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If you own LG Tribute HD LS676 Please Follow this Tutorial – LG Tribute HD LS676 Activation Bypass

I find LG Tribute 5 LS675 from Boost Mobile as one the best value for money offerings , but the high priced monthly plans of Boost are a big turn off. When I bought LG Tribute 5 from Boost Mobile, I was clear that I’ll unlock and use
it as a GSM phone. If you’re in the same boat then without activating the phone you can just bypass the activation process, root your phone and unlock it for any GSM network worldwide. Bypassing activation screen is quite a simple process. Insert battery, turn on the phone and follow this easy step by step process.

 

Tutorial – LG Tribute 5 Ls675 Activation Bypass 

When you turn your LG Tribute 5 for the first time, you’ll land on Accessibility settings page. Click next and proceed to Language selection page.

Select your preferred language and click next.

 Now you’re on Wifi setup screen you can either connect to your Wifi network or just skip it. Wifi setup can be done later as well.

As soon as you click next on wifi setup page you’ll see a Hands Free Activation Popup. It will try to activate the phone for quite some time but as the phone is not activated yet, it will stop and show Network error. Click OK to proceed

As the activation failed, It’ll say your phone is not configured you can skip this step. Just hit on “Skip” and proceed.

In the second screenshot above you’ll notice there is no option to skip this step. This happened once when I did a factory reset on my LS675 via recovery. I was stuck at this screen while completing the setup wizard.  At this point, you’ve to press and hold, Power, volume up & volume down buttons, simultaneously. On doing this correctly, you’ll get the skip option as in the second picture above.

NOTE : This method is applicable to LG Tribute 5 LS675 as well

In the recent years, Kingroot has gained immense popularity being only root solution for many android phones. It’s a Chinese app and it installs its own superuser app called Kinguser instead of SuperSU

Kingroot does the job of rooting your LG Tribute 2 but it’s not as reliable as SuperSu. There are several reports of bricking and force close errors, after bloatware removal. Moreover, if you want to install Xposed framework in LG Tribute 2 SuperSU is a must have. You may be aware that there is no custom recovery for LG Tribute 2 as of now. So, the only way to flash Xposed framework is via FlashFire. Now, Flashfire  detects root access only if SuperSu is installed. So all in all, in order to flash Xposed & to prevent your phone from bricking you must get rid of Kingroot. 

Thanks to W0lfdroid for this easy method for LG Tribute 2, LG Tribute 5 and many other android smartphones.

LG Tribute 2 – How to Replace SuperSU with Kingroot, Step by Step Tutorial –

For this, you first need to download a folder containing superuser files and terminal emulator app. Below is the download link containing necessary files.

Download

Extract the downloaded zip file above. It contains

 

1. mrw folder
2. Terminal Emulator Apk

LG Tribute 2 – Replace Kingroot with SuperSU, Step by Step Tutorial –

 

Once the file is downloaded, Open the File manager and look for the downloaded zip folder. Click on the zip file to extract it.

 

 

The “Tribute 2 – Replace Kingroot …” folder is extracted. Open it and look for “mrw folder. We’ve to move the mrw folder to Internal Storage.  To do this, click on the “3 dot icon” on the top left corner and select “Move”. Now “check” the mrw folder and click on “Move” as shown in the last picture above.

 

We’ve to move the folder to Internal Memory. So select “Internal Storage” then “OK”. The folder is now in Internal Storage.

When I bought Virgin Mobile LG Tribute 2 a couple of months ago, I tried all the latest rooting methods for LG Android phones, out of those only Kingroot worked.
It’s a Chinese app and it installs its own superuser app called Kinguser instead of SuperSU. Rooting via Kingroot is a one-click method which can be done directly from your phone, No PC is needed.

Follow the steps below to easily root your Tribute 2 LS665 via Kingroot. This method should work with other phones as well. As of now, I have rooted LG Tribute 2, Tribute 5, LG Volt 2, LG Optimus F3, Samsung Prevail LTE & ZTE Speed with Kingroot.

The latest version of Kingroot is 4.9.6 but I have rooted with 4.5. It doesn’t matter, anyways you’ll need to replace it with SuperSu, once the phone gets rooted. I’ll tell you later why we should replace Kingroot with SuperSU.

You can download the apk file from below link –

Download

     

One your download gets completed, click on the apk file for installation

To install Kingroot we need to check “Unknown Sources” in Settings<Security as shown in the screenshots above.

    

You’ve to be online for this app to work. When you’ll run the app for the first time, it’ll verify the root status of your phone.

  

Don’t worry if it says “Root access is Unavailable”. I got this message for almost all the phones I tried, but it got them rooted. So just click on “Try to root”  It will do its thing and once it reaches 100%, your phone is rooted, simple isn’t it.

Now that you’re rooted you might be tempted to click on “Uninstall tool” to remove unwanted apps/bloatware at the earliest. I would advise you against this, as I’ve seen quite a few people on forums stuck with bricked LG Tribute 2 after removing bloatware with kingroot. Kingroot is also reported to act as spyware. I don’t know how true is this, but to be on the safe side, it’s better to get it replaced with SuperSU once you’re rooted. After all, Superuser is way too reliable as compared to this Chinese app.

    

If for some reason you want to return your phone back to factory state, just follow these steps to unroot it.

Tap on settings icon at the top right corner, select Root authorization settings and click on “Remove Root Permission”. A popup will appear asking for confirmation. Click on “Continue”, it’ll remove root, the app will close & must be gone from the app drawer.

If you were successful in rooting LG Tribute 2 by any other rooting method, do share it via comments below.