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I currently have the LG Vortex, Android 2.2, and it seems as though Verizon has an update out -$Link to verizon forums - PM me for link& - According to them i need to come here. The update is fairly big, involves an OS update as well as other enhancements. But when i attempt to run the update it fails, and i cant help but think its because of my rooted phone (z4). Am i just S.O.L for the update or can i do it another way?
If you rooted and then removed stock apps, you are SOL for the OTA. To get the OTA, the update program looks to match to the original stock apps (City ID, VZ Navigator, etc) If you removed any stock apps, the update will fail.
Try heading over to the Vortex forum and look through the ROMs there. Chances are there is a CWM flashable zip version of it that will let you get past this problem.
Good luck.
Im not seeing a forum specificaly for the LG vortex, im assuming i need to get into one of the optimus forums?
alphaman1101 said:
Im not seeing a forum specificaly for the LG vortex, im assuming i need to get into one of the optimus forums?
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afaik no optimus phone is compatible with the lg vortex
Hi, reading through the forums, it sounds like rooting a Note Pro 12.2 on Verizon is either very difficult, or impossible? I'm going to buy one of these for either VZW or AT&T to test for my team of 6 salespeople to use in the field and would need it to be rooted so we can use multi window on all apps. Would prefer VZW because I have most of my devices there now and use Message+ which is awesome for texting on all my devices. But if I have to go AT&T to root, I'll do that - I think this functionality is more important to us. I'd appreciate any input you have on this, and also if someone would be willing to walk me through the rooting process I'd be happy to compensate. Thanks, Scott
moransw said:
Hi, reading through the forums, it sounds like rooting a Note Pro 12.2 on Verizon is either very difficult, or impossible? I'm going to buy one of these for either VZW or AT&T to test for my team of 6 salespeople to use in the field and would need it to be rooted so we can use multi window on all apps. Would prefer VZW because I have most of my devices there now and use Message+ which is awesome for texting on all my devices. But if I have to go AT&T to root, I'll do that - I think this functionality is more important to us. I'd appreciate any input you have on this, and also if someone would be willing to walk me through the rooting process I'd be happy to compensate. Thanks, Scott
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Rooting the Verizon model is very easy as long as it is on Android 4.4 (Android 5.1 was recently released for it and is not rootable)
The instructions here are what I used, they are very straightforward: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795630
The downside to the carrier models is that they have locked bootloaders.
So even though you can get root access you wont be able to install Roms or alternate recovery images and such, so you would be stuck on android 4.4.
You would be able to do everything you normally could do on a rooted 4.4 stock rom though.
I have the Verizon model (SM-P905V) and I love it, I currently have a T-mobile sim in it and it gets LTE with no issues.
if you want to be able to root, install a custom recovery and install roms as well as have mobile Broadband you would need the international LTE model (SM-P905) but they are increasingly hard to find for some reason.
firefly6240 said:
Rooting the Verizon model is very easy as long as it is on Android 4.4 (Android 5.1 was recently released for it and is not rootable)
The instructions here are what I used, they are very straightforward: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795630
The downside to the carrier models is that they have locked bootloaders.
So even though you can get root access you wont be able to install Roms or alternate recovery images and such, so you would be stuck on android 4.4.
You would be able to do everything you normally could do on a rooted 4.4 stock rom though.
I have the Verizon model (SM-P905V) and I love it, I currently have a T-mobile sim in it and it gets LTE with no issues.
if you want to be able to root, install a custom recovery and install roms as well as have mobile Broadband you would need the international LTE model (SM-P905) but they are increasingly hard to find for some reason.
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Thanks for your response firefly6240, I appreciate it!
Hi, I recently damaged my S4 and decided to upgrade to the S6, so far I love the phone, got it new for $250
However since it's with straight talk in not one of the more common models and I can't really seem to find any information on it, I'm mostly hoping to find a way to root it, a custom recovery would be nice but I certainly don't need it
Has anyone had any experience with this device?
Or could someone maybe point me in the right direction?
Device: Galaxy S6 (Straight Talk)
Model: SM-S907VL
Baseband: S907VLUDU1APG8 (idk if that's important lol)
Android: 6.0.1
I appreciate any help that you guys might be able to give
I am looking for the same!
Would like to root and install CM.
Samsung S6 SM-907VL
I too got the "Black Friday" deal with this phone. It is Straight Talk and is a nice phone. I emailed a popular rooting developer and they have a list a mile long with phones their app will root. But it will not root this model. If someone finds an app that will root, please post.
Looking to root this model too. Could you flash a rom from one that uses the same board and chip set? Essentially turning it from a straight talk phone to Verizon , sprint, or at&t then proceed to root from there? Might be a noob question but I been wondering if it would work
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Krussell9233 said:
Looking to root this model too. Could you flash a rom from one that uses the same board and chip set? Essentially turning it from a straight talk phone to Verizon , sprint, or at&t then proceed to root from there? Might be a noob question but I been wondering if it would work
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You can not do that. Unless you want to brick your phone. I am searching now, will let you know if I come up with anything!
AWILLIAMSON said:
You can not do that. Unless you want to brick your phone. I am searching now, will let you know if I come up with anything!
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Well hopefully we can hear back soon, I've still had pretty much no luck with this model, seems it's too little know for anything custom yet
Has anyone tried KingRoot?
I've tried Kingroot a few times now, the device is not supported unfortunately
Need root and 7.0 rom!
Seriously been looking for root since I got this phone. Is anyone even working on a root for it? Would the root for sm-s903vl work for the sm-s907vl or would it brick it? At this point I don't even care if I trip Knox. I just want ROOT!!
Fruitless searching for method to root sm-s907VL S6
Has anyone found anywhere that has information about rooting this model or atleast maybe the news that someone is working on it?! I have searched and searched and tried several different methods but nothing has worked yet. I really like this phone so far but I really gotta have my customization fix for it. Thank you to anyone who can give me some hope and of course if I find anything I'll post it here.
Thanks
I don't suppose anyone has had any luck with this device?
I'm having trouble finding stock firmware as well, I was thinking I might try a couple methods for different models but that's a little foolish without a way back to stock...
As a side note, don't buy straight talk phones, nothing seems to exist for them xD
You can get the stock software at www.firmware.gem-flash.com... I've used their copy personally and had no problems..
Device: Galaxy S6 (Straight Talk)
Model: SM-S907VL
I have the same issue and have tried several root tools and none have worked yet. Maybe some devs will get it working for one of them soon.
I have tried everything. If there is somebody smart enough to root the galaxy s6 s907vludu through straightalk please let me know. I have been searching for months. If anybody can find something for this unrootable phone please let me know.
I have model s906l it's an early sts6 and Im currently running s907vl firmware. I think the s906l can be rooted but it's running Android 5.02. My point being if you really want root maybe you can flash the s906l firmware using oden. Update nope I was able to flash up but cant flash back down. Stuck on mm without root for now.
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I have model s906l it's an early sts6 and Im currently running s907vl firmware. I think the s906l can be rooted but it's running Android 5.02. My point being if you really want root maybe you can flash the s906l firmware using oden. Update nope I was able to flash up but cant flash back down. Stuck on mm without root for now.
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I don't think you can downgrade an OS. Bootloaders would normally not allow it.
I tried flashing the 5.0.2 SM-S906L rom on the SM-S907VL through Odin and it gives a secure boot check fail.
garwells said:
Has anyone found anywhere that has information about rooting this model or atleast maybe the news that someone is working on it?! I have searched and searched and tried several different methods but nothing has worked yet. I really like this phone so far but I really gotta have my customization fix for it. Thank you to anyone who can give me some hope and of course if I find anything I'll post it here.
Thanks
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I am having the same issue, I have the S6 SM-S907VL as well, I am very pleased with the phone itself as well as the cell carriers service but not having any developers hacks & mods or stock firmware or rooting methods for it is really frustrating
Sparky56p said:
I don't suppose anyone has had any luck with this device?
I'm having trouble finding stock firmware as well, I was thinking I might try a couple methods for different models but that's a little foolish without a way back to stock...
As a side note, don't buy straight talk phones, nothing seems to exist for them xD
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I have the same model also I wish now that never seen it. I've had an LG Stylo 3, and Motorola phone all of which I could easily download a ROM from here and easily customize the phone. This phone has proven impossible.
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nk24202 said:
I have the same model also I wish now that never seen it. I've had an LG Stylo 3, and Motorola phone all of which I could easily download a ROM from here and easily customize the phone. This phone has proven impossible.
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Any new updates on a possible root and custom rom for the SM-S907VL? Starting to look like we're out of luck :/
Has anyone been able to get a working root / ROM for the J3 Eclipse on Verizon yet? It would be so nice to be able to remove all this bloatware Samsung UI and apps since the phone isn't all that fast in the first place. It has been years since I rooted any phone so maybe I am just overlooking something, been searching but no luck so far.
From what I can tell,your J3 is identical to ours on Sprint, Boost and Virgin Mobile. Our TWRP may be compatible with your device. @ashyx would know better than I. Hardware wise they appear to be the same. Now software is another matter. Your partitions may be different than ours so I do not advise a flash of our recovery. But it is worth asking those that know more about it. Will depend on whether your bootloader is locked also.
tyler4 said:
Has anyone been able to get a working root / ROM for the J3 Eclipse on Verizon yet? It would be so nice to be able to remove all this bloatware Samsung UI and apps since the phone isn't all that fast in the first place. It has been years since I rooted any phone so maybe I am just overlooking something, been searching but no luck so far.
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Hi, just asking, since i cant find any useful information, is there at the moment, or at any time in the near future, going to be a development thread for the LG- Stylo 5?
right now, i cant even seem to find a useful guide to root the device, or install TWRP (not just talking about XDA, but EVERYWHERE)
if you google it, you get a bunch of links to guides that "seem" good, but its like non of the people there know what they are saying, like "click *here* to download twrp" and it send to team-win but they dont even have the img for the stylo 5
like every guide out there(about the stylo 5) is just some idiot did copy-paste from other stuff
what im saying, sorry if it comes out wrong, it seems that XDA is the only place to find useful stuff, and will there be anything for Stylo 5?
As far as I can tell the bootloader on the phone is locked so it can't be rooted unless some exploit is found. I got one cheap to use as a second phone to play around with, and thought about rooting it but it looks like it's a no go for now.
I'm having the same trouble
arietgr said:
Hi, just asking, since i cant find any useful information, is there at the moment, or at any time in the near future, going to be a development thread for the LG- Stylo 5?
right now, i cant even seem to find a useful guide to root the device, or install TWRP (not just talking about XDA, but EVERYWHERE)
if you google it, you get a bunch of links to guides that "seem" good, but its like non of the people there know what they are saying, like "click *here* to download twrp" and it send to team-win but they dont even have the img for the stylo 5
like every guide out there(about the stylo 5) is just some idiot did copy-paste from other stuff
what im saying, sorry if it comes out wrong, it seems that XDA is the only place to find useful stuff, and will there be anything for Stylo 5?
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I'm having the same trouble. Everything i find is garbage and won't work . To make it worse mines a LM-Q720CS . Cricket sucks . i can't get them to give me the unlock code or anything.
So what I'd like to ask is " Is there anything i can do to unlock my stylo 5 ? Or at least some cool stuff ?
I think they need more Stylo 5 development forums too
They should make a forum on LG site mainly.A discussion is cool but I've had smaller phones with more support.
https://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveBootloader.dev?categoryId=CTULRS0702
Has anyone tried this?
Android Q is now available for this phone. Already updated on Metro.
mkhtfld76 said:
Android Q is now available for this phone. Already updated on Metro.
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Where can i find this?
Bobbien916 said:
Where can i find this?
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Metro sent it to me as an OTA update a few months back. I was surprised because Metro PCS has always been horrible regarding os updates. Both my Samsung tablets and the Stylo 5 received updates within days of one another. Maybe you should try to manually update if you havent received it yet?
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Metro sent it to me as an OTA update a few months back. I was surprised because Metro PCS has always been horrible regarding os updates. Both my Samsung tablets and the Stylo 5 received updates within days of one another. Maybe you should try to manually update if you havent received it yet?
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Im new at this type of stuff. Do i just call them
remy2501 said:
https://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveBootloader.dev?categoryId=CTULRS0702
Has anyone tried this?
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The device is not supported on the website i tried
Joker5alive said:
I'm having the same trouble
I'm having the same trouble. Everything i find is garbage and won't work . To make it worse mines a LM-Q720CS . Cricket sucks . i can't get them to give me the unlock code or anything.
So what I'd like to ask is " Is there anything i can do to unlock my stylo 5 ? Or at least some cool stuff ?
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I have cricket, they unlocked the network for me for free, through the app, after 6 months paid service, but I like the 15 gigs of hot spot, so I never changed carriers