Hello all,
So I was recent rooted but upgraded to LS99829a which is on Android 8.0.0 - May 1 2019.
If I remember correctly it was two updates after the latest available at the time (this was done maybe 2 months ago)
Obviously these two updates wiped out my root. Which is fine. Though, I had a question because I remember reading you can make the updates flashable in TWRP.
As I will prob downgrade, is there and guidance on how to find the OTAs and convert them into something flashable for v30?
GrayPlatelet said:
Hello all,
So I was recent rooted but upgraded to LS99829a which is on Android 8.0.0 - May 1 2019.
If I remember correctly it was two updates after the latest available at the time (this was done maybe 2 months ago)
Obviously these two updates wiped out my root. Which is fine. Though, I had a question because I remember reading you can make the updates flashable in TWRP.
As I will prob downgrade, is there and guidance on how to find the OTAs and convert them into something flashable for v30?
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I handle the ls998 flash able zips. Sprint does not release the kdz so it's an extremely tedious process of making the zip. Also it's not worth doing the process since it's a 4 to 6 hour process and the only changes are the security updates. When pie is released for ls998 I will be doing the flashable
JohnFawkes said:
I handle the ls998 flash able zips. Sprint does not release the kdz so it's an extremely tedious process of making the zip. Also it's not worth doing the process since it's a 4 to 6 hour process and the only changes are the security updates. When pie is released for ls998 I will be doing the flashable
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Thanks John Fawkes. Though i was also inquiring out of interest when it comes to learning to do things myself with Android. Probaly to use in a different phone eventually. If Sprint doesnt release the KDZ how do we acquire. I thought it downloaded but i couldnt find it on the device to experiment with.
GrayPlatelet said:
Thanks John Fawkes. Though i was also inquiring out of interest when it comes to learning to do things myself with Android. Probaly to use in a different phone eventually. If Sprint doesnt release the KDZ how do we acquire. I thought it downloaded but i couldnt find it on the device to experiment with.
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Every phone is different and AFAIK you can't use the Ota to create a zip. At least not with the v30. The way I do it is in the ls998 flashable zip thread multiple tines
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Thought i want to give some additional info (if not known already) reagrding the N update coming for the A2017 models.
Today i had some FB conversation with ZTE Mobile Germany to ask some definitve answers for this update to come.
This is what they gave me :
1. When : end of january 2017
2. Which types : all of the types/models get a specific update
3. OTA or SD ? : will be an SD card update (so happy ROOTing guys, because imo the OTA updates are no longer coming after this upgrade to N)
4. Bootloader unlocked : NO (perhaps the advice to unlock it before the N update to be sure you have it unlocked)
5. Root option available in settings : NO
6. test version or the real stuff : REAL STUFF
7. DayDream supported : coming soon (https://vr.google.com/daydream/phones/)
Good news after all i think. Let's wait a little bit longer :cyclops:
@rikin93 can you confirm all of that information ? Especially about bootloader unlock ?
Here is the message
cheers !
ps : so all models get a seperate N - update
@raystef66 i believe you but @rikin93 is our ZTE Europe insider and few weeks ago he said that he got beta Europe unlocker so I wish to hear his position about your statement.
MrMD69 said:
@raystef66 i believe you but @rikin93 is our ZTE Europe insider and few weeks ago he said that he got beta Europe unlocker so I wish to hear his position about your statement.
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No problem mate I have seen he has written that before.
Hope there is one, otherwise it would be best to unlock before...if this news above is correct.
Sure thing ! We just need to wait - as always.
raystef66 said:
Thought i want to give some additional info (if not known already) reagrding the N update coming for the A2017 models.
Today i had some FB conversation with ZTE Mobile Germany to ask some definitve answers for this update to come.
This is what they gave me :
1. When : end of january 2017
2. Which types : all of the types/models get a specific update
3. OTA or SD ? : will be an SD card update (so happy ROOTing guys, because imo the OTA updates are no longer coming after this upgrade to N)
4. Bootloader unlocked : NO (perhaps the advice to unlock it before the N update to be sure you have it unlocked)
5. Root option available in settings : NO
6. test version or the real stuff : REAL STUFF
7. DayDream supported : coming soon (https://vr.google.com/daydream/phones/)
Good news after all i think. Let's wait a little bit longer :cyclops:
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If Daydream is not included in the first Nougat version, doesn't that mean that there will be an OTA update to add it in later?
xtermmin said:
If Daydream is not included in the first Nougat update, doesn't that mean that there will be an OTA update to add it in later?
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Will be supported in first release IMO and if not yet in the first release, it always will be possible to update it via SD when they update a new one. I don't see any problem in that matter.
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Will be supported in first release IMO and if not yet in the first release, it always will be possible to update it via SD when they update a new one. I don't see any problem in that matter.
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For simplicity sake, I hope they do get rid of OTA. I think the SD card route would be better, and it allows people to update at their own leisure without nag.
TheLastSidekick said:
For simplicity sake, I hope they do get rid of OTA. I think the SD card route would be better, and it allows people to update at their own leisure without nag.
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99% of users of most devices would have no clue how to do a sd update.
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99% of users of most devices would have no clue how to do a sd update.
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Well we certainly see that here in the forums. If this is true, it will be good for them to learn.
I dont know what version the root and bootloader unlock is coming on so i will find out ASAP.
However, Nougat should be coming by the end of this month and a B10 update end of this week/next week.
And yes i was previously on a B03 bootloader unlock/root given to me by ZTE to test out and was working fine. My camera broke so i had to get replacement phone so i am off root for now till they release the official one so dont worry guys i will keep bugging them for information!
An SD update is not difficult, just move the update.zip file to root directory of sd card and then go into Settings->Update and the update will be listed there and is straightforward from then on.
B10 is indeed scheduled coming week.
Just got the phone
So, on yours opnion should I unlock BL/Root/xposed right now? Since it`ll be an SD update??
just got my A7 and started reading only today bout unlocking BL/rooting (done this in all my old phones before).
Thanks!
raystef66 said:
cheers !
ps : so all models get a seperate N - update
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Of course they would all need a separate update -- the modems would all be different. What would be more important would be that some (U and G and maybe Chinese) are based on the same codebase, rather than separate ones. Then the updates would roll out with similar features in a similar time frame.
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Well we certainly see that here in the forums. If this is true, it will be good for them to learn.
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what? ok it's true most of axon 7 owners are power users but it's not how it should be done at all... OTA is the easiest way to notify your clients of your work, general and security improvements, you don't want them to bother on manually installing updates, you try to make sure everyone is up to date.
If this is true, I hope they mean for the time being, before rolling the update to everyone after through OTA. I don't read german so I can't really know if there are subtleties involved in the syntax.
By the way, weren't there a kind of community forum for european/german model through which we could communicate with the devs in english? or by email?
TeutonJon78 said:
Of course they would all need a separate update -- the modems would all be different. What would be more important would be that some (U and G and maybe Chinese) are based on the same codebase, rather than separate ones. Then the updates would roll out with similar features in a similar time frame.
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Of course they would upload different versions due to different modems etc.
I only stated this BECAUSE there were some rumors on other forums that there would be just one for all. Just wanted to make things clear mate
lafester said:
Well we certainly see that here in the forums. If this is true, it will be good for them to learn.
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My comment was in the context of general public. There are far more axon 7 in the hands of layfolk than xda users. An ota is the simplest way to push an update through. While the steps are simple, i'm confident people will find ways to screw up copying a file to the sd card.
raystef66 said:
1. When : end of january 2017
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They have also said end of January / Early February
So i'm forced to buy an SD card to keep my phone up to date? That's not the way a company should handle their customers.
Hi fellow Aussies, ZTE AU has finally updated the web site so you can download the Nougat B12 ROM.
I'm downloading now and going to install over my current B12 so I can look at build.prop and see if it has any localisation for us.
http://www.ztemobiles.com.au/feature_AXON7.htm
Firmware Upgrade from V1.2.0B09 to V1.2.0B12 - Released 12/09/2018
But the zip is 2.8Gb so it is a full ROM, not just an update. Make sure you're at least running Nougat B09 but B10 will be fine too. They specify B09 as they never released B10 for AU.
Edit: I don't think it is any different to the files from other countries. Build prop still has EN GB as default location same as the one I already installed.
Awesome thank you for that info, I have a friend that needs her Axon 7 updated, I'll check it out for her.
I'm running the B16 Oreo Build atm, giving it a test run
I'm patiently waiting for an official public release of Oreo. Too many on XDA want everything to happen overnight jump the gun and go flash happy with custom ROMs and brick their devices or whine about stuff not working.....
RobboW said:
I'm patiently waiting for an official public release of Oreo. Too many on XDA want everything to happen overnight jump the gun and go flash happy with custom ROMs and brick their devices or whine about stuff not working.....
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Maybe it's because of rumors about official Oreo release? I saw some posts on XDA and Reddit that upgrade from Nougat to Oreo may be a one way ticket to lock your device. Locked bootloader, no root, no EDL and ability to downgrade.
But they are only rumors.
@RobboW
I'm hearing you there, I jumped in feet first unfortunately
I soft bricked my phone but managed to recover it with an Edl package
I am new to rooting phone from what it seems this phone has not been successfully rooted. I would love to chat with someone who is working at this or has achieved this task.
Still waiting to find a way to bootloader unlock.
Any news about Firehose leak ?
I've been pretty busy working on patching LGUP for the sake of the Stylo 6 root and carrier unlocking, but, after that's done, I planned on moving on to the V60.
Patched LGUP should allow for quite a few things. It's a big assignment and is thus taking some time, but should get done, and will unlock a lot. Menu options (possibly including a mysterious "TOT Build" function I haven't looked into yet), OPID mismatch error voidance to flash over new carriers/unlock the carrier, the possibility of disabling the ARB check (obviously this poses concerns for accidental bricking i.e "possibility of") and some other more subtle changes. I might also redo the UI for fun...that's not a priority though. If anyone by chance wants to help with that so that I could get moving forward on the V60 much faster than is projected at the moment, then here's a link to my discord server where development is focused and a link to the thread that spawned it. I can't balance both projects at once, as I also have work and life happening around me.
I haven't looked everywhere for the V60 engineering boot or firehose or whatever just yet (I haven't familiarized myself with that much yet either) but I did poke around for a bit when I got curious and nothing turned up. I'll do more in depth stuff when the time comes, but for now I'm occupied.
Either way, I'll get around to taking a look at the V60 at some point. In the mean time, if I come across something that might help people out here, I'll go ahead and post it here, or make a new forum post depending on its relevancy.
Good luck, everyone!
haise.zero said:
I've been pretty busy working on patching LGUP for the sake of the Stylo 6 root and carrier unlocking, but, after that's done, I planned on moving on to the V60.
Patched LGUP should allow for quite a few things. It's a big assignment and is thus taking some time, but should get done, and will unlock a lot. Menu options (possibly including a mysterious "TOT Build" function I haven't looked into yet), OPID mismatch error voidance to flash over new carriers/unlock the carrier, the possibility of disabling the ARB check (obviously this poses concerns for accidental bricking i.e "possibility of") and some other more subtle changes. I might also redo the UI for fun...that's not a priority though. If anyone by chance wants to help with that so that I could get moving forward on the V60 much faster than is projected at the moment, then here's a link to my discord server where development is focused and a link to the thread that spawned it. I can't balance both projects at once, as I also have work and life happening around me.
I haven't looked everywhere for the V60 engineering boot or firehose or whatever just yet (I haven't familiarized myself with that much yet either) but I did poke around for a bit when I got curious and nothing turned up. I'll do more in depth stuff when the time comes, but for now I'm occupied.
Either way, I'll get around to taking a look at the V60 at some point. In the mean time, if I come across something that might help people out here, I'll go ahead and post it here, or make a new forum post depending on its relevancy.
Good luck, everyone!
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Bricking will not be a risk if you have a firehose programmer
TheLoonyRebel said:
Still waiting to find a way to bootloader unlock.
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I'm so confused, people keep saying that there is no root for a V60 and bootloader can't be unlocked. I'm looking at a bootloader option on my phone as I type here and here is a link to the rooting v60 article.
How to Root LG V60 ThinQ and Unlock Bootloader (Guide) (ytechb.com)
I guess I should try it to see if it works but statements like above are confusing to me.
Gaper1337 said:
I'm so confused, people keep saying that there is no root for a V60 and bootloader can't be unlocked. I'm looking at a bootloader option on my phone as I type here and here is a link to the rooting v60 article.
How to Root LG V60 ThinQ and Unlock Bootloader (Guide) (ytechb.com)
I guess I should try it to see if it works but statements like above are confusing to me.
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That would work if you had a European version of the v60. Beside that, there are no custom roms/kernel/radio for the v60...
waiting for the prog_ufs_firehose_sm8250_lge.elf to show up and a modded abl_a.bin
Can't wait for this to be available for US. I have been really wanting this beast of a phone to use for pen testing etc
allb6ack said:
I am new to rooting phone from what it seems this phone has not been successfully rooted. I would love to chat with someone who is working at this or has achieved this task.
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Hello
I have a LMV600EA with V600EA10o_00_1118 firmware. Today I managed to extract the boot.img and patch it with Magisk. I now have a working rooted LG V60. Attached is the Magisk patched boot file for the firmware V600EA10o_00_1118.
Regards,
Olavbson
allb6ack said:
I am new to rooting phone from what it seems this phone has not been successfully rooted. I would love to chat with someone who is working at this or has achieved this task.
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olavbson said:
Hello
I have a LMV600EA with V600EA10o_00_1118 firmware. Today I managed to extract the boot.img and patch it with Magisk. I now have a working rooted LG V60. Attached is the Magisk patched boot file for the firmware V600EA10o_00_1118.
Regards,
Olavbson
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The attach did not work, here is a link for downloading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15K1DRQCnLg-5YQbOv0uQuipg1yypYWIJ/view?usp=sharing
olavbson said:
The attach did not work, here is a link for downloading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15K1DRQCnLg-5YQbOv0uQuipg1yypYWIJ/view?usp=sharing
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you have the link for the firehose for lg v60?
tmobile pushed an OTA and now my phone has android 11 and i hate it, i need to go back to android 10. i have .kdz 10p and LGUP 1.14 keeps crashing
olavbson said:
Hello
I have a LMV600EA with V600EA10o_00_1118 firmware. Today I managed to extract the boot.img and patch it with Magisk. I now have a working rooted LG V60. Attached is the Magisk patched boot file for the firmware V600EA10o_00_1118.
Regards,
Olavbson
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Could you by chance upload a dump of your device partitions? Specifically, the boot img and perhaps your laf images? Everything in total would be really great, but I want to see if flashing the European bootloader over the USA variant is at all a good idea... perhaps we can shove the European bootloader into the USA variant and unlock that way?
Also, are you able to find your unlock.bin that LG sent you? Could you post that, too, for analysis?
I'm very curious.
V60 TMobile Feb 2021 Android 11 Magisk patched boot image:
magisk_patched_tmo_v60_a11.img | by AngryManMLS for Generic Device/Other
LG V60 T-Mobile February 2021 Android 11 Magisk patched boot image.
androidfilehost.com
Sadly no way to use given Magisk won't let me do anything right now beyond just patching the image that I pulled from the KDZ. Hopefully soon-ish we'll be able to root (and maybe bootloader unlock) this beast then really push the V60 to it's real potential.
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V60 TMobile Feb 2021 Android 11 Magisk patched boot image:
magisk_patched_tmo_v60_a11.img | by AngryManMLS for Generic Device/Other
LG V60 T-Mobile February 2021 Android 11 Magisk patched boot image.
androidfilehost.com
Sadly no way to use given Magisk won't let me do anything right now beyond just patching the image that I pulled from the KDZ. Hopefully soon-ish we'll be able to root (and maybe bootloader unlock) this beast then really push the V60 to it's real potential.
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so for now is only Boot.img patched and can it be used to root permissions the T-mobile variant and we must to wait for unlock bootloader?
JigsawMobile said:
so for now is only Boot.img patched and can it be used to root permissions the T-mobile variant and we must to wait for unlock bootloader?
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Sadly we can't even get root permissions until we get the bootloader unlocked on the T-Mobile V60 unless if some other method is found.
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V60 TMobile Feb 2021 Android 11 Magisk patched boot image:
magisk_patched_tmo_v60_a11.img | by AngryManMLS for Generic Device/Other
LG V60 T-Mobile February 2021 Android 11 Magisk patched boot image.
androidfilehost.com
Sadly no way to use given Magisk won't let me do anything right now beyond just patching the image that I pulled from the KDZ. Hopefully soon-ish we'll be able to root (and maybe bootloader unlock) this beast then really push the V60 to it's real potential.
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I'm so sorry, I probably should have clarified, do you by chance have the unpatched version you could upload as well? I'd love to take a look at it and see what we can do with it, if anything, since LG likes to make their files very, very obscure and difficult to work with.
I can also, to an extent, dump some of the rootfs of the Stylo 6 but I'm yet to try it with the V60. My time here is limited until I can get the Stylo 6 done with, but assuming we finish everything we're working on, we'll have a patched LGUP 2.x dll (I can never remember the actual full version) with a patched LGUP 1.16 exe that should allow for crossflashing and dumping devices, and hopefully some other goodies among that and it should totally help jumpstart a lot of development for the V60 as well as most if not all other LG modern devices.
Hopefully!
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I'm so sorry, I probably should have clarified, do you by chance have the unpatched version you could upload as well?
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I have a verizon v60 so not sure if i cam be much help since i know verizon isnt very root friendly but if i can do much to assist let me know
Hi, everyone! Big news for the LG community. Team and I have been working on something truly beautiful
Please see my post in the thread here.
It's coming soon! We're not completely ready yet, but we're so, so close.
I have an app that does not work after Android 8 that I need and there is no replacement in 9 or above. I managed to avoid updating my v30 to v9 and later for a year or so. It accidentally allowed the update to 9 this past weekend while I was camping. All I want to do is roll back to stock v8 or 8.1 (Oreo).
I have enough tech knowledge to follow directions and understand rooting but am having a really hard time finding the "right directions." As I was reading some of them, I found caveats like, "Use X unless you have the delta update and then use Y but not if you want to run Z. For Z, you have to follow this other thread." I also know that using the wrong settings or data file could brick the phone.
So, I'm hoping someone can help me narrow down what sets of directions I need to follow.
Here's what I have right now:
LG V30 (VS996) On Verizon Network
Developer Options Enabled
Android V9
Security Patch Level August 1, 2019
Kernel Version: 4.4.153
Build #: PKQ1.190414.001
Software version: VS99630c
Again, all I want to do is roll back to stock v8 or 8.1 (Oreo).
Bonus would also be a way to stop asking me every day to update or delay a day and just wait until I manually do it.
Thx in advance!!
Download the right firmware file for your device from here -
Models - LG-Firmwares.com
Free archive of LG firmwares. Comparison of features and reviews of all mobile devices. Quick download of updates for your device.
lg-firmwares.com
Then download the flash tool from here -
LG Flash Tool Free Download - Official Download Links
LGUP tool is the latest version of LG Flash Tool that allows users to flash stock firmware on LG smartphones and tablet devices. Download LG UP tool 2018 from the official download links.
lgflash.com
Follow the instructions on both the pages. I think you can take it from here.
Note that implied with this process is that you cannot downgrade your firmware without wiping the phone... there's no way to "patch" back to the old version. So, be sure to take backups FIRST.
If you're rooted on the old firmware, you can then disable/freeze/delete the update APKs so that the update warning goes away. But this requires root, so be aware of that. If you don't haven't rooted already, then this is a process of its own, and will require you to go back to Nougat in order to perform that, so you may want to do that before installing the final version of the ROM you want. You can find out how to do this rooting process on the WTF thread, post #193, located here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ar-instructions.3790500/page-10#post-76584629
If you don't want to root, that's fine, but then you must endure the update warning process... unless you can find another way to disable the update APKs.
Thank you both. I expected to wipe the phone so that's not an issue. I will first install Nougat, root and then update to Oreo.
There are about 14 Oreo ROMs on that site. Do I just pick the latest one or do I have to pick the earliest one and update that?
Pick the latest one.
VS99620k_02_0510_ARB00.kdz
I got this phone New it came with 8.0 Oreo it has never had one update and it is said on Let's site that it should of had its ten by now?
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I got this phone New it came with 8.0 Oreo it has never had one update and it is said on Let's site that it should of had its ten by now?
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The latest update you can get is Android 9
If you are not able to recieve OTA updates, you may need to flash KDZ of Android 9.
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The latest update you can get is Android 9
If you are not able to recieve OTA updates, you may need to flash KDZ of Android 9.
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Thank you tech_infinity i was so lost by this, especially being that at one time this was considered one LG's flagship phones, lol, well im trying to figure out the best way to root it,and what root to use , because it is really nice and i love it , it does strike me a lot at factory set up to be like the galaxy s10 or 9 note in some ways but in really want the thin Q 50 or 60 Q im very interested in , are they quality as well like this when this came out ? or ....
To root the phone, we recommend using the WTF thread and the instructions detailed here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ar-instructions.3790500/page-10#post-76584629
Be sure to view this post on a computer (not on the phone app, because it cuts off the message).