Hello,
I installed Android 6 GPE RUU from @graffixnyc on my M8, then I installed TWRP recovery. Now theres an OTA Update. The only solution to update without a loosing data is flashing the orignal recovery and then installing the ota. Correct?
But what recovery should I use? I found several images in this forum but I'm not sure which is correct.
Recovery needs to match your OS number or main version number.
You can find recovery.img in the firmware.zip in the OTA zip file
Found the image in an OTA package. Thank you
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Hi all,
I'm on 4.4.3. I did the full conversion on my at&t m8. I s-off and completely rooted with twrp recovery.
I'd like to flash the 4.4.4 ruu but i think that's going to wipe my phone, it did last time at least. Is there any way I can flash it via recovery so I wont lose my data? Is there any other option?
I enjoy stock unmolested vanilla android, I shouldve gone with a GPE version, but its initial investment was just too much
Manually flash the OTA after you've flashed the stock recovery from the 4.4.3 RUU
EddyOS said:
Manually flash the OTA after you've flashed the stock recovery from the 4.4.3 RUU
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seems easy enough? can u provide a quick how to or share a link?
1. Extract the stock recovery from the 4.4.3 RUU and flash it using fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
2. Download the OTA package from the OTA thread in General
3. Copy to the phone
4. Boot into the stock recovery
5. Select to flash the update from SD card
6. Choose the new OTA
7. Profit
You can then flash TWRP re-root the phone
EddyOS said:
1. Extract the stock recovery from the 4.4.3 RUU and flash it using fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
2. Download the OTA package from the OTA thread in General
3. Copy to the phone
4. Boot into the stock recovery
5. Select to flash the update from SD card
6. Choose the new OTA
7. Profit
You can then flash TWRP re-root the phone
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im guessing ill lose root?
So I am going back to stock so I can get the 3.3 firmware. I read exocetdj's thread on OTA, stock recovery, and nandroid backups. I was able to find the version I need for the OTA and nandroid backup, but not the same version for stock recovery. BUT, in the OTA Zip file, inside the firmware zip file, is a recovery image. Can I use that recovery image? Or should I find a close enough stock recovery image in exocetdj's thread?
Thank you for your help.
Also, do I need to re-lock the bootloader in this process?
1. Recovery.img from OTA - yes
2. Need to relock bootloader - no
Where are the stock recovery img files located? I updated to the newest recovery and then tried to do the latest OTA update but its getting an error saying that my recovery image is newer than the firmware and it wont update. So I want to try to go back to an older recovery image and then try again.
Thanks
Were you on 2.17? There is no new recovery for 2.18 (which is the newest).
You can download the pre-rooted 2.17 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/development/pre-rooted-z00aww2-17-40-12-firmware-t3113422
Hello,
i have been un-rooted my HTCone M8 since 6 months and i flashed the lollipop 5.1 downloaded from one of your forum based on advice from an expert, and currently it gives me notification about a software update: 4.19.118.3 (128.18 MB), after the download finished, i restarted the phone, at this point the phone took me to the flash screen TWRP and warm me that it cannot flash the updates.
please can anyone help me to solve this issue, because i stopped the update notification but the phone still continue warming that.
thank you,
OTA can't be installed with TWRP .. it needs 4.19.118.2 stock recovery.img and pure non-rooted 4.19.118.2 ROM then you can OTA to 4.19.118.3
You can get the stock recovery and how-to here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860
Hi,
You must first flash stock recovery. OTA updates can not be flashed with custom recoveries.
I finally managed to find out where my phone downloaded the Sprint Nougat OTA file, and copied it to my SDcard.
My phone is a Sprint HTC 10. The bootloader is unlocked and my recovery is TWRP, but other than that I am stock and unrooted.
Everyone says you need to be on stock everything to install an OTA update (though I had no issues installing previous OTA updates directly, but all of those were small), so I was reading up on flashing stock recovery.... but several people commented that flashing a stock recovery on their phone wiped it. I really don't want to take that risk, and with TWRP I can make a backup of my entire phone. So I wanted to know, if flashing an OTA update fails from TWRP, could that brick my phone bad enough that I wouldn't be able to flash the TWRP backup to restore it? Or can I recover as long as I can boot into... well, recovery. Would the OTA update overwrite the recovery too? Especially if I try to install it from within that recovery?
I was told to extract the "update.zip" file from the OTA.... but there is none in there, is the OTA zip file itself what they meant by "update.zip"?
flashing an ota with twrp won't work...at least it won't update the firmware bits.