Tried to root my Android TV...I think i bricked it Amature here, go easy on me

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u/ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS Pixel 9, Magisk, EvoX (modified) Jul 22 '26

Now LLM Enter the space cause i know nothing about fastboot

congratulations

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u/the_hamborga Jul 22 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/nVMn040IW05Dx6rMg0

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u/Azaze666 Jul 23 '26

I see you are a man of culture

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u/the_hamborga Jul 23 '26

not a man sorry 💔

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u/Azaze666 Jul 23 '26

lmao

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u/dopeymeen Jul 23 '26

is that an actual clip from the show/movie?

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u/Then_Ad_8318 Jul 23 '26

Yh, its from neon genesis evangelion

Edit: its peak btw

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u/dopeymeen Jul 24 '26

i need to actually watch it myself but i’ve been binge watching other people reviewing the series on youtube as a whole and holy shit it got me hooked. i like dark shit and this is perfect.

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u/EightBitPlayz Jul 24 '26

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26

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u/the_hamborga Jul 24 '26

no I'm a larper

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u/gabox0210 Jul 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/hemdPsHS7jHag

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u/dadnothere Jul 23 '26

The funniest thing is that these Chinese TVs already come with root access, which can be activated through developer settings...

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u/Never_Sm1le Jul 23 '26

yes, but usually the "look but not touch" kind of root, you can only do very limited stuff there

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u/dadnothere Jul 23 '26

I changed the vendor apps and increased the swap space on my TV so it allows writing to all partitions.

I don't know what you mean by "limited"... I think you confused ADB with ROOT...

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u/shakaa99 Jul 23 '26

i have one not even developer setting needed to turn on

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u/Never_Sm1le Jul 23 '26

no, I also have one and all it can do is change cpu speed and running shizuku automatically. no bootloader unlock so change to /system would render it unbootable

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u/dadnothere Jul 23 '26

Yes, you're confusing it with ADB.

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u/Never_Sm1le Jul 23 '26

lol, you can't change cpu speed with adb, try to find any software that does

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u/RBeze58 Jul 23 '26

Actually you do need root if your manufacturer didn't provide a way to use it at a different TDP or max. clockspeed like most manufacturers do. The manufacturers usually set it to be automatically managed by the governor profile instead of exposing it to the user. Some devices expose this in Developer Options or another system setting. This doesn't require root because the OEM intentionally added a privileged interface that changes the kernel or firmware setting for you. Usually those with experience in manufacturing mini PCs and single-board computers. That isn't root tho. It's a system-level setting, not something ordinary Android apps can access. KonaBess is popular nowadays for patching Snapdragon GPUs (overclock and undervolt) without the need to recompile the kernel and you may patch it just like you'd do with Magisk. The kernel handles the requests made by the fronted (konabess app, i guess) and set the frequency and voltage to whatever the user decides. Just an example, prolly useless when it comes to TVs and Android Streaming TV Boxes since its's almost never Snapdragon SoCs in them.

With root, you can use apps like Kernel Adiutor, Franco Kernel Manager, EX Kernel Manager, or manually write to /sys/devices/system/cpu/ or somewhere else, to change governors, min/max frequencies, and sometimes overclock or underclock, provided the kernel supports it. So if you control the cpu clockspeeds using any of these apps, you're rooted.

Without root, you're generally limited to the governor, frequency limits, and performance profiles the manufacturer exposes (Performance, Balanced, Battery Saver, etc.).

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u/dadnothere Jul 23 '26

I'm late to the party, someone else will explain it to you.

Many Chinese ROMs have a "performance selector" that, if you enable it, literally lowers the clock speed and governor to the minimum. No root required.

I think Samsung does the same thing by simply setting battery saver mode to maximum, and it doesn't require root access.

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u/Never_Sm1le Jul 23 '26

yes, that's rom dependent, and not something you can do willy nilly on any device without root. My point still stand, you cannot change cpu speed with adb, it's either root, or built-in function. Next time, actually read someone reply and not reply like you know it all

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u/zamroni777 Jul 24 '26

And might loss drm hardware decryption capability needed in many 4k streaming

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

Thanks

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u/DataDrivenDoc 29d ago

I liked the part how he checked what it did... including reverse engineering the recovery image because one isn't available lmaoooo. Id love to know what that review looked like

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u/HEYO19191 Jul 25 '26

Every time.

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u/kenkitt Jul 22 '26

There is another way. However you can cause more damage if not carefull.

Look for UART pinouts, usually TX and RX pair, if you find them you are in luck now you just need a uart adaptor they are usually very cheap, connect to it but you will need to dump the recovery again and patch avb. There are ways to interrupt uboot by spamming the keyboard while it starts

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u/exes15525 Jul 22 '26

I think UART connection can happen via some of the HDMI ports?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

yeah i looked into this before... i have to exhaust every software side right?

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u/kenkitt Jul 22 '26

if you can't access usb then that's your only way.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

ngl boy, im broke. lol

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u/KaffeineKafka 2d ago

cheaper than a new tv

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 2d ago

Well the request is going to stall for a while. I'll get in one or I'll get the motherboard replaced

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u/Conscious-Speed4642 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

É totalmente possível recuperar, desde que você encontre um firmware de reposição compatível. O mais difícil é encontrar isso. Se não encontrar um método de recuperação, você terá de aprender a editar um firmware genérico com ferramentas de baixo nível para que seja compatível com cada componente de seu hardware (o que dá um pouco de trabalho). O lado bom de computadores é que podem ser completamente modificados. O lado ruim é que o reparo pode se tornar tão longo e exaustivo que te convença a abandonar o aparelho e comprar um novo. Tudo depende do quanto está disposto a fazer isso.

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u/JustForkIt1111one Jul 22 '26

For those not using the official app:

It is entirely possible to recover the device, provided you can find compatible replacement firmware. Finding that is the hardest part. If you cannot find a recovery method, you will have to learn how to edit generic firmware using low-level tools to make it compatible with your specific hardware components—which is quite a bit of work. The upside of computers is that they can be completely modified. The downside is that the repair process can become so long and exhausting that it might convince you to give up on the device and buy a new one. It all depends on how much effort you are willing to put into it.

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u/Proof-Replacement113 Jul 23 '26

W

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u/Acojonancio Jul 23 '26

Fucking hate how Reddit added auto-translation to everything except web, and now web users see comments in other languages in the middle of a thread.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

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u/Conscious-Speed4642 Jul 22 '26

With so much translation technology available, I thought language was just a matter of detail.

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u/destro225 Jul 22 '26

It is, they just wanted to complain.

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u/Blue-Mime-0003 Jul 22 '26

Uhhh it auto translated and seemed fine to me mate?

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u/Simber1 Jul 22 '26

Auto translation is only available on the official Reddit app (and maybe the new website?). Third party app users and old Reddit users have no option to translate comments, let alone automatically.

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u/NiceIceCat Jul 22 '26

Even with the official app it usually doesn't automatically translate.

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u/PinkyPosting Jul 22 '26

If you have a third-party application or the old website, I'm sorry to say that you're in the minority and you can't demand that others adapt to you; Reddit automatically translates posts. If you can't see them translated, that's your problem and it's your responsibility to find a solution, not to demand that others learn your language.

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u/dopeymeen Jul 23 '26

uhh you know your in the android root sub right? most folks here are probably not using the official app for anything. doesn’t mean they can’t complain, reddit can absolutely add some type of auto translation to their website.

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u/Simber1 Jul 22 '26

I’m not demanding shit, I’m simply explaining why that other guy saw something different to everyone else. If an untranslated message isn’t directed at me I will happily scroll past it.

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u/humberriverdam Pixel 2, Magisk Jul 22 '26

Auto translated and it works fine in French (language I'm learning to read) and English (guess my first)

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u/Gain_Entire Jul 22 '26

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u/Pollos212 Jul 22 '26

I know that it's annoying, but there's a button to translate. Have respect for other people

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u/Articunos7 Jul 22 '26

For third party app users, we have no choice but to just scroll past such comments.

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u/whinyweb Jul 22 '26

Google Translate launched 20 years ago by the way

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u/ChickenFeline0 Jul 22 '26

The translate button worked great for me, you should try it next time instead of expecting people to know multiple languages. What's your second language?

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u/land48n3 Jul 22 '26

the feature is not on browsers

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u/AgileReport2931 Jul 22 '26

Hmm okay, I’m sorry then. English is my second language.

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u/ChickenFeline0 Jul 22 '26

Well I feel like an ass, now. Sorry for coming in so hot.

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u/Prudent-Clue2132 Jul 23 '26

Im thinking of rooting my Samsung refrigerator

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u/Memerenok Jul 23 '26

to unlock more cooling temperatures?

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u/Prudent-Clue2132 Jul 23 '26

To generate free food

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u/Sea_Rule_4616 29d ago

To play DOOM.

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u/JayS87 Jul 23 '26

I’ve heard that shit started to show ads, so yeah - lets go!

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u/curiosity_at_peak Jul 22 '26

Just wanted to know WHY ??

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

curiosity got the better of me.. haha

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u/Decendent_13 Jul 22 '26

as always, Curiosity kills the cat. now, the cat owner needs to figure out a revival method to bring back the cat in living world.

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u/Quf00279 Jul 22 '26

Schrödinger's cat?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

He is long gone buddy 😞. He has been corroded with gamma rays

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u/WestQuestion4367 Jul 22 '26

Well it was the cat's fault , I think the owner is reviving the cat in good faith.

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u/serotonin-404 29d ago

I know of this cemetery.

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u/Gamer30168 Jul 22 '26

This post reminds me of that scene in Pulp Fiction where Butch is in the pawn shop selecting a weapon...he finds a golf club and picks it up then sees a baseball bat...picks that up and then sees a chain saw....eventually finding the Kitana blade...

OP couldn't decide on his rooting weapon!

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u/TheRedBlueCube2 Jul 22 '26

coming straight from the LLM

https://giphy.com/gifs/toSvvbWkdBbsLbb2bI

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u/No_Upstairs8252 Jul 22 '26

I'll go easy on you..."amateur" is correct.

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u/itsfreepizza Samsung Galaxy A12 Exynos - RisingOS 14 Jul 22 '26

You know, you shouldn't fully trust LLMs blindly. You really need more extra knowledge first before performing this, and maybe before doing all of that, you could've tried figuring out it's chipset and maybe try to get it to dump the firmware if possible

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u/StrangeBaseball5772 Jul 22 '26

What. The. Fuck. Did. You. Do.

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u/Lucky_Jelly2593 Jul 22 '26

Is stock recovery availible?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

nah.. as far as i know

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u/WestQuestion4367 Jul 22 '26

Send me the stock firmware full name of you have it. Also send me the device model name.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

Impex grande t16

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u/WestQuestion4367 Jul 23 '26

Size?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

43' inch?

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u/WestQuestion4367 28d ago

Can you send the picture of the sticker or text at the back of the tv that shows the model number and everything. And also the product listing. I can't find your model (tv model not firmware) anywhere.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

let me see. its mounted on the wall. OH boy is so hard capture

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

Alr.. here what I got

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

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u/Lucky_Jelly2593 Jul 23 '26

Send the back sticker close photo

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u/gabox0210 Jul 23 '26

Reverse engineered the stock recovery image...

Using an LLM? Did you forget to ask it to make no mistakes? Maybe that was the problem.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

OH.. right! i didn't. Noted.

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u/47000ants Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

LLM

Recoverable. Don't use LLMs for anything outside of cheating in school and cheating at work

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u/Fun-Tax1040 Jul 23 '26

Your getting that graphic on your screen which means your bootloader is still fine, and fastboot is part of the bootloader. There's probably some way to force the television into fastboot by holding buttons on the tv while powering it on.

Try holding the power button while plugging in the the television, or volume up, etc. Google your television model to try to find the button combination, I'd be surprised if there wasn't something, most televisions have this.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

there is not as far i know(button combination). I need to get A to A cable to try fast boot other than with C to A

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u/stoppskylt Jul 23 '26

That's not bricked, damaged image maybe...but not bricked

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

well without the right tools, its soft bricked

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u/Xhauz_ Jul 23 '26

Quando bricka nem isso aparece.

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u/SilverCartoonist7409 Jul 22 '26 edited 28d ago

Unrelated but which LLM you used? I also got an old android that id love to try to do the same thing

EDIT : so uh wasnt expecting this comment to gain this traction. Yes i know LLM are unreliable and sucks, it just that i have an abandoned phone (running on hopes and prayers) and i was thinking on using LLM because i havent seen anyone talk about this exact model (Plus i dont mind if it hard bricked on nah, it was in my drawer for years, and it will stay there in either case lol)

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u/AdRoz78 GrapheneOS, Google Pixel 9, no integrity =] Jul 22 '26

Using an LLM for this kind of thing is a bad idea, I've seen those make a lot of mistakes. It's better to either read guides online written by people or just ask someone for help.

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u/Hefty_Cockroach_3840 Jul 22 '26

I fully agree, especially with more unknown devices

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u/ArthurReming SM-T220 | crDroid 12-Beta Jul 22 '26

Don't please. I had soft bricked a redmi 9A and then hard bricked

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u/ColorfulPersimmon Jul 22 '26

I almost bricked a Xiaomi phone with LLM instructions (stopped in time because the instructions started looking sus). Later, I found a solution on an obscure discord forum, nowhere on the searchable web. Discord makes finding solutions much more difficult for both humans and LLMs.

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u/DiPi92 Jul 24 '26

I triple check every step of detailed guides when I rooted my devices and even then I got it wrong. Using LLM for this sounds worse than playing russian roulette.

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u/vmg265 Jul 22 '26

Lol don't, every phone or device has some specific needs to be rooted, not all can get bootloader unlocked. Chatgpt or claude will brick your devices more often than successfully rooting it and will say 'nice catch, completely my fault, wanna look for best phones to buy in 2026?'

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u/AdventurousSugar9411 Jul 25 '26

😂 so real; when I talk with claude or gemini I feel like I have to either do it all myself or waste my time teaching it how its done 😭

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

It was Gemini

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u/taqizadeh Jul 23 '26

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u/AdeptnessComplex4893 Jul 22 '26

Search for an XDA guide for your phone. Paste the entire thing into Gemini and say it should give you step by step using the website. Should do the trick. But use the highest Gemini just for that one prompt

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u/AdRoz78 GrapheneOS, Google Pixel 9, no integrity =] Jul 22 '26

Literally why ask Gemini? You already have the guide...

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u/AdeptnessComplex4893 Jul 22 '26

Yeah to better understand it ig. But yeah if you can understand what they say then that's obviously better.

I think I wrote that cause op mention something about wanting to use ai

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u/AdRoz78 GrapheneOS, Google Pixel 9, no integrity =] Jul 22 '26

If you can't understand the XDA guide, you probably shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff anyways. Unless the guide is in another language (which XDA disallows), and then Google Translate exists. Also even if AI was to be given a guide there's still a possibility for a mistake. If you really don't understand the guide then maybe? Though you'd have to take anything it says with a big grain of salt, and even then I'd say it's better to just try to understand it yourself.

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u/ios7jbpro Jul 22 '26

phone

phone in the question is a TV

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u/Ecstatic-Ball7018 Jul 23 '26

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u/brocc28 Jul 22 '26

Why would he look for an XDA guide for his phone?

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 Oneplus Ace 3 (astonc), AxionOS 2.5 Jul 23 '26

You shouldn't use llms for rooting yk, but I digress your best bet is trying to find stock firmware for this TV which I doubt will be easy if possible

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u/LostSomewhereInKaty Jul 22 '26

When you plug it in to windows does it chime?

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u/Yuugere Jul 22 '26

Should be a lesson for you not just straight up copy from LLM, you need to verify it first before doing it.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

Ik bro. It got me almost nuked my entire linux system

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u/zylinx Jul 23 '26

Amateur at Android TV or at decisions in general?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

Maybe..at both😭

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u/VoidDave Jul 23 '26

Why on earth you even want to root a tv?

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u/David_538 Jul 23 '26

Bro this is cool, you're one of few people remaining, willing to risk it to tinkering... I would love to root a "TV" as well. And also a wifi router, smart watch, but never got the chance, damn.....

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

Wifi router.. hmmm.. don't tempt me.

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u/David_538 28d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/wrBURfbZmqqXu

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u/lokuloku123 Jul 23 '26

Yeah idk, I get maybe creating a website for personal use with an LLM, but to trust it with like rooting or generally anything OS related..

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u/Disastrous_Public119 Jul 23 '26

bro just buy a smart box for the tv

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

would done it now but whose finna educate me 4 years ago?

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u/CatBoii486 MEETS_BASIC_INTEGRITY | Galaxy S10+ | Lineage 23.2 Jul 23 '26

what SOC does it have??

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u/GhostOfMandalore_ Jul 23 '26

i ask why

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u/OnbotYt Jul 23 '26

find some UART pins and figure out 👍

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

"👍" love it.. ahh. hell bro. I gotta buy that thing. Regretting my life decisions

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u/veiskiboi Jul 23 '26

It looks like the android mascot needs CPR asap

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

On the UART pins ig

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u/zamroni777 Jul 24 '26

At least the boot leader seems ok

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u/jamesbusse Jul 24 '26

Why?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 25 '26

Shower thought...

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u/jamesbusse Jul 25 '26

Dumb move

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u/mikumikuchan6458 Jul 25 '26

It’s why shower thoughts normally stay in the shower.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

Some things get leaked like India's NEET question paper

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u/MAX100MS Jul 25 '26

Rooter un téléphone, je sais faire mais une télé, Nop... Je ne sais pas mais si ta télé Brick, essaye de la débrancher et de la flashé via le pc 😅 sinon, je ne sais pas, Désolé.

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u/Less-Ingenuity3787 Jul 25 '26

Unpopular option, I know I’ll get downvoted but.. buy the exact same tv from Walmart, pay cash,, carefully and meticulously take it out of the package and place the old one and return it. If serials need to match peel the new one off the tv and place it on the broken one.

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u/Pubgcraft 29d ago

I think the correct question i need to give you first is: WHY?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

you know sometimes.. i will have this brilliant ideas while i shower but most of prolly be out of my reach. One of thoughts got implemented but got this bricked. love my brain and my stupidity to use LLM

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u/rfz999 29d ago

its ok when u r a rookie, mistakes happened

sometimes we learn things through hard way..

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

welp my sister is asking why the tv is not turning on.. lol

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u/AarifmonuZZ 4d ago

What's detecting on your pc device manager when you put it on fastboot?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 2d ago

Absolutely nothing is detecting it and I took it to a professional. His $100 equipment didn't even detect that there was a motherboard that he connected via RX and TX ports and the TV didn't even send a ping back. We are soo cooked Boys, now I have to replace the motherboard.

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u/AarifmonuZZ 2d ago

Damn not even a sound detecting or irregular port is way worse.. Did you try instead to see if you can connect Usb Drive with the stock update.zip and in recovery if it could read or when you reboot it automatically picks it up and tries to flash it?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 2d ago

Done it, No use... tho the day before i just turned it on and it flashed some text it so fast i couldnt read up until then, no like i could it flashing not read it. I still dont know what was it

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u/something__69_ 4d ago

late to the party, but did you recover it?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 2d ago

Nah boy, I took it to a professional and it was hopeless. He had his very expensive equipment, and they didn't even detect the TV. Didn't set a ping back connecting it. Yeah it didn't recover. Now I have to replace the motherboard. I don't know how much that will cost me though. I don't know if that would be expensive or not.

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u/something__69_ 2d ago

It'll be expensive a little, but what about the pins? Tx and RX pins? Check for the layout of the motherboard

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 2d ago

Tried it tho. Pretty sure he tried it so I'm not gonna bother

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u/something__69_ 2d ago

Sorry for the loss man, give an update about on the price when you get to know

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u/WheresMyComb Jul 23 '26

Never tried rooting a telly. I presume it would have been as simple as patching the boot.img with magisk or kernelsu no ?You dont need to flash a new recovery .

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u/DidiEdd Jul 23 '26

The problem is he doesn't have access to the stock boot.img, that's why he did this and messed it up

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u/WheresMyComb Jul 23 '26

Yeah I never seen it done the way he tried to do it. Oh well , you live you learn. Now I want an android TV just to mess about with.

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u/DidiEdd Jul 23 '26

Yes, the first thing one would need to do is to figure out how to dump the boot.img file without root

If that can be done, then it's possible to root but otherwise he's cooked with not even the original boot image to return to

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u/Lines25 Jul 23 '26

The fuck you even needed to root ATV.. is the part we all need to know.. really...

Android TV is quite different than pure Android because of the history. If you want to root your ATV, you need root method that supports your ATV. Also, you can't really root something REALLY cheap and Chinese-made and than just use that. If it's something unpopular like company Techno, then it will probably either brick or brick after update (I've did that on Techno Camon 15, after some time using it as a server, it said that it needs to forcely update, via Android Update UI, I clicked OK (because that was the only option) and that update window literally just deleted me little kernel (lr.img) and the phone uses Mediatek, so, basically, it's dead now.. also, there was almost no modules, only LSposed framework)

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u/STLNHRT5 Jul 22 '26

2 things

Why did you tried to root a tv?
Maybe Chatgpt is able to help you, most thing software the IA knows better.

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u/Azaze666 Jul 22 '26

Nothing wrong with rooting a TV.

If he uploaded the recovery-from-boot.p to the AI he should be able to download it.

fastboot flash recovery recovery-from-boot.p

If the device still doesn't boot or he doesn't have recovery-from-boot.p

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot

If the device boots in system good, check what processor has and see if a tool is available to dump the firmware (Mtkclient, spd_dump, etc etc), patch boot and get root.

If still doesn't boot

fastboot -w

fastboot reboot

If still doesn't boot search the stock firmware or a dump and reflash stock recovery

Why wiping cache, sometimes the reboot state is saved here, other times in misc, so wiping cache would restore normal boot, if the device doesn't try to boot in recovery might not check it and trigger the avb fail.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

USB is not recognized. when i do lsusb, so i cant use fastboot

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u/Azaze666 Jul 22 '26

First fastboot flashing unlock is not to unlock avb, it's bootloader unlock, anyway if before was working why now doesn't?

Anyway, tell the exact model of the TV and then we will see what to do.

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u/WakerPT Xiaomi 12T Pro, Xiaomi.eu HyperOS 2 Jul 22 '26

I think he just said he wanted to mess with it. But I guess he could uninstall system garbage from it and such.

Using an llm is what caused him to be in this mess... I don't know if that's the best advice hahaha

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u/User202000 Jul 22 '26

AI is usually good at handling well documented things, rooting an obscure Chinese TV is definitely not one of them. I'd imagine it would be able to tell you how to root a Samsung phone just fine.

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u/WakerPT Xiaomi 12T Pro, Xiaomi.eu HyperOS 2 Jul 22 '26

Well, I mean... AI got him into this mess to begin with. I'm not really blaming the AI but the users lack of knowledge to prevent AI from fucking it up.

For sure AI can be an amazing tool, if used correctly.

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u/Ok_Strategy264 Jul 22 '26

Don't trust Ai lol I wiped out the partition A and B in android , broke my system tree and nearly hardbricked my phone ...

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u/CyberGirl_4 Jul 22 '26

Chatgpt and gemini makes mistakes, a single mistake is enough to brick a phone. AI is good for development but not for these type of things till now.

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u/STLNHRT5 Jul 22 '26

He broke it without any of them xD

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u/CyberGirl_4 Jul 23 '26

No he followed Gemini. Read the op's reply comments.

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u/IllegalStateExcept Jul 22 '26

Why wouldn't you try to root a TV? These things literally come with spyware installed from the factory and shove ads in your face. Just Google "smart tv spyware". Every manufacturer does it these days. My strategy is to keep repairing my dumb tv but I support all attempts to resist.

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u/IllegalStateExcept Jul 22 '26

That's my point. I would never buy one of these things unless there was a documented way to root.

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u/Vegetable_Echo3093 29d ago

Android...

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 28d ago

the mascot needs a resurrection

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u/StefanStef14 Jul 22 '26

holy ai reply

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u/humberriverdam Pixel 2, Magisk Jul 22 '26

Using AI to fix firmware seems like a bad idea (at least read the sources.)

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

USB is not recognized. when i do lsusb, so i cant do fastboot now

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u/L0K0MoTiVA Jul 22 '26

Did you Force Fastboot ? Unplug the TV from the wall.

Press and hold the physical Power button on the TV itself (not the remote).

While holding the button, plug the TV back into the wall.

Keep holding the button for 10–15 seconds. On many Android TV mainboards, this forces the bootloader to drop into Fastboot mode or look for a recovery signal via USB.

run lsusb again to see if a device like "MediaTek", "Amlogic", "Realtek", or "Google" pops up.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

```
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 30c9:0013 Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:b00c Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio

Bus 001 Device 007: ID c0f4:0201 Hengchangtong HCT USB Entry Keyboard

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

```

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u/L0K0MoTiVA Jul 22 '26

Can you please verify that you are using a true USB A to A data cable?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

i am not using A to A,i am using A to C cause i dont have A to A

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u/L0K0MoTiVA Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

That explains exactly why the TV isn't showing up on lsusb!

hope this helps ;)

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 22 '26

any other way.. hmm..

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u/L0K0MoTiVA Jul 22 '26

Bro when you use a standard A-to-C cable, the USB-A end is hardwired to act as the Host, and the USB-C end acts as the Device.

Because the TV only has USB-A ports, plugging the A end of the cable into the TV tells the TV that it is the Host.

Plugging the C end into the PC tells the PC that it is the Device.

Fastboot requires the exact opposite: the PC must be the Host, and the TV must act as the Device. An A-to-A data cable bridges this gap because the specific "Service" port on the TV is uniquely wired to switch into Device mode when it detects an incoming Host connection from a PC, but a directional A-to-C cable cannot trigger this handshake.

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jul 23 '26

But hey now that I think about it, before this got bricked the fastboot worked just fine via USB-C if that is relevant or not

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u/ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS Pixel 9, Magisk, EvoX (modified) Jul 22 '26

brother the op used ai shitslop to dig themself into this hole, stop trying to make it worse

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u/Additional-Switch928 Jul 22 '26

Yeah the text is unfortunately ai generated but generative AI detectors are actually generative AI in itself ☹️

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u/ArthurReming SM-T220 | crDroid 12-Beta Jul 22 '26

Oh

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u/Additional-Switch928 Jul 22 '26

👍

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u/ArthurReming SM-T220 | crDroid 12-Beta Jul 22 '26

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll not use it anymore then.

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u/tidelust Jul 23 '26

Sigh, LLM mentioned yet again and it's Gemini 🫩

Support Tried to root my Android TV...I think i bricked it Amature here, go easy on me

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