I am very interested in rooting to delete lots of the stock apps and "bloatware", as well as the mod to eliminate throttle and the 1080p 30fps mod....
but I do not, do not want a custom ROM, I want to stay stock.
So I am asking here, if I root, remove the bloatware and apply the throttle mod and camcorder mod, can I still use the OTA update for gingerbread and driver fixes when they come out?
I'm not flashing, just removing bloatware..can I still OTA?
againareku said:
I am very interested in rooting to delete lots of the stock apps and "bloatware", as well as the mod to eliminate throttle and the 1080p 30fps mod....
but I do not, do not want a custom ROM, I want to stay stock.
So I am asking here, if I root, remove the bloatware and apply the throttle mod and camcorder mod, can I still use the OTA update for gingerbread and driver fixes when they come out?
I'm not flashing, just removing bloatware..can I still OTA?
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Hi, i asked this exact question on another post. The answer i got is that if you root and stay stock, you can still apply the official OTA when it comes out but you will loose root. I'm going to root just to remove bloat but not flash custom roms, ill patiently wait for the official OTA to come out.
As far as the mod's i have no idea if they will work on the stock rom, might wanna doe a lil bit of research. Hope this helps.
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i have been rooted for about a day now with a custom rom. i was wondering will i get OTA update for the custom rom or is there a app where i can manually check for the custom rom update. How does the updates work on custom roms. i know when i got the phone i notice in setting you can go to at&t software update and it checks for you.
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I believe Clockwork has some ability to show the latest builds of certain roms but it requires you to launch it up and check manually. Alternatively, CyanogenMod has a notification feature that you can enable.
The easiest way is to just bookmark the forum thread of the mod you're using and check it periodically.
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i have been rooted for about a day now with a custom rom. i was wondering will i get OTA update for the custom rom or is there a app where i can manually check for the custom rom update. How does the updates work on custom roms. i know when i got the phone i notice in setting you can go to at&t software update and it checks for you.
Thx
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The at&t software update won't work for custom roms. In fact, I think most dev's disable that feature in their rom cause installing an AT&T ota update over your current setup might screw up the phone.
ROM Manager has a feature that will let you check for ota updates on your favorite custom rom...but thats only if the develepor is using that feature or even aware of it.
Mostly it's just bookmarking or subscribing to your favorite rom threads and check for updates manually.
EMoney24 said:
i have been rooted for about a day now with a custom rom. i was wondering will i get OTA update for the custom rom or is there a app where i can manually check for the custom rom update. How does the updates work on custom roms. i know when i got the phone i notice in setting you can go to at&t software update and it checks for you.
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Yes just use ROM manager, new updates appear there and lets you flash OTA just like an official update when its available.
If the Rom dev has it set up Rom manager will notify you as well. I remember last year I during thanksgiving dinner I had to excuse myself for a few minutes so I could see what goodies myn had been working on for another device I had.
I am rooted using the Universal Xoom Root method. I am still running stock, only with SU and apps which require SU. Why can I not accept an OTA update? It seems like the worse that could happen is it overwrite the SU.apk and I need to re-root.
Thanks in advance.
I was wondering about this as well. I am rooted and am running Rogue kernel. I guess I'll just update and see what happens. Worse comes to worse, I will have to re-root.
Seems like the Xoom forums are quiet...did a lot of people abandon the device for the Galaxy Tab 10.1...When previous OTAs happened, the forums were chock full of chatter about to or not to accept the update.
Yeah, I just tried an OTA update and it wouldn't work. Got the Droid with exclamation point. Up + power put me back where I was.
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same here. No dice on the update, just stuck at the install screen. On a positive note, the update notifications are gone. Damn those were annoying.
If you root, even without any additional custom ROM/kernel mods, you may receive notification of an OTA update but you should not accept it and try to install it. It will probably put you into a bootloop or worse.
If you wish to root, don't worry. Our wonderful developers are hard at work right now, configuring an update for the device...we'll more then likely get it before the official release comes out OTA.
Anyway, you can always revert back to stock if you really want the OTA update, but stock is boring.
place your unrooted backup on, take update and reroot.
if you don't have one, their are some around.
I keep a backup that isn't rooted with all my apps installed, then when update comes, it is real quick to restore, update and reroot ....
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If you root, even without any additional custom ROM/kernel mods, you may receive notification of an OTA update but you should not accept it and try to install it. It will probably put you into a bootloop or worse.
If you wish to root, don't worry. Our wonderful developers are hard at work right now, configuring an update for the device...we'll more then likely get it before the official release comes out OTA.
Anyway, you can always revert back to stock if you really want the OTA update, but stock is boring.
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Yeah, diddo here with it not bothering me about OTA updates anymore after trying. It didn't put me in a boot loop, just the pretty droid screaming (exclamation point)
I have a backup from before I rooted, but what the heck, it didn't hurt anything, and I was just playing around.
Thanks for everyone's input.
Spoke too soon. The update is back to nagging me again. Errrrrrrr
Why can't they just push out ICS for the Xoom. Hell, they showed ICS on the Verizon Xoom at LeWeb this week.
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Spoke too soon. The update is back to nagging me again. Errrrrrrr
Why can't they just push out ICS for the Xoom. Hell, they showed ICS on the Verizon Xoom at LeWeb this week.
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Yeah, diddo. Mine started again about three days after I tried to install. I too am looking forward to ICS.
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I just bought a zenfone 2 and want to flash superzen custom rom. I understand i cannot update the phone or risk messing it up, but can i (or do i need to) disable ota updates? Also is it possible to unroot and put it back to factory rom? I saw mixed responses saying that twrp cannot be removed and impairs the ability to go back to stock? Thx in advance
Hi at risk of been repetitive im going to ask something that might have already been answerd on the the forum but given the specific caracteristic of my device i hope someone can answer anyway
Thing is i have a rooted nexus five (6.0.1 Stock ROM) with Ek kernel and I was wondering if i could unroot through the SuperSu menu without losing any data and keeping the custom kernel just so i could install the lastest OTA update and encrypt my phone. It seems i would have to flash stock boot.img to encrypt but i dont know if this is enough to update and encrypt without losing custom kernel and data in the process as I pretend to inmediatly root after doing these two things. Also if anyone can recommend a good alternate kernel for perfomance/battery life just in case there is a better option although i have to say im very happy with this one.
Hope this particular question hasnt being answerd before and any help would be aprecciated
Thank you very much
Hello All,
I've been working on a new rom for our beloved Stylo. Unfortunately, the only mods I've been able to add are mods that anyone can add themselves to their rom. I got it deoxed also. Debloating is breaking things. I'm wondering If its still worth continuing. Please someone give me some input. Thanks
Go on! Debloating from /system I did that for mine but couldnt add the mods. If you can send a test I can helo with that.
I'd love to see and test a new ROM
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Hello All,
I've been working on a new rom for our beloved Stylo. Unfortunately, the only mods I've been able to add are mods that anyone can add themselves to their rom. I got it deoxed also. Debloating is breaking things. I'm wondering If its still worth continuing. Please someone give me some input. Thanks
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It would be flippen awesome if you could come up with something! I thought the mm update was dreadful and tried like hell to turn it into something good... But i kept running into dead ends. I rooted and unlocked the bl. Removed stock launcher and replaced with nova. Added debloated no ad bluetube app. Boot sound and logo... And other simple stuff.... But kept failing with theming UI... Framework.. Messaging... Keyboard...etc.
Ended up going back to lolipop with katana rom modified to my liking. Would love to have a nice mm rom. If u decide to continue, ill try to assist/continue/be a guineapig.
Here with metro pcs......I'll go for some testing as well.
D0VeR said:
It would be flippen awesome if you could come up with something! I thought the mm update was dreadful and tried like hell to turn it into something good... But i kept running into dead ends. I rooted and unlocked the bl. Removed stock launcher and replaced with nova. Added debloated no ad bluetube app. Boot sound and logo... And other simple stuff.... But kept failing with theming UI... Framework.. Messaging... Keyboard...etc.
Ended up going back to lolipop with katana rom modified to my liking. Would love to have a nice mm rom. If u decide to continue, ill try to assist/continue/be a guineapig.
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Thats the exact same issue I'm coming up with.... I was gonna include HTC Blinkfeed but anyone can do that themselves... This is still a good phone. Just needs more development.
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Go on! Debloating from /system I did that for mine but couldnt add the mods. If you can send a test I can helo with that.
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What were you able to successfully remove without breaking something or no boot?
Mods and Tweaks
If we can get a list of mods and tweaks that everyone has added to their Stylo we can start from there to build a good rom.
I removed all the metro bloat on my metro stylo mm. Also removed and replaced launcher and mms from system replacing them with nova launcher and google messenger. Dont remember what else it was so long ago. I do remember running into problems and crazy stuff happening but cant remember details. Think things got screwy having to do with kingo root. Was tricky hetting rid of all traces of it and replacing with a good su and bbox.
Im thinking about flashing mm again. Gotta figure out what the hell this new ota update was all about that my wife just got on her stylo (hers is unmolested stock metro stylo on latest mm update)
Guess i better ask.... What carrier is everyone on?
is this going be a whole new rom or a skinned over stock rom?
Send it on brotha! Ill test for ya man! I also do graphic design if you might consider theming it. Maybe make it a layers/rro/osm ROM? BTW Im on Metro/Tmo
Someone already made a flashable marshmallow rom, "Skinny ROM" but it wasn't debloated. (TMobile version)
Might want to try and contact him and get permission to use as a base.
tube517 said:
Someone already made a flashable marshmallow rom, "Skinny ROM" but it wasn't debloated. (TMobile version)
Might want to try and contact him and get permission to use as a base.
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Man, Its hard to debloat this rom without FCs or non boot. I miss @TURBO2012. He knows the Stylo in and out.
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Send it on brotha! Ill test for ya man! I also do graphic design if you might consider theming it. Maybe make it a layers/rro/osm ROM? BTW Im on Metro/Tmo
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I want to port the Stylo 2 to our phone but I need a system dump of Stylo2.
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is this going be a whole new rom or a skinned over stock rom?
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I'm guessing skinned over stock. I'm just getting into the Dev scene..
Debloat
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What were you able to successfully remove without breaking something or no boot?
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This was done on my H631 after a fresh KDZ install of 20b.
(Update all the LG apps before removing anything if not you will be left without Capture+ app)
After removing all these apps I did a factory reset (I have stock recovery), phone booted normally.
I suggest you do this after OTA to the latest version available as this is my backup phone.
(BTW: I also removed bootani and shutdownani zips so the phone powers on and shuts off quickly) :good:
System/apps:
-AndroidPay
-Books
-LGBAckup
-Music2 (Google Music)
-NewsstandStub
-PlusOne
-talkback
-TMO_VVM
-Videos (Google)
System/priv-app:
-AmazonMobile
-com.mobitv.client.tmobiletvhd
-LGApplicationManager
-LGBackup
-LGVoiceCommand
-LGvoicecommandservice
-Lookout
-NameID
-TAG
-TmoAppsource
-tmomyaccount
Dolemaine said:
I want to port the Stylo 2 to our phone but I need a system dump of Stylo2.
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The launcher of the Stylo 2 w/LG Suite has been ported
Ive stripped my ROM down way more than that. Been running it for about 4 months no issues. All the system crap I deleted I just went and got replacement apps for. Rooted and Xposed running various Xposed mods and Kernel Tweaks.
(EDIT) I can make a list of all crapware I got rid of if someone will be kind enough as to provide a list of whats installed from stock. It's been so long, I forgot all that was on here besides the LG crap.
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I removed all the metro bloat on my metro stylo mm. Also removed and replaced launcher and mms from system replacing them with nova launcher and google messenger. Dont remember what else it was so long ago. I do remember running into problems and crazy stuff happening but cant remember details. Think things got screwy having to do with kingo root. Was tricky hetting rid of all traces of it and replacing with a good su and bbox.
Im thinking about flashing mm again. Gotta figure out what the hell this new ota update was all about that my wife just got on her stylo (hers is unmolested stock metro stylo on latest mm update)
Guess i better ask.... What carrier is everyone on?
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I'm TMOUS. PLEASE DO NOT FLASH THE UPDATE if you plan to keep root. People have reported a locked bootloader and unable to root. I did some research on the OTA. It looks like the baseband has not changed so Idk why the radio.img is inside the update. It tries to patch all the system files with new ones.
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I'm TMOUS. PLEASE DO NOT FLASH THE UPDATE if you plan to keep root. People have reported a locked bootloader and unable to root. I did some research on the OTA. It looks like the baseband has not changed so Idk why the radio.img is inside the update. It tries to patch all the system files with new ones.
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I updated mine to 20C and then KDZd back to 20B cause I damaged my EFS... so if the update you're talking about is 20C theres no problem updating.
Actually I updated to 20C with unlocked BL and then booted twrp thru fastboot to root. (no install of twrp was required to achieve root)