hey guys i just gotta a new software update on my htc one and i just realized that you cannot update your device if rooted because each time i try and install the new update it just boots into recovery which im not sure if thats suppose to happen or not. Anyways i tried this app called voodoo ota rootkeeper but each time i push protect root it just restarts my phone instead of giving me the option to temporarily un-root. Is there any other way how i can update my phone Thanks.
i am kinda confused what you are trying to achieve, you are rooted on a stock rom, but you want to update the ota, is that correct? my guess is that you have changed some system or other files (or changed kernel, or put a custom recovery) if anything of the previous is true, you'd have to go back to complete stock and then install the ota... or just get a custom rom there are 4.2 out there you know.
When you unlock the bootloader, some HTC apps are automatically deleted. If you're trying to install an official OTA, it will check for those apps and abort the install if they're not there. The only way to install it will be to get those apps back, or restore from an NAND backup that has them.
Or, alternatively, use one of the custom ROMs from either these forums or the HTC One International forums. They're way better anyway, and are running on Android 4.2.2.
yeah all i wanna do is upgrade to 4.2 so i gusse the best thing to do is just install a custom rom then and sorry sorta new to all this stuff
If all you want is 4.2 then you would need to flash either trickdroid or arhd latest version, I don't think 4.2 is even officially released yet as an ota anyway
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alright thanks. but what is OTA exactly I just downloaded this app (voodoo OTA rootkeeper) from the google play store which was suppose to let me temporarily un-root my phone so i could update to the new software
I have the Verizon Moto X running 4.2.2; it's rooted, and I have modified several things in /system just the way I like them.
Now, if I were to upgrade to 4.4, I'd have to revert back to stock, root again and make everything work the way I like it... which will probably take several hours.
Is the 4.4 update worth the effort? Most of the new features seem to be specific to the Nexus 5.
In the past yearly updates to my iPhone decreased performance and slowed things down. After awhile I got tired of the decreased performance on hardware that used to run find and said "Screw It!" so I will keep it on iOS 7 forever and no update anymore.
Should I root to keep my 2013 Moto X on 4.4.3 and speedy as the day I bought it?
Or
Should I update to 4.4.4 knowing in advance I'll be forced to update to 5.0 down the line?
I don't flash or use root much at all, would just use it to simply prevent OTA automatic download.
Thank you for you thoughts
As far as I know, you don't prevent the download after root. In fact not even the installation unless you change files in the system partition.
So, you don't want to update your Android phone because you had bad experiences with your iPhone in the past with updates? That seems like great logic. I've never had any issues with updates causing the phone to run slower or worse, unless there was an inherent bug with the update, which happens occasionally, but only once or twice in the 5+ years I've had Android phones, over a wide array of devices. Based on reviews, there may be some small issues with 5.0 currently, but overall the OS should be faster than KitKat due to ART.
ap3604 said:
Should I root to keep my 2013 Moto X on 4.4.3 and speedy as the day I bought it?
Or
Should I update to 4.4.4 knowing in advance I'll be forced to update to 5.0 down the line?
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It really depends on your device, but you certainly can't base the X updates on how it went with other phones.
You have 4.4.3 on there? Who is your carrier, or what model X is it? Have you unlocked the bootloader?
My advice, if you can unlock the bootloader, do so now. Root the phone, rename the 3C_OTA.APK and 3C_OTA.ODEX which reside in /system/priv-app. That will prevent any OTA from downloading and prompting you to install.
Then sit tight, wait for Lollipop to start being pushed, and the inevitable feed back that will come as people rush to install it.
Based on that feed back, you can stay where you are, or rename 3C_OTA.APK and 3C_OTA.ODEX back to their original names, and take the update.
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It really depends on your device, but you certainly can't base the X updates on how it went with other phones.
You have 4.4.3 on there? Who is your carrier, or what model X is it? Have you unlocked the bootloader?
My advice, if you can unlock the bootloader, do so now. Root the phone, rename the 3C_OTA.APK and 3C_OTA.ODEX which reside in /system/priv-app. That will prevent any OTA from downloading and prompting you to install.
Then sit tight, wait for Lollipop to start being pushed, and the inevitable feed back that will come as people rush to install it.
Based on that feed back, you can stay where you are, or rename 3C_OTA.APK and 3C_OTA.ODEX back to their original names, and take the update.
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KidJoe,
Since I am running stock 4.4.4, rooted, running TWRP 2.7.1.1 and using the XPosed X Tether module. Going with the current understanding that TWRP is not compatible (as of yet anyway) with 5.0 Lollipop, and to preclude from taking the 5.0 OTA, I went ahead and using root explorer, renamed the above two files in your post above by adding .bak to file extension. I also went into to etc/security and renamed the file otacerts.zip to otacerts.zip.bak. I'm thinking I should be good and that renaming these 3 files will not have any unintended consequences on the Moto X XT1060 and keep the phone from taking the OTA at this point in time. Thanks!
doiy, kid joe got you sorted, i missed that. sweet.. I did the same thing and renamed that file, I don't plan on upgrading to 5.0 OTA until after reviews etc come in for that OTA for moto x 2013.. or unless 5.0 gets xposed or something like it from chainfire
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KidJoe,
Since I am running stock 4.4.4, rooted, running TWRP 2.7.1.1 and using the XPosed X Tether module. Going with the current understanding that TWRP is not compatible (as of yet anyway) with 5.0 Lollipop, and to preclude from taking the 5.0 OTA, I went ahead and using root explorer, renamed the above two files in your post above by adding .bak to file extension. I also went into to etc/security and renamed the file otacerts.zip to otacerts.zip.bak. I'm thinking I should be good and that renaming these 3 files will not have any unintended consequences on the Moto X XT1060 and keep the phone from taking the OTA at this point in time. Thanks!
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I never touched the OTACERTS.ZIP, but you should be good to NOT get the Lollipop update until you rename those back
I am on the latest version as far as I can tell (LMY48I - VERIZON), but I keep getting the message to restart and install. It doesn't work because I have gone back to being rooted. Besides, I am already on the latest version. I went to all the trouble of un-rooting and stock, updated, re-rooted (twice) but the message keeps coming back. Anyone else?
The latest version for Verizon is LMY48M and can be found at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#shamu. Since you are rooted the easiest way to upgrade is http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/using-image-to-update-nexus-6-data-loss-t3053158.
After restoring my Pure Edition Moto X to stock recovery and unrooting it, every time I try to update to 6.0 my Moto X it show the android guy with the software installing for a few seconds until it flashes on the screen "Error!". After that, the phone starts back at the homescreen still on 5.1.
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After restoring my Pure Edition Moto X to stock recovery and unrooting it, every time I try to update to 6.0 my Moto X it show the android guy with the software installing for a few seconds until it flashes on the screen "Error!". After that, the phone starts back at the homescreen still on 5.1.
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Something else in your phone is not stock. You have to be 100% unmodified to take the OTA. This means no xposed, no root, no modifications to files in system with root, no busybox, etc.
You have 2 choices. Undo whatever it is that is modified(if you remember what is modified). Or you can flash the full 5.1 system image to revert completely back to stock.