LG G5 is a grand and price worthy Android smartphone, which comes with 5.3 inches IPS LCD Capacitive touchscreen display powered by a 2.15 GHz Dual-core processor along with 4 GB RAM and the device runs on Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) operating system. If you own this smartphone and looking for a way to root it, you are on the right page as I have given a tutorial to root LG G5 here.
By following the rooting tutorial given here, you can able to root LG G5 smartphone without using a computer. Once the device is rooted, you can be able to install custom recoveries (TWRP or CWM), remove unwanted pre-installed applications, install custom-built Android apps, etc.
WARNING: Rooting your LG smartphone will null its warranty, and you won’t be able to claim it until the device is unrooted. So, think well about this before getting started with the rooting procedure.
Prerequisites:
Step 1: The rooting procedure given here is not a data-loss process, but it is safe to take a complete backup of personal data in your smartphone. So take a complete backup of your personal data using appropriate apps.
Step 2: First, make sure that your smartphone has at least 50-60% of battery backup in it as the rooting process is a time-consuming one.
Step 3: Now, enable Unknown Sources
in your LG G5 smartphone by following this path: Settings -> Security -> Phone Administration (click on Unknown Sources to allow installation of apps from sources other than Google Play store).
After finishing all these prerequisites, you can move forward to the rooting tutorial given below.
Tutorial To Root LG G5 Without Computer:
Step 1: To get started, download Kingroot app to your LG G5 device. Once downloaded, tap on kingroot.apk to install the app in your smartphone.
Step 2: After installing kingroot, launch it in your device. Since your device is not rooted, you will get the following message: Root Access Is Unavailable.
Step 3: Now, click on Start Root
blue button to begin the rooting process. During the rooting process, you will get the following message: Rooting. Plz, don’t worry if your device reboot.
Step 4: Once the rooting process is finished, you will get the following message: Root Successfully.
That’s it. Now you have successfully finished rooting LG G5 Android smartphone without a computer. For confirmation, open up your Apps menu and look for the KingUser app. If you can find it there, your device is successfully rooted. Alternatively, you can confirm the root privileges of your smartphone by using the Root Checker app.
If you would like to replace the KingUser app (installed by Kingroot) with SuperSU, follow our guide to replace KingUser with SuperSU. Also, if you would like to unroot the LG G5 smartphone, you can follow our guide to remove kinguser and unroot Android device.
If you own a smartphone or tablet other than LG G5 and would like to get rooting tutorials for the same, kindly visit our Rooting Tutorials page.
If you encounter any issues while following this rooting procedure, do let me know via comments.
Why would you post this article and lie to everyone with this phone? I followed your steps exactly, which you clearly didn’t test on every LG G5 model. I have the T-Mobile model and that is still not unlocked and you didn’t even specify which models these steps would apply to, I’m going to most likely guess, only the European models. No, root access doesn’t work with this OneClickRoot or any other program. Nobody has figured it out hefyet.
If all else fails revert Back to the developer website. I have an att lg g5 US model. There is a kingroot version for the current date. I have not tried it yet however I’m about to. I’m sure it will most likely work.
If it does or does not I will post Ann update of the Status acne any error messages recorded.
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Hello I have a US version T-Mobile lg g5 I started to root it got to 16% and said device can’t be rooted
does it work on a sprint version?
Io o un LG G5 ci sono stati aggiornamenti dei sistemi e ora la versione android e di 7.0 o provato l’app ma si ferma al 60%
Please follow this guide: https://rootmydevice.com/root-lg-g5-smartphone-without-computer/
it would be a REALLY good Idea to leave the spes like phone version,android version,nation etc to help people better.
This is fake. It even says that the g5 has a dual core. 1 kingroot is worthless for new devices and the screenshots arent from a g5
It is not fake. It is working properly for us.