sprint rooters, experience so far? - LG V20 Questions & Answers

Hey all,
I am getting ready to root my sprint ls997. Those of you with that model, how has your experience been? Any problems? My understanding is once you do the process, flash the sprint stock rom and that konverged kernel, the only lingering issue is the static screen that is fixed by sleeping and waking the screen. Is this correct?
I'm a little hesitant to do it without a restore method but the itch is getting too strong not to scratch lol
Thanks in advance for your input!

Hey sj19,
I just rooted it today, and it was a bit of a challenge I must admit. I did not flash the konverged kernel however and just flashed a stock optimized rom. I'm not sure if others went through my pains however.
Overall the actual process isn't hard, just the bugs I fought.
I detailed my experience in this post. It was definitely a good decision rooting and installing this new rom.
Cheers

TGtheImmortal said:
Hey sj19,
I just rooted it today, and it was a bit of a challenge I must admit. I did not flash the konverged kernel however and just flashed a stock optimized rom. I'm not sure if others went through my pains however.
Overall the actual process isn't hard, just the bugs I fought.
I detailed my experience in this post. It was definitely a good decision rooting and installing this new rom.
Cheers
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Woah looks like you had quite the experience! Lol

sjr19 said:
Woah looks like you had quite the experience! Lol
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Haha yes, it was a bit terrifying.
Also, the only bug is the static screen on the rom I am on that I have seen so far.

Just be very patient on 1st boot.
It really will take 10 to 15 min. It will also "hang" on lg logo alot longer on my newer builds. I've disabled boot animation due to the static covering them anyways so it has less transitions then you may expect.
I recommend version 6.5 phh
For most this is the best fit and is latest software and can pass safetynet once you enable magisk hide in the manager section.
Few pages worth of info in the comments but its mostly all useful.. I've tried to keep op updated. There is also a common bugs/issues post with some fixes as well.

Also sprint doesn't need konverged. Konverged was just to fix some bugs. All those bugs were fixed in the ROM.

If you're planning on going back to stock after root I suggest you don't root only because sprint doesn't have kdz files to go back to full stock

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[Q] K1 rooted 14_14 ROM

Hi
To be able to bypass the process of a flash to v13_13, open the backdoor, flash to 14_14 etc. can anyone point me to a rooted 14_14 rom?
In particular "K1_A301_14_14_120109_US"
Thanks
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13407-alpha-ideapad-k1-cwm-stock-rooted-rom-120109-build/
Although still in the alpha stage, I switched from using timmydean's rom to this one specifically so I could successfully run the 14_14 rom and keep my root. Nothing against timmydean and his work, this just worked easier and faster. Also this rom add cwm which is the only rom out currently that does this for the k1, from what I've seen.
Just reemeber that this is still just an alpha, so be sure to read the post fully. Hope this helps!
Thanks for posting the link Dueces99. I compiled the CWM and ROM that Deuces99 linked to. I just wanted to add that there is nothing alpha about the ROM, just CWM. The ROM is stock and rooted and has no bugs (Other than the ones the stock ROM has).
The reason I left the Alpha status is because backup/restore don't work in CWM, and there is currently no key combination to boot into recovery. You must boot to recovery using the included app/widget
Right, there is no physical key combo. associated to booting into Recovery, the rom atleast provides the means to boot into recovery (widget/app) which atleast leaves the option. I personally, have not had any issues at all with this rom, and love the fact that all the bloatware misc. 3rd party apps and some Lenovo apps were removed, which made the rom seem that much more responsive upon first boot IMO.
Glad to hear that was of some help to you, kinda surprised there hasnt been anyother spinoff roms from this, regardless of its released stage. Just how cut and dry it is with flashing the 2nd newest update with root, then simply flashing the 14_14 update through CWM and keeping root. That was my biggest hurdle following timmydean's guide (and still is) was keeping root once taking the update from Lenovo.
Just my 0.02
so all i need is to flash alpha 3 and latest update 120109 in order to be on a rooted 14_14 build? can someone confirm?
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prfstrkr said:
so all i need is to flash alpha 3 and latest update 120109 in order to be on a rooted 14_14 build? can someone confirm?
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Correct. After that you will be up to date and rooted.
Right, confirming with khanning88 flashing alpha 3 would be the 13_13 update. After flashing that, reboot into recovery via the Reboot Recovery app/widget included in the ROM, follow the instructions from there provided by the rootzwiki post and you'll be good to go with the latest 14_14 update. By far, the most cut-n-dry rooted ROM out there as far as I know. IMHO kinda deceiving that the ROM is listed as an Alpha (for CWM understandably) only because it's been extremely stable for me with nada one FC.
Wierd how an alpha build ROM is more stable than the OS that the K1 comes with...
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Wierd how an alpha build ROM is more stable than the OS that the K1 comes with...
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From what I understand, it's the same firmware as the stock Lenovo, so maybe a little bit of a placebo effect? The CWM ROM does take out all the built-in non-Google apps, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I hope Lenovo gets its act together and shares out the proper source code so that some good samaritan out there can build a stock Android ROM to run on the K1. I've been using it a bit on the 14_14 CWM firmware, and it's still not as good as the firmware I've experienced on the ASUS Transformer TF101 or the Acer Iconia A500. The biggest issue I've found with the Lenovo firmware is that there is a lag closing out of apps and going back to the launcher, sometimes to the point that a forceclose-wait window pops up. I've not experienced that on the Honeycomb ROMs of any of those other two devices, so I wonder if it's because of Lenovo's customizations to Honeycomb, like the ability to close apps from the multitasking sidebar. In that case, maybe a more vanilla version of Honeycomb won't have that problem. Don't get me wrong; I think it's a great feature that Lenovo added to the taskswitcher. But I'd rather not have it than have the operating system lag. I trust Android's memory management enough to not really need to go manually closing apps.
Right, im sure all the bloatware taken out from Lenovo had to have some effect on overall performance. As far as stability between the two, maybe I meant to say "Wierd how an alpha build ROM feels more stable than the OS that the K1 comes with..."
But placebo effect or not, I've experienced zero issues with this rom even though I probably don't do near as much as other K1 owners with their tab. Lenovo does need to fix this, or preferably just provide full source to all...
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Correct. After that you will be up to date and rooted.
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Thank you so much! I am finally rooted with 14_14 with all the bloatware removed
prfstrkr said:
Thank you so much! I am finally rooted with 14_14 with all the bloatware removed
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Welcome, glad you like it.
P.S. I should have an update ready in a couple of days....... and this one is a BIG update
I'm glad I remembered to check back on my thread!
I'll be a rooting tomorrow morning
Thanks Dueces99
omg ... plz tell me it's ICS
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khanning88 said:
Welcome, glad you like it.
P.S. I should have an update ready in a couple of days....... and this one is a BIG update
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Thank you so much, khanning, for all of your efforts. As I mentioned in this thread http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Slate-Tablets/K1-not-booting-after-update/td-p/548285 , your CWM firmware is the only effective workaround at the moment for those of us whose K1's are inexplicably locking up with "unrecoverable bootloader" errors to get onto the latest firmware.
We still aren't completely out of the woods though. In post 44 of your rootzwiki thread http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13407-al...-120109-build/page__view__findpost__p__390175 and post 47 http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13407-al...-120109-build/page__view__findpost__p__392343 , the users kennethrkennedy and aig787 both confirm that the "unrecoverable bootloader error" can still come back with updates, even through your CWM recovery. With your Alpha3 and your 120109.zip update, you managed to avoid updating whatever it is that causes the "unrecoverable bootloader error." This is my long rambling plea that, whatever you did there, you will continue to do for the latest update you are working on, so that those of us with these K1's that are prone to the "unrecoverable bootloader errors" can join the fun too. Thanks!

Lollypop or not? (Currently Rooted & bumped D855)

So, finally got my G3 back, its bumped & running (the stable and quick) Cloudy.
But there's obviously the temptation to jump to the latest OS, but given that its Art not DVK and Xposed won't run (along with tweekbox etc) then its not looking like its worth it.
Although there does appear to be rooted options available now, but is are they really worth it? Is it any better? what differences are there?
And will my bumped bootloader still work ok or did it need to call home for the bump servers to run?
oh so many questions, anyone got any answers?
My thoughts are that I'll probably just hang back and stick with good old stable Cloudy. Unless you can persuade me otherwise.
cheers
The available lollipop roms don't even look complete so I'm going to hold off a while.
Dear OP, instead of making a new thread you could have asked the same in the Lollipop discussion thread which has been made sticky purposely to avoid threads like these. Thank you.
almost made the jump last night as I got stuck with the "unable to contact google" and ended up having to reflash Cloudy to get the bloody thing to work (tried everything, reinstalling apks, modding the hosts, etc but no dice)
Now its running happily again.
And why didn't I post this in the lollypop sticky, to be honest I missed the thing! (again) my bad.
Also in the same situation, except I'm on stock ROM and waiting to decide either to flash a ROM of kitkat or wait till Cm 12 is stable..
Also would like to see your questions answered..
Magico94 said:
Also in the same situation, except I'm on stock ROM and waiting to decide either to flash a ROM of kitkat or wait till Cm 12 is stable..
Also would like to see your questions answered..
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I also have been on stock until yesterday. I did root and bumped. Change the horrible minfree and dpi, installed adaway, greenify and updated to lollipop. Well I havent done much testing, but for now I didnt encounter a single problem. It's more fluid and looking really good with Lollipop Theme. If you don't like you can always easily go back I dont really see the point to ask is it worth it. Just do it. For me it was like 15 min. And if not liking always have a backup!

Any stable ROM's comparable to stock?

Guys, to be honest, I'm growing sick of hoping and waiting for nougat and I'm losing hope in motorola. And I'm starting to get flooded with stock rom issues and I just hit a year with this phone, wifi not working unless reboot, BT connection not connecting/disconnecting, sometimes my screen won't turn on but makes unlock sounds and I have to force shut down... .
Is there another ROM that's stable enough to use daily, or should I just root and clean this up best I can?
I haven't rooted incase I needed warranty, and up to this point I've been in love with this phone and it's buttery performance. Which is quickly slipping away.
Thanks in advance.
tbkrazeey said:
Guys, to be honest, I'm growing sick of hoping and waiting for nougat and I'm losing hope in motorola. And I'm starting to get flooded with stock rom issues and I just hit a year with this phone, wifi not working unless reboot, BT connection not connecting/disconnecting, sometimes my screen won't turn on but makes unlock sounds and I have to force shut down... .
Is there another ROM that's stable enough to use daily, or should I just root and clean this up best I can?
I haven't rooted incase I needed warranty, and up to this point I've been in love with this phone and it's buttery performance. Which is quickly slipping away.
Thanks in advance.
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Have you factory reset to see if that resolved your issues?
aybarrap1 said:
Have you factory reset to see if that resolved your issues?
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No, that's my first step but I haven't had the time yet. I plan to in the next couple of days, I just wanted opinions on ROM's to see if it's worth staying with stock or giving something else a shot. That wayI know if I should go straight to getting ready to root.
tbkrazeey said:
No, that's my first step but I haven't had the time yet. I plan to in the next couple of days, I just wanted opinions on ROM's to see if it's worth staying with stock or giving something else a shot. That wayI know if I should go straight to getting ready to root.
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Another rom will not help you.
Do a factory reset(1st - delete google account - frp protection). Don't restore your data from g.account(log in with new one).
If problems will be again you sould ask for warranty repair.
dzidexx said:
Another rom will not help you.
Do a factory reset(1st - delete google account - frp protection). Don't restore your data from g.account(log in with new one).
If problems will be again you sould ask for warranty repair.
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Are the ROM's for this that bad? I've always had good luck switching on previous phones to avoid stock issues. If I thought otherwise I wouldn't have wasted anyone's time with this thread. I'll get it reset today.
Yours problems can be in software or hardware. If you flash custom rom you will loose warranty.
To flash custom you have to unlock bootloader - all data will be deleted.
Better idea is factory reset to check where problems are. @tbkrazeey
dzidexx said:
Yours problems can be in software or hardware. If you flash custom rom you will loose warranty.
To flash custom you have to unlock bootloader - all data will be deleted.
Better idea is factory reset to check where problems are. @tbkrazeey
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OK, yea your right I didn't really consider it being hardware, usually it's not so I just change ROM's.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/rom-trupurex-fast-smooth-t3237155 < the only ROM which is similar to the stock ROM. I used it for almost about 1 year. But the developer doesn't do updates any more. So now i'm back on stock and i'm waiting for the official Nougat Update.
lineageos 14.1 is great from my point of view. No issues at all except when I tinker with the kernel settings myself
Give it a try.
Karlos1978 said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/rom-trupurex-fast-smooth-t3237155 < the only ROM which is similar to the stock ROM. I used it for almost about 1 year. But the developer doesn't do updates any more. So now i'm back on stock and i'm waiting for the official Nougat Update.
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I might try it anyway, but running a rom without future updates sucks sometimes, thanks for the link.
kongha said:
lineageos 14.1 is great from my point of view. No issues at all except when I tinker with the kernel settings myself
Give it a try.
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Well, that's a giving with kernel settings sometimes. Lol. I'm gonna check it out.
As a side note, I turned off the moto display and my wifi issues have stopped, I'm not sure how that can be linked, but it is.

Quick Question

So I am on H91810q and I have kept root through the upgrades. Am I still able to flash another rom like LineageOS or am I stuck with stock since I upgraded so far?
Try it -- it isn't going to break your phone
Probably isn't going to run to well on new firmware though. Most of the heavy development was done on much older firmware, and those parts haven't been updated.
-- Brian
runningnak3d said:
Try it -- it isn't going to break your phone
Probably isn't going to run to well on new firmware though. Most of the heavy development was done on much older firmware, and those parts haven't been updated.
-- Brian
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I'm thinking a TWRP Full Backup of the stock rom and wipe and flash LineageOS. In theory do you think I would be able to restore stock if something doesn't go right?
Yes. When you install LOS or a LOS based ROM the only thing that gets flashed is boot and system. Both of those are backed up by TWRP.
-- Brian
runningnak3d said:
Yes. When you install LOS or a LOS based ROM the only thing that gets flashed is boot and system. Both of those are backed up by TWRP.
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Well I just flashed LOS and I can see the screen flashing on and off but no boot. Any other suggestions? Am I stuck with the stock rom which I am gettings sick of...
Nope, you can't downgrade. Unless someone picks up development on current firmware, you can only use stock.
Not the answer I was looking for lol...
jrosetto said:
Not the answer I was looking for lol...
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I know this isn't a custom rom but you're like me and on rooted Q, I use to not enjoy stock due to not being able to customize the phone how I liked but the instabilities in the camera and bluetooth and battery life made me appreciate the stock/stock based roms for the V20 and I actually PREFER a fully functional camera nd awesome audio recorder than inferior apps. But! Askermk2000's kernel is COMPATIBLE with rooted 10q, I am using it and it has honestly breathed new life into my phome for sure and since we don't have many rom options at the moment at least throw this kernel on your stock 10q rom and enjoy it! Here's the thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/h918-h910-us996-ucl-mk2000-kernel-t3708330
Gytole said:
I know this isn't a custom rom but you're like me and on rooted Q, I use to not enjoy stock due to not being able to customize the phone how I liked but the instabilities in the camera and bluetooth and battery life made me appreciate the stock/stock based roms for the V20 and I actually PREFER a fully functional camera nd awesome audio recorder than inferior apps. But! Askermk2000's kernel is COMPATIBLE with rooted 10q, I am using it and it has honestly breathed new life into my phome for sure and since we don't have many rom options at the moment at least throw this kernel on your stock 10q rom and enjoy it! Here's the thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/development/h918-h910-us996-ucl-mk2000-kernel-t3708330
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.

To root or to not root?

Hi everyone,
I've been using my OP5 for the past year and now I've exhausted my full 64Gb of storage. Was planning to backup my data onto my laptop and start afresh but I thought it is time to root. I've rooted pretty much every phone I've had in the past for some or the other reason like increasing battery life, overclocking, debloated roms for more storage etc. etc.
I have been technologically dead for the past 2 years so I'm kind of lost right now and in confusion on as to whether to root or not? What would be the main advantages I'd be getting if I root. My phone is still blazing fast, has amazing battery life and OOS is really smooth.
Just in a lot of confusion and want to find more reasons to root.
If you have to ask, you don't need it.
If you root your phone you'll be able to actually use your phone. The only disadvantage to rooting your phone that I see would be that whenever I see a new rom, I want to flash it. I've never understood why somebody would not want to root their phone. Maybe warranty? But then again, I think there are ways around that?
Rickyloc said:
The only disadvantage to rooting your phone that I see would be that whenever I see a new rom, I want to flash it.
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This! +1
Dirk said:
If you have to ask, you don't need it.
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Should have seen a reply like this coming my way. Buddy, I've rooted every other phone I've had in the past. Either for updates, better battery life, smoother ram management and so on.. The only thing I couldn't understand is this phone isn't lacking in any of the above mentioned points including updates **touch wood** so wanted to understand others thought process on the advantages cause I am unaware of all the cool mods you can do at the moment, if there are any.
Rickyloc said:
If you root your phone you'll be able to actually use your phone. The only disadvantage to rooting your phone that I see would be that whenever I see a new rom, I want to flash it. I've never understood why somebody would not want to root their phone. Maybe warranty? But then again, I think there are ways around that?
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Thank you, this was helpful.. I don't see why i shouldn't root it too. I'll probably be rooting too. Which Rom would you suggest for stability and everyday usage with some good extra additional functionality?
Kunal5894 said:
Thank you, this was helpful.. I don't see why i shouldn't root it too. I'll probably be rooting too. Which Rom would you suggest for stability and everyday usage with some good extra additional functionality?
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My favorite rom is Codename Phoenix. It's fast and it's not on XDA, which is probably why I like it. It's got a lot of features. If there is a feature a rom doesn't have you can always get Xposed or something to enable.
But the main reason for rooting my phone is so that I can use gcam properly. I love Photoshop and gcam offers the best photos. In my opinion, far better than stock or any other.
There's an option just to flash a custom ROM and leave it unrooted ?
I can recommend Resurrection Remix unofficial. Simply followed the steps with unlocking the bootloader and gaining root on stock ROM, then flashed a custom ROM without rooting it.
If you thought battery life was great with stock OOS you're going to be pretty surprised with battery at Resurrection Remix and Flash Kernel ?
Kunal5894 said:
Thank you, this was helpful.. I don't see why i shouldn't root it too. I'll probably be rooting too. Which Rom would you suggest for stability and everyday usage with some good extra additional functionality?
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The best combination of stability and improved battery life is between the stock stable OxygenOS paired with the latest Franco kernel. I have tried pretty much all of the custom ROMs but every time the battery life of my phone was getting worse (compared to fully stock) until I tried stock OOS with Franco Kernel. But I have to say that I only have rooted my phone to use the Franco Kernel Manager and I do not have any add-ons into Magisk. Root + Franco and everything else is stock. I am not flashing new roms/kernels like crazy and really often, because the stable OOS is getting released once in two or even three months. Franco's kernel is being updated, hm, let's say once in a month or two months. So 99% of the time you are going to use your phone without flashing anything new.

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