The story goes like this. I bought a couple of LG G2's "D802" 32G (ill explain quatation mark later) from Alliexpress for reselling and decided to keep one myself. Being an android fan the first thing I would do is update the firmware or flash a custom ROM. So I tried to install TWRP with no luck, I bricked my phone (trying to get the phone out of the state of "fastboot mode only" resulted in hard brick, after that I sent it for warranty to alliexpress seller). I got a replacement phone, everything as usual, perfect phone from the first sight. Now to my question(s)... :
1. I checked the IMEI on Swappa, it doesn't even show what phone model it is. I tried to enter the IMEI to this site:http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/svc/po...xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for kdz extractions it won't load as such IMEI seems to be not real!!!
2. After reading around I found this thread: http://androidforums.com/threads/int...n-32gb.877957/ . It says here that IMEI counterfeiting is not a new thing and changing one model to appear as another (for example D800 to D802) is just a matter of flashing a modified image, thus resulting in wrong IMEI numbers.
3. So I checked what's under the cover... Hidden under a few stickers I found that it's actually not a D802, but rather D801/D803 (that's what's written under the cover). So the phone is D801/D803 , the back cover is D802, the software is D80220b. Any ideas how to get to custom rom without bricking the phone?? Would installing the correct recovery for this model and just flashing a ROM for D801/D803 work? Thank you.
1. I checked the IMEI on Swappa, it doesn't even show what phone model it is. I tried to enter the IMEI to this site:http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/svc/po...xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for kdz extractions it won't load as such IMEI seems to be not real!!!
2. After reading around I found this thread: http://androidforums.com/threads/int...n-32gb.877957/ . It says here that IMEI counterfeiting is not a new thing and changing one model to appear as another (for example D800 to D802) is just a matter of flashing a modified image, thus resulting in wrong IMEI numbers.
3. So I checked what's under the cover... Hidden under a few stickers I found that it's actually not a D802, but rather D801/D803 (that's what's written under the cover). So the phone is D801/D803 , the back cover is D802, the software is D80220b. Any ideas how to get to custom rom without bricking the phone?? Would installing the correct recovery for this model and just flashing a ROM for D801/D803 work? Thank you.