Recently, a very close friend of mine passed away. We used snapchat to talk but I was never able to save her snaps because I didn't know it would be important to. I need to root my phone in order to be able to retrieve those snaps through Android recovery and its killing me inside. Does anyone know if it's possible to root lg g5 Verizon nougat? I know it has been done for the h805 version so why is it so hard to do it for this one? Please..I'm in a very bad place and this is the last resort. Thankyou
Very sorry for your loss.
Unfortunately the G5 on Verizon has had almost no community development. It can't be rooted currently.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-920V now on Marshmallow. I have rooted all of my phones since my Moto Droid but have not yet rooted my S6. Up to this point, I had no reason to but I just switched from Verizon to Straight Talk bringing my S6 and number with me.
I just tried to tether my WiFi this morning. But I can't do it any longer. Is it possible to root this phone, and if so, what would be the easiest way to do it? Also, if I do root, would I then be able to use either my Wifi tether again or USB tether?
Just remember you will lose Samsung Pay permanently if you take this route.
and you will void warranty. Page 4, last paragraph
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...M-G920F_UM_EU_Lollipop_Eng_Rev.1.0_150302.pdf
Thanks for your responses, although, it didn't really answer my question. As far as your concerns:
Samsung Pay: I don't see the real benefit in SP. I still have to enter a PIN if I use my debit,r sign if using a credit card. and carry my card just in case SP doesn't work so swiping a card, not a problem.
Warranty: My phone is more than 1-year-old. I Don't believe I have a warranty.
I just really wanted to find out if I could root on Marshmallow and what would be the easiest way to do it without having to spend days going through all of the posts here to figure it out.
realsol said:
Thanks for your responses, although, it didn't really answer my question. As far as your concerns:
Samsung Pay: I don't see the real benefit in SP. I still have to enter a PIN if I use my debit,r sign if using a credit card. and carry my card just in case SP doesn't work so swiping a card, not a problem.
Warranty: My phone is more than 1-year-old. I Don't believe I have a warranty.
I just really wanted to find out if I could root on Marshmallow and what would be the easiest way to do it without having to spend days going through all of the posts here to figure it out.
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in EU 24 month warranty
Unlocked and activated an S6 for a friend whose phone died. It's new, was never activated, AT&T branded. It's working fine, except it's still all the way back on 5.1.1 BOJ7. I read that AT&T pulled the Marshmallow update from its servers. So I'm left wondering whether a) there's a way to get the phone to update without needing to flash it, b) what would happen if we simply waited for the Android N rollout. Friend is not tech savvy, so if we go the flashing route I'll definitely be doing all the work. But I know that using a custom ROM means tripping Knox and losing some features. Suggestions? Thanks.
You can check if sammobile has official 6.x roms for the AT&T version. Considering those are official they shouldn't trip Knox as far as I am aware.
This is ofcourse that some one uploaded it their before it was pulled.
You can look as well here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s6 if some one has uploaded stock firmware here.
Thanks RDDraco, wasn't sure how that worked, that sounds like a good idea.
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Unlocked and activated an S6 for a friend whose phone died. It's new, was never activated, AT&T branded. It's working fine, except it's still all the way back on 5.1.1 BOJ7. I read that AT&T pulled the Marshmallow update from its servers. So I'm left wondering whether a) there's a way to get the phone to update without needing to flash it, b) what would happen if we simply waited for the Android N rollout. Friend is not tech savvy, so if we go the flashing route I'll definitely be doing all the work. But I know that using a custom ROM means tripping Knox and losing some features. Suggestions? Thanks.
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I'd personally keep it on 5.1.1. Got regularly ~4 hrs SOT with powernap on those firmwares.
Thanks for all the advice. Took the phone to a Best Buy with a Samsung Experience Center and they flashed it for me. Was shockingly quick and easy, Knox wasn't tripped, phone runs great. Highly recommend to anyone in the same boat.
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Thanks for all the advice. Took the phone to a Best Buy with a Samsung Experience Center and they flashed it for me. Was shockingly quick and easy, Knox wasn't tripped, phone runs great. Highly recommend to anyone in the same boat.
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They flashed the phone for you? Unreal, is it in warranty?
Well, I bought it new but I bought it resale, so I'm still figuring out the warranty situation. But they didn't even ask. I was expecting to go there and have to explain, but the guy just said "so you want me to bring you to Marshmallow with latest firmware?" I confirmed, he plugged into his computer (wonder what utility, since he didn't even care that phone was AT&T branded but unlocked) and the whole process took ten minutes, tops. Given that AT&T doesn't seem to push updates to its devices that have been unlocked and are running on other carriers, I may have to do this again for future updates, but that's no big deal to me.
I just bought a new unlocked Verizon G920V phone from eBay to use with my Verizon prepaid account. (Well actually the hardware version under About Phone lists it as G920V.07). I can't say for sure if Marshmallow or Nougat shipped on this phone but it's currently running Nougat. As soon as I got it and it connected to my home wifi it wanted to update so I decided (maybe like an idiot) to let it. It appeared to download a giant file and flash itself a new firmware. This leads me to believe that it maybe shipped with Marshmallow but it obviously now has Nougat on it.
FWIW, I've rooted my own phones and a couple of my wife's phones in the past, but I'm by no means an expert. I'm fairly technically inclined in other areas of technology, but when it came to rooting various phones it amounted to carefully researching (usually through this site) and simply following a set of steps. I've always been successful. Long story short, I'm kind-of confused as to whether or not I can root. Like I said, I'm a bit confused, but it would appear that not only is there no root for the S6 running Nougat, but I believe I read where someone mentioned that Verizon released a security patch that prevents any sort of downgrading. Right after getting cellular service transferred the phone wanted to do a security patch so I assume that I've now got that patch installed as well.
So, can I downgrade this phone and root? I don't care about marshmallow I'll go to version 5 (whatever wonky name that one is called) if I have to. I would really just like to get root on this phone. Mainly so I can block ads more effectively and try to milk more battery life out of this thing because the battery life is horrible in my opinion.
Also FWIW, the software build/baseband number is G920VVRS4DQE1 if that helps or matters.
Anyway, this long-time lurker but first-time poster thanks you in advance for any replies.
It's been a few days and no replies, but from the additional information I've found since posting, I'm thinking that root ain't gonna happen. At this point I don't think it's even possible to roll back to an earlier version. Oh well I'll just live with this phone for awhile. I really like the phone despite not being able to get root. I suppose I'll just live with ads.
You can go to Samsung apps, if you have a Samsung account and download there ad block app. That is what I am using. It under Galaxy apps that came with phone
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You actually can downgrade your firmware should you so desire. The following two threads have links to firmwares flashable via odin.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...20vvrs4dqd1-odin-nougat-7-0-firmware-t3597007
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s6/general/downgrade-6-0-1-to-5-1-1-t3489816
At this point I don't think you can downgrade any lower than the OK7 firmware.
So I have a LS770 from Boost Mobile. I know sucks for me right!! well I did something and I'm not bricked or anything but sometimes it says that I have no data connection when I try to make a call then I try the call again and it works. someother thing have been going on but I cant think of them right off the bat. but just weird things like this have been going on so does anyone else have a LG G Stylo from Boost Mobile and can they compare their Software info to mine on the pic that I have provided. I also want to point out my Software Version and Build Number. well everything pretty much somehow it changed and I have never been rooted before. I have done a FDR and I still get this. It's kinda pissin me off. so can someone please help??? man If I had root I could have fixed this crap by now.
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So, I think I've managed to salvage my bricked Stylo, I somehow also managed to root my Fiance's LG G Stylo that's on the 6.0 update...
Since I can't find any ways to fix this problem on the internet I'll post what I did here so hopefully I can get some other people out of deep water with their phone.
Here is the thread I made
LGMS631 MetroPCS LG G Stylo Backup (Unbrick/Root) Android 6.0
Has anyone been able to get a working root for the luna pro on straight talk yet. I dont know much about programming but it would be nice to get root to remove knox and other crapware that samsung throws on these phones.
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Has anyone been able to get a working root for the luna pro on straight talk yet. I dont know much about programming but it would be nice to get root to remove knox and other crapware that samsung throws on these phones.
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No root at all. Apparently Samsung isn't a fan of root anymore. Or, carriers aren't. No progress at all so you'll be better off buying a new phone. This one is junk. A major downgrade from the original J3, which had 2 gigs of RAM and an AMOLED display. Oh, and it had NFC.
Well honestly imho this phone is worlds better than the core prime i was using. And it is fast especially how i got it set up. Carriers are what ruin the devices we buy as they want things locked to their spec list, i know this personally as i used to work for radioshack and was able to compare the same devices for different brands. Each had slight mods done to the setups but mostly the hardware was close to baseline over the big three, att, sprint and verizon. And essentially most straight talk stuff is either verizon or att anymore so if a root works for that device it should take for ours one would think.
Also its nkt that samsung wont allow root, its a deal thing with certain providers. My wife has a phone from life wireless and we asked around if it could be ported to another carrier and life wireless said it could not as the refurb stuff they provide for people is software locked to their system. But we ended up getting another device and was able to use the life sim for the new phone and kept her number and service. We just recently in the U.S. pass a law in federal court saying its illegal for any carrier to deny service or warrenty for any rooted device. But of course apple isnt a part of that. Only androids as far as i know.
Literally just took this out of the package for my sons first phone. I figured all these cheaper smart phones would be easily rooted. Im bummed out now
And still no one has tried to get this model rooted. I have lost faith with xda on this phone
Here is a qeustion for you. Since I know that the unlocked variant j3 firmware can be used to flash on to att he and be able to root, is there any way being they come from the same hardware and all that the Verizon j3 7.0 firmware would work on our Luna pro straight talk model. I know that all of the hardware is the same between the Verizon and my S.T. models from all the spec sheets I have came across. At this point I don't care for root, I just want the update to 7.0.
By the by I'm currently pulling the firmware off Google drive right now.
well i have searched and dug and so far have found that these phones use the very same logic board: sprint , verizon , tracfone/straight talk and a smj327r4(u.s cell?). and i managed to get the verizon firmware downloaded for the smj327vl, but really need an extra device to test if it works to install on the st/tracfone variant. if it works then we would have a valid android 7.0 on the luna pro model.
i have test phone
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well i have searched and dug and so far have found that these phones use the very same logic board: sprint , verizon , tracfone/straight talk and a smj327r4(u.s cell?). and i managed to get the verizon firmware downloaded for the smj327vl, but really need an extra device to test if it works to install on the st/tracfone variant. if it works then we would have a valid android 7.0 on the luna pro model.
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I have a spare sm-s327vl to try the firmware flash what is the google drive link???
I'm not sure on how to add the drive link. am adding it to my Dropbox so I'll post it here in a couple minutes hopefully
Found a way...lol
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/mobile/my-drive
It's labeled j327vl. And thanks for being a guinea pig for testing it. Let me know if it works!
What I do know is that it is in multiple parts..... For flashing in Odin. So I guess that's how the newer phones get their files now thru Odin for a stock flash. The last phone I odin'd was a galaxy core prime and it was a single file flash.
Any news on how it went with flashing the Verizon firmware?
Im going to purchase a spare Luna pro on payday and test this out myself to see if it works.
Joker do you have any news? Did you get it flashed. Anything it would be nice to have some input.
Nobody can download it because it redirects back to their own Drive. That's not the link to share. You have to go to that file & allow link sharing. Then copy/paste that link here
Sm-s327vl
Any luck with this?
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Im going to purchase a spare Luna pro on payday and test this out myself to see if it works.
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I've searched and searched, but haven't found where anyone has made any headway toward rooting this device. Have there been any new devolpments?
Gotcha give me a couple
Alright I'm downloading it to my phone and then I'll try to upload where you can pick it up. Any recommendations to a site other than drive that would be easy to get thru