Tech Reviews, Tips, and Tricks

Upgrading the LG Stylo 2 from Marshmallow to Nougat

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I did not intend to do this, but I accidentally started the upgrade process while fumbling with the phone, and so my good old LG Stylo 2 has been upgraded from Marshmallow (it came with Android 6.0 out of the box) to Nougat (Android 7.0).

Fear not, there’s nothing wrong with the Nougat version running on the phone. I haven’t noticed any issues or performance differences (faster or slower) with it. It is an aging phone obviously, but 2GVB of RAM is good enough if you rule rogue apps with an iron fist 🙂

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Unboxing the LG Stylo 2 (Virgin Mobile)

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In this post, we have for you a text and pictures unboxing summary for the LG Stylo 2 Android smartphone. There’s no video and no audio, so this post won’t “eat” your bandwidth 🙂 This particular phone is the Virgin Mobile USA edition. Speaking of which, in Part #1, we outline how to deal with the annoying activation process. This is only an unboxing. More posts are coming with review-related matters and tips and tricks and such!

What’s Included?

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How to deal with the Activation Menus of the LG Stylo 2 (Virgin Mobile)

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If you purchase a new LG Stylo 2 smartphone from Virgin Mobile and you don’t want to activate it immediately, there is a way to do so, and bypass the seemingly mandatory activation process. There is no direct option to cancel the activation process during the initial boot of the phone, unlike some of the Verizon prepaid phones (you can pull down the Notifications and escape with some Verizon models). This doesn’t work here. Thankfully there is a way to setup and use the phone without activating it. Here is what happens, step by step…

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