"cinnamon" - lg v60
| information | description |
|---|---|
| codename and model | timelm - LG V60 |
| device name | “cinnamon” |
| status | active |
| body | aluminium frame with glass backing, has ip68 water/dust resistance |
| display | oled display, 1080x2460 at 60 hz |
| operating system | originally android 13 (lg ux), later upgraded to android 16 with LineageOS with no Google apps. |
| bootloader unlocking method | unofficial bootloader unlock method that involves flashing a engineering bootloader, more information under this post here. |
| system on chip | snapdragon 865 5G with adreno 650 graphics, 8GB of RAM |
| storage | 128GB internal, with sd card slot, sd card slot supports up to 1TB (however it could go further allegadly) |
| cameras | see the gsmarena page for this, too lazy to list them here |
| battery | 5000mah, has fast charging up to 20 watts, using quick charge 4 |
| odds and ends | has headphone jack, has quad dac powering said headphone jack |
| has support for WiFi 6 (only found that out when my phone autoconnected to a public hotspot) | |
| has underscreen optical finger print scanner that honestly sucks | |
| has wireless charging, can charge up to 5 or 6 watts on a good day. | |
| has a fragile type C connector that could break very easily. | |
| has the following issues under LineageOS: VoLTE does not work under LOS, phone hard crashes (kernel panics) when switching SIM cards around, sometimes the always on display won’t wake up the touch digitizer for a couple of minutes for whatever reason (fixed by turning off the AOD). | |
| posts about this phone | a look at the lg v60, fuck it, we ball, bootloader unlocking the lg v60 |
| useful information about the phone: | github page on making volte work on lineageos, xda guide on unlocking and rooting the phone, a youtube video on unlocking the phone’s bootloader and rooting the phone, xda guide for doing the bootloader process on linux |
Purchased around 2026, this phone is probably the most powerful phone I’ve ever owned. This is a refurbished phone from a seller off a local version of Amazon, and so far, it has been working pretty okay. Compared to the Nord N10 I had before, this phone is an upgrade in most metrics: the look and feel of this phone are very good, the performance is significantly better, and rarely stutters under my use, and the headphone jack on this phone is fucking awesome. It also has official support for LineageOS, specifically, LineageOS 23 (Android 16).
the operating system
By default this phone comes with LG’s stock OS, and generally I am not a big fan of it. It tends to be very bloated, often draining battery life out of nowhere while in standby. Another thing that I noticed is that while on the stock ROM, the phone would always refuse to charge at a faster speed, instead always seeming to negotiate a pathetically slow charging speed like 2 watts. I was convinced this was some sort of a software issue, because the phone could clearly see it was a fast charger (it will also show it as “fast charging”) but then never do anything or negotiate a faster charging speed for whatever reason. I was never able to figure this out. The more I used the stock OS, the more I wanted to go back to LineageOS like on my old phone. So, on a random weekend, I started the painstaking process of backing everything up, and then getting ready to unlock the bootloader (relevant post here). The bootloader unlocking process went smoothly, and in five hours (yeah it took me that fucking long), I finally had a phone booting LineageOS again.
Unlike the Nord N10, the LG V60 has a dedicated community behind it, willing to get shit working, there is an official build of LineageOS running on the phone (and it is stable as well). Most major features are currently working, and the only major roadblock would be the bootloader, since the bootloader is not really unlockable after LG killed off the servers for it. There is a way to get it unlocked, which involves flashing an engineering bootloader and basically hacking the phone wide open. After that, the phone will finally be unlocked, and we can do things to it now.
The first thing I noticed when booting to LineageOS was how fast the boot times are. Unlike the bloated stock OS, which took up to a minute to boot, LineageOS barely even takes 10 or 20 seconds to fully load. The phone is also pretty snappy, able to handle multiple apps at once (but it will get slow if there are tons open, so keep that in mind). Surprisingly, fast charging was fixed when using LineageOS, which I was suprised. Quite annoyingly, VoLTE is not supported, which for me that means that I cannot make calls from my carrier, since it simply does not work. There has been some recent developments with VoLTE, as someone figured out how to make it work, but the process is not straightforward sadly.
the quad dac thing
notable links:
- android authority's article on LG DACs
- discussion on how actually good the DAC is on the V60
- audio science review forum post on the DAC experience on LG phones.
hardware
The LG V60 has some cool hardware onboard that makes it more unique compared to other phones you may find. The first one is the inclusion of a quad DAC, which promises to make your music better. I also heard some rumors of this DAC being powerful enough to drive power hungry headphones like the HD 600s, but I am not exactly sure about this. Another thing is that I am not exactly sure what the DAC is doing in the background, but sometimes, I do notice a difference, but only on larger headphones (like the HD 280 Pros or the Ultrasone Pro 2500s of the world). LineageOS has support for the quad DAC, and it works perfectly. Another neat feature about the LG V60 is the inclusion of the FM radio, which isn’t something often seen nowadays. On LineageOS, the implementation is kinda sketchy, but it works. Another thing that phones don’t have nowadays is the SD card, which means I can load up to 1 TB of music on my phone and just carry that around.
The phone also includes an optical fingerprint scanner. It uses a sensor (like a camera) to scan your fingerprint and therefore unlock the phone, and I am not really a huge fan of it. Unlike the capacitive one on the old Nord N10, the optical scanner will have trouble with scanning slightly wet hands, or hands that may be a little bit dirty. It could also not want to read shit, and in that case, the only recurse you have is to unlock the phone manually. The kicker is that the fingerprint reader on the LG is much slower, it takes up to a second to get the phone unlocked.
The cameras on the LG V60 are okay. I am not a picture taking person, but I did notice that pictures were less foggy and blurry, which is nice. Pictures of cats look more vibrant, you can actually distinguish the detail in the whiskers and such. The screen is probably the best/worst thing on this phone: it is an OLED display with a refresh rate of… 60 hertz. It was not good. It actually sucked when I was switching over, but after a couple of months, I am used to it now. The screen’s sharpness and the darkness of the OLED almost made it worth it. Finally, I guess there is the body and construction of the phone. It has a metal frame with a glass back, a glass sandwich, if you will, and it is probably very fragile. Sadly, I already got a crack on the display, which luckly is nothing more but a small hairline fracture. Still sucks because OLED displays are pretty hard to come by, and trying to find a real display (that is real OLED, not some LCD garbage) is like playing minesweeper on ultra difficult mode.
quirks
connecting anything to the headphone jack will silence alarms
Not sure if this is specifically an issue with how the quad DAC works, but this phone has a tendancy to silence alarms out of the blue when listening to music or having a device connected via the headphone jack, on Android, when an alarm sounds, this is supposed to play via both the speakers and headphones if they are connected, but in this case that doesn’t happen at all. This is a somewhat annoying issue to deal with because it is pretty disruptive, there has been some times when I missed alarms because of this.
ims/volte not working
I remember hearing about IMS being an issue on certain LineageOS phones, which basically means that the phone doesn’t have support for VoLTE. This means that if your carrier only offers VoLTE, you won’t get either phone calls or messages at all. The Nord didn’t have any issues with VoLTE, but the V60 does, mostly because it has a pretty unique implementation of IMS. AKA, it is propietary as fuck, and needs a lot of fiddling around to make it work, there has been a hack/workaround that depends on some system modifications to get it working, however I haven’t tried it at all yet, but I do know that it is very experimental. These haven’t been merged with the main LOS project, and I am not exactly sure if this would get merged. Right now, it seems that the main developer for the LG V60 is indeed currently working on getting Android 17 working on this phone.
kernel crash when switching sim cards
This one is probably the strangest issue out there. The way this happens is that you insert a SIM, and the phone boots up normally. However, it will be strangely stuck in the No Service mode, that will last until the phone hard crashes and you will be met with a BSP kernel crash. I heard rumors that the LG V60 has long standing issues with its modem, which I guess checks out. There has been some work on trying to get this to work again, which is nice. Also, this specific issue isn’t a major one (since like, I switch out SIM cards every couple- never), but I imagine people with dual SIM models may not be so lucky.
potentially fragile usb port
Quite annoyingly, the LG V60 has a reputation of having a pretty weak USB port. From what I heard, this stems from the fact that the V60 was designed with a screen cover case in mind, and to make this work, LG made the USB port slightly larger and more flexible than usual. This apparently was not a good move because a lot of people have complained about these issues, and it seems that the only real solution is to mod the USB C replacement by adding some epoxy of some sort, which should hold the port in place. I have a feeling that this may bite me in the ass in the future, but for now? Things have gone well in terms of the USB port working.
page updates
- 2026-10-03: page was created.
