LG G7 thinq no operating system - LG G7 ThinQ Questions & Answers

Newbie here, I've got the G7 thinq that was rooted with majisk and had evolution X ROM. I'm not sure what edition or whst android version was on it but my girlfriends son got ahold of it and not sure what he did but it has no operating system on it now. IT cycles from the LG start up screen to the bootloader is unlocked screen constantly. I can not even turn it off. I have to push power and down then release power and push again to get into the factory reset screen. From there it goes into TWRP and when I try to restore and then reboot it says NO OS INSTALLED. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REBOOT. What do I need to do to get the phone back up and going. I've had several rooted phones but I bought them that way and this is the first one I've had to dive into and before. From my understanding I can download a custom ROM from another phone into a SD card and then install it in the LG phone. Another problem I have is that my laptop is out of commission due to a fire ( long story) so I'm don't have thst option to use. Any info will be greatly appreciated as I loved thst phone and I absolutely hate this Moto G power I'm using now. Thanks

Well you kinda need a computer to fix that... When you get acces to one dm me on telegram @EmanuelCN0

EmanuelCN said:
Well you kinda need a computer to fix that... When you get acces to one dm me on telegram @EmanuelCN0
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Ok, I've got a laptop running windows 10 now. Not sure what you mean by telegram?

Mkswmp said:
Ok, I've got a laptop running windows 10 now. Not sure what you mean by telegram?
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Hello!!!!

The person wants you to DM them on the app Telegram. Go get it.

Xryphon said:
The person wants you to DM them on the app Telegram. Go get it.
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Did that guy ever get his problem fixed? Still trying to figure out how someone can not know what Telegram is in this day (Or even a simple google search).

Falkentyne said:
Did that guy ever get his problem fixed? Still trying to figure out how someone can not know what Telegram is in this day (Or even a simple google search).
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Well whenever you figure that out you can consider yourself a little more educated on the ways of the average working man who doesnt have the time to spend glued to a phone 24/7. And yes we got it figured out and amazingly enough we did it without your smart ass pompous arrogant attitude!!!

Mkswmp said:
Well whenever you figure that out you can consider yourself a little more educated on the ways of the average working man who doesnt have the time to spend glued to a phone 24/7. And yes we got it figured out and amazingly enough we did it without your smart ass pompous arrogant attitude!!!
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What ROM did you get on your G7, or did you keep your original custom ROM?

Xryphon said:
What ROM did you get on your G7, or did you keep your original custom ROM?
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As of right now it's still the original but I'm hoping on putting dotos on it soon

Xryphon said:
What ROM did you get on your G7, or did you keep your original custom ROM?
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We are currently working on putting dotos on there

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locked bootloader

has anybody asked the dev of safestrap, or even tried it out yet? the locked bootloader is the next big problem, i assume. and as far as i get it the "fire os" is the same on "fire"-devices.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2556677
meningitiscerebrospinalis said:
has anybody asked the dev of safestrap, or even tried it out yet? the locked bootloader is the next big problem, i assume. and as far as i get it the "fire os" is the same on "fire"-devices.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2556677
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JCASE demonstrated booting unsigned code from USB... so we dont NEED to unlock the bootloader although it would be nice.
What we really need is a custom recovery and a way to boot it.. perhaps JCASE will chime in now that the root is out..
last i saw his signature says he is away for an undetermined amount of time :crying:
wavrunrx said:
last i saw his signature says he is away for an undetermined amount of time :crying:
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lol his sig has said that for an undetermined amount of time
May be we can write custom recovery using dd an then boot it?
I would think anyone that is willing to test unknown methods either has money to burn or a hardware flasher.
Just checked safestrap, no luck.
May be we can port loki. Platform looks similar for me, but offsets is different.
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iRet said:
Just checked safestrap, no luck.
May be we can port loki. Platform looks similar for me, but offsets is different.
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Looks like a few people have been looking into this, but haven't seen much activity recently. Just chiming in to see if there have been any advances on this front? Either progress, or a determination that it's too difficult at this point?
drumst1x said:
Looks like a few people have been looking into this, but haven't seen much activity recently. Just chiming in to see if there have been any advances on this front? Either progress, or a determination that it's too difficult at this point?
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So I was thinking about 2nd-init and getting SafeStrap working. I need to keep looking and figure out the best place to start the 2nd-init.
rbox said:
So I was thinking about 2nd-init and getting SafeStrap working. I need to keep looking and figure out the best place to start the 2nd-init.
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Thanks for answering Happy to hear that people are still trying this. I'm wondering, once Android TV is released, the hardware on this device seems to be pretty powerful and it might be a great experience, if we can figure out how to get it on there.
Good luck, rbox! And thx for the xposed mods
Just be aware that the first thing that will stop working with an unlocked bootloader will be Netflix HD. I don't have Prime so can't comment on that.
You will be limited to 720x480 resolution - 1750kbps.
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Thanks for answering Happy to hear that people are still trying this. I'm wondering, once Android TV is released, the hardware on this device seems to be pretty powerful and it might be a great experience, if we can figure out how to get it on there.
Good luck, rbox! And thx for the xposed mods
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I was able to find the best spot to do the 2nd init, and it seemed to be working, but unfortunately I'm having some problems getting TWRP to actually display even though I'm doing exactly the same thing I did with clockwork. Luckily it's a long weekend, so I should have some time to debug it.
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I was able to find the best spot to do the 2nd init, and it seemed to be working, but unfortunately I'm having some problems getting TWRP to actually display even though I'm doing exactly the same thing I did with clockwork. Luckily it's a long weekend, so I should have some time to debug it.
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thank you for the work u put into this device. i got it a few days back and have it decked out i hope by the end of summer this device will have a working recovery and maybe a rom or 2
CLran619 said:
thank you for the work u put into this device. i got it a few days back and have it decked out i hope by the end of summer this device will have a working recovery and maybe a rom or 2
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Summer only has a couple of weeks left... I also hope we can crack the bootloafer or at least get boot strap or something similar working, but I am not going to hold my breath. I AM very happy with how well it is working though, especially as an xbmc/kodi box! Hope we can get the mic button working in kodi.

Marshmallow root

So my turbo just updated to marshmallow, and I'm curious as to whether that opened the door to root and possibly bootloader unlock. BTW the Moto x force thread needs to be moved from this one. They're 2 different phones. I mean they're the same, but anything on Verizon is always going to be different. We all know this. Chime in guys!
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So my turbo just updated to marshmallow, and I'm curious as to whether that opened the door to root and possibly bootloader unlock. BTW the Moto x force thread needs to be moved from this one. They're 2 different phones. I mean they're the same, but anything on Verizon is always going to be different. We all know this. Chime in guys!
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Too soon to tell if it opened up any possible exploits, best thing is to keep an eye on this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo-2/general/root-discussionthink-tank-t3239979
The X-Force question came up before, mods said it's basically the same phone so it's not getting it's own section.
If anything, it patched a bunch of exploits and made it that much harder to root the phone. Unless Motorola does the same thing as they did with the one Moto X on Verizon, I doubt the bootloader will ever be unlocked.
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I feel like this could happen one of 4 ways.
1. Good ol diggin round code.
2.Motorola employee helps us.
3.someone me (I've tried) but both Motorola reps and Verizon reps are unhelpful but someone might do better. Maybe get it " escalated"
4. Just hope....
Also I just really think it's possible to get past the people who know nothing about it and find someone willing to help.. Then again maybe just simply wishful thinking.
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Also I just really think it's possible to get past the people who know nothing about it and find someone willing to help.. Then again maybe just simply wishful thinking.
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^^^This. Whoever has had success cracking BLs on Verizon Moto devices in the past might help, or at the very least point you in the right direction. You also might be able to get some of the CM devs that have worked on VZW Moto devices in the past.
I know Verizon has been notorious about locking their phones down for a while now, but can it really be completely locked? There has to be something there that can be cracked right? Nothing is impossible right?
Hey, guys, I haven't checked in for awhile, but would someone be willing to work on it for a bounty? I mean if we could pool together somewhere between $500-$1k wouldn't it be worth it for someone who has a ton of knowledge in this comeover and help?
I'd be willing to donate to that cause even though my sig says otherwise...
Same here I second that, seems the hard part would be setting this up, I mean this is a great phone if devs would come on board
Rooted and installed twrp KINZIE today. Followed a italian tutorial for the Moto X Force. Android 6.0
http://www.androidiani.com/forum/mo...moto-x-force-ottenere-i-permessi-di-root.html
I would pay too if somebody hopped on the developer train for the X-Force !
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Rooted and installed twrp KINZIE today. Followed a italian tutorial for the Moto X Force. Android 6.0
http://www.androidiani.com/forum/mo...moto-x-force-ottenere-i-permessi-di-root.html
I would pay too if somebody hopped on the developer train for the X-Force !
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You rooted your droid turbo 2?
Digital DJ said:
You rooted your droid turbo 2?
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No he has the moto x force it's confusing they shouldn't be posting in this thread they can root this is about obtaining a root exploit. To be honest I don't care that he rooted his phone it's not such a triumph the damn phone is unlocked.
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No he has the moto x force it's confusing they shouldn't be posting in this thread they can root this is about obtaining a root exploit. To be honest I don't care that he rooted his phone it's not such a triumph the damn phone is unlocked.
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That's what I thought. Still not sure why the mod won't separate the threads. It gets stupid and confusing...
Digital DJ said:
Hey, guys, I haven't checked in for awhile, but would someone be willing to work on it for a bounty? I mean if we could pool together somewhere between $500-$1k wouldn't it be worth it for someone who has a ton of knowledge in this comeover and help?
I'd be willing to donate to that cause even though my sig says otherwise...
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There is a bounty thread started in Q&A
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo-2/help/root-droid-turbo-2-bounty-t3339484
I want to change the ugly, unintuitive material design soft buttons.
I know that verizon locks down their phones.
I want to root so that I can get back the old Holo soft buttons (ics, jelly bean, kitkat) and maybe holo blue.
I know from experience that root can make a device much more laggy.
This is my main and only phone that I can use, so I don't want to take many chances.
SecretPotatoChip said:
I know that verizon locks down their phones.
I want to root so that I can get back the old Holo soft buttons (ics, jelly bean, kitkat) and maybe holo blue.
I know from experience that root can make a device much more laggy.
This is my main and only phone that I can use, so I don't want to take many chances.
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Who told you root makes a phone lag that is 100% false. Anyway there is no root method at this time.
I have a droid razr that I rooted in jelly bean. Since that, it's more laggy and unresponsive. Probably because of the root processes running in the background
There is no such thing as "root process". Root is just about rights to access particular part of the system, run specific commands or applications.
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You rooted your droid turbo 2?
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He is asking for an X-force developer (since there's a lack of roms) so gonna say no.
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There is no such thing as "root process". Root is just about rights to access particular part of the system, run specific commands or applications.
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Yea he just doesn't know what he's talking about here, maybe he installed something that was eating away at the CPU or RAM or both, also may have been a bad root method to
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Yea he just doesn't know what he's talking about here, maybe he installed something that was eating away at the CPU or RAM or both, also may have been a bad root method to
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Maybe he's talking about supersu...

Any chance of a marshmallow ROM for E980?

The lollipop roms are great but it'll be fantastic if there is a marshmallow ROM for the E980.
Anybody knows if there's any?
Well, if you make it, there will be. There is a long discussion about marshmallow on this device, and all ended with "it needs too much work".
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Well, if you make it, there will be. There is a long discussion about marshmallow on this device, and all ended with "it needs too much work".
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Lolol well said. My device is just sitting in a box now and I occasionally use it as a universal remote as it is running the stock OS. I now have a nexus 6 and an Amazon Fire 7 (5th gen) that I use as my daily devices. I honestly haven't touched my G Pro in months now.
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Lolol well said. My device is just sitting in a box now and I occasionally use it as a universal remote as it is running the stock OS. I now have a nexus 6 and an Amazon Fire 7 (5th gen) that I use as my daily devices. I honestly haven't touched my G Pro in months now.
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I got mine back today after family member brought it to repair center to get damn USB fixed... and guess what? repair center just made it worse They replaced only USB connector and messed up flat cables connecting that board to mainboard... So it's sitting on my desk now, charging slowly, waiting for me to order parts to finally repair it. It still looks great and feels great, but I miss fingerprint scanner now, lol.
ShadySquirrel said:
I got mine back today after family member brought it to repair center to get damn USB fixed... and guess what? repair center just made it worse They replaced only USB connector and messed up flat cables connecting that board to mainboard... So it's sitting on my desk now, charging slowly, waiting for me to order parts to finally repair it. It still looks great and feels great, but I miss fingerprint scanner now, lol.
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Lol that sucks. Hopefully you fix it. I tried to get my e980 unlocked by AT&T, but they led me on a wild goose chase and I never ended up getting it to happen.
rjmxtech said:
Lol that sucks. Hopefully you fix it. I tried to get my e980 unlocked by AT&T, but they led me on a wild goose chase and I never ended up getting it to happen.
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That's kind of ass-holish from them, TBH... our providers give you code after your contract for that device is over (usually after 2 years) after you request it. But still, had similar thing happening with work phone (provider didn't want to unlock it after contract, and later required 80€ fee) but just brought it to your neighbourhood mobile shop(tm) and guy cracked that lock with a box in like 5 minutes, for 1/10th of price provider requested.
I'm repairing this one, that board is 4$, and need to find a good battery and voila, great secondary phone, not some crappy Lenovo.
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That's kind of ass-holish from them, TBH... our providers give you code after your contract for that device is over (usually after 2 years) after you request it. But still, had similar thing happening with work phone (provider didn't want to unlock it after contract, and later required 80€ fee) but just brought it to your neighbourhood mobile shop(tm) and guy cracked that lock with a box in like 5 minutes, for 1/10th of price provider requested.
I'm repairing this one, that board is 4$, and need to find a good battery and voila, great secondary phone, not some crappy Lenovo.
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I have a feeling that we have PM'd back and forth before, am I correct?
rjmxtech said:
I have a feeling that we have PM'd back and forth before, am I correct?
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Yeah, yeah, same issues and rom developement, back then in 2016 Cheers.
ShadySquirrel said:
Yeah, yeah, same issues and rom developement, back then in 2016 Cheers.
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Good to see you again haha. In regards to fixing your device, last year I unbricked my Asus TF300T by swapping in a new motherboard, and it had been bricked for 2-3 years by then. Luckily the almighty @timduru is still developing a 7.x ROM for it (and doing a great job at it too) so that device works great despite Nvidia ceasing development of GPU blobs for it ?.
rjmxtech said:
Good to see you again haha. In regards to fixing your device, last year I unbricked my Asus TF300T by swapping in a new motherboard, and it had been bricked for 2-3 years by then. Luckily the almighty @timduru is still developing a 7.x ROM for it (and doing a great job at it too) so that device works great despite Nvidia ceasing development of GPU blobs for it .
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Eh, when I remember how much I've managed to do on marshmallow before device decided to stop collaborating with me... Gah. Had a quick fix few weeks after I bought new phone, but same problem occured few weeks ago and I decided to take it back and fix it. Part is ordered, probably will come in next 10-15 days. No plans for development, to be honest, I'm puting my prepaid SIM in that device and planning to use it as dash cam/navigation after I fix port, just to be able to charge it while in car... kiwi is there for messing around
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Eh, when I remember how much I've managed to do on marshmallow before device decided to stop collaborating with me... Gah. Had a quick fix few weeks after I bought new phone, but same problem occured few weeks ago and I decided to take it back and fix it. Part is ordered, probably will come in next 10-15 days. No plans for development, to be honest, I'm puting my prepaid SIM in that device and planning to use it as dash cam/navigation after I fix port, just to be able to charge it while in car... kiwi is there for messing around
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ugh, so I am trying to put the latest TWRP back on this device because I am going to have to use this when I replace the battery in my nexus 6 soon, but I have no idea how to do so. Would you mind helping me out lol? I haven't touched this device since October.
rjmxtech said:
ugh, so I am trying to put the latest TWRP back on this device because I am going to have to use this when I replace the battery in my nexus 6 soon, but I have no idea how to do so. Would you mind helping me out lol? I haven't touched this device since October.
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Root it (jellybean or kikat root), use Freegee to flash original twrp, then use Flashify to flash updated one. That was my procedure last time I flashed, somewhere ~ august 2015
ShadySquirrel said:
Root it (jellybean or kikat root), use Freegee to flash original twrp, then use Flashify to flash updated one. That was my procedure last time I flashed, somewhere ~ august 2015
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I have the dreaded boot certification error right now due to flashing an unlokified TWRP image using DD lol, so I am spinning up my windows VM in virtualbox so I can see if I can restore it with LGFlashTool.
rjmxtech said:
I have the dreaded boot certification error right now due to flashing an unlokified TWRP image using DD lol, so I am spinning up my windows VM in virtualbox so I can see if I can restore it with LGFlashTool.
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Looks like I'm only one who can get that working without issues, lol.
Synced Lineage 14.1 to build for my kiwi while I was at work this morning, and took a look at my e988 just sitting there... ugh, tempting. Got it a new LG certified battery yesterday, waiting for port to arrive... there will be some fun, lol.
ShadySquirrel said:
Looks like I'm only one who can get that working without issues, lol.
Synced Lineage 14.1 to build for my kiwi while I was at work this morning, and took a look at my e988 just sitting there... ugh, tempting. Got it a new LG certified battery yesterday, waiting for port to arrive... there will be some fun, lol.
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I got it running again. I'm using the Cantana ROM. I found it to be the most stable for the e980.
rjmxtech said:
I got it running again. I'm using the Cantana ROM. I found it to be the most stable for the e980.
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Mine is still on stock. Did some investigating this morning, and got an idea to build a complete new tree based on kitkat (instead of jellybean) but I'm too lazy to experiment... it's much easier when you have unlocked bootloader.
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Mine is still on stock. Did some investigating this morning, and got an idea to build a complete new tree based on kitkat (instead of jellybean) but I'm too lazy to experiment... it's much easier when you have unlocked bootloader.
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I like Cantana tbh, it is actually stable and fast, like really fast.
A little squirrel I know has been working on digging up some Marshmallows for us. Hopefully he didn't misplace them ?
Lineage 13 - boots. Now to see will AOSP RIL work and fix some mess with LMK
No chance for a jump to Lineage 14.1 instead of 13 ? Don't get me wrong we all appreciate your work I'm just curious would it be the same amount of work to go on newest version of linage?

Root?

Does anyone know how we can go about obtaining root?
One way would be to patch the boot.img with magisk but since we don't have recovery files that won't be possible for now. Is there any other method?
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Xshooter726 said:
Does anyone know how we can go about obtaining root?
One way would be to patch the boot.img with magisk but since we don't have recovery files that won't be possible for now. Is there any other method?
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No idea where to go with rooting but since all Razer phones are bootloader unlockable they seem ok with it to the point that they're letting us decide what to do with our phones.
They've made it clear that unlocking the bootloader and/or rooting/installing recovery will void warranty and will leave you entirely on your own as far as repairs go at that point.
Unless you're using Three Rescue and tell them you have no idea what happened and can't really say anything except;
"Well.... It's just.... Not working. I don't know why. It ran out of battery and since then I can't turn it on no matter what I do. Charging makes no difference."
Root plz?
Hey,
Just got confirmation mine has shipped. Anyone achieve root yet?
I saw bootloader unlock is easy... but i don't know enough to take that and achieve root from it on my own. Suggestions?
Can't wait to have root and Xposed :crying:
Come on Razer release the damn recovery files already lol
Xshooter726 said:
Can't wait to have root and Xposed :crying:
Come on Razer release the damn recovery files already lol
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Is there even a recovery on the stock phone?
The usual volume up-power button nets nada for me......
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Is there even a recovery on the stock phone?
The usual volume up-power button nets nada for me......
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Hmmm good question. It has a recovery just not sure what button combination will trigger it to boot.
Anyone tried using adb to reboot into bootloader/recovery?
Pyr0ball said:
Anyone tried using adb to reboot into bootloader/recovery?
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Not yet,just hit the door, I'll give it a go in a bit....
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Pyr0ball said:
Anyone tried using adb to reboot into bootloader/recovery?
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yes, they both work. you can unlock the bootloader right now we just have no way to root.
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No idea where to go with rooting but since all Razer phones are bootloader unlockable they seem ok with it to the point that they're letting us decide what to do with our phones.
They've made it clear that unlocking the bootloader and/or rooting/installing recovery will void warranty and will leave you entirely on your own as far as repairs go at that point.
Unless you're using Three Rescue and tell them you have no idea what happened and can't really say anything except;
"Well.... It's just.... Not working. I don't know why. It ran out of battery and since then I can't turn it on no matter what I do. Charging makes no difference."
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Note that in the US it's technically illegal for them to deny warranty for anything software related unless they prove that the unlocking of the bootloader/rooting/etc is what caused the failure in the first place.
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...iphone-rooting-android-does-not-void-warranty
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Note that in the US it's technically illegal for them to deny warranty for anything software related unless they prove that the unlocking of the bootloader/rooting/etc is what caused the failure in the first place.
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...iphone-rooting-android-does-not-void-warranty
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Interesting.... But I think they may be a way to relock the bootloader like on some Nexus devices. If that's the case then Razer won't be able to tell and would have to Honor the Warranty.
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Is there even a recovery on the stock phone?
The usual volume up-power button nets nada for me......
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Figured it out :good:
You can enter Recovery Mode by Holding volume Up while plugging in the USB.
And Download Mode same way but the Volume Down and plugging in.
Xshooter726 said:
Figured it out :good:
You can enter Recovery Mode by Holding volume Up while plugging in the USB.
And Download Mode same way but the Volume Down and plugging in.
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Whoa thanks for that! This is the first phone I've had with that button combo..
So I contacted Razer and asked when they plan on releasing Recovery images and Kernel sources and this is their response.
Xshooter726 said:
So I contacted Razer and asked when they plan on releasing Recovery images and Kernel sources and this is their response.
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Considering the language barrier & /or translation, whether literal or, in real meaningful context, is hard to glean from that answer.
Could be a canned response, or, their intentions of not planning to accommodate, or, something else (not now, but, at a later date).
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Considering the language barrier & /or translation, whether literal or, in real meaningful context, is hard to glean from that answer.
Could be a canned response, or, their intentions of not planning to accommodate, or, something else (not now, but, at a later date).
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Not looking to good for development so far. I'm loving this phone a lot but without root and custom roms I really have no use for it. I sold my Note 8 because it was so locked down and I couldn't do what I wanted with the device. Now this one isn't locked down as much but it looks like Razer is lacking in releasing the required images needed for root and custom recovery (TWRP). They may or may not release it with time but it will be after the return period by then. So now I'm debating if I should return it and go with the Oneplus 5T which has amazing development.
Anyone else want to try contacting them? Maybe we can get something going if they see the user want it.
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Not looking to good for development so far. I'm loving this phone a lot but without root and custom roms I really have no use for it. I sold my Note 8 because it was so locked down and I couldn't do what I wanted with the device. Now this one isn't locked down as much but it looks like Razer is lacking in releasing the required images needed for root and custom recovery (TWRP). They may or may not release it with time but it will be after the return period by then. So now I'm debating if I should return it and go with the Oneplus 5T which has amazing development.
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I'm willing to be patient awaiting development on this phone, but I get it,especially with the hardware, this phone screams for customization.
I wouldn't blame ya for jumping to the OP5T, or, its predecessor.
Selling my Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design in hopes of taking advantage of the Essential Phone/360° camera bundles, development is in the early stages, but, at least it's got TWRP/root....
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KOLIOSIS said:
I'm willing to be patient awaiting development on this phone, but I get it,especially with the hardware, this phone screams for customization.
I wouldn't blame ya for jumping to the OP5T, or, its predecessor.
Selling my Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design in hopes of taking advantage of the Essential Phone/360° camera bundles, development is in the early stages, but, at least it's got TWRP/root....
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Yes the essential phone at its current price is looking like a hell of a deal. With this phone I wouldn't mind having at least the stock rom rooted but we don't even have that. I'm willing to wait if there was at least some hope. I thought I saw some where we may even be covered with an extended holiday return window. Do you know anything about that? If that's the case ill try to run it as close as I can to the return dead line.
I opened up a poll on the Razer forums to see if most users are even interested in root.
I know a lot of user's here on xda that can't have a device without root. I'm interested to see what the response would be of non xda user regarding root.
https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/rooting-the-razer-phone.28381/
Xshooter726 said:
Yes the essential phone at its current price is looking like a hell of a deal. With this phone I wouldn't mind having at least the stock rom rooted but we don't even have that. I'm willing to wait if there was at least some hope. I thought I saw some where we may even be covered with an extended holiday return window. Do you know anything about that? If that's the case ill try to run it as close as I can to the return dead line.
I opened up a poll on the Razer forums to see if most users are even interested in root.
I know a lot of user's here on xda that can't have a device without root. I'm interested to see what the response would be of non xda user regarding root.
https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/rooting-the-razer-phone.28381/
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I just contacted the chat service (Mobile),they cannot/will not say anything one way or the other,suggesting I follow 'em on social media,SMMFH.....................
If I were you,I'd check Amazon or Microsoft Store for their return policy & return the one you ordered direct from Razer,if it's worthwhile,not a drawn-out process with Razer.
Another option would be to flip it on Swappa,you could probably at least break even or come close to it,especially if you have a case/etc.. to throw in to the deal.................
KOLIOSIS said:
I just contacted the chat service (Mobile),they cannot/will not say anything one way or the other,suggesting I follow 'em on social media,SMMFH.....................
If I were you,I'd check Amazon or Microsoft Store for their return policy & return the one you ordered direct from Razer,if it's worthwhile,not a drawn-out process with Razer.
Another option would be to flip it on Swappa,you could probably at least break even or come close to it,especially if you have a case/etc.. to throw in to the deal.................
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Follow them on social media!? Lmao
Your advice sounds like the best route to go with. Thanks!
I have an old nexus 6 with custom everything and runs like a champ still. So that should do me just fine until something comes up.

Question Actually my snapdragon galaxy s20 fe 5g

So for some reason OEM unlocking is not popping up I've had it unlocked for 7 days before the developer options I'm just trying to figure out what I can do to get that going in a little about me pretty cool guy I guess I like riding anything outdoors I'm trying to figure things out you know Technologies advancing so might as well and get to learning trying to keep up to date with things I appreciate you guys and your help that'd be awesome
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So for some reason OEM unlocking is not popping up I've had it unlocked for 7 days before the developer options I'm just trying to figure out what I can do to get that going in a little about me pretty cool guy I guess I like riding anything outdoors I'm trying to figure things out you know Technologies advancing so might as well and get to learning trying to keep up to date with things I appreciate you guys and your help that'd be awesome
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It was there, and is now missing?
Longhornsfinest916 said:
So for some reason OEM unlocking is not popping up I've had it unlocked for 7 days before the developer options I'm just trying to figure out what I can do to get that going in a little about me pretty cool guy I guess I like riding anything outdoors I'm trying to figure things out you know Technologies advancing so might as well and get to learning trying to keep up to date with things I appreciate you guys and your help that'd be awesome
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Try to set the date to the previous month.
Minionguyjpro said:
Try to set the date to the previous I
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I did that and I also didn't get no options for installing manually I don't have that option in the phone I also call the place it cuz when you try to put it in bootloader it says my device is still locked I don't know how to do that I tried calling a place they said it was unlocked and it's still locked so I heard the snapdragons kind of a pain in the ass anyway
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It was there, and is now missing?
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Oh it's actually never been there and here's a picture right here actually when I actually try to run it in bootloader mode and I've tried to unlock the device with that company and they said it was but it's still locked
Oh yeah, I know how to resolve that. Connect the device using a USB cable to your PC. Make sure the phone is off. Then hold all buttons on your phone until you get a blue warning screen. From here, follow the on-screen instructions to unlock the bootloader. From THEN, the lock is fully disabled.
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It was there, and is now missing?
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Oh it's actually never been there and here's a picture right here actually when I actually try to run it in bootloader mode and I've tried to unlock the device with that company and they said it was but it's still locked
Longhornsfinest916 said:
Oh it's actually never been there and here's a picture right here actually when I actually try to run it in bootloader mode and I've tried to unlock the device with that company and they said it was but it's still locked
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See my post above this one.
Minionguyjpro said:
See my post above this one.
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Yes I do boss an I appreciate it let you know what goes down
Greatly appreciated boss I thank you and have a good New Year's
Longhornsfinest916 said:
Greatly appreciated boss I thank you and have a good New Year's
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No problem, you too!
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No problem, you too!
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One more quick question how long does it normally take on the os to download
Longhornsfinest916 said:
One more quick question how long does it normally take on the os to download
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The firmware itself - 10-20 minutes
TWRP Recovery - 1-2 minutes

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