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[How-To] Install OTA Update on after Root/Custom Recovery

*Now Working for 4.3 Update* Will require an up-to-date install of 4.1.x first and then after re-boot, it will update to 4.3 (read post on next page).
Warning:
Because of of how weird step 7 was, I'd recommend NOT INSTALLING THE OTA and just waiting for a ROM to have the changes incorporated. This is the last time I'll install an OTA I think as the whole thing was sketchy at best. However, if you just insist doing the OTA, that's how I did it. It may not work for you. You'll probably brick your phone as I may have just gotten lucky.
Background:
I'm certainly not a developer but can wiggle my way around XDA and figure out what to do and how to do it from time to time without having to ask too many questions. This morning I got the notification that an OTA (over the air) Update was available for my HTC One Dev Edition (running the stock ROM) and I simply downloaded it and tried to flash the zip in Clockwork like I've done with countless other updated nightlies on various phones. It didn't work.
Solution:
I figured out after researching that the custom recovery wouldn't allow the OTA to be flashed and that the stock recovery would be needed to flash the OTA update. I also realized that it took a bunch of different threads to figure out how to make it all work and there didn't seem to be one thread on the HTC One forum that discussed how to do it so I figured I may as well write up what I did to help someone else--after all, so many folks have helped me on this forum and I've rarely had much to contribute of any real depth anyway--just repeating what others already had taught me.
How to:
You need to re-flash the original recovery to your phone so that CWM or TWRP are no longer your recovery. Obviously, now is the time to do a backup and I'd put it somewhere other than on the phone in case you really mess this up.
1. Get the stock recovery bits here https://www.dropbox.com/s/9wbux6a4kn0ndz9/StockRecovery-signed.zip
2. You'll need to un-pack the rar and there is a text file that has the instructions.
3. Of course, I didn't follow the instructions, I just plugged my phone into USB with debugging on and fired up cmd, changed into the directory where I extracted the files, cd'd into fastboot and typed "adb reboot bootloader" and waited until the phone rebooted into bootloader
4. I typed "fastboot devices" and hit enter to make sure I was connected to the phone still
5. Cd.. to get back to where the .bat files are and type install-recovery-windows.bat and the stock recovery is flashed to your HTC One.
6. Now unplug the thing and reboot and you'll get the notification again that the OTA update is ready to install and it will start to install.
7. Mine locked up. That's right, the damn OTA update stopped at about 1/4 of the way through. I figured I bricked the phone. I always figure I bricked it if something doesn't go exactly how I thought it would but I've never actually done it to any of my 6 or so devices. Then I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2306996&page=2 and I turned off the phone by holding down the power and restarting it. It got all the way through and hung again so I reset the phone again. Then, it rebooted a few times and looked like it was going to never work right again, but I just let it keep rebooting and left it be and after a few minutes, less than 10, probably more than 5, I was back up and running and saw the android applications updating as expected after an update.
8. Now you'll want to re-flash your custom rom (TWRP, CWM) and I did that with Hasoon's All-in-one tool.
9. Re-get Root. You can do that with Hasoon's tool I suppose or however you prefer to root.
AGAIN:
Because of of how weird step 7 was, I'd recommend NOT INSTALLING THE OTA and just waiting for a ROM to have the changes incorporated. This is the last time I'll install an OTA I think as the whole thing was sketchy at best. However, if you just insist doing the OTA, that's how I did it. It may not work for you. You'll probably brick your phone as I may have just gotten lucky.
Hopefully someone will come up with a better way to do this and start a new thread and we can delete this one forever.

jay_ntwr said:
Warning:
Because of of how weird step 7 was, I'd recommend NOT INSTALLING THE OTA and just waiting for a ROM to have the changes incorporated. This is the last time I'll install an OTA I think as the whole thing was sketchy at best. However, if you just insist doing the OTA, that's how I did it. It may not work for you. You'll probably brick your phone as I may have just gotten lucky.
Background:
I'm certainly not a developer but can wiggle my way around XDA and figure out what to do and how to do it from time to time without having to ask too many questions. This morning I got the notification that an OTA (over the air) Update was available for my HTC One Dev Edition (running the stock ROM) and I simply downloaded it and tried to flash the zip in Clockwork like I've done with countless other updated nightlies on various phones. It didn't work.
Solution:
I figured out after researching that the custom recovery wouldn't allow the OTA to be flashed and that the stock recovery would be needed to flash the OTA update. I also realized that it took a bunch of different threads to figure out how to make it all work and there didn't seem to be one thread on the HTC One forum that discussed how to do it so I figured I may as well write up what I did to help someone else--after all, so many folks have helped me on this forum and I've rarely had much to contribute of any real depth anyway--just repeating what others already had taught me.
How to:
You need to re-flash the original recovery to your phone so that CWM or TWRP are no longer your recovery. Obviously, now is the time to do a backup and I'd put it somewhere other than on the phone in case you really mess this up.
1. Get the stock recovery bits here http://www.androidrevolution.nl/downloader/download.php?file=Flash_recovery_2.17.401.1.rar
2. You'll need to un-pack the rar and there is a text file that has the instructions.
3. Of course, I didn't follow the instructions, I just plugged my phone into USB with debugging on and fired up cmd, changed into the directory where I extracted the files, cd'd into fastboot and typed "adb reboot bootloader" and waited until the phone rebooted into bootloader
4. I typed "fastboot devices" and hit enter to make sure I was connected to the phone still
5. Cd.. to get back to where the .bat files are and type install-recovery-windows.bat and the stock recovery is flashed to your HTC One.
6. Now unplug the thing and reboot and you'll get the notification again that the OTA update is ready to install and it will start to install.
7. Mine locked up. That's right, the damn OTA update stopped at about 1/4 of the way through. I figured I bricked the phone. I always figure I bricked it if something doesn't go exactly how I thought it would but I've never actually done it to any of my 6 or so devices. Then I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2306996&page=2 and I turned off the phone by holding down the power and restarting it. It got all the way through and hung again so I reset the phone again. Then, it rebooted a few times and looked like it was going to never work right again, but I just let it keep rebooting and left it be and after a few minutes, less than 10, probably more than 5, I was back up and running and saw the android applications updating as expected after an update.
8. Now you'll want to re-flash your custom rom (TWRP, CWM) and I did that with Hasoon's All-in-one tool.
9. Re-get Root. You can do that with Hasoon's tool I suppose or however you prefer to root.
AGAIN:
Because of of how weird step 7 was, I'd recommend NOT INSTALLING THE OTA and just waiting for a ROM to have the changes incorporated. This is the last time I'll install an OTA I think as the whole thing was sketchy at best. However, if you just insist doing the OTA, that's how I did it. It may not work for you. You'll probably brick your phone as I may have just gotten lucky.
Hopefully someone will come up with a better way to do this and start a new thread and we can delete this one forever.
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I appreciate you writing this up. It seems like I've never been able to find a good solution to installing the OTA updates post-root. That being said, do you have any idea what happened in Step 7 that made it finally work? I just don't understand how doing the same thing over and over finally just worked. I want to try installing an update, but I'm a little nervous to do it. And I don't know how else to make the pesky update notification go away without installing it.

trickinit said:
I appreciate you writing this up. It seems like I've never been able to find a good solution to installing the OTA updates post-root. That being said, do you have any idea what happened in Step 7 that made it finally work? I just don't understand how doing the same thing over and over finally just worked. I want to try installing an update, but I'm a little nervous to do it. And I don't know how else to make the pesky update notification go away without installing it.
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I really have no idea why Step 7 got so strange. The only thing that gave me a warm fuzzy whatsoever was that others were reporting that it was hanging and they just rebooted the phone over and over until it got all the way through the process. It could have something to do with the stock recovery for all I know--a bug perhaps. Again, it made me nervous and I won't do it again. I only did the write up so folks could see what happens and make a call whether or not they wanted to try it themselves and see the steps all on one page instead of getting stuck like I did and then finding the rest of the steps. That part sucked. At least you'll know what you're getting into though. Good luck one way or the other. Please post up if you do go through with it and what your results are.

Thank you for the info! Does sound like an awful lot of work though

jay_ntwr said:
I really have no idea why Step 7 got so strange. The only thing that gave me a warm fuzzy whatsoever was that others were reporting that it was hanging and they just rebooted the phone over and over until it got all the way through the process. It could have something to do with the stock recovery for all I know--a bug perhaps. Again, it made me nervous and I won't do it again. I only did the write up so folks could see what happens and make a call whether or not they wanted to try it themselves and see the steps all on one page instead of getting stuck like I did and then finding the rest of the steps. That part sucked. At least you'll know what you're getting into though. Good luck one way or the other. Please post up if you do go through with it and what your results are.
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I'm thinking I'll give it a go. I'll do a nandroid backup and store it on my pc. Worst case scenario, I'll just start over from scratch, re-root, and restore my backup. I'll make sure to report my results.

I just makes me wonder why bother using the OTA update if you already went through rooting and flashing custom recovery? It's just one step more to flash the custom ROM and at least you will get constant updates with the developer who created the custom ROM. To me it seems like you either stay stock if you want OTA updates or go the whole hog and use custom ROMs. Just my 2 cents.

shadowboy23 said:
I just makes me wonder why bother using the OTA update if you already went through rooting and flashing custom recovery?
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Well, in my case, I purchased the Dev edition straight from HTC so I automatically have a de-bloated OS from HTC instead of the ATT ROM that I would have gotten had I purchased the phone from the ATT Store. In that case, I'd no question have a custom ROM from the forum. I just didn't see the need this time around. I would have left the stock recovery, but I do like to make backups so ClockworkMod is something I can't live without. I suppose there are others in that same boat but they are probably few and far between. Really, I just hate to update my ROM since the phone is working how I want at the moment. It's hard to justify just blowing away a functioning OS, setting up everything again, etc. but I may do it again if the OTAs come frequently and/or the process is as strange as it was this past go around.

jay_ntwr said:
Warning:
Because of of how weird step 7 was, I'd recommend NOT INSTALLING THE OTA and just waiting for a ROM to have the changes incorporated. This is the last time I'll install an OTA I think as the whole thing was sketchy at best. However, if you just insist doing the OTA, that's how I did it. It may not work for you. You'll probably brick your phone as I may have just gotten lucky.
Background:
I'm certainly not a developer but can wiggle my way around XDA and figure out what to do and how to do it from time to time without having to ask too many questions. This morning I got the notification that an OTA (over the air) Update was available for my HTC One Dev Edition (running the stock ROM) and I simply downloaded it and tried to flash the zip in Clockwork like I've done with countless other updated nightlies on various phones. It didn't work.
Solution:
I figured out after researching that the custom recovery wouldn't allow the OTA to be flashed and that the stock recovery would be needed to flash the OTA update. I also realized that it took a bunch of different threads to figure out how to make it all work and there didn't seem to be one thread on the HTC One forum that discussed how to do it so I figured I may as well write up what I did to help someone else--after all, so many folks have helped me on this forum and I've rarely had much to contribute of any real depth anyway--just repeating what others already had taught me.
How to:
You need to re-flash the original recovery to your phone so that CWM or TWRP are no longer your recovery. Obviously, now is the time to do a backup and I'd put it somewhere other than on the phone in case you really mess this up.
1. Get the stock recovery bits here http://www.androidrevolution.nl/downloader/download.php?file=Flash_recovery_2.17.401.1.rar
2. You'll need to un-pack the rar and there is a text file that has the instructions.
3. Of course, I didn't follow the instructions, I just plugged my phone into USB with debugging on and fired up cmd, changed into the directory where I extracted the files, cd'd into fastboot and typed "adb reboot bootloader" and waited until the phone rebooted into bootloader
4. I typed "fastboot devices" and hit enter to make sure I was connected to the phone still
5. Cd.. to get back to where the .bat files are and type install-recovery-windows.bat and the stock recovery is flashed to your HTC One.
6. Now unplug the thing and reboot and you'll get the notification again that the OTA update is ready to install and it will start to install.
7. Mine locked up. That's right, the damn OTA update stopped at about 1/4 of the way through. I figured I bricked the phone. I always figure I bricked it if something doesn't go exactly how I thought it would but I've never actually done it to any of my 6 or so devices. Then I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2306996&page=2 and I turned off the phone by holding down the power and restarting it. It got all the way through and hung again so I reset the phone again. Then, it rebooted a few times and looked like it was going to never work right again, but I just let it keep rebooting and left it be and after a few minutes, less than 10, probably more than 5, I was back up and running and saw the android applications updating as expected after an update.
8. Now you'll want to re-flash your custom rom (TWRP, CWM) and I did that with Hasoon's All-in-one tool.
9. Re-get Root. You can do that with Hasoon's tool I suppose or however you prefer to root.
AGAIN:
Because of of how weird step 7 was, I'd recommend NOT INSTALLING THE OTA and just waiting for a ROM to have the changes incorporated. This is the last time I'll install an OTA I think as the whole thing was sketchy at best. However, if you just insist doing the OTA, that's how I did it. It may not work for you. You'll probably brick your phone as I may have just gotten lucky.
Hopefully someone will come up with a better way to do this and start a new thread and we can delete this one forever.
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hi,
one question. this recovery.img i also can use for my htc one 802w? i use the original rom (4.1.2) on my htc one. i make s-off over htcdev.com install cwm802w.img . i become the info the system update to 4.2.2 is available but the phone cant install the update.
any people like help me?
best regards,
ps: sorry for my bad english

Does sound like an awful lot of work though

greengoose_at said:
hi,
one question. this recovery.img i also can use for my htc one 802w? i use the original rom (4.1.2) on my htc one. i make s-off over htcdev.com install cwm802w.img . i become the info the system update to 4.2.2 is available but the phone cant install the update.
any people like help me?
best regards,
ps: sorry for my bad english
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Just find a stock recovery for 802w, flash it to your phone and you should be fine to to OTA. The original post didn't mention if he's using 802w. If he's not, then the recovery.img can't be used for 802w.

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I haven't been able to get this to work. I flashed back to the stock recovery, but when I attempt to install the update it gets about half way through before rebooting. It goes back into recovery, starts installing again, but then stops and just shows a red triangle with an exclamation mark. I can get the phone to reboot by holding the power button for 10 seconds, which boots it up normally. When it gets up and running, it's like nothing ever happened, but then the update notification reappears.

trickinit said:
I haven't been able to get this to work. I flashed back to the stock recovery, but when I attempt to install the update it gets about half way through before rebooting. It goes back into recovery, starts installing again, but then stops and just shows a red triangle with an exclamation mark. I can get the phone to reboot by holding the power button for 10 seconds, which boots it up normally. When it gets up and running, it's like nothing ever happened, but then the update notification reappears.
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I'm experiencing the same thing, can't seem to find anything about it...

With the new 4.3 rolling out on the Dev editions, I decided it was time to try this again. What I found was I had to update to a something prior to the new 4.3. In other words, it was still one of the 1.29 streams that updated first and did just like the last time I did this. The thing stopped, locked up, had to hold the power button down, locked up again, reset again, then it was fine. As soon as the phone booted, the 4.3 update was available and I installed that without any issues. So, the method above still works and even with the weirdness I felt a little better this go around.
Good luck.

sunnyyen said:
Just find a stock recovery for 802w, flash it to your phone and you should be fine to to OTA. The original post didn't mention if he's using 802w. If he's not, then the recovery.img can't be used for 802w.
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I haven't really checked this thread in weeks. I'm not sure what an 802w is. If you can clarify, I'll check and post.

Totally ran just fine
I had to as stated roll back to the attached recovery, did that with fastboot and no problems, then restarted the phone, then had it start the OTA update, then read around debating if I want CWM or TeamWin, but before I notice, the progress bar got up past half way. Looked away for what must've been less than 5 minutes until it vibrated and was restarting itself. It restarted again, and then it loaded and updated all the apps... Seemed like the smoothest rooted update I've ever done, no forced restarting or anything!

I just bought my HTC One last friday, and I think I screwed up things a little bit, because the first thing I did after I charged it, was updating everything to 4.3, before unlocking the bootloader, getting s-off and before rooting the phone. So I ended up with the latest 4.3 on my phone, but it was a pain in the ass to root it properly. I was able to unlock the bootloader, but something must be different with the way 4.3 treats the internal storage distribution, because I was only able to get root, using TWRP and the latest version of SuperSu, but I wasn´t able to install Busybox.
It's a little bit weird, because although I was able to use Titaniumbackup to install some apps, apps like OTA Rootkeeper don't work properly. I also lost the stock calculator, flashlight and voice recorder, but I was able to install older versions again.
I think the only thing I regret is not getting s-off first, but I think this will only mean that I will have to wait for a revone update, or I will have to flash the boot.img after flashing a custom rom as I always did with my One X.

jay_ntwr said:
I haven't really checked this thread in weeks. I'm not sure what an 802w is. If you can clarify, I'll check and post.
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802w is Chinese dual sim version with different radio frequency
Sent from my HTC One dual sim using xda app-developers app

deepforest said:
802w is Chinese dual sim version with different radio frequency
Sent from my HTC One dual sim using xda app-developers app
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That is not the one I have then.

I have a rooted HTC one with stock rom. I relock the bootloader and I also have stock recovery.
I am on 4.19.401.5 version.
So, will it be possible for me to have new OTA update including Sense 6?
Should I install the missing applications also, like calculator and flashlight?

I really F-d it up

To start, I'm using the Verizon VS980.
While trying to get a custom recovery working on the latest OTA version, VS98026A, everything I tried seemed to fail. I used twrp manager to install the latest twrp into my recovery, but at the step where it reboots into recovery I got sent to fastboot instead. No problem, just try again right? Same problem. I did a little digging and it seems the 26A update locked down the bootloader tight, can't even get loki working, but flashing the 12B aboot was supposed to be a workaround. So I flash the 12B aboot through fastboot. Oops. I must have missed a step SOMEWHERE, even though I'm fairly experienced and careful, because now it won't boot.
At this point I'm thinking I'll just bite the bullet and restore it. Nope. Recovery mode is dead now, as is fastboot. I try to connect download mode, and it appears to work (download mode shows on the phone) but the computer doesn't recognize the phone even exists.
I'm a week away from my next paycheck to find a phone to pull the guts out of, and I have a full TWRP backup of all partitions, including EFS. What are my options, if any? Help... please?
(I also read - too late - that freegee is supposed to automatically downgrade bootloader)

No one has any ideas on fixing it?
I'll settle for ideas that will make it impossible to tell if it's rooted, like make it so it won't turn on or at least remove that ugly warranty-breaking "rooted" flag on the recovery warning. I'll just take it in for warranty claim after.

Anyone have any ideas? Maybe wiring the USB to short it out?
I seriously just need to break it, and soon because my employer can't contact me.
As a revelation that may fix/break the phone, I got the computer to recognize the phone. It came up as a bunch of unformatted drives, and one that was readable that contained an "image" folder.

since your computer can detect it now, why dont u try flash kdz using LGFlashtool ?

zekurosu said:
since your computer can detect it now, why dont u try flash kdz using LGFlashtool ?
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Thanks for the suggestion, but it wouldn't work. It was detecting it as qhusb_bulk, not download mode.
I followed the steps here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142, and partway through dd'ing the aboot my phone shut off. I guess the battery died. Now it won't turn on again AT ALL. Just what I wanted, kind of. At least now I can replace it under warranty.

Rooted my H915 (Somewhat I guess)

So was following the guide to root with the Step Bat Files provided by
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/ls997vs995h910-dirtysanta-bootloader-t3519410
using the Dirty Santa Guide for Unlocking the Bootloader and Rooting the device. Yes I Already know the H915 is not listed but worth a shot anyway..... to me at least. So after finally going though each step bat file multiple times and it failing several times I finally have TWRP Loaded as the Recovery on the Device I can access the Bootloader however when I check the Bootloader it does say it is locked and fastboot oem-unlock gives me the error remote: unknown command. Note that fastboot oem device-id also gives me the same error. Therefore I can't unlock he Bootloader I can reset the phone through the stock method of holding down the power button and volume down button when booting the phone after resetting it each time It boots me into TWRP I can flash all the files I have tested such as BOOT Images and new system images.... I have been working on this since the guide was posted yesterday and been up since 2 (6 Hours now) trying to get this to work today.... I would like to just get into the phone to access ADB so I can possibly revert to stock or keep trying to root. I can flash anything and wipe anything to the device throughout what I have tested I'm an idiot and did not backup the Stock H915 Files once getting into TWRP..... yes I'm Dumb IK (But I also tried rooting my H915 for a Verizon/ATT Root so what do you expect). thanks again to anyone who can help!

TheDantee said:
So was following the guide to root with the Step Bat Files provided by
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/ls997vs995h910-dirtysanta-bootloader-t3519410
using the Dirty Santa Guide for Unlocking the Bootloader and Rooting the device. Yes I Already know the H915 is not listed but worth a shot anyway..... to me at least. So after finally going though each step bat file multiple times and it failing several times I finally have TWRP Loaded as the Recovery on the Device I can access the Bootloader however when I check the Bootloader it does say it is locked and fastboot oem-unlock gives me the error remote: unknown command. Note that fastboot oem device-id also gives me the same error. Therefore I can't unlock he Bootloader I can reset the phone through the stock method of holding down the power button and volume down button when booting the phone after resetting it each time It boots me into TWRP I can flash all the files I have tested such as BOOT Images and new system images.... I have been working on this since the guide was posted yesterday and been up since 2 (6 Hours now) trying to get this to work today.... I would like to just get into the phone to access ADB so I can possibly revert to stock or keep trying to root. I can flash anything and wipe anything to the device throughout what I have tested I'm an idiot and did not backup the Stock H915 Files once getting into TWRP..... yes I'm Dumb IK (But I also tried rooting my H915 for a Verizon/ATT Root so what do you expect). thanks again to anyone who can help!
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Try this
Power Off
Hold Vol Down
Hold Power
When The LG Splash Screen Appears Release Power for 1 Sec then Re-Press
Answer Yes 2 times
Yep. I was having the same problem with TWRP. The above was the only fix I found and it took me a solid hour to get the button combo just right. If you still have the red triangle like myself, the button combo happens before that pops up. To clarify, so you're not wasting your time like I did. You'll try the button combo listed in the quote as soon as the LG logo pops up. If it goes past that to the red triangle, you missed your shot. Pull the battery and try again.
Also. It should be noted once you get into that separate menu and answer yes twice to wipe the phone. It will throw you back into TWRP. Dont be discouraged! In TWRP go to reboot>system.
Hope this works for you bud!

Lonewolf17a said:
Try this
Power Off
Hold Vol Down
Hold Power
When The LG Splash Screen Appears Release Power for 1 Sec then Re-Press
Answer Yes 2 times
Yep. I was having the same problem with TWRP. The above was the only fix I found and it took me a solid hour to get the button combo just right. If you still have the red triangle like myself, the button combo happens before that pops up. To clarify, so you're not wasting your time like I did. You'll try the button combo listed in the quote as soon as the LG logo pops up. If it goes past that to the red triangle, you missed your shot. Pull the battery and try again.
Also. It should be noted once you get into that separate menu and answer yes twice to wipe the phone. It will throw you back into TWRP. Dont be discouraged! In TWRP go to reboot>system.
Hope this works for you bud!
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Already picked up another just forgot to update this post thanks for the help though

Lonewolf17a said:
Try this
Power Off
Hold Vol Down
Hold Power
When The LG Splash Screen Appears Release Power for 1 Sec then Re-Press
Answer Yes 2 times
Yep. I was having the same problem with TWRP. The above was the only fix I found and it took me a solid hour to get the button combo just right. If you still have the red triangle like myself, the button combo happens before that pops up. To clarify, so you're not wasting your time like I did. You'll try the button combo listed in the quote as soon as the LG logo pops up. If it goes past that to the red triangle, you missed your shot. Pull the battery and try again.
Also. It should be noted once you get into that separate menu and answer yes twice to wipe the phone. It will throw you back into TWRP. Dont be discouraged! In TWRP go to reboot>system.
Hope this works for you bud!
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So is it safe to say you have an H915 successfully rooted? Are you using it with Freedom Mobile?

SHABBA JOTS said:
So is it safe to say you have an H915 successfully rooted? Are you using it with Freedom Mobile?
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Sorry, I should have clarified my friend. I have a VS995. Deleted everything without making a backup so now I am running US996 stock deodex rom with konverged kernel.
However if your stuck in a twrp loop, the instructions in the quote is what I'd try first as I seemingly exhausted everything else to no avail. And it turned out to be the easiest of the solutions and the only one that worked haha.

SHABBA JOTS said:
So is it safe to say you have an H915 successfully rooted? Are you using it with Freedom Mobile?
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The H915 is flashable to the H918 System Image allowing you to access things like the Bootloader and TWRP I just F**ked mine up.... if your willing to try and get super su on there go for itim sure it is possible to get a root working for it.

TheDantee said:
The H915 is flashable to the H918 System Image allowing you to access things like the Bootloader and TWRP I just F**ked mine up.... if your willing to try and get super su on there go for itim sure it is possible to get a root working for it.
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my only issue is the cellular signal, in the dirtysanta thread, they mentioned that it worked for the h915, but that the dev was having signal issues. I'm not inclined in this sort of thing so I can't really try until someone on the same carrier can confirm.
I'm in no rush tho

SHABBA JOTS said:
my only issue is the cellular signal, in the dirtysanta thread, they mentioned that it worked for the h915, but that the dev was having signal issues. I'm not inclined in this sort of thing so I can't really try until someone on the same carrier can confirm.
I'm in no rush tho
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Could you not just reflash a H915 modem from a backup?

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Could you not just reflash a H915 modem from a backup?
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this should theoretically work.
I know for Samsung phones that was possible.
I had a Note phone from Rogers, and flashed it with a Galaxy S modem for Wind / Tmobile and it worked to unlock the AWS signal, that was not supposed to be supported officially.
I'm hoping LG phones are similar in that way, in which files / modems / boot can be transplanted from one phone model to another.
I'm just not familiar enough yet with LG phones, first time switching away from Samsung after soooo many years.

AllGamer said:
this should theoretically work.
I know for Samsung phones that was possible.
I had a Note phone from Rogers, and flashed it with a Galaxy S modem for Wind / Tmobile and it worked to unlock the AWS signal, that was not supposed to be supported officially.
I'm hoping LG phones are similar in that way, in which files / modems / boot can be transplanted from one phone model to another.
I'm just not familiar enough yet with LG phones, first time switching away from Samsung after soooo many years.
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LOL yeah i came from a Note 7 to a G5 to the V20 so idk much about LG Phones yet...

Is flashing the h915 modem confirmed to work? I havent seen any posts about anyone with this varient being successful, but maybe most are like me and too incompetent to take the first step lol
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SHABBA JOTS said:
Is flashing the h915 modem confirmed to work? I havent seen any posts about anyone with this varient being successful, but maybe most are like me and too incompetent to take the first step lol
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I took many steps and got a Working TWRP Recovery and had a bootloader however when i went to flash in the ROM and then reset the phone it failed and I got stuck and had to get the model replaced... However I do know for sure that you can get TWRP and a bootloader working on the H915 using the DirtySanta Method from there is the hard part if your willing to take those steps lol.... MAKE BACKUPS! I have not tried to root my New V20 yet... If I get around to it I will be sure to let you know, some people have confirmed it has rooted but you do need the modem all high risk for the reward lol

LG V20 H910 Root attempt fail, any plan of recourse?

Hi. I'm just gonna say this first: I didn't know entirely what I was doing when beginning this operation. I was just trying to do something fun and new, and it didn't pan out. I fully acknowledge that I am an idiot.
Now, the story. I was attempting to root my LGV20 with this guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/root-h910-v10m-t3664500 .
I have read over this thread more times than countable and thought I was doing everything correctly. I got to the "STEP3.BAT" portion of the guide and long story short, my phone crashed during it and somehow got foobarred.
It *kinda* works (as in it will boot for around a minute) and then blue/black screen into a reboot.
Is there any way I can save this phone? Hard resets, going into software, more dumb computer stuff, anything. I don't *need* to get this phone working again but it would be really preferable.
Simultaneously I fully accept the responsibility in failing the operations. I know that somewhere I must have messed up. If no-one wants/ can help me, tell me so. Just means new phone time.
If any more detail on what happened is needed, tell me.

First off: that guide is ONLY for the H910 (AT&T) variant, so make sure with your model
and also, when you said a "blue or black screen" it also has very small writings too, right? If so, then you may have faced a kernel/bootloader panic
Technically your phone is *still* alive, and your best method is to start over again, assuming if you read the whole guide carefully then you have backed up your firmware and can still access download mode.
Flash your stock firmware back (or use the H915 firmware provided by the guide), wipe and setup your phone again, then root the phone again.
I also suggest replacing the TWRP recovery inside the provided Dirtysanta folder cuz that's what i did when i faced the kernel panic

MEMO#22 said:
First off: that guide is ONLY for the H910 (AT&T) variant, so make sure with your model
and also, when you said a "blue or black screen" it also has very small writings too, right? If so, then you may have faced a kernel/bootloader panic
Technically your phone is *still* alive, and your best method is to start over again, assuming if you read the whole guide carefully then you have backed up your firmware and can still access download mode.
Flash your stock firmware back (or use the H915 firmware provided by the guide), wipe and setup your phone again, then root the phone again.
I also suggest replacing the TWRP recovery inside the provided Dirtysanta folder cuz that's what i did when i faced the kernel panic
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Thanks so much. Freaked out over this for a good bit. Came back, did what you said and we're back at that step fully working. Life saver.
Now my first guess as to why step3 failed is that i didn't have the latest version of TWRP. How can I set that up?

Inside the root package folder you can see an .img file named twrp 3.0.2-1- us996.img
What i did was downloaded a later version
(not latest cuz my phone won't boot at the latest version for some reason), copied the name of the original twrp and renamed it, paste it to the folder, overwrite the old one, and try to root it again

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Inside the root package folder you can see an .img file named twrp 3.0.2-1- us996.img
What i did was downloaded a later version
(not latest cuz my phone won't boot at the latest version for some reason), copied the name of the original twrp and renamed it, paste it to the folder, overwrite the old one, and try to root it again
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Alright, i've done that now too. Thanks. Is there anything else i should/need to keep in mind to ensure failure is not going to happen? I want to make 100% sure I get everything right this time.

reptarien said:
Alright, i've done that now too. Thanks. Is there anything else i should/need to keep in mind to ensure failure is not going to happen? I want to make 100% sure I get everything right this time.
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No i don't think there is more things to do, the guide you're following is pretty much straightforward already.
100% guarantee is always a stretch here in XDA. But if you're still facing problems you can ask for help on that guide's thread.

MEMO#22 said:
No i don't think there is more things to do, the guide you're following is pretty much straightforward already.
100% guarantee is always a stretch here in XDA. But if you're still facing problems you can ask for help on that guide's thread.
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I really want to give up on this. This time I successfully made it through all Step 3, but I also noticed that my screen was kind of glitched and not rendering properly at that stage. After it rebooted, I unplugged my micro usb cable and it gave me an angry green warning message I will attach here.
If you/someone can tell me what to do with this message from here or instruct me on how to flash stock H910 10 q back onto the phone without doing TWRP (since i'm evidently incapable of installing it) I would be most appreciative.

Slightly better picture without anything cut off.

reptarien said:
I really want to give up on this. This time I successfully made it through all Step 3, but I also noticed that my screen was kind of glitched and not rendering properly at that stage. After it rebooted, I unplugged my micro usb cable and it gave me an angry green warning message I will attach here.
If you/someone can tell me what to do with this message from here or instruct me on how to flash stock H910 10 q back onto the phone without doing TWRP (since i'm evidently incapable of installing it) I would be most appreciative.
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The screen glitching is normal, the green text after boot however is somehow not.
Sad to hear that it still didn't work, there something seems to be interrupting the process of rooting your phone. I dunno if it has something to do with ARB (anti rollback) preventing you to root
If you want to go back to your stock firmware that you backed up, you can:
-Carefully flash each file of your backed up firmware through adb and fastboot mode
-build a zip file of your firmware and flash through TWRP (since it didn't succeed tho)

MEMO#22 said:
The screen glitching is normal, the green text after boot however is somehow not.
Sad to hear that it still didn't work, there something seems to be interrupting the process of rooting your phone. I dunno if it has something to do with ARB (anti rollback) preventing you to root
If you want to go back to your stock firmware that you backed up, you can:
-Carefully flash each file of your backed up firmware through adb and fastboot mode
-build a zip file of your firmware and flash through TWRP (since it didn't succeed tho)
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Could you reply with any links with a tutorial on how to do the first thing? Or describe it. Sorry for being so dumb i'm a total newbie lol

reptarien said:
Could you reply with any links with a tutorial on how to do the first thing? Or describe it. Sorry for being so dumb i'm a total newbie lol
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Unfortunately i can't find any guides when it comes to flashing the back up.
I did read something back then on turning it into a zip file, but even if you can build one you still need TWRP, in which case you haven't successfully installed, so that's no option
Flashing the backup files requires specific commands, especially to the part on what partition should it be flashed to
When LGUP backs up your phone's firmware, you can see a vast number of files(i can't remember how were they named, I'll look up a reddit post about it)
The files where named based on what partition it came fom (H910_modemxx_COM12, H910_system_COM12 or something like that)
These are image files, what i did as far as i can remember was rename these files by adding an IMG extension for ADB to recognize
Flash them according to it's partition name:
"Fastboot flash system H910_system_COM12.img"
"Fastboot flash recovery H910_recovery_COM12.img'
Etc.
To go to fastboot, turn off your phone and hold the volume down button , then plug your phone to the PC.
But i really cannot guarantee this, because for all i know, in order to flash this you need fastboot, and to get fastboot you need to root your phone, because only the engineering bootloader has it (i'm sorry if it's wrong tho), and flashing these files to fastboot might be a bit dangerous because it will not verify the files, there may be chances that you might flash a corrupted file. so flashing via LGUP is the safest option so far if you don't know what you're doing

6T keeps 'crashing'

So I just picked up a clean used International 6T. Was going through the root and update (I did the Android 10 update through Oxygen Updater) process and all that, things were going great, then out of nowhere they weren't and I had a complete black screen. I've literally been up all night trying to fix this thing, then again out of nowhere it actually boots, and I was able to use the MSM tool to restore it to that earlier version, then proceeded to get back up and running again.
Thought, phew, dodged a bullet. Nope, after getting rooted and TWRP installed, transferring a bunch of files over from my old SD card and restoring apps through Titanium (again, everything was going great again), and yet now all of a sudden I'm back where it all started earlier, stuck at the 'The boot loader is unlocked and ....' boot screen, it just hangs there, I can reboot into recovery just fine, but no operating system.
I'm literally about to pull my freaking hair out and try and sell this thing if it's going to keep doing this, I've never had a phone act like this one has (prior phone was a Nokia 8, headache). I have friends/family who haven't heard from me in a couple days now because I'm out of a phone and I need to get this thing working stable.
Can anyone help or shed some light on why this has happened again? I didn't update to 10, left it on the last stable Pie (begrudgingly), didn't flash any custom rom or anything, it was restoring most of the titanium apps just fine (some just hang there, not sure what that's about) and now I can't reboot into the os. To say the least I'm beyond pissed and annoyed at how much time I've lost on this thing.
Please please please help if you can, I'm not a newb to rooting (already rooted this one twice) but I don't know what to do at this point.
Thank you in advance, let me know what/if any info is needed.
Edit: I think I know/understand partially that magisk is to blame for this and reinstalling it fixes it, though I just did that through TWRP and it's still stuck on the boot screen.
Edit: Yup, right back where I was, device now shows as HS-USB QDloader..... in device manager. What gives? I have to use the MSM tool again? Why? Why is this happening...I've never had this much trouble with a phone

Try a clean install. Don't root and don't restore the titanium apps. Install them fresh. If your problem persists then it may just be hardware. But something you are restoring may be causing the crash due to the way it is trying to restore the app data.

I had similar problems. For me it was my self-created magisk module that ran without problems under Android 9. As it seems, there are also problems with modules from the magisk repo.Could be the case with you.

Clean install of the apps, after doing another MSM restore? And trust me, I won't be installing ANY other magisk files other than just the magisk.
Is there any way to save all the work I just did though without having to start over again via MSM? I'm guessing not....sigh

Grrrr...ok before the MSM tool worked, the phone was just unresponsive. It's back at that stage where the MSM tool times out and doesn't do a darn thing to save the phone.

I swear this thing is all over the place, now I'm in the bootloader, yay. I guess I'll try a wipe in TWRP and start over.

One thing I forgot to ask, is magisk the ONLY option available for root?

The question would be, how did you root.
TWRP is not working when you don't follow the instructions which involves OldKeysFlasher.zip.
Otherwise you have to flash Magisk with a patched boot image, be sure uyou have one for OOS 10 Stable.
The correct comands are here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80638253&postcount=2853

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I'm literally about to pull my freaking hair out and try and sell this thing if it's going to keep doing this, I've never had a phone act like this one has (prior phone was a Nokia 8, headache). I have friends/family who haven't heard from me in a couple days now because I'm out of a phone and I need to get this thing working stable. (...)
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I hope that anger is directed towards yourself because you can't hold the device or its manufacturer responsible when you get into the flashing game.
If you had done some reading, you'd know that TWRP doesn't play well with Android 10 and upgrading from 9 takes a very specific procedure. There's a dedicated thread for it even. Happy searching. You may also want to take a peek at my posting history for some pointers.
One more thing, are you absolutely sure it's an international device and not a converted T-Mobile version? Because that can cause a major amount of troubles.
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I'm well aware it's my own doing, part of the frustration is having too many sources of information all claiming they fix a 'thing'. There's the "fix it with fastboot" camp who doesn't like MSM, and there's the MSM camp that helped me the first time. Phone is currently dead/black screen, going to try MSM again, and will check out the info you provided.
And I'm sure, double sim tray, does not flash a pink tmobile screen and/or no branding of any kind on the phone related to tmobile.

jgro1976 said:
And I'm sure, double sim tray, does not flash a pink tmobile screen and/or no branding of any kind on the phone related to tmobile.
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Just remember that dual SIM trays are easy to get and if it's been converted from TMO to international version there will be no indicators till n you try to flash A10. Best bet would be to treat it as a converted TMO, if it is the info in recovering and flashing a TMO device will work and if it's truly an international version it will work too. Best of both worlds.

I'm 99% certain, by the label on the box, etc. Regardless, I'm to the point now that I can't even get it to boot to TWRP after 'fastboot flash boot twrp.img', it just does nothing and when I try to boot to recovery it bounces right back to bootloader. I've been trying all afternoon to fix it with no luck.
Was android 8/oreo good on these phones? That was my sweet spot and I'm just gonna downgrade if possible, there's too many things I don't like about 9 and 10.