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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
I agree with [MENTION=3250376]ChazzMatt[/MENTION]. If you grab the noverity and root check blockers from the WTF thread, it's pretty easy to just add them to the zip queue in TWRP after adding Magisk.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
Got it done. Rooted and on Oreo. Home computer did the trick. Thanks for everything you do!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lowkeyst4tus:
I also said it's a one stop shop for mods.. Makes my life a lot easier.. Will help noobs..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaysonic88:
Just as a post mortem on the previous phone that bricked. I paid the $20 diagnostic feed and sent it back to LG for repair. They'd told me since i wasn't the original owner it wasn't under warranty (i'll never tell LG that again). As such i was expecting a fee. However i was just sent an email indicating my device had been fully repaired and covered under warranty. It shipped back today so by end of week i'll have TWO H932's. :laugh:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
A lot of pages to read.

My issue is that after everything, I power off the device, I go into factory reset, I get the actual Google reset circle. It will not put me into twrp.

I renamed twrp to twrp.img

Then I saw on my SD card it was twrp.img.img.

So I renamed it via my device.

Still getting the same thing.

Is it possible you can code in to have your git automatically push twrp? Then we can boot and manual fast twrp?

Or can anyone give me an idea of what I'm doing wrong?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
This is what I did, am I doing anything wrong?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Could the problem I'm having have to do with I can't format my SD card to fat16?

If not then the only thing I can think of is that I did not renamed TWRP correctly.

I did copy and paste how you wanted it renamed.

Maybe you can think of what I did wrong?

Oh, and I can only get fwul to boot forgetful mode. That's how I did it with the V20 if I remember correctly.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] R800x_user:
Fat32 works as well. I had a 4gb SD card and partitioned it to be 1gb then put the files on it and did the procedure.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
So I can't use Android to do it? I don't have a card reader.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
What size microsd are you using?

Everything in your screenshot is right.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
I think 128gb

Edit, yes 128gb
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Try this on whatever other Android device you have?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] R800x_user:
I think a smaller one could get the job done. If you can repartition it to a smaller size I think it'll work.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
I used that app but the damn ads kepted killing the reform process

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This will sound really really really ( did I say really) stupid, but can you you the renamed TWRP file into a mega drive for me? Perhaps I am a total moron and can't name it correctly.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
I can upload it somewhere for you. You're probably going to have that issue until you partition off that microsd, though. I bet it's the size of the microsd, and that it's done on Android. I think it will try to force sdcardfs on it. I could be wrong; my wife says I usually am....

If you want to wait days and days, I'll physically mail you out my 2gb microsd that I used solely for this process. I made an image of it, so I can duplicate the microsd card any time I need to. Sure, it's the long way, but I can guarantee it'll work.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
So I was just about to post, and this is very funny. I found an old 512mb SD card in my box of stuff that I keep,( gf calls it junk) do you think that would be sufficient?

If not , if you can host the file on mega or anywhere else you feel comfortable, I'll try it.

If it don't work, I'll take you up on that offer, and when I'm done with it, I'll send it back.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Yes, that 512mb would be more than sufficient (as long as it's fat16 or fat32). TWRP is only 20-something megs I think. No verity and root check disabler are both in the KB range.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
And to be clear, using format in storage settings in Android should be fine?

I'm asking because I let my phone take the ota, so I have to start from scratch.

Also can you host the file(s) with TWRP correctly named?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
No, (@runningnak3d or [MENTION=3250376]ChazzMatt[/MENTION] can/should correct me if wrong) don't use the default format option in Android. I don't think that does FAT16/32 formatting.

Here is a mega link for TWRP. It's the exact one linked in the OP, just renamed to twrp.img already.

https://mega.nz/#!K4E0kCzK!XzuGPsaxLyhE3r8SSdrFP4kIRQk01RNJc5umENs2S_w

Also go to the WTF thread in the V30 forums and download no verity and root check disabler.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Awesome!!! Thank you
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
If the app is correct, I should be g2g
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Yep. Throw the file (s) onto it and give it a whirl!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Ok, you might want to edit for idiot gamers like me.

When booting into recovery for the first time, select yes, then you get message about bl unlocked, then you see yes again.

LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!

It will boot into TWRP. If you are spamming yes as if you are in BF1 doing a spray and pray, recovery will take over and stop TWRP from booting.

Just need patience.

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Success!!!!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Glad you got it working. I actually figured you'd be one of the first to get it done.

That was the issue I had as well, I didn't give it enough time to boot into twrp.

So you're ? pct good to go now?

Thanks [MENTION=4062149]mattgyver[/MENTION] for all the help you've done with everyone lately.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
The more people rooted and happy, the better the attitudes will be, Hopefully that leads to more development :D

Besides, if I can help, I try to.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Yep! Only bought this device yesterday due to running had mentioned it in the v20 fourm. Since he had one, figured I would ask well because, you know, support. Lol

Now we just need twrp to be able to flash to laf.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
[MENTION=5631635]BROKEN1981[/MENTION] Welcome to the dark side. I will be hanging onto my V20 for quite a while because I really do use the removable battery a LOT. So much nicer than carrying around an external charging battery.

With that said, the V30 is a much nicer phone otherwise.

I went through and read pretty much this entire thread again this morning, and I have update the first 3 posts so they hopefully address all the issues that have come up. If someone wants to give them a read, and see if I missed anything, it would be appreciated.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
I read it, at this point my great grandmother's mother can follow this and gain TWRP/root on the first try.

Maybe add instructions on how to flash TWRP to laf? And I assume that can only be done in fwul.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Sure thing. But no, you don't need FWUL for that once you have TWRP.

Download the version of TWRP that you want to install onto laf.

Rename it to twrp.img

Boot your phone to TWRP, and connect it to your PC

Open a command prompt where you downloaded TWRP and type:

adb push twrp.img /sdcard/

adb shell dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/laf

With the phone off, hold vol up and plug in the USB cable and you should be greeted by your second copy of TWRP.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Yep, OP is definitely written that everyone should be good to go at this point. Your only issue is going to be the people who decide to skip steps or think they can do it in a different linux live distro. You can't help that.. They'll learn after the fact :D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Thank you very much!! That actually saved me on my V20.

Will this option ever come to TWRP like it was on the v20?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
The optional part is throwing me off. This step is installing twrp on the H932 laf? I already have twrp.img transferred to my main 32gb card. Do I need to use the 1gb card that was used in step 2 or can I adb shell dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/laf from my main card? I'm bit dense.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Think of the laf TWRP as an insurance policy. Follow the main instructions. You'll be fine. TWRP on laf is a safety net in case something happens to your recovery partition. Like Brian said earlier in the thread..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Has anyone been able to make a video of this yet? I really need to root my phone, but still haven't had my download mode back and it's getting a bit too complicated for me. I know that Brian detailed the crap out of it (to a grandma level lol), but I still feel like a moron reading it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
In the dd command, does /by-name/ stay the same or change to something else?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Stays the same. Copy/paste works great if you connect to internet in FWUL and pull up the thread in Firefox.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Maybe I can help you?

So you lost download mode? Can you boot to system? Are you on 10D? If you lost download mode, hopefully you can boot system, take an ota and downgrade again.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I lost download mode at the beginning when this root method was first started. I was trying to downgrade to 10d but it didn't do anything except made me lose my download mode. I'm using my phone normal. It is working just fine just don't have a download mode anymore. I've been searching online for a stock kdz file that I can flash onto my phone but everything needs root.

And I'm H93220k btw
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Unfortunately you have to wait for an ota. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can flash ANYTHING you you can't get to download mode.

I don't know if Android acts like a computer, as in if you factory reset it will give you back download mode. If I had to place a money bet, that won't work.

I try to understand as much as I can when running explains things. ( That's a hell of a lot of googling trying to absorb all of the info)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
Use linux primarily. I've used dd for making bootable usb drives, just a little rusty and I know dd is pretty powerful. Being very tentative, as I've gotten this far and don't want to screw up. Good to go now, Thanks!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
You are correct, even if I factory reset my phone it wouldn't recover download mode for me. It's another department. Factory setting would only reset the OS, it has nothing to do with recovery or download mode. OTA from an Android manufacturer? Haha. I've given up on these bastards a long time ago, that's why I've always resorted to rooting my phone.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] joeygee23:
I'm rooting Saturday. My original V30 kept getting USB Moisture detected. Got a replacement 2 weeks ago. Total lemon refurb ... Random reboots.. Dropped signals LTE and Wi-Fi. Got another yesterday. Nice and stable.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
The dd command is supposed to push twrp.img to sd card right? It's actually located on internal after the procedure. No where on my sd card do I see twrp.img.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] wtang:
I just read your rewrite of the instructions and all I have to say is "CRYSAL CLEAR". :) It's much cleaner and clearer than the original instructions that I (successfully) followed. However, I think you removed one important piece of information that was in the original post. I remember the original post emphasized having to flash Magisk again if you choose to flash Oreo. Otherwise you lose TWRP and root. I don't see that mentioned in your rewrite.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Well... this sucks :D

I wanted to see how well the newer emoji work with the v30.. warning for anyone thinking of using the magisk module "android pie fonts".. you'll get stuck at the t-mobile boot logo and it will NOT go past. I can't get into download mode because all I can do is reboot it by holding down VOL+/VOL-/Power. When I quick try to plug in my USB cable and hold power down, it still goes to the magenta Tmobile logo and sits there. and I can't adb reboot recovery because it can't get far enough through boot for me to accept the RSA signature for my computer.... I guess I can let the phone die, and then it should allow me to plug it in while off to hopefully get to download mode....
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
Dang...I did the greenify4magisk module. Will hold off on any others.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] wills3gslide:
While in boot loop (magenta tmobile screen), hold POWER + VOL-, dont let go of buttons, when reboots back to white LG screen quickly release POWER and press and hold POWER, dont let up on VOL-. You should boot to factory reset page and volume down to yes twice, will ask to confirm a 3rd time, waalaa RECOVERY!!!!!

Timing is everything
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
I'm good now. I had a meeting at work tonight that I had to be present for to provide tech support. I forgot I had my laptop in my truck that I used for rooting the v30 initially. It had authorization from adb already. Plugged it in and was able to adb reboot recovery!

My only twrp backup was right after rooting, so nougat.. stupid me, I thought "what the hell, I've always been able to restore any Android version twrp backup on my Galaxy s4".... No. Restore nougat backup gave me a bootloop on reboot system. This time I used VOL- and power, and I got into recovery like during the rooting process (it didn't work while frozen at the TMO screen). I full wiped the phone, and flashed Brian's 20k zip, magisk, and the rctd. On reboot system, back up and running!!

Granted device is back to beginning, so it had to restore from Google, but at least....
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cj719:
Only thing that can be flashed is an update.zip aka OTA which I have not been successful in flashing due android-info.txt missing in the zip. If I knew where to grab it or what is in the text file I would just create it and repackage the zip. The commands to flash the update are working fine just need a complete update.zip
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Next time grab the magisk module MM. It let's you uninstall/disable any module that is causing a boot loop.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Technically, the magisk module didn't cause a bootloop, it just stuck at the TMO logo. It was when I flashed the nougat backup that it bootlooped. I'll definitely grab it for the future though, just in case!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] weakNPCdotCom:
[MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] what's your configuration for this bad boy? You still just running stock + root?

And is there a compatible version of TWRP with laf/firmware/vendor/etc backup capabilities like we have for the h872?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
I am not running anything right now. The first one had a bad battery, and the second hasn't shipped yet.

The second one is brand new, so hopefully no issues when it shows up.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
What is the best way to avoid an accidental ota update?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
You could go into Developer Options and turn off the slider for automotive system updates. For now, you could also flash the h93220k zip in twrp, then there won't be an OTA update :D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
That's the thing, I am on 20k and the option is disabled in developer options, but it's still checking for updates.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Use Titanium Backup and search for FOTA. That should be the OTA check. Freeze it.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
Can't, titanium backup FCs
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Try helium, or rom toolbox
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
Strange, I'm on Oreo also and no problem with titanium backup.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
:( Have you checked logs to see why? At what point after launching does it FC? Not having any problems so far with tibu.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
I've searched but can't find...anybody know of a 10d flashable zip? I'm on Oreo and want to go back to nougat but prefer not to kdz and start all over with the root process. Oreo is buggy as heck. I actually got a warranty exchange after taking the OTA to Oreo many months ago because of the bugs. Luckily got a device on 10D. But thought I'd give it another try now that I can freely go back. Still the same bugs. Bluetooth audio in car skips and stutters like crazy. Unusable. I tried every fix. Clean flash, turning battery optimization off on all Bluetooth controls, reset network settings, clearing cache, changing avcrp mode. All things make Bluetooth work temporarily until the problems return shortly after. And apps that I need to run in the background like mileage tracker stop tracking randomly. I've also removed battery optimizations from that, increased it's priority level, don't have app killers running like greenify. At my wits end with Oreo. None of these problems on nougat. Wish Oreo worked better because battery life is ridiculously good. Had almost 12 hours screen on time on last charge! But alas, I need all this stuff to work for my job. Can't believe T-Mo released this buggy as heck Oreo.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xblackberryuser:
It is, because a few days ago tb worked. Today I did something in magisk that may be the issue. It force closes when it should be showing a magisk toast for su. Is it bad to dirty flash magisk?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
How good are you with Android development and the process? I've been wanting to go back to Nougat to restore that Chinese guys rooted system in the "Progress to root..." Thread and traceback how they did it. But I really don't want to go back to Nougat all over again.

[MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION]. What do you think about that idea? Maybe a new root method can be found by going through his twrp system backup?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] friedCELLS:
Yeah, definitely can't help with that. Sorry. I'm in school learning Linux server management but really just getting started with that. Maybe one day I'll understand all these processes....
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Anytime someone starts talking about how buggy Oreo is I just tune out, because having bought five of these I don't see that.

Either it's something people are doing that I don't do or it's T-Mobile H932 specific. It's mostly T-Mobile H932 that are complaining about it on the V30. I saw some in the H932 root progress thread. So, what's so different about H932 Oreo vs all the other V30? (Other people on T-Mobile with US998 don't complain about Oreo.)

I DO remember back in May 2018 T-mobile paused their Oreo rollout due to bug reports, then a month later resumed it with the exact same build number.

T-Mobile LG V30 Oreo update has been paused

https://www.tmonews.com/2018/05/t-mobile-lg-v30-oreo-update-paused/

So, maybe something about the T-mobile H932 Oreo is screwed up, especially Bluetooth.

Everything you said you do, like removing battery savers, stuff like that, you seem to be doing the right thing. Because a lot of people try to bring over techniques from older phones that are not needed with this phone.

You even exempted Bluetooth from Battery optimization in Settings. Most people don't even know about that! So, I don't know what's wrong.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dat.Dood:
Is T-Mobile's Oreo release really that buggy? I'm on T-Mobile as well, but never had issues with Oreo. Granted I try to let updates settle before I try them out. So maybe I was lucky. Out of boredom, I rooted last week (following this thread) and immediately went back to 20k using the file [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] posted. I still do not have any issues.

I'd try getting another replacement from T-Mobile. Chances are your issue is hardware-related.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Look at your spelling..

It's LGLAF, you're missing a letter

[emoji41]
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BrandonB1218:
Perhaps a stupid question, but you mentioned we could flash ROMs. I attempted to flash Resurrection Remix (Oreo ROM) and it just put me in a boot loop. I assume since we had to downgrade to Nougat, we can't flash Oreo ROMs. So in that case, are there any non-stock ROMs we can flash at this time? I will stick with rooted Nougat for now if I have to. I just can't stand stock Oreo from Tmo. It's a buggy piece of crap.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vuzeultra:
After we flash TWRP are we able to flash any rom for any v30? (Noob question)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
It is two spaces, and yes just a few seconds. It doesn't require gamer reflexes, but you sit on your ass and it sends the command to reboot your phone, and your phone is a brick.

Part requires Windows (or a Windows VM) and the rest Linux. Even though you are a Linux user, use FWUL for the Linux part or it is your phone that you are risking...

No, no part of the H932 firmware can be flashed on any other model, and no part of any other models firmware can be flashed on the H932. modem is part of the firmware.

You can flash ROMs, but right now most of the ROMs out there need Oreo firmware. Going to have to wait till I can get us all back up to Oreo. Also, you need to be VERY careful flashing a ROM not specifically for the H932. If the dev packaged up firmware as well as a ROM -- you are toast if no checks for model were put in place.

See above.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BrandonB1218:
Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate your work on this phone. I've been following the progress since the beginning. I shot you a donation for all your hard work. It's not much but I hope it helps.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
[MENTION=2768375]BrandonB1218[/MENTION] Thank you very much, these exploits are powered by beer, and that beer doesn't buy itself ;)

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] seloka180:
can you tell me how to create flashable zip from kdz please .I want to do it myself for v300s version 21k.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
That is well outside the scope of this thread. I suggest you search for extracting KDZs, and then download some of the flashable zips that are already out there and use one for a template.

Speaking of flashable zips. I am pulling down H93220k right now to build a flashable zip so that everyone can be back on Oreo. Should be up in about an hour.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Updated the first post with a link to an Oreo zip that can be flashed from TWRP once the procedure is done. It is v20k which was the newest I could find. If there is a newer version, let me know.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] seloka180:
i have windowslgfirmwareextractor 1.2.6.1 but the extracted files are in bin format not img. how to extract as img.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] joeygee23:
Oh do I miss the days of Almighty Odin!