[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] br0adband:
Had hoped my H918 would be here today (USPS tracking info hasn't been updated since Saturday evening but it says "Tuesday arrival by 8pm" - as if a USPS delivery person works that late, right) but alas, it's not.

It does seem like buying carrier branded devices is simply becoming untenable for those of us that at the bare minimum would like to do some experimentation with the devices we're paying for. I don't think it's fair for carriers to lock down the hardware so much when we pay for it but it's not as if they're going to change anything 'cause a very small percentage (probably well below 1%) of any given device owners want these abilities to modify things at will, of course.

I consider the V20 to be "the last best hope" for those kind of persons, myself included, but even it's getting to the point this late in the game where I may just say the hell with it and stay pure stock because the tinkering isn't worth the effort anymore.

There's one thing that I really love more than just about anything else, and believe it or not I choose to use Lineage on devices for that one reason: changing the music playback with the volume rocker. That one little thing is so very important to me, it really is, and the only other way I've been able to get it is using Xposed (on a device if possible) and the Physical Button Music Control module but that doesn't always work on some devices. On some it triggers other effects, doesn't register the volume rockers correctly, or has some other issue which prevents it from being properly functional.

Most every custom ROM does this, CyanogenMod did it before anybody else that I can recall, and it irritates the hell outta me that practically no OEMs have that even as an optional feature in their firmware/ROMs on devices. I know for a fact that BlackBerry devices with BlackBerry 10 do it natively - I still own a BlackBerry Z10 (it's 6 freakin' years old now) and it does that as part of the base OS which is still awesome. A 6 year old device, 2GB of RAM, still fast and snappy, with that volume rocker music control AND the Wolfson codec for simply awesome audio playback quality too, removable battery, microSD, it's still a go-to device for me really.

It really irks me that one feature is never part of factory firmware on popular devices, especially one like the V20. The double tap to wake feature is something that is so ingrained in me now that whenever I get my hands on a new device from any manufacturer I find myself doing it and then getting really frustrated that it's not something that manufacturer chose to copy from LG devices. :p

The V20 is a great device, I did enjoy having the Sprint model in the past for a short period of time and so I'm sure I'll be fine with this one whenever it does arrive. I will tinker with it since I'm fairly confident I can, will have to keep an eye out for the Oreo OTA and then decide whether I want to allow it. I don't think I'll be a guinea pig and allow it because of course if I find that I can't roll back to Nougat that will obviously piss me off (and many others too). Would be interesting to dissect the OTA file to find evidence of the ARB being bumped, I wonder if that's possible, surely it probably would be in there someplace, I don't know.

Anyway, still waiting on the device to arrive. hoping it's not nearly as cosmetically pooched as I keep imagining it will be. :silly: