Hello fellow XDA'ers,
I recently purchased the LG G2 and this is my first android phone. I'm coming from an iPhone 5 (for a multitude of reasons that are not applicable to this thread). I wanted to start this thread for people like myself who have no idea on how to install a ROM on an android device. There are various ROMs being released (verizon and ATT) and I would love a general walk through on how to install. Can anyone experienced point me in the right direction or offer any advice? Thanks in advance!
mjfan82 said:
Hello fellow XDA'ers,
I recently purchased the LG G2 and this is my first android phone. I'm coming from an iPhone 5 (for a multitude of reasons that are not applicable to this thread). I wanted to start this thread for people like myself who have no idea on how to install a ROM on an android device. There are various ROMs being released (verizon and ATT) and I would love a general walk through on how to install. Can anyone experienced point me in the right direction or offer any advice? Thanks in advance!
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There aren't really any custom ROMs out for the G2 yet, just a couple of debloated ROMs (stock, plus root and minus carrier bloatware). Better ROMs will come, but it will be a little while. The G2 is just too new right now to have much out for it.
For a beginner, a few things you should keep in mind before rooting or installing a custom ROM:
* Be absolutely sure that what you're doing will work on your device before you do it. For instance, don't install a recovery image for an AT&T phone on a Verizon phone, unless you want to turn it into a paperweight.
* Read instructions carefully before you do anything. You should at least have some idea of what you're doing, so that in case something goes wrong, you'll at least have a chance of recovering. Don't just blindly follow instructions and hope you don't brick your phone.
* This *will* void your phone's warranty. If your phone dies after doing this (whether it's related to this or not), and you try to do a warranty exchange, they'll respond with something that is the same in English, Italian, and Spanish -- "No." On a related note, you are taking some risk by doing this. You could possibly mess up your phone. You could do things right, and an over-the-air update could conflict with what you've done and then mess up your phone. This is a risk you assume, not the developers of whatever you're trying to do.
* These forums, as well as #lg-g2, are for help. If you're not sure about something, ask. It's better to ask than to lose $600 because you incorrectly assumed that something would work.
Overall, rooting and ROMming your phone does give you more control. Just know what you're getting into.
antinorm said:
* This *will* void your phone's warranty. If your phone dies after doing this (whether it's related to this or not), and you try to do a warranty exchange, they'll respond with something that is the same in English, Italian, and Spanish -- "No." On a related note, you are taking some risk by doing this. You could possibly mess up your phone. You could do things right, and an over-the-air update could conflict with what you've done and then mess up your phone. This is a risk you assume, not the developers of whatever you're trying to do.
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There is risk involved yes, but it doesn't just straight up void your warranty in every situation. Depending on the carrier you are with and their RMA process you can get a perfect replacement with no hassle every time, and the carriers that do give trouble still have a small chance of going ahead with a replacement anyway depending on the tech you get. Many times for certain hardware issues it wont matter if you are rooted or not and you can still get a replacement as well. But choosing to unlock your device and do custom software for it you do have to accept responsibility that you could do something to break you device and that is your fault, not the manufacturer.
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As for specific instruction, I cant really help much there. The instructions didn't really work well for me in the TWRP thread on XDA for installing, as there is nothing available when using Goo Manager, despite what that retarded thread says. I found better info on Rootz Wiki through a Google search on what to do, and even that was a bit wrong and I had to use some common sense to do things the right way. That common sense only comes from knowing how to use the command line and knowing how ADB commands work though, someone new to the process wont know that for themselves.
Looking over this thread for the newest info it looks like pretty much everything in this video should be correct and the download link for installing root should have everything you need:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45SXPRb31o&feature=player_embedded
http://downloads.codefi.re/thecubed/lg_g2/root/ioroot6.zip
That gets root access on your device. You may or may not even want to do that. That installs root into your ROM you are currently running (stock), but you want to install a custom ROM and your custom one probably already is rooted to begin with. What you most likely want to do is just go straight to installing the drivers to connect your phone properly and use ADB to send ("push") files to your phone, then use something called "Loki" to bypass the locked bootloader and flash a custom recover to your phone. From there you can install ROMs perfectly easily. You can follow this guide in the link, but it doesnt give you links to the phone and ADB drivers you will need:
http://rootzwiki.com/news/loki-bootloader-bypass-twrp-recovery-come-att-verizon-lg-g2/
Right now there is not really anything but Clean ROM available, which is the stock OS that has a bunch of the "bloated" and unnecessary LG and ATT system apps un-installed. It cleans things up a lot and gives you a much better experience. In the future hopefully we will see some AOSP based ROMs that have a lot of the good features like "knock on", and those ROMs will be best since they dont have any of the bloat that the LG ROM has, and the AOSP based stuff gets a lot better mods to them and offers far better customization and tweaking.
Thanks for the info! I did not know that a most ROMs come rooted. So basically, I would not need to root then install a ROM?
I have an AT&T G2 so I would be installing the Clean ROM posted in the developers section. I would love the opportunity to debloat the phone and it seems like this is the best option currently. Enigma, are you saying that the knock on and off feature does not work with this ROM?
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Hello everyone,
I have rooted and have TWRP with the verizon phone.
How do i move a ROM into a phone so i can install it?
I have already made a backup of the current phone with everyone and copied it to the computer.
Let me know,
Thank You
calirage2k said:
Hello everyone,
I have rooted and have TWRP with the verizon phone.
How do i move a ROM into a phone so i can install it?
I have already made a backup of the current phone with everyone and copied it to the computer.
Let me know,
Thank You
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Put your phone in USB debugging mode under developer tools...hook up the micro usb to your phone and move the zipped ROM to the root of your internal phone storage.
calirage2k said:
Hello everyone,
I have rooted and have TWRP with the verizon phone.
How do i move a ROM into a phone so i can install it?
I have already made a backup of the current phone with everyone and copied it to the computer.
Let me know,
Thank You
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Or enable wireless storage via the notification drop down, you can now approach your device via Wi-Fi lan and upload whatever (it makes your device into a network drive)
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Hello everybody,
I tried posting this same question on other various websites, but I have gotten no replies thus far. I am considering the idea of rooting my LG G2, (Sprint) but I am unsure if I want to. On one hand, the idea of not being able to get it serviced if any accidents were to happen frightens me a bit. The last thing I want to do is root it and totally regret it if I did something wrong. Also, I always hear about these (horror, I guess you could call them) stories of people have terrible luck with rooting even after doing everything properly as instructed. However, that being said, I am not a stupid user. I would not tinker with anything beyond my own capability and I would be very careful about it. If I were to root it, would it be stable? Is it safe? (I would most likely be using CyanogenMod as my custom ROM, just an F.Y.I.)
In conclusion, to root or not to root? Is it worthwhile? Is it something that the "pros" outweigh the cons?
Thank you all so much for your help. I am brand new to this site, so please forgive me if there were any formatting errors, etc.
I was in the same boat a few weeks ago and decided to take the plunge.
A few things to consider:
- Do you have the original stock rom that came with your phone?
- A you comfortable flashing this stock rom with LG Flashtool? (To get back to where you are now.)
- Have you backed up everything on your phone?
- Can you afford a new phone if things go very very wrong?
If the answer is yes to the above, go for it. :victory:
I'm sure a few of the more experienced people on here can give you more advice. I used ioroot and the process was quick and easy. :highfive:
Looking to purchase a Sammy s5 and am not familiar with flashing since my Galaxy nexus days. (those were the days lol) Been in the Motorola boat for some time.
Base band shows G900VVRU1BOCA and according to Samsung's website, I believe this means it's at the LP version at this point. Any problems flashing back to KK to root etc that I need to be aware of?
Thanks in advance.
grnsl2 said:
Looking to purchase a Sammy s5 and am not familiar with flashing since my Galaxy nexus days. (those were the days lol) Been in the Motorola boat for some time.
Base band shows G900VVRU1BOCA and according to Samsung's website, I believe this means it's at the LP version at this point. Any problems flashing back to KK to root etc that I need to be aware of?
Thanks in advance.
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That was probably OC4. No problem downgrading, rooting, then upgrading again and keeping root.
I had one of those Galaxy Nexus's too. Nothing could be as fun as those were. Flash a different rom and kernel every day for at least a month.
All,
Just received my wife's new Samsung Galaxy S5 today. The phone is on the Sprint network and is a model number SM-G900P. I have not yet activated the phone as I intend to first update it, root it (but stay with the stock ROM), and copy data.
There are lots of good guides for rooting the phone (I have done this previously with previous phones) and for copying apps/user settings.
My question is this: The phone is currently running KitKat 4.4.4. Ideally, the first thing I should do us update the phone to Lollipop 5.1.1, but I have not found a guide for doing this. Can you point me to one? If not, should I simply get the phone working and worry about updating the OS at a later date? Since I have Titanium backup pro, if I need to wipe the phone and reinstall everything, that wouldn't be too painful...
My new phone, a Galaxy S4 Note also arrived today and is also on the Sprint network. I have the exact same questions regarding it.
Thank you.
I have been out of the root and rom loop for over a year but I'm having to use my old note 3 again. It's a sm-900v (whatever it was from Verizon) and I'm running it on AT&T network.
I just need to find roms that work for this device because I updated through kies and got lollipop but the dialer is absolutely not functional. If someone could take a minute or two and show me where to go for this old phone, I will love you forever. Lol
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Thanks. I couldn't find that subsection in the app but then again it seems to be having lots of issues since it force updated.