So, i installed kingroot on my lg g2 and i figured i should try to get rid of some bloatware. I didnt make a backup of any apps. So i uninstalled a couple apps that that looked safe to delete and anyways it all works fine, until i restart my phone. Im getting like 3 error messages system UI is not working and a couple other apps, i cant navigate anywhere. The settings on the boot screen and i can navigate through them. I tried to flash the stock rom but since i have the sprint version and it has a different file type. All lg flash programs use kdz. I dont know how to reinstall the built in apps. Help, i know i was stupid for doing this and its all ny fault but can someone help me get it back to its original state. Thanks!
spaceship3p0 said:
So, i installed kingroot on my lg g2 and i figured i should try to get rid of some bloatware. I didnt make a backup of any apps. So i uninstalled a couple apps that that looked safe to delete and anyways it all works fine, until i restart my phone. Im getting like 3 error messages system UI is not working and a couple other apps, i cant navigate anywhere. The settings on the boot screen and i can navigate through them. I tried to flash the stock rom but since i have the sprint version and it has a different file type. All lg flash programs use kdz. I dont know how to reinstall the built in apps. Help, i know i was stupid for doing this and its all ny fault but can someone help me get it back to its original state. Thanks!
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Follow the directions in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
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I had a rooted Hero before this and now I have rooted Continuum...I've hit "Problems?" and downloaded the busybox update.......I select Force Remove App.....Titanium Backup says my phone will restart twice....but it only restarts once, and the program I'm trying to remove is still there. I get no error messages.
I had similar experiences on the Hero. What am I missing? I would really like to get rid of this extra crap Verizon put on my phone.
spearoid said:
I had a rooted Hero before this and now I have rooted Continuum...I've hit "Problems?" and downloaded the busybox update.......I select Force Remove App.....Titanium Backup says my phone will restart twice....but it only restarts once, and the program I'm trying to remove is still there. I get no error messages.
I had similar experiences on the Hero. What am I missing? I would really like to get rid of this extra crap Verizon put on my phone.
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I will say this once,and only once. Do not uninstall bloatware.
If you do delete it, you will not be able to get any OTA updates, but yes it does work. You can ask around, there a few people the deleted it, and they were stuck on DJ20 for a while.
Rather than uninstalling bloatware, why not just freeze it with TiBu? It will have the same effect, but then, you just need to thaw all the bloat when an update is released, and then you can update, and just refreeze whatever is there that you don't want again.
I am an idiot. I finally realized what I've been doing wrong with TB. I was always long-pressing the programs in the backup/restore view. It brought up a window of options but never what I thought I should see. Quick tapping an item is what I apparently NEVER thought to do until now. What an imbecile!
By the way, the freezing suggestion is nice, but you have to pay for the app to do that.
Thanks to the dev work, I'll revert to my former method of backing the whole ROM up with CMR and flashing a new clean ROM.
thanks for the responses
TiB
come over to the IRC tonight
Hi, new to the forum, I tired to figure out this problem on youtube to no avail. So I have a rooted g3 with twrp. After the botting process, it takes me to the setup screen. But after getting to the point where I pick the look of the onscreen home buttons etc, the wizard crashes, I press 'OK" and it starts over. So then I found a link here about going into twrp and deleting the setupwizard.apk file which is supposed to 'fix" the problem(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2668851). Did that then I rebooted but still same issue remains. What else can be done about this?
Can't you just skip it and do it manually
Dez730 said:
Hi, new to the forum, I tired to figure out this problem on youtube to no avail. So I have a rooted g3 with twrp. After the botting process, it takes me to the setup screen. But after getting to the point where I pick the look of the onscreen home buttons etc, the wizard crashes, I press 'OK" and it starts over. So then I found a link here about going into twrp and deleting the setupwizard.apk file which is supposed to 'fix" the problem(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2668851). Did that then I rebooted but still same issue remains. What else can be done about this?
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I had the same issue when flashing "Lonely Rom" and "Zone Rom" (come to find out my original out of the box rom crashed also if I went back into it and tried to do the set up again). 2 apks need to be deleted (4 if still odexed) LgStartUpWizard in system app folder and LgSetupWizard in priv-app folder. I edited my zip before flashing with all the updated Google equivalents plus some other stuff I normally do. The Google set up process worked like a charm and everything is running better than stock (better battery life and no noticeable lags) even though it's a "stock rom", I also run Xposed with several modules for my needs with no adverse effects here.
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I had the same issue when flashing "Lonely Rom" and "Zone Rom" (come to find out my original out of the box rom crashed also if I went back into it and tried to do the set up again). 2 apks need to be deleted (4 if still odexed) LgStartUpWizard in system app folder and LgSetupWizard in priv-app folder. I edited my zip before flashing with all the updated Google equivalents plus some other stuff I normally do. The Google set up process worked like a charm and everything is running better than stock (better battery life and no noticeable lags) even though it's a "stock rom", I also run Xposed with several modules for my needs with no adverse effects here.
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Thanks man, lol but I unrooted back to stock an hour ago. But now I'll know what to do when I root again & have the same issue pop up
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Can't you just skip it and do it manually
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Nah, the step I got to there was a 'next' or 'back'.
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Dez730 said:
Hi, new to the forum, I tired to figure out this problem on youtube to no avail. So I have a rooted g3 with twrp. After the botting process, it takes me to the setup screen. But after getting to the point where I pick the look of the onscreen home buttons etc, the wizard crashes, I press 'OK" and it starts over. So then I found a link here about going into twrp and deleting the setupwizard.apk file which is supposed to 'fix" the problem(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2668851). Did that then I rebooted but still same issue remains. What else can be done about this?
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Hello,
I am new to the site, and fairly inexperienced with rooting. I used KingRoot to root my LG G3 and then did a factory reset so that I could re update to the current android version before rooting. Now I get stuck at the same point in the setup process. However, I do not have TWRP or CWM installed. What are my options?
Thanks
Since no one replied to me n another thread i'll try to find some help in the Q&A section.
A few weeks ago i downgraded a stock fw and went back from V10f to V10a. Everything ran smoothly but after the reboot my phone installed several apps on it's own. These are apps from another carrier or different app stores with another language.
I tried to remove these apps with Titanium Backup and tried factory reset several times but nothing worked out for me.
I'm lost because some of these apps interfere with apps i downloaded on purpose.
Is there any other method to remove everything,
Sry but i cant hold my tears back, dont want to send my LG back
Have you tried flashing a stock KDZ with LG Flashtool? use CSE mode and you will be wiped back to stock for 100% sure.
Edit: on second thought if you're rooted you should have no trouble removing those apps, did you try to manually remove them from /Data>App etc directory?
So I bought an LG G Pad 8.3 vk810 from Swappa a while back and up until this point I had only used it for general web browsing but I recently decided I wanted to use it as a car tablet. Yesterday I tried installing the Google Search app so I could use the "OK Google" voice commands and it would not install, gave an error saying something to the extent of application could not be installed (-24). Then when I was searching for the issue I noticed that a software upgrade was rolled out yesterday as well, so I tried installing the software update figuring maybe this would fix my issue but that failed as well.
After doing a little more research I took a look at my software info and it said that it had been modified so I downloaded the Root Checker app and sure enough it said I had root access. I have no use for root access on this and honestly I know little to nothing about it so I did a search for how to unroot and somebody mentioned using the "Full Unroot" built into Supersu. I tried this and it looks like I no longer have root access, however it didn't help any other issues. Does anybody have any idea what is preventing me from installing the Google Search app or doing system updates? Without knowing a whole lot about rooting is there any easy way to fix my issue?
Thanks,
Sean
Herbiegaf3 said:
So I bought an LG G Pad 8.3 vk810 from Swappa a while back and up until this point I had only used it for general web browsing but I recently decided I wanted to use it as a car tablet. Yesterday I tried installing the Google Search app so I could use the "OK Google" voice commands and it would not install, gave an error saying something to the extent of application could not be installed (-24). Then when I was searching for the issue I noticed that a software upgrade was rolled out yesterday as well, so I tried installing the software update figuring maybe this would fix my issue but that failed as well.
After doing a little more research I took a look at my software info and it said that it had been modified so I downloaded the Root Checker app and sure enough it said I had root access. I have no use for root access on this and honestly I know little to nothing about it so I did a search for how to unroot and somebody mentioned using the "Full Unroot" built into Supersu. I tried this and it looks like I no longer have root access, however it didn't help any other issues. Does anybody have any idea what is preventing me from installing the Google Search app or doing system updates? Without knowing a whole lot about rooting is there any easy way to fix my issue?
Thanks,
Sean
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Hi!
The easiest for sure way to get your device to be the way you want it is to use "LG Flash Tool 2014" (Google for it on XDA) and download the KDZ file for 35A_08 5.0.2 that was just released. There's a link to it here [URL="[/URL].
You can *try* keeping your existing data/apps by using "Normal" mode in LG Flash Tool 2014, but I would personally move everything from internal storage that you want to keep and use "CSE" mode to completely wipe everything (except for your external SD card) and install it fresh. You'll have to set it back up the way you like it, but it will for sure be the way it's meant to be that way.
Thank you, I'm definitely not worried about deleting anything as I did 3 factory resets yesterday and erased everything anyway. What exactly does the KDZ file install? Does it send me back to factory settings and remove root?
Thanks again,
Sean
Herbiegaf3 said:
Thank you, I'm definitely not worried about deleting anything as I did 3 factory resets yesterday and erased everything anyway. What exactly does the KDZ file install? Does it send me back to factory settings and remove root?
Thanks again,
Sean
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You're welcome! A KDZ puts an LG device back to a factory fresh version of whatever stock ROM the KDZ is for. It rewrites:
Bootloader (aboot.img)
Kernel (boot.img)
modem.img
recovery.img
rpm.img
tz.img
Etc, and overwrites all your partitions except for your external SD card.
So it removes root and anything else you might have customized about it.
Hi,
I wanted to unroot and reset to stock my phone. I used LGFlashTool and TOT and DLL from this website:
http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-stock-factory-firmware/
LG G3 Stock Factory Firmware D855 (European)
Download Android 4.4.2 V10E LG G3 Stock Firmware D855 European 32GB
Download D855 DLL
It worked all fine, but when I started and set up Android for the first time after flashing, it started immediately to install 103 Apps out of nowhere after arriving at the homescreen. See Screenshots.
This happens although I am in Flight Mode and not logged into my Google account yet. And there is no deinstalling them, I can only deactivate them.
Hard Reset didn't change anything. Flashing any other kdz (complete wipe/format with CMS Flash) doesn't help either. As soon as I get to the homescreen after setup these annoying 103 apps start to install themselves.
Since there is no SD card, these Apps must be saved somewhere on the internal space. But how do I get rid of them and the command that starts to install them magically?
Thanks for helping
Felix
I just tried to delete all the bloat Apps with NoBloat Free and System App Remover after I rooted the phone. It worked and the Apps didn't install themselves again after I restarted the phone.
But as soon as I hard reset Android, they get installed again directly after the phone setup.
These apps and the command to get installed must be saved somewhere on the internal space.
Does anyone know how this works and how I can completely removed this annoying software?
Thanks
Felix
i assume your carrier just pushes them on your device somehow, so i'd say it's hard coded just like the LG logo on boot
Freeze them with Titanium Backup is your best bet, they won't do any harm thatway, or get re-downloaded
ive seen this too, not just orange apps though, after the flash it installs orange, vodafone, singtel, plus mobile and a ton of others, were talking over 100 apps that just install automatically after reset even with no data connection, i have no idea why its happening and i cant seem to stop it