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Verizon galaxy nexus 4.04 ota

hey i have a galaxy nexus 4.02 on verizon i used the gnexrootkit to unlock and root the phone. My phone is requesting to download the 4.04 update. Is it safe to do the update? I dont care for root much anymore. Will it just return my phone to oem stock or will it brick my phone?

Q&A forum for this bro but if you're stock rooted and do the update you will lose root. You would have to lock up the boot loader again if u want to do that
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You do not have to lock your bootloader
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I'm just trying to unlock my nexus

Hey friends... Yesterday I bought my new nexus with stock 4.0.3 Rom... when I booted into fast boot there was a msg showing my current lock status was unlocked... is that means my phone bootloader is unlocked??? Even I tried installing Cwm touch from toolkit.. but when it got installed successfully.. I cudnt get it into recovery.. it was showing an error recovery symbol.. what happen??
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The Android on its back with the ! symbol is the stock recovery.
By the way, there was never a stock 4.0.3 ROM for the GNex.
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Sorry.. lock this thread... I have successfully did it....
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Question about boot loader

can you unlock the bootloader, root, relock the bootloader and still have root access?
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Yes
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Stock recovery

Does anyone have the stock recovery handy ?
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Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381438

Here is another: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381582

Thanks.
I noticed one has system and boot IMG. Just curious when I would ever need those and what exactly are they. Sorry for the questions. I'm comfortable unlocking devices. Flashing custom recoveries and Roms. Still don't understand what the boot and system image contains. Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks guys.
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Boot is kernel. System is ROM. They are just images.
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Art2Fly said:
Boot is kernel. System is ROM. They are just images.
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Thought so. Thanks again.
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[Q] about rooting

So i am enjoying my galaxy nexus for over a year now. Had a prety bad experiance with previous phone (sony ericsson xperia x8). Last phone was crap, so i rooted it and and changed rom. I thought i will never want to root my galaxy nexus, but probably the sole reason for me to do it is so i could connect my ps3 controler through bluetooth. I did some research about it with some success but i'm still a bit confused, so i want to ask a few questions about rooting before doing it.
On xperia x8 the rooting came before unlocking bootloader, on galaxy nexus as i see it is the other way around ? Back in the days when i had x8 there was a lot of warnings everywhere that i can brick my phone, but as i read about galaxy nexus rooting i dont find much warnings, is it any safer ? There is a toolkit i found called Nexus Root Toolkit by WugFresh that would do about every thing that i need to root it, but is it safe to use ? There is another guy who asked about how to root galaxy nexus and another guy said that he shouldnt trust the toolkit and that flashing custom recovery is safer. Also, does rooting somehow depend on my phones date of assembly or any nuber behind the batery just like it did on xperia x8 if i remember corectly?
Sorry for bad english.
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that toolkit is good to go... no problems when using it.
custom recovery included in that toolkit. twrp preferred..
galaxy nexus i9250 > 4.4.2 slimkat

Please use fastboot. It is really easy and failure proof.
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I also had Xperia X8 before Galaxy Nexus and I know what are you worried about. First of all, every Galaxy Nexus can be unlocked and rooted easily (it doesn't depends on manefacturing date as on X8). All you need to do is Unlock bootloader via fastboot and install custom recovery (TWRP or CWM) and flash SuperSU zip through recovery. As it's Nexus device, it's really easy. There are many tutorials around, so it shouldn't be a problem
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One more question. Will i loose everything from my phone memory after unlocking bootloader and rooting?
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xdomisx said:
One more question. Will i loose everything from my phone memory after unlocking bootloader and rooting?
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After unlocking yes. Rooting not. Flashing factory image yes.
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