Software versions and rooting

[Jamaicanater]

I have been watching several videos on YouTube trying to figure out how I can root my lg g4. I have discovered that there are several versions of the phone and I was wondering if this will affect the rooting process. Also by different versions I'm not referring to model numbers I'm referring to the software versions only ex: V10c, V10f, V10b, etc.
Also will this affect custom roms (cyanogenmod)
Thank you

 

[anon(782252)]

I'd stop watching YouTube videos and head over to XDA and do a lot of reading. Then read some more. Make sure you understand everything before just hopping in.

 

[Jamaicanater]

I'd stop watching YouTube videos and head over to XDA and do a lot of reading. Then read some more. Make sure you understand everything before just hopping in.

Thanks, I have been reading up on rooting alot for the past 3 weeks though I'm not sure if its enough, I have discovered that it is a different process depending on your model number (actually knew for a while) but software versions are something I didn't see before. I wasn't sure if flashing the European root recovery (h815) would work on my Taiwan lg g4 (also h815). Do you have any recommendations for threads of other things that can affect the ability for root to work? Thanks for the reply!

 

[DCTF]

I just rooted and flashed my phone with LG Marshmallow, because I'm heading out of the country for at least two months next week and there's no telling how long my network could take to finally approve 6.0. Some people might say this wasn't a smart move given that I'd never owned an Android phone before and I've only had this one for 5 days, but now who's laughing.

It was a hell of a process though, because so much of the advice I found was contradictory, I hit problems during the dark command-prompt hours which made me fear for the whole phone but I got there in the end.

Once you get the bootloader unlocked and TWRP 2.8.7.0 onto the phone, it's easy. TWRP will even prompt you if you haven't rooted the phone yet or didn't get it right, and all do is assent to its question and it does it for you. I got quite badly tied in knots over the various versions of ADB and Fastboot that people punt around in these threads, so I'm confused why people don't just install the official Android platform tools from the SDK section of the Android Developer site. Granted, you don't need everything that's in the Tools package but it has the advantage that it works reliably (which nobody else's copy did for me). Also, LGUP proved to be the simplest way by far to add a custom ROM (in my case, the genuine LG Marshmallow). It's a little bit puzzling that it wants to find a .tot file at first, but once you change that default to look for .kdz instead it's fine.

I made an effort to get the software that was particularly marked for G4 H815. I don't know how necessary that really was, since it seems like a lot of it is just general Android stuff, but better safe than bricked, I guess. Are you aiming for a custom ROM other than LG? I thought about it, but I decided that I'd want to keep it as LG since the camera is so special on this phone, and I wouldn't want to lose any functions.

 

[Jamaicanater]

I just rooted and flashed my phone with LG Marshmallow, because I'm heading out of the country for at least two months next week and there's no telling how long my network could take to finally approve 6.0. Some people might say this wasn't a smart move given that I'd never owned an Android phone before and I've only had this one for 5 days, but now who's laughing.

It was a hell of a process though, because so much of the advice I found was contradictory, I hit problems during the dark command-prompt hours which made me fear for the whole phone but I got there in the end.

Once you get the bootloader unlocked and TWRP 2.8.7.0 onto the phone, it's easy. TWRP will even prompt you if you haven't rooted the phone yet or didn't get it right, and all do is assent to its question and it does it for you. I got quite badly tied in knots over the various versions of ADB and Fastboot that people punt around in these threads, so I'm confused why people don't just install the official Android platform tools from the SDK section of the Android Developer site. Granted, you don't need everything that's in the Tools package but it has the advantage that it works reliably (which nobody else's copy did for me). Also, LGUP proved to be the simplest way by far to add a custom ROM (in my case, the genuine LG Marshmallow). It's a little bit puzzling that it wants to find a .tot file at first, but once you change that default to look for .kdz instead it's fine.

I made an effort to get the software that was particularly marked for G4 H815. I don't know how necessary that really was, since it seems like a lot of it is just general Android stuff, but better safe than bricked, I guess. Are you aiming for a custom ROM other than LG? I thought about it, but I decided that I'd want to keep it as LG since the camera is so special on this phone, and I wouldn't want to lose any functions.

Thanks for the response, seems like the only thing software version affects is the country of origin and how soon you get OTAs. [I'm not a professional but] I've been reading and I think as long the model number is right the root process should work

I know that flashing the wrong software version will result in being bricked. Is that a hard or soft brick?