Does Flashify Work for the VZW OTA? - Moto X Q&A

On my rooted Dev Ed with TWRP, can I use Flashify to install stock recovery and then accept the OTA without needing to hook up to a computer? And then use Flashify again to get TWRP back?

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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
Sent on my Moto X
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?

[Q] VZW Dev Ed 4.4.2?

Is there a guide anywhere on how to install 4.4.2 on the Dev Ed phones?
Assume I can just use TWRP for root after updating?
Thanks!
Mercutio5 said:
Is there a guide anywhere on how to install 4.4.2 on the Dev Ed phones?
Assume I can just use TWRP for root after updating?
Thanks!
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Are you rooted now? If you are rooted, as long as you haven't changed any of the system files you can install the .zip through the stock recovery and you're good to go (you don't lose root).
If you aren't rooted, just install the .zip through the stock recovery and then flash TWRP recovery and root.
Assuming you have an unlocked bootloader, flashed TWRP and rooted (but no other changes, no VZWentitlement hacks, delete/removing/renaming any apps from /system/app or /system/priv-app, no Xposed Installer and modules installed, etc...).
Download the 4.4.2 update .zip to your phone.
Flash the stock recovery back to your phone.
Boot to recovery and install the .zip you downloaded.
Done.
You'll need to find the .zip and download it.
You'll need to know how to flash the stock recovery back and have it downloaded so you can flash it
You'll need to know how to use the stock recovery (button combos to boot to recovery and enter recovery)
tcrews said:
Are you rooted now? If you are rooted, as long as you haven't changed any of the system files you can install the .zip through the stock recovery and you're good to go (you don't lose root).
If you aren't rooted, just install the .zip through the stock recovery and then flash TWRP recovery and root.
Assuming you have an unlocked bootloader, flashed TWRP and rooted (but no other changes, no VZWentitlement hacks, delete/removing/renaming any apps from /system/app or /system/priv-app, no Xposed Installer and modules installed, etc...).
Download the 4.4.2 update .zip to your phone.
Flash the stock recovery back to your phone.
Boot to recovery and install the .zip you downloaded.
Done.
You'll need to find the .zip and download it.
You'll need to know how to flash the stock recovery back and have it downloaded so you can flash it
You'll need to know how to use the stock recovery (button combos to boot to recovery and enter recovery)
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Thank you!
Ah, I had forgotten about having to use the stock recovery to flash. When I last updated, I dirty flashed a TWRP-able image. Might wait for someone to make one for maximum laziness
Edit the updater-script and remove the device check for ghost in the OTA zip that's posted. Then you can flash it in CWM or TWRP as long as /system is stock.
Sent from my Moto X

Don't have access to a PC so I can't use adb

I'm rooted and running stock with twrp installed I'm on 5.0.1 I was wondering can I flash the new update thru flashify or twrp
You can download a pre-rooted ROM.zip from XDA and flash it via twrp.

Best way to install recovery?

I am trying to update my firmware to .28 but have realized that I have no recovery installed although I do have the NDR Utility app. Trying to reboot into recovery just reboots the phone. I am currently on 23.1.A.0.690 rooted but with a locked bootloader.
What is the best / easiest way for me to install a recovery? I plan to flash the USA variant found here.
Thanks for any help.
If u got root just download the xzdr dual recovery installer and execute it.

Can we root M using the same Chainfire script we did on L?

I just flashed my way up to M from the Fi-specific L, using the M image from the developers site. I was rooted, but using stock recovery. Everything went fine. So I'm stock, unrooted on M now.
Now I want to root again, (keeping stock recovery), and before I do, I want to be sure Chainfire's original N6 root for L, is still going to work right on M?
-Peter
As far as I am aware, you need to flash a custom kernel that allows rooting.
I guess you could use flashify to flash a custom kernel and SuperSU v2.49?
You cannot flash a custom kernel using flashify if you haven't got root. You could extract the image and flash the boot.img and fastboot flash it, but still you'd need to get root.
He should just flash a custom recovery. There is no reason to keep the stock recovery. Rooted users really need the support that a custom recovery offers.
Flash you TWRP with fastboot flash recovery twrp.img then boot into recovery from bootloader menu. copy UPDATE-SuperSU 2.50beta and flash .zip like normal... you have root

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