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So the evo is supposed to get an ota update to gingerbread today! how exciting!
just wanted to know if my phone is rooted do i need to unroot in order to receive the update from sprint? or do I at least have to be on the shipped rom?
Thanks!
I don't have firsthand experience with OTA updates as I've used CM since I got my EVO but I've heard over and over again that you need to unroot. I'm not sure what will happen if you dont, but hopefully you would just lose root. Good luck! There is a flashable stock gingerbread with root in the evo dev forum.
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If you want the sprint update You HAVE to unroot this will also remove your recovery
then find the stock rom
rename it PC36IMG
Go into bootloader down volume button and power then let it scan it will find the pc36img then it will ask if you want to update put yes let it do its thing when your done you should have unrooted stock rom then just install the sprint update and your good to go.
Any questions just ask.
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Thanks! I've rooted and unrooted a couple of times already, I was just wondering what happens if I update while I'm still rooted? do I just lose root (which I anyways do) or anything else will happen?
bryan901 said:
If you want the sprint update You HAVE to unroot this will also remove your recovery
then find the stock rom
rename it PC36IMG
Go into bootloader down volume button and power then let it scan it will find the pc36img then it will ask if you want to update put yes let it do its thing when your done you should have unrooted stock rom then just install the sprint update and your good to go.
Any questions just ask.
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Thanks! I've rooted and unrooted a couple of times already, I was just wondering what happens if I update while I'm still rooted? do I just lose root (which I anyways do) or anything else will happen?
hey,
I have the G2X and its rooted. When t mobile comes out with the update for the 2.3 can i still up date?? If i can will it stay rooted or will it go back to unrooted? If it goes back and i do the same thing to root it again?
thanks
You can have it rooted, being you have no custom ROMs , it will unroot the phone, and yes you can do the same to root it.
Updates have been known to close root exploits. There's no guarantee that you will be able to re-root right away. Your best bet is to wait for a pre rooted flashable version. I'm sure one will be available she same day the OTA's begin rolling out.
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If the skyrocket is rooted can you still get ota updates? If so How? I am new to this. And also what is the current OTA update?
If its just rooted yes and it'll remove your root if you are on a custom ROM then it'll tell you you have one but it wont download
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If your phone is rooted when an OTA update is released, you won't be able to download it. Unfortunately one have to be on stock to be able to download it, with bloat included and everything.
It told me I had a update but said server was down then I went back to it today and it says my phone is up to date
From what I understand if you are rooted with stock recovery you can take the ota update. If you are rooted with cwm recovery than you cannot take the ota. The beautiful thing I think is than even if you are rooted with cwm, and an ota releases (that you for some wild reason can't wait to have) its easy as pie to flash back to stock. At that point you should be able to take the ota. Heck maybe even just flashing the stock recovery itself would do the trick.....I dunno
As for current ota, most of us seem to have gotten stuck with 2.3.5. But there were quite a few folks who received the 2.3.6 update.
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cdshepherd is correct. I was on stock 2.3.5 with stock 3e recovery... and was fully rooted. I was able to take the ATT OTA 2.3.6 update and kept superuser root access.
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cdshepherd is correct. I was on stock 2.3.5 with stock 3e recovery... and was fully rooted. I was able to take the ATT OTA 2.3.6 update and kept superuser root access.
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+1. I got 2.3.6 and kept root access, too. I'm also on stock recovery.
If you are not SO interrested in OTA
cdshepherd is correct, but, when 2.3.6 came out a few weeks ago, several folks were able to get it posted somewhere as a RAR file. you might look around if you are just dying to have it.. I think it was back around 11/21/2011 when I saw it the first time. About 290mb if I recall correctly.
Good luck!
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I was rooted and still allowed the OTA update 2.3.6.. and still have root access
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Ok people heres the deal. To take an ota update you can be rooted but . You need to have stock recovery, and all bloatware intact. It can be frozen but not deleted. And no one knows yet if the 4.0 ota will remove root. 2.3.6 ota did not. So we can hope.
The ICS OTA update keeps failing on my A2. I rooted it quite some time ago, and I don't really remember what method I used. As I recall, I initially used super one click, but it became un-rooted some months ago when they the OTA update was released that added emergency updates and a few other tweaks. I then used the first exploit available to root the phone.
I imagine that root access is the most likely culprit, so I did a factory reset; and put in blank microSD card just for good measure, but somehow, it was STILL rooted. I tried unrooting with super one click, and during the process it says
Shell rooted...false
su rooted...True
and continues to say that no matter how many times I try to unroot it. I seem to be stuck. The only other possibility is that it won't update because I'm visiting my wife's family in Canada; but it ALERTED me to the update, and it DOWNLOADS it just fine, so I would imagine that is should install it regardless. Someone help me out?
yes im a noob...please help me not to be
I tried updating and ended up haveing to wipe to the original 2.3.5 install...then update all the way back...unfortunently I think that will kill your root.....
I was having your issue now I am not and am on 4.5.1 but un-rooted till I can find a way to root it again...
hope that helps
theundecided said:
I tried updating and ended up haveing to wipe to the original 2.3.5 install...then update all the way back...unfortunently I think that will kill your root.....
I was having your issue now I am not and am on 4.5.1 but un-rooted till I can find a way to root it again...
hope that helps
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I was able to un-root it, from what I can tell. I found the exploit I used and there was an un-root option. Root check says it's lokced down, so does super one click, but it still won't update; so I suppose it's probably just more of AT&T's crap. I guess I'll know when I get back to the states next week; I'm just impatient.
Then again, I waited this long for the official OTA, fighting back the urge to just install the leak, so I guess I'm not TOO impatient.
I just want my freaking update!
Having root will not affect being able to OTA update.
What else have you done to your phone?
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dk-v1 said:
Having root will not affect being able to OTA update.
What else have you done to your phone?
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Nothing. I've even un-rooted it. My next step is to try to locate a stock ROM and flashing instructions, roll it back and see if that helps. Can anyone point me in the direction for that.
Aaaaand now I've screwed myself up even further. Tried to flash back to 2.3.5 and it's failing at step 6/20. Guess I'll have to go dig up the 2.3.6 stock, which will put me all the way back at square 1.
Sounds like you are trying to use the unmodifed 2.3.5 FXZ. Read this. It has everything you will need to recover.
Good luck!
Yup. That was the problem with that step. I'm not sure WHAT was going on when I was on 2.3.6, but that thing did NOT want to take the update. Going down to 2.3.5, then OTA to 2.3.6 FINALLY allowed me to OTA to ICS. Thanks everyone!
I was wondering if anyone found a way to take ota after rooting. I have always had rooted devices and always ended up on custom roms. For now I would like to stay on the official rom and debloat a bit. Any ideas?
Pretty sure you can just flash back to stock and take ota, then re root. You normally need stock recovery to take ota, and be unrooted
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I can't believe i didnt think of that after I did the same thing with the S4. Thx for shining some light into my clouded mind lol
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I rooted yesterday night. Will I be able to odin back to official and receive OTA updates?
roadrunnrr said:
I rooted yesterday night. Will I be able to odin back to official and receive OTA updates?
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I tried this and update still wouldn't let me download the OTA.
Unless someone comes out with a way to revert the knox flag (which is said to be a perm flag) it won't ever be possible to be true factory again as all OTA's will now check for the tamper.
I think someone mentioned though you can manually install it, just the downloader/OTA wouldn't work.
If manually still wasn't possible I'm sure someone could remove the check from the update and you still get it that way but officially through Samsung you currently are probably stuck.
Ideally someone finds a way to reset the so called, perma flag.
If not the alternative might be finding a way to root the phone without flagging it, but in those cases it won't help those already flagged.
I know on HTC they had a similar type of flag, though didn't use it to check for update status. They flagged as Tampered or Re-locked for example.
However after some time we found how to reset those in some magical hidden area to blind write too (not talking about those that cheated to hide it via bootloader image edits)
At this point it's a wait and see game...
I hope someone finds fast though, I am stock and really want to get this bloat off my phone lol
I tried it myself now... Rooted and i couldnt even check for updates. Unrooted but device status was still custom. I had to go into the stock recovery and wipe everything and then Odin stock firmware to be able to check for updates
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roadrunnrr said:
I tried it myself now... Rooted and i couldnt even check for updates. Unrooted but device status was still custom. I had to go into the stock recovery and wipe everything and then Odin stock firmware to be able to check for updates
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When I tried this the update check still failed stating that I had a custom ROM.
Just checked for updates and it went through
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roadrunnrr said:
Just checked for updates and it went through
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Were you rooted then un-rooted?? Can you post the OTA file from your cache??
Yeah... Rooted then grabbed the whole factory md5 and restored that did it. Let me know where I can find the OTA and I'll post it. But I'm unrooted now so I don't know if it will work
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roadrunnrr said:
Yeah... Rooted then grabbed the whole factory md5 and restored that did it.
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Nice, Otherwise seems like a bad strategy on Samsung's part if they don't allow people who unroot and odin back to stock to take OTA's.. Why would a manufacture not want to offer a path back to stock for security updates and the chance to get a user back on a bloated rom full of there paid ad apps. Each time users do this there is a small percentage that won't either be able to re-root due to updates stopping the root method or just out of hassle. I understand the warranty flag but not why you wouldn't offer a path back to stock unless they are just being short sighted in an attempt to penalize people who root which won't have much effect..
I'd post the OTA like I said but I'm unrooted now.
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roadrunnrr said:
I'd post the OTA like I said but I'm unrooted now.
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So root!!
Still waiting to find out if I'll be able to get back to official and then check for updates after this update and root
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roadrunnrr said:
Still waiting to find out if I'll be able to get back to official and then check for updates after this update and root
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I can't seem to do it. Once I rooted and tripped the Knox flag bit the Update check won't let me download. But the error message says that I can still download and install updates using Kies.
I just fixed it. The problem is not the Knox flag but rather the fact that Custom was showing in Download mode instead of Official. I had to flash twice without my SDcard inserted to get to Official. Once I got to Official the update started to download.
rooted?
roadrunnrr said:
Still waiting to find out if I'll be able to get back to official and then check for updates after this update and root
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so what does it matter if a phone is rooted or not in terms of an OTA update from a phone that has already received it?....wouldn't you just upload it and apply it? shouldn't matter at all whether phone is rooted or not when you're updating the file received from an already received OTA phone update. It's just the acquisition of the update that's blocked, not the install. At least until the 5SS you could always just grab a copy of the OTA update and install.
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so what does it matter if a phone is rooted or not in terms of an OTA update from a phone that has already received it?....wouldn't you just upload it and apply it? shouldn't matter at all whether phone is rooted or not when you're updating the file received from an already received OTA phone update. It's just the acquisition of the update that's blocked, not the install. At least until the 5SS you could always just grab a copy of the OTA update and install.
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No if you were completely stock and just root ...with stock recovery and no missing system files it could be done. ...it now has to say official for the ota to finish ....no other way
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but again, once a non-rooted phone receives the OTA update, you just pull the update from the phone and share it and even rooted phones can update...that's my point...am shocked no one is sharing their "received" OTA update
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No if you were completely stock and just root ...with stock recovery and no missing system files it could be done. ...it now has to say official for the ota to finish ....no other way
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Patience.. I guess..
dk2463 said:
but again, once a non-rooted phone receives the OTA update, you just pull the update from the phone and share it and even rooted phones can update...that's my point...am shocked no one is sharing their "received" OTA update
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I gotta agree.. Most of my previous device OTA's were always dumped within hours of release really surprised this hasn't been yet. This is my first Samsung phone and I have liked the device but kinda disappointed in the XDA turnout so far. I am always appreciative of those who are here but I just thought with how popular the Galaxy line was there would be more dev support from day 1 but there hasn't been much so far. I know it's early and being CDMA/Sprint really limits us but seems like all my previous HTC devices on Sprint and the current M8 are getting way more action.. Oh well, but sure makes a jump to T-Mobile for the new Oneplus One Cyanogen phone sound tempting haha..
And thanks again to all those who are here and contributing!!!