Hey Guys, I was out of the country for the past month. I got back yesterday only to find my phone got the OTA update and i didn't want that as i was planning to root it. My question is can i still root it or is there a way to roll back my phone? Any help is appreciated guys. Much thanks!
I believe you can still use kingoroot. Be warned this method delivers some info about your phone to their servers. But to the best of my knowledge this is currently our only option.
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I believe you can still use kingoroot. Be warned this method delivers some info about your phone to their servers. But to the best of my knowledge this is currently our only option.
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Thanks. I would rather not use this option if I can help it. Any other options?
Do not use the Root De la Vega method on your MJ5 or you will create an unrecoverable brick. kraz
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i am thinking of rooting my phone , for any reason if i want to factory default restore the phone is that restoring will disable the rooting or that rooting will be permanent ?
thanks a lot...
The only permanent thing you can do is unlock the bootloader.
Rooting, or any other change can usually be undone...
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so i can unroot the device by factory default of something else?
Thanks alot for your reply
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The only permanent thing you can do is unlock the bootloader.
Rooting, or any other change can usually be undone...
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so i can unroot the device by factory default of something else?
Thanks alot for your reply
Root will be available after a factory reset, rooting apps mostly come along with unroot functionality.
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Basically, once rooted, you can change the ROM on your phone to any compatible one you can find, including the original one...
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hello fellow G flex Owners (sprint variant LS995). does anyone know on how i can get some sort of wireless infrastructure tethering to work. i have tried multiple apps wifi tethering, barnacle, open garden etc. and i cant get them to work on infrastructure. i have tried different settings and i just cant get them to work. all that i get is ad-hoc which to me is pretty worthless. i know that there is this one method to to enable native tethering on the sprint variant but i am scared that i might get soft bricked or some sort of boot loop and currently at the moment sprint variant does not have a method to unlock boot loader and access to cwm or twrp.
link to sprint native tethering (by justinswidebody)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2647656
i am scared to apply this method since justinswidebody states that "this could brick your device" what do you guys think are the odds of this bricking my device???
current status of my phone:
my phone is rooted successfully by ioroot method along with busy-box installed
No easy way yet, I'm waiting too
I used his method without any problems.
As long as the download is fine, your device will be fine
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thank you
thank you all for your responses im going to take a hit at it
christiam.coronado said:
thank you all for your responses im going to take a hit at it
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If you have any problems just message me and I will help you get back to stock.
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justinswidebody said:
If you have any problems just message me and I will help you get back to stock.
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Hey justinswidebody, once rooted on this beast, is it as simple as using the unroot option thru chainfires SU to successfully receive an ota?
Btw
Thanks for helping out in the forums!
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To be honest, I have never unrooted before. However yes, as long as you haven't deleted any system apps, that should work just fine.
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I have at&t LG Flex, rooted and than updated to kitkat, surprised was when it updated to Kikat and root was retained, I used all applications that require supersu and work like charm.
Follow this, If you did not upgraded root it with ioroot and don't unroot it, take OTA update and you will keep the root.
If you upgraded, downgrade it via lgflashtool method, root with ioroot and update ota and you will keep the root..Good Luck
Link to downgrade:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644083
oscar786 said:
I have at&t LG Flex, rooted and than updated to kitkat, surprised was when it updated to Kikat and root was retained, I used all applications that require supersu and work like charm.
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What did you do before hand? Cuz you're literally the only person so far i think. I tried everything and even went back to jelly bean 3 times trying to retain root with different programs. It would always error out on the update screen
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Pictures or it didn't happen.....
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Basically what I did was I rooted on JB and when KK update came, I removed root from superSu "unroot", I tried to upgrade to Kikkat and failed, so I did lgflashtool (you directed me by the way) and flashed it to JB, rooted again and kept the root and superSu..tried update from menu and went through and kept the root.
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What did you do before hand? Cuz you're literally the only person so far i think. I tried everything and even went back to jelly bean 3 times trying to retain root with different programs. It would always error out on the update screen
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Basically what I did was I rooted on JB and when KK update came, I removed root from superSu "unroot", I tried to upgrade to Kikkat and failed, so I did lgflashtool (you directed me by the way) and flashed it to JB, rooted again and kept the root and superSu..tried update from menu and went through and kept the root.
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Wow? So the secret is to do nothing lol? Thanks. Gonna try tonight
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Just as proof
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Another shot
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Brittoking have you tried the xposed module root cloak then try the ota? Never know it might work.
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Brittoking have you tried the xposed module root cloak then try the ota? Never know it might work.
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You know what...that's the one dang thing i didn't try lol. I even had it installed before upgrading. I will tonight
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brittoking said:
Wow? So the secret is to do nothing lol? Thanks. Gonna try tonight
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Hello, did you try and was it successful, If yes,Please let others know to get root access through this procedure. Thanks
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Hello, did you try and was it successful, If yes,Please let others know to get root access through this procedure. Thanks
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I was unable to try it out last night, ever since upgrading to kit Kat i can no longer choose which mode to connect (usb only, mtp, etc) so after flashing back the problem followed me which prevented me from running ioroot successfully. Luckily i had ordered a new flex yesterday from AT&T after their service center confirmed something was borked during the update, it'll be here Monday. Can't do anything till then.
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Look like i am the only one with rooted LG flex with kitkat..
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oscar786 said:
Look like i am the only one with rooted LG flex with kitkat..
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hopefully not for long!
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i can confirm that root on kitkat works. i flashed back to jellybean then rooted then took the kitkat update, and still obtained root access.
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i can confirm that root on kitkat works. i flashed back to jellybean then rooted then took the kitkat update, and still obtained root access.
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That's great this will help a lot of folks, who looking for rooted LG Flex, it will also work for all other variants of Flex and hopefully LG G2...
Yup worked for me thanx
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Wait, wait, what?! Can someone explain it step my step brain-no-worky!
Which Jellybean? C? L? N?
can someone upload a kit kat update for flashtool
hey I bought my g flex a week ago. When I bought it it was on kit kat. I want it rooted so I just tried these steps downgrade with flashtools ... I click software update in phone and it is saying none is available im guessing its cause im not a at&t customer can someone upload the kit kat update thanks
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Wait, wait, what?! Can someone explain it step my step brain-no-worky!
Which Jellybean? C? L? N?
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christiansfreeman said:
hey I bought my g flex a week ago. When I bought it it was on kit kat. I want it rooted so I just tried these steps downgrade with flashtools ... I click software update in phone and it is saying none is available im guessing its cause im not a at&t customer can someone upload the kit kat update thanks
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So far it's only available for AT&T so that's nothing to "upload". Without recovery for these phones there's no way to create roms from kit Kat source
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Downgrade to 4.2.2 then root phone using ioroot then take the 4.4.2 update this is for att g flex only you should retain root
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Now that we have root for 4.4, I'm planning to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4, but I haven't come across any simple method to do it. Mazdamiata has a method to do it, but it requires downgrading to MJ5, which would be a huge inconvenience. My update fails at 27% even with all the original apps restored and unfrozen. I have Xposed installed and my device is rooted with Kingo. Any suggestions?
I'm with you! I sat down and wanted to upgrade to kit Kat but following those directions were not easy for me. I am now stuck on 4.3 until there is an easier way to get there. What stinks is there isn't even a YouTube video to show how to go back to mj5 and the upgrade
Isn't there any other solution to safely upgrade without reverting to MJ5?
here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712039
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712039
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Thanks, but it's not a simple method and has steps to install other components which increase the complexity.
Is the best way just to factory reset my device, retain the root and then try to upgrade?
Factory reset then upgrade to kit kat then root with towelroot
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Factory reset then upgrade to kit kat then root with towelroot
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I don't think it's that easy. Please try and let us know if factory reset they update works?
It won't there is a thread in the general section that tells you how to do it
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Factory reset then upgrade to kit kat then root with towelroot
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Did that work for you?
No I didn't do it exactly that way....I wasn't rooted at all
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You could go to a best buy and request them to reflash it for you.
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You could go to a best buy and request them to reflash it for you.
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I went to best buy and they said since I was rooted the could not re flash
Unroot?
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doesn't Kingo give you the option to UnRoot?
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I've wondered if we undid whatever frozen apps ect then used the kingo unroot if we would get the ability to upgrade.
Kingo renamed some files and installed a few
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I've wondered if we undid whatever frozen apps ect then used the kingo unroot if we would get the ability to upgrade.
Kingo renamed some files and installed a few
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thats exactly what im currently trying. i went into tibu, did a batch unfreeze, then used kingo to unroot. restarted and am now downloading the update. hopefully it will get me up to kitkat and let me root again with towelroot.
Let us know if it works then all I have to do is unfreeze the updater apo and unroot with kingo
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nope didn't work... it would download, then when it tries to install the update, it stops at about 24%, reboots and gives an error saying update interrupted.
I tried manually doing it also by putting the update file on SD card and applying in recovery mode... it starts, errors, and wiped my data....
the only way seems to be the harder way heh
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There is a thread that talked about what files to rename and delete but nobody ever got it written down perfectly
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So I have been a little out of touch with Xda for a while now. I'm still on mi9 and have the one click exe to restore if necessary. I have safe strap installed with stock mi9, knoxraid, and X note in my slots.
What's the safest way to upgrade right now? I'd like to be in a similar situation with an Odin to restore to or at least a one click or something after upgrading. Thanks in advance.
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So I have been a little out of touch with Xda for a while now. I'm still on mi9 and have the one click exe to restore if necessary. I have safe strap installed with stock mi9, knoxraid, and X note in my slots.
What's the safest way to upgrade right now? I'd like to be in a similar situation with an Odin to restore to or at least a one click or something after upgrading. Thanks in advance.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51782624
You can downgrade back to mi9 anytime using kies and enjoy kk experience without locking yourself to a non-downgradeable bootloader.
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