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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
TWRP is not installed, it just shows sammy? Lying down with the exclamation mark no command. So for some reason TWRP is not being installed, I already tried 2 different micro sd card 1 and 4gb.Thanks.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Wait... It shows Sammy? What are you working on here? Sammy is in Samsung?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
I'm sorry it's been a long nite at work, it's the android thing????
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
The !EXEC command either didn't complete and there was no error thrown, or the twrp file may have been corrupt.

Did you copy/paste the command from the thread right into the FWUL terminal, or type it? Did you remember two spaces after !EXEC?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrParis2:
SuperSU vs Magisk

Hey, what's the difference between SuperSU and Magisk?

Does it work the same way with permissions etc.?

I need to now because I have to install Xposed on my V30.

So basicly I'm wondering if you can install Xposed after rooting with this guide?

If not, can you root the phone with SuperSU?

Sorry if these are noob questions but it's been 5 years since I rooted a device and those were all rooted using SuperSU.

Thanks in advance!!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
Use Magisk you can install xposed systemlessly, but keep in mind you will not pass safetynet with xposed regardless. SuperSU was discontinued by ChainFire.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrParis2:
Ok thanks a lot! :)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Running out of ideas for what could be causing it to not work :silly:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
Thanks for your response, I downloaded TWRP 3 different times and I'm also copying and pasting every time.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Do you have twrp.img in the root of the SD card and not in any folder?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
Yes, TWRP is in the root of the SD card. Thanks.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Where is the link for T-Mobile version I followed thus one and nothing
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] KUSOsan:
TMobile version of what?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Of 932 I've tried step by step a lot of tines and didn't work then I seen somwhere there was a link wtf for 932

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ChazzMatt

14-09-2018, 05:39 PM |#4

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I've added link to WTF instructions pointing T-mobile H932 users to here.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Wtf won't work for the 932. Completely different bootloader unlock process plus the files are different RSA's so you'll hard brick your phone
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
I've flashed everything all the way up to fwul and no brick so what can I do
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] KUSOsan:
You've flashed everything on this thread or the wtf thread?

Prolly should just reflash the h932 kdz and start over if there is one as I don't know what the wtf thread entails or.maybe wait and see what running nak3d suggests i guess
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] wills3gslide:
Lg up to h932 10d and start from the beginning, with out knowing exactly what you have done I recommend starting from step 1 and follow every step to a "T", there are only 2 files that you want to flash from WTF thread and those are lg-rctd-disabler-1.0.zip and no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.0.zip and can only be flashed once twrp has been installed

Also I would recommend having FWUL on a thumb drive functioning before starting process
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
THIS thread is for bootloader unlock, installing TWRP and root for the T-mobile H932. See page 1.

At the top of the WTF guide (see attached screenshot) , I point H932 owners here, to this thread.

The rest of WTF is the thread for all other V30/V30+/V30S bootloader unlock, installing TWRP and root.

NO, he didn't flash any KDZ from WTF. In several places, I specifically tell H932 owners not to try, due to different RSA encryption - - that they will brick their phones. In red letters, even. ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Thanks for trying I started over flashed 10d and my phone bricked PC hears it but no screen any ideas now I took it apart unhooked battery hoping it would do something but nothing
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
The procedure wouldn't brick the phone. Corrupt downloads of the firmware could, though. Bad/lesser quality cables could, too. (see Brian's response) Another thing to note is how you're accessing FWUL. Are you using a VM inside of Windows, or are you booting to a liveCD/liveUSB?

You took apart your phone to pull the battery?! Living dangerously, I see ;) That is definitely one thing I miss from my Sammy days - user replaceable batteries..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Using USB for fwul I can hear it hook up to PC so I tried unhooked battery then hold vol dwn but nothing any ideas? Oh and I've tried 3 diff cables

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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Hook it up on Windows and listen for it to connect. Go to device manager and find it and see if it shows up as QC 9008 QDS Loader or something like that.

If it does, you have a nice paperweight
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
It shows com port 10 just hooked it up again and says Qualcomm hs USB qdloader 9008 com 5
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
So it shows nothing but com 10? That makes no sense. It should at least be showing lge or something, even unrecognized/unknown device.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Qualcomm hs USB qdloader 9008 com 5
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
Nope. No part of this procedure can brick your phone UNLESS you select all partitions of the H933 KDZ and let your phone reboot, or if you select upgrade or refurbish instead of partition DL.

You can't get a bad KDZ download and have it flash. The checksum is built into the file format.

That just leaves the TWRP image. Even if you had a bad image, or bad SD card, there is no way to brick.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
Updated my post so as not to have any confusion :)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Yup, you have a brick and there is nothing you can do. There are companies that can fix it out there but easiest way is to either call LG or call tmo and have a warranty sent out.

I'm not sure what you did to brick unless you let the entire 933 flash or wrong partition and even then, restarted the phone. Edit: could have also been a coincidence but I highly doubt it
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
After I started all over I flashed 933 then 10d and it started flickering I seen Android guy laying down in between flicker then nothing dead
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
The big question is when you initially tried following the procedure, did you make sure to uncheck all partitions when flashing h933 then ONLY check the 933's laf partition?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
When you flashed the 933 kdz, tell us exactly what you did at that point before it bricked
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Well, he was in the WTF thread. He said he did not know what thread to follow.

My guess is he flashed crap from WTF while ignoring RED letters.

At this point with all the bricks flying around, I understand why OEM's lock down their device. They don't want to deal with fixing them.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Checked laf box flashed pulled plug after laf flashed flashed 10d checked everything but laf flashed after done seen like Android guy in flickering of screen it flickered fir a few seconds then dead... Didn't flashed anything off wtf tthread and I've been rooting and flashing phones since the Droid charge days i followed dir to a t ,..the only reason I asked about wtf thread cause I wanted to see the difference cause it wasn't working..any more quessing
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] invert_nexus:
To me the flickering thing seems weird.

You've mentioned removing the battery which means that you've disassembled the device. Any possibility of hardware damage?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
no

No just took back off to unhook batt.. just watched video on YouTube seen same flickering with Droid guy on hard bricked
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] runningnak3d:
If your phone is 9008 bricked you will get no flickering or anything else on the screen because NO firmware is loaded.

In order to even have a "flickering droid guy", at a MINIMUM, xbl, abl, and recovery would have to load.

-- Brian
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] invert_nexus:
Are you sure you have a v30? The back doesn't just come off. To remove the back would be to, at the least, partially disassemble the phone.

Maybe it's easier than a typical disassembly?

Edit: hmm. I see the flickering droid guy you're talking about here: [youtube]veFb5V0BTkQ[/youtube]
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
Just heat the edges and and go all around to loosen seal and pops right off
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] invert_nexus:
Gotcha. Just throwing in my two cents. I'm actually going to have do it myself soon on my wife's phone. She broke her screen the other day and I'll have to replace it.

Sorry, man. I don't know where you went wrong, but it seems like something went wrong. Hope it works out.

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Just went back over recent posts and here's my take on the series of events.

1. Came from wtf thread. No mention of what, if any, modifications were done from wtf thread. (Correction: specifically states that nothing was flashed from wtf thread.)

2. Started going through this thread. Made it all the way to fwul before hitting some sort of unspecified issue. Even removed back from phone for battery removal.

3. Started over. Didn't necessarily specify a successful refurbish back to 10d, but strongly implied.

4. Flashed 933 laf. Pulled plug. Rebooted.

5. Flashed 10d. Everything but laf. Didn't specifically state a reboot, but implied.

6. Flickering droid guy.

What's strange to me now is that there would be a hard brick after flashing 10d. The dangerous step of flashing 933 laf was already passed...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryan0720:
I don't know I've went over it in my head again and again did something wrong thanks though
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] invert_nexus:
I know from past experience that the most dangerous times are after you've gone through a process a time or two and start feeling semi-comfortable. You rush, trying to get back to the breakpoint, with the feeling that you've already succeeded with the early stages. Then make a dumb mistake by overlooking a simple instruction.

Is it possible that, in your haste, you accidentally flashed 933 rather than 10d in this final step? Simply clicking the wrong file or neglecting to change a prior selection?

Because that would explain it.

And, if so, in the original post, maybe some big red blinking warnings could be placed around that section because this, and this alone, would be the thing that kills you in this process.

I know that it's stated over and over to follow instructions to a t. But you know how it goes...

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This part.

If, and this hasn't been confirmed, flashing 933 fully on the 932 will result in a 9008 hard brick, then this is not necessarily accurate.

This section and also post 2 should be modified to stress the importance of strict diligence lest tragedy.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
No, Brian is correct, and it is safe. If you follow the steps, it's completely safe. You DON'T fully flash 933 to it. Make sure to uncheck all of the h933 partitions in lgup, then ONLY CHECK laf. Then flash it to the h932. If you choose more than laf from the h933 kdz, you'll be in trouble.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
After some heavy research in this thread (and others), I think I'm ready to root my device tonight. I've always been rooting and flashing my Nexus phones but this will be the first time doing it on a non Google device (well except for the Droid X2 a long time ago). Thanks to the very detailed instructions by [MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION], I think I'm comfortable enough to do this. I just have a quick question. If I ever wanted to go back to non rooted, LG Stock, is it as easy as just flashing the official kdz file with LGUP and OEM lock my bootloader?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] invert_nexus:
Nah. I realize that if you follow the instructions without fail then it's 100% safe.

But, if you mess up in this one step, then you hard brick (without recourse?)

Thus, the one step where you could totally kill your phone should be highlighted as such.

I'm not criticising. Be aware of that.

It's just that the phrase, "Even if you mess up big time, you can recover your phone." is not accurate if there is a step which you can "mess up" and then not be able to recover from.

And that's ok. We all understand the risk and the need for due diligence. I'm just saying that a little bracketing of the one truly dangerous step might be beneficial.

And, that is assuming that this would cause a 9008 brick. Which I can't say yay or nay to.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
[MENTION=3167089]runningnak3d[/MENTION] - from that perspective, he makes a valid point, what do you think? Add a blurb at the 933 laf step in post 2 saying that selecting anything more than just laf could brick it? For those that don't read, it's not going to help, but it's there as a CYA regardless then..
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
I have another question about the process for when I get to it later.

Regarding the last two steps, if we flash the secondary TWRP do we still need to flash the h932_laf.zip afterwards?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] invert_nexus:
My understanding is that the file is provided to restore stock laf but he recommends not flashing and keeping two copies of twrp.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
I kind of took it that way too, like he was saying "If you choose not to instal TWRP on laf, then install this". I just wanted to make sure.

Does the TWRP on laf remain untouched even if we flash the Oreo update he provides? Or custom ROMs? I'm assuming the laf is basically download mode? So flashing TWRP on it replaces the H933 laf that was flashed on there during the process. And flashing the H932 laf zip puts stock download mode back on.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
You only need to flash the twrp 932 laf zip if you plan on using LG tools/apps. Totally optional step.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
Thank you. And I assume the TWRP flashed on laf is safe from other ROM installs? It won't get overwritten? Since I take it that's the point of it. And say, somehow, the main TWRP gets overwritten with a flash. Would I just use the TWRP on laf to install it again or would I have to go through the whole process with FWUL again?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
My assumption is that most custom ROMs would only touch /system. I can't say for sure, though. I highly doubt ANY ROMs would touch the laf partition. Yes, that's what the secondary twrp install could be used for. Also for testing new TWRP builds, if you look at it that way.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Oh well, something went wrong and who knows why. Do you have insurance on the phone?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
So I'm in the middle of rooting. I'm in FWUL and everything seemed to go fine. I pulled the plug when done, phone turned off and I got into the factory reset screen. I chose yes twice and it did it's thing and rebooted into the OS and not TWRP. Is there something I'm missing. I see the warning screen about the device being unlocked. Should I be interrupting the boot up process there? Otherwise, any thoughts?

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Did you ever get this worked out. This seems to be where I'm stuck at now.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] mattgyver:
When you unplugged the phone after issuing !CTRL POFF, the phone shut down and you did the button combo, you chose Yes twice. Did you make sure to only tap the button once each time for YES, and not holding it at all, or tapping a few times? If you went to the OS, you'll have to follow the second part of the procedure again - booting the phone into Download Mode, and booting your laptop to FWUL again, and running through the steps.

Are you using FWUL in a VM, or booting the laptop to a liveUSB?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
Hey, thanks for the reply. I actually got it figured out. I don't know if this was the issue or if it was just coincidence but I booted into the OS, turned on USB debugging and tried again. Again, I don't know if that even does anything for download mode or maybe I just mistyped something the first couple times. But I got it all working now. Going to install TWRP on laf and update to Oreo. Thanks again
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kid_Ding:
When I faced this point in the process, I reread the instructions and realized I did not oem unlock bootloader. It completely slipped my mind after waiting on all files to dl, and setting up fwul on another pc.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
Thanks for the response. I got it all figured out now.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
Belle everyone, 1 last question, does anybody see anything wrong with what you see on the PC screen? It failed again also the phone shows 100%, I still say that for some reason TWRP is not being installed, I just downloaded again another image of TWRP to start with a new one for like the 5th time, I also renamed twrp.img, now can anybody who's already rooted share your twrp.img with me please? Thanks in advance.

The picture of the phone itself shows the screen right after the button combination.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
So I have a 512 mb SD card formatted to fat16.

All you would need to do is once in TWRP, format data and push over 20D along with no verity on internal storage.

If you want to use it, feel free to PM me your address. I only ask that you send it back when you are done with it. TWRP is allready on it.

I'll even send you a stamp so you can return it.

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Everything is good in that pic as far as I can tell. I zoomed in as far as I could.

( I have really bad vision )
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsgraphicart:
I don't know if this is what did it but I figured I'd try booting into the OS, going into developer options and turning on USB debugging. Then going into download mode and sending all the commands. I copied and pasted the commands right from the instructions using Firefox in FWUL. It finally worked for me. Could have just been coincidence but it's worth a try. Let the EXEC! command sit for a bit before sending the next one. Since there is no indication of it doing anything, it may need time to process it before turning off.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
Thanks bud, I will give it a try.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Not to talk down to you or anything, but have you checked the "show file name extensions" option in Windows?

Are you cut/pasting the instructions instead of typing them?

Everything looks correct to me so I'm guessing it's a sending twrp problem.

Try creating a text file that's small and naming it something you'll know and change "twrp.img" in the DD command to whatever that file name is (don't change anything else) then run the process again on fwul and download mode. *Put this file along side twrp.img in the exact same place*

Then boot into the OS and download Total Commander from the play store. It's the only non root app that I've found that will browse like root explorer to protected folders without root and look for that file name and file you sent to that folder . It will be obvious if it worked. That will tell you if it is writing to the phone. If it is, report back.

Unless any of you guys think it wouldn't work cause I don't know much about LAF but I'd think the same principles apply

*Edit. Also look for any twrp.img in that directory as well
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
Thanks for your help, I will try it after work and yes I'm copying and pasting and the only thing I did was once I was in Linux with my phone on I was able to transfer another copy of TWRP into my sd card but once I put my phone in download mode it sure looks like AWFUL doesn't see my sd card, another member is going to send me his 512mb micro sd card to try.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
That was going to be my next suggestion. Another guy on here tried over and over and swapped sd cards and it worked on the 1st try.

Also, I used a 200gb SD card I partitioned to one 50 mb partition to do this in fat16 and it worked fine. Don't know if that will help though
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kid_Ding:
What are you using to partition your sd card? I recommend minitool partition wizard. I split my 128gb, 2gb fat16 I can fit linOS+gapps and all root files.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
If you're asking me, I used Windows tools but I repartioned back to full 200gb when it was done. I don't like ntfs but I'm on lineage now and it won't work with exfat.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] oscarmaldonado:
Thanks for your suggestion, as soos as a get home I will try it, I'm using EASUS to partition my sd cards. Thanks bud.

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Thanks, I actually 1, 8 and 16gb micro sd card and of course 8 and 16 partitioned to 1 lgb.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] zfk110:
Hi, I went to this far without any issues but once it finished these steps

You will get a warning about additional modified partitions (cache, OP, userdata) -- ignore it, and click OK.

Click OK and it will start flashing.

Once the flash completes, your phone will reboot into the OS. Just power off, and go back into download mode.

Choose partition DL again, and this time pick the H932 10d KDZ.

Select all partitions except laf. If you forget to uncheck laf, you will have to do this all over again.

When it completes, it will reboot your phone.

Go back into download mode. This time you will be running the H933 laf, and we can continue with PART 2

phone screen went black, nothing on the screen, when I unplug or plug USB cable it make sound, but LGUP.exe wont detect anything neither I can go into download or fast boot mode
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh McGrath:
Sounds like you 9008 hard bricked yourself. Go to device manager in Windows (or the Linux equivalent if using that) and see if it shows up as a QC xxxx 9008

You must have flashed the wrong partitions cause it wouldn't cause a hard brick if you only flashed LAF. Most other things will brick if flashed such as ABL. You only wanted the 933 laf and nothing else before that.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] BROKEN1981:
Hahahahaha yeah, I'm sending him that exact SD card that I used.