I'm thinking about getting a G8 Power, with the intention of running a custom ROM on it. The ROMs I've previously used and liked are CR-Droid, Evolution-X, and Bliss.
When I look at the available ROMs, it seems like they're all unofficial builds. Should I be concerned? Does it matter? Is there any way to speculate about future support?
Or should I be looking at other phones?
There are gonna be official ROMs at some point. I know CrDroid is close to becoming official, and I'm sure more will follow.
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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?
Custom Roms
Hey
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!!!
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.
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.
+1
I would assume the S9 roms could easily be ported to this device, best bet is to talk to the developers about it.
I'm just wondering why there's so few official roms and also twrp for the Sofia series of phones? The G7 power has lots but the g8 or g power series has little to no official roms or recoveries.
Probably cause Motorola is releasing new versions all the time and developers can only keep up with so many branches so thats why we have unofficial builds, I guess in the end the phone isnt popular enough and falls behind the on the priority list.
I was wanting to buy a Moto Edge Plus, but wondering about if there are any custom roms for this device. This would be a dealbreaker for me so go then with the normal Moto Edge. But then missing out some awesome hardware upgrades.. Would there be a chance for any upcoming roms, right now I cannot find anything. I would love to use LineageOS with the deivce.