How to Root LG V30 (H930 for Europe) & Flash TWRP recovery.

Guide | How to Root LG V30 (H930 for Europe) & Flash TWRP recovery.

Flash TWRP and Root LG V30. Now you can root your LG V30 using this method. So, if you need any information about the guide on how to root your LG V30, you can follow this guide. Before rooting you have to flash TWRP recovery on your phone. If you are a beginner in terms of recovery, now we will explain TWRP recovery. TWRP or TeamWin Recovery Project is a special custom recovery for Android phones. This recovery offers a complete of features that the stock recovery doesn’t. Even, you can back up or restore firmware, flash the phones with third-party software/ROMs, or wipe the partition. Including flashing a zip file to root the LG V30 phone.

This is not an official recovery, the following TWRP recovery is designed for LG V30 and has been brought by jcadduono as an XDA Recognized Developer. This recovery works on the LG v30 but has not been completely tested. Here is the list of confirmed working features (OTG storage, MTP, ADB, Flashable zip installer, Mass Storage mode, Nandroid Backup and Restore, Brightness)

The following guide given here is very tricky and may cause your LG V30 phone to become unstable. So, if you understand what you are doing, may you can continue to proceed to root your device.

Take note, the following guide and the TWRP recovery which is on the download link below are only meant for the Europe (H930) and Italy (H930G) variants of the V30. Make sure to check your device model, and don't attempt to install it on any other model.

Root and TWRP LG V30

Prerequisite.

1. You need to unlock the LG V30 phone’s bootloader using the official method.
2. Then download TWRP recovery (twrp-3.1.1-0-h930-by-jcadduono.img) Here 
• Copy the TWRP file to the extracted Android SDK tools folder.
• Rename it to twrp-v30.img
3. Download DM-verity check disabler (no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.0.zip) Here
• Copy this file to the SD card root directory.
4. Enable USB debugging. 
5. Download and Install LG V30 drivers on your PC. Here
6. Download ADB and fastboot installer or Android SDK tools Here
7. Before proceeding ahead, we highly recommend taking a full backup of your LG device.

Flashing TWRP recovery LG V30 Guide.

1. Extract all Android SDK tools zip file at C:\adb.
2. Now, go to the folder where the files are present (Example: C:\adb).
3. Then, On an empty space inside this folder, press and hold the SHIFT button and right-click. Select “Open command window here” or “Open PowerShell window here” from the menu that appears.

   

   open the command window here

4. Enable OEM Unlock and USB Debugging on your LG V30 now if it’s not done already.
5. Then, plug the LG V30 into the PC using the original USB cable. Then type the following command at the command prompt. (make sure USB Debugging is enabled)

• adb devices

6. Then, the command shall return an LG V30 device ID.
7. Now, reboot your V30 into fastboot mode. How to reboot LG V30 into fastboot or bootloader mode? You can type the following command to boot your device into bootloader mode.

• adb reboot bootloader

8. Once your LG V30 enters bootloader mode, install TWRP recovery on LG V30 using the following command:

• fastboot flash recovery twrp-v30.img

9. Once the flashing TWRP process is done, you need to reboot your LG V30 into TWRP recovery.
10. If we boot into Android OS, then the system will automatically remove TWRP, so let’s boot into TWRP from here. For this:
• Press and hold both Volumes down first, and then also press and hold the Power button. 
• When you see the LG logo on the screen, quickly release it for one second and re-hold the Power button 
• While do not release the Volume down button at all. A Factory Data reset screen will appear, 
• Now release both the Power and Volume down buttons. 
• Now, boot into TWRP, and for that — it’s weird — do a factory reset here using the instructions on the screen. (Select Yes two times.) This will not reset your device actually, but this will boot your device into TWRP recovery, and TWRP will ignore the reset request. Our job was to boot into TWRP, and this Factory Reset trick gets us that.
11. Swipe at the bottom to allow for modifications and get to the TWRP home screen.
12. Then, install the DM-verity check disabler file to disable the DM-verity check by Android OS, and safely boot your device without issues.
13. To do this, you need to tap the install button from the TWRP main menu.
14. In the end, you need to select the Reboot system option to restart the device on Android OS. Done

Root Instruction.

Once TWRP is successfully installed, now we can root LG V30 using Magisk or SuperSU.

Root LG V30 with SuperSU.

1. Download the following tool.
• SuperSu from Here 
• or download Magisk from Here
2. Then, copy SuperSu to the internal memory root directory.
3. Now, boot your LG V30 device into TWRP recovery. How to boot LG V30 into TWRP recovery?
• Press & hold the Volume down + Power button.
• Release the power button for a second when the LG logo comes up on the screen.
• Then you will see the factory reset menu.
• From here, select ‘Yes’ two times, and you will boot into TWRP.
4. Then, tap on Install and select the SuperSU zip file that you copy to your phone in Step 1 above.
5. After selecting one of the .zip files above, Swipe to Confirm Flash on the bottom of the screen to begin the flashing zip file.
6. Once SuperSU is flashed, you’ll get the Reboot System option, select it.

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