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Question about rooting and updates

Hey guys I just got my Nexus 5x last week and I'm pretty familiar with rooting. I rooted my 5x and installed a custom kernel (ElementalX to be specific) and I was just wondering what I need to do to be able to keep my phone up to date with the latest security patches. Do I need to wipe to stock every time I want to update? Thanks
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koheen said:
Hey guys I just got my Nexus 5x last week and I'm pretty familiar with rooting. I rooted my 5x and installed a custom kernel (ElementalX to be specific) and I was just wondering what I need to do to be able to keep my phone up to date with the latest security patches. Do I need to wipe to stock every time I want to update? Thanks
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You can use fastboot to update each month. You would flash the boot, system, vendor, and maybe radio and bootloader each month. No loss of data. Then boot into TWRP and flash SuperSU and other mods. A great reference is section 9 in the guide below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3206930
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how to remove the error message?
'Your device software can't be checked for corruption. Please lock the bootloader'

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how to remove the error message?
'Your device software can't be checked for corruption. Please lock the bootloader'
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3298420
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SlimSnoopOS said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3298420
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Thank you

koheen said:
Hey guys I just got my Nexus 5x last week and I'm pretty familiar with rooting. I rooted my 5x and installed a custom kernel (ElementalX to be specific) and I was just wondering what I need to do to be able to keep my phone up to date with the latest security patches. Do I need to wipe to stock every time I want to update? Thanks
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Use FlashFire app... Fast and easy way how to update and root...

SlimSnoopOS said:
You can use fastboot to update each month. You would flash the boot, system, vendor, and maybe radio and bootloader each month. No loss of data. Then boot into TWRP and flash SuperSU and other mods. A great reference is section 9 in the guide below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3206930
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I recently got the Nexus 5X. I joined the N preview and OTA updated. Could just unlock bootloader and root it using that method?
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rogconnect said:
I recently got the Nexus 5X. I joined the N preview and OTA updated. Could just unlock bootloader and root it using that method?
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Unlock bootloader, and flash CF auto root via your PC.
You don't need TWRP, if you have encrypted device then it will not work... And when you want to update or flash anything use FlashFire app...

Ja_som said:
Use FlashFire app... Fast and easy way how to update and root...
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Will this work of you have xposed installed?

alissa7 said:
Will this work of you have xposed installed?
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You can't install OTA update when you change something in system (Xposed is a change in system)... But you can download factory image into the device and flash system, boot, recovery, etc (no data) with FlashFire, root it again and install Xposed at once in few minutes...
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Ja_som said:
You can't install OTA update when you change something in system (Xposed is a change in system)... But you can download factory image into the device and flash system, boot, recovery, etc (no data) with FlashFire, root it again and install Xposed at once in few minutes...
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In that case, so you know of a way I can disable the notification for the security update? Thanks so much for the help

alissa7 said:
In that case, so you know of a way I can disable the notification for the security update? Thanks so much for the help
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Sorry, I don't know, every month I flash new factory image right after is it available, I've never seen that notification on my devices
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Rooting

So...I'm no longer under warranty thru Sprint, but still have hardware coverage. So my Sprint store said in not so many words that playing with my software is a go.
So I haven't done a root since my lg2 so I'm way out of the loop. I've been reading thru the forums here but all confusing and not very organized.
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The pic above is what I'm running. What would be a good recommendation for a daily driver and some battery saving.
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pdxguy77 said:
So...I'm no longer under warranty thru Sprint, but still have hardware coverage. So my Sprint store said in not so many words that playing with my software is a go.
So I haven't done a root since my lg2 so I'm way out of the loop. I've been reading thru the forums here but all confusing and not very organized.
The pic above is what I'm running. What would be a good recommendation for a daily driver and some battery saving.
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First off, you need Odin. It's a must, can't do anything without it.
Next you need to download TWRP custom recovery (Team Win Recovery Project) and use Odin to flash it.
From there, go into twrp on your phone and flash superuser to root your phone. OR if you're going for a rom, make a backup, go to wipe, advanced wipe, and select dalvik, system, data, and cache, perform a wipe, then flash the rom you choose. Most roms come prerooted anyway so you won't need to manually flash for root.
Hope this helps.

redxblood85 said:
First off, you need Odin. It's a must, can't do anything without it.
Next you need to download TWRP custom recovery (Team Win Recovery Project) and use Odin to flash it.
From there, go into twrp on your phone and flash superuser to root your phone. OR if you're going for a rom, make a backup, go to wipe, advanced wipe, and select dalvik, system, data, and cache, perform a wipe, then flash the rom you choose. Most roms come prerooted anyway so you won't need to manually flash for root.
Hope this helps.
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Could u please help me to root my phone because i tried to root it using odin after flashing twrp i got my phone freez in boot screen with no thing happens after that i flashed a stock rom to get my phone working again.
Im runing MM 6.0.1 stock rom
Could u please tell me how to root it step by step?

taktoka88 said:
Could u please help me to root my phone because i tried to root it using odin after flashing twrp i got my phone freez in boot screen with no thing happens after that i flashed a stock rom to get my phone working again.
Im runing MM 6.0.1 stock rom
Could u please tell me how to root it step by step?
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Did u ever find a way to root it?
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Not yet bro

Rooted Nexus 5X update question

Hi there guys! I own a rooted Nexus 5X. I currently received the OTA update for Nougat and would like to do the update. My question is: how can I do this update without reverting everything to stock first? I don't mind loosing root access, I would just like to update using the OTA update without having to revert everything back to stock and then doing it. Can you guys share a little knowledge here? I have TWRP installed

I think you can maybe sideload the OTA or flash with Flashify or something. It's really recommended to do do a clean install with a factory image and then reroot, especially if you're coming from M. Takes no effort to just back up your SD card with your PC
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Download FlashFire app, go to official page for Nexus 5X OTA packages, download it(around 1.1GB) and flash it as factory image through FlashFire app.
Untick flash recovery.
After that just flash SuperSU zip from twrp and you're rooted.
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Using FlashFire Pro, the previously downloaded OTA,(approx. 50 MB), when FlashFire opened, it detected the OTA download and I simply hit the Flash button and it performed flawlessly. Preserved root and recovery.

wash23 said:
Using FlashFire Pro, the previously downloaded OTA,(approx. 50 MB), when FlashFire opened, it detected the OTA download and I simply hit the Flash button and it performed flawlessly. Preserved root and recovery.
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But the update is 1.1GB or something like that. Would that work too?
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Best way to find out is to give it a try. I am only offering my experience, not making recommendations.

wash23 said:
Best way to find out is to give it a try. I am only offering my experience, not making recommendations.
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Sure! I'll read some more and give it a try if it works
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Nightshadow931 said:
Download FlashFire app, go to official page for Nexus 5X OTA packages, download it(around 1.1GB) and flash it as factory image through FlashFire app.
Untick flash recovery.
After that just flash SuperSU zip from twrp and you're rooted.
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This is what I get when I open FlashFire and it defects that I have a OTA. Should I change anything there?
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FlashFire won't do the new security update because my /system is modified. I had to modify it to make AdAway work.
What do I do now?

Seems fine, just press flash.
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Done!!!
Just wanted to let you guys know that I've successfully updated to Nougat on my Rooted phone and preserved Custom Recovery AND Root. Thanks a lot to my friends!
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Nightshadow931 said:
Seems fine, just press flash.
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Didn't work, it gave a warning about the system being modified and I hit ignore, then the update didn't take.
Edit: nevermind, now it says system up to date. I guess it worked

Glad it worked, for any future update just do the same procedure, it's the easiest method
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hey i got an update for september and i got some mods intalled and wwhen i try to update using fireflash it give me an error saying my system is modified what do i do ?

NightShadow931 Thanks for The help ??
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What if you also have Xposed and Adaway, as well as Kernal mods? How would I update (cleanly, of course) if I have this stuff?

sub_ubi said:
FlashFire won't do the new security update because my /system is modified. I had to modify it to make AdAway work.
What do I do now?
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It didn't work for me either at first, then I checked the "Restore boot and recovery images" option (The "Mount /system read/write" option was already checked, so I left it). Once I checked that option and flashed the OTA update (NRD90S downloaded from Google), it installed just fine.

Nightshadow931 said:
Glad it worked, for any future update just do the same procedure, it's the easiest method
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So if I have stock MM with modified system (adaway, xposed) and its encrypted. Could I upgrade to N by using the 1gb update through flashify? What about vendor?
I'm sick and I don't think my brain is working so I just want to make sure I understand correctly. I'm trying to do this without using a computer. Thanks!!

I don't see why not, although I'm not 100% sure.
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I had Xposed installed with a few modules, like mock mock location, root cloak and other two. What I just did was uncheck the flash recovery and left all the things FlashFire told me to. Had no problems at all I believe there's not an Xposed flasher for 7.0 am I right? Still doesn't work?
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I'm newbie, please help. Nexus 5x can't install cyanogenmod.

I tried to install cyan, before I used nexus 5, no problems, but here after I flashed cyanogenmod thru TWRP 3.2 I'm unable to boot. I tried to make full wipe from TWRP and still can't boot. Never have such problems and looped in this step Please help.
P.s. I'm not american, my English is bad, sry.

Try to go on twrp press mount button and select data and chace after that try to factory reset(adnvance ...select all)
try to install cm 14.1 and gaps for nougat!
Sorry for my bad english i am cypriot!
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dimitrispas22 said:
Try to go on twrp press mount button and select data and chace after that try to factory reset(adnvance ...select all)
try to install cm 14.1 and gaps for nougat!
Sorry for my bad english i am cypriot!
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I have like on ur screen. Tried install cyan 14 but still can't boot :C loop at google emblem.

alex.zz said:
I tried to install cyan, before I used nexus 5, no problems, but here after I flashed cyanogenmod thru TWRP 3.2 I'm unable to boot. I tried to make full wipe from TWRP and still can't boot. Never have such problems and looped in this step Please help.
P.s. I'm not american, my English is bad, sry.
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Nexus 5 ???
you are on Nexus 5x Bullhead section ?

Renaf2 said:
Nexus 5 ???
you are on Nexus 5x Bullhead section ?
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Yes, in the past and I like it. Right now I have 5x in da'loop:laugh:
I tried to install cyan14 but still can't boot. Fastboot unlocked, twrp recovery.. I don't know what I miss.

alex.zz said:
Yes, in the past and I like it. Right now I have 5x in da'loop:laugh:
I tried to install cyan14 but still can't boot. Fastboot unlocked, twrp recovery.. I don't know what I miss.
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Did you flash the corresponding vendor, bootloader and radio image for your rom as it states right at the beginning of the CM 14 thread? First post, 3rd sentence

berndblb said:
Did you flash the corresponding vendor, bootloader and radio image for your rom as it states right at the beginning of the CM 14 thread? First post, 3rd sentence
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Not every time. I'll try, thanks.

alex.zz said:
Yes, in the past and I like it. Right now I have 5x in da'loop:laugh:
I tried to install cyan14 but still can't boot. Fastboot unlocked, twrp recovery.. I don't know what I miss.
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Unlock bootloader not fastboot Right ?
fastboot unlock oem ? Right ?
flash via fastboot the last factory image for cm 14.1 Custom Rom
Flash TWRP 3.0.2.3.img via fastboot (fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2.3.img)
Flash Cf Auto Root.img via fastboot or UpdateSU.zip via TWRP
Flash CM 14.1 Custom Rom , Flash Open gapps micro or pico and reboot if it's take over 10 minutes reboot in bootloader and start android again wait and enjoy

You don't have to do it every time, just make sure they match.
Read the OP. It's there for a reason....
Most likely you only need the vendor image
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Guys, need help with TWRP flashing!

Guys, I used RootJunky's video instruction. Everything went fine, I flashed recovey in adb. Then, as instructed, rebooted to bootloader, then to recovery.
But now I get "This build is for development purposes only..." insted of TWRP. If I do nothing, it just reboots to system.
Help me, please!
Thank you in advance!

Elegiacal said:
Guys, I used RootJunky's video instruction. Everything went fine, I flashed recovey in adb. Then, as instructed, rebooted to bootloader, then to recovery.
But now I get "This build is for development purposes only..." insted of TWRP. If I do nothing, it just reboots to system.
Help me, please!
Thank you in advance!
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Did you use TWRP 3.0.3-0? If not flash this recovery, found over in the downloads tab of the TWRP thread. The named version is compatible to Android N as well as MM. From what you wrote - and is really less information - I guess you're on a late 2.x.x-x TWRP version but an N firmware.
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5m4r7ph0n36uru said:
Did you use TWRP 3.0.3-0? If not flash this recovery, found over in the downloads tab of the TWRP thread. The named version is compatible to Android N as well as MM. From what you wrote - and is really less information - I guess you're on a late 2.x.x-x TWRP version but an N firmware.
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I used 3.0.2-6 version, I thought it's OK. And yes, I'm on N firmware.
The thing I have just noticed is that when RootJunky dragged and dropped the TWRP file in the cmd window it automatically was quoted ("..."), but mine wasn't.
So, maybe this is the problem?
Can I just reflash recovery once again?
P.S. I can boot to system/bootloader/download mode successfully

Elegiacal said:
I used 3.0.2-6 version, I thought it's OK. And yes, I'm on N firmware.
The thing I have just noticed is that when RootJunky dragged and dropped the TWRP file in the cmd window it automatically was quoted ("..."), but mine wasn't.
So, maybe this is the problem?
Can I just reflash recovery once again?
P.S. I can boot to system/bootloader/download mode successfully
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No the quotation marks aren't the problem. But you need TWRP 3.0.3-0 unofficial as 3.0.2-6 won't boot on N firmware.
Download the mentioned unofficial TWRP, flash as shown on the video tutorial and you're good to go.
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5m4r7ph0n36uru said:
Did you use TWRP 3.0.3-0? If not flash this recovery, found over in the downloads tab of the TWRP thread. The named version is compatible to Android N as well as MM. From what you wrote - and is really less information - I guess you're on a late 2.x.x-x TWRP version but an N firmware.
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Here
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Here
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Here meaning it worked!?
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5m4r7ph0n36uru said:
Here meaning it worked!?
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Thank you so much, it worked!
But now it asks me if I want to keep it read only or not. Meanwhile RootJunky is asked about Encryption password.
Is it okay?

Elegiacal said:
No, sorry, not yet. I can't find this 3.0.3-0 version. Can you provide a link?
Thank you in advance!
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Well it's not to hard to find if you'd follow my above explanations...
Here it is: https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/development/recovery-twrp-touch-recovery-t3358139/page146
If opened in browser you recognize a download tab on top, kick it, and download 3.0.3-0 unofficial. Don't take 3.0.3-3 at the moment, as not all ROMs seem to flash properly. Those ROMs are just not yet changed to the new mechanism used, but it'd be better to wait.
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