yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gamesoul Master:
No problem, sorry I couldn't actually help. Hopefully you end up with a solution at some point.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
I haven't really been keeping up, but are you on Nougat or Oreo?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
No problem, man. At least you tried [emoji109]

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I wish I was on nougat, I would have had root by now. I'm on Oreo 20k. My dumb a$$ updated the phone the day I got it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
And you lost download mode correct? And no twrp with stock recovery?

Just saw your post. Have you tried a factory reset through stock recovery? The reason I say stock recovery is because the system reset didn't even bring back a file I deleted by accident but I was pushed into twrp, obviously.. But still try both if one doesn't work . Factory reset is *supposed* to repair the system img too which should bring back LAF
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
No worries I'm in the same boat bro, I'm on Oreo, no root, no download mode, no twrp. Without download mode you can't LGUp anything. I can get into stock recovery but it's just the Android with exclamation mark and says no command. I don't know the button combo to bring up the menu to sideload the update.zip
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
It sucks, but lesson learned. Never buying a carrier phone ever again. And never buying a locked down either.

Yup and from first try. I will try to get into stock recovery and do a factory reset and see what happens. Thanks.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Dude, if you can chill for another day, Iwill have my phone and i can figure out how you can get download mode back.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
I was just trying to figure it out and help if anyone else was in the same boat. But this is your speciality not mine.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] joeygee23:
Ok I going in!! I just got a warranty replacement on 93220J. Do I use regular or patched LGUP to put "D" on my phone?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
The patch one it says it in the instruction there is a link to it
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
I will add to your bounty.. i added a link for some who don't know Messi.. he is a beast with qpst.. I did some qpst testing with him on the zte zmax pro.. if anyone can fix a hard brick, it's him.. he is very helpful.. I frequently bother him on Hangouts.. he said he can work on any device, he prefers to have one for personal testing..

https://xdaforums.com/android/development/recovery-twrp-v3-lg-stylo-3-plus-t3649621
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] igotroot:
I'm running around being Mr Mom at the moment; I downloaded the files earlier, but when I get back from the daycare center I will proceed to backup my phone files, settings etc, and start the process. I appreciate the reach out! Thanks.

I will also get the FWUL persistent. Thx.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] cloud1250000:
I think it should be possible to prevent lgup from flashing the irrelevant partition.. maybe disable one check from been done... I assume the person who enabled the more extensive option might have an idea on how to do that...

Is there a reason why fwul cant be used to flash some partition?

Thanks
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
IN TWRP it's encrypted still and asks for a password. I went ahead and cleared data like on other devices and it booted up fine after reboot quickly 2 times. Try that if it doesn't work. TWRP is getting better about supporting encryption

Just FYI if/when anyone has this issue
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Thanks to [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION]
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Corrected :)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
It is disabled so that you don't brick your phone -- safety feature.

The OS knows that you have modified partitions, so it won't let you eff up your phone :)

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
I will answer all these questions in the first post :)

I have not gotten flashing of SIGNED KDZs working with lglaf yet, so for now, we have no choice but to use LG UP.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
Thanks for all the hard work Brian, have both v30s up and running twrp. Can I send a few beers your way?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Camping at the moment, but loving the way this is progressing! I remotely accessed my work computer so that I could download the kdz files. Question, [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION]: in the one post, you said about the h930 kdz and the h932 kdz. This thread, you're saying the h932 and h933 kdz. Which one should we use if we're still on 10d?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
This post has all the links that you need. It has been tested by multiple people, so if you follow it to the letter, you won't have any problems.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
You haven't use the 933 to flash the LAF from it, and only LAF. After that, flash the 93210d, everything but LAF.

You need the 933 kdz for that one file
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Abdiel1224:
So i can downgrade to 10d? Im in oreo right now
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gamesoul Master:
I'm assuming you mean to unlock the bootloader using adb fastboot after enabling the option in the developer settings. Which involves also enabling USB debugging to do, yes? It's been a while, so I'm just making sure.

Also, potential typo issue (and my main question). In one of your lines to be entered, you have "!EXEC toybox" etc. On the XDA app, there is one space in there. On the browser, there are two spaces. Which one is correct?

Also, just out of curiosity... What's the time frame for pulling that USB cable at the right time? I'm guessing maybe a couple seconds?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
I believe so, he said it'll work with Oreo. But you'll be on Nougat at the end.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] t436h05t:
[MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] Ty for your hard work and support!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tattedup:
I keep getting error no such file or directory for the command " ./lgaf.py " any suggestions?

Thanks for the hard work [MENTION=218401]Brian[/MENTION]
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
Maybe this was answer already my bad i didn't see it but does this method work on linux or it has to be windows (linux user in the house)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
Use FWUL burned on a USB stick, since that's what was used for this method.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ClockworkImpulse:
Worked Great!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] bacon612:
Us998 Frankenstein user here. I am using my ls996 converted to us998 on TMobile but would love to have band 71. Is it possible to flash to H932 somehow to get access to band 71? It's my understanding that he hardware on all of these variants I'd all the same, no?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I'm very chill. Just checking for updates, and the fine folks here are trying to help. [emoji109]
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Yessss.. you the man!!!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SweetwaterBurns:
I might be misremembering, but I thought I saw someone post that they were able to get back download. I can't find the post... I'm trying to help [MENTION=3233933]Cj719[/MENTION] flash update.zip from recovery but we can't seem to get the menu to load in stock recovery so he can select sideload or flash from SD, etc. If this individual exists, did you use recovery to do it and did you do something special to get the options to come up?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
I saw the post to.. a few pages back.. Brian will figure it out in a day or 2 if we can't.. I lost my mind over starting over so I know waiting a day or two is a lot to ask..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] whojabacod:
Where is this update.zip?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SweetwaterBurns:
I posted it a while ago, but here ya go.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rvx3XWlerRNwa8LAxHxJtGTZrR9SKxZN/view?usp=drivesdk

Let us know if it works for you and what you do to get into recovery.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] inuyasha1999:
Not sure if this has been said, yet, but if you are having issues with Magisk Hide after flashing the Oreo zip, you'll need to uninstall the version of Magisk Manager that is installed, and install version 5.8.3. Magisk Hide kept crashing Magisk Manager for me after I flashed the Oreo zip, but after doing some searching, I found others having the same issue, and this was the fix for them. Tried it myself, and Magisk Hide is working properly now.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
This zip can only be flashed through some sort of recovery. LGUP and flash tools only take KDZ files. And also you HAVE to be in download mode ( and if DL mode is gone then your SOL) In order to flash that you'd have to have root. I remember back in the day Samsung made real easy to flash stock firmware without any root or custom recovery. We just had to use ODIN and flash a couple of files and we were golden. This is making me hate LG to the bone.

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Here is the thread where you can find all of the zip files

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/development/h932-t-mobile-one-oem-firmware-stop-t3746958
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
I said that yesterday ;)

Magisk Manager 5.8.3 from topjohnwu's GitHub. SafetyNet still gives invalid response. Hide works..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Weird. Yup, same here. But I don't use Magisk hide luckily but I still pass safety net ? I don't need safety net for anything tho

Edit. Manager 6.0
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
SafetyNet passes on 6.0. you just can't use Hide because it'll crash. It's the opposite on 5.8.1/5.8.2/5.8.3 - Hide works, SafetyNet check doesn't.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] inuyasha1999:
Gotcha. Didn't realize SafetyNet wasn't working with the previous versions. I guess it works for me that I have my cards used for wireless payments setup on my vivoactive 3, lol.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
I took invalid response to not necessarily mean failed, just not confirmation of passing ?

I'll have to give it a go and see what happens.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Right. Invalid response actually means passed, not failed. Failed means failed.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
How do I do safetynet? To many options..

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With the rom testing, has anyone tried flashing the boot.img as an image file in twrp, separate from the rom.. I've heard of cases where if the rom is not fully compatible with a device in a similar situation, the boot doesn't flash but the rest of the rom will.. then it just takes flashing the boot.img in twrp to achieve boot.. might have been done already..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
I'm able to get LGUP to load and recognize my phone. No go on adb. Is it safe to unlock bootloader in Linux, then proceed to Windows?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Yes, that part doesn't matter which os you use
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
I got bored.. I just spent 6 hours trouble shooting and learning how to do vendor partition.. mine on standby and good to go.. I'm hoping to see a pie rom soon..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] R800x_user:
Well here goes. So i was starting the process in downgrading but i was downloading 10d but what i had on my pc already was 10c. I was curious to see if i can downgrade to 10c but i would get to 90% using lgup and it would give me a error looking something like 0x81000 or so. The download for 10d wasnt complete so i rebooted my phone but i realized i wasnt supposed to do that and now only stuck with download mode. Lgup doesnt detect model anymore. Any suggestions?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
[MENTION=5497494]R800x_user[/MENTION] Is this a different phone? The phone I sent you back already had TWRP on it, and was rooted on 20k.

With that said, do you happen to have stock recovery or just download mode?

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] R800x_user:
After about 30 mins i got it to be recognized and starting the process all over. Annnnnnnnnnnd............ Back on 20k with a little bit of magisk.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Hey guys, so the H932 showed up today, but I forgot how to root it. Can someone walk me through the steps?

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Read the instructions. ;)

Also, don't skip to the middle and start there, like some people do.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Oh crap, I pulled the cable because I didn't want to have to wait for the phone to reboot.

Now I am stuck with TWRP and root on 20k.

WHAT DO I DO?!?!?

It is Monday -- gotaa have a little fun :)

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
And Sir we just got root don't start asking for custom roms
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Dig a foot wide by foot deep hole in a sunny place. Place phone GENTLY inside. Fill with topsoil, and generously water. Roots should start setting within a couple weeks. :D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Fastboot flash recovery. Duh?. Now I'm all nostalgic how easy it used to be
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
You have a v30! ETA custom ROM? ETA custom kernel?

Y U no have dem alredeez?!

:D

PSA to the newish kids on xda- don't ask for ETAs. Ever. Love your Dev. Send him monies. He's taken care of you ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
This should be interesting
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
What the hell guys.. couldn't pm me.. lol.. I've been doing circles all day.. started breakdancing a little.. thanks for the update brain.. use factory cable and trust the process..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Not with IP68. ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
#truth
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] [Cruzer]:
Oh and don't forget to put skip in the dd command or it won't work :laugh::victory:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
I followed the lafsploit to a tee and everything went great until using LGUP to flash H932 10d KDZ. As the instructions indicate i selected all partitions etc laf. It went through without seeming to have any issue at all. When however it went to reboot it was a hard brick. Nothing. The only life i can tell is that when i plug in the phone to the computer i can here the chirp of it finding the device. I've tried every combination of keyholds to and some cause the noise of it rebooting and recoming on line. But nothing on the screen.

This is literally the first day i've had this and the first thing i did....i'm almost in tears.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Sounds like you got a 9008 mode hard brick. If LG weren't a-holes and released the files, we could fix it ourselves. But since they didn't, since you're within the 14 days, just go tomorrow and exchange it at the store.

But it sounds like either the file you used is the wrong file, or someone named it incorrectly. Where did you download the kdz?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Well i'm ****ed then, i got it on swappa. I thought i got them from this post.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] me2151:
Are you 100% sure it was a h932 and not just a us998 on tmobile?

If it was not a h932 then that would explain your brick
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Files can be created.. or pulled from a device with similar hardware.. Messi is good for that.. you will also need to create a partition file that a guy that go by big country knows how to make.. he's in Android forums.. or someone else here can do it.. the risk is losing 9008 mode and then you need a replacement phone..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Ya I hope that bandwagon for the 932 starts soon, it would be helpful for sure
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
Seems as though he didn't flash the entire kdz. That's the way i interpreted his post.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
That's what I was thinking. I bet 933 system wasn't over written
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
No it finished the KDZ flash. Even said completed....it just never rebooted. Hey i'll drop a nice chunk of cash to salvage my phone. I've done V10, V20, and now this one....if i can revive it i'm forever done with LG like i am with Sammy. :(

Also i'm sure about the model. It was an H932. I checked in the about software section. I know everyone's probably thinking i did something super stupid...but this isn't by a long shot the first time i've done this. i used runningkids lafsploit root on my V20. Clearly something went wrong. though...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Nah man, things happen. It could have even been a coincidence that something went bad at the same time. But, it happened so only way to look is forward. People can repair these bricks now for the 8998 chip, but I couldn't tell you where to look except Google. I think they use the octopus box
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
I appreciate the encouragement Josh. I can at least see it in Win 10 device manager as Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008. Looking at the event log i think i found the event that derailed the process. Maybe brighter minds than mine can make use of the log (had to zip it to upload).
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Def have a hard brick there. The QD Loader is Qualcomm's interface when they originally manufacture the hardware and move on to load the software. But since QC/LG would rather charge people to replace the motherboard instead of a simple flash, the files haven't been released by them or LG. This is exactly why I don't feel bad for sending them bricked phones under warranty.

I would definitely try to get a hold of that missy guy mentioned above to see if he could fix it first. As for your log, that looks like a post-death log to me cause it shows as a 9008 already.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
I think i'm on the right path. This guy had the same issue and resolved with....you guessed it....Octopus.

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/help/bricked-lg-h930-v30-t3825831#post77714577

Thank you for your help BTW.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
A bad system flash would not cause a 9008 brick. The only things that cause a 9008 brick are:

1 - missing firmware (xbl, abl, tz, hyp)

2 - Wrong RSA key on any signed firmware

3 - Lower ARB version on any signed firmware

There are other ways to brick your phone, but it wouldn't be a 9008 brick:

1 - wiping out boot, recovery and laf without full fastboot. You will be able to get to the bootloader, but without fastboot commands, you can't fix your phone.

Are you POSITIVE that you picked the H932 KDZ for the second flash? If you somehow still had the H933 KDZ selected, then that would explain this.

LG UP has a MASSIVE amount of error checking. When you flash with LG UP:

1 - It writes to a temp area until all hash checks are complete

2 - It hash checks each block as it is written to the phone

3 - It does a final hash check of the entire partition before moving it from the temp area to the final partition.

So, even if you have a massively noisy USB bus, or bad cable, bad port, etc, LG UP will just fail to flash -- it won't write bad data.

Also, the reason no one (at least no one that understands the layout of a KDZ) post SHA hashes of a KDZ is because there is no reason to.

All of the checksums are built into the KDZ format. So again, if a KDZ is modified at all, without altering those hashes to match, then LG UP will detect the KDZ as bad and refuse to flash.

So, that just leaves a couple of possibilities:

1 - You had the wrong KDZ selected

2 - You had a phone that had the H932 system image flashed on it, but it was actually some other model.

3 - Your phone just happened to fail while attempting to root (bad NAND, bad CPU, etc).

Sorry you got a brick, but yes, if you can find someone with an Octopus box AND it isn't a hardware failure, then you can fix your phone.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
Pm Messi through the link.. he can make you files for testing and walk you through it.. ask him for his Hangouts to.. if you guys pull it off, just share it.. we don't want a Christmas tree decorated with 9008 mode v30s.. lol.. just trying to cheer you up.. my boy can help you make progress on this issue.. Brian said he will to give him time..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Over in the WTF thread, after someone Frankensteined to US998 Nougat and then Oreo via dev patched LGUP, he said he couldn't get the WTF bootloader unlock to work -- which requires certain version of Oreo. He was getting an error message. After trouble shooting USB cable, ports, downloading the code again -- I asked him if he was sure he was on Oreo, and he said yes. I asked for a screenshot. He then sheepishly apologized. He had flashed US998 Nougat twice in LGUP. Once to convert to US998 with US998 Nougat and then accidentally selected it again from his download folder when he meant to flash US998 Oreo.

It happens.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
I suspect #2 the cause.. thanks for shining a light B..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] wireeater:
So for the SD card, do you mean a micro card for the phone or can this be done by using another USB will loaded into FWUL. I got everything done last night but I didn't have a micro. I always had bad luck with them corrupting that I just stopped buying them.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
It HAS to be a microSD card, seated in the tray on the phone. Otherwise, the !EXEC command won't do anything.

!EXEC toybox dd [B]if=/storage/external_SD/twrp.img[/B] of=/dev/block/sde bs=4096 seek=10246\0

if means input file. It's looking for TWRP.img, which should be located at /storage/external_SD/ (your phone's microSD card)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] wireeater:
Ya, I figured as much by the command. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a way to sideload to the main sd portion of the phone but I suppose it needs to be on an external because it will get wiped. It's been a few years since I've rooted any of my phones. I use to live for ROMs to the point that I had a reflashed phone every week lol.

Not a big deal. I will grab a cheap one at lunch.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Actually the reason it has to be on external storage is that your internal storage is encrypted, and laf can't decrypt it -- so can't mount it.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
My reason isn't "wrong" though.... :p ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
No, but reason the person that I replied to supplied IS wrong. ;)

They thought it was due to the phone getting wiped. While the phone does get wiped, this isn't a step that occurs in. If laf were capable of decrypting internal storage, then no SD card would be needed.

However, if laf were capable of decrypting internal storage, that would be a MASSIVE security hole. Hmm, now that I think about it, I am really surprised that LG didn't go ahead and throw that in......

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] el.quechon:
My man dont give them ideas