{"id":8380,"date":"2014-08-25T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:38:32","slug":"root-lg-optimus-g-pro-f240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/root-lg-optimus-g-pro-f240\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Root The LG Optimus G Pro (F240)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintained&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7492\" style=\"padding-top: 20px; border-bottom: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lgoptimusgprobanner.jpg?resize=1024%2C617&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"How To Root The LG Optimus G Pro\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; padding-top: 20px;\">This guide will show you how to root the LG Optimus G Pro (F240) phone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; width: 70%; margin: 0 auto;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; margin: 1.5em 0; padding: 20px;\">FlexiSPY is not responsible for rooting the Android device in any way. Before performing any of these steps make sure you back up your Android device completely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">What is needed to root the LG Optimus G Pro (F240)?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">In order to root the LG Optimus G Pro (F240) you will need the following.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The LG Optimus G Pro (F240) you wish to root<\/li>\n<li>A PC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 1 &#8211; Set Up The Android SDK Environment On Your PC<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Before you can run the rooting tools on your PC to root the LG Optimus G Pro (F240) you must first set up the Android development environment correctly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">In order to root the LG Optimus G Pro (F240) you must have the Android SDK downloaded and installed on to your computer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">You can download the SDK from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mobotalks82\/home\/cwm\/LG%20Optimus%20G%20Pro%20Root.zip?attredirects=0&amp;d=1\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 2 &#8211; Download the LG Optimus G Pro File<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">In order to root the LG Optimus G Pro you first need to download the root file to your PC which you can get from <a href=\"#\">here<\/a>. Make sure you save it in an easy to access location such as your desktop. Once saved, extract it to its own folder.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 3 &#8211; Enable USB debugging on the LG Optimus G Pro<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">So that the phone is recognized by your PC when you plug it in to the root it you must first enable USB debugging on the phone itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">To do this go to <strong>Settings &gt; Development <\/strong>and make sure that <strong>USB debugging <\/strong>is <strong>checked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">If you do not see the development menu go to <strong>Settings &gt; About <\/strong>and find the build number and keep tapping that until the development menu is shown.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 4 &#8211; Enable installation of unknown sources on the LG Optimus G Pro<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">In order to install the software that will root the LG Optimus G Pro you must first enable the installation of unknown sources on the device. This can be done by doing the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Go to <strong>Settings &gt; Security <\/strong>and make sure <strong>Unknown Sources <\/strong>is <strong>checked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 5 &#8211; Root The Phone<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Connect the phone to your PC (make sure <strong>USB debugging<\/strong> and <strong>Unknown sources<\/strong> are <strong>checked<\/strong> from the previous step.)<\/li>\n<li>Browse to the extracted folder in step 2.<\/li>\n<li>Run the <strong>root.bat <\/strong>file.<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the rooting process to complete.<\/li>\n<li>The LG Optimus G Pro will reboot once done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Once the phone has rebooted you will see the SuperSU icon which means that you have successfully rooted the LG Optimus G Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14804,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/14804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}