This.
Most people here have been blaming each other for "pissing off the devs" or whatever else you want to blame them for, but here's the real deal:
A dev (jcase) released an unfinished tool, gave little to no info on how to use it, and then took it down without giving any explanation.
Then another user reuploaded it, which INCLUDED a warning starting the tool might brick your phone. Jcase got pissed, sold his G5, and decided the punish the LG community for one user's mistake.
Team Codefire has a root method that works, and released a video proving this. However they have released little to no information on their progress or anything else, thus causing arguments within the community.
APPARENTLY (internet rumors, am I right?) someone tried to sell the original tool that Jcase made, which pissed him off even further, causing him to make it his goal to ruin any chance of root for the G5. He also stated multiple times that he was "done with the LG community" yet in reality he never left. All he ever did was give us a bad tool and misleading hopes.
Now Jcase has publicly stated that he is intending to punish the G5 community. His exact words are "Got an LG contact now, Operation make LG secure is underway, direct response to the community **** heads pissing me off." (
https://twitter.com/jcase/status/733978845838086145)
Guys, this has not been our faults. This is all because some HTC developers saw an opportunity to get even more popular, got pissed when the tool they released didn't work, and now have basically tried to turn us all on each other because they can't root our phone.
We need to stop this dictatorship of only having one or two devs who help us. We need to start helping each other and learn as much as we can so that WE can be the developers. This site is called XDA Develop
ers and not XDA Develop
er for a reason. This is OUR site, not theirs, so let's start acting like it and keep trying everything we can to root this device.
If anyone has any questions or comments, please PM me.
Keep coding everyone