Whats the easiest way to get an ota update while rooted? Would it be just flashing to stock recovery again, taking the ota, and then rerooting?
If this is the case, does anyone have a stock 4.4.2 recovery .zip that I can flash?
easiest way is just flashing a stock rooted rom via your recovery. but if you want an ota, you can have root, but your system has to be completely stock. and you will lose root and your custom recovery. youd have to reflash your recovery and su to reroot.
How about this sticky?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2523217
All you need to know.
Please use the dedicated thread posted above.
Thanks!
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Hi guys. Will i lose my OTA if i root my device and keep my stock revovery? I read somewhere that root disables OTA no matter are you on stock or custom recovery like CWM. And then some says: it is ok, you get your OTA after root as long as you are on stock recovery.
Sorry noob question and bad english.
If you are on Stock ROM you will still be able to get notification and download the OTA but it won't install because it checks for all the Mods and stuff before installing. the simplest way is to flash a stock firmware and then update
Otherwise if you have stock recovery and you manage to remove all the mods and stuff it will update
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A month ago I rooted the stock rom, S-OFF, and install TWRP. I tried another ROM, but it didn't really interest me. I realized, that I actually like the stock ROM.
However, now I want to install the 4.4.3 OTA update. Is that possible? If I follow the directions, the device reboots in to TWRP, but does not install the update.
How can I install the OTA update, if I have a custom recovery?
DBordello said:
A month ago I rooted the stock rom, S-OFF, and install TWRP. I tried another ROM, but it didn't really interest me. I realized, that I actually like the stock ROM.
However, now I want to install the 4.4.3 OTA update. Is that possible? If I follow the directions, the device reboots in to TWRP, but does not install the update.
How can I install the OTA update, if I have a custom recovery?
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It appears it is impossible: http://teamw.in/officialota
I guess I will have to completely reflash.
First off, it's not impossible. There's a thread in here with firmware that you can use and update without the OTA. Second, this is the wrong sub-forum for questions.
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I'm also trying to get to 4.4.3 but after trying to re install the old recovery, it tells me I can't do the OTA.
Jeez...if you guys have soff and twrp and whatnot just flash the stock rooted rom scott gave us. Simple as that. You'll find it here in the vzw one m8 android development section.
Or alternately, if you no longer require control of you device at the lowest levels then just flash dottats RUU and magically your phone will be 100% stock.
But yeah, wrong forum.
silver04v said:
Jeez...if you guys have soff and twrp and whatnot just flash the stock rooted rom scott gave us. Simple as that. You'll find it here in the vzw one m8 android development section.
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The reason to do the OTA, is because I am lazy. I don't feel like reinstalling all of my apps, etc. The OTA is a nice incremental upgrade.
Where can I find the stock recovery, and directions to flash back to it? It is my understanding, that if I do that, I can apply the OTA.
Hello i rooted my nexus 5 and install a kernel and cwm recovery is it possible to back to stock and recive ota android updates with stock recovery if yeah how to do that?
Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
Return to stock only if you don't want root. If you do want root. You don't want OTA
rootSU said:
Return to stock only if you don't want root. If you do want root. You don't want OTA
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You can have ota and root, as long as you don't have a custom recovery. once you get the update you loose root, and have to root it back. just don't install a custom recovery if you want ota updates
As for getting ota back, you will have to flash stock images. that means wiping your device..
i.adrian said:
You can have ota and root, as long as you don't have a custom recovery. once you get the update you loose root, and have to root it back. just don't install a custom recovery if you want ota updates
As for getting ota back, you will have to flash stock images. that means wiping your device..
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Actually you can OTA with root AND a custom recovery. However my real point is just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD... And if that isn't clear - rooted users shouldn't rely on or think about OTAs.
how to back to original recovery?
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how to back to original recovery?
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If you really want to... Even though people are telling you you don't need to..
Just grab the factory images, inside update.zip there's recovery.img, flash that with fastboot.
Why do we go through this every time there is an update?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/info-nexus-5-ota-help-desk-t2523217
I just bought my nexus 5 and it's rooted with a custom ROM. Will I still get the update? I have a backup of the stock ROM but not the stock recovery. Do I need to restore my backup and wait for the update? Thanks.
If you want the ota, go back to stock. Or wait a few days and flash lollipop from your custom recovery I once a Dev packages it up. Or fastboot flash it as soon as available.
Depends on how patient you can be and how technical you are prepared to be.
I will be editing far the system image and fast boot flashing myself.
I think you have to be on stock ROM with the stock recovery to get the 5.0 ota.
IMO you can wait for the factory images from Google and flash them directly rather then flash stock ROM and recovery now and wait for the ota, because OTA will hit later then the factory images.
evertking said:
I just bought my nexus 5 and it's rooted with a custom ROM. Will I still get the update? I have a backup of the stock ROM but not the stock recovery. Do I need to restore my backup and wait for the update? Thanks.
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U could have asked that in the lollipop thread...
No u will need stock recovery to flash ota.....
Also i would strictly advice u to either flash pure kitkat image...or lollipop image .... That would prevent most of the bugs u encounter wid userdata...
rootSU said:
If you're going to live in the rooted world, you should learn to do things properly. OTA is the worst way of managing a rooted phone, which is why I said OTA is super-noob. If someone is reliant on OTA updates, they probably should not be rooted in the first place.
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See above
There are also dedicated OTA threads as well as dedicated Lollipop threads. Nor does this belong in General.
This thread has all of the OTA info you could imagine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2523217
As mentioned above. We have a dedicated OTA thread.
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Hello,
I have a rooted Verizon HTC One M8 running on Android 4.4.2. I do not have the stock recovery and for some reason I am unable to flash CWM, so I am stuck with TWRP. I keep receiving notifications that Lollipop is available to install, but it fails each time I try to install it because I am rooted. How can I unroot and get back to my stock ROM so that I can install the update?
No need to update via OTA. Just follow the instructions here and you'll be on rooted 5.0.1 stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...u-m8vzw-5-0-1-s-off-onlynewest-t3047103/page3
Questions
Thank you for the reply. Are you 100% sure this is compatible/will work with my phone? If I flash the ROM and it doesn't work, can I simply flash a backup image I made to recover? And when I flash the ROM, will I lose all the data on my phone? Also, where may I download my stock recovery? I searched all over the internet and couldn't find one for the Verizon version of the HTC One M8.
Thank you
That RUU is a complete stock firmware package, including the recovery. Read the OP.
But if you're just looking for the stock recovery you can find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52017763
That alone won't let you take the OTA though. If you modified your stock rom the OTA will fail.
You can find a complete stock rom elsewhere here on XDA, but why the trouble if you have it all in one neat package with the RUU?
Thank you very much for the help and useful information.
Sorry to bother you with all the questions but I have one more. How do I make a backup of my stock recovery? Say I went out and bought a new phone, how would I backup that stock recovery?
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