I might be rooting my Australian HTC One 801s depending on these questions.
1. If I OTA update my phone, will I lose my root?
2. If I install Android Revolution HD and I want to update the rom, will I lose my data when updating the ROM?
3. Will I lose my data if I revert back to stock?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
HTC>Samsung said:
I might be rooting my Australian HTC One 801s depending on these questions.
1. If I OTA update my phone, will I lose my root?
2. If I install Android Revolution HD and I want to update the rom, will I lose my data when updating the ROM?
3. Will I lose my data if I revert back to stock?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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1: I think you will lose your root after OTA (not sure because I'm not rooted)
2: You can do a dirty flash and not wipe your data but sometimes it is required erase data
3: Yes you will lose your data if you back to stock. Unless you do a nandroid backup after rooting and then save the backup in your PC.
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Moved this question from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51198721
I'm currently stock, rooted, S-OFF, and TWRP recovery. I'm flashed to 3.06.651.6 firmware.
I still get the OTA notifications, and my goal is to install the latest OTA update (without RUU) so that I can preserve data. I've created a TWRP backup, but that's the extent of it.
Any help is appreciated.
Other background - I reverted back to 3.06.651.6 after flashing firmware 4.06.xxx because I could not boot normally after that or did not know how.
My bootloader says Tampered, relocked
vflock said:
Moved this question from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51198721
I'm currently stock, rooted, S-OFF, and TWRP recovery. I'm flashed to 3.06.651.6 firmware.
I still get the OTA notifications, and my goal is to install the latest OTA update (without RUU) so that I can preserve data. I've created a TWRP backup, but that's the extent of it.
Any help is appreciated.
Other background - I reverted back to 3.06.651.6 after flashing firmware 4.06.xxx because I could not boot normally after that or did not know how.
My bootloader says Tampered, relocked
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Ok
I have never done an OTA or Ran an RUU personally.
To the best of my knowledge you will have to flash the stock recovery and a stock rom to be able to take the OTA.
Sidenote: You say you are re-locked...when you unlock again it's going to wipe your device.
Backup everything important to your PC then run the RUU stuff is gonna get wiped either way might as well use the RUU as it's a cleaner method.
You'll have to flash the 4.06 firmware I pointed you to from the other thread to get the required hboot.
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I have never done an OTA or Ran an RUU personally.
To the best of my knowledge you will have to flash the stock recovery and a stock rom to be able to take the OTA.
Sidenote: You say you are re-locked...when you unlock again it's going to wipe your device.
Backup everything important to your PC then run the RUU stuff is gonna get wiped either way might as well use the RUU as it's a cleaner method.
You'll have to flash the 4.06 firmware I pointed you to from the other thread to get the required hboot.
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Serious Q - Am I not On the stock ROM if I never switched ROMs?
But OK, s=you're saying if I were even able to get the stock revoery reloaded, and receive the OTA, but then if i try to unloack bootloader after that I won't be able to? Also serious Q - Do you have a link on performing a good nandroid backup?
Next - if I did run the RUU, how would i quickly restore my data - just using titanium backup? is that the quickest/only way?
vflock said:
Serious Q - Am I not On the stock ROM if I never switched ROMs?
But OK, s=you're saying if I were even able to get the stock revoery reloaded, and receive the OTA, but then if i try to unloack bootloader after that I won't be able to? Also serious Q - Do you have a link on performing a good nandroid backup?
Next - if I did run the RUU, how would i quickly restore my data - just using titanium backup? is that the quickest/only way?
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If you never changed roms then yes you are on a stock rom.
To unlock the bootloader again you would use Htc Dev again(unless you still have your unlock token) and by doing so it will wipe your phone.
Only way to nandroid is to have a custom recovery which means unocking bootloader.
I personally don't use Titanium Backup so can't answer that...I backup my phone/sdcard to my PC at least once a month (copy and paste to a folder on my PC)
I have sucessfully converted my AT&T HTC One to the Developers Edition. If install TWRP and root the device, then re-install the stock recovery, can I maintain the ability to receive OTA Updates?
Also can someone confirm that the 4.06.1540 recovery is the latest for 4.4.2 sense 6? (Found Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545227)
Or if there is a better way to accomplish root etc.
Thank you in advance.
sednafx said:
I have sucessfully converted my AT&T HTC One to the Developers Edition. If install TWRP and root the device, then re-install the stock recovery, can I maintain the ability to receive OTA Updates?
Also can someone confirm that the 4.06.1540 recovery is the latest for 4.4.2 sense 6? (Found Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545227)
Or if there is a better way to accomplish root etc.
Thank you in advance.
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That is a good recovery to have in place *before* you start checking for the latest 5.x.x.x OTA. Technically it's not the "latest" (the latest one would be the one you will end up with *after* the OTA) but it's the right one for your situation.
Overall the short answer to your question is yes, you can get OTA's with this plan.
If you remove anything from /system you might not.
If you do more stuff (like downgrading HBOOT, installing a custom kernel, whatever) you might not.
But for most people in your situation, you'll get OTA's.
Generally.
Enjoy.
sednafx said:
I have sucessfully converted my AT&T HTC One to the Developers Edition. If install TWRP and root the device, then re-install the stock recovery, can I maintain the ability to receive OTA Updates?
Also can someone confirm that the 4.06.1540 recovery is the latest for 4.4.2 sense 6? (Found Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545227)
Or if there is a better way to accomplish root etc.
Thank you in advance.
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The best thing to do is a nandroid of your stock rom & recovery prior to installing TWRP and obtaining root. If you need to go back to stock you will have it. I haven't seen the stock recovery for 4.4.2 sense 6, it should be 5.11.1540.9.
majmoz said:
The best thing to do is a nandroid of your stock rom & recovery prior to installing TWRP and obtaining root. If you need to go back to stock you will have it. I haven't seen the stock recovery for 4.4.2 sense 6, it should be 5.11.1540.9.
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Sure it is but unfortunately if has not been possible to (fastboot boot recovery.zip) since hboot 1.44
The best most people can do is after taking the update reflash TWRP and make a backup including recovery. then download and keep the stock recovery with it.
Thank you all for the response. Here is what I would like to do:
1. Backup my existing recovery through adb using the #dd command. Anyone know the correct syntax?
2. Install TWRP and backup the existing unrooted ROM.
3. Root the device. Do not remove any files from /system, no custom kernels (doesn't really matter since I will restore backup). Simply use titanium back to restore my apks and freeze the ones I don't use. I would like to install Xposed though.....
4. See OTA Update. Backup apks, restore unrooted. Restore stock recovery through adb. Anyone know why the syntax??
5. Run the OTA Update.
6. Profit.... Go back to step 1.
What do you all think? Any help with the syntax to dump and restore stock recovery?
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sednafx said:
1. Backup my existing recovery through adb using the #dd command. Anyone know the correct syntax?
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doesn't know the #dd command but recovery can be extracted from the firmware package inside the ota.zip
anyway, I have all the latest dev edition recovery so you'll save a little time:
4.06.1540.2 MD5: 2bb3d9df9ce8c8329db8d22781613e2c
4.06.1540.3 MD5: 87eaf7d4a9c4ba1108bf26164b1f3f3d
4.19.1540.4 MD5: 6e25ef0e614c41722b2fb4afbdde5d7c
4.19.1540.9 MD5: b4d31a181a9e44225dc83282bc1bf134
5.11.1540.9 MD5: c487a17382e2e1c207efae66fed00925
you need the one that match your actual version
2. Install TWRP and backup the existing unrooted ROM.
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Always a good thing to do, also make a copy of that backup on your computer.
3. Root the device. Do not remove any files from /system, no custom kernels (doesn't really matter since I will restore backup). Simply use titanium back to restore my apks and freeze the ones I don't use. I would like to install Xposed though.....
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no problem using xposed and receiving ota updates
4. See OTA Update. Backup apks, restore unrooted. Restore stock recovery through adb. Anyone know why the syntax??
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no need to restore your backup if you didnt modified/deleted /system or /preload files and your kernel is stock. Just restore your recovery
Code:
fastboot flash recovery name_of_file.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot
5. Run the OTA Update.
6. Profit.... Go back to step 1.
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More Questions on Receiving OTA's
@alray On Step 4, to receive the OTA's, in addition to restoring stock recovery, wouldn't it be necessary to unroot the device and disable Xposed?
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@alray On Step 4, to receive the OTA's, in addition to restoring stock recovery, wouldn't it be necessary to unroot the device and disable Xposed?
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no need to unroot to be able to apply the ota but you might loose root after the update, in that case, root again after the update.
I have updated mine many times with xposed still enabled and didnt have any issue. But you might want to disable module like ''sense 5 toolbox'' when updating to sense 6... Anyway if you want to be safe, yes you can disable xposed but this is not required.
@alray Thank you very much! I was unrooting and disabling Xposed, etc. Good to know I can "Keep it Simple"!
@alray The link for the latest recovery is 404ed. Can you repost? EDIT: Nevermind. Removed the [/HIDE] from the link and it worked.
Where is the OTA saved BTW?
Thanks again for all the advise. I may update the OP to outline these in detail.
The ota is saved to /sdcard/downloads
Sorry for the bad link, it should work now
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alray said:
The ota is saved to /sdcard/downloads
Sorry for the bad link, it should work now
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That path makes perfect sense.... I feel like captain obvious smacked me in the face..... Thanks!!!!!
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I might be bringing up the same topic from the Grave. If yes, then please bare with me.
I currently on the Viper ROM with my HTC M7(European Version).
I want to go back to stock and I kind of figured out on how to do it.
I juts had few queries for you guys:
I need to S-OFF, lock the bootloader and run RUU for Stock as far as I understood. Is that right?
Now, if I am successful with the above step of getting my stock ROM on my M7, will I continue to get all the stock OTA updates from HTC like the 4.4.2 Kitkat update + sense 6? Or will i be required to do a manual update all the time?
Thanks in advance for your support.
Cheers
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I might be bringing up the same topic from the Grave. If yes, then please bare with me.
I currently on the Viper ROM with my HTC M7(European Version).
I want to go back to stock and I kind of figured out on how to do it.
I juts had few queries for you guys:
I need to S-OFF, lock the bootloader and run RUU for Stock as far as I understood. Is that right?
Now, if I am successful with the above step of getting my stock ROM on my M7, will I continue to get all the stock OTA updates from HTC like the 4.4.2 Kitkat update + sense 6? Or will i be required to do a manual update all the time?
Thanks in advance for your support.
Cheers
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You will receive OTAs as normal after an ruu and can flash them as long as you stay with stock recovery and do not mess with anything in /system or stock apps in /data (just use titanium backup or similar to freeze the apps instead of removing them).
If you want, make a backup of stock recovery (or find a recovery.img to flash when OTA comes) and use a custom recovery to make a nandroid backup that way you can root and mess with /system and /data as wanted and restore the backup and flash the stock recovery when you update.
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HI there,
I have a rooted HTC One M7 Stock ROM hboot 1.57 S-ON and now I got the following update:
Software update: 6.14.111.2 (659.71 MB)
System improvements
-Android 4.4.3
-OpenSSL security improvement
Application updates
-Camera
-Gallery
-HTC Sync Manager
My question is, how can I apply the update? I already tried but since I have twrp as recovery it didn't go through. Is there a way of applying the update without losing root and my current configuration (contacts, apps, SMSs, etc)? Should I try to get S-OFF first? (I already tried to no avail like two months ago)
What is the best option to get it working with the latest software version? Sorry if my questions seem a bit too noob. I already tried looking for a similar thread.
braistorms said:
HI there,
I have a rooted HTC One M7 Stock ROM hboot 1.57 S-ON and now I got the following update:
Software update: 6.14.111.2 (659.71 MB)
System improvements
-Android 4.4.3
-OpenSSL security improvement
Application updates
-Camera
-Gallery
-HTC Sync Manager
My question is, how can I apply the update? I already tried but since I have twrp as recovery it didn't go through. Is there a way of applying the update without losing root and my current configuration (contacts, apps, SMSs, etc)? Should I try to get S-OFF first? (I already tried to no avail like two months ago)
What is the best option to get it working with the latest software version? Sorry if my questions seem a bit too noob. I already tried looking for a similar thread.
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You must be 100% stock for ota updates, stock recovery and stock rom (untouched /system and /data/preload files). /data/preload is wiped when unlocking bootloader.
alray said:
You must be 100% stock for ota updates, stock recovery and stock rom (untouched /system and /data/preload files). /data/preload is wiped when unlocking bootloader.
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Thanks alray for your answer. Does it mean no way I'm going to get the update working (Since I unlocked the bootloader, using htcdev method)? Or did I misunderstood you? If so, is there any other way I can get the same software?
braistorms said:
Thanks alray for your answer. Does it mean no way I'm going to get the update working (Since I unlocked the bootloader, using htcdev method)? Or did I misunderstood you? If so, is there any other way I can get the same software?
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you first need to flash your stock recovery back and then the content of /data/preload if you can find it for your version. Otherwise you will need to restore your phone back to stock or to use custom roms.
alray said:
you first need to flash your stock recovery back and then the content of /data/preload if you can find it for your version. Otherwise you will need to restore your phone back to stock or to use custom roms.
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Thanks again alray, very much. So you mean, if I manage to get the /data/preload and stock recovery working and run the OTA,
Will I lose root access?
Will I lose my actual configuration?
Will I be able to get everything as it is now if I have a nandroid backup?
Thanks again!
braistorms said:
Thanks again alray, very much. So you mean, if I manage to get the /data/preload and stock recovery working and run the OTA,
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Yes you should be able to run the OTA updates if you have stock recovery for your version and the content of /data/preload for your version. Best way to know is to flash you stock recovery back and try the ota. If the ota fails, enter the stock recovery menu and you'll see why the ota installation aborted (which file is missing)
Will I lose root access?
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Probably like for every ota updates, re-root after installation.
Will I lose my actual configuration?
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You should not, but better to backup everything before proceeding.
Will I be able to get everything as it is now if I have a nandroid backup?
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If you have a backup and restore it, it will restore your phone to the same state it was when you did that backup. (data, system and kernel)
Hello.
I have a rooted XT1072, running android 5.0.2. My system version is 22.41.24.thea_retgb.retgball.en.GB retgb
Build number is LXB22.99-24. But I want to go back to the stock ROM. I rooted using the standard method described in the sticky
Is this the process?
1. uninstall supersu
2. wipe recovery and flash stock
3. Lock bootloader
Also I assume I will lose all my data/apps using this method. Is there a way to restore data after going back to stock?
Or is it better to use the moto all in one tool?
Thanks