Will I have to unroot my RAZR Maxx hd in order to receive the ota jellybean update? I have the stock rom still. used titanium backup to freeze some bloat. And have installed safe strap and ran a custom recovery So with all that done will I still receive the update?
DizzyFox said:
I have the stock rom still. used titanium backup to freeze some bloat.
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I suggest you unfreeze bloatware before applying the OTA as some OTAs do check for pre-requisites and bloatware currently installed might be part of these pre-requisites.
madmonkey57 said:
I suggest you unfreeze bloatware before applying the OTA as some OTAs do check for pre-requisites and bloatware currently installed might be part of these pre-requisites.
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Thanks I'll unfreeze all of the bloat ware I also forgot I had done the tether hack where I used the editor to change the values to make the tether app work. Should I also set that backwhen the time come for the ota roll out?
DizzyFox said:
Thanks I'll unfreeze all of the bloat ware I also forgot I had done the tether hack where I used the editor to change the values to make the tether app work. Should I also set that backwhen the time come for the ota roll out?
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For that particular hack, I don't know for sure. But it's probably a good idea to revert to a state as close as possible to stock.
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I just got a D2G and have 2 questions:
1) Is there a system app removal program like for the droid. Which system apps can be safely removed to speed it up?I'm not in love with MotoBlur
2) If I flash the custom ROM on it and then have to flaSH the original will the phone still be unlocked?
To get rid of all the Blur crap, your going to need to flash a custom rom. However, as far as it being unlocked, I am not sure if SBFing would effect that. It will unroot it for sure, which can be easily redone. Not sure how easy it would be to reunlock though.
jb0072009 said:
I just got a D2G and have 2 questions:
1) Is there a system app removal program like for the droid. Which system apps can be safely removed to speed it up?I'm not in love with MotoBlur
2) If I flash the custom ROM on it and then have to flaSH the original will the phone still be unlocked?
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Two ways to go right now (as there is really only one truly D2G custom rom)
Flash Fission which has been DeBlurred.
Or
Stick with the Stock and Freeze the programs using Titanium Backup or the DeBlur script
I suggest the Titanium route if you choose this one as you will be able to unfreeze them easily if and when there is another official OTA update made available.
The Official updates will not install if you remove or rename the blur files so it is safer to simply freeze them and unfreeze them whenever you need to update.
Fission is a pretty good rom though and I suggest you give it a shot.
Just be sure to make a nandroid backup of the stock rom in case you want to go back.
And be sure to clear Cache and Data during the Fission flash or you will get a boot loop.
Hi all,
I used Titanium Backup to remove bloatware apps from my rooted 6210. Will this modification affect the ICS update? will it give me an error message or will it just install these bloatware apps back? Thanks in advance!
PS I heard the update is coming in September...LOL
To be safe I would recommend that you reinstall all the apps you uninstalled. I mean, it should be ok, but I always like to be safe rather then sorry..
And September 2013 got it
vamp6x6x6x said:
To be safe I would recommend that you reinstall all the apps you uninstalled. I mean, it should be ok, but I always like to be safe rather then sorry..
And September 2013 got it
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Not this. When ICS comes along you'll want to do a complete wipe and start from scratch. The process of rooting should prevent OTA updates, so if you want the stock ICS you'll have to unroot first. I'll wait it out for someone to build rooted ICS builds.
Dunno if that will hold for the SGT+. Previous devices I've gotten on rooted devices just broke root. (TF101 comes to mind) Could be different for Sammy. But then we all did full backups before rooting....right?
I think that it will not matter what you have installed or uninstalled. M major updates like those will wipe everything and probably could not be done on OTA.
I would advice to do backup of your personal data only. If you restore a full backup of hc on ics you will got a bootloop.
Root should not prevent updates at all, but we will lose it. But probably we can use the same steps to take it back an the same update file.
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You'll have no problems updating through Kies but it will wipe everything. Not sure if an OTA will even be put out for those who bought it through a carrier or if everyone will have to update through Kies. I believe AT&T is forcing everyone to update their GSII to ICS through Kies. We will also most likely lose the ability to root until someone fixes it in ICS which shouldn't take too long.
jesusdiedforyourroms said:
Hi all,
I used Titanium Backup to remove bloatware apps from my rooted 6210. Will this modification affect the ICS update? will it give me an error message or will it just install these bloatware apps back? Thanks in advance!
PS I heard the update is coming in September...LOL
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based on my experience, it doesn't matter what bloatware you delete, it'll all be back with a vengeance in the update. Things related to your apps and data shouldn't be wiped, but you will lose root and have to wait for the talented folks here to figure out how to re-root.
I've looked around a bit, and while I've seen a few threads from a while back of folks complaining about the issue, I was wondering if we had any sort of fix? Currently I am unable to install any OTAs on my phone, and it's getting annoying. The phone is constantly reminding me of the OTAs, but after installing, they fail when CWM kicks in. Removing ROM Manager didn't help. Do I have to do a factory wipe for this to work?
Do you want the OTA or to stay off it? To take the OTA Odin back to stock but make a backup first with CWM or titanium. Then after the update re-root and restore your apps.
Or freeze the SDM.APK in titanium backup to stop it from pestering you and stay off the OTA track for good. Which is what I'd recommend. You don't need OTA on a Samsung. Unlike Motorola devices we don't need the kernel updates from official ota. We can rip those out and just install the kernel by itself. So using OTA is pointless unless you want verizon garbage apps and a locked bootloader. Cause you know when JB drops they will remove the ability to use the aboot and block us from unlocking most likely.
TLR
If you want stock. Odin. If you want to stay custom freeze SDM or remove it
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Hello,
I just got the htc one s. It currently have 4.1.1 sw. I wanted to stay with the stock Rom, but remove all the bloatware. I rooted the phone and installed titanium backup. I was able to removed all the unwanted apps, but everyone I restart the phone, all the apps come back. Anyone know why and how to fix?
quan3t said:
Hello,
I just got the htc one s. It currently have 4.1.1 sw. I wanted to stay with the stock Rom, but remove all the bloatware. I rooted the phone and installed titanium backup. I was able to removed all the unwanted apps, but everyone I restart the phone, all the apps come back. Anyone know why and how to fix?
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ROM Cleaner is great at this. easy and quick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676752
Took a while to find all the naming for the apps I wanted to remove using RomCleaner, but was able to get rid of them now. Thanks
I came here to ask a similar question. I just got a new One S black and its up to date. Unlocked the bootloader, rooted and installed CWM recovery.
I can run rooted apps fine, but I cant install busybox and ota rootkeeper isnt protecting my root when I ask it. Titanium backup shows its removing apps when I delete them, but when I reboot, theyre back again. Did I do something wrong when rooting, or is this just how the stock rom is?
redspeed said:
I came here to ask a similar question. I just got a new One S black and its up to date. Unlocked the bootloader, rooted and installed CWM recovery.
I can run rooted apps fine, but I cant install busybox and ota rootkeeper isnt protecting my root when I ask it. Titanium backup shows its removing apps when I delete them, but when I reboot, theyre back again. Did I do something wrong when rooting, or is this just how the stock rom is?
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Install busybox flashable zip through recovery.
To remove stock apps, use RomCleaner as mentioned by @tivofool in the above posts.
Not quite sure how I should proceed to undo some of the stuff I've done, I should have froze some system apps, but I deleted them, how should I go about upgrading to the latest OTA from 5.0.2?
Well the easiest thing would to be to flash a stock rom then upgrade, if you don't care about root.
Easiest method would to use Samsung Smart Switch, it will back up your data flash new firmware, doesn't matter if you deleted things or not, and then restore your data.
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Not quite sure how I should proceed to undo some of the stuff I've done, I should have froze some system apps, but I deleted them, how should I go about upgrading to the latest OTA from 5.0.2?
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you do realize once you go to latest OTA you lose root AND your deleted system apps will re-install.
jucytec said:
you do realize once you go to latest OTA you lose root AND your deleted system apps will re-install.
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I do realize that, but I have been debating whether I should or not, whether that update is significant enough or not, what do you guys think?
TactiKs said:
I do realize that, but I have been debating whether I should or not, whether that update is significant enough or not, what do you guys think?
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all depends on what you can't live without.
For me ability to uninstall system apps, and run 3minit battery mod.
some others here mentioned ad blocker, which i also like, but it tends to block too much sometimes, right now I have a dozen+ websites that do not work with ad blocker on.
if losing root takes away the ability to __________, it is not worth it.