How to Root the LG G5 (Video)
How to Root the LG G5 (H830, T-Mobile Version)
If you happen to have the T-Mobile variant of the device, please follow the following section to root your device:
T-Mobile variant users should download these files:
- Download the following files from this webpage.
a. LG Up (Download link’s given in the first post)
b. DLL (Download link’s available in the first post)
c. Disabled DM-Verify (If the link in the above page doesn’t work, use this instead)
d. TOT file (Download link’s available in the first post)
e. SuperSU (Download link is available in the first post)
Rooting the LG G5 (T-Mobile)
- Double-click on LG Up and install the tool on your PC.
- Double-click on DLL and install it as well on your PC.
- Double-click the drivers and install those.
- Unlock the developer menu on your device by heading to Menu > Settings > About phone and tapping on Developer menu for 7-8 times.
- Enable USB debugging on your device by heading to Menu > Settings > Developer options and turning on USB debugging.
- Plug in your device to your PC using a USB cable.
- Launch a command prompt window on your desktop by holding down Shift and right-clicking anywhere inside the adb folder on the C drive, that we got when doing the how to setup ADB tutorial linked in the Before You Begin above, and selecting Open command window here.
- Type in the following command into the command prompt window and hit Enter:
adb reboot bootloader
- Your device should reboot into bootloader mode.
- Enter in the following command into the command prompt window and press Enter:
fastboot oem unlock
- Follow the on-screen instructions for unlocking the bootloader on your device.
- It should unlock the bootloader on your device.
- When the bootloader’s unlocked, turn off your device.
- Take the battery out of your device.
- Put the battery back in your device after a few seconds.
- Hold down Volume UP on your device and plug in your device to your PC using a USB cable.
- Your device should now be in download mode.
- Launch the LG Up tool that you installed on your PC.
- When the tool opens, click on the Upgrade option.
- Choose the TOT file you have downloaded on your PC to be flashed on your device.
- Wait for the tool to flash the TOT file on your device.
- When the TOT file’s flashed, reboot your device.
- Copy SuperSU .zip and Disabled DM-Verify from your desktop over to the internal storage on your device.
- Turn off your device.
- Turn your device back on in recovery mode by holding down Volume DOWN and Power buttons together for a few seconds.
- Let go and press the power button while still holding down the volume down button as soon as you see the LG logo come up, then keep holding them until the recovery screen comes up.
- Tap on Install in the recovery menu.
- Select No Verify .zip to be installed on your device.
- Tap on Swipe to Confirm Flash to flash No Verify .zip on your device.
- When it’s done flashing No Verify .zip, tap on Install once again.
- Select Supersu .zip to be installed on your device.
- Tap on Swipe to Confirm Flash to flash that file on your device.
- When the file’s flashed, reboot your device by selecting Reboot followed by System from the recovery menu.
- Your device should reboot.
And there you go, your LG G5 from T-Mobile is now rooted!
So I can’t do this root on a Sprint LG G5 even if its unlocked?
my device wont boot into bootloader when i hold down the power and volume up button
What device do you have and for what carrier?
Device- Lg g5
Carrrier-Three (European version)
What step are you on exactly? If it’s bootloader mode you’re trying to get into use adb reboot bootloader command while plugged in and of you mean download mode you need to take out the battery first put it back in and hold volume up while plugging it in (no power button).
C:adb>fastboot flash unlock unlock.bin
error: cannot load ‘unlock.bin’
this is all I can get to ..
That means it is not in the right folder. Check here for someone who solved the issue for a different phone, otherwise, redo the tutorial and make sure you did everything EXACTLY. Good luck – https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315947
its helps, and worked
! thanks so much!
Glad it worked and thanks for reporting back!
Hold down Volume UP and Power buttons together on your device.. don’t work for me 😕
Hiya I’m having some trouble with step 10 on “Flashing a Custom Recovery and Rooting the LG G5 (European)”. I have no problem flashing the TWRP recovery on my device, but when I type “fastboot boot XXXX.img” in to cmd, it does not reboot and says
“downloading ‘boot.img’…
OKAY [ 0.726s]
booting…
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.750s”
Can you help me??
Thanks!
It may be helpful to you if I mentioned that the volume UP and power button combo did not put my phone in to bootloader mode, so I did it manually when it was connected to my PC using adb reboot bootloader command. I am using an EE (european) LG 🙂
i have the same problem how did you do pls….
same here too. flashing works, but no chance to boot it. unknown command…
At what step do you see that command? You mean fastboot boot twrp.img? Are you typing that or actually typing XXXX?
Thats right, at the fastboot boot twrp.img step. And no, I type “fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.1.0-0-h850”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/010956bc56227dd78cdcbcc7175cac9d1e17bb08b021e5b29d7638916b6c0d11.jpg Once the recovery step has been completed, I type “fastboot boot twrp-3.1.0-0-h850.img” and in response it says “C:UsersJavidDesktop>fastboot boot twrp-3.1.0-0-h850.img
downloading ‘boot.img’…
OKAY [ 0.731s]
booting…
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.753s”
And my device remains on the bootloader mode..
Rename the twrp file to twrp so you can type just twrp.img instead of the long name first. Then reflash it using the step before it then boot into it using the next command.
If that doesn’t work try the other versions of the recovery (renaming each as you download it to twrp) and see if that works.
Otherwise there isn’t much else I can do from here without physically being there. I’d recommend googling the error and phone model and see if anyone else had the issue and posted their solution.
Hi again,
I renamed the file, then retried the steps above as you explained, but the exact same issue has occurred 🙁
Could it be that I’ve done an earlier step incorrectly? I’ve copied and pasted the BETA-SuperSU-v2.74-2-20160519174328.rar file in to my internal storage so I dont know what is causing the issue. Thanks again for all your help!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49ce7ad87127c82ff0f6c96161f6cf14763d3fe05cc1eeb7e515f304d18ca66d.jpg
Is this solved? I have the same problem…
me to
Will this root process work for android 7.0?
I don’t have the phone anymore so I wouldn’t be able to check. You can check where the developer posted the rooting files though and see if it mentions it there – http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g5/development/root-h830-t3384526
My lg g5 model is F100L, its from korea, can u please tell me how to root this?
That is not a G5. It’s an Optimus Vu. You’d have to search for a rooting tutorial for that model.
Now my phone is done for.., cant reconnect it to my pc, stopts in that werid 3 step screen.., need to Unlock the OEM, but i’m not eveing getting to my home screen..
Do this… https://theunlockr.com/2016/11/23/how-to-unroot-the-lg-g5-all-models-video/
i’ve treid the reset that way, but still stuck at the thing that says i need to Unlock the OEM..
Sorry but you need to then do that using this tutorial there isn’t much else I can do for you without literally standing there with you. Just start over. Good luck.
Thanks btw, after some trying and pushiong myself a bit more i got it working, but thanks for the help you could give as much as you could!
So glad you got it to work! Enjoy!
Would the process be the same or different on Android Version 8.0.0?
how to do it on lg h850.toth file
Please help! I have an error
downloading ‘boot.img’…
OKAY [ 0.690s]
booting…
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.710s
same for me wtf is happennig?