[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ashtrix:
Thanks, Yeah I saw it was just thinking about it to do. It's a neat trick.

As for the Battery Replacement and new phone, Sadly things are going in a huge downward spiral.

Pixel is one of the worst offenders of Android itself. The sad part is how Google changed over the years to mimic Apple so bad, they are going to nuke the Filesystem to hell. That Pixel OS has too many issues - A/B slot is not new now, SAR is a new problem and the fused paritition systems giving headache to /recovery /system and etc, then guess what ? new Filesystem which is like Huawei ccp EROFS (I remember saying all this but just want to mention it again..) which is like read only filesystem and on top of all this mess they have the biggest disaster of all, Scoped Storage. No more folders and apps cannot read anything except for the collections, media store default folder. They added support to create new folders inside I guess as of recently but there are ton of issues still, like for instance any photo you edit goes to the app data folder and other nonsense.

S10+ and Note 9 were my devices to pick and keep V30 as a DAP but with increasing issues of LTE as you mentioned with Exynos with BL unlock I dropped it, already T-Mo has pathetic service..on top I remember that Samsung won't even touch the phone bought outside of U.S, Exynos versions for repair, meaning a battery replacement would be out of question.

Now if I pick up US version there's no BL unlock at all, and even if there's one as you mentioned above in the posts for a 1-1 custom unlock we will miss out on Debloated ROMs and customizations and only unique device to hold in XDA userbase for S10+, as from a troubleshoot perspective or share anything since already we are under 1% of world wide users running modified software, that even falls to single digits for SD based Samsung BL unlocked devices here....

What about Sony ? Xperia I Mark 2 has Qi while 5 Mark II misses out on Qi, I know you want Qi a lot. So about the 1 MII is it having LTE issues in U.S band network ? Also sadly they have that ridiculous DRM key wiping b.s yeah we can restore if we relock but that's a joke really. LG's devices have all the darn features intact from DSP to DAC even with BL unlock but Sony is really awful. LG never seems to care now, V60 forums are dry as a desert, no one gets EU versions I guess, and they only have BL unlock. It's really getting hard to buy a phone which is a good replacement. V35 that you have is great but it was abandoned by LG to have a BL unlock just like usual..

Thank you very much for your insight on this, I was expecting the same conversation when I would supposedly insist to keep the OS and all intact, but they would say " no sir that's not in our dumb policy" or was expecting what Chazz mentioned, they couldn't even care. Since I remember from old posts here about how people sent bricked devices and LG repaired them without any questions lol. So yes, I will definitely keep that idea of rolling back to Nougat KDZ and then Oreo incremental KDZs in mind. Thankfully there's no ARB in 30b !!

I don't want to go to Pie OS on this phone it's a daily driver for me, V30 engg team nailed it but they were supposed to fix the Oreo DTS X and other small issues that we did ourselves with build prop and other tricks. Still at-least they kept the 20h super optimized, I never used a phone in all these years which remained ROCK SOLID for years and had the same speed of processing, UX and every single thing just like it's new & Yes sir I will keep it Stock only. The Stock Oreo 20H is all I need for this phone with Seadersn's TWRP and our mods.

The optimization on Oreo is something extraordinary, it just feels like Win7 to me also the Vertical Card stack for Multitask is a feature which I can never lose to that horizontal blind scrolling on Pie and up it's a mess since our phones are Vertical devices with displays having horizontal software is poor, very poor design choice that Google aped from Apple. Never gave me any problems at all even the stupid 2FA for my company also works with Magisk Hide, super reliable. MSM ignored it completely..

It's a pity that LG mobile Korean heads at the corp. changed a lot since V20 and then after V30 again, probably a huge wave of changes happened at LG making their V30 HW and SW teams change a lot, thus causing the Oreo 20h being final and No stable Pie update at all, also they abandoned their fantastic notchless design, look at the bezels for a 2017 device it was ground breaking and still holds up very well, thanks to inferior hole, notch displays out there and bump of camera and camera UI....and more. I saved a copy of the V30 webpage in a JPEG format to remember this device down the memory lane hah. (Here's the imgur link for for V30+ and V30S snaps, just in case if anyone is even remotely interested in such, yeah LG or any company for that matter will remove the landing / marketing pages & also it gives us a clear look on how the marketing evolved, no more useful features, just remove and market them nowdays sells more vs the gracefully done ;))

I will only send in to LG when I have a replacement new phone. Until then I will stick to this device, I have a Stereo Speaker system preamped (yeah they are Active Bookshelf with 6.5" drivers) with Schiit Modi 3 / Liquid Spark stack. So usage of my IEMs and Headphones is completely gone. But anyways need it for some portable purposes & Car Audio, plus never going to that digital only garbage route of use and throw BT inferior audio solutions or crappy dongles :cowboy:

Oh also those Telegrams, Discords they just ruin all the fun. The open information is gated yes it's free but it's not a forum in any form and nowhere to be found later on as the etext/emessage garbage heap keeps on increasing to do a proper search in any of the channels, a big shame really, but I think the new gen love it just like all others !!