Rooted and twrp how to freeze ota? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Okay so I rooted my s4 and installed twrp from Goomanager now I'm waiting for some good roms. So until then what do I need to freeze on my stock rom to prevent otas
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imablackhat said:
Okay so I rooted my s4 and installed twrp from Goomanager now I'm waiting for some good roms. So until then what do I need to freeze on my stock rom to prevent otas
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Its should never update on its own. It usually asks you if you want to update. I hear though, as long as you got SuperSU and keep that up to date, the binaries prevent any patching to stop root access.

Delete or freeze SDM 1.0 in TB.

if you have a custom recovery installed dont worry. it will download the OTA but wont be able to install it

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Root faild Pleese help

A few days ago I tried useing exynos abuse to root my note 2. It did not work and I have not excepted the latest up date. But my phone says it is modified... can anyone help me I am somewhat new at this...
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Devinmersdorf said:
A few days ago I tried useing exynos abuse to root my note 2. It did not work and I have not excepted the latest up date. But my phone says it is modified... can anyone help me I am somewhat new at this...
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How did you confirm that it didn't work? Device status "Modified" after using ExynosAbuse usually means it worked. I would try to install Titanium backup (Tibu) or some other program that requires root and if it works then you know you have root.
If you have root use Tibu to freeze SDM 1.0 to keep the update from happening if you want to use the first developer created method to unlock your boot loader so that you can flash ROMs. You can use the later new method to unlock the boot loader if you accept the update.
I have titanium back up but it says I dont have root access... basically what im wanting to know is, is it okay it try another root method even though it says my device is modified...
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Devinmersdorf said:
I have titanium back up but it says I dont have root access... basically what im wanting to know is, is it okay it try another root method even though it says my device is modified...
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Do you have the super su app? If so open it and let it update binaries.
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No I dont have it I have checked everything... no root. But my phone says modified so I dint know if its okay to try rooting another way
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Yes just root again.
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Root on stock me7 reset

I want to know for the future. Lets say I'm on the ota me7 with root. And a new ota comes out if I take it. It'll upgrade and I lose root right?
Also if I wanted to remove root if I did a hard reset would that do the trick as well? From the stock recovery menu.
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If you have root, pay for and install Titanium Backup.
Use Titanium Backup to freeze SDM and FWupdate apps so you will never get another OTA update again.
What if I want otas..
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imablackhat said:
I want to know for the future. Lets say I'm on the ota me7 with root. And a new ota comes out if I take it. It'll upgrade and I lose root right?
Also if I wanted to remove root if I did a hard reset would that do the trick as well? From the stock recovery menu.
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If you take an ota you will lose root.
A hard reset will not remove root, I have tried.
imablackhat said:
What if I want otas..
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If you want the otas then just disregard all of the good information found in these threads and take them.
But don't be surprised if the next ota locks things down further.
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Safest way to root S4 MDK build running 4.2.2?

Im asking if there's any fool proof ways to root this configuration because i just bought the phone and dont wont to brick it like my s3 hard bricked. Any help or comments appreciated, thinking about just updating to 4.3 and waiting for a root method with that.
Read this. Used this guide for both my gs4's with zero issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798
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Scott792 said:
Im asking if there's any fool proof ways to root this configuration because i just bought the phone and dont wont to brick it like my s3 hard bricked. Any help or comments appreciated, thinking about just updating to 4.3 and waiting for a root method with that.
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Don't update. You'll lose your ability to have a real custom recovery. Just stay on MDK and root. Then you can go ahead and flash a 4.3 ROM.
Toddricks said:
Read this. Used this guide for both my gs4's with zero issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798
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Should i factory reset and root before activating the phone with verizon?
I personally would just root, install custom recovery then wipe. After that pick a rom as most have ota updates disabled. Or install titanium backup pro and freeze the update apk's (I forget the file names)
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Toddricks said:
I personally would just root, install custom recovery then wipe. After that pick a rom as most have ota updates disabled. Or install titanium backup pro and freeze the update apk's (I forget the file names)
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Ok, is it safe to activate and root as long as i stop the OTA update?or just root and then activate? thanks for the replies by the way
Either way you do it just do not take the ota. I always root first and install custom recovery
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BEWARE ZV8_13 Update w/ Root Keeper --> LOST ROOT

Installed and ran rootkeeper backed up SU, did the OTA and LOST ROOT!
Rootkeeper was unable to properly restore root.
Going to have to try and reroot tonight.
shakattack said:
Installed and ran rootkeeper backed up SU, did the OTA and LOST ROOT!
Rootkeeper was unable to properly restore root.
Going to have to try and reroot tonight.
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Thank you I was about to install the update and use rootkeeper but thought I would check here first. Didn't wanna have to reroot. Thanks again
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What was the ota?
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stuck on recovery
I did the OTA and I got stuck on recovery, not even allowed me to restore to previous roms, I'm downloading the stock rom right now to unroot OTA and root again, anybody know what the OTA brings?
raulberry said:
I did the OTA and I got stuck on recovery, not even allowed me to restore to previous roms, I'm downloading the stock rom right now to unroot OTA and root again, anybody know what the OTA brings?
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I can't seem to find anything on whats in the OTA.
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BaYRiCaN said:
I can't seem to find anything on whats in the OTA.
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I'm sure it's to disable hd voice. I've had to manually disable hundreds in the past week.
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BaYRiCaN said:
I can't seem to find anything on whats in the OTA.
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Audio issue enhancement. Google security patch.
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Could some one post stock recovery I don't have it.
Thanks.
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Added ZV8 modem zip to the G2 modem thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451426
LS980ZV8
M8974A-AAAANAZM-1.0.190034
by QUALCOMM, Incorporated Nov 26 2013
autoprime said:
Added ZV8 modem zip to the G2 modem thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451426
LS980ZV8
M8974A-AAAANAZM-1.0.190034
by QUALCOMM, Incorporated Nov 26 2013
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I re-rooted with io root after update.
I did not see any OTA update for my phone? Can you do System update (did not work) or have to wait for OTA?
BaYRiCaN said:
I can't seem to find anything on whats in the OTA.
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How do you disable HD voice and how do you know if it is causing problems?
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Time to reroot
gerald410 said:
I re-rooted with io root after update.
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Glad to hear it worked smoothly for you! I'm about to do the same.
EDIT: Smoothly re-Rooted
I can also confirm IO Root worked like a charm after this update.
So best thing to do is return to stock the re-root??
I was stock rooted. Took the update. Re rooted. That's all.
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Just letting you all know that one of the changes it makes is to enable lte bands 26 and 41
another is it removed twrp as my recovery and replaced it with the stock recovery.
arehm said:
I was stock rooted. Took the update. Re rooted. That's all.
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Could you post stock recovery .
Thanks
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Guys...it takes like a minute to reroot using iorootv11. Just do it after the OTA update. There is no point of trying to use apps to try to preserve root when it is so simple.
Any chance we'll see a TWRP flashable version of stock ZV8? I'd use the LG tool to start over, update to ZV8, root, etc., but then I'd have to apply all the xposed mods, set things how they were etc. I tried flashing stock recovery, then doing the update the normal way, but it led to a bootloop and didn't work.
Edit - Or can someone tell me how they flashed stock recovery, where I can get the recovery, and whether or not it worked? I got my stock recovery zip from a Sprint user in the the TWRP thread, but could only flash it via flashify. Flashing the zip via TWRP would not work.
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Anyone to run the Vzw 4.4.2 update on TWRP?

Is there anyway to run the update from Verizon on TWRP? Every time it tries to update it reboots into the custom recovery. I know the file for the update is on the phone. Does anybody have the name of it or how to run it?
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HTCVzw said:
Is there anyway to run the update from Verizon on TWRP? Every time it tries to update it reboots into the custom recovery. I know the file for the update is on the phone. Does anybody have the name of it or how to run it?
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If you want to take the OTA you need to revert back to stock recovery.
There is a ROM that is pretty much the same as the 4.4.2 OTA in the development section that can be flashed via TWRP
Hey if you want PM me and I'll help you revert back to stock with keeping your root and updating to KitKat and getting your recovery back. There is no way at all to use the Verizon OTA with a custom recovery.. It is rebooting to TWRP because by default when flashing the OTA it is meant to boot to your stock recovery which is designed to flash carrier updates. When it hits TWRP it fails because it sees that its not the stock recovery. You need to either fastboot back the stock recovery which is in Flyhalfs recovery thread or you need to RUU.. But in any event I'm here if you want some solid help and I can get it done quickly for you...
HTCVzw said:
Is there anyway to run the update from Verizon on TWRP? Every time it tries to update it reboots into the custom recovery. I know the file for the update is on the phone. Does anybody have the name of it or how to run it?
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That's what I figured, just wanted the easy way out. Thanks guys for the assistance.
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