Hey everyone, just a quick question before I start flashing Roms. I rooted and then installed twrp with freegee. I then went and did a nandroid of stock. I am now ready to start flashing Roms right ? Did I miss any steps
Thanks in advance
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No I think you got everything follow wiping instructions from ROM post carefully
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Make sure a custom rom you downloaded is for your phone model. Like D802 to D802 not 800 or other. Otherwise you will got brick.
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Is the stock kernel available for Kitkat? I thought about trying another kernel but hat the thought of having to restore a backup or fish the factory image again. I am running stock rooted Kitkat
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Its the wrong section mate. But here is the stock one. I made a flashable zip. Should work.
Sorry man. Thank you though. I didn't pay enough attention. Hopefully a mod can move this.
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Bigralphn said:
Is the stock kernel available for Kitkat? I thought about trying another kernel but hat the thought of having to restore a backup or fish the factory image again. I am running stock rooted Kitkat
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The above link works just fine, but in adition I would recomend you to check Nexus Root Toolkit, from our member WugFresh. It has you covered in pretty much anything you can do with your nexus device regarding flashing, restoring, backuping , etc...
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Hi everyone, quick question. After i root can I install a custom recovery and boot into the stock rom? I want to be able to make a full nandroid back-up of the stock rom before i flash a new custom rom.
Im using the sprint g2 fully updated.
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Dshook1979 said:
Hi everyone, quick question. After i root can I install a custom recovery and boot into the stock rom? I want to be able to make a full nandroid back-up of the stock rom before i flash a new custom rom.
Im using the sprint g2 fully updated.
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Yah you can go back to your stock ROM after custom recovery, doesn't effect ROM.....also you can make a backup just fine
Sweet! Thanks. Can you recommend a stable 4.4 rom?
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Paranoid Android, Mahdi, OmniRom, SlimKat etc2 ...
you have to taste them all to know which one suits your requirement but those 4 definitely at the top of the piles
Awesome thanks for all the help!
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Little bit of info on where I'm at at the moment. I have the VZW G2 and took the update to 12b before I rooted the phone. Rooted about a week ago without any hiccups but now I want to flash a recovery and then a rom--most likely http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559920 this rom or any other very stable AOSP based roms. I've been researching for a while now and have seen multiple instances of people deleting things and messing up their phone big time. This is a pretty expensive device and I really don't want it to become a paperweight so I want to be as thorough as possible.
For the recovery, I've seen a couple different methods for twrp and cwm. I'd like to use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2587296 one but I'm stuck with the instructions. This method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670 gives excellent instructions but I am unsure if it is compatible with the 12b version. Can anyone that has successfully flashed TWRP using the second method chime in? Or if you've used the first method on 12b, explain how exactly I would flash twrp with it?
As for the rom, it gives excellent instructions but I want to be 100% positive that I won't brick my phone. What shouldn't I do when flashing this rom? I saw another thread that someone wiped the system before he was going to flash the rom and that wiped his rom too resulting in him bricking his phone. Any help or tips would be excellent. I'm very new to all this and really want to get into flashing and trying out all these great roms. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
Use freegee from the play store to flash twrp... all kk roms have bugs to some extent as this point.
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scram99 said:
Use freegee from the play store to flash twrp... all kk roms have bugs to some extent as this point.
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Would you recommend freegee over flashify?
I can only speak for freegee. Haven't used any other method yet for flashing recovery... freegee has worked well for me and seems to be the most recommended.
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scram99 said:
I can only speak for freegee. Haven't used any other method yet for flashing recovery... freegee has worked well for me and seems to be the most recommended.
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Thank you so much. Freegee worked perfectly. Now to install my first rom!
MAKE A BACK UP 1ST! Good luck n enjoy. ..
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Hey all I have ATT d800 - I used 10d stock firmware and rooted. Using Philz recovery latest version.
No ROMs will boot. I am stuck at the LG screen. The only only ROM that boots are CM11 nightlies.
ANY help here is appreciated.
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PhillyFlyer said:
Hey all I have ATT d800 - I used 10d stock firmware and rooted. Using Philz recovery latest version.
No ROMs will boot. I am stuck at the LG screen. The only only ROM that boots are CM11 nightlies.
ANY help here is appreciated.
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I have the ls980 and i have the same problem most kitkat roms will boot but any other. Type of rom wont odexed deodexed none of them i ended up stayin stock heavily modded to the gills i no its dumb but im trying to rrcreate my evo 3d i loved that phone
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I have the ls980 and i have the same problem most kitkat roms will boot but any other. Type of rom wont odexed deodexed none of them i ended up stayin stock heavily modded to the gills i no its dumb but im trying to rrcreate my evo 3d i loved that phone
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I seriously do not know what else to do. I really enjoy CM11 Nightlies...but I wan't to try something else at least a few other ROMs.
I can't be only one with this issue.
I think my prob is i have a zva rom but no zva radio i never flashed my radio after update so i think mine stuck between two roms kinda in a weird way
PhillyFlyer said:
Hey all I have ATT d800 - I used 10d stock firmware and rooted. Using Philz recovery latest version.
No ROMs will boot. I am stuck at the LG screen. The only only ROM that boots are CM11 nightlies.
ANY help here is appreciated.
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I use TWRP and had the same issue. So after flashing any rom, I restore the boot img from my stock 4.2.2 backup and everything boots now
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So what after i flash a rom stay in twrp and then do.a restore.of my orig boot img
Correct
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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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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..
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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..
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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.