How to Root the LG Intuition

Maybe you don’t like the stock UI on your LG Intuition? Maybe you want to change the way your device works? Either way, this guide should help you. It teaches how you can root your LG Intuition, so you can then install your favorite root-only apps (launchers, system UIs, etc) on your device. Here’s how:

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 Intuition, 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 Intuition:

I. Before You Begin

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

2. You must have ADB installed on your PC. If you don’t, follow our guide here and you should be good to go.

II. Downloading Required Files

1. Download SU and save it to your desktop.

SU (Download link’s given in the first post)

2. Download LG Root .sh and save it to your desktop.

LG Root (Download link’s available in the first post)

3. Download ADB and save it to your desktop.

ADB

III. Rooting the LG Intuition

1. Extract files from ADB to your desktop 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. Launch a Command Prompt Window on your desktop. To do that, hold down Shift and right-click on any blank area on your screen and select Open command window here.

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

adb push su /data/local/tmp/su
adb push lgroot.sh /data/local/tmp/lgroot.sh

6. These commands should get the required files transferred to your device.

7. Then, issue the following commands hitting Enter after each:

adb shell
chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/lgroot.sh
rm /data/vpnch/vpnc_starter_lock
ln -s /data/local.prop /data/vpnch/vpnc_starter_lock
exit
adb reboot

8. Your device should reboot after the last command.

9. When your device reboots, unplug your device and then plug it back in after a couple of seconds. This’ll help your PC to detect your device, in case it has forgotten it.

10. Then type in the following command and hit Enter:

adb wait-for-device shell

11. Issue these commands:

echo 'ro.kernel.qemu=1' > /data/local.prop
exit
adb reboot

12. Then run the following commands:

adb wait-for-device /data/local/tmp/lgroot.sh
adb wait-for-device shell
su

13. Now unplug your device from your PC and then plug it back in.

14. Then, issue the following commands:

rm /data/local.prop
rm /data/vpnch/vpnc_starter_lock
reboot

15. Your device should reboot.

16. When it boots-up, head over to the Google Play store and download and install SuperSU on your device.

17. You’re done!

Congrats! After quite a hard-work, you’ve finally gained root-access on your LG Intuition device.

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

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