[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Sigh... Okay, lets see if that did it. nope.... hmmm, I wonder why.... It did flash the recovery file, maybe I need to do it a couple of times, dunno...

Okay... did I finally get it? I hope... We will see, it would not work the other way around so ran the step 3 from the script from the computer, it does it automatically a lot of times. I am in TWRP! :D

The other thing should have worked, but as always, you have to do a lot of weird things to get things to work. Try this and try that and now the truth of hour seems to finally dawn upon us, I guess. Lets reboot and see if we have jackpot or not! Sigh... I hope it works, just used the files for the F800K for the H990N and now, now for the first boot. If anything...

Waiting... Heh, my my my.... But it does seem to be hackable, somewhat at least. It will most likely be some minutes before going into the system, I wiped the partitions... Still uncertain if, but it did not seem to break anything last time.

Tick tock, tick tock... No animation yet or sound - maybe I should make some food.

Well... Still nothing, it stands in the LG image thing. But it could take some time, to recreate all the files and all, data and what not, I guess. At least have not seen it move yet.

If anything I could try to install Lineage if this does not work, I have TWRP working now... There is as far as I know no kernel for the LG H990N as it is said to not be rootable. Well, I seem to have gotten pretty far although, I might have hit the wall here. At least yet to do anything and time is going. It does seem pretty dead, but who knows really...

Okay... I'm thinking I might have done a mistake, as it also flashed the boot as well, which I think it should not have done. Let me try to flash the Boot from the original A8. Lets see if that does anything... rebooted.... now the question is, will anything happen. It did, but the screen is full of gliching.... But it works. TWRP was not installed anymore.... Okay....

TWRP installed and named the boot something else so the script step 3 could not fix it. So far so good.

Format and then reboot, and then we do another format and then we install the kernel and Magisk. Lets see if we get it this time. Well... Kernel installed, Magisk installing and then a reboot. Who knows, if anything will work.... I don't wanna waste to much time on this. But, it does go quicker then last time for sure. Okay, restarted.... At least it did something, lets give it some time and see what happens, the big moment! :D

Does it work, or not.... In any case, I have some Lineage ROMs I can try as well... Hmm I think we might have a bootloop going. Interesting.

I can't really remember how I did that step.... wow sound and animation incoming. Something seems to happen... Password unlock.... Oh come on. That might be a TWRP issue... I recall having one version work on A7 and another version working on A8... Very annoying and tedious. TWRP is at least still working. I will try again. Typically one needs to waste so much time trying stuff to get it to work. But I do have an unlocked bootloader or recovery or whatever. TWRP is absolutely working. And A8 was working it seemed as well, although no screen working.

Okay lets try again, install kernel and install Magisk. And then... Well, I might as well try some of the ROMS of lineage if this does not work. It does seem close, very close indeed, sadly one forgets quickly these things. Well here we have the sound and animation again. But yet again it wants me to enter a Password to unlock... okay I have one other option to try out. Or many more if I wanted to use more time on this. But really not.

I will try to install the old TWRP and try it all over again, that seemed to work on the other with A7. Okay, that should fix the old version, lets get into it again. *Sigh*

Well... so far so good.... Reboot and lets install the Kernel and Magisk one more time and see what happens. If that security nonsense is still going to bug me or not. Take it from there, lets reboot the thing and hope for the best. Nothing more to do really, I will check to my food.

Well.... Android is starting.... 44%.... done... uhhhh, what is going to happen I wonder...... Restart..... well okay... hmmm or did it turn it totally off...... Well, at least the screen was working it seems. Lets try to turn it on again and hope for the best, it seemed to have turned it off... but I might have gone beyond the issue of encryption... So... the H990N is not rootable... Well, WELCOME it says! :D

Well, so far so good... Inside the operating system now..... There is a link to Magisk Manager, might need to further install it. No it seems it is installed.... Well.... It seems I am inside Stock A8, Rooted and all with screen working! :D Took some time... Well I guess the blue screen could come at any moment, but it seems to do just fine really....

Well.... I guess I am getting better at things, although I do wonder where I got the information about it needed to have TRWP installed again, or maybe I figured it out last time. Used so many days on the F800K, this took some hours but it work it seems...

Was not really needed overall as the phone is surely falling apart more and more, but wanted to see if it was possible. And lo and behold, as far as it seems for now... It works! :) I can install the newer version of TWRP again 3.5.0 - these things are like puzzle pieces to break, need the right pieces and the right connections and there you go, a picture.