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So I've was running team whiskeys bionic v 1.3 rom but after noticing some lag I decided to start from scratch and reinstall it. I disabled voodoo and flashed stock rom with Odin. Everything went well. Now here's my problem, I put my phone into recovery so that I can root it. But when I click "reinstall packages" I'm taken to the "clockwork recovery menu" (even though rommanager isnt installed). I try to install the the update.zip file from there (it works) but when my phone reboots, the super user app isn't installed and my phone still isn't rooted. Please help.
Are you going to try and flash a new rom or are you going to just root your phone and stick with the stock rom
Rom manager creates a update.zip file on your sd card that is the cw recovery update.zip If you want to root your phone using the update.zip method you have to delete the cw recovery update.zip file 1st
If you are going to flash a new rom then you don't have to root your phone just flash a new rom thru cw recovery and all the roms come rooted already
It is my understanding that the update.zip isn't a full root. Not sure how that works out...
Here is what i do. After u load the update.zip use the 3 button method to load whichever TW rom u want to use (I have bionix 1.3.1 and love it). This will give u full root access. This is what I do every time I load a new rom.
U should consider hitting up the TW crew on their IRC. They are great with help.
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If you need more help them pm me and I will help you some more
yes i want to flsh other roms. and i want to root it like i did the first time i got the phone becuase when i downloaded rom manager after flashing odin and tried to do a anadroid backup, a message appeared saying the i don't have superuser permission and that i needed to root my phone first. how do i delete the cw recovery update.zip file?
Here, easiest root ever:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739300
Follow the steps and off you go...
Hey guys thanks for ur help! Phones is now rooted and running bionix v 1.3.1 without problems. So basically all I did was a hard reset after flashing stock odin and then I just formatted the internal sd card which deleted all traces of ce recovery. Yes.it deleted everything else but I wanted to start from scratch anyways.
lOL MAYBE fixing permissions and installin root (superuser option in advance menu of recovery) form clockwork recovery WAS A EASIER OPTION ? but hey u got it anyway
I don't know if this is exactly the same issue you or not, but I did flash to stock rom (KB1), and now unable to root myself. I've used the superoneclick and still nothing happens. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Dvalin21 said:
I don't know if this is exactly the same issue you or not, but I did flash to stock rom (KB1), and now unable to root myself. I've used the superoneclick and still nothing happens. Does anyone have a solution for this?
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Did u make sure you had usb debugging checked?
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Yep I sure did, still wouldn't work. I'm kinda scared to try a different one, i dont want to have to spend 150 dollars to get a new phone.
What exactly happens when you try to root with superoneclick?
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It goes through the norm and completes like norm, but when I look for superuser its not there
Well the way I got it to work was after flashing odin, I just formatted the phones internal sd card. After that I just placed the update.zip file into the sd card rebooted into stock recovery and installed the file.
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So I just bought a Sprint SIII, and avoided the OTA like any tinkerer would. I flashed CWM, and rooted successfully, but I don't know what to do with the OTA. As this is a shared device, the other user is likely to install the update. Will we lose root after the update? There's been a lot of talk of updates here and all the searching still hasn't gotten me the info I need. Can a fellow get a hand? If it takes root, will OTA root keeper work? Can I just re-do the entire process using the toolkit and the AIO option?
You can't update with the OTA if you're rooted by going into Settings, so you should be okay.
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Jamesyboy said:
So I just bought a Sprint SIII, and avoided the OTA like any tinkerer would. I flashed CWM, and rooted successfully, but I don't know what to do with the OTA. As this is a shared device, the other user is likely to install the update. Will we lose root after the update? There's been a lot of talk of updates here and all the searching still hasn't gotten me the info I need. Can a fellow get a hand? If it takes root, will OTA root keeper work? Can I just re-do the entire process using the toolkit and the AIO option?
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i was on LF9 then rooted it and flashed CWM so yes you can update or just flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747560 it will update you to LF9
EDIT: it very well could lose root but yes it can be regained
jamcar said:
i was on LF9 then rooted it and flashed CWM so yes you can update or just flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747560 it will update you to LF9
EDIT: it very well could lose root but yes it can be regained
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So it won't touch CWM
Edit: The notification was there before we rooted, which is why, I imagine we still got it.
Clicked thanky.
Total confusion. So I have to apply the update and reroot in CWM...then the update will rewrite the stock recovery, and I reflash CWM...say, with the toolkit?
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So it won't touch CWM
Edit: The notification was there before we rooted, which is why, I imagine we still got it.
Clicked thanky.
Total confusion. So I have to apply the update and reroot in CWM...then the update will rewrite the stock recovery, and I reflash CWM...say, with the toolkit?
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Yes pretty much. If you apply the update on the stock rooted ROM you will loose CWM recovery , but you can get it back by using ODIN or the toolbox to guide you through it
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Hello, I just upgraded to the new droid DNA on 1-13-2013. I got the bootloader unlocked and flashed the recovery without problems but, when I flashed the superuser files using recovery it fails and says md5 file or something like that was not found but with the failure to install, it still put the superuser, su and busybox files in the correct sytem folders. I booted my device and open supersu and it said I need to update the su file but that update failed too. I also did a full stock restore to see how it goes for me beause I hear people say once you do that you can't
re-unlock the bootloader but, I got the bootloader re-unlocked witout problems. I wanted to add that because people was asking if any body else was having problems re-unlocking. What I want to know is how can I get root? I still have my bootloader unlocked. Can I install a pre rooted stock rom using custom recovery or will that fail too since I cant get the supersu installed successfully?
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Hello, I just upgraded to the new droid DNA on 1-13-2013. I got the bootloader unlocked and flashed the recovery without problems but, when I flashed the superuser files using recovery it fails and says md5 file or something like that was not found but with the failure to install, it still put the superuser, su and busybox files in the correct sytem folders. I booted my device and open supersu and it said I need to update the su file but that update failed too. I also did a full stock restore to see how it goes for me beause I hear people say once you do that you can't
re-unlock the bootloader but, I got the bootloader re-unlocked witout problems. I wanted to add that because people was asking if any body else was having problems re-unlocking. What I want to know is how can I get root? I still have my bootloader unlocked. Can I install a pre rooted stock rom using custom recovery or will that fail too since I cant get the supersu installed successfully?
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Go check out the ROMs in the Android Development Section. Most, if not all, of the ROMs have the superuser and BusyBox built in. Try UKB.
Cheers!
Thanks, I did that but when I went to install it the install started but it didn't go through. The install started for about 1 second and it just just booted me. I had to rerun the full RUU.exe i found in the xda forum to reinstall. The only thing I want to do is just root to be able to delete bloat. I hope somebody comes out with a way to root without having to unlock boot loaders.
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Hey guys,
Is there a CWM Zip file out yet for the latest OTA update 4.5.145?
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I posted one in a thread in the dev section a few days ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37763672
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Thanks, I searched but nothing came up before asking.
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The OTA update zip will flash just fine thru CWM recovery.
I moved the zip from /cache to the internal sdcard /rom folder. Then ran opened ROM manager, Install from Sd Card, reboot into recovery.
Install went fine, CWM showed no errors, root and custom recovery remained untouched. When the phone reboots the first time the OTA update system will fuss that the update failed but About Phone shows you are updated 4.5.145.
See fixed my own stuff....
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is 4.5.145 worth the install? I made the mistake of searching for updates, now i keep getting the reminder, so its either update or turn the reminder off. I just dont want to lose my root/unlock/webtop2sd
nicholetech said:
The OTA update zip will flash just fine thru CWM recovery.
I moved the zip from /cache to the internal sdcard /rom folder. Then ran opened ROM manager, Install from Sd Card, reboot into recovery.
Install went fine, CWM showed no errors, root and custom recovery remained untouched. When the phone reboots the first time the OTA update system will fuss that the update failed but About Phone shows you are updated 4.5.145.
See fixed my own stuff....
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uisgdlyast said:
is 4.5.145 worth the install? I made the mistake of searching for updates, now i keep getting the reminder, so its either update or turn the reminder off. I just dont want to lose my root/unlock/webtop2sd
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If someone know how to stop the "spam" about the update, I will be very thankful.
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uisgdlyast said:
is 4.5.145 worth the install? I made the mistake of searching for updates, now i keep getting the reminder, so its either update or turn the reminder off. I just dont want to lose my root/unlock/webtop2sd
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The update changes the radio from 37p to 38p, giving a better signal, improved GPS with Maps (possibly overall GPS improvement), kernel version remains the same, however it appears to be a different build, and a few security updates. See images for status changes
Note: I did flash the 38p radio separately before cwm flashing the update. Upon update, go ahead and get into root explorer and delete the google preloaded apps that appear in play store so you can free up room in /system. Then update superuser binaries, and redownload google preloaded apps from play store.
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I have an s-off'd custom rom with AmonRa recovery... offered update??
I just want to have it ignore the update.
Apparently, the software doesn't know the
recovery system is not stock ... so it tries
and fails. I wonder if there is a way to extract
the new fingerprint to trick the update process
into thinking the updates already applied?
Or is there a way to just suppress it all together?
Well I'm pretty much chicken so I'm basically stock but rooted but the ota update keeps falling. I tried unrooting so the update could work but it still failed. Not sure why...
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Same here
I am having the same issue, as well. Rooted, debloated stock sense. Recovery is Amon-Ra.
So I read another thread that made it seem like I needed to re-lock the bootloader so I did that and now when I try to update it goes into the bootloader menu instead of starting the update. Do I need to unroot or do another step for this to work?
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Did you debloat at all? I was stock+root (no debloating) and the install went fine.
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Well, when the ota update downloads and you press the button to update, the updater immediately begins to check the system utilizing a checksum system for any modification, such as a deodexed system/app folder or binaries that weren't originally present. It wants to make sure all system/apps are still there and untouched and all the binaries are still kosher. If it detects something is "off" it will usually abort. If everything checks out it will boot to bootloader and attempt to install the update in the stock recovery. It will fail here of course if a custom recovery is installed.
You can kill your phone from even attempting to check for any otas by using Root Explorer or something similar, go to system/app and add bak to the end of each of these files:
HtcCOTAClient.apk
HtcCOTAClient.odex
You want them to look like:
HtcCOTAClient.apkbak
HtcCOTAClient.odexbak
You could also remove them.
I have an s-off'd custom rom with AmonRa recovery... offered update??
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Well, when the ota update downloads and you press the button to update,
the updater immediately begins to check the system utilizing a checksum system for any modification,
such as a deodexed system/app folder or binaries that weren't originally present. It wants to make sure
all system/apps are still there and untouched and all the binaries are still kosher. If it detects something
is "off" it will usually abort. If everything checks out it will boot to bootloader and attempt to install the
update in the stock recovery. It will fail here of course if a custom recovery is installed.
You can kill your phone from even attempting to check for any otas by using
Root Explorer or something similar, go to system/app and add bak to the en
d of each of these files:
HtcCOTAClient.apk
HtcCOTAClient.odex
You want them to look like:
HtcCOTAClient.apkbak
HtcCOTAClient.odexbak
You could also remove them.
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I froze that with TiBu but it still shows up
as a pending update.
Experimenting, I tried freezing HtcDM
apk and service and the notices went away.
Is that safe to leave DM frozen, (what else does it do)?
My intent is to just prevent this a future OTA
updates auto-installing while I asleep. i woke
to find myself looking at a failed attempt
and hung in AmonRA, I rebooted to normal
and everything runs as normal.
fuzzynco said:
I froze that with TiBu but it still shows up
as a pending update.
Experimenting, I tried freezing HtcDM
apk and service and the notices went away.
Is that safe to leave DM frozen, (what else does it do)?
My intent is to just prevent this a future OTA
updates auto-installing while I asleep. i woke
to find myself looking at a failed attempt
and hung in AmonRA, I rebooted to normal
and everything runs as normal.
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Not to be a PIA, but why freeze if you can just add bak to the end of the file name and you will achieve the same thing? If you ever want to go back you just delete the bak?
So for me it sounds like I need to get back to a stock recovery to be able to successfully perform the update?
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Gee thanx for the help people...
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You must be on the stock recovery to take an OTA. The stock recovery performs the update. So flash the stock recovery and then do the update or deal with no update.
Is there a way to flash the stock recovery without it wiping my phone?
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Unless you're running a completely stock rom (with nothing removed), you won't be able to install the update anyway...
If you want to stop it from trying to come down, delete or rename /system/etc/security/otacerts.zip.
As for re-installing the stock recovery, you probably would need to RUU your phone unless it's s-off.
So if I do a back up, then go back to stock recovery which will wipe my phone, then perform the ota update, will a restore revert the ruu back and I'm back to square one, or does the ruu not roll back?
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fivedezs said:
So if I do a back up, then go back to stock recovery which will wipe my phone, then perform the ota update, will a restore revert the ruu back and I'm back to square one, or does the ruu not roll back?
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If you are on a stock rom you should be able to flash the stock recovery from fastboot without wiping the phone. Just find the recovery.IMG from the 605.12 ruu and flash it in fast boot to your phone. Then take the update and when complete flash your custom recovery in fast boot again and flash su zip.
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fivedezs said:
So if I do a back up, then go back to stock recovery which will wipe my phone, then perform the ota update, will a restore revert the ruu back and I'm back to square one, or does the ruu not roll back?
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A restore would not overwrite any of the firmware on the phone, just the rom.
As dottat pointed out, you can download the latest RUU, extract the recovery image from it and flash that via fastboot. I'd still back up your rom with your custom recovery first in case the rom pieces in the update bork something...
Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can find the stock ruu?
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fivedezs said:
Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can find the stock ruu?
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Check androidpolice.com, it's over there, should be able to search for it...
Need a copy of the stock recovery
I am S-On and unlocked. I need to reflash the stock recovery to apply the OTA firmware update, right? I cannot find a copy of it anywhere. Anyone know where I can get this? I downloaded the stock RUU and tried to pull it out, but I cannot unzip the file. I would be grateful for any help. Thanks.