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Can we backup our rom in case a restore is needed? When I boot into recovery there is no option for a backup rom. Am I missing something, thanks.

shrek4224 said:
Can we backup our rom in case a restore is needed? When I boot into recovery there is no option for a backup rom. Am I missing something, thanks.
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Nope. We need a custom recovery for that. That is why everyone is pissed around these parts because we need an 'unlocked bootloader' for that to happen. Just be extra cautious and you will be fine. Install only what you need.
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What are my options?

I have a VZW 16GB Moto X currently rooted and safestrap installed, I keep defering the update since I don't want to lose root and am pretty sure it will fail since stock recovery is gone.
What are my options to either get the OTA with root or disabling the update notification?
I am not 100% sure i want to dive into an SS ROM nor is there really anything out there.
Just trying to figure out what I should do / what everyone else is doing.

DiGi91 said:
I have a VZW 16GB Moto X currently rooted and safestrap installed, I keep defering the update since I don't want to lose root and am pretty sure it will fail since stock recovery is gone.
What are my options to either get the OTA with root or disabling the update notification?
I am not 100% sure i want to dive into an SS ROM nor is there really anything out there.
Just trying to figure out what I should do / what everyone else is doing.
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I would get the OTA with root. The camera and phone call difference really do show in my opinion.
To keep your root I would rsd back to stock. Download pwnmymoto and install it BUT don't run it. Just have it installed. Then update. After the update you can run pwnmymoto and you'll have root with the OTA. Jcase said this is the correct way to do it.
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ruben8448 said:
I would get the OTA with root. The camera and phone call difference really do show in my opinion.
To keep your root I would rsd back to stock. Download pwnmymoto and install it BUT don't run it. Just have it installed. Then update. After the update you can run pwnmymoto and you'll have root with the OTA. Jcase said this is the correct way to do it.
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I will consider doing that, it's just a giant PITA since I will have start from scratch.. Coming from the S III and flashing a new ROM every day this is so different to me lol. There is nothing wrong with the stock ROM just regretting not waiting for the dev edition to be honest.. I still use my S III as a media player and lately have been thinking of switching back, just hoping we get 4.4 soon or something to make it a bit better.
I know safe strap is another option but haven't heard great things about it and back in the droid 3 days remembered using it.

Just backup your apps and restore after you're rooted again. No starting from scratch necessary. I used titanium backup and didn't have any issues.
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pyro6128 said:
Just backup your apps and restore after you're rooted again. No starting from scratch necessary. I used titanium backup and didn't have any issues.
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Can you use the new FXZ to return to OTA'd stock if necessary down the road?

pyro6128 said:
Just backup your apps and restore after you're rooted again. No starting from scratch necessary. I used titanium backup and didn't have any issues.
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Yeah I might do that, I just don't have the time right now. I heard the OTA is a big improvement though. I wish I could be rooted with write access and no need for workarounds lol wishful thinking..
EDIT: Besides using safestrap

anotherfiz said:
Can you use the new FXZ to return to OTA'd stock if necessary down the road?
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Yup, stock OTA, but you can't go back to a previous version

DiGi91 said:
Yeah I might do that, I just don't have the time right now. I heard the OTA is a big improvement though. I wish I could be rooted with write access and no need for workarounds lol wishful thinking..
EDIT: Besides using safestrap
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fyi. if you are on vzw then SS is an easy fix for you. The "not great things" you heard were just posts from when SS was having some problems. I have SS up and running with the new rom for vzw in a rom slot and flashed the new radios and everything is working perfectly. No problems for me at all. Also, tibu is really easy to use and will restore system data, your launcher and anything you want. Very minor things that you will need to screw with after using it. Takes about an hour and a half if you need to do things to your system after you start using the new rom. If you don't need to make any of those edits then it really only takes about 30 mins from installing SS to having the new rom running with all your settings and apps.

jayboyyyy said:
fyi. if you are on vzw then SS is an easy fix for you. The "not great things" you heard were just posts from when SS was having some problems. I have SS up and running with the new rom for vzw in a rom slot and flashed the new radios and everything is working perfectly. No problems for me at all. Also, tibu is really easy to use and will restore system data, your launcher and anything you want. Very minor things that you will need to screw with after using it. Takes about an hour and a half if you need to do things to your system after you start using the new rom. If you don't need to make any of those edits then it really only takes about 30 mins from installing SS to having the new rom running with all your settings and apps.
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What about the limited space that is available when using SS?
Also idk If I want to RSD back to get the OTA seeing as "eventually" we will get 4.4 not sure what to do right now lol
I was thinking of trying out the SS OTA ROM but I really don't know also how did you flash the radios.. RSD?

http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...-x-ss-rom-139151-update-10-31-13/#entry370601
Ota stock ROM never take ota's

DiGi91 said:
What about the limited space that is available when using SS?
Also idk If I want to RSD back to get the OTA seeing as "eventually" we will get 4.4 not sure what to do right now lol
I was thinking of trying out the SS OTA ROM but I really don't know also how did you flash the radios.. RSD?
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if you are worried about space then just flash it to the stock rom. I have plenty of space. with 500 photos on it. I don't use music though. You don't have to rsd to get the ota. You can just flash the recovery.img if you didn't touch the system or flash the system.img as well if you need to using fastboot. Take some time to learn what fastboot and adb are and how to use them and you will be happy you did. Doesn't take much time at all. They are kind of the same thing, how they work at least.
Use fastboot when in fastboot mode. Use adb when the phone is just on normally. Then run appropriate commands. "adb reboot" "fastboot reboot"
here is a link on how to use adb and if you go through it and understand everything then you will also understand fastboot and fastboot will already be installed as well). Then you can take the ota without losing data and having to use RSD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872128
As for the new radios, you will need to use fastboot. you flash the non-hlos.bin then erase modemst1 and modemst2 then flash the fsg.mbn. if you want help with it just send me a pm

shane1 said:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...-x-ss-rom-139151-update-10-31-13/#entry370601
Ota stock ROM never take ota's
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Looks like WiFi isn't working on that ROM!?
Also could I restore my stock ROM to a ROM Slot on SS and then flash the OTA ROM over it?
This would not require TiBu or anything like that..
Just trying to figure the best and easiest way to do this.

Not sure bit if your on a slot it shouldn't hurt to try. I'd make a backup and put it on PC or the cloud to be safe.

shane1 said:
Not sure bit if your on a slot it shouldn't hurt to try. I'd make a backup and put it on PC or the cloud to be safe.
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So boot into SS, backup my stock ROM - save on my pc, then make a ROM slot in SS and restore the backup to the slot? Can you even do that lol
Then if all is well flash the SS OTA ROM on top and I SHOULD be okay..
Might give it a shot likely need to update SS idk what the latest version is

DiGi91 said:
Looks like WiFi isn't working on that ROM!?
Also could I restore my stock ROM to a ROM Slot on SS and then flash the OTA ROM over it?
This would not require TiBu or anything like that..
Just trying to figure the best and easiest way to do this.
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I just flashed it over my stock backup and it worked but doesn't fix wifi

shane1 said:
I just flashed it over my stock backup and it worked but doesn't fix wifi
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That is a big issue, I need WiFi working...

I finally got around to messing with SS and the OTA ROM and did a backup of my stock slot and flashed the ROM to it. everything was working but no WiFi and I can't deal with that =/
Ended up restoring my stock slot backup.
I did however manage to update the baseband, super easy!
EDIT: Flashed the ROM on XDA and now I have working WiFi, looks like the one on droidrzr didn't work for me.

Help doing Ota updating on rooted device!

Got a problem here... Wanted to ota to 4.4 in my rooted, s-off on stock rom.
Flashed stock recovery and downloaded the Ota but it turns to red triangle as its installing.
My question is would this be happening due to having Xposed framework and having Flashed some zips for ad blocking and such? Any feedback is much appreciated!

Also, if that is the issue, would flashing an old backup work if that was prior to using Xposed and such?
Please help! Thanks!

irtrueno said:
Also, if that is the issue, would flashing an old backup work if that was prior to using Xposed and such?
Please help! Thanks!
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In order to take the ota you have to be on a stock rom
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luigi311 said:
In order to take the ota you have to be on a stock rom
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yes I am on stock rom. Would having xposed cause issues? Or anything that edits the system?

irtrueno said:
yes I am on stock rom. Would having xposed cause issues? Or anything that edits the system?
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Maybe. The ota might check what's in the system partitions such as apps and such and if there's anything that usually isn't there when the phone is stock it might not update. I asked on the Verizon forum if it's possible to update after deleting some system apps and they said no but I've never tried it.
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luigi311 said:
Maybe. The ota might check what's in the system partitions such as apps and such and if there's anything that usually isn't there when the phone is stock it might not update. I asked on the Verizon forum if it's possible to update after deleting some system apps and they said no but I've never tried it.
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I eventually was able to update. I restored a backup I did before root, right after unlocking bootloader.
also, I used an old stock recovery. I found the most recent stock recovery and used that and it worked. so still unsure what exactly caused my problems but using the latest stock recovery and using unmodified stock rooted rom worked.
thanks for the response though, much appreciated. definitely soft bricked my phone few times before getting it done. phew...

How to uninstall safestrap

How do I uninstall safestrap and go back to stock if I did not backup?
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To uninstall Safestrap, go into the Safestrap app, click uninstall recovery, then you can uninstall the Safestrap app.
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I understand that but when I reboot I still have a moded rom
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zaptear said:
I understand that but when I reboot I still have a moded rom
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Right...removing SS with not remove root from your rom. .SS is the recovery. Are you trying to unroot your phone?

No I would like to back to stock rom altogether I don't like how I lost 30gb of space buy using safestrap
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Safestrap does not do that... The only way to do that is to create all the ROM slots.
If you are flashing ROMs the right way, (in the stock slot) you are taking up less space than the stock ROM.
Go the the general section if you want to return to stock. Find the NC2 restore thread.

I used stock rom slot and it is showing 32 total space when I have 64gb
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Because most people have the 32gb model. It is what the ROMs are built from. It will say you lost 30, but I promise you didn't.

Oh so it's a false positive then
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Pretty much

safe strap still shows up on reboot?
OK .. i have obviously made a mistake here.. i thought i removed safe strap... yet it still show;s up when i reboot....
i used Odin to flash a stock file...did a factory reset..... but safe strap still shows up????
any idea what went wrong??

jclem65 said:
OK .. i have obviously made a mistake here.. i thought i removed safe strap... yet it still show;s up when i reboot....
i used Odin to flash a stock file...did a factory reset..... but safe strap still shows up????
any idea what went wrong??
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Did you open the safe strap app and click remove recovery? If not reinstall the app, click remove recovery, then uninstall the app.

i thought i did that when i re flashed the stock Rom.... would i need to re-root?

jclem65 said:
i thought i did that when i re flashed the stock Rom.... would i need to re-root?
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Hmm, you may have to. The app asks for root privileges when you open it.

yes.... i just tried that and it force closed.....
dang it....
thank you !!!!!

[Q] My new nexus won't start correctly

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kal eh said:
Hello, I'm pretty much new to the android scene therefore excuse me for my stupidness on this field
I unlocked my nexus 6, then I rooted it and and then I flashed a custom rom (Euphoria 1.0) with WugFresh's Tool.
Yesterday I tried installing adaway and gave it full root permissions, it asked me to reboot and I did so.
After rebooting I realized that I can't unlock my phone nor do anything else except using the pull down notification bar and having a back button, no middle button nor right button.. The screen just remains black. I tried rebooting in recovery mode but nothing changes.
What do I've to do now?
The device doesn't show up as MTP.
When I enter TWRP now it asks me for a password??
I've a Nandroid backup saved on my HDD and I still have the custom rom ZIP saved as well.
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Reset your entire phone by flashing the factory image. This can be done with the wugs toolkit as well.
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scandalousk said:
Reset your entire phone by flashing the factory image. This can be done with the wugs toolkit as well.
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What would happen if I just restored a Nandroid backup I made? would it still work?

kal eh said:
What would happen if I just restored a Nandroid backup I made? would it still work?
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It depends. If your phone doesn't work at the moment because something is wrong in the rom, the chance of the same thing happening could happen again. You can try restoring your nandroid and see if that fixes your problem. If not going back to stock is the best way to fix your problem.
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scandalousk said:
It depends. If your phone doesn't work at the moment because something is wrong in the rom, the chance of the same thing happening could happen again. You can try restoring your nandroid and see if that fixes your problem. If not going back to stock is the best way to fix your problem.
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