My phone is getting a bit sluggish and clogged up so I was thinking of resetting it but I don't want to lose my root. What's the best way to do that? I don't mind everything being deleted etc. Just want it to be like it was when I bought it, just with root! If it's too much of a fuss obviously I'll reset and reroot, just wondering if there's a way to avoid it as it's a convoluted process.
Thanks in advance
This weekend I swapped my Z1C for a friends ZL. My phone was rooted (I think I had used the recent 'easyroot' method). Before giving him the phone, I did a wipe (including wiping the internal SD card) via Settings->Backup & Reset. After doing the initial setup, he still had root. When we swapped back, I wiped again (via settings again) and root stayed.
One thing I notice is that the SuperSU app is gone.. which is not a big deal.
Not to say that the answer is a definite "yes"... but I thought since my experience was so recent, I would share. Good luck! Rooting is pretty easy now anyway, if it doesn't work.
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I had rooted and unlocked my OG when the ZV9 update came out. Being trained in the classical school of stupidity, I tried to install it without re-locking my phone. The phone rebooted, but wouldn't get past going to recovery (CWM for me). I tried wiping everything I could, but eventually had to use LGNPST to restore it to stock. Thinking things were sunshine and unicorn farts again, I tried Bin4ry's root as I had done previously. When it came to the point for restoring data, however, the phone said that my device was encrypted and needed a password. I had never set up encryption and even went back to make sure it hadn't been somehow enable without my knowing. The "Restore my data" button in bottom right would do nothing while the desktop program was waiting for me to hit it in order to continue with the root process. I've included a screenshot to better explain.
I've searched the forum and asked around on the IRC channel but no-one seems to have encountered this particular circumstance. Anyone have an idea what went wrong here? Any help would be much appreciated before I decide to just accept a stock, unrootable phone or break it and cash in on my TEP.
Have you tried a total wipe? Of everything? Then LGNPST. Another option.
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I'm pretty sure I already did. In my attempts to get the phone working through recovery, I remember wiping and/or formatting the system, data, dalvik, cache, and the SD card plus a factory reset before giving up and going with LGNPST.
So my Galaxy Nexus has served me well, but I'll probably be getting a new phone in the coming months and I'll be giving my GNex to my little sister.
It's stock 4.3, rooted and got CWM. What I want to do is a simple factory reset to make setup simple when I give her the phone. I guess it's better to do it from CWM rather than pressing "Factory reset" in settings and screwing things up but I'm not sure about how to proceed. Can any of you help?
Ofc I'll first be undoing the system changes on the phone before I boot into recovery, like uninstalling xposed, removing Super SU, Avast Anti-Theft and Playstore Legacy from system partition etc. Also, I renamed recovery-from-boot.p to make sure CWM would stick, I guess I don't need to undo that, or do I?
Lastly I'd like to know, will root be removed with factory reset or do I need to remove it manually? I'm fine with the device being unlocked and CWM being installed, but I'd feel safer if root was gone since my little sister is only 13 and has no idea what it is and doesn't need it anyway.
Any help is appreciated :laugh:
Howdy, I have a TMobile HTC M8 One currently running stock kit kat with TWRP, Root, and S-Off. I have seen quite a few 5.0 posts regarding upgrading, but they all seemed slightly different (S-On, wipe, etc).
I am trying to upgrade my phone to 5.0 without doing a wipe. I have a lot of important data on my phone (and I have a nandroid backup), but I would like to avoid the "reinstall everything for days" cycle following an update. Also, I'm not much of an expert on doing this stuff. I generally become a temporary expert every 6 months or so when I need to do something important, and then I immediately forget everything.
So, what is the easiest way for a noob (with root, TWRP, and S-OFF) to upgrade to 5.0 without needing a wipe?
Thanks in advance!
Titanium backup
Wipe and install new ROM
Restore apps
Google will restore your settings
Manually set any you miss
If you just update from 4.4.4 to 5.0 without a wipe, you will almost certainly have issues.
I did that last time I worked on my phone. When I reinstalled titanium backup, it magically didn't actually have any of my data and I was sunk. Also, I don't sync my settings (or any data that I can control) with Google. Hence my apprehension at doing it again.
Thanks for the response, but I would like to avoid a wipe. If it causes issues afterwards, then so be it and I will deal with it then. for now though, I would like to at least try.
So AT&T completely ruined my phone. They force me to update, and now my phone is basically unusable.
I know problems are running rampant after this update. All of my apps crash and freeze within minutes of opening them (so far I've had to reopen this app 3 times).
Phone itself and Internet (or anything using data, whether it's 4G or Wifi) are super slow now as well.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this thing more than a paperweight?
I had the same issue. The only thing that ended working for me was wiping the phone clean and start fresh.
After that it was working fine.
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That's unfortunate. Especially because when I wipe my phone I do it without backup because I want to eliminate any possibility of it screwing up again.
I guess that's the route I have to take though.
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So AT&T completely ruined my phone. They force me to update, and now my phone is basically unusable.
I know problems are running rampant after this update. All of my apps crash and freeze within minutes of opening them (so far I've had to reopen this app 3 times).
Phone itself and Internet (or anything using data, whether it's 4G or Wifi) are super slow now as well.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this thing more than a paperweight?
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the problems are caused by all of your personal apps being installed in a KK environment with dalvik runtime as default, Lollipop uses ART as the default runtime and this tends to cause compatibility issues
Mine seem to speed right back up after a factory reset but i went back to kk for temp root
Is there a permanent downgrade I can do instead of a factory reset?
I also didn't know there was a root out (been a loooooong time since I've worried about it). But if there is, that's what I want to do since I miss my root from my S4
Nitroglycerin said:
Is there a permanent downgrade I can do instead of a factory reset?
I also didn't know there was a root out (been a loooooong time since I've worried about it). But if there is, that's what I want to do since I miss my root from my S4
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temp root only and it is still in beta, there are a few guides for downgrading in the general forum plus the needed files to do so
Just to clarify, temp root means two things. First, it will unroot if you reboot the phone. Second, devs are still attempting to finalize a non-temp root.
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Nitroglycerin said:
Is there a permanent downgrade I can do instead of a factory reset?
I also didn't know there was a root out (been a loooooong time since I've worried about it). But if there is, that's what I want to do since I miss my root from my S4
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Also if you decided to downgrade (which you can make perm.) it still wipes your phone. If you choose to stay on LP, factory reset as mentioned should remedy your problems.
Either way you will have to do it, unless you just want a screwed phone lol
Ugh. I hate AT&T so much for forced updates. All my stuff, gone. And why? Because they don't want me to be able to root? It's not their problem. I paid for this phone to be mine. So unless they want to give me my 700$ back, they shouldn't be able to force me into a new firmware.
Regardless, that's not the point. Since there's no way to save my stuff, I guess I'll have to wipe it.
Thanks for all the help guys/gals.
Hi,
I'd like to root my phone in order to fix the awful mic volume in various apps but it seems unlocking it through normal means will end up with a factory reset, is there a way past this?
You can make an adb backup because there is no way of unlocking without losing data (i was dreaming about it too, without success). There is no real way and as i already stated is better using adb backup.
I backed up everything on mi-cloud. Wanted just to root the phone and keep using miui. Not sure if that's what caused it, but I was getting bunch of force-closures after restoring backup from cloud. So I said what-a-hell and installed lineage. It's not lightning fast as miui was, but I just like it better.