so the title says it all. is there anyway I can root my HTC One without installing a custom recovery first? I want to be able to do OTA updates and with a custom recovery it is not possible. if there is a way to root without installing a custom recovery, can you please provide me a step by step tutorial on how to? thanks in advance.
samanbabah said:
so the title says it all. is there anyway I can root my HTC One without installing a custom recovery first? I want to be able to do OTA updates and with a custom recovery it is not possible. if there is a way to root without installing a custom recovery, can you please provide me a step by step tutorial on how to? thanks in advance.
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Can you get OTA updates if you are rooted? I thought you had to be stock
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Can you get OTA updates if you are rooted? I thought you had to be stock
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I do get OTA updates, and it downloads just fine, but as soon as I try to install it, it reboots into the custom recovery and nothing happens. when I had Sense 5 ROM I would simply install the stock recovery.img and installed the OTA update, but right now I'm on stock Android 4.3 google edition and I can't find a stock google edition 4.3 recovery.img
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I do get OTA updates, and it downloads just fine, but as soon as I try to install it, it reboots into the custom recovery and nothing happens. when I had Sense 5 ROM I would simply install the stock recovery.img and installed the OTA update, but right now I'm on stock Android 4.3 google edition and I can't find a stock google edition 4.3 recovery.img
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Go to the GPe convention thread. Its in the development section. Download the ruu. Pull the recovery.img, and flash it.
Or ignore the ota, its a minor update anyway. No noticeable changes.
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I am relatively new to the HTC. I am running a Stock rooted image with TWRP 2.6.3.0 recovery.
The OTA for 4.3 came down and whenever I start the install the phone reboots and ends up in twrp recovery and I do not know where to go from there. I tried searching the forums but the search is down at the moment.
Here comes the Noob question : A little help please as I am not sure where to go next?
I just asked almost the same question. One thing everyone says is don't take the OTA update.
I found a few places with the pre-rooted stock ROM update, but it does not include the firmware update, that is a separate flashable zip, but I'm not sure how to update the "Full Firmware w/o hboot, boot, recovery" without S-off. I don't know if doing the "full firmware update" will mess up my recovery/root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467607
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46110767
generosity21 said:
I just asked almost the same question. One thing everyone says is don't take the OTA update.
I found a few places with the pre-rooted stock ROM update, but it does not include the firmware update, that is a separate flashable zip, but I'm not sure how to update the "Full Firmware w/o hboot, boot, recovery" without S-off. I don't know if doing the "full firmware update" will mess up my recovery/root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467607
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46110767
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I have been all over the forums looking at this and came up with squat.
If I take the OTA will I loose root? Can't seem to find an answer to that.
I was running an earlier version of twrp and thought that might be the issue but after updating twrp I am still at the same place. The sprint update notifications are still coming.
If I find something I will post it here.
Must be on stock firmware and recovery to take the update guys.... It has been posted numerous times. You must also ahve the stock kernel.
Yes you will lose root if you take the OTA, you always do. Also TWRP appears to be broken with 4.3, no responsive, etc, etc
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I am relatively new to the HTC. I am running a Stock rooted image with TWRP 2.6.3.0 recovery.
The OTA for 4.3 came down and whenever I start the install the phone reboots and ends up in twrp recovery and I do not know where to go from there. I tried searching the forums but the search is down at the moment.
Here comes the Noob question : A little help please as I am not sure where to go next?
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you can't flash the update with custom recovery installed, you need thev stock recovery image which is posted numerous times in this forum
jziggy101 said:
The OTA for 4.3 came down and whenever I start the install the phone reboots and ends up in twrp recovery and I do not know where to go from there.
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You have to have stock recovery to take the OTA
generosity21 said:
I just asked almost the same question. One thing everyone says is don't take the OTA update.
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You can take the OTA if you are prepared for, and know what to do - also, don't take it if you are currently S-ON and ever want S-OFF because it comes with a new hboot.
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If I take the OTA will I loose root? Can't seem to find an answer to that.
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Yes, you will probably lose root unless you are using the OTA preservation function of SuperSU and it works for you, but either way, it is easy to get it back.
Bottom line, how you take the OTA depends on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF, the latter is much easier. Assuming you are S-ON and running the Sprint stock ROM, here is what you need to do.
1. Flash stock recovery.
2. Lock the bootloader
3. Take the OTA update
4. Unlock the bootloader
5. Flash custom recovery (TWRP)
6. Flash root (SuperSU)
If you are S-off you can skip numbers 2 and 4.
Aldo101t said:
you can't flash the update with custom recovery installed, you need thev stock recovery image which is posted numerous times in this forum
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Thanks for the replies. It's very confusing whether people are referencing the OTA update, or the tweaked, rooted downloadable update (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46110767). This forum should be friendly to questions when things are confusing.
Even with the two replies on this thread, it's still not clear to me if the downloadable (NOT OTA) updates can be flashed with a custom recovery, or what the procedure is for an S-On device regarding firmware and ROM updates. Sorry to offend anyone if they feel this has been answered somewhere in the forums, but it's still unclear to some of us.
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@PillowMetal Thanks for the very helpful reply. I guess the next question is, is it possible to get S-Off on 1.31.651.2 without losing everything?
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Must be on stock firmware and recovery to take the update guys.... It has been posted numerous times. You must also ahve the stock kernel.
Yes you will lose root if you take the OTA, you always do. Also TWRP appears to be broken with 4.3, no responsive, etc, etc
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If your not stock ota will mess you up big time. I just rooted my HTC one on sprint with the update that was on a swap out for bad speakers . Twrp isn't responsive if you use the one in toolkit. I downloaded 2.6.3 loaded it in the data folder of toolkit installed through the toolkit and bam... I got response out of Twrp. I'll find the link and post for you guys.
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@PillowMetal Thanks for the very helpful reply. I guess the next question is, is it possible to get S-Off on 1.31.651.2 without losing everything?
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Not without losing everything because it requires tricking your bootloader by writing to your misc partition, then running the 1.29 RUU - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/m7wls
This is the link for people who are stock and unlocking their phone. If you're using the toolkit put it in the data folder and rename to twrp. Be careful though the other files are the same name but in capital letters! Flash it and u will have responsive twrp and rooted 4.3 ota
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---------- Post added at 02:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:34 PM ----------
Anyone having poor reception?
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PillowMetal said:
Not without losing everything because it requires tricking your bootloader by writing to your misc partition, then running the 1.29 RUU - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
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Tried this once more, and successfully got S-off without downgrading anything, as a few others have reported.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314582
Brand new device Stock 1.29 Rom Uninstalled SuperSU Unrooted for Updates
PillowMetal said:
You have to have stock recovery to take the OTA
You can take the OTA if you are prepared for, and know what to do - also, don't take it if you are currently S-ON and ever want S-OFF because it comes with a new hboot.
Yes, you will probably lose root unless you are using the OTA preservation function of SuperSU and it works for you, but either way, it is easy to get it back.
Bottom line, how you take the OTA depends on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF, the latter is much easier. Assuming you are S-ON and running the Sprint stock ROM, here is what you need to do.
1. Flash stock recovery.
2. Lock the bootloader
3. Take the OTA update
4. Unlock the bootloader
5. Flash custom recovery (TWRP)
6. Flash root (SuperSU)
If you are S-off you can skip numbers 2 and 4.
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Think I messed up a step in my attempt to return to unroot to be ready to get the 4.3 jellybean update. I was stock rom 1.29, rooted, SuperSU, twerp 2.6.3. Unlocked sim. I unistalled SuperSU using the full unroot option and relocked the bootloader. When the phone attempts to update it reboots into the bootloader straight into fastboot. Will not reboot and stay in hboot. Recovery option does nothing. Do I even want the ota 1.31? Do I just skip the OTA 1.31 and get the 4.3 jellybean update. I'm new first Android phone. Sorry for the idiocy I have portrayed here. Hope someone can help with knowledge of OTA's and Jellybean update. My problem seems so simple compared to all the other posts I read but I can't seem to figure it out on my own. Thanks everyone
upowersystems said:
Think I messed up a step in my attempt to return to unroot to be ready to get the 4.3 jellybean update. I was stock rom 1.29, rooted, SuperSU, twerp 2.6.3. Unlocked sim. I unistalled SuperSU using the full unroot option and relocked the bootloader. When the phone attempts to update it reboots into the bootloader straight into fastboot. Will not reboot and stay in hboot. Recovery option does nothing. Do I even want the ota 1.31? Do I just skip the OTA 1.31 and get the 4.3 jellybean update. I'm new first Android phone. Sorry for the idiocy I have portrayed here. Hope someone can help with knowledge of OTA's and Jellybean update. My problem seems so simple compared to all the other posts I read but I can't seem to figure it out on my own. Thanks everyone
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Did you flash stock recovery? The OTA needs that. You did not need to unroot though. Also not sure if having an unlocked SIM interferes with OTA, never performed that myself. Since we don't have RUUs for anything later than 1.29, then yes, you will need to take the 1.31 OTA update first, then the 3.04 update.
Twerp to Stock recovery
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Did you flash stock recovery? The OTA needs that. You did not need to unroot though. Also not sure if having an unlocked SIM interferes with OTA, never performed that myself. Since we don't have RUUs for anything later than 1.29, then yes, you will need to take the 1.31 OTA update first, then the 3.04 update.
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Darn, no I did not flash the stock recovery. Also I read another thread said I needed to unroot!lol So I was back tracing my steps to unroot, so I thought.. I did save the original backup before installing Twerp 2.6.3 and rooting so its in there if I can get to it. I really dont know how to proceed from here. There are no options in the bootloader to proceed.
Twerp vs Stock recovery
PillowMetal said:
Did you flash stock recovery? The OTA needs that. You did not need to unroot though. Also not sure if having an unlocked SIM interferes with OTA, never performed that myself. Since we don't have RUUs for anything later than 1.29, then yes, you will need to take the 1.31 OTA update first, then the 3.04 update.
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Do I need to figure out how to flash or return to stock recovery from Twerp or can I simploy flash the 1.29 ruu back in to the device for a return to stock?
Twerp 2.6.3
PillowMetal said:
Did you flash stock recovery? The OTA needs that. You did not need to unroot though. Also not sure if having an unlocked SIM interferes with OTA, never performed that myself. Since we don't have RUUs for anything later than 1.29, then yes, you will need to take the 1.31 OTA update first, then the 3.04 update.
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Kraizk said:
Must be on stock firmware and recovery to take the update guys.... It has been posted numerous times. You must also ahve the stock kernel.
Yes you will lose root if you take the OTA, you always do. Also TWRP appears to be broken with 4.3, no responsive, etc, etc
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Maybe you can help. Will a re-install of the stock ruu 1.29 without removing twerp 2.6.3 and reverting to stock recovery cause issues.. Will this just completely re-install everything including stock Recovery or will twerp remain. I am running stock 1.29 rom, did save an original backup when I loaded twerp. How would I get in it to load it. Then I would not need to load the complete ruu. When I try for the ota it used to reboot to twerp. Since I unrooted it reboots to bootloader and there are NO options for load, Recovery option doesnt work. I have asked this question on several threads no one seems to know or its too simple for them to reply since I'm a newb. Thanks
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Maybe you can help. Will a re-install of the stock ruu 1.29 without removing twerp 2.6.3 and reverting to stock recovery cause issues.. Will this just completely re-install everything including stock Recovery or will twerp remain. I am running stock 1.29 rom, did save an original backup when I loaded twerp. How would I get in it to load it. Then I would not need to load the complete ruu. When I try for the ota it used to reboot to twerp. Since I unrooted it reboots to bootloader and there are NO options for load, Recovery option doesnt work. I have asked this question on several threads no one seems to know or its too simple for them to reply since I'm a newb. Thanks
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Are you S-Off? Is so, the easiest way to to get up to date for you would be to RUU back to 1.29 which will restore everything on your phone back to stock including recovery. Make sure you copy anything you want to keep off your phone's internal memory (/sdcard) because it will wipe that too.
But from there, you can then easily take the OTA update for 1.31, then take the update for 3.04. Now you have the latest and greatest and can now flash TWRP, SuperSU, and any 4.3 ROM you want. With S-Off, you do not need the bootloader unlocked, but if you want to, you can flash an old hboot 1.29 from May or earlier and use revone -u, or go through htcdev to unlock. But like I said, totally unnecessary and more of a pain for me than it is worth.
Now, if you are S-ON, that is a totally different story, you cannot flash back to 1.29 RUU unless you still on 1.29 and have not updated to 1.31 yet. If you are currently on 1.31 you will have to try and restore the backup you said you had through TWRP, flash stock recovery from fastboot, re-lock your bootloader and all kinds of other crap to get to 3.04 and unlocked and rooted again.
You would have to tell me more about what condition your phone is currently in. hboot version? recovery custom or stock? ROM version installed? S-On or S-Off, etc.
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PillowMetal said:
Are you S-Off? Is so, the easiest way to to get up to date for you would be to RUU back to 1.29 which will restore everything on your phone back to stock including recovery. Make sure you copy anything you want to keep off your phone's internal memory (/sdcard) because it will wipe that too.
But from there, you can then easily take the OTA update for 1.31, then take the update for 3.04. Now you have the latest and greatest and can now flash TWRP, SuperSU, and any 4.3 ROM you want. With S-Off, you do not need the bootloader unlocked, but if you want to, you can flash an old hboot 1.29 from May or earlier and use revone -u, or go through htcdev to unlock. But like I said, totally unnecessary and more of a pain for me than it is worth.
Now, if you are S-ON, that is a totally different story, you cannot flash back to 1.29 RUU unless you still on 1.29 and have not updated to 1.31 yet. If you are currently on 1.31 you will have to try and restore the backup you said you had through TWRP, flash stock recovery from fastboot, re-lock your bootloader and all kinds of other crap to get to 3.04 and unlocked and rooted again.
You would have to tell me more about what condition your phone is currently in. hboot version? recovery custom or stock? ROM version installed? S-On or S-Off, etc.
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Was told if I un-rooted and relocked the bootloader I should be able to update. This is a brand new phone. No data to worry about losing.
Currently:
Stock ROM 1.29, S-On, (Was rooted) Now Unrooted
Hboot 1.44 (Bootloader relocked)
Twerp Recovery (although with attempt to update to 1.31 twerp did not open as it did in prior attempts to update before unroot)
Now You have opened an interesting subject. Do I need to S-off before any updates to defeat the new hboot? New stuff is being written for the new hboot as we speak right? Read a thread last night about it. Sounded like they could s-off a 1.31 and I wouldn't need to worry about s-off'ing before upgrading. It also seems like I should be able to re load the backup of the stock recovery somehow and skip the complete load of the ruu 1.29 since I am already running it. I am probably making somethong more difficult than it needs to be but I would like to learn the little details. My first Android here. Want to learn quickly here as I Also bought the New 4g LTE Nexus 7 tablet with jelly bean. I get 4g LTE from T-mobile and just hotspot my phone.
upowersystems said:
Was told if I un-rooted and relocked the bootloader I should be able to update. This is a brand new phone. No data to worry about losing.
Currently:
Stock ROM 1.29, S-On, (Was rooted) Now Unrooted
Hboot 1.44 (Bootloader relocked)
Twerp Recovery (although with attempt to update to 1.31 twerp did not open as it did in prior attempts to update before unroot)
Now You have opened an interesting subject. Do I need to S-off before any updates to defeat the new hboot? New stuff is being written for the new hboot as we speak right? Read a thread last night about it. Sounded like they could s-off a 1.31 and I wouldn't need to worry about s-off'ing before upgrading. It also seems like I should be able to re load the backup of the stock recovery somehow and skip the complete load of the ruu 1.29 since I am already running it. I am probably making somethong more difficult than it needs to be but I would like to learn the little details. My first Android here. Want to learn quickly here as I Also bought the New 4g LTE Nexus 7 tablet with jelly bean. I get 4g LTE from T-mobile and just hotspot my phone.
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If you don't want to go the RUU route, then the condition your phone is currently in would only require you to flash stock recovery from 1.29.651.10 (which I got from the actual OTA file). The problem is that your bootloader is now locked and your are S-ON, so you will not be able to flash stock recovery unless you unlock again. If you still have the unlock.bin file from htcdev, that will still work if was done on your current hboot version, otherwise, you would have to visit the site again. Then flash stock recovery, and relock bootloader again. Then the 1.31 update will succeed followed by the 3.04 update.
As far as S-OFF, if you ever want it, you should get it now before updating to anything - even 1.31 (as long as the date on your hboot is May 2013 or earlier). Because, you WILL get the new hboots when you update to 1.31 and 3.04 and since you are S-ON, you will be stuck with it. There is no guarantee that you will ever be able to get S-OFF again with the new hboots. People on hboot 1.54 have been waiting and clamoring for months and there has been no progress and other phones have never even been able to get S-OFF.
Using revone to S-OFF will not wipe your phone or remove anything, it does not require root, and it you do not need to be unlocked. I have performed it from the computer 3 times on Sprint phones and even have made a post about how to make it succeed. There is also a video showing how it can be done on the phone too via terminal emulator, but that method requires root.
Having S-OFF just makes life so much easier, but with it carries great responsibility because security has been turned off and you need to know what you are flashing or you can run into trouble. But as long as you can get to the bootloader, you can recover.
PillowMetal said:
You have to have stock recovery to take the OTA
You can take the OTA if you are prepared for, and know what to do - also, don't take it if you are currently S-ON and ever want S-OFF because it comes with a new hboot.
Yes, you will probably lose root unless you are using the OTA preservation function of SuperSU and it works for you, but either way, it is easy to get it back.
Bottom line, how you take the OTA depends on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF, the latter is much easier. Assuming you are S-ON and running the Sprint stock ROM, here is what you need to do.
1. Flash stock recovery.
2. Lock the bootloader
3. Take the OTA update
4. Unlock the bootloader
5. Flash custom recovery (TWRP)
6. Flash root (SuperSU)
If you are S-off you can skip numbers 2 and 4.
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On the att variant you don't need to relock the boot loader to ota.
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If I have the Verizon DE Moto X, do I need to be stock (no root) and re-locked bootloader to get software updates? Or just one or the other? Neither?
Thanks,
Mike
Mike7143 said:
If I have the Verizon DE Moto X, do I need to be stock (no root) and re-locked bootloader to get software updates? Or just one or the other? Neither?
Thanks,
Mike
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You need stock /system partition and stock recovery. It doesn't matter whether the bootloader is locked or unlocked.
Mike7143 said:
If I have the Verizon DE Moto X, do I need to be stock (no root) and re-locked bootloader to get software updates? Or just one or the other? Neither?
Thanks,
Mike
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To install? or to be notified and receive the update?
To receive the update you'll need to be running the "stock" Verizon firmware, rooted/unrooted and bootloader locked/unlocked doesn't matter.
For it to install successfully, to expand on what kbluhm posted...
Keep in mind that usually OTA updates will look for certain files to be present on your phone and verify their size and check sums (MD5 or the like) before the OTA update will install. If files are missing or changed, the ota update will fail. That is why "stock /system" is required.
And "stock recovery" is needed because when the phone reboots to install the update, it tries to boot to stock recovery and run the install script. The 3rd party recoveries don't seem to work, or have errors, when installing the OTA update zips.
If you've rooted with SlapMyMoto, RockMyMoto, or thel like, you may have other issues to deal with in order to take any OTA updates since those processes can touch other files/partitions on the phone which will cause problems with the OTA Updates.
So in order to install the update I need to re-flash the stock recovery over TWRP, correct? How do I go about doing this?
Ah okay, thanks guys. What a hassle. I'm unlocked and using TWRP, flashed a new boot logo, and am rooted. Probably just easiest to just SBF back to stock and re-do everything.
Thanks!
You could grab the factory image from Motorola and flash only system and recovery using fastboot. That is my plan. You can find the zip file on Motorola's site or there is a topic here on XDA.
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guitarbedlam said:
So in order to install the update I need to re-flash the stock recovery over TWRP, correct? How do I go about doing this?
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Mike7143 said:
Ah okay, thanks guys. What a hassle. I'm unlocked and using TWRP, flashed a new boot logo, and am rooted. Probably just easiest to just SBF back to stock and re-do everything.
Thanks!
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There are several threads about using Fastboot to flash recovery or parts of the rom rather than having to use RSDLite and flash the SBF of everything..
Example: see option 2 in -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2536735
KidJoe said:
There are several threads about using Fastboot to flash recovery or parts of the rom rather than having to use RSDLite and flash the SBF of everything..
Example: see option 2 in -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2536735
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Thus, all I'd have to flash (I'm stock unlocked rooted) is the recovery and I'd be good to install the update. Then install the custom recovery and install the superuser zip. and BAM. But first I need the whole 4.4.2 update thing...
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Thus, all I'd have to flash (I'm stock unlocked rooted) is the recovery and I'd be good to install the update. Then install the custom recovery and install the superuser zip. and BAM. But first I need the whole 4.4.2 update thing...
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Sure, we need the 4.4.2 update.
And as long as you didn't delete any stock apps/apk's, freeze them with Titanium Backup or something similar, or rename them manually (and forgot to rename them back)... then yes.. just flash stock recovery, take update, flash TWRP and use SuperSU to re-root.
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Sure, we need the 4.4.2 update.
And as long as you didn't delete any stock apps/apk's, freeze them with Titanium Backup or something similar, or rename them manually (and forgot to rename them back)... then yes.. just flash stock recovery, take update, flash TWRP and use SuperSU to re-root.
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You can freeze them all you want and leave them frozen. They are still there, untouched, waiting to be checked/verified against and patched/updated. Once you obtain root again and grant it to Titanium Backup it will be re-frozen.
You just can't delete, rename or swap out.....frozen apps are still right there as normal.
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You can freeze them all you want and leave them frozen. They are still there, untouched, waiting to be checked/verified against and patched/updated. Once you obtain root again and grant it to Titanium Backup it will be re-frozen.
You just can't delete, rename or swap out.....frozen apps are still right there as normal.
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Interesting. One of the issues reported with the Kit Kat update was the OTA failing due to apps frozen with Titanium Backup. I only "disable" via the stock app manager, so I haven't had a problem.
Most likely those with failures had modified/deleted/renamed something else that was causing the issues and blaming it on the frozen apps. I have updated every device I've had with frozen apps. Freezing, at least in Titanium Backup, tells the OS the app is not available. In recovery, the OS is not loaded and knows nothing about frozen apps. Titanium doesn't touch the actual files so they are still present to be patched by the OTA.
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1. I just bought the M8 tried to get s-off using the firewater method and it said it wouldn't work at this time.
Is there another method to get s-off?
2. The phone is rooted but I do not want a custom rom. I want to keep the rom stock but get updates. Is this possible or would I have to flash in recovery to work around it?
If firewater won't work for you you will have to do the sunshine method, it's $25 though.
As stated above, you will need to use the SunShine exploit to gain S-off. To answer your second question, once rooted you cannot take OTA updates without reinstalling the stock Android system recovery. Otherwise you'll have to wait for the RUU for the update to be released.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
As stated above, you will need to use the SunShine exploit to gain S-off. To answer your second question, once rooted you cannot take OTA updates without reinstalling the stock Android system recovery. Otherwise you'll have to wait for the RUU for the update to be released.
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So it would besomething like this
1 - Replace custom recovery with stock recovery
2 - Process OTA Update
3 - Replace stock recovery with custom recovery
Stride2 said:
So it would besomething like this
1 - Replace custom recovery with stock recovery
2 - Process OTA Update
3 - Replace stock recovery with custom recovery
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Correct:thumbup:
So I've reset my HTC One back to stock 2 days ago and since then have received a lot of OTA updates.
Then I found that I had lost root.
I managed to reinstall TWRP and root today, but got another OTA update notification.
Because I don't want to lose root (and because TWRP says you should not update with custom recoveries), I'm looking for another way to update.
TWRP suggests to "wait for the developers to create a new ROM" but honestly, finding something in this forum is not easy...
My update is 6.09.401, but if there is something more recent I'll take that (but still KitKat). I've looked in the ROM collection but the latest seems to be 5.x or jump to 7.xx.
If I have to do some work (e.g. more research) please direct me to the right direction and I'll be happy to do it.
Will RUUs work? Still not clear what they are.
algiogia said:
So I've reset my HTC One back to stock 2 days ago and since then have received a lot of OTA updates.
Then I found that I had lost root.
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Yep, you'll always loose root after an OTA update. Must ppl doesn't matter about that since it only takes a few minutes to root again.
I managed to reinstall TWRP and root today, but got another OTA update notification.
Because I don't want to lose root (and because TWRP says you should not update with custom recoveries), I'm looking for another way to update.
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The only way to use ota update is by flashing back the stock recovery that match your version-main. Like said above, you'll loose root after an update. You can also update your phone by flashing a RUU but you'll also loose root and all your file since the RUU will make your phone stock, like if it was brand new.
TWRP suggests to "wait for the developers to create a new ROM" but honestly, finding something in this forum is not easy...
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My update is 6.09.401,?but if there is something more recent I'll take that (but still KitKat). I've looked in the ROM collection but the latest seems to be 5.x or jump to 7.xx.
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The latest Kitkat version is 6.09.401.12 otherwise its lollipop 7.19.401.x
I think the simplest solution since you want to stay on kitkat is to reflash your stock recovery 6.09.401.? (you didn't typed the last number), install the ota updates until you are on 6.09.401.11 or 6.09.401.12, reflash twrp and flash Supersu to re-root.
If I have to do some work (e.g. more research) please direct me to the right direction and I'll be happy to do it.
Will RUUs work? Still not clear what they are.[/QUOTE]
RUU are packages that will restore then entire phone Software and firmware partitions.
Thanks alray.
So are you saying there is not pre-rooted 6.09.401.11 ROM available to flash on the forum?
Where shall I look for it?
algiogia said:
Thanks alray.
So are you saying there is not pre-rooted 6.09.401.11 ROM available to flash on the forum?
Where shall I look for it?
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Maybe i don't know. All roms are posted in the development section. Why not simply updating your phone and flashing Supersu again? It will take you maybe 20 min to install the update, reflash twrp and root...
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Maybe i don't know. All roms are posted in the development section. Why not simply updating your phone and flashing Supersu again? It will take you maybe 20 min to install the update, reflash twrp and root...
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I'll have to find and flash the stock ROM first, do the updates, then flash TWRP and SuperSu.
If there is a way to flash only once why should I waste time (and increase chances of bricking the phone)?
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I'll have to find and flash the stock ROM first, do the updates, then flash TWRP and SuperSu.
If there is a way to flash only once why should I waste time (and increase chances of bricking the phone)?
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You already are on the stock rom, just flash the stock recovery over twrp, install ota update(s) until you are on the desired version, flash twrp and supersu. There isn't really any chances to brick....
Code:
fastboot flash recovery your_stock_recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot
Then boot the phone, install update(s). Once updated to the desired version, reflash twrp:
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fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Boot in twrp, install supersu 2.46.zip then reboot in the OS and you're done.
But yes if you prefer you can find a stock rooted rom of 6.09.401.11 if there is still one somewhere.