I have been having a few problems. First, I tried running system tuner but all the options under startup are greyed out so I can't change auto starts. Also, better battery stats will not show anything. I am running omnirom on my i777. Any help is appreciated. These used to work on shostock3 and other Roms and not this
Is it rooted? Maybe your System Tuner app needs root access and the Omnirom I installed on my device wasn't rooted. Lots of other roms are rooted by default.
P.S.: to change autostarts, I use a smaller app, the Disable Services.
So I just rooted using this tutorial on theunlockr
This is my first time rooting an android phone. I used to root the old iphones way back in 07 and 08 and it would put an app on homescreen to access apps.
I have no idea what to do now on the LG. Is there something else I download.
Where can I get apps?
What is this ROM Gummy stuff I keep reading about?
Thanks again
Rooting on Android is basically like getting 'administrator access'. Some applications require root access to perform certain functions. It doesn't really add a new 'app store' like Cydia. You can find applications in the form of .apk files and install them by copying them to your phone and running them (Google is your friend). You don't need root to actually install the application, but some apps require root access to function.
Some apps that need root access are Titanium Backup (for hiding/deleting un-installable apps like the AT&T/Verizon junk) or Xposed Framework. Xposed framework, along with the G2 Xposed app lets you tweak certain aspects of the UI - something that normally LG doesn't allow. You can change the Menu button to a Recent Apps button (more like stock Android) or remove the Volume/Brightness sliders from the Notification Slider since they take up a lot of visible space.
Alternatively, you can now follow the tutorial for installing TWRP recovery on your phone. TWRP is an enhanced recovery mode that will let you flash custom ROM's or other mods to your phone. It also has a handy backup function (commonly called a Nandroid backup) which basically saves an 'image' of your phone in its current state. This way if you screw up flashing a new ROM and end up on a blank screen with Android not loading, you can always boot into Recovery mode and restore the Nandroid backup to get your phone working again.
Flashing something through TWRP requires getting a zip file of the ROM/Mod, copying it your phone's storage and then booting into Recovery. From here you'll be able to flash the zip. You can find custom ROM's in the appropriate Android Development subforum. You can also find certain mods like the SplitWindow mod - which has been ported from another LG phone (and requires Root access). It basically lets you run two applications side-by-side in a split-screen view.
get exposed framework and add modules to change apps native dpi, change privacy options off apps.
Search on safe to delete bloatware and slim phone down.
but before all this nandroid plus backup efs everywhere.
if feeling daring, go custom roms and void warrantee even more
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After a long time thinking about it, I finally decided to try to root my Nexus 4 and install the Franco kernel. I wanted to do this mainly to get some control over the audio output of my device.
The amazing Wugfresh Toolkit got me up and running as root. I then used the Cyanogen auto-installer to install Cyanogenmod 11. I was very happy, and went ahead and downloaded the paid version of the Franco Kernel Updater from the Play store.
All good, but then when I went to lauch the Franco Kernel, I got an error saying 'You're root, but Superuser seems to be denying access. Open Superuser, choose 'forget' and come back to the Franco Kernel and you will likely be asked to allow it'.
So I went to Superuser (took me a while to find it because it used to be an icon on my desktop but it seems that it went away after I installed a custom theme, and I found it only at the bottom of the settings list). I couldn't find anything about 'forgetting', but I could see a log that showed 'deny' then 'allow'. So I went back to to the Franco app and voila! It was open and allowed me to look into all the different functions.
Using the video which is up at the Franco Kernel page at the Play store as my guide., I tried to go into 'Kernel Settings' to access those audio controls... and strangely, there were only 4 items there, the vibration control and 3 others. None of the audio control choices were there.
I thought I had to flash the Kernel so I went ahead and did that. After restart, I again got the 'Superuser' access error. I opened Superuser, but this time I could not get it to 'allow' the Franco Kernel. I could see the log with lots of 'Deny' events. I then did something I probably shouldn't have - I clicked the 'trash' icon. Now, it just says 'There are currently no Superuser app policies'.
So I'm at a standstill. I'm not a huge tech guy but I thought I would give this a try because how else will I learn, right?
Can anyone help me figure out
a) How to simply get the Franco Kernel app open again (by configuring Superuser to stop denying it), and
b) Why I can't see those audio controls in Franco Kernel?
Sorry for such a long post
Nick
Wow.
I saw that there was an option to 'Disable' Superuser permissions. So I tried that, but the Franco Kernel error message still popped up.
I went back to Settings to open Superuser and reset it to where it was... and now the Superuser icon has disappeared from the list at the bottom of the Settings page!
It doesn't show up in the list of Apps either (but it never did, even when I was searching for it earlier and found it on the Settings page).
CyanogenMod has their own implementation of superuser. And as such they can put it in settings instead of in an app.
Here is how you re-enable the superuser menu http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39903306&postcount=5
As for your how to allow root action, see if there is an option in the superuser menu for something like a default action and make sure that it's set to ask for permission.
Sent from my Nexus 4, want to know my current project? Check http://team-fun.eu
SMillerNL said:
Here is how you re-enable the superuser menu http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39903306&postcount=5
As for your how to allow root action, see if there is an option in the superuser menu for something like a default action and make sure that it's set to ask for permission.
Sent from my Nexus 4, want to know my current project? Check http://team-fun.eu
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Thanks a lot for the response. I was able to tap 7 times and get back to Develope Mode. I then clicked Developer Options and turned it 'on' as instructed. However, in the long list of items on that 'Developer Options' list, I could not find anything that says 'Root Access'.
Can you give me any indication where 'Root Access' can be found?
Thanks again, I will try to Google it in the meantime.
Unfortunately, I just cannot get Superuser to allow the Franco request. I can see the 'deny' event and I have played with everything available to me via Superuser-->Settings, but there's nothing there that says 'Forget', which the error message from Franco tells me to look for, and there's nothing that says 'Permissions' or anything else with which I can allow Franco!
tradernik said:
Unfortunately, I just cannot get Superuser to allow the Franco request. I can see the 'deny' event and I have played with everything available to me via Superuser-->Settings, but there's nothing there that says 'Forget', which the error message from Franco tells me to look for, and there's nothing that says 'Permissions' or anything else with which I can allow Franco!
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When you open the superuser tab of the settings app, you should get a list of all allowed and denied apps. When you then long-press on one of the apps, you get another window where you should be able to deny access (to the apps that are allowed) or vice versa
Moreover, Franco kernel is not officially compatible with cm, so don't expect a bug-free experience even if you get it working.
Sent by carrier pigeon
Isn't Franco recommanded only for AOSP roms ?
laufersteppenwolf said:
When you open the superuser tab of the settings app, you should get a list of all allowed and denied apps. When you then long-press on one of the apps, you get another window where you should be able to deny access (to the apps that are allowed) or vice versa
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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, when I open SU, the main window is empty and there's a message saying
"There are currently no Superuser App policies".
Trying to open Franco and allowing SU to deny it doesn't populate this window - it just says the same thing. When I click on Settings or Logs in SU, I can see the logs with the denial events. Even long pressing on those doesn't pop up a box which allows me to give Franco access.
Any thoughts?
klvnhng said:
Moreover, Franco kernel is not officially compatible with cm, so don't expect a bug-free experience even if you get it working.
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I see. Okay, I wasn't aware of that.
It looks more and more like I am going to let Wugfresh re-configure my phone. I am assuming that in its current state, I can ask Wigfresh to just re-do the root process. Everything was going great until i installed Cyanogen and then Franco.
As an aside, rooting the phone has solved a problem I was having with my Gmail app. One initial startup each day, I would have to do a restart to get the Gmail app to pull emails in. It was always exactly two starts that were necessary, and it always worked on the second start. The native Andorid app which was handling my Hotmail didn't have that problem.
So rooting has been a positive for me so far.
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Isn't Franco recommanded only for AOSP roms ?
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Aha, okay. Well, maybe the thing for me to do is let Wugfresh re-do the root process and then try an AOSP ROM. Of course, the thing about CM is that there was that handy self-installer.
This is a slippery slope, I can see that. I have seen a few good guides here for doing this stuff manually. Maybe the time has come for me to really figure it out...
In fact the phone is definitely a bit unstable now. It's working fine but the screen is flashing at me a lot. The Swiftkey keyboard intermittently disappears when I am writing an email or a text.
I think I'll start over again. If possible, can someone confirm for me that I can just use the Wugfresh toolkit and ask it to do the root process again from the phone's current state, or do I have to do a restore back to factory and then do the root process again from there?
So i have the layers version of PureNexus installed. Franco Kernel and latest edition of busybox.
I tried messing with layers a few weeks ago but somehow crashed the entire system and it was a huge pain to restore back to where i was. So i want to make sure i know what im doing before i hit the apply button again.
I have layers manager installed.And i have layers showcase installed.
As i was browsing through the layers showcase all of the layers say that they do not support the version of Android i have installed and may cause bootloops. (I have 6.0.1) installed (I also have Xposed installed)
Basically i dont want to modify any apps. I just want to change the look of the Android system itself. (Notification pull down, settings, settings icons, colors, etc)
And i want to stay in the "material design" land.
Any help would be very appreciated.
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So i have the layers version of PureNexus installed. Franco Kernel and latest edition of busybox.
I tried messing with layers a few weeks ago but somehow crashed the entire system and it was a huge pain to restore back to where i was. So i want to make sure i know what im doing before i hit the apply button again.
I have layers manager installed.And i have layers showcase installed.
As i was browsing through the layers showcase all of the layers say that they do not support the version of Android i have installed and may cause bootloops. (I have 6.0.1) installed (I also have Xposed installed)
Basically i dont want to modify any apps. I just want to change the look of the Android system itself. (Notification pull down, settings, settings icons, colors, etc)
And i want to stay in the "material design" land.
Any help would be very appreciated.
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Which layer theme or apps are you trying to install? If you run into errors and you get system errors after a reboot the easiest way to fix the issue is to delete the overlay folder in your file manager via TWRP, then reboot. I have found that if I do a hard reboot after installing my layers I get the system UI failures upon reboot. If I do the soft reboot in layers after I install it works fine, then I can do a full reboot and all is good.
So I just rooted my Aquos (thanks tewilove) and my first order of business was to find a stock settings menu so I can finally enable ART runtime. However, I've looked through several deodexed roms as well as custom roms for several devices, and can't find any settings.apk file. Is that something baked into the system?