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[Xperia Z5 General] Lawliet918:
Has anyone here ever tried testing the waterproofing of the Z5? By that, I mean completely submerging it in a pool for a few minutes, not only running it under the faucet for a quick cleaning.

Given that the phone has exposed USB port and headset jack, is this still possible? Or does Sony's updated waterproofing blurb about not dunking it underwater valid due to these exposed parts?

The bestselling factor I'm buying its bigger sibling (i.e. Z5P) is because of its waterproofing capability. And I definitely would want to be able to take underwater shots and videos. Any advice on how to properly do this? (e.g. putting some rubber to cover the ports while underwater, etc?)
[Xperia Z5 General] augie7107:
Have a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z5/help/submerged-t3225014
[Xperia Z5 General] doum89:
Today I was hanging out with my Xperia z5 during the charging and I notice that when the led got green (so about 90% of charge) I could have seen its light through the jack hole. Is that normal? Does this compromise the waterproof? Sorry for my bad English but do the same and let me know, try to see the led (on) thought the jack hole

Inviato dal mio E6653 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xperia Z5 General] Nmc_alves®:
Yes my friend, i see the ligth too. Its normal, ive maked some photos and videos under the water and my phone its ok, only problem you cant charge your phone until its whet, you need to dry your usb port...
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
Good Day..

I Was flashing my phone with aserg method...

half way the phone freezed...

no it will not turn on at all..

i did had before sometimes little problems to turn it on...

The Question : Can a Os Update Breake Your Phone In A Way That It Won't Even Go On?

thanks
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
Yes it can, I had it two days ago. Just run the WM6 RUU of your native Herald language. then upgrade to the OS you wanted to flash, remember, always flash the official WM6 first before you flash an OS the ASerg way!
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
how can i install the RUU if the phone won't turn on?
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
nobody knows?
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
You have to put your device in bootloader mode, do this by pressing and HOLDING

the camera button, then press soft-reset key.

Then connect to PC via USB cable, no need for ActiveSync connection.

Then just run nthe RUU upgrade. happy flashing
[Wing, P4350 General] bellatrixue:
HELP!!

Mine won't boot too. :( Please help.
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
Try a soft reset first, press the soft reset button under the volume slider, if this does not work, try a hard reset (remember you will lose all data!)

to hard reset press and HOLD the camera button, and press soft-reset once.

If this still did not work, then just flash to your native language ROM
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
You don't understand...it won't boot at all...

Dutch : Zo dit is wat makkelijk dutchman...hij gaat gewoon helemaal niet aan hoelang je het aanknopje ook indrukt snap je>?
[Wing, P4350 General] bellatrixue:
Exactly

It wont start at all. It happen once and tried all methiod een try other buttons and it booted but now its totally dead. can 't even get to the boot loader.
[Wing, P4350 General] papamopps:
have you tried to put out the battery, wait 10 minutes and put it back. then make a hardreset....

i guess i read this somewhere on other devices..

good luck
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
I understand it perfectly, you don't have to have an OS that boots, just follow my instructions!
[Wing, P4350 General] bellatrixue:
It can't even go to the Bootloader

hard reset won't work. bootloader reset won't work. battery left out for 15, 30, 1 hour, 1day doesn't work either. :(
[Wing, P4350 General] Wantoknow:
I think your device battery must be charged again, after some hours charging you can do following instruction above.

Good luck!
[Wing, P4350 General] The Dutchman:
That's totally bs, you can enter the bootloader! if you really really can't, then your device has a hardware failure. just press the camera button (and hold it) and then press soft reset, keep holding the camera button!
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
that's no BS i have the same problem! i know how to do a reset and how to enter bootloader but the device doesn't respond at all!!!
[Wing, P4350 General] bellatrixue:
BS?

If its was BS, i wouldn't be coming here in the first place. And i know how to hard reset, soft reset, and getting into boot loader. i know the soft keys - - and the camera button. and i know how to pole the stylus :P

well i think it is a hardware failure it happened before but during a meeting i had at the office my hands was pressing all the buttons, and i can't remember which and it turned on. but it turned dead again and it wouldn't even turn on.

thanks anyways
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
very very strange i tried it today again, when i insert the usb cable or adaptor, the red light blinks one single time and then nothing:S no sound no screen nothing.. i left it in the charger and the accu is warm so it looks like it does charge:S i'm really confused
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
Nobody knows what this means?
[Wing, P4350 General] georgex:
sorry, posted in wrong thread
[Wing, P4350 General] Monarch73:
bricked forever...

I'm sorry, to tell but....

After reading all your posts to me it looks like your device is bricked forever due to corruption of the bootloader.

The bootloader ist the most essential part of your device. It is the softwarepart that does the real flashing by reading from USB and transfer the data into memory storage hardware. If this part gets accidently erased, overwritten or elsehow corrupted, there is no software, no button-press-procedure that can bring your device back to live.

The only thing you can do, is bringing your Herald in for service. In such cases, they normaly replace the whole circuitboard that holds the flash memory.
[Wing, P4350 General] motoi_bogdan:
I've seen this problem in my time in service centers. Here's my reason for this. A phone bootloader and ROM will comunicate with the hardware parts and their small firmwares through SEEM's, some small hexazecimal strings responsable with allmost every hardware-software comunication. When you flash a phone's ROM there is one stage when the SEEM code group is rewritten. These SEEM's are very small and this stage is completed fast. If you are unlucky (veeeery unlucky) and the phone is dissconected in this stage the corrupt SEEM's could trigger this problem. Even the bootloader must use SEEM's to acces the flash memory and display controller. If it can't it woun't be able to start.

And yes, if this occurs, they will have to replace the main board because there's no way to hardwire the flash memory to a flash reader to rewrite the bootloader and SEEM table. It's soldered in the board, not using some slots and they would have to remove it from there and try to resolder it to a controll board on the flash writer. Too complicated...it's a very small component. So they simply place a new board.
[Wing, P4350 General] nbyz:
people still don't have a solution for this rare happening?
[Wing, P4350 General] Monarch73:
There *is* no solution other than sending the Phone in for repair and probably *never* be...
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
You may also be interested in optimizing your storage & memory after you have rooted:

http://xdaforums.com/general/general/moving-apps-to-sd-optimize-memory-phone-t3248125
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsteacy:
LG-H731 Vigor from Videotron/Virgin Mobile

Also work on phone listed in title:

LG-H731 (LG G4) Vigor from Videotron/Virgin Mobile

Happy rooting :)

If you need help, don't hesitate to contact me: steacyp@me.com or here =;)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prosilu:
Hi

Have twpr or cwm recovery to install xposed??
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dclarkg:
I can confirm is working on LG G4 LG-H735P (Latin America version), thanks!
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamnoob:
anyone tried updating? just got a system update notification from my phone lol dk if i should update now or not
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
Good question! I didn't try it yet. Think it should be ok, but if it isn't, you can just root again I guess ;)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamnoob:
oh.. it wont like brick or anything? :/
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emercab:
I could not root my phone, what kdz file did you use??
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NayloSushi:
Backup problems

Hello,

Coming from a Nexus 4, I bought a G4S last month.

I want to do my first root in order to manage the storage, like jen.magnolis talked about.

In case of a problem (bootloop or brick), I need to be able to restore. I don't really mind about restoring my datas, a factory reset would be enough.

But I don't undestand how i can get the system.img without being rooted ? It seems that I can get a "backup.ab" file using adb. Will it be enough to restore in case of brick ?

I also looked about kdz files, but mine doesn't seem to be available. I have a LGH735 (buyer = FRA, suffix = AFRATS, ...). Will it work if I use the one you provided in your post ?

Thanks for your help !
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zetablade:
I got the same model phone, but I can't find the .KDZ file for it anywhere. Could you post a link to the one you used please?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chw9999:
Excellent step-by-step guide. Should set an example for other "step-by-step guides" which exclude crucial information ("everybody knows lösfhgaeilurhg has to by typed between these steps here, I shall not mention it" ;))

Thanks a ton :) Worked on my LG G4S a.k.a H735 like a charm.

Cheers!
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chw9999:
"phone appears to be rooted, will not be updated" - Hiding root did not help, any simple suggestions but total unrooting?

Wanted to upgrade from 10c to 10d...

Cheers!
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascfzz:
Doubts.

Hi everyone!

I just cant find my .kdz file! The phone i want to root its a G4 H735AR, im wondering if there are some compatible .kdz that i can use. Im affraid it might get bricked or something...

BTW i¨ve tried the rootworm.bat method and it didnt work. And when i try to open the COMX port, the lg flash tool always crushes and shuts down.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascfzz:
Works!

So, i made it! It works in the H735AR!! The problem with the flash tool was that i was trying to use it without any KDZ file!! I've used [MENTION=4465149]konsolen[/MENTION] .kdz and achieved to open ports, and then continue with the rest of the tutorial without trouble.

Thank you so much! Its a great phone, but with so little internal memory is a waste.

:D
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamnoob:
ya u just update thru lg bridge.. once updated it will be unroot tho so u have to root it back same method as u did before.. and if you use link2sd it dosent matter after root ur link2sd can just reboot and re-read ur partition without needing to wipe and re-partition
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androck6:
It's working in H736P! Thank you só much!

Enviado de meu LG-H736 usando Tapatalk
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androck6:
For people in Brazil that has H736P, to open ports, is necessary the kdz file to use in LG Flash Tool.

Galera do Brasil, consegui rootear o LG G4 Beat usando esse tutorial porém tive que baixar o arquivo kdz pro H736P pra executar o LG Flash Tool. Cuidado ao usar o LG Flash Tool, assim que aparecer a porta COM na tela do telefone, arranca o cabo USB do computador.

Enviado de meu LG-H736 usando Tapatalk
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxiret:
friend you are from argentina?¿
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androck6:
Brasil.

Enviado de meu LG-H736 usando Tapatalk
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] konsolen:
Fine that you get it.

I got many messages that my methode is not working.

But you are a good example that it works, if all points were

looked before start.

Have fun with your nice device!
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alefpiro:
hi, 1 question: if i do a reset data factory root is loose? thanks for your response

---------- Post added at 12:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:42 PM ----------

im forget say this method working fine for my h735ar. thanks
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Metallan:
Alright, worked like a charm with my wife's H735P (Latin America). For those wondering, I used the 10c KDZ that was linked in the thread. I know it was probably risky, but since you didn't really need to flash it, just use the flash tool to open the COM port, I took the chance.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barniedjfuze:
Hi to everyone.. Just need someone to help me clear up somethings.. 1st of all i have the H736P variant and manage to root it with kingroot.. 2nd now marshmallow update is available and i really want to update.. So 3rd. Since im rooted. Whats the best way to update without have to face future problems.. OTA or LG Bridge ? I dont mind loosing root. But im afraid my phone gets brick or something because of been rooted and try to update. Thanks in advance who can help me with this doubt
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guillos3:
enter to fastboot mode error udc_start

try to follow the steps of the root for this terminal , at the end I do not install the root, and trying to get in ... I get this in black screen, can someone please help me restore the phone using the KDZ without using LG- Flash -Tool of course because the cell does not enter fastboot mode

"[400] udc_start ()"
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zetablade:
Thanks for the info, I was finally able to root my own phone. It took a while to find the .kdz file though, since I didn't want to use a LGH736 file just in case, and it seems that every site I looked at had no H735 files. So I finally managed to find one here: http://xdaforums.com/g4/general/lg-g4s-world-root-lg-devices-t3231759

I went ahead and followed the steps of the guide, until it came to the LG Flasher bit in the appendix. The setting I used for this, which confused me since many were not mentioned were these:

After that I got a UAC warning and I had to wait a while (1-2 minutes) for the main flashing tool to actually open. Just make sure to select "Other Region" and "English" in the popup you'll get. Then the flashing will actually start. Keep an eye on your phone and as soon as you see COMX (X being a number) in green letters unplug your phone, and use task manager to kill the LG Flasher tasks. Then proceed with the tutorial and it'll all work.

My phone is a H735P, which is the Latin American model, also called the G4 Beat.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myhnea:
Hello , i did all you said and all worked fine for me.

but i have a problem with superSu "failed to update" anything i can do?

or did i not install this properly / do i need to do the whole process again?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guillos3:
hace twrp or cmw lg g4s

i'm happy rooting mi phone but dont found custom recovery :(
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EB20XY:
Is there any change since february on this device ? :confused:

Any thread except rooting, which you know ?

Is the status in 1st post still correct ?:eek:
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaadil_aj:
please help

after inputting the Send_Command, i receive this

C:\Users\Aadil\Downloads\Root_LG_H735>Send_Command \\.\COM17

Author : blog.lvu.kr

SPECIAL COMMAND : ENTER, LEAVE

#

i then tried inputting "id" or "ls" but nothing happens. any idea why?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emersonbalboa:
Happened the same with me.

Did you managed to solve?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
This is probably related to the Send_Command.exe shell which is not working that great, I've had various problems with it, you just can't treat it like a regular Unix shell. If it doesn't print anything, it means something behind the scenes is most likely not working, and it's a bit of guess work to find out what.

Can I confirm that you are using the G4s / H735 and not trying this on a different phone?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emersonbalboa:
Mine is the H736p but in this same thread someone said it worked for him.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
Hi, sorry for the late reply, I didn't get email notifications somehow...

If you upgrade to 10d, you will probably need to root again, and I'm not sure if the same method works then, you will likely need another kdz at the least. Has anybody tried it?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
Ok, thanks for the info. And did you also unplug the phone at the right moment to open the port, as per instructions? It sounds like the shell is not really connected to the phone, but I'm not too sure, as I don't have a set-up right now that I can test it on.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
Yes I think that would be lost then, but you can always just try, and re-root if it's been lost ;)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jen.magnolis:
Hi, sorry for late reply, I somehow didn't get email notifications.

I admit I haven't tried the root method again since February since my phone is rooted, so I don't know if something has changed... but it seems to keep working for some people. Anybody else tried it just recently with exact same method/files and it still works fine?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sangeeth tharindu:
Please give me a link of twrp or cwm recovery for lg g4 beat (H735)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfisaac:
Will this work for an LG G4 using Marshmallow 6.0?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ratser:
Just tried it, not working on 6.0.

Init_Root.bat works

Send_Command "ls" does return a long list of file and folder names and "id" returns uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:vold:s0, but all the other commands in Step 4 do nothing. The sanity checks are not working. You can move files around and you can backup system.img using Send_Command but that's it.

Also, Send_Command doesn't restarts the phone when you do "LEAVE" anymore.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbnrd:
Hi xsteacy,

Have the LG-H731 from Videotron and I did not manage to root it, because I failed to open the port in download mode.

When I start the phone in download mode, I am stuck with a 0% progress bar. The phone is soft bricked and I have to remove the battery to get it back.

And LG Flash Tool just don't find the phone.

Any idea would be appreciated !
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffItGoes:
I have exactly the same issue. Just followed this root guide and noticed that none of the sanity checks triggered.

Tried it on H735 (bought in Germany) with Marshmellow 6.0
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goteer:
Anyone knows how to do this for Marshmellow 6.0? Because I'm having the same issue as PuffItGoes and Ratser, and I've only found this thread after searching on google for a couple hours for a way to do so.

Automatic root apps don't seem to work and their pc versions don't work either :(.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acid419:
Same here, H735 Android 6.0 from GER

Does somebody know how to downgrade to 5.1.1 ?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nakti:
Any root for H735 Android 6.0 EU ?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zero Ziat:
I can't login to Snapchat because My LG G4 Beat is rooted. I can't use Xposed Root Cloak because the framework needs to be flashed from a custom bootloader. What do I do???
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tiki Thorsen:
Android 6.0 IS NOT rootable on the H735, we must revert to 5.1.1 sadly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batman2142:
I just used VTS For Android, a vulnerability scanner and it shows Stagefright CVE-2015-6602 as Vulnerable and supposedly its been in the Oct Patch in AOSP.

Is it not for 5.1.1 as I already have the LMY48M build? Is it only for 6.0 and above (basically only the latest version gets the patch)?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D4vid1997:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

Which file do i need to flash? Need to find 1 zip file to install framework to make xposed working im using a galaxy s5 SM-G900F with lolipop 5.0? How to choose the right file ? I

Ty alot
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3113463
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adheesio:
Hello all. I updated my phone to GPE 6.0 but priority mode does not work as expected. Even if "do not disturb" it is set to "Priority only" mode and starred contacts are allowed to call & send messages phone stays silent when starred contact calls or sends message. Could someone please try is this working for others ?

Thanks in advance.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbitz:
I'm on the VZW M8 with a ported 6.0 GPE ROM and I'm having this exacty problem. Did you find a solution?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbitz:
Ok, so I decompiled services.jar from my phone and found the ValidateNotificationPeople class that was actually running on my phone (as opposed to the one provided from Google online) and see that HTC have pretty much rewritten it. I'm not going to post HTC's (presumably proprietary) code here for fear of license issues, but I'll show a couple lines:

The offending change is that in the HTC/GPE version from my phone we have:

LOOKUP_PROJECTION = new String[] { "_id", "starred", "vip" };

Whereas in the one from Google online we have:

private static final String[] LOOKUP_PROJECTION = { Contacts._ID, Contacts.STARRED };

There's another reference to the non-existent "vip" column in the HTC version:

....
if (!NotificationManagerService.SENSE_STOCK)
{
i = paramCursor.getColumnIndex("vip");
....

Obviously the "vip" column doesn't exist anywhere on my phone. My best guess is that HTC's contacts storage app is supposed to create a 15-column table of contacts with a "vip" column, but only creates the standard Google 14-column table. I figured the odds of my successfully decompiling, fixing, and putting back together that .dex file were pretty slim, especially as it threw errors decompiling. Instead I tried using sqlite3 to add a vip column to that table (not null, default 0). That gave me the android.process.acore error until I cleared the contacts storage data. EDIT: I've tried this while the phone was in recovery mode and it didn't help. So far I've tried this editing both the profile and the contacts2.db. I'll try just contacts2.db tomorrow and see if maybe profile is what's giving the crashes. I'm not hopeful on this front.

If anybody doesn't have this problem I'd be very curious to hear:

What sort of contacts app do you have?

What sort of contacts storage app do you have?

What are the columns in your contacts table in the contacts sqlite database?

What are the permissions on your Contacts app?

Have you ever used a 6.0 Sense ROM?

To answer my question:

Contacts v1.3.07

Contacts Storage version 6.0-eng.buildteam.20151201.003342

0|_id|INTEGER|0||1

1|name_raw_contact_id|INTEGER|0||0

2|photo_id|INTEGER|0||0

3|photo_file_id|INTEGER|0||0

4|custom_ringtone|TEXT|0||0

5|send_to_voicemail|INTEGER|1|0|0

6|times_contacted|INTEGER|1|0|0

7|last_time_contacted|INTEGER|0||0

8|starred|INTEGER|1|0|0

9|pinned|INTEGER|1|0|0

10|has_phone_number|INTEGER|1|0|0

11|lookup|TEXT|0||0

12|status_update_id|INTEGER|0||0

13|contact_last_updated_timestamp|INTEGER|0||0

Calendar No

Contacts Yes

Location No

Phone Yes

SMS No (this is how I found it, I also tried Yes)

Storage No

Nope.

Maybe there's a way to replicate your success....
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lisaamybeth:
Hope someone can help you more than me mate, impressed already at what you've found, keep up the good work.. This issue is driving me nuts too
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbitz:
Thanks. The thing I'm really puzzled about is why it works for anybody at all. It seems like some people on the same ROMs as us have success with this feature. What are they doing differently? Unfortunately, I don't have a device this is working on to test with.

...I wonder if it has to do with how the backup/restore feature works when you flash a new ROM. Maybe the people that have it working came from a 6.0 Sense ROM so their DBs are already in the HTC format. I'm just blindly guessing at this point.