Recent content by stainmaker

Hi, I thought I'd tag onto this thread since it's fairly similar. I recently bought a Slimport VGA adapter in the hope I could output my phone's screen to my car's display panel. My car (Japanese import) has a navigation computer which is useless in Australia. So instead of having a useless...

Since CM12.1 forces a soft boot after the density command, wouldn't an easy way to get around it be not issuing the density reset command on the start of the app; and then doing the size / overscan commands first when applying a new selection? since once the size / overscan has been set the...

Sounds good. Regarding the notification; yes, more explicit would be nice. In all truthfulness I did not read the vast majority of this thread (since there is a lot of it) so did not see others were having similar problems. I just read through your post and the most recent ones to see what...

Hi, I used LG_One_Click_Root_v1.3 but couldn't tell you where I downloaded it from now. I see now that at the notification saying the DOS box is about to open is a perfect chance to manually reboot into Download mode. Would be nice to have a note there for users experiencing issues with the...

What extra info would you like? I'll grab anything I'm able to. Was running from a Windows7 PC, standard LG USB drivers, was a random non genuine microUSB cable. Phone was fresh back from LG after I bricked it (lol, warranty) so was a perfectly clean untouched install of the stock Lollipop ROM...

Never mind. I was able to root the phone first with the LG One Click Root program and then simply flash the TWRP recovery via this guide after that. Phone is now on CM12.1 and working sweet.

Thanks, I am aware such apps exist, but my phone isn't Rooted... Which is why I'm doing this :)

Hi, I'm trying to root and bump my Australian (OPTUS) 16gb D855 with this method and it won't reboot the phone to download mode. The phone is running on a fresh Android 5.0 software version v20h. No sim card installed and no sdcard installed. Both root methods available in imageprepGUIv2.6 are...