Root [WIP][DEV] Custom Recovery/Bootloader unlocking Work In Progress Thread

rhino889a · May 13, 2013

Hey can someone tell ShabbyPenguin he can come back now.
Its been long enough.
Lol

pmb116 · May 13, 2013

Spec2nirvash said:
I'm sure it's possible to port miui over to run as a 2ndinit. And judging by the rough road LG has given us, 2ndinit ROMs may be the next level of development for new phones, I'm sure since I saw a potential LG mole running around the forum. Maybe the next phone will somehow block 2ndinit method....

Seeing as MIUI is based off CM........

PlayfulGod · May 13, 2013

Spec2nirvash said:
It's called 2ndinit. The kernel is hijacked and loads CM10 instead, running it on top of stock firmware LOL... Only hitch is that the same stock kernel has to be used because of bootloader lock, so no overclock and such. Google 2nd-init, it's a great read

a 2nd set of inits are able to be ran, system itself is replaced with cm's instead of stock like normal. So some mods can be made in the 2nd set of inits, just not the kernel or in the boot.img like everyone is use to.

Of course this is with CM*, etc.

zeest · May 13, 2013

Well, djrbliss has told me that LG does NOT use qfuses to determine unlock state.

quechon · May 13, 2013

zeest said:
Well, djrbliss has told me that LG does NOT use qfuses to determine unlock state.

Hey man im a spirit user but ive been following this tread really closer and i gotta say i admire the effort you are putting on unlocking the bootloader

zeest · May 13, 2013

Thanks, I appreciate it.

omgbossis21 · May 13, 2013

No qfuses? Really?

zeest · May 13, 2013

Nope, not for unlocking the bootloader. I am now looking for where the rumored flag in the misc partition is located, with the hope that it works. If someone can figure out the physical location of the misc partition, it would be very helpful.

Scorpion7867 · May 13, 2013

quechon said:
Hey man im a spirit user but ive been following this tread really closer and i gotta say i admire the effort you are putting on unlocking the bootloader

+1

Thanks guys!

PlayfulGod · May 13, 2013

zeest said:
Nope, not for unlocking the bootloader. I am now looking for where the rumored flag in the misc partition is located, with the hope that it works. If someone can figure out the physical location of the misc partition, it would be very helpful.

in adb shell type:

Code:

ls -l /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name

zeest · May 13, 2013

Err, hex physical location. Such as 0x706000

zeest · May 13, 2013

Anyone know what our encrypt partition is? It is full of just "FF" bytes.

zeest · May 14, 2013

Dev-Host - MSM8960+PM8921+WCD9310.pdf - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service Ton of qualcomm msm8960 official diagrams.

sammyz · May 14, 2013

zeest said:
Anyone know what our encrypt partition is? It is full of just "FF" bytes.

I think its TZ
tz stands for trustzone.

zeest · May 15, 2013

Nope, we have a seperate trustzone partition that is named TZ.

pmb116 · May 15, 2013

zeest said:
Anyone know what our encrypt partition is? It is full of just "FF" bytes.

Sounds like theres an encrypted image on the partition, hence the FF bytes which would signify a color code of some sort. If i were to take a guess its the key encrypted in a png or gif img.

sammyz · May 15, 2013

zeest said:
Nope, we have a seperate trustzone partition that is named TZ.

I thought the trustzone partition would be the encrypt partition??

kcarden · May 17, 2013

pmb116 said:
Sounds like theres an encrypted image on the partition, hence the FF bytes which would signify a color code of some sort. If i were to take a guess its the key encrypted in a png or gif img.

Morning call??

jstoner · May 17, 2013

I emailed lge asking how to unlock the boot loader and this is what they sent not sure if it will help still new at this

Dear Jeff,

Thank you for contacting LG Electronics. I am delighted to hear from you as our valued customer, I do
apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced and I will be glad to help you out here.

Please be advised that we do not handle this but you would want to do this in order to get information
on how to do it:
Please go into , type the model number of your
unit on the search box, hit

jstoner · May 17, 2013

Sorry heres the link
http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/index

rhino889a · May 17, 2013

I dont get it. Go into what mail icon?
I think that is there way of saying nothing.
Open source is gonna tell you that they dont have unlock power
And then i guess tell you to email metro

jstoner · May 17, 2013

After you put in the search lg motion it pops up software versions and all the way to the right has an email box then u have to send them an inquire letter thats what i got out of it
Send email for it got this in return
Will update when I receive another email

kanishk619 · May 18, 2013

zeest said:
Err, hex physical location. Such as 0x706000

Maybe this might be helpful, or maybe not.

Partition: MODEM at 0x000000800000
Partition: SBL1 at 0x000004800000
Partition: SBL2 at 0x000004880000
Partition: SBL3 at 0x000004900000
Partition: ABOOT at 0x000004A00000
Partition: RPM at 0x000004A80000
Partition: TZ at 0x000006000000
Partition: PAD at 0x000006080000
Partition: MODEMST1 at 0x000006080400
Partition: MODEMST2 at 0x000006380400
Partition: SNS at 0x000006800000
Partition: MISC at 0x000007000000
Partition: SYSTEM at 0x000008000000
Partition: USERDATA at 0x000048000000
Partition: PERSIST at 0x0001B3C00000
Partition: CACHE at 0x0001B4400000
Partition: TOMBSTONES at 0x0001C5000000
Partition: RECOVERY at 0x0001C9800000
Partition: FSG at 0x0001CA400000
Partition: SSD at 0x0001CA700000
Partition: DRM at 0x0001CA800000
Partition: FOTA at 0x0001CB000000
Partition: MPT at 0x0001CD000000
Partition: TZBAK at 0x0001CF000000
Partition: RPMBAK at 0x0001CF080000
Partition: ENCRYPT at 0x0001CF100000
Partition: RESERVED at 0x0001CF800000
Partition: GROW at 0x0001D0800000

sexylion23 · May 18, 2013

We must get this bootloader unlocked i jus seen that the sgs3 has a kennel clocked at 2.1 ghz and I'm jelly

zeest · May 18, 2013

kanishk619 said:
Maybe this might be helpful, or maybe not.

That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Where did you find it?

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