yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Just put 50$ in advance, and will found another 50$ when the Collector has done his work.

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You can have my 50$ donation just for working LG-UP and common.dll so that I can crossflash European Firmware. And you can have 100$ if you make the WiFi and call recording working in european room. I said wifi because it seems that wifi drops for lg v40 crossflashed from korean to european.:good:

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P.S.

Are we allowed to spread this bounty on lg v30 forums? Cuz there are thousand of users....
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KanBorges:
Yes. I'm actually satisfied with Root/TWRP really. I'll put another $100 when it's achieved!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Until root, which seems that far away, I'll be happy with LG-UP, common.dll, working EU firmware and call recording. I'm willing to donate separately another 50$ for this. Maybe direct to Developer's PayPal.

So, dear Developer, please feel encouraged to make that working common.dll for V50 and share it here.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
As the european V500EM can be unlocked officially anyway (what ive been told, and what the one who asked me to make the TWRP said, as he unlocked his bootloader), could someone test this TWRP?

Basically a converted TWRP from the V40, with added product partition and sd855 stuff: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TIp_PK4VQIq6cD_LwpPGgEzhCpiMvqk_

TWRP has set 2019-05-01 security patch, should be same for the system its supposed to boot, as that was the security patch level of the kdz i unpacked.

Encryption wont work, im 99% sure of that, but it should atleast boot, steps should be similar as on the V40 (on how to install/boot it). V40 Guide: https://xdaforums.com/lg-v40/development/twrp-lg-v40-judypn-t3970111

This is solely for the V500EM (it technically should boot on other variants as well, but for that you would need to unlock the bootloader there).

A loophole on the G7 (what ive been told) was though that, even though bootloader was locked, you could fastboot boot ANY image you wanted, and therefor gain temp root, anyone tried that yet, just curious.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Hello, Markus!

We are quite a few on Korean model, but as soon as we unlock and TWRP will work, count on me for a $50 donation. I also will throw another $50 for working common.dll and lgup for crossflashing to European or other stock firmwares. Also 100$ for root/bootloader unlock. I'll try tomorrow to see if we have access to fastboot and maybe try to flash your TWRP from there. I'll let you know here.

Thx for supporting us! :good::highfive:
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
Good luck :)

Idk how many here have which variant, only was contacted by someone with a V500EM ^^

Im only a ROM guy though (and somewhat TWRP and kernel out of neccessity lol), so i cant really help with any LG UP related issues :/

Also dont have a V50 myself either, only V30 and V40.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dipper-roy:
English: As I know, there are some people in Guang Dong(China), who worked for the phone repair shop can root the LG v50 , but most of them need open your phone, exchange the CPU of it and use some methods cannot be told (maybe about business). At the same time, I consulted on Taobao that there are businesses that seem to be (not sure about authenticity) to get the technology of LG's factory. I am not sure how much postage you are willing to try, but I still hope that this is true.

中文: 就我所知, 在中国广东那边有部分手机维修人员可以进行手机的root, 但是他们中的很大一部分都是通过拆开手机, 更换cpu, 以及一些我没有办法询问出的技术手段来实现的. 同时,我在淘宝上面咨询到有商家似乎(不确定真实性)拿到了LG的工厂技术 不确定你们愿意拿出多少邮费来进行尝试, 但是我仍然希望这是真的
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] LGV50_Lover:
Hello

I got this beautiful phone and couldn't use 5G in my country, it seems locked by LG, i am also unable to use the second SIM card, if root then unroot will help overcome this then i am donating, if solutions for this are already available please guide me and I will be donating as well.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr BBi:
hell yea i'm in

I will put in $50 us
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Hello, Mr. Bibi!

Thx for supporting our cause. :good:
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KanBorges:
Guys I ran into an issue here. GoFund me is asking me to set up an account. I do not want to set up mine because I do not want the money to go towards me.

The issue here is that we cannot donate untill I set up withdrawals. I also don't know who is gonna crack and root this device to ask for their information.

???
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
What's the problem in setting up withdrawals? Just withdraw them and you keep it safe... This thing with found raising is a little harder. The traditional PayPal I think is better.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KanBorges:
Okay done. Donations are back up again.

Hopefully some dev cracks it!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr BBi:
lets talk money...

How much do I need to put up for someone to crack this? I have the Korean phone.. and want to use it on Verizon.. asking my self what should I put as a bounty my self to get this going..
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
50 in the foud rising then for sure another 50-100-150 after they make it.

Ftm 50 is OK. Don't lock more money as this Bounty could go 1 year ?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
https://github.com/grant-h/qu1ckr00t this is based on a vulnerability that was patched in October patches but I haven't received this yet. Wondering if it's possible to get this working and then mark bootloader as unlocked in root directory.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-9/how-to/qu1ckr00t-samsung-devices-t3986695/amp/

Apparently it won't work on Samsung devices because of their kernel protection but does LG have same thing?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
Is the v50 source code available ? That is a must to be able to compile the exploit.

Nvm, found it here

http://opensource.lge.com/osSch/list?types=ALL&search=lmv

Looks like I need to install Ubuntu on a VM.

On another note, can you guys downgrade to a later firmware?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Yes, I did it many times. Downgrade to first firmware.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
Here: https://github.com/SGCMarkus/android_kernel_lge_sm8150

But need to unlock first, to boot anything compiled, but sure, you can check for exploits in the source ^^
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
Actually we need this so we can compile the Qu1ckr00t to see if we can exploit the loopwhole on the unpatched devices.

https://hernan.de/blog/2019/10/15/tailoring-cve-2019-2215-to-achieve-root/
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
https://xdaforums.com/v20/help/root-cve-2019-2215-t3979341/page7

theres been a lot of development here if u guys wanna check it out
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
While I don't want to ruin no ones party, if the reply that I got from LG UK is true, the 5G network is locked to the original network from where the phone was bought.

Thus meaning that even if we obtain root, the 5 might still not work.

To me it sounds like the phone needs a SPCK code or a NSCK code

NSCK – Network Subset Code Key

SPCK – Service Provider Code Key

Good afternoon,

Thank you for getting in touch with me. Sorry to hear that you are having issues with your 5g. Are you puting a new sim in your phone and then trying yo use the 5g and it just doesn't work? If you try a hard factory rest

Please note Performing a hard reset deletes all of your user data, which includes pictures, videos, and music saved to your internal memory. Please make sure to back up your information prior to performing a hard reset.

1. Turn the phone off

2. Press and hold the following keys at the same time > Volume down key and Power/Lock key on the back of the phone

3. when the LG Logo is displayed on screen Release the Power/Lock Key then immediately Hold this again.

4. Release all keys when the factory reset screen is displayed.

5. Press the power/lock key to continue (if you would like to cancel press either of the volume keys0

6. Press the power/lock key once more to confirm.

If the problem continues after that you would need to speak to the previous network, because they didn't complete the unlocking process and they would be able to unlock the 5g so that you can use it elsewhere.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Bad news indeed...
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
Coming back to this, I finally got my v50 few days ago, yes the Korean model :) from KT.

I don`t know how many of you have looked over the build.prop but it looks like the phone can be made Global aka not carrier subsidies by editing the build.prop

Obviously editing the build.prop implies root, now reading other forums, namely the G6 one, my eyes fell on this

https://xdaforums.com/lg-g6/how-to/root-howto-as993-wip-t3908213

The important bits are FWUL and lglaf

FWUL is basically a linux distro

lglaf is an utility to communicate with LG devices in download mode. (download mode is basically root)

Now, if this works, what can be done in theory is:

1)dump all the partitions (obvious reasons to restore in case hell breaks loose)

2)edit the system or boot partition previously dumped and push the edited ones back (potential to add root)

3)dump the recovery and try and create a custom one

I have contacted the guy to see if he can put some files back so I can understand better how this whole system should work.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
The only problem with this is, that even if you manage to flash anything else (which lglaf cant btw, laf requests an encrytpion/connection key, and if not present, you only have partial read access (and switching slots), you would need to figure that key out somehow (if i remember correctly its rsa or so)), that the signature of boot/system/vendor wont match anymore, and you will see a nice red triangle instead of a booting system.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
I also have the KT version. How did you read the build.prop as I have tried and it gived me access denied message? Also tried to do a full dump or partial dump of vendor for example, and it gived me the laf error.

I think the final exploit will be something like v40 had with that Bootloader.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
adb shell get buildprop

bear in mind that it contains lot of stuff and you should read it from bottom to top.

[MENTION=3475147]SGCMarkus[/MENTION] what about using adb shell? in download mode you allegedly have root, thus meaning that you could at least edit the build.prop or it still goes by the idea that you can`t push nothing because of the missing key?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
How did you tried to do the dump, via lgup ?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Yes. Could you please let me know when you do vendor and product dumps? Some developers need them.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
Download mode is (given the correct key) root, yes, but its a different protocoll than adb. The adb daemon isnt started on the phone -> no adb access

And even if there would be, you would still end up with a nice red triangle, because of a modified system... you need to find an exploit to unlock the bootloader, THEN you can modify whatever you want
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
Why not just unpack the kdz? That works totally fine.

Except Sprint(?) i think (which doesnt provide any kdzs) there should be some for every model.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
Yes. Thx. :good:
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
There is a guy i know who has v50 qualcomm loader using that with octoplus jtag could allow for full conversion of the phone and easy ready writing of partitions to achieve custom recovery but he told me its very expensive and wouldn't give me a price maybe someone on here knows someone who will give them that firehose file
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
What guy?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
thainhattam@gmail.com

i saw a youtube video a guy had the files on his computer i asked for them and he never responded but this guy responded saying he has them and sent screen shot to me saying there very expensive dont know if you can trust him the he never responded back to me asking how much they are.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KanBorges:
Link this thread to him. If he is on board, we would need a video of some sorts for proof of him rooting/unlocking the v50.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
I dont think he knows how he just has the firehose file it would be up to us to do the rooting process but if im not mistaking anyone who can inject twrp into recovery could do the same thing on this because we can read and write whatever we want with firehose. Also the process would require you to have octoplus box with jtag pro license so its very limited i was just waiting for someone to leak the firehose hoping someone on here knew how to get it but just didnt know it could be used for rooting.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Ok I sent him an email
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] globula_neagra:
Even his tool fails. He can t unpack the kdz via the tool.

He is using octopus jtag pro.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
He has the files needed to do something
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] wjn2006111:
Spending $50 in China can unlock roots by changing the way the phone cpu.

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[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
But that needs to open the phone right? Some guy in the telegram chat posted a link where it sayed pay for tamper free root
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] wjn2006111:
In China, you can even replace memory and hard drives. 12G+256G only costs $100.

In China, you can even replace memory and hard drives. 12G+256G only costs $100.

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In China, you can even replace memory and hard drives. 12G+256G only costs $100. That mean need to open your phone to Transplant cpu.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Inerent:
yea, replace oiginal good quality LPDDR4X with chinese poor quality ... Who would do that???:laugh:
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Can you send me the link to the youtube video real quick
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqibRraKJX4&t=14s

Look through comments he is there
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SteroidEars:
I Dont know if its real or fake but i did mesage them on taobao and the chip they are using are Samsung's. UFS 2.1
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] strifej:
Just saw on taobao that they're selling used ones with root now.

Which seller does transplants for phones? If it's reasonable, I wouldn't mind increasing the 64GB on my V40 (also bought in china rooted). Found a tonne of ads for upgrading iphones, but not for androids. Thx
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Can you send the link to the rooted ones on taobao? Also do they still have original snapdragon chips?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] strifej:
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?sp...SKVSN&id=605642497678&ns=1&abbucket=16#detail

They should be snapdragons, yes. I've never heard of fake chips before. These phone sellers all have 7 day returns, so if the phone doesn't test out perfectly, just throw it back for full refund.

For ref, I bought a V20, V30, and my current V40 all from taobao used phone dealers. All have been good except my V30 which developed a lcd burn in ircle on the nav bar.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Is that also bootloader unlocked or only temp root?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] strifej:
Prob not full bootloader unlock. It says in the ad to not remove the software installed on the phone or else it'll mess things up, so they rely on a bunch of hacks to achieve it. Their setups are often weird because they have 3 carriers in China with one of them being not often support, so they hack in modems and other stuff to make it work. The v20/v30 were fine because there are community bootloader unlocks, but v40/v50 are not true software unlocks.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
V40 has a complete bootloader unlock
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] bandario:
Well then I won't buy one. Why is this so difficult for manufacturers to understand? If I am going to spend $1000 on a device, I want to own the entire thing...no just what they decide I am allowed access to.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
You have to wait a few months it will come with time. Like I said v40 already got it
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
We have a bit of new hope just be patient
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] strifej:
Afaik, there's only the European unlocked and Vlad using the octobox. There's no exploit to unlock like V30. So, if you're not on the true unlocked model, you can mess up and have to request a person remotely unlock your phone.

It's not difficult for them. In a broad sense, there is literally no one that needs unlocked bootloader. The xda core group amounts to what? < 0.001%? If I was a manufacturer, I'd totally lock it down to avoid people messing with the software, soft bricking and requesting RMA. No manufacturer wants people taking apart and publishing about their product. We're a dying breed and even if we vote with our dollars, it won't make much diff. I expect one day Oneplus if they reach high market penetration to block it too.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] wsure:
In China, a shop owner on Taobao has achieved these tasks, including Root, flashing Magisk, unlocking the bootloader, unlocking China Telecom's sim card. In addition, he also provides the business of replacing larger RAM and ROM, you can even Replace with 12G RAM and 1T ROM. Of these services, it seems that root does not need to be disassembled, it only costs 99RMB, which is about $ 14. And the most expensive service that replaces the largest RAM and ROM plus ROOT requires 1199RMB, which is about $ 171.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] strifej:
Can you share the taobao link? I've seen the shop (one with most sales) that has root, but didn't see anything about upgrades.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Wait can you share the one about root? I think I missed it because all the offers I found didn't have that many sales. Also it is probably a better option for anyone who wants 12gb ram to just buy a pre modified new phone from him as it's not that much more
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] strifej:
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?sp...d8nM9&id=605642497678&ns=1&abbucket=16#detail
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Now I remember that's the one that can't be shipped to my county
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] vlad48:
This one is the seller which offers root and module upgrade.

You can use TaoBao shopping assistant agents like Superbuy, YOYbuy or similar - they are really shipping worldwide...

Be aware that bootloader unlock and root here is achieved by simply by re-seating the board and filling laf with 0es, so all the IP68 is no more...
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
But there are ways to re seal it so you can just do that part by yourself
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
got a few things some of you could try: (they arent all my ideas, but a collection of prior loopholes on LG devices)

first the things for people who can access their bootloaders (adb reboot bootloader, or hold vol- and plug in usb while turned off)

fastboot boot <some boot img from a kdz for example> (and if that works, try patching the boot.img with magisk, and see if you can boot that)

for others:

try to flash an empty image (all zeroes) to the laf partition, with LG UP and parition dl (still gotta test though if it really only flashes that single partition, or also others... had that happen too to me already, edit, it doesnt ask which partition to flash, i would not recommend this)

that way, when you try to boot download mode (vol+ and usb when turned off) it should kick you into fastboot

there, on some older LG devices i heard, they could "normally" unlock their bl that way (aka with fastboot oem unlock)
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dummen:
Is there any kdztool which can extract v50's kdz? I've tried using a g8 rooting guide, but that kdztool could only extract the .kdz file, but couldn't deal with the .dz file. It gave me this error:

Android 10:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 1069, in <module>

dztools.main()

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 1035, in main

self.dz_file = UNDZFile(cmd.dzfile)

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 901, in __init__

self.loadChunks()

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 588, in loadChunks

chunk = UNDZChunk(self, self.dzfile)

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 301, in __init__

dz_item = self.loadHeader(file)

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 90, in loadHeader

print("[!] pad contains: " + dz_item['pad'].decode(), file=sys.stderr)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x88 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

Pie:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 1069, in <module>

dztools.main()

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 1035, in main

self.dz_file = UNDZFile(cmd.dzfile)

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 901, in __init__

self.loadChunks()

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 622, in loadChunks

g = gpt.GPT(self.chunks[0].extract())

File "C:\Users\Dummen\Desktop\kdztools-master\undz.py", line 220, in extract

dctx = zstd.ZstdDecompressor()

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ZstdDecompressor'
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
I think the kdztools only support up to LG pie phones. But do you have a bl unlocked in the first place?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
https://github.com/steadfasterX/kdztools/tree/develop

works fine, using it myself
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dummen:
Yes my BL is unlocked already.

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You managed to extract boot.img ?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
If all that doesn't work you could do a dump via lgup and find the boot img
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] 37_:
http://bbs.gfan.com/android-9614304-1-1.html chinese already rooted the V50!! the tool is named LGUP
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Ramseegobar:
Just to be sure.. Is there any way for me to root my US AT&T Version of the LG G8? I've been reading these threads and I'm not sure.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
No

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It's a hardware modded v50 or a normal v50 but only the vendors have the firehose to root it
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] SGCMarkus:
yeah, works fine with those kdztools i sent you.

TWRP works great too (except encryption support), same with now Lineage (just few minor issues left) ^^

for my V500EM atleast, cant promise anything for other models
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dummen:
Could You upload boot.img? I couldnt extract it.. :(