rooting lg g3

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redtwin

7,518 posts

181 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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Glad you got it sorted in the end. I think I will try using it as supplied and see how I get on. The rooting process seems daunting and hearing that you had issues does not inspire confidence. I have rooted an older ZTE mobile before, but that phone wasn't worth much and was a spare.


anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 30th April 2015
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Okay my play store issues were driving me bonkers so I spent some time this evening researching and I now have a fully functioning CM12. Hope the below is useful to anyone wanting to go the CM12 custom rom route:

I think the link to the rom posted earlier in the thread was an unofficial development rom (lifewalker) - I downloaded the official release here (nightly): http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d855&t... Date added: 2015-04-29 13:40:09

This gives you android version 5.0.2 so the gapps I installed were from this link here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps Version: CM12 20141212

These were installed to the SD card.

Once the phone was rooted I downloaded the TWRP custom recovery app and set it up for LG G3 D855 (european variant).

I then entered the phone's recovery mode (Turn phone off then hold power+volume down until LG logo screen appears; release and then hold immediately hold down power+volume down again to enter recovery) which diverted to TWRP recovery.

I then went to wipe - advanced and selected everything other than SD card.

Then back to menu and selected install then zip file - installed CM12 rom only.

Once completed I went back to wipe and selected factory reset (took 2 seconds).

Back to install; zip file; gapps 20141212. Once completed wiped the cache. Then clicked reboot.

Loaded up the start up screen in about 20 seconds and now works flawlessly.

If you do run into any difficulties or want to go back to stock download the LG suite which has a diagnostic tool and will automatically revert your phone back to its software at a click of a button.







Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 30th April 01:42

Robster

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1,402 posts

176 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Good job! How you getting on with it? I'm now using darkknight 5.5 and prefer it as I can use my circle case with it and it's much more like stock including the camera app

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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I found it much better overall than the LG verisiob and now I have a bit of a clue about what I'm doing and all my phone stuff is backed up on the cloud I tried a CM12.1 OTA update but that failed and my phone bricked again biggrin I thought whilst I'm messing around I'd try liquid smooth which had a kernel crash after installation and then CloudyG3 (based on LG stock minus some bloatware and more customisation) which was the smoothest install ever but wasn't as quick as CM12.

Cloudy seemed a bit pointless as I guess you could just root and remove the bloatware yourself.

If I now understand CM correctly they release a high number of 'nightly' updates based on android versions to sort bugs and then release a final 'stable version'. As there's not yet an official stable version for the G3 and they've moved onto CM12.1 (android 5.1) I've gone back to the final released 12.0 nightly and it's really quick and runs all my apps without crashing.

Think I'm going to stick with CM12 for the time being - given the stability of this rom and it's sheer speed I'm not really fussed about trying a new 5.1 custom right now.

Edit: Now to work out how to sort this last visit nonsense on this site.

redtwin

7,518 posts

181 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Good to hear you are getting the hang of it. With the CM12 do you still have some LG functions like the screen tap to switch display on and off etc?. Is play store fully sorted now?. I should have the phone in the next week and when it is new without any data I wouldn't want to lose might be the best time to try a new ROM.

I take it that "brick" as mentioned above doesn't mean the traditional sense and that it can be recovered?.