HOW TO ROOT AND INSTALL CUSTOM RECOVERY ON LG K550 STYLO 2 PLUS

Have you ever been looking for a means to root and install custom recovery to you LG stylo plus 2 k550, if you find your self here then you are in the right place because we shall giving you step by step quide on how to root and install custom recovery to your LG stylo 2 plus k55. Not that this article is strictly only for LG STYLO 2PLUS K550.

But before we move forward, you should know the meaning of some words we be using in the cause of this process.

ROOT.

When we talk of rooting, it a process that allow user of smartphones,Tablet and many more device running the android operating system to have control or attain some privileges over their smartphones. Some of this privileges are for example rooting will give you the privilege to delete system applications those application that comes with your device may be for the reason that the apps are eating up your space so you will want to gain more space by removing those apps that useless in your respective countries to free some space then you need to root your device to gain such privilege. Other root their device in other to play with their system firmware. Your android version of your device might be low or your device is not smarter you will also want to install a lighter system to make your device faster a little. In this case you will need to install a custom firmware to archive your coal doing this root access and custom recovery is required to do so. Well there are many more reason but we shall end and move to the next since we have a lot to cover

CUSTOM RECOVERY.

We can say our smartphones has a firmware known as recovery. Img this firmware is what help us to boot our device in to recovery to perform hard reset when our device is stock on password or pattern. But when we talk of custom recovery, it is a third-party application that still perform the same task as the original recovery that come with your device (stock recovery) but this particular program has additional features not found in your original stock recovery. For example, custom recoveries often have the ability to backup current system and also create and restore device backups. This is what allow you to install custom firmware’s (ROM) to our smartphones. And example of such a program is known as Twrp recovery which you get it from the playstore.

CUSTOM FIRMWARE’S (ROM).

Custom rom are android system not build by the original phone manufactures. They are simply android system created by developers. We have been hearing people talking about custom rom’s and we don’t know what they mean by that that why many people using android smart phone will never come across custom roms except for experience technicians that will wan to increase the performance of their android system and also unlock many features by installing custom rom. The term ROM stand for read only memory but it has nothing to do with what is known as a custom rom. A custom android is just a firmware which is based on google android system platform. As we all know android is an open source therefor any developer and edit the codes rebuild it to his test, recompile and release to defferent android system out there. Some of this roms when install they change our device appearance and even behavior due to the fact it has been edited. Custom roms are available for all types of devices running the android OS. We have some few examples like lineage OS Cyanogen Mod OS, AOKP and many more.

Ø WHY INSTALL CUSTOM ROMS

When we install custom roms we experience the following.

§ We can easily enable and disabled root access by just toggling a system setting.

§ We can install android skins to customise our device GUI

§ When we install custom roms we get latest version of android smartphone version

§ Installing custom system replace the manufacturer skin with a custom one

§ When we install custom roms, it helps us to eliminate bloatware (those apps installed by the manufacture.

§ Disable the volume warning that Android constantly shows when you increase the system volume while headphones are plugged in.

Ø REASON NOT TO INSTALL CUSTOM ROMS.

Custom rom aren’t the most perfect as they come with their adverse effects installing custom system and lan you in to the following

§ Hardware issues: the custom ROM may not be compatible with your device that is it may not be able to support every bit of hardware in your device for example Wi-Fi may not turn on as well as Bluetooth or the camera may not able to take pictures

§ Battery life issues: the custom ROM may not meet your device optimization requirement and for that reason it will drain the battery fasting than the device official ROM.

§ Other reason could be that the custom has not been tested yet so it could have a lot of errors due to editing and compiling.

From above we have covered almost the important aspect that let you understand what we shall be doing the next line so stay focus and follow us step by step in other not to damage your device.

Ø STEP BY STEP PROCEDURES TO ROOT AND INSTALL TWRP RECOVERY ON LG STYLO2 PLUS K550

To proceed you should know that to root your device you will need to unlock your device bootloader. Bootloader is a security which is incorporated in to android smart phones system to prevent user from playing around with the stock firmware. Therefor to archive this you need to unlock the bootloader before rooting your device.

Note that before you begin the process of rooting and unlocking your bootloader you need to first unzip the Stylo2.zip file to your desktop to make things easier for you.

· To begin navigate to the folder you just extracted to your desktop containing the LG stylo2.zip and install minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.4.1_setup.exe make sure to also Install PhoneDrivers.exe (Also found in the Stylo2 folder).

· Once you have succeeded in installing the above files, move on the next step which you will need to go to phone setting the go to general setting and scroll down then you find developer option. In some cases, you won’t find it so will need to go to about phone then click on the software section and tap six times on the build number to enable the option.

· Now once the developer options appear, tap on it and accept the warning message and then enable the following

§ Enable OEM unlock

§ Enable USB debugging

§ Enable File Transfer

· Now let move on to the next step which is to Place no-verify-opt-encrypt-5.1.zip and SuperSU.zip onto your external SD card.

· Now after placing the two files in to your SD CARD, move ahead to enable the following connect your device and enabled

§ Charging mode and

§ Authorize your computer for USB debugging.

· After the steps above is completed, navigate to minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.4.1_setup.exe found in the folder you extracted to your desktop and install if you have already then locate the icon on your desktop right-click on it and select open contain folder. Once the folder appears copy all the file from the extracted folder on your desktop and past them in the minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.4.1_setup.exe folder.

· Now open the icon of minimal adb fastboot found on your screen then type

adb devices. This will help to make us know our device is now connected.

· Now we head straight

· Now we move forward to unlock the bootloader of your device in doing this we have to enter the following commands to execute the process

fastboot oem unlock

your device should now begin to wife. Note that once you’re unlocking the bootloader you will loss all file and docx there we recommend you to back up your info before proceeding.

· Once the process is finished, by wiping your data, you will need to flash the recovery.img to your device by using the following commands:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.

this will flash the recovery.img in to your device that will enable you boot in to the Twrp recovery to install the root files. Once you enter the code above you should get a result similar to the one below.

C:\Users\Hyperion\Desktop\Stylo2> fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

target reported max download size of 262144000 bytes

sending 'recovery' (15588 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.508s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.406s]

finished. total time: 0.918s

PS C:\Users\Hyperion\Desktop\Stylo2>

· The next step will be to turn your device off by removing the battery, unplug your USB cables then insert your battery back again and hold the following keys to boot your device in to Twrp recovery as seen on the picture below. Press and hold vol down and press the power key once you see LG logo, and release and hold the power key then follow the menu to enter in to the Twrp recovery to install the zip file found in the memory card.