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[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] JohnnyX74:
Im on a LG V60 LMV600TM variant and im now black screen after trying to get into fastboot mode with no avail. Can anyone help me??
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Hello,

So I'm looking to root my phone to run a deep file recovery to get some old deleted texts from a few months ago on my LG V60 from T-Mobile that aren't coming back without rooting the phone.

From reading the guide it looks like rooting involves wiping my phone and reinstalling everything.

I'm a little worried that due to solid state hard drive controllers working by re-writing to the least used sectors, that the rooting and reinstalling process will most likely destroy the deleted texts that I'm looking to recover.

Is there a way to root that doesn't involve a full wipe and reinstall? My phone's main 128 gigs of solid state memory is a little under 1/3 used currently.

Any advice? I'm looking to recover the deleted texts from months ago. Then to restore my phone to normal.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Have a T-Mobile LG V60. Can't get the first step to work where I hold down volume and power, then tap the up volume when the screen goes black while holding the other 2. It just reboots normally. Is there another trick for the tmobile phones?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] crimsonrommer:
nope, just have to time it right, i got it by tapping up around half a second after the screen turns off. Dont tap once tho, keep tapping unless it reboots normally
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] crimsonrommer:
There is no way as thats how bootloader unlocking works.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KouaV1:
There is a trick the power button and volume down button pressed and as soon as it reboots then just keep repeatedly pressing volume up button.

Keep doing that until you enter edl if thats what you mean
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KouaV1:
What you need system rw for? Yeah you may need to do that method 2 times for it to supply you with a succesfull super partition.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KouaV1:
Simplw method: after factory reset then just set up fingerprint sensor right on LG setup and then you can disable it when done after. Saves you the hassle of the annoying step to LG dialer.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Irazor73:
hey everyone hope you guys are fine

recently stumbled upon an lg v60 bought it and stuck with it and have some issues regarding it

this is the most active thread on the v60 forum so thought i could ask here hope i am not breaking any rules

aside that i have a lg v60 korean model v600nvm software version v600nvm08s4 android 10

the problem is a weird one well the smartphone is stuck on android 10 blocked ota and the way i purchased it its imei is also mismatched showing of something else not v60

developer mode is on and i have oem unlocking not sure what has been tampered with

the issues i am getting is miserable battery life which is not a main issue the wifi keeps dropping after sometimes and singals are pretty weak

i even opened it and checked it seems no hardware issue antenna is connected everything is fine so i need desperate help i am not sure what seems to be the issue is

or if i can like upgrade it to android 11 might it brick it coz of the mismatching imei

will be very glad if i could get some insights on it
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Ok figured out how to root the phone. Tried Droid Kit Data Recovery, and it's finding nothing from before rooting the phone. Does the rooting reinstall write all the old internal memory space to straight 1's or 0's to make old data unrecoverable? Or is that a bad piece of recovery software?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] infekted:
I had a successful bootloader unlock and root enabled. I followed the steps to make system read-write, and even after completing the step, my /product partition is not rw.

Please if anyone has any workaround, do suggest. TIA

Model: LG-V600AM

Android: 11

Bootlocker unlocked: yes

Rooted: yes

RCT disabled: yes
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] udfxrookie:
I followed directions to the 'T' and was successful however when I attempt to do anything requiring root.... it states I am not rooted.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
How do you want to recover something from an encrypted partition /userdata
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
/product cannot be mounted as RW for some reason

That is because you have a v600n that is a pre-production model. You can crossflash it to another firmware with the crossflash method.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimmygeller:
will this work on v60 AT&T version? And btw I live outside USA, in Bangladesh, can I update to the latest android version after bootloader unlock? Thanks in advance.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ebowen 747:
My V600TM says overlay is read only when I try to mount product. This happened to me after android 12 update. Android 11 mounted RW as expected. We need to research the overlay file system to see how it works and maybe fix this problem.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ebowen 747:
What partition size did you choose when running the script?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
125MB. the issue is because a12 has a different file system permission structure. We need to wait untill it's updated to 12. Also please write me on discord since you have me already there.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] a safe haven:
Can the LG V60 UW (Verizon) be rooted following this method?

Can anyone please confirm?

TIA
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Yes all models can be
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Irazor73:
well will see the method

i am pretty unsure about it to be honest because of that imei change and the update that is blocked for some reason

and what i am not sure about is if i cross flash it i might get imei null or 0 and loose the imei and baseband part all together would need someone insight on this

thank you
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
The only reason why people lose their imei is because they right click in qfil and hit "Erase all flash" if you properly follow the tutorial the imei won't change.

And yes you cannot get OTA updates while crossflashed, this is because you have a imei from the old firmware.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] athoz:
On model V600TM30c (android12),

I am having trouble on step 11, although all the previous steps seemed to work well.

After running the following commands i get this error.

>fastboot devices
LMV600TMb0fe185e fastboot

>fastboot oem unlock
...
FAILED (remote: Command not supported in default implementation)
finished. total time: 0.002s

also tried something found on another thread

>fastboot flashing unlock
...
FAILED (remote: Unrecognized command flashing unlock)
finished. total time: 0.002s

On step 9 instead of going to fastboot it goes to bootloader. So I have to boot into android and run adb reboot fastboot.

In another post they suggested to not go from adb to fastboot because it is buggy, but rather boot in bootloader, but I cannot run fastboot unlock from there.

I don't have any lead to what I could try from this point on. Any help would be apreciated. Thank you!
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
You need to be in bootloader lol. Adb reboot bootloader
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] athoz:
Mega thanks, I was not able to see the device in bootloader using fastboot devices that's why I was trying through fastboot and step 9 clearly writes to go into fastboot. I forgot to check the device manager and it was shown as unknown, with name Android under other devices. I tried ADB driver installer 2.0, Minimal adb fastboot without success but the Latest ADB installer.bat did the trick. After getting the proper driver the oem unlock worked like a charm.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Ok, restored the phone after rooting, but now the security patch updates can't install correctly. I think I might have flashed abl_b to both abl_b and abl_a by accident. Everything on phone works properly other than I can't seem to install system updates from Tmobile anymore. Anyone have original copies of abl_a and abl_b for Tmobile V60 on android 12 I can use? Or have an idea of what I might have messed up if those wouldn't be the issue?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Use refurbish in lgup to receive updates
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Where is this refurbish software option? I can't find it anywhere on the phone?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
LGUP is a software to flash LG firmware
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] hrishi92:
Could I enable VoLTE after rooting a V600TM? could crossflashing to V600EA help?

PS: Device is unlocked to be used on any network but can't use overseas becoz local carrier needs VoLTE to operate.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] athoz:
I have a v600tm30c and have problem with systemRW which is a perquisite for editing build.prop to enable VoLTE. I'll try crossflashing to v600EA30c a12 and if it doesn't work try android 10 or wait for systemrw_1.4. I'll post updates on positive result, since there other users with v600tm that cannot systemRW.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Android 12 is not supported by SystemRW mod yet.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] hrishi92:
Would crossflashing from V600tm to EA version help enable VoLTE? Thanks for everything :) I am on Android 12.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
No it won't help, there is a tutorial for the g8 to enable volte but you'd need to go find it.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] hrishi92:
Newbie here - so apologies in advance. How would a G8 tutorial help V60?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Same method
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] athoz:
I'm guessing it's this one G8 VoLTE and other Qualcom LG devices. Thank you for the info. I'll crossflash EA a11 on my TM a12 and try if systemRW works and proceed with vowifi.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Ok Using LGUP 1.16.3

DLL: 2.1.0.23

It identifies my phone version as: V600TM30d

I downloaded a new firmware off lg-firmwares.com: V600TM30d_00_USC_US_OP_0823.kdz

When I try to refurbish I get the message:

Error: 0x5319, Not allow Change to the Device.

(NA2_US->NA5_US)

Wrong firmware? Or Wrong version of firmware?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Wrong region
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Hmm, can't seem to find the NA2 version of the firmware on lg-firmwares.com.

I'll have to search around a bit more.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
TMobile did not release a12 for us region.

Use https://lgrom.com
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] VibrantCascade:
Thanks for all the help.

Unfortunately UCL and UCK both appear to be region 5 on that site. Had to roll back to a11 to get a region 2 refurbish.

But at least I now know how to fully root and restore my phone again. (been about 5+ years since I last did, and it was a lot easier back then)
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] athoz:
Thank you Leronex_1 for your great support in this thread as well as crimsonrommer and lebigmac for your work. I have managed to complete the full guide above and everything worked in android 11 EA but the VoLTE/VoWifi is not there. The volte menu in settings/network/calls in not visible after restarting and I have to go to hidden menu/test/volte/ux to enable all the checkboxes. I still haven't managed to see any volte/vowifi icon or indication that it works.

Following Wish39's tutorial I saw that I could add volte without root and this would solve other problems I have with root (nfc payments, some bugs with low microphone volume maybe caused by a magisk call recorder). I have downloaded Samsung SM-G780F (same chip with v60) firmware for the region I am interested in (COS = cosmote), decrypted the image and extracted the modem.bin and trying to unpack it to flash carrier MBN files to my V60, if there are any. I might need to HEX it to check if I could patch modem files for LG. Using the volte tutorial using Qualcom PDC at my current rooted v60, I see that even after enabling volte from this tutorial the phone shows active carrier an mbn with "row" in the name so it doesn't use volte. I need to find my region's mbn.

edit: 5G doesn't work as well, across all regions and versions (although Tmobile kdz shows the fake 5G logo on the taskbar)
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Roxkis:
First l, I would like to thank the OP for the guide. I was able to unlock my bootloader and root.

I bought my LG v60 off ebay unlocked referbished. The phone is unlocked, but because it was from sprint, I couldnt use 5g or wifi calling on t-moble, and I was hoping rooting would help me find an answer to make my phone usable off wifi, but I ran into a bunch of dead ends .

I was feeling defeated when realized, some sicko cross flashed this phone with a sprint rom. I was always getting an nt user error when ever I booted my phone, and it's only after seeing that was the result of cross flashing, did I think flash the t-mobile rom.

I ended up reflashing with lgup to the t-mobile rom, and now I have wifi calling and get 5g.

I was just wondering, if I relock my bootloader, will it wipe my user data again? I thinking it might, but I would love to be pleasantly surprised.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
It will wipe your user data and brick you because of crossflash
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] bandario:
Exact same issue I had when I tried this method, would consistently default to row MBN.

Never did find a fix. Lost cause, I just use it as a camera and music player.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] rick2210@gmail.com:
What versin of QFIL did you use? The screen shots shown above look nothing like the version I downloaded. Version Qualcomm_Flash_Image_Loader_v2.0.3.5
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Snakecharmed:
I want to add a data point to the search index and assist anyone who's as foolish as me to try this in 2022 and beyond: QFIL will not properly recognize port communications on Windows 7 and you will fail at step 8 in the tutorial. I tested this on two separate Windows 7 machines. I presume doing this on a virtual machine can also be problematic, as I've searched and found one instance of this specific error on a Windows 7 VM and one on a Windows 10 VM.

The error in my log file on Windows 7 was:

_____
| ___|
| |__ _ __ _ __ ___ _ __
| __| '__| '__/ _ \| '__|
| |__| | | | | (_) | |
\____/_| |_| \___/|_|

22:32:09: {ERROR: Could not read from '\\.\COM8', Windows API ReadFile failed! Your device is probably *not* on this port
Reset To EDL Fail:FireHose Fail:FHLoader Fail:FHLoader Fail:Process fail
Finish Reset To EDL

There are other possible causes so I may be misdiagnosing the problem, because both of my Windows 7 machines are Intel Sandy Bridge platforms which didn't have native USB 3.0 and used a third-party chip to handle it. I suppose that could lead Windows to assign it a virtual read-only COM port via USB, but anyway, attempting this root on older PC hardware and software will add more possible points of failure.

I was able to root on my Windows 10 machine without any issues.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] bukeyolacan:
Will this method work for V60 on A12? Also am I gonna lose OTA updates after root if A13 comes someday?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Antonroxas:
help my mobile data won't work after manage partition abl_a abl_b can anyone help me please
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
What exactly dies not work?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Antonroxas:
after I do the manage partition abl_a and abl_b the step says go to fast boot mode but my phone won't go to fastboot mode, then when I went out my mobile data is not working anymore sorry I'm new to this
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Antonroxas:
can anyone help this happened to my phone
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
you may have deleted something else, try reflashing original abl and if that fixes it flash a new firmware.

Then retry again
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Antonroxas:
how do you get to 9008 mode when this happens inorder to use qfil on lg v60 thinq?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] bukeyolacan:
I have lost the recovery volume after this it seems as when I go to recovery mode there is "no command" screen. Can someone provide recovery.img from Android 12?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] rifay78:
If your device lmv600am Download luns from her

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Follow this link to install your download

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[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] twkgsudauz:
excuse me!

I encountered a similar case. But instead COM1_EU -> NA3_US. what wrong?

The original is Japanese - softbank. Despite full dll backup. But every time using LGUP and then rebooting, then to the setup step. After completing the setup step, imei is NULL and there is no signal. This happens from start to finish of the setup process.

May I ask for a solution as well as an easier way to contact you?

Thank you!
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] all4thezuki:
i have an lmv600vm sw version v600vm30c android 12. magisk25.2 apk installed. i had no problems with the bootloader unlock but following the instructions to gain root when i try to patch the file i get "unsupported/unknown image format" error. i have read through the instructions several times before i even started, i started from the beginning several times. i tried using a different device that had magisk on it, i have read through this thread completely and still haven't found my answer. this is also the first time i have ever tried the file patching method. every other device i have rooted i installed through recovery. i find it strange that the file size for abl_a, abl_b, boot_a and boot_b read data are all exactly the same at 32,768KB but not being familiar with the boot.img patching method i don't know what a normal boot.img size should be. any suggestions? thank you
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Try and extract the boot image again, qfil is known to **** up files.

Or you could extract the image from a kdz
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Antonroxas:
FAILED (remote: Command not supported in default implementation)

finished. total time: 0.004s

why do I get this error when typing fastboot oem unlock, I flashed abl_a and abl_b
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Engineering bootloader not installed
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Antonroxas:
how do you install in sir is that the one with the abl_a and abl_b on qfil?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] a safe haven:
Why are there no custom ROMs for this phone?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Not really any because no one is making roms
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
There is a whole tutorial for that on page 1
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] ghani mal:
The fingerprint scanner doesn't work anymore, any help?
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Use the fingerprint fix on post 2 or 3
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] hallevison:
Hi Everyone:

I just want to make sure that this will work on a LM-V600VM for Verizon and running Android 12. Am I good to proceed?

Also, do I need to do anything differently if I am using a Linux machine as the ADB/Fastboot host?

Thanks!
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KouaV1:
The guide really needs an update for another fix for fingerprint. You can go through the setup screen and make sure to not skip but setup using fingerprint, after the LG setup and you have rooted then fingerprint will still work so would not need that annoying LG hidden menu thing.

Also that ota disable thing does not work as well because on tmobile v60, ota updates are managed by google play services, your only option is to root and use super user to disable the update popup dialog, use an app called service disabler and disable 2 other services within google play service that is responsible for checking for system updates.

atservice apk displays your serial number and doesnt hurt to disable it but then your device in settings will display S/N:Not Available.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
Are you sure on setup that it works? it didn't for me back then with a11 but I cannot try it now out myself.

Yeah the OTA fix only worked on A11 I believe but again, I cannot really try it out myself due to not having a US model.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
You preferably need a Windows device/VM, but yes if you follow the guide correctly it should work.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] rootmaster354:
Does this root work on v600vm30d version? I'm on Verizon I have no oem✌️.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] Raindevil:
Yes I tried on verizon one and it works but the fingerprint isn't working.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] rootmaster354:
I don't need the fingerprint at all
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KouaV1:
yes, I have ran alot of issue with pm uninstalling to trying out fingerprint sensor at lg setup + root after etc and confirmed for myself. well the ota doesnt work for any version as again " google play services" is responsible for the otas on the tmobile v60 and you will see that play services icon when recieving that update.

I have written a guide here long ago before crimsons root posts and everyone has confirmed forced updates in my posts in which i managed to look into and saw google play services icon.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] 80HDcat:
I could get to step 10, is there any scenario that adb and fastboot work in some basic cases.? Such as when you just connect your V60 and type adb devices and it shows, then adb reboot fastboot and it switches your phone to fastboot mode, and fastboot devices it shows as well. Yet fastboot on terminal does not work after

Press and Hold Power and Volume Down for 9 seconds

Once you either see it disappear from QFIL or you hear it disconnect from your PC, let go of power, until you see Fastboot Mode on your Phone's screen.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] KouaV1:
You need to install the qualcomn devices thing and have lg mobile drivers installed. If you did already then I would suggest checking your windows updates as there should be a section that says "optional updates" and go there and youll see microsoft throws you updated qualcomn drivers so you should download them and should work now.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] MrLeronex:
You need to assign a driver in device manager when it is in Fastboot.
[LG V60 ThinQ Guides, News, & Discussion] a safe haven:
Does the banking app work if you're rooted?

Also, I use a fingerprint scanner a lot so will that be affected too?

I have the Verizon UW version.

Thanks!