I tried out a few roms and have decided I don't want any of them the way they are so far. Bobz was okay but couldn't get it into recovery to flash gapps which I didn't know I needed til after I flashed. I booted into recovery but it did nothing but restart, so I tried moving the apk into the system and ended up bricking again. The collab rom was way too basic and I can't stand third party launchers like apex might as well have stock, but the aroma installer was nice. PG's Paranoid Android was my favorite so far but way too unstable. Looks like I'm sticking with my tricked out stock rom for a while.

 

I did that it just kept freezing up on lg logo then just restarted. It's all good I'm just going to stay focused on trying to help find a way to get this damn bootloader unlocked. Then if we do I'll start trying out some full roms.

 

I was just messing around with my bricked phone with bobz in it. I turned it on and kept tapping the volume down rocker and it went into morning call is empty. Then i pulled out the battery and restarted it normally. It started the cyanogen mod bootloop again. How am I being able get a morning call and boot loop at the same time?

 

Im on firmware F. All I've done is add jellybean transitions, crt animation off, I've removed only the necessary bloatware, deleted all ring tones..notifications..alarms I don't ever use, I have fully working Google Now for ICS, changed out charger sound, screen lock/unlock sounds, new shutdown and boot animations with power off and on sounds, I have the themed messaging..contacts/phone I made and released on this forum. Plus a few other personal tweaks, my rom is very unique to me so just tweak yours to your preferences..

 

Gps did work for me there was just a tricky way to do it. I don't remember how though.

 

With 2nd init. you can only download custom roms over the stock kernel. With a true recovery you can flash full roms with custom kernels. If you plan to remove bloatware be cautious, and I wouldn't remove all the bloatware that is "safe" to remove. Just because you CAN remove doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD. A lot of folks end up having trouble with their phones that I never experience. I think this could be do to the fact I don't remove all bloatware just because it can be. If you really want to save system space delete useless ring tones and notifications from system/media/audio/ ringtones or notifications.

 

No there never was. Sammyz thought he had it but it was a mistake...

 

I understand I'm just saying some things work to assist other apps and phone features. So while some(not saying you) may think they don't use it and the fact that it won't brick by removing it it's fine to remove. Just because it won't shut your phone down doesn't mean it isn't needed is all I'm saying.