yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] schwinn8:
I'm on Total Wireless (VZ towers also)... I also recommend VS996 so that VOLTE and VOWIFI work properly. Not, previously, you could not disable/uninstall MyVerizon, otherwise these features would not work, so be aware of that. I don't know if we still need to do that with this version (someone could test).
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] nnjimmy59:
I'm getting a, 404 file not found notice when I try to download. No rush.

Thanks for all your hard work.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] :
You must have overlooked the part where he says he's building the zip file now. It's not completed just yet. He'll have it available very soon
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] JohnFawkes:
Zip is live guys
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] JohnFawkes:
Well I did say the zip wasn't uploaded yet....
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] nnjimmy59:
Sorry, reading is hard.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
You must see some of the recent posts asking about WTF instructions. ;)

After telling the one guy to please read the WTF instructions, he kept asking me questions clearly detailed in steps in the instructions.

"Does 3.2.3.7 TWRP work with this early Oreo KDZ?"

If the answer was no, I wouldn't list them together in necessary files to download, would I?

"Please give me link to download that KDZ"

It's IN the WTF instructions!

"Please give me link to the instructions."

OK, you're just trolling me now. He asked most of these questions IN the WTF thread.

____

NOW he says he's unlocked the bootloader and rooted, and wants to upgrade to Pie. I gave him link to Pie KDZ thread for his variant (which also has TWRP-flashable zip) and I've just ignored all follow-up questions, because again he's asking stuff I've written about in detail...

I'm not going to re-write everything because someone wants a "personalized" answer to some already-documented process hundreds of people have successfully completed just, following the written instructions...
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] nnjimmy59:
I know, i see all the time. I don't know how you can be so patient with some of them.

By the way, thanks again for all your help. Both here and back in the Droid Turbo days.

---------- Post added at 01:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:54 AM ----------

@JohnFawkes

Thank you so much for all your hard work. It's so much easier to have a TWRP zip to flash.

Really appreciate it.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] :
booting up process is very slow. 5 minutes now and still on verizon logo/4 dots loading. Maybe i did something wrong.......i'll give it a little more time before i restore my backup. I flashed from us998 pie, it did the same thing. So i flashed vs996 oreo then fully booted up, then clean flashed this ROM, rebooted, and it seems to be stuck. Any ideas on where i went wrong?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] HueyT:
I have the same problem. Probably have to KDZ to VS996-30c REFURBISHED (or PARTITION-DL and select all PARTITIONS) to reset the partitions for VS996-30C (from US998-30B)
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] JohnFawkes:
It's possible but shouldnt be needed since all my flash able zips modify the same partitions
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] :
do you happen to have a link to the kdz file? i cant find it anywhere
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] JohnFawkes:
its in [MENTION=3250376]ChazzMatt[/MENTION] thread here on xda
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] HueyT:
https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/development/vs996-lg-v30-vs99630a000704arb00-kdz-t3952254
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] drewcu:
Has anyone successfully dirty flashed the 30C ZIP over their 20K Oreo? Would rather not try until others verify there aren't problems with this.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I don't think GB has worked properly for a few years now, YMMV
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] canestfr:
Is it just me or is john-fawkes.com down? If so is there a mirror for the TWRP 30c ZIP?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] mac62:
Yup. Down.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] canestfr:
Bummer. Found the mirror in the KDZ thread. Thanks [MENTION=3250376]ChazzMatt[/MENTION]
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Which is why I always try to post a mirror. Stuff happens.

That's why in the Telegram group I get upset whenever someone tries to claim a link in my threads are dead. I always give at least two or three ways to download a file. Either those people aren't really looking or they want someone to spoon-feed them a file.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I went to TWRP backup and flash this but I can't mount the external SD to do either. I have TWRP-3.2.3-7-DataIMG and I'm on the OREO VS996-20k. Am I missing something important??
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Can you access any other files on the microSD card?

What happens if you copy and past the zip file from the microSD card to internal memory?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I can't access the external at all. Internal is fine, I can flash zip files from there all day long, just not the removable storage. It's not under /external or /storage or /mnt. Very strange, I can't even mount it through the twrp mount icon. Even weirder every time I enter twrp the time and date reset. It's that a known problem?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Date and time has never been right for TWRP on V30.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I wonder why the external SD though?:confused:
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Not sure. I know I had to flash this to allow me to copy from internal memory to microSD card. Maybe it will help you with accessing also.

[MODULE] ExSDCard Write Access Enabler v3.5

https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/module-exsdcard-write-access-enabler-t3670428
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I definitely already have that and it works in Android, I can find /mnt/media_rw/SDCARDNUMBER/ in root explorer. Doesn't seem to show in TWRP for some reason, would a Magisk module even work in TWRP?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
uhm, no. Magisk modules won't work in TWRP. Sorry was just trying to think of solutions.

Apologies if you have done this before. It seems you have tried, but when you go into the "Mount" TWRP menu do you even the box to check "MicroSD" card as an option? After you check mark it (if you see it as an option), you may have to reboot to Recovery from within TWRP for it to show as mounted.

I have three partitions check marked and one of those is MicroSD card.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] mamamia888:
Hmm... I can see it directly without any module, etc. My one is root/magisk H933
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I have no clue what is wrong with my device. It's a US998 flashed with Oreo VS996. If I try to Advanced > wipe Dalvic and cache it just reboots. If I try to mount the Micro SD card it flashes the checkbox and does nothing. If I try to Select Storage, Micro SD card reads 0MB and selecting it just flashes and does nothing. Browseing using File Manager and external_sd, mnt, and storage folders are all empty. As I said, TWRP version is TWRP-3.2.3-7-DataIMG, is this the correct version I should have? Can I reflash the TWRP img in TWRP or is there another img I should try? Really frustrated!:confused:
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Yes, you can reflash the TWRP image within TWRP (choose img category instead of zip category) to reinstall. You can also choose to install a newer TWRP like 3.3.1, but I am still on 3.2.3.7 myself. I'm on the TWRP recommended in the WTF instructions. But feel free to use 3.3.1 to see if you get different results.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I flashed 3.3.1-1 from seadersn in TWRP and while it certainly upgraded it, there's no change. I was looking through the old TWRP thread and I think you mentioned something about flashing a no-verity zip in TWRP, but that was for someone flashing the KDZ. Is this something I should look into?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
COmpletely unrelated I'm sure, but my phone just shut off while using and won't turn on at all. Any clue what went wrong or how to fix? Never happened before, this isn't good.:confused:
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Doesn't sound good.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
No and it was completely random too. I ended up holding Vol Down + Power and it restarted like normal, but no clue why that would happen. It had 16% battery when it died, still charged powered off, and 22% when I powered it back on.

This really gets me worried about this phone, even though I was futzing around with the recovery flashing recently trying to get it to recognize external SD. There aren't any V30+ on Swappa, who was your guy on EBAY selling them? I might want to get another one, maybe VS996 this time since I don't plan on leaving VZ.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
YYWireless, but make sure you get his 9/10 rated phones, not any lower.

Native VS996 only came in 64GB, not 128GB.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
Yeah that's what I just learned. No clue why VZ wouldn't offer the highest end model, other than because they are VZ...

Unless there's a better phone available or coming soon?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
Not to defend Verizon, but neither did AT&T (H931) nor the Canadian carriers (H933), nor U.S. regional carriers' AS998. All 64GB.

T-mobile did offer 128GB V30+ in addition to H932 64GB V30 for a limited time (Holidays 2017). But Sprint LS998 and US998U were the only consistent North American 128GB V30+, which can easily be converted to any other North American variant, except T-mobile H932.

In fact that's what clued us in that there was such a thing as Frankenstein! 128GB "H933" started showing up in places exotic online markets. At first we thought it was REALLY Frankenstein, mixing and matching physical parts, like refurbishers do nowadays. Then we discovered it was firmware flashing -- with Octoplus boxes and we learned to replicate it with Dev Patched LGUP. :)
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
This also reminds me that I still can't figure out the key combination to boot to recovery. I can reboot to recovery from Magisk obv, but whatever the button combo is still never gotten it to work!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
You're talking about the hardware "button dance." I hate it.

HARDWARE BUTTON DANCE

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76996345&postcount=1172

Step #1 says the phone must be powered down, but it even works when in a boot loop. Just easier if powered down.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] gimpy1:
The button dance has always worked for me when I remember the correct sequence (which button to release when). But, I have always gotten into twrp by using it. And, yes, it does work when you can not turn the phone off (always has for me) and it is in a boot loop. I just hold both buttons down, sometimes like 10-15 or maybe 20 (I don't think quite that long) seconds. But, it has always shut down and opened up to get into twrp (so far ?).
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I wonder if because my external SD is 512GB that TWRP can't see it?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
I recently flashed this over the weekend and SMS stopped working yesterday. I typically use Textra but no other app will send messages. I'm on 4G and calls seem to work. If I refresh the app, many of my most recent texts go missing. Any one else have issue?

edit: apparently it's something Google broke. Temp fix is to disable Carrier Services!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] :
for some reason when i try to download the VS99630c.zip onto my computer files. It always fails either by "network error" or just failing. is there any other way to install the file.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] gimpy1:
There is. I just downloaded it 4 or 5 days ago. It is a mirror from one of Chazz Matt's. I will see if I can find it.

VS99630c.zip | by ChazzMatt for V30

mirror of TWRP-flashable VS996 30c.zip (Pie) for the LG V30 by JohnFawkes

www.androidfilehost.com

I’m not real good at this, but see if that link works.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] berk.david:
Something is up with the files hosted on @JohnFawkes site. I grabbed the 30c from @ChazzMatt w/o issue but the 30d from JF dies around 90%. Tried a few things to make sure it wasn't on my end, including resuming the DL. The file completed after resuming but I'd bet it wont hash the same. Flashing that resulted in a softbrick so I reflashed the good 30c from Chazz.

I'm working on repacking 30d but I've been out of the game for years and a bit slow. I'll post the file up if I can get LGFE and KDZZ to play nice....OGs feel free to beat me to it lol. Thanks for all years of support. We wouldn't be where we are w/o you!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] berk.david:
Yea that was an odd mess lol. I was at Disney World when this went down and was missing two days of inbound texts...sending friends/family pics and not getting anything back. I just thought they were jealous because it was snowing at home and nice and sunny in Florida lmao. At least Google acknowledged my bug report and fixed it already.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
You went to Disney in the middle of a drastic uptick of a raging pandemic. Really.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] drewcu:
Any luck with repacking 30d? No one else is working on it and so all rooted Verizon users are stuck on 30c unless someone figures it out.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] JohnFawkes:
All downloads are working fine from my site on my end
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
Wait, is this the TWRP flashable VS99630d? Doesn't overwrite recovery?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] schwinn8:
In most cases, TWRP doesn't include a recovery image, so yes it won't overwrite it. The first post here explicitly confirms this:

"This zip is created from the original KDZ. It contains almost the complete 30c firmware, but the partition table rewriting part and recovery image is removed "

Overwriting recovering in a TWRP seems silly, because you've spent all that time getting TWRP installed, so why would you want to remove it?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] schwinn8:
Downloaded 30d now from your site. I did have to resume the download a few times (failed in Firefox about 4 times, but resumed without issue). That said, I would like to see if I can get a hash, to make sure it's a clean download. ZIP tested fine in 7zip, but I prefer a deeper check with a hash. I got the following:

MD5: 2e554a183f4006fc94d10ff60c922c39

SHA256: a12b75e02638a8ef2c9cdd0255d27d7df35c3df3d9356eda4932d2db7ce08965

May I recommend that you update the first post to include the fact that you have the 30d TWRP ZIP available on your site (the first post says the latest is 30c). Thanks for all you do here!

Question to everyone - does this ZIP apply without issue from VS996 Oreo 20k? Or should I not be using this 30d file at all for some reason?

Also to TW (Total Wireless) users (@nnjimmy59 and others)... is Pie working well for you on TW with VOWIFI and VOLTE? I'm still on Oreo right now and considering updated, but I just want to make sure I won't lose those if I flash!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
Right, but the thread title is 30c, which I already know what I'm getting. I didn't know if he'd transferred the 30d KDZ to TWRP flashable, I didn't see notification of it. And this is the thread for 30c. So still a little confused.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] gimpy1:
To download the 30d zip, you have to go to John Fawkes' website. Not the download link in the first post (OP).

It took me a long time to figure that out. But, I did get it downloaded. I have not installed it, yet. Maybe, later today, if I can find time?

Thx, John Fawkes.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] drewcu:
Why all the buzz about this 30d zip now?

It has been the same one up since September 2020 and to my knowledge, no one has been able to get it to boot thus far. You are welcome to try, but unless John or someone else continues John's efforts, we, who want to be rooted, are stuck on 30c forever.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
Well that's exactly why I asked, I didn't know that. Not sure why anyone's downloading it then? @schwinn8 went on about how flashing it would work, without actually mentioning that it fails!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] gimpy1:
Sorry, I did not realize this was the same zip that was not working previously.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] drewcu:
If you go to https://john-fawkes.com/Downloads/VS996/, you can see the date stamp of the zip files.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] gimpy1:
I followed your link and it did not give me that information. It just asked if I wanted to dl it again. Thx. I do not doubt that you are incorrect.

Thx.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] drewcu:
That's odd that the link doesn't result in this for you but ok..
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
No problem, no harm done. I don't think the kdz works either right? So I guess we're still without VS99630d, which is honestly fine!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] gimpy1:
Sorry, it did show up when I put the phone in a horizontal or landscape mode 😬
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] drewcu:
Was on my computer but I just tried on my phone and yeah, you would have to scroll to the right to see the dates in portrait mode.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] schwinn8:
That is what I see when I go to your link as well.

As I said, I downloaded it last night from this site (with some resumes) and I do have the VS99630d.zip file... I just don't know if I can jump right into it without issues, hence my questions above (hopefully someone will answer them). Point is that the download does work...
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
This is why I never included this suspect 30D in my VS996 KDZ Pie thread, even though all the other TWRP-flashable zips are there. It's not a newer security patch, Verzion is lying about that. It's the same August 2019 security patch. JohnFawkes thought at first the date was a typo, but others have confirmed. He can correct me if I am mistaken. I was gone for several weeks to another part of the world so I may have missed something.

I appreceiate JohnFawkes work immensely. We lured him out of retirement to make a TWRP-flashable zip of this.

It probably does contain some "security" changes to prevent bootloader unlocking, but you can still downgrade to earlier KDZ and still Frankenstein for the WTF bootloader unlock. Nothing else is updated or improved, to my knowledge.

Now knowing this, I'm not sure the benefits of installing this over 30C. But we didn't know this until JohnFawkes investigated.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
Disregarding for a minute what the 30d TWRP flashable zip will actually improve, will it flash correctly without black screening?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] schwinn8:
My sudden interest in 30d was simply for security reasons. On another thread, I got into a discussion about security patches, etc. So, the simplest way to get "more secure" would be to install the latest Pie. I was resisting doing Pie at all, due to all the issues people had with it early on... I asked about this as well, and haven't gotten an answer yet (from my post above)... so I'm not sure I would go this way, but I'm investigating.

Regarding the security patch, I know there was some question of whether it really was updated or not. I couldn't find a solid answer either way. Current "feeling" seems to be that it's a lie, but I figure 30d shouldn't be any worse in that regard from 30c.

I'm not going to go custom, simply because I like VOLTE/VOWIFI and since many carriers are going to drop people who can't do it (I'm on a VZ MVNO, and they're claiming to be doing it sooner than some others) I need to have that, so going custom is useless to me. I asked about people on Total Wireless (my VZ MVNO) and Pie as well, to make sure that will work going forward... no answer there yet either.

That's my story, at least.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ldeveraux:
Same here. I moved to Pie a month ago and glad I did. It's quite snappy. The only drawback is I can't find a reliable reboot menu tethered to the power button. But that's it!
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] berk.david:
@drewcu @schwinn8 Sorry for the late reply.

I messed with it for an hour but the kdz structure changed from what kdz2zip expected. I was able to manually rename all the files and extract properly but compiling was having trouble too. After catching another thread from the DEVs, it seems that 30d isn't really 30d. Possibly a mistake by LG/VZW. The issue is around the security patch level for 30d still saying it's the August 2019 patch instead of the August 2020. I noticed the same when pulling the update from VZW before ever rooting. No one seems to want dig deep to find out if it was a typo or a true mistake (myself included). I do believe someone mentioned submitting a bug report to LG/VZW so we may see one more patch on the v30 someday. That being said...

The V30 was a great phone (minus the piss poor voice-to-text comprehension that wasn't a problem on the v10 or v20??) but it's old and time for the next toy. My motivation to root was to have ad free Chrome/YouTube and update graphics drivers and that's good enough for me until I figure what phone is next.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] berk.david:
I stuck with the VZW image too because of VoLTE/VoWiFi. I switched from VZW to Total Wireless about a year ago but after one month service switched to Straight Talk because the plans were way better...which is odd since they are all owed by tracfone. My VoLTE/VoWiFi has worked this whole time on Straight Talk by using a program called "Advanced Controls" to turn on the provisioning at the phone level. VZW network already supports the features but didn't allow MVNOs to use it because they wanted it to be a benefit of buying direct from VZW (at higher prices lol). For the first month my provisions would be turned off after a reboot but I would just turn them back on...after a month someone must have gotten tired of seeing my device in a report and just whitelisted it lmao...been on ever since.
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] schwinn8:
For future/other's reference, can you link us to "Advanced Controls"? I search for it on GPlay and it shows me an app called "Hidden Features".. is that what you're talking about (the description starts off by calling the product "Advanced Controls" so maybe it changed names or something".

In addition, can you detail what you did in there... again, in case some one needs it again...?
[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] berk.david:
Hidden features...dear dev keep same name in store as the the actual app lmao