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adb pushing apn list

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong...
I am trying to push an apn list to my magic 32b (vodafone) and am using the following commands
adb devices
adb remount
adb push apns-conf.xml /system/etc
This is how i`ve seen to do it on these forums... and it pushes ok... but i never get any apns show up on my phone..
even after doing the reset to default thing.
What am i doing wrong?? does the file need to need to be somewhere else on the phone?? or called something different???
any help is appreciated

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maybe try packaging it into an update.zip and updating it through recovery. that might work. some files wont let you just simply push stuff through.
you can try first to push it again through recovery. so reboot into recovery and try pushing it.
if dont work, try the update.zip method.

will try what you mentioned... but I have a feeling it wont work...
as cyanogenmod roms already have the file in them. Why does it not already show up some APNs if not mine.
Now trying again.

ok so tried pushing while in recovery mode, and no luck...
I have never put together an update.zip... so am wondering how i would go about it...
Does the zip need signing??? and how would i structure it to make certain the file goes to the right place??
Thanks for your help

Yep.. it needs to be signed.. I've re-searched this files to sign and they are a bit out there.. you may find some dead links, but there's always a good one.. But, tell me you, use a linux OS? Because what's out there is for linux, I don't even researched if there's something for windows!

i`m on windows :-(
wud luv to make the change to linux, but dont know enuf... and like my gaming to much!!
Cud anyone on a linux machine possibly put together an update.zip for me??

search in the dream's theme forum for stericson's easy auto sign app. works for windows.

I always push my apns-conf that way.
Just one thing: do you do it right after wiping, updating and rebooting? On the PIN screen at first boot, before the Android tutorial.
That's how I do it and it works fine for me.

RolSMcS said:
I always push my apns-conf that way.
Just one thing: do you do it right after wiping, updating and rebooting? On the PIN screen at first boot, before the Android tutorial.
That's how I do it and it works fine for me.
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it wont work because the system doesnt read that file after first boot...apn list is loaded elsewhere in /data/data/

If ur going to do it that way u have wipe data after in recovery or delete the data/data/com.android.telephony watever folder and then reboot .....wiping data being easier
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Xoom WiFi System Dump 3.0.1

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Working on trying to get some deodex love going...
Just got Xoom WiFi tonight, let me know what I can do to help out the xoom wifi community.

I am curious. How were you able to extract the stock system dump image for the wifi version? Could you put down instructions since I am trying to learn these things.

Just a quick heads up. Moto was handing out DMCA notices on sysdumps. You may wanna save it for those who make it to #xoom on freenode.

bigrushdog said:
Just a quick heads up. Moto was handing out DMCA notices on sysdumps. You may wanna save it for those who make it to #xoom on freenode.
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Moto can suck an egg...will post link on my site :-D
Feel free to post the link on irc...
teamdefuse.com

Angdroid said:
Click HERE
Working on trying to get some deodex love going...
Just got Xoom WiFi tonight, let me know what I can do to help out the xoom wifi community.
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1. one click root and unroot
2. safe way to over clock
3. a way to relock the xoom and bring to factory default
4. overclocikng
5. voodoo color fix
6. voodoo sound fix
lets start with that
thanks

ericdabbs said:
I am curious. How were you able to extract the stock system dump image for the wifi version? Could you put down instructions since I am trying to learn these things.
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Install latest moto drivers
Install Android SDK
Enable USB Debug in Xoom settings
Open command prompt
Create new directory
CD to new directory
At command prompt type: adb pull /
files will be dumped to current path of command prompt

I Got the one (well, couple a clicks) root and unroot covered. You can check that one off the list. Thread open over yonder if you want to give it a spin... I am just uploading the newest version that one click updates to HRI66.

jwtyler said:
I Got the one (well, couple a clicks) root and unroot covered. You can check that one off the list. Thread open over yonder if you want to give it a spin... I am just uploading the newest version that one click updates to HRI66.
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good, will be looking for it. NOW, an easy way to overclock to 1.5 would be wonderfull...

ericizzy1 said:
1. one click root and unroot
2. safe way to over clock
3. a way to relock the xoom and bring to factory default
4. overclocikng
5. voodoo color fix
6. voodoo sound fix
lets start with that
thanks
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1 is being worked on...NVM...Check out jwtyler one click root thread.
2 & 4 Going to try the same method that was used for Droid2 and DroidX. Create module for OC. I have not had time yet to look at kernel but I see someone is already creating kernels so should be able to do it from kernel with multiple settings; not sure if kernel behaves same way as it does in Droid.
3 Not sure if bootstrap (clockwork recovery) is available yet for Xoom WiFi but if it is just make a backup before you mod anything.
Not sure what you are talking about with 5 and 6 ... I am a Xoom noob, only been out of box for a couple of hours

ericizzy1 said:
good, will be looking for it. NOW, an easy way to overclock to 1.5 would be wonderfull...
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Sweet
Drop me a line if you want to try to bang out some stuff together...

Thanks Angdroid for the system dump. I downloaded a copy of the system dump for kicks. I will keep it on my hard drive in case anyone loses it and needs a backup copy.
Hopefully we can create a stock boot.img soon for us wifi owners in case something goes wrong or need to return it to factory state. It looks like from the system dump we have access to the stock bcm4329.ko wifi driver.

ericdabbs said:
Thanks Angdroid for the system dump. I downloaded a copy of the system dump for kicks. I will keep it on my hard drive in case anyone loses it and needs a backup copy.
Hopefully we can create a stock boot.img soon for us wifi owners in case something goes wrong or need to return it to factory state. It looks like from the system dump we have access to the stock bcm4329.ko wifi driver.
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Any word on the stock boot.img?

fabian29906 said:
Any word on the stock boot.img?
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I am not a developer. I just meant a community as a whole come up with the files for the stock boot.img.
Still no word from Motorola of providing the stock boot.img for the wifi Xoom.

Do you think it's possible to extract languages in Wifi firmware to flash 3g xoom?
Or flash with entire wifi firmware?

I don't think the adb pull way is the best way at it.
Creating an actual image using dd will retain symlinks and mod perms (not owners).. but it also won't dump a bunch of tiny >1kb files on your computer (whose cluster size may be over 4kb).. plus you can mount it as a loop device..
adb shell
# busybox dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
and then if you want
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/system.img
but I wouldn't.. just using the mtp interface is faster..

sausalito said:
Do you think it's possible to extract languages in Wifi firmware to flash 3g xoom?
Or flash with entire wifi firmware?
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What do you mean? are you talking about the ./system/vendor/firmware/fw_bcm4329.bin
I just compared the two system images for both devices
fw_bcm4329_mfg.bin is the only file with a matching checksum..
I gotta run.. otherwise i'd check the version with a hex editor..
I doubt you're talking about the wifi firmware anyways..

ericizzy1 said:
1. one click root and unroot
2. safe way to over clock
3. a way to relock the xoom and bring to factory default
4. overclocikng
5. voodoo color fix
6. voodoo sound fix
lets start with that
thanks
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Ya! A color calibration app would be awesome!
Azrael X 4.0

100mbit:
http://gititbit.ch/xRx3 - Xoom_Wifi_3.0.1.zip

That's what I did for this image. http://www.mediafire.com/file/2fknnmy6nw6i19n/StockWiFiSystem.zip
Note, you need to be able to mount a YAFS2 filesystem to read the contents.
Blades said:
I don't think the adb pull way is the best way at it.
Creating an actual image using dd will retain symlinks and mod perms (not owners).. but it also won't dump a bunch of tiny >1kb files on your computer (whose cluster size may be over 4kb).. plus you can mount it as a loop device..
adb shell
# busybox dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/system of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
and then if you want
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/system.img
but I wouldn't.. just using the mtp interface is faster..
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Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

can someone post the 3.1 wifi-model USA system
(i need build.prop)

[GUIDE] VM HTC Desire 816 Root How-to

Hello everyone, I recently purchased the Desire 816 for Virgin Mobile, and could not find anything on rooting this device.
So... I figured it out on my own! I decided to write out a tutorial since there isn't anything out there about rooting this phone!
I'm also including a nandroid backup of my stock rooted rom if you don't want to go through all of the steps. You will still need custom recovery.
1. Unlock your bootloader, install custom recovery, and flash superuser. I used v_superuser's guide for this, so thanks to him!
Use his guide to install custom recovery and root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775801
The custom recovery he links to isn't made for the VM variant of this phone, but it works!
Now you can restore my clean install, rooted nandroid backup (link at end of post) if you don't want to do the following steps and still have full root.
2. Hopefully you were able to successfully install custom recovery and root.
Now this part is a bit tricky. Even with root HTC is stopping us from writing to system. For this we need to apply the wp_mod.ko module.
Download it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2707378
Copy this file to the root of your internal storage.
Now download Terminal Emulator from play store, run it and enter the following commands (you only need to do this once):
su
insmod /sdcard/wp_mod.ko
Once you do this go into your favorite root explorer and mount as R/W. Copy the wp_mod.ko file to /system/lib/modules
Now go to /system/etc and find install-recovery.sh. Open it with a text editor and add a new line at the end with the following:
insmod /system/lib/modules/wp_mod.ko
Reboot! If all went well the wp_mod module will run at boot every time so you won't have to do it manually each time!
Congratulations, you now have a fully rooted Desire 816!
Download my nandroid backup here (place the contained folder into the CWM backup directory):
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B0bhyG2E55hXaWtpeGVQaEpOVzA&export=download
Hope this helped anyone wondering how to root the device!

I just get md5 mismatch error when I try to restore
Never mind found out my phone wasn't downloading the whole back up

jcrt2000 said:
I just get md5 mismatch error when I try to restore
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I'm not trying to offend with my answer. Just going for the easiest solution first...
Did you unzip the backup nandroid onto your PC? I imagine he zipped the actual Nandroid folder as it would have a date and time as the name.
If you unzip VM_HTC_Desire_816_Rooted_NandroidBackup.zip you SHOULD see a folder with a date and time. That is the actual nandroid that you'd copy to your Clockwordmod backup folder.

sirrx7 said:
I'm not trying to offend with my answer. Just going for the easiest solution first...
Did you unzip the backup nandroid onto your PC? I imagine he zipped the actual Nandroid folder as it would have a date and time as the name.
If you unzip VM_HTC_Desire_816_Rooted_NandroidBackup.zip you SHOULD see a folder with a date and time. That is the actual nandroid that you'd copy to your Clockwordmod backup folder.
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^ this. And restore that from clockworkmod. I know it should work because I already had someone confirm it working.

Kontrary said:
^ this. And restore that from clockworkmod. I know it should work because I already had someone confirm it working.
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It does work. I had to download on my pc to get the whole file downloaded.

jcrt2000 said:
It does work. I had to download on my pc to get the whole file downloaded.
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Oh nice! Glad you got it working.

Kontrary said:
^ this. And restore that from clockworkmod. I know it should work because I already had someone confirm it working.
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Also...
The act of unlocking the phone clears out your data so you might notice that your flashlight and calculator apps are missing. For some reason HTC didn't make those 2 system apps.
If you'd like them back, here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699906

sirrx7 said:
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The act of unlocking the phone clears out your data so you might notice that your flashlight and calculator apps are missing. For some reason HTC didn't make those 2 system apps.
If you'd like them back, here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699906
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Thank you, I sold the phone but never noticed that.

Thanks for this, I had deleted my stock backup

problems with the mod.ko
everything works until I get to the wp_mod.ko command when using the terminal command. It just says cannot open. I tried countless times but it says the same thing. Is there any other way?

dwest3784 said:
everything works until I get to the wp_mod.ko command when using the terminal command. It just says cannot open. I tried countless times but it says the same thing. Is there any other way?
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If you're having too much trouble and are about to give up you can always download Kontrary's Nandroid backup. I didn't use it but I did look through it and it looks like he already did the write protect mod in it.
Just unzip it on your PC and put the dated folder in your clockworkmod/backup folder. Boot into CWM recovery and restore from his nandroid.
Out of curiosity... Are you hitting enter after SU and before insmod???
Also...
The command insmod /sdcard/wp_mod.ko is only good if you have wp_mod.ko sitting on the root of the internal sd. If its on your micro sd card you'll obviously have to change the path after insmod or just move it to the internal sd..

thanks
sirrx7 said:
If you're having too much trouble and are about to give up you can always download Kontrary's Nandroid backup. I didn't use it but I did look through it and it looks like he already did the write protect mod in it.
Just unzip it on your PC and put the dated folder in your clockworkmod/backup folder. Boot into CWM recovery and restore from his nandroid.
Out of curiosity... Are you hitting enter after SU and before insmod???
Also...
The command insmod /sdcard/wp_mod.ko is only good if you have wp_mod.ko sitting on the root of the internal sd. If its on your micro sd card you'll obviously have to change the path after insmod or just move it to the internal sd..
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Thanks I figured it out last night. I put in the internal memory and it worked but thanks for the reply!

dwest3784 said:
Thanks I figured it out last night. I put in the internal memory and it worked but thanks for the reply!
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Right on. Glad you got it working.

driver issue
ive downloaded and installed and uninstalled and rebooted and done everything i can think to do...ive tried on my PC and on my laptop...ive tried with every usb cable i have...including the one that came with the phone...i can not get windows to recognize my phone...so i cant even unlock the bootloader to begin this process...any suggestions or hints on what i could try?

any help??
dragonclaw88 said:
ive downloaded and installed and uninstalled and rebooted and done everything i can think to do...ive tried on my PC and on my laptop...ive tried with every usb cable i have...including the one that came with the phone...i can not get windows to recognize my phone...so i cant even unlock the bootloader to begin this process...any suggestions or hints on what i could try?
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i really really need to get this phone rooted any help??

dragonclaw88 said:
i really really need to get this phone rooted any help??
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Have you plugged it in while in Fastboot? Which OS are you running? I'm on Win 7 x64 and have it set to download drivers from Windows update, I didn't have any problems going that route.

Have you downloaded HTC Sync Manager? It has the drivers required for your PC to recognize your phone.

Kontrary said:
Download my nandroid backup here (place the contained folder into the CWM backup directory):
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B0bhyG2E55hXaWtpeGVQaEpOVzA&export=download
Hope this helped anyone wondering how to root the device!
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I installed your CWM Backup after I couldn't figure out your steps... but now there's an ANNOYING notification that says, "Smith disabled... Click here to open." I open it, and no matter what settings I choose, this notification keeps POPPING UP! Is this your doing, or a known issue with this "Mod." All I wanted to do was uninstall all the Google/VM Bloatware. Now going back to stock might be the only fix... ????

That Smith app is a problem for most recent HTC phones. It has nothing to do with the CWM backup. It happens with the M8 and our 816.
I just long press the notification, click App Info and force close. It's usually good until you reboot your phone.
Either HTC or Sprint is supposed to be looking for a fix but who knows.
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/169142?start=0&tstart=0

jayblaze406 said:
I installed your CWM Backup after I couldn't figure out your steps... but now there's an ANNOYING notification that says, "Smith disabled... Click here to open." I open it, and no matter what settings I choose, this notification keeps POPPING UP! Is this your doing, or a known issue with this "Mod." All I wanted to do was uninstall all the Google/VM Bloatware. Now going back to stock might be the only fix... ????
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I was able to stop this annoyance by simply going to Titanium Backup (root needed) and freezing the process.
I typed in Smith in the search bar of TB and it came back with this process/app called
"Smith 4.21-plat_4.4.2-KOT49H"
I believe it happens to come up when a specific "bloatware" app is unaccessible by the device when removed but I have not singled out which app is it so far.
I backed up the app first then froze it and it stopped the Smith popup error permanently even after reboots and power offs.
(You could possibly delete it but until the stock bloatware app that causes this pinpointed i wouldn't recommend it.)
Tested running everything is good no errors rebooted fine checked bootloader and recovery and both are fine as well.
Sent from my 710C using XDA Free mobile app

Root ANY LG G4 Variant 100% Success Directives | Root Injection | Less Bricks

Hi everyone. As I found out there's root for the G4 but doing this isn't easy especially if your variant is hard to find or has less users. This may result in you waiting for longer than you should. This thread is for those who can take things into their own hands and do it themselves. The tools are available everywhere but I'll give you the best order and steps. I'm using the China LG G4 H818 Dual SIM variant but this method is UNIVERSAL FOR ALL LG G4s.
The process will involve extracting a system image, injecting root and reflashing this image. Most of the steps are effortless and need just copy and paste with keen eyes. Do it slowly. You need an Ubuntu installation for step 2 of this 3-step tutorial. I used universal USB installer and put in on my 8GB USB. Anywhere will do so far as it boots&works. Beware this thread is not dumb-proof but this will not wipe your data or void your warranty if done successfully.
Step 1 -> Getting the proper system image.
Check here and skip to step 3 if you have your rootedsystem.img
>Don't worry because this doesn't require searching. It is from your device. Every device has a system partition and this method will pull it out as an image without root required.
1--Make sure all drivers are installed properly. I'll not be talking about this. We're on XDA not kindergarten.
2--Download the LG_root file or send command file from here and extract it. US Carrier specific check here
3--Put your device in download mode and connect it to your PC.
4--Open(double-click duh) port.bat and make sure to write down the number after com. There maybe different com numbers but choose the com on the DIAG1 line and write down that number. This is important.
5--Hold shift and right-click in any empty space in the extracted folder. Choose open command windows here.
6-- In that copy and paste this
Code:
[FONT=Lucida Console][COLOR=#ff8c00]Send_Command.exe \\.\COM[/COLOR][COLOR=#00ff00][*insert your number here][/COLOR][/FONT]
7--Now you're in send command mode. Nothing looks different on your phone but that's ok. It should just remain in download mode.
8-- On the computer screen in the window you now see #.
9--Now in this post copy the Backup system to internal storage command specific to your device model number. Check in you settings >general >about if in doubt. This is the most important step. Copy the whole line of code. Highlight with your mouse, select everything on the line and copy.
10--You didn't come all this way to fail so do it. Remember it is device model specific.
11-- Paste it in the command window and hit enter. It should take a while so wait until you see#reappear.
12--Now typeLEAVEall in capital letters. Your device will reboot. Check using the file manager if you have a file called system.img in your internal storage. If yes step 2 is next and you did well. If no repeat it and follow the steps properly. Make sure drivers are installed especially windows 10/8/8.1 users. Check device manager
Step 2 -> Root injection.
1--Prepare your Ubuntu USB or virtual machine or computer.
2--Download inject_root zip from here and extract.
3--Copy the system.img from your phone to the extracted inject_root folder on your PC.
4-Reboot into Ubuntu.
5--Here open a terminal.
6--Gain root access on Ubuntu by typing or copy and paste sudo -i
7--You should either be asked for your password which you have to enter or if you used a USB drive like me you'll see the name change to[email protected]
8--Navigate to the inject_root folder by using cd commands. This can also be done by typing cd then [space] then dragging and dropping the folder into the terminal and hitting enter.
9--You'll now see the name in the terminal become longer with the name of the folder in it.
10--Now type chmod +x autoroot.sh
11--Hit enter then sudo ./autoroot.sh
12--If you get any thing like command not recognized or something of the sort use sudo sh autoroot.sh
-That worked for me.
13--If you're successful the name of the file should change from system.img torootedsystem.img
-Please note don't rename the files. Leave them as they are.
14--Now go back to Windows let's finish this.
Step 3 ->Root
1--Transfer the rootedsytem.img to your phones internal storage.
2--Put your phone in download mode and connect it to your PC.
3--Get into send command mode as in step one.
-Put your device in download mode and connect it to your PC.
-Open port.bat and make sure to write down the number after com. There maybe different com numbers but choose the one that has DIAG1 on the same line as it. Note it down this is important.
-Hold shift and right click in any empty space in the extracted folder. Choose open command windows here.
- In that copy and paste this
Send_Command.exe \\.\COM[*insert your number here]
-Now you're in send command mode. Nothing looks different on your phone but it's find. It should just remain in download mode.
4-Now grab your command to flash system.img line of code from this post. It isn't the same as step one. Copy that an paste in the command window. Make sure it is for your device. They are model specific.
5--This should take a while so wait until you see the # again.
6--After thatLEAVEand upon reboot you should have root.
To Un-root just flash a KDZ file compatible with your device here.
Testimonies
Spudnubs said:
Rooted H812 10g for my fellow Canadians. Enjoy!
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347821979
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Wildsheep said:
This root method works for my G4 purchased in Singapore (H815 SEA)
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luongquang said:
Thanks to @hackarchive, H818p10f done with tut.
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player911 said:
Fantastic. This method will also ease devs for future rooted firmwares. I really cannot see LG being able to patch this, since this is basically a 3rd party LG Flashing tool. If they block this method, then their own tool will ultimately die with it.
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GavTheStoner said:
Fantastic! I had almost given up hope of root on my EE LG G4. Have just used this method and now rooted perfectly!
hackarchive You rock! Have a thanks!
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articular said:
everything worked fine and i successfully got my g4 rooted
my variant is H815TR
all steps easy only the ubuntu part was a bit hard especially for a windows user ( finding an ubuntu version and usb install etc. not root injection part)
ty ty ty again )
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rirozizo said:
if it were for me to decide if we should delete the low effort root method, i'd totally delete it.
"The more 'manual', the better"
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Moe5508 said:
Only method that roots my device successfully...I updated to 10e of the H815P and using this method (and only this!0 I was able to root my phone...ah felt so good...
The other 1-click rooting methods I came across in other parts of this forum just fail on the G4...
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Marshmallow and root situation read here
Hit thanks if you appreciate. Hope I helped.
Credits to them whom without this won't be possible :good:
Thecubed
Team Codefire
ManhIT

This is a good method, thanks for writing this up.
I would like to add a few points....
I recommend you do keep your original system.img on your phones regular internal storage. If you encounter any boot issues you can then re-enter download mode and write the original system.img over the top of the failed root attempt. Use the same command from "step 3: root" but replace rootedsystem.img with system.img. This should still be on your phone from step 1 and will recover your phone from a failed root injection attempt. Note that it will not recover your phone if you messed up the dd command and overwrote other partitons. Be sure to use the right dd command and cut n paste to prevent seek/offset typeos.
I also recommend that you keep a backup of your system.img on your pc. When you run autoroot.sh in step 2 the copy on your pc will be renamed and patched. I suggest copying system.img somewhere else first, or re-copy it off your phone.
Additional credits to blog.lvu.kr. This is the blog of the hobbyist who reverse engineered the download mode protocol, created send_command.exe and gave it to the world. Kudos to you.

How is this any easier than the original method....if anything this requires even more work

kyle1867 said:
How is this any easier than the original method....if anything this requires even more work
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It's for those who have rare variants.

psycho_asylum said:
It's for those who have rare variants.
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Then you should probably take out the claim that this method is easier from the OP

Can this be used to inject Xposed as well for those of us with locked BLs.

djkinetic said:
Can this be used to inject Xposed as well for those of us with locked BLs.
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No, we need to wait for a custom recovery.

psycho_asylum said:
No, we need to wait for a custom recovery.
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Just used flash fire it worked rocking xposed now on 810!

djkinetic said:
Just used flash fire it worked rocking xposed now on 810!
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Oh nice! I wasn't adventurous enough to try it. I'll make a system backup and give it a whirl!

Very nice thread, thank you. The steps were short, few, and fairly concise.
I was waiting for something like this where I could modify my own image and I wouldn't have to wipe everything or replace it with a new image.
One thing you might want to mention is that if your phone is encrypted, you'll need to unencrypt it first.
Can anyone link me to some instructions on how to disable OTA updates for an unlocked/international H815T?

kyle1867 said:
How is this any easier than the original method....if anything this requires even more work
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This is what XDA is all about. It tells you how to inject root into your OWN system image. it's the opposite of spoon feeding. it's about teaching members how to do things for themselves. Too many people come here expecting to be spoon fed and have thigns done for them. This thread teaches people how to do their own work, while learning something at the same time.
Good work OP! :good:

the_scotsman said:
This is what XDA is all about. It tells you how to inject root into your OWN system image. it's the opposite of spoon feeding. it's about teaching members how to do things for themselves. Too many people come here expecting to be spoon fed and have thigns done for them. This thread teaches people how to do their own work, while learning something at the same time.
Good work OP! :good:
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Thanks. I guess people don't know what XDA is about. Seeing noobs and others trying to spit on hard work when I used my time and device as Guinea pig. Also people don't know this is almost brick-proof because the system image if from their devices. Unless they use wrong commands but all here is just copy and paste. They see lot's of text and get cold feet. Anyways will be updating the OP with system images. If yours is available please share. If you see your image available and you have drivers and LG_root downloaded proceed to step 3.

The only downside is that I have to drag out my windows laptop instead of doing everything on the ubuntu machine I use at work.
But if that's the biggest of my problems then I don't really have a problem

hi, thx for this tutorial, looks good
when flashing back the rooted img,does it wipe everything ? apps, data ... etc
thx
EDIT: just correct me if im wrong
using this method WILL NOT wipe everything on my device cause im rooting my system with everything on it
correct ???
must make sure before i go ahead
thx

How to calculator extractly bs/seek/count ?

Is there a possibility of any personal data being written to /system on a phone during normal use? I can provide 10c Optus AU (carrier 505-02) if I can be sure its not identifying, but ive been using the phone a couple of weeks.
Download link:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347799013

optiplex2012 said:
using this method WILL NOT wipe everything on my device cause im rooting my system with everything on it
correct ???
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correct.
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djkinetic said:
Can this be used to inject Xposed as well for those of us with locked BLs.
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HTCuser90 said:
How to calculator extractly bs/seek/count ?
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I would also like to know this. You can resolve system by running the following. Note that this is for the H815T and is not the same on all variants.
# ls -lZ /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system
You'll get something like:
lrwxrwxrwx root root ubject_r:block_device:s0 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p47
Which tells you the actual block device (partition its on).
And you can see the size of that with:
# cat /proc/partitions
where you see:
major minor #blocks name
<snip>
259 15 4239360 mmcblk0p47
<snip>
However I dont know how to identify how large a block is or how to calculate the start offset in the main partition.

ok, it worked great
wasnt easy, since im not so familiar with using ubuntu, but all is ok
the explanation of the how to... was great and nothing lost
my H815L is now rooted
thx guys

djkinetic said:
Just used flash fire it worked rocking xposed now on 810!
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I know it's kind of going off topic, but I figured I'd mention that Flash Fire doesn't work on VS986. It just goes to a black screen and sits there forever. I left it sit for almost an hour. I saw elsewhere it has something to do with automount, I'll have to mess with it further.

hackarchive said:
Hit thanks if you appreciate. I spent hours trying to root so hope I helped.
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Appreciated but you should include a way to unroot (undo) as well, ie how do we get back to stock (if required) ?

SPACE FINALLY - LG G STYLO BOOST-Xposed-FULLExternalSDCARD for apps/games

Hello my name is Dominic Gresham and i've got this custom img that i made for the G Stylo for boost mobile with this you will be able to install about anything you would like and also have bigger games then before now before we get started you can go ahead and look at my first tutorial on how to do this at HERE just so you know it is going to be about the same method but only with one thing changed is that DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V2.img if you have any issues please feel free to contact me on hangouts or text me through 5418870575 maybe even call if its on the weekends you could always comment on my youtube page at HERE
New thing added
click on connection manager and it will reset your connection to the network
all the files you will need please do install the drivers that i provided you will need them to complete the process without any errors
Send_Command.zip found HERE
LG Drivers found HERE
DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V2.img found HERE
UNZIP ALL WITH WINDOWS UNZIPPER EXCEPT SYSTEM.IMG system img is to go into the external sd card
File Path Should Look like this /storage/external_SD/DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V1.img
DO NOT DO A FACTORY RESET SOME ISSUES WILL OCCUR
I personally Tested this
Do not attempt if your Software version is on ZV4 >Easy way to tell>(LTE WITH SPINNING SPARK STAR LOGO)<you will have to download the ZV4 image then go on over to 6th_hokage's page with the zv4 system.img flash it go to his thread zv5 unbrick then download his update.zip file then go over here and start flashing after your device fully optimises apps and you know your on ZV5
i have here a Custom image that comes with the latest updates with the newest busybox,play store,google play settings,Xposed Installer w Command script already installed,Gmail nothing else all GOOGLE APPS
1.Place downloaded .img to your external SD via adapter or through a Android running 4.0 n below without mtp you have or it will fail transferring to the SD card because it timed out thanks to windows being a pain
2.Now place SD back into your phone
3.Reboot your device into download mode pop out battery then pop it back in press and hold the volume up and plug in the phone into your pc
4.Download this folder and unzip it to your desktop:
5.Run ports.bat from within the extracted folder, to find your correct port (use the one with: LGVZANDNETDIAG1)Usually when your first installing the drivers and your looking at the progress it will briefly show the port number for you
5.In the Send_Command folder hold shift and right click and choose open command windows here
Please open notepad to make this easier on you
Copy all commands and erase the (Your Port #) in the code and then copy and paste everything that is on this
6
Code:
Send_Command.exe \\.\COM(your Port #)
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Code:
dd if=/storage/external_SD/DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V2.img bs=8192 seek=42816 count=327680 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
you will see a flashing _ line wait about 3-5 minutes and it should show up a # sign once that shows up
8
Code:
LEAVE
Your Device will reboot and it will take about 5-10 minutes to boot because it has to optimize all the apps
9 go into xposed installer modules then check both gravity box and XinternalSD then reboot your phone
10 go into XinternalSD then allow all apps including system apps then click enable for apps select all of them
11 go and download a app and watch your memory not plummet :good::good: other then the apk that gets installed just not the android files to run it that will just be installed on the sd card
and that's it your all done have fun with a more faster more memory phone
Made by a 16 year old

DominicGresham said:
Hello my name is Dominic Gresham and i've got this custom img that i made for the G Stylo for boost mobile with this you will be able to install about anything you would like and also have bigger games then before now before we get started you can go ahead and look at my first tutorial on how to do this at HERE just so you know it is going to be about the same method but only with one thing changed is that DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V2.img if you have any issues please feel free to contact me on hangouts or text me through 5418870575 maybe even call if its on the weekends you could always comment on my youtube page at HERE
all the files you will need please do install the drivers that i provided you will need them to complete the process without any errors
Send_Command.zip found HERE
LG Drivers found HERE
DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V2.img found HERE
UNZIP ALL WITH WINDOWS UNZIPPER EXCEPT SYSTEM.IMG system img is to go into the external sd card
File Path Should Look like this /storage/external_SD/DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V1.img
Cracked pandora.apk
DO NOT DO A FACTORY RESET SOME ISSUES WILL OCCUR
I personally Tested this
Do not attempt if your Software version is on ZV4 >Easy way to tell>(LTE WITH SPINNING SPARK STAR LOGO)<you will have to download the ZV4 image then go on over to 6th_hokage's page with the zv4 system.img flash it go to his thread zv5 unbrick then download his update.zip file then go over here and start flashing after your device fully optimises apps and you know your on ZV5
i have here a Custom image that comes with the latest updates with the newest busybox,play store,google play settings,Xposed Installer w Command script already installed,Gmail nothing else all GOOGLE APPS
1.Place downloaded .img to your external SD via adapter or through a Android running 4.0 n below without mtp you have or it will fail transferring to the SD card because it timed out thanks to windows being a pain
2.Now place SD back into your phone
3.Reboot your device into download mode pop out battery then pop it back in press and hold the volume up and plug in the phone into your pc
4.Download this folder and unzip it to your desktop:
5.Run ports.bat from within the extracted folder, to find your correct port (use the one with: LGVZANDNETDIAG1)Usually when your first installing the drivers and your looking at the progress it will briefly show the port number for you
5.In the Send_Command folder hold shift and right click and choose open command windows here
Please open notepad to make this easier on you
Copy all commands and erase the (Your Port #) in the code and then copy and paste everything that is on this
6
Code:
Send_Command.exe \\.\COM(your Port #)
7
Code:
dd if=/storage/external_SD/DominicLGSTYLOB_S-V2.img bs=8192 seek=42816 count=327680 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
you will see a flashing _ line wait about 3-5 minutes and it should show up a # sign once that shows up
8
Code:
LEAVE
Your Device will reboot and it will take about 5-10 minutes to boot because it has to optimize all the apps
9 go into xposed installer modules then check both gravity box and XinternalSD then reboot your phone
10 go into XinternalSD then allow all apps including system apps then click enable for apps select all of them
11 go and download a app and watch your memory not plummet :good::good: other then the apk that gets installed just not the android files to run it that will just be installed on the sd card
and that's it your all done have fun with a more faster more memory phone
Made by a 16 year old
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You might want to remove the cracked pandora apk, they don't take kindly to piracy on this site because it steals from developers.

Thediesel1972 said:
You might want to remove the cracked pandora apk, they don't take kindly to piracy on this site because it steals from developers.
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I took it down although it doesn't download anything from Pandora it just unlimited skips and no ads

Thediesel1972 said:
You might want to remove the cracked pandora apk, they don't take kindly to piracy on this site because it steals from developers.
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Might want to take down your post also because it still reveals the link

DominicGresham said:
Might want to take down your post also because it still reveals the link
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will this work for the T-mobile version?

thugmafia said:
will this work for the T-mobile version?
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Sadly to say if you flash this on your tmobile phone you will no longer have a phone its kinda like flashing the kdz file for a tmobile phone on the boost one it just messes everything up sorry dude it wont even allow you back into recovery after that

DominicGresham said:
Sadly to say if you flash this on your tmobile phone you will no longer have a phone its kinda like flashing the kdz file for a tmobile phone on the boost one it just messes everything up sorry dude it wont even allow you back into recovery after that
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thanks for that info

thugmafia said:
thanks for that info
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no problem

wheres the stock apps like camera and messaging

daskydivr said:
wheres the stock apps like camera and messaging
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oh sorry xda didn't notify me about that message sorry i have them if you would like them i was just thinking all google

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oh sorry xda didn't notify me about that message sorry i have them if you would like them i was just thinking all google
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Would it be possible to get though's stock apps like camera and message by chance?
Thank's ahead of time!

Ubiquitous_22 said:
Would it be possible to get though's stock apps like camera and message by chance?
Thank's ahead of time!
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ya let me pull them from the stock img

Me too, thanks!
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ya let me pull them from the stock img
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Dominic, I haven't had the guts yet to flash your rom, but I will. I was interested in getting the stock camera apk too, if I could. I was messing with an uninstaller an deleted my stock cam, so could I get a link also, thanks, johnm

Heres camera apk for some reason i wasnt able to get the messaging apk out of it

DominicGresham said:
Heres camera apk for some reason i wasnt able to get the messaging apk out of it
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Right on Bro!, Thanks! Not working though. I dwnld it twice, it fails at the end of installation. I'm on the same as you LS770ZV5

Stuck
I do the send command to the proper port...then i paste the next command to read the .img from the sd and it just jumps to another #. I type LEAVE and my phone reboots and that's it. Nothing happens. Help?

do you know where I can find the stock boost firmware

daskydivr said:
do you know where I can find the stock boost firmware
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its the system img that 6th_Hokage posted

The stock camera and stock gallery app would be nice to have added. Otherwise it's great and I appreciate you putting this together.