I tried unlocking the bootloader using android sdk. Didn't work. Im using mac but I couldnt get passed a specific part. Anyways, I found that I could use freegee to do it, but how reliable is it? Is doing it via the laptop more reliable than the app? How often does the app fail? Do I need an unlocked bootloader to install twrp? I can only imagine that I should have a custom recovery before unlocking right? So so many questions....sorry. lol
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I tried unlocking the bootloader using android sdk. Didn't work. Im using mac but I couldnt get passed a specific part. Anyways, I found that I could use freegee to do it, but how reliable is it? Is doing it via the laptop more reliable than the app? How often does the app fail? Do I need an unlocked bootloader to install twrp? I can only imagine that I should have a custom recovery before unlocking right? So so many questions....sorry. lol
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The app worked like a charm for me. It seems to be the easiest way to get-r-done.
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I tried freegee but it hung up on me. I had a soft brick but was able to flash out of it.
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I tried freegee but it hung up on me. I had a soft brick but was able to flash out of it.
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But how do I flash out? I dont have a recovery
I had a hard time getting it into download mode. Had the LG screen only. When I dot it into download mode I used the LG utility to flash.
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Freegee softbricked me. Im on mac and dont know how to unbrick. Seriously, please help.
Ok. Let me try to find the links
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Simply unlocking boot loader and flashing stock rooted rom nearly bricked my phone and definitely bricked wife's phone. Now my wife is on her old evo due to bricking and I don't want to go through this again on the my lg when jelly bean comes out next month. HTC was much easier and more reliable. Just my 2 cents.
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Simply unlocking boot loader and flashing stock rooted rom nearly bricked my phone and definitely bricked wife's phone. Now my wife is on her old evo due to bricking and I don't want to go through this again on the my lg when jelly bean comes out next month. HTC was much easier and more reliable. Just my 2 cents.
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Uhhhhh...I rooted and unlocked mine during halftime of a bball game easiest thing in the world. Its not the device I'm sure its the user
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Rooting and unlocking... Easy schmeezy, Flashing a zip, not a very reliable thing on our lg phones. I'm familiar with flashing roms wiping cache etc. Never worried about it on evos.
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What recovery are you using?
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What recovery are you using?
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Yeah stick to twrp and you'll be super good that's the most reliable recovery
If you have cwm just use the freegee app to change to twrp
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You did not do it right then because it worked fine on the 3 i have used it on before posting something about it being too quirky you should do a little research
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Simply unlocking boot loader and flashing stock rooted rom nearly bricked my phone and definitely bricked wife's phone. Now my wife is on her old evo due to bricking and I don't want to go through this again on the my lg when jelly bean comes out next month. HTC was much easier and more reliable. Just my 2 cents.
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You did not do it right then because it worked fine on the 3 i have used it on before posting something about it being too quirky you should do a little research
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1. ROOTED
2. UNLOCKED 2 weeks later
3. Rebooted. No issues
4. DL stock rooted odexed v9 from xda
5. From recovery wiped cache/dalvick
6. Flash zip from root directory
TWRP nearly bricked my phone. CWM = Wife's phone bricked.
Where is the user error?
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1. ROOTED
2. UNLOCKED 2 weeks later
3. Rebooted. No issues
4. DL stock rooted odexed v9 from xda
5. From recovery wiped cache/dalvick
6. Flash zip from root directory
TWRP nearly bricked my phone. CWM = Wife's phone bricked.
Where is the user error?
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I have done this 3x on two different phones using TWRP and have not had one issue. I am not sure what happened but I promise you it was not the phone. CWM is buggy, so I see why your wife's phone is messed up. However I can only assume you have some corrupted download to explain your issues on the other phone. I have also walked a kindergarten teacher with no computer skills beyond word through this over instant message with no problems.
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1. ROOTED
2. UNLOCKED 2 weeks later
3. Rebooted. No issues
4. DL stock rooted odexed v9 from xda
5. From recovery wiped cache/dalvick
6. Flash zip from root directory
TWRP nearly bricked my phone. CWM = Wife's phone bricked.
Where is the user error?
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4.5/5.5. Wipe user data?
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Tried that too although not necessary unless your flashing a custom or deodexed rom. Devs are great. Phone is unstable when it comes to flashing. That's all.
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Mike its quiet hard to actually hard brick it. What is your wife's phone doing?
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Mike its quiet hard to actually hard brick it. What is your wife's phone doing?
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Black screen after LG logo. I can get into cwm and dl mode. I can't get usb to recognize phone in dl mode.
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Black screen after LG logo. I can get into cwm and dl mode. I can't get usb to recognize phone in dl mode.
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the isnt bricked, its soft-bricked. when its full bricked it wouldnt even show the lg screen. use this guide to fix her phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2082084
MikeDroid can you still get into recovery on either of them?
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My phone is fine, but yes I can get into cwm on wife's phone.
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I had an issue with Cwm try going into mounts and mount the system plug in usb that should give u adb that's how I got through with the help of shellnut again thanks
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Black screen after LG logo. I can get into cwm and dl mode. I can't get usb to recognize phone in dl mode.
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Reinstall drivers. Use tsilenzios automated lgnpst install which has drivers. Then flash stock.
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Yea I dont think you like the phone, there is nothing quirky about this phone. Its fast looks beautiful and has awesome battery life.
I like other members have used all the tools avail to root on 6 different phones and haven't had a single issue.
If your flashing stock deodexed ZV9 over ZV8 then you absolutley going to need to wipe everything and only use twrp at the current moment as it is the most stable recovery we have.
There is never a reason to not do a full factory reset wipe cache/dalvik cache other than being lazy , and yes I understand that having to re-do all apps and contacts is a pain but if you use gmail to its potential ( all of us androiders should) then logging back into your account does most of the work and leaves no room for questions or error.
I've never had any issue at all with flashing
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I've had zero issues doing a full wipe every time i flash a new ROM.
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Ok I've now recovered my phone 3 times after trying to unlock my bootloader, I've done it with freegee and GAIO both when i reboot I just get the LG logo then a black screen and nothing. I've tried with installing a new recovery as well as not doing the recovery install at all. Anyone have an idea why this would be happening?
GAIO doesn't root zv9, or zvb. For those you should be using fiddy root.
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Im currently in the same situation. I used to be rooted on Lifeless but last week I had the same situation (LG screen to black screen).
Now, im only on stock rooted JB. I cant unlock bootloader because it wont let me. You should talk yo shelnut on the irc. When i talked to him last week, he said there is a way to unlock but there is a chance of brick with no coming back. I couldnt risk it, so im stuck on stock rom
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You both would just use Loki's Locked Imperium. I've been running it and it's pretty nice for people that just can't unlock.
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After recovering I was at zv7 so that's when I used gaio, the other times I rooted with fiddly. And I haven't gotten to the point of being able to install a rom. After unlocking the bootloader it doesn't allow me to ever even go to recovery.
Does the locked imperium not need a recovery to install with?
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You both would just use Loki's Locked Imperium. I've been running it and it's pretty nice for people that just can't unlock.
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Thats what I have been using for the last couple of days
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fiddy has a Universal root. Its for all versions. Maybe even run it twice to make sure root is good. Then either try freegee again or use Locked Imperium. For now anyway.
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Well I can't use the locked imperium because my phone hasn't got the jellybean update yet . it's partly why I want to root.I used fiddly the first 2 tries to unlock. Do you think doing a bootloader unlock twice might make a difference?
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Does the locked imperium not need a recovery to install with?
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No, all you need is JB and root.
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Has anyone figured out a way to force the jb update?
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The short and sweet is: Download zvb update,, update to zv9, root, push zvb uodatebto /cache. Hang on, I'll edit this with a link.
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can I just download the zvb update and do it from my computer without unlocking?
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Kind of, and not really. Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38610481 and ill find another that javskies wrote.
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Here's another. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38629658
Neither of these use freegee
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awesome looks like i just need a rooted zv9 to do this, thanks alot!
Also, you don't have to use rootkeeper. Just use fiddy619 root for everything. So zv9, root using fiddy, push zvb update to /cache, root zvb using fiddy root again. I can't remember if it freezes at 4GLTE screen or not. If so, do this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38887359&postcount=155
edit. You dont need to rename the update either
Worked like a charm! Never had any lockups or anything. Your the man!
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I'm curious. Did you run root twice? Or just the once when on JB? I'm assuming you unlocked.
Also, I'll rewrite those steps and put them in my guide. Tomorrow hopefully.
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I only ran root once. I haven't tried unlocking yet though at this time as I'm worried about having to unbrick again. If you want me to try for the guide your writing though I would give it a try.
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Don't worry about it. You've spent enough time working on it. Now play with it.
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So ive rooted this fine device with framaroot and.have flashed both twrp and cwm a couple timea as well but cant seem to boot into them. It just gives me a black screen with a measage about recovery security. Did i need to unlock before root? Kind of strange to be able to successfully root without unlocking.
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So ive rooted this fine device with framaroot and.have flashed both twrp and cwm a couple timea as well but cant seem to boot into them. It just gives me a black screen with a measage about recovery security. Did i need to unlock before root? Kind of strange to be able to successfully root without unlocking.
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I'm guessing you're on stock. I've never heard of that.
So you unlocked using FreeGee?
For this phone, TWRP is your best option. Makes me wonder if CWM has caused that error.
You could try installing TWRP thru goomanager.
Or, run FreeGee again, and install with TWRP.
Or you can use teeny bins with LGNPST.
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Run freegee to unlock or the secure boot certificate, not matching what it should be (partition sizes/md5 or whatever security they use) will prevent you from going anywhere besides normal boot
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Ahh, i was not aware it was just a simple app that could unlock. I get the following message attached in the screenshot, though. Is it safe to proceed?
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It's fine. If you get an error then go to the irc and talk to them about it and they'll help figure out what went wrong and how to fix it but if it errors out don't reboot
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But I've unlocked my phone and my wife's multiple times and no issues
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Thanks, much appreciated. Now to find a rom that's better than stock becuase i actually enjoy stock on this phone.
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Thanks, much appreciated. Now to find a rom that's better than stock becuase i actually enjoy stock on this phone.
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Try Nexogen or the Optimus ROM. We only have a few stock options, but they are all good.
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I broke my t999 then t moBile sent me a T999L what's the difference? All I was able to do was root it. I can't install a custom recovery or any rom, when i do it fails any suggestions?
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I broke my t999 then t moBile sent me a T999L what's the difference? All I was able to do was root it. I can't install a custom recovery or any rom, when i do it fails any suggestions?
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The T999L is the Superior Cousin T999 never was. It has an LTE antenna that the T999 is missing. Practically all the Custom Roms will work fine from one to the other.
If you want to flash custom Recovery then use Goo Manager and hit Install Custom Recovery Script.
Yea already tried goo manager but it said no recovery scripts were found for your device
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Yea already tried goo manager but it said no recovery scripts were found for your device
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Don't worry the TWRP for SGH-T999 will work just fine for your device.Try this Link and get the TWRP version 2.5.0.0
Okay thanks will do.
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Same thing happend it failed like everything else
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Same thing happend it failed like everything else
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You need to use ODIN to flash that Version. There's plenty of Tutorials on How to use ODIN.
I know how to use it, I tried it last night but everything fails.
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I know how to use it, I tried it last night but everything fails.
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Could be your Bootloader is locked.
Are you absolutely sure you are successfully Rooted ? Please use Root Checker App if in doubt.
When you tried to flash the Recovery via ODIN, what was the error ? Can you post a screenshot ?
With due respect "Everything Fails" doesn't really tell me squat.
I'll do that when i get back home.
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i tried it via odin again and it worked i have no idea what was wrong with it, thanks for finding those TWRP files for me.
Do a quick search before going any further. I have a T999L thread that answers most any question you may have.
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I tried rebooting to recovery but somehow I ended up stuck with that notice. I can reboot to system. I just can't possibly access recovery. Any idea how to solve it?
Can anyone please help me out or guide me? I've been googling it. Nothing lucky.
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Can anyone please help me out or guide me? I've been googling it. Nothing lucky.
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Try this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106
Or you may have to use the whole bin file
These are your only option.
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Did you unlock your bootloader? if not, go back to stock with lgnpst and unlock it with freegee app from play store then flash custom rom again. good luck!
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Did you unlock your bootloader? if not, go back to stock with lgnpst and unlock it with freegee app from play store then flash custom rom again. good luck!
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No wonder. Yeah, my bootloader is locked. Do I have to unroot it and unlock it with freegee? Sorry, what is lgnpst? I've obtained my new LS970 today.
EDIT: NVM. Thanks for the link, engine95.
EDIT:: Now I can boot into recovery mode. MANY THANKS!
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