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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
I'm very grateful for all the help and thought you guys have put into this. I have the LG V-series celebrities working on it....runningnak3d himself...Chazzmatt (whose post about the V40 forums opening up convinced me this was a better next phone), Josh Mcgrath & Iowakeyst4tus who are all over the forums sharing knowledge. Great active community.

So, i'll message Messi to see if he has some octopus generated files to try. By the way the screenshot below shows the KDZs i was using. It sounds like i must have misclicked (or mistook) one of them for this 9008 brick. Do all the file names look correct?

EDIT: also took a pic of the box which matches the phone and lists model as H932BK.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Yes, those are all the correct files.

As for the Octopus -- there isn't a file that gets created for you to "flash". You will need to find someone with an Octopus box that is willing to do a remote session. You have to install a driver that allows the Octopus box to talk to the phone while in QDLOADER (9008) mode. It flashes the stock firmware back onto the phone.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Thanks Brian for the clarification...i was trying to understand how that worked and a remote session makes more sense.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
That sounds safe and easier than my method.. I've heard of this, I didn't know it works remotely to.. thanks again..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jsh1972:
Please advise

Um am I in trouble? lol

I did the rollback to 10d but haven't proceeded further because I need to go buy an SD card to partition and put TWRP and Magisk on so I can finish. My device still has the bootloader unlocked and I've been swiping away the notification for the Oreo system upgrade. Well, I'm sitting in the DMV getting my license renewed, the number on the wall is on 31 and my ticket is 67, and somehow the system upgrade notification is back and it looks like I inadvertently accepted it? Luckily my battery is under 40% so it's not proceeding just yet, but my question is basically do I need to relock the bootloader before the upgrade goes through? I don't see any way to cancel it. Do I maybe need to keep the battery under 40% until I lock the bootloader or complete the root process? Please advise, and thank you.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
If you are stock, you can take the OTA even though your bootloader is unlocked.

You will have to flash back to 10d again, but that is no biggie.

EDIT: or you can lock and then unlock your bootloader, and that will format userdata which is where the update.zip is... your choice.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
Just wondering about the first instruction. I've rooted many phones in my days. But all were through Odin and Samsung and originally the HTC Evo. It says to unlock bootloader first in dev options (done) and then boot into fastboot mode, plug in usb and type something on computer to further unlock bootloader. When I plug in the usb, will some command prompt window come up automatically? I have no idea about adb and fastboot, etc. I've downloaded LG drivers, installed the modified LG UP in correct location. I have FWUL bootable on usb. I'm basically ready to go. I understand all the instructions. But is this unlock bootloader part done in FWUL or Windows? Where do I type that command? Granted I'm not home right now. Maybe it will be obvious when I go to do it. Just wondering about that step. Thanks everybody. Quinten
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
You open a command prompt and type:

fastboot oem unlock

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Phelpsy93:
So excited! I have been through three warranty phones from T-mobile because of the stupid software issues with bluetooth and apps randomly stopping. Have been looking all over for a solution and now you are here to save the day! Going to get all ready and try this!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
Aha I said it that somebody was gonna ask about that step lol
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
Does anyone know where I can find android-info.txt
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I'm still for an app that can do all of this with one click. [emoji23]
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
That's what I assumed. But every time I've ever used command prompt, you point the access to a directory, a device, whatever. So that didn't look like enough info to type in a command prompt. But I guess that's how fastboot works. Will get around to doing this tomorrow. Thanks again for all you've done for us H932 users.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
This will help you

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
So I accidentally installed that pos twrp app as a system app through twrp recovery on my first boot. Even titanium backup can't delete it. Anyone know how to remove this cancerous useless app? Everything I try fails

Love twrp but damn that app is trash

Edit. You have to go in with root explorer to find the apk itself and manually delete it in case anyone has this issue in the future.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
2013 is calling and they want their phone back. ;)

There's no more one-click root solutions for newer LG phones. Security is just too different.

People that post on here about some website the promises kingoroot can bootloader unlock/root their phone just have no clue.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Lol. I know, hence the laughing face emoji. Gone the days of towelroot and kingo. Learned mah lesson this year. Gonna be buying those unlocked phones from now on.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
It won't be an app you install on your phone, you will still have to boot FWUL, but eventually* this will be a "one click root".

You will boot FWUL, and there will be a single icon that you click that will flash the proper laf, and then flash TWRP, and if you click the little "root" checkbox, it will root your phone as well.

The only thing it can't do is unlock your bootloader for you.

*Eventually being a VERY long time unless I get some breakthrough on signed writing so LG UP can be eliminated.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] wireeater:
I just wanted to say thanks to all who were involved with getting this device rooted. I've had it for close to a year now and have checked weekly to see if anything had been found. I lost hope towards the end thinking it just wasn't going to happen then BAM, you guys did it. I always prefered the option to having a phone rooted even if I don't use it to it's abilities. I can't wait until we can start getting some ROMS onto it so we can get rid of the terrible t-mobile/LG android.

With that said, I will contribute a small donation for your efforts as I know this was not a small feat.

Mine is working great and I didn't have any issues other than user error. I probably reflashed twrp 6 times thinking I did something wrong only to realize the button combo I was doing was wrong. I was holding vol down + power, releasing both at LG boot then holding power... I skimmed through the thread and eventually seen where the same issue arised and it was replied with the correct way. I also had the issue with the GIT PULL taking forever. It would take around 20 minutes to unpack everything. Not sure what that was related to. I tried a 60GB (64gbstick) FWUS and a 8gb (8gbstick). I did use the persistent images. I thought maybe that had something to do with it but I didn't bother trying non-version. Now that I have it rooted I will most likely be keeping this device once it's paid off because this is by far the best phone I've had due to the cameras and audio and now with root it's much more appealing.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Pm me Brian.. I got some money for your time.. I know you busy..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
No reply yet from Messi. If you know anyone else that might be able to fix a 9008, i'm all ears. Thanks.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
I just sent him a message for you on Google.. He takes college classes.. When he message back I'll let you know
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Great, thanks!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Good news and bad news from messi.. Octopus box the only fix available.. He does have one.. Brian was on the money on that one.. He also said no past files exist yet for the hardware.. On the upside.. On the upside h930 roms are the easiest to port.. I'm testing a few things.. I have to multi-task.. I have to little ones and my wife hate when I get into developing..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
I appreciate your help and can relate...my wife and kids are always like..."Ugh, dad's messing with his phone again." :laugh:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] messi2050:
i didn't get any messages from you..

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h932 is listed as supported model [write firmware] on octopus box so i hope you can find one and fix your device using it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Lol.. Yea my wife says I cheat on her with gadgets.. In the real world I fix anything and can build anything.. But nothing like these devs.. Linux is like French.. I was just told how to boot the h932 roms.. My brain said " huh.. I hope I don't need Linux for these edits.." Lol.. I mostly just want to use GSI.. I have vendor partition..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Apologies, i must have send to the wrong Messi (oops). It sounds from the above you don't have access to such a box? :(
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] messi2050:
yea sadly i don't have one but if i had one it would be still difficult to do it over internet, you need to find local mobile repairer who have it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] R800x_user:
Hes saying you might need to get your own octopus box and do it yourself. The box has the capabilities to write to the h932.

Edit: he replied asap
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] me2151:
To use GSI images you need to use a treblized rom as a base. The H930 one will not work for that. PM me and we can talk.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Thanks all. Not great news but I appreciate the input. Looks like this H932 is heading back to LG for repair.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
I'd look at the price first. How much for LG to repair vs buying a used one that works and selling the old one for parts

LG will just replace the main board, so looking at probably 125 at least

Personally, I would think sending it into a "shop" with the octopus box would be the easiest and cheapest method. Or look at the price of box to fix it yourself, possibly
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I’m fine with that. I’m comfortable with Linux. My only issue is that even though I followed the steps my phone booted up after the first flash then when i tried to go to download mode for the second flash it was gone for some reason. lol

I have no clue what I did wrong there. I think because I couldn’t catch the process and unplug the usb because it was to dang fast to notice. If you ever make that one click root thingy, I’ll buy you another big mug of bear. I’ll wait. Huge thanks for your efforts.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
You probably pulled the cable too soon, and laf hadn't finished flashing. The new instructions don't require the USB cable to be pulled.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I didn’t pull the cable at all. I was confused on what the hell was going on (my first time ever messing with an LG phone). I Let it complete to the 100% then booted up haha. Not blaming anyone but myself, though. I’m happy with whatever you devs give out. Just gonna sit here and wait for you (or anyone else who can create something to help) patiently.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
I had to return the phone due to battery issues. I found a guy selling in the box new H932s for $320. He has 20k plus reviews, and a 98%, so I think I can trust this one.

As soon as it comes in, I will get to work.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I thanked this post like 20 times. Lmao
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
How much if any of the backup made with the LG mobile switch app can be restored after using this procedure?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
Everything but settings I believe, even backs up your internal storage. I have to say LG's backup is near perfect to make backups of aside from twrp and the power of titanium backup.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] KUSOsan:
Nice. eBay was running a 15% off promo yesterday. Were you able to take advantage of that? I got a new in box sealed supposedly for 300 with the code. Can't wait till it gets here so I can partake in these "festivities"

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This is true. There's been a few minor quirks but I actually haven't even had to use titanium since using the LG tool. I still use titanium as a backup just in case though but the LG tool has been faster and easier so far. It even restores phone settings and stuff too (at least on my V20 on 7.0) which I've never had luck doing well with titanium and that comes in handy with a long list of WiFi and Bluetooth devices
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] radekmazur:
Once your guys root this phone, what ROM you install?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
The only one we can, at the moment: [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] 's oreo 20k zip. Otherwise, stay on nougat if you prefer, while we all PATIENTLY ;) wait for custom ROMs meant for the H932.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] radekmazur:
Thanks.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Yep. Some people said there are bugs in Oreo. I haven't seen any yet. It's all personal preference. If you're fine with nougat, no harm staying there for now.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
ASOP Custom ROM for H932

ASOP Custom ROM for T-mobile H932. There was going to be more, including upcoming PIE -- but for this is it, at least for now. If you want to know why,

read the thread

.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Actually [MENTION=4591212]me2151[/MENTION] released a LOS 15.1 build for the H932. Thanks to the drama, it has no support, but for those people that don't like stock, they have a ROM.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
I didn't know he released it already. I know he was baking it, but I guess I didn't subscribe to the thread to get the updates.

Yeah, the drama of a few screwed the lot of us over...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
Thats the part that kills me man

Maybe one day I'll learn how to code for android
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Sounds like the whole jcase saga as well
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
It's too bad, because he released that rom quick after getting steamed. If some would have been patient, it would have been one more dev on our side. The more I think about it, the more it pisses me off.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewatt99:
Considering the page where the lineage build initially came from is a little heated, i'm going to ask here. I attempted to install lineage and it gets to the boot screen with the green line, then after awhile restarts and goes into twrp. Anyone got any ideas on what I missed?

Edit: dont worry just the usual fixed it while typing this. Gotta wipe first.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
It's not that easy. I've been learning for the last two years and I still can't build solid apps. I do build stuff, but I don't think I can run a whole big project on my own. I have a decent understanding of code, but I haven't jumped on the Android development wagon yet. Just need to find out what languages they use to do so then start learning it. Android studio has been giving me hell to install on my laptop. So many errors. lol
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
Can anyone tell me the correct process, screen, and/or button combo to flash update.zip?

I tried

1.Dead Android screen--- no response/connectivity

2.Fastboot--- error android-info.txt not in archieve

3.download mode--- doesn't exist
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
Just did a complete backup with twrp, and it's over 13.5GB. Seems too high.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Did you go in to TWRP Options and make sure compression was checked?

My full TWRP backup is 10.82gb.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
No. It failed, so I will do that now.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Mine failed when system image was checked. That's the only partition I didn't backup. Not too worried about that one, though..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
I think you have to wait a little bit before the options pop up, something like that
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
If I wait it just reboots the phone
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsu718:
Finally found a SD card reader so I could format to FAT32, everything worked out fine. Getting into TWRP on the first try when the unlocked warning notification popped up and bypassed the recovery button combo was annoying and took a few tries.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
I was annoyed with myself too. First time my fat thumb swiped the screen and that was the end of that. I was more careful second time.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Well good news is i got my replacement H932 and i brought it back to 10d and put laf partition on. The bad news is i got through the whole FWUL process and everything goes exact as it show. It goes to 100% on the phone and powers off when i pull the USB. Now here's where i must be doing something wrong. I read the instructions to indicate that you have to manually enter recovery before anything else next. Except when i do, it actually restores and goes back to the start of 10d instead of TWRP. Thoughts?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
You're sure you pushed the h933 laf through lgup? Did you get to the factory reset screen and choose yes twice?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
" hold vol down + power. When the LG logo appears, immediately release and then hold power until you get the the factory reset screen. Choose yes twice and you will be in TWRP) to IMMEDIATELY boot into recovery. If you don't, then recovery-from-boot.p will wipe out TWRP, and you will have to do THIS part again."

Keep at it till you get it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
Did you make sure your bootloader is unlocked
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Yes, i used that method all the time on my V20. It just actually recovered instead of going to TWRP.

Yes bootloaders unlocked. Pretty sure i'd have bricked going from Oreo H93220k to Nouget 7.1.2. I'm definitely on 10d.

It occurs to me now that there used to be a step involving formating an microSD as FAT16 and loading Magisk17 and TWRP.IMG on it. I don't see that there anymore and i made my FWUL stick a couple weeks past. Maybe need to redo my FWUL stick? I thought the git pull would keep it current?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
I believe fat32 is good to go as well
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Fwul is probably still the same but it's different from git pull. Git pull only keeps the lglaf tools current and has nothing to do with the fwul OS.

Yes, you do need to make sure your SD card is either fat16 or fat32. A lot of SD cards are formatted via factory as ntfs or extfat
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
So i got it rooted now. This is NOT a knock in any way on the OG but rather my step by step overly OCD manner in doing this after my disaster last time. The instructions don't actually say to have the SD card in during FWUL so i didn't have it in last attempt (though i should get marks for formating the sdcard in FAT16 on windows 10). It occured to me after my last post that was probably implied and i should retry. Volia! Thanks runningnak3d!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
UsbError

I've been trying to get this done for several hours now. First problem that I had is FWUL won't boot on my laptop. It will boot in fail safe mode 1 but with intense graphical problems. Can't see anything. Bear in mind that I run Ubuntu on my home computer as my main OS. I've rooted every phone I've ever owned for the last 10 years. But this particular process is very new to me. Anyways, I am not home so trying to do this on my laptop that runs windows 7. Ubuntu live USB's also won't boot on this laptop without graphical errors unless I type nomodeset to avoid graphical issues. This does not work with FWUL. So I installed FWUL in a virtual box within windows. Boots up great, added extension pack to recognize USB devices, etc. I've already unlocked bootloader, flashed the h933 laf followed by the h932 minus laf. No problem. Phone boots up fine. Booted up, it shows up on FWUL without issue. Get a little icon showing phone connected. But in download mode, I think there is a problem. I don't get any indication that FWUL is recognizing the device even though it shows in the virtualbox usb devices list as LG h933 and it's checked for pass-through to the FWUL OS just like when the phone is booted and FWUL recognizes it without issue. But doesn't seem to recognize it in download mode. And when I run the ./lglaf.py command, I get a long list of script ending in USBError messages and cannot proceed (see attached image). Any ideas?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
With your phone connected, and enabled for pass-through, type lsusb and paste the output.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsu718:
When it did that to me, it was because the phone either wasn't plugged in, or the phone hadn't gotten far enough into the download mode to show the firmware update screen. That needs to happen before running lglaf.py. I don't know if FWUL has the same issues that USB 3.0 vs 2.0 etc did through windows with getting ADB and fastboot to run properly, or using the original charging cord.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
[android@fwul ~]$ lsusb

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1004:633a LG Electronics, Inc. Ultimate 2 Android Phone L41C

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

So it is seeing it. But same result. I'll be home tomorrow. Maybe I'll just boot FWUL from USB at home where I never have issues doing so.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Make sure to use magisk from this thread.. It has the no dm-variety.. I tried to cheat and use an upgraded magisk and didn't realize it didn't have no dm.. I thought I was flashing broken files with broken recovery.. My system partition kept crashing.. I found all this out today after several days of starting over and getting trouble shooting tips in my pm.. I found a 2018 no dm-variety ( the old one acts up for me), & some other amazing mods in a one stop shop an starting dev made for one plus ( but he included universal ones).. To many mods to list so I'll post a link for someone to repost better.. Again.. Not my work.. Just sharing an annoying journey that was worth it..:good:

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https://zackptg5.com/android.php#disverfe

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https://xdaforums.com/android/software/universal-dm-verity-forceencrypt-t3817389
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Or flash the no verity (no encryption) file yourself after Magisk, like I

recommend in WTF thread.

I suggest flashing the no encryption and no root check files after Magisk.