How to Root Lem T… hopefully
If at any time you mess up and brick your shit like i did multiple times.
open your watch up with the 4 screws and disconnect the battery. i have a photo of what connector that is and will find it when i can or if someone asks. then plug it back up and reflash the stock firmware (which you can learn how below hopefuly)
these steps are may be confusing as hell…sorry as i was learning how to do it myself in the process.
there may be extra steps that are not needed but if you follow these steps it will work… hopefully. if not you will be 30 steps closer to rooting your watch. lol
mtk devices are extremely hard to permanently brick so dont worry.
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Download Iscle’s custom trwp recovery found above in this forum post https://discourse.fullandroidwatch.com/t/lem-t-reviews-and-faqs/50030/64
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download the firmware you prefer for the watch. I perfer version Lem 1.0 rather than lem1.4. because 1.0 has the coolest watch face ever (fluid) and 1.0 has gps on the exercise app and 1.4 has no gps. everything else about the firmware is the same. http://www.lemfo.com/col.jsp?id=166 here is 1.0
I do not know but i think 1.4 can be downloaded above in this forum post somewhere. But just know i have tried it and cannot stand it. it sucks -
download SP FLASH TOOL. If you have windows 10 do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDo6iNKSEk I do not know what to do if you have a mac.
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if you have windows 10 do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbJCbdfPlF8
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run spflash tool exe as an administrator. if you have already used spflash tool before. delete the history.ini inside the spflash tool folder. (Do this every time before using spflash tool) If you just downloaded spflash tool dont worry about deleting the history.
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Extract the firmware you downloaded
7. open your watch settings and click on build number 7 times and turn on oem unlocking and usb debugging. Plug your watch into your computer and make sure you do not or will not accidentally unplug it. I grab a shampoo bottle and strap my watch with the charger to the bottle.
when you plug your watch into your computer and a
dialogue box will pop up on your watch saying “allow USB debugging” Click always allow click and ok
If it wont let you allow it. go to settings -> uninstall applications and click on all your apps that could be running in the background and force close them. force close things like keyboard, connect phone,google, (just all the crap that runs in the background) then you can reconnect your watch and allow your computer via the watches dialogue box.
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click this and go to where you have your firmware downloaded then click on the scatter file
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click download
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Reboot your watch.
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spflash tool will too its work.
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unplug your watch and turn your watch on.
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you will now have a factory reset watch. go to settings. make sure oem unlocking is still enabled.
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enable usb debugging again.
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then plug your watch into your computer again. and the dialogue box will pop up again on your watch saying “allow USB debugging” Click always allow click and ok.
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go to https://magiskmanager.com/
and download the magisk.zip and the apk. p
place both of these downloads into your watches files anywhere easy to get to. (i forgot to ad the apk in in the photo. but placed it there afterward. Do as i say and not as i do) you may have to allow usb file transfer rather than usb charging on your watch.
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go to the place where you downloaded the firmware and go into the folder called image and copy the factory boot image into your watches files.
17.5 paste iscles custom twrp recovery into your firmware folder called ‘image’ and delete the facotry recovery.img and rename iscles custom recovery, the one you just placed into this folder, to ‘recovery.img’
Also, Not shown in this photo but it is in a few photos down in 18.5, Paste the factory boot.img to your watch just like we did with the magisk.zip. Then paste iscles recovery over the boot.img just like we did with the factory recovery shown in the photo above and rename it to boot.img of course.
- open spflash tools folder and delete the history
Run sp flash tool as administrator again.
and choose the same scatter file we did in step 8
and uncheck every box except recovery and boot
This photo explains
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click download and reboot your watch. (usb debugging and oem unlocking need to be turned on)
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Reboot your watch.
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spflash tool will do its work.
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your watch should boot in to twrp.
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on twrp slide to allow modifications
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On TWRP click install (you may or may not have to navigate to ‘sdcard’) in sdcard click install img, then install boot.img first (Which if you followed the directions correctly, this is the factory stock boot.img, then tell it to flash this boot.image over the boot.
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go back into install then click install image.
Then navigate to the boot.img file seen in photo 17. Install it. The go back and click install zip in the bottom right. and install the magisk.zip we place into the watch earlier at photo 17. Swipe to confirm flash. This will backup your factory boot img and overwrite your watches recovery with the custom recovery. With out installing magisk, if you reboot your watch right now your watch will replace our custom recovery with the stock useless recovery. So you need to flash this zip. reboot and do not allow it to install the twrp app. (Not a big deal tho)
reboot your watch
and now you have a rooted watch -
cus me out at how unorganized all these steps are
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cus me out at how many extra steps i may have thrown in here.
How to boot into twrp via adb.
Easier method once you have magisk (root) is downloading a reboot app like bottom quick settings. This app is; amazing. I have it shared in my drive link shared in this thread somewhere.
Download this to your desktop.
power shell will open. disconnect all phone devices from your pc except your watch. make sure usb debugging is allowed.
then do this with the downloaded file
then this type ‘adb devices’ then click enter
then type ‘adb reboot recovery’ enter
your watch will reboot to recovery
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=13pojAOAwcJQ6WqECEUZov2mcwdAb8Vpm
Here’s some great apps including bottom quick settings and fluid navigation. Best watch apps ever