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Hey guys,
Do any of you know how I can place my rom, and push it as an OTA Update like Sprint. What files do I need to accomplish this? I have already looked at OTA update center and its great, I would just like to push them without my people having to root. I have a server set up, just don't know how to have everything point to the right place. I'm familiar with the boot_delta.bin and android_delta.bin files along with others needed for an OTA Update. Also, i know you have to edit things in the build.prop as well. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks
I want it too, I think it's a great idea.
You wan't to add it to your custom rom which is not even rooted? WHAT???
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lokeshsaini94 said:
You wan't to add it to your custom rom which is not even rooted? WHAT???
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My custom rom is rooted, but I am wanting people who get the device from a specific company to not have to go through the rooting process and just push my Rom OTA to their device using a server just like Sprint does. Hope this makes some sense, thanks
jd3107 said:
My custom rom is rooted, but I am wanting people who get the device from a specific company to not have to go through the rooting process and just push my Rom OTA to their device using a server just like Sprint does. Hope this makes some sense, thanks
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Not possible....the way sprint or other carriers are able to do it is because they pass the security/verification checks...unless you can figure out an exploit/hack its not possible
Basically you would need to figure out how to first root the phone, and then get a custom recovery...there have been some apps in the past that can achieve root...but most phones have those patched by now...so it definitely is possible, just not probable
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You can take a look at goo.im the users will still have to have a custom recovery to flash the ROM
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mg2195 said:
Not possible....the way sprint or other carriers are able to do it is because they pass the security/verification checks...unless you can figure out an exploit/hack its not possible
Basically you would need to figure out how to first root the phone, and then get a custom recovery...there have been some apps in the past that can achieve root...but most phones have those patched by now...so it definitely is possible, just not probable
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Thanks, by any chance do you think this will work?
http://www.igottadroid.com/ModMarke...746F6D20726F6D73207B44455653204F4E4C597D.html
C0D3N1N3R said:
You can take a look at goo.im the users will still have to have a custom recovery to flash the ROM
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Thanks, I already have a custom recovery I have made, I just wanted to try to push my custom roms with an OTA without having people need root or a recovery. Just like Sprint and Verizon. Thanks
jd3107 said:
Thanks, I already have a custom recovery I have made, I just wanted to try to push my custom roms with an OTA without having people need root or a recovery. Just like Sprint and Verizon. Thanks
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You can't bro, get over it. THEY need too root, THEY need to flash it. Period.
lithid-cm said:
You can't bro, get over it. THEY need too root, THEY need to flash it. Period.
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Thanks man, I appreciate your answer. I was hoping their was a way but I guess not.
jd3107 said:
Thanks man, I appreciate your answer. I was hoping their was a way but I guess not.
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Well, with a custom recovery it IS possible without root.
What you also could do is make an app who's exploiting a bug in the Android system to gain root. Do this with the permission of your users. If you execute the exploit, you have a root prompt, you could fetch the device name, and download a suitable recovery for it. Let the user confirm this, and download it.
I recommend to wrap it in a nice UI, like this.
- Get root
- Fetch recovery (menu to choose device)
- Flash recovery
From there, you CAN execute your OTA updater app. Note this only works on devices where all partitions are writable with root. For example my phone's (i9300) recovery partition is writable with root.
Hope this helps,
CodeOMG
CodeOMG said:
Well, with a custom recovery it IS possible without root.
What you also could do is make an app who's exploiting a bug in the Android system to gain root. Do this with the permission of your users. If you execute the exploit, you have a root prompt, you could fetch the device name, and download a suitable recovery for it. Let the user confirm this, and download it.
I recommend to wrap it in a nice UI, like this.
- Get root
- Fetch recovery (menu to choose device)
- Flash recovery
From there, you CAN execute your OTA updater app. Note this only works on devices where all partitions are writable with root. For example my phone's (i9300) recovery partition is writable with root.
Hope this helps,
CodeOMG
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Very cool, you come up with that idea all by yourself? Reguardless, there is user intervention required. Whether it be for the custom recovery, bootloader unlock, root. Nothing, when it comes to this comes that easy. ****, even the Nexus phones you need to reboot into the bootloader, no app from the device can do it all sorry.
I'm dev-unlocked and have TWRP installed, no root yet.
what's the consensus on the better/stable/happier su package, supersu vs superuser?
ALSO and almost more importantly, where can i find a flashable zip for either. i know everyone says just flash a rooted ROM, but that's not what i want to do. just looking for a file i can flash in recovery or push via adb. been searching and can't find any options that don't redo everything at once (ie. dev unlock and install recovery)
already been through all of that, just want to add root. thoughts? links? non-sequiturs?
dangle79 said:
I'm dev-unlocked and have TWRP installed, no root yet.
what's the consensus on the better/stable/happier su package, supersu vs superuser?
ALSO and almost more importantly, where can i find a flashable zip for either. i know everyone says just flash a rooted ROM, but that's not what i want to do. just looking for a file i can flash in recovery or push via adb. been searching and can't find any options that don't redo everything at once (ie. dev unlock and install recovery)
already been through all of that, just want to add root. thoughts? links? non-sequiturs?
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Everything you need will be here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645890
dangle79 said:
I'm dev-unlocked and have TWRP installed, no root yet.
what's the consensus on the better/stable/happier su package, supersu vs superuser?
ALSO and almost more importantly, where can i find a flashable zip for either. i know everyone says just flash a rooted ROM, but that's not what i want to do. just looking for a file i can flash in recovery or push via adb. been searching and can't find any options that don't redo everything at once (ie. dev unlock and install recovery)
already been through all of that, just want to add root. thoughts? links? non-sequiturs?
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i been looking for the same thing for a while now.. thats zedomax root tool dont work if your on the new base.. i just need like a supersu and busybox package zip.. thats i can flash in recovery
evo401 said:
i been looking for the same thing for a while now.. thats zedomax root tool dont work if your on the new base.. i just need like a supersu and busybox package zip.. thats i can flash in recovery
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yeah, that's where i'm at. the tutorial/everything page has everything you could ever want if you were starting from zilch; but no "here's just the su binaries and app" zip that i can find. there's every variety of "one click" solution but it doesn't seem like anyone publicizes the step-by-step pieces.
i did dev-unlock and then flashed twrp via fastboot because i wanted a nandroid backup of my "virgin" setup. now if i could just push su to it i would have my setup/ROM with root and not have to wipe my phone and start with somebody else's. not that i'm knocking those efforts because at some point i'm going to start flashing ROMs on this thing, but i'm not ready to blow away all my data just to get root. of course there's always the remote possibility that i could flash the stock 2.13 rooted rom and restore my own data partition and it would work without being flaky, but i never had success doing that on my transform.
i guess i could always download one of the one-clicks and tear it apart and see if i can't figure something out on my own, but i have no experience doing that whatsoever
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yeah, that's where i'm at. the tutorial/everything page has everything you could ever want if you were starting from zilch; but no "here's just the su binaries and app" zip that i can find. there's every variety of "one click" solution but it doesn't seem like anyone publicizes the step-by-step pieces.
i did dev-unlock and then flashed twrp via fastboot because i wanted a nandroid backup of my "virgin" setup. now if i could just push su to it i would have my setup/ROM with root and not have to wipe my phone and start with somebody else's. not that i'm knocking those efforts because at some point i'm going to start flashing ROMs on this thing, but i'm not ready to blow away all my data just to get root. of course there's always the remote possibility that i could flash the stock 2.13 rooted rom and restore my own data partition and it would work without being flaky, but i never had success doing that on my transform.
i guess i could always download one of the one-clicks and tear it apart and see if i can't figure something out on my own, but i have no experience doing that whatsoever
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I know there is a superuser.apk floating around on xda I'm on my phone now so can't link to it just search all forums and you should find it
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You can't flash root to a phone with a zip. You need to look up the specific instructions for your phone, and most likely will factory reset your device.
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Seems like it would be easier to just bite the bullet and flash the stock rooted rom.
SeannyM said:
You can't flash root to a phone with a zip. You need to look up the specific instructions for your phone, and most likely will factory reset your device.
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if it can't be flashed then how do the one-clicks do it? those just do a dev unlock and flash recovery and what not, they're not full roms.
I used supersu and found it via a search here.
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yeah, i think i should be able to flash the zip from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
dangle79 said:
yeah, i think i should be able to flash the zip from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
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did u try that zip?
evo401 said:
did u try that zip?
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not yet. my wife was getting made at me for not being fully engaged in her prattling so i had to shut the laptop for the night.
i was looking at the update script and it does some goofy stuff with the maps.apk and youtube.apk that seems to (at least from other comments in the thread) cause some unwanted aggravation with those apps. i asked the question what/why and the answer i got was an assumption that they were being moved temporarily to make sure there was room in /system for the su binaries and then moved back.
i don't know if that's necessary or not, but i kind of doubt it. just like to know what's happening in the background and not monkey with things that don't need monkeyin'.
i've got a working zip for SuperSU v0.96 that i've stripped the stuff out of it that moves around the maps and youtube apks, doesn't seem to be necessary on our devices. sent a pm to chainfire about posting it but haven't heard back yet. or maybe i just can't send pms
dangle79 said:
i've got a working zip for SuperSU v0.96 that i've stripped the stuff out of it that moves around the maps and youtube apks, doesn't seem to be necessary on our devices. sent a pm to chainfire about posting it but haven't heard back yet. or maybe i just can't send pms
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You might need to check your settings for PM by default they are set to accept pm's from admin and mods only if I remember correctly
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bigdaddy619 said:
You might need to check your settings for PM by default they are set to accept pm's from admin and mods only if I remember correctly
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thought you probably had something there but doesn't seem to be the case. but I'm just a no name dude with less than 50 posts and i imagine he gets a lot of messages. no biggie though, got mine working which was my goal in the first place. just wanted to take the opportunity to share another option with others.
truthfully though I'm not an Android dev by any stretch and it only took me about ten minutes to figure out how to re-sign the zip after updating the file once i committed myself to the idea i was going to try it
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thought you probably had something there but doesn't seem to be the case. but I'm just a no name dude with less than 50 posts and i imagine he gets a lot of messages. no biggie though, got mine working which was my goal in the first place. just wanted to take the opportunity to share another option with others.
truthfully though I'm not an Android dev by any stretch and it only took me about ten minutes to figure out how to re-sign the zip after updating the file once i committed myself to the idea i was going to try it
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Btw how do you resign a zip?
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bigdaddy619 said:
Btw how do you resign a zip?
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with signapk, there's actually a thread here somewhere for how to do it, like three steps. the tip-off was when i opened the original in winrar it had a comment attached that was what it had been signed with
dangle79 said:
with signapk, there's actually a thread here somewhere for how to do it, like three steps. the tip-off was when i opened the original in winrar it had a comment attached that was what it had been signed with
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Cool thanks I'll have a look when I get home from work
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I'm trying to install BusyBox on my HTC Droid DNA. I rooted the phone using the Jcase method.
I'm choosing the "normal install" method for Busybox and it keeps saying unsuccessful.
Question: Is it safe to try the "smart install" method? Has anyone else installed Busybox successfully?
What I'm trying to do: Just be able to do Linux stuff like edit files, etc. I'm told I need this software.
Thanks.
Joe
Ok, I think it worked. I booted into recovery, then used a .zip file that also contains SuperUser SU from a forum posting on rooting the DNA. I am almost 100% sure this was the file (I forgot to remember the link, but this was in my history):
http://www.mediafire.com/?es35lyioe8hxbxh
commandlinekid said:
I'm trying to install BusyBox on my HTC Droid DNA. I rooted the phone using the Jcase method.
I'm choosing the "normal install" method for Busybox and it keeps saying unsuccessful.
Question: Is it safe to try the "smart install" method? Has anyone else installed Busybox successfully?
What I'm trying to do: Just be able to do Linux stuff like edit files, etc. I'm told I need this software.
Thanks.
Joe
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Did you get this officially fixed then?
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Technically, yes. It is installed.
wget isn't working, and I need to play with it, but yes, Busybox is on now.
BigRed35m said:
Did you get this officially fixed then?
Sent from my HTC DNA.
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commandlinekid said:
Ok, I think it worked. I booted into recovery, then used a .zip file that also contains SuperUser SU from a forum posting on rooting the DNA. I am almost 100% sure this was the file (I forgot to remember the link, but this was in my history)
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Do you still have the zip that you downloaded?
That link is broken, says that the file was deleted.
I'm running into the same problem, with either crashing my phone or saying that it failed.
You need a kernel that allows write to system.
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You need a kernel that allows write to system.
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I dunno... I kinda like the stock kernel.
Do I really need to change kernels in order to install BusyBox through recovery mode?
I'm sure there are other kernels that are a lot better than stock, but I'm not super adventurous. Just rooting was a lot, but I really wanted to have more functionality in Tasker and Titanium Backup. Once I get BusyBox I think I'm done for a while.
andyd273 said:
I dunno... I kinda like the stock kernel.
Do I really need to change kernels in order to install BusyBox through recovery mode?
I'm sure there are other kernels that are a lot better than stock, but I'm not super adventurous. Just rooting was a lot, but I really wanted to have more functionality in Tasker and Titanium Backup. Once I get BusyBox I think I'm done for a while.
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There is stock with system write. You can do whatever you want in recovery, but installing it normally, or updating it, or updating su will not work.
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I own an Honor 5x, which I used to have rooted running a TWRP recovery and SuperSU. I wanted to update my phone to marshmallow, but it was an OTA update so i had to unroot and go back to the original bootloader. I did everything needed and got my phone upgraded to marshmallow, and was then hoping i could play pokemon go, but for some reason i am getting the error where it says the game does not support my device, the exact same one that i got when i was rooted. i double checked that i was unrooted by downloading literally every single root checking app on the play store, and all of them have classed my phone as unrooted. i dont want to root my phone again as i have nox for rooted stuff now, and it was a hassle extracting th e recovery.img from the update file as noboby else had it, so i was wondering someone here could help me
thanks in advance!:good:
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I own an Honor 5x, which I used to have rooted running a TWRP recovery and SuperSU. I wanted to update my phone to marshmallow, but it was an OTA update so i had to unroot and go back to the original bootloader. I did everything needed and got my phone upgraded to marshmallow, and was then hoping i could play pokemon go, but for some reason i am getting the error where it says the game does not support my device, the exact same one that i got when i was rooted. i double checked that i was unrooted by downloading literally every single root checking app on the play store, and all of them have classed my phone as unrooted. i dont want to root my phone again as i have nox for rooted stuff now, and it was a hassle extracting th e recovery.img from the update file as noboby else had it, so i was wondering someone here could help me
thanks in advance!:good:
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OTA update does not wipe the entire phone, you need to download the full update and manually wipe your phone and install the Full update to totally remove SuperSu.
You could also uninstall SuperSU from the apps settings before taking the OTA to avoid this problem
clsA said:
OTA update does not wipe the entire phone, you need to download the full update and manually wipe your phone and install the Full update to totally remove SuperSu.
You could also uninstall SuperSU from the apps settings before taking the OTA to avoid this problem
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So what should I do now, I had already downloaded the update thinking it would fix it. I guess I try to manually uninstall it, seeing as the supersu app has already gone?
Honor 5x guy said:
So what should I do now, I had already downloaded the update thinking it would fix it. I guess I try to manually uninstall it, seeing as the supersu app has already gone?
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install supersu and choose to uninstall it from the app
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install supersu and choose to uninstall it from the app
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Okay , if this works I love you.
clsA said:
install supersu and choose to uninstall it from the app
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It won't let me enter the supersu app it's telling me there's no supersu binary.
Honor 5x guy said:
It won't let me enter the supersu app it's telling me there's no supersu binary.
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are you flashing superSU from custom recovery first ?
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are you flashing superSU from custom recovery first ?
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No, I have a stock recovery ATM, to play Pokemon go you need to be unrooted but somehow I am detected as rooted
Honor 5x guy said:
No, I have a stock recovery ATM, to play Pokemon go you need to be unrooted but somehow I am detected as rooted
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Two possible ways imo...
If you don't want to root then
Extract and manually flash stock boot.img, Cust.img and system.img and you are good to go without any data loss (but make a backup to be sure if something goes wrong).
Second is to root your phone, and use an app like 'hide my root' to hide your root from Pokemon go and you are good to go.
The third is to root and unroot using the inbuilt function of SuperSU.
muradulislam said:
Two possible ways imo...
If you don't want to root then
Extract and manually flash stock boot.img, Cust.img and system.img and you are good to go without any data loss (but make a backup to be sure if something goes wrong).
Second is to root your phone, and use an app like 'hide my root' to hide your root from Pokemon go and you are good to go.
The third is to root and unroot using the inbuilt function of SuperSU.
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Thanks you so much . I will try these methods .
Hi,
i had TWRP before, but because of the lack of OTA compatibillity, i removed it.
So i am now trying to find an way to get MAGISK running without needing TWRP.
I read a lot about this particular way, but in my mind i am at an dead end...
so what i found:
patching boot.img and reflash it, sounds plausible, but how shall i get an dump, without root :/
using HWOTA, but i do not understand how it should work, it seems to use prepatched images, but i am wondering if they are compatible with the latest firmware (bla-l29 8.0.0.145(c432)), as they are using an modified kernel? (sry no expert in android images^^)
Thanks in advance
Daniel
Bumping in. I'm also on the same boat.
d0narr said:
Hi,
i had TWRP before, but because of the lack of OTA compatibillity, i removed it.
So i am now trying to find an way to get MAGISK running without needing TWRP.
I read a lot about this particular way, but in my mind i am at an dead end...
so what i found:
patching boot.img and reflash it, sounds plausible, but how shall i get an dump, without root :/
using HWOTA, but i do not understand how it should work, it seems to use prepatched images, but i am wondering if they are compatible with the latest firmware (bla-l29 8.0.0.145(c432)), as they are using an modified kernel? (sry no expert in android images^^)
Thanks in advance
Daniel
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maxkento said:
Bumping in. I'm also on the same boat.
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Use this guide to extract ramdisk.img https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/how-to/guide-extracting-stock-firmware-files-t3756733
If update link brings you back to the search on TeamMT click the file list link and copy paste update.zips link to download.
Then transfer ramdisk.img to phone and patch in Magisk Manager, then transfer back and flash in fastboot mode.
Well looks like the root is going away from our devices
https://elandroidelibre.elespanol.com/2018/08/magisk-dejara-de-funcionar-en-moviles-huawei.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+elandroidelibre+%28El+androide+libre%29
mauricamo said:
Well looks like the root is going away from our devices
https://elandroidelibre.elespanol.com/2018/08/magisk-dejara-de-funcionar-en-moviles-huawei.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+elandroidelibre+%28El+androide+libre%29
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Here is an english link covering the same issue which includes a XDA link to Magisk'thread on Huawei P9 update issue