Moto G, currently running 4.4.2 unlocked and rooted with TWRP v2.6.3.0 the firmware is tweaked to my liking with GravityBox. I am also using the Faux123 to over/under clock etc.
Very happy with the performance, features and battery life.
But I am now getting bugged by the Motorola update for 4.4.3
I did try to update and the phone got into a start, reboot loop. So I have restored to my last configuration.
It's been quite sometime since I played with configuring the above and I have gone a bit blank! Can someone please outline the steps that I have to do to complete the upgrade with minimum fuss.
As a side note. I have avoided custom ROMs so far because of all the problems that I was reading about several months ago. But perhaps enough time has elapsed for me to consider going say CM11 now? I would appreciate any comments as to me going down this route. ie. Are all bugs worked out is the Moto G fully functional, does a custom ROM truly provide worthwhile benefits?
Thanks.
I would also like to know this as well as I am currently on 4.4.2 unrooted, but really feel feel like I want to start and get my Moto G rooted and up and running with all the goody's available on the community, but feel like I should wait for the 4.4.3 rollout before I start going through the whole bootloader unlocking, rooting etc.
So I will check back on this post, and thank you to the thread starter as this saves me starting a similar topic.
Rooted 4.4.2 over here as well. Unfortunately I've had no such luck finding a way to update to 4.4.3 while being rooted. I've been through a plethora of guides and suggestions but nothing seems to be working. I'll end up getting an error no matter what I do.
Don't mean to try and hijack your thread, but I've been trying to flash the .zip for the update with both CWM and TWRP but I get an error every time. Anyone have any ideas why? Do I need to configure root-requiring apps beforehand or something?
ugh...same here! Please someone figure this out!
@Kwala Baerr I was hoping for a quick 1,2,3 Guide! I miss posted the question in the General section, then moved it here. I subsequently find a few similar posts in this section. But your message suggests that you may have already tried them which worries me! Anyway I will have a go tomorrow and post here if I get success.
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@grahamgo oh yea sorry. Well I've tried just about everything. I think I've narrowed down my problem to SoftKeyz messing up my SystemUI.apk so you might still have a chance. Let me know how it goes though!
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Moto G, currently running 4.4.2 unlocked and rooted with TWRP v2.6.3.0 the firmware is tweaked to my liking with GravityBox. I am also using the Faux123 to over/under clock etc.
Very happy with the performance, features and battery life.
But I am now getting bugged by the Motorola update for 4.4.3
I did try to update and the phone got into a start, reboot loop. So I have restored to my last configuration.
It's been quite sometime since I played with configuring the above and I have gone a bit blank! Can someone please outline the steps that I have to do to complete the upgrade with minimum fuss.
As a side note. I have avoided custom ROMs so far because of all the problems that I was reading about several months ago. But perhaps enough time has elapsed for me to consider going say CM11 now? I would appreciate any comments as to me going down this route. ie. Are all bugs worked out is the Moto G fully functional, does a custom ROM truly provide worthwhile benefits?
Thanks.
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Put on your phone Us firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219 setup the phone via wifi. Update is about 163mb. After that use Mototool to root the phone and fix the white screen http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2635706
mabey you can do a beckup of sms https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.CallLogBackupRestore
regards
I recently upgraded my stock rooted 4.4.2 Moto G to 4.4.3. The steps you have to take depends on how many modifications you've made. But basically, you need to make sure of these things:
Do a nandroid backup of your working system!
What I did:
Uninstall Xposed modules and Xposed Framework. You *must* do this through the XPosed installer itself.
Re-install/Re-enable system apps that you disabled. For me, I used Titanium Backup, and unfroze the apps that I froze. I made a mistake on my Nexus 7 and uninstalled without backup, which made this process harder.
Repeat the same for any other root apps that made changes to your /system folder.
Uninstall Busybox. If you don't know if you have it or not, download this BusyBox Installer app, and it will tell you. If it is installed, go to the bottom right of your screen and under its preferences, there is a 'delete busybox' option as seen in their 6th screenshot. The order of this is important! Some apps require BusyBox to work and do their installing/uninstalling.
Completely unroot by going to SuperSU's Settings tab, and selecting the Full Unroot option.
Download the latest version of SuperSU onto your SD card if you don't have it already.
Download 4.4.3 update and let it install.
Go into your recovery and re-install SuperSU.
Restore your old root apps like XPosed and BusyBox. I re-installed them and re-did my settings for gravity box and saved my settings using the in-app options for XPrivacy, but you might be able to use Titanium Backup for this if your settings are too extensive.
Alternately, if you're having trouble because you can't find the system apps you need or you're getting an error while updating due to something in your /system folder, you should download stock 4.4.2, extract it, and then re-flash the stock system & boot.img using fastboot or mfastboot. For my XT1034, it was in these images: system.img_sparsechunk1, system.img_sparsechunk2, system.img_sparsechunk3 + boot.img. Yours may differ depending on your model.
Note, I did not test this particular method when I upgraded, but I did use mfastboot to revert to a complete stock 4.4.2 when I changed from CM11 awhile back using this guide.
I was able to keep my bootloader unlocked, and to keep PhilZ's recovery through the update process with no issues.
Hope that helps!
tarotsujimoto said:
I recently upgraded my stock rooted 4.4.2 Moto G to 4.4.3. The steps you have to take depends on how many modifications you've made. But basically, you need to make sure of these things:
Do a nandroid backup of your working system!
What I did:
Uninstall Xposed modules and Xposed Framework. You *must* do this through the XPosed installer itself.
Re-install/Re-enable system apps that you disabled. For me, I used Titanium Backup, and unfroze the apps that I froze. I made a mistake on my Nexus 7 and uninstalled without backup, which made this process harder.
Repeat the same for any other root apps that made changes to your /system folder.
Uninstall Busybox. If you don't know if you have it or not, download this BusyBox Installer app, and it will tell you. If it is installed, go to the bottom right of your screen and under its preferences, there is a 'delete busybox' option as seen in their 6th screenshot. The order of this is important! Some apps require BusyBox to work and do their installing/uninstalling.
Completely unroot by going to SuperSU's Settings tab, and selecting the Full Unroot option.
Download the latest version of SuperSU onto your SD card if you don't have it already.
Download 4.4.3 update and let it install.
Go into your recovery and re-install SuperSU.
Restore your old root apps like XPosed and BusyBox. I re-installed them and re-did my settings for gravity box and saved my settings using the in-app options for XPrivacy, but you might be able to use Titanium Backup for this if your settings are too extensive.
Alternately, if you're having trouble because you can't find the system apps you need or you're getting an error while updating due to something in your /system folder, you should download stock 4.4.2, extract it, and then re-flash the stock system & boot.img using fastboot or mfastboot. For my XT1034, it was in these images: system.img_sparsechunk1, system.img_sparsechunk2, system.img_sparsechunk3 + boot.img. Yours may differ depending on your model.
Note, I did not test this particular method when I upgraded, but I did use mfastboot to revert to a complete stock 4.4.2 when I changed from CM11 awhile back using this guide.
I was able to keep my bootloader unlocked, and to keep PhilZ's recovery through the update process with no issues.
Hope that helps!
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What recovery were you on?
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What recovery were you on?
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Here's the thread with information on downloading & installing PhilZ Touch recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639583
Looks like there's a new stable release out, but I still had PhilZ Touch 6.26.6 Falcon installed.
tarotsujimoto said:
I recently upgraded my stock rooted 4.4.2 Moto G to 4.4.3. The steps you have to take depends on how many modifications you've made. But basically, you need to make sure of these things:
Do a nandroid backup of your working system!
What I did:
Uninstall Xposed modules and Xposed Framework. You *must* do this through the XPosed installer itself.
Re-install/Re-enable system apps that you disabled. For me, I used Titanium Backup, and unfroze the apps that I froze. I made a mistake on my Nexus 7 and uninstalled without backup, which made this process harder.
Repeat the same for any other root apps that made changes to your /system folder.
Uninstall Busybox. If you don't know if you have it or not, download this BusyBox Installer app, and it will tell you. If it is installed, go to the bottom right of your screen and under its preferences, there is a 'delete busybox' option as seen in their 6th screenshot. The order of this is important! Some apps require BusyBox to work and do their installing/uninstalling.
Completely unroot by going to SuperSU's Settings tab, and selecting the Full Unroot option.
Download the latest version of SuperSU onto your SD card if you don't have it already.
Download 4.4.3 update and let it install.
Go into your recovery and re-install SuperSU.
Restore your old root apps like XPosed and BusyBox. I re-installed them and re-did my settings for gravity box and saved my settings using the in-app options for XPrivacy, but you might be able to use Titanium Backup for this if your settings are too extensive.
Alternately, if you're having trouble because you can't find the system apps you need or you're getting an error while updating due to something in your /system folder, you should download stock 4.4.2, extract it, and then re-flash the stock system & boot.img using fastboot or mfastboot. For my XT1034, it was in these images: system.img_sparsechunk1, system.img_sparsechunk2, system.img_sparsechunk3 + boot.img. Yours may differ depending on your model.
Note, I did not test this particular method when I upgraded, but I did use mfastboot to revert to a complete stock 4.4.2 when I changed from CM11 awhile back using this guide.
I was able to keep my bootloader unlocked, and to keep PhilZ's recovery through the update process with no issues.
Hope that helps!
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Im rooted running stock rom and using exposed installer with gravity box and a few other modules running and all I had to do to update to 4.3.3 was to use Moto Tool AIO v3.0 to revert back to stock kitkat recovery, after that I just accepted the update, installed it, and then went back to a custom recovery. I lost none of my exposed installs or settings, took maybe 10 minutes start to finish and was painless.
tarotsujimoto said:
Here's the thread with information on downloading & installing PhilZ Touch recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639583
Looks like there's a new stable release out, but I still had PhilZ Touch 6.26.6 Falcon installed.
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I have just wasted a lot of time...... I tried Philz Touch 6.43.8, no go, then an earlier version, still no go. Then I found a thread saying that there were bugs in later versions, they recommended the use of 6.26.6
I tried it and it works great. However I wasted almost 2 hours finding this out.
castuis said:
Im rooted running stock rom and using exposed installer with gravity box and a few other modules running and all I had to do to update to 4.3.3 was to use Moto Tool AIO v3.0 to revert back to stock kitkat recovery, after that I just accepted the update, installed it, and then went back to a custom recovery. I lost none of my exposed installs or settings, took maybe 10 minutes start to finish and was painless.
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I appreciate @tarotsujimoto post and I see the logic of this approach. But I too was thinking that it might be less troublesome (but maybe take longer) to go back to factory, update it to 4.4.3 and then re-install Xposed and apps + data, etc using Titanium.
@castuis I am intrigued by your mention of using a custom recovery. Could you please expand on what you backed up and if possible more details on how you did it etc.
I have wasted too much time today getting a working Philz Touch going, (maybe I should have stayed with TWRP!). But I do like the look of Philz 6.26.6 now its working. But will have to put my 4.4.3 update attempt off for a day or so.
Thanks!
Since none of the methods mentioned works for me, I have tried to extract the system.img from the original ROM archive. But how do I mount that system.img_sparsechunk files on Linux? They can not be converted by simg2img or unyaffs either ...
I had no success with any of the "short cut" methods either. I was hoping that @castuis promise of a 10 minute method would come true, but he hasn't been back to expand on his method. I myself reverted the phone to factory, let it upgrade. Then re-rooted, installed xposed and then let Google play reinstall my apps. It's definitely not a quick method. But at least it gave me a clean install. Significant frustration, caused by using Philz touch, but switched to TWRP. Finally did a system backup with Titanium. I thought that was it. Now it looks like there will be a 4.4.4 soon. I'm thinking to ignore it and wait for the next upgrade. @nodh I would wait for 4.4.4 !
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I've solved my upgrade problem: I've flashed the 176.44.1 (retail Germany, 4.4.3) stock ROM, as described here. Altough I didn't flash the recovery (to restore root with the ClockWorkMod recovey) and didn't erase userdata. Now I've got the upgrade, with all my settings preserved and even rooted again.
Related
So I noticed there's no official thread for this tablet. I went ahead a decided to try and get a thread going for this tablet only. I am strongly considering porting a Rom and possibly a recovery pending requests from users on xda for the device.
To ROOT the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7 p310a
1. Make sure Unknown sources is checked in Settings > Security > Device administration > Unknown Sources
2. You head over to alephzain's ROOT thread and download the framaroot 1.9.3 apk
LINK To Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276
3. Follow the directions on alephzain's thread. Move the apk to the SD card and install the apk.
4. The apk will then run after clicking "install"
If successful, your OneTouch Pop 7 p310a will now be rooted after a reboot.
To test, after reboot you should see superuser in the list of installed applications.
Also you can download 'root checker' from Google play to verify.
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Clock Work Mod Recovery for Alcatel P310a.
DO NOT FLASH THIS RECOVERY ON ANY OTHER DEVICE OTHER THAN A P310A. THIS MAY BRICK YOUR DEVICE.
WORKING RECOVERY PORTED/TESTED BY Shawnj0
DOWNLOAD LINK ==> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Bp38aW17GiOXpKNEdXQXBSbjA/view?usp=sharing
Any questions, comments, suggestions all should be directed to this thread.
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Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH P310A using XDA Free mobile app
UPDATE 1/24/2015: CWM NON-Touch Now Available as a flashable img. You can use Flashify or Rashr (both can be downloaded through Google Play once you are ROOT.
Thank you for this. How many tablets has this been tested on ?
It works !!!! Now we need some lollipop on it !
memory swap mod
shawnj0 said:
UPDATE 1/24/2015: CWM NON-Touch Now Available as a flashable img. You can use Flashify or Rashr (both can be downloaded through Google Play once you are ROOT.
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Hi, thanks for this.
Will a memory swap mod, to make the tablet see the external SD Memory as the internal storage, work with the P310A?
Searched and found this for another Alcatel device:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284347&page=39
Is something like this already available for the tablet?
Will be a big improvement if this can be ported to the P310A, and then have a 32Gb or even a 64 Gb memory card be seen as the internal storage.
Thanks.
I have one of these little tablets from T-Mobile (gotta love free) and love it. Last night I got an update warning but have not installed it yet. Unfortunately there is very little information for them like custom ROMs or custom recovery. I would even like to find the software and files needed to return the device back to stock if there was ever a problem and it needed to be reflashed back to out of the box state. Let me know if I can help as I would love to see more for this awesome little device.
Btw, interesting fact about T-Mobile 4G on these tablets. The base is 10 USD for 1gb of 4G a month. All T-Mobile tablets also come with free 200mb 4G a month one top of that. If you have the highest plan at T-Mobile (80 USD a month, unlimited everything including 4g, no drop back to 3g at all) then the tablet actually gets 5gb a month of 4G for the 10 USD instead of 1gb.
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Just installed the latest update from T-Mobile for the p310a and framaroot 1.93 no longer roots it. Damn.
Try this :wwwDOTmgyunDOTcom/m/en
It rooted my tablet and 2 others. It will install a "kinguser" superuser app. Download clockworks superuser from the play store.
Then disable kinguser and allow clockworks superuser to do its job.
TheEditor said:
Just installed the latest update from T-Mobile for the p310a and framaroot 1.93 no longer roots it. Damn.
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Can you please share what is on the update?
Find out the update is still on 4.2.
According to the Tmo support site is to improve battery, camera flicker and freezing.
That is about all I see in the update. The version is still the same and I have not seen any real difference personally. Kind of wish I hadn't updated.
Btw, thanks for the recommendation. I am rooted again, woohoo.
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Well, I am rooted but the only SU that will work is the installed KingUser, no others will work for me.
I have the same tablet, but the P310X, not the P310A variant. Is it safe to flash the CWM recovery? I tried booting into this recovery without flashing by the fastboot flash command, but nothing happens after the transfer, the device won't boot into the new recovery.
After a little searching, it seems to me the two varians only differ in the supported cellular networks and frequencies.
Ok so I rooted this device with kingo at first. I kept have su binary issues. I installed cwm and tried to update su binary through there. I tried booting into recovery using quick boot. My tablet is stuck on tmo screen. Hard reseting takes me back to cwm but I have no backup yet , had no time to even make one. Does anyone have one by chance or a way for me to boot back up through cwm?
Recovery flashed successfully and looks great but, no partitions will mount and I cannot flash any .zips. Anyone else having issues?
I flashed the recovery but when I backed up my data and started getting "unfortunately settings has stopped" error
I did all alternatives and was forced to wipe it clean. But when I tried to restore it kept saying MS5 is not found.
So I am screwed now cause although it did clean it, the settings issue is still there and it will not let me open the wifi /buletooth settings/
keeps crashing and sometimes reboots. So I just want to revert back to the original factory firmware.
Does anyone have the original firmware??
Possible lollipop rom?
shawnj0 said:
So I noticed there's no official thread for this tablet. I went ahead a decided to try and get a thread going for this tablet only. I am strongly considering porting a Rom and possibly a recovery pending requests from users on xda for the device.
To ROOT the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7 p310a
1. Make sure Unknown sources is checked in Settings > Security > Device administration > Unknown Sources
2. You head over to alephzain's ROOT thread and download the framaroot 1.9.3 apk
LINK To Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276
3. Follow the directions on alephzain's thread. Move the apk to the SD card and install the apk.
4. The apk will then run after clicking "install"
If successful, your OneTouch Pop 7 p310a will now be rooted after a reboot.
To test, after reboot you should see superuser in the list of installed applications.
Also you can download 'root checker' from Google play to verify.
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Clock Work Mod Recovery for Alcatel P310a.
DO NOT FLASH THIS RECOVERY ON ANY OTHER DEVICE OTHER THAN A P310A. THIS MAY BRICK YOUR DEVICE.
WORKING RECOVERY PORTED/TESTED BY Shawnj0
DOWNLOAD LINK ==> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Bp38aW17GiOXpKNEdXQXBSbjA/view?usp=sharing
Any questions, comments, suggestions all should be directed to this thread.
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i have this device and i have searched pretty much everywhere for a mod. can you show me how i could get a lollipop mod ( if there is one available). its a pretty nifty device and it i'm hoping to get the lollipop experience on it. Thanks.
Crying on the inside
SO, i did the absolute unthinkable of unthinkable actions. i attempted to flash what was purported to be a POP 7 MIUI port, and the damn thing crashed on me. To make matters worse, the backup with CWM failed when attempting to back up /system. Anyone manage to get it to work?
Sir Webb said:
I flashed the recovery but when I backed up my data and started getting "unfortunately settings has stopped" error
I did all alternatives and was forced to wipe it clean. But when I tried to restore it kept saying MS5 is not found.
So I am screwed now cause although it did clean it, the settings issue is still there and it will not let me open the wifi /buletooth settings/
keeps crashing and sometimes reboots. So I just want to revert back to the original factory firmware.
Does anyone have the original firmware??
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I have it
SuperUser666 said:
SO, i did the absolute unthinkable of unthinkable actions. i attempted to flash what was purported to be a POP 7 MIUI port, and the damn thing crashed on me. To make matters worse, the backup with CWM failed when attempting to back up /system. Anyone manage to get it to work?
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Did you ever get this working? I have this tablet rooted, but no recovery...
I don't mind giving either of you my backups from titanium
Hi Guys
After one of the custom 5.1 roms crashed and left me without the phone, I have decided that I will go live with Marshmallow.
I have installed the original stock 6.0 MRA58K which after booting quickly went into MRA58N with OTA update.
Once I have realised how many things I am missing in my phone, due to using the stock ROM, I was looking for a perfect solution and decided that I will no longer be flashing custom ROMs, but use XPOSED as a framework with additional modules.
I have installed the elementalx kernel and added the correct XPOSED framework.
Everything was working fine until yesterday, where I have received notification about OTA update to 6.0.1.
First I thought that I don't really care about emojis, however I do like the option of "Do not disturb until next alarm".
I know that I can achieved by some additional modules to the xposed, however the OTA update is quite annoying.
Because I was on TWRP as a recovery, I have also installed the BusyBox and SimpleRecoverySwitch hoping that this will resolve the issue. Quickly reflashed stock recovery (don't know why, but every time when I was using fastboot to flash recovery with stock recovery.img, TWRP was still there) and found that I still can't use OTA update to 6.0.1. due to error:
"app_process 32 has unexpected contents".
After googling I have found that this is because I have xposed up and running.
Googled than for "unistalling" xposed and found plenty of topics, however none of them have provided me clear answers, especially to the question of "how to uninstall xposed". I have not found any original.img, so I suppose xposed installer have not created any backup, also when I will open xposed Installer - options to "uninstall xposed" are greyed out.
So my question would be - how can I easily remove xposed (temporary) without loosing data/restarting fully the phone, because after 5 days of flashing/reflashing/factory resets I am slowly tired from setting up personal configuration on my phone (even when on Marshmallow is much more easier than on lollipop 5.1).
If this is not possible, how I could remove OTA update from not only notifying me all the time, but also not restarting the phone (wakelock?)
Once you root the phone, you will not be able to upgrade via OTA. Your choices are to follow the instructions on this thread or to completely go back to stock without root and do the OTA.
I have a stock unrooted Motorola Droid Razr M xt907
4.4.2 OTA OS, but I DID remove a few stock items.
Sys Ver: 182.46.15.XT907.Verison.en.US
Kernel is: July 29 2014
I have never owned or worked with a smartphone before, but have OC exp dating back to MS Dos 1.x-2.1 and have some Linux exp using OpenSuse
If I understand correctly I need to back upi the system files BEFORE ROOTING the device to protect myself in the event I go to far while rooted and bootloop or brick the device.
I am trying to understand how to create a Nandroid backup without rooting, but I'm not understanding quite enough to have any great success.
I''d rather not wipe all the installed apps, but if I need to I'd like to know if I can
- back up apps and settings using a utility that does not require root access
- do a reset
- then back up the virgin unrooted 4.4.2 system files
- Then root
- Then install CM11 (KitKat 4.4.4 based)
- The restore the apps and settings fromt eh (non Nandroid) backup I need to do a real OTA reset because I killed some of the stock apps already. (At least, that's my understanding)
I really appreciate you all being here to help folks! Many thanks in advance!
XDA Visitor said:
I have a stock unrooted Motorola Droid Razr M xt907
4.4.2 OTA OS, but I DID remove a few stock items.
Sys Ver: 182.46.15.XT907.Verison.en.US
Kernel is: July 29 2014
I have never owned or worked with a smartphone before, but have OC exp dating back to MS Dos 1.x-2.1 and have some Linux exp using OpenSuse
If I understand correctly I need to back upi the system files BEFORE ROOTING the device to protect myself in the event I go to far while rooted and bootloop or brick the device.
I am trying to understand how to create a Nandroid backup without rooting, but I'm not understanding quite enough to have any great success.
I''d rather not wipe all the installed apps, but if I need to I'd like to know if I can
- back up apps and settings using a utility that does not require root access
- do a reset
- then back up the virgin unrooted 4.4.2 system files
- Then root
- Then install CM11 (KitKat 4.4.4 based)
- The restore the apps and settings fromt eh (non Nandroid) backup I need to do a real OTA reset because I killed some of the stock apps already. (At least, that's my understanding)
I really appreciate you all being here to help folks! Many thanks in advance!
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Unlock your bootloader.
Flash the latest TWRP recovery in fastboot.
Make a backup with TWRP.
THEN flash SuperSU to gain root using the TWRP Recovery.
It's actually a great idea to hold onto a non-rooted backup, in case you want to return to stock one day to get an OTA update.
Okay, in looking for directions to unlock the bootloader, I'm jsut finding a lot of hits that begin y saying the phone needs to be rooted first, so I could use a push in the right direction there.
The forum linked here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226729
should give you all of the info that you need.
xunholyx said:
The forum linked here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226729
should give you all of the info that you need.
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I'm so confused. The first instruction in the first post is to root the phone, but then how can I get an unrooted Nandroid backup?
I believe the answer I need may be covered here, but I'm not sure I follow how to flash this properly BEFORE rooting the phone. I intend to make a walkthrough on another forum once I get this all sorted, and would be happy to plug XDAD and you for the help.
There is a broken link in the guide you linked me to. I just wanted to make you aware. I have the motorola driver loaded on my Win 7 Ultimate Retail 64 bit driven PC, so I'm good, but the link for the drivers is returning a 404
I'm the one who is confused.
Sorry, I should have read the OP in that link better.
You can backup all of your data using ADB: adb backup -apk -shared -all -f C:\Users\NAME\backup.ab
And restore it using this command: adb restore C:\Users\NAME\backup.ab
Replace "NAME" with your Windows username of course.
There is a more comprehensive guide here.
Read the OP, then go to the last 10pgs or so to see if there is new info (didn't read that far, but the thread is still active).
Okay, I suspect this last link is probably more what I'm after, but before I do that, I'm HOPING it is possible to back up the installed apps and their respective settings first. The reason for this is that I really do want a squeaky clean, uprooted Nandroid backup of the last OTA update supported which, (no surprise), is 4.4.2, which includes the handy Heartbleed bug "feature" and makes the Razr M all but useless.
Of course, as we know, 4.4.4 runs very well on the Razr M and the Heartbleed bug is easily solved by it, but Motorola prefers you buy a new phone, so they introduce a bug, load it on everyone's 1-1/2 year old devices, and they refused to fix it by not allowing users access to the "new" unbroken OLD KitKat platform! You can only run that LAST version of the OLD KitKat on NEW HARDWARE!
The other tactic used on consumers by Motorola and others is not allowing customers to purchase new factory fresh batteries for their devices, whether "non-replaceable" or not. These are two strong-arm tactics adopted that now dominate cellular and other technologies.
I digress.
I am going to HAVE to restore this phone before making the Nandroid because I pulled some stock 4.4.2 Motorola firmware bloat out of it, adn now I need iot back for that backup to be truly virgin. :/
Soooooooo . . . .
The first order of business is to determine if I can add the stock stuff back, or if I have to actually do a reset on the phone. I fear adding the stock items back MAY still leave changes in the system folder, which is not acceptable to me. *IF* I CAN successfully add the stock bloat back in and get a clean Nandroid, I'd be happy about that, though I'd be concerned about it working properly none-the less.
This is why I ask if I can back up apps and app data and later successfully restore that stuff that was backed up under 4.4.2 once I have successfully loaded the (KitKat 4.4.4 based) CM11 Mod.
If the backup of apps and app settings WILL restore to 4.4.4, I'd like to:
- > back up all apps, app data adn user data > reset the phone loading the 4.4.2 OTA BONE STOCK > make my Nandroid of the bone stock unrooted 4.4.2 > Root > Load CM11 MOD ROM > Restore my apps and user data.
I will work on learning to make the unrooted Nandroid some while I wait for a reply, as I'm going to have to do that as a later step.
Giving this a try. I'm about to crash. I'm pretty zonked out.
If all that you want is to save apps and app data, and not system and boot partitions, then use the ADB commands that I posted. That will do exactly what you want.
Oh no no, that's not all I want to do by any means. I am going to load the KitKat 4.4.4 based CM11 ROM, but before I do that I want a clean OTA backup of the stock unrooted KitKat 4.4.2 so I have that to fall back on.
To that end, in preparation for the new ROM I'd like to back up all apps that are currently loaded along with the current app data, and also to back up all personal data.
Once that is done, I need to do a reset to get 4.4.2 back into it;s stock trim as this will be my original 4.4.2 OTA Nandroid.
THEN I will root and install CM11
Then, if it's possible, I'd like to restore all of my current apps and app data.
I've been working on understanding the steps needed to make that unrooted 4.4.2 Nandroid while awaiting suggestions about how to do the app/app data and personal data backup., as well as a yea or neigh about if the app backup can even be successfully restored under the new (4.44 based) os.
Here's to hoping someone can help me out. My phone details before I messed up: LG G3 D850, rooted, TWRP 3.0, running Fulmics 5.2 for about 1 1/2 weeks
I noticed that I was not seeing the LTE indicator on my phone. I checked the HUB and saw the BootD850-30012016 data patch and figured that I just needed to install. So I flashed it and my phone wouldn't start. I was able to boot into recovery, so I figured I would do a clean install of the ROM so I did a full wipe, accidentally wiping EVERYTHING except for my external SD.
Result was that I can access TWRP but am unable to flash any of my backups or zips from my external SD, or OTG. I can see the files, but don't have the option to "swipe". I also am unable to 'mount' or 'install'.
At this point, I noticed that AT&T has finally released the OTA for Marshmallow, so I figured I would just use LG FlashTool and totally un-root and give the update a try. (BTW, I have used the flash tool many times with no problems/issues on both my phone and my son's D855).
Unfortunately, I am getting the dreaded "unable to change to download mode" after 15 seconds. I have uninstalled and re-installed Flash Tool, the LG Drivers and all files and used every port on both of my computers (Windows 10 btw) but can't get past the download error.
So...after many hours of digging, I took a leap of faith and was able to sideload Fulmics 5.1 successfully and install the 5.2 update from the HUB. I made backup of the ROM but TWRP still won't allow me to "swipe" and install/restore. I reinstalled TWRP using Flashify and it installed version 2.8 but still no go on flashing from recovery.
I realize that I'm lucky to have been able to figure out how to get the phone back using the sideload function in TWRP, but I really do want to go back to stock and it bugs me that I am unable to use my backups.
Sorry for the novel, but I wanted to be sure to include everything I did....if anyone can help me out I would be much obliged. My 11 year old is anxiously waiting on me to figure this out before she gets this phone (I'm moving up to the HTC 10 in a couple of weeks!). She still thinks I'm 'SuperMommy' so if I can fix this I get to keep my swagger!
I was also running fulmics 5.1 and updated to 5.2 in my phone but now i was having pretty good laggs and i finally realised that the update provided by the phone was corruped so i went on the official site and downloaded the same 5.2 OTAs from there and flashed it into TWRP recovery to finally get the latest version 5.3..know that is it always advisable to flash zip file when in recovery mode using TWRP recovery...The big mistake was cleaning also the internal memory of your phone.this caused the malfunction of twrp.
The issue is that most often i have seen cases of lagg in those updating to fulmics 5.2 from the Hub .sometimes in twrp recovery the update files will not successfully wipe and then reboot system with 5.2 installed but with many lagg the file downloaded there may be corrupted and not give you permission to swipe..if you really like fulmics and still update to the latest..Try this it may help you solve your problem:1 reinstall the fulmics 5.1 go to xdadevelopers.com/fulmics follow the link given by xpirit to www.fulmics.com and download the OTA 5.2(file size maybe 46 mb).. 2.reboot your phone now in twrp recovery it should now be able swipe and install..(if not then install Twrp 3.0 and try) 3-search the files in your internal memory or wherever you have downloaded it and flash it ..4.reboot system.That should be done!! In case you want to come back to stock and cant install from Twrp then the problem is with Twrp just download the latest version that goes with your phone.
Thanks guys for the suggestions. I finally figured it out after a couple days of sweating and swearing. Yaneddik, you were spot on about updating from the Hub. I ended up installing TWRP 2.8.6 and re-installed 5.1 from the Fulmics website along with the updates. Everything has been working great (except for losing LTE connectivity, but that's for another thread!). I'm not inclined to update TWRP to 3.0 unless absolutely necessary, 2.8.6 works just fine for me.
dcli23 said:
Thanks guys for the suggestions. I finally figured it out after a couple days of sweating and swearing. Yaneddik, you were spot on about updating from the Hub. I ended up installing TWRP 2.8.6 and re-installed 5.1 from the Fulmics website along with the updates. Everything has been working great (except for losing LTE connectivity, but that's for another thread!). I'm not inclined to update TWRP to 3.0 unless absolutely necessary, 2.8.6 works just fine for me.
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Am a newbie here but a long time rooter on my older phones. This is the first time that I've seen the Hub mentioned. Can you kindly post a link?
TIA
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SofaSpud said:
Am a newbie here but a long time rooter on my older phones. This is the first time that I've seen the Hub mentioned. Can you kindly post a link?
TIA
Sent from my LG-H810 using Tapatalk
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Hey there....you can access the Hub after you flash the Fulmics ROM. It's where you can get your tweaks, downloads, mods, etc. You'll find it in your app drawer.
Hello xda.
A few weeks ago I started getting this notification telling me a new system update was available but when I tried to do it, it wouldn't install. I quickly discovered it was because my device was rooted. I followed this guide to get the update (more to get rid of the annoying notification really) ; I made sure do download the right stock image (my device is a XT1541 2 GB) and to flash all the system.img_sparsechunk files (there are 8 in this case) and it went smoothly (booted alright) up until the rooting part.
Basically, I followed RootJunky's video tutorial but after applying the root I can't get past the bootloader's warning screen. The only difference between me and RJ is both TWRP and SU I used are more recent versions (the latest ones).
In the end I just restored the backup I had made "just in case" before the manual update (boy am I glad I made this one) and my phone's back to working order, except not updated.
So here I am : what can I do about it? Is it still possible to root this phone (youtube commentaries indicate I'm not the only one with this issue)? Worst case scenario, is there a way to get rid of the update notification?
Any help is appreciated.
You'll need a systemless root.
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How to root ANY Moto G 2015 model on Marshmallow
Thank you both for your answer.
Turns out the method linked didn't work for me. Not only was the root not applied according the supersu app, but I still got an update notification after 'rooting' the phone (even though I checked for update after booting the newly installed rom for the first time and there wasn't any).
I decided to go a different route and used Titanium Backup to freeze the Motorola Update app. Hopefully this will do the trick of sparing me the notifications until I can figure out how to get OTA updates.
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Thank you both for your answer.
Turns out the method linked didn't work for me. Not only was the root not applied according the supersu app, but I still got an update notification after 'rooting' the phone (even though I checked for update after booting the newly installed rom for the first time and there wasn't any).
I decided to go a different route and used Titanium Backup to freeze the Motorola Update app. Hopefully this will do the trick of sparing me the notifications until I can figure out how to get OTA updates.
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No offense, but if you didn't have root then TiBu wouldn't work properly... Obviously the rooting worked.
Rooting itself doesn't prevent updates or there notification, it just keeps it from being applied properly. Freezing the app in TiBu should prevent it though.
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No offense, but if you didn't have root then TiBu wouldn't work properly...
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I forgot to mention I restored my functional backup when I saw my manipulations didn't work. I used TB after that.
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I forgot to mention I restored my functional backup when I saw my manipulations didn't work. I used TB after that.
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Fair enough..
Quick update : after a couple more tries I successfully rooted my phone by following this method.
I now have the latest stock rom and it's rooted
Thank you for existing XDA! :good: