[cltisdale]

I bought a bunch of LG Zone 3 phone but could never get them rooted. I found this site https://www.smartphoneclinics.com/how-t ... -kingroot/ and followed each step and it worked.
I hope this helps you.

[mjspring]

Part that sucks for me, I bought two of those phones but neither have the option for OEM unlocking. Tried just about every rooting tool out there. Still works great though, better than some of my others

[Usadream321]

Why do you root? What is the purpose?

[cltisdale]

Update. I got the first 4 phones rooted without a problem. However the next 5 wouldn't root. It looks like the LG Zone 3 with an "Android Security Patch Level" 2015-12-01 will root but phones with a patch level later than that will not. I'm not 100% sure that is the problem but I'll let you know what I find out.

[cltisdale]

Usadream321 - A rooted phone allows you to use functions that would otherwise not be available. Joe's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5xjdnu5pw explains it better.

[zerocool]

is this phone bj is selling?

[zerocool]

2 different videos

[Scott_]

I got one of my 6 LG Zone 3s to root. Kind of at a loss how to get the rest of these to root. King Root definetly didn't work for me.

[Scott_]

KingRoot like the others. Same make and model but for some reason the other 5 simply won't work.

[cubcadetlover]

I have 15 of the LG Zone 3 devices (Verizon) and every one of them is rooted. Its easy peasy now... I rip them out of the box new and root them after 1st bootup. I have PP4 - PP8 phones. Don't need to Kingroot it or whatever... Just flash his rooted image.

I worked with Astr4y4L to test my phones and every one of them works. He wants a "donation" to help offset his time and effort.

The effort starts getting good around page 71:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/genera ... 462/page71

[zerocool]

thanks

[Scott_]

@cubcadetlover. Thank you for the lead! I'll look into it some more today.

@bboytech: Got a point but I think I saw a post in there for if someone couldn't donate there was an option available. But it was more difficult to implement as a less polished process.

[cubcadetlover]

A quick summary so you don't have to read the 80+ pages...

For the Kingroot kind of rooting, you need a PP1-some PP4... Other PP4 and version PP5 and above don't work with Kingroot. You need to use the image by Astr4y4l.

If you take a newer phone PP4+ and flash an older SW level (PP2 is easily available), there are differences in the display chips/drivers and the screen is unusable.

I think I bought my first Zone 3 in Dec 2016 and it as a PP5. I don't think anything newer than that is rootable with Kingroot.

[Chazf2]

Here is a great tutorial on how to root them. i have rooted all 6 of mine! https://androidforums.com/threads/veriz ... t.1223248/

[Chazf2]

**** soon as i post it it gets take down lol

[Chazf2]

**** soon as i post it it gets take down lol

[Chazf2]

ya the link works! but the guy took all of the download links down so you cant root

[Chazf2]

i have it all downloaded but no one else can anymore . and i cant share it becuase i already deleted half of it science i already have the apps installed

[Chazf2]

ya. i emailed the guy and he is asking for money and im not paying him for download links i can probably find myself if i knew what they were called!