[Recovery][H830] Team Win Recovery Project for the LG G5

[igotroot]

I'm going to step out on a very, very, weak limb here.... Maybe "twrp" the word itself is a red flag within the phone........ Maybe, change the name of the file, then attempt a flash.

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@tungkick Any advice you can share? If not on the bootloader, then root? Thanks.

 

[Josh McGrath]

mhhh, very strange, it seems a "custom unlocked" bootloader like Meizu products....

I hope to be wrong

I am willing to help test and I am one that does not give a damn about bricking my phone in the name of helping achieve root. Let me know. ????

 

[deskjet390]

Fasboot flash recovery xxxx.IMG would never work because there is not even a recovery partition listed in the partition layout.

Right?

 

[paperWastage]

You can try

fastboot boot recovery recovery.IMG

It should attempt to copy recovery.IMG to memory and boot it. Shouldn't override existing (hidden?) recovery on phone

 

[joemossjr]

You can try

fastboot boot recovery recovery.IMG

It should attempt to copy recovery.IMG to memory and boot it. Shouldn't override existing (hidden?) recovery on phone

Trust me guys as soon as I pulled my g5 out I didn't even set it up went straight to fast boot mode unlocked boot loader tried to flash got unknown command then went to the twrp help site. The guys there helped me try everything but changing the twrp img so if you guys want to try be my guest I don't think it will work but you guys can try. From what I got out of them yesterday our boot loader doesn't have the commands to flash anything ie. The unknown command error that pops up so unless lg just "forgot" to add them in and will in a later update I think were just going to either wait for an exploit either through sd card slot or something else then go from there.

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[Coachmark2]

So it's unlocked but LG broke fastboot to where it won't accept flashing anything? So...what can fastboot actually DO on this device then?

Is it possible that we need to put the phone into download mode or something similar instead?

 

[ledvedder]

So, is it reasonable to assume that we won't be getting root for quite a while?

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[joemossjr]

So, is it reasonable to assume that we won't be getting root for quite a while?

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Not necessarily. If someone comes up with an exploit or LG and T-Mobile realise that the boot loader is unlocked but not usable because they borked it and they fix it its only a matter of time. If the recovery works I don't see why the systemless root wouldn't work as it has worked on many devices. Don't give up hope the battle is half fought.

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[MechaMorph]

One would assume that an OTA would possibly have to make use of the fastboot commands. Could the command simply have been changed to something else? So instead of fastboot flash recovery twrp.img it could be fastboot flash something twrp.img?

 

[joemossjr]

it definitely could have or it could have been taken out completley. i wouldnt know what to flash or how to look for the partitons by name (will search that now)

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Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/ 1.78G 11.78M 1.77G 4096
/dev 1.85G 168.00K 1.85G 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 1.85G 12.00K 1.85G 4096
/mnt 1.85G 0.00K 1.85G 4096
/system 4.32G 3.81G 527.81M 4096
/cache 1.17G 1.94M 1.16G 4096
/persist 27.48M 176.00K 27.31M 4096
/firmware 85.95M 68.89M 17.06M 16384
/sns 1.89M 80.00K 1.81M 4096
/persist-lg 5.83M 1.05M 4.78M 4096
/mpt 27.48M 52.00K 27.43M 4096
/storage 1.85G 0.00K 1.85G 4096
/data 23.01G 5.25G 17.76G 4096
/mnt/expand/eeb5eb51-141b-412e-bec3-eeae742ee778 29.33G 7.68G 21.65G 4096
/mnt/runtime/default/emulated: Permission denied
/storage/emulated 29.33G 7.68G 21.65G 4096
/mnt/runtime/read/emulated: Permission denied
/mnt/runtime/write/emulated: Permission denied

 

[MechaMorph]

it definitely could have or it could have been taken out completley. i wouldnt know what to flash or how to look for the partitons by name (will search that now)

---------- Post added at 05:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:01 PM ----------

Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/ 1.78G 11.78M 1.77G 4096
/dev 1.85G 168.00K 1.85G 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 1.85G 12.00K 1.85G 4096
/mnt 1.85G 0.00K 1.85G 4096
/system 4.32G 3.81G 527.81M 4096
/cache 1.17G 1.94M 1.16G 4096
/persist 27.48M 176.00K 27.31M 4096
/firmware 85.95M 68.89M 17.06M 16384
/sns 1.89M 80.00K 1.81M 4096
/persist-lg 5.83M 1.05M 4.78M 4096
/mpt 27.48M 52.00K 27.43M 4096
/storage 1.85G 0.00K 1.85G 4096
/data 23.01G 5.25G 17.76G 4096
/mnt/expand/eeb5eb51-141b-412e-bec3-eeae742ee778 29.33G 7.68G 21.65G 4096
/mnt/runtime/default/emulated: Permission denied
/storage/emulated 29.33G 7.68G 21.65G 4096
/mnt/runtime/read/emulated: Permission denied
/mnt/runtime/write/emulated: Permission denied

Is that a list of all the phone's partitions?

 

[joemossjr]

Is that a list of all the phone's partitions?

some im trying to find them all

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1|[email protected]:/dev $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

254 0 972380 zram0
8 16 32768 sdb
8 17 3072 sdb1
8 18 3072 sdb2
8 19 4096 sdb3
8 20 16384 sdb4
8 21 2048 sdb5
8 22 1024 sdb6
8 23 1024 sdb7
8 24 4 sdb8
8 0 30912512 sda
8 1 49152 sda1
8 2 32768 sda2
8 3 10240 sda3
8 4 6144 sda4
8 5 32768 sda5
8 6 16384 sda6
8 7 8192 sda7
8 8 40960 sda8
8 9 47104 sda9
8 10 512 sda10
8 11 512 sda11
8 12 512 sda12
8 13 512 sda13
8 14 512 sda14
8 15 32768 sda15
259 0 4718592 sda16
259 1 1261568 sda17
259 2 24649728 sda18
259 3 3540 sda19
8 32 8192 sdc
8 33 3072 sdc1
8 34 3072 sdc2
8 35 4 sdc3
8 64 237568 sde
8 65 40960 sde1
8 66 40960 sde2
8 67 40960 sde3
8 68 2048 sde4
8 69 2048 sde5
8 70 2048 sde6
8 71 2048 sde7
8 72 4096 sde8
8 73 4096 sde9
8 74 512 sde10
8 75 512 sde11
8 76 512 sde12
8 77 512 sde13
8 78 512 sde14
8 79 512 sde15
259 4 128 sde16
259 5 128 sde17
259 6 88064 sde18
259 7 512 sde19
259 8 512 sde20
259 9 512 sde21
259 10 512 sde22
259 11 512 sde23
259 12 512 sde24
259 13 512 sde25
259 14 512 sde26
259 15 512 sde27
259 16 512 sde28
259 17 4 sde29
8 80 8192 sdf
8 81 2048 sdf1
8 82 2048 sdf2
8 83 512 sdf3
8 84 4 sdf4
8 96 8192 sdg
8 97 2048 sdg1
8 98 4 sdg2
8 48 8192 sdd
8 49 2048 sdd1
8 50 32 sdd2
8 51 4 sdd3
8 52 4 sdd4
179 0 31260672 mmcblk0
179 1 16384 mmcblk0p1
179 2 31243247 mmcblk0p2
253 0 4681404 dm-0
253 1 24649728 dm-1
253 2 31243247 dm-2

 

[MechaMorph]

some im trying to find them all

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1|[email protected]:/dev $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

254 0 972380 zram0
8 16 32768 sdb
8 17 3072 sdb1
8 18 3072 sdb2
8 19 4096 sdb3
8 20 16384 sdb4
8 21 2048 sdb5
8 22 1024 sdb6
8 23 1024 sdb7
8 24 4 sdb8
8 0 30912512 sda
8 1 49152 sda1
8 2 32768 sda2
8 3 10240 sda3
8 4 6144 sda4
8 5 32768 sda5
8 6 16384 sda6
8 7 8192 sda7
8 8 40960 sda8
8 9 47104 sda9
8 10 512 sda10
8 11 512 sda11
8 12 512 sda12
8 13 512 sda13
8 14 512 sda14
8 15 32768 sda15
259 0 4718592 sda16
259 1 1261568 sda17
259 2 24649728 sda18
259 3 3540 sda19
8 32 8192 sdc
8 33 3072 sdc1
8 34 3072 sdc2
8 35 4 sdc3
8 64 237568 sde
8 65 40960 sde1
8 66 40960 sde2
8 67 40960 sde3
8 68 2048 sde4
8 69 2048 sde5
8 70 2048 sde6
8 71 2048 sde7
8 72 4096 sde8
8 73 4096 sde9
8 74 512 sde10
8 75 512 sde11
8 76 512 sde12
8 77 512 sde13
8 78 512 sde14
8 79 512 sde15
259 4 128 sde16
259 5 128 sde17
259 6 88064 sde18
259 7 512 sde19
259 8 512 sde20
259 9 512 sde21
259 10 512 sde22
259 11 512 sde23
259 12 512 sde24
259 13 512 sde25
259 14 512 sde26
259 15 512 sde27
259 16 512 sde28
259 17 4 sde29
8 80 8192 sdf
8 81 2048 sdf1
8 82 2048 sdf2
8 83 512 sdf3
8 84 4 sdf4
8 96 8192 sdg
8 97 2048 sdg1
8 98 4 sdg2
8 48 8192 sdd
8 49 2048 sdd1
8 50 32 sdd2
8 51 4 sdd3
8 52 4 sdd4
179 0 31260672 mmcblk0
179 1 16384 mmcblk0p1
179 2 31243247 mmcblk0p2
253 0 4681404 dm-0
253 1 24649728 dm-1
253 2 31243247 dm-2

Is there a way to break down mmcblk0 and see what under there? I remember from the V10 that is where partitions like radio and recovery were listed.

 

[joemossjr]

If I could dd it without root I would try that lol

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[3's&7's]

Time to fire up the @teamcodfire signal in the night skies over XDA city!
@JustinCase @autoprime @thecubed ...your people need you (lol)!

 

[wolfgart]

Time to fire up the @teamcodfire signal in the night skies over XDA city!
@JustinCase @autoprime @thecubed ...your people need you (lol)!

Give them device

[emoji16]

 

[MechaMorph]

Does it matter if the device was "unlocked" with fastboot oem unlock or the new fastboot flashing unlock? It seems that people who ran into this issue on the Nexus 6P used oem unlock instead of flashing unlock. Would relocking and then unlocking the other way fix it? Has anybody tried?

If nobody has I'm willing to do it. Will be a royal pain in the ass to setup my device again but I'll do it.

 

[joemossjr]

Does it matter if the device was "unlocked" with fastboot oem unlock or the new fastboot flashing unlock? It seems that people who ran into this issue on the Nexus 6P used oem unlock instead of flashing unlock. Would relocking and then unlocking the other way fix it? Has anybody tried?

If nobody has I'm willing to do it. Will be a royal pain in the ass to setup my device again but I'll do it.

You can try lol I don't feel like downloading 23 gbs and resetting up my adoptable storage lol

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[Josh McGrath]

Hey guys, my device is not even being used or set up so I can help if you guys can run me through the commands. I don't care if it bricks either. I'm about ready to throw this and the s7 at John legure myself

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[MechaMorph]

You can try lol I don't feel like downloading 23 gbs and resetting up my adoptable storage lol

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<.<

I did actually just because I have the time to restore right now (not a whole ton done anyways). It still fails with the error code. Very weird.

The phone is restoring my apps now lol