3/2019 - Where are all the ROMs & Easy to follow guides?! LG-H830 (Tmobile)

[kevin71246]

Look at the date of the title (3/2019). I just inherited this phone from my wife. I have the S7 which I HATE due to inability to unlock the bootloader. This phone I unlocked the bootloader in 5 minutes, but I cant find any easy guides or custom ROMs. Ive been reading for at least an hour already and this looks like its going to take days of reading and research to catch up and get this phone where a typical root/rom user like myself (and all of us) to where I want it.

Can anyone provides reasons why there are no custom ROMs for this phone, where any guide exists to QUICKLY bring a new user like myself up to speed, how to get root, debloat, etc? Or are there issues with it thats making it developer unfriendly? AOSP ROMs?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!

 

[kevin71246]

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[kevin71246]

I couldn't find a simple guide so I created one. Hope it helps others: https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g5/how-to/guide-one-install-twrp-root-lineageos-t3906613

 

[penguinjoe]

There is a whole section with H830 roms, kernels and other stuff. As well there are also tons of tutorials and other posts if you are patient. I know because I've followed most of them over the last few months.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g5/development

Also there is the General LG G5 forums that has the usual AOSP stuff - most of the roms there are usable on the H830
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g5/development
Of all the LG G5 phopnes the H830 is p5robably the best represented by the devs simply because its bootloader can almost universally be unlocked.

That said, the LG phones in general have rather poor dev support compared to the Samsung Galaxy lines. That is because LG has taken the annoying position of rampant bootloader locking and only giving about 2 years worth of OS updates. Devs won't develop custom roms for a phone that is only subset of them being updateable. I wouldn't hold my breath for any Pie roms for the LG G5.

Personally I love the LG G5 - particularly the H830 - as you can see in my sig I have 2 of them. I have mostlyu been happy running stock (but rooted) oreo on them so haven't really bothereds with the custom roms.

I also have the following in bare motherboard form:
H850... can't be unlocked due to it being from Israel - LG's sneaky little gotcha,
H831 - canadian - hard bootlocked ,
820 - ATT - hard bootlocked
RS988 Unlocked bootloader, but no support from LG & only Lineage and Resurrection Remix