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[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] strictlyphat:
Resale. Warranty.
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Pain-N-Panic:
Makes sense!
[OnePlus 6T  Questions & Answers] Dark Nightmare:
Patience my young padawan.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
It seems like a real good phone for a great price. How come there are barely any ROMs? Is it just because of the lack of market share of this phone? I'm coming from a Nexus 5 which has tons of ROMs and has for years.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] ChazzMatt:
Well there's half a dozen AOSP ROMs.

But LG is to blame for not more. They released the phone September/October 2017, but didn't release the open market variants (non-carrier models with official bootloader unlock code) until months later, and then NEVER officially announced US998 bootloader unlock eligibility. Users basically had to hack the LG website to get a code, and then it only worked for the open marketUS998 V30, not the open market US998 V30+.

In mid-May 2018 with Oreo update is when [MENTION=6158380]TxanMoe[/MENTION] discovered the wonderful WTF bootloader unlock exploit. That was 8-9 months after release and devs had moved on.

[MENTION=3475147]SGCMarkus[/MENTION] has been our rock. He singlehandedly maintains half a dozen ROMs and now others are stepping up to help out.

Also there's concern custom ROMs will negate proprietary features like QUAD DAC and camera and battery life. We can use two apps for quad DAC, but have to use Google cam port for camera instead of stock camera.

I'm still running stock rooted firmware myself, with a couple of Magisk modules.

How many ROMs do you want? :)

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
It is a good phone. I would imagine most devs have lives outside of xda. It takes time to build these roms and I suspect it isn't a full time priority. I've looked into building briefly...it made my head spin. I'm too old to sit in front of a computer more than I already do. Kudos to the ones that build.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
Obviously but so do the people who did all those Nexus 5 ROMs so there's clearly a difference here when all other things are equal.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
Are the Nexus line of phones easier to root?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
As far as the end-user process, based on what I read on this forum, yes. I think it was easier for people to figure it out initially too, probably for the reasons ChazzMatt explained.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
Honestly, this device is a decent experience with stock. Stock seems to have the edge over los 15.1 for me.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
Thanks for that info. Does it offer the ability to modify the "power menu" when pressing the power button? For example, on my Nexus 5 one of the main features I like in ROMs is this ability. I want to be able to put reboot and power in that menu and take everything else out. I also like having AdAway built-in to my current N5 ROM but I'm sure there's a way to flash that or something similar. It just uses a hosts file to block ad domains so it does a great job blocking adds device-wide.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
Have you tried any of the roms available?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] TPMJB:
LG always does this. The LG Fathom was a boss phone with great specs and nobody was able to develop much for it. I don't know what they're afraid of by allowing us to utilize the Quad DAC but it's really setting this phone back.

Does the V10 DAC fix app actually work, or do I have to use USB Audio player pro to utilize the DAC? I'm cheap and don't want to pay $7 lol
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
I don't own the phone yet. It's something I'm strongly considering and ROM support was one thing I was looking at.

In addition to wanting to modify the power menu there are other things I can do with my Nexus 5 using a custom ROM. Some are not that important and there are probably no deal-breakers but here's a list of cool things I wonder if the V30/+ has:

Ability to disable automatic OTA updates (aka have actual control over my own device. I'm not buying an iPhone here...).

Option to allow volume down/up to enter/exit DND mode.

Status bar icon modification (which icons display. For example I can disable BT icon even though I have it enabled).

Carrier label modification/disabler (change it from saying ATT to something else or disable completely as well as color/font/font size modification).

Clock position, AM/PM size, Date case, Date format, Date position, status bar font, status bar font size.

Battery indicator adjustment (I like the Cyanogenmod style; a number of the percentage inside of a circle representing that number).

Center time/date.

Long-press power button for flashlight when screen is locked (automatic-off set by user. I use 1 minute).

When pressing volume buttons the ability to access non-ringtone volumes and slide them to adjust are available.

Ability to adjust how each app is permitted to show notifications (allow fullscreen interruption/don't allow, never peek/always peek, etc...).

Option to set how long a peek notification will show for.

Option to turn screen on or leave it off when receiving a notification.

Ability to modify lock screen shortcuts.

Memory (consumption/available) in recent apps page.

Clear all recent apps button on apps page (this was removed from Android in Version 6 IIRC).

Ability to enable a lock icon on apps in recent apps page so that they aren't cleared when clearing all apps out from that page.

Ability to modify if I hear a sound (and which sound) and if the phone vibrates when being connected/disconnected from a power source.

Ability to change volume steps in volume panel.

As I go through my phone's features I realize that the V30/+ don't have a notification LED :( I love that thing. I think you can see that I basically miss a lot of old features from Android 4 and on that were removed from the OS.

Also, I've never used Oreo because I can't get any OREO ROMs to flash on my re-partitioned Nexus 5 so I don't really know what has changed in detail since Android 7.1.2.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Mrxyzl:
Wait for pie build, [MENTION=3475147]SGCMarkus[/MENTION] already put the commit for DaC
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
[MENTION=5579582]sneak310[/MENTION] Some of those features are available on LOS 15.1. Something like RR or DU will be the best bet for extensive customizing. Once you go to custom rom, ota's are not an issue. You can freeze or disable ota on stock. It still does a check on reboot though.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
I figured it would have some of the features. Are you able to point out which it doesn't have (or which it has, if that is the lesser between the two)?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
Well the Nexus 5 had a very vibrant modding community revolving around it even early on... or are you not counting that because it was a Google release?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/development

Pick a rom. Features are listed
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] TPMJB:
omg that's awesome!!!

You're going to raise my blood pressure. I had the Nexus 5X. The great phone that didn't have a microSD slot that I had encrypted, and had this leeeeeetle factory flaw that caused it to not be able to boot.

I managed to pull my data off in time before it crapped out again. Freezer trick extended its life by a tiny bit to get my data. Now it won't boot at all, so I can't even use the fix.

Oh yeah, and to answer your question no, I don't count it. It's a Google phone. Google steps in and supports the developers. Notice how we could only bootloader unlock through an exploit? Yeah LG hates us. It's not even that they don't care - they actively hate us. We extend the life of their phones so we don't buy their newer phones bogged down with bloatware.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
Obviously if I want to see the features of a third-party ROM I would check there. I'm asking about the stock ROM since you brought it up.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
I'm talking about the 5, not the 5X (it also didn't have an SD slot but I knew this was a tradeoff going in to the purchase. It was a $350 phone with high-end specs).
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
I did say "for me". I don't require much of my phone.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
So the answer is "no", you won't answer?
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] TPMJB:
Yeah, I know. I also know they are both LG. Read my edit. LG hates us.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
Obviously
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
Well, LG made the phone but it seems that Google was merely offering it as their officially promoted phone and probably largely due to the fact it was stock Android. I thought one of the big selling points of it being an LG/Google phone was that it would receive Android updates first in line, before regular LG phones and others?

Also, regarding the phone holding up.. I've had a physically broken power button for a while which if it gets toggled a certain way it will bootloop the phone but other than that the phone seems to be holding up well. For some reason even if I re-partition it I cannot boot an Oreo ROM once flashing the ROM and GApps though. I have a family member who got one shortly after I did and they've had multiple issues with the battery overheating and expanding and eventually started having issues with data connectivity. They recently replaced it with a Huawei Mate SE. I really loved the Nexus 5 and the V30/+ looks like a real good replacement. I like high performance phones for a low price.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] TPMJB:
There's some defect with Snapdragon 808 chipsets (I think.) Mine went into bootloop because of it. I think it was traced back to ****ty solder being used, because we don't learn from our mistakes in the past, and the very costly RRoD issue for Xbox 360s apparently means nothing to these people. There's a fix that disables some of the cores now, which seems to be a palliative measure that works for a few months before the other cores fry.

God I hope someone was fired for that.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] sneak:
You said that "for you" stock has an edge over LineageOS but before that you said "this device is a decent experience with stock". That's why I asked questions about the stock ROM you praised. If you don't want to talk about it, don't bring it up. You're like those people who answer Amazon questions with "I don't know".
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] Xblackberryuser:
Thank you! I'm glad your an understanding soul. I won't post stoned again. Carry on.
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] TPMJB:
If you pick up this phone, I'd try the treble ROMs. I'm using havoc, which I also used on the Axon 7 and I love it! Aside from nfc being borked it runs perfect. Also battery is amazing.

I'm excited for a pie ROMs in the future that has the DAC!
[LG V30 Questions & Answers] 3165dwayne:
The Quad DAC finally works on AOSP?

Which apps do you guys use to get the Quad DAC to work? This is the only reason why I have yet to get rid of LG"s awful software.

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[LG V30 Questions & Answers] ChazzMatt:
If you have root, you can use Adaway. Don't need custom ROM. There's also similar ad blockers like Blokada.

If you read the WTF INSTRUCTIONS I recommend Reboot Recovery app with root privileges. Shortcut on desktop boots you straight to TWRP custom recovery.

There's also lots of Magisk modules that can do specific things. Perhaps even power menu stuff.

I'm running one right now to enable dual speaker mode.
[General Topics] penth:
I have a ViewSonic V210 I got off of ebay and flashed it with the only firmware image available from viewsonic. I was a bit shocked when the thing rebooted and I had no wifi. I've looked everywhere trying to figure out what I need to do to get the wifi working on this thing again. Someone said it's possible to get it back and told me to ask here. I have access to Windows CE 4.2 platform builder to try to build a platform but I don't really know much about building a CE image. I just wanted to make the thing like new and it destroyed it instead. Any help would be appreciated.
[General Topics] laproxima:
Re. Viewsonic V210 Windows CE 4.2 Image

I am experiencing the same problem. The V210 panel I originally purchased from Ebay had image version 2.2.0061.0 on it, and WiFi worked. Then I flashed it with the OS image available from ViewSonic (http://www.viewsonic.com/support/drivers_airsync.htm) and now it has version 2.0.0023.0 and NO WiFi.

For months now I've been searching the net for a fix, but have found nothing.
[General Topics] fitzy75:
I've got one of these v210 units too but mine has image 2.2.0067.1 on it.

I was going to flash mine with the image thats on the viewsonic website but I couldn't get it to flash, good job it didn't!

If anyone can tell me how to dump my current working image I will send it to you to get you up and running again :)
[General Topics] richiegp:
RE: V210 image

Hi guys,

I have had exactly the same problem with the V210. I bought it to control media player or RDP depending and flashed to the updated firmware from viewsonic's website. I lost wireless. Having just bought it (over a a year ago now), I emailed viewsonic. You couldnt find a less helpful bunch. Apparently, I had to wait for a single tech support person to come back off holiday, and when he did it took about 2 months to get him to answer any questions. Apparently, I need to re-flash the firmware to a different version...and...wait for it....solder on the mainboard a new wireless mini-card.

It has been a year now, I am still waiting for both the firmware and the wireless card that he promised was coming after repeated emails... the end of my business with viewsonic I think.

Anyone got any more news?

Cheers
[General Topics] g4linux:
V210 image

Hi - Hope to be some help.

I'm new....

I had the same problem with some flashed V210 with wireless. But later got some working V210 units.

I've rom dumped a VSMW24668-1W - 2.2.0039.0 build and a VSMW24668-3W - 2.2.0061.2 build. Wrote a perl script that constructed a workable wince bin flash image - fed a configuration file to the script. And was able to repair both my non-working units.

I don't really know what I'm doing - just studied with a hex editor and tried to get it right. Worked for me.

My units has the ISLP1 wireless card and the Prism1 wireless card.

I was unable to get any help from anybody and don't know the legality of passing these images. Send me a message if interested and any ideas on passing the zipped/bin images.

Thanks,
[General Topics] cyberhatter:
Nice Work

That's awesome. I've been in contact with Viewsonic and have access to their support ftp server, and there isn't anything available because they discontinued the V210. If they are unable or unwilling to provide necessary support for their product, you can bet they're not going to get excited about the legal/copyright issues relating to fixing their products for free.

I'd use Rapidshare.com to upload your image after you zip it. The URL will allow other to download it whether they're a member or not. If there is any copyright complaint, Rapidshare will take down the file.
[General Topics] g4linux:
V210 Images

Thanks!

As suggested I've uploaded the files to rapidshare.

Likely would not need to use the v210_3w_boot.zip image as I haven't seen the boot to be a problem and it is not tested like the others...

ViewSonic USBUpdate drivers - read the readme will give clues on using the below images.

http://rapidshare.com/files/179063318/UsbUpdatev210-10-03.zip

v210_1w_2.2.0039.0.zip - Contains 2.2.0039.0 build from a v210 VSMW24668-1W built from my scripts.

v210_3w wince image - Contains 2.2.0061.2 build from a v210 VSMW24668-3W built from my scripts.

http://rapidshare.com/files/179063323/v210_3w.zip

v210_3w boot image: Constructed a boot flash image from a working VSMW24668-3W have not had to use it.

http://rapidshare.com/files/179063324/v210_3w_boot.zip

Hope they will be of use as I have found them to be.

Thanks,

g4linux
[General Topics] g4linux:
v210 Images

Looks like I missed one.

v210_1w_2.2.0039.0.zip - Contains 2.2.0039.0 build from a v210 VSMW24668-1W built from my scripts.

http://rapidshare.com/files/179063319/v210_1w_2.2.0039.0.zip

Thanks,

g4linux
[General Topics] cyberhatter:
You're a hero in the V210 community. I've heard many horror stories (me included) of people who blindly installed the latest nk.bin from Viewsonic, only to discover they had no wi-fi afterward.

Just updated mine with the .39 image and everything's back to beautiful. WIFI comes right up and the screen brightness is once again controllable! Yippee!!

FYI, I used the APTEST utility (invisible app in the Windows folder) to Update the NK. Had to Erase Flash manually first (boot panel while holding down keyboard button)
[General Topics] donhelt:
ViewSonic v210

Hope you both don't mind me getting involved in your thread here about the v210... but hat's off to both of you for keeping the v210 interest!

I happen to own 3 of these ViewSonic v210 panels, none of which fully worked before. And thanks to your efforts and posts, one of them works

almost completely now. You guys are good!

But I still need some help...

- Panel #1, with image 2.2.0039.0, works fine except it has no Wifi (can see my home wireless network but will not connect)

- Panel #2: with image 2.2.0061.2, works fine, has Wifi, but can't "Remote Desktop"

- Panel #3: with image 2.2.0067.1, works fine except it has no Wifi (can see my home wireless network but will not connect)

Perhaps we can help eachother out. If you can help me get my panels working correctly, then (with your help), perhaps we can get the image version of 2.2.0067.1 of my panel and get it to you (since it seems to be the latest version).

Look forward to your responses...
[General Topics] g4linux:
v210 wireless

I've had issues with some wireless routers - AT&T 2wire, netgear - WPA won't work.

My resolution was to install aegis and disable the Use windows to manage network. The problem is I can't find where to get aegis from any more and am guessing it can no longer be had.

http://rapidshare.com/files/196496192/aegis2.1.4.0.zip

Hopefully the above link will stay up for a bit.

I install to permanent spot.

Fix up it's startup short cut to have the correct path to the permanent spot.

Find pregedit and run and change HKLM->Explorer->Shell Folders Startup to point to the location of the start up folder - that way will survive a reset.

I'm assuming you have Prism wireless card go to advance disable the use windows to configure my wireless settings.

Maybe power off and on to save the registry stuff.

Startup the AEGIS_START and don't need any identity stuff then configure you wireless card listed for your network - work for me on my hostile wireless wpa networks.

Let me know how that goes for you.

Here is my old version of pregedit.

http://rapidshare.com/files/203353358/pregedit.zip

I'll post my routine on creating flash images from the rom on next post.

Hope that helps some,

g4linux
[General Topics] g4linux:
v210 rom dump

Here is the quick and dirty routine I use.

My script and example configs. My example configs are likely unix text format, the script doesn't care if dos text file or unix text file.

http://rapidshare.com/files/203361253/q_makeb000ff_rom.zip

Here are the steps I use to dump the image which then I use the linux version of hexedit to do my research. I'm sure this can be done with some hex program on windows and install activestate Perl to run the perl script if needed.

Use XDA utilits pmemdump.exe to dump the rom contents which I use a small xp machine and use Microsoft Activelink to talk to the device.

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=XdaUtils Actually not sure which version I use - I think 20080313.zip version.

Boot rom location is at 0x98300000.

Start of wince rom is at 0x98380000 and top of that rom location is about 36M from 0x98380000 (0x240000). after the 36M appears to be other stuff like maybe the registry stuff - unsure.

Changing to the xdautils (on the windows machine) directory dump 0x98380000 for 0x02400000 (36M)

pmemdump requires the hex numbers be 8 digits long. 0x########

pmemdump 0x98380000 0x02400000 ..\v210_wincerom.raw

Then I copy the raw rom image over to my linux system for research. Could of course be windows....

Using hexedit - providing if only dump 36M from 0x98380000.

Use > to get to end/bottom.

With cursor on hex side Ctrl R to search backward and look for hex 80 (looking for a reasonable non-zero last location).

Then put cursor on last non-zero after the hex 80 - and record last position.

If creating a image from the rom image.

Create a config file for parsing the rom image - .

0x98380000 #rom offset

0x0:v210_wincerom.raw #inputfile offset:filename

0x0:0x23ec5a3 #first:last verify with hexeditor the last spot

0x1000 #rom entry

0x0:0x3 #segments start:end

0x40:0x47 #etc....

0x1000:0x23ec5a3 # etc... verify with hexeditor the last

So the above 0x23ec5a3 in the first:last spot and the last segment spot would be my recorded last spot in the rom dump.

And also the second line must have the file name of the raw image to read.

Then it is just a matter of running the makeb000ffrom.pl script to build the flash image.

perl makeb000ffrom.pl configfile outputwince_image

perl makeb000ffrom.pl 2.2.0061.2.cfg v210_2.2.0061.2_wince.bin

Thats the rough steps I go through.

Thanks,

g4linux
[General Topics] g4linux:
v210 wince image

Here is a additional v210 image v210 2.2.0067.1 .

Seems the image is getting smaller compared to the previous ones.

Not sure what is different, but seems to work and is the latest I have.

http://rapidshare.com/files/217099632/v210_2.2.0067.1_wince.zip

Thanks,

g4linux

--- differences in 2.2.0061.2 and 2.2.0067.1 ---

Maybe some WinCE 4.2 updates - unsure - newer time stamps - maybe around 09/13/2005.

PRISMA00.dll one version newer.

Citrix has a lot more files in its directories.

Sprint aircard 550 stuff has been removed in 67.

Sprint PC connection manager stuff removed in 67.

Sierra Wireless 550 stuff removed in 67

Transcriber stuff removed in 67.

VShell included in 67.

The Internet browser button no longer brings up IE like it does on 61 - unknown why.

OH and Big Plus!! WPA network security now works with my AT&T 2Wire wireless router - where it did not work out of the box with 61.

Thanks,

g4linux
[General Topics] jcdillin:
Hello,

I just flashed my V210 with the v210 2.2.0067.1 image, the last one in this thread. But now all I get on the unit is a screen with different colors and strange fading lines. If I press on the screen I can hear clicks so I know the unit is running just without video. I tried hooking up an external monitor but I can't see anything.

Is there any alternate ways to load firmware on this thing so I can try other versions? At least so I don't have a big paperweight? :)

Thanks
[General Topics] jcdillin:
So i've been playing with it some more, I found the USB update application from viewsonic. I've tried going back to the firmware from the viewsonic site and all I still get is colored lines on the screen.

Is there some steps i'm missing?
[General Topics] jcdillin:
So after yet more playing I think the issue may be that my unit is a V210x and not just a straight 210. I was able get a raw boot image from a friend but when I run the perl script on it and try to upload the rom file to the device it just locks up in mid upload. which is the same problem i'm having with the boot rom file from earlier in this thread.
[General Topics] davec709:
V210x Image

jcdillin, I have a v210x with the same problem. Have you found a solution? If not, I would like to help solve this. I agree with you that it looks like a video driver issue with the 1024X768 display on the 210x.