KDZes as they come out and post them :(
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zapatas_blood:
Oh that would be excellent. Yeah I don't need CDMA, on T-Mobile. Hopefully that works.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
https://lg-firmwares.com/downloads-file/17099/H87320h_00_OPEN_CA_OP_1112.kdz

Works, brings you up to November.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zapatas_blood:
That update worked great. Nov is better than April at least! Funny I ended up with the LG G6 ThinQ branding on boot.

I guess my other question is... do I have the bands the LS993 supports or do I have the bands the H873 does?

The hardware is the same no?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
You have the bands the H873 supports. The hardware is the same, but the firmware dictates band support. AS993 supports the same set of bands as LS993, so if you need CDMA support, flash that.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zapatas_blood:
Ah, okay good to know. I should have pretty good performance with Tmo with the H873 bands.

Now we just need to find a REAL Canadian and steal their KDZ :laugh: for the security updates ;)
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
Simply plugging a real H873 into a computer running LG Bridge and going into the recovery menu will make the app download the KDZ and dump it in a temporary folder. If only I had one, I'd do it for you folks. I have a bunch of Sprint LS993s and a US997, but nothing else. Sigh.

Doesn't appear to be a version we don't have, though. http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/csmg/b2c/client/web_model_list.jsp?country=CA&model=LGH873 is reporting that the latest version is the 2018-12-05 version I linked.

On a semi-related note, this method of checking for updates has finally solved one mystery for me: why do all the sites refer to the AS993 LG G6 as being from BrightPoint? BrightPoint isn't a cellular carrier, they were (and were acquired by a competitor years before the LG G6 came out) a distributor of phones to carriers and associated industry. The AS993 is actually for C-Spire Wireless in the USA.

Anyway. The mystery has been solved. LG refers to that phone as being for BrightPoint on this page http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/csmg/b2c/client/web_model_list.jsp?country=US&model=LGAS993

The AS993 is even further behind the H873 in updates. Soon this whole situation won't matter, once the RunningNak3D bootloader unlock is out. We can just flash the US997 stock rom. But for now, we're stuck on an old security patch level.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zapatas_blood:
Well it's pretty cool there's such an active community for a phone that is 2~ years old at this point. Thanks for your help so far, I contacted LG and they told me to piss off pretty much and go ask Sprint for the updates... which wasn't helpful. Buying phones on eBay is always a dice-roll but this one actually worked out. I wonder how the seller unlocked the device initially, given it was a LS993... Maybe they used the same method that was mentioned earlier in the thread, the reflash.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
Np! They almost certainly did what the OP did.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fatsali1:
Hi I did everything

and now Secure start-up came and says Enter password to unlock 27/30 attempts remaining.

there is no way to skip this screen
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
Read the OP. The OP says what to do to solve that problem.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] llamaramaridingabook:
After doing this, is the bootloader unlocked a d can I root
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] meesy:
my lg g6 phone is a boost mobile and now work as gsm

my lg g6 phone is a boost mobile and now work as gsm
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscar25alex:
some solution for the lg ls992? G5
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] albertodz:
Do we need to unlock bootloader and root for this?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] albertodz:
Doubt

Do we need to unlock bootloader and root for this procedure?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] veamos:
Is anyone having a problem where setting the MMSC in APN settings is not sticking?

I have tried several times to change from the default sprint MMSC to cricket one but even after saving it will not go through and cannot send picture messages in SMS.

Thanks for any help
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] undivide:
alright I did a single flash in LGUP to US99721e_01_0211.kdz from my H871 with latest AT&T fw without issue. The factory reset after flashing IS pretty much a mandatory step as I got stuck in the secure startup.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] veamos:
As an update to my non working MMS issue, I solved it by flashing the Canadian GSM only firmware.

The AS99320b_02_0809.kdz firmware works fine for data etc but in MMS settings you cannot seem to get rid of the sprint mmsc.

Even if you "reset apn" it will repopulate the MMSC entry with the cricket settings but they won't stick after you exit out or reset.

So, if you're doing GSM only, flash the Videotron Canadian firmware from the OP.

And for both flashes, everything works fine, apart from having to do the factory reset method once the flash has completed.

A nice bonus is that hotspot works without issue on the Canadian rom vs the ASxxx rom. I am on Cricket and they do not allow hotspot unless you pay extra.

Does the US Cellular rom allow hotspot as well?

Hope this helps some folks who may be encountering the same issue.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] astmario:
Hi, does this method works for unlocking H872 T-Mobile?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] undivide:
carrier unlock must be done thru the carrier. see this page - https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1588
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] DragonfireEX402:
Can anyone point me to the best APN settings for Boost Mobile under the newly flashed AS993 Firmware? Only thing I am missing is LTE at the moment.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] harrychang:
i flashed the canadian rom but now i want to flash as993 but i keep getting an error on lgup not letting me flash from h873 --> as993
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
What’s the error? Should work fine. I’ve flashed from Canada to AS993 with no issue.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] harrychang:
I

Ended up restarting my computer and it flashed fine. Only thing though is I don’t get any LTE signal, just 3G on sprint using as993
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
You need to set the Sprint APN. After setting it, reboot. Without setting the APN, you will only get 3G.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] naeembabakheil:
Can i convert my LG G6 H871 using this method and cnadian rom ?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
New version of the Canadian rom is out. Dated 03-05-2019. https://lg-firmwares.com/downloads-file/18294/H87320i_00_OPEN_CA_OP_0204.kdz
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
No, but there is no point. H871 is AT&T. AT&T unlock codes are extremely cheap, a few dollars or so.

Try www.att.com/deviceunlock as a non-customer first. You might not even need to pay some eBay seller for an unlock code.

If you really want to convert and unlock for free, flash the latest US997 KDZ. That one will unlock H871 but will not work on the Sprint G6, so be sure of what you have.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] naeembabakheil:
well i already converted mine from 871 to 873 :p..

now i think is there any method to go back to stock 871 .. i have 871 stock dump .. how i reflash all files to stock from dump
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] engMTW:
You can't.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Os_A:
No
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] intruda119:
Does this method work with newest firmware as of today? Got one of the unlocked phones off eBay but having issues.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] garretts228:
Will this procedure work for the CSpire LG G6? I have a friend that wants to unlock his phone and use it on a different carrier. He also wants faster updates because CSpire is SLOW with pushing updates.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] bencollinz:
Has anyone on ZVF been able to do this? Feb 2019 updates
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vladimir TV:
I reflash today according to this instruction. I just reflash Android 8.0 right away
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] bencollinz:
...so....yes?
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vladimir TV:
yes! I flash lg g6 ls993
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] bencollinz:
and you definitely came from ZVF? the newest update from sprint.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vladimir TV:
When you first start there was a request to enter the unlock code. I did a factory reset and everything went well.

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Yes exactly. I previously had problems with both the network and the mobile Internet (I could not register the apn point), although the phone was unlocked for money.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] iurd2007:
Yes you can
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] SonKlam:
I just bricked my G6 ( flashing my LS993 to H872TN). The process went through without any error, and without any sign of live ( no rebooting, no download mode, nothing). Does anyone here know how to bring it back to life ? Thanks
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] bencollinz:
I just did this with ZVF and it went great. You used the wrong KDZ apparently.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] SonKlam:
Yea, mine was sprint unlocked phone so I didnt do this to just unlock it. I read somewhere that I can cross flashing firmware, that is why I chose H872 ( to use wifi calling on Tmobile). It is pretty odd that the process went through smoothly without having any problem. Or is it because of the LG Package Disabler Pro that I installed in the phone? And yes, I did disable a lot of LG, Sprint features in there. Dont ask me why I did not reset before flashing it, I dont know why either :D
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] iurd2007:
You can flash h873 as993 us997 in a ls993 sprint but no h872... System partitions in h872 are different. You can't also flash h873 as993 nor us997 in to h872. If the phone dont have download mode try to connect to a pc and see if it is detected as 9006 or 9008 Qualcomm. (First install Qualcomm 9008 drivers google it). Then you need to restore your phone with Qfil . Youtube it.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] SonKlam:
Dang, I wish I have known about that specific case about H872 sooner. Oh well, it is what it is now. Anyways, thanks for the input man. I have not install Qualcomm 9008 drivers yet ( will try that now), but for now it only appears under " Other Devices " as "QUSB_BULK".
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] iurd2007:
You can repair your phone, google it 9008 lg g6 repair or qfil lg g6. You will need a software to extract h873 kdz and use rawprogram and another file i dont remember, then flash your phone. The important is that you can repair your phone , dont worry.
[Sprint LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] SonKlam:
Could you please find me those topics that guide me through on how to perform this properly? I did research a lot but the more I research, the more confused I am. And at this point, I am scared that I will do it wrong again lol
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
Galaxy S7 was FRP binary locked so I flashed stock rom with ODIN, rom off of sammobile. Now phone is stuck in bootloop and when i try to open recovery mode it just reboots the device. What do I do?

EDIT:

Im able to flash all the rom files but BL one. It's just an infinite bootloop, I managed to do factory reset on recovery mode but no fix
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
Did you flash all parts of the latest stock ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
Yes, I searched up model # on sammobile and downloaded 2 different carrier versions of firmware too. Both instantly fail on odin
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
What is the Odin error?

Posting the Odin log will help to isolate the issue.

Odin problems can sometimes be solved by using a USB 2.0 port and using a different USB cable.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
It would instantly fail after Initialization. Anyway, I managed to get ODIN to succesfully flash but now bootloop is the issue.

the BL i was flashing from sammobil wouldn't work, found one for my model on the forums and flashed that + AP,CP,CSC from sammobile and .pit file with nand erase, repartition and everything all checked. Phone started and did system update then rebooted, now it's in a bootloop. I think everything is flashed correctly i just need a fix for loop now
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] tdbtdb24:
HI

did u figured out your prob with boot loop
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
no, still stuck in bootloop. I've flashed different versions of firmware still ending up with same issue
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
You have a back up of the efs folder? The nand erase option is not something that I ever recommend using as this folder has a lot of critical information.

You tried doing a factory reset from the stock recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
I used nand erase because anything else I tried didn't help, EFS isn't backed up. I did try to factory reset from recovery but it didn't work. Also did flash .pit file too, and used different firmware versions but they all ended up causing bootloop.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
Were you trying to flash the bootloader from the latest nougat ROM?

You have a link to the bootloader you flashed to the g930w8?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
I tried to flash these at first (BL failed but everything else PASS) https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s7/SM-G930W8/GLW/download/G930W8VLS2BQF1/173068/

and https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s7/SM-G930W8/XAC/download/G930W8VLS2BQF1/173063

BL worked when I flashed version posted here (G930W8):

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/modem-samsung-galaxy-s7-sm-g930f-t3379596

So i searched filename on sammobile and flashed this

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s7/SM-G930W8/GLW/download/G930W8VLS3BRC2/212091/

That one ^ all passed when flashing in ODIN but still caused bootloop

BTW thanks for sticking around and helping
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
Looks like the BRC2 bootloader is the latest.

What was the error in Odin when flashing the bootloader?

Did you get a chance to try different USB cables and a USB 2.0 port for the bootloader?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
I managed to fix the error when flashing bootloader, the firmware flashes succesfully now but the bootloop still occurs
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MrPeebles:
Try running Odin as administrator? It was my problem with the boot issue, I couldn't even turn off my phone because it would keep looping.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
I'm not 100% sure but I wonder if the bootloop is due to a missing EFS folder.

Can you not into recovery? If yes, does the phone say anything about the EFS folder?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] celk1:
nothing about efs in recovery mode, only messages showing on recovery mode is: no support single-sku, supported api: 3, applied the csc-code glw, succesfully applied multi-msc, succesfully verify for dmverity hash tree.

I ran odin as admin every time i flashed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] audit13:
I am really not sure what else to suggest Other than taking it to Samsung for repair or a cell phone shop that can force flash the ROM again using hardware such as an octopusbox. If this is not a feasible solution, maybe buy phone with a busted screen and working internals to perform a motherboard swap.

I'm guessing but the bootloop maybe be due to having frp enabled or wiping the band.

Edit: could also try a custom ROM.