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[LG G Flex] reeher3287:
Ah hell bout to dive in. :D

What's the button combo for factory reset btw? Usual hold vol down and power?

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Can confirm win 8.1 64 bit rooted with no problem! Time to at least get f droid and adremover on here!

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And ads are gone! :D
[LG G Flex] Bladerunner1825us:
You have to turn the the phone completely off, then press vol down & power at the same time. Then when the lg splash shows quickly release the buttons then immediately press power itll bring the factory reset window up. Ya gotta be quick or it will just reboot. It took me like 10 mins to get it just right lol
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Wow that is way harder than it should be, it once you get it it's ok.

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I felt like I was trying to do one of those Easter eggs on the old super Nintendo LOL.

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I am still having no luck trying to get CWM or TWRP on this bad boy. has anyone else had any luck with theirs?
[LG G Flex] Bladerunner1825us:
Haha thats the only issue i have with the buttons on the back, but custom recovery & quick boot will solve that :)
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
I really like the buttons on the back. They make sense to me. I really would like to have my CWM back though. And its hard to be patient. I wish I was better at that code so I could be more of a help getting this recovery put on this bad boy.
[LG G Flex] canecbr600:
I love the buttons on back. When I first got my G2, I was used to it in minutes! I find now when I use other devices, my instinct is to use back buttons, and more often knock on/off.... lol
[LG G Flex] blkghost22:
damn im bootlooping an facotry reset is not working.... any ideas? it happened when playing around with the build.prop
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Did you not make a backup?
[LG G Flex] blkghost22:
back up of the build.prop? i did but cant change it.... its ok i changed out the phone.
[LG G Flex] reeher3287:
Well there is always that lol

How were you editing the build.prop? Directly or 3rd party app?
[LG G Flex] Bladerunner1825us:
I like em too. Its pretty intuitivd for everyday use...just took some akwardness to get the button combo right for my factory reset haha me and my carpel tunnled a$$ haha
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
So I this app i built from soucre from the flash Gordon app. Basically it's a recovery well only for mods you can't flash a rom but systems apps and stuff. Ill be seeing if it will work tonight. If all goes well ill mod has much has i can and make them downloadable via my app. If at&t and sprint users what to use plz send me your system folders and system mount points
[LG G Flex] antiochasylum:
You could have used adb pull to get the build.prop, change back default value and adb push back to the phone.

That's how I've gotten out of those before.

And FYI if you get in a boot loop when messing with that, a factory reset will not help. Since those are part of your /system partition and a factory reset doesn't touch that.

Until you guys have a custom recovery be very careful with what you mess with on your /system partition.

Or do and adb pull of your entire /system, where you could push it back in the event of something happening.
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
push it back without custom recovery how? no adb shell in stock recovery afaik.

unless theres enough time in the boot loop to somehow get # in adb shell...
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
This is what I mean by backup. Before I start goofing with any code I go and pull it and put it in a folder with my titanium backup as a backup for my backup LOL.
[LG G Flex] antiochasylum:
There is a tiny tiny window where you can gain adb access to pull the build.prop. you gotta be quick. But you can.

I know because I had to do it this morning on my buddies G flex lol. There is about a 3-5 second window.

I didn't think about pushing stuff back, with stock recovery your right [MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION]. Your SOL, short of exchanging the phone. Lol.
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
So being newer to this part of the build how do we start helping with the recovery mod part of this cycle? I would love to get a feel for it. I haven't looked yet but do the TWRK and CWM guys have a repo out there that we can pull the source for or do they keep that close to their chest? I feel outside the loop because I have never had a phone that didn't already have a custom recovery out there for it. And I am kinda surprised that the Flex doesn't have one out for the US builds.
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
well if there is a small window during boot.. it'd be possible to write a script to run su.. mount system.. and push the new file as soon as it detects adb.. depends on that window tho :) altho # in adb shell wouldnt be possible unless you have previously granted # in supersu(I think).

so if that is the case... everyone should grant adb SU access in superuser before trying anything :good:

idk whats going on in the cwm world.. nor do i care.. but yes there are repos for twrp.. its under the main omni repo. the reason custom recovery isnt available at the moment is because you guys have a locked bootloader and the loki patch to get around the locked bootloader has been patched. so a bit of magic is required to fix this. being worked on behind the scenes.
[LG G Flex] antiochasylum:
You don't have to have granted shell root access. To my knowledge, supersu was GUI. Meaning is only took over when booting. But I could be blowing smoke out my ass. Lol.

However I just adb shell and pushed his build.prop with a quickness. It work, cause it booted back up
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Ok so is this like the Flashify app? And is this going to work with a full ROM because to my understanding this was just for flashing custom recoveries. I guess in theory it could work because CyanogenMod has an app that will push their ROM to the phone but I'm just wondering where the line is drawn on what you can and cannot do outside of the recovery mode on a phone. It just seems weird that you could flash a new ROM from a running ROM where the files that are being overwritten are in use. I haven't used the CyanogenMod app yet but I just assumed it used the custom recovery to flash the ROM where as Flashify stays open during the flash and then restarts. Am I wrong or does this seem weird to anyone else or am I just dead wrong in my logic?

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So basically they are trying to find an exploit to get around the boot loader being locked. I can understand that, And thank you for the info on the repo. I've been working on a ROM for this phone and I am a bit confused on why LG didn't just go with a 4.4.2 build as the stock, I mean they have a kit kat build for a couple of the Asian variants. Any idea why they chose a jelly bean build for one of the US variants? Especially since the providers have really started to brainwash the American consumers that the newest Android is the best Android and if you don't have the latest your phone is worthless.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
You can't flash a rom. You'll brick you phone in mid flash becuase of certain system files. You can flash. Apk mods tho
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Maybe I misunderstood what you were saying then. How is that faux recovery app that you screenshot installing the ROM then, does it run in place of the recovery before the ROM boots?
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
It runs rom the phone and then you reboot. It will unzip the files to a folder on your sd card and then push the files into you system and then reboot.

Although i haven't tested it yet
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Ok that's what I was looking for and it makes sense. So what did you need from the AT&T phones and I will get it to you forth with.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
I need u to adb pull your system folders and get your system mount points. That way if someone doesn't. Like that mod ill have a return to stock zip as well

You will probably have to install busybox if haven't all ready
[LG G Flex] bpark32:
Hey er'body. Totally new to LG devices. Coming off my beloved GNex, and have the biggest phoner ever due to this thing's battery life. Holy balls!

Is there a noob question forum for lg users? No idea about .tot or half the stuff I've read in the last 25 pages. I am experienced with Samsung, and I really want root on this device. I would GREATLY appreciate any advice/pointers some of u may have.

TIA!

Sent from my LG-D950 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

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Does the IOroot script work on the D950?

Edit: It does!!! Thanks Op!

Sent from my LG-D950 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[LG G Flex] justinswidebody:
Question.... I know by using the factory recovery I am able to sideload system updates by using the update via adb option. I did this on my LG g2 at least. Question is, would it be possible to write an updater script that the factory recovery will let you flash? If we can do this, then we can pull the factory system and make it into an update.zip if anything were to go wrong with any modifications we try to make. This would allow us to go back to stock.
[LG G Flex] antiochasylum:
I only know of 1 device that ever allowed the factory recovery to flash Zip's. otherwise I don't think its possible. I'm pretty sure there are some verification things going on.
[LG G Flex] canecbr600:
Glad to have root.... Btw, xposed runs gr8, I can confirm the G2 xposed module runs almost perfect on the flex! Also most xblast stuff does as well... Below is a pic of my home screen...
[LG G Flex] wase4711:
Look in the OP; the instructions there are pretty straightforward, especially on windows pc's..you need to understand about ADB to use this method though; there is no Odin like on Samsung devices..

I'm getting my gflex today from t-mo, but will stay stock until I am 100% sure I am keeping this device..
[LG G Flex] bpark32:
Script worked flawlessly. Instructions were easy to follow. I have no complaints with this devise so far! I love it. Super fast, Uber good battery...

Sent from my LG-D950 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[LG G Flex] justinswidebody:
If you haven't tried it yet, one of my favorite xposed mods is the fade soft key module. When you're not touching the soft keys it will fade them to transparent. This is a great feature because it prevents screen burn in and plus it gives you more screen real estate on the factory launcher
[LG G Flex] canecbr600:
I tried it on my G2, but honestly like the smaller nav bar better, don't care for the extra touch to use nav keys...
[LG G Flex] bormasina:
Loki exploit

[MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION] do you know if the T-Mobiles D959 Flex has the Loki bootloader exploit patched? In the general section there is a thread that claims all of the US carrier Flexes are patched, but it seemed to me that the OP in that thread is using ATT D950 device and posted the aboot.img only for the D950. I have D950 and i would like to know if i should return it and get D959 instead.
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
all US G Flex are patched. but be patient :cool:

as I said on Twitter yesterday... I suggest every G Flex owner not take ANY OTAs from here on out if you want the possibility of hax. At least til things are confirmed after they are checked out. LG is in process of locking things tight.. but haven't closed all options yet.
[LG G Flex] captainphoenixx:
Has anyone gotten freegee to install recovery working yet?
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
There isn't a supported recovery yet for the D950. I have been checking at least 3 times a day since AutoPrime put out the UProot 23. Hopefully we get some support soon.
[LG G Flex] captainphoenixx:
Does matter that i have D959?
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
That's the T-Mobile variant right? If you just open the app it will run a validation to see which model you have and if you don't it throws a popup that will tell you your device isn't supported and shut the app down. Hope that helps you there Cap'n.

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That app I alluded to was the FreGee if you didn't get that already. I was a dummy for just saying app. Sorry. :p
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Read back fellas the Loki for us has been patched us is sol but prime said dont take any ota has it is being looked at. Dont flash anything yet
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Ok so no OTA but we are good to flash the Loki for the recovery?
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Not yet just dont take a ota
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
And I'm guessing the OTA is just a patch to keep us from gaining root and reverting our access if we have gained root? That is more for curiosities. And do we know if this is an upgrade to kit kat or not yet?
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Lol. Just in general don't ever take anything from a carrier
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Gotcha and thanks for the heads up there Prime and D. Good looking out.

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Whaaaaaa? Are you kidding? I don't know about you but I'm hoping that they have another 20 or so ridiculous AT&T bloat apps that will charge me huge subscription costs that I can't afford to do shiz that I never really needed in the first place. God bless the corporations and the nonsense they make us pay exorbitant amounts of our hard earned money for. (*sarcasm*)
[LG G Flex] bormasina:
As you know the bootloader on all US carrier Flexes is locked. Not only locked, but the only publicly available exploit (Loki) for bypassing the security in the LG bootloader has been patched. That means we can't flash custom recoveries (TWRP or CWM). We do have root (thanks to autoprime and all bunch of other folks finding the exploit), but be cautious what you do with bloatware removal, since we do not have .tot or .kdz image to flash to stock if you somehow get creative with the bloatware removal and you end up in bootloop. As far as the OTA, since this is a LG device (LG has bootloader locked on every device it sells, regardless of carrier or non carrier) you do not know what they may patch/disable ... For instance they may not patch IORoot in the next OTA but they may patch/disable firmware downgrade, so whatever tot or kdz image we may get, we may mot be able to use it if LG decides to disable firmware downgrade in the next OTA. Samsung already disables firmware downgrade on ATT and VZ SGS4, so LG may decide to follow their practice ...

In essence, be patient until we get the tot or kdz image to go to full stock ...

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That was fast, i didn't check that we have the stock image files for D950 and D959 here.

Well, that means, you can go creative with bloatware removal, since we have a way back to stock if something goes wrong ... But you will loose all of your data ...

Now the bootloader is next ... We may get lucky ...
[LG G Flex] Bladerunner1825us:
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[/COLOR]That was fast, i didn't check that we have the stock image files for D950 and D959 here.

Well, that means, you can go creative with bloatware removal, since we have a way back to stock if something goes wrong ... But you will loose all of your data ...

Now the bootloader is next ... We may get lucky ...[/QUOTE]

As a rule i always freeze the apps in tibu just to make sure theres no adverse effects especially before when we dont have nandroid capability. If you freeze itll free up the resources and everything except for storage space.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
We do have tot & and kdz look in general thread. At&t and T mobile
[LG G Flex] bpark32:
Pardon my ignorance, but why couldn't one dl ROM manager and install cwm recovery?

Sent from my LG-D950 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Becuase the bootloader is locked and loki is patched. We have been talking about this the last 3 pages please read back.
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Oh if it was only that easy. That would be great though wouldn't it to go use the CWM ROM manager or freegee app to flash a custom recovery. If you didn't see already then I'll let you know: don't do the new OTA either.

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He D, I just sent you those mounts you were asking for via PM. Just let me know if you need something else.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Nice cool. I wouldn't be able to get to it until Saturday busy tonight and got to take the lady out tomorrow. Ugh!!!
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Dude lady is always more important than phone, you make sure and take care of her so that when she gets an attitude about you coding the next time all you have to do is say "Remember January 13th? Tomorrow I will outdo the 13th if you let me finish what I am working on tonight." Works on my wife every time.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Just to be clear im only doing it because it is Valentines day. My life goes my son,java,then the girl. She just a girlfriend. Lol.

Sorry off topic
[LG G Flex] justinswidebody:
Here is the Sprint ls995 .tot and .dll files for Sprint users

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6HYWZRx8JLsSHA0MlIySlpWVnM/preview?pli=1
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Question: why cant we take and modify the TWRP source with the mounts that we pull from our devices if we havent done the new OTA? What else would we need to mod thier code to work on our devices?

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Never mind, I found this tutorial http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1943625 I'm going to start trying to see if I can't muddle my way through it.

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I'm going to start a new thread for it so we don't start confusing people and taking up room on AutoPrime's thread.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
No the locked bootlaoder won't flash it. It will go into fastboot mode

I built cwm from source already no go that is how i soft bricked
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Wow that sucks. I just started modding the code and I'm glad you said that because I was just about to try and run it to test it. Glad I saw the email about your reply. So what about using that loki exploit? Or am I way off there? I mean all the other Eastern variants used it and they are porting ROMs now. So what is different from ours to theirs that we can't flash the recovery?
[LG G Flex] aznrice2k4:
Until we unlock the boot loader kernels are out if the question. I compiled my own kernel and whatnot but as soon as I rebooted I entered qcom mode. Thank God we have the tot so I just ran the update software back to stock.
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Did you see this thread? xdaforums.com/shortbread.php?t=2254004 ?
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Link isnt clickable on tapatalk
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Lovely, please hold. Loading. Loading.. Loading...

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2554004 that is the link i posted I would use the XDA app but it is having server issues. I wish they would update it. I like it better than tapatalk.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
That link shows playfulgod and i taking about the loki that has been patched
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
So loki has been patched to include the d950 and the d959?
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
All us carriers it looks like but hey man you can try it if you want
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Yes but do we have a TWRP or CWM that will work for our models?
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
told ya'll to be patient... looks like you're having a hard time with that lol :silly:

and for u AT&T users... looks like a small OTA update is coming your way. I'd suggest not taking the OTA for now. Seems AT&T is forcing these updates... so you will need to be rooted and youll have to freeze the apk responsible for updates after you get the notification... as well as deleting the update zip it downloads.

BUT before you delete the update zip.. please pull the file and upload it/send it to me.

I have no other info about the update and what it might do.. I'm just warning users and asking for the file :good:
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
They aren't forcing it but it is there to be applied. How do I download it without applying it? What is the name of the apk that is assigned to those OTA's?

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And it really wasn't me being impatient I was asking so I didn't have to create one if one was out there. I downloaded the source for the TWRP and I have been applying changes for the D950 since I don't have any of the other variant models. So it was really about me being lazy more than it was anything else.
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
the new AT&T g2 update from yesterday... you can delay it up to 3 times.. 4 hours each and after that it will install itself. I am assuming the same would be true you the G Flex update.

not sure how to download without applying.. since you can't pull out the battery right before it tries to install.. the only option would be to power it off right before it attempts. Altho it also may ask you if you are ready to install after you download it.. and you just would say no/cancel or whatever.

it's not an apk.. its a zip.. and it'll most likely be downloaded into the /cache folder. no clue what the name will be.
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
So if I try this And it applies, will I.be able to revert it? I don't want to be the mo that downloaded the update and lost root because AT&T won't let me power off when I try to turn it off before it applies.
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
cant say for certain.. it will be a risk :)

update might do something.. or it might not. until someone pulls it for me.. no way to tell.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
After if downloads and right before it installs hold the power button until your phone reboots. Should cause an error on the install. Holding tge power buttons is like pulling the bat out. I have pulled the battery out right before install on my s3 it through error on the OTA I'm not a hundred percent sure that would work so it's kind of a long shot but it's probably your best shot and you probably don't have much time so be ready while downloading ota have your finger on the power button
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Damnit. Ok here goes nothing. I am going to download and try the power button deal. If this doesn't work and I lose root I want you guys to help me fix it. I don't care how much work I have to do I will want my root back.

I'll be back in a bit after I try it.
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Beshore that after it downloads and right before it starts to install you reboot taking one for the team and that's awesome I'm telling you I'm not 100 percent sure I did that on the s3 that's all I can tell you man probably restarted right after downloads when it's finished
[LG G Flex] reaper420:
There was someone in one of the other sections saying he did the ota with root and it soft bricked his phone
[LG G Flex] PhantomThiefX:
Ok other than the cache file on the device where would at&t hide that zip?
[LG G Flex] D-FUSE:
Was he able to use the tot files

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Or just tell him to take to download and try to cancel the install he should install it I also stated that I'm not a hundred percent sure that would work

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I'm not too sure
[LG G Flex] reaper420:
OK I'm not sure where i got the soft bricked peat part from. I must have got it mixed up with something else, but he said it errored out and wouldn't work.
[LG G Flex] autoprime:
are you positive it downloaded? rebooting might be wiping it from cache... so perhaps there's a way to just cancel the update install after it downloads without powering off?