yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
I just got a security update come to my device 100+ mb. Still haven't rooted yet. Not inclined to take it since I'm thinking a straight up update to oreo would be bigger than that & I'm not wanting to block the ability to root either by doing so
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Julieswt:
Thanks.

Last night I made a bit of "progress" :crying: ..but not much....

I downloaded a newer version of FWUL and tried the whole thing again... but when I got to the original resistance point, it happened again, this time with a different out put error. I even confirmed and saw that this version of FWUL did indeed include python and all required dependences, but there is something that just ain't working between FWUL and the phone... this time the error was PyUSB... see below

will still try your suggestions above
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
I wonder if you could apt-get that into fwul
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] bigmikey307:
Has anyone tried it on 11h. I CANNOT BELIEVE there is finally one, I just frickin updated my phone today without even thinking about checking. I'm upset I hope it works on 11h
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Julieswt:
I tried to apt-get it, but it won't do it, says there is no space... I am thinking perhaps since I am running FWUL from a bootable USB?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Globespy:
Or

Did it work?

I'm in the same position where my phone is updated to 11h.

I hope TMobile didn't push this update up lock is out - they have people on these forums.

Would be a bummer as I've also been waiting forever.

Although, even if it works it might be a little late as ROM devs moved on

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In theory.... But if devs actually start producing ROMs for this phone they will far exceed whatever bloated version of Oreo that TMobile pushes.

That being said, it might be tough to bring devs back to this device as the ship may have sailed quite some time ago.

I'm hoping this works with 11h, but despite a few people asking, it is yet unanswered. Was hoping whoever made this could comment.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] theansible:
thanks for this! but..

i've been waiting 1+ year for this, but if this is what it takes to root the phone, then i've decided to move on...

can someone please recommend me a comparable smartphone in the $200 - $400 range that is actually easy to root?

i have my eye on the more economic "xiaomi redmi 5" or the higher end "Google Pixel"..

i just want something that's as close to the H872 as possible but with root privs.

thanks in advance for any input!

(P.S. anyone in the market for a mint-condition (very gently used) LG G6 H872 (T-Mobile) device??) (^ . ^)
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] roger.hernandez91:
Did you really have to quote that entire thing just to tell us you're not going to do it? What good does that do anybody? If you have questions about phones you can make a new thread instead of hijacking this one and if you want to sell your phone there's Swappa and Craigslist.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] roger.hernandez91:
*nevermind*
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ziyab:
Hi,

Can someone simply the steps or any video may be helpful for all users...
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
There a video attached to a post in here
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Globespy:
No one able to confirm if this works on the 11h version?

Many finding this thread will have already had TMobile push the 11h build.

If it's unlikely to work on 11h then just say it, ignoring people's questions doesn't help or encourage users that anyone gives a crap about the phone at this point as it's a little too late for devs to bother with it.

Its still a $500 phone, so anyone with common sense wouldn't try this if it's 100% unconfirmed.

I would recommend that anyone on 11h don't even try this until we see any further work being done on this phone. Root is great, but what's the point if there's no ROMs worth installing, and of course the huge risk of ending with an expensive beer mat.

If anyone has successfully installed this on 11h please confirm.

If new custom ROMs come out then this phone is a keeper. It's been the best stock Android phone I've had in years (and also the first stock one in years!)

Thanks for your hard work.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] IshsXda:
There isn't a straight forward answer yet since i don't think anyone with 11h has tried this method so far understandably. The KDZ you copy throughout this process is specifically the 11g KDZ after copying the laf partition from the V20's KDZ. Maybe if someone can grab the 11h KDZ it could work? Does anyone know what would happen if you copied the 11g KDZ over after V20's laf since you have 11h??? But even then OP suggested to do it only on 11g since that's what it was originally tested on :(.

I have 11g and this method doesn't work hehe.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] miduran06:
missing file

When you download the git clone files https://github.com/runningnak3d/lglaf do not download everything that is missing the video file such as recovery.img, imc
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MetroWestMA:
If this helps, I did a TWRP of the H87211g version and tried to install TMobile's security update (this is the 11th version I assume), and it won't install it saying verification failed. So I assume it would be very hard for someone to check if they already are rooted -- because they wouldn't want to go through the process of re-rooting and re-installing everything (or at least I wouldn't).
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
Would you mind clarifying that for me? I'm not totally understanding the comment but it sounds like it could be worth knowing
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] miduran06:
the folder that is downloaded from the repository needs files
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ziyab:
Can you please clearify this step that which files need to be downloaded and which not...?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] kerdelgreen767:
guys quick question.

i have a problem with my h872 and i want to flash stock 11g kdz

when i use lg up it reboots to twrp instead of download mode.

how do i solve this??
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
Interesting... Along the lines of that pyusb problem posted earlier?

I went through a dry run as far as I could without committing just to see if I got any errors. Got that pyusb one, one time I believe, but was able to fix that, and I'm aware that there's a twrp version deal mentioned awhile back in this thread also.

Is there some kind of list or something of what's needed and how to go about it?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] el_venga:
how can i return to full stock and unrooted? no issues with the process, i just need to put it back.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] IshsXda:
LOL i would trade my unrooted unlocked G6 for your rooted unlocked G6
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] el_venga:
lol, is flashing stock laf (extracted from kdz) via dd in twrp safe?

nevermind, found the post.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sarlion_Footman:
Any timeline on the new safer method? Also is there anyway to delete the downloaded update? Feels like a bomb just waiting for me to reboot my phone.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Globespy:
Hi!

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure I understand you?

Are you talking about flashing a stock 11g TMobile image and then running the root?

If so, I never really thought of this, but should be an option as TMobile must provide a way for people's phones that for whatever reason got messed up with their 11h update to resolve and go back to previous version, 11g.

Food for thought.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] kerdelgreen767:
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Any help ??
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] theansible:
sorry, I could have sworn that I selected all I deleted before. Anyway I went back and edited it away. I hope that makes everyone happy. By the way I ended up getting a xiaomi redmi 5 plus for $195. I unlocked, flashed TWRP, flashed a ROM, and rooted in under 30 minutes. and in my opinion this phone is comparable to the LG G6.. maybe even a bit better. camera quality's better and the battery is 4000mah. everything else seems to mostly be the same. except now I have full control of my device.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] cccuc:
Same problem here!!!
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jasongw:
Just wanted to check in, as I only just found this thread right after updating to 11h (of course! Why would it happen any other way?). Any idea if it's possible to either a) use this method as-is, or b) revert the 11h to 11g or earlier so we can use this method?

Thanks!
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] generiz:
Repo /runningnak3d/lglaf don't work :( please help!
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
[MENTION=4761584]generiz[/MENTION] I migrated all my repos to GitLab when it was announced that Microsoft was buying GitHub. I have updated the links in the first post.

-- Brian
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Donbran:
"Security Patch"

Will this work on the 11h version? Or was the security patch specifically to stop this root process?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] the_sonik:
hey i'm new to lg g6 . can i downgrade from h872 11h to 11g ? :confused:

any help would be appreciated.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] megamanfre:
Ugh I am an IDIOT!!!

I tried stopping a system update by going into DL mode, and now Im stuck in a TWRP boot only. I cant seem to get out of it.

Any time I try booting into recovery, or restore theres nothing to restore, and recovery just kicks me right back to the TWRP menu after restarting itself.

Can anyone help?!
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ifyeez:
If you have backup just restore it, it saved me.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] TManchu:
Just found this thread yesterday, and as many others do I also updated my phone to 11h before knowing about this root method. Based on what I've read from the thread and some basic research, couldn't those on stock, untouched 11h just download the 11g KDZ and flash it using LGUP "Update" mode?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be possible?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] christopherrrg:
There's a few things you'd have you check and ARB (anti roll back) being one of those few. You most likely set your ARB higher then the version you're able to flash back to by updating. Meaning you can only go forward, unless LG resets it with a new android version. (Not 100% on this just assumption.) I'm using oreo and my ARB is back to 0 and I have H873 so not sure if that makes a difference. If you attempt with regular LGUP it will fail and if you do it with modded then you'll quite possibly have a brick on your hands.

There's more into LAF being explored by advanced developers but nothing concrete as of yet. Just wait and see.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] TManchu:
Thanks for your reply. I was just looking at LG Bridge (to see if Oreo was available through there) and there was an option to roll back. I didn't do it, but it might be something to look at.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] 小阿瑟:
I cannot boot into twrp any again after i install wrong recovery

I cannot boot into twrp any again after i install wrong recovery，now my phone just can boot into the fastboot mode ，so how can i save my phone?please......
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] 小阿瑟:
now , i can boot into the twrp,,but whatever rom i installed, i canot go into system,just play the video again and again,plaese,,help me
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Grid4:
For people on 11h, there is kdz available at lg-firmwares.com. Not tasted by me just FYI.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] carendule:
i think i misses my misc,please help where i can get a correct one
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] roosxter:
So this isnt possible if you took th 87211h? Has anyone on this software tried it
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] INeedTogepi:
Has anyone tested this?

My phone is currently on Software Version H87211h. I need to know if someone has tested this method with 11h, or if there is a way to downgrade my phone to 11g.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Zach (AKA INeedTogepi)
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
If someone that is already rooted can upgrade to 11h -- NOT with the KDZ, use a zip to flash all partitions except for recovery or you will lose TWRP. Once on 11h, flash the H918 laf and see if it will still boot. If it will, then this will work on 11h, if they fixed the firmware so it won't boot, then this method will not work on 11h.

Either way, someone that is already rooted isn't taking a risk since they can just flash the H872 laf back onto their phone.

I don't have a G6 or I would do it.

-- Brian
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] zakiyy:
After a reset of the phone from setting .. Now phone stuck on TWRP when power ON.. any way to go out from TWRP???
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] megamanfre:
Yea I had to use my backup from when I originally rooted it. Now Im just having issues with using anything that was root required, and Im now afraid of trying this out as I dont want to brick my phone, since I have TWRP and with Root Check it says Im rooted, so dont know if redoing all these steps will screw the phone up.

Plus now I cant get certain apps as it says my phone isnt compatible. Like the Samsung Gear App, so I cant sync my phone with my Gear Frontier. Ugh I just wanna upgrade my phone at this point.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathanpbk:
First of all, thank you so much for this. I followed it to a t and it worked perfectly!

I have a question regarding flashing a custom rom. I installed the H872 TWRP to recovery via the LAF TWRP, but when I go in to the recovery TWRP data is encrypted. Do I need to do a full wipe before being able to flash a rom? I assume I need to pull a backup of misc to my pc first then wipe, then push a rom and gapps etc and flash it. Then push the misc backup and flash that so I don't lose my mac address? I don't want to do anything before I am 100% sure. I have been reading and reading but I have not found a satisfactory answer yet.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Globespy:
Great idea! But I'm guessing no one will do it.

I wondered if using the official ROMs to downgrade to 11g then do the root?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Beyaz66:
Hi. Thanks for this guide. It also worked for me. But I 'accidentally' accepted the system OTA update from the notification panel and now the device only starts to TWRP. Unfortunately, I did not made a backup from TWRP. So, what is the best option to recover the boot?

Edit: Trying to go into download mode also starts TWRP after showing the 'Down mode' splash.

Edit2: I've tried these commands and that made device booting up normally. In the case where someone is in the same situation as me: if the first one is enough to solve your problem, then I DON'T RECOMMAND using the second command as it may cause some wifi related problems.

[B][SIZE="4"]dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/fota[/SIZE][/B]
[COLOR="Silver"]dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/misc[/COLOR]
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] lebrontk:
all right thanks ... root, then unlock, and then I returned to stock,,,how can i donate by its root method [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION]
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] lebrontk:
on page 12 is your answer. --->onaikel

If you want to restore original laf:

1- Download original laf here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cfq...ew?usp=sharing

2- Copy laf.img to phone.

3- Enable adb on phone.

4- Open command prompt.

5- Adb shell, accept adb on phone.

6- Su, allow on phone.

7- dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/soc/624000.ufshc/by-name/laf

8- dd if=/sdcard/laf.img of=/dev/block/platform/soc/624000.ufshc/by-name/laf

Now you have stock laf and you can enter on download mode again.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sagorieli13:
https://youtu.be/-z4CWLikPcI?t=35

at 00:35 bottom of LGup is "recovery.img"

do i need this file?

from where to download?﻿
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
You don't need to wipe out ALL of misc (which will wipe out your serial number, wifi MAC, BT MAC):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/misc bs=256 count=1

That will wipe out just the first 256 bytes which contain the flags that cause the phone to boot to recovery if an OTA has been taken.

Just hit the yellow "donate to me" button under my name ;)

-- Brian
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] electricx:
Hello. I hope for your help. I finished the second part of this manual without problems and errors, but my phone still shows an inscription "download mode" again, not by TWRP. I tried to repeat it several times, but the result does not change. Who knows what the problem is?

thanks
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] PjLyTam:
G6 brick 9008 who can help, me will return for you
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] chibichuba:
Any chance of this method still working on the 11h update?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] RNAIL:
Im on 11G, i get to the step with LGUP and it never sees my device plugged in. Any ideas? Could my drivers be out of date or something similar?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] brossovitch:
Anyone tested on 20a?

Just wondering.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Globespy:
Sure, you ahead a test it for the rest of us too scared to do it and no-one able to advise!
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] firstblud:
Question regarding: "You must have a version of laf that has the COPY opcode"

How do I check my version of laf? If I have a version that doesn't have the "COPY" opcode, how do I install/update it to such?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
LAF was patched before the G6 was released, so no G6 laf has the COPY opcode.

-- Brian
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] PriusVapor:
Is there a method for root on the new Oreo update yet? My device is unlocked by the carrier and I would love to help if there isn't any way to do it yet
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] joshuaedrake:
I was able to root without issue on 11e
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] leunamme9:
bricked

i had bricked my phone please help me:(:(:(:(
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Let us just pull out our Crystal ball and find out what's wrong with your phone...

We need details to attempt to help
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Globespy:
11e?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] andrizmitnick:
has anyone tried to install custom rom after this guide? i try installing lineage/aquariOS by editing the zip file, but it won't boot, always get me into twrp
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] NighthawkXL:
You need to use the LAF-based TWRP (then restore LAF to stock) to flash the TWRP for the H872 into Recovery then use that one to install your ROM. AquariOS has a H872 build on the main G6 forum.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] andrizmitnick:
right now i'm on laf-based twrp and using H918 laf

so the steps is like this?

1. restore laf to stock

2. flash twrp image via my currect laf-based twrp

is it like that? have u try it personally?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] NighthawkXL:
Other way around.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] leunamme9:
oh sorry, well i tried to follow the instructions but failed to pull the cord after the laf partition and flashed until the system
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Khotum7:
I pulled out my cable too late, I think. Had to force shut down with volume down + power. Now my phone wont start or even go into download mode? Am I screwed? H872 btw
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] V0idst4r:
There was some previous (broken English) chatter about firehose files but otherwise...

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How do you check the required ARB version of a firmware?
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
If you turned your phone off after this, you probably have a 9008 mode brick. There's no way to fix this yet without the firehose programmer files which hasn't been leaked/released yet, if ever.

I was a LAF tester for this on another model and nuked my LAF a few times. If you ever make a mistake or even think you did, always flash 100 pct stock kdz before you restart or turn off the phone or you have a nice doorstop
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Khotum7:
So there's no hope for my 872 at this moment? That really sucks, still haven't paid off most of it. I'm eyeing this phone as a possible replacement: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Essential-...WcAAOSwvApaDRMP:sc:USPSFirstClass!98201!US!-1
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Who's your provider? If you're in the US, just call your provider and tell them you don't know what happened and you need a warranty replacement. If you have insurance, it gets shipped faster.

For tmobile, warranty devices ship overnight or 2 day and costs 5.41 due at pickup and without insurance it's 20 bucks and 7 day shipping.

But yes, you are out of luck. There isn't even a way to save the g5 yet from 9008 if I'm not mistaken but I haven't kept up which is sad cause it would so easy to fix but they'd rather make people buy a new motherboard.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MetroWestMA:
Somewhere we need a thread for custom ROMS's on the H872. I tried the latest Lineage 15.1 and never got GApps / Google Play Store working (always stuck on your device is updating please wait a few moments). I also had the WiFi issue, but there are some instruction on restoring the misc partition which can fix that (without working Google Play, I gave up)!.

I am thinking of punting on this phone and getting either an unlocked G6, or something else entirely as it seems that custom ROMS are scarce and will continue to be so since so few people have rooted....
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
Actually been wondering the same. Is removing the junk reason enough to root and maybe not be able to get hold of a working o, or p build afterwards?

Since we've had all the questions in here regarding the last security update and getting root afterwards.
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MetroWestMA:
Well it looks like some have rooted with the latest from TMobile, but I personally would rather be running a non- T-Mobile ROM, as TMobile uses this to detect what apps you are running, blocks tethering, forces you to use their Visual VM app (that sucks BTW). Lineage 15.1 did have native support for VisualVM -- that much worked before I bailed.

But I need WiFi calling because of where I live and would like to have VOLTE. Also an extremely subpar camera experience would return me to a LG ROM..

Lineage 15.1, with WiFi and Google Apps (Play_ support would have been pretty good, but there are only so many hours in the day. If I had gotten it working I would have posted instructions...
[T-Mobile LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ken C:
Agreed with pretty much everything you said. I can't cook a rom up myself so there's that.

Since you mentioned it would you have an alternative to t-mobile visual voicemail?