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[Verizon LG G3] thecubed:
Hi there,

You're perfectly fine to have an opinion, and I'm glad you phrased it as such - it's not offensive at all what you have to say. However, I don't necessarily agree with everything you've written though.

1. Yes, this is a true unlock. There is no other unlock mechanism on these phones. This is not a work-around, and calling it as such implies that there is any alternate method to use.

2. As for bricking, unfortunately we can't be held responsible for people that haven't done the legwork to verify that what they're doing is safe. We (Team Codefire) never released any mods for the G3 variants that were not unlocked in an effort to do our side of the responsibility to not make it easy for people to accidentally brick their phones. Now that recovery is released, if the end user does not ensure that TWRP functions on their device and ends up getting it in a state where the stock rom does not boot - this is 100% their problem as we were careful to ensure that all the information an informed user needs to make this work on their phones is out there.

2a. Regarding CrossDL, we actually will have a workaround for that here soon. As long as people don't touch their LAF or Factory partitions we can unbrick them from almost anything short of them editing sbl/rpm/tz partitions (which nobody should ever be doing!)
[Verizon LG G3] Katmeat:
What a great weekend! I used a Terminal Emulator app to accomplish this, and it was no problem using Quick Boot to boot into this TWRP recovery, Thanks so much, and I sent my PayPal donation to all six developers.

i have two SanDisc 64GB cards, one formatted exFAT, and the other Fat32. The Fat 32 works fine in recovery, but not the exFAT.

Thanks Developers!
[Verizon LG G3] pahlerc1:
Erase using TWRP

So I wiped the sd card through TWRP and it was able to read the sd card in TWRP but then when I rebooted and tried to transfer the files back to the sd card, it was not able to copy over and I was forced to reformat the sd card via the phone settings. It would read the Sd card and said 59.xx gbs but wouldn't allow me to transfer and would state the device has stopped responding. It is also still in MTP mode.. Just wanted to give a heads up or input my trial.. Great Work by the Developers for getting TWRP working in general on our G3 variant!! :)

Thanks for the help :good:
[Verizon LG G3] iluvamk:
The first time I installed TWRP and rebooted to recovery, the screen came up blank and the light blinked red and blue. Rebooted and installed TWRP again, and this time it came up. Checked my external SD Card (SanDisk 64 GB SDHC) formated as exFat and it wouldn't recognize it. Found this program (http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.exe), formated to fat32, rebooted and now TWRP recognizes my SD card and I was able to save nandroid to it. Good luck to those who are having problems with your sd card not being recognized.
[Verizon LG G3] artjrv:
Does this mean the bootloader is unlocked?
[Verizon LG G3] noobiest:
Dude, please read just read a few posts back. Honestly.....
[Verizon LG G3] burkett375:
LOL

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Hes trolling....has to be
[Verizon LG G3] krazy_smokezalot:
Didnt mean to hit thanks on your question. And yes bootloader is unlocked
[Verizon LG G3] artjrv:
Thank you...
[Verizon LG G3] sslayer22:
I don't know if anybody was having trouble with the download on the OP using your phone, but I tried probably 20 times with several browsers and was always unsuccessful.

I finally got it to work by pasting the link into Firefox.

Again, just my experience, hope that might help somebody.

Sent by my thumbs via my LG G3 VS985 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
[Verizon LG G3] JCDinPGH:
Originally my 128gb sdcard was formatted as exfat and it wasn't recognized by TWRP. I copied everything off of it and then formatted it as fat32 without copying anything back, and booted into recovery and it still doesn't look like TWRP is recognizing it. Anyone else have experience doing this with a 128gb sd card? FWIW, I used fat32format (http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm). and it is a sandisk card. I'm willing to try the guiformat mentioned a few posts back but I would think fat32, is the same no matter what program formatted it. Very strange.
[Verizon LG G3] SeanPlunk:
Thank you again for doing this, you guys are magicians.

Regarding point one, is this kind of like on an HTC where the bootloader is unlocked, but security is still on? Is that the reason the ROMS needs to be bumped? I know you probably can't give away too much, but I'm always trying to understand more about how this stuff works :good:
[Verizon LG G3] duke69111:
What did you choose for ext size and swap size? Thanks.
[Verizon LG G3] krazy_smokezalot:
Let's just hold off on this until the devs can shed some light on this on how to properly format the sd. I for one did try numerous attempts but I got my sd formatted to ext4 it was recognized I'm TWRP but when I tried to copy my file back to my formatted ext4 sd it failed no matter what file it was it failed. So I'll just wait patiently.
[Verizon LG G3] edif30:
When you do a wipe, it sets them automatically. I didn't do partition. Goto wipe them select ex SD card.
[Verizon LG G3] duke69111:
Ah, that's right. Thanks. Partitioning the sd card would of split the card into say 2 32gb partitions. I was making this harder than it needed to be.
[Verizon LG G3] jimbob_sf:
I have the same disk. I used twrp to change file system to simple FAT and it worked for twrp and inside the rom. Go figure...
[Verizon LG G3] bweN diorD:
just split my donation promised across the 6 devs. thanks for all the hard work :)
[Verizon LG G3] :
WOndering

I am hearing that with "Bump" we can flash ROMs and Kernels, and some say ROMs only? Could someone (in the know) clarify?

Thanks
[Verizon LG G3] siouxhockey11:
Do I have to use stump to root or is it ok that I'm rooted already
[Verizon LG G3] causey:
Any root should work. I was rooted prior to stump, and mine worked just fine.
[Verizon LG G3] siouxhockey11:
Awesome so stoked!!!
[Verizon LG G3] jmotyka:
From my understanding you can flash roms and kernels, they will have to be bumpd compatible. My guess is its some source code that will be released. Im also guessing they will provide tutorials to devs on how to compile their roms and kernels with bumpd. If im wrong someone correct me. This is what i gathered from what i read on irc.
[Verizon LG G3] azoller1:
Yep

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55952143
[Verizon LG G3] hazedabeast:
Any news that cyangonmod coming to g3
[Verizon LG G3] bunchies:
Yeah, already seen a working build but it has bugs

Not every Dev can test they're builds yet because bump tool hasn't been available to the public but some selected Devs seem to have gotten to use it, hence the working build :p

I'll be working with a few people on getting liquidsmooth out as soon as possible after bump has been released
[Verizon LG G3] sunNsnow:
:good: Thank you for your hard work!

Sent my donation to all six devs!
[Verizon LG G3] idkwhothatis123:
Totally flashed via flashify and all is perfect.
[Verizon LG G3] thecubed:
Shelnutt2 is awesome, he's been working hard to get our Bump! site up quickly.

I'm working on the cmdline API too.
[Verizon LG G3] krazy_smokezalot:
Awesome great work guys. So when you say your working on cmdline API, that means that soon you'll be able to release bump to public so devs can make Bump'd Rom. 1 question I don't think I saw asked or I'm the OP (unless I missed it sorry)

So why the name Bump'd what made the team choose that name? Just curious that's all
[Verizon LG G3] bobcat987:
I read it as the command line will interface to the same backend service that the website does. I suspect they are doing it this way to keep the code from being reversed engineered so that the exploit enjoys a longer lifespan.
[Verizon LG G3] annoyingduck:
That makes sense. I do understand the desire for source code release, but this is an area where I think it makes sense to not release it. We all may lose with its release.
[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
Agreed! Anything and everything that can be done to prevent the greedy a$&#*"s at Verizon (and any other carrier for that matter) from patching superb work like this should be done. These devs deserve a lot of gratitude from those of us who couldn't possibly do this kind of hackery, and the longer this exploit lasts, the better!! :)
[Verizon LG G3] Fuse8499:
You guys are incredible! Thank you!
[Verizon LG G3] krazy_smokezalot:
Cool.

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So can the team answer why the name Bump'd like I said before just curious???
[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
Because "bump" rhymes with "stump"! ;) Lol
[Verizon LG G3] JCDinPGH:
Alright. I'm completely baffled. I have a sandisk 32g and a 128g microsdhc card and I formatted both with with fat32format and a 16384 allocation unit size and TWRP recognizes the 32g card but not the 128g card. Very confused. I can easily wait to see what the devs come up with but I'm just trying to find some logic here and I'm at a loss. The mystery continues....
[Verizon LG G3] jager420:
I rooted and unlocked in 10 min. Terminal Emulator worked perfect..no need to connect to pc..donation coming this week
[Verizon LG G3] joshm.1219:
Just realized that getting root and recovery on this device means using Stump & Bump lol

crack myself up
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Grab one of these G3s and get to Stumpin & Bump'n !

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[Verizon LG G3] joshm.1219:
I know lol but now my upgrade is only a month away so I mine as well get it subsidized :silly: first i gotta get my pledge out to the devs though
[Verizon LG G3] psycho_asylum:
I noticed that when it was first released. I personally would've gone for Bump & Grind.
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Hey might as well right?!

Love this phone and now it's only going to get better. Having a recovery to fall back on is great. Been removing even more useless Verizon/LG bloat and DeOdexed and ZipAligned, now TBO apps are working better for me too so it's very cool.

Hopefully I'll have the rest of my $ in PayPal within the next week so I can continue sending them all $10 and get that over with.

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[Verizon LG G3] Jimjk1968:
Sent my donation as I pledged on the bounty. Let the roms begin. ?

Confirmation number: 58M66362F9636021U.
[Verizon LG G3] Scottay5150:
I keep getting....

this outcome. the instructions are such: cut and paste su into TE, then C and P this dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery then C and P this dd if=/sdcard/twrp-2.8.0.0_vs985-signed.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery then reboot per instructions. I am rooted with stump! IDK what I am doing wrong. Help!
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
It's been confirmed by many that Flashify works and is super easy. Flash that as a recovery image and you're good

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[Verizon LG G3] Scottay5150:
mistertac...

TYVM sir!!
[Verizon LG G3] droidrev71:
66R175767J627173G donation confirmation number. Thank you guys for getting this done!! :)
[Verizon LG G3] terminal13:
Ya boooyyyyeeee now just need Some stock android vanilla goodness.
[Verizon LG G3] jimbob_sf:
Donated $10 to each. $60. Thank you!
[Verizon LG G3] Scorp123:
Would you mind sharing how you went about deodexing and zipaligning?
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
I used 3c ( formally known as Android Tuner ) and it has the DeOdex feature plus it will zipalign at boot as well. . plus it can do about 1,000 other tweaks if you dig further into the app. It's one of the most complete apps for various tweaks I've come across and works quite well.

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[Verizon LG G3] Enddo:
Has there been any notable difference in the performance after you deodex'd and zipaligned the stock LG rom?
[Verizon LG G3] Smithfolk4:
SD Cards. Flashify, Etc

I have a lot of experience installing BUMP and getting it to work on the SD card. Mostly due to making stupid mistakes. I tried to install a 855 version for a day and a half and it didn't work well on verizon. Just a lot of frustration.

1) Flashify works fine. It is probably the easiest way to install. Use the Recovery Image, NOT the boot image to flash.

2) TWRP does not work on Exfat disks, at least it didn't for me. You need to reformat to FAT32. Unfortunately on windows you can only format up to 32 GB SD cards with FAT 32. I have a 128 GB card and tried to format it in my computer and it tried to do it, but didn't finish. After about an hour it looked like it was done, but then gave me a volume too large error message. Once you go through this process you can use a little batch file called H2Format to finish the job really quickly.

I downloaded H2Format from http://www.heise.de/download/442206932dd504c10dbbc60944aea217-1413143384-2284071.html

And then did as listed below. Some of these instructions I copied off a site that told how to use H2Format.

FIRST Backup your SD card somewhere, if necessary unmount the card, turn off your phone, and remove it

Format the SD card in your PC using a command prompt at c:\

type "format /FS:FAT32 X:" replacing the letter "X" with the letter of your SD card

This formatting takes a while

For drives bigger than 32 GB use H2Format

Go download h2format.exe and stick it in your root [c: for most people].

[If you're concerned about running an exe in root [which is never recommended for untrusted files], you can run h2format.exe from any directory.]

Open command line, go to wherever you have H2Format installed

Type in H2Format X: [wherein X: is the letter of your SD Card]

It'll take about half a second, and it's done!

Copy the SD card files back from where you backed them up. WIth the phone turned off put it back in and start the phone. TWRP should see the SD card now.

3) I have read that some people used TWRP to format their larger SD cards using the ext4 formatting. I did not do this so am not sure how it works, but it might be work trying before going through my method above.

Finally, thanks to the devs that worked so hard to get us a working custom recovery. You all are the best. :good:
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Well I enjoy flashing themed apps among other things so DeOdex helps that aspect, and ZipAligning IMO is definitely needed after that but as far as any legit performance gains I'd say it's too soon for me to tell, if there is any gain at all.

Can't hurt to try right? I certainly don't notice any bad effects. Soon enough stock DeOdexed Roms will be out anyways, I just figured I'd give it a go.

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[Verizon LG G3] foundingfathersfan2:
I'm new here and among some very smart and special people.

Hello everybody. It's so good to be able to come on here and learn from all these wonderful minds. I mostly come here to read. I try to keep up with what's going. I rooted my vs985 about two months ago and did TBU then froze a lot of bloat and installed G3 TWB. I love it.

I did catch the Bump unlock and was able to do it then a quick Nan backup with no SD card problems I guess, haven't tried to restore it.

I love my vs985. My wife threw hers against a wall then it landed on concrete last Saturday night but didn't seem to phase it at all. She was mad at someone she was talking to on the phone. Luckily I have our phones in a Supcase and tempered glass screen protector, maybe why it survived.

I have a lot to learn here and am looking forward to searching my questions and reading all I can.

I just need to know how to get these six guys some funds because I cant use Pay Pal after being hacked.

Thank you guys for all you do!!!
[Verizon LG G3] robinjb:
Awesome work- truly grateful! Flashify worked for me as well. Thank you!!!
[Verizon LG G3] elmatador2:
K, help me out here guys, so i download the file on the op to my phone, then use flashify run it..
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Flash it as a Recovery Image using Flashify.

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[Verizon LG G3] spotmark:
Delete
[Verizon LG G3] jamsoolee:
Due to me being stupid and soft bricking trying out something else earlier... Again, me being stupid and not making a back up caused me to have to redo everything on my phone from stock.

Same deal, everything went smoothly, didn't even get the not enough space error, weird stuff.. But cool!
[Verizon LG G3] elmatador2:
K, thanks guys..
[Verizon LG G3] JCDinPGH:
I tried almost this exact procedure but using fat32format.exe. I'm willing to ry again but using h2format instead. I really want to be able to send TWRP backups to the external sdcard to save some space. Stay tuned for results.
[Verizon LG G3] uthkuknwme:
please delete me, i did more research and got it to work with flashify

thx pplz
[Verizon LG G3] siouxhockey11:
So Is this a boot loader unlock or Is this like safstrap?
[Verizon LG G3] b0bj0e:
Replying to JCDinPGH, quoting Smithfolk4...

The FAT32 filesystem can only address 2^32 bits of address space vis a vis mathematics and industry standards. It is not "Windows fault".
[Verizon LG G3] SOU55:
Everything fine here I even made a backup right away, I noticed the first backup file size was around 4 gigs now after freezing a lot of blootware and made another backup is twrp file size was only 3 gigs is that normal will it cause boot loop if I decide to restore using the 3 gigs one in the future??
[Verizon LG G3] Chilidog:
4gb??? My first one was 1.8gb
[Verizon LG G3] siouxhockey11:
Hey I did what you did and did it from my phone and was wondering if it took a long time for the phone to reboot?
[Verizon LG G3] :
Confirmed working, however, yet to flash a Rom as we have no working roms yet. Now for someone to start on cm11
[Verizon LG G3] krazy_smokezalot:
True bootloader unlock NOT LIKE SAFESTRAP
[Verizon LG G3] SOU55:
That weird mine is 850 at&t have you made any changes to your system apps?? I haven't uninstalled anything just freezing
[Verizon LG G3] markfm:
I used the built in TWRP ability to reformat to fat, then did a twrp backup of everything. While the total backup was a good chunk greater than 4GB, the backup went fine. The backup generates multiple files, it looks like it is cutting things at around 1.5GB, starting a new file in a series.
[Verizon LG G3] JCDinPGH:
I tried this exact procedure but using h2format and TWRP is still not recognizing by 128g card. Since I only have one 128g card and it takes quite a awhile to copy everything off and then back onto the sdcard after formatting, I think I'm finally giving up until the devs can take a look. I'm not sure what else I can even try at this point. Has anyone tried doing a TWRP backup using USB-OTG? I bought a cable but it hasn't arrived yet.
[Verizon LG G3] JBeXX:
I also have a sandisk 128GB card. The method that worked for me and I've seen posted a couple other places is to simply format the card to fat32 WITHIN TWRP.

Go to wipe, then select Repair or Change File System at the bottom, select FAT, and go.

I formatted this way and have no issues doing a nandroid backup and restore from it (5gb). And also no issues transferring files to and from within a file manager(aside from the known 4gb fat32 cap which i haven't tested).

Again, this worked for me with a Sandisk 128gb card. I assume it will also work for 64gb.
[Verizon LG G3] Chilidog:
Maybe like 10 or so apps but that should really make a difference...
[Verizon LG G3] pahlerc1:
When you used this format for your 128gb sd card did it format it to 128gb or 32gb? Just wondering, Thanks. Don't want to sacrifice loss of gb just to recognize with TWRP..
[Verizon LG G3] JBeXX:
128. I have over 70 gbs on it currently. System shows total space as 119.
[Verizon LG G3] JCDinPGH:
Alright this is just plain frustrating now. I tried this and I got a message saying "can't mount" so then I removed the sdcard and deleted the partition using minitool partition wizard and reinserted into the phone with no partition on the sdcard at all and then did the advanced wipe and changed the file system to fat32 and wiped and it is now recognized by TWRP. Success! Thanks for all the help everyone.
[Verizon LG G3] pahlerc1:
Thanks, I just tried and everything has gone smoothly. Was able to recognize in TWRP, created a back-up, then rebooted and was able to copy files back to sd card.. Above way to format through TWRP worked for me! Thanks again, now I have TWRP and 64gb! :good:
[Verizon LG G3] kwkw480:
Hey guys there is a thread for this type of discussion: http://xdaforums.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/qa-bump-unlock-lg-g3-twrp-verizon-t2901201 . The thread you are currently in is for development :)
[Verizon LG G3] Smithfolk4:
Not Sure What to Tell You

I think that formatting cards bigger than 32 GB in FAT32 is pretty finicky. If the format appeared to go okay I am not sure why TWRP won't recognize the SD card. It was definite that reformatting to FAT 32 worked for me. I agree with the copying time. It takes me over an hour to copy everything onto the SD card after formatting, etc.

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You are right, but there are workarounds. I was simply trying to describe one that worked for me. I have a 128 GB card formatted to FAT 32 now by using one of those workarounds in WIndows. It may be easier to simply use the phone to reformat using ext4. Apparently some folks have not had luck with the procedure that worked for me.
[Verizon LG G3] Always_Jonezen:
Worked perfectly with the file on the root of my sdcard and using terminal emulator.
[Verizon LG G3] djkms:
Anyone know what APK to disable in system/app to disable the OTA updates? Not really wanted to spend money on Titanium backup to do this. Thanks:good:
[Verizon LG G3] Colchiro:
I installed some inverted apps and it broke my PlayStore so decided the easiest thing to do was to restore my nandroid, which worked perfectly.

I used default settings except I selected "enable compression" and "external sdcard".
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Guys we now have our own Verizon G3 Lounge Thread, where we can request features, Roms and shout out to the Devs we'd most like to see working on G3 Roms/Kernels .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2904566

[MENTION=990284]TonyStark[/MENTION] created the ATT G3 Lounge thread and it has been successful, so he was nice enough to create one for us as well!

This way we can leave this Bump thread to stay more on topic and keep it clean. So please join us in that thread and keep the suggestions coming!

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[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
I've used an app called "chef's freezer" before to freeze things, before I bought TIBU. And the app you want to freeze is called "system update". Do that and then if you go to settings >system updates it should crash, which shows it's working.
[Verizon LG G3] djkms:
Thanks for the app recommendation, that worked. The apk name is lgdmsclient.apk. System update apk does not exist.
[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
Really? That's odd...when I look at TiBU the one I froze is called "System updates 1_13_10_0"...does it still crash when you go into setting and choose Software Updates?
[Verizon LG G3] djkms:
Yep, it crashed :)
[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
Crazy...I wonder if Chef's freezer sees the app as being named different. Maybe I'll quick test it out :p

Edit: You're right - the actual .apk name is indeed "lgdmsclient.apk", but it's title on the list of apps shows as "System updates"....at least on mine :) Either way, glad it worked for you!
[Verizon LG G3] devo1929:
Was able to use flashify to flash the twrp image no problem. Interesting though... I was trigger shy on clicking Yes on the very last step of selecting Factory Reset and selected No instead. Much to my surprise, it actually went to Twrp anyways... After that, I'm able to select Reboot Recovery from my advanced reboot menu and straight into Twrp I go. Made my first backup on this device. Feels great. :)

Sent from LG G3
[Verizon LG G3] danetbra63:
Extra note

As long as you are rooted you are also able to boot into recovery using the advanced reboot menue via the G3 tweaks box apk. Not sure if anyone has noted this, but I thought I would add it anyway. Hope this helps!
[Verizon LG G3] Alucardis666:
Thank you so much for this!
[Verizon LG G3] ohlin5:
Posted back on page 3 :p