To root or not to root the LG G3?

[xamadeix]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

There's AT&T stuff that you cannot remove, and there's Twitter and Facebook that you can't remove, and the dreaded carrier IQ. Carrier IQ is something I don't even want "disabled". I'm sure they have some code that can ignore the disable toggle. Plus I paid fulol price for this thing! I don't want their garbage all over the machine I paid for. All I want is their cell service. Tell you what, no more LG for me in the future. they won't sell unlocked to me directly? I'm not getting it. Personally, although I like this phone, I'm going for the HTC M9 SIM-Unlocked, bootloader-unlocked.

Really? You are aware that most phones come with bloatware? Unless you buy a Google phone. Honestly. I've had a lot of devices and the amount of bloatware on the LG G3 is nothing compared to Samsung Galaxy's stock phones. HTC phones are bloated also. You can disable about 95% of the bloat other than carrier iq Facebook and Twitter. Not a big deal.

Only reason I don't preach rooting is because there's no boot loader unlock yet.

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[bassplayrguy]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

Is there anywhere with an EASY step by step to UNROOTING my LG G3 ATT version? The videos I have found are not easy to follow and don't tell you where to find the stuff you need. I just want it back the way it was without the long delays!!!!!!

 

[JaiMento]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

Is there anywhere with an EASY step by step to UNROOTING my LG G3 ATT version? The videos I have found are not easy to follow and don't tell you where to find the stuff you need. I just want it back the way it was without the long delays!!!!!!

Not sure if I can link you to the necessary files, but these are the exact instructions, step by step (You can also check the AT&T LG G3 board on xda for a more complete version of this tutorial):

1. Download: Driver, LG Flash Tool, .DLL, and .TOT
2. Install LG United mobile driver
3. Install LG FlashTool using instructions in zip folder
4. Unzip LG850AT-V10d.zip and LGD850_20140613_LGFLASHv160_DLL.zip in to a new folder
5. Turn off your phone
6. Using a USB 2.0 Port, connect USB cable to your PC
7. Hold the Volume Up key and plug USB cable in to phone - this will put your phone in to download mode
8. Open Device manager on your PC and scroll down to Ports
9. Click on Ports and right click LGE Mobile USB Serial Port
10. Select properties - go to Port Settings Tab and click on Advanced
11. Change COM Port to COM41 - Click OK and Close device manager
12. Go to LG Flash tool and run as administrator
13. Select Manual Mode and browse to the folder you extracted the files to and select the .dll and .tot you downloaded and unzipped in item 4 and place in corresponding box (.dll in dll box and .tot in S/W box)
14. Click OK
15. Click Yellow arrow to begin
16. When the Port 1 (COM41) box is ready, unplug USB cable from phone, wait 5 seconds and plug cable back in to phone
17. The process will take up to 45 Min
18. When you see a large 3 on the screen - unplug phone, pull battery and reboot
At this point your phone is un-rooted and restored to factory settings.
19. Once you reboot - go to settings, backup and restore, and hit reset to perform a factory reset (Optional)
20. Download root checker and run to confirm you no longer have root (Optional)


To Confirm that you have no Rooted flag in the service menu, follow the instructions below

1. Go to dialer
2. enter 3845#*850#
3. Scroll to and click on LG RCT
4. click Display Results

 

[bassplayrguy]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

Thank you. I will try this tonight.

 

[LeoRex]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

Thank you. I will try this tonight.

This will wipe your phone... Save of anything you want to keep

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[LeoRex]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

This will wipe your phone... Save of anything you want to keep

Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk

And it's easier that it looks... Just follow the steps and you'll see that it's a straight forward process. The G3 doesn't come with a flash counter like some phones, so flashing back to stock wipes the slate clean.

 

[bassplayrguy]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

That didn't work out quite like I had hoped but thank you for trying to help. Are there places you can take your phone and pay them to unroot it?

 

[LeoRex]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

That didn't work out quite like I had hoped but thank you for trying to help. Are there places you can take your phone and pay them to unroot it?

What happened? We should be able to get you through it

 

[bassplayrguy]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

I am having trouble finding the lg flashtool and all of the files I need to download. I found what I thought was right yesterday but when I tried unzipping it, I got some Korean variant message. I am totally lost in this process. I cant seem to find many places that work on anything but crapple devices.

 

[LeoRex]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

I am having trouble finding the lg flashtool and all of the files I need to download. I found what I thought was right yesterday but when I tried unzipping it, I got some Korean variant message. I am totally lost in this process. I cant seem to find many places that work on anything but crapple devices.

What model do you have? Each has their own specific builds.... then we can start from there.

 

[JaiMento]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

I am having trouble finding the lg flashtool and all of the files I need to download. I found what I thought was right yesterday but when I tried unzipping it, I got some Korean variant message. I am totally lost in this process. I cant seem to find many places that work on anything but crapple devices.

Are you talking about a Korean message from LG Flash Tool? If so, you didn't follow the install instructions for the LG Flash Tool. You are supposed to replace a file in the install folder ?????? with the version included in the zip file.

Edit: More precisely, after you run "Setup_LGFlashTool_1.8.6.527.exe" (or whatever version of LG Flash Tool you have) and install LG Flash Tool, you have to replace the "MegaLock.dll" file in the install folder (whatever folder you installed LG Flash Tool to) with the "MegaLock.DLL" that was included in the .zip archive.

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[CliveEdinburgh]

No need to root anymore. I use Apex launcher (Glasskart theme) SwiftKey keyboard. I just don't see the point.

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[Duncan1982]

No need to root anymore. I use Apex launcher (Glasskart theme) SwiftKey keyboard. I just don't see the point.

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Centre Clock, soft key tweaks, Tbackup, trickster mod, G3 tweakbox for changing status bar, lock screen, Notification drop down, boot animations, multi window to name just a few

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[bassplayrguy]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

What model do you have? Each has their own specific builds.... then we can start from there.

LG-D850

 

[bassplayrguy]

Centre Clock, soft key tweaks, Tbackup, trickster mod, G3 tweakbox for changing status bar, lock screen, Notification drop down, boot animations, multi window to name just a few

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Those are all great things but the home button having such a delay really makes it unbearable. If there was a setting for that it would be great.

 

[LeoRex]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

LG-D850

Are you having issues getting to the Mega file share site? Yeah, that site drives me nuts... it's run by a notorious software pirate and gets blocked quite often.

Oh, that Korean message... ignore it.. it does nothing. I get the same on my T-Mobile variant and it appears to have nothing to do with applying the firmware.

 

[bassplayrguy]

Re: To root or not to root? Wait, what?

Are you having issues getting to the Mega file share site? Yeah, that site drives me nuts... it's run by a notorious software pirate and gets blocked quite often.

Oh, that Korean message... ignore it.. it does nothing. I get the same on my T-Mobile variant and it appears to have nothing to do with applying the firmware.

Alright cool. I will download it again tonight and see what happens. Thank you for your help.

 

[xocomaox]

Great, simple instructions. You shouldn't have a tough time with this method. It's super easy.

I still don't understand what you're talking about with this delayed home button business. I was just unrooted a little while ago and it is the same speed, root or not. So confused.

 

[bassplayrguy]

Great, simple instructions. You shouldn't have a tough time with this method. It's super easy.

I still don't understand what you're talking about with this delayed home button business. I was just unrooted a little while ago and it is the same speed, root or not. So confused.

I understand it should not be hard to do but everywhere I go to download the flashtool doesn't work. The videos are not clear and I guess I am not tech savvy enough to fix it. When I rooted my phone, all of a sudden now when pushing the home button there is at least a second to 2 second delay, the nav buttons all turn white and then it goes to the home screen.

 

[bassplayrguy]

Just tried to download the flashtool and files from here.. No go.