Hi just got my Sensation 4G (Bell), and just rooted and ulock, my question is just got pop up that says there's system update and is recommend that I update, would I mess up my unlocked and root? please let me know before I proceed or is not reommended? thanks
You have installed clockwork recovery right? If so then you can't update, you have to install stock recovery.
TheStigx said:
You have installed clockwork recovery right? If so then you can't update, you have to install stock recovery.
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yes I have installed clockwork recovery, but is it necessary to update "system update" or I have nothing to worry?
It is a security update, but if I am right, then rooted phones do not have anything to worry about.
It is up to you.
TheStigx said:
It is a security update, but if I am right, then rooted phones do not have anything to worry about.
It is up to you.
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thanks buddy
Do you have 2.3.3 or 2.3.4? If you have 2.3.3 then the update might be to upgrade your device to 2.3.4, but you can't update it if you have cwm installed and rooted. You have to install stock recovery and unroot your device first, only then will you be able to install the update. Do not worry, You will not loose s-off.
brusko1972 said:
Do you have 2.3.3 or 2.3.4? If you have 2.3.3 then the update might be to upgrade your device to 2.3.4, but you can't update it if you have cwm installed and rooted. You have to install stock recovery and unroot your device first, only then will you be able to install the update. Do not worry, You will not loose s-off.
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I have 2.3.3 so how do I unroot and install stock recovery, please help me I am bot confused now, thanks again
The easiest way I know is to flash original ruu for your device.
Thank you I'll try that
brusko1972 said:
The easiest way I know is to flash original ruu for your device.
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Did you supercid your device?
This is the link to the bell ruu. I do not know if it is 2.3.4 or 2.3.3
run this ruu and your device should be back to stock. you will loose all installed apps ang games though so you need to reinstall all of them again then just check for updates.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/cc7e...555_signed.exe
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Is there a way to put this back to stock ?
bajaboy said:
Is there a way to put this back to stock ?
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Yes you can use the RUU to go to either 2.2 or 2.3 stock unrooted ill provide a link in a sec
Edit: here's the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971550
Wow quick reply.....Thx !!! I did try that link but i downloaded the 2.3.3 and when i booted into recovery and tried it i didnt get option to apply zip. I guess i will dl the 2.2 and try that ?
bajaboy said:
Wow quick reply.....Thx !!! I did try that link but i downloaded the 2.3.3 and when i booted into recovery and tried it i didnt get option to apply zip. I guess i will dl the 2.2 and try that ?
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You'll need to format your SD card to fat32 in order for bootloader to recognize the zip.
You don't flash it via recovery.
Read the directions exactly you have to rename it to some weird name like "pg10mc" or something (its the device model) and put it on root of sd card and update it in bootloader
Its not hard at all just read all the directions
crump84 said:
You'll need to format your SD card to fat32 in order for bootloader to recognize the zip.
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And what he said
Figured it out.... the 2.2 doesnt need to be renamed. the 2.3.3 does
bajaboy said:
Figured it out.... the 2.2 doesnt need to be renamed. the 2.3.3 does
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Oh ok well then it should be pretty simple.
I used the 2.2 ruu once and never used the 2.3
Why do you want to go to stock?
Just wondering because if you go to 2.3 stock and want to root later you can't
I seem to be having issues using this method. It states first thing the link that the device must be in S-Off and must be Rooted for this to work. After the OTA 2.3.3 update my device lost root and went back to S-ON.
HBOOT seems to load and check the file but I never get the option to press VOL Up to update. Has anyone experienced this before?
smokeyou said:
I seem to be having issues using this method. It states first thing the link that the device must be in S-Off and must be Rooted for this to work. After the OTA 2.3.3 update my device lost root and went back to S-ON.
HBOOT seems to load and check the file but I never get the option to press VOL Up to update. Has anyone experienced this before?
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If you took the update this will not work because of the updated hboot. I believe the original poster was rooted with s-off.
So then if I was able to find a RUU that is stock 2.2 with S-ON then it should work?
I do not mind re rooting once I am back on 2.2 before I upgrade to cyanogen 7
smokeyou said:
So then if I was able to find a RUU that is stock 2.2 with S-ON then it should work?
I do not mind re rooting once I am back on 2.2 before I upgrade to cyanogen 7
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If your running the official update from HTC ( Gingerbread 2.3.3 s-off) there is no way to revert back to froyo. This has been discussed several times over. As of right now all you can do is temp root and wait for perma root to be found.
Hello XDA members
I was wondering, when the new android sandwich comes out, and you got a rooted and S-off HTC sensation. But not custom rom. What will happen to the root and S-off when you update to the new android sandwich?
Thanks
Want to know too ahehhe
We'll lose root but keep S-OFF I'd imagine
Cool, thanks for the answer
I have perm-rooted my Sensation and i was wondering when the new official update from HTC comes out will i be able to install it automatically like when i was not rooted or because i am S-Off it will not let me?
Thanks
i could be wrong but no you wont be able to perform an ota update. im only saying this because the last ota update failed because the update looks for the stock recovery in order to update the system. seeing that you are rooted i assume you have cwm installed and if this ota update does indeed look for the stock recovery than it will fail. the only way around this is to either instal a stock ruu and lose root or instal the stock recovery and again lose root. either way you are gonna lose root.
Could you give me a link where there is a guide to install the stock recovery?
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Could you give me a link where there is a guide to install the stock recovery?
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If you check the development forum, there's a thread which has shipped roms in it. Flash one to restore stock recovery.
Panagiotis. said:
I have perm-rooted my Sensation and i was wondering when the new official update from HTC comes out will i be able to install it automatically like when i was not rooted or because i am S-Off it will not let me?
Thanks
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Depends. If you're just running the original rom which came on your phone but rooted, it should still allow ota updates, but you'll lose root (but keep s-off). If you're on a custom rom you won't receive an ota.
To OP, if you ran an ruu or ota of ice cream sandwich, as eddy says, you'll lose root but remain s-off. That said, a custom ics rom will probably come out weeks/months before an official HTC update
Well, when we got the RUU, we can extract and repack to our rooted ROM
It should be this if i am right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
satanevil said:
Well, when we got the RUU, we can extract and repack to our rooted ROM
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That's true, but we'll see aosp ics roms long before we have sense skinned ones, as cyanogen et al don't need to spend months porting frameworks.
TheStigx said:
It should be this if i am right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
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That's the one
BTaylor927 said:
Depends. If you're just running the original rom which came on your phone but rooted, it should still allow ota updates, but you'll lose root (but keep s-off). If you're on a custom rom you won't receive an ota.
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Yes I am running the stock rom so I will receive the pta update. I know that I will lose root in every scenario if I install the stock ROM one way or another.
Thanks.
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So i just flash one of these roms, without deleting cache or doing a reset ?
not entirely true. i was rooted on stock rom when the last ota rolled out. i tried installing it but it failed. i did a lil search here and found a few people mentioned that it failed due to cwm and they also mentioned that you should try flashing back the stock recovery. i tried that and it installed successfully. easy way to get the stock recovery is to instal the correct ruu of your rom. but as we all know it wipes out everything off your phone. i did find this guide which the stigx has asked for (sorry buddy didnt see you there ) which shows you how to extracted the stock recovery off of the ruu and than flash it back to your phone.
check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648
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not entirely true. i was rooted on stock rom when the last ota rolled out. i tried installing it but it failed. i did a lil search here and found a few people mentioned that it failed due to cwm and they also mentioned that you should try flashing back the stock recovery. i tried that and it installed successfully. easy way to get the stock recovery is to instal the correct ruu of your rom. but as we all know it wipes out everything off your phone. i did find this guide which the stigx has asked for (sorry buddy didnt see you there ) which shows you how to extracted the stock recovery off of the ruu and than flash it back to your phone.
check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648
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But if I need to follow your guide i have to have the OTA update file,w hich haven't comet out yet. What do i Do? It seems so hard to remove root and custom recovery :'(
But thank for your answer !
well the general idea is to get your stock recovery back without losin your data. so really all you need to do is flash your stock recovery reboot your phone and check for updates. if updates are available: system>about phone>check for updates, download the update and install. it shouldnt fail cause you have stock recovery instead of cwm. in short just do the top part of the guide and skip the rest cause you dont have the updates file on your computer.
So if i do step 1-12 I will have normal phone? Just like I started or do i still keep root?
Thank you so much for your hep !
TheStigx said:
Could you give me a link where there is a guide to install the stock recovery?
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You can also use this software to install the stock recovery. that way you don't loose settings by installing RUU
TheStigx said:
So if i do step 1-12 I will have normal phone? Just like I started or do i still keep root?
Thank you so much for your hep !
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yes you do 1-12 but you keep root. the only difference is that you will no longer have cwm for flashing, back up, and all other goodies. but once you run the ota and it installs you lose root.
but have a look at the link frederikh just posted. seems alot better than the current method. im reading over it now
Thanks for the answers!
I think i will go with the link frederikh gave me But God bless you Divine! Thank you for your help !
I know if I update i'll lose my root but what i'm not sure of is whether I'll lose my apps and game progress/saves etc.
Does anyone know?
Thanks
You won't lose any data or game progresses.
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Just got the OTA today, installed and running....I didn't lose the root. Everything else stays the same.
vennstrom said:
Just got the OTA today, installed and running....I didn't lose the root. Everything else stays the same.
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Really? When I updated from 2.3.2 to 2.3.4 I lost root so I assumed this would occur again (for the OTA update).
vennstrom said:
Just got the OTA today, installed and running....I didn't lose the root. Everything else stays the same.
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You lost root. You need to flash superuser again.
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yup...my bad, didn't check properly. I assumed it was not just by looking at superuser without trying.
Update: Rooted again now ^_^
vennstrom said:
yup...my bad, didn't check properly. I assumed it was not just by looking at superuser without trying.
Update: Rooted again now ^_^
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How did you rooted again? Just flash the su.zip?
Hey guys I have a question.
I received my ota update today. It says that it's downloaded and ready to install on reboot. However I want to save the update prior to this. Where is it located on the phone? Reason being that I have a custom kernel installed and I want to 1) revert to my stock 2.3.4 nand backup 2) install 2.3.6 update 3) root again 4) make a stock 2.3.6 nand backup 5) install custom kernel again and see if it works
I already tried searching with astro on / for update,aosp, 2.3.6 but so far no hits..
alexxdj said:
How did you rooted again? Just flash the su.zip?
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So I can DL the official OTA update and just flash the su.zip? Where to I download the appropriate su.zip file?
dccxviii said:
So I can DL the official OTA update and just flash the su.zip? Where to I download the appropriate su.zip file?
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alexxdj said:
How did you rooted again? Just flash the su.zip?
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Just flash the su from CWR
I got it from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17033340&postcount=819
Version 3 in the market is not stable according to some user
Naturally, I am rooted on 2.3.5, if I do this update, will I lose root access and/or will I not be able to update do to my skyrocket being rooted?
pillzburydoughboy said:
Naturally, I am rooted on 2.3.5, if I do this update, will I lose root access and/or will I not be able to update do to my skyrocket being rooted?
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Update will remove root and will fail if you have CWM installed, it requires stock recovery to apply (this is of course if you go the official update route).
Return to stock recovery
So how do I return to stock recovery from cwm? I'm not so concerned about this update, but I'd like to use stock ics when it comes out. ( keeping root, of course)
Jobuca said:
So how do I return to stock recovery from cwm? I'm not so concerned about this update, but I'd like to use stock ics when it comes out. ( keeping root, of course)
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Flash stock recovery with ODIN, make sure there is not a kernel in the .tar or the flash counter will trip.
Another question and sorry if I sound like a newb! Will I easily be able to reroot my phone?
pillzburydoughboy said:
Another question and sorry if I sound like a newb! Will I easily be able to reroot my phone?
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1 click unroot, 1 click root
pillzburydoughboy said:
Another question and sorry if I sound like a newb! Will I easily be able to reroot my phone?
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If you get familiar with ODIN (and heed the same warning I posted above) all you end up having to do is flash CWM recovery and then install superuser via an update zip file. You may have to flash it "2 - 3 times to get it to complete without error" I am not sure why it does that but I followed the instructions around here somewhere.
Many thanks to you guys! I had the same question.
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I want to remove CWM Recovery because I actually want to install an OTA update *gasp* and Clockworkmod seems to prevent it from installing correctly. My phone is NOT rooted and is running stock kernel and ROM. I will be willing to root if necessary though.
mhrazor1 said:
I want to remove CWM Recovery because I actually want to install an OTA update *gasp* and Clockworkmod seems to prevent it from installing correctly. My phone is NOT rooted and is running stock kernel and ROM. I will be willing to root if necessary though.
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Odin a stock ROM and that will do it. Then get your OTA update.
sfobrien said:
Odin a stock ROM and that will do it. Then get your OTA update.
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Get EZ recovery from the market. That will allow you to install the stock recovery.
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Get EZ recovery from the market. That will allow you to install the stock recovery.
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While this did work and install stock recovery, the OTA update still fails. So I just gave up on it, re-rooted, installed CWM again, and installed a custom kernel. Thank you anyway.
mhrazor1 said:
While this did work and install stock recovery, the OTA update still fails. So I just gave up on it, re-rooted, installed CWM again, and installed a custom kernel. Thank you anyway.
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any reason you ignored sfobriens post? fyi he is correct...odin back to stock then ota. not sure why you want to ota anyway. If you want the latest flash invisibleks vralhd stock rom.
droidstyle said:
any reason you ignored sfobriens post? fyi he is correct...odin back to stock then ota. not sure why you want to ota anyway. If you want the latest flash invisibleks vralhd stock rom.
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I didn't ignore it, I'm just not very comfortable with using Odin since that's how I killed my Galaxy Tab
Why would u want an OTA update? an OTA update could just as easily make your phone's bootloader locked again, etc.
cobija said:
Why would u want an OTA update? an OTA update could just as easily make your phone's bootloader locked again, etc.
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bootloader can be unlocked again even with OTA.