I have the Spint version of the X and have already taken the OTA update that contains the camera fix. Is it possible for me to install a custom recovery and root after unlocking the bootloader using the method shown in this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzih8xkki0
It is never made clear on what software version you have to be on
Yes you can. I did it that way. Got phone, updated it, unlocked boot loader through Motorola, fastboot flashed TWRP, then auto rooted via TWRP. Normally I manually root/flash superSU zip, but this time I decided to try the TWRP auto root method.
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just got a tmobile moto x for my wife. updated to kitkat and i want to unlock the bootloader and root it. got a few questions need answer.
unlock bootloader throu motorola.com, fastboot custom recovery, then flash supersu, right??
do i have to flash a custom recover in order to flash supersu to gain root? can i flash supersu with factory recovery?
after the phone it is root, and later on there is a OTA update, how do i get the update? i assume download it from phone and install wont work.
claudiuslu2011 said:
just got a tmobile moto x for my wife. updated to kitkat and i want to unlock the bootloader and root it. got a few questions need answer.
unlock bootloader throu motorola.com, fastboot custom recovery, then flash supersu, right??
do i have to flash a custom recover in order to flash supersu to gain root? can i flash supersu with factory recovery?
after the phone it is root, and later on there is a OTA update, how do i get the update? i assume download it from phone and install wont work.
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Yes Motorola unlock bootloader website, after you unlock you need to flash twrp 4.4 recovery with Motorola fastboot( mfastboot) mfastboot flash recovery twrp 2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4.img and then put supersu on the sdcard and fire up recovery and install supersu and welcome to the root club
Edit you can not flash or accept the ota with a custom recovery, it will bootloop, but you have options, 1 reinstall stock recovery or flash system and stock recovery if you have altered the system. 2 flash a updated sbf firmware , they are available soon after the ota's come out. I would suggest the later as some people, including me have had issues flashing twrp after accepting a ota
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What type of moto x did you get your wife?
claudiuslu2011 said:
just got a tmobile moto x for my wife. updated to kitkat and i want to unlock the bootloader and root it. got a few questions need answer.
unlock bootloader throu motorola.com, fastboot custom recovery, then flash supersu, right??
do i have to flash a custom recover in order to flash supersu to gain root? can i flash supersu with factory recovery?
after the phone it is root, and later on there is a OTA update, how do i get the update? i assume download it from phone and install wont work.
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Hey, what type of mtoo x did you get your wife? the regular moto x or a developers edition? I currently have a developers edition and I believe that I just have to install custom recovery and install SU since the dev edition already have an unlocked bootloader, right? what I want to do is buy a custom moto x (non-dev edition) and root it. Is that possible?
Hi, i'm new on huawei phones, always had samsung before, i buy a p9 vie-al10c00 from china.
Last week i unlock the bootloader of my phone and made root.
yesterday i receive an update and install it.
After that my bootloader is locked again!
Is it normal? Because to unlock it again it needs a factory reset again right?
If you update with the "full" package then BL will be locked again...and that seems to be the only way to update the official packages for rooted phones now (first flash Full 192 then OTA 195).
Before unlock the BL do a full backup on the phone, once unlocked immediately install TWRP and do a full restore on the phone...
Of course if you don't care about root, then just leave the BL locked...
I remembered some people also mentioned before you can just flash back the official Recovery and run the update and flash back TWRP after, that way BL won't be locked, however I am not sure how I can save a copy of the official recovery first for flashing back.
Stock recovery, found in another thread
P9 Plus Stock Recovery
zhuanyi said:
If you update with the "full" package then BL will be locked again...and that seems to be the only way to update the official packages for rooted phones now (first flash Full 192 then OTA 195).
Before unlock the BL do a full backup on the phone, once unlocked immediately install TWRP and do a full restore on the phone...
Of course if you don't care about root, then just leave the BL locked...
I remembered some people also mentioned before you can just flash back the official Recovery and run the update and flash back TWRP after, that way BL won't be locked, however I am not sure how I can save a copy of the official recovery first for flashing back.
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so if i unlock the bootloader and install twrp and then do a regular ota update will the bootloader be locked forever again since you can't unlock it on newer emui, or will i be safe from it relocking in any way once twrp has been flashed?
Hi there, I am currently running B383 on my P9, and really want to root it. However when I do, will I still be able to get future updates to the software? Do I need to unroot and lock bootloader first?
Also when the bootloader is unlocked, a message is displayed at boot about your phone being unsecured and non-trustworthy, is it possible to remove this message? (I used to have a moto g with an unlocked bootloader, and I flashed some file to remove the warning).
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I don't think there is a way to remove that message every time the phone is turned on. Mine does that too as I've unlocked the bootloader.
Did you unlock the bootloader yet? Because when you need to unlock it, the phone will basically be factory reset when bootloader is switched from locked to unlock (vice-versa).
And for OTA updates the best way is to do it manually, downloading the MV-PV file via Huawei Firmware finder (Full PV file which contains two files update.zip and hweu..zip, update.zip (system firmware) is flashed first then hweu.zip (The system apps).
You will need a custom recovery. The one you will need to use is TWRP (This one specifically - twrp-3.1.1-0-eva.img) to flash OTA's via custom recovery (To repeat you flash update.zip first then hweu.zip) You can ignore the errors if it prints any while flashing the OTA files as I did the same and it worked fine no problem.
When you want to root your phone, make sure to flash 'SuperSU-v.2.82-EMUI5-SELEnforcing.zip' via TWRP recovery to root your phone.
For the other questions, you do not need to unroot the phone to install the OTA updates. The phone will just unroot itself when the OTA update is flashed onto phone. You simply just need to re-root it again by re flashing the SuperSU zip as mentioned above.
When you need to boot the custom TWRP recovery you need to turn the phone off and hold power + volume up until Huawei Logo / text is displayed you must release both keys immediately after 0.5-1 second which is a short time frame to get the phone to boot to custom recovery or else it will boot the Huawei eRecovery instead.
SuperSU here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/root-supersu-2-81-emui-5-t3612258
TWRP here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/twrp-t3565703
Best to follow the instructions from those links. The information above is to guide you through the processes.
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benjamen50 said:
I don't think there is a way to remove that message every time the phone is turned on. Mine does that too as I've unlocked the bootloader.
Did you unlock the bootloader yet? Because when you need to unlock it, the phone will basically be factory reset when bootloader is switched from locked to unlock (vice-versa).
And for OTA updates the best way is to do it manually, downloading the MV-PV file via Huawei Firmware finder (Full PV file which contains two files update.zip and hweu..zip, update.zip (system firmware) is flashed first then hweu.zip (The system apps).
You will need a custom recovery. The one you will need to use is TWRP (This one specifically - twrp-3.1.1-0-eva.img) to flash OTA's via custom recovery (To repeat you flash update.zip first then hweu.zip) You can ignore the errors if it prints any while flashing the OTA files as I did the same and it worked fine no problem.
When you want to root your phone, make sure to flash 'SuperSU-v.2.82-EMUI5-SELEnforcing.zip' via TWRP recovery to root your phone.
For the other questions, you do not need to unroot the phone to install the OTA updates. The phone will just unroot itself when the OTA update is flashed onto phone. You simply just need to re-root it again by re flashing the SuperSU zip as mentioned above.
When you need to boot the custom TWRP recovery you need to turn the phone off and hold power + volume up until Huawei Logo / text is displayed you must release both keys immediately after 0.5-1 second which is a short time frame to get the phone to boot to custom recovery or else it will boot the Huawei eRecovery instead.
SuperSU here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/root-supersu-2-81-emui-5-t3612258
TWRP here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/twrp-t3565703
Best to follow the instructions from those links. The information above is to guide you through the processes.
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Thanks for the quality answer, I have no doubts anymore!
Hi I have a HTC One Dual Sim (m7) 5.0.2 android. I have unlocked the bootloader using htcdev.com, but cannot root the phone. I have used Kingroot, Kingo root and iRoot. Kingo and King both say rooted sometimes but it goes away quickly (dont even need to restart). Is it impossible to root the phone using these apps? thanks!
Do not use any of those apps to root.
You have already unlocked bootloader so next step is flashing custom recovery. You can find twrp recovery here. Do a fastboot install method. After you flashed recovery download supersu zip file from here and save it on your phone. Reboot phone to recovery and tap install. Find supersu and install it. After that reboot phone (your phone will restart itself a couple times during boot) and your phone should be successfully rooted.
The phone comes with the bootloader unlocked? interesting. Any toolboxes I should use?
I'm thinking about rooting my moto one power but i want to stick to the stock rom for various reasons.
Although, I'd like to have xposed and a few more tools which require a custom recovery.
How to fully unroot my device for the update taken that twrp can't flash stock rom updates, or how to get and install ota updates after having root? Will data loss be a factor?
Please guide me.
Use twrp, and use magisk to root you will get ota update
rushiranpise said:
Use twrp, and use magisk to root you will get ota update
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You're wrong, if you use twrp and magisk OTA's will fail
Boot into TWRP and flash Magisk. In this way you will retain your original recovery and also be able to flash magisk.
I did this with my Nexus device 3 years ago (I used SupeSU) and was getting OTA updates each time. The only problem was that I was losing root every time I would get an OTA update.
I don't know how Magisk works but if it works the same way as SuperSU did in this case, then you will be able to update your device via OTA.
You may try this if you want to, as I don't know whether this method still works or not.
fastboot boot <twrp-recovery-name>.img This will boot your device into TWRP recovery without replacing original recovery.
Then just flash Magisk and reboot your device. You will have your stock recovery intact.
Heeth21 said:
Boot into TWRP and flash Magisk. In this way you will retain your original recovery and also be able to flash magisk.
I did this with my Nexus device 3 years ago (I used SupeSU) and was getting OTA updates each time. The only problem was that I was losing root every time I would get an OTA update.
I don't know how Magisk works but if it works the same way as SuperSU did in this case, then you will be able to update your device via OTA.
You may try this if you want to, as I don't know whether this method still works or not.
fastboot boot <twrp-recovery-name>.img This will boot your device into TWRP recovery without replacing original recovery.
Then just flash Magisk and reboot your device. You will have your stock recovery intact.
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Magisk reflashes itself after OTA updates of Lineage thus going by that, the device should lose root access once an OTA is flashed. Thats just a theory though!
smyaknti said:
Magisk reflashes itself after OTA updates of Lineage thus going by that, the device should lose root access once an OTA is flashed. Thats just a theory though!
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I have the same question, I want to root my device to install viper and I want to get OTAs as well, but to flash the TWRP we need to unlock the boot loader if there is any way to flash TWRP without unlocking the boot loader I am very much grateful to you or could you please tell me how to root moto one power and still get the OTA, please provide links also.
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Heeth21 said:
Boot into TWRP and flash Magisk. In this way you will retain your original recovery and also be able to flash magisk.
I did this with my Nexus device 3 years ago (I used SupeSU) and was getting OTA updates each time. The only problem was that I was losing root every time I would get an OTA update.
I don't know how Magisk works but if it works the same way as SuperSU did in this case, then you will be able to update your device via OTA.
You may try this if you want to, as I don't know whether this method still works or not.
fastboot boot <twrp-recovery-name>.img This will boot your device into TWRP recovery without replacing original recovery.
Then just flash Magisk and reboot your device. You will have your stock recovery intact.
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I have the same question, I want to root my device to install viper and I want to get OTAs as well, but to flash the TWRP we need to unlock the boot loader if there is any way to flash TWRP without unlocking the boot loader I am very much grateful to you or could you please tell me how to root moto one power and still get the OTA, please provide links also.