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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] loganfarrell:
Still working on studying for finals (I'm in college) so once I am done for the night I will post something to tell people how I did it. However, in the meantime, I think it's important to understand that the way FlashFire works doesn't "trick" anything, and that is the same assumption I had prior to figuring it out. For OTA packages, it strips out unnecessary information and boots into a different environment to flash things so that recovery can be kept in tact. It forces the recovery to be preserved and root to be re-installed after, but it isn't tricking anything. If you plain and simple try to install the OTA on a stock rooted phone you will get an error and nothing will happen. Your system has to be 100% stock or nothing will even happen. I'll post a step-by-step when I have time tonight. In the meantime, download the stock Lollipop zip if you haven't already, as well as the Marshmallow recovery and the update.zip.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
I am 100% stock lollipop except for root and TWRP. I have the MM TWRP downloaded. Have to remove xposed

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] GiSS88:
Xposed works with this? Wasn't sure if everything was compatible just yet.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
Not everything in xposed is yet. Some things work. I had xposed running on my G4 with MM before I updated to the V10

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] crashnova:
Ok...flashfire need root to work. So a pure stock rom is needed. Rooted and twrp, correct? Also does the boot loader remain unlocked? Lets us know how the phone is running when you post the tut. Lets us know if you experience any bugs. And good luck with those finals.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] NYLimited:
I was kinda thinking that Flashfire might be of help though admittedly I'm still confused. Obviously, my rooted v10 is not stock. I guess the sequence of events will be important. And where does Flashfire get SuperSu from if completely stock.. I know, later. Just thinking out loud..

Good question about the bootloader! The update should put the MM bootloader on the device as well..
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] crashnova:
If it does will it remain unlocked? From what i understand it isnt unlockable. I could be wrong tho.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
It is unlockable. Check Eliminator74's thread

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OP said he would also post his step by step midweek. Hopefully someone let's us know about the bootliadet remaining unlocked

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] planetbeen:
Mm bootloader is unlockable it's just that none of the fastboot commands work so it's sort of like they gave some kind of insult unlock to us. You can't actually flash anything. :(

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Just to clarify for everyone, yes. This worked and I flashed the M boot loader as well. The only thing that remained was TWRP.

You guys need to understand the importance of unlocked boot loaders... The bottom line is it is not important.

Once you are rooted, you do not need a boot loader to be unlocked in order to do your dirty business. Everything can be accomplished from a terminal in the booted OS. You can install busybox, flash kernels, modify system files, reboot the OS straight into recovery, etc.

The only reason methods in the past have had a prerequisite for an unlocked boot loader is because in order to flash a recovery with the operating system not booted, you need an external flashing tool, which requires certain security protocols disabled in the boot.

This is where FF comes into play...

Basically, all you need to do here is download the OTA, make sure your device is stock rooted, and have the new version of twrp installed (for M).

Use FF to flash the OTA, good to go. Don't worry about unlocking your boot loader. You will need to flash the new boot loader anyways if you don't want your $%&# broken. I like my stuff to work... So here we are.

This is not meant to be an instruction by the way... Just a quick overview. I wouldn't recommend doing this without precise instruction. I am still at work, and will be extremely busy tonight and tomorrow, and was hoping to get a tutorial up by Thursday night. It sounds like the other guy basically did what I did, though, and took the plunge with positive results.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
Thanks for the info. Maybe once I get to delivery in Santa Fe, NM tonight, I will pull the trigger and update my phone

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] crashnova:
Thanks for the info. Just one question...any side effect or bugs that you noticed?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Nope. Everything is working.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] baySF:
Inside TiBu what should I freeze to eliminate the system update downloaded notification? It won't go away and I don't wanna accidentally click it.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Disable notifications for Google play services.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] S-C:
Just waiting for a step by step...

Still a noob
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] RyanInAj:
I was taught way back when to NEVER take an OTA. I disregarded that important lesson and now I'm stuck with an unrooted, bloated LG device(first ever LG for me). I do love the phone tho. What can I do to help?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
If you are on MM with full stock system, boot, A - Z.... And not rooted, you are stuck for now.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] RyanInAj:
I know [emoji53]

I should've clarified - anything I can do to help the process. [emoji6]
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
I have trie run the OTA update via FlashFire 3 different times and I'm still on lollipop. For those that have run this, did you check the box for flashing bootloader in settings? I didn't which may be why it isn't working. Also the weird thing was the OTA disappeared from my /cache folder even though notification is still saying it's the update is downloaded. I had to copy it from my sd card back to my /cache folder for FlashFire to automatically detect it. I just need to know though if I need to check the.flash bootloader box. Any help would be appreciated

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Basically, what I did was put the OTA file on my internal SD card (make sure the new twrp recovery is installed for MM), made sure I was on the latest 5.1.1 stock ROM but rooted, installed flash fire, and yes I checked the boot loader boxes, then found the OTA in flash fire and ran it.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
I removed xposed from my phone and am stock rooted minus the crap I uninstalled when I first got the phone. I have the OTA copied to my external and copied it back to cache when I noticed it was missing. I have already installed the MM TWRP recovery. I might try copying it to internal sd. FlashFire auto detects it in cache. I will check the flash bootloader box, that's probably why it didn't work.

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Still not working by having it auto detected in cache with flash bootloader box checked. ??????

Gonna try it the way you did. Copied update to internal and downloaded SuperSU beta to external then gonna have it boot to mm twrp and flash SyperSU. Maybe it not working with it auto detecting and trying to flash SuperSU at the same time, or I have a crappy update.zip file.

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Maybe I misspoke... Stock... Completely stock.... With the exception of root. Meaning you aren't deodexed, and you don't have any apps removed.

Stock. 100% ROM.

The OTA will verify presence of files in system to makes sure they haven't been altered in any way. If you've removed system apps, the OTA will abort
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] ramblinman:
Keep us posted man.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] chadbot3k:
I'm doing the exact same thing and running into the same issues, it's like it is sooooo close. I keep getting unexpected file warning in Flashfire, which I reverted back to stock/rooted rom from a custom rom, so i should be barebones stock (with root). I doubt the update.zip is crappy. I also can't seem to move the update from cache using LG file browser OR ROM toolbox (rom toolbox gives me an error and LG file browser I can't find cache). I'm going to keep trying and update if I get anything working. SO CLOSE!!
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
I'm not getting any error messages, it just runs then reboots when done and it's still lollipop.

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I'm not dedexed. I downloaded the stock rom from the devrlopement threads and I am gonna try the method [MENTION=5767942]loganfarrell[/MENTION] did to get his which was to flash the stock rom then the update in FlashFire and hope it works.

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] chadbot3k:
flashed stock rom first through Flashfire and TWRP (multiple times to make sure it sticks) then update.zip through Flashfire

I did exactly that and I'm still on lollipop
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
[MENTION=5767942]loganfarrell[/MENTION] flashed both through FlashFire without rebooting. That may be the key.

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FlashFire injects SuperSU into it. ChainFire mentioned that in his thread about the app. There is also an option in the app to have it do that or not if you don't want it to.

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[T-Mobile LG V10 General] loganfarrell:
Out of curiosity, why is it that you folks are trying to flash it this way? It's arguably a lot more risky than the Eliminator74 method because he took the full flashable partition files from the KDZ and packaged them into ROMs (a whole bunch of degrees of closeness to stock) instead of this which is relying on updating the existing partitions with an OTA and a BETA app that is seemingly difficult to use on our phone with varying degrees of success?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jesseserna209:
Is there any way of doing the Eliminator74 way by just flashing the zips and later unlocking the boot loader?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] loganfarrell:
Can you clarify what you mean? I'm not sure what exactly you're getting at. Are you asking if it is possible to have the phone updated with TWRP like that method does without unlocking the bootloader, the answer is no. If you're asking if you can root later though, by all means. The way he set it up you can root as long as TWRP is installed.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] prp2:
People may feel that this method is more "clean" in that it's just what T-Mobile and LG packed rather than alternate files or any modifications.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
I'm out. My phone bricked hard and all I was doing was watching an episode of iZombie on Netflix. Had to find the closest T-Mobile store that gave me 2 options, do a warranty claim in which they would have a replacement shipped to my house which was not an option since I'm a truck driver currently on the road and need my phone. Option 2 was a jump on demand upgrade, unfortunately, you can't get the same device, they asked if O wanted to upgrade to the G5 to which my answer was a big f#@k no. Ended up getting the S7 Edge.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jesseserna209:
Bummer!!! :(

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So I have TWRP 3.0.1 which I know I would have to update to the MM version but once I do that can I just flash the part 1 and part 2 of the zips without doing any of the adb stuff to it. I know once is do that I'll still have bootloader locked and no root.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
Definite bummer. Cost me $65 up front too.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
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Device was turfed? What happened?

I'm still running mine with zero issues. Worked perfectly. Not a single problem.

Android 6 is extremely efficient... Battery life has been unreal today, I've already modded it up a little bit, I have xposed running, twrp, root, busybox, init.d, and debloated. Running like a champ and I merged in my post boot changes as well from my thread... The new one did in fact change just a bit.

Sorry to hear that man. I wonder what you did different.

Has anybody else tried with success or no success?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] crashnova:
Not yet. Im kind of waiting on your tut to go ahead and try.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] ramblinman:
Same here. Starting to wonder if this is bs or real lol.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jasbo0101:
from what I gather, these are the basic steps. Can someone confirm this is the correct order

1. Flash stock LP and TWRP

2. reboot device and ensure it is rooted

3. flash MM via flashfire

Also, Can you confirm that 3.0.2.0 is the correct version of TWRP?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
I had given up and was just gonna wait for a tutorial. I was just watching an episode of iZombie we hen I got a test from the broker on this load with a link to do a check call. When I pulled down on the notification bar, the phone shut down like it was rebooting, the screen flashed then tried to start back up but never got past the LG logo with some tiny red letters and gibberish in the left hand corner. Couldn't do a reset or anything. Just kept to that over and over. I had been having some weird issues with it recently. Store manager and a couple employees think it was some sort of hardware failure.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] loganfarrell:
Pretty sure you were upgraded. You needed to do a fastboot oem unlock. That would have booted it up normally.

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You can't boot it without doing a fastboot oem unlock. So...no.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] truckerdewd:
It never went into the update screen. Just kept doing that same thing repeatedly. Couldn't even do a master reset on it. Computer wouldn't even recognize the phone. T-Mobile said it had tl be some sort of hardware failure especially when they I told them about the weird behavior where it would randomly drop the signal and then flash some message on the screen and then say sim contacts loading. It has done that several times over the last few weeks, couple with some random reboots, sometimes back to back or right after a manual reboot. They said that the hardware must have. It did have a few times that it got really warm when it wasn't even being used and was just on standby while I was driving. It seems to be my luck that I get the one electronic item that has the serious problem that waits to rear it's ugly head until I'm not home

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And the manager at the T-Mobile store called it a catastrophic failure that was unreoverable.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] S-C:
Are you guys trying to root after youve already upgraded? I ask because I am new to the threads and I am on rooted stock LL (uninstalled 2 tmobile system apps) trying to get to rooted stock MM

I was told I could follow this link ...Can anyone confirm?

http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-lg-v10/development/rom-v10h901v20estock-customized-t3360240
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] Double0EK:
Don't follow instructions or do. I wouldnt lead anyone to brick their device. Good luck.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jasbo0101:
So I attempted this method; however it seems that I lost root. Right now, I am on 6.0 with MM twrp. Do you think that I could install su binaries to obtain root? If so, does anyone have any idea what version should be used?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] loganfarrell:
Just flash supersu in TWRP
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] iamz3r0:
I'm currently running this as my daily driver with zero issues (6.0, root, TWRP). Just make sure you follow directions closely.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] mingkee:
The poster mentioned Flashfire, but I also found flashify on Play Store.

Did the poster flash OTA and compatible TWRP with Flashfire?

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Flash captured OTA?

I am still holding off until the MM + TWRP flashing can be done.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] jasbo0101:
I can now confirm these steps worked. however it is important to note that after I had to again unlock the boot loader and flash supersu via twrp.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Guided steps in the OP... Sorry it took so long guys, but if you've been patient, and are on 5.1.1... Here is your vindication for patience.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] crashnova:
No apologies necessary.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] justice26:
elaborate on que it on actions. Which one do we use to flash the update? flash firmware package??
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] S-C:
do I need to reinstall stock LL first
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
Does anyone have the checksum value of the update.zip? I downloaded the one that was posted to dropbox, but would really like to have the comfort of knowing my download is correct.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Damn. You know what I didn't save it, I did verify it however. If a couple of you get the ota md5, compare all of yours with an app called md5 checker, then post the verified sum here and I'll add it to the op
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] Negan:
well the md5 from the offical ota for the update.zip is 280ad51eb96457df097df5a088a535af9
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
Can confirm that is what mine is.

Thanks so much. Hopefully will be flashing this later today. Just installed stock 5.1.1 and rooting that now.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Added the OTA md5 to the op
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
Hey [MENTION=7372544]warBeard_actual[/MENTION] - For installing twrp again, do this via flashfire?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
No, do it the normal way. I'll add that specifically to the op
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
Also in flashfire did you do 'flash zip or ota'?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Yes.

Added specifics, check op. There is really only one way you can do it, so I figured that part didn't need explaining but nothing wrong with detail.

I'm going to do another, re-read of the OP instructions right now to make sure it is unmistakably clear.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
Thanks. All looking good. After step 12 to get back into recovery.....rather than do it the manual way, can you issue 'fastboot reboot recovery' to flash supersu? My fear is not getting into recovery during boot and having the device boot up all the way.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
It may or may not be absolutely critical you don't screw up the getting into recovery part right after you OEM unlock... It really depends on a) if FF successfully installed root (this is the most important variable here) and b) if your system writes over your recovery... And to be honest, a stock ROM will likely do just that.

Just follow the directions very carefully and you will be fine either way.

I don't know which fastboot commands work and which ones don't with the MM BL, so I can't speak on that. Just follow the instructions exsxtly and don't rush it.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] calexchelse:
When you say the normal way, explain please. I know different devices you can do it different ways.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] warBeard_actual:
Whichever way is normal for you that isn't using ff.

Different devices can all do it the same way if you have root.

You can push the image with a terminal command, you can use an app, you can wish upon a falling star and pray the Linux gods know who you are. What flavor kool aid you drink? I drink terminal commands.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
I think he means via Fastboot. That being the normal way.

So I had flashed stock rom from this thread below earlier today. No mods other than root.

http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-lg-v10/development/lg-h901-stock-images-device-restore-t3241170

Ran flashfire and when verifying current image - it stopped and rebooted me back into 5.1.1. Said there was something unexpected in current system.

Can anyone tell me what stock Lollipop Rom they are using that will work for this?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] justice26:
where can I find that on my phone? Can I please have the path.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] Negan:
Cache folder
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] justice26:
I checked under files systems/root cache....clicked on it and I have 4 folders backup, encyption_log, lost+found, recovery??????
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] Negan:
Was there something you wanted to ask? You quoted me after I told you where the update.zip was for some reason
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] justice26:
Yeah was that the file path where the download should be at?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] Dream Reality Syndrome:
Does this break anything concerning xposed or modules?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] Negan:
Correct
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
Strange. My 2nd attempt trying and no luck. Here is what I did:

Installed this stock rom from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-lg-v10/development/lg-h901-stock-images-device-restore-t3241170

Rooted device.

Installed Marshmallow TWRP.

Booted device and installed flashfire.

Selected the update.zip via flashfire. Runs through and then quits with unexpected results. Boots back to Lollipop.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Is it failing because it's seeing root and therefore its not what is expected? [MENTION=5767942]loganfarrell[/MENTION] any ideas if you ran into this? Am I installing the wrong stock Rom?
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] calexchelse:
every time I run the checksum, on the ones that download onto phone, and the one that was uploaded to that dropbox, I get the same checksum. 280ad51eb96457df097df5a08a535af9. The one in the OP is 280ad51eb96457df097df5a088a535af9. the difference is mine is getting a08a while OP shows a088a. I'm wondering if mine is right or OP is.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] calexchelse:
The problem some of us are going to have is reverting vback to complete stock. The only stock that is out there right now has to be slightly modified, because at least one other user including myself is getting issues with using flashfire aftyer reverting back to stock with that zip.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] bjevers:
I'm having the same issue as you and [MENTION=2763883]gustav30[/MENTION]. Flashfire quits with the message:

"system/bin/app_process64" has unexpected contents.

I believe that is related to supersu, so not sure what to do. I've tried SuperSu 2.71 beta and 2.65 stable with the same results. I'm using the stock image from mikeyinid.
[T-Mobile LG V10 General] gustav30:
What do you think of the idea of what [MENTION=5767942]loganfarrell[/MENTION] had mentioned which was to queue up via flashfire the stock untouched unrooted rom and the update.zip?

So essentially you install stock unrooted Rom and the update. The update.zip in theory shouldn't fail as the system image from the stock rom install would remain untouched(no root). This would all be happening inside the recovery of flashfire.

I haven't tried this yet as I believe only [MENTION=5767942]loganfarrell[/MENTION] mentioned it as the update.zip might have an issue with seeing root on the stock rom.