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[Q] Help with OTA please

I have S off by way of Rumrunner on an HTC One Verizon. I have TWRP as recovery and i am completely stock just S off and superuser. When i accept the OTA from Verizon it boots into recovery and TWRP pops up and i am stuck from there. I cant find the file to install and the phone wont upgrade. Please help. Thanks

lan04 said:
I have S off by way of Rumrunner on an HTC One Verizon. I have TWRP as recovery and i am completely stock just S off and superuser. When i accept the OTA from Verizon it boots into recovery and TWRP pops up and i am stuck from there. I cant find the file to install and the phone wont upgrade. Please help. Thanks
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You need to be on stock recovery as well to take the OTA. Check the bottom of post 2 of this

mademan420 said:
You need to be on stock recovery as well to take the OTA. Check the bottom of post 2 of this
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ok i flashed stock recovery and it accepted the OTA thanks....now how do i get superuser privileges back...it says i am missing the binary

lan04 said:
ok i flashed stock recovery and it accepted the OTA thanks....now how do i get superuser privileges back...it says i am missing the binary
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i reinstalled TWRP and flashed superuser from TWRP recovery...all seems well now thanks...btw the stock files would not go into recovery it simply went to black screen and rebooted

You mist be new. Never take otas if you need to update after soff and root do so via flashing the rooted ROM of the newest update.
Sent from my One using Tapatalk

yes i am new and trying to learn...thanks for advice

So, am I correct in understanding that my phone will not take the OTA with twrp installed? As in nothing to worry about?
Is there any command I can run in terminal to make it stop asking if I want to install the OTA?
Sent from my stock (but rooted) VZW HTC One

BaBnkr said:
So, am I correct in understanding that my phone will not take the OTA with twrp installed? As in nothing to worry about?
Is there any command I can run in terminal to make it stop asking if I want to install the OTA?
Sent from my stock (but rooted) VZW HTC One
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Just follow the 2nd post here, then reflash TWRP. The OTA doesn't break root.

Does Voodoo OTA Root keeper work on the HTC One?
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edster00 said:
Does Voodoo OTA Root keeper work on the HTC One?
Please delete if off topic!
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Yes, I just used Voodoo today to restore root after taking the .15 OTA. Will not work after 4.3, though (according to Google Play).

lan04 said:
i reinstalled TWRP and flashed superuser from TWRP recovery...all seems well now thanks...btw the stock files would not go into recovery it simply went to black screen and rebooted
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I can confirm this works fine as well. I had S-OFF through rumrunner and had flashed TWRP. To take the OTA, I re-flashed the stock recovery (.10) from the link given in this thread, then took the OTA. After the OTA installed with no problems, I re-installed a recovery (I changed to CWM, just for fun). I tested it by booting into recovery, and when I rebooted from CWM, it asked me if I wanted to re-install root (su). The phone now has the OTA (.15), still has SOFF and root was easily recovered.

I flashed the .10 stock recovery and I'm getting an error when I try the ota, any ideas why? I followed these instructions and I end up with a red triangle with exclamation point the reboot and phone works fine. Thanks for any help.
Edit:I got the congratulations message but when I checked it says failed, error 410. I've downloaded it a couple of times.
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[Q] Does OTA break S-off?

Hello all,
Sorry if this question has an obvious answer. But I am trying to make sure that I don't lose S-Off before applying the 4.3 update for the HTC One. Since I know as of this post that rumrunner does not work on 4.3 builds yet and so I would really rather not be in that kind of situation.
I want to apply the OTA to make sure I get all the stock radio/binary/fimrware updates installed before I flash a custom 4.4.2 ROM. Since last time I tried that, I was unable to get any kind of data connection and was only able to use Wi-Fi. I want to make sure I have all the needed radios before I apply KitKat again.
So the question being, does applying any OTA break S-off? I am in a strange state with my HTC one right now where I am having a difficult time getting to the bootloader. I will try again when I get home by using adb but right now it's not working.
Thanks ahead of time.

It should not break S-off. To the best of my knowledge only relocking it yourself is about the only way to reset a phone to S-on.
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merlin66676 said:
It should not break S-off. To the best of my knowledge only relocking it yourself is about the only way to reset a phone to S-on.
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using xda app-developers app
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So I would just need to apply the update, then re-unlock the bootloader since it's already s-off. After that, flash custom recovery and flash KitKat and be on my way?

You could just get the firmware from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319 in post #2. Then you would not have to worry about losing anything.

mercer24 said:
You could just get the firmware from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319 in post #2. Then you would not have to worry about losing anything.
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I tried that and I was still not getting data on just the radio. So I tried the other zip and I just ended up in a bad state. I think I might have grabbed the wrong version potentially. I'll try again later at home.

ppd0526 said:
Hello all,
Sorry if this question has an obvious answer. But I am trying to make sure that I don't lose S-Off before applying the 4.3 update for the HTC One. Since I know as of this post that rumrunner does not work on 4.3 builds yet and so I would really rather not be in that kind of situation.
I want to apply the OTA to make sure I get all the stock radio/binary/fimrware updates installed before I flash a custom 4.4.2 ROM. Since last time I tried that, I was unable to get any kind of data connection and was only able to use Wi-Fi. I want to make sure I have all the needed radios before I apply KitKat again.
So the question being, does applying any OTA break S-off? I am in a strange state with my HTC one right now where I am having a difficult time getting to the bootloader. I will try again when I get home by using adb but right now it's not working.
Thanks ahead of time.
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If you are already s-off with an unlocked bootloader you can take the OTA and not lose either. You'll just have to flash TWRP or CWM in fastboot and then the su binary in recovery to get root again.

ppd0526 said:
I tried that and I was still not getting data on just the radio. So I tried the other zip and I just ended up in a bad state. I think I might have grabbed the wrong version potentially. I'll try again later at home.
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The hosed data thing is fixed with a factory reset from the stock recovery.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4

I was able to resolve this issue.
For anyone looking at this in the future or having the same issue:
I was able to get bootloader to properly load after holding the power button + vol down for a while. My lights started blinking (home and back) but I just kept holding the buttons. Eventually it finally loaded the bootloader.
Went into fastboot from bootloader and then flashed twrp recovery. Grabbed the firmware zip from the post where all the stock files are available and flashed that properly using the steps in the post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319).
Once I flashed that, I went back into recovery, did a clean wipe on everything but sd-card/internal data.
Flashed my new rom after that (twrp requires a reboot after a wipe to properly flash for KitKat at this time).
Everything was smooth sailing after that and I have 4G data now thanks to the new radios/firmware.

[Q] New to rooting, possibly bricked my phone

Hi,
I used the all-in-one tool kit to root my M8. I was following the steps involved and was successful. I tried to install the xposed framework and was told to flash a custom kernel. After doing so my phone will only boot into the fastboot menu, with the "tampered" warning at the top. I can get into the recovery through hboot. Is my phone ruined and if not how can I get this fixed?
Sorry if this has been asked before but I am quite nervous that I ruined my phone. Any help would be much appreciated.

Just restore a back up through recovery or if you don't have one then sideload a rom with that toolkit you used.

michaelmcker said:
Hi,
I used the all-in-one tool kit to root my M8. I was following the steps involved and was successful. I tried to install the xposed framework and was told to flash a custom kernel. After doing so my phone will only boot into the fastboot menu, with the "tampered" warning at the top. I can get into the recovery through hboot. Is my phone ruined and if not how can I get this fixed?
Sorry if this has been asked before but I am quite nervous that I ruined my phone. Any help would be much appreciated.
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what mod were you trying to install from xposed that required a custom kernel? I have it on mine and was never prompted for that!

x714x said:
Just restore a back up through recovery or if you don't have one then sideload a rom with that toolkit you used.
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I think that should work, is there a way to sideload the factory version of the m8?

michaelmcker said:
I think that should work, is there a way to sideload the factory version of the m8?
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There are stock roms you can sideload, or find the RUU for your device and return back to 100% stock.

thanks
x714x said:
There are stock roms you can sideload, or find the RUU for your device and return back to 100% stock.
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Thanks, I assume the ones on the HTC dev site are the best bet?

x714x said:
There are stock roms you can sideload, or find the RUU for your device and return back to 100% stock.
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Any mod that I install wont go past the boot screen, what can I do?

michaelmcker said:
Any mod that I install wont go past the boot screen, what can I do?
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Now you are installing mods?????
Have you got your system up and running again? You need to provide more details.....

Did you attain S-Off?
I think he needs write access.
I could be wrong though.

[Q] [IMPORTANT] Is there any way I can root htc one m8 Lolipop 5.0?

Someone if you know and tested it, can I root my htc one m8 device having the new firmware updated 5.0.1 lolipop??
Please anwser and if there is a way please send a link
THANKS A LOTTT!!

It's exactly the same as before.
Look for how do I root here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2711073
You unlock bootloader. Flash a custom recovery... I suggest twrp. It will ask you when you exit if you want to root. Say yes.
Boot into android, install supersu if it or superuser aren't there already. (from play store)
Or just flash recovery . Install a rom , likely rooted already.
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Darth said:
It's exactly the same as before.
Look for how do I root here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2711073
You unlock bootloader. Flash a custom recovery... I suggest twrp. It will ask you when you exit if you want to root. Say yes.
Boot into android, install supersu if it or superuser aren't there already. (from play store)
Or just flash recovery . Install a room, likely rooted already.
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thanks for that but when I did it in my phone it says su binary out of date! what can I do now?

Can you explain everything you did, beginning to end. And exactly when/where you get that message?

I had already TWRP in my phone so I download your files. Opened the recovery and I did from there (install). When it finished rebooted the device and after that when i did a root check it said root access not properly install or sometihing

Koukosftw said:
I had already TWRP in my phone so I download your files. Opened the recovery and I did from there (install). When it finished rebooted the device and after that when i did a root check it said root access not properly install or sometihing
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Open the SuperSU app, and it will prompt you to install the binaries. Select yes, of course.

i did that too nothing happened :/

xunholyx said:
Open the SuperSU app, and it will prompt you to install the binaries. Select yes, of course.
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This ^^^^
If it asks to update with a "normal" and "twrp/cwm" option... Try normal first. The other option if that doesn't work.

Darth said:
This ^^^^
If it asks to update with a "normal" and "twrp/cwm" option... Try normal first. The other option if that doesn't work.
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I tried the normal it didnt work, how I do the second, I pressed it but nothing happened!

I don't think you have twrp installed anymore, or not properly. You've flashed it with fastboot, since updating to lollipop? How did you update to lollipop?

Normal, I never had root before. Upgraded my phone to 5.0 and then i tried to root it

Rooted fine here with normal method. Just had to update super su.

OK, can you please walk us through exactly what steps to Root you took. From the beginning. And we'll see what happened.
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i havent been able to find the option to disable fast boot so i havent even tried yet but if anyone has let me know

chinkyarmour said:
i havent been able to find the option to disable fast boot so i havent even tried yet but if anyone has let me know
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Settings > Power > Fast boot

xunholyx said:
Settings > Power > Fast boot
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its not in lollipop
but i did it just now and rooted anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuHFcGvUjwA
followed this method again no problem

chinkyarmour said:
its not in lollipop
but i did it just now and rooted anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuHFcGvUjwA
followed this method again no problem
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They must have taken the option out. It didn't boot any faster for me anyways. Not since 4.4.2

chinkyarmour said:
its not in lollipop
but i did it just now and rooted anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuHFcGvUjwA
followed this method again no problem
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SO GUYS, ITS ME THAT I CREATED THIS THREAD! PROBLEM SOLVED. I ALREADY HAD TWRP AND DOWNLOADED THE Update-supersu file from the above youtube video (links) and I did it with recovery mode. I DONT KNOW BUT THE PREVIOUS supersu I installed couldnt update the su binary. This one did it. PROBLEM SOLVED AND I ROOTED MY 5.0.1 LOLIPOP DEVICE.
THANKS GUYS FOR EVERYTHING REALLY HELPFUL!!!

Updating after root. (Asus Z00AD)

Hi guys.
Today I checked for system updates and I found one, around 92 Mb, i have rooted and install framework xposed with a couple of modules and uninstall some of the bloatware, just regular uninstall nothing fancy like using Titanium Backup, so pretty much I have most of the bloatware.
Now I try to apply the update but it fail, got a "dead android" with a error message.
Luckily my phone didn't went into a bootloop or anything similar.
Now my question is how do I proceed in order to apply the update?
If you can be as specific as much as you can I would really appreciate. Been using Samsung phone for the last 4 years and I've been using Odin or Twrp to inject or flash in the Samsung phone and I know this phone take a different approach.
Thanks in advance for your help.

To be honest I would like to see a process where you don't lose any settings or data

Have you tried holding the power button, then (while holding power button) quickly press Vol up and release and then release power button when you get the "dead android".
After rooting I get the "dead android" whenever I enter recovery, the above method works every time.

legolgel said:
To be honest I would like to see a process where you don't lose any settings or data
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Flashing the rom or pre-rooted system.img does not wipe ur data or settings....

I had to flash the latest stock via recovery mode, then root and inject xposed... now I'm good.

I previously rooted. Applied the OTA update via ADB sideload. Kept root.

dancedreamfly said:
I previously rooted. Applied the OTA update via ADB sideload. Kept root.
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How did you keep root? I did once and didn't keep it. Greetings

DKM119 said:
I had to flash the latest stock via recovery mode, then root and inject xposed... now I'm good.
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dancedreamfly said:
I previously rooted. Applied the OTA update via ADB sideload. Kept root.
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How do u sideload OTA? Where do u find the links?
Asus site has the full firmware links.
And after rooting, if i flash the full updated firmware from Asus through ADB, will i lose my data???

legolgel said:
How did you keep root? I did once and didn't keep it. Greetings
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I didn't do anything special. I came from 2.15 rooted and flashed the OTA 2.17. For some reason, root stayed in tact.
[email protected] said:
How do u sideload OTA? Where do u find the links?
Asus site has the full firmware links.
And after rooting, if i flash the full updated firmware from Asus through ADB, will i lose my data???
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Boot into recovery and select update from ADB. The command is "adb sideload filename.zip"
The OTA links are available here on XDA, there is a dedicated thread for it.

Yeah
Got it :highfive: