So I rooted my MetroPCS Stylo, and installed TWRP.
I woke up to an OTA update this morning and looked it up, and it's a good one. Upgrades from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 with a radio update and other goodies.
I went ahead with the update thinking TWRP would handle it and I would just need to root device again.
That didn't work of course.
I'd like help with applying this update please.
What I have:
Backup of original rooted stock system without much modification.
Backup of current rooted stock system/system data/user data.
Backup of stock recovery.
Copy of the OTA update.zip retrieved from within recovery (it's still residing within /cache )
I was thinking I could do a fresh backup of system and data images, then flash the stock recovery and go for update and re-root afterwards.
Questions:
How do I initiate recovery command for rebooting and applying recovery?
How can I avoid breaking anything?
How would you apply this update?
Thanks
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michpan said:
So, to recap, you don't need to relock the bootloader for OTA updates but you have to flash stock recovery first? And you'll lose root in the process?
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The answer was "YES".
I wonder whether OTA updates will be possible if you have deleted system apps.
Has anyone tried this before updating to JB?
Stock ROM, stock recovery, rooted (by booting the phone into e.g. TWRP recovery without flashing it), system apps deleted -> OTA update possible?
According to these "negative effects of unlocked bootloader", every OTA update checks the MD5 checksum of every file that originally came with your device, so it should not be possible.
Can anyone confirm that no OTA updates will be possible if you have deleted system (or any preinstalled) apps?
Thanks.
mary-lou said:
The answer was "YES".
I wonder whether OTA updates will be possible if you have deleted system apps.
Has anyone tried this before updating to JB?
Stock ROM, stock recovery, rooted (by booting the phone into e.g. TWRP recovery without flashing it), system apps deleted -> OTA update possible?
According to these "negative effects of unlocked bootloader", every OTA update checks the MD5 checksum of every file that originally came with your device, so it should not be possible.
Can anyone confirm that no OTA updates will be possible if you have deleted system (or any preinstalled) apps?
Thanks.
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Yes. If you have deleted any system app then OTA will not be possible so restore a nandroid backup to get all the files..
I updated to jb with unlocked bootloader and root.
Reported to move.
Ok. So, if I keep my original recovery and only boot into TWRP occassionally to make backups, if I keep the original ROM and only "move" a few system apps to a special folder on my SD, I will be informed when there is an OTA update available but I won't be able to install it due to the wrong MD5 checksum, right?
So, if I move the "deleted" system apps back, I should be able to install the OTA update, right?
After the update, I can "delete=move" them again.
As the bootloader remains open, there will be no factory reset, right?
Should be. Just make sure you flash stock recovery before doing the OTA.
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I have received the OTA update for my stock rooted 4.3 device. When I tell the system to update, it reboots into recovery, which for me is TWRP. If I go to "install" it defaults to the sdcard/downloads folder and there is a file there called: ota_M7_UL_SENSE55-MR_TMOUS_4.19.531.10-3.24.531.3_release_351678 If I choose to "install" this, there's a bunch of error messages, first with "unable to locate zip" (references a specific file), followed by an "assert failed" and the "error executing update binary..."
I will assume that this is because of the fact that I'm rooted and have TWRP.
It's important for me to be stock (I need the TM WiFi calling) and I want to retain root. Given that, how can I update to Kit Kat?
You'll have to flash back to stock recovery and redo the OTA (or, if you know where the OTA file is on your device, boot into stock recovery and select that file for the update).
You will most likely loose root, but it's easy enough to reflash TWRP and superuser to get root back, I would imagine.
knytphal said:
You'll have to flash back to stock recovery and redo the OTA (or, if you know where the OTA file is on your device, boot into stock recovery and select that file for the update).
You will most likely loose root, but it's easy enough to reflash TWRP and superuser to get root back, I would imagine.
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I found and flashed a stock recovery and then reran the OTA update. It appeared to have gone all the way through the process. When I reboot the device I get a pink screen that blinks with white dashes, and it does get to an HTC One splash screen with a blue beats audio icon (different than in 4.3). It never gets passed there.
I am able to adb and fastboot at that screen, so I was able to reflash TWRP, and tried rebooting, but get stuck at the same spot. I had done a TWRP backup a couple weeks ago, so I restored that so that at least I'm functional again.
Any advice on how to get 4.4 on this device?
When I was unlocked and rooted on 4.3 I relocked the bootloader, ran the 4.3 RUU and was able to get the OTA update then re-unlock and re-root
Basically, I did the same thing gwingzero said he did in this post
I rooted and installed TWRP recovery. I want to update my stock rom with the OTA update. The update is downloaded to my phone, but won't update, re-boots and goes into TWRP. I think I need to first install a stock recovery, but I can't find one. If I find the stock recovery will that allow me to update OTA.
cma371 said:
I rooted and installed TWRP recovery. I want to update my stock rom with the OTA update. The update is downloaded to my phone, but won't update, re-boots and goes into TWRP. I think I need to first install a stock recovery, but I can't find one. If I find the stock recovery will that allow me to update OTA.
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As long as you haven't modified your rom you should be able to take the OTA with a STOCK recovery. You can find them here.
Also you might want to unroot before taking the OTA then reroot afterwards.
Got the ota and clicked install by mistake with stock recovery and root. It failed and had to do a battery pull to get it to boot. So yeah I'd unroot just in case.
I unrooted and installed stock recovery, but update failed?
Guys iam unrooted my one plus x for getting official ota updates , but after unrooting iam getting ota notification and click on install , but in process of update in recovry mode it says failed and reboot , pls pls help me how to solve this problem and get back to official opx device
1. Download OnePlusOxygen_14_OTA_008_all_201601221550.zip .
2. Just flash it.
3. You'll be on OxygenOS 2.2.0 without any other files to flash. Don't wipe data and cache to retain your apps and data.
The right answer is : you won't have Over The Air. You have to flash it manually as @StraightEdgeKid just said.
You should flash the next updates the same too.
After installing full 2.2.0 ROM, he'll be unrooted completely, and if he has stock recovery, he can install OTA's afterwards, unless he remains on stock.
Yeah but it always depends on the way he rooted the phone. The OneCmlickRoot solution have to be bannished on OPX!
Ofcourse not, if he flashes full 2.2.0 ROM, everything from system will be overwritten, leaving no place for previous stuff in system. /system will be cleaned completely.
Thanks for this. Downloaded the file, flashed through stock "recovery", and voila.
Flash the full ota and after that check you are on stock recovery or custom recovery(twrp) if its custom then flash stock recovery and you will be able to get otas
Hey guys,
I tried to update my rooted G5 via OTA firmware update, but when the device reboots (to install the update), I'm booting to TWRP automatically.
There was some setting you could set on the install of TWRP ("to make stock updates easier" or so). Do you know, what that setting was? Is there a way to install stock updates on a rooted device?
Thanks!
Twrp asks if it should put the system partition not writable. But I think you cannot install OTAs even then.
But... I had the same problem and you can just use lg up with the kdz file of the latest ROM version and select upgrade in the program. It will not delete your data but you will have to install twrp and root again.
But you can of course also do a factory reset while installing the new ROM and start from scratch.