Can a refurbished H910 V20 be root?

[wesley_fg]

I bought a H910 V20 in AliExpress. Is refurbished. I world like to root it, but I saw that is not recommend to change refurbished phones firmware because it can brick the phone. This model can be different from the describe. Can have another motherboard from different model. In the LGUP says "H91010m". I also bought a V10 refurbished model and was H901 model, when updated to Nougat it bricked. I got unbrick, but it instaled the H900 firmware 6.0 MM. The IMEI of the V10 said H901, but was acccepted the H900 firmware and didn't accept anymore the H901 firmware.
In the case the V20 can happen the same? And if the phone brick or hardbrick, can I unbrick again? I want to root my phone, but I'm afraid of it brick and dies. What do you recommend?

 

[runningnak3d]

You are fine -- you can root.

-- Brian

 

[cnjax]

I bought a H910 V20 in AliExpress. Is refurbished. I world like to root it, but I saw that is not recommend to change refurbished phones firmware because it can brick the phone. This model can be different from the describe. Can have another motherboard from different model. In the LGUP says "H91010m". I also bought a V10 refurbished model and was H901 model, when updated to Nougat it bricked. I got unbrick, but it instaled the H900 firmware 6.0 MM. The IMEI of the V10 said H901, but was acccepted the H900 firmware and didn't accept anymore the H901 firmware.
In the case the V20 can happen the same? And if the phone brick or hardbrick, can I unbrick again? I want to root my phone, but I'm afraid of it brick and dies. What do you recommend?

I've seen others who bought refurbs off aliexpress and yes it they had different motherboards etc, and some did brick trying to root. Ymmv, but personally unless the money isn't an issue I wouldn't do it

Sent from my LG-H910 using XDA Labs

 

[wesley_fg]

I've seen others who bought refurbs off aliexpress and yes it they had different motherboards etc, and some did brick trying to root. Ymmv, but personally unless the money isn't an issue I wouldn't do it

Sent from my LG-H910 using XDA Labs

You mean V20? If it brick is possible to uncrick the V20? I saw the IMEI and says that is a AT&T model. Is possiblem the V20 have different motherboard with the AT&T rom?

 

[runningnak3d]

If it currently has a locked bootloader, then it can't be an H918. The H918 is the only model V20 that can't cross flash any other model. So if it says it's an H910, it might be an F800 or VS995 or US996, etc that had been converted to an H910 .... it doesn't matter.

-- Brian

 

[wesley_fg]

If it currently has a locked bootloader, then it can't be an H918. The H918 is the only model V20 that can't cross flash any other model. So if it says it's an H910, it might be an F800 or VS995 or US996, etc that had been converted to an H910 .... it doesn't matter.

-- Brian

In this situation, do you recommend me to do the root? In case of Hardbrick, can it be fix? In the case, is my only phone that I have.

 

[runningnak3d]

Anytime that you root a phone you take a risk. All I can tell you is that what you have is more than likely an H910, but it is most definitely NOT an H918. The H918 is the only model V20 that can't cross flash, or be cross flashed onto any other model.

-- Brian

 

[wesley_fg]

Ok, but if my phone got brick or hardbrick is possible to unbrick like the V10 or the phone dies after that and has no way to fix it?

 

[stonerphoner]

mine was a refurbished model, got it from Amazon. I'm running superRom 4.1