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Does OTA volume fix remove root?

If you've received the OTA update only, please comment.
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Yes it does. You will need to re-root then re-flash CWM

And if I'm just using the stock ROM, just rooted?
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It will still remove root, so you just need to re-root afterwards. You won't lose any data though as it doesn't re-lock fastboot or anything. Literally took 2 minutes.

Is there a guide to rerooting without unlocking fastboot, as I assume this differs from the original rooting process for this phone using the modified img and bat file?

CJSnet said:
Is there a guide to rerooting without unlocking fastboot, as I assume this differs from the original rooting process for this phone using the modified img and bat file?
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Unfortunately no, you'll need the bootloader unlocked for the superboot method until there is a better root solution available

KiNG OMaR said:
Unfortunately no, you'll need the bootloader unlocked for the superboot method until there is a better root solution available
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What I meant is that this OTA does not lock the bootloader. The bootloader is therefore unlocked. All I'm asking for is a step-by-step guide to rerooting from that state, with it unlocked.

Hmm this is weird. I was prompted to install the OTA fix. I just have the stock Google ROM, rooted and that's it. It rebooted, showed the wireframe hexagon animation for a second, and went to an android with a /!\ exclamation mark. I had to remove the battery.
Now I can't update and it has disappeared from the update page in phone settings. Check for update doesn't bring it back.
Is there a place to download the update patch?

Same thing happened to mine. I just found a zip of the update here and flashed it via CWM. You will still need to re-root and re-flash CWM.

ferris2375 said:
Same thing happened to mine. I just found a zip of the update here and flashed it via CWM. You will still need to re-root and re-flash CWM.
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And here it is! Just rename to update.zip and place in the SD Card root folder, then reboot into recovery and install update.zip:
http://android.clients.google.com/p....signed-yakju-ITL41F-from-ITL41D.11bbbccb.zip

Hi guys, i need to learn something.
I use Bigxie [ROM] [OTA] [GSM] Android 4.2.2 JDQ39: Rooted Busybox Deodexed
and want to update 4.3 with similar;
Fireb33 [ROM] [JB] [JWR66Y] Galaxy Nexus 4.3 stock (deodexed, rooted, busybox)
So do I need to vipe anything or just download and flash via Twrp?
And better for me is: can i just download an "update.zip" (for same root-busybox-deodexed stock rom) instead a huge rom file?
Will i lose any data with any way?

Root after 4.0.4 update

I have a GSM Galaxy Nexus that i manually updated to 4.0.4, i'm just wondering how i can now get root back?
I restored root with Voodoo OTA root keeper however i do not appear to actually have root, despite it saying that i do and still having the super user application installed.
Screens: http://i40.tinypic.com/5v1y05.png and http://i42.tinypic.com/156ffdh.png
How would i go about getting root back? I have tried running superboot again which is how i originally rooted, however my phone appears to get stuck on the screen with the unlocked padlock if i attempt that: http://android.modaco.com/topic/348161-01-feb-r4-superboot-rooting-the-gsm-lte-galaxy-nexus/
Any help would be appreciated,
Cheers

to root... download su.zip and flash in recovery
this su.zip is the newer one
http://db.denh.am/Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip

Do i need a customer recovery for that? my boot loader is unlocked and i had the stock rom rooted. I never flashed any customer recovery as i believe it disabled OTA updates?

InsaneNutter said:
Do i need a customer recovery for that? my boot loader is unlocked and i had the stock rom rooted. I never flashed any customer recovery as i believe it disabled OTA updates?
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yeah.. cmw recovery..
if u scared of disabling ota.. y r u flashing 4.0.4 now? wait for it..

king23adrianc said:
yeah.. cmw recovery..
if u scared of disabling ota.. y r u flashing 4.0.4 now? wait for it..
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I was still on 4.0.2 and got impatient, would i not have lost root anyway waiting for the ota?

InsaneNutter said:
I was still on 4.0.2 and got impatient, would i not have lost root anyway waiting for the ota?
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u will lose root anyway i think.. i dont know about ota.. i never wait for it

InsaneNutter said:
I was still on 4.0.2 and got impatient, would i not have lost root anyway waiting for the ota?
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After installing 4.0.5:
Use the Galaxy nexus Toolkit and select the option to "Boot to CWM without flashing recovery". And just use CWM to flash su.zip for root. Thats what I did.
Stock 4.0.4 - Rooted Galaxy Nexus.

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After you flash clockwork and superuser just reboot your phone and the stock recovery will be restored. You have to delete a file to make the custom recovery stick.

hi, as I said in other topic , for rooting i use GALAXY NEXUS TOOLKIT 5.1 ! all work fine
at opening tell you have 4.0.2 ICL53F, and then choose 4 for root
try ;-)

CrashV5 said:
hi, as I said in other topic , for rooting i use GALAXY NEXUS TOOLKIT 5.1 ! all work fine
at opening tell you have 4.0.2 ICL53F, and then choose 4 for root
try ;-)
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Thanks everyone for the advice and suggestions, i did this and now i'm on 4.0.4 stock and have root again, good times

can't root again after 4.0.4 update
I can't find GALAXY NEXUS TOOLKIT 5.1 and when i try to install Superuser-3.0.7-d-signed from cwm i get and error with status0

chenhajaj said:
I can't find GALAXY NEXUS TOOLKIT 5.1 and when i try to install Superuser-3.0.7-d-signed from cwm i get and error with status0
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310

Tried all the above: the su.zip does it's job but it is not rooted, in toolkit I choose root phone and does nothing. How do I do it manually with an insecure boot? I'm on 4.04 GSM.
10x

I understand that OTA RootKeeper is to keep root when you receive an OTA update. Not if you manually update (the app description in google play says this). Has anyone tried OTA RootKeeper, gotten the 4.0.4 OTA update and stayed rooted? I myself will wait for the 4.0.4 OTA update and have installed RootKeeper. Will I keep root if done this way?

**** Ripple said:
After you flash clockwork and superuser just reboot your phone and the stock recovery will be restored. You have to delete a file to make the custom recovery stick.
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In Android 4.0.4 this is not necessary.
Custom recovery will not be overwritten after reboot.
If you flash Clockworkmod via fastboot,it will remain,and you can flash Superuser.

Hey guys I am A BIG NEWBIE so don't judge lol.
I had root with 4.0.2 and had the OTA 4.0.4 update and lost the root. I tried to get root back the same way I got my original one (with fastboot-windows) but does not seem to work.
Any help?

HarryHabs said:
Hey guys I am A BIG NEWBIE so don't judge lol.
I had root with 4.0.2 and had the OTA 4.0.4 update and lost the root. I tried to get root back the same way I got my original one (with fastboot-windows) but does not seem to work.
Any help?
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See this post to root 4.0.4.

my gn is also updated to 4.04 manually after rooted.
maybe you can refer to this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
i will try it.

[Q] 4.0.4 OTA for stock recovery (locked bootloader) ?

Hello,
is there an OTA package which i can flash with a stock recovery (my phone i locked, i don't like to have an unlocked bootloader)?
I am on 4.0.2 right now...

No, you need to be rooted or unlocked to flash the OTA package. Just wait for the official one, it will probably be pushed sometime during easter
I'm still waiting for the OTA aswell

I was pretty sure that the OTA process just downloads a file which will be flashed via the stock recovery. So if someone would have this stock OTA package (update.zip) i can just place in the internal storage and reboot into stock recovery. At least on my HTC Hero at 1.5 -> 1.6 it was working this way...must have remembered something wrong there...

bluefisch200 said:
Hello,
is there an OTA package which i can flash with a stock recovery (my phone i locked, i don't like to have an unlocked bootloader)?
I am on 4.0.2 right now...
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Haven't tried it myself (since I am rooted and unlocked) but I recon that you can unlock (and loose ALL your data), root, flash the onetime CWM Recovery, flash the 4.0.4 stock image (by which you will loose root), relock (and loose ALL your data again).
At the end you would be completely stock again. That can all be done through the GNEX toolkit by Mskip that can be found here: Link.
You can download the official Google image from here: Link

bluefisch200 said:
I was pretty sure that the OTA process just downloads a file which will be flashed via the stock recovery. So if someone would have this stock OTA package (update.zip) i can just place in the internal storage and reboot into stock recovery. At least on my HTC Hero at 1.5 -> 1.6 it was working this way...must have remembered something wrong there...
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that was probably right with the htc hero, also on my htc desire..because the ota package was picked by the stock recovery from the sdcard
but the stock recovery on our galaxy nexus with ics, expect the ota to be on the /cache partition..without root u can't write in that partition, only the os itself can write there

bluefisch200 said:
Hello,
is there an OTA package which i can flash with a stock recovery (my phone i locked, i don't like to have an unlocked bootloader)?
I am on 4.0.2 right now...
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If you are on yakju, root using this method (note you only need temp root, so only do up to step 6), then place the update file from here to /cache and reboot into stock recovery and flash.

efrant said:
If you are on yakju, root using this method (note you only need temp root, so only do up to step 6), then place the update file from here to /cache and reboot into stock recovery and flash.
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Thank you
Btw. it's easier to just root the OS (go above step 6) instead of only go to 6...for the cp command you will need busybox...i have seen "cat" somewhere but i couldn't figure out how it works...but i seems to be that you can copy files without installing busybox since cat is supported from android at stock...

bluefisch200 said:
Thank you
Btw. it's easier to just root the OS (go above step 6) instead of only go to 6...for the cp command you will need busybox...i have seen "cat" somewhere but i couldn't figure out how it works...but i seems to be that you can copy files without installing busybox since cat is supported from android at stock...
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Correct, that is why I used cat in my directions instead of cp, as you would not have busybox installed if you are not root...

I'm still on 4.0.1
Is there any way to force an OTA update to 4.0.2 or 4.0.4 without rooting. Or manually install an update with a .zip update through stock recovery rather than CWM. I am unable to get any OTA updates it says my system is up to date which it clearly isnt.

Merio90 said:
Is there any way to force an OTA update to 4.0.2 or 4.0.4 without rooting. Or manually install an update with a .zip update through stock recovery rather than CWM. I am unable to get any OTA updates it says my system is up to date which it clearly isnt.
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No..................
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[Q] Re-Root After 4.1.2 Upgrade?

I have an unlocked I9250 Galaxy Nexus that was rooted. I recently upgraded to 4.1.2 using the automatic update. I had Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper installed which worked for the last upgrade, so I didn't even think about it. But I lost my root. Is there a way to re-root without losing any settings or data? When I boot into recovery I see the android with a red exclamation point. I assume My custom recovery was removed with the upgrade. Thanks!

I know this isn't answering your question, but I wanted to mention that I, too, had Voodoo OTA RootKeeper installed when I updated to 4.1.2 and it worked perfectly. I was on stock 4.1.1.
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Was I supposed to run the rootkeeper app prior to upgrading? I did not do that. Although I would think that it would have saved the superuser file from the previous run. I'm not sure how it works. either way, I definitely am not rooted anymore and not sure what to do. I'm not even sure if there are tools to root 4.1.2, or if the old toolkit works the same with this upgrade.
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I know this isn't answering your question, but I wanted to mention that I, too, had Voodoo OTA RootKeeper installed when I updated to 4.1.2 and it worked perfectly. I was on stock 4.1.1.
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Hmm good question. All I did was open it prior to the update to verify that all of the checkboxes under "Status" were filled in and su was protected.
After the update downloaded, rebooting took me into ClockworkMod Recovery where I had to give the ok to install the new file.
The only thing I needed to do after updating was flash ClockworkMod Recovery again. Everything else was fine.
As for rooting your new stock 4.1.2, here's a good place to start. You shouldn't loose your data assuming the bootloader is still unlocked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
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download the superuser or supersu zip
download cwm or twrp recovery image
boot into fastboot mode
fastboot boot cwmortwrp.img
flash the superuser or supersu.zip
done.

Zepius said:
download the superuser or supersu zip
download cwm or twrp recovery image
boot into fastboot mode
fastboot boot cwmortwrp.img
flash the superuser or supersu.zip
done.
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This.
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Thanks everyone. Will doing this require a factory reset or any internal data loss? Or does that only occur when unlocking the phone?

prattleon said:
Thanks everyone. Will doing this require a factory reset or any internal data loss? Or does that only occur when unlocking the phone?
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only when unlocking the phone, flashing userdata.img in fastboot, or using fastboot erase userdata

[Q] Getting Error while try to upgrade from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 Stock?

Hi,
I have rooted Stock 4.2.1 Jelly Bean Build number JOP40D, I got software alert 5 days back its successfully download and then after click on restart and install button mobile reboot in TWRP mood and stuck by giving me some error related to partition, image file not found etc etc..
I had tried this 3 to 4 times but same error.
Please help me how to install it on the air.
Just for info i have upgraded my Gnex from 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 using Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.2.
Please help me.

You're rooted, which means you edited the system, which means the OTA probably won't install. Always better to go back to 100% stock and re-root

ftrack said:
Hi,
I have rooted Stock 4.2.1 Jelly Bean Build number JOP40D, I got software alert 5 days back its successfully download and then after click on restart and install button mobile reboot in TWRP mood and stuck by giving me some error related to partition, image file not found etc etc..
I had tried this 3 to 4 times but same error.
Please help me how to install it on the air.
Just for info i have upgraded my Gnex from 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 using Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.2.
Please help me.
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You cannot install an OTA update unless you are 100% stock. You have TWRP recovery, thus not 100% stock. That's why it fails. Either flash back stock recovery and retry, or simply apply the update manually using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419170

Petrovski80 said:
You cannot install an OTA update unless you are 100% stock. You have TWRP recovery, thus not 100% stock. That's why it fails. Either flash back stock recovery and retry, or simply apply the update manually using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419170
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Huh.. I've received JDQ39 ota, I forgot to remove TWRP before hand, but it still went through anyway. It installed fine, surprised the hell out of me actually. TWRP 2.4.1.0. Didn't have any other mods though. Not even rooted.
Sent from my Nexus

Petrovski80 said:
You cannot install an OTA update unless you are 100% stock. You have TWRP recovery, thus not 100% stock. That's why it fails. Either flash back stock recovery and retry, or simply apply the update manually using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419170
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you can definitely install the OTA with a custom recovery. it however will not install if you modified any /system files, bootloader or radio do not match.

Oh really? That surprises me honestly. Although I never tried it, I always assumed every partition needed to have unmodified stock files (adding extra files does not matter). Apparently the recovery partition is an exception.

Petrovski80 said:
Oh really? That surprises me honestly. Although I never tried it
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+1
I was really surprised, in a good way! xD