I'm not new to rooting, must of flashed, boot looped, tried over a dozen rooms on my evo 4g LTE with Sprint. But I just got the flex, LOVE IT, and want to root it but saw something about not being able to get OTAs. Now is this true? And if so does a simple" unroot" in supersu work? Etc etc
I plan on using ioroot, and putting twrp as my recovery. Just need a little LG advice
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Trying to get root,but need 10 posts to post file in dev section
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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
oscar786 said:
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.
phillip_viado said:
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
aznrice2k4 said:
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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OK here's the deal, IOroot25 method, rooted flawlessly. Made an attempt to install openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-vs980 via flashify which forced phone into reboot. now stuck in lg boot with secure boot error with a boot certification verify, followed by auto-mount of device showing contents of multiple drivers within the vs980 I can access download mode but not recovery. Unfortunately while in download mode ubuntu 14.04 doesnt recognize device through adb or fastboot. verified both adb and fastboot are operational with my nexus7 device. I also checked android51 rules for allowance of vs980. I have read through xda dev threads for 3 days (night and day) trying to figure this thing out without any luck. I would really like some assistance here you guys.... lol anything would be greatly appreciated at this point.
You might need to get a Windows machine and use the lg flash tool to flash the kdz file.
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You might need to get a Windows machine and use the lg flash tool to flash the kdz file.
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Fixed, used flash tool through wine flashed KDZ file. Ubuntu Wine is slightly buggy, but can be done!
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mesiorni said:
Fixed, used flash tool through wine flashed KDZ file. Ubuntu Wine is slightly buggy, but can be done!
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Wait wait, so where did you end up?
I'm in the same boat. I can use my phone just fine but can't get into recovery. Did you manage to get a custom rom installed?
HellaBester said:
Wait wait, so where did you end up?
I'm in the same boat. I can use my phone just fine but can't get into recovery. Did you manage to get a custom rom installed?
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Back stock rooted 24a. Wonna put that Carbon ROM in but gonna set up emulator for debugging if I can get one to work. Or might wait until someone figures out how to unlock bootloader.
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Back stock rooted 24a. Wonna put that Carbon ROM in but gonna set up emulator for debugging if I can get one to work. Or might wait until someone figures out how to unlock bootloader.
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Looks like this guy has some ideas.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2766885
I'll let you know if I get twrp installed.
Looks like the Freedom tool is the way to go on 24a. But until bootloader is fully unlocked, we will continue to have stability issues. Every ROM is working off of the Loki patch. Now I'm not nockin loki it's a good work around, but for stability issues I'm gonna stay rooted stock debloated. This G2 xposed module is decent, and fairly stable for good customization http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549923
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I could use some help on whether or not I can install ClockWorkMod recovery on my recently rooted GS5 ATT. If so, an direction on how would be appreciated.
You do know what root is right?
In other words, NO! Root is not a bootloader unlock. This has been asked a million and one times already. Smh..
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Please close the thread as its been gone over many many times. Look through other threads first before creating a new thread about something that has been re-hashed several several times.
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I haven't saw if there are any recoveries till this thread
I have tried to root my 4.4.2 AT&T g flex and i would like to know if any one rooted or add CM11 to there AT&T d95020f... i have a snapshot of my spec...
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I believe it can be rooted used towelroot, but I don't think you can flash anything yet. Hopefully it'll change soon.
Thank u but it said it dont support my phone
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Ah, I think there is one called stump too.
yup stump root which coincidentally lead to g3 getting a workaround for the bootloader which also awesome lead us to get both stump root is out an works i just used it not even a week ago an a bumped recovery an roms will follow shortly
Thank u...
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Stump works already.
See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-flex/general/how-to-root-d950-kk-4-4-2-f-firmware-t2915517