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[Q] One Final Check

So, I'm currently using Tweaked V2.2 (non EXT4 version) and I'm looking to go to Tweaked V3.3. After doing all the reading, this appears to be the order I should be following (does this look correct?)
i) Backed up apps + user data via Titanium Backup (completed)
ii) Download all necessary ODIN/root files (completed)
1) Odin back to FP1
2) Do a factory reset
3) Do OTA Updates
4) Odin to Tweaked V3.3
5) Use Lost Root fix (if necessary)
6) Restore Apps and user data via Titanium Backup
7) Use Deodoxed app (is this recommended? I've heard mixed reviews on whether it actually makes the phone run faster or not)
Maybe this is a dumb question (maybe it's a good question) but do I need to unroot before doing any of this? And if so, how would I go about doing it?
If I missed anything, please let me know! I don't want to screw up my phone if I don't have to. Thanks, guys!

jbrookley said:
So, I'm currently using Tweaked V2.2 (non EXT4 version) and I'm looking to go to Tweaked V3.3. After doing all the reading, this appears to be the order I should be following (does this look correct?)
i) Backed up apps + user data via Titanium Backup (completed)
ii) Download all necessary ODIN/root files (completed)
1) Odin back to FP1
2) Do a factory reset
3) Do OTA Updates
4) Odin to Tweaked V3.3
5) Use Lost Root fix (if necessary)
6) Restore Apps and user data via Titanium Backup
7) Use Deodoxed app (is this recommended? I've heard mixed reviews on whether it actually makes the phone run faster or not)
Maybe this is a dumb question (maybe it's a good question) but do I need to unroot before doing any of this? And if so, how would I go about doing it?
If I missed anything, please let me know! I don't want to screw up my phone if I don't have to. Thanks, guys!
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no need to backup apps, as you can re-download them from the market - but I would backup data via TiBu.
most folks recommend to ODIN back to STOCK, and then take the OTAs (FP1 and then FP5) - no need to factory reset after ODIN.
the Tweaked 3.0 is already deodexed, so no worries there. no need to "unroot", as flashing via ODIN takes care of that.

If anything, odexed is possibly a bit faster, but it's really difficult to theme an odexed rom. In practice, the speed is on first boot and on app launch, since odexing is basically just pre-caching the app.

If you use "Tweaked v3.0 ROM + 0302 CWM recovery" it will come out rooted and it should stick with no problems.

Tweaked 3.3?

Crap7126 said:
Tweaked 3.3?
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I'm so confused!?
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[Q] About rooting, unrooting, custom rom

Hay. I plan on unrooting my phone and re-rooting my phone then installing a custom Rom, but I have a few questions along the way.
Why unroot and reroot?
- My copy+paste is messed up (phone freezes and crashes when trying to copy a text)
- Looked online and was told to change the clipboard permission under data
- Used a root browser and it showed "data" folder as empty and told me that I did not have root access
- downloaded a root checker program and said that My root was messed up
- noticed a few other programs that requires root, no longer recogonizes that I have root access.
- Yes I am up to date with Superuser app.
So that is why I am going to unroot and reroot my phone.
So here are my questions
1. Do I have to reset the flash counter if I am going to reroot my phone?
2. I have Titanium Backup and I dont want to lose my game data, or data on my "notes" app. Would I do a user app + system data batch backup? or would backing up my system data and restoring it mess up the settings on my phone?
3. Is this the correct process? "unroot phone > root phone and flash stock rom (route66 is the title of rooted stock rom) > flash custom rom?
Sorry, on my first smartphone and dont want to mess anything up (like it seems I already had)

Schism169 said:
1. Do I have to reset the flash counter if I am going to reroot my phone?
2. I have Titanium Backup and I dont want to lose my game data, or data on my "notes" app. Would I do a user app + system data batch backup? or would backing up my system data and restoring it mess up the settings on my phone?
3. Is this the correct process? "unroot phone > root phone and flash stock rom (route66 is the title of rooted stock rom) > flash custom rom?
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1. No - the only way the flash counter is tripped if you flash custom software in odin.
2. It's ok to backup user app + system data But do NOT restore system data. Safest option is to let Playstore restore first. From TB, choose “Restore missing apps with data” and do "app only" then do it again “Restore missing apps with data” and do "data only." More detail here.
3. I don't see why you would need to flash to route66 to return to stock rom - just Wipe data/factory reset, then wipe cache partition and then wipe dalvik cache (under advanced menu).

Sorry my understanding was that when you flash a rom with root access then your phone is rooted.
So is the process, root your phone > and flash custom rom?
Flashing the custom rom is the only flashing I have to do?
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Schism169 said:
Sorry my understanding was that when you flash a rom with root access then your phone is rooted.
So is the process, root your phone > and flash custom rom?
Flashing the custom rom is the only flashing I have to do?
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The Process
1) Full TB Backup (recommended)
2) Root
3) Unlock Bootloader ** Update ** I used EZ Unlock 1.2 found here.
4) Flash Recovery (see below)
5) Do a Nandroid Backup and save to your external SD card and optionally your pc
5b) ** Update ** Back up IMEI. The how-to is here.
6) Factory Reset & Clear Cashes (see previous post)
7) Flash new rom
Other flashes
You will need to flash a custom recovery - it is from this interface that you flash your new rom. The easiest way to do this is to download the Playstore App EZ Recovery and choose one of the options and Flash. Not essential, but if you want to get the most current cwm touch for the gs3 you can to go to the romManager site here and download for the Verizon SG3 (EZ Recovery can use a custom recovery not included in their package).

michael* said:
The Process
1) Full TB Backup (recommended)
2) Root
3) Unlock Bootloader (I used Playstore's EZ-Unlock (looks like the 1.3 bug is fixed)
4) Flash Recovery (see below)
5) Do a Nandroid Backup and save to you external SD card and optionally your pc
6) Factory Reset & Clear Cashes (see previous post)
7) Flash new rom
Other flashes
You will need to flash a custom recovery - it is from this interface that you flash your new rom. The easiest way to do this is to download the Playstore App EZ Recovery and choose one of the options and Flash. Not essential, but if you want to get the most current cwm touch for the gs3 you can to go to the romManager site here and download for the Verizon SG3 (EZ Recovery can use a custom recovery not included in their package).
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I wouldnt use the ez-unlock for the app store as 1.4 doesnt show if the bootloader is locked or unlocked (he hasnt corrected that yet). I would use 1.2, there is a post around here with a rootzwiki download link for it.

x714x said:
I wouldnt use the ez-unlock for the app store as 1.4 doesnt show if the bootloader is locked or unlocked (he hasnt corrected that yet). I would use 1.2, there is a post around here with a rootzwiki download link for it.
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Thanks for correcting me - I'm glad to know it's not fixed yet - I'll hold off my update on it.
The link to 1.2 can be found in this thread: here.

I left out one step - I backed up IMEI before flashing a new rom. The how-to is here.

is possible integrate apk's in firmware?

Hello everyone, I would like to restore often doing some apk in the rom that I have already installed, so if I do a factory data reset I find myself these integrated programs in the rom. I tried using Titanium Backup to create me an update zip but even if I flashed to restore the programs disappear. I remembered that you could do with titanium .... my questions are 2
1. if you can do it with titanium shown me step by step how to do?
2. there is a program to do these zip to flash that remain on forever?
thanks 1000

I don't know how to do that with Titanium Backup because i do not use it.
But you can make a flashable zip file of the (fresh flashed) firmware with cwm and integrate the apk's you want afterwards into the zip.
Maybe this gives you an idea.
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myabc said:
Hello everyone, I would like to restore often doing some apk in the rom that I have already installed, so if I do a factory data reset I find myself these integrated programs in the rom. I tried using Titanium Backup to create me an update zip but even if I flashed to restore the programs disappear. I remembered that you could do with titanium .... my questions are 2
1. if you can do it with titanium shown me step by step how to do?
2. there is a program to do these zip to flash that remain on forever?
thanks 1000
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Not tried on my Moto G (not really had the desire or need to deviate from stock), but on my rooted Tablet I use Titanium to
1 ) Integrate System App updates (e.g. Maps, Playstore etc) into the System partition - via the Batch Actions menu, under Move/Integrate.
2 ) Convert User Apps to System Apps - if you long press on the app on the app listing screen it shows a pop up menu - the last choice is 'Convert to system app'.

On my old phone I used RootExplorer and copied the file into the system and set the permissions. It might need a reboot after too. I didn't used it with updated apps but I prefer to keep things stock in that way.

[Q] How do I backup all my apps & data before firmware upgrade?

My lenovo a3500 tablet informs me that there is a 4.4.2 update available, but also that it will format the whole device...
Can I backup all my installed apps, data and settings with a single application, and restore them back after the update?

Bro official firmware do not delete apps or data..... You can go on updating it
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You Cant take nandroid back up without costum recovery

jumpjack said:
My lenovo a3500 tablet informs me that there is a 4.4.2 update available, but also that it will format the whole device...
Can I backup all my installed apps, data and settings with a single application, and restore them back after the update?
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is it telling you that it will format the whole device!! In case yes, then you need backup. otherwise i don't think we lose data with official firmware update. but maybe with major updates, like 4.0.1 to 4.4.2 or likewise....
to backup whole device like firmware/rom etc.... device needs to be rooted and custom recovery installed to restore back to old version/settings. but for only apps backup there are applications with root and without root options. i'm not sure that they take apps data backup too or not. maybe some apps. most make backup of .apk installation file only i think.
sometime after update device lag or anything similar.... then what mostly is recommended first is "factory reset". so that sure delete some data from phone. for that one need to backup apps etc in case needed.... and i believe there are app for backups with root and without roots.
hope, it helped.

need help - how to copy TWRP nandroid backup to device?

how to copy TWRP nandroid backup to device?
I need to restore and I don't know how to copy from my hdd to the phone.
The phone is not booting but I can get to twrp recovery.

Latest TWRP has MTP mode.

but it doesn't allow me to copy one of the backup files which is: data.ext4.win000 and it's 1.5GB

You'll need to give us more information.
Why did it fail? Why did your phone stop booting?

1. flashed bigxie_hammerhead_LRX21O-signed.zip
2. flashed CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5
3. booted fine but still had apps like Ti backup & TWRP not working due to root permissions
4. Went to recovery and performed Fix permission.
5. stuck in boot loop

gil80 said:
but it doesn't allow me to copy one of the backup files which is: data.ext4.win000 and it's 1.5GB
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I have had the same problem with my motox 14 the way I found around it was to copy the file to a different fold and use twrp file explore to move it to the back up folder. That has worked for me and a few others try it out it will work.

how can you copy using twrp while in recovery? are you able to access your PC from recovery?

gil80 said:
1. flashed bigxie_hammerhead_LRX21O-signed.zip
2. flashed CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5
3. booted fine but still had apps like Ti backup & TWRP not working due to root permissions
4. Went to recovery and performed Fix permission.
5. stuck in boot loop
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You'll need to factory reset then reflash the ROM
Fix permissions was not required here. You need titanium beta from his twitter feed.

ok i got the phone working and lost my data but I have it backed on PC.
I just see that 10GB is used but when I browse the phone using file explorer, the device is empty.... what??

Is it a known issue?
when the phone is connected to PC I see that 10GB is used but when I i browse the device it shows as empty

No. Do a full flash of userdata.img

Please explain
What would I achieve by flashing it?

gil80 said:
Please explain
What would I achieve by flashing it?
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A fix for your problem. I shouldn't really need to explain that.

Thanks!
I got it working now. Only need to figure out why it shows 16GB instead of 32 and why root permissions are not working

gil80 said:
Thanks!
I got it working now. Only need to figure out why it shows 16GB instead of 32 and why root permissions are not working
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Well the answer in the 100 other threads about space say that you must wipe data and cache.
Root should be fine, but as already mentioned, not with official titanium release.

I already did a wipe data and cache. So I don't understand why I still get this but I'll try again.
The Ti Backup link in the twitter feed is no longer valid, but for example, ES file explorer and clean master and also TWRP app are not performing as if they are rooted.
I'll try to re-install CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5

gil80 said:
I already did a wipe data and cache. So I don't understand why I still get this but I'll try again.
The Ti Backup link in the twitter feed is no longer valid, but for example, ES file explorer and clean master and also TWRP app are not performing as if they are rooted.
I'll try to re-install CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5
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ES doesn't work properly, correct. Not all apps have been updated to work with L yet either.
L is much more secure than KK. There are ways to root.
1) chain fire - makes small change in RAMdisk that allows sudaemon to work at boot
2)flash a permissive kernel - this lowers protection within selinux.
More apps work with the 2nd method, but still not all.
New titanium coming to play soon.
https://twitter.com/titaniumbackup