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(Help Needed) I think I BRICKED my phone

Hey guys,
I've been reading a lot of the threads and it's pretty awesome how helpful everyone is. Could someone try and help me?
Here's what I've done. I started with a new Evo.
**Rooting Method**
-downloaded PC36IMG.Zip & evorecovery from Toastcfh
-Copied PC36IMG.Zip to SD card on phone
-While in bootloader, I started the update and rebooted
-It powered on, I removed the PC36IMG.Zip file from the SD card
-I powered it off and back on.
**Auto Recovery Method**
-I donated money for the "ROM Manager" by ClockworkMod and installed
-Then I selected "reboot into Recovery" and Powered off the phone
-I powered back up and nothing seemed to be different about the phone. I don’t get how I’m supposed to know it’s rooted.
ANYWAYS THAT’S THE LEAST OF MY PROBLEMS NOW
I did the Auto Recovery Method steps again and now IT WON’T TURN ON NO MATTER WHAT MODE.
I tried:
Taking out the battery, taking out the SD card, tried starting it in bootloader (vol down + power).
IS MY PHONE A BRICK NOW?
If so how can I fix this and if I can’t fix it, how do I return it without showing I voided my warranty? I’d prefer fixing it if I can.

1st check and make sure your batt. Didn't die

slimm9969 said:
IS MY PHONE A BRICK NOW?
If so how can I fix this and if I can’t fix it, how do I return it without showing I voided my warranty? I’d prefer fixing it if I can.
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if your phone doesn't doesn't turn on at all, there is no way to tell you voided the warranty. However, it is extremely difficult to brick these phones if you don't flash gsm roms/radios.
Make sure the battery isn't dead.

yes, and always do this stuff with the charger plugged in when flashing roms.

Does the Orange(not full)/ Green(Full) charing LED come on at the top of the phone when it is plugged in? If so charge it til green and try again.

moved to general forum.

so it won't even show the htc evo 4g bootscreern? try plugging it in the computer and try adb shell on it with EVO-recovery.zip to see if it connects. If it does, reboot recovery.

Use the RUU..

No lights at all. It's like there isn't a battery in the phone.
Someone suggested the battery might have went out. Shouldn't it still turn on or show an orange light with the plug. I think it should still turn on even without a battery when it's plugged in. ??

HOLD UP!!
WHILE I WAS DRIVING HOME i TOOK THE BATTERY OUT AND WHEN i GOT HOME i PUT IT BACK IN AND IT STARTED RIGHT UP. I STILL NEED TO FIX THE WHOLE ROOT THING.
How do I know if I rooted it (part 1)?

slimm9969 said:
WHILE I WAS DRIVING HOME i TOOK THE BATTERY OUT AND WHEN i GOT HOME i PUT IT BACK IN AND IT STARTED RIGHT UP. I STILL NEED TO FIX THE WHOLE ROOT THING.
How do I know if I rooted it (part 1)?
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Try to boot the phone into recovery using the evo recover.zip in part one
Rename or remove the pci.img w.e from your sd
Turn the phone off hold down vol. Down and power let it check click down on volume then click power button and boot into recovery then.....
download it unzip it onto your desktop open it up right click on recovery.bat if you on Windows click run. as admin if the screen goes up and just goes away then just click on recovery.bat normally you may have to click on it a few times if it runs and doesn't boot into rec. The 1st time.

The reason it didn't boot is because the "internal memory" had to be "reset", the only "real" way to do that is to take out the battery and wait about 1 minute, then snap it back in and boot up. - Correct me if I'm wrong about that.
So... My theory would be that if It had not needed to been reset to boot up, then It didn't Root... ??

Ok, that sounds logit. But, if you can entertain my questions just a little longer?
What is the rooting going to do to my phone? And what is the NAND Uprotect going to do?

slimm9969 said:
Ok, that sounds logit. But, if you can entertain my questions just a little longer?
What is the rooting going to do to my phone? And what is the NAND Uprotect going to do?
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Its going to let you run custom roms such as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698350

slimm9969 said:
Ok, that sounds logit. But, if you can entertain my questions just a little longer?
What is the rooting going to do to my phone? And what is the NAND Uprotect going to do?
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Heres a list of roms http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698044

slimm9969 said:
How do I know if I rooted it (part 1)?
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Install Terminal Emulator from the Market (free). Launch the terminal, and enter 'su' and press enter. You should be at a root prompt (#). Confirm by typing 'id'; It should return 'uid=0(root) gid=0(root)'

slimm9969 said:
Ok, that sounds logit. But, if you can entertain my questions just a little longer?
What is the rooting going to do to my phone? And what is the NAND Uprotect going to do?
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Why the HELL are you here trying to root your phone if you don't even know what it'll do?

MuzikJay said:
Why the HELL are you here trying to root your phone if you don't even know what it'll do?
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I would assume it's so he can learn and progress like the rest of us.
Remember what mom said... If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all.

DaveMW said:
I would assume it's so he can learn and progress like the rest of us.
Remember what mom said... If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all.
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Well if you're doing something that can potentially destroy your $550 dollar device, you should probably first figure out
A: How it's done
B: WHY YOU'RE DOING IT

MuzikJay said:
Well if you're doing something that can potentially destroy your $550 dollar device, you should probably first figure out
A: How it's done
B: WHY YOU'RE DOING IT
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A. WHY YOURE DOING IT
and THEN
B. How it's done
i dunno i agree with you.. lol

Soft brick installing GingerbreadlatinIME.zip

I just tried flashing the Gingerbreadime.zip and followed the directions to the letter and I experienced my first soft brick. The phone went into a boot loop at the mytouch screen. Luckily I was able to go into Recovery and restored the backup I had made after rooting and turning s=off. It appears to have restored okay as I still have root etc. Does anyone have any idea how or why this happened ? This zip was posted in Droid-Life and was advertised as good for all android 2.2 devices. I have never used adb but have it set up on my phone so I guess I had better get more familiar with it. I have flashed my Vibrant numerous times using Odin and Rom manager but I don't believe that there is a similar program for the Mt4g (Odin that is) I guess I have been spoiled by my Vibrant as it seems to have more options to recover with and are easier to use from what I can tell. I do love this MT4g though It is probably the best all around phone I have ever owned. Any and all info and help is greatly appreciated.:

to my knowledge there has been no gingerbread port for our device yet. Your lucky you didn't brick your device.

tenbeau said:
I just tried flashing the Gingerbreadime.zip and followed the directions to the letter and I experienced my first soft brick. The phone went into a boot loop at the mytouch screen. Luckily I was able to go into Recovery and restored the backup I had made after rooting and turning s=off. It appears to have restored okay as I still have root etc. Does anyone have any idea how or why this happened ? This zip was posted in Droid-Life and was advertised as good for all android 2.2 devices. I have never used adb but have it set up on my phone so I guess I had better get more familiar with it. I have flashed my Vibrant numerous times using Odin and Rom manager but I don't believe that there is a similar program for the Mt4g (Odin that is) I guess I have been spoiled by my Vibrant as it seems to have more options to recover with and are easier to use from what I can tell. I do love this MT4g though It is probably the best all around phone I have ever owned. Any and all info and help is greatly appreciated.:
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There are people experiencing the same thing in the Nexus forum. Personally I would stay away from anything that is not specifically built for this phone as its a completely different OS than Vanilla or Moto Droid or etc. etc.

bobsbbq said:
to my knowledge there has been no gingerbread port for our device yet. Your lucky you didn't brick your device.
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yes I a sure am. I trusted the Dorid-Life site and should not have. Thanks for the swift response...

setzer715 said:
There are people experiencing the same thing in the Nexus forum. Personally I would stay away from anything that is not specifically built for this phone as its a completely different OS than Vanilla or Moto Droid or etc. etc.
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I sure intend to and I should have got on this forum before I even attempted to flash it. Right now everything seems fine except I cannot get into recovery only clockworkimode recovery. I am holding down the volume down button and pressing the power button at the same time and the device just reboots. Any ideas and what could be causing that? I am embarassed to say that my ignorance that pushed me to flash that zip is probably at the root of it. Any steps that I can take to enable me to get into stock recovery to check and make sure S=off?
Edit: Just pulled battery and sim card and than put them back in and the device went into stock recovery and s=off so I hope that all is okay and I did not create some ghosts that will show up when I attempt to flash a rom later on.

Please post questions in Q&A section.

I did the same thing. I flashed the .zip file from droid life forum and got a success message when I installed it through recovery and mine never bootlooped. I didn't get the gingerbread keyboard but it didn't bootloop either
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

tenbeau said:
I sure intend to and I should have got on this forum before I even attempted to flash it. Right now everything seems fine except I cannot get into recovery only clockworkimode recovery. I am holding down the volume down button and pressing the power button at the same time and the device just reboots. Any ideas and what could be causing that? I am embarassed to say that my ignorance that pushed me to flash that zip is probably at the root of it. Any steps that I can take to enable me to get into stock recovery to check and make sure S=off?
Edit: Just pulled battery and sim card and than put them back in and the device went into stock recovery and s=off so I hope that all is okay and I did not create some ghosts that will show up when I attempt to flash a rom later on.
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I think you mean bootloader? You only have 1 recovery. If you flashed clockwork you no longer have stock recovery. Vol Down + Pwr gets you to bootloader or SPL where it shows S=off.

I did not flash the zip (sounds like an overkill to flash a zip for new KB). I ADB pushed both files and got a FC on multi-touch KB... oh well, I like HTC_IME better anyway

tenbeau said:
I sure intend to and I should have got on this forum before I even attempted to flash it. Right now everything seems fine except I cannot get into recovery only clockworkimode recovery. I am holding down the volume down button and pressing the power button at the same time and the device just reboots. Any ideas and what could be causing that? I am embarassed to say that my ignorance that pushed me to flash that zip is probably at the root of it. Any steps that I can take to enable me to get into stock recovery to check and make sure S=off?
Edit: Just pulled battery and sim card and than put them back in and the device went into stock recovery and s=off so I hope that all is okay and I did not create some ghosts that will show up when I attempt to flash a rom later on.
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make sure fastboot is checked off otherwise you cant get into the bootloader. to make sure it is off go to: menu, settings, applications and uncheck fastboot. you're good to go then. to get into recovery, you can do it thru bootloader or by opening up rom manager and clicking on the "reboot to recovery" option

setzer715 said:
There are people experiencing the same thing in the Nexus forum. Personally I would stay away from anything that is not specifically built for this phone as its a completely different OS than Vanilla or Moto Droid or etc. etc.
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the website was not specific enough. the port at the current moment is for motorola droid devices. they should have been more specific instead of saying any rooted 2.2 android phone. even if you do get it on your phone, its only going to force close every time you try and type something. thats what happened to me, so after about 24 hours i said **** it and removed it. swype in my opinion is better anyway. im trying to port the g2 swype to our phone so we can have a swype with a mic on the keyboard. oddly, ours didnt come with one.

[Q] Issues concerning recovery

I posted this elsewhere but I would like a answer faster.
I like to think I am rather educated in regards to how to root and all that. I just got my replacement Evo today and of course it is updated to 2.3.3. So I can't use unrevoked, but I was hoping to flash over to a older backup I made on 2.2 on my old phone.
Except, when I do the whole hold the volume down + power button and eventually choose recover, all that happens is a image of a phone and a exclamation point appears and it never leaves here.
I know in order for me to be able to use ClockwordMod I need to root the phone, which can't happen on 2.3
So what are my options? How do I flash over my old rom???? Even if it doesnt let me get back to 2.2 its still better than redownloading all my apps.

Rapture Veteran said:
I posted this elsewhere but I would like a answer faster.
I like to think I am rather educated in regards to how to root and all that. I just got my replacement Evo today and of course it is updated to 2.3.3. So I can't use unrevoked, but I was hoping to flash over to a older backup I made on 2.2 on my old phone.
Except, when I do the whole hold the volume down + power button and eventually choose recover, all that happens is a image of a phone and a exclamation point appears and it never leaves here.
I know in order for me to be able to use ClockwordMod I need to root the phone, which can't happen on 2.3
So what are my options? How do I flash over my old rom???? Even if it doesnt let me get back to 2.2 its still better than redownloading all my apps.
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Well, you have a couple problems here.....if I am not mistaken, your first problem seems to be that your recovery may either be corrupt or not installed. I saw this issue back in my TP2 days. Not with the evo though. If this is a replacement EVO and you cannot properly get to your recovery, then I would suggest contacting sprint on this issue. It should at least go into the stock recovery. As for your rooting issue...you can't do anything untill root is provided for the update.....best of luck to you!

His recovery is not corrupt. That's stock recovery

HipKat said:
His recovery is not corrupt. That's stock recovery
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thats what i thought. so i have to just update the drivers by installing the provided unrevoked drivers/method? id like it but im new and it wont let me. well...
unrevoked dot com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install

Well, as we've seen in the 10 million posts about this, there is no root for 2.3.3 yet.
No root, no recovery. No nothing, but stock and that's that.

Rapture Veteran said:
I posted this elsewhere but I would like a answer faster.
I like to think I am rather educated in regards to how to root and all that. I just got my replacement Evo today and of course it is updated to 2.3.3. So I can't use unrevoked, but I was hoping to flash over to a older backup I made on 2.2 on my old phone.
Except, when I do the whole hold the volume down + power button and eventually choose recover, all that happens is a image of a phone and a exclamation point appears and it never leaves here.
I know in order for me to be able to use ClockwordMod I need to root the phone, which can't happen on 2.3
So what are my options? How do I flash over my old rom???? Even if it doesnt let me get back to 2.2 its still better than redownloading all my apps.
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Are you s-on or s-off ?

HipKat said:
His recovery is not corrupt. That's stock recovery
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If I member right once in stock recovery you push vol up + power button to get the menu up.
sent from my locked EVO via tapatalk

[FLASHING ROMS] HTC EVO 4G 2.3 gingerbread how to flash roms

Hello again, everyone. This is going to be another one of my easy-to-understand, simplistic type tutorials. For all of the people that might not have an extensive knowledge of android and how to operate basic linux devices, this is going to be a noob level how-to on flashing roms. Most of these directions also go for kernels (not 100% of the time, but most), so just ask if you need help.
Alright, I'm going to assume that you're already rooted and have s-off, as well as a custom recovery menu, if not this tutorial will mean nothing to you. Go read my root tutorial if you need to accomplish this task.
My root tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228566
How to flash roms:
(Step 1) Finding a rom. May sound easy, but you have to figure out what you want, and more importantly, what you need. There is a very diverse selection of roms here on xda so reading up shouldn't be too much homework for y'all. If you're not willing to do this little amount of work to just read and see what you want and need, then you are hopeless in the first place. I will, however, help you if you are putting a significant amount of effort into this process.
(Step 2) Downloading the rom. This is not hard at all. I get all of my roms and kernels (not including my own) from xda, and downloading has always been a breeze. I can't remember now if you need to sign up for xda or not in order to access downloading. If so, then you should sign up anyway, xda is great! The easiest way to download roms is to download them on the computer then plug your phone in as usb drive and just place them on the root of you sdcard. There is another way though, and it isn't much more difficult. Just go to the market and download the xda app, you don't need the premium (unless you want it) the free version is good enough. The app is pretty much just a mobile translation of the actual site, so finding something on the app that you found on the computer isn't too much of a pain. Once you have found it in the app, just download it, and it should be placed in the folder sdcard>downloads.
(Step 3) Making a backup. Go into recovery by powering down the phone and holding volume down and the power button until the hboot menu appears. Make sure before you actually power down the phone, that you have fastboot turned off. If it is on, then the phone will automatically do the fastboot procedure, instead of going to the hboot menu. How to turn off fast boot: home>menu>settings>applications>fastboot. Make sure that it is unchecked. Okay, at this point we are at the hboot menu. It may check for an image, but shouldn't find one. Just let it do its thing. Volume down to recovery and select it by hitting power. The phone should reboot into recovery. This next part may have some variation because there are a couple of different custom recoveries. Most of them are all going to operate the same though. Once you are in recovery, volume down to "backup/restore". Select it. ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING ANYTHING, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT GOES WRONG!! Now select "backup". It will start backing everything up. It usually takes about five minutes so be patient, if it looks like it froze then just wait it is probably just rendering. After it has completed go back to the previous menu and proceed to the next step.
(Step 4) Flashing the rom. To do this, have the phone in recovery and volume down to "install zip from sdcard". Select this then volume down to and select "choose zip from sdcard". Now navigate to where you put the file and select it. If you did the method of downloading it on the computer then putting it on the root of the sdcard, then it should be on the current menu. If you downloaded it using the method of the app, then it should be in a folder called "download/". Finding it is really simple, just navigate the folders until you see it. Once you have found it, select it and install it. This process might take a couple of minutes. Once it has completed, you can select the reboot phone option and power that baby up.
(Step 5) Troubleshooting. If you are in a bootloop, (a bootloop is when the phone is stuck booting up) then just take the battery out, put it back in and power it up to try again. If it fails again, then go back into recovery. (like we did before^) This is the reason we made a backup. Just volume down to "backup/restore" select restore and select the image you would like to restore. Again, this may take a few minutes, just let the phone work. After it is done you can just boot it up and it is like you never did anything. If this happens, then this whole process was a fail. But, on the bright side, you made the backup (hopefully) and avoided having to flash a stock RUU or bricking your phone. Just try again with more roms, you'll get the hang of it.
Here is a very good aosp rom that I, in know way, take credit for: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178834&highlight=omgb
This rom was created by user: r2DoesInc
I am in no way affiliated with this user and have no right over his/her rom.
Remember, the rom page will probably have directions also. If it calls for specifics, then make sure to carry out those specifics!
Congratulations, you now know how to flash roms, even if you are a noob!
Thank you so much xda for making this site where fellow androdians can come together and help one another.
Thank you to all my supporters and I hope you all found this tutorial to be quite resourceful.

Post all of your questions and statements here. If I don't immediately respond that means I am asleep, at school, or at work. Yes, I am just a high school student, but that in now way makes me any less eligible of being a genius than anyone else.

soo pumped
finally got my evo 4g root tried miui thought it was incredible...until i tried cm7 rc1.....completely flawless but i cant find the savaged kernel to pair it....

You should try that rom that I linked. It's really refreshing to experience true gingerbread 2.3.5. I love it and I use it as my daily rom. But cm7 is pretty amazing also.

dont know why i was so dumb i went with rc1... rc4 is even better ...what link? ill check it out i just am still confused about flashing a rom and kernel i know fn noob haha
sorry for the edit i meant to say im confused about flashing them both because the evo has been out for so long but it seems like there isnt that much for them or way too much there isnt really an optimal flash yet with both kernel and rom

I think it's a little bizarre to assume that someone can root the phone, s-off, and get a custom recovery on the phone but not flash a rom.....

deathsled said:
I think it's a little bizarre to assume that someone can root the phone, s-off, and get a custom recovery on the phone but not flash a rom.....
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Haha, I agree. But still, if you used revolutionary to root, like in my tutorial, then it was all automated. By using that method, the user doesn't have barely anything to do except for some small stuff like taking out the battery and turning some functions off. I'm just being helpful because I too was once a noob.

This was super helpful thanks for the guide
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³

infamousteeboy said:
This was super helpful thanks for the guide
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³
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Gracias. Hit that thanks button if it helped!

Thank you for posting this guide, as this helped me to install MIUI.

YouThere said:
Thank you for posting this guide, as this helped me to install MIUI.
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You are very welcome. Hit the thanks button if ya want.

ceng7904 said:
Gracias. Hit that thanks button if it helped!
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I'll have to do it tomorrow...I got hit with
"You are only limited 5 thanks per day"
LOL but I will hit the thanks for sure in the morning!
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³ *ROOTED*

infamousteeboy said:
I'll have to do it tomorrow...I got hit with
"You are only limited 5 thanks per day"
LOL but I will hit the thanks for sure in the morning!
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³ *ROOTED*
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Thank you...

Well what happens when your SD won't mount as disk drive
Sent From KaoMinerva

I am new, but I have a question why you didn't mention wiping things before flashing the rom? While I saw many other tutorials emphasized on wiping menu in the recovery mode.
Is that really a necessary step or not?

yww325 said:
I am new, but I have a question why you didn't mention wiping things before flashing the rom? While I saw many other tutorials emphasized on wiping menu in the recovery mode.
Is that really a necessary step or not?
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It is necessary, believe me. Wiping everything in recovery except for SD card is important between ROM switches. Otherwise you will run into so many issues.
Sent from my HTC Evo using xda premium

thank you.

ceng7904 said:
Post all of your questions and statements here. If I don't immediately respond that means I am asleep, at school, or at work. Yes, I am just a high school student, but that in now way makes me any less eligible of being a genius than anyone else.
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Once you have successfully flashed a ROM do you need to keep the Zip file for it on your SD Card in order for it to work or can you delete the zip file?

scrappa_doozie said:
Once you have successfully flashed a ROM do you need to keep the Zip file for it on your SD Card in order for it to work or can you delete the zip file?
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You can delete the Zip off your card once you are done flashing!
Sent from my PC36100 using xda premium

Thanks for posting this guide. It was huge helping me Root my first phone! I spent a ton of time researching, trying to soak it all in before I attempted to root and this thread was awesome!
Thank you

Rooting The T-Mobile V20

Trying to get my V20 rooted I figured since it's been awhile I'd try and ask hopping not to get my head ripped off about rooting this beast. I would greatly appreciate some help. Tried in the past failed miserably.

ice5192 said:
Trying to get my V20 rooted I figured since it's been awhile I'd try and ask hopping not to get my head ripped off about rooting this beast. I would greatly appreciate some help. Tried in the past failed miserably.
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I am coming from the Note 7 and Samsung background. I was apart of the Tekhd team. When the note 7 starting exploding and I had to turn it in I got the v10 to test then I prefer ordered the v20.
I just need some pointers on what I need to do the rooting process on this phone is very different from what I have been used to...

how have you failed ? what methods have you used? .. ill help you out as much as i can. i had trouble rooting before so i feel your pain

Just updated to lastest version.

xDEMON87x said:
how have you failed ? what methods have you used? .. ill help you out as much as i can. i had trouble rooting before so i feel your pain
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Which version should I use? I have the lastest update now.

Hey,
Just follow the Recowvery thread, then install whatever ROM you want after you have TWRP.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/h918-recowvery-unlock-v20-root-shell-t3490594

I'll try I do have the newest build. December release.

ice5192 said:
I'll try I do have the newest build. December release.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZEL96MPLvY , follow this guide..

xDEMON87x said:
, follow this guide..
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O tried this but when I got to type the dirtycow commands it simply doesn't find it it says no such file directory exist

egren58 said:
O tried this but when I got to type the dirtycow commands it simply doesn't find it it says no such file directory exist
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Before copy twrp.img to internal storage, make sure the name is exactly twrp.img (it MUST be all lower case).
SuperSU file must be copied to memory card.

Anyone free this Saturday willing to help me root I have tried every method... I do where I have done wrong

egren58 said:
Anyone free this Saturday willing to help me root I have tried every method... I do where I have done wrong
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I & a few others used this a few times,the still pics might be better since it gives you time to reread any step. I put some tips in the comment section. It's basically be the manual dirtycow way (thread with the 120+ pages).
http://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/root-your-t-mobile-lg-v20-using-dirty-cow-0175329/

2muchspl said:
I & a few others used this a few times,the still pics might be better since it gives you time to reread any step. I put some tips in the comment section. It's basically be the manual dirtycow way (thread with the 120+ pages).
http://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/root-your-t-mobile-lg-v20-using-dirty-cow-0175329/
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I figured it out. It turns out that I was using the smaller portable version of adb I went ahead and install android sdk n all the files again n it worked perfectly!! ????

egren58 said:
I figured it out. It turns out that I was using the smaller portable version of adb I went ahead and install android sdk n all the files again n it worked perfectly!!
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Congrats & welcome to the club!!!:good:
Don't forget not to do a factory reset from inside Android,only in TWRP.

2muchspl said:
Congrats & welcome to the club!!!:good:
Don't forget not to do a factory reset from inside Android,only in TWRP.
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I formated data bia twrp when I first booted. But one thing is.. I cant figure out how to boot into twrp is it power and volume up?

egren58 said:
I formated data bia twrp when I first booted. But one thing is.. I cant figure out how to boot into twrp is it power and volume up?
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Power and Volume down

2muchspl said:
Power and Volume down
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Yeah.. Doesn't do anything but take a screenshot than it just sits there.. Wtf

egren58 said:
Yeah.. Doesn't do anything but take a screenshot than it just sits there.. Wtf
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Sorry should have added this is during the boot up stage..here is a copy & paste I keep handy:
While the device is powered off, press and hold Vol - and Power button. When you see the LG logo quickly release only the power button and re-press and hold the power button (Never let go of the Vol - button) This will boot you into the LG Factory reset screen. ONLY USE THIS METHOD IF YOU HAVE TWRP INSTALLED!!!!! OTHERWISE YOU WILL FACTORY RESET YOUR DEVICE!!!!! Choose yes to both options and you will be rebooted into TWRP. TWRP intercepts this command and ignores the factory reset part.

xDEMON87x said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZEL96MPLvY , follow this guide..
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When you state follow this guide ( i have to say the LG dev community is kinda of rude and does not even explain anything to new comers from other devices...) Do you mean i need to follow every step or some steps this is why i say the LG Dev community is all over the place nothing is set in stone there is not one way to do like most Samsung users are used to. I would hope that you could elaborate a little more if you are offering to help.
I am not trying to be a jerk i'm just use to nicer dev community. I have done dev work... I have not had any other device besides Samsung for the longest time and i and will be switching back once the S8 or note 8 comes out.
To get me but i would like to root this device and i would like more then a point here to do it because you don't have some time to explain what needs to be done....
Again i am not trying to be rude just trying to learn the process on the LG dev side... Do not want to brick my device if i can prevent it.

ice5192 said:
When you state follow this guide ( i have to say the LG dev community is kinda of rude and does not even explain anything to new comers from other devices...) Do you mean i need to follow every step or some steps this is why i say the LG Dev community is all over the place nothing is set in stone there is not one way to do like most Samsung users are used to. I would hope that you could elaborate a little more if you are offering to help.
I am not trying to be a jerk i'm just use to nicer dev community. I have done dev work... I have not had any other device besides Samsung for the longest time and i and will be switching back once the S8 or note 8 comes out.
To get me but i would like to root this device and i would like more then a point here to do it because you don't have some time to explain what needs to be done....
Again i am not trying to be rude just trying to learn the process on the LG dev side... Do not want to brick my device if i can prevent it.
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Yes every step i am new as well and i got to say this was the most complex toot i have ever done. But every single comand bust be typed.. Ignore the $ sign. Install sdk not the smaller version of adb.