How to Root the LG L70

If you’re rocking a brand-new LG L70 smartphone and your hands are itching to try out each and every feature of the phone, rooting is what we recommend you to do. With root on your device, not only will you be able to use the system features, but you’ll be able go even beyond what normally your device can offer.

Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device.  Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do.

Once you have root access on your LG L70, you’ll be able to:

  • Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.
  • Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).
  • Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).
  • Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).
  • Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
  • Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).

Interested? Here’s how to root your LG L70:

I. Before You Begin

1. This will void the warranty of your device. We won’t be held responsible if you end-up bricking or damaging your device, so do it at your own risk.

2. You can reinstate your warranty by unrooting your device, however.

3. You should’ve required drivers installed on your PC. If you haven’t, you can download the latest drivers from here.

II. Downloading Required Files

1. Download ADB and save it to your desktop.

ADB

2. Download Update ZIP and save it to your desktop.

Update ZIP (Download link’s given in the first post, in step-2)

III. Rooting the LG L70

1. Extract files from ADB by right-clicking on it and selecting Extract here.

2. Enable USB debugging on your device by heading to Menu > Settings > Developer options > USB debugging.

3. Plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.

4. Copy Update ZIP from your desktop over to the root of your SD card.

5. Launch a Command Prompt Window on your desktop. To do so, simply hold down Shift and right-click on any blank area on your screen and select Open command window here.

6. Type in following command into the Command Prompt Window:

adb reboot recovery

7. Your device should reboot into recovery mode.

In the recovery mode, the Volume buttons are used for navigation and the Power button for making a selection.

8. Select apply update from external sdcard.

9. Choose the update.zip file you copied earlier to be flashed on your device.

10. When it’s been flashed, choose reboot system now.

11. You’re now rooted!

Congratulations! Your LG L70 is now rooted and you should be able to see the SuperSU app in your app drawer when your device boots-up. Have fun!

You can click here to find all of the LG L70 How To’s.

You can also find all of the LG L70 ROMs we have here.

6 thoughts on “How to Root the LG L70”

  1. It says to put update zip to sd card, where exactly to put it : on micro sd card or somewhere else? Put the directory in the answer please, sorry for my bad english

  2. on my device when I type adb device command adb reboot recovery and says that the device is offline … someone help me ??? pleeeease …

  3. 5. Launch a Command Prompt Window on your desktop. To do so, simply hold down Shift and right-click on any blank area on your screen and select Open command window here.

    what? it’s not working

  4. Łukasz Laki Latuszek

    Hi , when im in recovery end entering apply from sdcard it showing E:failed to mount /sdcard(invalid argument)

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