I'm considering purchasing an on contract LG G2 from videotron. The D801V11B.
Is there any support for their variant in the development community? I found no mention of a custom recovery.
Can I use the normal root method method
and use the T-Mobile D801 recovery?
I'm not interested in the phone unless i could load up a seriously UN-bloated rom.
Hey don't know if you're still interested but i was able to root and install twrp on this phone!
Can you show me how you got the recovery. Plz reply!
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Hi, I've got the videotron variant. Now it says it's the d801, but when I had trouble rooting it, a great guy (autoprime) on IRC pointed out that it was mislabeled and actually needed the d803 method, the traditional Canadian variant. Now I'm rooted, got my twrp, but I'm not sure whether I should flash d801 roms or d803 roms. Any tips would be very helpful and appreciated
Thanks!
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royoshukrun said:
Hi, I've got the videotron variant. Now it says it's the d801, but when I had trouble rooting it, a great guy (autoprime) on IRC pointed out that it was mislabeled and actually needed the d803 method, the traditional Canadian variant. Now I'm rooted, got my twrp, but I'm not sure whether I should flash d801 roms or d803 roms. Any tips would be very helpful and appreciated
Thanks!
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I can't give you exact advice on this. But I have the D803 (Bell, in QC as well) and From what I understand, it should be all 803. If you started out with rooting and using a recovery for D803, I would stick with that option.
Sorry I can't give you more solid advice but I'm sure you have an 803 that is mislabeled
kevinboards said:
I can't give you exact advice on this. But I have the D803 (Bell, in QC as well) and From what I understand, it should be all 803. If you started out with rooting and using a recovery for D803, I would stick with that option.
Sorry I can't give you more solid advice but I'm sure you have an 803 that is mislabeled
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I appreciates your input! Yeah it's pretty much what I figured... I shouldn't have any problem, the working LTE pretty much proves it's the same hardware. Anyway that's what nandroids are for.
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I'm new to the G2... Coming from the Gnex. Just want to get a little clarification prior to going flash happy. After activating I took the 12b update. Rooted and used freegee to flash a custom recovery. Made a stock rooted back up... So, now can I flash back and forth between 4.4.X & 4.2.X ROMs? Do I have to wait to flash some ROMs until they're updated because I'm on 12b? Also, I'm assuming the bootloader is locked hence the need for freegee correct? If this is the case, will we ever be able to flash a recovery without the need for freegee or other tools of that nature?
Thanks?
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Yes. Only flash ones that are loki patched with the correct version. There is a workaround here, but most roms will have info if patched or not. Freege is just for simple flashing of recovery if you don't want to adb push. Boatloader is locked, but firmware/loki make the incompatibilities with some roms.
Is the end result the same if I flash a recovery with freegee or by pushing it via adb?
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Also, are all of the roms within the Verizon G2 development section compatible or do I still need to verify they're Loki patched?
Thanks so much?
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Yes, same result on recovery. I'm not quite sure and do not think so. I would verify.
You are welcome.
Steamer86 said:
Yes, same result on recovery. I'm not quite sure and do not think so. I would verify.
You are welcome.
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Ok, I apologize, but I'm still a bit confused. If all Verizon G2's require a type of backdoor recovery utilizing tools such as freegee why aren't all roms on the Verizon development thread compatible? There aren't many roms listed in the Verizon thread that specify being loki patched... do I have to do something different in order to flash these roms that don't specify being loki patched?
Thank you, I do appreciate your response.
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I know this has probably been asked before but Is the bootloader locked down on the lg g2 or can I unlock it and run a custom recovery. I recently bought a Galaxy s4 and cannot unlock this phone.
Well you don't really need an unlocked bootloader to flash custom recovery and custom Roms. Root with ioroot (makes the efs backup as well), use freegee for custom recovery and flash away!
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So is any of the devs. Working on a root for 4.4.2.
I know you.can do it via 4.2.2 then update buts that's not I want..
I'm Talking about a rooting stock firmware that's been released. .
One people have said you can on certain. Roms. But unlike Samsung Roms where you have a rooting process for any stock I can't seem to find one for LG Rom...
Sorry wrong thread. .please move to Q&A.
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frnkly said:
So is any of the devs. Working on a root for 4.4.2.
I know you.can do it via 4.2.2 then update buts that's not I want..
I'm Talking about a rooting stock firmware that's been released. .
One people have said you can on certain. Roms. But unlike Samsung Roms where you have a rooting process for any stock I can't seem to find one for LG Rom...
Sorry wrong thread. .please move to Q&A.
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You can root the stock KK ROM, but you just can't have a custom recovery. Although the T-Mobile one has a rooted stock KK ROM with custom recovery available if you follow the directions.
Don't know about other variants.
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mackster248 said:
You can root the stock KK ROM, but you just can't have a custom recovery. Although the T-Mobile one has a rooted stock KK ROM with custom recovery available if you follow the directions.
Don't know about other variants.
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is there a link on where and how to root...
i just got a LG G2 AT&T D800 phone running 4.4.2 and am dying to root and install a custom ROM. I'll take even just root for now..
or can you roll back to another firmware and root?
any links or ideas on this?thanks..
dankduke said:
is there a link on where and how to root...
i just got a LG G2 AT&T D800 phone running 4.4.2 and am dying to root and install a custom ROM. I'll take even just root for now..
or can you roll back to another firmware and root?
any links or ideas on this?thanks..
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What I did was I KDZ'd back to 4.2.2, then I rooted that and flashed a custom recovery. With that custom recovery I flashed T-Mobile's official 4.4.2 KK ROM and then flashed SuperU to achieve root on that ROM.
So now I'm running the official TMO KK ROM with root. I have no idea if that same process will work with your phone though since it's a D800, mine is D801. But I would assume it's the same process. Get the KDZ image of the D801 4.2.2 ROM, then you root that and flash TWRP recovery. Then you use that to flash the official KK ROM with SuperU.
Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
Use Method 2! That's what worked for me and others. Good luck dude.
Im thinking about geting the g2 because its cheap and very powerful. Im just wondering what kind of phone is it and is it hard to get custom roms installed? On my huawei acsend p6 it was easy to prepare the device for custom roms.
Easy. Almost too easy. Root with ioroot or even towelroot, install autorec apk and there you have your custom recovery!
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Oh cool even easier than on my huawei... 1st you needed chinese firmware for unlocked bootloader then using adb flash twrp.img and after that you can install custom roms