Showing posts with label android marshmallow. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Guide To Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4 Using H815 20A KDZ File.

Guide To Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4 Using H815 20A KDZ File.


Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4. LG G4 is the android smartphone which announced in April 2015, and excatly released on 2015, April. firmwareandroidyes on this guide will explain to you how to flashing android device on LG G4   with easy and simple stepFlashing in android is the same way like fresh install on the windows PC, So by perform a flash on Android you will give a new performance like a new phone. One reason that you should perform a flash your android is because your android get bootloop or when you failed to install Stock ROM Mod. 

This LG G4 is the smartphone with 5,5 Inchi wide LCD, work on AAndroid OS, v5.1 (Lollipop), and supported with Quad-core 1.44 GHz Cortex-A53 Cortex-A57 CPU, Qualcomm MSM8992 Snapdragon 808 Chipset, combined with 3 GB of RAM and 16 MP of  Main camera and 8 MP on secondary camera. 
Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4
Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4









Attention : This guide for experiment purpose only, actually has not been tested before. And may LG Flash Tool not support the Android 6.0 marshmallow KDZ latest build. The other problem when you perform this update on your LG G4 is your bootloader will be locked and you may not be able to downgrade or root your device as the bootloader unlock method is unavailable for v20A firmware.

What You Need ?

  1. Make sure you have the latest LG drivers installed on your computer. Get it Here
  2. Make sure you have latest LG FlashTool : Here
  3. Then, Extract and Install the LG Flash Tool 2014 on your computer. LG Flash Tool 2014 is required in order to flash the KDZ file onto your LG G4.
  4. If you have any problems installing or running the Flash Tool then install the Visual C++ Runtime libraries on your Windows PC. Get it Here
  5. Download the LG G4 Firmware  (Marshmallow H81520A_00.kdz ) from Here or you can use direct link to get this Firmware here.
  6. This Android 6.0 Marshmallow KDZ firmware is compatible with only the international variant of LG G4 with model number H815.
  7. Always perform backup your important data before flashing process, Cause this process will delete or erase the data in memory.To backup your SMS file you can see this guide

Guide To Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4.

Read this step carefully to update your LG G4 with  Android 6.0 Marshmallow Stock.
  1. Make sure you have download all requirement tool above.
  2. Then Install the drivers with your phone connected with your Computer, when it finished disconnect your LG G4 phone from your computer.
  3. Now turn your LG G4 phone off, then click continuously on the up volume and connect your phone to your computer, 
  4. Now enter your LG G4 into download mode.   ( visit this guide or see at the end of this post)
  5. Run LGFlashTool2014.exe.
  6. There are two options to flash your LG G4.
    • Normal Flash : You can select this option if you want Flash ROM without losing any data. Only use this when you need to fix system error.
    • CSE Flash : You can choose this option when you need a fresh format. All data will be deleted. It's suitable for upgrading or downgrading ROM or simply use this when you need to back to Stock. 
    • LG flash tool normal flash / CSE flash
      LG flash tool normal flash / CSE flash
  7. Select Type: CDMA
  8. PhoneMode: DIAG
  9. Select KDZ file : browse your KDZ file in your drive
  10. Then you can Click on Normal Flash or CSE Flash (see step 6 to decide this option), On this guide we recomended that you select CSE Flash.
  11. Then click Start.
    LG flash tool - start
    LG flash tool - start
  12. Then click on Clear Phone Software update registry.
    Lg flash tool - Clear Phone Software update registry.
    Lg flash tool - Clear Phone Software update registry.
  13. No need to choose desired language, it automatically change to English as a default setting.
  14. Finally you can click OK.
  15. Once the program has started, the stock firmware will get installed.
    LG Flash tool - flashing process
    LG Flash tool - flashing process
  16. If your process interupted and error ocured, retry from Step 1 until success and remember to disconnect from internet when necessary. 
  17. You must wait a minute for the LG Mobile Support tool to recognize the LG G4 device.
  18. When you wait this process, may take 5 minute the tool to recognize it.
  19. The software will start the extraction on your device.
  20. When the process reach 100% your LG G4 will reboot.
  21. Then, you must Unplug your LG G4 from your computer by remove USB Cable from it.,
  22. Once you boot into stock firmware on your LG G4, you can enjoy your latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow software.
  23. Finish,

Enter LG G4 To Download Mode.

To enter LG AKA in download mode, you can follow this guide :
  1. Remove batterei from your phone
  2. Plug USB cable to your PC
  3. Press and Hold volume UP Button, while cable plugs USB Cable from PC to your Phone
  4. Then will appear white note on your LG G4 phone, if you see this you can releasa Volume UP button.
  5. Press and hold volume UP Button on your LG G4 phone again, until you see FIRMWARE UPDATE message.
  6. If your phone has been detected in your PC (to make sure, click the monitor icon beside Read Phone Information button, this action will open device manager windows. If your phone was detected you can see this at the top)
  7. Click START, and you will see dialogue box, just click OK
  8. Wait for the flash process, it will run in approximately 5 minute and your LG G4 will restart itself
  9. Then your LG G4 phone will boot up, if you can see Welcome Screen, it's mean Flashing process is successfully.
  10. Unplug USB cable, and finish
  11. Now your LG G4 is installed new firmware.
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    Guide To Install Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow 20A On LG G4 H815 Using TWRP Recovery.

    Guide To Install Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow 20A On LG G4 H815 Using TWRP Recovery.

    Install Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4 H815. Todays firmwareandroidyes will share to all LG G4 android user to update android system on it using Android 6.0 Marshmallow. On this year, October 2015 LG announced to release the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow to it's 2015 flagship smartphone LG G4. but the roll-out process was deferred in the last minute for reasons unknown. Only some defined country get OTA update for this new android version. So, if you live at the other country you will be able to update android system using newest Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

    Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4
    Update Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4
    But some developer at XDA Developer Forum has been made Stock ROM Android 6.0 Marshmallow available online. Here are some flashable zip files that will take your LG G4 H815 variant to Android 6.0 Marshmallow without the complicated step to flashing the KDZ file. But if you want the other method to flash LG G4 H815 with kdz file, you can see this guide. The listed files are from software version 20A that comes with the official KDZ firmware and includes the system (stock ROM), boot, modem and bootloader zips.

    If you use this method, your bootloader will still be unlocked and you can gain root access later by installing the SuperSU package over this ROM, and the other advantage of this method you can also downgrade you LG G4 android system.

    What you need to start Install Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4 H815 ?

    1. Make sure that your device is LG G4 H815 phone, because our guide is specifically for LG G4 H815 variant only. if tried on other android devices, it might get bricked 
    2. To ensure what is device model on your device now, you can check by go to Setting ->About Phone -> model number.
    3. Make sure the device is rooted before going ahead with custom ROM installation.
    4. Installing Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow On LG G4 H815 requires clearing of memory in the smartphone, and will delete all data stored, 
    5. To backup your important data, like SMS you can see this guide.
    6. All USB driver that apropriate with LG G4 device must be installed correctly. or else your LG G4  will not be recognised by the computer. If you don't have any USB driver you can download here
    7. To keep the battery capacity enough for upgrade process, you need at least 80% of battery capacity, otherwise you can connect power adapter to ensure battery life. 
    8. Unlocked bootloader is required in order to flash the system and boot images on your LG G4. To unlock the bootloader on your device, get to the official page.
    9. Or you can see this guide to Unlock Bootloader LG G4

    Download Tools.

    To Install Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow 20A On LG G4 H815, you need tools below.
    1. System (LG-H81520A-Flashable.System.zip) Here
    2. Modem (LG-H81520A-Flashable.Modem.zip) Here
    3. Boot (LG-H81520A-Flashable.Boot.zip) Here
    4. Bootloader (LG-H81520A-Flashable.Bootloader.zip) Here

    Guide To Install Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow 20A On LG G4 H815.

    1. TWRP recovery must be installed on your LG G4 devices. For detailed TWRP installation instructions using fastboot, see this guide.
    2. After downloading Android Marshmallow 20A stock ROM in to your computer, then connect LG G4 to the computer.
    3. Place the Android Marshmallow 20A stock ROM into the phone's storage memory, and you must palce .zip file in the storage root folder, not in any other folder.
    4. Now reboot into Custom Recovery (like TWRP). To boot into TWRP,
      • First turn off your LG G4 device
      • Then press and hold volume down and power keys at the same time.
      • If you see the TWRP logo, that means you have successfully booted into the recovery.
    5. Once your LG G4 entering the TWRP settings menu, clear phone's memory (full) by selecting 'Wipe' option. Once done, select – 'Swipe to Factory Reset' perform factory reset.
    6. Now go back to the TWRP main menu or home screen and tap on the install option. 
    7. Navigate to the ROM files. 
    8. Now select modem 
    9. On the next screen tap Add More Zips and select system, repacked boot and bootloader in their respective order.
    10. Swipe the confirmation button to proceed with the installation. The ROM will be installed.
    11. Flashing of the custom ROM begins and after few minutes, a message 'Successful' appears on the screen, thus completing installation.
    12. Now, reboot to system.
    13. If you see the new boot logo, that means you have successfully installed the ROM on your LG G4 device.
    14. If you come across any boot loop or face system errors, try a factory reset from the recovery or you can always restore your previous ROM from the backup.

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    Google Android 6.0 Marshmallow : 10 Great Secret Feature You Must Know

    Google Android 6.0 Marshmallow : 10 Great Secret Feature You Must Know.



    Android 6.0 Marshmallow : 10 Great Secret Feature. The New Android Operating System Update has been launched, and this update was released on August 17, 2015. The latest update of android operating system is known as the Marshmallow, which it is shorted with android 'M', Android marshmallow is claimed has extended battery life when your devices is turn on Doze Power Theme. This android 6.0 has native support for fingerprint recognition. And many advantage feature is embedded on this new android 6.0 marshmallow.

    When this new android operating system is launched,  the final software development kit (SDK) for Android 6.0 is announced for developers to get stuck into ahead of the autumn release of Android Marshmallow. If you want to try this android 6.0, preview system images are also available for many Nexus devices. Are you really want to try this new android operating system update ? if so, you can install android marshmallow developer preview today. but you must try hard work to do this. 

    If you are curious and challenged to try install this new Android marshmallow on your devices, you must be willing  to wipe your phone data entirely, so, before you performance it you must backup all stored data on your devices. To install Android Marshmallow you must download and install various tools and flash a new ROM to wipe your android device, about how to do it, you can find the tutorial by search on google search engine.

    10 Great Secret Feature on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

    If you are curious what the features found on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, you can read this post bellow, so you can decide what will you do further to your android device.

    1. Vertical and alphabetised app drawer.
    Vertical and alphabetised app drawer
    Vertical and alphabetised app drawer

    On the new Google Android Marshmallow, google has been redesigned a new app drawer that likely to be polarising, although this design look filled and waste the space. The advantage of this new design is giving you  much greater functionality than older version.

    This design is good for a new android user, because they can  search for apps at the top of the app drawer, handy for those with lots of apps installed. And all your recently open apps will show at the top row of your screen for quick acccess, the other advantage of this new design is you can see that pps are more clearly alphabetised for better visibility.

    And now for the new design of new app drawer is very interesting, now you can scrolls all your app vertically instead of horizontally.and you can find this interest thing on previous android version before Android Marshmallow.

    2. Huge 5 Ghz Tethering.

    if you frequently using your Android smartphone or tablet to make a mobile hotspot, Now you will be able to broadcast a huge 5 Ghz WiFi signal, Unlike the previous Android version that only broadcast 2,4 Ghz WiFi signal. So with Android Marshmallow you can broadcast the strong wifi signla to the other hotspot user that coverege. 

    But this topic still became debateable, have you when use tethering on your android device can reach a high performance approach 5 Ghz WiFi ?

    3. Native A2DP Bluetooth Streaming.

    With this feature that embedded on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, you can use Most Bluetooth speakers and earpieces already employ A2DP’s dual channel stereo technology, but the problem for this case is the developer of this hardware does not make A2DP as incompatible devices for Android Marshmallow yet.

    4. Visual Voicemail.
    visual voicemaill at android 'M' Marshmallow
    visual voicemaill at android 'M' Marshmallow

    On the new Android Marshmallow you can access Visual Voicemail service accessible from the dialer, and this information was issued from mechanical man Developer of Android M, If you want know What is visual voicemail in this updated operating system ? If want to know this visual voicemail primarily however it sounds, visual voicemail presents your voicemail with a visible interface, instead of the audio­based setup like in current mechanical man sensible phones.

    5. You will never see Drak Theme.
    dark theme is gone at android 'M' Marshmallow
    dark theme is gone at android 'M' Marshmallow

    Now, on The latest updates of Google Android 'M' Marshmallow operating system, Google has determined to get rid of the dark theme. On this new operating system you will no longer see dark theme like on the previous vesion of Android operating system. We don't understand what is google reason for this, but we hope dark theme is come back again, just adding a new menu at setting to switch this theme.

    6. Rotating Home Screen.
    rotating home screen at android 'M' Marshmallow
    rotating home screen at android 'M' Marshmallow

    This new feature that embedded on Android Marshmallow is rotating home screen, the screen rotation operate for the home screen has finally created Associate in Nursing look, with this feature you can use your Android Smartphone on landscape view, and this can be perform on each running apps and on standby mode at homescreen. I just say, cool.

    7. Delete Screenshot.

    Take a picture on screen is called screenshot, when you doing this on previous version of Android Operating System your picture will directly save to your phone. But on the new Android 'M' Marshmallow has a new feature that enable you to delete a screenshot preview within notification shade before you save it.

    8. RAM Manager.
    RAM manager Android Marshmallow
    RAM manager Android Marshmallow

    New feature of this Android Marshmallow operating system memory section is currently set front and center within the Settings menu. so, with this feature you can conversant in what RAM management is and what you’ll be able to use it for.

    9. Network Setting Reset.
    Network Setting Resetandroid marshmallow
    Network Setting Resetandroid marshmallow

    The new Android Marshmallow has a new feature that called Network Setting Reset, this menu is used for instantly wipe all of your network settings, together with Wi-Fi connections, cellular knowledge and Bluetooth connections. And you can find this menu on Backup and reset settings.

    10. Huge Internal Storage.
    Huge Internal Storage Android marshmallow
    Huge Internal Storage Android marshmallow

    On this new Android Marshmallow feature is offer a huge Internal Storage, so you can free from internal storage on your android devices. Sometimes we adding a new microSD and USB On The Go (OTG) installed on our devices, but now we can leave it.


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