I'm running Stock EK02 rooted, but I keep getting the notification to update, and everybody knows you can't system update when rooted. So could somebody direct me to the right thread to update, but I won't lose any data? Thanks in advance!
mrbsb said:
I'm running Stock EK02 rooted, but I keep getting the notification to update, and everybody knows you can't system update when rooted. So could somebody direct me to the right thread to update, but I won't lose any data? Thanks in advance!
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If you want to do it without using CWM - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Use the NO DATA one. This will odin over a stock rooted EL29 which will not erase apps settings or contacts/messages as long as you use the second one no data.
However on a stock rooted system with no modifications you CAN OTA but you would lose root. I wouldnt risk it if your not sure. But i have and its normal to OTA from an EK02 rooted tar to non rooted EL29 but you lose root so thats not interesting anyways. Any removed apps, modified or missing files run a huge risk of bricking.
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Just a quick question... My epic is rooted and i got the EI22 ota notice today. if I attempt to accept the ota update what will happen? Currently running 2.2.1 Froyo DK28. Thanks!
I personally would unroot first. Never take an OTA update on a rooted phone. Best case you lose root, worst case, bricked device. Not worth the risk, at least for me.
Unrooting and rerooting is easy enough. Do you have a custom ROM installed? If so the OTA update likely would fail anyway.
chzeckmate said:
Just a quick question... My epic is rooted and i got the EI22 ota notice today. if I attempt to accept the ota update what will happen? Currently running 2.2.1 Froyo DK28. Thanks!
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why would u want to do so? there is stock system dump that u can just use restore from cwm. thats what i did and it stayed rooted.
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balagyi said:
why would u want to do so? there is stock system dump that u can just use restore from cwm. thats what i did and it stayed rooted.
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Can you please elaborate? What is the procedure?
You are rooted, do you have Clockwork Mod installed? If so you can just grab the factory image from here when it shows up - http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SPH-D700-Official_Roms
Probably worth buying Titanium backup from the market to backup your apps and data first, then you could even just Odin the new version if you had to and restore.
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Can you please elaborate? What is the procedure?
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go to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337222
this is instructions from OP
- download system dump file
- unzip the whole folder to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ (assuming you have CWM)
- if you are on EXT4, install the gotorfs.zip through CWM first
- and from CWM, do a Back Up/Restore, and select restore
from there do a restore.
** this will wipe off everything. so make TB for apps and Go SMS for sms backup which I did.
EDIT:
if you want EI22 modem:
- Odin modem to EC05
- and flash the zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339401) through CWM
*** make sure you Odin EC05 before flashing EI22 modem. otherwise, it won't work.
enjoy
Hey guys,
So I am on EG30 modem (stock), and I only installed crawlcj's odexed stock rooted ROM.
I got the OTA update notification today morning and I just pressed update and walked away for like 30 minutes, and when I came back there was a yellow triangle with the android figure on the screen and it seemed to be stuck.
So I just held down the power button to turn the phone back on and it seems that the phone is still working fine under EG30 but EK02 was nowhere to be found.
I'd like to get the EK02, do you know why it failed and what I need to do to get the OTA to install correctly?
Thanks in advance
it failed because you are rooted and dont have stock recovery anymore. so if you want to upgrade to EK02 you should just flash the update that is posted already for rooted phones its fast and easy to do.this is the link to get you right to the new modem. after you flash the modem upgrade just chose a rom that has also be upgraded too. now you have the new update its just that easy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1352310
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it failed because you are rooted and dont have stock recovery anymore. so if you want to upgrade to EK02 you should just flash the update that is posted already for rooted phones its fast and easy to do.this is the link to get you right to the new modem. after you flash the modem upgrade just chose a rom that has also be upgraded too. now you have the new update its just that easy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1352310
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I'm going to jump onto this thread to because I'm having the same issue (and have searched this high and low for a solution). I have Crawrj's Stock EG30 Deodexed with Root 3.0/Busybox 1.18.4 on my phone. All I would like to do is to upgrade to EK02 and 2.3.6 (which I'm not sure if it's one and the same), remain stock but retain root. I don't have an SD card in my phone and I don't have clockworkmod (@ewalk4366 the video in your link assumes the upgrader has CWM). Since the OTA failed, I'm at a loss of how to proceed next. It seems I'm missing one thing or another when it comes to trying to upgrade. Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. Sorry for some noob butter but I still don't have all the terminology down correctly, so there may be times where I say modem but I mean rom and visa versa. For the sake of this thread, I think I'm saying what I mean.
just install the new EL13 modem using odin... i hope you are rooted
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it failed because you are rooted and dont have stock recovery anymore. so if you want to upgrade to EK02 you should just flash the update that is posted already for rooted phones its fast and easy to do.this is the link to get you right to the new modem. after you flash the modem upgrade just chose a rom that has also be upgraded too. now you have the new update its just that easy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1352310
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Thanks for your response but don't I still have the stock recovery? Crawlrj's odexed busybox rooted 3.0 rom didn't have any other recovery mods..
And I'd like to have the completely stock version of the EG30 ROM and the Modem.. So I should flash both? Wouldn't that erase my memory?
Skoksn,
I was using this thread and a few others to solve my problem which I think was similar to yours
[ACS][How to] EVERYTHING EK02 AND EG30 Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread
Step 1)
How to install ACSRecovery5 (EK02 Kernel):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjwB9mhn3Q
Step 2)
How to update to EK02 with Clockworkmod:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N80j39tk7fE
Step 3)
How to install the EK02 Modem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VDxEnO1tow
I did these 3 things in this order and I'm now on 2.3.6 and EK02 Modem. Hope this helps.
I searched and didn't get exact answer to easy my mind.
If I want to upgrade to EL29 I am rooted on stock EK02, I need to unroot and then re-root correct?
I have read some are seeing better wifi strength with EL29.
So my questions are:
(1) Is it worth it to go to EL29?
(2) Is it a simple process to unroot, do the update, then root again with the EL29 root one click? Is is the same steps as EK02
You don't need to unroot, if that is all you did. If, using your root powers, you installed CWM, uninstalled bloat, otherwise made changes to your ROM, then those would need to be undone *if* you wanted to apply an OTA patch-style update to get EL29.
EL29 plugged the exploit that was being used by Auto Root to root your phone, so EL29 cannot be directly rooted right now. However there are alternatives:
1) you could use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature. After it is installed, use Option C in Auto Root to install CWM if you want it
2) you could use the rooted EL29 OTA udpate, also in my signature. Instructions are in the thread
3) you could flash the rooted EL29 update.zip that Calkulin put out, then flash the modem by hand. I don't have the link handy. Search the dev section.
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You don't need to unroot, if that is all you did. If, using your root powers, you installed CWM, uninstalled bloat, otherwise made changes to your ROM, then those would need to be undone *if* you wanted to apply an OTA patch-style update to get EL29.
EL29 plugged the exploit that was being used by Auto Root to root your phone, so EL29 cannot be directly rooted right now. However there are alternatives:
1) you could use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature. After it is installed, use Option C in Auto Root to install CWM if you want it
2) you could use the rooted EL29 OTA udpate, also in my signature. Instructions are in the thread
3) you could flash the rooted EL29 update.zip that Calkulin put out, then flash the modem by hand. I don't have the link handy. Search the dev section.
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I was about to respond.. but man sfhub, you are always on top of these type of posts! I've learned a lot from reading your posts. You're always very clear on instructions and don't assume everyone knows everything.
Am I clear that if I am stock rooted and accept the OTA, in order to root again I wud need a modified ROM... I wud not be able to root for just wifi tether??
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You don't need to unroot, if that is all you did. If, using your root powers, you installed CWM, uninstalled bloat, otherwise made changes to your ROM, then those would need to be undone *if* you wanted to apply an OTA patch-style update to get EL29.
EL29 plugged the exploit that was being used by Auto Root to root your phone, so EL29 cannot be directly rooted right now. However there are alternatives:
1) you could use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature. After it is installed, use Option C in Auto Root to install CWM if you want it
2) you could use the rooted EL29 OTA udpate, also in my signature. Instructions are in the thread
3) you could flash the rooted EL29 update.zip that Calkulin put out, then flash the modem by hand. I don't have the link handy. Search the dev section.
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dw0d said:
Am I clear that if I am stock rooted and accept the OTA, in order to root again I wud need a modified ROM... I wud not be able to root for just wifi tether??
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There's no sense in accepting OTA updates anymore if you are rooted. We get it here on xda faster than sprint pushes them out. It will just break root anyway (assuming you haven't modified any system files, delete bloatware, ect). If you modified some stuff, the update would fail. I wouldn't bother with it. The easiest way would be to ODIN the pre-rooted EL29 stock in sfhub's signature. It'll update the modem, rom and stuff to EL29. Use the 'no-data' version if you want to keep all your data intact. That's what I did, coming from a stock EK02, only rooted.
Thx I will give a shot... XDA rocks
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dw0d said:
Am I clear that if I am stock rooted and accept the OTA, in order to root again I wud need a modified ROM... I wud not be able to root for just wifi tether??
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If you use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature "modified ROM" is really just the addition of 3 files to the ROM to root it. Everything else is stock. It is exactly the same as if you ran Option A on your own ROM. It is just done for you. In fact, you could actually use Option B in Auto Root to unroot your phone and it would be 100% stock.
Same goes for the rooted EL29 OTA in my signature.
sfhub....Thanks for the tips. You showed me how to root a couple weeks ago and it has been great. I'm still cautious and didn't do many tweaks. I did freeze a few apps including voice command so I didn't have to use that every time I wanted to bluetooth dial.
So if I haven't made any major changes to the stock rooted EK02 I can just use the option #2 you said, right? And just pull it from your sig?
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Thx I will give a shot... XDA rocks
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And this is why I love XDA.
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jkhawk said:
I did freeze a few apps including voice command so I didn't have to use that every time I wanted to bluetooth dial.
So if I haven't made any major changes to the stock rooted EK02 I can just use the option #2 you said, right? And just pull it from your sig?
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Yes, freezing is fine. Only uninstalling or modifying would cause the OTA to fail.
In the instructions for the EL29 OTA there will be an optional step to run the EK02->EL29 OTA Compliance Check. Just run that and it will tell you if anything is missing or changed. Takes around a minute. SHA1FAIL for kernel/zImage is expected. Any other MISSING or SHA1FAIL would need to be addressed.
Hi. I have rooted EL29 right now and ICS OTA download notification is up on my phone.
I'm guessing I can't just OTA as is.
What is the best way to update? Unroot it to stock EL29 then get OTA then root it afterwards?
I haven't looked at this site since EL29 release so I'm kind of behind about new stuff and forgetting lots of what to do and NOT to do....
I just want well functioned device. I have no intention to try out new ROM or anything.
The reason I rooted was to use tether. That is the only reason.
So what is the best way to go for me?
If you rooted and did nothing but tether you can take the OTA, if you removed system files etc it will fail.
You lose root taking the OTA, No root exploit available. Rooted FF18 is achieved the same way you can get to it from el29 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
No Data is the same effect as the OTA. There are problems with not wiping the phone. Swype data for example needs to be deleted for swype to work. This is one of many things that OTA users needed to do to make their life work normal.
Well I'm no expert but I flashed my phone back and forth between ICS and GB more times in the past week then I want to think about. I went from EL29 rooted stock to the ICS OTA without problems. If you want to flash to a custom ICS I would suggest using Odin to go back to EL29 rooted and then flash from there. For what I read the risk of bricking occurs when performing a factory reset on ICS OTA.
So I'm on CM9 now and here is what I did.
1) one click Odin to EL29 rooted stock.
2) D/L most recent CM9 build and gapps
3) Flash through CWM
4) Enjoy!
So, like most people this morning, got the OTA notif. I'm on stock Rogers roms but rooted. What's the best way to get that update without having to restore phone? Don't care if i lose root or CWM as we can get them back.
polish_pat said:
So, like most people this morning, got the OTA notif. I'm on stock Rogers roms but rooted. What's the best way to get that update without having to restore phone? Don't care if i lose root or CWM as we can get them back.
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As long as you never flashed the modified recovery (Clockwork, etc..) then you can do the update and wont lose anything but root. But since you have CWM installed, you'll need to flash the stock ROM (like I did) and retry the update. I didn't lose any settings when I flashed the fully stock Rogers ROM.
and after, how do i root again?
Just Odin the LG1 image from this thread. It will update you to LG1 and include root in the process.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
*edit* just noticed you are in Rogers.
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