Smartwatches with Google operating system is famous for this time. LG Watch Urbane is beautiful round shaped smartwatch with 1.3-inch OLED display. This watch is running on LG wearable platform and powered by 1.2 GHz quad core snapdragon 410 processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB internal memory. Also, the watch is IP67 certified and come with 700 mAh battery.
Many people’s root their gadgets, Install custom kernel and Custom ROM on it and people confused why should they root and install twrp recovery on LG Watch Urbane.

Benefits of Rooting a Smartwatch

• We can install custom ROM and custom kernel on your wearable for faster and better performance.
• We can increase the vibration intensity and vibration duration.
• To improve the battery life by change the kernel.
• To improve its touch response.
• We can remove Pre-installed Apps.

Note:-

• Rooting invalid your watch warranty, and you won’t claim it back.
• All your wearable data will spread.
• Confirm that your smartwatch has at least 50-60% charged to prevent the accidental shutdown in-between the process.

Files required to Root and Install TWRP recovery on LG Watch Urbane: 

• Download and Install ADB and fastboot driver for windows or ADB and Fastboot for Mac in your computer. This will also install your device driver.

• Download  TWRP Recovery for LG Watch Urbane  and place it in the folder where ADB installed and rename it to ‘recovery.img’.

• Download  SuperSu to root LG Watch Urbane and copy it to your computer in adb folder.

How to unlock bootloader of LG Watch Urbane :
STEP 1:

• First enable USB debugging from setting>developer option>. To enable Developer Options, go to About phone and tap the Build Number 7 times.

STEP 2:

• Now go to installation directory open ADB folder and open the command window thereby pressing and hold the ‘shift’ key and right-clicked anywhere in that folder.

STEP 3:

• Now connect your phone to computer and reboot the device into fastboot mode by typing “adb reboot bootloader”.

STEP 4:

• You are in Fastboot mode now to check your connection enter “fastboot devices“ in command prompt.
• It will return your device serial number means your device properly connected.
• Check your driver if the above command is not responding.

STEP 5:

• To unlock bootloader of Android One, go to the command line and type “fastboot oem unlock”.

STEP 6:

• Above step will unlock bootloader of LG Watch Urbane. Now your watch will reboot and reset to factory default.

How to Root and Install Custom Recovery on LG Watch Urbane

STEP 1:

• To install TWRP recovery on LG Watch Urbane repeat steps 1-4 from above and move to next step.

STEP 2:

• Type this command correctly in command prompt without quotes “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img” and then press enter. It starts flashing recovery on your watch

STEP 3:

• Now type “fastboot boot recovery.img“ in command prompt it will reboot your watch into recovery mode.
• Now you successfully installed twrp recovery on LG Watch Urbane.

STEP 4:

• With above command your phone boot into the recovery mode.

STEP 5:

• Now type “adb push Wear-SuperSU-v2.40.zip /sdcard/” command to install SuperSu.

Root and install TWRP recovery on LG Watch Urbane successfully.