Just wondering which version Verizon phones are running right now? Like Verizon LMY47Z? I tried the beta preview 3 and don't like it and would like to switch back to stock but I can't get any OTAs with a updated bootloader....
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thawte said:
Just wondering which version Verizon phones are running right now? Like Verizon LMY47Z? I tried the beta preview 3 and don't like it and would like to switch back to stock but I can't get any OTAs with a updated bootloader....
Thank you
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The latest build for Nexus 6s on Verizon are LMY48I.
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Latest is LMY48I. Has the partial Stagefright fix. LMY47Z is also Verizon without the fix.
Thank you very much for the info. I am going to restore back to that then and see if I have better luck with battery power.
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It looks like the boot loader from LMY48I flashed over the top of the beta 3 boot loader woohoo! Next question, if I root the phone/ install TWRP, will I still be notified about OTAs and then I can just reapply rooting and the custom recovery?
thawte said:
It looks like the boot loader from LMY48I flashed over the top of the beta 3 boot loader woohoo! Next question, if I root the phone/ install TWRP, will I still be notified about OTAs and then I can just reapply rooting and the custom recovery?
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If you root and install TWRP will be notified of OTA but won't be able to flash it till return to full stock again. Can't have anything modified.
Ah gotcha. Thank you for the info
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Ah gotcha. Thank you for the info
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If gonna be modified just forget about OTAs. If have to flash back to stock just flash the updated factory image and be done with it. Save a lot of time and headaches. And don't relock bootloader.
I do like being modified and having some of the features and whatnot... I just got pretty mad earlier because my phone was awake and killing battery the whole time i was at work. I went to go use it and it was completely dead by the end of work
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Got my M8 at the Sprint store today and of course they ran the update to 1.54.651.8. Can anyone tell me if this is I can still obtain root with the update using BD619's method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698394
Thanks!!!
Yes, you can still root.
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Yes, you can still root.
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Thanks FinZ
Glad to help. Keep in mind that the root method generally doesn't change, but the S-off method may. So far, looks like Firewater works for the original software version that came on the phone, as well as the OTA.
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Why would they take it out of the box, much less run an update on it?
We'd be fighting.
Can I ask you fellas a question. I'm still running stock but I'm rooted and s-off. I keep getting the system update and I want to accept the update because it adds the extreme power saver to my Sprint M8. If I do exactly how do reroot. I know I'll stay S-off. Thanks in advance.
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Why not just flash the stock rooted rom
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METHOD1911 said:
Can I ask you fellas a question. I'm still running stock but I'm rooted and s-off. I keep getting the system update and I want to accept the update because it adds the extreme power saver to my Sprint M8. If I do exactly how do reroot. I know I'll stay S-off. Thanks in advance.
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I think Captain Throwback has a stock rooted ROM based off the latest OTA. I would flash that, instead. Too much trouble if you choose the other route.
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I think Captain Throwback has a stock rooted ROM based off the latest OTA. I would flash that, instead. Too much trouble if you choose the other route.
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Flash the rom along with the firmware.
But if you wanted to flash the update from sprint it's not that hard. You would need Sprints stock recovery flashed on your device (it's in one of Captains threads) and your software would need to have all of the files the OTA wants to update since it fails if it doesn't find all the files it is changing. Other than that take the update, let it finish and boot up, and then flash twrp (or cwm), flash SU, and you're back to rooted.
henderjr said:
Flash the rom along with the firmware.
But if you wanted to flash the update from sprint it's not that hard. You would need Sprints stock recovery flashed on your device (it's in one of Captains threads) and your software would need to have all of the files the OTA wants to update since it fails if it doesn't find all the files it is changing. Other than that take the update, let it finish and boot up, and then flash twrp (or cwm), flash SU, and you're back to rooted.
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Yeah, forgot to mention flashing the new firmware. Good looking out:thumbup:
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Rookie Mistake!
Just for the record I took the Update. Not realizing that the firmware was going to be updated as well. My bad, now I can't even unlock my bootloader, I get an error message(pwr/vol.dn). I also tried to using cmd(adb) error message cannot 'flash' Now what? I usually root my devices on day one. oh well. Noob I am not.:confused a I am...
Any Ideas?
Sprint HTC M8
Star2dn said:
Just for the record I took the Update. Not realizing that the firmware was going to be updated as well. My bad, now I can't even unlock my bootloader, I get an error message(pwr/vol.dn). I also tried to using cmd(adb) error message cannot 'flash' Now what? I usually root my devices on day one. oh well. Noob I am not.:confused a I am...
Any Ideas?
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Shouldn't matter if you took the update
HTC Dev will unlock your bootloader unless Sprint blocked it like what happened to Verizon...they blocked folks from using HTC Dev.
I took the update a couple days ago, and just rooted last night. Htcdev worked fine for me. Followed this video:
Root the Sprint HTC One M8: http://youtu.be/wy8Htj2YL4E
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Got It
Late last night I tried out Hasoon2000's (EASY) ALL-IN-ONE KIT. It got me rooted. Always did it manually never had any issue before, oh well I'm rooted that's what matter.
Thanks for the feedback
And a big thanks to Hasoon2000's.
Great Work!
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Anybody got the OTA update for XT1092 already?
Also do you know if I can accept the OTA (once it comes) even though I'm rooted? Or will it fail and I have to do a clean install / revert to stock?
Thanks
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Nope, no XT-1092 yet, no word as to when either, although rumour has it we will get it sometime during December. As long as you haven't altered any system apps, you should hopefully be okay with root, although you will loose root once you get the update.
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Nope, no XT-1092 yet, no word as to when either, although rumour has it we will get it sometime during December. As long as you haven't altered any system apps, you should hopefully be okay with root, although you will loose root once you get the update.
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If you have rooted, you can' t unroot and take the update, it will only apply on stock never rooted systems. If you have rooted you will need to flash a stock system image first
Nope... Eagerly waiting....
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Thunder_Bolt said:
Nope, no XT-1092 yet, no word as to when either, although rumour has it we will get it sometime during December. As long as you haven't altered any system apps, you should hopefully be okay with root, although you will loose root once you get the update.
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If you have rooted, you can' t unroot and take the update, it will only apply on stock never rooted systems. If you have rooted you will need to flash a stock system image first
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So who is right?
Once OTA is out, will it be easy for some skilled guys to create a rooted version that one can flash or rather not? I mean root is already available for lollipop
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godutch is probably right, I am only speaking from my experience with Nexus devices, I haven't tried it yet with the X
What are people doing to root the newest official 5.1 pure OTA? I saw a couple of threads about root floating around, but cf autoroot seems to have failed for a few people. What are you guys using to root?
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Completing this question by adding one more bit that is there any root method which supports easy unrooting like Kitkat days where we don't have to go through hassles and risks of flashing whole stock ROM again?
I rooted 5.1 by booting twrp and flashing latest supersu. I haven't tried yet to full unroot but it should work.
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I rooted 5.1 by booting twrp and flashing latest supersu. I haven't tried yet to full unroot but it should work.
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How did you boot twrp??,,, . Using windroid?
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rohithksaj said:
How did you boot twrp??,,, . Using windroid?
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Via fastboot. I just unrooted my device,although bootloader says "Software status : Modified" so i don't think it's safe to OTA update.
Be careful with this method though. Cause as of now there is no full image of 5.1. Therefore no stock recovery if you want to flash everything back like stock , unless you go back to 5.0 and then flash ota, hence the potential risk.
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Be careful with this method though. Cause as of now there is no full image of 5.1. Therefore no stock recovery if you want to flash everything back like stock , unless you go back to 5.0 and then flash ota, hence the potential risk.
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Yep. Kinda stuck as I didn't backup before rooting
Doesn't the factory reset convert the phone back into the stock? Like what used to happen in previous Android versions?
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Doesn't the factory reset convert the phone back into the stock? Like what used to happen in previous Android versions?
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No, that's never been a thing. It only wipes /data and doesn't touch /system at all.
For that to work, they'd have to take up valuable phone space with system images.
As for root, getting it is virtually unchanged since 4.4.4. Use Cf-Auto-Root or let twrp do it.
Anybody tried re locking the boot loader.???
I tried every method but failed....
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rohithksaj said:
Anybody tried re locking the boot loader.???
I tried every method but failed....
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Can't be done.
rohithksaj said:
Anybody tried re locking the boot loader.???
I tried every method but failed....
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It's pointless to do. There is no valid reason to relock it.
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the topic gone wrong, what is the best way to root latest ota? does cf-auto-root work?
since there is full image of latest 5.1 ota for pure edition, there are low risks of rooting.
any suggestion?
pro.gangster said:
the topic gone wrong, what is the best way to root latest ota? does cf-auto-root work?
since there is full image of latest 5.1 ota for pure edition, there are low risks of rooting.
any suggestion?
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Just flash TWRP and root that way... If you don't want to overwrite the default recovery, boot TWRP. No real risks, it hasn't changed from 5.0.
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So I purchased a used Nexus 6 on Swappa that came with an unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM... Just so I can start totally clean (and party my OCD), I want to flash a stock image, relock the bootloader, and then do any OTA updates I may need... The problem is that since it's a custom ROM it doesn't tell me inside "About Phone" which device I have... When I go to google's site for the stock images it has several carries listed etc... I also went into the bootloader but I didn't see anything that resembled the device ID.
My question is, does it matter which stock image I flash? I'm T-Mobile.. so if I flash a stock T-Mobile image, will that matter if the device is not from T-Mobile? The other thing that's throwing me off is there's two stock T-Mobile 5.1.1 images on google's site, with different device ID's... so I have a feeling it does matter which version you flash.
Thanks!
Looking for the same answer.
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intruda119 said:
Looking for the same answer.
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I just found this article:
http://www.tmonews.com/2015/08/nexu...d-to-lmy48i-are-losing-cellular-connectivity/
which makes me think it really doesn't matter which device you have, just flash the image you need. I personally am going to flash the E version and then accept the OTA for the stagefreight patch. I'm weird about getting latest, official update, via OTA.
Yeah just that thinking of selling mine. Wanted to flash to stock
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itll always match, its the exact same device. you can flash the tmobile, verizon, att, then the basic stock android, itll all work. and fi as well!
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So I purchased a used Nexus 6 on Swappa that came with an unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM... Just so I can start totally clean (and party my OCD), I want to flash a stock image, relock the bootloader, and then do any OTA updates I may need... The problem is that since it's a custom ROM it doesn't tell me inside "About Phone" which device I have... When I go to google's site for the stock images it has several carries listed etc... I also went into the bootloader but I didn't see anything that resembled the device ID.
My question is, does it matter which stock image I flash? I'm T-Mobile.. so if I flash a stock T-Mobile image, will that matter if the device is not from T-Mobile? The other thing that's throwing me off is there's two stock T-Mobile 5.1.1 images on google's site, with different device ID's... so I have a feeling it does matter which version you flash.
Thanks!
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Don't lock your bootloader! There is a high chance of bricking your device and making it useless
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BigDig said:
Don't lock your bootloader! There is a high chance of bricking your device and making it useless
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why? how/why would flashing a stock image that relocks the bootloader and unroots brick it?
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why? how/why would flashing a stock image that relocks the bootloader and unroots brick it?
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You mentioned in your post " I want to relock my bootloader " - Don't do that!
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Powell730 said:
why? how/why would flashing a stock image that relocks the bootloader and unroots brick it?
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BigDig said:
You mentioned in your post " I want to relock my bootloader " - Don't do that!
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I concur. Device can be relocked successfully if on stock and it boots. I tried once with custom kernel and TWRP. It bricked. Both the kernel and TWRP crashed. I was lucky it was still unlockable and fastboot saved the day. I don't suggest ever locking a custom build.
BigDig said:
You mentioned in your post " I want to relock my bootloader " - Don't do that!
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I concur. Device can be relocked successfully if on stock and it boots. I tried once with custom kernel and TWRP. It bricked. Both the kernel and TWRP crashed. I was lucky it was still unlockable and fastboot saved the day.
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Oh yeah, I wouldn't re lock it over custom recovery, rom or kernel!
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Oh yeah, I wouldn't re lock it over custom recovery, rom or kernel!
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Hahaa. I did it just to prove a point. Luckily just had to reflash TWRP and the kernel. I run stock rooted odex with mods I want hard coded.
I was currently running 6.0 update when I flashed twrp 2.8.7.1. This was successful and was able to boot into recovery but when I was rebooting through twrp it asked me to install superuser since I was not rooted so I said yes. After the phone rebooted I was stuck at "warning bootloader unlocked". In an attempt to fix this I tried going back to stock so I flashed stock recovery and image from 5.1 with the same results. So not sure if I put myself in a worse spot or not by trying to flash back to 5.1 or not. I can still get into fastboot but not sure what else to try at this point. Any help would be great at this point.
You need specific kernel to flash superSU.
Suggestion : flash stock 5.1
wywerny said:
You need specific kernel to flash superSU.
Suggestion : flash stock 5.1
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This would be with the factory images I get from Motorola right?
cjsill9473 said:
This would be with the factory images I get from Motorola right?
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No, it's a modified kernel, not official. You will find them in the development forum here.
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AGISCI said:
No, it's a modified kernel, not official. You will find them in the development forum here.
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Alright think I gotcha. Still new to some of this but I see your post regarding stock roms 5.1 link listed below. I should be able to flash through TWRP and be go to go?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/rom-xt1095-flashable-stock-rom-t3185945
EDIT: Nevermind it is charging now