[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bob Simons:
good news, i think. I'm Clinically insane. that's the good enws

I tried to fix the title but that can't be fixed. I meant of course, good news.

You all know the line about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? It's from an Einstein quote but Einstein died in 1955 before computers were common. I basically reinstalled the AT&T rom and it worked with the latest Google Play services (v17.1.22) automatically installed and without AT&T updates installing away.

The reason why this was a crisis was because the AT&T update grinds away and then drops to recovery to do the install and TWRP breaks that chain and nothing happens. Whatever is in the script only works in the default recovery. Instead TWRP just sits there with no instructions and when you reboot to the system the same thing happens again. It’s more or less a more fancy boot loop. So it seemed to me that I had two choices: the first was to be told where to go with the TWRP file manager to remove the AT&T update so it wouldn’t launch the update process again, or to reinstall and hope for a different result. I tried searching on "file locations android updates" "android update download" and several variations but all was meaningless. No one seemed to understand my confused cry for help, here at XDA, above. So I started over.

I'm in IT and have been for about 30 years. I know the first rule, to a user in distress, is to tell them to do it again and hope for a different result. If they’ve done it, then we’ll look at it. Now, that’s of course not quite true but close enough. So I made sure i had the rom and Magisk 18.0 on the SD card and I installed the rom and Magisk. Curiously, it was as it should be. Before, Play Services would endlessly try to download and then drop back to the play page with the download option and meanwhile I couldn’t stop the “starting update in 10 seconds and then back to TWRP.” Now neither is happening. That to me is success.

Now I have to wipe my 64 gig SD card and do a complete backup capable of reverting to this moment in time and then install the two missing updates, the AT&T modem.img and the Anxious update, currently v233. I[m not sure what is the best way to do it but I figure I should do a TWRP backup checking all 9 boxes, inholding for example the modem.

So, this is maybe the 5th time I’ve had to wipe the phone and start over if I include the US998 in my attempts to get it working on AT&T with "HD Voice" which is a precondition for WIFI calling and for an enhanced Caller ID called "Call Protect" with an enhanced feature at $3.99 a month whose name I can’t recall. It identifiers mobile callers by name and generally tells you i a caller is on a scammer list AT&T will not activate HD voice on a BYOD or BYOP (there are two categories amazingly)

What ChazzMatt aid about my situation was true. AT&T insisted that there are two types of H931s, ones blessed by contact with their cash registers and ones that had not. They insisted that on their magic control programs, they could easily identify t6wo types of H931s: real ones and ersatz ones that ant34ed to be real but would be forever denied., I asked how that could be since they had the same software load set and they said they didn’t know but it was as true as anything could be. I tried the only thing available to me and that was to call again and interestingly I got the same line.

So I called the eBay vendor, "Unlocked-kingdom" and asked them if I’d have a problem returning the US998 and buying an H932 (t-mo) or H931 (at&t). They said no problem and no restocking fee as long as it's within 30 days. I also asked them if they'd ever heard the story about magic and doomed H931s and HD voice and they said it was not true and they their phones would provision just fine and if I was willing to by a second phone they’d agree to take them both back if I found them to be wrong.

I currently have a v20 t-mo H918 and T-mo takes it as if it was theirs and everything works. But a single line on t-mo is $60 a month and an additional line on AT&T would be (for a fo0urth unlimited line) only cost $20 a month. SO it was worth it to see if I could survive the horror of life on AT&T.

And the unlocked kingdom phone works if you ignore the issues of updates that can’t be installed (sometimes) and updates that aren’t stopped by unclicking the "automatic updates box in settings. I ran tibu and froze Software Update 8.0.0 and Software update 1.17.01. I think the former is the OS update control as I’m ion Android 8.0.0 but I thought I'd play it safe.

So, if an6ione is still with me after all this, I have two questions:

does anyone know which services I should freeze for best performance on an H93 1 rom for an AT&T user and does any one know the best way to back everything up in case I) screw things up and need to restore and go back to a better day?

Thanks to anyone whose put up with this rambling tale.

---------- Post added at 07:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:38 AM ----------

it takes far more than 10 seconds to fire up tibu and list all; the apps and then search for the ones you need to freeze. I did try it numerous times. the update would wrench control away and close any other apps. It's OK now.

thanks again for all your help