Hello, I was just wondering that since there already is a twrp image file for this phone already, and me updating to the latest Android Oreo update, would it be safe to flash the same image to the android partition of the updated phone? would I have to wait for an updated version of the recovery or can I just flash it anyway. I am asking because if the recovery partition is messed up, I will have to go through hell to get it to work again, as well as for any other people asking similar questions. Thanks in advance.
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Hi people,
I have a problem here, I have TWRP installed and now the OTA update loaded some minutes ago. The update process fails though as it reboots into TWRP and thus is not able to complete installation. How do I update to 4.4.3 now? Is there a flashable zip? Thanks!
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Hi people,
I have a problem here, I have TWRP installed and now the OTA update loaded some minutes ago. The update process fails though as it reboots into TWRP and thus is not able to complete installation. How do I update to 4.4.3 now? Is there a flashable zip? Thanks!
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OTA won't work if system was modified, as in your case having custom recovery. It will keep failing on you. That's as far as the bad news go
Now the good news, at least two options:
You can download a flashable zip file of 4.4.3 ROM (either Google's stock or any other custom ROM- there are plenty to chose from in both development threads in this forum, just a matter of choice), follow instructions and flash the ROM.
Or, download stock image from Google, use some tool such as Nexus Root Toolkit (in this forum's development thread) and follow instructions (something like unroot, install update, root again and install custom recovery such as TWRP etc). You have choice also to keep data.
Good luck.
I have rooted my Nexus 7 wifi 2012 tablet with TWRP
I don't want to keep un-rooting, applying ota updates then re-rooting my tablet. Is there an easy way. Maybe modified images i can use on a rooted tablet which i can install via the install option in twrp recovery loader.
I also notice that Nexus root tool kit has a ota sideload update option in the advanced menue.
So my question is where are the modifies ota update files if they exist as I don't want to keep un-rooting, rerooting each time to apply official ota updates. I have searched the net and can't find modifies ota updates?
My OTA failed due to root and modifications so I extracted system.img and boot.img from the 5.1 tarball and flashed them using Nexus Root Toolkit. Works well.
I'm going through the same issue - I want to keep running stock, but every time an OTA update comes in, it bugs me for an update until I go through the whole process of finding the files elsewhere, using the Toolkit to flash them etc etc.
Is there a better way to do this automatically? Can I find the downloaded OTA package on the Nexus and just flash it from there?
Since Lollipop, you can't take an OTA in any way (official or sideload) if you've modified your system. Rooting, custom recovery or kernel. Unrooting does not help since the system already has been modified.
Easiest way to upgrade and still keep your data is to flash the factory image but leave out userdata.img. This can be easily done through NRT (No wipe mode) if command prompt is scary. Yes you'll have to reroot... But hey, this is a Nexus, it's easy.
I assume that means waiting for someone to post the update?
If you want to wait for someone to make a prerooted image, then yes. Otherwise just download the official factory image (Google it) and go for it.
Google doesn't always release OTAs and factory images at the same time, so some waiting will probably always be involved...
Drives me crazy. TWRP used to be able to intercept a OTA flash, flash the needed images, detect you lost root and ask to restore root.
Somewhere that disappeared.
I just flashed a very old stock and took every OTA to 5.0.2, rooted, setup... now getting bombarded with 5.1.1 update notification. Ugh
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Since Lollipop, you can't take an OTA in any way (official or sideload) if you've modified your system. Rooting, custom recovery or kernel. Unrooting does not help since the system already has been modified.
Easiest way to upgrade and still keep your data is to flash the factory image but leave out userdata.img. This can be easily done through NRT (No wipe mode) if command prompt is scary. Yes you'll have to reroot... But hey, this is a Nexus, it's easy.
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I need to flash the latest lollipop image to my rooted nexus with TWRP. I know where to find the images but don't remember how to flash it. What exactly are the steps and how do I leave out userdata.img ?
And what are the steps to reroot lollipop?
Thanks
i keep getting the offer to download the 5.1 update but when i do it dloads it then tries to reboot into recovery to flash it but it obviously boots into TWRP recovery which is no good.
So the question is when it dloads the update where does it dload to?
and could i flash it from TWRP if i find it?
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.
Greetings everyone! I just got the phone and it is great, but I have bit of an issue. I know that we need the stock recovery for the software updates, so I attempted to extract it yesterday. I could not do that since we need root to do it, and the only way to get root is by flashing TWRP. So I took the plunge, flashed TWRP, have root, but no stock recovery available.
Today I got an update notification that I cannot apply without the stock recovery IMG. Has anyone been able to extract it or get it from stock firmware files? I have searched the Internet quite a bit and I cannot seem to find the Stock files of this phone. Thanks for the help!
There is no Full Firmware Package-no Stock recovery.
You can test it from AL10 China Version,in Firmwarefinder found the full Firmware,does this not work,install Twrp back and wait for full Firmware
I received an OTA patch security for aljeter xt1922-5 retbr. The package is identified as PPPS29.55.35.12-3. I don't know if there's anyone working on a sideload package of this that I could flash with twrp. The device has only partition A to boot.
twrp and magisk were installed on factory rom 8.1, oreo and the pie upgrade OTA went smoothly, overwriting twrp for the recovery stock and magisk, I just had to install magisk zip and twrp again later. But this is just a security paych and it won't even have boot and recovery partitions included, as far as I know. so if I'm correct about that, it won't be able to "auto apply" like the previous one, so:
is twrp able to flash the patch?
can I just roll back to stock and apply the OTA?
finally, is there a way to install this update without all the work of reverting to stock recovery and stock ROM via ADB?
I've read similar topics for other model versions here on XDA, but still can't be sure about this issue. I read reports of users who were able to flash OTA with twrp and others not. How should I proceed? I really do not wish to risk brick the device.