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LG Leon LTE

Phone · LG

Partial Bootloader unlock + custom ROM

Difficulty

Moderate

Brick risk

Medium

Legal risk

Low

Not stock root. Needs an unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM.

US carrier LG variants are often bootloader-locked.

How-to

How to

Unlock the bootloader and install custom firmware (postmarketOS and TWRP). postmarketOS status: testing.

Follow the specialist sources linked on this page. If this path is a jailbreak, unlock, or flash, the specialist wiki is the how-to — we do not copy those steps here.

Notes

TWRP and postmarketOS builds for this device are based on LineageOS device trees.

pmOS uses independent kernel (mainline or msm8916-mainline).

SourcesNot yet verified

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-lg-c50 gitlab.com
https://twrp.me/lg/lgleonlte.html twrp.me

Author canirootit research

LG Leon LTE

How-to

How to

Notes

SourcesNot yet verified

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