Do I need to unfreeze my apps in Titanium Backup?
Is just as simple as unfreezing them, unrooting via SuperSU then taking the update?
I would highly recommend unfreezing your apps before taking the OTA, i believe the OTA doesn't install bloat back on, the OTA will do a factory reset on your G3 after it flashes and if you are missing certain apps you will run into problems, for example if you don't have App Updates installed before it resets itself you will be greeted with the setup screen on every boot (like when you first ever turned your phone on, but everytime) not having App Updates before a reset will also stop your notification bar from being able to pull down & no access to the background apps menu.
It's just best to restore all your apps before an OTA, then unroot, then try the OTA.
Once in awhile some people are still able to take an OTA while rooted somehow, but this is super rare.
You can try stealth mode in supersu enstead of removing root, i don't know if you can unroot using supersu though.
You might have to flash to stock firmware to remove root, in that case you could just flash directly to the same firmware that's being offered to you by the OTA.
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On my Verizon Gnex before the OTA to 4.0.4 I was rooted but still on the stock ROM and I ran the Voodoo Rootkeeper to make it easy to get back root afterwards. Once I got the OTA I restored root and the existing programs I had been using still seemed to work, but I was no longer getting screen notifications when one of those apps was granted root. I also applied the few updates to superuser and it's now fully up to date.
Last night I went to the approved apps list in superuser and saw multiple entries for one of my apps, so I figured I'd delete them all and reauthorize it again, but now I never get a prompt to add it, it just fails.
So it appears that either the current version of superuser is hosed or not installed properly. Voodo indicated that root permissions aren't granted in its status screen, but gives no indication on how to fix this. So I'm wondering how I should fix this. Is there a way to uninstall/reinstall the superuser app easily or do I have to go back through some part of the rooting process over again, or should I wipe and flash all the way to stock and start over?
[Q] Root "disabled" itself!? (Rooted phone that is no longer allowing root access)
Anyone here with this phone (or any) - that is rooted - have it just seemingly act as if it is no longer rooted? or unjustly denying root access for no apparent reason....
Have been rooted since purchase and have never seen or had any issue with this..have flashed custom recovery and rom's hundreds of times...no problems...currently using Task's latest KK 4.4.4 rom and had no issues from beginning...
It comes with SuperUser...i do usually install SuperSU instead but hadn't tried yet...it was fine and apps that needed root appeared ok..even SuperUser has three or four listed apps in the "allow" section...but all of a sudden I can't seem to give root access to anything else now..
First noticed the other day when trying to sideload an apk..couldn't...tried to do it manually by just copying it to system/apps folder and that's when the first message came up saying "it appears your device may not be rooted"...quite odd I thought.. i then tried to install SuperSU and it when SuperUser popped up to give it allowable root access it would only timeout and say denied...i then tried a bunch of other apps that require root and they would all just get denied by SuperUser...
Anyone seen this before or know what causes this and/or how to fix?
THanks for any help or suggestions
ps.. i'm no noob and have been doing this a long time and have rooted/modded dozens of phones, hundreds of times...but this issue is a new one for me.. IF i have to completely wipe and even go back to stock image and then start over to re-root and re-mod... I will and can do so easily..but that would be last resort if necessary...thanks!
In SuperSU, try the clean-up for reinstallation option.
DocHoliday77 said:
In SuperSU, try the clean-up for reinstallation option.
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when launching SuperSU it needs root access to begin with and SuperUser wont allow..this clean up for reinstall is still doable?
Get the recovery flashable SuperSU then. It'll get rid of the other one in the process. You can get it from my sig, but it'll need to be updated after.
My tablet is currently on stock MRA58K. I've rooted it, installed TWRP, and have Xposed installed (if that matters). I've been holding off installing the OTA system update(s) because I didn't want to mess with re-rooting (I see that's not a concern). Anyways, after searching for a fix to my Netflix playback problem, I see that it was fixed with one of the monthly updates (MRA58U). With this information I went through the steps of installing the OTA update (Settings->About Tablet->System updates). The updated downloaded and asked me if I wanted to install it and restart the tablet. Everything looked normal. When the tablet rebooted it booted straight into recover (TWRP). Confused by this, I just rebooted into system from TWRP. As far as I can tell the update didn't install. The build is still MRA58K and I still have the Netflix playback issue.
Is there a way to manually download and install the incremental monthly updates? I don't want to install the full blown factory image and have to re-setup the tablet.
Thanks
Maybe just get some MRA58V ROM since you have TWRP? And yeah, you wont be able to install official OTA with TWRP, you need to be stock for that.
A couple hours ago my phone with unlocked bootloader, twrp and magisk root installed an OTA update without me initiating it. This failed and the phone was stuck in twrp recovery and couldn't boot until I flashed a stock rom through fastboot and restored my backups.
Now I want to prevent this from happening again. How do I block the phone from checking for OTA updates?
I will have to install them manually anyway so the OTA checking is not helpful.
Same thing happened to me except I was dumb enough to try and install myself the update... You can install Titanium Backup and freeze the Motorola Update app. Also, you can go under dev options and disable automatic updates (this alone didn't work for me).
How to prevent OTA updates, without root, please?
I followed this guide, the method 4 worked for me when my phone was rooted.
http://www.droidviews.com/disable-ota-notifications-android-devices/
With help from the Google, I finally recalled how I'd done it in the past.
Initially, I thought rooting would stop OTA updates, but that may have been prior to Marshmallow or with SuperSU.
This time, I used Titanium Backup (must be rooted) to freeze the MOTOROLA UPDATE SERVICE app.
As soon as it was frozen, the OTA notification disappeared from the notification bar and I gave not seen it return, for a couple days.
Yay! I didn't want to go beyond the stock firmware version that is available and I really didn't want Oreo.
Another way is to use a firewall app.
Also you can just add Motorola's address to your 'host' file to block it
Im the opposite, I want the notifications, without the automatic installation.
Wonder if I changed the permissions of the folder the updates download to, would that prevent automatic install?
also, there is an option in developer options, to turn off OTA.
I have been trying to remove system update completely on my Oneplus 5t (OOS 5.1.7)
What i've done:
Unlock boot loader
Install twrp
Flash magisk
Install system app remoer apk
Uninstall SystemUpdate (com.oneplus.opbackup)
Factory reset, thereby removing root
Restore stock recovery
Then i tried locking the bootloader
I assumed since everything is stock, minus one app, the bootloader would lock. However, once the phone boots it shows the message "Your deice is corrupt. It can't be trusted and may not work properly". I am able to get the phone working by reinstalling stock through adb sideload.
But is there any way to remove a system application and maintain a locked bootloader. And i mean completely remove not temporarily, so even a factory reset does not restore it.
Thanks
Is there a reason you dont want to update?
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Is there a reason you dont want to update?
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