With a phone that is rooted will I still be receiving future android updates or will i have to go through xda or dev of the kernel in order to receive them. Total n00bian ? I know. Btw I got HTC Evo.
You will if you are just rooted but otherwise Stock. Once you've gone as far as flashing a custom recovery the OTA will fail during install.
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Hello everyone.
I am a happy owner of NEXUS S and I wanted to ask if I will ever receive future official updates OTA, has I've unlocked and rooted the same with the superboot MoDaCo (Even used Rom Manager to donwload ClockWorkMod)
Thank You very much
You will receive the update notifications as long as you don't flash a custom rom that has it disabled (which most do). In your current state, you will receive the update but if you choose to accept it, you will lose root and clockwork and will need to re-root again. The best way to update is to wait for a flashable update release on xda where you could update without losing root.
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you will receive the update being rooted long before you would if you were stock and never rooted. when the next OTA comes out, it will be on the forum in the first 3 seconds and you will flash it. but if you were stock you'd be waiting 1 week for the rollout to hit your device.
and you can alwyas go back to stock ROM if you REALLY want to sit there and wait for google to push the update to your phone the official way. otherwise, everybody just manually updates as soon as the link is released.
just ignore the OTA update, as it will usually break the custom ROMs if you try to install them.
wait for the custom ROMs to include the OTA update into their next build
thank You very much for support.
only one question even if it is OT
After manually updated my nexus 2.3.2. to original stock 2.3.3 I've seen that there is an app called BOOK of 0kb that can't be uninstalled. Why? How can I remove it?
that is Google books
it is build in part of the stock ROM
that means it is not using any storage space
thank You very much.
I have a rooted NS4G with custom kernel Matr1x #5. Im currently on 2.3.4 and have not added any roms or updates. I kept recieving the OTA updates every 1/2 hr. im assuming for the 2.3.5. OTA was 22mb.
I was holding off for a while to not to update but finally gave in. I went to install OTA and my phone turned off and look as tho it was going to update my system. I let 15-20mins go by and I was still at a screen where there was a triangle with an exculmation and the android.
I thought it shouldnt take that long to update so I pulled the battery. I rebooted my phone and it still has 2.3.4 as my android version but when I click on system updates it says my system is up to date which is not the case.
If anyone install this OTA how long did it take for the whole process??
How do I fix this is with my system saying its up to date but clearly its not since im on 2.3.4???
I no longer get the notification to install a OTA. I would like to install an OTA instead of doing it manually.
I still want to be able to receive updates OTA when the are released. Im afraid I messed something up
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185812
Flash this in clockworkmod it should update u and u keep root.
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Rooted phone + OTA = fail
You need a stock recovery to install an ota....
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Nexus S i9020A , completely stock, running 4.0.4
Got an OTA update the other day, went through the update, no errors, rebooted, still 4.0.4 ????
System Update shows my phone is currently up to date
It looks like the OTA update failed, but I'm not sure why or how to determine why.
Any help would be appreciated... again, my phone is stock, no custom rom, non-rooted ...
Tbalon said:
Nexus S i9020A , completely stock, running 4.0.4
Got an OTA update the other day, went through the update, no errors, rebooted, still 4.0.4 ????
System Update shows my phone is currently up to date
It looks like the OTA update failed, but I'm not sure why or how to determine why.
Any help would be appreciated... again, my phone is stock, no custom rom, non-rooted ...
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try to flash CWM via fastboot then update via a zip file throw cwm.
if not u can get ur phone back to clean stock using adb and then u will receive again the ota and u can try to update again
Tbalon said:
System Update shows my phone is currently up to date
It looks like the OTA update failed, but I'm not sure why or how to determine why.
Any help would be appreciated... again, my phone is stock, no custom rom, non-rooted ...
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It is not necessary to flash in order to get the OTA update again. Instructions to force another OTA update are here (basically: clear data on the Google Service Framework app, this resets the time the phone last checked for an update).
However, I'm facing the same problem and even after re-downloading the 4.1 update on my stock Nexus S, the update still fails. The phone reboots and starts to install the update then shows the dead droid with red exclamation before rebooting to 4.0.4.
I've seen other suggestions to get the device back to stock so I guess that's my next course of action (and likely yours).
Are these instructions appropriate? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785672
I9020A needs two OTA's to get jellybean. The first OTA will make you keep 4.0.4 but will update your bootloader. This first ota, the one I think you got, is about 1MB in size. You will soon get another OTA, this one will bring you to jellybean.
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I9020A needs two OTA's to get jellybean. The first OTA will make you keep 4.0.4 but will update your bootloader. This first ota, the one I think you got, is about 1MB in size. You will soon get another OTA, this one will bring you to jellybean.
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That is what appears to have happened. I was just confused regarding this and assumed my previous update was to 4.1.
I tried several times to "checkin" and eventually I got the update to 4.1.1 which, unlike the update I did a few days ago,
took longer ( about 10minutes ) to update. I now have 4.1.1 JRO03E , very snappy
Thanks !
No problem, man! Us I9020A's gotta stick together!
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I have been searching on the forum and Google but no answer. I had a Sprint Galaxy S3 and it was rooted with custom recovery Clockworkmod. After an update was available I could not install the update, failing with the message "verification failed" when trying to apply the official update file. I couldn't find an answer so I went back to stock recovery.
Now I have a verizon S3 and I would like to back up an image of my phone with clockworkmod but I would like to be able to update, especially with the looming jellybean update coming soon. Did I miss a way to install the updates to the official rom with clockworkmod? Or was it simply not possible.
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I have been searching on the forum and Google but no answer. I had a Sprint Galaxy S3 and it was rooted with custom recovery Clockworkmod. After an update was available I could not install the update, failing with the message "verification failed" when trying to apply the official update file. I couldn't find an answer so I went back to stock recovery.
Now I have a verizon S3 and I would like to back up an image of my phone with clockworkmod but I would like to be able to update, especially with the looming jellybean update coming soon. Did I miss a way to install the updates to the official rom with clockworkmod? Or was it simply not possible.
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With most custom Roms...being able to do OTA updates is blocked because it could interfere with the rooted Rom you are running...its more or less a safety feature for that purpose. If you want to get the new Jelly Bean OTA update, you will have to flash your device back to unrooted stock and it should work just fine...as long as ur rooted, you wont be able to, if im not mistaken.
Thats true, and there is the whole bootloader thing! Now that we have all hacked away our bootloaders, the OTA just won't happen. Hopefully an easy relock becomes available for the vzws3 before that update is released, but I wouldn't panic - big red will probably release it to us after everyone else has gotten it and out phones are outdated! In general though, within a week or two of an official large release, the amazing devs on this site will have a downloadable version available for us to manually install.
If you have modded your phone, never try to take a OTA update. At the least you will lose root abilities. At the worst, potential bricking of your device.
Usually before, lol, if not just after a OTA, the devs have working release for our devices.
Take it easy, relax.
Hey everyone!
I broke my Nexus 4 a few days ago, so as a replacement went with the Moto G, loving the little thing.
However, now i am running into some problems. I installed CWM and rooted it, without flashing any custom rom. Then Moto asked if i wanted a system update, so i downloaded it, but it cant install. Every time it reboots during installation, it goes to CWM, which asks if i want to install the update package. When i click yes, it fails, saying there was an error, tells me i probably lost root and reboots. After reboot, moto tries to install the update again, and the circle keeps going.
So now a few questions.
Im coming from a nexus, which is very root friendly, so please be patient with me
1. can a rooted device receive updates at all?
2. Is it possible to keep root but reinstall the factory bootloader? (seeing as this is the problem, it would fix it right? I dont want to install custom roms, i just want root for added control with tasker etc.)
Any help greatly appreciated
Blucose
In rooted device, you will get updates but you can't install it if you using custom recovery..
As per my knowledge you can relock the bootloader but you will not get the warranty back..
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Do you have a source you trust that i could get the locked bootloader from?
As far as I know, If you use either stock or philz recovery you can still install OTA updates and keep root.