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[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] C D:
Sadly, you're SOL there. Any cross-flashing will brick it. For more details on why and how to possibly find older rootable Sprint V20s, I've written a few things over here on the V20 Subreddit.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Darkaedenxxx:
I performed all the steps correctly, but at steps 3 it got stuck with phone in fast boot and justrunme terminal on flashing twrp: waiting for any device.

What should I do?

Disconnecting after long and rebooting the phone came up to static screen.

Entering back in fast boot is working but again trying to flash boot2 brings to same waiting for any device screen. Any help please?

If I’m going to reinstall Nougat firmware from LGUP, will it at least restore the phone to be functional again (meaning the screen not static....)?

P.s. meanwhile, without doing anything, just having the phone rest open, brought back the screen to functional and see able again (no static).

Now I’d like to go back to the rooting and twrp installation, but how to go past step 3 (waiting for any device stuck)?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] dksoni411:
Waiting for device usually means lack of LG Driver. Try re-installing LG USB Drivers. Changing Ports. Also do check what's being shown in device manager when you connect phone in Fastboot mode. See if any driver is missing.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Darkaedenxxx:
Eventhough steps 1 and 2 went smoothly?

I will install latest drivers 4.5 version and recheck.

If it get stucks again on steps 3 under fastboot, ill check if any driver is missing.

Thanks for the tips
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] tendousj:
I cannot see most of the picture. I sit becaus eof forum migration?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] justcosmic:
Thankyou for stepping in.

I ended up going to the original dirty santa thread rather than using this one, partly because of the "atomposphere". It's hard enough dealing with the technical stuff, let alone having to deal with attitudes that make you fearful of asking for help.

PS The good outcome for me was that I pieced together information to find a decent (and pretty repeatable) adaptation of dirty santa for F800S. I will tidy up my notes a bit but may then post it in case it is of use to anyone else.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Duneflower:
Figured I'd look for help here too, since I found this thread trying to deal with my issue. Link to my post in the original thread:

https://xdaforums.com/t/ls997-vs995...r-unlock-and-root-guide.3519410/post-84305117

As a relevant addendum, I tried to use the files in this thread but kept getting errors in extracting them.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Wow this site is full of disgusting ads... :/ Anyway I have just gotten my new used edition of V20, my other V20 that has survived for well 4-5 years is hanging in there but really is in bad shape. H990N Hongkong version and never dared root it.

So... This version I got is the V20 F800K, got it yesterday and after many hours I finally got it working with downgrading, had to brick it first apparently and then got it restored with the oldest Android 8 update that I knew was on it before it broke.

After that I could downgrade it, just wonderful. So far so good ;) I've checked how LG backup works and Android 8 to 8 is the best way it seems, was a mess from Android 8 to 7. I have yet to test Android 8 to 9 with this but ongoing at the movement as I'm updating it from the earliest version I got installed yesterday which will day 4-5 hours or so, maybe more. It all is time consuming when doing things and testing it.

Okay, anyone knows where I can get the newest files that I need, I have to regather my experience on these things. So just reading up on it and relearning things, which seems to be the thing every single time as I lose everything again it seems.

Anyway, I will keep updating you guys, for now it is moving forward. Just a question of lots of hours! Sigh... I think it is possible for me to do when I get it all together.

Back to the research and reading and watching.

Dearly regards

- Darkijah
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Seems the only link that worked for the Root package is 6, but it seems to be caught by the Virus nonsense bull**** application.

I guess I need to use another browser to getting the file.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
a: LG V20 Root Package 4.0 Drive | DropBox <<<< broken links

b: LG V20 Root Package 6.0 Drive | Mega <<<< Says virus is spotted and can't download. I guess it is just nonsense and need to get another browser up and running to download it.

So guys, if you have any help in specific files I need to help me get this done, by all means post ;)

I usually end up testing and finding the files I need by trial and error and know it can take some time.

I do wonder if Kingoroot could do it with the oldest version, although I don't think so.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Sharing is caring <<<< Amayn to that! Although I write it in my website footer, Sharing is Caring! :)
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
I got my LG-F800K with a version from 2017-11-01 7.0 I upgraded to Android 8 and the last update there was.

I bricked it with all my trials of LGUP trying to get it working and finally recovered it with F800K20I_00_1120.kdz Android 8

Then I was able to downgrade it with F800K10e_00_0914.kdz 2016-09-01 Android 7

And now updating it one by one to Android 9 and then I will try to restore it my big file of settings and applications from LG, and take a look at A9 before downgrading again and go for rooting.

I have already had 4 official updates...2016-09-01 -> 2016-10-02 -> 2016-10-18 -> 2016-10-25-> 2016-11-22 *Sigh*And still on Android 7... It is time consuming for sure... Downloading and installing, but getting closer to my goals figuring things out.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Seems the latest version of TWRP is: me.twrp.twrpapp-26.apk 2.6M 2017-05-19 15:31:05 EDT.

Hmm okay, downloaded, next thing would be that other application which name eludes me.

Ads are everywhere on these mobile sites, utter disgusting... Sold there souls to the Devil.

Download TWRP for twrpapp
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Okay, I've downloaded Magisk V21-4

TWRP 26

MagiskManager although not sure what that does yet...

Need to figure out which files of LGUP I need, as I tried whatever, and now have it running. But downloaded so many files and not sure what works or what does not. So need to nail that at some point as well.

What is the newest version of LGUP and is there a problem using the newest?

The Odin software used for Samsung, is that only for Samsung phones?

Okay... Still updating my mobile with official updates, it takes forever... But I'll reach the A9 version at some point.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] xdagirlrocker:
https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-tutor...t-variants-noobfriendly.3722278/post-74909819

b: LG V20 Root Package 6.0 Drive | Mega

Windows defender labeled this as a trojan. Could be a false-positive, I don't know.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Most likely a false positive... In any case I think I got it transferred to my computer and unpacked. I still don't know where to start, but... Hit into a problem after installing A9, which I then could not downgrade to A7 for rooting and fixing the bootloader... So used hours and hours on that nonsense, but got it now again.

Very tedious. Does this work with F800K model?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Okay, moving forward, yet still a long way it seems. Hmm... Well, it seems to have some issues getting into the system at the moment, but I've figured out how to get into TWRP... Not sure which version is the best to run for this, but I would think one could install the latest version of one of the other versions and be fine.

That is something to test out, I guess... Sitting in this moment and... nope... it gave me an Encryption unsuccessful again :/

Not sure what I did wrong here... More testing I guess needs to be done. I've tried to reset the phone as it said... Wait... maybe I need to do it from inside TWRP, although I though already did that. Anyway, I will be back with more news I'm sure.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Apparently back to square one... hmmmmmmmm... Okay I guess I will have to sort it out tomorrow.

At least I can easily get it back to A7 if needed. Sadly it trashed my bootloader and all when I tried to upgrade the system to see if that worked. But it just deleted my bootloader it seems and all that had been done.

Not sure what made it have an encryption issue... Or what I can do about it, but further reading tomorrow I guess.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Is there any way of upgrading to version 8 if I get it rooted with version 7? I'm just thinking...
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jahcure:
Cool so i can downgrade my h915 to a pre 2017 security patch and proceed to root.

can this trigger some sort or Anti roll back protection or something ?

Thanks
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] VocaloidBoy:
where can I find flashable zip for my H910 ? please show the line for me bro
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] best_username_eva:
Download this file for H915

https://lg-firmwares.com/download-file/?fileId=4578

No it won't trigger the anti roll back protection. I have downgraded my H990ds to old firmwares many times. LGUP showed anti-rollback check PASS everytime I did! give it a try!

Make a backup of your Phone first. Download the patched LGUP exe file and the dll. Replace them with already installed store verison of LGUP software

https://xdaforums.com/v20/how-to/guide-patch-lgup-to-unlock-features-t3652222

Also make sure you select PARTITION DL option in LGUP before flashing. This option erases the phone completely so make a backup before doing so
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jahcure:
Thanks for the reply its much apreciated

I just got this phone and Although theres a great deal of info on the procedures to accomplish root. i found it a bit difficult wade through it all and i am kinda insecure at attempting it.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] calddon:
Please guys, can i successfully downgrade from the ZB Firmware on my LS997 so as to root?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] best_username_eva:
Everything you need is right here https://xdaforums.com/v20/how-to/root-ls997-to-zv9-t3696488
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] karismakaris:
Having trouble rooting my v20 vs995 security patch january 2017
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] best_username_eva:
You can’t, it’ll fail because the security updates anything >December 2016 patches the root method used. So you need to download older firmware(.kdz) with <=December 2016 update and downgrade to it using LGUP. Look at my other comment for more guide on that
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] karismakaris:
Thanks.. Kindly post that thread/link for me
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] best_username_eva:
Take a backup of things you want from your Phone first.

Download the old security update .kdz firmware file for your vs995 from here https://lg-firmwares.com/download-file/?fileId=5224.

Install LG mobile drivers and LGUP store version(google LGUP_Store_Frame_Ver_1_14_3.zip) and also download the patched LGUP .exe and dll files from here https://xdaforums.com/v20/how-to/guide-patch-lgup-to-unlock-features-t3652222 and copy it to LGUP installation directory. Connect your phone to PC in download mode and open LGUP and make sure you select PARTITION DL option in LGUP:rolleyes: before flashing(select all partitions in pop up message). Now select the downloaded .kdz file and click start.

Follow dirtysanta root method in an other XDA post(its a top result in google!)
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] yemkoid:
Thanks for the clue, however please can I get old security patch for f800l? Am currently on November 1, 2017 patch level
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] best_username_eva:
https://lg-firmwares.com/download-file/?fileId=3443
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Stuckphone:
LS997 is rootable up to ZV7 but this guide says it won't work on anything with Google's security patch of January 2017 and up...I have ZV6 with February 1st patch. so I'm confused if I can root or not?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] cnjax:
Help

I just got my v20, been on sammy forever, this root process is new to me. First question is adb supposed to be installed and run on a pc? or from the phone? the adbsetup.exe won't run on phone. ran the setup on a win 10 pc says it installed but cant find the installed program, ran adb.exe as administrator but a window opens brefiefly then disappears. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Update got the process to run, phone got stuck on the att logo (phone is a H910) went into fastboot and flashed the boot.img 2 phone now boots into twrp but wont boot the system. please help
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] f15k13:
I am stuck at this part:

It will reboot and phone should boot now.

8: Now boot into recovery mode either by entering “2” then “3” or by key method,

Cancel password prompt.

However, when it boots I get a secure boot password prompt, ADB does not connect, and I can't figure out how to boot into TWRP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am on ls997zv5

Edit: I figured out how to boot into TWRP, installed supersu, and now have a new problem
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] f15k13:
After getting root installed with this method on ls997zv5, I am now having an issue with com.android.phone stopping constantly.

I have not activated this phone with Sprint yet, perhaps that is the problem?

Edit: I have tried wiping cache several times with TWRP and manually with ADB shell.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhythm_dx:
I'm having the same trouble and am kind of stuck.

I started out with a stock, unrooted VS995 on 15a. I used the patched LGUP to revert to 12a for rooting purposes, then ran JustRunMe.cmd. At first, I got that error message at the Terminal Emulator step, saying my command was wrong. I restarted the root process and got past the Terminal Emulator step. It seemed to successfully complete the process until the phone rebooted to the Secure Boot screen. (This being a new phone, I hadn't set a password yet, and none of the usual defaults worked.) I let the phone factory reset itself, at which point it vibrated for several minutes on the boot screen. It finally went to TWRP and has been looping back to that ever since. I can go into Fastboot, but LGUP no longer recognizes the phone, so I can't even KDZ back to stock.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks to all the folks who worked on this root procedure! I've been rooting phones for eight years now, and I've only had one or two that didn't throw up some sort of seemingly insurmountable hurdle like this. I have faith something will work!

UPDATE: I am very dumb and forgot that LGUP uses "download mode," not Fastboot mode. I'm too used to Samsung devices...

I'm KDZ-ing back to 12a now and will start the whole root process over tomorrow - after I get some sleep!
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhythm_dx:
Great Success!

WIN! I decided to re-run the process late last night, and it ultimately worked. So excited to have root!

I did run into the secure boot screen again, but I made sure to follow the directions in the first post carefully to flash Boot2. Upon rebooting, the phone hung literally all night at the Verizon boot screen (the one with the colorful dots below the logo), but I let it run anyway while I slept. This morning, when I saw that the phone was still hanging on boot, I pulled the battery and restarted. I got the "this device is corrupted and won't boot" message, which I got last time, as well. I thought I'd have to start over again, but after about 30 seconds, the phone proceeded to boot into System just fine. I still get the "device corrupted" message every time I restart, but it loads anyway and retains root, so I'm counting that a small price to pay for root!

Moral of the story: if your phone hangs on boot after running this boot process, let it sit for a while, then try restarting. It may actually have worked but the phone just needed some time to accept the fact that it will be rooted from now on. :D
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhythm_dx:
For anyone who comes along later and has this same problem, the issue in my case was that when the script opened three separate terminal windows on my PC, I didn't see the third one and thus failed to run the part of the script that enables the part where you type "id" and so on into the phone's terminal emulator. In a nut shell, if terminal emulator tries to teach you syntax, you probably missed a step in the script by mistake. Close all the windows, rerun JustRunMe.cmd and pay close attention to the three windows it opens. Good luck!
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] zenos875:
Any chance you could elaborate? I'm running into the usage error, but I don't see what I've missed. This is what shows up in my three terminal windows on my PC:

Main window:

Step 1 completed. Now starting Step 2
Make sure you entered told commands in Terminal Emulator
You can quit this script at any step by press ctrl+c
Press any key to continue . . .

Logcat window:

============================================
Logcat window (leave it running)
============================================
this script is re-modified by dksoni411 originally authored by me2151

This scripts wait check and waits for log step 1 to complete and tells you to run Step 2

I hope this helps you in positive manner. Let's began

When Step 1 is done. Enter following commands in terminal emulator of on phone

id
if output shows context=untrusted_app then enter next command
applypatch /system/bin/atd /storage/emulated/0/dirtysanta

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
--------- beginning of system
--------- beginning of main

Step1 window:

==============================
Step 1
==============================
Make sure USB debugging is on in your phone.

Also check if both ditycow and dirtysanta file exist.

As your antivirus can delete these files. So, disable your antivirus first.

it can be windows defender if you are on Windows 8/10 and you did not installed any antivirus.
Press any key to continue . . .
[100%] /storage/emulated/0/dirtysanta
[100%] /storage/emulated/0/aboot.img
[100%] /data/local/tmp/dirtycow
[100%] /data/local/tmp/my-run-as
chmod: chmod '/data/local/tmp/flatland' to 100777: Operation not permitted
chmod: chmod '/data/local/tmp/flatland64' to 100777: Operation not permitted
warning: new file size (13796) and file old size (14360) differ

size 14360

[*] mmap 0x7bb381b000

[*] exploit (patch)

[*] currently 0x7bb381b000=10102464c457f

[*] madvise = 0x7bb381b000 14360

[*] madvise = 0 1048576

[*] /proc/self/mem -2122317824 1048576

[*] exploited 0x7bb381b000=10101464c457f

warning: new file size (9984) and file old size (165144) differ

size 165144

[*] mmap 0x78f4257000

[*] exploit (patch)

[*] currently 0x78f4257000=10102464c457f

[*] madvise = 0x78f4257000 165144

[*] madvise = 0 1048576

[*] /proc/self/mem 1367343104 1048576

[*] exploited 0x78f4257000=10102464c457f

elsa:/ $

When I type the "id" command in Terminal Emulator it shows context=untrusted_app like it should, but when I type the applypatch command it gives me this usage error:

elsa:/ $ applypatch /system/bin/atd /storage/emulated/0/dirtysanta
usage: applypatch [-b <bonus-file>] <src-file> <tgt-file> <tgt-sha1> <tgt-size> [<src-sha1>:<patch> ...]
or applypatch -c <file> [<sha1> ...]
or applypatch -s <bytes>
or applypatch -l

Filenames may be of the form
MTD:<partition>:<len_1>:<sha1_1>:<len_2>:<sha1_2>:...
to specify reading from or writing to an MTD partition.

2|elsa:/ $
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Seems I got the F800K variant rooted. But then, what now?

I can't seem to upgrade it to version 8, Google have placed things in it so Rooted phones can't upgrade and then I seem to be stuck at version A7... Which is not the way to go as my LG backup needs Android 8 to work.

But it seems I am at least rooted, 3 try made it for me - although I am thinking of doing another and see if I can install Magick in replacement of SuperSU which I did the third time.

Or I cold just do it now I guess, but I have an update that can't update and seem to be stuck and telling me it needs to be updated... Overall, not sure which direction to go from here.

Anyone know if I can install A8 with root? I just wanted the standard latest rom A8 with Root really. Is that possible?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jesus is God Almighty:
Okay not many writing... Okay... So, I am at the point updating version 7 to hopefully still before the dating of the locking happening from the Criminals at Google.

Although I wanna update to A8 with Root, I tried yesterday with no success and I have like 2 manuals to try out. Although I think one might be forgetting somerthing and not sure how to work out the other. I have not used Boot adb or whatever it is called much. But it should be installed, and it did seem to do something yesterday although when I tried to get into the Recovery I ended up deleting things in replacement as it did not seem to be there. I guess one can use a command from the computer to do it, yet not that experienced with it.

Well, I guess there is no other way then try again a couple of times I guess - I most likely will not work out the first couple of tries testing things out. Hopefully I can get it done but... Who knows.

Would be nice with some help on the commands for flashing TWRP with that thing... In command prompt, mostly that was what did me in, and apparently lost it at that point.

Anyway... Will try again, just a lot of steps to do every single time to recover TWRP and going from there. I can do a recover if I have access to TWRP but... if it ruins TWRP then I have a problem. One guide did not try to do anything but just say go into TWRP, and it does not seem you flash Recovery when upgrading A8.

I have 2 kernels I have found that I can test with, I guess with A8. mk2000 and another which name eludes me... Schwifty_Kernel_Axon7_vR5 it was.

Dunno if there is any other kernels or how it will run.

I tried to install the newest version of TWRP, but that seemed to do serious damage to the speed of the overall phone... Apparently that can also be somewhat of an issue. Apparently.

Sigh so many factors and such.

Although not giving up!!! But for something that should just have taken a second, I am very angry at Google and LG for bullshitting people like this. This is absolutely nonsense how many hoops one has to hit correctly to get things to work as one wants. And it should have just taken 1 second, to push ROOTED! Clearly these Tyrants are evil working for the Devil - as they jail us in, more and more.