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Picked up my Japanese S3 today and looking to root it. I'm reading that using the I9300 is no go since it is a completely different model number. Specs for anyone interested:
Baseband:
SC06DOMLF5
Kernel:
[email protected]
Build:
IMM76D.SC06DOMALF5
If I can provide anything else let me know.
i would like to know the same...wtfusernameistaken is your nfc working...or is the app ic tag reader/writer the same thing?...or is it something i have to turn on through docomo?
cezeff said:
i would like to know the same...wtfusernameistaken is your nfc working...or is the app ic tag reader/writer the same thing?...or is it something i have to turn on through docomo?
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The Japanese version doesn't have NFC, only Japan's long-established equivalent.
Anyway, I love the phone, but I can't wait until some of the geniuses on here come up with an easy way to root it.
cezeff said:
i would like to know the same...wtfusernameistaken is your nfc working...or is the app ic tag reader/writer the same thing?...or is it something i have to turn on through docomo?
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Negative. Just tried to scan my edy but no joy. My nexus S grabs it fine however. Cannot wait to dump this stupid docomo rom and get a vanilla one on. That or just go back to my Nexus S.
またSC-06DはNFCを搭載していないので、「Android Beam」を拡張したデータ転送機能「S Beam」も利用できない. Yep, no NFC.
SamMobile has a rom out for SC-06D. As soon as the DL finishes gonna give it a go since I tried the I9300 and it just black screens.
i seen that but i was pretty sure that was just the stock rom...which is really helpful if a bad rom is loaded and need to go back to stock...ive downloaded it too and keeping it to the side for emergencies....
The ability to root and throw CyanogenMod 9 on docomo's Galaxy S3 are the two most important factors in whether or not I will buy it in the next couple of months. Can you please keep us updated on your progress, wtfusernameistaken?
Hi all
Just registered to join in on this thread.
This is my first smartphone and was all excited for the s3,
only to be unpleasantly surprised by the docomo palette ui...
I knowledge my noob status, so please be gentle with me.
Habbit said:
The ability to root and throw CyanogenMod 9 on docomo's Galaxy S3 are the two most important factors in whether or not I will buy it in the next couple of months. Can you please keep us updated on your progress, wtfusernameistaken?
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My honest opinion is that the phone sucks. No NFC, annoying uninstallable apps, battery gets quite warm, camera is meh, Kies is basically iTunes with a different layout. I went back to my nexus S and passed the S3 off to the wife. Tried to get a galaxy nexus but it would seem that it did so bad in Japan that they liquidated their entire stock 3 months ago. Guess I'll just have to wait for the next dev phone.
The rom on sammobile is in fact the stock rom, but good to have in case.
Your first sentence had me dying. Lol I guess that sums it up, though. I guess I'll start preparing to buy a One X, though I think I'm going to attempt to get the AT&T version and have it unlocked, as it seems that model is more liked than the international version. I don't even play Words with Friends, so Tegra 3, Schmegra 3 for all I care.
In my opinion this is a beast of a phone...nfc not there..it maybe just no unlocked..the screen is great..the 2gb is a major factor...the fact it'll be one if few phones to receive the jelly bean update..even the little tv tuner which I'm sure the statewide doesn't have..the massive support for it...the camera is great, even though some might choose a third party app...people are judging the phone after a few days of use...the real beauty and love affair comes after extended use...having all this potential and being a root and or custom Rom away from unleashing it is mouth watering...already my s3 out performs my s2 in every way...and it can only get better...every day I find or notice something about this phone that makes it more and more awesome...give it a chance and don't be so basis guys...
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a beast
Hey just got my phone today from Docomo. Let me know when you find a root for it. I just added apex launcher , but need to get rid of all the Docomo crap
A lot of the DoCoMo apps can be uninstalled
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Just tried this rooting method, managed to get root on sc-06d
http://galaxy.doorblog.jp/archives/10364401.html
You need to install busybox seperately, but it works!
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A lot of the DoCoMo apps can be uninstalled
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A lot of them cannot be.
Thanks for the link! How is the osaifu-keitai functionality, does it still work after the procedure?
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deletio said:
Thanks for the link! How is the osaifu-keitai functionality, does it still work after the procedure?
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I didnt get to try it yet
ewdi said:
Just tried this rooting method, managed to get root on sc-06d
You need to install busybox seperately, but it works!
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English would be outstanding...
lachancp said:
English would be outstanding...
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If you lack Japanese skills I would be hesitant to root. Some of the warnings that come up will not be in english. Not to mention that all the development on the root was done by Japanese and the "documentation" will be as well.
This is my first Android device (and my first post )
I found the amount of Samsung and Docomo apps really ridiculous.
I want to get CM9 onto the device, so I can have a completely clean slate with no remnants of all the shovelware. As I'm new, I don't know how yet, but I've found several guides and videos and such for doing it for other devices, even the other versions of the Galaxy S3. Unfortunately I haven't found too much specifically for the Docomo Japan version, so I'm a little hesitant to try anything just yet. Is there anything that makes the Docomo device different from other Galaxy S3's, anything I should look out for?
One thing to note for anyone else who bought it here in Japan at Docomo, by default they automatically sign you up for a ton of their crap, iChannel, BodyMo, etc., and each one costs monthly. They're very easy to forget about. If you go digging through the "my docomo" site, through the customer support stuff, eventually you'll find the options to cancel each of the stuff they signed you up for. They really do make it hard to get to.
Hi everyone! Today I finally decided to register in this great community, mainly because I'm looking for help and you are the ones that can help me.
I'm Henry and as the title says, I've hold and played with a Samsung Galaxy S3 running nothing more than Gingerbread. Why and how were my first questions when I first saw it, but I haven't been able to answer that.
This is the story: a friend of mine was given that GS3 hoping that he could solve the stuttering and lagging that it had (has) after a professor of him took it to a "technician". He, being the Android lover he is became surprised, so he came to me yesterday hoping that we could bring things back to normal (install stock jelly bean), but with no avail. That "thing" has the stock recovery and is not rooted, things we found EXTREMELY weird. We spent three hours trying to root it and then install a new recovery using different tools (gingerbreak, odin, odin mobile [we realized odin mobile needs root permissions to work, but still], samsung kies, universal_gb_root, framaroot) but you guessed: nothing worked. The only thing we didn't use was SuperOneClick. We couldn't put it into download mode and when we connected it to the pc, it didn't appeared as "adb interface" or "android composite device" but appeared with another strange name that had nothing to do with samsung or android, I can't recall the name of it right now. The other things we found was that the GS3 was showing that the internal storage was just 200mb, when it's a phone with "16"gb of storage, and that the battery says SAMSONG instead of SAMSUNG.
Long story short: it was an international, unlocked Samsung Galaxy GS3 i9300 running Gingerbread. My friend got it because a professor of him wanted he to fix it because after she took it to a "technician" it was very laggy. It was not rooted, it has stock android recovery (useless) and odin won't recognize it.
Do you guys have any effing idea of what is going on and how can we fix it?
We have three hypothesis: 1) they swapped her phone with a chinese knockoff (an extremely identical and functional knockoff); 2) they swapped the GS3's hard drive; 3) they didn't know what they were doing and installed Gingerbread instead of Jelly Bean (yup, sounds unlikely).
Thank you very much for yor help and attention!
Before getting halfway through your post, I decided you were talking about a clone/ knock-off
rootSU said:
Before getting halfway through your post, I decided you were talking about a clone/ knock-off
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Then it's an extremely accurate clone. It has the samsung's boot animation, sounds, everything!
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Then it's an extremely accurate clone. It has the samsung's boot animation, sounds, everything!
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They all do. These things you listed are the easiest things to "clone". In fact, since they live in software, they could easily have been ripped out of the official firmware. A friend of mine (willingly) bought a Note 2 clone. It even has the annoying whistle notification.
It's not that accurate a clone though, if it comes with gingerbread, which the S3 never came with.
rootSU said:
They all do. These things you listed are the easiest things to "clone". In fact, since they live in software, they could easily have been ripped out of the official firmware. A friend of mine (willingly) bought a Note 2 clone. It even has the annoying whistle notification.
It's not that accurate a clone though, if it comes with gingerbread, which the S3 never came with.
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Well, you do have great points. Even so, is there something we can do about it? Besides give the police a heads up?
henry-gz said:
is there something we can do about it?
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You need to prove 2 things.
1) It is a fake
2) It was not a fake before
2 is quite easy if it was supplied form an official network / carrier / provider store. 1 will involve screenshots of the about phone area and some physical shots as well as some info gained from this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpuid.cpu_z&hl=en
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You need to prove 2 things.
1) It is a fake
2) It was not a fake before
2 is quite easy if it was supplied form an official network / carrier / provider store. 1 will involve screenshots of the about phone area and some physical shots as well as some info gained from this app: https: //play. google. com/store/apps/details?id=com. cpuid.cpu_z&hl=en
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Okay, I'll try to find that out asap and then I'll post the update here. Thank you very much for your help!
henry-gz said:
Okay, I'll try to find that out asap and then I'll post the update here. Thank you very much for your help!
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You're welcome. Please let me know how you get on,
Easiest way to tell a clone is to take the back off and compare side by side with a genuine s3, the shape of the inner mouldings, position of sim and sd readers is very hard to exactly match during the reverse engineering process.
But the gingerbread and lack of download mode is conclusive in itself.
Check the imei and serial numbers on the original phone packaging against the imei of the handset you hold, if they are the same then your friend bought a clone.
Since I can find no support for these phones anywhere on the internet, I am creating this thread here in hopes of answering any questions anyone might have on this phone to the best of my abilities.
Important: These phones show fake RAM, Storage, Signal, and CPU. To reset this, use either ADB or Terminal Emulator, go into a shell and use the following command "am start -n com.android.ext.instruction/com.android.ext.instruction.DefaultValueActivity" without quotes. It will open the hidden settings. Note: Phone will require reboot, and will look like factory reset, however, all your data is still there.
All in all, it's not a bad starter phone. For someone who is just getting into smartphones, or coming from an earlier gen phone, it is perfect.
If you are looking at buying one of these phones, please read this thread first, it will provide some helpful insight to some of the issues you might have with these phones.
If you are buying one of these phones in hopes of rooting it, or a custom ROM, I would suggest not to buy it. I have not been able to successfully root it myself, and there's nobody else who has posted anything, anywhere about it.
Problems
Fingerprint Sensor - It will appear to work, but any finger can unlock it, no way to fix this, as the hardware is fake.
Heart Rate Monitor - Fake as well.
Bixby Button - Bixby does not come on this phone, just a knock off. The button works, bringing you to "Briefing" which just has a few shortcuts to other apps.
"Curved" screen - The screen is curved as you'd expect if you've had or seen an S7 Edge or S8. The glass is simply curved on the edges, giving it a curved look. However, what it does have is a pretty nice edge slide out feature as the S8 has.
Specifications (real)
MTK6592 1.7 Ghz Octa-Core CPU
1 GB RAM
5.6" or 5.8" Screen Size
8.0 Megapixel Rear Camera
3.0 Megapixel Front Camera
3G Capable - WCDMA:850/2100MHz, 2G - GSM: 850MHz/900MHz/1800MHz/1900MHz
WiFi 802.11B/G,GPRS/3G
Bluetooth Bluetooth 3.0 Version
FM Radio
GPS Builtin GPSA-GPS
Headphone/Microphone Port
USB C Port - Charging and Data (the original cord does NOT support data, only had luck with genuine Samsung cord - came from old Note 7)
2800 mAh Battery, Non-Removeable
A few have complained about slow boot times for any clone phone, however, I do not notice much difference in the time this takes to boot and my old S7 Edge.
I will update this with important information as I see fit.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to make a reply.
apowers98 said:
If you are buying one of these phones in hopes of rooting it, or a custom ROM, I would suggest not to buy it. I have not been able to successfully root it myself, and there's nobody else who has posted anything, anywhere about it.
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I also have the S8 clone, and while there isn't much information about the phone, I was able to gain root access using KingRoot. The phone becomes a million times more fun once you have root, enjoy!
I tried KingRoot and it didn't work for my goophone s8. Maybe they will find a root solution though.
chroni100 said:
I tried KingRoot and it didn't work for my goophone s8. Maybe they will find a root solution though.
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How many times did you try KingRoot? Sometimes you have to try more than once.
quinciebee said:
How many times did you try KingRoot? Sometimes you have to try more than once.
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I tried several times. At first it ran through several root strategies, but now when I try it says no root available, root requested.
chroni100 said:
I tried several times. At first it ran through several root strategies, but now when I try it says no root available, root requested.
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If that's not working, download KingoRoot and run it once. It'll reboot the phone during the process, and the root won't go through, but after running KingoRoot with no success, go back into KingRoot, and try to root the phone one more time. If it still won't work, then I'm not sure what else to suggest.
Nope didn't work. Thanks for the help though. Maybe king root will find the root eventually. I'll keep trying.
I can only run kingoroot once? Would it have told me whether it worked or not or just reboot?
Thanks,
chroni100 said:
Nope didn't work. Thanks for the help though. Maybe king root will find the root eventually. I'll keep trying.
I can only run kingoroot once? Would it have told me whether it worked or not or just reboot?
Thanks,
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You can run KingoRoot as many times as you want, but it doesn't ever work, at least in my case. All it ever does is reboot the phone, and afterwards, you'll still have no root.
Where can I download the stock firmware for this phone? I can't seem to find the correct files anywhere. BTW I was able to get root with Kingroot after running it 3-4 times. I was not able to replace Kinguser with Supersu no matter what I did but I did have root and could use a handful of my root apps until I bricked it. :-/
Maybe someone here can help me. I got my S8 plus about a week ago and my sim card is not working in the phone .. any ideas how to fix this problem?
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Where can I download the stock firmware for this phone? I can't seem to find the correct files anywhere. BTW I was able to get root with Kingroot after running it 3-4 times. I was not able to replace Kinguser with Supersu no matter what I did but I did have root and could use a handful of my root apps until I bricked it. :-/
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Just an update. After begging the manufacturer for months they finally uploaded the stock firmware and sent me the link. Can be flashed with SPFlash Tool. I was able to use it to unbrick mine. Hope this can help someone else that may need it.
https://www.needrom.com/download/goophone-s8-plus-v2-old-model/
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GStone said:
Just an update. After begging the manufacturer for months they finally uploaded the stock firmware and sent me the link. Can be flashed with SPFlash Tool. I was able to use it to unbrick mine. Hope this can help someone else that may need it.
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Can you send me a link, I installed the wrong stock firmware, and now my phone is dead. Please for help
muzoss said:
Can you send me a link, I installed the wrong stock firmware, and now my phone is dead. Please for help
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Updated my post above with the link. Hope it helps.
GStone said:
Updated my post above with the link. Hope it helps.
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and this does not help me, I think that I have mkt6592
6,5 pollici a schermo intero S8 S8 più telefono clone MTK6592 Otta core 4G RAM 64G ROM
It won't help you unfortunately. This is for 6580.
After root this phone
I have root my goophone s8 with kingroot after 5 try..After root this phone what's the best thing's to put on this phone?
s8 clone
apowers98 said:
Since I can find no support for these phones anywhere on the internet, I am creating this thread here in hopes of answering any questions anyone might have on this phone to the best of my abilities.
Important: These phones show fake RAM, Storage, Signal, and CPU. To reset this, use either ADB or Terminal Emulator, go into a shell and use the following command "am start -n com.android.ext.instruction/com.android.ext.instruction.DefaultValueActivity" without quotes. It will open the hidden settings. Note: Phone will require reboot, and will look like factory reset, however, all your data is still there.
All in all, it's not a bad starter phone. For someone who is just getting into smartphones, or coming from an earlier gen phone, it is perfect.
If you are looking at buying one of these phones, please read this thread first, it will provide some helpful insight to some of the issues you might have with these phones.
If you are buying one of these phones in hopes of rooting it, or a custom ROM, I would suggest not to buy it. I have not been able to successfully root it myself, and there's nobody else who has posted anything, anywhere about it.
Problems
Fingerprint Sensor - It will appear to work, but any finger can unlock it, no way to fix this, as the hardware is fake.
Heart Rate Monitor - Fake as well.
Bixby Button - Bixby does not come on this phone, just a knock off. The button works, bringing you to "Briefing" which just has a few shortcuts to other apps.
"Curved" screen - The screen is curved as you'd expect if you've had or seen an S7 Edge or S8. The glass is simply curved on the edges, giving it a curved look. However, what it does have is a pretty nice edge slide out feature as the S8 has.
Specifications (real)
MTK6592 1.7 Ghz Octa-Core CPU
1 GB RAM
5.6" or 5.8" Screen Size
8.0 Megapixel Rear Camera
3.0 Megapixel Front Camera
3G Capable - WCDMA:850/2100MHz, 2G - GSM: 850MHz/900MHz/1800MHz/1900MHz
WiFi 802.11B/G,GPRS/3G
Bluetooth Bluetooth 3.0 Version
FM Radio
GPS Builtin GPSA-GPS
Headphone/Microphone Port
USB C Port - Charging and Data (the original cord does NOT support data, only had luck with genuine Samsung cord - came from old Note 7)
2800 mAh Battery, Non-Removeable
A few have complained about slow boot times for any clone phone, however, I do not notice much difference in the time this takes to boot and my old S7 Edge.
I will update this with important information as I see fit.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to make a reply.
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Hello everyone thanks for this post I have the same phone S8 clone and I want to root it but it's impossible to do with all the tools I tried kingroot and all that follows now if you like you can help me that would be great thank you, the problem is that I want to split the memory card with the phone because the internal memory of the phone does not allow me to install all my aplication
Maybe someone can help. Initially after powering on my device I am unable to recieve phone calls but I am able to download apps from the play store. However after a restart I am then able to get calls but unable to download apps. I am just getting error:0. I have the iPhone X
Hello All,
Please help. Does anyone know the code for these Goophone S8 clones for my scenario?
I am locked out of this model Goophone s8 because of a message that says; "Please enter the Privacey Protection Password to unlock".
Does anyone know if I have to flash a new ROM to get around this problem?
Or since the phone is legitimately mine and not stolen, is there someone here in the USA I can contact to get the "Password" (the kepad is only numbers) so i doubt it is a "word" but that's neither here nor there.
Please hElP!!!!!
How to get my "Privacy Protection Password"?
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Just an update. After begging the manufacturer for months they finally uploaded the stock firmware and sent me the link. Can be flashed with SPFlash Tool. I was able to use it to unbrick mine. Hope this can help someone else that may need it.QUOTE]
I notice they post the same link for the Goophone S8 PLUS.
Do you think the same firmware runs on BOTH goophones? Because I have the Goophone S8
The name on the firmware in the link says Goophone S8Plus
Please advise.. over,
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Hi, I used to jailbreak every Apple product because without JB they are junk.
However since moving to Android I've not needed to root as it's so cool anyway. However I may have to root my Mate 10 to get over the awful widget updating issue. I can either do that or return it.
So I want to ask
1) Is one root better than another? People are talking about having fixed the widget update issue using a magisk root. Are there better roots out there?
2) Apart from Titanium and developer type apps, I can't see an awful lot of reason for rooting for me other than sorting out Huawei's widget bug. Are there other cool reasons? For example... I'd love to be able to record phonecalls - will there be root-only apps that allow me to do this (only for recording me taking the piss out of scammers!).
3) Mine is a Chinese Mate 10 which has had its ROM changed to ALP-L29 C636... the palce I bought it from said it shouldn't matter with a root but I just want ot check that if I root it, it won't somehow get rid of the ROM and make it Chinese again?
4) Lastly... I've read abotu cyanogenmod (meybe there are better ones now). Am I right in thinking though that if I run something like that then I will lose all the camera benefits like the wide aperture post processing, the huawei speed thing where the phone gets faster with use (it actually works- my old Mate 9 is faster now than it was at start, amazing!) etc...
Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help with any of the above.
Hi,
I lost my Samsung S9, so my parents gave me a new LG G5 phone as a replacement. Still in box with all the screen protector, wrappers, etc. because they already had a phone at the time and never ended up using it. So it's basically a brand new phone, with an ancient Oreo Android 8.0 OS. It's a zippy phone, and it's lovely to have a battery sit at 100% for hours on standby (whereas my daily-use Samsung S9 would drop to 99% after a 15 minutes of standby)
All would be fine, except there's two apps I use that need Android 10 - DUO authenticator (which I need for work) and Lastpass.
So I started looking into upgrading the OS, and found these forums. I'd be fine with switching to a custom ROM, but have a few questions:
What custom mod would you recommend for someone merely looking for Android 10 compatibility? I've read that one can lose hardware functionality with custom roms...what are the "known issues"?
Does anyone know whether Lastpass or DUO install on these custom roms?
I'm also happy for someone to just send me a link somewhere that can answer these questions!
Thanks!
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Hi,
I lost my Samsung S9, so my parents gave me a new LG G5 phone ......
So I started looking into upgrading the OS, and found these forums. I'd be fine with switching to a custom ROM, but have a few questions:
What custom mod would you recommend for someone merely looking for Android 10 compatibility? I've read that one can lose hardware functionality with custom roms...what are the "known issues"?
Does anyone know whether Lastpass or DUO install on these custom roms?
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Which G5 are you talking about?
If it's a new H850 the bootloader is not any longer unlockable as LG ceased that service.
My unlocked H850 did loose only FM (didn't find any app working with it) and is working fine with lineage-18.1-20220320-nightly-h850-signed.
Don't know about DUO but Lastpass shouldn't care about a non-stock ROM.
Btw did you hear/read about the Lastpass security breach? Wouldn't trust them any longer.
Agree with that last statement. They have been caught lying and half-truths since the hack/breach so I would ditch them to another service and now change your passwords.
Hi, thanks for the replies. But I've solved the problem by getting a used Samsung S20.
But I'm still curious about updating my LG-G5 phone (H831) to make it somewhat software-compatible. I guess my question was more about what Android version is equivalent to Lineage-18.1 . DUO and Lastpass needed Android 10, and I don't know what version of Android Lineage-18.1 (or any of the other custom roms) are branched from.
As for choice of password manager, what are y'all using? I need an Android, iPhone, and web client.
Looks like I can't even consider a modded rom .
I found a post that says:
H831 = Canadian market. Bootlocked. Can't be rooted.
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As for choice of password manager, what are y'all using? I need an Android, iPhone, and web client.
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I'm using Keepass and used to have the database on my AVM attached NAS (accessible from via mobile as well).
Now I've switched to store that on an online-storage of my mail provider where I have read/write access as well.
Using either Keepass2android on my android devices and Keepass2 on my Linux Mint 21 system.
Quite easy to configure and always working.
There should be an app for Iphone available which can work with kdbx files.