Hello, i'm new to this phone but I've flashed dozens and dozens of roms for my old phones.
If I root and install a custom recovery, is there an easy way to just unroot and install stock? (I did this with my old phone to receive OTAs)
I'm perfectly happy with stock rom I just want to tweak (xposed) a few things and use titanium to remove some bloat.
I would never use a rooted phone without a backup, so I need a custom recovery too.
I have read the topic about the "one click tools" to root and install recoveries, I'm fine with that, seems easy enough.
But what if I want to take an OTA? What would be the easiest way to do that?
I saw a topic about *going back to full stock * and read through it but maybe there's an easier way?
I'm on stock 24a BTW
The guide is in the general section - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
I've used the tot method and found that it was pretty easy. A few steps but pretty straight forward...
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Hi. I have what seems like a rooted nexus one and I've been getting notifications for 2.2.1 update but keeps aborting when I attempt to. I don't care so much about this upgrade as I'm waiting for the gingerbread but would this problem also continue when gingerbread OTA appears?
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Yes. If you want to receive OTA - you need to restore to stock recovery.
I barely got my N1 yesterday I didn't feel like been stuck in a 2 year plan for the nexus s I didn't think it was worth it. Any how Any tips on what should I do to my Nexus 1? is it worth rooting it and also I been looking for a carbon fiber case but can't find one
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If you update to a more recent version of custom ROM they have edited it to prevent the OTA notifications. If you can live with it for now then just update to a custom Gingerbread ROM you will be good to go. Otherwise I agree you have to restore to stock recovery.
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Yes. If you want to receive OTA - you need to restore to stock recovery.
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thanks. How do I restore to stock recovery?
I wouldn't normally disagree with Jack, but if you have a stock ROM, I would say that if you can look in your cache folder on the phone and find the update zip. Move the update to SD, and then flash through your custom recovery.
Depending on which recovery you have you may have to toggle signature verification...
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Thanks danger-rat. I am very new to the smart phone world and to be quite honest with you not very savy when comes to tech related stuff. I came across this phone from craigslist which apparently is a dev edition phone and the only thing I know regarding this phone is build number frf91 kernel 2.6.32.9-27227-g3c98b0d android [email protected]#1.
The only thing I want to do is able to upgrade my phone OTA when it comes available.
Please provide detailed explanation if you don't mind as to how to do just that.
Thanks in advance
Lots of reading to do before you decide on anything.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
After researching, I believe my nexus is actually not rooted because I don't see any padlock when rebooting my phone so I'm wandering why when I do get the notification for update 2.2.1 it keeps aborting.....?
Padlock denotes an unlocked bootloader, which doesn't mean you are our aren't rooted, it just means you have more options to install your OS.
Rooting can be checked by opening terminal emulator apps, and typing "su" - if the prompt changes from $ to #, then you're rooted(i.e. You have root access to the file system).
Update requires stock recovery to update automatically, but you can install manually with a custom recovery.
If you really want just stock, the easiest way is to follow the unroot/restore guide in the wiki, but you will lose your data and settings...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...des_&_Tutorials#Unroot_.2F_Restore_your_Nexus
If you want to keep your data, I can post other options...
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Thanks. I'll try it.
Hey all so I currently have an unlocked bootloader, rooted Nexus One still running the Stock Froyo 2.2.2. and I decided to finally upgrade to the OTA Gingerbread update but have a problem.
The OTA update restarts my phone with a triangle with an "!" inside it and an Android next to it, so I decided to try a manual update as described here.
Everything went well until the installation itself, during the install I kept getting some sort of error stating Twitter.apk in the system directory could not be authenticated.
So here's the problem, with Titanium Backup I made the stupid mistake of uninstalling it and not backing it up when I first rooted a while ago. I thought I could just reinstall it from the market but I get the same error. The only solution I can think of is if someone running a Nexus One Stock Froyo could possibly send me the Titanium Backup files of Twitter, hopefully this would make it work, otherwise I don't think I could ever update.
Since your bootloader is unlocked, you can use fastboot to install a custom recovery and then flash whatever you want (including a stock image)...
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Since your bootloader is unlocked, you can use fastboot to install a custom recovery and then flash whatever you want (including a stock image)...
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Thanks for the response, but I'm having trouble figuring some of this stuff, after spending some time with the search option here in XDA:
1. I don't the difference between custom recovery and flashing an image.
2. I can't find a simple stock Gingerbread image (thought its called ROM?) Details in posts tend to be vague for people that are learning this stuff, like me.
3. Many people have written to use Amron_ra 2.2.1 but I don't know the specifics of each ROM are (ex. if its Froyo based, Gingerbread based, etc.)
4. Would using ROM Manager be a good method to use any ROM or is it limited?
I'm essentially looking for an effective method to upgrading to a clean Gingerbread, since doing it the normal way won't work on my phone (as stated in my first post).
1 - Recovery, bootloader, and 'ROM' are two different partitions on you phone. Once you break security on one, you can use it to break the security on the other. In your case, the security on your bootloader is broken (unlocked), so you can use it to install new software on the other partitions.
2 - See bullet 4 on the first post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005591
3 - For recovery you have 2 choices, Amon Ra or Clockwork, If you go with Clockwork, I recommend you stay away from 3.x versions. Unless the ROM you want to install says otherwise, either of these recoveries will work.
4 - ROM Manger will work. It's an easy way to achieve results, but unless you know what you are doing, it's also an easy way to screw things up.
I suggest you take it a step at at a time, and really understand what you are doing. Reading the wiki is always a good start, then ask specific questions...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Nexus_One.png
Thanks Danger, I made the jump to Cyanogen 7, RC-4 via ROM Manager and couldn't be happier! Only problem is the known audio bug for Nexus One (person on other end of a call hears a lot of static sometimes, and have to recall them). The forced apps2sd is by far my most favourite feature, especially since the N1 internal space is pretty horrible, I've moved most of my apps2sd and haven't had any problems thus far.
Thanks for recommending CM7, I just wish their website listed the full features for newbies like me.
Thanks danger-rat http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/...lick-doesnt-work-gingerbread-2.html#post93952
I downgraded my gingerbread to froyo
Was pulling my hair out with a lame guide in the general section
Congrats!!
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Been a long time iPhone user and have been really curious about Android. Then I came across a deal for a refurb SGHi987 for $199 and the time and price was right so I picked one up. I can jailbreak iOS with my eyes closed but am a complete noob when it comes to android.
A few questions.
1. What is the best tool to root?
2. Can rooting be undone in case I want to exercise my warranty?
3. Flashing custom ROM such as Overcome ROM v2.0.0 BETA 2, will I be able to revert back to AT&T's original firmware?
in my opinion, rooting can be undone if you backed up your tab before doing something screwy with it. not sure though if it would work. never tried it myself.
Superoneclick using the rageagainstthecage option has a root and unroot process that many reported success with on some na p1000 tabs.
It seems getting back to stock after flashing can be easy, complicated or impossible,
depends on if you have a proper backup of your original tab, the stock rom, etc.
Rotobackup would backup and recover basic flashes but I dont think he is making roto roms anymore. The newer roms and kernals seem more complex.
Im interested in reading replies here as well about clockwork etc.
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A few questions.
1. What is the best tool to root? - Superoneclick.
2. Can rooting be undone in case I want to exercise my warranty? Yes, use the same tool as #1.
3. Flashing custom ROM such as Overcome ROM v2.0.0 BETA 2, will I be able to revert back to AT&T's original firmware? Yes. It's the same procedure more or less. Just download (or backup) your AT&T rom and flash it
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Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.
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Crepusculi said:
Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.
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From my experiences in the forum for a few months..
Backups are your friend Just incase anything doesn't like running on stock and messes things up.
Its kind of hard to fully brick a Bionic. There are FXZ files out there to recover it back to stock.
I would recommend using safestrap and dual booting roms so you can have your stock "unsafe" system and then whatever rom you want to experiment with on your "safe" system. You can always revert between the two.
Im sure there is a way to safestrap your second "safe" system as stock blur, i've just never done it because I like Eclipse 2.2
I had my phone rooted for a couple months on stock along with using some apps that required root. Never had any problems except for using root due to an update and the rooted apps thus not working until I restored root.
Crepusculi said:
Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.
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Nope nothing wrong with not using a ROM. But make sure you back up anyway just to be safe.
I would think with just a rooted phone,,,the only area of concern would be loosing root in the event of an OTA update. That certainly seems to be the case with everything I've read so far, and even on other platforms other than the Bionic.
Even if something went wrong,,would not a factory restore then re-root get you right back to square one?
@ priddyma: What would you suggest to make a backup? CWM?
Cwm or safestrap. For what you want to do cwm is fine. Voodoo it's rootkeeper will allow you to keep root through otas.
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Hi,
I'm currently on stock 24a rooted, I've been reading lots of threads with conflicting info.
I'm looking for:
A tutorial on how to get a custom recovery on the phone.
The preferred recovery for this phone.
Any opinions on the current best roms for the phone.
Many thanks!
nissmo66 said:
Hi,
I'm currently on stock 24a rooted, I've been reading lots of threads with conflicting info.
I'm looking for:
A tutorial on how to get a custom recovery on the phone.
The preferred recovery for this phone.
Any opinions on the current best roms for the phone.
Many thanks!
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1) Look for AutoRec for the vs980, install the app on your phone, run it, you'll get a recovery installed.
2) TWRP 2.8+, there's a modified version in the Dev section (gotta search the threads for it) for our phone that handles the processor better.
3) There's other threads on this topic, personally, I just run stock rooted with Xposed, I like having XCam.
Thanks!
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