{"id":665,"date":"2017-03-19T16:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mheinzerling.de\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2017-03-26T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T11:57:57","slug":"lg-g4-811-t-mobile-unlock-bootloader-install-twrp-and-root-with-supersu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mheinzerling.de\/blog\/lg-g4-811-t-mobile-unlock-bootloader-install-twrp-and-root-with-supersu\/","title":{"rendered":"LG G4 811 (T-Mobile): Unlock bootloader, install TWRP and root with SuperSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This second article of my mini series will step you and your LG G4 811 trough unlocking the bootloader, install the custom recovery TWRP and get root access with SuperSu.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the important part: <strong>It is your phone, you are responsible for everything you do with it. Don&#8217;t blame me if you make it worst trying to follow any of my articles. You do everything at your own risk. All data will be lost.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t forget to take a backup if you need anything.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that you read <a href=\"http:\/\/mheinzerling.de\/blog\/lg-g4-811-t-mobile-unbrick-or-factory-reset-with-stock-rom\/\">LG G4 811 (T-Mobile): Unbrick or factory reset with stock ROM<\/a> and have everything prepared in case something goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This article bases on some other guide, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yilan.io\/article\/56f4703e6909081d339c0793\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theunlockr.com\/2015\/08\/23\/how-to-root-the-lg-g4-t-mobile\/\">that<\/a>. I adapted some details so it worked for me.<\/p>\n<h2>Preparation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>enable developer mode\n<ul>\n<li>open <em>Menu<\/em> &gt; <em>Settings<\/em> &gt; <em>About phone<\/em> on your LG G4<\/li>\n<li>tap 7 times on the <em>Build number<\/em>, it will day &#8222;You are a developer now&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>enter the new submenu in <em>Settings<\/em> names <em>Developer Options<\/em><\/li>\n<li>enable <em>Enable OEM Unlock<\/em><\/li>\n<li>enable <em>USB debugging<\/em><\/li>\n<li>reboot your device if it didn&#8217;t so itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>install the USB driver for LG phones on your PC with the latest installer you get from <a href=\"http:\/\/lgusbdriver.com\/\">http:\/\/lgusbdriver.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>download and extract <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxzKWBQ99T28WkdIdkhqbXotLVk\/view\">Fastboot and ADB<\/a><\/li>\n<li>download <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/tmobile-g4\/orig-development\/recovery-twrp-2-8-7-0-touch-recovery-t3164874\">TWRP Recovery<\/a> (tested with 2.8.7.2-h811.img) and copy it next to fastboot.<\/li>\n<li>download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersu.com\/download\">SuperSU<\/a> (v1.94 didn&#8217;t work for me, v2.46 <a href=\"http:\/\/mheinzerling.de\/blog\/lg-g4-811-t-mobile-unbrick-or-factory-reset-with-stock-rom\/\">soft-bricked my LG G4<\/a>, so I finally used latest 2.79)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Unlock bootloader<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>connect your device to you PC<\/li>\n<li>open a command window in your fastboot directory<\/li>\n<li><em>adb devices<\/em> should now list your device<\/li>\n<li>reboot to bootloader with <em>adb reboot bootloader<\/em><\/li>\n<li>unlock the bootloader with <em>fastboot oem unlock<\/em><\/li>\n<li>you can check it with <em>fastboot getvar unlock<\/em> or just <em>fastboot reboot<\/em> and see the hint that your device is unlocked in the top left corner while starting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Flash TWRP<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>connect your device to you PC<\/li>\n<li>open a command window in your fastboot directory<\/li>\n<li><em>adb devices<\/em> should now list your device<\/li>\n<li>reboot to bootloader with <em>adb reboot bootloader<\/em><\/li>\n<li>flash twrp with <em>fastboot flash recovery twrpXXXX.img<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>you will see something like:\n<pre>target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes\r\nsending 'recovery' (32968 KB)...\r\nOKAY [ 1.088s]\r\nwriting 'recovery'...\r\nFAILED (remote: unknown command)\r\nfinished. total time:'<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>ignore the last warning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>reboot with <em>fastboot reboot<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Flash SuperSu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>copy SuperSuXXX.zip to your phone<\/li>\n<li>reboot to recovery\n<ul>\n<li>unplug your phone and shut it down, hold VOLUME DOWN and POWER buttons to boot into recovery<\/li>\n<li>if this doesn&#8217;t work, as with my device, connect your phone to the PC and call <em>fastboot boot twrpXXXX.img<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>tap on install<\/li>\n<li>select the SuperSUXXX.zip<\/li>\n<li>reboot after installation<\/li>\n<li>check the SuperSU app after reboot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This second article of my mini series will step you and your LG G4 811 trough unlocking the bootloader, install the custom recovery TWRP and get root access with SuperSu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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