[STOCK] Sprint LG G3 LS990 ZV8 TOT, OTA and .IMG's (Lollipop 5.0.1)

schmoof

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Is there a way to pull the OTA out of the tot? I want to play, without erasing phone.

My rooted phone will of course follow up the proper procedures.
 

Dreddge

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It's important to note that installing the OTA will break root, correct?

What the rooted guys are needing is a system.img that can be flashed using the instructions in the OP through twrp without breaking root.

Most of us do not know how to extract the system.img from the OTA
 

RandomPooka

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I was under the impression that the ota is actually a large collection of patch files. In theory, you could apply those patches to the zv6 system on your PC. Don't know if it's practical or not

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But that might get you into business
 

schmoof

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I've never manually updated an OTA on stock recovery. Can it even be run on a stock on stock? My rooted/TWRP recovery was a snap.
 
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Jamesredmond82

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Curious i'm not rooted....waiting for the ota like a kid on christmas eve. So i the question is can i or could i root my lg g3 then flash the ota in a recovery and then i would lose root is that correct????? I really didnt want to root this phone because of a tivo app that i have that wont work with a rooted phone.
 

schmoof

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My question regarding this is stock recovery only shows the option to factory reset. I also renamed it update.zip but that didn't help
 

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There is some method to root in zv8 without going down to Zv4, my phone is new and not queiro do dowungraud. thanks in advance,
My question also....
Not entirely a noob, having rooted and run custom and stock ROM's on both my HTC and S3's early on.. but..
Do we have to root (per ZV6 instructions) back down to ZV4, then apply the ZV8 root ??

Is there a way to get root on ZV8 ?

Mine was new with ZV6 when I got it .. expect the Sprint OTA ZV8 ant day now..
 

whoppe862005

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My question also....
Not entirely a noob, having rooted and run custom and stock ROM's on both my HTC and S3's early on.. but..
Do we have to root (per ZV6 instructions) back down to ZV4, then apply the ZV8 root ??

Is there a way to get root on ZV8 ?

Mine was new with ZV6 when I got it .. expect the Sprint OTA ZV8 ant day now..
Yes. You have to revert back to ZV4 with the flash tool. There is no root for ZV6 and no root for ZV8. You will have to root on ZV4 and then flash the stock rooted odexed ZV8 rom to maintain root.
 

elwood

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