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LG G5 H831 Root?

Hi guys,
just bought my H831 tonight, and I'm wondering about rooting/ custom roms, and if it is a thing for this model yet. I tried to follow LG's bootloader unlock process, but i keep coming up with no adb devices, and no matter what drivers i try, i can't get it to show up, if anyone has suggestions, please let me know. As for the rest, anyone have good suggestions for custom roms? just got into the scene with this phone and I have no idea whats happening.
Thanks
Invisibrune

Invisibrune said:
Hi guys,
just bought my H831 tonight, and I'm wondering about rooting/ custom roms, and if it is a thing for this model yet. I tried to follow LG's bootloader unlock process, but i keep coming up with no adb devices, and no matter what drivers i try, i can't get it to show up, if anyone has suggestions, please let me know. As for the rest, anyone have good suggestions for custom roms? just got into the scene with this phone and I have no idea whats happening.
Thanks
Invisibrune
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There is no root or bootloader unlock for h831, the official unlock method is available only for european h850s, tot method with root and twrp si only available for H830.

Welp. As always, before buying a device, check if there's root or roms available, not after.

Killua96 said:
There is no root or bootloader unlock for h831, the official unlock method is available only for european h850s, tot method with root and twrp si only available for H830.
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Do you know is a root is being worked on/coming reasonably soon? or would it be better to just sell the phone?

Invisibrune said:
Do you know is a root is being worked on/coming reasonably soon? or would it be better to just sell the phone?
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Nobody knows nothing, atm there are no dev that are working on obtaining root on other models afaik

Well ****, I miss root, but SafetyNet's been a major pain in the ass as of late, so now my h831 stays stock. Better than an iphone though.

LG V20 T-Mobile Rooting - Soo many threads; I have no idea what I'm doing

I've done a bit of research, searched through threads on this forum, and I still have no idea what I'm doing. The last phone I rooted was a Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket.
What's the simple-man's way of rooting the T-Mobile variant of the LG V20? I see the below threads:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/instruction-to-root-h918-10i-t3536472
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/h918-twrp-flashable-stock-firmwares-t3619671
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/t-mobile-lgv20-h91810k-kdz-t3618021
Thanks

keennay said:
I've done a bit of research, searched through threads on this forum, and I still have no idea what I'm doing. The last phone I rooted was a Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket.
What's the simple-man's way of rooting the T-Mobile variant of the LG V20? I see the below threads:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/instruction-to-root-h918-10i-t3536472
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/h918-twrp-flashable-stock-firmwares-t3619671
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/t-mobile-lgv20-h91810k-kdz-t3618021
Thanks
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First which firmware are you on now? 10i, 10j, 10k, what? I think 10k is not rootable. But... If you have older firmwares then you can root with dirtycow method. it is not that hard. I think the hardest part should be to try to flash the twrp (but even that was easy at least for me an average flasher and tester). If you have any issues, the system will usually restore to the original image as a last resort.

jinkerz9430 said:
First which firmware are you on now? 10i, 10j, 10k, what? I think 10k is not rootable. But... If you have older firmwares then you can root with dirtycow method. it is not that hard. I think the hardest part should be to try to flash the twrp (but even that was easy at least for me an average flasher and tester). If you have any issues, the system will usually restore to the original image as a last resort.
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Thanks! I'm on 10i.
I'm guessing following this guide is my best bet:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/h918-recowvery-unlock-v20-root-shell-t3490594/
What is the 'H91810j KDZ' version I see online?

keennay said:
Thanks! I'm on 10i.
I'm guessing following this guide is my best bet:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/h918-recowvery-unlock-v20-root-shell-t3490594/
What is the 'H91810j KDZ' version I see online?
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yeah. that's the original thread. and i think somene also recopied it on his own word on another thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/instruction-to-root-h918-10i-t3536472
The 10j kdz version is to be flashed with LG UP if you needed it. but up to now it is better you dont move further from 10j, because 10k is not rootable (i believe I've seen). If you want to have 10k you can flash 10j and then flash via twrp a zip of the stock rom with 10k

jinkerz9430 said:
yeah. that's the original thread. and i think somene also recopied it on his own word on another thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/instruction-to-root-h918-10i-t3536472
The 10j kdz version is to be flashed with LG UP if you needed it. but up to now it is better you dont move further from 10j, because 10k is not rootable (i believe I've seen). If you want to have 10k you can flash 10j and then flash via twrp a zip of the stock rom with 10k
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Thanks!
I'm at the last step; are there any advantages to disabling encryption? Any reason why I may/may not want to do this?

keennay said:
Thanks!
I'm at the last step; are there any advantages to disabling encryption? Any reason why I may/may not want to do this?
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Encryption is mostly used for companies as extra security . But if i dont misremember , it is necessary to do it. Best thing would be to follow the instructions provided on the original thread.

T-Mobile LG V2010t
Hey all I new at all this and I'm trying to unlock or root my T-Mobile LG V20. I've never done any of this stuff, but I want to be able to use this phone on a network other than T-Mobile. Can anyone give this rookie ( me) some help?
T-Mobile won't unlock it for me. The day there is a balance owed on it. And when I tried the unlock app. It say failure in processing the request. Please reboot and try again.. If you can walk me through this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!

motormadness said:
Hey all I new at all this and I'm trying to unlock or root my T-Mobile LG V20. I've never done any of this stuff, but I want to be able to use this phone on a network other than T-Mobile. Can anyone give this rookie ( me) some help?
T-Mobile won't unlock it for me. The day there is a balance owed on it. And when I tried the unlock app. It say failure in processing the request. Please reboot and try again.. If you can walk me through this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!
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Why did you reply to a post from last year for this?
Rooting has nothing to do with network unlocking the phone (and if it's on 10t or really anything past 10k it's unrootable anyway).
Your best option is to get T-MOBILE to unlock it, otherwise there are some other third party websites which may be able to unlock it for a fee.

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Why did you reply to a post from last year for this?
Rooting has nothing to do with network unlocking the phone (and if it's on 10t or really anything past 10k it's unrootable anyway).
Your best option is to get T-MOBILE to unlock it, otherwise there are some other third party websites which may be able to unlock it for a fee.
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I'm sorry my bad. I'm new here and did know how to start a thread. I just thought someone here might be able to help me. I didn't want to cause any problems. But I've tried T-Mobile support,T-Mobile store' called around here and tried several online 3rd party. And because of the message I get when I try to unlock it, nobody can help. So I figured there were some smart people here,they might be able to help me (rookie). Sorry I caused you trouble.
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Phoenix591 said:
Why did you reply to a post from last year for this?
Rooting has nothing to do with network unlocking the phone (and if it's on 10t or really anything past 10k it's unrootable anyway).
Your best option is to get T-MOBILE to unlock it, otherwise there are some other third party websites which may be able to unlock it for a fee.
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I'm sorry. My bad. I'm new here and did know how to start a thread. I just thought someone here might be able to help me. I didn't want to cause any problems. But I've tried T-Mobile support,T-Mobile store' called around here and tried several online 3rd party. And because of the message I get when I try to unlock it, nobody can help. So I figured there were some smart people here,they might be able to help me (rookie). Sorry I caused you trouble.

US996 LG V20 root only?

I'm searching but can't seem to find a thread with root only instructions.
I'm not looking to unlock my bootloader. Just looking for root only so I can install adblock.
Is there an easy method for root only on the umlocked us996?

ymDroid said:
I'm searching but can't seem to find a thread with root only instructions.
I'm not looking to unlock my bootloader. Just looking for root only so I can install adblock.
Is there an easy method for root only on the umlocked us996?
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How would you know if you found it?
The US996 for the US Market has a bootloader that can be unlocked while the US996 from USCellular is network unlocked.
What dip**** came up with this naming convention?
I guess we just have to cross our fingers and start flashing blindly from now on?

Safe to flash H91010I to US99610N with LGUP?

Hi all,
Have an AT&T branded V20 in Australia so not getting updates. Also can't use the hotspot without it being registered on AT&T network.
Want to know if its safe to flash a KDZ, thinking US99610N as its from the unlocked variant?
Have a few questions:
Is it possible?
Anybody know of a good guide to do it?
Risk of hard/soft bricking?
Possibility for recovering after possible brick?
Any help is greatly appreciated, been trying to find answers on my own for ages to no avail.
Thanks!

Root your phone, then flash the latest H910 firmware. There are two zips that are in the ROMs forum -- one will take you back completely to stock, and the other will upgrade you, but leave TWRP, you can decide which one.
As for flashing the US996 firmware, it may work, probably won't brick your phone, but there is no reason to...
-- Brian

runningnak3d said:
Root your phone, then flash the latest H910 firmware. There are two zips that are in the ROMs forum -- one will take you back completely to stock, and the other will upgrade you, but leave TWRP, you can decide which one.
As for flashing the US996 firmware, it may work, probably won't brick your phone, but there is no reason to...
-- Brian
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Really appreciate your reply, couple of questions:
runningnak3d said:
Root your phone
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I've noticed there are a few methods for doing this, dirtysanta etc, which would you recommend keeping in mind what I want to do?
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Would updating to a newer H910 firmware still leave me with the issue of the hotspot wanting an AT&T connection? That's the only reason I thought to flash to US996 as its unlocked so would think that's the only way to alleviate the mobile hotspot issue.
Thanks again for your reply!

Search for 'H910 root' in News and DIscussions. I made a thread specifically for the H910 up to V10r.
Have you ever installed the mobile hotspot app for the carrier that you use on any other phone? If so, go into the playstore and search for it -- you will be able to install it.
For example, I use T-Mobile with my H910, and after I debloated all the AT&T crapware, I just went into the playstore and installed all the T-Mobile apps that I need. If for some reason that isn't possible for you, you can always side load them. The bottom line is, that while it may work, you will probably have more trouble if you flash another models firmware. There are exceptions, but why do it if you don't have to
-- Brian

runningnak3d said:
Search for 'H910 root' in News and DIscussions. I made a thread specifically for the H910 up to V10r.
Have you ever installed the mobile hotspot app for the carrier that you use on any other phone? If so, go into the playstore and search for it -- you will be able to install it.
For example, I use T-Mobile with my H910, and after I debloated all the AT&T crapware, I just went into the playstore and installed all the T-Mobile apps that I need. If for some reason that isn't possible for you, you can always side load them. The bottom line is, that while it may work, you will probably have more trouble if you flash another models firmware. There are exceptions, but why do it if you don't have to
-- Brian
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Thanks heaps for your replies. I'm not trying to be difficult (but probably kinda am), I guess also my reason for looking at the US996 route is I live in Australia and that model was sold here, the H910 wasn't. So if I flashed to that wouldn't I be getting OTA updates, not having to flash every time?
Also with the hotspot, this is just a little bit of a foreign concept to me. I've owned plenty of Android phones but this is my first non-Nexus. All the others I've bought from overseas and its been as simple as settings>network>hotspot & tethering and away you go. So with this one I have to download an app? Seems stupid for something that is such a basic feature and is built into Android. I'm not sure why they bother with all this crap, stock Android is better in every way IMO.
Again really appreciate your guidance.

Well, all I can say is try it. It isn't going to brick your phone so bad that you can't recover, but the recovery process would involve you flashing the H915 KDZ and rooting. In order to do that, you must be at ARB 0, so make sure that whatever US996 KDZ that you flash doesn't increment ARB. Also, let's say that you flash the US996 10c KDZ and it works fine, but down the road you take an OTA that increments ARB AND doesn't work. You would then have no way to fix your phone.
Just trying to point out some of the pitfalls you may run into.
-- Brian

runningnak3d said:
Well, all I can say is try it. It isn't going to brick your phone so bad that you can't recover, but the recovery process would involve you flashing the H915 KDZ and rooting. In order to do that, you must be at ARB 0, so make sure that whatever US996 KDZ that you flash doesn't increment ARB. Also, let's say that you flash the US996 10c KDZ and it works fine, but down the road you take an OTA that increments ARB AND doesn't work. You would then have no way to fix your phone.
Just trying to point out some of the pitfalls you may run into.
-- Brian
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No I appreciate the pitfalls being pointed out. I thought it was the safer way to go but guess not... I'll take a look at your thread you mentioned earlier when I have a bit of time to actually do it. Or I'll just wait until a big update comes out, 8.0 or something. Thanks for all your help.

Need help to root H91810k

Hello,
First off, thank you for clicking on this post. I'm new on XDA and rooting LG phones. However, I've searched help on posts and other sites on how to root LG V20 H19810k (T-Mobile Variant) and many told me to downgrade first and then root. But none exactly gave any instruction or step by step on how to do it.
My worries are these ARB (Anti-Roll Back) software updates and if you were to downgrade, you will brick your phones and things like that, it's LG (I mean like there are a lot of complains about hardware faulty after phone updates and lawsuits about it), and different steps on each variants. I bought this phone like 2 or 3 months ago, and my thought on this phone's software is sucks so bad. It's so bad, I've had many problems like my mobile data often times stopped working (no network) even though signal is full bar, my live pixel background suddenly gone after playing this specific game, serious low fps in some games, RAM is full all the time, and many more. The phone itself has amazing hardware and specs, but damn why is the software so bad?
Right, so all my problems aside, I think switching ROM or downgrade probably a good idea and rooting for removing bloatwares. But many had problems installing twrp recovery to root and risks like bricking and bootlooping. And in this post, I'm hoping for help to downgrade and root H91810k.

ignoll said:
Hello,
First off, thank you for clicking on this post. I'm new on XDA and rooting LG phones. However, I've searched help on posts and other sites on how to root LG V20 H19810k (T-Mobile Variant) and many told me to downgrade first and then root. But none exactly gave any instruction or step by step on how to do it.
My worries are these ARB (Anti-Roll Back) software updates and if you were to downgrade, you will brick your phones and things like that, it's LG (I mean like there are a lot of complains about hardware faulty after phone updates and lawsuits about it), and different steps on each variants. I bought this phone like 2 or 3 months ago, and my thought on this phone's software is sucks so bad. It's so bad, I've had many problems like my mobile data often times stopped working (no network) even though signal is full bar, my live pixel background suddenly gone after playing this specific game, serious low fps in some games, RAM is full all the time, and many more. The phone itself has amazing hardware and specs, but damn why is the software so bad?
Right, so all my problems aside, I think switching ROM or downgrade probably a good idea and rooting for removing bloatwares. But many had problems installing twrp recovery to root and risks like bricking and bootlooping. And in this post, I'm hoping for help to downgrade and root H91810k.
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Search this forum there's numerous threads on how to root
Sent from my LG-H910 using XDA Labs

Downgrade to 10j and use DirtySanta, or use lafsploit.
IMHO they are about equally difficult. In the lafsploit thread, I state that you have to be on 10p or 10q, but I will update the post stating that you need to be on 10q or LOWER.
DirtySanta doesn't require you to use FWUL, so it does have that advantage.
Bottom line though, you can't stay on ARB 0 firmware and use any of the current ROMs -- they all require 10p or higher firmware.
-- Brian

cnjax said:
Search this forum there's numerous threads on how to root
Sent from my LG-H910 using XDA Labs
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Thank you for the reply,
Seems I got it a little bit. So what I've been looking at this dirtythis and that unlock stuff for quite a while. I've been wondering if anyone asked about H918. I just realized that this dirtysanta bootloader is an exploit for other variants that don't support unlocking via fastboot.
So then I proceed to unlock my device and it successfully unlocked. (Follow this post to unlock).
I will try downgrading my device via lgup and will follow this post to flash and root.

ignoll said:
Thank you for the reply,
Seems I got it a little bit. So what I've been looking at this dirtythis and that unlock stuff for quite a while. I've been wondering if anyone asked about H918. I just realized that this dirtysanta bootloader is an exploit for other variants that don't support unlocking via fastboot.
So then I proceed to unlock my device and it successfully unlocked. (Follow this post to unlock).
I will try downgrading my device via lgup and will follow this post to flash and root.
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Be careful about your rolling back to root, check your current software version and and if you're arb 1 you'll brick. If you're arb look up the laf exploit thread
Sent from my LG-H910 using XDA Labs

He said he is on 10k, so he is safe to rollback to 10j which can use recowvery.
@ignoll Whatever you do, DO NOT flash the engineering aboot, or you will brick your phone. Follow the procedure in the post you linked, and you will be fine. DirtyCow gets you a temp root shell that will allow you to dd TWRP onto the recovery partition. If you get an error when you do run-as con, then you are NOT on 10j or lower. If you try to downgrade and you get an error about ARB, then you are NOT on 10k.
Just keep all that in mind and you will be fine.
-- Brian

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He said he is on 10k, so he is safe to rollback to 10j which can use recowvery.
@ignoll Whatever you do, DO NOT flash the engineering aboot, or you will brick your phone. Follow the procedure in the post you linked, and you will be fine. DirtyCow gets you a temp root shell that will allow you to dd TWRP onto the recovery partition. If you get an error when you do run-as con, then you are NOT on 10j or lower. If you try to downgrade and you get an error about ARB, then you are NOT on 10k.
Just keep all that in mind and you will be fine.
-- Brian
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Thank you for the reply,
Just to make sure, 10k is the software version which you can find in the software info inside the settings app, right? This software info will show stuff about "Android version", and down on the list, there's the "Software version" and below it is the 10k coming from (H918xxx). Or, check it via svc menu and version info through the dialer app. All that is to check whether I'm in the correct version or not, yes? (Sorry for this silly question, I just want to make sure. I'm really new to this)
And yes, I won't flash this engineering aboot, just follow the instruction and I'll be good. But just to make sure again, there's no this "engineering aboot" thing in the post that will brick my device, yes?
That said, I really appreciate for your warning and advice.

stuff about "Android version", and down on the list, there's the "Software version" and below it is the 10k
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Yep, that means you are on 10k, so you are safe to rollback.
-- Brian

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Yep, that means you are on 10k, so you are safe to rollback.
-- Brian
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Please, i am also stuck and confused, as i understand LG devices, downgrading may cause device to go dead completely, i want to be sure before i begin this process. Here is my device Software Info:
Software Version: H91810K
Build Number: NRD90M
My device is locked to T-mobile, and i want to unlock using Octopus Box as i have credits. Unlocking requires root, is it possible to downgrade to the mentioned version 10j and not brick device? Any one can help me on this.

kenneth excellence said:
Please, i am also stuck and confused, as i understand LG devices, downgrading may cause device to go dead completely, i want to be sure before i begin this process. Here is my device Software Info:
Software Version: H91810K
Build Number: NRD90M
My device is locked to T-mobile, and i want to unlock using Octopus Box as i have credits. Unlocking requires root, is it possible to downgrade to the mentioned version 10j and not brick device? Any one can help me on this.
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If you root your phone it will be unlocked no need to use an octopus box.
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That is only true if the engineering bootloader is used. The H918 still needs work to get it carrier unlocked.
-- Brian

cnjax said:
If you root your phone it will be unlocked no need to use an octopus box.
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Are you serious? If this is possible how do i root since i am on H91810K Software version?

cnjax said:
If you root your phone it will be unlocked no need to use an octopus box.
kenneth excellence said:
Are you serious? If this is possible how do i root since i am on H91810K Software version?
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He is serious, but incorrect.
runningnak3d said:
That is only true if the engineering bootloader is used. The H918 still needs work to get it carrier unlocked.
-- Brian
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You need to pay attention to runningnak3d when he says something about root and the V20.
Cheers