Is there a way to root my Nexus 5 without wiping the entire device? I've been looking around and all roads lead to unlocking the boot loader with adb, which wipes the device.
I remember on my GS2 & GS3 I could insert root into stock with just a couple of files, no flashing or adb.
Any help is appreciated.
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no there isnt. this question gets asked once a week.
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logicrulez said:
Is there a way to root my Nexus 5 without wiping the entire device? I've been looking around and all roads lead to unlocking the boot loader with adb, which wipes the device.
I remember on my GS2 & GS3 I could insert root into stock with just a couple of files, no flashing or adb.
Any help is appreciated.
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Fastboot, you use fastboot to unlock the bootloader and flash the custom recovery. And no there is no way without unlocking the bootloader. The reason unlocking the bootloader wipes the user data is for security so that someone can't steal the phone and then unlock it in order to steal your data.
Zepius said:
no there isnt. this question gets asked once a week.
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What internet provider are you with? If I had no internet connection for 6 days a week, i'd complain
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What internet provider are you with? If I had no internet connection for 6 days a week, i'd complain
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i see what you did there.
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Hi,
I bought my 32GB Black N5 unlocked from Google play, and upon installing a sim card, the 'My phone number' option in about phone simply shows eleven zeroes? This is preventing me from using the sim toolkit app, something I quite useful.
Anyone else experiencing this/know how to fix it? I have an unlocked boot loader, TWRP, Franco.kernel r24 and a rooted stock 4.4.2 ROM. I'm on T-Mobile UK. Other phone functions work completely fine.
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X10man
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I'd be interested to see what people suggest for solutions for this, my mum has this problem on her Xperia SP. Although for her it's not problematic problem as such, just an oddity.
It just reads the number programmed onto the sim. You just need to get the number written to your sim and you're fine. Wide issue, well documented on the internet
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Hi,
I bought my 32GB Black N5 unlocked from Google play, and upon installing a sim card, the 'My phone number' option in about phone simply shows eleven zeroes? This is preventing me from using the sim toolkit app, something I quite useful.
Anyone else experiencing this/know how to fix it? I have an unlocked boot loader, TWRP, Franco.kernel r24 and a rooted stock 4.4.2 ROM. I'm on T-Mobile UK. Other phone functions work completely fine.
Thanks,
X10man
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You can solve the problem with this app http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106490
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It just reads the number programmed onto the sim. You just need to get the number written to your sim and you're fine. Wide issue, well documented on the internet
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That would probably explain it, this sim is a replacement for my original mini sim, as the phone would not accept it cut down.
Thanks, x10man
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Braakie said:
You can solve the problem with this app http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106490
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Thanks, I'll try that
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Simply question. How can i extract the bootloader. Either directly from device(using adb) or by extracting the bootloader.img file? Any tools for this windows/linux?
Is there a reason you must get it from the device rather than from a factory image?
Was wondering the same thing...OP, the factory image is here and it has all the images in it:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/hammerhead-kot49h-factory-02006b99.tgz
I am aware of the stock image. What I want to do is extract the content of the .img file
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Ah ok. Yeah, you'll need to develop a method to do that.
Any pointers?
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Any pointers?
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You're going to have to decompile it. Then I'm not sure what you'll end up with.
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Any pointers?
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Not really given no one has managed to do it yet
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Sounds a bit dodgy if you ask me!
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Sounds a bit dodgy if you ask me!
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Nice if you wanna change the bootsplash.
Although it took alpharev to extract the hboot on the desire if you remember? I don't hold much hope when there's not so much to be gained.
If it controlled mtd layout, that would be of interest to me
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Nice if you wanna change the bootsplash.
Although it took alpharev to extract the hboot on the desire if you remember? I don't hold much hope when there's not so much to be gained.
If it controlled mtd layout, that would be of interest to me
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That is just what i want to do change the bootsplash. It might be above my ability tho. If i could just decompress the image and see what's inside i would have a better idea of if i can do it or not...but that is what i do not know what tool to use(if any) to decompress the image file...all of it might be over me but i figured i hav not heard anyone talk about it so i might as well start the conversation
Simple questions. T-Mobile only had the 16 GB version. So that's what I got. One back up cost me two gigs. Is it safe to store these on Google drive. If a bootloop happened. I could just push it over from my computer right? Is there a worst case scenario that would need it stored on the device?
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I push mine to my NAS for the same reasons. Just means no flashing on the bus to work.
Yeah you can push the backup to your device. You should use twrp or philz recovery though, not traditional cwm as cwm stores the backups in the wrong place.
You can even restore from otg
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I use twrp. Gonna free up some space now. Throw all the mods in there too. Why not. :thumbup:
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I have recently purchased a used Nexus 5 off Swappa and I am curious about unrooting the phone. The main reason I am curious about this is so I can receive the 4.4.3 update when it comes out. So I have 2 questions: 1) Do I need to unroot the phone in order for it to pick up the OTA update? 2) How do I go about unrooting the phone? I have read about many different ways and would like to know the best.
Thanks in advance!
Please go to Nexus 5 general forum. All your answers are in the sticky threads
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Keep the phone rooted and enjoy! And wait probably a couple days after the ota for a stock ROM or files to flash.
Ota's are for non nexus owners.
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I'm with kj. Roll with man. Only reason I'd unroot it is if the person that did it didn't do it right and your having connection issues etc. Enjoy ur new to u hammerhead
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If you want to unroot you will have to remove all of the necessary files, which can be a pain if you have other things such as busybox installed. And no, you will not be able to apply an OTA if you have modified the firmware (from my experience, having root will block installation via the stock recovery).
The easiest way to restore your phone completely and be ready to accept OTAs is to restore the phone using a factory image found here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?csw=1
Unzip the file and open the .bat file to automatically flash the images, keep in mind that it will wipe your sdcard and factory reset your phone.
Will flashing the ROM when it comes out delete all my data? I'm a bit new to all this.
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Will flashing the ROM when it comes out delete all my data? I'm a bit new to all this.
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if i am wrong someone please correct me.
the OTA update does not delete any of your data.
as another user said you can download the current stock image from google server and flash it. it will delete your data.
you can download and open the stock image and fastboot flash system.img and boot.img. this way you are ready for OTA update but will keep your data.
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Will flashing the ROM when it comes out delete all my data? I'm a bit new to all this.
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That's why you should read the sticky thread in general. They answer every question you've asked in this thread. Please don't expect us to spoon feed you. Members spent a lot of time making this information available so please do them a courtesy and read it.
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rootSU said:
That's why you should read the sticky thread in general. They answer every question you've asked in this thread. Please don't expect us to spoon feed you. Members spent a lot of time making this information available so please do them a courtesy and read it.
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What this says ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Is there anyone from the UK who has had the OTA update for their Nexus 5?
I keep checking but it says I'm up to date.
I haven't modified anything, apart from activating the developer options.
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I havent recieved it yet
If you are that bothered you could just flash the factory images, this is XDA after all ? I flashed them on my UK N5 as soon as they came out
Hi. Yes I know that, but there has been some issues with doing it that way, although I'm tempted I'm not 100% confident. Give me a Windows / Linux PC / Laptop / Server any day Lol
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acedaz said:
Hi. Yes I know that, but there has been some issues with doing it that way, although I'm tempted I'm not 100% confident. Give me a Windows / Linux PC / Laptop / Server any day Lol
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Here is an idiot proof guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDfZXMJfSFQ, its not that hard. Unlock the bootloader first before you can do this.
Didn't realise it was THAT easy!! Will think about it. Thanks
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this resets you device not for me
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this resets you device not for me
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Yeah that's the main reason why I haven't done it.
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Even easier way to flash it should you choose to if you get bored waiting for the ota, is to use this.
http://www.wugfresh.com/
i used version 1.9.3
Did my Nexus 5 using this with no problems at all.
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Is there anyone from the UK who has had the OTA update for their Nexus 5?
I keep checking but it says I'm up to date.
I haven't modified anything, apart from activating the developer options.
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I updated my fathers Nexus 5 (locked boot loader, etc) manually. Just grab the OTA zip and adb sideload it through the stock recovery. No data was harmed during this update process.
I'm in uk, couldn't be bothered waiting so even with my crap knowledge of well pretty much anything, I side loaded the ota and didn't lose any data and to be honest it was pretty easy to do
If you're still locked, sideload the ota file. If unlocked flash the factory image. There's no point waiting IMO
I sideload the ota without any problems. The only thing I would say is that you have to be patient as some steps take longer than you might expect: wiping the cache took about 20 minutes for some reason on my nexus 5 but only a couple of seconds on my nexus 7. Be patient at each stage and it's a painless upgrade.
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I updated my fathers Nexus 5 (locked boot loader, etc) manually. Just grab the OTA zip and adb sideload it through the stock recovery. No data was harmed during this update process.
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Is there a tutorial thread/video on how to do that? I havent fiddled with my android OS for many years now... don't want to mess it up!