My Tab is fairly stock (just rooted & debloated, no custom kernal/ROM). What's the easiest way to upgrade to stock lollipop without losing all my apps?
You can just flash the ROM through Kies or wait for the OTA to become available. You will lose root however and some of the bloat may come back.
Please let me know if you managed toget an OTA upgrade whilst rooted. I'm thinking of simply rooting to get TB and debloat and working OTA upgrades would be great
thanks, i'll try Kies.
I get an error when trying to OTA "device modified in unauthorized way"
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I am currently rooted, but ultimately I think I would rather receive all the official OTA updates and then worry about re-rooting when the time comes. So, I guess my question is, is it worth unrooting if I want all of theses updates on my Inc or will there be a way to get these tweaks onto my phone while keeping root?
As far as I know, you don't need to be unrooted to receive the official updates, you just need to be on the right firmware.
But it's advised that you go back to stock before running any official OTA to avoid complications.
saw on a friends phone that a system software update to phone is available...He canceled and wanted to know if updating would cause loss of root or any other effect..
bump. i've actually been wondering about this myself. any help would be greatly appreciated!
yes, installing an OTA update will almost assuredly wipe out your root.
I'm rooted, tried to update ota and it goes through the motions like it's gonna work, then just stops and gives me the exclamation point! I think you have to unroot first. I just installed latest RUU and now I'm updated and rooted.
wouldnt the best security feature for sprint be to build the update in a way that wont update your phone if your rooted? is this already the case?
So I rooted my phone using the method outlined in this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
I used odin to flash the 4.1.2 T-Mobile image and I stopped at the part that said "If you just want a stock, rooted phone with no custom recovery, no plans to flash custom roms, etc. then you can stop HERE" because I only wanted root so I could fix the keyboard bug (keyboard would revert to stock one after resets).
So my question is, can I update to 4.3 via the OTA update that is in the About Device > Software Update section in the phone? Looking elsewhere the official instructions say that the phone should not be rooted before updating. If so, can I get rid of the root in order to update? (As far as I know, the keyboard bug doesn't exist in 4.3 anyway so I don't think I need the root anymore). If not, how can I update to 4.3?
Lastly, and somewhat unrelated, can I use the factory data reset in the Back up and reset section of the settings? Previously in my experience with roms, this would lead to a boot loop but I'm not sure if that is the case with this so-called rooted stock rom.
Thanks in advance.
You can use OTA RootKeeper to temporarily disable Root so that you will receive the update. Or you could also visit the Root66 thread you have linked. There you will see Rooted version of the 4.3 update.
Having said that, You will want to Research the consequences of the 4.3 Stock update. In particular you wish to research the consequences of CIQ, KNOX and the new EFuse Bootloader.
I am by no means an expert but I figure I just did this so it may help you out. I updated my phone to 4.3 accidentally on purpose and then I decided to root my phone like the next day. I used Mr Robinson's method and then used his third method to download the ROM manager and install CWM Recovery and then I put Cyanogen on it. I have not had any issues except the app Trailer Addict doesn't work with it but that is not a big issue. I have everything else that I wanted and more. I don't care about the flash counter since I am not under warranty. Oh and you can use Titanium Backup to back up your apps. I didn't do this the first time so I had to back up from Kies 3 by dragging files onto my SD card and not all worked. I hope I helped a little.
I want to get some of the bloat off my Galaxy Tab S (WiFI only 10.5" 32GB) and have it auto sync time to NTP. Pretty weak that it can't do the latter on default software. I see the lovely Chainfire root tool in the General forum for this device.
My best guess is that I will still receive Android updates but installing one will void the root and make me re-root. This from a two year old thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814093
Install Titanium Backup, freeze half the stuff that comes with it, how could life get better?
Im not sure about reciving an ota update from the device will make you lose root. I have supersu pro and turned on survival mode in case I lost root from an update. To update I think you will need to flash and stock updated rom and reroot. I am on rooted stock rom and have twrp recovery. I also changed my status to official so I can see if their is an update. So basically I can get the ota update and install it but I have not tested it yet with the new update yesterday. Since im on a custom recovery and rooted Im not sure if the ota update will install correctly. But to answer your question Im pretty sure you flash the rom update with odin. As for ota updates and installing them i do not know. Hope this helps!
Hi,
I rooted a new A3 (2017) sm-a320fl device for a friend using CF-Auto-Root from firmware.mobi.
However, it turns out that after tripping KNOX and blowing the eFuse automatic OTA updates are now broken.
Is there any way to return to OTA updates?
My friend would prefer to not have root and return to a newly flashed stock ROM rather than not receive automatic system updates. However, I'm not sure if this will be possible at all, now that KNOX is already tripped and eFuse blown?
And if there is no way to return to OTA updates, then what is the easiest way to install updates from now on?
I missed the whole KNOX/eFuse development and went ahead too quickly and thoughtlessly without thorough research and now I'm dreading that there may be no way back to a newbie-friendly device for my friend...
Hope some of you can help us out.
Greetings,
shevtak
Flash the latest firmware available for your country on Odin and your friend will gets updates again without root
Thanks for the quick response - I will try that.
But I'm still curious in case I run into this myself one day: Can you also tell me if there is a known place to get the update files from and install these manually on the CF-auto-root'ed system (i.e. using FlashFire)? So far, I was only able to find complete stock firmware images, but not update files...
shevtak said:
Thanks for the quick response - I will try that.
But I'm still curious in case I run into this myself one day: Can you also tell me if there is a known place to get the update files from and install these manually on the CF-auto-root'ed system (i.e. using FlashFire)? So far, I was only able to find complete stock firmware images, but not update files...
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I don't recommend using FlashFire for flashing updates or so. With an locked bootloader it's highly to hard brick your phone ?. And yeah the only way to get the OTA's back is to flash the official firmware via Odin. A good rooting method is Magisk, you should try it out!