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"No rush 14 day shipping" = he doesn't have them at this instant in time and whatever you get MAY not be authentic. It almost-certainly is not truly factory NIB, and if it is it's probably hotter than a just-fired machine gun. Basic rule - if you can't ship it next-business-day at the latest...

There is no way to roll back -- T-Mobile sets the ARB flag on update, so once you take one you can't go back to an earlier release -- the bootloader will not load it.

You sure that's the stock Android app (and not LG's)? One way to know is that the stock Android app has an "archive" function (and archived message folder), LG's (historically) does not. You may need to load that from the Play Store if you haven't previously.

Oreo+ is FAR more aggressive in blocking background processes when the phone is sleeping. Google has their "preferred" means of notification (what they call Firebase cloud management) and anything other than that, without special permission (and a permanent notification posted) will NOT run...

Download LG's desktop software; it can go grab the full system image and reflash it.

If you use the stock Android messages app you can assign a different tone (via a notification channel) to a conversation.

"All sealed battery phones can be turned on remotely" -- Nonsense. Please stop posting garbage conspiracy idiocy. Seriously.

Re: Important: How to turn off E911 tracking chip on the LG V20 McAffee is 100% full of crack. First, there is no "E911 chip" in the phone. Second, the RIL (that's the software layer that talks to the cellular system) has had a callback interface for a VERY long time (first device I had that...

Deactivating the prox sensor is a VERY bad idea, even if you can. The reason is that if you're talking with the phone to your ear and the prox sensor is disabled then whatever your skin touches will be selected, which can lead to all sorts of odd results, none of which you're likely to appreciate.

And with V20s available "close to brand new" for $200ish you're spending four times as much. What do you get for the four times as much money? A slightly better camera implementation (maybe), a sealed battery you can't replace (meh) when it wears out, water resistance, a somewhat faster...

Meh on the battery complaints. I have a PH-1 with a 3000mah battery and it easily gets through the day unless I'm doing something like using maps heavily -- and that's with my charging it only to 80% to conserve cycle life, since the battery is non-serviceable. I started with Oreo on it and...

Nope. For the price it simply isn't attractive. Nothing is in the $1,000 range. The incremental improvement over the previous generations is extremely small but the price is 2-3x as large. That makes it utterly silly from an economic perspective. If you buy things to "virtue signal" your...

2-4 SOT implies your battery is hosed. Load Accubattery and see what it says for capacity after a few cycles. I bet you're down around 2800, which will really screw you since you've got 400mah missing and that's not far from where the battery goes "dead dead" on you.

The primary improvement with Oreo (and beyond) is battery and notification management improvements; the former helps power consumption quite notably by preventing backgrounded apps from trashing your battery and the latter allows you to prevent apps from spamming you with notifications, and is...

IMHO, no.

I run my own Exchange server on my infrastructure but I refuse to use Google's garbage; I instead run BlackBerry's Hub+, which implements that functionality and works well. If you are not using Exchange you can disable it (and should, since there's no reason for it to be chewing power if you're...

One of the things Oreo (and Pie) do is track background battery usage. Exchange is a service used to work with Microsoft Exchange email servers. If you are not using a corporate or private email service using Exchange then go into the apps, find it (there's a Google extension to Gmail for it)...

Exactly -- an app that wishes to override the system's classification used to be able to "just do it"; it can't do that in Oreo and beyond. It can try to stick a foreground service (for example) but unless you authorize it specifically to do so even though it would otherwise post a notification...

T-Mobile's site now says "in testing", so it's coming for them too.

The only *real* difference I've found is that Pie attempts to detect battery pig behavior in background processes on an automated basis and "offers" to restrict same. You can do the same thing with Oreo, but you have to do it by hand. It also false-positives a decent amount of the time too...