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[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WillyPillow:
I should have posted this earlier but I was kind of busy IRL...

Anyway, it should be noted that I DO NOT have an RS987, therefore THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED! The usual disclaimers about voiding your warrenty, bricking your device, killing your cat ...etc applys.

Basically, flash

https://mega.nz/#!8k1UyCyC!Z2NIKvNOEkXBiElMLrXkv0RyPKhCN2q0KvlI1OH6ImY

this DZ file with

https://mega.nz/#!xgMgBIQD!VHtXeIlzpPydKRICtGfBUjXvtdN-KNtqX6U9bu3bY8Y

this DLL in LGUP.

I did not modify anything except /system, so theoretically you should be able to flash back the stock KDZ in download mode even if you experience bootloops.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joatamonk:
Succeeded in flashing out.dz ... but

I succeeded in flashing the provided out.dz with LGUP, however, the phone would stall at initial LG logo, and wouldn't make the startup sound or animation.

Flashing back to the stock image for the RS987 worked fine, however. Even the carrier settings stayed.

A this point I can't verify if the bootloader is locked or not, I can't get into fastboot, just LG Download mode. Of course I'd be able to easily enable fastboot if I had root by writing zero's to the LAF partition. Ugh catch 22.

I also tried flashing the VS990 image for verizon pre-rooted system... no luck, LGUP refuses since it's not the same model number. I have a pre-rooted system.img file that I created using the extracted system.img from the stock .kdz. But I have not way to re-pack it into a .kdz or .dz file. Of course, I don't know if my rooted system image would work, since I can't test it.

Love the phone, but I'm so sick of Androids being locked down so tight.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WillyPillow:
Sorry about that. Too bad I don't have an RS987 to debug the issues. How about you send me your img file and I'll try to pack it for you?

I don't think the bootloader is unlocked for the variants except H960A and the T-Mo one. Also, you can view the bootloader status under the hidden menu.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joatamonk:
Pre-rooted system.img file for RS987 LG V10

WillyPillow, thank you for the offer to attempt to repack this system.img file into a .DZ file that'd be flashable to the LG V10 RS987...

I've PM'd you a link to a Google Drive with the rooted system.img

One file is system.rar and has a rooted system.img file that works with the RS987 LG V10.

The other file is RS98711a_02_0309.rar which is where I extracted the stock system.img file from. It was a multi-part system.bin file which I extracted and merged with "WindowsLGFirmwareExtractor".

I used the imgrooter script that worked for rooting my LG G4 phone which also had the same version of Lollipop 5.1.1. With LG G4 I was able to flash the file from download mode by opening a shell prompt with the phone using Send_Command.exe ... I was able to get Send_Command.exe to work with the LG V10, by first unlocking the mode by beginning to flash a .KDZ file and then unplugging the USB cable at the 9% progress mark. At this point I had a shell prompt with the phone. HOWEVER, I had extremely limited commands available. I could list files/folders, and run CAT on any file I wanted, but the command for dd or chmod or chown would all crash my shell prompt with the error "Hello I am LAF nice to meet you." At that point all commands with the phone would cease and go back to displaying "FAIL" for any command. (Really strange. I wish LAF would give me DD command from that shell prompt and I'd tell it where to put my system.img file!)

So, good luck re-packing this system.img back into a .DZ file I can flash. :)

I'm sure myself and other RS987 owners who frequent this forum would love a pre-rooted flashable system image.

Thanks in advance for your efforts.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WillyPillow:
[MENTION=7532075]joatamonk[/MENTION]

I just remembered what the problem is. I forgot a critical step in making the DZ :(

Unfortunately, I'm a bit busy recently, and I might not be able to fix this until next week. Sorry to keep you waiting.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WillyPillow:
Sorry about the (extremely) late reply.

Here's the updated DZ:

https://mega.nz/#!VkFlGCRK!tNegI52h6aPNYU98pQ6RISmlr53ok57XHZvjIQZR4xM

Hope it works!
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joatamonk:
No luck

I thank you greatly for your efforts, however this .dz file didn't work. It got farther than the last one you had made. After flashing it with LG UP 1.14 the phone would reboot, show the android guy (the one with a spinning gear in it's belly), that screen would stay for about 5 seconds, phone would restart again, and then get stuck on the initial LG power up screen, it never played the startup sound or showed the animated LG logo.

RS987 must be a little different than the Verizon version? Perhaps it only loads signed kernels, or signed images or something?

Is this .dz file made from the pre-rooted image I had uploaded? Is there software that can be used to pack .DZ files from the .img file? So that I can try different methods of rooting system.img and flashing that to the phone?

The good news is the phone works fine after I flashed the stock RS98712a file back to the phone.

Thank you again for your efforts, they're appreciated.

Joata
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ǀcey:
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[XDA Assist] little_green:
This Topic's Starter

So I ordered as Chinese phone off eBay from UK warehouse but Chinese seller. Box was unsealed when it arrived but the excuse for this could be that the original eu charger was removed and a UK adapted put in instead.

I did a massage bytes scan straight away and it came back clean, same with 360 security scan.

360 security and found something

BUT

i've browsed through the app list under settings and the only one I see which I'm not sure what is is something called "pandora's box" and pandora's box service 3.6mb and 86kb respecively.

under app permissions for the second it basically lists everythings phone calls, texts, camera , audio gps, contacts, set alarm , screen lock, add and move acounts, change system settings, change network connections, control flashlight.....

neither can be uninstalled from the phone or disabled, just force stopped which makes no difference.

i have googled pandoras box which comes up to be an actual real app BUT this is NOT what is on my phone as I can install it which I wouldn't be able to do and as I said nothing called Pandora's box appears in my app tray it point appears under settongs-apps-all apps

Can take as screen shot of needed.

Can anyone help at all shed some light on this. I would just return thee phone but I'd have to do it signed to make sure the seller couldn't just say they never got the rerun paackaage which would cost £10-20 and it's probably not worth the hassle for thee cost of the phone.

It's a really nice phone with good specs and design build I hope to be able to resolve this and keep it.

Hope someone out there caann help
[XDA Assist] Droidriven:
Hello,

Welcome to XDA.

To better assist you, please post your device model number and I will guide you to where you may find an answer. Thank you.
[XDA Assist] little_green:
Hi it's an infocus m560 also know as m808 and v5
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Barso1:
Is it possible to tell when my S7E was manufactured?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] themissionimpossible:
You can use this app that gives a lot of information:

Phone info Samsung:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] AndroiderM:
Download "phone info Samsung" from playstore it will tell you lots of info on your device including manufacture date and country of origin.
[Nexus 6  General] mikeprius:
Decided to pass. Can delete thread.
[Nexus 6  General] mikeprius:
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[Nexus 6  General] mikeprius:
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[Nexus 6  General] simms22:
you do realize that battery life has nothing to do with the kernel you use? battery life has everything to do with how you use your device, how you set it up, which apps you choose to install, and very much your signal quality. everything else is very minimal. just learn how to set up your cpu properly, on any kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] mikeprius:
hmmm
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taosk8r:
So this notification pops up the other day, after a large number of months running WX with no issues that says it can damage my device 'even if the dev says its safe'. No idea where the warning came from as there was no attribution on it, and I didn't think to check it on the actual notification.

I wasn't too concerned, tried to update it, but actually updated the Xposed Framework instead. That night my battery, which usually uses maybe 3% while inactive in a night went down over 60%. When I recharged enough I decided to disable the module, since the only really important thing I need it for was the volume warning disable, which I already had another module for.

So just wondering if anyone knows where in hell this warning came from, and if it actually may have had something to do with my massive battery drain (I suppose it is possible I left the 4G on after installing Xposed, but even that doesn't usually cause that much drain). Also, is the warning possibly correct? I notice WX hasn't had an update for a good while, wondering if some change to my device may have made it dangerous, although I haven't really done any recent updates there.
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FilipoMoake:
"Uninstal Harmfull App" message

I have the same message and i've found this :

As i can't post link for the moment, just google "uninstall_harmful_app_message_about_mixplorer" and have a look on the first reddit link.
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taosk8r:
Thanks.. So looks like it is google play store. After some thought, I think it is probably related to whatever security weakness they were worried about when they disabled apps from accessing the ext sd in my case. Probably other reasons for other things.
[AT&T LG V10] LGMONO:
Need support here tried to downgrade from MM to LP used the official LP TOT, it's kinda funny the dll I used worked without IMEI check now when I try to use that same dll it fails for no IMEI is there any way to fix this its in 9008 mode port 9 help me please NOT 9006 I think I just need to relax the about or boot.img
[AT&T LG V10] TheBobMiller:
Ok so what exactly did you do and what is the phone doing?
[AT&T LG V10] LGMONO:
I did the .up forced mm update I had it for a week and with me I gotta have root so I used lgup to try and downgrade with LGH900AT-00-V10f-ATT-US-OCT-28-2015+0.tot used the dll 8994 it flashed however the phone shut off and when I tried to turn it on nothing seen is black and when I plug it in under device manager shows q loader 9008 port 2 I tried to fix it but when I try to use lgup it won't show a port so now I'm trying to fix it by using lg flash tool and the problem with that is the flash will fail to no imei if I try and use other dll it fails to model check I seriously really need to fix this phone I love this phone I f'ed this thing up playing to much
[AT&T LG V10] TheBobMiller:
Is the download mode gone as well?
[AT&T LG V10] LGMONO:
Yes I only have one mode thats 9008

Sent from my SM-T530NU using Xposed Modules
[AT&T LG V10] LGMONO:
Thank god my phone is covered under warranty till 2017 sending out my v10 tomorrow free shipping too

Sent from my SM-T530NU using Xposed Modules
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] GayCasper:
How can you root the marshmallow update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] stayRooted:
Look 3 threads down from yours. They have a very easy root method.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] GayCasper:
How can you access the phone from a pc if it won't go past the SAMSUNG Galaxy S6 Edge start up screen?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] stayRooted:
Download mode but why is your phone stuck at the start up screen? Right after you install Recovery through Odin hold power, home and volume button to go straight into TWRP recovery to flash the root zip file. Then you can boot your phone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] GayCasper:
It never installed recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] GayCasper:
I need to save some files how can I do that in download mode
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] stayRooted:
I don't think you can. You can still Odin the recovery without putting files on your phone. Why is your phone stuck at the start up screen? I would fix that first. Use Odin to flash stock version of android from samsung
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] sorevilo:
https://youtu.be/g2w0Hvgmk7I
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] sorevilo:
Sorry, I got excited but this doesn't include verizon .. disregard.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] ramiss:
You are evil!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] ownmart:
lol the troll is strong with this one
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] willdiddy:
Yeah you will really enjoy your rooted Note 5!!!! Mine kicks ass!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] tonybahr:
They say the tether root AT&T has will work on Verizon. Provided you haven't taken the marshmallow ota...... Delete this damn thread so I'll quit coming back to it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
It won't matter whether you've taken the update or not because I already proved it's possible to downgrade on Verizon from MM back to Lollipop..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
So I have been actively trying to get the root for us on Verizon but I found a few things within our current kernel that I believe is what's causing the hard lock if you try to root it. These are some of the lines in the de-compiled VZW kernel.

CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y

CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC=y

There is also quite a few other things within it that I do not see in the other variants like T-Mobile for instance. At the moment it's a Little Caesars type of day while I sit here and go through thousands upon thousands of lines of code from different carriers just to see what's different and what can be accomplished.. And some people say it's easy? LOL..

Edit: I guess I'm the only dev working on the Verizon variant? Would be nice to have some help and someone to collaborate with. I'll just push on for now though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
In the defconfig, do you see Rooting Restrictions about 3/4 ways down?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Yes I seen that. In some other area's I'm seeing stuff like fake battery stats.. wtf?

fake some battery state

setprop status.battery.state Slow

setprop status.battery.level 5

setprop status.battery.level_raw 50

setprop status.battery.level_scale 9

Why would you want to 'fake' the battery stats?! I'm also seeing stuff that's making it seem like the entire system is running within a Virtual Machine or an Emulator of sorts because it keeps referencing it in the VZW kernel that I de compiled ... This is annoying..

# -Q is a special logcat option that forces the

# program to check wether it runs on the emulator

# if it does, it redirects its output to the device

# named by the androidboot.console kernel option

# if not, is simply exits immediately

service goldfish-logcat /system/bin/logcat -Q

oneshot

setprop ro.setupwizard.mode EMULATOR

# disable some daemons the emulator doesn't want

stop dund

stop akmd

.. I don't know.. I've rebuilt the kernel over and over with SELinux permissive and a lot of other changes and Odin just won't do it.

You were talking about this right?

#

# Samsung Rooting Restriction Feature

#

CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING=y

CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_SETUID=y

CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_FORK=y

CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING_LOG=y

#
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
Ok....first are you getting a Image from your kernel build that you are converting to a boot.img? Or are you using a script in your build that does it for you?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
I'm getting a full boot.img yes.. Almost 26MB in size a little under.

I'm using the source code straight from Samsung. In the sources I downloaded in /home/mike/Downloads/SM-N920V_NA_MM_Opensource/Kernel/arch/arm64/configs the VZW source is in there .. exynos7420-nobleltevzw_defconfig

So I'm using the make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- the_defconfig that I made.

Hmm.. I found more "rooting restrictions" within the kconfig itself and not the actual defconfig so does the kconfig override changes to the defconfig?

comment "Samsung Rooting Restriction Feature"

config SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING

bool "Samsung Rooting Restriction Feature"

default n

help

Restrict unauthorized executions with root permission.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
But my question is "how" are you making a boot.img? When you build from source you get a Image or zImage that must be converted.

Reason I'm saying this, is because on my kernels my script builds the boot.img too. BUT, for some reason its off a little. So I use

mkbootimg to convert it and its fine. I build kernels for the T-Mobile S6, Sprint N5, and N9208.....and its the method I use.

You may go that route to see it helps you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Oh I get what you're saying now, it's a zimage.. I'll have to give that a try too!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
Here it is

https://github.com/xiaolu/mkbootimg_tools
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
I have those tools actually! I'll give that a shot too. In any case. I have 2 VZW 5's I'm willing to brick one in the process of trying to gain root so if you want to give it a shot I'll try it since I have nothing to lose really.

---------- Post added at 10:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 PM ----------

Can I PM you for a sec?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
Yep
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Did you know that if you download terminal emulator on the Play Store, and try to do su, or adb commands for root, when you reboot the phone later, you'll be stuck in a bootloop lol.. I found that out the hard way over a simple command. I wouldn't advise no one to do what I just said unless you want to re Odin your phone and lose everything. "Not kidding either"..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Ok I'm curious about something.. I was wondering how Odin connects to make it's changes when you're using it so I put the phone into Download mode and I decided to try and find how it is connected which I know is by usb so I did lsusb and it listed the phone like this...

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:685d Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II] (Download mode)

But why Samsung Galaxy S II ?! GT-I9100..\

With the phone on and in PTP mode I get..

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04e8:6866 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III] (debugging mode)

Software mode

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04e8:685e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 / GT-C3350 Phones (USB Debugging mode)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
Thats because its in the kernel source. It seems they believe if it aint broke, dont fix it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
If we all followed that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." strategy, then nothing would ever get better from advancements. They certainly cut corners on the USB wire this time!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
Yes, but sometimes fixing something that isn't broke, breaks new things....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Yeah, that's true. I've learned that the hard way a time or 2. I do agree that when something does work perfectly it should just be left that way unless it can be made better, faster or nicer UI. If we don't at least try, whether we break it or not, we'll never know if we could have made it better than before. At least we can always go back to where we started right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] The Sickness:
Check pm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Turbine1991:
Say you did manage to root the Verizon variant. How likely are some of the other recoveries/kernels/roms going to be compatible? I'm going to sell my soon to arrive phone if it fluent have root capabilities. Such a locked down device has half the value imo.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] chubbrock:
Any updates on this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] ltboso:
I'd like to stay up to date on any advancements you fellas make. Thanks for working on this!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] joutcast:
config_screw_our_customers=yes

config_restrict_screwing_them=no

config_hahahaha_no_root_for_them=?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] ramiss:
However, I can't tell you how much personal time I've gained back not being able to root my phone!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
This isn't far from the truth you know, lol.. They really did make this one hard. However the part where they claimed the phone wouldn't boot up at all if it detected root is a straight up lie and simply a way of scaring people into not even trying to begin with which is why I bought 2 Verizon Galaxy Note 5s just so I could break one if that really was the case but everything I've done to it that would cause it to bootloop, I've always been able to get out of, so far anyway.. Personally I think a boot strap is the way to go but it requires root so I'm looking for a way to at least get tethered root.. But for now since I'm in the Military and working a lot, I don't exactly have a ton of time but at least I'm trying.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Turbine1991:
I just bought a 920c, as I had previously bought a Verizon variant. I can say modded - it's a hell of a lot faster with much better battery life on MM. This phone was almost unusable imo, prior to unlockong. I hope eventually the people stuck with crappy locked Verizon phones will eventually get root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dreslewic:
Idk, kinda newish on root for note 5, was on the pioneer days of the OG Droid with root. Anyway to modify an boot.img from the recent update and add the su and repackage? Or does the bootloader see this and kick it back? Thinking maybe forcing the phone in recovery then mount the package thru there insted of flashing with odin.. Or is it too hard to get by vzw credientials to match the correct hash code? Idk...ideasss.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Never going to work! Not until we either find an exploit or unlock the bootloader because it will block it the phone won't boot past the first screen!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] LvnInOC:
I would gladly help you if you still need assistance going through all the code or whatever!! I will say I am in no means a developer and don't know how much help I could provide, but I have some comp. programming experience and I also have an MCSE and a BS in computer science ...although never followed through with any of them as career path. Not sure if that could be helpful just throwing it out there if your still needing help, I would love to see this phone get root and would be willing to do whatever I can to help. So let me know if your still needing help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Well I've pretty much learned that this isn't going to be easy because the bootloader itself seems to know when you do something and then it simply just stops it from booting past the first screen. It just sits on Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and that's it so I'm basically looking for a way around this or some other exploit.. I'm hoping an eng kernel will slip up but hoping for that is like winning the lottery and we all know how hard that is, lol..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] LvnInOC:
I hear you on that, It's frustrating considering how much this phone cost. I opted for the monthly payments and will be paying full cost for a phone that is and will still be controlled by someone else basically. We are not allowed to do what we want with something that we rightfully paid for and own. I have another upgrade on a different line I have with Verizon but will not use it because I don't want to get stuck with another phone that is bootloader locked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] warriorpluto:
There might be hope. The s7 has been rooted