I have a question about this whole Towelroot thing. If I use it on this new att G3, and an update comes from att, would the phone still be able to accept the ota update?
I'm thinking yes, but just want to confirm.
If you root, you lose OTA updates.
Is there a video showing Towelroot for the G3? And then I think you have to install Superuser somehow?
It is all new to me but I would have to decide about not getting updates afterwards but I may cave and try it anyway if it is straightforward.
Well since this method does not mess with boot loader or recovery I figured you still could.
I'm also new to rooting the G3, but if I understand correctly to be able to receive OTA updates you need to unroot, either via Superuser or the LG PC Suite, both methods will not wipe your device. After updating just reroot again.
Bus Driver said:
I'm also new to rooting the G3, but if I understand correctly to be able to receive OTA updates you need to unroot, either via Superuser or the LG PC Suite, both methods will not wipe your device. After updating just reroot again.
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Assuming the root is not patched in the OTA
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I am about to take the plunge and root the LG G3. It's been a couple weeks and I don't see any hardware faults so I would like to root and then debloat.
I can find some debloating threads here, but my main question was. . .how will I need to update after I have rooted the device
Say, I root today and then tomorrow AT&T releases an update for my device. Since I have rooted, I can't take the OTA update. But, is there a place that LG posts those updates? Can I download an update somewhere and and manually update with a specific windows application?
Or, will my updates only come in the form of ROMs after I have rooted?
I have the European D855 which was rooted using Towelroot. It has taken OTA updates perfectly twice now. Had to reinstall Xposed, but that was to be expected.
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I have the European D855 which was rooted using Towelroot. It has taken OTA updates perfectly twice now. Had to reinstall Xposed, but that was to be expected.
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I'm not sure if it works the same way with the AT&T variant, but thanks for telling me your experience
It seems that some people reported being able to receive OTA despite being rooted, and some can't. I am one of those who can't. However, I have always been able to update using the LG PC Suite software even when I am rooted. That part I think is quite safe. Only issue is you will lose root after you've updated, in which case you will have to re-root. This may not be possible if the upgraded firmware has patched the exploit.
RudeYute said:
I have the European D855 which was rooted using Towelroot. It has taken OTA updates perfectly twice now. Had to reinstall Xposed, but that was to be expected.
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So i dont have to unroot or do anything with lg flash tool to upgrade your firmware?
Just the normal OTA?
thx
Same here Do i need to unroot?
annyone else had problems?
Hello, this is my first android device, so I'm not too experienced with the whole rooting thing. My device is currently rooted with the original firmware that came on it. (Galaxy Tab S 10.5) not quite sure which version is on here or even where to find out. I tried to do an over the air update and it wouldn't let me because the device is rooted, but apparently there is a new firmware version out, so I definitely want to get on that.
How do I go about getting the latest firmware installed and getting my device rooted again?
Thanks!
How you rooted it the first time, just repeat the steps again.
Well to get an OTA as far as I know you will need to un-root and try the update, BUT if you rooted with Chainfire method probably is gona fail, because that method trips knox, and the update is going to fail.
If for whatever reason you can update, you might loose root and maybe the exploit that worked with your current build this time is not going to work.
To find out what build you have, go to settings>>>general>>about device and there it's
That's why once you root you have to block or deny the updates until the people here with more knowledge report that it's safe.
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Well to get an OTA as far as I know you will need to un-root and try the update, BUT if you rooted with Chainfire method probably is gona fail, because that method trips knox, and the update is going to fail.
If for whatever reason you can update, you might loose root and maybe the exploit that worked with your current build this time is not going to work.
To find out what build you have, go to settings>>>general>>about device and there it's
That's why once you root you have to block or deny the updates until the people here with more knowledge report that it's safe.
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The build number says:
KOT49H.T800XXU1ANF8
I haven't tried it for marks but auto update via Kies should work. Even if rooted. Does not affect root. And does not factory reset. i. e. you get same effect as OTA.
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pibach said:
I haven't tried it for marks but auto update via Kies should work. Even if rooted. Does not affect root. And does not factory reset. i. e. you get same effect as OTA.
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can anyone confirm this?
should I use auto update if I'm going to root and install custom rom later?
For me only, once I rooted I purposely used titanium backup to freeze "system updates".
I still get normal app updates, but don't want any system updates, that may break root, until my phone is unlocked.
Ok thanks, if I update can I still root after? After the update if I do a factory reset will the update be lost?
An update can remove root, and patch the methods that a particular root uses to take effect, depending on what it does. That is why I am avoiding updates until the phone is unlocked.
By the way, I can't post on dev forum so I'll take advantage of this topic here.
I already know that Purple Drake's root is working till the V10I update.
I rooted my G3 and disabled OTA's. If I enable them again, run the OTA update (V10I) I'll probably lose root, right?
But, if I apply PD root, will I get root again w/o losing all my data?
thanks!
What is the advantage of the update, should I even bother with it?
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By the way, I can't post on dev forum so I'll take advantage of this topic here.
I already know that Purple Drake's root is working till the V10I update.
I rooted my G3 and disabled OTA's. If I enable them again, run the OTA update (V10I) I'll probably lose root, right?
But, if I apply PD root, will I get root again w/o losing all my data?
thanks!
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Hi,
I just got my LG yesterday, and I rooted it via PurpleDrake.
Today, everyone once in a while, a pop-up comes up about LG's Software Update, asking me to update.
So, my question is this, will updating cause issues because of rooting?
Also, if so, how can I get rid of this stupid pop up asking me to update? [I did turn off OTAs, so I'm assuming this is not one?]
Thanks.
I doubt it is. For an OTA update as rooting your device will stop that happening,most likely an app update or something to do with lg agreements.
Ruttix said:
Hi,
I just got my LG yesterday, and I rooted it via PurpleDrake.
Today, everyone once in a while, a pop-up comes up about LG's Software Update, asking me to update.
So, my question is this, will updating cause issues because of rooting?
Also, if so, how can I get rid of this stupid pop up asking me to update? [I did turn off OTAs, so I'm assuming this is not one?]
Thanks.
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A software update can still attempt to install if you have not disabled OTA updates from your carrier somehow. Since you are rooted you should freeze the System updates process so it will not attempt to install the update and potentially remove root, or break something during the OTA install. This is not disabled automatically by just rooting, although some methods during root may also disable updates. I am not familiar enough with PurpleDrake to say if it does this or not. I do know that with IORoot you will still need to manually freeze the system update process.
hey, someone could have warned that the OTA updates don't work anymore after rooting the phone -.-... first with somehow reverted recovery (don't know how it happened) it failed, and now with TWRP it doen't do anything and sits idle in recovery mode, with no alarm clock... -.-
also I'm used to have a all-in-one-thread with links to the latest firmwares etc, I can't find this here.
so, what's the latest firmware, are there differential patches I can install with TWRP or only the >1GB full images?
I'm on version 10B or so, something with 'b'. from june.
Only solution is to flash v10b "stock" and lose root (by that you'll be able to Ota update), or the newer version (using LG flash tool). Note that you'll lose all date on your phone.
Edit:
By flash I meant using LG flash tool. (for which version you'll like to install.)
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*Of course* OTA updates won't work with root...what else could you have been thinking??
You actually have been warned if you had read the root thread...
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In the past, not all rooting automatically meant that OTA updates were stopped. This was an optional step you could take. Early on, when a phone is first released, updates from the provider should be expected - this is something why I might hold off on rooting ASAP. As the life cycle of the phone starts to wear on, less updates (or no more updates) so less of a concern. There was/is an app I use to use call OTA Root Keeper that allowed one to not turn off the OTA updates - as some are valuable like the coming Stagefright patches we should expect - and get the OTA updates and then also keep root. Taking an OTA update could mean you loose root even with OTA Root Keeper if part of the update is closing an exploit. That was always a risk. But for me, having updated proper software often outweighed the risk with losing root and in fact, OTA Root Keeper always worked for me so I never lost root on my phones or tablets. But as we know, phone makers and providers hate root so they work to close every exploit and I suspect that would be why shutting off OTA updates is part of the current root tool/method you refer to. Most are cool with shutting off OTA updates.
For example, in this current root method it clearly says "Now that you're rooted, MAKE SURE YOU DISABLE OTA UPDATES, if you accidentally take an OTA, you might not be able to roll back or fix it." so it looks as if in this case OTA updates are NOT shut off and you have to manually take that step if you want to.
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*Of course* OTA updates won't work with root...what else could you have been thinking??
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this is not true.. this is exploit specific
the bootload is unlocked, therefore we have full access anyway, it's totally impossible to deny root to a phone with open bootloader.
therefore it should be doable to unroot, revert recovery back to stock, to ota, and do it all again. but it's annoying.
I tried to flash the OTA update (it's in /cache/xxxota/something), after renaming it to .zip and .img, but it didn't work.
any other way to simply extract the files from the OTA?
I was have root and update software via lg bridge. Now i dont have root but i dont need it till we have twrp and custom rom/s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3175493
Try this one
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