- Hey guys, it's David from TheUnlockr.com,
and today I'm gonna show you how you can root
and get a custom recovery and begin flashing custom ROMs
on your LG G5.
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'Kay, so first so this could void your warranty.
We're not responsible for any of that, blah, blah, blah.
You also need a Windows PC to do this
because the program that we're gonna use to flash the phone
is actually a Windows program.
Now you should have done my setup ADB tutorial first
to get ADB set up.
If you haven't click the link there to be taken to that.
It takes two seconds, finish that,
and then we can come back to this one.
Now keep in mind, this is going to erase everything,
so make sure that you back everything up
that you might need.
You're going to need a micro SD card for this,
so please make sure that you have one before beginning.
Now at the time we're writing this,
this only works on the T-Mobile version
and the European version.
So if you have one of those two, you can continue.
I have a T-Mobile version
so I'm gonna show you how to do that.
You can also click the link below
to be taken to the written article
which will show you how to do the European version as well.
Now for the T-Mobile version we're gonna need some files.
So click on the link here to be taken to this page on XDA.
We're going to then download all of these
that you can see here, and then save those to your desktop.
So the DM-verify program, for some reason the link this page
is not working so just click the link on my site.
I've put it there instead.
Once all those are downloaded,
we're going to double click the LG Up
and install that on the PC.
Then the drivers and install those.
And then the DLL and install that as well.
Once all that's installed we can go to the phone.
We're gonna go to Settings.
Go to General, scroll all the way down to About phone,
then go to Software info.
Then we're gonna keep tapping Build number
until it tells you you are a developer.
You can then click back, back again.
Go to Developer options.
Hit OK, Don't show this again,
and we're gonna turn on OEM unlock.
Hit Enable, turn on USB debugging, and hit OK.
When you do that and the phone is plugged in
it's gonna pop up this, say Always allow and hit OK.
Then on the computer we're gonna go to our C drive
and our ADB folder that should have appeared
from you doing my how to set up ADB tutorial earlier,
and then we can right click anywhere that's blank
while holding shift, to hit Open command window here.
Once that command window's open,
we're gonna type ADB devices
and make sure that it shows us a serial number,
which means it can see the phone.
Then we're gonna type adb reboot bootloader,
and wait for the device to reboot into bootloader mode.
Then we can type fastboot oem unlock, and hit enter.
Then in the command window we can type fastboot reboot
to get it to reboot.
Once it does, we're gonna hold the power button
and turn it off, then we're gonna pull out the battery.
So push the button at the top, pull that out,
and leave it out for a little bit and then put it back in.
Once we do that, we're going to hold the volume up button
and then plug the phone in
while continuing to hold the volume up
until it gives us the download mode.
After that we're gonna right click the LG Up program
and say open as administrator.
Then we can click on the device
that should be highlighted in pink at the top
and choose Update.
Then we can click in this bottom table
and click the three dot button and select the TOT file
that we extracted earlier.
After that we can click Start and wait for it to flash.
After it's done doing that we are going to mount it
so that we can actually transfer files to the phone
and we're gonna grab the no-verify.zip and the superSU.zip
and we're going to put them on the micro SD card.
Not on the internal storage, on the micro SD card,
and not inside any folder, just right there
on the root of the storage.
After that we can turn the phone off.
And we're gonna turn it back on
by holding down power and volume down
until we see the LG logo.
As soon as you do, let go of power, push it again,
while continuing to hold volume down.
You'll then get this warning.
Push volume down to select yes
and push power to actually select it.
Do that twice and you'll be presented
with the custom recovery.
We're gonna click Cancel on this,
then Swipe to Allow Modifications.
Then we can tap Install.
We're gonna do Select Storage, Micro SD, hit OK.
And now we're gonna tap the no-verify.
Swipe to Flash, wait for that.
Once that's done we can hit back
and now do the same thing to the superSU.zip
And wait for that to flash.
Once that's done we can hit Reboot System,
wait for the device to reboot, and when it does,
you should see SuperSU on here.
You're now rooted, have a custom recovery,
and you're all set.
There you go, guys.
You're all set, you're rooted, you can flash custom ROMs.
You can actually click the link below
and I show you a video on how to do that exactly.
Also have a ROM repository on my site
where you can find all sorts of ROMs for the LG G5,
even with ratings and a whole bunch of other features.
You can click the link below for that.
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