Wondering if anybody can answer this for me as I'm thinking about getting the unlocked US version of the v30, how well do custom roms work on LG phones? Usually there are drivers for certain aspects that are proprietary, so I'm wondering how much of a hit things like the camera and audio take when using an aosp rom.
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I've had my LG-G5 H850 for a few months now.... really hated the LG UI, but managed to get it close to usable with Google Now, etc so I didn't rush into it....
The only thing about the LG ROM that I'm nervous about losing is the LG camera software.... does the dual mode camera and all the manual options (incl RAW photo's, etc) still work in Cyanogenmod / similar?
Which ROMs are people running? I notice that there's still no Cyanogenmod/Mokee build for the G5
Are people just running stock, rooted and debloated?
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As you already know there are currently no cm roms as of yet but there are 3 custom roms to my knowledge. The current custom roms all use the flagship camera software so your good to go ahead with flashing any one of them.
I doubt Cm will run the flagship flagship camera software and im unaware of any cm camera software utilising the 3 cameras as of yet.
I was a D855(G3) owner for the past 3 years. The Rom development was huge but unfortunately no cm based or aosp based Rom was able to go even close to stock camera quality. LG camera framework was closed coded and LG hasn't shared the code yet. So I guess the same thing will happen to G5. I just hope for more developers to join the G5 community.
I was also on LS990 lg g3 since it's release till coming to g5 and I mainly ran pure AOSP,XenonHD with a few exceptions for some CM-based ROMs... Till I found Fulmics(which was similar to UX 5.0) which was amazing despite missing some features find in AOSP/CM-style ROMs
But I must say I love UX 5.0 with app drawer; I think I'm part of the minority that thinks LG did a great job with their new UI,esp compared to the old UI's...
At this point I wouldn't want to run CM-anything...esp if it means giving up my camera! I mean if u want a circle battery icon that bad just install gravity box... But this UI has grown on me
Any specific custom ROM recommendations?
I was going to follow this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/development/recovery-team-win-recovery-project-lg-g5-t3363047
and then CMremix (based on CM-14.1)... I think!! (from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/help/rom-cmremix-rom-v1-xx-t3502055)
And thanks for the info about the LG camera software - it's the one piece of LG software that I've been really happy with - definitely would have looked to keep that, so good to hear that it is being ported as-is into the custom ROMs.
Ever since Samsung "did an Apple" and abandoned all their enthusiasts and tweakers (as Apple did in the 1980's), I've been looking for an alternative like LG!!!
I've been eyeing this phone for a while and I'm probably going to buy either this or the Oneplus 5T. But since I apply custom ROMs to all my phones, I'd like to know a few things before I decide:
How much does installing a custom rom affect funcionality? I'm talking about:
-The wide angle camera (big selling point for me)
-Quad DAC funcionality
-Quick charging and battery life
-Other aspects
I am aware most of this stuff depends on the ROM you install, but I mean on a general level.
I've heard the LG ROM is quite bloated and I do enjoy the customization options I get from custom ROMs, but the stock camera and audio apps offer a lot of options I wouldn't want to lose.
Thanks in advance
You may want to take a look at the ROM development section here. There's not much going for this phone right now. This device isn't that open at the moment. If a custom ROM is what you want, go with the OnePlus 5T
jsgraphicart said:
You may want to take a look at the ROM development section here. There's not much going for this phone right now. This device isn't that open at the moment. If a custom ROM is what you want, go with the OnePlus 5T
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But if you want a phone with great specs (much better than OnePlus) and be assured that development is coming, stick with the V30.
US998U just got bootloader unlock today.
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Hey everyone,
I don't no if anyone has noticed, compared to most flagship devices the S9+ doesn't have much custom Rom activity going on for it at present.
Are people actually developing roms for this device as even the standard S9 has more choice for roms to install.
I have the international G965F and would love to see some more options for our device from people who have made samsung roms great in the past e.g. bobcat, allience and so on.
At present I'm running soldiers custom Rom but would love to see more available in the coming weeks which isn't all AOSP based.
Unfortunately we are not going to get the Android P software anytime soon, but more options on Oreo would be great to choose from.
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I would assume the S9 roms could easily be ported to this device, best bet is to talk to the developers about it.
I haven't been following any of the roms because I have a tmobile variant w/out root, but do you guys think that gcam works or can be modified to work with roms like a stock android-like rom and have the same camera quality as unrooted? I just thought because its able to be better than the stock camera app that it can carry over to other roms and look just as good or similar. Thanks.
There's no camera degradation when rooting (compared to Sony),
also you're able to run GCam on rooted and un-rooted Stock ROMs.
In fact it should also work on e.g. LineageOS and derivatives
Really? Wow great , then I'll be definitely rooting when it comes around to T-Mobile devices. Thanks.
Hello, so I've heard the V35 is getting Velvet UI Android 10 from LG, my question is about how possible is it to port the official rom to the V30?
From what I understand the V30 and V35 share most of the same components except the chipset, front camera and wide angle. Cameras seem to be reasonably easy to fix even if with GCam, chipset would probably be the hardest.
Does someone have an idea of how possible this would be? What are the limitations on this approach?
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Hello, so I've heard the V35 is getting Velvet UI Android 10 from LG, my question is about how possible is it to port the official rom to the V30?
From what I understand the V30 and V35 share most of the same components except the chipset, front camera and wide angle. Cameras seem to be reasonably easy to fix even if with GCam, chipset would probably be the hardest.
Does someone have an idea of how possible this would be? What are the limitations on this approach?
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Someone who is technically proficient can do it, but that's different from someone will do it.
Most devs don't like to work with stock-based ROMs. They prefer to work with LOS-based custom ROMs.
The only current V30 stock-based ROM is A.I.X. The A.I.X. ROM dev -- who has already ported many V35 libs to V30 -- would be your most likely bet.
He does not post his ROMs on XDA.
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Someone who is technically proficient can do it, but different from someone will do it.
Most devs don't like to work with stock ROMs. Someone like the stock-based V30 A.I.X. ROM dev -- who has already ported many V35 libs to V30 -- would be your most likely bet.
He does not post his ROMs on XDA.
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I imagine these come from those Russian forums that keep getting linked? Will be interesting to see if someone at least tries it.
We should start V35 port operation
Some really should port the G7 One Rom. Stop wasting time with LG stock libs etc unless they're needed. The G7 One is the same hw and running Android 10.
I would love to get a V35 port. I just don't understand why people want a stripped down version of Android.
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thefpspower said:
Hello, so I've heard the V35 is getting Velvet UI Android 10 from LG, my question is about how possible is it to port the official rom to the V30?
From what I understand the V30 and V35 share most of the same components except the chipset, front camera and wide angle. Cameras seem to be reasonably easy to fix even if with GCam, chipset would probably be the hardest.
Does someone have an idea of how possible this would be? What are the limitations on this approach?
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Yes it is possible. But no who is capable of doing it wants to do it.
BROKEN1981 said:
I would love to get a V35 port. I just don't understand why people want a stripped down version of Android.
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Because for them, having "Android 10" is more important than having the premium features of LG flagship phones.
I don't understand that philosophy. I bought the phone for the hardware features and software tricks.
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nate0 said:
Some really should port the G7 One Rom. Stop wasting time with LG stock libs etc unless they're needed. The G7 One is the same hw and running Android 10.
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The stock libs are necessary in many cases. Like the DTS Surround Stereo, which LG accidentally put in and never enabled. We enabled it with root.
AIX dev showed a lot of latter Oreo and the botched Pie is simply LG port of V40 firmware (which would also be V35). For Pie they LG was just too lazy to clean it up before they left. But the AIX dev showed we have libs for stuff LG never intended V30 to have -- because it was ported from newer models.
LG is still doing that. He showed V35 and V40 have libs for dual display, which doesn't exist for those two phones -- but which were "accidentally" ported by LG from V50 for Android 10.
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The stock libs are necessary in many cases. Like the DTS Surround Stereo, which LG accidentally put in and never enabled. We enabled it with root.
AIX dev showed a lot of latter Oreo and the botched Pie is simply LG port of V40 firmware (which would also be V35). For Pie they were just too lazy to clean it up before they left.
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I get that, my point is I am fond of Android One. The LG UI over top of that which includes the "premium code" that LG is known for just makes icing on the cake. DAC support, AOD, etc. The LG UX is definitely not low grade. I won't dismiss that either. My point being is that someone has a G7 One dump and I am wondering how much more time or effort it would be to port or build a V30 ROM from that than a V35 port.
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AIX dev showed a lot of latter Oreo and the botched Pie is simply LG port of V40 firmware (which would also be V35). For Pie they were just too lazy to clean it up before they left.
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The botched Pie to me always looked like Oreo slapped with a custom ****ty implementation of the pill navigation full of bugs that never got fixed... They really gave 0 ****s about giving a stable and fast Android 9, they just wanted to say "hey we gave you 2 major updates".
****ing sad honestly, not sure I can come back to LG after this.
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The botched Pie to me always looked like Oreo slapped with a custom ****ty implementation of the pill navigation full of bugs that never got fixed... They really gave 0 ****s about giving a stable and fast Android 9, they just wanted to say "hey we gave you 2 major updates".
****ing sad honestly, not sure I can come back to LG after this.
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Yeah, unfortunately LG has had something going with their HW design for a long time that I personally cannot look away from yet. Then they started in on the notch/hole punch trend that came up about 2 years ago, so I have stuck with only up to the V35. The headphone jack alone is one core reason users still stay here, and I think they understand that....that and the DAC itself are only found in their devices and maybe a few other Chinese devices. Will be interesting to see what they decide to do after these Velvet "marketing trended" devices go aged....