root for lg tribute dynasty sprint version - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

anyone find root method for android 7.1.2 lg tribute dynasty? if so please help if not we need to develope one

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Ehacksa said:
anyone find root method for android 7.1.2 lg tribute dynasty? if so please help if not we need to develope one
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No we realy want root for this phone

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Ditto for root on lg tribute dynasty
Mag xx said:
No we realy want root for this phone
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Ditto for root on lg tribute dynasty, would like to have it. Just putting it out there as a request, thanks.

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if we get a custom recovery first get root will be easier

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Are there any updates on this?

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Can you unlock the bootloader on the sprint/boost variant? If so we can make a TWRP recovery for it and flash magisk for root

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jasonmerc said:
Can you unlock the bootloader on the sprint/boost variant? If so we can make a TWRP recovery for it and flash magisk for root
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Yeah you can unlock the bootloader. All you need to do is go to dev options and enable OEM unlock. I was wondering if there's any cross compatibility between LG software and if it's at all possible to root it using a TWRP recovery intended for a similar phone. I don't want to try it on my new phone yet though considering the risky nature of rooting.

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Kevin4762 said:
Yeah you can unlock the bootloader. All you need to do is go to dev options and enable OEM unlock. I was wondering if there's any cross compatibility between LG software and if it's at all possible to root it using a TWRP recovery intended for a similar phone. I don't want to try it on my new phone yet though considering the risky nature of rooting.
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That's not all you need to do. Once you flip the oem unlock switch you then need to reboot to the bootloader and run the appropriate command--THEN you will really see if your bootloader can be unlocked. I don't know the command off hand but a google search should say what it needs to be
And as far as your other question, yes it is possible to use twrp for a similar phone. However it doesn't look like there is a similar phone with a similar chipset like this that has twrp already but I could be wrong. Note that cross compatibility like this is only for custom firmware like twrp, stock firmware IS NOT CROSS COMPATIBLE.

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jasonmerc said:
That's not all you need to do. Once you flip the oem unlock switch you then need to reboot to the bootloader and run the appropriate command--THEN you will really see if your bootloader can be unlocked. I don't know the command off hand but a google search should say what it needs to be.
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You're right there's more, I wasn't familiar with how bootloaders were unlocked until you mentioned that. After some research, unfortunately, LG has pretty much nailed tight the bootloader for all but a select few LG devices. Still, I followed a guide on how to use ADB and Fastboot in an attempt to reboot into bootloader, but sadly all it does is restart the phone normally. As far as I know, it's impossible to unlock the bootloader on this phone so I guess we're all SOL when it comes to rooting.
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Kevin4762 said:
You're right there's more, I wasn't familiar with how bootloaders were unlocked until you mentioned that. After some research, unfortunately, LG has pretty much nailed tight the bootloader for all but a select few LG devices. Still, I followed a guide on how to use ADB and Fastboot in an attempt to reboot into bootloader, but sadly all it does is restart the phone normally. As far as I know, it's impossible to unlock the bootloader on this phone so I guess we're all SOL when it comes to rooting.
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Try the process anyway. My friend said he managed to unlock it on a device that wasn't listed but that was a while ago. If there's something where you put in a serial number or IMEI see if it'll take yours

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jasonmerc said:
Try the process anyway. My friend said he managed to unlock it on a device that wasn't listed but that was a while ago. If there's something where you put in a serial number or IMEI see if it'll take yours
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So far I've tried booting to bootloader through recovery mode and ADB, both ending up booting to the system normally. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "something where you put in a serial number or IMEI." Is there any way you can find out how your friend managed to do this?

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Kevin4762 said:
So far I've tried booting to bootloader through recovery mode and ADB, both ending up booting to the system normally. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "something where you put in a serial number or IMEI." Is there any way you can find out how your friend managed to do this?
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For some LG phones there's a process you have to go through on their website to request an "unlocking binary". I believe its something like Motorola's bootloader unlock program. You put in some phone specific info (s/n, IMEI, or something) and if its eligible to be unlocked LG will send you an unlocking binary. Then once you get the binary there's some sort of special fastboot command you have to enter, utilizing that binary, to open up your bootloader
I haven't done this myself so I don't 100% know the process, but this is what I've heard other people discussing in the past. I'll reach out to people and see if I can find the site again

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jasonmerc said:
For some LG phones there's a process you have to go through on their website to request an "unlocking binary". I believe its something like Motorola's bootloader unlock program. You put in some phone specific info (s/n, IMEI, or something) and if its eligible to be unlocked LG will send you an unlocking binary. Then once you get the binary there's some sort of special fastboot command you have to enter, utilizing that binary, to open up your bootloader
I haven't done this myself so I don't 100% know the process, but this is what I've heard other people discussing in the past. I'll reach out to people and see if I can find the site again
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First off, I appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I found what you're talking about, but it's specific to only a few devices and LG SP200 isn't one of the models listed. Also, in order to get the device ID, you first need to enter fastboot mode, which I can't get to work.

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[email protected] every cool phone i get i cant root ... :/

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Alldayismokebomb said:
[email protected] every cool phone i get i cant root ... :/
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I think they skipped over the "Unlock OEM" in the developer settings. The device is a mcv150 close to the cv1. Search up LG Aristo 2 TWRP and see if the TWRP flashes to your device. If it works then I can fix the device specific bugs.

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It appears that no one has replied to this thread in almost 3 years (as of this post). To resurrect this thread, I have quite a couple of things about this device to say:
I don't think accessing the bootloader is possible for whatever reason. I've tried rebooting into the bootloader (with "Enable OEM Unlock" enabled) through adb reboot bootloader but to no avail.
Root is possible.The Tribute Dynasty (SP200) contains a MediaTek MT6750 SoC. Combined with the last security patch being November 1, 2019 (an interesting coincidence), this makes this device vulnerable to the mtk-su temporary root exploit.
I remember following a guide somewhere else on XDA, but I can't recall which guide (nor can I find it right now). I remember using mtk-easy-su for this purpose, but then that's all I can remember.
There might be some other developments with this phone that I might know about, but all of this I find from experience.