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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] br0adband:
I don't play games, but I recently did get a Daydream View VR headset from another member here (thanks again!) and was playing with that a few days ago when it arrived. Still haven't installed any games on it and I may never do it, it's more of something to experiment with than anything else.

Dark theme as already mentioned (I'm on Oreo so the LG G8 dark theme on the Play Store works fine, I know the Pie update breaks some aspects but I think there's a fix for it somewhere that I saw mention of). I use dark themes with every app that I can - I keep my brightness at 50% always except for instances where I'm in a really bright environment like outdoors or someplace with excessive fluorescent lighting (at never more than 90% brightness) or watching videos (75%). NEVER use 100% brightness, seriously, it's a waste of power and the OLED display in the V30 doesn't like it, no OLEDs do really, the 90% point (tap the brightness icon on the notification dropdown once or twice and you'll see it) is more than enough.

I don't use Bluetooth save for the Daydream View thing but that was just for a few hours and honestly I kept the damned phone plugged in (thank some higher power for long USB-C cables) when I did it. I only use Google Voice for my "phone calls" and texts so I rarely ever enable the cellular at home and only when I'm out.

I kill apps I'm not using, don't care how efficient the Snapdragon 835 might be, or Oreo, if I'm not using an app it's not gonna sit there so my recent apps list is almost always empty. I don't use social media crap like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, etc, just Discord and Hangouts to keep in touch with people, and a lot of Flipboard and Google News activity but really that's pretty much it.

Biggest tip: TURN DOWN THE DAMNED BRIGHTNESS. Seriously. Run it at 50% or even less as often as you possibly can, disable auto-brightness, and learn to not use more than necessary - the brightness of the display is still the single largest waste of power on smartphones in general and it can be cut in half or more by just lowering it and not having max brightness all the time like I see so many people do.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
So i really see a hard decision Here again like on Xperias.

Stock feels good to me and has some nice Features Like the DAC Switch. But AOSP will give extra Battery Life and LG was slow with the Updates. Android Q will be a huge Update that comes These Days and i'm not even sure If the V30 will get it officially one Day. So in View of Support would it make more Sense for Me to Work with AOSP in theory...

Will unlock My Baby today and Play a bit around. Thanks for all the Input Folks! Feels already good to be here in the Forum (:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThePigletWhisperer:
Greetings all.

I'm in dilemma so I need your advice. Little background first.

Had the LG g5 h850, Was completely pleased with it, until I smashed it by accident. Went to a sammy s9+, which is a very good all around phone..

However, I'm considering coming back to LG.

The exynos devices have next to 0 gcam support wheres Gcam on the G5 was just perfect. no need to edit the pictures after, the color balance was great, very sharp, plus night mode.

I barely play games, so I doubt the older chipset will matter.

My only concern is about the 4 gigs of ram since i heavily multitask.

I can find the us998 vesrion for around 170e refurb from china but I can't find the 6 gig version, Was it sold only in the US or something?

Anyhow my choices are

LG v30 refurb - 170e

new xiaomi Mi mix 2s - 250

new redmi k20 pro - 300

I'm more inclined to go for the v30, what would you do?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Cruel, can't unlock My Device because My Surface Pro 3 can't handle the Power from the USB3.1 V30 Port in Fastboot. Windows said: "Overpowered USB Connection" once i rebooted into the Bootloader... Any Suggestions? Or do i need to use a modern PC?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] idntknoyunw:
How about using a crappy cord?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_infinity:
That's weird. Install lg bridge. It'll ask do you some driver updates say yes to that and try again

PS: Search in the root thread if someone's already had that issue if not ask in that thread or a separate thread with appropriate title, that way you'll get better support.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Actually older PC/laptop like Windows 7 often works better. ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Tried a USB 2 and a USB 3.0 Cable, they did the sams like My UGreen USB 3.1 and the one from LG. Think i could use a USB Hub with own Power supply... Maybe.

Drivers are fine, but the USB Connection kills my Port completely that i need to reboot before it works again with other USB stuff. So it might be a Hardware Problem, even If they Said USB is downwards compatible...

Wish i could use Win 7 on My Surface but Google Said No... Could it be Software related (My Issue)?

I'm thinking about to buy a German Laptop for 300 Bucks that has USB C and USB 3.1. so that should Work 100%!? Will ask My Father tomorrow If i can try his PC...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] idntknoyunw:
I've purchased 5 phones from these guys with excellent service.

Let me add that thier shipping is a little slow but well within their time frame that they state at about 14days. It actually arrives in 8 to 10.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-UNOPEN...artphone-128G-Silver-/233149360311?nav=SEARCH
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Hello, Miustone. I know you from Sony xz premium forum. Did you sell that piece of crap!? Got the v30? Or are you rockin both? Cheers man!

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I really think snapdragon 835 is one of the best cpus out there. Remember having it in my xz premium, this CPU it's just flying. Changed to 845, now 855 and for me these are just renamed 835 CPU flags, qcomm added some isp codecs for 4k60 fps and now with supersteady and video portraits.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Gave it to My Ex and she cracked it :crying::laugh:

The V30 will be My Primary Phone from now, will Focus with Development on that...

Funny that we switched both at the End to LG. Couldn't believe that after LG fckd hard with the G5 which i Had before the Axon 7 and XZ Premium... But it's a nice Device. Can't wait to Play with the Software...

And Yeha, thinking the Same about the Last Snapdragons, it's my Fourth Device with SD835. Imagine there are phones out there with 1080p Panels and USB 2.0 powered by SDM855.... lol
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Trust me on this, sd845 and 855 have only isp and some useless ai improvements. On isp they just write some codecs in the libraries, I bet just in software.

Anyway, I had an g3 back in 2013 I think, still rocking now my father. Just changed one battery. It it the 3gb 32gb. Then bought one for my mother, then one for my wife's mother. Best phone ever, the g3. Also it started with KitKat and I guess it's rocking pie now. The only phone that can do this. Sd801 was another legend. I got the g7+ 128 and 6gb then sold it as new, not a single microscopic scratch. Now I'm rocking v50. Outstanding! :cowboy: Nice to see you again. I'll keep an eye on v30 forum as the v50 has only one active user, me, and like 3-4 owners registered on xda. I saw a little activity on reddit...

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For me it was the DT2W knock code. That got me triggered.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mrxyzl:
Actually, v30 user only boom up after the wtf method is found... So yeah if v50 unlockable then it will be more active
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
For Oreo and Nougat before that, LG optimized the heck out of the stock firmware. It's fast, smooth. I've never said "This phone needs more RAM". (I would never turn down more RAM -- I'm just saying I've never thought that like I did about my previous phone I was using in 2017.)

6GB US998R (R for more RAM) -- also called "US998 V30S" -- was sold in the U.S. by B&H Photo for around 6 months in 2018. There were some other 6GB V30S sold in South Korea but I don't know the model numbers just offhand. Last time I checked, eBay dealers just wanted too much money for the US998 V30S -- like $400. I'd considered buying one, but then I looked at my rooted, modded V30+ and decided it's quite fine as it is.

No, I wouldn't turn down a V30S, but I'm not going to pay over twice the price just for 2GB RAM I'm not missing -- on Oreo.

However, this was the complaint about buggy Pie -- which hopefully LG has fixed with the newest releases. It was NOT optimized like Oreo and Nougat.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
I remembered this, back from when I had the xz-premium...

https://youtu.be/dKk7F9uEWJ8

This stayed in my mind until I switched to G7+.

That intro video in 4k from helicopter did it!

Enjoy!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Hardwareporn!

We have a third hidden Mic!? Awesome! And so easy to repair... I like this Device more and more!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Yes, the earpiece speaker turns into 3rd microphone during high decibel environments.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
I wonder how AOSP would handle that... I know there is a 3rd Mic Implementation in Android. But that was initially meant for Devices with Endfire+ (Top+Bottom+Rear Mics) while Endfire/Broadside (Qualcomm) was meant for Devices with 2 Mics (Top+Bottom or Bottom+Rear Mics). So i would Imagine LG did a Special Implementation which will only Work correctly on Stock right!?

Think HTC did Something like that too in the Past with 4 Mics... Read Something about that in Qualcomm Sources...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ThePigletWhisperer:
Thanks so much for the reply.

I'm really leaning toward the v30 now

yes the mi mix 2s has the pixel 3's sensor, and yes it has 6 gigs of ram, and outrageous amount of custom roms, BUT no 3.5mm jack, no micro sd card and more expensive also...

I guess the perfect phone does no exist

I'll prob go for the v30 us998 version and use the wtf method to make if into an h930. IS there any hardware difference btw between them?

If I install LOS 16 what features will I loose, besides stock camera (the pro video does look quite cool)

Thanks again
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Unlocked My H930... Let the Development begin ?☺️
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_infinity:
Nice.

Welcome to the gang :fingers-crossed:;):D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Hehe, Thanks! Made my first test and found out that My Tools aren't running from the Updater Script. Posted in the TWRP Thread to found out whats going on: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=80176658&postcount=445

Flashed Havoc for now and made a Backup of Stock. Can't wait to get my sh** running :fingers-crossed:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
So i will work with Stock and Look Forward to geht a V50 or V60 next... LG did a pretty nice Job on the Firmware. I'm amazed after some First edits. Camera stopped working but everything else is awesome yet...

Stock ROM/Patches will come soon! V40 and V50 may be also able to use it...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_infinity:
Nice:D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
Hey, i see You're putting a lot of effort in this Device... So You might be able to tell Me if we can get Treble Support on the V30. Since it came with Nougat is there no official Support for it but i've seen our TWRP is supporting Vendor Partitions and was wondering if for example XenonHD comes with a Vendor Image that we could use together with the Kernel to use GSIs!? I would mind supporting the Vendor Images with fixes and optimizations but i can't compile anything atm. since i'm caged with My Surface Pro...

Would just love to see the efforts on this Device Unified on Treble which would allow us to use a wide range of ROMs up to Ports and Android 10...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_infinity:
I don't really know much. I'll try to point you in the right direction.

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/how-to/guide-decent-android-p-gsi-experience-t3833044

This is a thread about gsi for v30. You'll hopefully find details you need and knowledge people from there.

Afaik we don't use gsi and vendor image for ROMs here.

But a few Chinese people mentioned and shared links to gsi ROMs like MIUI and oxygen os of V30 telegram group.

Right now all ROMs are based on Oreo blobs. [MENTION=3475147]SGCMarkus[/MENTION] is currently working on los16 with pie blobs but it has sim Card detection issues. He's also looking into Android 10 for V30. He's the main guy for all things aosp here. :cowboy:

Probably [MENTION=6642180]Mrxyzl[/MENTION] could answer you better than me.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
After some research do i stay with Stock Development on LG Devices. I can't use adb/fastboot commands or compile anything atm. so the Choice is pretty easy... Besides that i would miss some small features i recently found on Stock. But thanks for the Infos and good luck with the comming and running Development! I will keep an eye on it and contribute if possible :cowboy:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Alibaba0101:
Just bought a v40 for testing. Will have vlad bootloader unlock it first thing and see where it goes. Not very hopeful that its a good replacement for the v30+
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_infinity:
Looking forward to your development :cowboy::D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_infinity:
Markus also has v40 so development on it will be pretty good
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
Depends how well everything goes (atm compiling Q)... so lets see. TWRP doesnt work as i want it to atm fully, and the US V40 needs different firmware files it seems compared to the european one... annoying :/
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miustone:
The Situation on the V30 is as bad as it was on the LG G5 if i remember right... The Data Encryption stuff is weird and AOSP based stuff doesn't felt fine like on a Pixel. I was pretty amazed about finding a DAC Toggle on AOSP and the overall usability, but 9.0 Release/Test Keys are the stuff i'm waiting for...

And Treble/Vendor usage would ease up a lot of Things if i'm not wrong!? Isn't there any Development right now? I just found a Oreo based LOS with Vendor Image from You... My Mi Mix 2 is based on a SD835 and uses Pie Vendor/Treble on AOSP for example. Official Lineage OS comes also with a Vendor Image which i used for GSIs. The main difference was i don't had to add a Vendor Partition manually after using Stock. I just wiped My Device, flashed LOS and had a Treble (A-Only) Base. What's the Problem on the V30? Why are the actual AOSP ROMs coming without Vendor Images/Treble? (Asking kindly and noobish) :angel:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] brombadeg:
I had redmi k20 (9t), not pro, and lots of other xiaomis, but did not like it. I'm happy now on V30+ H932 (second hand). I think the camera hw is better on the xiaomi having the quad Bayer sensor, the GCam port worked out of the box with no lag, as in LG it suffers a lot saving and processing the pic. (gcam 6.1 Adv.v1.7)

But still, I prefer LG now as it is:

-not as heavy

-sleek design

-OIS

-cheaper :)

-supports all bands

-lot better audio let it be jack or speaker mics.

I am also getting "only" 4-5 hrs SOT with no social media apps. Might swap out the battery as the batter apps say it has now only 2400 juice. Still enough for one+ day.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Emu:
For 200 it's the cheapest high quality 32bit DAC music player you will ever get. So for that alone it's worth it. Nothing sounds as good as LG's built-in DAC and now that Galaxy Note switched to USB audio (YIKES!!!!) there are no more high quality DACs built into non-Chinese high end phones other than LG. If you never had a phone with a DAC you won't miss anything. But once you listen to the V30 and then go back to a regular phone you'll understand why we stay with LG. Their hardware is among the best of the best.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] joarce:
Which app do you use for mah battery stats?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
I made a LOS16 once (for testing only) with vendor and treble enabled... it was able to boot, but Pie GSIs (AOSP, some OEM stuff, and so) didnt work :confused: (even though back then the Q DP2 or DP3 GSI somehow worked lol)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] brombadeg:
I use two now:

3C Batter Monitor Pro

AccuBattery
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jmudrick:
It was Darko's videos about using the V30 as an audiophile streamer that got my interest up. Now on Pie with my $140 V30+ and loving the unit as mostly a dedicated music player (Qobuz/400GB FLAC --USBAPP--HE4XX) and secondary camera. Only semi-compatible with Google Fi so likely won't use it as go-to phone but that's not why I got it. Really couldn't be happier with it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3STUR:
Edit: nevermind questions answered
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jreed3786:
I definitely tried AOSP and stock Magisk...the drawbacks like OK Google either not working or having to say it twice quickly to activate it...is enough to stay stock and rooted. BATTERY life is by far the best I've ever had on any flagship phone...And that even goes for the Note 10 and S10+. The LG G8 screen, size and weight are all lacking in comparison...side by side...so honestly, this is the overall best phone out there. Sad but true. No drawbacks in getting the V30 other than possibly game processing power and lack of 5G.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Agreed.

And 5G won't really matter for a couple more years, to be honest. No matter the hype from the carriers. ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kerdelgreen767:
my v30 got stolen and i was thinking of "upgrading"

u guys are making it hard for me to move on.

might as well get the 128GB version and stay where i'm comfortable.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jreed3786:
Sadly, I'd agree! My S10+ sits in a drawer...battery life is king with this phone. And it can still be dev'd on.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kerdelgreen767:
so finally got my v30+

seller said it was a US-998 but sticker on the back clearly says LS-998 lol

settings says it a US-998 on 30b

since its apparently already frankensteined do i simple need to downgrade to 998 nougat then upgrade to oreo via frankenstein method to unlock bootloader and root?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Since it's already on USS98 firmware (already converted), merely downgrade to US998 Oreo 20a/20b. No need to go back to Nougat, since you're not cross flashing from LS998. The seller already did that for you.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] downwiththebanksters:
There was a link to an eBay seller earlier in this thread, but that was several months old. Does anyone have a reliable seller for one of these? The G8X seems interesting, but this phone is still so good...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
See PM I just sent you.
[Huawei Mate 20 Lite Questions & Answers] Benjaminayres93:
Hey can any you help at all?

My P20 mate lite suddenly went unresponsive, plug it on charge no charging lights shows up, Even on the screen it doesn't say charging. Ive Tried turning the phone on/off no luck, tried rebooting it into safe mode, but for some reason it seems like the buttons have stopped working, therefore I cannot clear the phones cache.. Is there anyway I may be able to bring the phone back alive..

If I plug into the pc it makes the connected noise on the PC but nothing shows up on the pc or phone.. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you
[Huawei Mate 20 Lite Questions & Answers] waskica:
Maybe you can try with HiSuite on PC

Maybe you can try with HiSuite on PC
[Huawei Mate 20 Lite Questions & Answers] Gazment Merka:
It happens me before some days, i tried everything but nothing, i cant enter in safe boot, or to clear cache.. i send it in service fron the shop, and after 15 days they fixed, but they changed : Electrical components replaced SW update and functional test carried out. Board exchanged new imei, this was explained to me.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] andrei80:
Tested by me by updating from .286 to .311 because I didn;t have the patience to wait for OTA. No data loss(unless you decide to do Factory reset afterwards). Newer versions than .311 might have some certification issues with Google play, but .311 works perfectly for me, so I recommend it.

Here it goes, credits go to [MENTION=6175404]gmanrainy[/MENTION]

https://xdaforums.com/tools/general/huawei-firmware-finder-team-mt-t3469146/page144#post79988916

LE. OTA still works after that.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Danchibald:
Successful update to 9.1.0.311!!

Tnx.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Hirusho:
Do I have to have an unlocked bootloader to update the firmware using this method ?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] andrei80:
Nope
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Danchibald:
Updated to .328 (CLT-L29 C432). Everything works without issue...
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jokamaciek:
I was on 9.0.0.195 with no further update. I have registered update .311 with FF and don't know why HiSuite dowloaded and installed 9.0.0.286. Now doesn't matter which FW I register with FF HiSuite says phone is up to date. I reinstalled HiSuite, replaced files and still "up to date". I tried eRecovery method but it says "getting package info failed". My router's DNS is changed to 188.225.84.142 but there is still error.

Any suggestions?

Additional question: when editing windows hosts file do I have to place:

"188.225.84.142 query.hicloud.com"

or

"# 188.225.84.142 query.hicloud.com" ?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] andrei80:
I think # disables the line in Hosts. Where did you see a #in the instructions? Looks to me you didn't follow them correctly. They seem pretty straight forward to me
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] scook94:
Sounds like you did something wrong. Did you visit http://query.hicloud.com/checkConnect.action after the DNS change to verify you were connected to Team MT server?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] jokamaciek:
Yes, indeed I had visited Team MT site and here are weird conclusions: on mobile which is connected to wifi with changed DNS it says error, but when trying using computer it show positive result. Today I tried again method with hisuite without changing anything and it worked! I have updated to .311 without problem but I didn't change anything. Weird but problem solved
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Johnti:
I tried several firmwares from FF, every download is, by the way, very very slow. And when it is downloaded, every time there is "no internet connection, check your network settings. Aarrh

When i visit http://query.hicloud.com/checkConnect.action, then i am connected.

I have a p20 pro L29 C432

Any ideas
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] andrei80:
There's no downloading using FF in this guide. You just use it to approve a firmware and download and install it using Hisuite.

Just follow the instructions. It's easy.

OTA appeared for me yesterday and updated to 328 btw, so OTA's not broken.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Johnti:
I don't download from FF. I download from patched HiSuite and I never said that the OTA's are broken. The downloads from HiSuite are very slow.

Indeed it's very easy only after all downloads HiSuite tells me that i have no internet connection but i have a connection
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] andrei80:
Maybe this is helpful

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=80231734&postcount=1090