yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
If ya hadn't noticed,

Im not much into that.

I like to break android and own my devices.

When an OEM locks the devices down and i get one in my

Hands.

I consider it a personal challenge to root

My devices.

And your absolutely right.

Go get a high-end development device.

That's what every one eventually does

But that's also the answer to your questions.

Why do we do this?

Because none of the others will

As u say, waste time on it.

So that leaves average Joe User

With no way to root the $20 PO.S. he got stuck with

From work or Christmas present

Or whatever.

And when u reach out to LG or Verizon concerning these

Devices, they tell you buy a new one your board need replaced.

Lies.

They just want money.

I just like breaking OEM rules

brother

How are things over on your side of the pond Brother?

Ttyl

Astr4y4L
[General Topics] Narfoid:
My Canadian K4 is now rooted! Thanks Astr4y4L!
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Remember Back up Everything

But of course.

Be sure to grab something like titanium backup

And back up everything.

Then come back and let us know if it feels better after debloating.

And please freeze an app first reboot and no errors

Then nuke the app...

Some have dependency on other being present

Of course u know that.

But for those that don't..

I say it.

Thanks for choosing Team_Astr4y4L

Astr4y4L
[General Topics] Narfoid:
In theory, can we use the modded LGUP to flash a new recovery?
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
POST REMOVED DUE TO RULES,

Sorry guys.

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UMMMM>>>>NO !

The issue with that Narf, it's ok to call ya Narf right?

The issue Sir is that we can only flash Signed images on it.

so Yes you can use it to flash a new Recovery, BUT it has to be signed by OEM meaning it would be a Stock recovery.

NOW don't get it Twisted, Bro I'D love to do just that to flash TWRP on my zone3 but Lg most likely will not even respond to an email asking them to jar-sign a TWRP recovery compiled for one of these devices LOL !!!!

But hey it's good to see ya over here today Brother and I love the Way your thinking about the implications of what I revealed to you Yesterday on Team_Viewer ! ;)

Kinda Kool Huh?

I have been trying to research making something like Safe-Strap for it but have not gotten anywhere... and would probably install it using an SD card and ADB Shell dd Commands

Astr4y4L

Team_AStr4y4L
[General Topics] Kaitlin7193:
Review for Astr4y4L Zone3 root service

I recently had team Astr4y4L perform a Zone3 root service for my LG phone.

Since I know nothing about this process LOL, they remotely performed all the necessary actions on my computer while I watched. They were very interactive letting me know step by step what was happening and gave me very detailed direction of what I needed to do on my end. I did all the steps correctly and if I can do it anyone can! LOL. The process worked and they successfully rooted my phone.

The time and effort put on by Astr4y4L was superb. I'm talking constant email support all hours of the day even late at night. Whenever I asked a question they immediately responded with great information.

Astr4y4L even went above and beyond performing the root and remoted into my computer and performed a data dump of my phone to help with an additional issue at no extra cost.

I could not give any higher praise or recommendation. Five stars for sure!
[General Topics] pvineeth97:
Nothing much but studies! :D
[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Blah blah blah, silly little rant.

MOD EDIT
[General Topics] majored:
You rule astryl 4

Pretty sure i got the name wrong but ive been impressed with this successful root

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You guys rule however i am unable to tether wifi to this dev something about sim card and verizon but sims in there is there something on build prop or ? Tether some data upgraded to win 10 and that shut my home network of data from phone to laptop to network via tenda wifi utility i hate win 10 for this and in kali hey im just not that good Yet anyone help
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
Have you tried Xposed?

I've been able to use Xposed after Astr4y4L's Root .

and If you look through Xposed modules and find X-teather.

it may Help you .

repo(dot)xposed(dot)info/module/com(dot)dym(dot)motoxtether

not allowed to post links but replace (dot) with .

and there it is.

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Oh and I found over on Androidforums looks like Team Astr4y4l did a tut on how to root these bad boys for free!!!

https://androidforums.com/threads/verizon-zone3-how-to-root.1223248/

and if your like me and new but need to post a link...

wrap it up in Code -tags...

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X-teather

repo.xposed.info/module/com.dym.motoxtether
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
is that for 32 or 64 bit?

Does this work for 32bit ubuntu?

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Bump

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NOT THERE...
[General Topics] Helzgoth:
VS425PP9?

Has anyone had any success rooting VS425PP9? The best I've come up with is to first flash PP2.kdz and then flashing all the partitions of PP7.kdz except for boot, recovery, factory, and system. Rooting with Kingroot works but the screens gets messed up if the screen gets turned off.
[General Topics] phonecapone:
Sorry i'm lost in posts on this long thread. Did what work with 32bit?
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
As far as I know, the method you just described is the only viable and confirmed working root method for PP6 -- PP9. However, try this: because the display drivers are encompassed within the boot image, try flashing the boot.img from PP7 instead of using the PP2 version.
[General Topics] Hyper_X:
Hi, so I have totally bricked this LG phone and not sure what to do. I'm quite experienced in rooting/modifying android phones in general, but this LG is a nightmare. I tried rooting it by the guide found somewhere and it worked quite well, but then I tried to add GSM functionality by editing few lines in build.prop It usually would boot up after like 5 boot loops, but after the edit it was just glitching on LG logo like it wasn't even trying to boot. After that I entered the Download mode and tried to factory restore it, but the LGUP is now stuck on "Unknown device" and in the download mode you can see it says "modified" in red. Verizon LG software is just throwing a random error. I tried following couple un-brick guides, but nothing has changed. I refuse to think that this is the end for this phone, because I've seen far worse situations than this one, I'm just not sure what to do with it?
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
try flashing the kdz or the dz file from pp7

and use flashtool2014 to do it.

if you need help pm me
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
if you use flash tool and the pp7.kdz and board download options

and point the .dll to the lgup common dll and choose the kdz, also put your port settings to port 41, i've had to do this 2 or 3 times it looks scarry but it's possible to fix it
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
Man every since Team Astr4y4L Left , This thread's gotten Stale.

AnyBody even Following this anymore?
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
Working Zone3 TuT over on discord...

https://discord.gg/966gnvS

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got the invite this morning
[General Topics] Calicol:
Hi there, I see you mentioned "There is the option of flashing the Zone 3 with LG K4 firmware since they are the exact same phone." in the post above. I am trying to root my phone which is a model VS425PP8. Will flashing it with the LG K4 firmware will make my phone rootable?
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
HAHAHA,

Team_Astr4y4L Has went and done it again, they have just released a work-around for the devices that get screen issues after downgrading :)

the compleate write up is over on Team_Astr4y4L's Discord.

they made me a member of the team, and I invite everyone here to join the discussion and read the new tutorial

https://discord.gg/PZxnCa3
[General Topics] Smith73738:
Facing same problem

Thanks for the discussion. Its really helpful. Now My problem has been solved. Keep discussing.

tricksnyou.in
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
I have a LG k4 k121 that I am trying to root. Does anyone know where to get the 5.0 lollipop kdz file for it?
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
OK. Thanks
[General Topics] wperdigon:
i'm still waiting for a glimmer of hope for rooting these devices I have =)
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
Did you try the downgrade method outlined earlier in the thread?
[General Topics] wperdigon:
no i didn't try to downgrade, i don't know how to boot unlock - i will reread the thread and see what i'm missing, it's a long one so i missed it - i thought you were going to make a simplified version of whats going on mid way through the thread - i must have missed the updates
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
Simplified would be great, but LG's partition mapping and structure make it extremely difficult to do a lot when it comes to downgrading. I have a very simplified method for rooting, but its putting the phone into fastboot mode without bricking it that's proving to be tough.
[General Topics] wperdigon:
i a moron, i can't figure this out. ugh, i hate being phone stupid.
[General Topics] Merazomo:
Either way, I believe your device is bricked. You won't be able to stay rooted, but you might be able to salvage the phone and get it back in working order.

To make it work I went here: http://lg-firmwares.com/lg-vs425pp-firmwares/

-downloaded VS425PP6_00_1114_ARB00.kdz

-used WindowsLGFirmwareExtract-1.2.5.0-Release.zip to extract just the LGUP_common.dll file

-pasted the LGUP_common.dll into C:\Program Files (x86)\LG Electronics\LGUP\model\common

-if you decide to update the phone to VS425PP6, you can use my attached LGUP_common.dll file

Again: This is where the LGUP_common.dll file should go; at least on my computer: C:\Program Files (x86)\LG Electronics\LGUP\model\common

-That file got rid of all the errors I was getting when restoring the phone; at least in my case.
[General Topics] bitwhale:
Thank you man, i appreciate it. When i go into "about phone software info" it says it's VS425PP1. Is this going to effect me upgrading? I don't care what I am running as long as I can salvage the phone really.

Thanks for your time!

Edit: No Sh#t brother, it worked!!!!! thank you!!!!!! I kept trying "com" it needed the folder "common" which it didnt say in the error message: "LGUP can't load the model[C:\Program Files (x86)\LG Electronics\model\com". Ok, i am going to perceed to step two. Thank you!! So I will make sure to do all of the updates for pp6, correct?

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Wow, it worked, it all seems so simple now after battling for days! Dude thank you so much, thank you thank you thank you.

Next question: Is it possible to set up SuperSU on this model of phone without bricking it again? Anyone have a link to a simple guide I can trust (there is many out there but I am afraid to use them with this model of phone).

Whats your BTC address dude, I owe you.

EDIT: Oo, maybe this is what you mean by unrooted, when i try to use Kingroot for this it will not allow it, says build is unavailable. How do I root this phone? I am trying a manual SuperSU install now but TWRP doesn't have an option for vs425pp, man this phone! lol.
[General Topics] Merazomo:
Don't worry about it man, just pay it forward ;)

I made the same mistake once, and ruined my perfectly rooted device. I had no other option but to upgrade. At this time, there's no way of rooting the newer versions, but they're working on it as we speak. I've sort of made a Guinea Pig out of my phone to test new ways of rooting it with whatever files are shared on this thread. I've bricked it many times since the first time, and I've always been able to recover the phone by just flashing the .kdz firmwares from the link I gave you, extracting just the LGUP_common.dll file from the version I want to update or downgrade to, pasting it in C:\Program Files (x86)\LG Electronics\LGUP\model\common, etc. Just remember that the LGUP_common.dll file has to be renamed as such to work; when it is first extracted, the name is a little different. The VS425PP2_02_ARB00.kdz version is rootable, but it creates a bootloop at startup, which can take up to 10 minutes to go past the splash screen; very unreliable at this time.
[General Topics] bitwhale:
Got ya, ok thanks man, i seriously appreciate it. I definitely will pay it forward, I can;t tell you how happy I am just to know I'm not 40 bucks down the drain! haha! You made my night. Take care man, :)
[General Topics] bitwhale:
PS - Just to help out anyone else that is in the same situation. After I flashed back to pp2, I rooted with the newest version of Kingroot with no issues & no boot looping. I know KR isn't optimal, I really want to use SuperSU, but until I can figure it out, this will have to do!

Again, thank you for the amazing help. I really appreciate it, I gave them a 20% chance of coming bck to life, what a noob I am.
[General Topics] tromal:
[MENTION=7983610]bitwhale[/MENTION]

Can you please explain (step by step) how did you downgrade from PP6 to PP2, I didn't really understand how to do it from the previous posts, my english is rather limited.

Thanks
[General Topics] bitwhale:
Yes I just woke up, let me get a cup of coffee and I'll do better than I did last night.

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OK,

download LGUP from the net, now go to http://lg-firmwares.com/lg-vs425pp-firmwares/ & download both pp6 & pp2:

VS425PP6_00_1114_ARB00.kdz

VS425PP2_02_ARB00.kdz

Once you have the files, turn off your bricked phone, plug in the power cord into your computer, hold volume+ button while putting the powercord into the phone & hold it until "download" mode pops up. After your phone is in download mode, click & open LGUP.

If you get the error from LGUP "Can't find the model", then you will need to download the LGUP_common.dll file. I am going to try to attach it here once again, but since I'm a noob no clue if it'd actually work. If I can't attach it, all urls + the lgup_common.dll file can be located on page 9 of this thread in Merazomo's post.

After downloading the LGUP_common, open your file explorer on your computer and nagivate to Drive C > program files (or program files (x86)) > LG Electronics > LGUP > model >

Now, when you open the model folder, if there is not a folder named 'common' create one. open the common folder, and paste the LGUP_common.dll inside of it.

Now close lgup and reopen, it will now work. Once it opens up, you will see your phone connected, it will stay com# + standby, at the botton you will see i think it's called "bin" but I'm honestly not sure, it's the 2 rows underneath the rows where your phones pop up. Click the explorer button (it's on the same line, on the right hand side, you have to hover over the line).

Find the pp6 firmware, select it, click the button "Upgrade" above, then click the button at the bottom right to flash it. Now boot down phone again, power to download mode, repeat the above steps but for pp2 instead of pp6, flash to pp2 using the pp2 file, boot up your phone, & do another factory reset + factory settings reset.

Now at this point you are ready go to to the next steps where i say "set up your phone, then turn on developer mode by clicking on build nunber 7-8 times".

You are right on track with the guide above after this point.

Hopefully I've helped, have fun tinkering!! Looking forward to hear if it works out,

Clay

Also, I just wanted to say thanks to the dev of supersume for spending the time with me through email to try to figure this stuff out.
[General Topics] tromal:
[MENTION=7983610]bitwhale[/MENTION]

Thanks man, it's cristal clear. I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance
[General Topics] bitwhale:
Good luck man take your time, look forward to hearing back from ya.
[General Topics] wperdigon:
Whale - Awesome write up - the file being placed in the location was able to take me to another step, but help me out - i'm missing something, and I can't figure this out -

when I get LGUP to show the phone, what am I missing here - see the photo below
[General Topics] wperdigon:
bitwhale - i followed your write up and I was able to figure out that in the common folder I needed to place the 2 files, vs425pp6 and the vs425pp2 files - I had a completely working device with version 5 on it. I did the Upgrade selection to version 2, and now the device just sits in a reboot cycle with the screen going light black to dark black - doesn't show any letter, doesn't show anything, just restarting over and over again -

what suggestions do you have for me? i don't know what I did wrong here, is there a way to fix this?

Thanks
[General Topics] bitwhale:
Hey man sorry it took me a while to get back to you. Hmm that is weird, I am quite confused though. With this part "I was able to figure out that in the common folder I needed to place the 2 files, vs425pp6 and the vs425pp2 files".

Did you put the full apk files or just the common.dll files?

I didn't write up how to pull the common.dll files out of the apk files is why I ask. The only file that should need to be in the "common" folder is the common.dll that I attached above (alternatively, you can also get the same file from Merazmo's post on page 9, it's called "LGUP_common.dll and is attached to both posts). If you'd like, feel free to add me on skype and I'll try my best ot help get you set up. Clay.taxpayer

I'll be watching this thread hopefully I can get a response to you in a timely manner. Sorry you are having troubles.
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Hey can anyone share another invite link for Discord ?
[General Topics] healthy69:
کیست مویی موهاي ناحيه انتهاي ستون فقرات يا دنبالچه،که به جاي آن كه از سمت ريشه به سمت پوست حركت داشته باشد سمت بافت زير پوست نفوذ و ايجاد التهاب مي كند.ارتباط نامتعادل به صورت يك لوله، بين اندام ها و يا رگ،عارضه اي به نام فیستول ايجاد مي شود.شقاق (فيشر) ترك و يا زخمي است كه در مقعد ايجاد مي شود.بواسیر یا هموروئید سیاهرگ های آماس کرده هستند که درانتهای روده ایجاد میشوند.
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Man wth happened to get your posts deleted all over the thread..
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
With the same chipset, porting is certainly possible. However, due to incompatibility between LG and Alcatel hardware, working drivers for the camera would probably entail creating custom shims for the hardware blobs. I'm not very proficient with building custom shims, but it is possible to use a prebuilt camera application such as Google Camera to get at least basic functioning up and going.
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
I would think the difficulty is in the bootloader being Locked
[General Topics] johnnysacco:
Can someone please re-post an invite to discord.
[General Topics] abced123:
Rooting PP4

I have not used this phone for a while. It is on PP4 . Back then, i was able to root with PP2 or so, but after updating to PP4 I was not able to root or downgrade . The software said modified . Now, is there anyway to root PP4 or downgrade to PP2 ? TIA
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
All Questions Answered Here

https://discord.gg/ysU5kMy
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
omg tried to install Magisk with flashfire... what a mistake ! It patched boot image now I'm on a bootloop damn. I really thought I would still have access to download mode though ! It just stays at loading download mode omg... I'm totally screwed.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
No way, I did the same a month ago. I might try making a usb jig to get it into download mode. Dumb thing is the computer doesn't recognize it.( my other bricked phones it would recognize the SoC). I did get it to the screen that gave the option to factory reset but I left it thinking I could get back to it but I never could.
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Yeah I tried doing a factory reset.. doesnt fix the boot img hehe. The only way I see would be to get it in qsb loader mode by shorting test pins... don't even know where they are and I broke the phone trying to open it up lol.. it's totaled. Getting my new phone monday, moto g6 play..I hope I won't be dissapointed.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
I'm still clinging to the hope I can get mine going. I have got a replacement Samsung a5 but 2 phones are better than 1 haha.:laugh:
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Hehe good luck with that :) I decided to go with the moto g5 ( had way better cpu) it's amazing for under 200$ :p

Seems pretty easy to root and such which is great hehe.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
I won't root my a5 until it isn't my main phone because it will trip knox. I really wanted a google pixel 2 but oh, well. If I get the k4 working, I can do any bootloader modifications I want, because I don't care if it gets bricked.;)
[General Topics] George_Jetson:
Here's that zone3 Discord again...

https://discord.gg/wap4yPz
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
[MENTION=7110888]Chekm8Qc[/MENTION], I got my lg working again! The download jig didn't work, but I repeatedly connected and disconnected to the pc while doing the buttons.
[General Topics] Chekm8Qc:
Nice! I feel kinda stupid for breaking my k4 lol.. Too bad.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
I felt the same way; that's why I didn't report it here right away. :D And now when I use it, I wonder how I survived with such a slow phone.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
[MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION], or anyone else, when you nuke laf partition, how do you get it back? Does fastboot work for that? Or do you have to manually put it in?
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
If you have nuked the /laf partition to enable fastboot mode, you can reinstall /laf at a later time using this command:

fastboot flash laf laf.img

Of course, when you reinstall the /laf partition, fastboot will once again become disabled and the device will again boot into Download Mode versus Fastboot Mode. To reinstall /laf, it is imperative that you backed up the partition image prior to nuking it.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
:good: What is the dd command to delete laf?
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
[MENTION=9069680]iloveoreos[/MENTION], this thread should give you some guidance on the subject matter: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708466
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
Ok, I will try wrecking laf(good riddance!) then. :laugh:

I don't know if anyone still has this phone, but why couldn't a guy just BUMP!a modified aboot to avoid secure booting? I know you all worked hours on this and know more, but I am just wondering
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
You can use modified aboot to avoid secure boot error. However if you just want root, full root with SuperSU v2.82-SR5 can be attained without modifying the boot image. You can use LG-UP to downgrade firmware to VS425pp2, use KingRoot to gain temp root, replace Chinese root binaries with SuperSU root binaries, then use the EverRoot feature of Flashfire to upgrade to the latest build.

I'm thinking Astr4y4L used a modified aboot from an LG G2 to bypass secure boot to get systemless root via Magisk.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
I currently have my k4 rooted with SuperSU 2.79.(first rooted with kingoroot). Would the modified aboot work on a k4 too? As I said a few posts back, i had tried installing magisk but it had secure booting error.
[General Topics] MotoJunkie01:
Don't know for certain on that. Although I realize that the K4 is basically the GSM version of the Zone 3, I'm not sure as to whether there are any significant partition mapping or configuration differences. I would recommend contacting Astr4y4L, who is now developing over at Android Central. Tell him I referred you. He's very well versed on these LG devices and I believe he will have the answers.
[General Topics] SnowFuhrer:
I tried the command in this thread but there was no such file or directory. I PM'ed you.