I have read that AT&T has released Android M 6.0 for the AT&T G Pad F 8.0 V495 however when I try and update it says I have the latest version. The LG software tool also states the same thing.
I don't not have an active SIM card, but I have tried with a deactivated sim and also no sim with the same results. This update was released 4/26/16 it looks like.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/05/06/att-updates-lg-g-pad-f-8-0-to-android-6-0/
https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KB426933
I don't know if it's the same with AT&T, but with Verizon devices, they won't receive OTAs unless you have an activated Verizon SIM card in the device. It can take time for the PC software to show the latest update - could be weeks if at all.
I was trying the same thing today on mine and getting the same thing, I remove the Activated SIM from my iPad and installed on my LG G Pad F 8.0 (V495) then I move the date because it check for update every 24H. After all that it found a New Upgrade and download, but my problem is that I am ROOTED and the OTA upgrade wont work on rooted devices.
Ahah, thanks guys. I moved my iPad Mini 4 Sim over with an adapter and was able to update it after it had an active LTE connection.
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I tried using the LG Mobile support tool, but it is also showing 10g as the latest update. How do I get 10l? Please help!
You need have an AT&T sim in the phone to pull the update for any AT&T phone. Sucks but you should be able to get any at&t sim even if it is un activated and pull the update. You can download on wifi but it needs to check and makesure its is an AT&T phone first
Hello,
I acquired a Verizon G3 as a gift a while back (weird story) but my primary phone has been a GSM Nexus 5 and I have been on T-Mobile service for a couple years now. I used the G3 as a second phone/tablet by just connecting to WiFi and using it for a camera/games/music device. My beloved Nexus 5 has become less reliable and I thought I would just switch to the G3 as my primary phone. I put my T-Mobile SIM card in the G3, manually entered the APN, and to my surprise, I connected to T-Mobile LTE immediately! Awesome! Now, the only thing keeping me from being satisfied with this device is that it is still running 4.4.2. I guess it never got an OTA simply because it never connected to the verizon network.
So my question is, is there a way to get the long-awaited OTA from T-Mobile or is it not compatible? Is my only option to root the phone and flash Marshmallow?
I appreciate the help!
jm420 said:
Hello,
I acquired a Verizon G3 as a gift a while back (weird story) but my primary phone has been a GSM Nexus 5 and I have been on T-Mobile service for a couple years now. I used the G3 as a second phone/tablet by just connecting to WiFi and using it for a camera/games/music device. My beloved Nexus 5 has become less reliable and I thought I would just switch to the G3 as my primary phone. I put my T-Mobile SIM card in the G3, manually entered the APN, and to my surprise, I connected to T-Mobile LTE immediately! Awesome! Now, the only thing keeping me from being satisfied with this device is that it is still running 4.4.2. I guess it never got an OTA simply because it never connected to the verizon network.
So my question is, is there a way to get the long-awaited OTA from T-Mobile or is it not compatible? Is my only option to root the phone and flash Marshmallow?
I appreciate the help!
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There is no Marshmallow for the VS985 yet. 5.1.1 (35B) was rolled out a week or so ago. If it's flashed stock, it cannot be rooted, but there are pre-rooted custom roms available. Easiest way to go about it would be to KDZ flash back to 10B, root using stumproot, flash TWRP, and then install a 35B pre-rooted custom roms via recovery.
Check the Verizon LG G3 forum for more info.
I bought the handset from LG G4 AT&T and when I activate it on the PC had an update to Android 6.0, after that I upgraded now is Verizon and it gets appearing a message "This sim is not verizon " I have no way to activate it from Brazil , how to remove this ROM and go back to the previous 5.1 AT&T?
So I have my v35 actually going to be discarded, and I decided to buy a cheap G8 from [email protected] and I am confused about the Android 10 update... Some users reported that if the phone is on Pie and skip all the set-up for first time and connect to wifi without any sim card they have upgraded their phones to Android 10, other suggested that they changed the time zone and it worked eventually, others reported that they got a [email protected] sim card and they inserted and after a couple of minutes or hours the update will automatically downloaded.
As someone who live outside US I import my phones because they are way cheap than here in my country and I have enough knowledge of flashing software as I did with my v35 also that was or it is [email protected] But now I see that the Android 10 kdz is on the LG site for flash? As I had to or wanted to install Android 10 on the current v35 as it is unlocked I had to flash the korean version...
My question is if I can flash using LG bridge the current Android 10 kdz or it's not possible on the [email protected]? Or I need to buy the [email protected] sim card or how the heck it's the correct way to upgrade the phone? I have to sim unlock the phone first or should I have to do without sim unlock?
tonochito said:
So I have my v35 actually going to be discarded, and I decided to buy a cheap G8 from [email protected] and I am confused about the Android 10 update... Some users reported that if the phone is on Pie and skip all the set-up for first time and connect to wifi without any sim card they have upgraded their phones to Android 10, other suggested that they changed the time zone and it worked eventually, others reported that they got a [email protected] sim card and they inserted and after a couple of minutes or hours the update will automatically downloaded.
As someone who live outside US I import my phones because they are way cheap than here in my country and I have enough knowledge of flashing software as I did with my v35 also that was or it is [email protected] But now I see that the Android 10 kdz is on the LG site for flash? As I had to or wanted to install Android 10 on the current v35 as it is unlocked I had to flash the korean version...
My question is if I can flash using LG bridge the current Android 10 kdz or it's not possible on the [email protected]? Or I need to buy the [email protected] sim card or how the heck it's the correct way to upgrade the phone? I have to sim unlock the phone first or should I have to do without sim unlock?
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Sorry, there's basically no way to update. You can't cross flash, and at&t doesn't provide kdzs. The only way to is to buy an at&t sim, but you have to activate it, which costs like another $60, and you need to actually connect to at&t, which can be done practically nowhere outside of the us I think
Mmm even with the official page of LG having Android 10 kdz? They are listed as unknown and CAN, and some of them are listed as US too, just wondering if I had to do the same as I did with the v35, which also as being of at&t and unlocked it was never going to receive the Android 10 by ota. I just flashed the korean kdz and it worked and of course it is different.
https://lg-firmwares.com/es/lg-lmg820um-firmwares/
The thing about activating I guess I can't as I am outside USA and by $60 I could anyway it's way cheaper than paying retail prices here for $800
tonochito said:
Mmm even with the official page of LG having Android 10 kdz? They are listed as unknown and CAN, and some of them are listed as US too, just wondering if I had to do the same as I did with the v35, which also as being of at&t and unlocked it was never going to receive the Android 10 by ota. I just flashed the korean kdz and it worked and of course it is different.
https://lg-firmwares.com/es/lg-lmg820um-firmwares/
The thing about activating I guess I can't as I am outside USA and by $60 I could anyway it's way cheaper than paying retail prices here for $800
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You can't cross flash, end of story. Lg put in new hardware locks against it
Ey pardon for insisting but... T-Mobile and Verizon are way easier to update or it's the same mess as at&t version? Saw a couple of them unlocked one of T-Mobile and the Verizon one seems black listed but for overseas in my case works.
tonochito said:
Ey pardon for insisting but... T-Mobile and Verizon are way easier to update or it's the same mess as at&t version? Saw a couple of them unlocked one of T-Mobile and the Verizon one seems black listed but for overseas in my case works.
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I don't know if they work overseas when they're blacklisted; I wouldn't be too sure of that. Those variants should be fine because t mobile and Verizon provide kdzs, so you can always update manually
Yeah I asked on Reddit and people say T-Mobile updates ota and are on Android 10 and of course they advised me never again buy any at&t variant and even Verizon can update also ota.
I have the 6 pro unlocked bought from Google. I use it on Verizon. I found out that when I got the phone and put the Sim in that the November update was not downloaded and installed. I factory reset the device and did not insert the SIM and I got the update. I now have SD1A.210817.036 installed. I this the correct version? I understand there is a November update 037 now but I don't see that. Now I am concerned that when the December update comes out that I wont get that either. Does anyone here know if Google and Verizon have fixed this issue?
Thanks
We don't know because it's just too early to tell. Word is they stopped pushing the .037 OTA at all, although I don't know that from personal experience. I've got the unlocked P6P running on AT&T and I got all the OTAs almost immediately. The next OTA should be out next Monday, but I believe Verizon variants have often lagged at least a little when though the OTA is available directly from Google for all variants at the same time.
Also commonly, after several updates the Verizon version of the firmware gets merged into a single universal firmware.
Regardless of any of this, you can flash either the Verizon version of the OTA manually, getting it directly from Google's site. You may even be able to flash the non-Verizon OTA manually, but there's no reason to avoid the Verizon version since you're using it with Verizon.
With the Pixel 5, unlocked but using Verizon as my service provider: there was a 50-50 shot on some sort of delay on updates. I think it has to do with their mmWave 5G and other providers (US and international) either do not use mmWave; or aren't as proprietary as Verizon.
Is there any benefit to running the Verizon version on an unlocked pixel 6 pro?
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Is there any benefit to running the Verizon version on an unlocked pixel 6 pro?
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The best answer is "maybe", leaning towards "probably".
For example, and probably a bad example but the only one I got. When I got my unlocked HTC 10 before I got the Pixel 1 in 2016, and I was still with Verizon at the time, I had no idea that I was going to have to jump through hoops to get Verizon's radio.img on my HTC 10, which was rooted so no big deal. Now maybe there was a whole Verizon firmware I could flash, but if I just wanted to use the regular unlocked HTC 10 firmware, I had to put the Verizon radio.img on there to even work on the network.
On the Pixels, I don't think it's ever been quite like that. I think you can use the regular firmware just fine on Verizon, but maybe, just maybe, it will work better with their proprietary bits that come with the Verizon version of the firmware.
Also, I know sometimes in the past that if you had the unlocked firmware on a device but used a Verizon SIM (or in other cases with some phones, an AT&T SIM, and probably applied to T-Mobile too), that you would then receive an OTA automatically to put you on their particular variant of the most recent firmware. So unless you disabled updates in Developer Options, you'd get the "proper" firmware for your usage anyway, and of course, being rooted is the ultimate method to avoid the proprietary variant of the firmware since OTAs will most likely refuse to even update a rooted device, although you should still turn automatic updates off since there's a chance it could instead soft-brick your device.
jjbender said:
I have the 6 pro unlocked bought from Google. I use it on Verizon. I found out that when I got the phone and put the Sim in that the November update was not downloaded and installed. I factory reset the device and did not insert the SIM and I got the update. I now have SD1A.210817.036 installed. I this the correct version? I understand there is a November update 037 now but I don't see that. Now I am concerned that when the December update comes out that I wont get that either. Does anyone here know if Google and Verizon have fixed this issue?
Thanks
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I have an unlocked p6 (not pro) that I got from Amazon which I am using on Verizon. When I first set it up without a sim card it got the 36 update OTA without a problem. I put in the sim card and didn't receive the 37 update long after it was released. Finally I tried an inactive Mint sim (t-mobile network) and got the update when I checked for a system update using the settings menu. It probably would have worked without a sim also.
Rumors are that there will be a December update so I will be checking then. If I don't get it I will try without a sim or with an inactive sim. But that will mean that automatic updates don't work for unlocked p6s on verizon.
I did finally sideload the .037.A1 which is the Verizon version so I will see if I start getting the OTA updates.
Thanks all
sdbe said:
Rumors are that there will be a December update so I will be checking then.
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For clarification, if you didn't know (forgive me if you did), the Pixel 6/Pro will receive an update every single month from the time it came out until five years later (so ~ October 2026). Especially some of the later years they might only be security updates - not Android version updates, but they will come like clockwork I believe the first Monday of every month.
Personally i wouldn't use the vzw firmware as there are hardware differences between the two especially radio