This is getting downright creepy. The site androidfilehost has thousands of listings. I go through alphabetically, on page 54 it goes from Spirit to Stylo. Splendor is NOT EVEN LISTED.

What the hell is it with this phone that its existence has nearly been erased from the internet???

In my experience with new hardware, it’s always been Ubuntu that works it perfectly where everyone else is like “what’s that? I don’t know that hardware”

A while back I got a new laptop and the audio hardware would only work with Ubuntu which is fine because that’s what I was already using on the previous hardware. Ubuntu with KDE is a very solid setup.

Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like “yeah, yeah, I know” and click to silence those notifications.

Don’t know if you’re joking but this is not supposed to be a clone of reddit. I’m not bothered really I was just being nitpicky. I mean, of it’s all the same, may as well use the right word.

They’re called communities on Lemmy, not subs. And if there isn’t one yet, feel free to make one! This platform is young still, and needs people to start filling the void.

No idea. I just went through the lgstockroms website… over 1,220 models listed across 52 pages. This one is not fucking there.

What the hell? I just don’t get it. This isn’t the first time some weird arbitrary-seeming absence has occurred in tech that I’ve seen.

Years ago I bought a business class Netgear wireless router that offered everything that was at the top of the line at the time. It wasn’t for me it was for a family member. The thing operated flawlessly, performance was absolutely perfect, the management interface was clean, intuitive and sensibly designed.

It was a little strange because it wasn’t advertised on the business class products listings in my distributor’s catalog, nor in the consumer listings either. I somehow stumbled upon it by accident and ordered it. Price was good and specs were good. Also never had seen it in a store anywhere ever.

Like a year later I wanted to get this same product for someone who needed that kind of solution. Could not find it anywhere. Could also not find a single trace of its existence. No reference on their website or anything. Like it never existed!

I called Netgear at the time I was a reseller directly with them, and I had to go through several people to find anyone who’d even heard of it. I explained everything I have written here, and asked why it was like it never existed? This guy says to me “You say it was perfect?” I’m like “Yes!” He says “And it operates with no trouble whatsoever, and it handles everything well, and no need for anything else, and it’s easy to use and doesn’t fail, and has no defects or design flaws, and the software has no bugs?” I was like “Yes yes yes and yes! Why are there none of these around and why is it impossible to find???”

He responded “Haven’t you already answered your own question?”

I don’t know much about this LG phone because I acquired it second-hand and rooted it. Then after tinkering for a bit I made a change in the root privileges that it should elevate superuser immediately upon booting. This was apparently a problem and it is now in this unusable state. But I gotta say the little I used it, it seemed fantastic! Performed smoothly, easily rooted, ran really nicely given its humble specs. Maybe this is one of those cases where they really don’t want it on the market because it was too reliable and lacked nothing. I imagine the files I’ve been looking for have been gone for a long time already. This kind of thing happens more than most people know. A brand puts out a product that’s just awesome and nobody would want any alternative for that class of product, and would not need to replace it soon either. That’s not good for business the way business works these days. They rely on their products being just good enough to make it sell, but plenty of hidden awfulness to make sure you’ll need something new soon enough. That’s what makes billions not millions.

So maybe this is one such item.

Hey thanks for these. Question: Can you think of any reason why the site firmwarefile.com has EVERY goddamn brand EXCEPT LG? Seriously… 9 pages of brands… LG absent. What. The. Strange. Absolute. Fuck?

Will do! I’ll see what happens.

I’ll take a look thank you! Yeah the firmware’s site is where LG support links to and their site is shit. First of all, after two attempts it says you can only download two files per day. It uses IP not cookie so I used VPN to retry but it’s a dead link. The thing actually said to me “You are a spammer” seriously no shitting. Assholes.

But I’ll look at everything you provided thanks.

Their captcha crap is fucking atrocious. Sometimes it cannot be done without reloading over and over for like ten minutes until you get a usable image. Captcha is such drek.

Thank you! I already tried XDA but I’ll look at the others.

They don’t even give you a link to the file directly that you could feed I to archive, they do a query with a code that triggers it to deploy the file. Of course. Because the more complicated and obtuse the better.

This stuff is truly fascinating as well as mystifying.

Ah. Okies. Well, I’m using version 8 and it’s fine no intention of going to newer. And some devices are using older versions.

So did they ever implement any of that? If so, as of what version?

Yeah basically what I meant.

Hey, So… after a lot of exhausting searching and attempting to get the tools, looks like EVERY one of these is defunct. Either dead links, or updates have since patched out the ability to do whatever is needed. I feel like Lineage is a short-lived option where the only practical route is to buy a phone that they officially support right now (as in, when you want to do it). I have also searched beyond your recommended links… A LOT. Dozens and dozens of youtube tutorials, XDA threads, and other websites. All with the same flashy “INSTALL LINEAGE ON zzzzz” and ALL dead. Missing files. Or comments by the hundred saying it fails. Or youtube videos that just want the fucking clicks so what they do is not actually possible; therefore they just use some kind of video trickery to leapfrog over one essential step that will actually not be possible.

Anyhoooo… What I HAVE been able to do is find lots of great rooting tools and threads so I have rooted like half of my phones lol. Also gotten some great tools to optimize even without rooting by using ADB and strip/disable lots of stuff that’s just bloat.

I still would love someday to explore Lineage, /e/, Havoc, and many other custom ROMS. It seems, though, that for every legitimate tutorial, there are a hundred that are just clickbait, or more recently the cancer that is AI bot copied SHIT. AND, besides all that, lots of the tutorials have dead links so whatever ROM they were hosting is not there anymore. The official sites remove versions that they no longer support, so even if you want to just take a risk with an unimportant phone, you cannot even get what was once an official build!

Some day, I will try again when I have plenty of free time, but for now I guess I am sticking with whatever is there already and just customize the shit out of it, plus root where possible.

Thank you for your efforts, though, it was appreciated!

Yyyyeeeah, all ideally. Things don’t always go ideally. Something will always happen. That’s the truth no matter what, and I’d think it’s best to eliminate externals as much as possible. That’s my position. No actual right or wrong here.

ROFL thanks for this; gave me a good laugh 😀😃😄😃😁🤪

Hubnob?

So it’s the default. Big deal. You can change that when you start the app first time. If that gets them funding that’s not a horrible price to pay. Also, that’s not money getting influence exactly, that’s a transaction. “We will pay $x to get this status.” Not the same at all as “I donated lots of money therefore I get to say how you develop the software.”