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[Q] Will OTA from Sense 4.3 to 4.4 unroot and wipe my custom recovery?

Hello,
I have a Developer Edition (unlocked) with Stock 4.3 at the moment, is rooted and with TWRP 2.6.3.0 custom recovery, my phone is asking me to upgrade to 4.4. My questions are:
- What would be the results of the upgrade?
- It will flash over my custom recovery without problems?
I guess I will loose root and custom recovery but I can flash them again, my main concern is that the OTA will not flash correctly for being rooted and with custom recovery. Thanks a lot for those that know the answer and want to help me.

gustavorod said:
Hello,
I have a Developer Edition (unlocked) with Stock 4.3 at the moment, is rooted and with TWRP 2.6.3.0 custom recovery, my phone is asking me to upgrade to 4.4. My questions are:
- What would be the results of the upgrade?
- It will flash over my custom recovery without problems?
I guess I will loose root and custom recovery but I can flash them again, my main concern is that the OTA will not flash correctly for being rooted and with custom recovery. Thanks a lot for those that know the answer and want to help me.
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i guess you cant flash official OTA through custom recovery..u need stock recovery to do this

gustavorod said:
Hello,
I have a Developer Edition (unlocked) with Stock 4.3 at the moment, is rooted and with TWRP 2.6.3.0 custom recovery, my phone is asking me to upgrade to 4.4. My questions are:
- What would be the results of the upgrade?
- It will flash over my custom recovery without problems?
I guess I will loose root and custom recovery but I can flash them again, my main concern is that the OTA will not flash correctly for being rooted and with custom recovery. Thanks a lot for those that know the answer and want to help me.
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Actually, you won't be able to do an OTA update when you've a custom recovery (you shouldn't even get it in the first place, sometimes it comes through), if you try to apply the OTA, you'll boot back to the TWRP recovery.
So, you should either go full stock (recovery & ROM), then do an OTA. Or flash some 4.4 Custom ROM.

By itself the phone alerted me that the OTA download is available and wants to download and flash itself as it did when it upgraded from 4.2.2 to 4.3 so I am not planning to flash through TWRP...

gustavorod said:
By itself the phone alerted me that the OTA download is available and wants to download and flash itself as it did when it upgraded from 4.2.2 to 4.3 so I am not planning to flash through TWRP...
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it will download OK, but when it reboots to start installing, you'll just see the TWRP screen and nothing is gonna happen; because the OTA expects stock recovery.

Thanks!!!!
I guess I better flash another 4.3 or 4.4 by myself, I just thought the OTA would be better first to upgrade to the latest firmware...

gustavorod said:
I guess I better flash another 4.3 or 4.4 by myself, I just thought the OTA would be better first to upgrade to the latest firmware...
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you can do two things:
1- get s-off and flash any firmware you want
2- "download & install later" the OTA, once downloaded pull it to your PC, the OTA file will contain a "firmware.zip" which is signed and can be flashed in fastboot ruu mode (you have to issue the flash command twice!!!), which would upgrade your firmware (including hboot, kernal and recovery), but will leave your rom intact
----- because it flashes recovery, you need to reflash custom recovery
----- and, kernel (boot.img) you'll need to reflash the custom one (or dirty install the ROM), otherwise the ROM won't boot up

nkk71 said:
you can do two things:
1- get s-off and flash any firmware you want
2- "download & install later" the OTA, once downloaded pull it to your PC, the OTA file will contain a "firmware.zip" which is signed and can be flashed in fastboot ruu mode (you have to issue the flash command twice!!!), which would upgrade your firmware (including hboot, kernal and recovery), but will leave your rom intact
----- because it flashes recovery, you need to reflash custom recovery
----- and, kernel (boot.img) you'll need to reflash the custom one (or dirty install the ROM), otherwise the ROM won't boot up
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I've looked around for a CWM compatible version of the Dev Edition + Root, but I'm not finding one. Is anyone aware of a CWM-packaged version that I can flash using CWM on a rooted device? Reverting to stock to pick up the OTA seems like a long way to go

[XT1058] System Update Failing

I got unlocked bootloader and TWRP installed, with kitkat.
It showed new System update, I confirmed to download, but when it going to install it reboots in recovery,
TWRP, when I try to install the same img that it downloaded it sais
"this package for "ghost" devices"
And I can't update it.
Can someone helps me, the model is XT1058

caioketo said:
I got unlocked bootloader and TWRP installed, with kitkat.
It showed new System update, I confirmed to download, but when it going to install it reboots in recovery,
TWRP, when I try to install the same img that it downloaded it sais
"this package for "ghost" devices"
And I can't update it.
Can someone helps me, the model is XT1058
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You can't flash the ota while using custom recovery and being rooted, you need the stock recovery and your system needs to be 100% stock. You also can't flash it with twrp and cwm
Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X

flashallthetime said:
You can't flash the ota while using custom recovery and being rooted, you need the stock recovery and your system needs to be 100% stock. You also can't flash it with twrp and cwm
Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
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before you go back to stock ware are you located if in the USA could you please pull the 4.4.2 OTA file and post it here please and thank you

Im outside the USA.
I just need to reflash the stock recovery, and then apply OTA and then flash the twrp again?

search the rom of your country and version (in sbf) download it, then open it search for recovery.img, go to fastboot, and fla**** with adb commands:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

[Q] Updating firmware without USB

I want to update to the latest firmware on my M7, but one of the USB data pins is broken so I'm not able to use fastboot.
What's the best procedure to update it?
I was thinking of using a Guru Reset rom to flash a stock OS and stock recovery, and then OTA update all the way up to Lollipop, which will update my firmware along the way. The only problem with that is that I'll be stuck on stock forever because I won't be able to flash TWRP through terminal without root.
I know that OTA updates use stock recovery to flash the firmware.zip inside the OTA. Is it possible to modify the OTA.zip to just flash the firmware?

thedancingbear said:
I want to update to the latest firmware on my M7, but one of the USB data pins is broken so I'm not able to use fastboot.
What's the best procedure to update it?
I was thinking of using a Guru Reset rom to flash a stock OS and stock recovery, and then OTA update all the way up to Lollipop, which will update my firmware along the way. The only problem with that is that I'll be stuck on stock forever because I won't be able to flash TWRP through terminal without root.
I know that OTA updates use stock recovery to flash the firmware.zip inside the OTA. Is it possible to modify the OTA.zip to just flash the firmware?
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You can root any htc firmware using the root tool that therootninja provides on his website
Once you do that you can flash the stock recovery img or twrp using flashify and use the terminal functions within twrp

Can I use a KDZ file to flash back to stock?

I am currently running CyanogenMod 11 on my LG L90 D415, and I would like to go to stock Lollipop, but I don't have an SD Card on me to use recovery back to stock and then flash to stock Lollipop, but can I directly flash, say, 10e kdz and then go to the Lollipop kdz flash?

Yes you can. You can even flash Lollipop 20B kdz instead of KitKat 10E.
You will lose all your data, ROOT, and custom recovery.
If you have approximately 1GB of free memory on internal storage you can download FlashableSTOCK created by me and flash a clean stock Lollipop from your recovery. You will still have unlocked bootloader and custom recovery and you can obtain ROOT from TWRP. You will also need a Lollipop BOOTSTACK.
All the files you can find here:
Stock Lollipop KDZ: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/general/lg-l90-stock-android-lollipop-update-t3047754
FlashableSTOCK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/orig-development
BOOSTACK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/development/bootstack-kk-l-l90-t3118632

Custom Recovery for XT1096 after official bootloader unlock?

Is there a guide to installing a custom recovery and ROM to the XT1096 now after the official bootloader unlock? I just did it and wanna play around with new ROMs now.

Before you do anything with your phone, download and keep the stock firmware for it, in case something goes wrong, or you lose signal:
https://mega.nz/#F!ow8igZRL!Z7vmN8GOpez2bVMYDvEKkg
I guess there's only stock 5.1 for the XT1096 (Verizon?).
You will also need ADB and Fastboot to flash custom recovery or stock firmware.
The Moto X 2014 is called Victara, this is the TWRP custom recovery for it:
https://dl.twrp.me/victara/
You flash it in Bootloader Mode, using Fastboot, like this:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-0-victara.img
(This is just an example, you might want to flash a different version, or recovery)
Then you boot into recovery immediately after flashing it, so it doesn't get overwritten by the stock firmware.
Then you can copy the ROM and Gapps zip files to the phone, and flash them by tapping Install in TWRP.