[LG G Stylo Questions & Answers] haise.zero:
Sounds good, thanks for the advice! It's super helpful.

I'll be taking a crack at it here soon, or maybe tomorrow since it's 1:30am and I'm having a drink (depends on my mood :D). I'll probably go with fastboot flashing unlock_critical just to be on the safe side of things and have everything unlocked from the get go for development purposes. I did run into an issue when I ran that command already -

C:\Users\myname>fastboot flashing unlock_critical

...

FAILED (remote: Unrecognized command flashing unlock_critical)

finished. total time: 0.006s

I can get into fastbootd on the device, and need to read up on it a bit since nearly every fastboot command I send in is unrecognized (see above) or gets a response like FAILED (remote: Unable to open fastboot HAL)

I'll enable test signing mode on my windows machine and get the right drivers installed, and get fastbootd working and then try again. I'll likely run into a roadblock though, since Boost doesn't exactly want us unlocking the bootloader - nor does LG, apparently...

For now, here's a few resources that might help catch you up on things and possibly give me some more room to wiggle around:

- Android documentation on fastbootd and fastboot being moved to userspace (contains information about the HAL)

- A mildly helpful and more easy-on-the-eyes article that can help explain the above documentation

I'll try and get past this issue. There's gotta be something, somewhere... I first just need to communicate with the phone correctly and get it to do what I need it to do in fastboot mode.

I also have downloaded two different .kdz files and have indeed extracted both of them into .dz files. I didn't get past that last night, so I'll have to get in there soon or maybe tomorrow and see if I can't find the system.img and/or the boot.img contained within. If I can, I'll be sure to get it patched and try to pass it to the phone.

For anyone trying to use the kdztools, it's outdated and you'll get some error about the headers when you try to extract the Stylo 6's .kdz files. Below are links to a couple of repositories that will be helpful:

- An updated fork of the original kdztools from somebody else that I've forked for laziness (fixes the headers issue)

- A fork of KDZZ, an up-to-date-enough tool for zipping .kdz files into TWRP-able zip files (again, personally forked for laziness)

There's only one problem... Boost Mobile.

I bought this phone from a third party and it is still registered to someone else on the Boost network. Since it's gone through a factory reset and my google account has been added to it, the phone isn't activated on their network and they seem to have disabled my ability to use wifi as they constantly send me screens and notifications trying to get me to activate the device, which I don't have the money to do. So, no internet access; I'll have to adb push and pull files and apks in order to get things working. I could factory reset and not ping their networks or put the other person's SIM in, but for the sake of longevity, I'd love if anybody had a solution to carrier unlocking this thing - or even an idea of what to do for that? Could I flash stock firmware? Is there any process to read the code I need from logcat? Any ideas at all? New ideas, hypothetical ideas, or even old ideas I could shine up and make new? Even just a thought? This is a pain. :D

I will keep everyone posted! I'd ask you all do the same - about this, and about carrier unlocking just as a possible favor. :)

PS: Bounty, huh? I could really use the reward. I might just have to take you up on that if we can get this working haha, exciting!