How can I tell if a G5 is rooted - LG G5 Questions & Answers

I took my phone to the service and they have told me that it was rooted. I did not do that.
It was bought "refurbished" from an authorized Orange Shop. It's possible that the previous owner rooted it. The software appeared to have been reflashed by Orange when I bought it, because it seemed LG stock, without any updates.
How can I tell, where do I look?
How can I tell when it was done?

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Do you have a yellow/red warning triangle when booting? If not you're definitely not rooted.
If you have a warning triangle try downloading "SuperSU" and "phh's superuser" from the appstore, if both say something along the lines of "binary not found" you are probably not rooted.
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You can't, to the extent of my knowledge.

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90simgre said:
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Do you have a yellow/red warning triangle when booting? If not you're definitely not rooted.
If you have a warning triangle try downloading "SuperSU" and "phh's superuser" from the appstore, if both say something along the lines of "binary not found" you are probably not rooted.
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I don't see any yellow/red warning triangle where booting. I don't know where they're supposed to appear. There's only an LG logo animation.
2. You can't, to the extent of my knowledge.
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To root a phone don't you need to unlock the bootloader? This process goes through LG's website, they send a key for that. So they have records for this.
Is this correct? You have to unlock the bootloader in order to root, right? There is no other way?

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silviumc said:
I took my phone to the service and they have told me that it was rooted. I did not do that.
It was bought "refurbished" from an authorized Orange Shop. It's possible that the previous owner rooted it. The software appeared to have been reflashed by Orange when I bought it, because it seemed LG stock, without any updates.
How can I tell, where do I look?
How can I tell when it was done?
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If you use the following dialer code:
*#546368#*830#
Just change the 830 to whatever your model number is I.e. h831 is 831, etc.
Go through the menus and look for LG RCT (it's lg root check test)
It will say if it detected that it is either rooted it attempted to be rooted and will show the date it was done. Hope that helps you.

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jeffsga88 said:
If you use the following dialer code:
*#546368#*830#
Just change the 830 to whatever your model number is I.e. h831 is 831, etc.
Go through the menus and look for LG RCT (it's lg root check test)
It will say if it detected that it is either rooted it attempted to be rooted and will show the date it was done. Hope that helps you.
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Now that is the deep wizardry that I knew I would find on this forum. Thank you jeffsga88.
I typed *#546368#*850# and reached a LG RCT submenu. There are three options in it:
LG RCT Check
Enabled
Display Result
It opens a window that contains this:
Official
[h1:LGH850*******:7.01]
Copy Result To SD Card
Should I interpret "Official" as "not rooted"?

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silviumc said:
Now that is the deep wizardry that I knew I would find on this forum. Thank you jeffsga88.
I typed *#546368#*850# and reached a LG RCT submenu. There are three options in it:
LG RCT Check
Enabled
Display Result
It opens a window that contains this:
Official
[h1:LGH850*******:7.01]
Copy Result To SD Card
Should I interpret "Official" as "not rooted"?
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Yes official means it's passing the lg root check. That's usually the easiest thing to check, maybe lg is using some other means to detect past rooting? I know flashing a completely stock kdz will reset the lg RCT to say official but again not sure if lg is checking something else. Maybe someone else can chime in.

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jeffsga88 said:
Yes official means it's passing the lg root check. That's usually the easiest thing to check, maybe lg is using some other means to detect past rooting? I know flashing a completely stock kdz will reset the lg RCT to say official but again not sure if lg is checking something else. Maybe someone else can chime in.
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When you relock bootloader and flash kdz. Lg wont be able to tell you where rooted. Did it was past LG phones and others with no issue with factory warranty.
Sent from my LGE LG-H830 using XDA Labs

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Nick216ohio said:
When you relock bootloader
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How can I check if the boot loader is locked or unlocked?

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silviumc said:
How can I check if the boot loader is locked or unlocked?
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By checking if you can see a warning-triangle before the boot-animation, but since you said you couldn't see one that means your bootloader must be locked.