Ive had my lg lucid for about three months and have been unable to root it! Ive finally found a method but im getting this popup on my phone asking for a encryption password to restore my device im using the ics method btw ive never put one on there and have no clue what to do i tried google but had no luck please help!
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rooting help!
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JJPR97
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Easy fix, but it requires loosing everything in the phone (Unmount and pull the SD card out, to keep some files).
In order to get out the password (this is the way I did it), turn off the Lucid. Hold Volume Down + Power until the Lucid boots into a hard factory reset screen. Then press power twice to perform the hard factory reset. Now re-run the rooting tool and root the Lucid. (Not sure if there's another way, but quick fix with a sacrifice.)
ok so i did exactly what you instructed me to do and i even did it twice to double check still no success im going to post the exact problem im getting
on my phone it says
a full restore of all data from a connected desktop computer has been requested. Do you want to allow this to happen?
please enter your device encryption password below.
if the restore data is encrypted please enter the password below:
heres a picture of the command prompt
on my phone it says
a full restore of all data from a connected desktop computer has been requested. Do you want to allow this to happen?
please enter your device encryption password below.
if the restore data is encrypted please enter the password below:
heres a picture of the command prompt
wiisixtyfour
Well-Known Member
Can't you just leave it blank and continue since there is no password?
JJPR97
Well-Known Member
Strange how this issue persists, usually a hard factory reset gets rid of the password.
Try this, do another factory reset, go into the settings and find a way to set the password to something you'll know (I think it's the desktop backup password) and then try rooting.
If that doesn't work, then I can think of one left to do that could work.
Try this, do another factory reset, go into the settings and find a way to set the password to something you'll know (I think it's the desktop backup password) and then try rooting.
If that doesn't work, then I can think of one left to do that could work.
Dahek
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I would love to hear any other ideas you have for solving this problem. I have tried so many different things I'm almost at the point of selling my Lucid and getting a phone I know can be reliably rooted. I had it rooted fine on Gingerbread but it seems since I updated to ICS it no longer wants to root. It seems only some people are experiencing this issue, others seem to be able to root fine. If I remember correctly the first time I ran the root program it didn't ask for a password of any kind but it still didn't stick. I have tried running it with the sd card in and out, sim card in and out. I have hard reset idk how many times and it still asks for a password. Setting the Desktop Backup Password does nothing, it still says Restore started and then Restore ended with nothing else happening. I don't know what else to try. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you.
xxwhynotxx
Android Enthusiast
A full wipe should get rid of any encryption shouldn't it?
Dahek
Lurker
Yes it should but I believe it's the application itself and not the phone, I know I have never encrypted my phone or sd card so there should be no reason for a password prompt whatsoever. The only thing I can think of is since I did a OTA update I need to find a OTA specific root. Possibly like this Spectrum root I found on the forum. It's still not a fix for this problem though, I would prefer this method of rooting but if the other works I will use it until whatever is causing this is figured out and a fix is made available. Going to try the OTA Spectrum Root I found now.
Edit: It worked, it actually rooted my phone with no hang ups and no problems at all, it must have been because I upgraded to ICS OTA. Either way I am happy to use this root now, I'm willing to try other methods to get the other root method to work if anyone has any ideas I haven't tried yet though.
Edit: http://androidforums.com/spectrum-all-things-root/637556-root-lg-spectrum-ics-ota.html is the link to the OTA ICS root I used and can confirm worked for my Lucid if anyone who had issues with the other method wants to try it. Quick note, before I found this method I tried the method in the post, I hard reset my phone and had the SD Card out of the phone when I rooted, not sure if it would make any difference but just trying to provide all the information I can.
JJPR97
Well-Known Member
I use the same rooter, works well. Well atleast you have root now.
Dahek
Lurker
I'm just happy to have root again, all my apps are taking up the majority of my sd storage, I'm happy to finally be able to reinstall them and get my space back for other things. I'm going to keep this root on my sd card and pc for back up just in case.
JJPR97
Well-Known Member
Try DropBox
Dahek
Lurker
I got it but I'm paranoid so just about every way I can I'll back it up, same goes with the firmware in case it bricks
thanks for the suggestion though.
JJPR97
Well-Known Member
Yeah it is a pain in the ass sometimes, same thing with the LG Venice.