yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Thanks !!!! For your your Donation. ;)

Thanks so much I'll send you a link for the beta toolbox

Now and if you find yourself in trouble you'll have something to help get you out. Godbless you!

I will continue to work on development for this device and afew others.

The Zone3 is my favorite for now.

[MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION]

I am thinking maby I can work some magic with this patched aboot.

Now that I understand it.

Going to check out this crazy github fork of openbump

The ripoff of [MENTION=1109155]codefire[/MENTION] 's work from a while back.

But it wont work as is...

Gonna have to be tested extensively ...

And reworked .....

Hmmmm....

Bootstrap ...
[General Topics] chwang13:
is there still available seat to test zone 3 toolbox? thanks
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Reserved

Check your pm's in 3
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Great news

Team Astr4y4L is collaborating with a team of custom rom builders to work on the zone3

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Could mean custom rom with OTA update support Too ! Its being discussed.
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Great news... As I said in my PM, unfortunately all my devices seem to require VS425PP5+ due to the graphics driver issue... Touch works ok, but something is definitely wrong with the display. Will be great to have a custom image of the later versions.

For reference... https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70511076&postcount=102
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
I have an idea

Possibly we can flash a pre rooted pp7 system.img

Useing lgup ill try to hook that up
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Pp7 pre rooted + busybox

Flash with lgup partition download option

link removed

it didn't work that time but i'm still banging at it...

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Flash after lgup refurbish option with fresh pp7 .kdz

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Note untested
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Been playing with this all day at work. Newb questions....:)

I flashed with LGUP to the standard PP7 file. Easy peasy...

Installed LG Flash... Connected to model "Common" with S/W ver "prerooted_pp7_system". COM Port 41 shows Ready / Disconnect device and waiting for connection...

How do I *properly* get it into download mode for LG Flash to see? I tried power/Vol+ and power/Vol- with the cable. Only way I can get it back into download mode is to interrupt the LGUP
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Lgflash

Go to searchbox by start button .

Type device manager...open that.

Boot fone into download.. vol-down + plugin usb holding vol-down

Look back to dev. Manager under coms&ports

Rightclick the lge-blablabla

Click properties

Click advanced

Bottom left of advanced settings box says

Port (somenumber) ..... click that

Scroll it down to port 41 or anything between 41 and 45 whatevers not marked as used

Unplug usb

Restart lgflash click the correct options

Click start top left

Funny lookin arrow.

Plug device back in

And watch the box for which ever com port number u selected

And flash...

All that said there's a much easier way using the modded lgup from my toolbox

I realize its 2 gigs to grab the whole thing but if u want I can help u get only the modded lgup... and explain how to make that work.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
[MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION]

ok so i found an easier way to fix the bootloop problem without even having to root the device ;)

I am betting this will fix our issue with the pp5 devices too...

I'm Hoping [MENTION=7986894]Cubcadetlover[/MENTION] will be my willing test subject...

MWAAAHHAAAHAA !!!!

but really think I got the fix

and don't bother with the prerooted system i posted it led to the dead little android guy:)

soon as I get a tester on a pp5 device to confirm i'll release it to the public

it's good to get around things ;)

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don't use flash tool unless lgup says the dreaded [unknown-model]
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
use this

use this

use this in your lgup Common folder

its a few different options than what your used to seeing but it's not all the options that are available...

the spc code is six zero's
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
I can confirm now that I was able to finally boot into PP2 with working graphics... The status still says "official".

Now off to try to root the device now that I have gotten this far.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Working. On method to flash root with existing tools

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Testing a prerooted pp7 img now....

Its flashing....

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Rebooting..

We see no boot loop and its booting.....

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weird it went through the motions yet didn't take...

All my kraps are still there...

Lol

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Trying again after a refurbish to pp7...

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Rebooting ....

Android updated guy...

Reboot and booting....

Wait to see if I have pp7 rooted.

Android is starting....

well this ging to take a bit.

Worst part getting through the stupid setup wizard and krap.

We shall see in a bit what exactly I've done to it

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Well its going through all its bullkrap.

Wanna disable that but these things are so finicky I don't want to mess it up
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
I believe I may have rooted pp7

The binaries are in place had go back and change ownership and permissions ...

Duh.

But I'm bout to see now....

Trying again

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Ok here we go....

Processing now
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
chmod -R 777 *

works every time...
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
755 and

Chown. 2000:2000

(Shell :shell)

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It's booting and gotta setup krapps

Lol

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Well went and fixed permission

Also made copy and added Superuser.apk to system app.

So I'm going to try both flavors ...

Ill be back.
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Awesome progress... Looking forward to test the progress.

Was (half) joking about the previous chown comment... Works for me every time :)
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
Sorry [MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION]. Been out of town as usual for work. Storms here have damaged several cell towers and I've been working overtime on the many repairs. Haven't been on XDA much but it looks like you're making copious headway as usual. I hope to be back soon. Thanks for keeping this project up to speed.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
.....

It...

.......didn't ......

!................work.

.

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New idea but I. Don't have time to try..

Somebody download my stock pp7 system.img make 2 copies and run #1 through android kitchen on linux. Not a virtual machine ...

Then mount both #2 stock image

And #1 cooked image. On loop

open both in file manager.

Delete all folders and files from stock

Copy and past in all folders from cooked and presto we would have stock signed img containing cooked content...

Anybody wanna try I'll link up the stock pp7 system.img

Thanks

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Here's a pp7 system image to start with

http://www.astrayalslanding.dynu.net/testing/system.img
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
[MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION]

Think u can jazz up this system. Img ?
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Apologizing first... I am the newb here.... All new tools to me and running for first time.

Found Archikitchen and downloaded your system.img. It started asking for the boot.img, which I didn't have.

Downloaded KDZ tools* and extracted the required images from the stock PP7.

When I ran both against Archi, mine mounted and yours just errored out. dmesg output below from Debian*. Noticed that my source system image file is a lot larger than yours (by 160MB). Not sure why.

Any pointers for me to (try to) help out next?

Notes

* https://github.com/ehem/kdztools

* [2109325.940509] EXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 528384 exceeds size of device (488992 blocks)
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Hmmmm. I use that toolset but if I remember right I had to run it through python and then correct the script by changing the line where it expected a header for g2 firmwares. And hardcoded the header from our firmware into that script ....

For the kitchen ...

Use this one

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633246

I think it gives the option to fake a boot img

We cannot use a cooked boot img at this time I'll check my image linked yesterday. But I know the system.img should be 2.2. Gb

In size. If your's is significantly smaller or larger something is terribly wrong in your tools setup. Debian is great. I've had more success manipulating these things useing a Debian based security distro called Parrot os

Don't know why but its better.

https://www.parrotsec.org

But yep that should get ya started

Anymore issues let me know. We'll see how we can work around it.

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And I wish u luck Jedi

May your success benefit us all
[General Topics] coco_84:
Place ppl Loll l TV umpteenth
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Hmmmmm.....

I am absolutely unsure what this means ....

If you need assistance please state your problem precisely

Thanks

Astr4y4L

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I linked wrong image

Hey the copy of kdztools here are confirmed working

http://www.astrayalslanding.dynu.net/kdztools
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
[MENTION=7986894]Cubcadetlover[/MENTION]

Sry bout the other link.

Try this for pp7. System partition

http://www.astrayalslanding.dynu.net/testing

Be sure your files are apropriate in size

Use this to mount them

[ mount -t ext4 -o loop system.image /mnt/tmp ]

Do the same for cooked copy except we make a new tmp to mount on

[ mkdir /mnt/tmp2 ]

[ mount -t ext4 -o loop cookedsystem.img /mnt/tmp2 ]

Then open mnt tmp and mnt tmp2 in filemanager perform operations

close all things when done .

[ umount /mnt/tmp ]

[ umount /mnt/tmp2 ]

[ rm -rf cookedsystem.img ]

And flash resulting system image

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You may ofcourse need to adjust the commands above to reflect your file names

;)
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
More newb questions... Enjoying learning the process

- Ran the Android-Kitchen scripts and output a zip file, could not find an image file (even though I renamed the ROM in the menu)

- What the benefit of copying the cooked ROM/zip contents to the original system image? Wouldn't this invalidate even a very simple checksum check?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Nope

The system is a signed image but by replacing the content of said image you get a factory signed image file with modified contents. Meaning it should boot

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The cooked rom will be a zip file contains folders and an update binary. Something for flashing from twrp or cwm recovery ...

But open update binary as a text file ...

Its really a shell script ... try to follow it..

Says whaat gos where and permissions and all
[General Topics] CorrySand:
Hey

Hello!

Yay!!! I can also confirm another successfully rooted Zone 3. Thanks so much for the info and the write-up!!!! I'm so excited hopeful for what else is possible. The whole process went fairly smoothly considering that I'm a noob at this. Next i'd like to get this device to work with a Truconnect/(T-MOBILE network) SIM. I've been reading all the posts and have done the steps below provided by MotoJunkie01 to modify the build.prop file and renaming the vzw*.apk files. But I'm not sure about the node.db files, etc and whatever else that needs to be configured. I guess at this point I should express my gratitude for the excellent work that's been done and seek help on making this phone work with other carrier SIMs. Any help on this is is much appreciated..
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
[MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION]

We have issues with custom rom because of bootloader but why can't we make a partition and chroot to a custom rom?

It works for linux on android and iv seen androidx86 but why could we not chroot to a custom android os?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well if nothing else I'm going to go through the motions with Verizon and see if I can get one of these unlocked I've paid my dues and since I got multiples I should logically try to get one unlocked ....

We shall see how it go's
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
Hello brother. I've got to get caught up on here because you guys are way ahead of me. Haha. Custom ROM? Wow I've really got to get up to speed here.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Yep. But issues abound. We got aboot patched. Problems with signed image. So no boot. But iv successfully placed busybox and su binaries inside of xbin on a pp7 image and then flashed it ... it booted but supersu could not (see) them although when I run ls -l /system/xbin

Its listed right there.

so I know that we can mod out system. And flash it using lgup.

But I don't know enough about supersu and such to get past selinix.

How to kill selinux? Got access to any file...

I am wanting to try SuperR's kitchen but I'm inbetween operating systems at the moment. Net installation blues
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Not so far... still only got modified stock to boot

can't get past selinux to get supersu to see binaries placed in xbin
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well I was just reading [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]s write up on supersu and iv realized my mistake ...

Will try again once I've got working os on my laptop ...
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Anyone know if lgup works in Ubuntu with wine?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
gosh dang it isn't working.

yet....
[General Topics] LilAnt530:
Hey guys I have a vs425pp & need help going from pp8 to pp2 as i did experience the bootloop issues, & succeeded in flashing pp8 getting to the start up screen, pulling the battery, reflashing pp2 & making it thru the setup, however upon attempting to root with KingRoot it bootlooped again :confused:
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
How

Kingroot is fickle ... it does that ...

Try this. rightclick the lgup and open file location

Download this

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4271808&d=1505348345

Unzip put UIconfig in Common folder of lgup

Set permissions read-only

Restart lgup as an administrator

Choose refurbish to pp2.kdz

When its done and starts bootlooping pull battery go back to download mode restart lgup as admin

Use partition download option lgup and choose the pp7 kdz

Click start and u get a box asking what partitions..

Click to check these partitions

Modem

Modemst1

Modemst2

Ssd

Fsg

Click to continue and then reboot

You should be pp2 with the pp7 radio.

It shouldn't bootloop anymore so try king root again after all that

Goodluck

Astr4y4L
[General Topics] LilAnt530:
Holy Honeycomb!

:eek::eek::eek:

That sounds like an epic process!. I've already invested data in the pp2 & pp8 firmwares, screw it might as well get the pp7 as well & let it rip XD. Thank you for the response as I couldn't keep skimming this thread until it worked lol.

While I'm here, I also have an LG Rebel with identical specs & it goes into the same generic download mode as the zone 3, so am I going to have issues flashing zone 3 firmware onto what is essentially a zone 3 refurb? o.O,

Again thanks for responding! These prepays are always fun to tinker with :D
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Honestly I don't know about the rebel but I would recommend a nand dump first unless you have factory firmware for it
[General Topics] LilAnt530:
In the phone settings, & on the back of the device, the FCC ID for the LG Rebel is VS425PP, & it's quite literally a TracFone refurbished VZW device, so i got the thing for free I'm going to try that flash as well later on today & see if it turns out, if not oh well.

By the way I downloaded pp7 & tried your steps, thank you again! Cheers mate!
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Did it work for u?

I'm glad things worked out for you id like a nand dump of the rebel to see if I can flash it to verizon zone3

I want to use cricket/at&t I believe trackfone is a subsidy of att...
[General Topics] LilAnt530:
PM me as I will most likely need help making a backup, & TracFone is a subsidiary of Walmart unfortunately, but I've noticed they're basically all network unlocked it just depends on which side of the refurb bin you get really.

For example i lived in Alaska and all of the towers there were owned by GCI, & AT&T paid royalties to use those towers, in turn every TracFone device would be AT&T compatible.

But I now live in Northern California where TracFone is bouncing off of Verizon Towers, which means my Verizon 4G LTE works in my Straight Talk ZTE Majesty Pro device (thanks to Cell Tower Monopoly rings) :D
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
that's kool

I think we can use one of my lgup mods to get full dump of the phone.
[General Topics] LilAnt530:
Let's do this bro! I have ALOT of LG and other prepay devices, some bricked some aren't.

I have a fairly extensive knowledge on Android devices, mostly Samsung and LG in terms of the ones I could manage to root that is xD.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Lets Get Cracking !

Ok Bro ! I Can Set you up with a copy of my toolbox.

it's got a write up on what go's where and best of all it has modified_LGUP . "way more modified than what I've let out " I can Help You along the way and If you benefit directly from all my work I do accept donations via paypal and have even been known to perform remote jail_breaks/Android_Roots for those generous enough to donate a few bucks ;)

But yes sir please check your PM's I'm sending you something.
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
You guys are getting beyond my abilities :) but I can confirm that [MENTION=8236433]Astr4y4L[/MENTION] has good stuff. His tools got me to a PP2/PP7 hybrid for something I was working on...

Just a matter of time before this is wide open.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Hows the farm ;)

I Trust u made it past the Kingroot bullkrap?

I've been busy, took a second job cause we broke...

But I am working on adding root to a pp7 stock img.

I'm very close got it to boot and see binaries but couldn't access the...

And now I got one that I believe world have worked but I believe I got the links in the folder structure wrong...and it hangs on the red Verizon screen ...

So won't be long hopefully ... maby someone with more custom rom experience. Could chime in on manually adding su and superuser...

Then we would have a foolproof way to root every zone3
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
[MENTION=6944057]LilAnt530[/MENTION]

Is lg up saying unknown model with the rebel?

Or it doesn't see it at all?

if it sees nothing, go to device manager, plug in in dl mode , look in coms&ports it should have lg some blabla

Right click that go to properties look for ADVANCED. click that and on thE left side is a check box Port Some number.

Click that and set it to port 2-13 any one that doesn't say (used) next to it .

Close all that restart lgup (run as admin)

See if he sees the rebel then.

Let me know how it go's
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Am I the only one still working on this stuff?

Been away. Wife had emergency surgery.

She going to be ok but I'm screwed on the bills...

So still going to be quite busy but is anyone else even following the thread?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Big Update. Lgup flashable root

[MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION]

Well I got it figured out and as soon as I have enough time

I will have a new quickroot package.

SuperSu. And busybox out of the box.

No more kingroot BS. Fixes all issues from the pp5

Graphic problems.

Does require a full factory reset after performing ..

Sorry guys this will wipe your device.

But after factory reset. You start out with SuperSu

And installed busybox.

You must quickly disable software updates

Apps. I used romtoolbox lite available on google play

Everything seems to work smoothly. In fact im posting from the test device now.

Best of all is universal, and. Totally neewb friendly.

Just don't deviate.

This will be available soon for 3 of you guys to test .

I need feedback

After that its going to be available as a gift for $20 donations.

The way I see it sure you could save $20 bucks and follow the thread here and probably get rooted but this saves you

Days of endless bootloops and fighting with kingroot

And best of all you don't have to burn out 6 or 7 devices to work out the method.

So

Xda I need 3 testers. Soon who is it going to be?
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Family takes priority over most things including this... Lets hope she has a speedy recovery.

I've not had a lot of time to tinker with work. If you are able to work something out and need testing, I will certainly make it a priority to test.

Never did root the hybrid phone... Just never would go... Probably my issue.

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Didn't see your note until my after my last post... I've got 11 of these things I want to root... :) Mostly P5 and maybe a P4 or 2.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well alrighty then nevermind 3 testers I've got this guy

Well awsome !

I can make it super easy.

Im going to help you and maby you can help me.

Takeing care of the wife after surgery pluss 3 kids 1 of wich is a year old this month is keeping me from work at my regular 8-5 job.

Now i have bills to pay and no money comeing in till i get back to work.

I NEED donations at this time .

Tomarrow im going to plug you in to my new kit

And walkyou through it to make sure there's no hiccups

You will root every zone3 you have thats already in working order... all models.

Iv taken down the server... development on this is over...

Im not asking yOu for a donation because you were the first to donate. I Will Do It For U.

If you get 6 or 7 perfect rooted devices from this and feel generious and donate for this particular work thats great but if not i understand.

What I am going to ask from you when we are done is for you to please give xda an honest review of the work iv created in the package.

And to rate it so that others who want to can pay for a

Super easy way out.

Thanks

Team_Astr4y4L
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Almost finished uploading

Are you ready?
[General Topics] Cubcadetlover:
Back home in the drivers seat.
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Check your PM

but don't download yet till I let ya know or you'll get a partial file

:good:

:laugh::victory::silly:

:eek:
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Well figured it out was problem with stupid mobile hotspot...

ETA 3 Hrs 6 Min.s

Hopefully no more problems ....