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[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
That link says Access Denied. Thank you for posting this information!

Edit: Ha! Signed up 9 years ago, and this is my first post!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] TheLoonyRebel:
Link is fixed. For whatever reason I posted the wrong link. I'm sorry for that happening. Thanks for letting me know.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] d_Barood:
Thanks for your efforts ?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
I'm really tempted to try this, as the volte fix would be really helpful, and an unlocked bootloader is useful for obvious reasons.

A few questions

I'm not new to this type of thing, but no expert either. If I follow the guide meticulously, how risky is the BL unlock?

Is it possible to go back to the correct patch/version if I have the June security patch?

Is there likely to be an easier/safer method in the near future?

This where I'm currently at...
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] kevin_bouchard:
1. I followed the guide and they did an really good job in providing the step by steps. If followed to the letter than the risk is fairly low. The absolutely two biggest things are to make sure you get a proper backup and make absolutely sure you are writing over the correct slot. Failure to do the last is only recoverable if you have a full backup and depends on what step was done incorrectly. This is why following the guide is so important, some steps if not done correctly will brick the device.

2. Check this thread on how to switch the slot versions through download mode. I would recommend doing it sooner than later as the software updater actually downloaded the latest update and overwrote the inactive slot even though I had it disabled and told it not to check for updates. In my case I was using an exploitable version so it just kicked me in gear to do this sooner than later.

3. I can't say what is in the works. If (and this is a big if) the firehouse file gets leaked than phones will be likely unbrickable(short of a hardware failure). However there is absolutely no guarantees that this will ever happen.

I recommend you download the guide and read through it. If there are any steps you aren't sure of, ask.

I would also suggest to switch slots asap of you are even remotely thinking about doing this. The danger on that procedure is extremely low however it does factory reset your phone.

[MENTION=9350973]All[/MENTION] the others ref not posting a guide here. No one is forcing your hand to do anything. If someone (for whatever reason) doesn't want to use their time and effort to put something in a specific format, that is their choice/right. Instead let's be thankful for the work they are doing. This can apply to anything in life;)

I know I would have been super pissed if a guide was posted and the associated warning about bricking were not included and I ended up with a paper weight(the risks are real, managed but real). Think of it like making sure that no one will attempt this unless they are fully sure and no excuses that they missed the warnings.

I'd like to thank all the developers and people that collected and presented the information in this thread, you didnt have to and I thank you for all your hard work, patience and dedication!!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Thank you for that! I've read through the guide, and I have no doubts that I can follow it correctly, my only sticking point is that I currently have the June patch, and I'm unsure if there is a way to go back to the exploitable version.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
On the June patch, you'll need to flash a kdz. All the variants except sprint and at&t should have kdzs. I recommend you flash the initial Android 10 update, and then disable update center with adb
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
I have the Sprint variant, unfortunately, and have the June patch. I'm guessing this means I'm out of luck?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
I heard that the sprint v50 was until recently stuck on January patch, so if it was a direct update from January to June you can switch slots back to January and do it. But I would recommend that you uninstall or disable update center right now (and other update related packages), even if you haven't decided yet.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Got it disabled. Thanks for the help!

Edit: Switched slots, and the other slot is Android 10 - Jan 2020 patch!

Software version V450P20a
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Nice. Now stay on that version with all the update packages disabled until you decide lol
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Ran into some trouble. While on slot A (jan 2020/vulnerable android 10), I followed the guide - backed up everything, flashed the 4 files several times each, switched to slot B (Android 10/june 2020 patch), booted to fastboot mode, selected Restart Bootloader, and typed fastboot oem unlock. At this point I received the following error:

FAILED (remote: 'Flashing Unlock is not allowed')
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
That should only happen if it's not engineering fastboot. Please join the telegram group if you can; just search up LG V50 in telegram and it should come up. Maybe it happened because you didn't enable oem unlocking in developer settings, but I'm not sure. You can go back to slot a and see if it's enabled out no
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Got it! I'm now rooted with unlocked bootloader! This was not for the faint of heart - I had a few white knuckle/sweat-inducing moments.

Big thanks to ALL involved, and Antintin for the help!

Edit: The last thing I need - which files to uninstall/disable to prevent updates? I'm getting the update nag for the June 2020 patch. Keeping airplane mode on for now.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Shtiff1:
In

You can start with these. I loaded some screenshots, but I don't see them yet. I'll keep checking back. If not I'll try to pm you.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Thanks. Not seeing the screenshots, feel free to PM.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Shtiff1:
Why can't I upload a .png file? It attaches but then says fail.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Shtiff1:
Can't send it either in pm.

1- FOTA Updates

2- system updates

3- system updates

4- software updates
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
Just update center too
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Wow. Out of the thousands of posts I've read on XDA, I've never witnessed anyone come across as such entitled, ungreatful, ignorant and childish douchebags to the level of extremity publicly displayed by a couple of users on this thread.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
? They can now just follow the guide I wrote for g8 models as it's pretty generic. Except the twrp and patched boot IMG of course
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Your guide is just fine. I hadn't used adb much since I put CM 7 on a phone about.... jesus, 10 years ago? I had to familiarize myself with everything again, but I made it through without (many) issues.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Helpmyv50:
Hey guys, i followed g8 root guide up until step4A.

My v50 is bootloader unlocked and did 'fastboot' command on step 4a. After rebooting, phone asked me to reset the phone and i did. After rebooting, it took me to TWRP which i dont think I installed yet according to the guide.

When I try to reboot system, power off, recovery, & bootloader, it says that there is no os.

I'm not sure what to do now. I made the back up from the guide but i dont know how to restore it.

I'm stuck in TWRP now
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] yifeileeece74:
Hi were you able to fix the problem? I was also planning to root and BL unlock my V50.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] antintin:
You can go to download mode, switch back to the slot with the engineering bootloader, and fastboot flash all your backed up partitions (from one slot). It should have backed up partitions from both slots, so you just separate partition_b.img and partition_a.img. then flash all the ones from one slot (preferably the one opposite of your engineering fastboot). You definitely messed up somewhere though because a phone can't just randomly start booting into twrp without it being installed...

If you have a kdz available, you can ignore what I said above about fastboot flashing and go to download mode (in the slot which does not have the engineering bootloader). Then load your kdz and select all the partitions from your active slot in partition dl and flash. Make sure to leave the inactive slot with the engineering fastboot untouched.

Did you ever flash any boot img while you were doing the bl unlocking guide? If so, that's probably why you're booting into twrp
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
I hit this too - couldn't do anything in TWRP, couldn't boot to android. I used lglaf to switch to the other slot for fastboot, and then used fastboot to erase userdata. This allowed me to boot back into Android and finish up the process.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] yifeileeece74:
Can I assume the following? If we wipe data / factory reset every time prior switching boot slot, then we would not get hit by this problem?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] yifeileeece74:
Hi Trasixes,

I have a question:

After BL unlock, were you able to enable VoLTE? thanks,
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] trasixes:
Once I finished the final steps for BL unlocking/rooting in the guide, I never had any other issues, even without wiping data.

---------- Post added at 08:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 AM ----------

I have not tested this. I use Sprint as my carrier for the moment, and VoLTE works (no surprise) for Sprint. I would love to know if others have gotten it working with other carriers though.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibroTaSoeur:
I have the same issue.

I can go back to the other slot and get access to fastboot again.

I tried to run "fastboot erase user data".

Endend up with the following:

******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition?

erasing 'userdata'...

OKAY [ 2.363s]

finished. total time: 2.366s

But I'm still stuck on the TWRP, even though I didn't install it. I suspect the file V450P20a_magisk_patched.img from the v50 archive to be the issue.

Did you use the previous file V450P20a_magisk_patched.img or the one from g8 archive: sprint20e_magisk_patched.img ?

Update:

For anybody having this issue here's what I did to fix it:

Start download mode from the main slot

Change the booting slot to the secondary slot

Use fastload to flash my backup boot_*.img on my primary slot

Use fastload to move back to the primary slot

Reboot and let the phone go all the way to the dashboard

Reboot in download mode again

Change the booting slot to the secondary slot

Use fastload to flash the patched boot img : V450P20a_magisk_patched.img

Use fastload to erase user data (not sure if required but did it to be safe)

Use fastload to switch back to my primary slot

Reboot

Enjoy a short but good night of sleep!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibroTaSoeur:
Well I had to factory reset my phone because of some APN issues when activating my Spring sim.

I lost root after that. Not sure what is the way to go from there.

I tried to reflash the patched img from AngryManMLS but the phone is stuck on the red LG boot logo.

I tried to patch my boot_a.img with magisk and flash it but the phone is also stuck on the same red lg boot logo.

The only way the phone boots is with my pristine boot_a.img backup. The bootloader is unlocked and I have access to fastboot on my slot_b so I guess all the steps from g8 tuto are good until Step 4A, Magisk Flashing.

Not sure what to try anymore.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] en11gma:
i have the sprint lg v50 (LM-V450PM RUNNING V450P20f)

what exactly can i do with this phone at the moment?

can i BL unlock it and if so what will this affect? google play protect?

Can i Root and if so what will this affect?

thanks.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] en11gma:
im still wondering about my question from before...

i am on August 1st 2020 Security Patch Level.

my phone is the Sprint "LM-V450PM" on Software Version "V450P20f"

please help as I am with "MetroPCS/T-Mobile" and also need VoLTE working.

do i really need to join telegram or can someone help walk me through this?

we also have another identical phone with the same info so it would really be great to get both these phones working correctly.

thanks!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] marahuan:
i have lg v50 v500n. tell me how to unlock impl
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] mc_365:
https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-lg-g8...nlock-and-magisk-root-using-firehose.4221793/
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] mc_365:
There's a guide now up. I followed it and it worked on my sprint v50.

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-lg-g8...nlock-and-magisk-root-using-firehose.4221793/
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ldeveraux:
Any reason to think it wouldn't work on the verizon variety V50?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] mc_365:
The guide addresses that.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ldeveraux:
It mentions the Verizon G8, but not V50. With all these variants I want to be positive!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] mc_365:
Well all I can add is I have a sprint v50 and they are 99.9999% the same phone.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MuyKurioso:
Hi, can anyone provide me with the steps for returning yo stock AND lock the bootlader? I have the LG V50 Sprint version, since LG doesnt provide KDZ im stuck on LOS.

I have the Dump files, but really dont know how to flash them. It's my first LG so I dont want to mess It up. Thanks.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] RenardHCRc:
the guide for TWRP already available?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ldeveraux:
Did you actually root/unlock your Sprint V50? That thread is a disaster with people bricking, I"m not about to run out and try it unless it actually works!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] smitra420:
Yep the G8/V50 guide for rooting/unlocking just worked. Haven't found a twrp image for the v50 though
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ldeveraux:
I thought that was part of the procedure, TWRP was included? If not, that's a pretty huge misstep.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] way2aware:
I, like you, have the verizon v50, mines unlocked for network, running a tracfone sim. At this time, after searching everywhere I can think of, it appears that not one person, worldwide, has successfully bootloader unlocked this phone. That is all, and good day.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ldeveraux:
I never bought a V50 after reading this thread! I'm not that foolish.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] way2aware:
Indeed, you were a wiser man than I! Really nice phone, it'd be swell if I could get it out of verizon's control and into my own, lol
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] way2aware:
I am here to confirm that the guide you linked does in fact work for the Verizon v50 thinQ. I was on the 20d firmware Android 10 (and still am). The guide gives a warning against using the frp_verizon.img file for any other variant except the G8, but I flashed it as directed in the tutorial and it worked just fine. The only problem I ran into was not being able to fastboot flash my backed up abl_a and abl_b after unlocking the bootloader- I kept getting 'Failed to flash, flash partition is full', so I gave up on it and left the engineering bootloader in place.

Working great, and real easy access to fastboot now!
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] lallolu:
I have the exact problem restoring my backed_up abl_a.bin. The size is 32MB, which is weird since the backed-up abl_b.bin is 1MB. The abl_a.bin I downloaded from the "bootloaderunlock instruction" is also 1MB. Everything works, but I would like to install the correct abl_a.bin for my sprint version 20j phone.

EDIT: As a workaround, I flashed my correctly backed-up abl_b.bin on the abl_a partition. And it works fine.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] way2aware:
Thanks for the info. Did you use fastboot or QFIL to flash the backed up abl_b?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] lallolu:
fastboot
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] way2aware:
Well, I went the other route, with QFIL, lol. In hindsight I realized that wasn't the brightest move... Replacing abl_a and abl_b which were both like 1 Mb partitions, with my backed up ones which were both 36mb, I got a prompt "overflow. Continue?" Continued and wound up hard bricked, Question: Did you say your phone was a Verizon model? And if so, can you share your backed up abl_b with me (the one that was about 1mb in size)?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] lallolu:
My phone is the sprint version.
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] way2aware:
Ahh. Gotcha. Thanks anyway
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ilovevy10:
This link is no longer good - any chance someone can repost?
[LG V50 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] TheLoonyRebel:
There's a newer 20N in this thread here. I would highly recommend using that version instead as it's a bit more stable.

https://xdaforums.com/t/v450pm-lg-v50-sprint-update-to-system-20n.4309141/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Shariq3422:
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
* Your warranty is... still valid?
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this Recovery
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

SHRP is inspired by Material design 2 to bring the newest design to the native TWRP. SHRP provides much more along side of it's rich UI experience. New dashboard makes it very easy to interact with TWRP. SHRP got some cool features like Whole new theming section ,Flash Magisk (root or unroot), Camera2api enabler Directly from dashboard, Password protection etc. It's all started , lot more to come.

- Themes

- Status bar customization

- New rounded icons added on dashboard

- Notch mode with toggle to disable

- Dark mode or pure white, it's on you

- Navigation bar customization

- Settings + Advanced Settings

- Flash Magisk

- Clear fingerprints.

- Flash ViperFX

- Recovery Locking , Pin or Pattern lock

- CPU core lock/unlock

- Language changing

- Hal3 / CameraAPI2 enabling/disabling

- Oreo+ Reboot menu style

- Redesigned lock screen interface

- Flashlight

- Magisk manager - Enable, disable or delete magisk modules right from SHRP

- and many more, flash right now to find out

1. Make sure you have a custom recovery installed

2. Download the latest SHRP recovery for your device

3. Boot into recovery

4. Flash shrp recovery zip

5. Reboot to recovery.

6. Done

You tell... :P

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Maintainer: Sherri

Based On: TWRP

TWRP Version: MoRo v1.3

Thanks to MoRoGoku
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] damaged prawdukt:
Flashed, looks great... More visually appealing then just twrp...

In your list of features you mention viperfx, i see nothing about viperfx in the recovery options/settings/menus etc
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] Shariq3422:
You can flash ViperFX in Magisk Manager.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] DavidxxxD:
Sick Rekovery, like alot √
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] damaged prawdukt:
Maybe i did something wrong...

I've been using this for a while now abit over a month...

Everything works fine until i try to do anything "extra". Like the other day something went wrong with a theme i applied in substratum, so i tried just using the recovery tweak, and i got an error saying I'm missing a file in like sdcard/blah/blah/addons/s.zip

I looked in this thread and the website and i don't see anywhere to grab those files and put them where they need to go?

Or is it a mounting issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] DavidxxxD:
There should be a folder in your internal storage called SHRP open the zip and copy files/SHRP
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] NachoGamer:
how to install? I dont understand. I flashed the zip, rebooted recovery, nothing new from here, apart from a new SHRP folder, thats it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] DavidxxxD:
[MENTION=9773290]NachoGamer[/MENTION]

The zip should put the files in internal, maybe it doesn't work with some encryption methods.

You can extract it like a regular zip and inside the Files folder will be a SHRP folder with folders for data and addons inside, that one needs to be in sdcard.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] SuDoDmz:
Mine still is the ugly blue TWRP. I get the folder in /sdcard but nothing else happens. Manually flashing the recovery.img results in infinite bootloop. Am I missing something?

EDIT: Got it working, now. Stupid mistake, but not entirely my fault: download shown as "latest" in sourceforge was NOT for S7. If anyone stumbles upon the same behavior, make sure to download the second (also 2.3.2 as of now BUT for "herolte").
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] morogoku:
New SHRP v3.0 for S7 Flat herolte is available:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/shrp/files/herolte/SHRP_v3.0_stable-Official_herolte-001013012021.zip/download
[Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveri] qsmyle:
ok. i have installed shrp 3.0 from twrp but i got orange screen. anyone know what to do? thx.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] serfboreds:
I am looking to create some cabs (now that I have WinCE figured out) and wondered if others had quick ways of getting all of the reg keys exported for specific applications so I can add those into my cab.

If I can get buttons, today screen prefs, apps, and a few other things done in one compiled "Setup CAB" I will have my phone auto-customized I had it before flashing. I am so close to having only cabs in my UC if I can get this, and do away with the copy commands.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] scrawnyb:
This is actually something I've been wondering about and kinda 'working on'.

I'm trying to find out how certain applications store registration info (registry, files, etc.)

Just a few in question that I'm trying to auto-register on flash:

Resco Tools: Backup and Explorer

Handmark Games (Yahtzee and Scrabble)
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] c@rL0$:
It's simple. If you bought WinCE you will then be able to use the option to export and import REG Keys.

So all you would need to do is open a CAB from any program -- Export the REG -- and close it out.

Then open the CAB project you made and import the REG key and your good.

But you must first buy WinCE. The evaluation copy doesn't let you do this. Well it didn't let me.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] gc14:
For cabs that are just changing reg keys for you and not actually installing anything...it's easier to just create an xml file. Name the xml file _setup.xml and use makecab from the command line like this:

makecab _setup.xml yourcab.cab
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] studentjunk:
CeREgistryEditor also makes cabs from registry files. Free program.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] serfboreds:
The two aspects i was looking for are solved by this program and GC's suggestion. Thanks!