[PETITION] Petition to Sprint to Allow Users to Unlock the Bootloader of the LG V20

[pro_granade]

https://www.change.org/p/sprint-unl...source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

Let's make ourselves heard. If we can get enough people to stand up and say this needs to happen, hopefully we can make it happen guys! I'll be editing this post with status updates!

 

[Swizzle82]

https://www.change.org/p/sprint-unl...source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

Let's make ourselves heard. If we can get enough people to stand up and say this needs to happen, hopefully we can make it happen guys! I'll be editing this post with status updates!

Hate to be all negative and what not but this will most likely not work. I've never seen a petition to Lg ever work. Ever.

 

[lynneddington]

Been around since droid x days, this never works

Sent from my VS995 using Tapatalk

 

[@rbiter]

Might work if you petition sprint and get more customers. They're bleeding customers like a Komodo dragon bit them and they're still not making friendly moves for customers. Just desperate ones.

 

[douger1957]

What you guys don't understand is that the modding community is a very small portion of their customer base. Quite frankly, they don't care about us. They care about the majority of their customer's phone security and the expense of dealing with nimrods who mess up their phones. Google itself is getting into the act with making phones harder to root.

I've never seen one of these petitions have any effect on whether a phone can be unlocked, but go ahead and try.

 

[snarfies]

Sprint does not care about you or what you want.

If they did, you wouldn't need a petition to begin with.

 

[edstreiff]

https://www.change.org/p/sprint-unl...source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

Let's make ourselves heard. If we can get enough people to stand up and say this needs to happen, hopefully we can make it happen guys! I'll be editing this post with status updates!

I signed this is BS that its locked

 

[Jooosty]

You're going to get 10 total signatures. Lol jk with you. I hardly ever see Sprint users. It's kind of rare. 10 years ago was a different story.

- typed from my freshly rooted V20 on America's most awesome Network , T-Mobile , enjoying my CAT12 download speeds at 600MBPS. O what? It's Tuesday? Free movie rental and ice cream? Don't mind if I do.

Totally just messing around. My phone is still stock. The option to tinker is always welcomed. Come join #TeamMagenta.

Sent from my LG-H918 using XDA-Developers mobile app

 

[De_Falt]

You're going to get 10 total signatures. Lol jk with you. I hardly ever see Sprint users. It's kind of rare. 10 years ago was a different story.

- typed from my freshly rooted V20 on America's most awesome Network , T-Mobile , enjoying my CAT12 download speeds at 600MBPS. O what? It's Tuesday? Free movie rental and ice cream? Don't mind if I do.

Totally just messing around. My phone is still stock. The option to tinker is always welcomed. Come join #TeamMagenta.

Sent from my LG-H918 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Sorry, some people don't have the option of switching to T-Mobile.

 

[blackangst]

What you guys don't understand is that the modding community is a very small portion of their customer base. Quite frankly, they don't care about us. They care about the majority of their customer's phone security and the expense of dealing with nimrods who mess up their phones. Google itself is getting into the act with making phones harder to root.

I've never seen one of these petitions have any effect on whether a phone can be unlocked, but go ahead and try.

This.

 

[ZDeuce2]

Sorry, some people don't have the option of switching to T-Mobile.

The LG-H996 is unlocked to all US carriers, and can be bootloader unlocked, buy that one

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[Koont]

Unlimited 4g hotspot solved one of the major reasons I root. The main reason I left Sprint for T mobile. If you can leave, leave. If you can't, oh well.

 

[Skripka]

The LG-H996 is unlocked to all US carriers, and can be bootloader unlocked, buy that one

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THIS WILL NOT WORK!!!

Sorry for the caps...but really. The IMEI/MEID range for the 996 is completely wrong, the phone will not even activate as it isn't whitelisted and good luck getting Sprint to add it. And then there's the problem of the radio support not being correct.

Just because a phone is carrier unlocked in no way means it will just work. Doubly so when the phone in question has rainbow SKUs per region and carrier.

You're going to get 10 total signatures. Lol jk with you. I hardly ever see Sprint users. It's kind of rare. 10 years ago was a different story.

- typed from my freshly rooted V20 on America's most awesome Network , T-Mobile , enjoying my CAT12 download speeds at 600MBPS. O what? It's Tuesday? Free movie rental and ice cream? Don't mind if I do.

Totally just messing around. My phone is still stock. The option to tinker is always welcomed. Come join #TeamMagenta.

Sent from my LG-H918 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Only "most awesome network"...depending on where you live. LOL. There's zero TMo coverage in my entire state.

Sprint does not care about you or what you want.

If they did, you wouldn't need a petition to begin with.

No ISP or telecom does in the USA. They all treat you like cattle to be herded and milked for all you're worth.

 

[@rbiter]

THIS WILL NOT WORK!!!

Sorry for the caps...but really. The IMEI/MEID range for the 996 is completely wrong, the phone will not even activate as it isn't whitelisted and good luck getting Sprint to add it. And then there's the problem of the radio support not being correct.

Just because a phone is carrier unlocked in no way means it will just work. Doubly so when the phone in question has rainbow SKUs per region and carrier.



Only "most awesome network"...depending on where you live. LOL. There's zero TMo coverage in my entire state.




No ISP or telecom does in the USA. They all treat you like cattle to be herded and milked for all you're worth.

Doubly so if it's CDMA or one of China's carriers. You might run into a problem there unless you have some lte bands capable. Afaik, all lte bands fall under the gsm umbrella so at worst it might be possible lte works, but I'm pretty sure sprint as mentioned is an exception and one of the reasons they're bleeding customers but I seriously doubt this is one of the worst reasons.

 

[jamice4u]

I will be leaving Sprint Once my contract expires. I am sick of this non-sense with Sprint.

Sent from my LG-LS997 using XDA-Developers mobile app

 

[Skripka]

I will be leaving Sprint Once my contract expires. I am sick of this non-sense with Sprint.

Sent from my LG-LS997 using XDA-Developers mobile app

They all pull nonsense...those like TMo that don;t, well good luck finding towers..

 

[v8dreaming]

I can tell you that this did not work with Samsung and t-mobile. I doubt it will work with Sprint and LG. No harm in trying though.

 

[SkyPhone]

What you guys don't understand is that the modding community is a very small portion of their customer base.

This is very true. However....

Quite frankly, they don't care about us.

This isn't the whole story. Reviewers are often enthusiasts and look to XDA. Individual purchasers often look to their techie friends, who are often xda members. So they'd like to make us happy - we're opinion leaders for many purchasers. However....

They care about the majority of their customer's phone security and the expense of dealing with nimrods who mess up their phones. Google itself is getting into the act with making phones harder to root.

They do a cost/benefit. If the phones aren't secure they can't do things like run secure pay services or sell to corporate users. Dealing with users who brick the phone and then return it is also expensive. We're lucky that some services, like T-Mo are willing to open the door a tiny bit. Changing corporate policy for Verizon or Sprint will be hard I suspect.

 

[@rbiter]

So give us developer edition phones. Some of us don't care about security. And we definitely cam have our cake and eat it too. The mod community fuels a lot of innovation. And fixes for lazy programmers. Plus we are a big force to contend with sometimes when friends look at the what phone the nerd has. Oh look. Free tech support. But aside from financial things like payment services and wireless pay services, developer phones support the need for speed. I mean tweakers. Lol. I'd gladly give up Knox, encryptiom, enterprise security for an unlockable bootloader. We can still have a secure phone. Just if it falls into the wrong hands they can have free reign over your phone. Surprisingly my phone is always in earshot of me. Nd when it's not, it's even closer. In my pocket or hand. Plenty of security there. And xda finds a lot of exploits that get plugged making phones more secure. I'd gladly pay a small premium for developers edition. And xda. Unintentionally makimg phones more secure for almost 10 years.