Need a little help/advice

mrtinydave

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Hello all. I have been a member for a little while here and love the forums. I just recently upgraded from the Nexus 5 to the LG G3 on t-mobile. I am seriously loving this phone so far. My question is that coming from a Nexus which I had rooted and roms on I would like to do the same with my G3 but can't find anyway to root it and unlock the bootloader so I can run a rom on it. Anyone have any suggestions. Thanks to all in advance
 
Purple Drake or Towel should work for root, and I'm pretty sure the boot loader on TMO devices is already unlocked.

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If xocomaox comes by, he will probably help. He is one of our G3 rooting experts and always ready to advise. :)

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Using the below spreadsheet it seems that your phone, D851 - 10C/M (USA T-Mobile), can be rooted using PurpleDrake. "Bumping" is not needed like the other variants ("bumping" roms and recovery mods was a way around actually unlocking the bootloader) due to the bootloader already being unlocked. Stump Root should also work for you.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hs0qlcGP80gl9wC0r9bs0AWMD-1D9iGgC9ulCG9roMs/edit#gid=0

You can find these tools and methods below. You'll love this phone even more once you start flashing some ROMS to it!

PurpleDrake Root

Stump Root
 
I've tried rooting today on an 8555 using Purple Drake and it wouldn't work despite being on the supported list. I got told my my phone was not running a compatible software version.

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Just realised you can't root lollipop. Have to downgrade to Kitkat first. All too much hassle, screw it!

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So, just to soundboard my thinking :

1. Downgrade from Lollipop to Kitkat
2. Root
3. Take a Nandroid backup in Kitkat in case I need a safe factory restore point
4. Install my CM12 rom (or whichever rom I want)

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So, just to soundboard my thinking :

1. Downgrade from Lollipop to Kitkat
2. Root
3. Take a Nandroid backup in Kitkat in case I need a safe factory restore point
4. Install my CM12 rom (or whichever rom I want)

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Yes that is correct.

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Great, now I just need to find a bloody windows computer, as of course you can't do an OS downgrade on a Mac!!!

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