At&t Lg Flex D950 Upgraded to Kitkat with Root retained.

oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

I have at&t LG Flex, rooted and than updated to kitkat, surprised was when it updated to Kikat and root was retained, I used all applications that require supersu and work like charm.

Follow this, If you did not upgraded root it with ioroot and don't unroot it, take OTA update and you will keep the root.

If you upgraded, downgrade it via lgflashtool method, root with ioroot and update ota and you will keep the root..Good Luck

Link to downgrade:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2644083

brittoking · Apr 25, 2014

oscar786 said:
I have at&t LG Flex, rooted and than updated to kitkat, surprised was when it updated to Kikat and root was retained, I used all applications that require supersu and work like charm.

What did you do before hand? Cuz you're literally the only person so far i think. I tried everything and even went back to jelly bean 3 times trying to retain root with different programs. It would always error out on the update screen

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Intub8 · Apr 25, 2014

Pictures or it didn't happen.....

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oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

Basically what I did was I rooted on JB and when KK update came, I removed root from superSu "unroot", I tried to upgrade to Kikkat and failed, so I did lgflashtool (you directed me by the way) and flashed it to JB, rooted again and kept the root and superSu..tried update from menu and went through and kept the root.

brittoking said:
What did you do before hand? Cuz you're literally the only person so far i think. I tried everything and even went back to jelly bean 3 times trying to retain root with different programs. It would always error out on the update screen

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brittoking · Apr 25, 2014

oscar786 said:
Basically what I did was I rooted on JB and when KK update came, I removed root from superSu "unroot", I tried to upgrade to Kikkat and failed, so I did lgflashtool (you directed me by the way) and flashed it to JB, rooted again and kept the root and superSu..tried update from menu and went through and kept the root.

Wow? So the secret is to do nothing lol? Thanks. Gonna try tonight

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oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

Just as proof

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oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

Another shot

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kintwofan · Apr 25, 2014

Brittoking have you tried the xposed module root cloak then try the ota? Never know it might work.

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brittoking · Apr 25, 2014

kintwofan said:
Brittoking have you tried the xposed module root cloak then try the ota? Never know it might work.

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You know what...that's the one dang thing i didn't try lol. I even had it installed before upgrading. I will tonight

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oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

brittoking said:
Wow? So the secret is to do nothing lol? Thanks. Gonna try tonight

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Hello, did you try and was it successful, If yes,Please let others know to get root access through this procedure. Thanks

brittoking · Apr 25, 2014

oscar786 said:
Hello, did you try and was it successful, If yes,Please let others know to get root access through this procedure. Thanks

I was unable to try it out last night, ever since upgrading to kit Kat i can no longer choose which mode to connect (usb only, mtp, etc) so after flashing back the problem followed me which prevented me from running ioroot successfully. Luckily i had ordered a new flex yesterday from AT&T after their service center confirmed something was borked during the update, it'll be here Monday. Can't do anything till then.

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oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

Look like i am the only one with rooted LG flex with kitkat..

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brittoking · Apr 25, 2014

oscar786 said:
Look like i am the only one with rooted LG flex with kitkat..

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hopefully not for long!

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phillip_viado · Apr 25, 2014

i can confirm that root on kitkat works. i flashed back to jellybean then rooted then took the kitkat update, and still obtained root access.

oscar786 · Apr 25, 2014

phillip_viado said:
i can confirm that root on kitkat works. i flashed back to jellybean then rooted then took the kitkat update, and still obtained root access.

That's great this will help a lot of folks, who looking for rooted LG Flex, it will also work for all other variants of Flex and hopefully LG G2...

hands0m3 · Apr 26, 2014

Yup worked for me thanx

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aznrice2k4 · Apr 26, 2014

Wait, wait, what?! Can someone explain it step my step brain-no-worky!

Which Jellybean? C? L? N?

christiansfreeman · Apr 26, 2014

can someone upload a kit kat update for flashtool

hey I bought my g flex a week ago. When I bought it it was on kit kat. I want it rooted so I just tried these steps downgrade with flashtools ... I click software update in phone and it is saying none is available im guessing its cause im not a at&t customer can someone upload the kit kat update thanks

aznrice2k4 said:
Wait, wait, what?! Can someone explain it step my step brain-no-worky!

Which Jellybean? C? L? N?

brittoking · Apr 26, 2014

christiansfreeman said:
hey I bought my g flex a week ago. When I bought it it was on kit kat. I want it rooted so I just tried these steps downgrade with flashtools ... I click software update in phone and it is saying none is available im guessing its cause im not a at&t customer can someone upload the kit kat update thanks

So far it's only available for AT&T so that's nothing to "upload". Without recovery for these phones there's no way to create roms from kit Kat source

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hands0m3 · Apr 26, 2014

Downgrade to 4.2.2 then root phone using ioroot then take the 4.4.2 update this is for att g flex only you should retain root

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