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[Q] What happens with root?

Hello XDA members
I was wondering, when the new android sandwich comes out, and you got a rooted and S-off HTC sensation. But not custom rom. What will happen to the root and S-off when you update to the new android sandwich?
Thanks

Want to know too ahehhe

We'll lose root but keep S-OFF I'd imagine

Cool, thanks for the answer

I have perm-rooted my Sensation and i was wondering when the new official update from HTC comes out will i be able to install it automatically like when i was not rooted or because i am S-Off it will not let me?
Thanks

i could be wrong but no you wont be able to perform an ota update. im only saying this because the last ota update failed because the update looks for the stock recovery in order to update the system. seeing that you are rooted i assume you have cwm installed and if this ota update does indeed look for the stock recovery than it will fail. the only way around this is to either instal a stock ruu and lose root or instal the stock recovery and again lose root. either way you are gonna lose root.

Could you give me a link where there is a guide to install the stock recovery?

TheStigx said:
Could you give me a link where there is a guide to install the stock recovery?
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If you check the development forum, there's a thread which has shipped roms in it. Flash one to restore stock recovery.
Panagiotis. said:
I have perm-rooted my Sensation and i was wondering when the new official update from HTC comes out will i be able to install it automatically like when i was not rooted or because i am S-Off it will not let me?
Thanks
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Depends. If you're just running the original rom which came on your phone but rooted, it should still allow ota updates, but you'll lose root (but keep s-off). If you're on a custom rom you won't receive an ota.
To OP, if you ran an ruu or ota of ice cream sandwich, as eddy says, you'll lose root but remain s-off. That said, a custom ics rom will probably come out weeks/months before an official HTC update

Well, when we got the RUU, we can extract and repack to our rooted ROM

It should be this if i am right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559

satanevil said:
Well, when we got the RUU, we can extract and repack to our rooted ROM
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That's true, but we'll see aosp ics roms long before we have sense skinned ones, as cyanogen et al don't need to spend months porting frameworks.
TheStigx said:
It should be this if i am right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
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That's the one

BTaylor927 said:
Depends. If you're just running the original rom which came on your phone but rooted, it should still allow ota updates, but you'll lose root (but keep s-off). If you're on a custom rom you won't receive an ota.
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Yes I am running the stock rom so I will receive the pta update. I know that I will lose root in every scenario if I install the stock ROM one way or another.
Thanks.
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So i just flash one of these roms, without deleting cache or doing a reset ?

not entirely true. i was rooted on stock rom when the last ota rolled out. i tried installing it but it failed. i did a lil search here and found a few people mentioned that it failed due to cwm and they also mentioned that you should try flashing back the stock recovery. i tried that and it installed successfully. easy way to get the stock recovery is to instal the correct ruu of your rom. but as we all know it wipes out everything off your phone. i did find this guide which the stigx has asked for (sorry buddy didnt see you there ) which shows you how to extracted the stock recovery off of the ruu and than flash it back to your phone.
check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648

Divine flaw said:
not entirely true. i was rooted on stock rom when the last ota rolled out. i tried installing it but it failed. i did a lil search here and found a few people mentioned that it failed due to cwm and they also mentioned that you should try flashing back the stock recovery. i tried that and it installed successfully. easy way to get the stock recovery is to instal the correct ruu of your rom. but as we all know it wipes out everything off your phone. i did find this guide which the stigx has asked for (sorry buddy didnt see you there ) which shows you how to extracted the stock recovery off of the ruu and than flash it back to your phone.
check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648
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But if I need to follow your guide i have to have the OTA update file,w hich haven't comet out yet. What do i Do? It seems so hard to remove root and custom recovery :'(
But thank for your answer !

well the general idea is to get your stock recovery back without losin your data. so really all you need to do is flash your stock recovery reboot your phone and check for updates. if updates are available: system>about phone>check for updates, download the update and install. it shouldnt fail cause you have stock recovery instead of cwm. in short just do the top part of the guide and skip the rest cause you dont have the updates file on your computer.

So if i do step 1-12 I will have normal phone? Just like I started or do i still keep root?
Thank you so much for your hep !

TheStigx said:
Could you give me a link where there is a guide to install the stock recovery?
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You can also use this software to install the stock recovery. that way you don't loose settings by installing RUU

TheStigx said:
So if i do step 1-12 I will have normal phone? Just like I started or do i still keep root?
Thank you so much for your hep !
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yes you do 1-12 but you keep root. the only difference is that you will no longer have cwm for flashing, back up, and all other goodies. but once you run the ota and it installs you lose root.
but have a look at the link frederikh just posted. seems alot better than the current method. im reading over it now

Thanks for the answers!
I think i will go with the link frederikh gave me But God bless you Divine! Thank you for your help !

Gain root access on the latest 1.55.531.3 update, ONLY IF you are S-OFF

I found out that it is possible to gain root access in an 'unrootable' update, IF you are S-OFF, by flashing ClockworkMod thru the bootloader, and then flashing Superuser thru ClockworkMod. I found out that this worked on the G2, as described here by rdmerck:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1206930
So all i did was replace the android_info.txt and the recovery.img in his zip, with the ones for our device. I just tried it, and it worked! i have Superuser access in the new 1.55.531.3 ROM.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Pretty simple...
1. Download the 2 attached files, put them both on the root of your sdcard, and rename the CWM_HBOOT.zip to PG59IMG.zip.
2. Boot into the bootloader however you prefer, let it read the PG59IMG.zip, and press volume up to update when prompted. When it finishes, it will prompt you to press Power to reboot.
3. Now boot into recovery however you prefer, and it should be ClockworkMod(I used the Modaco 4.0.0.9 version, basically because i had it conveniently lying around in .img format. I'm sure Rom Manager could now be used to flash the latest 5.0.2.7 version of CWM). Choose 'install from sdcard', then 'choose zip from sdcard', then choose the Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip and choose 'yes'. As has happened in the past, i had to flash it 3 times until it successfully installed. But it did work.
4. Choose to reboot, and enjoy root access on the latest stock ROM!
I figure a lot of people probably won't need all that instruction, but i included it for people who are newer to flashing stuff thru the HBOOT and CWM. I also figure that the user base for this will probably be very small, as most folks who are S-OFF probably are not choosing to run the stock ROM. But anyway, if you DO have S-OFF, i wanted you to know that you can have root access on the latest update. I figure this will also enable us to make nandroid images of the new ROM, if that would help development at all.
Anyway, here are the 2 files:
ClockworkMod: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18474790/CWM_HBOOT.zip
Superuser: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18474790/Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip
Note:
-This worked for me and should work for you, but use at your own risk.
-You must be S-OFF to do this.
-Hopefully this is only a temporary solution for those with S-OFF, until either Team Revolutionary cracks the update, or HTCDEV fixes whatever is preventing their bootloader unlocker tool from working on our device.

Using HTC Supertools v3 Will Temp(Prep)Root, get S-Off.
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Litesorrows said:
Using HTC Supertools v3 Will Temp(Prep)Root, get S-Off.
Sent from my ICS Splashed using Tapatalk
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is that right? is that a new development? and it works on the new update? if so, that's awesome.

yogi2010 said:
is that right? is that a new development? and it works on the new update? if so, that's awesome.
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HTC Supertools has been out for a while. IDK, I got S-Off and Root on my Brothers DS. I got S-Off first, then ran the root exploit.
Sent from my ICS Splashed using Tapatalk

Great work, Yogi. Worked beautifully!

HebrewToYou said:
Great work, Yogi. Worked beautifully!
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Awesome. My thanks go to rdmerck for the idea!

Nice bro! I may put this in Mr Root as another way to Root

xmc wildchild22 said:
Nice bro! I may put this in Mr Root as another way to Root
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Yeah man, sounds good. I mean, perhaps this will be helpful to at least a few people, lol. It's an interesting and very simple idea tho... probably useful mainly on stock HBOOTs where fastboot is blocked, but S-OFF had been attained.

Litesorrows said:
HTC Supertools has been out for a while. IDK, I got S-Off and Root on my Brothers DS. I got S-Off first, then ran the root exploit.
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Will it work on a updated mt4gs which hasnet obtained s off?
sent from my ice cream sandwhich MT4GS

Guess I will give this a shot later today.

how do i upgrade to the latest OTA if i'm already on a rooted stock ROM?

psychedel!k said:
how do i upgrade to the latest OTA if i'm already on a rooted stock ROM?
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Well, since nobody has made a custom rom with the latest OTA bits, you will have to do what I did:
You'll need to downgrade yourself with the stock PG59IMG.zip, putting that file (found here) on the root of your sdcard and booting into the bootloader.
That will basically return your phone to stock and, IIRC, revert your status to S-OFF Locked. Then you'll need to boot up and check for system updates. You'll definitely be given the first small OTA update, but you very likely wont receive the latest OTA update via system updates.
For that you'll need to download it (from here) and flash it through the stock recovery. Once you've done that you can use the instructions in this thread to re-flash clockworkmod recovery and re-root.
Your phone will still be S-OFF but you'll have a locked bootloader.

Still can't figure out what I need to do to root my phone. That's on hboot 1.45.0013
Guess I might have to wait til Revo find a fix for it.

Hotshot205 said:
Still can't figure out what I need to do to root my phone. That's on hboot 1.45.0013
Guess I might have to wait til Revo find a fix for it.
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Are you s-off?

No my phone is not
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HebrewToYou said:
Your phone will still be S-OFF but you'll have a locked bootloader.
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so does that mean i won't be able to restore a custom rom image?

psychedel!k said:
so does that mean i won't be able to restore a custom rom image?
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Since you're S-OFF, you could flash ClockworkMod on the update and then flash a custom ROM, but I believe that would leave you with an old ROM and the new radio, which seems to have caused issues for people. Since there aren't yet any custom ROMs based on the latest update, you should probably stay where you are if you want a custom ROM. But if you do install the update, you would still be able to downgrade and get back to where you are now.

Wonder how long it will/could be before revo crack the current HBOOT
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psychedel!k said:
how do i upgrade to the latest OTA if i'm already on a rooted stock ROM?
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You could run this ROM, which is based on the latest OTA release from HTC, so no OTA updates are needed. It is optimized, deodexed, and tweaked just a tad. I use it as my daily driver with great success. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12063-devrom12192011-stock-12853110-r2-deodexed-crtgpu/

Fuzi0719 said:
You could run this ROM, which is based on the latest OTA release from HTC, so no OTA updates are needed. It is optimized, deodexed, and tweaked just a tad. I use it as my daily driver with great success. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12063-devrom12192011-stock-12853110-r2-deodexed-crtgpu/
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I think possibly we've been thru this before, lol, but that ROM isn't the very latest... there has been a pretty big update since then that thus far is only available as an official OTA update package.

[Q]How to receive an OTA update without losing root?

For the Nexus 5, how can I install an OTA update without losing root?
I believe there are different ways to do this, Can some share what works? With or without a custom recovery installed. Thanks.
(For this who haven't heard, an update is rumored for 11/13, FWIW)

pseudoware said:
For the Nexus 5, how can I install an OTA update without losing root?
I believe there are different ways to do this, Can some share what works? With or without a custom recovery installed. Thanks.
(For this who haven't heard, an update is rumored for 11/13, FWIW)
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Check if OTA Rootkeeper https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ota rootkeeper is 4.4 compatible or maybe a similar app. If it isn`t rerooting with CF Auto Root will take 2 minutes bro.
-Edit- enable root survival mode after installing a OTA if you use superSU in the superSU settings menu

.... i'm sorry, but i have to ask why bother with the OTA updates if one has a custom recovery installed? can almost bet money on someone having a flashable image here of the stock ROM within hours of one being released.

elementaldragon said:
.... i'm sorry, but i have to ask why bother with the OTA updates if one has a custom recovery installed? can almost bet money on someone having a flashable image here of the stock ROM within hours of one being released.
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True, but some are still on the stock rom, recovery and kernel and only want root.

pseudoware said:
For the Nexus 5, how can I install an OTA update without losing root?
I believe there are different ways to do this, Can some share what works? With or without a custom recovery installed. Thanks.
(For this who haven't heard, an update is rumored for 11/13, FWIW)
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Who cares when it's so easy to root.

Thanks for the replies. Which N5 sub-forum is the most likely place where someone would post the updated flashable stock image, when available?

pseudoware said:
Thanks for the replies. Which N5 sub-forum is the most likely place where someone would post the updated flashable stock image, when available?
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Chuck this out in the general forum, it's stikied. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46290762

jd1639 said:
Who cares when it's so easy to root.
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But wouldn't one lose their data if they used CF-Auto Root again?
When I did the process, it wiped my phone.
Or is it that once the bootloader is unlocked it never wipes the phone again? Meaning it's just a simple matter of running CF auto root after OTA update and nothing else will be changed?

Still have the doubt
I know this information has to be somewhere in this forum, but I have searched and haven't found it. The question is, if I install an update with TWRP, will I lose root as well? If so, is there a way to get it back without wiping everything?
I think the answer is in what the previous post says, that once the bootloader is unlocked, there is no forced wipe anymore. I'm not sure, though.
Actually, the only thing I want is to be able to update to stock unaltered ROMs without losing root (and without a full wipe, of course), I don't care if I have to flash it manually or if I have to install TWRP or if it's ok with OTAs.
Thanks.

Rooting + Ota updates

Hey guys I will get my phone this week and I was wondering what these OTA updates are?
When I press update in the options of oneplus, is that it?
I wanna root my phone but I heard OTA updates might not be available.
So, are they available or not? Should I root the phone? I really need it but I don't wanna miss any oficial updates.
I hope I don't lose my root later or something!

OTA updates are Over The Air Updates, and usually they include bug fixes, new functionalities or even a new version of android.
I red in this forum that rooting the OPO does not void the warranty and the phone continues to perform the OTA updates.
Can anyone confirm?

If you change the recovery you may lose the ability to receive the ota updates. But, you're in luck, you can boot into a custom recovery and flash the zip file to gain root access without installing the recovery on the phone itself.
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A couple tutorials floating around and I believe stickied explain this.

cyldman said:
Hey guys I will get my phone this week and I was wondering what these OTA updates are?
When I press update in the options of oneplus, is that it?
I wanna root my phone but I heard OTA updates might not be available.
So, are they available or not? Should I root the phone? I really need it but I don't wanna miss any oficial updates.
I hope I don't lose my root later or something!
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if you root the phone you can flash the updated file or any file for that matter. So to not root your phone to update it to the latest rom to then root your phone and put something completely different on it makes no sense.
Now if you are rooting just to keep stock and root - again you can root and flash stock rom from this forum.. Win Win for you

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if you root the phone you can flash the updated file or any file for that matter. So to not root your phone to update it to the latest rom to then root your phone and put something completely different on it makes no sense.
Now if you are rooting just to keep stock and root - again you can root and flash stock rom from this forum.. Win Win for you
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Hi,
I want some clarity on how OTA is tied with recovery ? If I put TWRP recovery will I loose the ability for OTA?
Thanks

zaibrockstar said:
Hi,
I want some clarity on how OTA is tied with recovery ? If I put TWRP recovery will I loose the ability for OTA?
Thanks
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From my understanding not with 1+1 but OTA's are generally flashed via stock recovery and not custom ones. Question - what was your other android phone?

playya said:
From my understanding not with 1+1 but OTA's are generally flashed via stock recovery and not custom ones. Question - what was your other android phone?
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I had Nexus 4, Now I am using Nexus 5. I bought OPO to gift to my Dad and wanted to use adfree or adaway and give the phone as it is. But for them to work I need to root access. My understanding is once you put a unlock boot loader and have TWRP, then root it. I will loose OTA. I will not be able to flash the phone every time there is an update as he lives in a different country and I cant travel quite often.
Thanks

zaibrockstar said:
I had Nexus 4, Now I am using Nexus 5. I bought OPO to gift to my Dad and wanted to use adfree or adaway and give the phone as it is. But for them to work I need to root access. My understanding is once you put a unlock boot loader and have TWRP, then root it. I will loose OTA. I will not be able to flash the phone every time there is an update as he lives in a different country and I cant travel quite often.
Thanks
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Then I would go to the thread in general that shows you how to root your phone without unlocking bootloader and use that method . http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/root-unlocking-bootloader-t2820628

playya said:
Then I would go to the thread in general that shows you how to root your phone without unlocking bootloader and use that method . http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/root-unlocking-bootloader-t2820628
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Thanks for the info. I had read this, but was not clear.
Instead just run "fastboot boot recovery.img" and flash the supersu zip from there.
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What I have understood is we are just booting into default recovery and flashing the su binary. Is that correct ?
I have one risk in such case. I will not have an Nandriod Backup with default recovery.
Thanks

zaibrockstar said:
Thanks for the info. I had read this, but was not clear.
What I have understood is we are just booting into default recovery and flashing the su binary. Is that correct ?
I have one risk in such case. I will not have an Nandriod Backup with default recovery.
Thanks
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Stock recovery can always be reflashed and you follow the directions as posted to the tee and yes you boot into recovery flash su binary and thats it. To my understanding you will be flashing twrp but instead of it sticking it just flashes for that session so that you can flash the su binary.
I would go to that thread and ask in there directly for those that have done it or google it. This is of course if that is the route you would like to take

I have received the ota & updated on twrp.No problems
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cyldman said:
Hey guys I will get my phone this week and I was wondering what these OTA updates are?
When I press update in the options of oneplus, is that it?
I wanna root my phone but I heard OTA updates might not be available.
So, are they available or not? Should I root the phone? I really need it but I don't wanna miss any oficial updates.
I hope I don't lose my root later or something!
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See this to root without unlocking. http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/root-unlocking-bootloader-t2820628/page4
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OTA'd to 5.0.1 - Want to Downgrade for Root

So after getting my phone from Verizon, the OTA hit and updated my phone to 5.0.1 and I can't find a way to restore it back to 4.4.4.
I see Sunshine is working on getting it setup for Lollipop, but i have no idea how far away that is.
So does anyone know how I can get back to 4.4.4 to downgrade?

Unfortunately, it cannot be done. If you're s-on, and you have taken the upgrade, you're stuck until jcase updates Sunshine to support the latest software.
I really wish there were an option to roll back, my phone is ridiculously laggy since the update.

jcsugrue said:
Unfortunately, it cannot be done. If you're s-on, and you have taken the upgrade, you're stuck until jcase updates Sunshine to support the latest software.
I really wish there were an option to roll back, my phone is ridiculously laggy since the update.
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Is there any kind of ETA on Sunshine?

ZeroManArmy said:
Is there any kind of ETA on Sunshine?
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The last ETA that jcase tweeted was "any day" but it most likely won't support the latest VZW update.
https://twitter.com/TeamAndIRC/status/572984291329613824

jcsugrue said:
The last ETA that jcase tweeted was "any day" but it most likely won't support the latest VZW update.
https://twitter.com/TeamAndIRC/status/572984291329613824
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What's the latest update?

zeromanarmy said:
what's the latest update?
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htc6525lvw_4.17.605.5_r4-3.28.605.9

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htc6525lvw_4.17.605.5_r4-3.28.605.9
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Is that what I have? I can't tell. I've been out of the game for awhile.
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ZeroManArmy said:
Is that what I have? I can't tell. I've been out of the game for awhile.
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Yep. You've got the most current version.

jcsugrue said:
Unfortunately, it cannot be done. If you're s-on, and you have taken the upgrade, you're stuck until jcase updates Sunshine to support the latest software.
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So a factory wipe won't do it?

That just wipes user installed apps and settings

I'm on stock 4.4.4 just got this phone and have gotten root using sunshine so I have s-off with twtp recovery. I want to keep things stock so if I returned to stock recovery And took the update to lollipop would I still have root? Thanks.

luvtorev01 said:
I'm on stock 4.4.4 just got this phone and have gotten root using sunshine so I have s-off with twtp recovery. I want to keep things stock so if I returned to stock recovery And took the update to lollipop would I still have root? Thanks.
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You lose root, but since you're unlocked its easy to flash twrp and reroot
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luvtorev01 said:
I'm on stock 4.4.4 just got this phone and have gotten root using sunshine so I have s-off with twtp recovery. I want to keep things stock so if I returned to stock recovery And took the update to lollipop would I still have root? Thanks.
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Not 100% sure but I think you have to be stock, unrooted or the OTA will fail. Since you're s-off already it's easy just to flash twrp and re-root once you take the OTA

BladeRunner said:
You lose root, but since you're unlocked its easy to flash twrp and reroot
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Not 100% sure but I think you have to be stock, unrooted or the OTA will fail. Since you're s-off already it's easy just to flash twrp and re-root once you take the OTA
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Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know how to get back on stock recovery? Thanks again

luvtorev01 said:
Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know how to get back on stock recovery? Thanks again
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stock recoveries can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2723159 flash via fastboot or with flashify

luvtorev01 said:
Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know how to get back on stock recovery? Thanks again
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Check Tigerstown's firmware thread first. He was going to post a pure stock ROM today

So, I think i'm in the same boat.. right now I am on 4.4.4, S-on, temp root w/ weaksauce 2.0. 100% stock besides that. I would like to update to 5.0, but want to keep root. Now since there's no root like weaksauce for 5.0, what are my options for updating to LP but still being rooted??
I have run the Sunshine APK up to the point it says it WILL work, but nervous about pulling the trigger and going all the way for warranty reasons. Would I be able to run the current sunshine to get S-off, then flash TWRP recovery, then flash the permanent root exploit and then install SuperSU. Take the OTA to LP. Once that's done, re-install TWRP and then flash root and super SU? As I understand it, S-off carries over through the OTA, but root does not??? All I really want is root to run Wifi tether app when I need to, other than that I really like the stock HTC Sense..
Sorry, but still kind of new and bewildered with the HTC stuff, all my other toys were Moto in the past so that's what I am used to tinkering with.
BTW Jcase said on his twitter @TheRootninja...new Sunshine release tomorrow (3-15-15)

baune7 said:
So, I think i'm in the same boat.. right now I am on 4.4.4, S-on, temp root w/ weaksauce 2.0. 100% stock besides that. I would like to update to 5.0, but want to keep root. Now since there's no root like weaksauce for 5.0, what are my options for updating to LP but still being rooted??
I have run the Sunshine APK up to the point it says it WILL work, but nervous about pulling the trigger and going all the way for warranty reasons. Would I be able to run the current sunshine to get S-off, then flash TWRP recovery, then flash the permanent root exploit and then install SuperSU. Take the OTA to LP. Once that's done, re-install TWRP and then flash root and super SU? As I understand it, S-off carries over through the OTA, but root does not??? All I really want is root to run Wifi tether app when I need to, other than that I really like the stock HTC Sense..
Sorry, but still kind of new and bewildered with the HTC stuff, all my other toys were Moto in the past so that's what I am used to tinkering with.
BTW Jcase said on his twitter @TheRootninja...new Sunshine release tomorrow (3-15-15)
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Pull the trigger!
Even if you S-off @dottat has a way to flash a S-off RUU, remove root, lock the bootloader, turn S-on then flash a S-on RUU and nobody could ever tell you were S-off at one point
Your scenario up there is almost correct, except after flashing the permanent root exploit in TWRP you have to flash the stock recovery back if you want to take the OTA. After taking the OTA you then would have to flash TWRP back and root again. A hassle I would not bother with.....
@Tigerstown will post a totally stock 5.0 rom in his firmware thread. He promised it for today - if it's not there already it will come... Just wait with the update until it's out.
So a much easier scenario would be:
Use sunshine and flash TWRP.
Flash the 5.0 firmware from Tigerstown's thread, then flash the 5.0 stock rom from the same thread. Done
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2723159

Question: How does one clear the tampered flag?

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Question: How does one clear the tampered flag?
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I just used it to remove the red text, but you can flash the one for showing Locked and s-on.

So I could flash the Faux HBOOT screen, or clear the tampered and unlocked flags and it's essentially the same thing?