[GUIDE][UNBRICK] Patch LGUP to unlock features & unbrick V20 (Variant mismatch fix)
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After a flash gone very bad, I got myself a brick with a locked bootloader & wrong viariant in LGUP [US996-->H990ds].
In my attempt to recover I tried several silly things including flashing another variants firmware, however I managed to find a way to unbrick & restore the original firmware.
I ran into the G5 thread by @smitel, and did something similar for our V20 by patching LGUP.exe & our phones LGUP_common.dll with HxD Hex editor (my patched files attached).
After doing this I was able to force-flash either partial or full stock kdz using the [PARTITION DL] option, bypassing the variant mismatch warning (Phone was fully recognised as US996).
It even corrected the partition layout (H990DS is different to US996).
Credits about the original patch should go to @smitel
Press the THANKS button if you have found this thread helpfull
Team
After a flash gone very bad, I got myself a brick with a locked bootloader & wrong viariant in LGUP [US996-->H990ds].
In my attempt to recover I tried several silly things including flashing another variants firmware, however I managed to find a way to unbrick & restore the original firmware.
I ran into the G5 thread by @smitel, and did something similar for our V20 by patching LGUP.exe & our phones LGUP_common.dll with HxD Hex editor (my patched files attached).
After doing this I was able to force-flash either partial or full stock kdz using the [PARTITION DL] option, bypassing the variant mismatch warning (Phone was fully recognised as US996).
It even corrected the partition layout (H990DS is different to US996).
Credits about the original patch should go to @smitel
Press the THANKS button if you have found this thread helpfull
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