2016-09-08, 03:46
OS Android v6.0 (Marshmallow)
Chipset Mediatek MT6735
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T720
1.5GB of RAM
8GB ROM
Let's try to root this bastard!
Nothing like kingroot or any other one click method works - i read many forums and even tried myself.
So i was trying to flash a recovery in order to install supersu...
USB debuging and OEM unlock is enabled in developer options.
TWRP:
There is Cleopatra's tutorial ([Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register] - thank you for that) to port a TWRP but it sais you need a scatter file.
No scatter files anywhere on the www.
MTK droid tool:
Recognizes the phone but can't see the scatter...
why not checking the stock recovery - on the web (many forums) you can find that lg's stock recovery is only a hard reset function after holding the vol- and the power button in a given order. There is nothing like an ordinary recovery. So i tried via ADB.
ADB:
i rebooted the phone into recovery via ADB - andy laying and saying "no command" (so it means maybe we are lucky and there is a recovery partition). There might be a combination of keys to get through "no command" and find the recovery menu. However i had to take the battery out to restart the phone caused me the loss of user data because after putting back the battery and the phone restarts its not booting up but asking for some pass code (you have 30 chances) a very long one i guess cause there is a huge space... only hard reset helps. I tried it twice, same result...
I also read somewhere that if one manages to flash a recovery on an lg phone these days then you can boot into recovery if you click "yes" on the hard reset menu and there'll be no hard reset but the recovery starts.
Anyways i built a recovery. I found this firmware: K350n10b_00_0420.kdz i'm not really sure if it's real but i took the recovery image from it and i mixed it with Acer z530 TWRP ([Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register]) following Cleopatra's tutorial.
I tried to flash it via fastboot but no luck - some permission problems occured... naturally...
What i was thinking maybe we could use the scatter file from the acer z530 or z630 and try to flash TWRP via sp flashtool. I found that this acer phone might be the closest device to ours (i mean regarding to the specs...) and the size of the recovery image in both (z530 and z630) acer phones are the same (the begin adress and the end address are the same). So if there is a chance that Lg is using the same structure for the file system as Acer in case of MTK devices (so the begin address and the end address of the recovery is the same as in the Acer phones) maybe we could flash a TWRP using the scatter file of the Acers.
I just need more evidence to try it because i'm pretty much afraid of hard bricking this great phone...
Any ideas or information is appreciated!
Chipset Mediatek MT6735
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T720
1.5GB of RAM
8GB ROM
Let's try to root this bastard!
Nothing like kingroot or any other one click method works - i read many forums and even tried myself.
So i was trying to flash a recovery in order to install supersu...
USB debuging and OEM unlock is enabled in developer options.
TWRP:
There is Cleopatra's tutorial ([Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register] - thank you for that) to port a TWRP but it sais you need a scatter file.
No scatter files anywhere on the www.
MTK droid tool:
Recognizes the phone but can't see the scatter...
why not checking the stock recovery - on the web (many forums) you can find that lg's stock recovery is only a hard reset function after holding the vol- and the power button in a given order. There is nothing like an ordinary recovery. So i tried via ADB.
ADB:
i rebooted the phone into recovery via ADB - andy laying and saying "no command" (so it means maybe we are lucky and there is a recovery partition). There might be a combination of keys to get through "no command" and find the recovery menu. However i had to take the battery out to restart the phone caused me the loss of user data because after putting back the battery and the phone restarts its not booting up but asking for some pass code (you have 30 chances) a very long one i guess cause there is a huge space... only hard reset helps. I tried it twice, same result...
I also read somewhere that if one manages to flash a recovery on an lg phone these days then you can boot into recovery if you click "yes" on the hard reset menu and there'll be no hard reset but the recovery starts.
Anyways i built a recovery. I found this firmware: K350n10b_00_0420.kdz i'm not really sure if it's real but i took the recovery image from it and i mixed it with Acer z530 TWRP ([Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register]) following Cleopatra's tutorial.
I tried to flash it via fastboot but no luck - some permission problems occured... naturally...
What i was thinking maybe we could use the scatter file from the acer z530 or z630 and try to flash TWRP via sp flashtool. I found that this acer phone might be the closest device to ours (i mean regarding to the specs...) and the size of the recovery image in both (z530 and z630) acer phones are the same (the begin adress and the end address are the same). So if there is a chance that Lg is using the same structure for the file system as Acer in case of MTK devices (so the begin address and the end address of the recovery is the same as in the Acer phones) maybe we could flash a TWRP using the scatter file of the Acers.
I just need more evidence to try it because i'm pretty much afraid of hard bricking this great phone...
Any ideas or information is appreciated!
