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[Q]Updating OTA While Rooted

Noticed a new build was released for OTA. Doing a little research I discovered it won't work while rooted.
Question being, what's the easiest way to update? Temporarily run custom recovery and flash it? I don't want to loss root access or any data. If needed I'll re-root again, but rather not.
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datallboy said:
Noticed a new build was released for OTA. Doing a little research I discovered it won't work while rooted.
Question being, what's the easiest way to update? Temporarily run custom recovery and flash it? I don't want to loss root access or any data. If needed I'll re-root again, but rather not.
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There are many ways to accomplish the same end goal.
You can actually install the OTA while rooted. Just need to run the small fix in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44597339#post44597339
Rerooting on this device is super simple.
There are also other options like flashing the factory images or one of the pre-rooted odexed/deodexed repackaged mostly stock ROMs. You can find them described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2415497

So just temporarily run custom recovery then flash the update? but where can I download the latest OTA update?
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datallboy said:
So just temporarily run custom recovery then flash the update? but where can I download the latest OTA update?
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You need to run the fix I mentioned above OR unroot BEFORE installing the OTA or the OTA will fail near the end.
You can find the OTA here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2415497

Don't quite understand the post, so better to just hold off on an attempt.. Would using the unroot option in SuperSU, allowing the OTA update to go through, then rerooting work fine without deleting data?
I'm know more about Nook Tablet than Nexus 7, didn't care what I did to my Nook because I could fix it. I'm more cautious with this.
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Super-Su unroot never help you if you delete something in the /system directory
1)you must flash fix after root
2)do not flash permanent custom recovery and relock bootloader (if your bricked you devices you can send to Warranty Service)
3)replace backup of /system directory before update
and after update clean Dalvik Cache before flash Root again (if superuser privilegies still anavalable for you)

Understand the fix now. Noticed the update went through, but got an error when it finished. Flash ota update in temporary recovery. Correct?
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I just downloaded the OTA to the device, unrooted, installed the OTA in TWRP, and then the latest superSU zip (still in recovery). Reboot and voila.

datallboy said:
I'm know more about Nook Tablet than Nexus 7, didn't care what I did to my Nook because I could fix it. I'm more cautious with this.
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This is a Nexus device. There's almost no way to hard-brick it. Worst case, reboot into bootloader, and fastboot push the stock images.

The fix worked, and I'm still rooted. with all data. Temporarily booted into TWRP, flashed the fix and forced OTA update. Thank you!

ripelli part
Don't fear the ota update. There were no negative effects on my rom or kernel.
-cleanROM1.3
- 3.4.0 ElementalX1.1+

sfreemanoh said:
This is a Nexus device. There's almost no way to hard-brick it. Worst case, reboot into bootloader, and fastboot push the stock images.
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LOL if you flash STOCK and then bootloader - you will get bootloop hardbrick without FASTBOOT and ADB !!! (only APX)
(my nexus 7 1 gen in this situation)
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why you try new customs rom, when in few weeks would be android 5.0 ?

sambistt said:
LOL if you flash STOCK and then bootloader - you will get bootloop hardbrick without FASTBOOT and ADB !!! (only APX)
(my nexus 7 1 gen in this situation)
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why you try new customs rom, when in few weeks would be android 5.0 ?
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I'm not sure what you're saying in reference to my earlier comment...are you saying something I said was incorrect?

Hi guys, I need your assistance. I am unable to transfer movies from phone memory to

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KitKat and SD card issue, if you are stock and rooted - use this http://goo.gl/UfqPKb

Thanks for your reply. My m8 is stock...n I am not planning to root my phone yet as I am new to android. Is there a fix for stock m8
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beastyricky said:
Thanks for your reply. My m8 is stock...n I am not planning to root my phone yet as I am new to android. Is there a fix for stock m8
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Nope, no way.
You have to switch to the dark side (root) of android users only ;D

Hahaha...I will try it out then...hope my phone won't get bricked...
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You won't brick your phone rooting it. HTC even provide the tools to help achieve it by unlocking the boot loader. All you need do then is install twrp recovery and it will do the rest.

Don't even need to install/flash TWRP to get it rooted, can just boot TWRP and still flash SuperSU to get root, which is what I have done. Benefit - You get to keep stock recovery for future OTA's (Even though you can flash it later on, I know... =oP )

BerndM14 said:
Don't even need to install/flash TWRP to get it rooted, can just boot TWRP and still flash SuperSU to get root, which is what I have done. Benefit - You get to keep stock recovery for future OTA's (Even though you can flash it later on, I know... =oP )
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good to hear HTC let you do this again!!! I thought they stopped doing this on the first hboot update on m7, great stuff!!! :good:

BerndM14 said:
Don't even need to install/flash TWRP to get it rooted, can just boot TWRP and still flash SuperSU to get root, which is what I have done. Benefit - You get to keep stock recovery for future OTA's (Even though you can flash it later on, I know... =oP )
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cool, how do I just boot TWRP without actually installing it so I can retain my regular stock recovery to take OTA's? I thought I had to install it? I have not rooted M8 yet, but I did my EVO 4G LTE - was just hanging back to make sure the initial OTA's were all out before rooting - but if I can just boot TWRP to install supersu that would make life so much easier.

tommy_riley said:
cool, how do I just boot TWRP without actually installing it so I can retain my regular stock recovery to take OTA's? I thought I had to install it? I have not rooted M8 yet, but I did my EVO 4G LTE - was just hanging back to make sure the initial OTA's were all out before rooting - but if I can just boot TWRP to install supersu that would make life so much easier.
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Boot into bootloader, connect phone to PC, open command prompt, change directory to adb.exe / fastboot.exe folder. Type fastboot devices to make sure your device gets picked up, should show you serial number of the phone. Then type fastboot boot name_of_recovery.img. Just make sure you have the custom recovery(TWRP) extracted(not in .zip form) in the fastboot/adb folder as well.
Done, that's it :good:
Edit: Of course I'm sure you know the bootloader needs to be unlocked as well.

BerndM14 said:
Boot into bootloader, connect phone to PC, open command prompt, change directory to adb.exe / fastboot.exe folder. Type fastboot devices to make sure your device gets picked up, should show you serial number of the phone. Then type fastboot boot name_of_recovery.img. Just make sure you have the custom recovery(TWRP) extracted(not in .zip form) in the fastboot/adb folder as well.
Done, that's it :good:
Edit: Of course I'm sure you know the bootloader needs to be unlocked as well.
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excellent, thanks for the quick reply and also not saying "go search for it" - yeah, very familiar with the bootloader unlocking method via htc website - I don't know a lot but have spent some time with unlocking
I also feel proud to be one of the few who knows how to get adb/flashing to work via my windows 8.1 USB3.0 only system - but that's another story.
thanks again for the response - going to go do this later today.

A few qiestions about rooting

Hello everyone, im really mew to rooting.
I have the T Mob M8 with 5.0.1, i was planning on rooting but will I be able to update nprmally wjen 5.1 comes out? If so how?
Also whats tje easiest method to root this phone? Ive seen apks like framaroot that root the phone extremely quick and easy...is there something similar for this phone?
Thanks in advance
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Root by unlocking the bootloader via HTCDev.com and then just install custom recovery and flash current (2.56) SuperSU zip.
One click root solutions won't work with a locked bootloader. Unlocking the bootloader is really the key.
Once rooted, you can OTA. But you need to have stock ROM (nothing altered in /system partition) and you need to re-install stock recovery. Root is okay (although you will likely lose root) and unlocked bootloader is okay to OTA. To root again after an OTA, just install custom recovery and flash SuperSU again.

Thanks a lot. I will unlock the bootloader and can you link me to a good tutorial or guide on how to install custom recovery and supersu?
Thanks again
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Red_Gh0st said:
Thanks a lot. I will unlock the bootloader and can you link me to a good tutorial or guide on how to install custom recovery and supersu?
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The following guide is a pretty good one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799796
Although some links are outdated:
1) Installing HTCSync should be fine to get the HTC drivers on your computer; or you can search XDA for more recent HTC drivers. The HTC drivers linked in the guide are really old.
2) Get the latest SuperSU zip here: http://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip
3) And if you need an easy adb/fastboot installer, just use the XDA seach function with the phrase "simple adb" and you will get a few results for beginner adb guides and installers.
4) Get the latest version of TWRP here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/m8

redpoint73 said:
The following guide is a pretty good one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799796
Although some links are outdated:
1) Installing HTCSync should be fine to get the HTC drivers on your computer; or you can search XDA for more recent HTC drivers. The HTC drivers linked in the guide are really old.
2) Get the latest SuperSU zip here: http://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip
3) And if you need an easy adb/fastboot installer, just use the XDA seach function with the phrase "simple adb" and you will get a few results for beginner adb guides and installers.
4) Get the latest version of TWRP here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/m8
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hello I saw your post Im planning also to root my m8 but I dont want to flash the custom recovery someone told me it is possible
just download the custom recovery
then type "fastboot boot recovery.img" = this will boot my m8 to custom recovery but not flash so I can flash the supersu in that custom recovery then reboot after that stock recovery is still intact

imfuzzyyy said:
hello I saw your post Im planning also to root my m8 but I dont want to flash the custom recovery someone told me it is possible
just download the custom recovery
then type "fastboot boot recovery.img" = this will boot my m8 to custom recovery but not flash so I can flash the supersu in that custom recovery then reboot after that stock recovery is still intact
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That's true, you can boot TWRP remotely with fastboot, without actually flashing it (installing to the phone).
Although its slightly irrelevant; you can always flash back to stock recovery back to the phone (over-write TWRP). You can either find your stock recovery posted in the collection; or back it up your self using the fastboot TWRP trick (fastboot boot TWRP, and use TWRP to backup stock recovery). In that instance, the fastboot boot TWRP trick is very useful.
Having TWRP installed after root is very useful. Reason being, it gives you a lot more recovery options if things go south. And also, for a lot of mods done under root, you will want to backup your stock setup anyway (just in case the mod goes wrong, and you need to revert). Stock recovery is close to useless for anything but installing OTA updates.

redpoint73 said:
That's true, you can boot TWRP remotely with fastboot, without actually flashing it (installing to the phone).
Although its slightly irrelevant; you can always flash back to stock recovery back to the phone (over-write TWRP). You can either find your stock recovery posted in the collection; or back it up your self using the fastboot TWRP trick (fastboot boot TWRP, and use TWRP to backup stock recovery). In that instance, the fastboot boot TWRP trick is very useful.
Having TWRP installed after root is very useful. Reason being, it gives you a lot more recovery options if things go south. And also, for a lot of mods done under root, you will want to backup your stock setup anyway (just in case the mod goes wrong, and you need to revert). Stock recovery is close to useless for anything but installing OTA updates.
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woah didnt know that I can back up the stock recovery by fastboot boot in TWRP BTW if I'm using this phone I will probably use a TWRP but its my gf who uses it so she just need the root access for xmod app because she is an coc adik haha and she doesnt know about modding its system, thanks for this wonderful information
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hello I need your help this m8 is previously rooted have supersu installed then take OTA before now it is not rooted but the supersu still intact on my apps, I fastboot boot twrp.img then went smoothly flash the supersu.zip but Im still unrooted any suggestion? it say on root checker the root access is not properly installed
update: sorry got root now I flashed the 1.94.zip which is very outdated didnt notice it flashed the latest 2.46.zip now its rooted thank you so much!

Hello I finally started downloading everything to get started. I start the process to unlock the bootloader but when i get to the part i need to type "fastoboom oem....." On cmd I get an error saying Adbwinapi.dll is missing try reinstalling the program.
What can I do to fix this?
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Red_Gh0st said:
On cmd I get an error saying Adbwinapi.dll is missing try reinstalling the program.
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Is HTC Sync installed? If so, re-install it.

Reinstalled but it still says tht file is missing from my conputer
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Red_Gh0st said:
Reinstalled but it still says tht file is missing from my conputer
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Try a different adb installer.

Thanks a lot I unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone

Root Nexus 5x running Android N (Mac Users)

Sorry if this question seems to be noob, but even after looking several different tutorials, I still have some doubt regarding the right procedure to take in order to root my Nexus 5x running Android Nougat.
When I bought my Nexus 5x, it was already rooted with TWRP on it. Before I have been running some Custom ROMs on it, so I know how to flash ROMs on it.
I decided to flash the Android N Zip file posted here in XDA, but did not flash Supersu with it. After the installation process, TWRP is no longer there and the phone lost root access. From Nexus 5x Bootloader menu, it shows that OEM is still unlocked as before.
Since I am a MAC user, can you guys give some advice of how to install TWRP from this point?
Thanks in advance!

It's the same as on a pc but the command line is a little different. I'm not a Mac user but I believe the command is
./fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Use twrp 3.0.2-1
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It worked, thanks so much for your tip.

Where can I find an easy guide to root the pixel C?

This is my first pure Google device. I've owned several Samsung devices and I'm familiar with using Odin to flash the device with recovery and then whatever you want from there.
I keep seeing references to fastboot. I'm really not familiar with how you flash or root your Google device using this.
Is there an all-inclusive guide on how to flash this device? I understand you have to unlock the bootloader first.
Thanks.
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DrKaotica said:
This is my first pure Google device. I've owned several Samsung devices and I'm familiar with using Odin to flash the device with recovery and then whatever you want from there.
I keep seeing references to fastboot. I'm really not familiar with how you flash or root your Google device using this.
Is there an all-inclusive guide on how to flash this device? I understand you have to unlock the bootloader first.
Thanks.
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I've not rooted my Pixel C, but this http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/ works seamlessly on my Nexus 7 2013. Page suggests that it supports Pixel C.

Yes, you have to unlock the bootloader-- I found a posting here on doing it-- it's pretty straight forward.
After that all you basically need to do is boot into TWRP to install supersu. I had the bootloop issues actually flashing TWRP for whatever reason however I found another posting here noting that you don't actually HAVE to *flash* TWRP, you just need to boot into it.
First get a version of SuperSU-- I *may* have used UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.76-20160630161323.zip that I got from here somewhere-- not sure now exactly-- probably just get the latest one.
Push that to the pixel via something like "adb push UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.76-20160630161323.zip /sdcard/" from your Mac, Linux or Windows box.
So I've got a stock bootloader now ( I had to revert the whole thing to make it usable again) and to boot into TWRP I first put the pixel into fastboot mode (boot up and hold down power and volume down, then select fastboot), then go:
fastboot boot recovery.img
..where recovery.img is one of the files like TWRP-3.0.2-0.recovery.img or twrp-3.0.0-0-dragon-ryu-02112016-1.img
After you are booted into TWRP you then select (I believe, from memory) "INSTALL" and select the supersu zip file you put on the device earlier. After it installs that reboot and you are root.
DrKaotica said:
This is my first pure Google device. I've owned several Samsung devices and I'm familiar with using Odin to flash the device with recovery and then whatever you want from there.
I keep seeing references to fastboot. I'm really not familiar with how you flash or root your Google device using this.
Is there an all-inclusive guide on how to flash this device? I understand you have to unlock the bootloader first.
Thanks.
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