ok so i am rooted and i downloaded the firmware yesterday night before work. today i tried intalling the firmware update ota and it just reboted to the android with the red triangle. so i turned it off and back on and it said updatefailed....
where do i find the firmware update that was downloaded? and how do i make the update work? do i have to change the build.prop to the original one and all other files i changed? and do i use voodoo ota root keeper to temp unroot and then do the update?
ok got it rooted again. used debugfsroot
i managed to update using the download on the asus website nut now i have lost root and voodoo wont restore it. i tried sparkyroot.apk and it finds the exploit but then i back up an app and when i return it still asks me to back up an app. anyone know how to re root?
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Ok, I am running a stock rom rooted with no frozen apps. When the OTA tries to install it fails and when I try to use Kies the message " Your device does not support the update of Software via Kies" or something to that effect. I have never unlocked the bootloader, flash roms, or installed custom recovery on the device. Could I possible use OTA rootkeeper to unroot then check to see if the OTA will download and install? If that does work would I be able to restore the root? I don't guess I really need the new OTA but I want to be able to get JB when it comes out without any issues. Just as an added not it is currently running VRALG7...
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Ok, I am running a stock rom rooted with no frozen apps. When the OTA tries to install it fails and when I try to use Kies the message " Your device does not support the update of Software via Kies" or something to that effect. I have never unlocked the bootloader, flash roms, or installed custom recovery on the device. Could I possible use OTA rootkeeper to unroot then check to see if the OTA will download and install? If that does work would I be able to restore the root? I don't guess I really need the new OTA but I want to be able to get JB when it comes out without any issues. Just as an added not it is currently running VRALG7...
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Same happend to me. I had to unroot downgrade from the HD to G7 or G1. Then i could do the update to HE.
I need to go in the opposite direction many guides explaining how to downgrade the firmware to attain root. Got my tablet back from RMA with Jb .16 on it and downgraded, rooted, installed rootkeeper, flash, etc with no problems. Now I can't get back to JB. Everything I'm trying is erasing the root. I'm using stock firmware and still locked device. Should I be waiting for the device to get OTA updates back to JB? Every time I check it says no update. Are there simplified versions of the upgrade firmware that won'tt do clean installs and erase everything?
This is basically what I've been doing
-downgrade to firmware and use debugfsroot with no problems
-install rootkeeper, do a back up of root
-transfer any version of stock JB to the memory card (I've tried it with renaming the file or leaving it and letting the OS detect the upgrade)
-go back into rootkeep or SU and root is gone
There a step I'm missing? I've been at this for 5hrs now and have no problem feeling sheepish if there is a setting somewhere I need to check on.
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I need to go in the opposite direction many guides explaining how to downgrade the firmware to attain root. Got my tablet back from RMA with Jb .16 on it and downgraded, rooted, installed rootkeeper, flash, etc with no problems. Now I can't get back to JB. Everything I'm trying is erasing the root. I'm using stock firmware and still locked device. Should I be waiting for the device to get OTA updates back to JB? Every time I check it says no update. Are there simplified versions of the upgrade firmware that won'tt do clean installs and erase everything?
This is basically what I've been doing
-downgrade to firmware and use debugfsroot with no problems
-install rootkeeper, do a back up of root
-transfer any version of stock JB to the memory card (I've tried it with renaming the file or leaving it and letting the OS detect the upgrade)
-go back into rootkeep or SU and root is gone
There a step I'm missing? I've been at this for 5hrs now and have no problem feeling sheepish if there is a setting somewhere I need to check on.
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I suspected you do a full firmware upgrade which will wipe out your root (the one you download from Asus site is full firmware version), doesn't matter if you have OTA root keeper. You need to follow the incremental upgrade using dlpkgfile method can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803090
Wow that was fast. Thank you. I think I've hit my point for the night in trying to get it to work. I've booked marked the page and will give this a shot tomorrow.
Hey guys, so I rooted using motoroot (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2442585) and I just unrooted using the same app. I'm told, however, that I need to have stock recovery in order to get the OTA update without having a bootloop. How do I do this?
This is for a Droid Maxx btw.
Thanks for the help
I'm looking for the same answer. Accidentally tried installing the ota and ended up in a boot loop. Ended up having to freeze the ota apk in the 30 seconds I had between reboots. Would like to take the ota and re root using the new method but I'm not sure if I just have to unroot or if I have to flash anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450702
The above link will help. You will need to flash back to stock. The PwnMyMoto root exploit removes your stock recovery.
Hi
I rooted my note 10.1 quite a while ago (~6 months)
The method I used I believe was to flash something using odin (cf autoroot? )
Anyway I just wanted root to be able to use sixaxis but was happy with stock rom. Now it has been a while I would like to update my rom and by going into su and temporarily disabling root I can download the ota update from samsung but it refuses to install.
Does anyone know a way to just remove root so I can install the ota update and not have to do a full wipe.
I could download the rom from samsungfirmware and then install with odin but would that not require a wipe?
Thanks
Does anyone know a way to just remove root so I can install the ota update
No suggest you use Kies .
I recently rooted my phone yesterday actually with towelroot by just flashing to the ncg kernel stock then rooting then back up to the NK2 kernel stock. My phone wont update to the new Lolipop update with root so i unrooted by simpily using the SU app and it claims my phone is unrooted but when i try to update the OTA it downloads and reboots my phone syas its ready to install then it says no changes were made cannot install update at this time or something like that.