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.
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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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just in case ics never comes and in case it does come.
i just rooted using the thunderbolt tool i did not change or install any roms, now i want to unroot ,
do i need to back up anything that i might lose? if yes how or suggested methods.
only new app installed while rooted is titantium backup pro ,
thank you
You can use the tbolt tool to unroot but it does wipe data.
Honestly it's probably a better idea to flash the Liquid ICS ROM if you want ICS.
I'm not aware of any good root-free backups but I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I will come along soon.
You could try mybackup pro but I don't think an app to backup app data without root exists. It just isn't possible because I think the app data is stored in the system. The only way to access the system is with root permissions.
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disconnecktie said:
You could try mybackup pro but I don't think an app to backup app data without root exists. It just isn't possible because I think the app data is stored in the system. The only way to access the system is with root permissions.
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i am rooted , i want to back up before i unroot
i want to go back to unrooted in case the ics ota does come , i cannot get it if i am rooted. am i wrong ?
dl1762 said:
i am rooted , i want to back up before i unroot
i want to go back to unrooted in case the ics ota does come , i cannot get it if i am rooted. am i wrong ?
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No just stay rooted. Find a tutorial for disabling ota and you'll be fine. Sometimes unrooting and accepting an ota is the worst thing you could do. You never know if it will have a new hboot or if that hboot is even rootable or unlockable.
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disconnecktie said:
No just stay rooted. Find a tutorial for disabling ota and you'll be fine. Sometimes unrooting and accepting an ota is the worst thing you could do. You never know if it will have a new hboot or if that hboot is even rootable or unlockable.
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Rooting with tbolt tool blocks otas
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Most if not all roms now has ota disabled.
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Dark Jedi said:
Most if not all roms now has ota disabled.
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I remember with the last ota a lot of people were complaining about getting the ota while they were sleep and waking up to a messed up phone. I know for sure there were a lot of the sense roms with the otacerts file still there.
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dl1762 said:
i am rooted , i want to back up before i unroot
i want to go back to unrooted in case the ics ota does come , i cannot get it if i am rooted. am i wrong ?
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if they release it there will be a rooted version within a day or 2, maybe even before it gets pushed to your area
just stay rooted
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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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
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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
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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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sch-i545 with 4.2.2 original was me7 I took the update figuring it was just going to give me 4.3 figured I could just reroot after that, But the software update just changed the build number to MI1.. Now I have another update that keeps failing that is supposed to bring me to MJ7. getting an error code 402 if I look at the specs of the update..I just rooted it again..Ill see what happens with the other update..I have seen other people getting these 402 error codes ....
you can't ota update if you're rooted
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joshm.1219 said:
you can't ota update if you're rooted
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Oh i didnt know that...the 1st update worked that took me from me7 to mi1 ....so I guess I have to unroot it and update it?
vafangool said:
Oh i didnt know that...the 1st update worked that took me from me7 to mi1 ....so I guess I have to unroot it and update it?
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mi1 was just a small bug fix, yeah unroot then update
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I unrooted it.... and im still getting the same error... I followed the instructions in the saferoot post. I cant get SU access in terminal emulater but when the phone reboots I still get the Custom screen before boot...
vafangool said:
I unrooted it.... and im still getting the same error... I followed the instructions in the saferoot post. I cant get SU access in terminal emulater but when the phone reboots I still get the Custom screen before boot...
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the custom screen will stay there unless you fully Odin your phone or use triangle away. you can download a root checker app from the playstore to see if it worked
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joshm.1219 said:
the custom screen will stay there unless you fully Odin your phone or use triangle away. you can download a root checker app from the playstore to see if it worked
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I waited a few minutes and rebooted it and the custom screen went away...I know I def dont have root anymore and the phone isnt still taking the update....
you can use Samsung kies to update, gotta download it to your computer
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joshm.1219 said:
you can use Samsung kies to update, gotta download it to your computer
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Thank you so much..I didnt use Kies but I totally forgot that verizon wireless has the software upgrade assistant...Its actually pretty cool..If you want to do a factory reset it backs up everything for you and attempts to repair the phone....But it also updates for you...so as of now I am running 4.3 on the MK2 build...
So now its off to do more research... Gonna reroot with saferoot and than attempt to use saftestrap for the roms that are compatible with safestrap ...Thanks for the help guys..
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Thank you so much..I didnt use Kies but I totally forgot that verizon wireless has the software upgrade assistant...Its actually pretty cool..If you want to do a factory reset it backs up everything for you and attempts to repair the phone....But it also updates for you...so as of now I am running 4.3 on the MK2 build...
So now its off to do more research... Gonna reroot with saferoot and than attempt to use saftestrap for the roms that are compatible with safestrap ...Thanks for the help guys..
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good luck bud
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joshm.1219 said:
good luck bud
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much appreciated...
Had this same issue on my brothers safestrap mi1 phone. I ran the mk2 no wipe odin md5.tar
this fixed everything up.
andybones said:
Had this same issue on my brothers safestrap mi1 phone. I ran the mk2 no wipe odin md5.tar
this fixed everything up.
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whoa don't see a heavy hitter dev in q&a too often
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I had safestrap on my mk2 I saw the update today so I Uninstalled safe strap after the OTA failed the first time and went into the screen that says DOWNLOAD and on the top says Odon mode and normal boot failed or something similar. Only way to get it to boot is to hold vol down and power then cancel to let it boot? I'm really excited to try the kk update but have no idea how to fix this problem? Thanks a million for any help!
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BruteSource said:
I had safestrap on my mk2 I saw the update today so I Uninstalled safe strap after the OTA failed the first time and went into the screen that says DOWNLOAD and on the top says Odon mode and normal boot failed or something similar. Only way to get it to boot is to hold vol down and power then cancel to let it boot? I'm really excited to try the kk update but have no idea how to fix this problem? Thanks a million for any help!
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Flash a no-wipe MK2 ROM, then you'll be able to take the OTA.
You've got to return the phone to factory stock, which means no xposed framework, no safestrap, nothing frozen, no "bloat" removed.
It's easier to just flash a factory stock ROM.
You MUST understand that you won't be able to root it once you take the Kit Kat OTA.
That is, you're potentially kissing root goodbye forever.
k1mu said:
Flash a no-wipe MK2 ROM, then you'll be able to take the OTA.
You've got to return the phone to factory stock, which means no xposed framework, no safestrap, nothing frozen, no "bloat" removed.
It's easier to just flash a factory stock ROM.
You MUST understand that you won't be able to root it once you take the Kit Kat OTA.
That is, you're potentially kissing root goodbye forever.
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How many times you think we will have to say this?
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decaturbob said:
How many times you think we will have to say this?
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Hey come on you two guys have a couple more in ya I know you do!!
Hey .. How about Survival Mode?!?!? Lol I'm going you stay away from Q&A and let you guys clean up the mess.
You're doing a great job by the way though!
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Mistertac said:
Hey come on you two guys have a couple more in ya I know you do!!
Hey .. How about Survival Mode?!?!? Lol I'm going you stay away from Q&A and let you guys clean up the mess.
You're doing a great job by the way though!
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I read the posts and do some chuckling...hey I took the update. ..can I root? ....like...did you think to check before you proceeded with ota. ...?
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