All I want to do is install TWRP on KK 4.4.2 STOCK ROOTED G2 Sprint..........to test the cool camera mods out there.
How do I do this?
Is there an easy way ?.........or one not requiring Loki_flash (because that file is missing from the source site.
I tried finding a stock-based KK rom for sprint but there seems to be only a JB stock rom......while I have TWRP 2.7 on stock JB rooted.
What is the best or easiest way that would work?
Thanks for any info.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51706924
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Use this program auto-rec.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715496
This will downgrade aboot, flash recovery, flash kernel, fix laf partition.
Which makes it available to tot back if there is an issue by fixing download mode
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Thanks for the replies....will try these methods
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Thank you for taking time out of your day to help.
I just got an s4 on tmobile and I have some questions. I tried rooting it and ran into an error. I found an answer online, which was to flash a stock 4.3 rom via odin, then try the CFT autoroot. So it's all good and I'm rooted. I just have some questions:
1. Why was I able to flash a rom via odin, when all the rom installation guides I see require a CWM or some other recovery?
2. When I try to boot up into recovery I think it's the stock recovery and not a custom recovery that allows me to install a zip. When I used CFT auto root, I saw it booted into a custom recovery to root, did it just get deleted after that?
3. How will my root work with the 4.4 ota? When I check for software updates it says my phone has been modified so they aren't available. So how can I get the ota? Am i better off flashing a custom 4.4 rom? I want closest to stock as possible, so if you have any recommendations for stock 4.4 roms that would be great. Or can I flash the 4.4 stock rom as I did with odin?
4. How does tethering work with root? If I have unlimited data with 2.5gb tethering data, now that I'm rooted, can tmobile tell I'm tethering if I'm using a root tethering app?
Again thank you very much for your help.
1. You did not flash a ROM with Odin, it was firmware.. Very different
2. Yes, I believe that's what cf-auto root does
3. Yes you can flash a 4.4 firmware like you did with 4.3 as long as its for your device, or flash a custom recovery and then a 4.4 ROM
4. Not too familiar with this, but it might be possible to get around it
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serio22 said:
1. You did not flash a ROM with Odin, it was firmware.. Very different
2. Yes, I believe that's what cf-auto root does
3. Yes you can flash a 4.4 firmware like you did with 4.3 as long as its for your device, or flash a custom recovery and then a 4.4 ROM
4. Not too familiar with this, but it might be possible to get around it
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Awesome thank you. If I flash the official 4.4 firmware for my device, will I keep my root?
gregorina said:
Awesome thank you. If I flash the official 4.4 firmware for my device, will I keep my root?
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No if it is an untouched fully stock rom/firmware but there will be rooted versions of the stock firmware/rom.
Stay with root, you will be better off, custom roms are usually available within a day after ota updates
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I'm on CM11. I'd like to return to a stock-like JB rom for the time being until there's some reasonable functionality available in the AOSP-based KK roms. I've seen the warnings on the int'l forum that once you go to the Sammy 4.4 roms, you can't go back to JB due to the bootloader update. I've not installed a KK rom other than CM.
Does this no-going-back issue apply if I've only done the following?
1) Rooted stock MI7 using RDLV, installed TWRP Manager
2) Flashed TWRP recovery
3) Wiped device, flashed CM11 nightly build
I looked through the forums but I've not found this question or answer, so I apologize if I'm reposting... I guess I just didn't find the magic keyword combo to search for.
You can still go back to 4.3. Did you happen to make a nandroid backup before installing CM11?
Cm 11 isn't the same 4.4 as the official tw 4.4 which is the one with the updated bootloader. So going back to a 4.3 rom is not a problem. Either find and flash the stock rom located in Dev section or you can Odin the stock tar file (which will revert you back completely to stock.
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Tdeljr said:
Cm 11 isn't the same 4.4 as the official tw 4.4 which is the one with the updated bootloader. So going back to a 4.3 rom is not a problem. Either find and flash the stock rom located in Dev section or you can Odin the stock tar file (which will revert you back completely to stock.
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I'm stuck in a similar spot.
On TMO 4.3 stock/deoxed, I did a nandroid backup with CWM 6.0.4.6, flashed CM11 to play with a for a few days, and after restoring the backup, the phone boots, but after putting in my pin, all i get is black screen and lots of force closes. I tried the Brick_Loop_fixer zip with no luck. I've different combo of wiping cache/davik cache and formatting system BEFORE the restore with no luck. I also tried ODIN back to full stock, flashing the stock/deoxed ROM i was using, then doing the restore, same outcome.
Any help would be great!
Reggie.
I received the OTA ZVC update last week and was currently rooted and had TWRP installed at the time. I reflashed the stock rom using the LG Flash tool and went through three updates to eventually wind up at Kitkat, when I was using the stock ZVA rom I was able to use IORoot 25 to root my phone and then use FreeGee to install TWRP later on. Now that I'm on ZVC Official I can still use IORoot25 to root my phone but can not seem to get a custom recovery to stick, anybody else figure this out?
You need a downgraded aboot and kernel.
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Artifesto said:
I received the OTA ZVC update last week and was currently rooted and had TWRP installed at the time. I reflashed the stock rom using the LG Flash tool and went through three updates to eventually wind up at Kitkat, when I was using the stock ZVA rom I was able to use IORoot 25 to root my phone and then use FreeGee to install TWRP later on. Now that I'm on ZVC Official I can still use IORoot25 to root my phone but can not seem to get a custom recovery to stick, anybody else figure this out?
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There's a new method to install twrp without breaking download mode , once you're on ZVC rooted with ioroot25, download the new app by @Cloudyfa http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51857807 which would install twrp and you will still be able to use download mode if you have to!
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64mosh said:
There's a new method to install twrp without breaking download mode , once you're on ZVC rooted with ioroot25, download the new app by @Cloudyfa http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51857807 which would install twrp and you will still be able to use download mode if you have to!
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Thanks! Thats' much appreciated!:laugh:
Artifesto said:
I received the OTA ZVC update last week and was currently rooted and had TWRP installed at the time. I reflashed the stock rom using the LG Flash tool and went through three updates to eventually wind up at Kitkat, when I was using the stock ZVA rom I was able to use IORoot 25 to root my phone and then use FreeGee to install TWRP later on. Now that I'm on ZVC Official I can still use IORoot25 to root my phone but can not seem to get a custom recovery to stick, anybody else figure this out?
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Also, you can just flash the ZVC TOT. You don't need to flash an old TOT and work your way to current. I was on ZV7 rooted and went straight to ZVC TOT.
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Artifesto said:
I received the OTA ZVC update last week and was currently rooted and had TWRP installed at the time. I reflashed the stock rom using the LG Flash tool and went through three updates to eventually wind up at Kitkat, when I was using the stock ZVA rom I was able to use IORoot 25 to root my phone and then use FreeGee to install TWRP later on. Now that I'm on ZVC Official I can still use IORoot25 to root my phone but can not seem to get a custom recovery to stick, anybody else figure this out?
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I just did what IORoot25 and the AutoRec. I'm with sprint and just got the phone. What can I do with this KK release? Can I install camera update or try out kernels? There seems to be no roms for this ZVC update.
So, I do I determine which kernel is patched to work with ZVC? since AutoRec is patched, there must be other patched Kernels out there. Just a noob right now.
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I just did what IORoot25 and the AutoRec. I'm with sprint and just got the phone. What can I do with this KK release? Can I install camera update or try out kernels? There seems to be no roms for this ZVC update.
So, I do I determine which kernel is patched to work with ZVC? since AutoRec is patched, there must be other patched Kernels out there. Just a noob right now.
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KitKat just came out, developers are hard at work breaking things down so it is safe to flash. Lg did some things making it tougher and a lot of internal changes.
Kernel, only other available is furnace 2.0.
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Does anyone know what to do once download mode is broken? I have progressed between the "stuck in recovery mode" problem, then the fastboot only problem, and now while getting download mode to actually show on screen instead of fastboot i have broken my download mode with fastboot-ing zvc files to the phone. Any ideas on getting this back in a programmable state? I'm on a windows 8.1 x64 machine.
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Does anyone know what to do once download mode is broken? I have progressed between the "stuck in recovery mode" problem, then the fastboot only problem, and now while getting download mode to actually show on screen instead of fastboot i have broken my download mode with fastboot-ing zvc files to the phone. Any ideas on getting this back in a programmable state? I'm on a windows 8.1 x64 machine.
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Try the auto-rec for your model here on post 1,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715496
I'm on Sprint ls980, and no issues. This will fix boot, kernel, recovery, and download mode.
If you get white lines, us the fix @Cloudyfa has posted to get back. This puts you back to how it was before the program. No recovery and locked boot and stock kernel.
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OK, I've got Stock 4.3 ROM rooted with CWM recovery. With that recovery the OTA fails.
What should be the steps to just UPDATE to 4.4.2 as if it were done OTA (No data loss, etc.). How do I do that? Or do I need to find a way to flash stock recovery and just try the OTA again?
Search and you'll find it.
Then it's gotten buried in a thread somewhere because multiple searches hasn't come up with a definite answer.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53526132
And if you don't want to use ktoonsez kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53984772
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Hi. I have an AT&T LG Gpad 7 that I downgraded to 4.4 to root using a thread from XDA and then tried out Candyrom and CM12 and CM13.
I need to return this device to stock condition.
I followed another thread contained within XDA but no matter what I do, I cannot use OTA to get back to stock lollipop.
Here is what I did:
Installed stock test KDZ using LG Flash Tool2014
Rooted via one click
Fixed partition size
Installed flashily
Installed TWRP via flashily
Installed stock 4.4 rooted rom from XDA
Flashed stock recovery from XDA
When I did this. I still have the white line distortion and OTA updates do not work. Any ideas? I wish I could just get the real KDZ for the AT&T V410 LTE 16gb!
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Hi. I have an AT&T LG Gpad 7 that I downgraded to 4.4 to root using a thread from XDA and then tried out Candyrom and CM12 and CM13.
I need to return this device to stock condition.
I followed another thread contained within XDA but no matter what I do, I cannot use OTA to get back to stock lollipop.
Here is what I did:
Installed stock test KDZ using LG Flash Tool2014
Rooted via one click
Fixed partition size
Installed flashily
Installed TWRP via flashily
Installed stock 4.4 rooted rom from XDA
Flashed stock recovery from XDA
When I did this. I still have the white line distortion and OTA updates do not work. Any ideas? I wish I could just get the real KDZ for the AT&T V410 LTE 16gb!
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I'd like to be able to get to Stock 5.1.1 as well. I'm at the same spot you are. Except I didn't do the stock test, I'm on 4.4 rooted.
，I also was told I could not return to a 5.1. But I just want to try or cm12 cm13. Can you give me some help?