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.
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I've a rooted G2X that's still running 2.2. Just over an hour ago I got a "T-Mobile Update Service." notification. Surprisingly there's no talk of a fresh OTA here so I'm not really sure what's going on. Not that an OTA would work for me since I'm rooted, but I guess it's going to keep bugging me until I do something about it.
2.3.3 was all the rage about a month or so ago.
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Well, sure, but all news says that T-mobile stopped doing OTAs some time ago (started late July, stopped August 10). So why on earth is my phone just getting it now? I even do a manual check every so often and never got it. I didn't do anything special today that I can recall.
you should update it. you dont have nothing to lose. ifd your still rooted it will unroot but then you can flash nvflash recovery and go back to any rooted roms you want
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I've a rooted G2X that's still running 2.2. Just over an hour ago I got a "T-Mobile Update Service." notification. Surprisingly there's no talk of a fresh OTA here so I'm not really sure what's going on. Not that an OTA would work for me since I'm rooted, but I guess it's going to keep bugging me until I do something about it.
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No idea why you're just getting it now, but its the same one thats been out for a while now.
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No idea why you're just getting it now, but its the same one thats been out for a while now.
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T-Mobile removed the 2.3.3 update from their servers long ago. If you are getting something else it is new most likely. You can do an OTA if you are rooted as long as you have not modified any system files other than adding su and superuser.apk to get root..
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I've a rooted G2X that's still running 2.2. Just over an hour ago I got a "T-Mobile Update Service." notification. Surprisingly there's no talk of a fresh OTA here so I'm not really sure what's going on. Not that an OTA would work for me since I'm rooted, but I guess it's going to keep bugging me until I do something about it.
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So what was the update?
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Well, I let it update but of course it just booted into CWM instead of doing anything. I'm guessing I'd have to flash back to stock in order to apply any OTA. If someone tells me what to search for I can run logcat and see what it downloaded, but I didn't see anything obvious when I looked (and there's a lot of stuff in there).
I'm on froyo to and rooted but no clockwork mod recovery. I tried to check for an update and it said some kind of error i dont remember.
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Well, I let it update but of course it just booted into CWM instead of doing anything. I'm guessing I'd have to flash back to stock in order to apply any OTA. If someone tells me what to search for I can run logcat and see what it downloaded, but I didn't see anything obvious when I looked (and there's a lot of stuff in there).
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Check in the /cache directory for the zip file for tthe update. If you can, before you install it can you save a copy of the zip to a separate area on your sdcard and thn upload it to a file sharing site so others can download it? Once you install it, it gets deleted from the /cache directory but if you save it elsewhere those copies will be saved.
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Well, I let it update but of course it just booted into CWM instead of doing anything. I'm guessing I'd have to flash back to stock in order to apply any OTA. If someone tells me what to search for I can run logcat and see what it downloaded, but I didn't see anything obvious when I looked (and there's a lot of stuff in there).
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Yes, you need to be on stock recovery and your phone's system partition must be stock. LG stores some OTAs very differently than other vendors.
Do a backup of your phone first to preserve the OTA image. It might be in the cache but it might be elsewhere. If you wouldn't mind giving me a link to the system and cache images I can try to find the OTA and see what it is for.
I just got the 2.3.3 ota update about 2 weeks ago which i thought was real late also. I used to check for the update and i would always get an error too. i was rooted in stock froyo for tmobiles g2x (LG P999DW). I didnt have to re-root the phone and last night i just flashed clockworkmod recovery and flashed the 1.55ghz overclocking kernel on to the 2.3.3 that i got from the ota update.
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I just got the 2.3.3 ota update about 2 weeks ago which i thought was real late also. I used to check for the update and i would always get an error too. i was rooted in stock froyo for tmobiles g2x (LG P999DW). I didnt have to re-root the phone and last night i just flashed clockworkmod recovery and flashed the 1.55ghz overclocking kernel on to the 2.3.3 that i got from the ota update.
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Did you flash roms and then restore an old backup? That backup could have had the OTA on it and you did not notice it before. T-Mobile pulled the OTA months ago (was available less than two weeks). Doesn't seem likely it was pushed to you recently.
if anyone gets the rumored new update coming tonight/tomarrow, and takes it succesfully. make sure your rooted, and have adb setup, and access to a computer..then please pm me. thanks.
TO BE ABLE TO TAKE AN OTA. YOU CAN BE BOOTED. BUT YOU MUST:
have stock recovery...it can flashed with odin. see here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19760508
you must also have all bloatware. INTACT.and i suggest NOT FROZEN.
if you lose root .....you can easily re-root. with odin. by flashing cwm recovery.tar in doin......then booting to cwm recovery and flashing...the superuser.zip...see here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19223405
I forgot to get back to you a few days ago, sorry (I was busy, new kid on the way and working on the house like crazy). When I did get a chance to look at my phone, the update was gone.
I will see what I can do with this update, but I am not going to install it till everyone else has I need my phone too much to let ATT screw it up, I will however, try to get the download.
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TO BE ABLE TO TAKE AN OTA. YOU CAN BE ROOTED. BUT YOU MUST:
have stock recovery...it can flashed with odin.... you must also have all bloatware INTACT (NOT FROZEN)...
you must also not have removed any of ciq.
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your last bullet (not have removed any CIQ) means anyone wanting to take update CANNOT have the UCLA3 rom/kernel/modem installed as well... correct? (ATT OTA, cd's, or yours since all of these have CIQ removed already). Do we need to be on a stock UCKJ2 like we did for last week's OTA to work... or will stock UCKK1 (your stock CWM KK1) accept update? If not, is there a UCKJ2 CWM rom/kernel zip package?
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your last bullet (not have removed any CIQ) means anyone wanting to take update CANNOT have the UCLA3 rom/kernel/modem installed as well... correct? (ATT OTA, cd's, or yours since all of these have CIQ removed already). Do we need to be on a stock UCKJ2 like we did for last week's OTA to work... or will stock UCKK1 (your stock CWM KK1) accept update? If not, is there a UCKJ2 CWM rom/kernel zip package?
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no i mean if your on kk1 or kj2 and tamper with the ciq files. it may prevent you from recieving it..... or mabye not..since ucla3 is ciq free.... hard to say . but i removed that from the op. hoping this update works lol with no data issues. but im sure there will be some bugs
if i had a skyrocket id probobly odin the kj2 stock tar, and wait for the ota...once atleast one person confirmed it was pushing out.
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I'm restoring my phone to stock now, and will wait for an OTA
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Making a nandroid backup as I type this.
Flashed back to stock recovery in anticipation, but no update just yet....as of about 10:30pm Eastern time...
I've been checking still nothing.
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He guys i got a ques ...i have rooted my atrix 2...now if we get an ota update i cannot do it because i have rooted and maybe some files have been modified by sulercharger script or some other app....so it i clear my user data from the settings-privacy then will it remove my root and make my phone like stock new...i have never installed any custom rom
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He guys i got a ques ...i have rooted my atrix 2...now if we get an ota update i cannot do it because i have rooted and maybe some files have been modified by sulercharger script or some other app....so it i clear my user data from the settings-privacy then will it remove my root and make my phone like stock new...i have never installed any custom rom
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Wiping won't unroot I don't think, but root should not affect the update. You will lose it when you update, but there will probably be a way we can make some changes before the update to avoid that.
The supercharger script might be an issue but probably not. It should have an option to unsupercharge anyways, but you should be fine without it.
The update will check to make sure you have not deleted any of the bloat that is not removable without root. so if you have done that your best bet would be to fxz back to stock if it will not update.
Nopes....didnt remove any bloatware....ok so wont that brick my phone as uts rooted...i read somwhere in xda forum that an atrix 2 was soft bricked because the guy rooted
Normally if you are rooted and download and install an OTA update you will lose root. I always have. However, this handy free app has been tested and it says it will preserve your root if you OTA update. Check it out here: OTA Rootkeeper
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Normally if you are rooted and download and install an OTA update you will lose root. I always have. However, this handy free app has been tested and it says it will preserve your root if you OTA update. Check it out here: OTA Rootkeeper
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that won't work for the ICS update. at least with the leaked international ones. No it won't brick you, you will just loose your root. If you wan't the updated to stay rooted, don't do it right away and give us a few days to figure out how to keep it.
Even if you did softbrick you could almost certainly fxz back to stock.
Thanx alot sir..... i wont update until an official update or till we get a fully working ics custom....no hurries
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
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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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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!
Just wondering if the latest update from Verizon can still be rooted and unlocked with the current methods. Thanks.
Had the same question
whitlecj said:
Just wondering if the latest update from Verizon can still be rooted and unlocked with the current methods. Thanks.
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Tried Noxious Ninja's method from here, but no longer working for me after the VRALHE update. Looking at the original thread, it looks like someone did get it to work, though.
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Tried Noxious Ninja's method from here, but no longer working for me after the VRALHE update. Looking at the original thread, it looks like someone did get it to work, though.
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Whether it still works or not I don't know. If it doesn't will have to wait for new exploit. This is why if you want to root and unlock you should NEVER take an OTA. You will eventually catch one that leaves you stuck on stock indefinitely until another exploit is found. EVO 4G LTE has already been locked back down with an OTA. All the releases are available as rooted rom and when firmware update is available the devs will modify it to make safe to flash. If you find yourself locked down only option I know of is to send it to Josh and spend the $60 to have it JTAGed back to older firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941334
Yes it works on the new ota. I rooted the new ota using that method this morning
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Ez unlock still work too?
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Ez unlock still work too?
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Yes I actually locked the boot loader before I accepted the ota, then rerooted and unlocked boot loader with ez unlock. Worked perfectly
Hit me up on Gtalk if u need help @musclehead84
Thanks guys. I am picking up a new phone from a guy and I am not sure if he has been accepting the OTA's. Just wanted to make sure I will be able to unlock and root it. Thanks.
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Thanks guys. I am picking up a new phone from a guy and I am not sure if he has been accepting the OTA's. Just wanted to make sure I will be able to unlock and root it. Thanks.
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1. [ROOT][TOOL][VRALHD][VRALG7] SuperSU Root w/ Out Flashing worked perfectly to root the latest VRALHE OTA update.
2. VZW GS3 EZ-Unlock (Bootloader) Version 1.2 worked perfectly to unlock the bootloader on the latest VRALHE OTA update.
3. EZ-Recovery for VZW Galaxy S3 Version 2.2 worked perfectly to flash TWRP recovery on the latest VRALHE OTA update.
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1. [ROOT][TOOL][VRALHD][VRALG7] SuperSU Root w/ Out Flashing worked perfectly to root the latest VRALHE OTA update.
2. VZW GS3 EZ-Unlock (Bootloader) Version 1.2 worked perfectly to unlock the bootloader on the latest VRALHE OTA update.
3. EZ-Recovery for VZW Galaxy S3 Version 2.2 worked perfectly to flash TWRP recovery on the latest VRALHE OTA update.
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This worked perfectly! Anyone with the latest update from Verizon, should try this method! It really works
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Just so Im 100% sure before I do something I'll regret, if I accept the OTA update that was released a couple of weeks ago (?) I will still be able to root and unlock my phone later correct?
Ive been deferring the update for a while now and while I dont mind continuing to do that, I wouldnt mind not doing that as well.
I havent rooted or unlocked my phone yet so Im still running the same software that the phone came with way back in July.
Also, does this update alter the way Google searches? I vaguely remember Google losing a lawsuit regarding the way the search bar searches everything on the phone + the internet, but it may be much too soon for that to have any effect on current software.
So far can still root and unlock. Never know what the next one will bring. And yes Google Search was handicapped 2 or 3 updates ago.
i'm having trouble installing my update. i locked my bootloader via ez unlock, and flashed bkac to the stock recovery via ez recovery.
i ran the OTA update, downloaded fine, but when it installs, it fails half way during the install? anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
i'm rooted via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709 , and i have google wallet installed.
do i need to unroot and uninstall wallet inorder for this update to install?
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So far can still root and unlock. Never know what the next one will bring. And yes Google Search was handicapped 2 or 3 updates ago.
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Maybe I wont update then since Im still running the software from June 15 2012.
Although I never use the search feature, and Im sure to lose it should I go to JB...
sooperwill said:
i'm having trouble installing my update. i locked my bootloader via ez unlock, and flashed bkac to the stock recovery via ez recovery.
i ran the OTA update, downloaded fine, but when it installs, it fails half way during the install? anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
i'm rooted via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709 , and i have google wallet installed.
do i need to unroot and uninstall wallet inorder for this update to install?
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The update will not install with Google Wallet installed. If you have a nandroid without it, you can revert back to that and update with no worries.
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I flashed back to stock via Odin. From what I understand the phone has to be completely stock to except and complete ota, so that means wallet is a no go.
Like I said flashed back to stock, took the update went through fine rerooted using noxious ninja and unlocked via ez:thumbup: unlock 1.2
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