Does anyone know if there are any lollipop roms out yet and if so where I can find them. Also, I'm looking for a good lollipop rom where everything works. If there lollipop roms what version of recovery of twrp do I use? I'm currently on 2.8.2. Thanks
As for the second question, 2.8.2 will work fine. There is a new version, 2.8.3 ,but it's not really necessary.
Where to find Lollipop ROMs? Assuming you're on Sprint, look in the development and original development sub-forums here in the Sprint G3 forum. Read the threads and see what works and what doesn't. At the moment, I think all the AOSP Lollipop ROMs have some bugs. Some of them more than others, and some of the bugs might not matter much to you.
Development on the G3 hasn't been going on for very long. It'll be a little bit longer before all the issues are worked out.
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Just got a P503 that I'm trying to set up for my girlfriend. I know how to use KDZ update and LGMDP. I got a custom recovery on it. I understand the difference between the basebands.
The problem is I can't make any sense out of the Development section. Also, a lot of the links are down (multiupload and megaupload).
This thread: [ROMS] Original LG Firmware list: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865479, doesn't seem to work. I also have the the "Original LG Firmware" download tool, don't remember which thread I got it from, which is supposed to download the latest firmware for the phone. It downloads a V10K_00.kdz. I thought all of the firmwares were V20 by now, or am I wrong?
I'm looking for either 1) latest stock rom, preferably with Chinese language (she's Chinese), also can be slightly modified, maybe over-clockable, or 2) good stable gingerbread based MIUI rom. Can someone help me out?
If you know of another rom that is either as stable as stock, or more stable, and has an extremely easy to use interface, also please let me know. After I give the phone to my girlfriend, I don't want her calling me everyday with problems because of the phone.
Also, as far as I can tell, the P500 and P503 are the same phone with different firmware right? Any firmware compatible with the P500 can be used on the P503. I even saw a few threads where people mentioned LG customer support said this.
Dynamite
Try dynamite.. It's there in the O1 development section. It is based on the stock ROM. I've personally tried it, it's really good and I switched to other ROMs only because I missed the customisation that CyanogenMod offers...
take a look at this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1616069
it's has the iOS user interface (and i think that this one IS extremely easy to use interface),based on CyanogenMod nightly and it available in Chinese....
Now it's up to you to see if it is stable enough to your girlfriend
I looked at and installed the JoyOS. It's nice, got a lot of great features. But it just doesn't feel as awesome as the MIUI on my U8800. It might be a difference in the phone, or it might be the Chinese apps I'm installing with it for my girlfriend, or it might be the OS. Not sure. I'll try Dynamite tomorrow.
However, if anyone knows of a really stable MIUI rom, please let me know. The ones I've seen have problems with apps installed to the SD card.
There are a wealth of AT&T/HTC M8 ROM options in the development forum, but I'm a bit confused by the way devs keep a thread from March or April alive, updating to a new Android on the thread, rather than starting a new thread for a new major version.
Are any of the ROMs based on the newest release, complete with DotView and the good battery life of the stock unit? Is there a comparison list? Thanks.
Various reasons why devs update the same thread, instead of making a new one. But the main one is that once a ROM has been updated, the previous versions are essentially obsolete, and the intent is to move forward; not remain in the past.
"Newest release" is a slightly tricky question. The latest official AT&T release is 2.23, which was back from August. International and other carriers have updated to 3.x, but it hasn't rolled out on AT&T yet. Although 3.x has been released for the Dev Edition, which is intended to be used on AT&T's network.
Comparisons and discussions about battery life are also tricky. This is normally very subjective, and depends on how you use your phone and other factors (such as network reception).
For the most up-to-date release intended for AT&T, I'd recommend the ROM thread by Wonders_Never_Cease.
Thank you. The refreshing of old threads is a bit confusing to me; it's hard to track which data is new and which is six months old.
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Hello, allow me to write my problem on this forum, having found no solution elsewhere.
Here I have a htc one m8 European version without over-layer operator 4.4.3 s-off and TWRP custom. (203 cid-Version 2.22.401.5)
I wish to put the ota, but I can not even following the tutorials.
Can I take a stock 4.4.3 rom to a custom rom (HD Revolution) 4.4.4?
thank you
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Hello, allow me to write my problem on this forum, having found no solution elsewhere.
Here I have a htc one m8 European version without over-layer operator 4.4.3 s-off and TWRP custom. (203 cid-Version 2.22.401.5)
I wish to put the ota, but I can not even following the tutorials.
Can I take a stock 4.4.3 rom to a custom rom (HD Revolution) 4.4.4?
thank you
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This is not the correct place to post this. This forum section is specific to the US AT&T version.
Can anyone recommend a solid rom for this Note II that is solid stable with good performance?
I realize there are many. I am an experienced romer but have just acquired this for a family member and need to fully root, rom and restore.
Any guidance appreciated. I think it is stock 4.4.2 as acquired right now.
I haven't found a KK 4.4.x ROM yet that doesn't have issues. There are several 4.3 ROM's however that are rock solid...I recommend either the Jett or Jelly-Wiz ROM's but many of the others have great reviews.
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I haven't found a KK 4.4.x ROM yet that doesn't have issues. There are several 4.3 ROM's however that are rock solid...I recommend either the Jett or Jelly-Wiz ROM's but many of the others have great reviews.
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Thank you. For these persons, I don't want issues. Thank you for the recommendations. Have you tried CM at all? I also thought about keeping Samsung's 4.4.2 and just rooting it and using Wanam.
No, I haven't tried CM since my Galaxy Nexus days. I never went beyond the stock 4.3 ROM as I'm rooted and unlocked...looking at the rooted stock 4.4.2 there seems to be issues with it too, at least that's what I'm reading in those threads. I tried about four different KK ROM's and they all had issues with the camera, reboots, and other nagging issues. After trying the 4.4.x ROM's I went back to the 4.3 Jett ROM because it really had all or most of the features I wanted and it's rock solid with good battery life. I have no experience with Wanam. Good luck.
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..looking at the rooted stock 4.4.2 there seems to be issues with it too, at least that's what I'm reading in those threads. ...Good luck.
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Yikes, I better read. Perhaps I should have read before just purchasing these two used. I sure hope I can still root and unlock them. I appreciate the tips.
I'm pretty sure if they're on the stock OTA 4.4.2 then your bootloader is now locked...not sure if anyone ever found a work around. I think you can still quasi-root it, through some other method (Ghetto Root?). Read the developer forums below...lots of info there.
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I'm pretty sure if they're on the stock OTA 4.4.2 then your bootloader is now locked...not sure if anyone ever found a work around. I think you can still quasi-root it, through some other method (Ghetto Root?). Read the developer forums below...lots of info there.
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If they are using the OTA verison they can root with ghettoroot and then use safestrap to flash new ROMs. The only catch is that the ROMs have to be based on the stock kernel, so no AOSP or anything fancy. I am not sure if the ROM has to match the system kernel's version, so you may want to check, unless somebody knows???
You can find the instructions here: Safestrap on locked bootloader 4.4.2 ND7
This is, of course assuming that you have the locked bootloader in the first place.
As for a solid ROM for safestrap recovery I have been trying out quite a few, and I like Alliance, as well as Sophisticated ROM Remix. Not too shabby, although I did have some lag issues with Alliance.
I am on stock 4.4.2 so that means a locked bootloader. Uggg.
Okay...off to ghettoroot. What was the last OS that was bootloader unlockab.e?
Any other ND7 roms I should look at?
Can someone point me with links to the roms that work with safe strap 3.72 and a locked ND7 boat loader?
I am confused. Can a person run Trent's 4.4.2 rom on an ND7 device?
Thank you in advanced.
I have an HTC EVO 4G LTE loaded with DigitalKarma that I bought from a friend.
When I look at Software Information it says that the Android version is 2.3.5 which I believe is what the phone launched with. The Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE spec page on this site says that it's Android 4.0.3. Should I infer that I could just upgrade to Android 4.0.3 rather than a mod?
I'm looking for the latest greatest stable mod out there but I'm not finding any reviews or anything. What mod(s) would you recommend for someone that never wants to change mods again? These mods fall into different families that I know nothing about yet, so suggestions for mods of the different types might be good. Mods that seem to stand out in my searching are Dirty Unicorns, Beanstalk, and Viper 4G.
I'm not a developer or tester or anything; I'm just a guy that wants a good end user experience without a lot of complication and heartache.
Thanks people.
I must have asked a touchy question. The internet is too full of opinions to not yield one after a few hours. Let me start over:
It looks like my choices are Sense based (stock?) or AOSP based. People seem to be very happy with some of the AOSP roms but I've also seen that there have been problems with camera functions and menu buttons. Are there any AOSP builds out there that have solved these problems? And to what extent? Perhaps sense based is better for a noob like myself. I've read of some Sense based roms being as configurable as AOSP roms.
Most of what I have read about OSs for the 4G LTE were written before 2013. I get the impression that development has stopped for many of the mods that are out there. Maybe they were complete, or maybe the developers got new phones; idk. I'm looking for ROMS that are the most fully developed. I don't want to install a ROM that stopped development before it could reach its full potential (lacking features that hadn't been figured out at the time).
Do you have any suggestions on which mods I should try? Tell me what you like about them if you can. Or tell me that I'm a dumb ass and that I should've searched the forums and found the thread where someone asked the same exact question last week.
Thank you everyone. If it wasn't for you developers I probably wouldn't be able to have a smart phone at all.
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It looks like my choices are Sense based (stock?) or AOSP based.
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IMO, Sense is the most stable on this device. The last official RUU that HTC released was 4.3. You'll find all the instructions you'll need in my guide down in my sig. There are more current Lollipop roms you can flash, but aren't as stable.
IMO, Sense is the most stable on this device. The last official RUU that HTC released was 4.3. You'll find all the instructions you'll need in my guide down in my sig. There are more current Lollipop roms you can flash, but aren't as stable.
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I haven't done anything yet but this helps a lot. Thanks also for the version recommendation.
I have one more question regarding the process. Since someone has already loaded DigitalKarma on this phone, should I follow one of the guides from the beginning of the process? Are there different instructions for a phone that's already been flashed?
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I haven't done anything yet but this helps a lot. Thanks also for the version recommendation.
I have one more question regarding the process. Since someone has already loaded DigitalKarma on this phone, should I follow one of the guides from the beginning of the process? Are there different instructions for a phone that's already been flashed?
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Depends on what you want to accomplish. I suggest that you follow the guide from the beginning. The 4.3 RUU has an updated partition table for the phone which newer roms use. By flashing the RUU, you will unroot your phone. The rest of the guide will get you back to root. It's a little bit of work, but it should be fairly simple since the guide walks you through it all. If you really don't want the stability issues of Lollipop right now, there are quite a few stable KitKat roms that are really good.
I'm sorry if I'm asking questions that have been answered here, but I am new to rooting and am suffering from information overload. I get confused about references to stock Android and whether this means the stock Verizon version or the untouched Android that Nexus devices get.
I'm using this phone through Tracfone and thus do not receive OTA updates. This also makes all of the Verizon bloat all the more useless. I'm not looking for a special ROM, I just want vanilla Android that will receive new updates over wifi.
Is this possible?
Hi. Stock means what LG/Verizon put on our phone. I understand the confusion, though, and I used to be confused about it too. It's best to call "pure" or "purer" Android AOSP, or from what I've read there isn't any true full AOSP that's user compiled any more - they're all more or less based on CyanogenMod, so "AOSP" or "CM", but CM is more realistic. AOSP is what Nexus has, although of course, it can be called stock too since in that case they're one in the same unless you're running a user-compiled AOSP in which case if it were me I would call it something else to distinguish it from the stock AOSP on Nexus.
CyanogenMod-based ROMs will be the closest you'll get. CM13 for Marshmallow. I don't know if CM gets OTAs, I think sometimes in the past they have, at least once a version of CM has gone "final" (not sure if CM13 has gone final). Some ROMs that are based on CM have OTAs too.
I can't speak as to how well these work. I used to use CM-based ROMs more on other phones but for me, stock works so much more reliably/predictably and overall smoother than AOSP/CM. AOSP/CM and International-based stock ROMs always seem to have some unreliableness factor.
If you want a debloated but reliable ROM based on stock (which would receive OTAs if there ever are any more, but it's doubtful there will be), use @xdabbeb 's stock 47A (Marshmallow) firmware along with either my debloat zips or the debloat generator made by another user, which I link to in the third post of the 47A firmware thread in the Development section. The debloat zips/generator are also linked to in my signature below.
Overall, personally, I consider @xdabbeb 's VS985 v2.0 ROM, based on 35B (5.1.1) the best ROM, but I'm currently using the stock 47A firmware with complete debloating and am satisfied with it.
I use Xposed and G3TweaksBox to get some features on stock ROMs that I consider a must.
The easiest way to flash the ROM I mentioned is (if you're not rooted yet), first tell us what version of the stock ROM you're on. If it's anything but 23C or 24B, the absolute easiest way to root and put custom recovery on is by downgrading to 10B using the TOT method and the .DLL that's extracted from the 35B KDZ. Links to the TOT and DLL in @annoyingduck 's stickied return to stock thread in the General section, also the first link in my signature below.
Directions and the links to the program to flash TOTs, you'll have to Google for.
In the future, please ask all questions in the Q&A section. I'll ask a moderator to move this thread. Thanks!
Thanks for the response. I am definitely most interested in reliability. After reading your post, I think I might just stick with the stock Verizon image and wait for the upgrade tool to release Marshmallow.
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Thanks for the response. I am definitely most interested in reliability. After reading your post, I think I might just stick with the stock Verizon image and wait for the upgrade tool to release Marshmallow.
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You're welcome! Or if I didn't say it before, you can flash the 47A KDZ with LG Flash Tool 2014, preferably with the CSE option which will wipe all data including internal storage, so use the built in LG Backup and also move what you want to keep from your internal storage.