[Q] Which Witch is which? - LG Optimus G (International)

I just purchased a used e971 (Rogers) which is my second Android phone. I learned quite a bit about rooting and ROMS, etc as an end user on my Galaxy S2.
I'm VERY happy with the LGoG, however I have to admit I'm ROYALLY CONFUSED about which ROM's will and won't work with the Rogers version.
Even in the Canadian forum there seems to be ROMS that may or may not work depending on your carrier, etc.
So I guess what I'm asking is - is there a resource available which explains which ROMs work with which LGoG's and why? Or put another way - how to intelligently know which ROM's to choose, and which to stay away from ?
Thanks so much!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43974667
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If you want perfection.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39492131
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gentledroid17 said:
If you want perfection.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39492131
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If it was perfection it would have included the APN so I could use it after install
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What do people want?

I have the lgog and im done playing with it. Question is what do you guys want? Ill list a few of my ideas and you guys comment and add ideas.
1. Cm10.1- obvious(it is being worked on so no need to comment)
2. Cm9 im in air on this one. Its ics which we have but we should get jb very very soon.
3. Latest stock pimped out with aroma. If many dont know about aroma roms, its basically a customizable rom that lets you build your own version with tons and tons of options. I will of course be adding many many many addons to the current list.
4. Skinny revisted.
5. Insert idea from you guys.
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jokersax11 said:
I have the lgog and im done playing with it. Question is what do you guys want? Ill list a few of my ideas and you guys comment and add ideas.
1. Cm10.1- obvious(it is being worked on so no need to comment)
2. Cm9 im in air on this one. Its ics which we have but we should get jb very very soon.
3. Latest stock pimped out with aroma. If many dont know about aroma roms, its basically a customizable rom that lets you build your own version with tons and tons of options. I will of course be adding many many many addons to the current list.
4. Skinny revisted.
5. Insert idea from you guys.
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Great to have you on board! I would like any flavor of aosp, or stock that I can use the aosp or CM mail apk. I think from being on irc, that 10.1 is getting close
KUmike said:
Great to have you on board! I would like any flavor of aosp, or stock that I can use the aosp or CM mail apk. I think from being on irc, that 10.1 is getting close
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Aroma, loved it on my S3.
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Paranoid please.
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nemssn4cer said:
Paranoid please.
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That will come after aosp roms like cm10.1 get going. Once cm10.1 is going then we will have about 5-6 aosp based roms right after
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Are you planning on submitting CM 10.1 to become official?
Thank you sir. I would nominate you for President of xda
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Lightsword1942 said:
Are you planning on submitting CM 10.1 to become official?
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Well, it will be official. I personally have not done any work on it. However given that this is not like the photon and wont change other devices just to build it will definitely be official.
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A decent kernel is what we really need in my eyes
Do you plan to work on it with Shelnutt2 and the rest of the crew? I would love to see another great dev on it.
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Well, it will be official. I personally have not done any work on it. However given that this is not like the photon and wont change other devices just to build it will definitely be official.
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The thing I want most is CM 10.1. Now, my question is what about LTE? I know it was a massive effort to get wimax working with cm7/9 on the evo/evo 3d. If LTE won't be working then my next choice is a slimmed down stock rom with performance/battery mods, lightly themed. And a nice kernel to go with it
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KUmike said:
Do you plan to work on it with Shelnutt2 and the rest of the crew? I would love to see another great dev on it.
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Yes i plan on it, but atm its stalled on gpu drivers. The Korean jb source should drop very soon and work will continue.
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jokersax11 said:
Yes i plan on it, but atm its ed on gpu drivers. The Korean jb source should drop very soon and work will continue.
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Awesome, this phone is going to be fantastic with all the support we are getting now. I plan on shelving my S3 soon.
jokersax11 said:
Yes i plan on it, but atm its stalled on gpu drivers. The Korean jb source should drop very soon and work will continue.
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I obviously have no clue about any of this, but shouldn't you be able to take the gpu drivers from the nexus 4 since it's the same hardware? I would think that the camera and lte would be the biggest issues.
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ncfastls1 said:
I obviously have no clue about any of this, but shouldn't you be able to take the gpu drivers from the nexus 4 since it's the same hardware? I would think that the camera and lte would be the biggest issues.
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The n4 has a 3.4 kernel, we have a 3.0 kernel. So no its not as simple as using them. If we had a 3.4 kernel it could work
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I can't wait for your ROMs. I know that my ROMs are small in comparison to the greatness that's going to come out of yours.
I gotta stop by XDA university and start building roms from scratch.
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If the source to korean jb is close, then skip cm9 and go for option 3 (pimped out stock rom). Its faster that way right? It should keep people happy till source drops.
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It would be nice to get Franco's kernel ported over from the N4. Im sure someone knows what to do.
I already made this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2077713, can you take a look at it, any do anything I cant do pretty much, and maybe help me learn some new stuff for my rom? b-reezy is already giving me alot of help, but is extremely busy right now.
Omg joker!! I won an s3 yesterday and decided to trade it for an optimus g instead. So happy and I did! Only because you are here! You did great with the photon I'm sure you will do fantastic with this. I just hope its not as closed as the photon was.
BTW anyone want to catch me up as to what's going on? No bootloader issues hopefully... How locked down is this phone? If at all
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Ubuntu for phones

So with Ubuntu for phones preview almost here, I am left wondering if there is a chance we will be able to flash it to our phones. Ubuntu says the nexus 4 and 10, and the galaxy nexus can flash it. Since our phone resembles the Nexus 4, anyone think it will be possible?
I was waiting for someone to ask. I'd also like to know
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suruat said:
So with Ubuntu for phones preview almost here, I am left wondering if there is a chance we will be able to flash it to our phones. Ubuntu says the nexus 4 and 10, and the galaxy nexus can flash it. Since our phone resembles the Nexus 4, anyone think it will be possible?
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Our devs are waiting for a kernel we can use, I believe.
Then they've talked about porting all kinds of Roms. Ubuntu, WebOs, and others.
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engine95 said:
Our devs are waiting for a kernel we can use, I believe.
Then they've talked about porting all kinds of Roms. Ubuntu, WebOs, and others.
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^This. If we were able to now we would have CM, AOKP, AOSP, PA, etc.
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I hate LG. Won't ever buy another LG phone. They are holding their bad reputation alive.
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^This. If we were able to now we would have CM, AOKP, AOSP, PA, etc.
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By the way, why is it that we don't have access to these? Our bootloader has been unlocked...what's getting in the way of AOSP and AOSP-based ROMs?
prowlingfox said:
By the way, why is it that we don't have access to these? Our bootloader has been unlocked...what's getting in the way of AOSP and AOSP-based ROMs?
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I believe the devs need jelly bean kernel source.
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I hate LG. Won't ever buy another LG phone. They are holding their bad reputation alive.
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What bad reputation? Other variants of the optimus g have jellybean already and the att version has been successfully converted to a nexus 4. The only issue we are facing is how sprint has theirs set up. Has nothing to do with LG. Lg pretty much has jellybean for our phone completed. Just waiting for sprint to do their thing and release it OTA. This phone is by far the closest you will get to a nexus device without actually being a nexus and even then give it a few months and you can slap a nexus sticker on it and I swear you won't notice a difference.
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jblazea50 said:
I believe the devs need jelly bean kernel source.
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What about CM9?
tsdeaton said:
What bad reputation? Other variants of the optimus g have jellybean already and the att version has been successfully converted to a nexus 4. The only issue we are facing is how sprint has theirs set up. Has nothing to do with LG. Lg pretty much has jellybean for our phone completed. Just waiting for sprint to do their thing and release it OTA. This phone is by far the closest you will get to a nexus device without actually being a nexus and even then give it a few months and you can slap a nexus sticker on it and I swear you won't notice a difference.
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Only the Korean version has JB. ATT is running a port of Korean version. Also, I guess you haven't heard some of the things the devs said about LG. Their code is all jacked up and how this is pretty much a beta phone they released. The devs are having so much problems due to the poor code by LG.
LG has reputation of not supporting their devices with software updates and it's showing.
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Only the Korean version has JB. ATT is running a port of Korean version. Also, I guess you haven't heard some of the things the devs said about LG. Their code is all jacked up and how this is pretty much a beta phone they released. The devs are having so much problems due to the poor code by LG.
LG has reputation of not supporting their devices with software updates and it's showing.
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At least the att version can run that. Also nexus 4 conversation. Enough said
But give it some time. They will figure it out and work around the crazy code or fix it. This is a brand new phone. Has barely been out a few months. Miracles don't happen over night. Wait till we get jellybean official. The phone will explode with ROMs and devs. Right now its not important to mess with ICS too much with jellybean just right around the corner. Your referring to them trying to port jellybean to this phone from ICS and Koreans jellybean. 4.1 to 4.2 will also be a smooth transition once 4.1 is out from lg.
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What about CM9?
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I know Adri was trying to port it, but no luck yet. But then he's been busy giving us Lifeless ROM.
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It is possible. We can't directly flash nexus builds, but I will port it when source comes out.
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suruat said:
So with Ubuntu for phones preview almost here, I am left wondering if there is a chance we will be able to flash it to our phones. Ubuntu says the nexus 4 and 10, and the galaxy nexus can flash it. Since our phone resembles the Nexus 4, anyone think it will be possible?
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As long as driver support is there, it will be possible with an unlocked bootloader.
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So guess what today is
February the 21st!
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tsdeaton said:
So guess what today is
February the 21st!
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Yeah still not up yet unfortunately
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Galaxy nexus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2159515
This guy got it working on the galaxy nexus verizon does anybody think we can flash this
dexterboy1106 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2159515
This guy got it working on the galaxy nexus verizon does anybody think we can flash this
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Do NOT flash it. Unless you want a paperweight then by all means..
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I think he might have meant port instead of flash but if not this is me asking if we can port it lol
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Not compatible with CDMA though?

Ubuntu?

The developer preview for the mako is up. Does anyone know if Ubuntu will work on our devices?
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mgebara said:
The developer preview for the mako is up. Does anyone know if Ubuntu will work on our devices?
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No its only for nexus devices maybe it you do the n4 conversion. Please move to q/a this is wrong section
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Dsmforlife92 said:
No its only for nexus devices maybe it you do the n4 conversion. Please move to q/a this is wrong section
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This is the canadian section. They can boot mako kernels like multiple people have told you. I don't think anyone can give a definite answer, but the N4 conversion doesn't even apply to them.
I have tested ubuntu on my gnex and it's not something you want yet. It's really incomplete ( I.e. no network beside wifi, no way to enter contact, search is not working). They could have done a video and I'd have been less deceived. I wish this will still evolve but right now it's not something to you want. Btw, it even use cyanogenmod files.
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chadouming said:
I have tested ubuntu on my gnex and it's not something you want yet. It's really incomplete ( I.e. no network beside wifi, no way to enter contact, search is not working). They could have done a video and I'd have been less deceived. I wish this will still evolve but right now it's not something to you want. Btw, it even use cyanogenmod files.
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Yeah, put it on my N7. It was cool, but not really even a preview.
nygfan760 said:
Yeah, put it on my N7. It was cool, but not really even a preview.
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yeah, seriously, i have never been deceived that much.
nygfan760 said:
This is the canadian section. They can boot mako kernels like multiple people have told you. I don't think anyone can give a definite answer, but the N4 conversion doesn't even apply to them.
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Sorry thought I was in att forum I know they can boot mako kernels like so many people have to me who cares it a mistake
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Dsmforlife92 said:
Sorry thought I was in att forum I know they can boot mako kernels like so many people have to me who cares it a mistake
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wait... so att lgog can boot up mako kernels?
qjai said:
wait... so att lgog can boot up mako kernels?
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No, it cannot at this time.
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qjai said:
wait... so att lgog can boot up mako kernels?
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We use part of a modified mako kernel on JB snows ROM
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qjai said:
wait... so att lgog can boot up mako kernels?
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No.
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If your interested in Ubuntu Touch as an alternative OS for your phone.. then we might need to wait a while for that. However if your interested in running Ubuntu Desktop OS on your phone alongside Android at the same time and use it as a "carry me everywhere" PC, well that you can do right now! Download "Complete Linux Installer" from the market, it will take you through the process. I've installed it yesterday to see what it's all about, and despite the fact that i have to connect to my phone via a VNC session, performance is not that bad for everyday productivity tasks.
Yeah, Q&A would be a better place for this.

Canada Rogers note 2 (sgh-i317m)

Ok...I'm finding it difficult locating phone specific ROMS for my Note 2 from rogers (canada) I know there is alot of ROMS out there but after flashing it says I have a nexus or some other flippin phone and its buggin the crap out of me..I've noticed that the s4 is all setup nice all variants of canadian models, u.s. models and International .. it's easy to find what you're looking for..whatever it may be concerning the s4 and it's only been out for a few months..why isn't the note 2 setup that way?? Maybe I'm looking wrong or something I dont know..can someone help please....thanks
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Rogers,Tellus,Bell ect are all identical to the At&t version. The roms in this section will be compatable
So I will never see SGH-I317M in my phone settings again? Instead Nexus or whatever other crap model it displays??
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Broxx_73 said:
So I will never see SGH-I317M in my phone settings again? Instead Nexus or whatever other crap model it displays??
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Many developers include custom carrier files including Rogers, Bell, Telus. When I was running clean rom it stated 317M. I run JediX now and it says 317. That SGH 317M really does not mean much, it only indicates a Canadian version of the phone.
Broxx_73 said:
Ok...I'm finding it difficult locating phone specific ROMS for my Note 2 from rogers (canada) I know there is alot of ROMS out there but after flashing it says I have a nexus or some other flippin phone and its buggin the crap out of me..I've noticed that the s4 is all setup nice all variants of canadian models, u.s. models and International .. it's easy to find what you're looking for..whatever it may be concerning the s4 and it's only been out for a few months..why isn't the note 2 setup that way?? Maybe I'm looking wrong or something I dont know..can someone help please....thanks
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Try this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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Broxx_73 said:
So I will never see SGH-I317M in my phone settings again? Instead Nexus or whatever other crap model it displays??
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It'll just say GT-N7105. Doesn't mean anything. You can edit your build . prop to say i317m if you want.
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I am developing a specific ROM and kernel combination for the i317m. It is based on the Telus firmware. Just need to do a bit more work but you can expect a release in the next week or two!
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I am developing a specific ROM and kernel combination for the i317m. It is based on the Telus firmware. Just need to do a bit more work but you can expect a release in the next week or two!
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Is there any reason for a Telus specific base?
~PsyCl0ne
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It really doesn't matter the model number. Though I don't understand why AT&T and canadian models work the same way..
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Is there any reason for a Telus specific base?
~PsyCl0ne
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It's a nice clean base to work with. Telus generally doesn't bloat too much and I personally feel a bit better knowing the base was specifically released for the M. Plus all the Canadian CSC stuff is in the base too and some peeps like that (APNs etc)
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Android 4.2 or 4.3

Anyone heard anything about a software upgrade?
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Officially from LG?????? NO......... Maybe from the Devs yes :beer:
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Don't bet on it being LG
Hoping for LG to update this software to 4.3:fingers-crossed:
AFA it is LG i dont think it will happen...at least before next 4/5 month
Lg is always late in launching & updating devices
Hoped that they improve this time but, Currently they are busy gor G2...SO
My girlfriend loves her OGP, she don't care about updates or ROMs. All she wants is root. 4.3 is fast, the G pro would be insane if y'all can get a good 4.3 ASOP ROM on it.
I looked in the Dev section and saw not a single ROM listed. Are there any custom ROMs for this device?
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TJBunch1228 said:
I looked in the Dev section and saw not a single ROM listed. Are there any custom ROMs for this device?
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There's an Unofficial CM build in progress. I've been using it for a few days. The only problems are lack of camera, bluetooth issues (I can't confirm that) and the home button LEDs have been disabled. I'm sure once we have a solid CM base we'll start seeing more ROMs and ports.
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There's an Unofficial CM build in progress. I've been using it for a few days. The only problems are lack of camera, bluetooth issues (I can't confirm that) and the home button LEDs have been disabled. I'm sure once we have a solid CM base we'll start seeing more ROMs and ports.
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And once we get a fully-working CM, it's not (IIRC) that much of a jump to a fully-working AOKP or MIUI or whatever. I have much faith in our awesome devs.
I'm sad to say that this may be my last lg. just upset with the support from lg in the states. No updates took forever to get the value pack. Love the phone but disappointed in the company.
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nthknd said:
I'm sad to say that this may be my last lg. just upset with the support from lg in the states. No updates took forever to get the value pack. Love the phone but disappointed in the company.
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Well it took Samsung about 8 months to release Jelly Bean on the S3. So really they are all pretty bad with updates and most of that could be blamed on the carrier.
If you want immediate updates though, you have to go with Nexus.
I just hope we get some of the features of the G2
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dpalmer76 said:
I just hope we get some of the features of the G2
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Frankly all I want are the extra qslide apps nothing else really appeals to me. The double tap to wake and sleep are OK but I get similar functionality with tasker
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acejoker25000 said:
Frankly all I want are the extra qslide apps nothing else really appeals to me. The double tap to wake and sleep are OK but I get similar functionality with tasker
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Tasker is way to complicated. Looks interesting though!
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dpalmer76 said:
Tasker is way to complicated. Looks interesting though!
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It's not that bad just has a learning curve. Llama is a simpler version but less powerful. Has about half the things you can do and there's another app similar I just don't like the interface its called e-robot give that one a try you might like it. It's a simpler interface then tasker but I'm just used to tasker.
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Don't hold anything on lg doing a update.. They are the sorriest excuse for supporting there device... Notice I said they are not about!!! Its sad to because there devices are starting to be very nice. But if you can't support or even remotely try to update them what's the point of making it.. just find my thread on the open source and look at the delay on response for simple questions.. lol took days ......
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Wired_In said:
Well it took Samsung about 8 months to release Jelly Bean on the S3. So really they are all pretty bad with updates and most of that could be blamed on the carrier.
If you want immediate updates though, you have to go with Nexus.
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thats not entirely true for the s3. it wasnt 8 mnths, it was like 5 - 6 mths. plus they released a couple of non-JB updates during that time before the official JB was released.
to suggest that we all drop the OGP for the nexus just for updates is a bit ignorant.
Ask and you shall receive
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G2 is the last LG phone I think I'll purchase. Funny, I've only owned 3 of them, Nexus 4, LGOG, and now the Lg Pro. Lol, so technically 2 and I'm already tired of the company.
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I respectfully disagree. I mean this phone came to usa in mid may to june. And in less than 2 months the value update!
I mean seriously is that not good enough?
Yes the value pack was available for korean version earlier than that but again the phone was available there first.
4.2 & 4.3 for what? its the same stuff. I was hoping from google to released a full new revamp android version..but i feel like 4.2 & 4.3 are just maintenance update to patch stuff. Yes a few things here & there...but that's it.
Now the developer support for this phone has been a little slow. But unfortunately this phone is at&t exclusive witch is stupid move from LG.
But i will buy this phone again no doubt.
I wish the camera software was better. The camera has a lot of potential but the software is not there yet.
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