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[Q] What to do now when 4.1.1 comes if I'm rooted and so?

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RusherDude said:
If I am on 4.4 stock rooted, with a custom recovery, and stuff modified on /system.. what I do when the update to 4.1.1 comes?
If I don't do nothing, the update will download automatically (which I don't want at all...), then try to patch and fail (I guess it won't even start since it detects that it's not stock system and recovery to flash the update) and it may even loop downloading and failing by what I readed being a bug on some 4.3 roms on the Nexus 4?
So how I should act in the following situations? First make a nandroid then..
a) I wanna flash it asap: I get the ota zip asap its posted and flash it on CWM and hope it goes ok. I may **** up stuff and have to revert to the nandroid, or 1it can go ok and just lose root and the system changes, right?
b) I wanna stay on 4.4 until all the stuff is ported to 4.1.1: It will at some point download the ota (****) by itself and spam me continuously to install it, right? If I wanna stay on 4.4 until all the stuff I use its compatible with 4.1.1, what I got to do to evade the auto-downloading of the ota and the spam about the update?
I don't know.. any way to stop the auto-update from working or so? That would be great!
Thanks in advance.
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Here is what I just did, and it worked perfectly.
1. Take note of all the mods you installed so you can install them afterwards.
2. Put phone in bootloader mode / fastboot
3. Grab the 4.4 stock image from Google. Extract system.img file from it and flash that through fastboot (without the -w command) (fastboot flash system system.img). Don't worry you won't lose anything if you omit -w. Apps and data are preserved, it just set the \system area back to stock
4. Copy the OTA udpate zip to your phone, flash with TWRP. Since everything is 'back to stock' it should flash fine.
I had to re-root with TWRP after flashing before I rebooted. Everything was good to go. Then reflash your mods.

sonicdeth said:
Here is what I just did, and it worked perfectly.
1. Take note of all the mods you installed so you can install them afterwards.
2. Put phone in bootloader mode / fastboot
3. Grab the 4.4 stock image from Google. Extract system.img file from it and flash that through fastboot (without the -w command) (fastboot flash system system.img). Don't worry you won't lose anything if you omit -w. Apps and data are preserved, it just set the \system area back to stock
4. Copy the OTA udpate zip to your phone, flash with TWRP. Since everything is 'back to stock' it should flash fine.
I had to re-root with TWRP after flashing before I rebooted. Everything was good to go. Then reflash your mods.
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Ok, that covers the a) situation where I want to flash it asap, thanks! (also note everyone, you got to disable xposed and all mods before flashing the ota)
PS: You can just flash the stock kernel and undo all the system changes, no need to flash the entire 4.4 stock zip.
What about the b) situation?

RusherDude said:
Ok, that covers the a) situation where I want to flash it asap, thanks! (also note everyone, you got to disable xposed and all mods before flashing the ota)
PS: You can just flash the stock kernel and undo all the system changes, no need to flash the entire 4.4 stock zip.
What about the b) situation?
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Don't know why you'd want to go all the way back to 4.1.1. That's from July '12.

mattjorgs said:
Don't know why you'd want to go all the way back to 4.1.1. That's from July '12.
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Wut? in the b) situation I just wanna STAY on 4.1 until all the stuff is ported to 4.1.1 (if something needs porting).

RusherDude said:
Wut? in the b) situation I just wanna STAY on 4.1 until all the stuff is ported to 4.1.1 (if something needs porting).
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You mean 4.4? And 4.4.1? Lol
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How to update to 4.4.1
I am rooted/bootloader unlocked with TWRP v2.6.3.1. When I try to flash in recovery manually with ota zip, I get a Failed error with error "E: error executing updater binary in zip"
What are step to update for a device like mine??

Cheeze[iT] said:
You mean 4.4? And 4.4.1? Lol
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Omg yea, 4.4 lol, fail haha

[Q] Signature verification failed OTA Lollipop

I just got the OTA Update to Lollipop
and after i download the files, i press the install and reboot,then my nexus goes to recovery mode (CWM 6)
and then there appears :
. . . (theres still some description)
E:signature verification failed
then i just reboot and get my nexus still on 4.4
im actually forget which ROM im using right now
but in settings , it is KTU84P
FYI : I just unrooted this devices and this happened too when i was trying to upgrade with Nexus Update Checker.
Please help me guys

you need to be STOCK for OTA to work. Custom recovery, custom rom, any modifications to system etc will all prevent OTA from working.

jasonftfw said:
you need to be STOCK for OTA to work. Custom recovery, custom rom, any modifications to system etc will all prevent OTA from working.
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how to make it sure/check it , that im using stock ROM or not
and how to uninstall CWM ?

Flash stock recovery and did you make any modifications to stock ROM or flash a custom ROM? If so you need to undo all mods and replace anything you removed that is part of system, or just install stock.

jasonftfw said:
Flash stock recovery and did you make any modifications to stock ROM or flash a custom ROM? If so you need to undo all mods and replace anything you removed that is part of system, or just install stock.
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I'm having the same problem, I had already flashed /system and /boot back to stock, just didn't flash recovery (because it wasn't needed before on KK), now I've flashed everything back to stock, but now it says "system up to date" how do i solve this now? I did grab the ota zip, so maybe i can force it to flash with that zip on the stock recovery?

DarknessWarrior said:
I'm having the same problem, I had already flashed /system and /boot back to stock, just didn't flash recovery (because it wasn't needed before on KK), now I've flashed everything back to stock, but now it says "system up to date" how do i solve this now? I did grab the ota zip, so maybe i can force it to flash with that zip on the stock recovery?
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Yeah, download ota file and sideload it, otherwise you're waiting for the ota to become available to you again via download on device.

jasonftfw said:
Yeah, download ota file and sideload it, otherwise you're waiting for the ota to become available to you again via download on device.
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I have my own ota file (grabbed it from the /cache partition before flashing stock), how do i sideload it?
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DarknessWarrior said:
I have my own ota file (grabbed it from the /cache partition before flashing stock), how do i sideload it?
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just got the OTA notification again, so I'll give it another shot (yeah, i just quoted myself)

DarknessWarrior said:
I have my own ota file (grabbed it from the /cache partition before flashing stock), how do i sideload it?
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Use cmd prompt to use adb. You'll need android SDK if you don't have it. Navigate in cmd where your adb is (also have your update.zip in that directory). Run adb and then adb reboot boot loader, wait for boot loader, on device go to recovery. Once recovery is up, press vol up while holding power to access menu, go to apply update from adb then back in cmd run adb sideload update.zip

jasonftfw said:
Use cmd prompt to use adb. You'll need android SDK if you don't have it. Navigate in cmd where your adb is (also have your update.zip in that directory). Run adb and then adb reboot boot loader, wait for boot loader, on device go to recovery. Once recovery is up, press vol up while holding power to access menu, go to apply update from adb then back in cmd run adb sideload update.zip
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thanks but I got the OTA notification again and is now installing without problems

DarknessWarrior said:
thanks but I got the OTA notification again and is now installing without problems
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Never hurts to know how to sideload for future.

jasonftfw said:
Never hurts to know how to sideload for future.
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agreed.

I just installed Android Sdk and downloaded the ota from google and im having problems it doesnt side load

jasonftfw said:
Flash stock recovery and did you make any modifications to stock ROM or flash a custom ROM? If so you need to undo all mods and replace anything you removed that is part of system, or just install stock.
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DarknessWarrior said:
I'm having the same problem, I had already flashed /system and /boot back to stock, just didn't flash recovery (because it wasn't needed before on KK), now I've flashed everything back to stock, but now it says "system up to date" how do i solve this now? I did grab the ota zip, so maybe i can force it to flash with that zip on the stock recovery?
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sry i already forgot all about these things (flashing,etc.)
so how is the easiest way to flash stock Recovery ?
or should i direct flash the stock ROM ? but is it gonna delete all of my datas ?
Thanks for your answer btw

Falconite said:
sry i already forgot all about these things (flashing,etc.)
so how is the easiest way to flash stock Recovery ?
or should i direct flash the stock ROM ? but is it gonna delete all of my datas ?
Thanks for your answer btw
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check out the toolkit from wugfresh, that might be the easiest way for you if you don't know what you're doing... maybe take some notes so that you do remember what you're doing for future.

Should I unroot before installing latest OTA update?

I've got a Nexus 5 with Android 5.0. I've had it rooted and unlocked using SkipSoft Unified Android Toolkit. I recently got a notification for an OTA update for 5.0.1. When I tried to install it, it downloaded ok but upon restarting it dropped me into teamwin recovery menu with options for: Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot. Not knowing what to do I clicked on Reboot -> System which booted back into the phone. Nothing changed or got installed.
Does anyone know how I can apply the latest OTA update? Do I have to unroot first, apply and then re-root? Does the Toolkit have support for 5.0.1 rooting yet?
TIA

You must be 100% stock to update so yes, you need to fully unroot.
Though you should just fastboot flash the system.img and boot.img
Don't use toolkits. Do things manually. You can either flash SuperSU from recovery or use cf-auto root from a computer.

Its very easy, there is flashable 5.0 stock ROM, I dirty flashed, or you can do it like rootSU said via fastboot, root has been lost, then I flashed stock recovery via fastboot, there is thread for recoveries, then I upgraded via ota and flashed twrp via fastboot and flashed SuperSU to gain root and custom kernel.

My way is much quicker though as you flash 5.0.1 system and boot straight away. Nothing else.

rootSU said:
My way is much quicker though as you flash 5.0.1 system and boot straight away. Nothing else.
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We will never understand why people even bother with OTAs regardless what we ever tell them

rootSU said:
You must be 100% stock to update so yes, you need to fully unroot.
Though you should just fastboot flash the system.img and boot.img
Don't use toolkits. Do things manually. You can either flash SuperSU from recovery or use cf-auto root from a computer.
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Ok, I'm not 100% sure I understood everything you said. I've downloaded the 5.0.1 update from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. Using 7zip, I noticed the system.img and boot.img is contained in the tgz file (along with several other files). Do I just extract just those two files? And then what do I do in Teamwin?
Will all my apps and data persist?
TIA

Techno79 said:
Ok, I'm not 100% sure I understood everything you said. I've downloaded the 5.0.1 update from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. Using 7zip, I noticed the system.img and boot.img is contained in the tgz file (along with several other files). Do I just extract just those two files? And then what do I do in Teamwin?
Will all my apps and data persist?
TIA
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Boot into bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Boot into Lollipop
You didn't touch userdata.img so it doesn't touch the data partition, although a wipe is usually recommended anyways because it's a new version of Android.

Lethargy said:
Boot into bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Boot into Lollipop
You didn't touch userdata.img so it doesn't touch the data partition, although a wipe is usually recommended anyways because it's a new version of Android.
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Sweet, that worked a great. Thank you.

[5.0] Nexus 5 Refuses To Flash OTA or Different ROM's

Hello,
So I just discovered this while trying to flash the 5.0.1 OTA from 5.0. I'm rooted on LRX21O via the Nexus Root Toolkit 1.9.9 (which is what I've always used in the past with no issues).
1 Tried flashing the OTA via Google notification push. It reboot, and no changes occur.
2 Fine - I try to use the Root Toolkit again. Boots into bootloader, appears to flash the radio and other necessary components. Reboots - no changes occur.
3 I then tried to just download the 5.0.1 package and flash everything manually via adb. Everything appears to go smoothly, and upon bootup Android updates all of its apps - still nothing. I appear to be completely stuck on LRX21O without any way to reflash stock or OTA's.
Anyone have any clue why this is occurring or have heard of such an issue before?
Thanks all.

Just flash factory images. With fastboot/flash-all script.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

You flash these in fastboot not adb
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Did you not understand? I did flash in boot loader USING adb on my computer. All that bat script does is just automate the flashing of each image for you (system, radio, etc) so this is not helpful. I know how to flash, but flashing seems to have no effect despite successfully flashing via manually installing or just using the script

Sane116 said:
Did you not understand? I did flash in boot loader USING adb on my computer.
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You use fastboot in bootloader, not adb.

I'm not the one asking for help. Anyways, carry on.

Your device's /system partition is tampered (you say you rooted it) and thus the OTA fails. Flash the 5.0 factory image (LRX21O) WITHOUT rooting/flashing kernels/whatever and then use the OTA zip to do adb sideload in the stock recovery to update to 5.0.1 LRX22C.

Manually use fastboot commands to flash system.img and boot.img of the full 5.0.1 factory image (not script). post the output please

I'm not the one asking for help. Anyways, carry on.
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Sorry about that - didn't mean to come across snippy
It worked this time with fastboot. For future reference can this be done the same way with the OTA update zip instead of reflashing the entire image?

Sane116 said:
Sorry about that - didn't mean to come across snippy
It worked this time with fastboot. For future reference can this be done the same way with the OTA update zip instead of reflashing the entire image?
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No, but if your phone is setup correctly you can sideload the ota zip in the stock recovery
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jd1639 said:
No, but if your phone is setup correctly you can sideload the ota zip in the stock recovery
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Would you mind explaining this? I've used sideload in cwm and twrp before but I'm unsure of how to operate anything within stock recovery. adb won't even connect while in recovery. I would like to just remain on unrooted stock until xposed eventually get's developed for ART and flash zips that way.

Sane116 said:
Would you mind explaining this? I've used sideload in cwm and twrp before but I'm unsure of how to operate anything within stock recovery. adb won't even connect while in recovery. I would like to just remain on unrooted stock until xposed eventually get's developed for ART and flash zips that way.
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Sideloading in the stock recovery works much the same as in a custom recovery. Boot into the stock recovery and there is an option to sideload. Then on your pc in a command window you type adb sideload update.zip. or whatever the file name is that you're trying to sideload. Obviously, if you can't get adb to recognize your device that's a problem. But that's a separate driver issue.
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jd1639 said:
Sideloading in the stock recovery works much the same as in a custom recovery. Boot into the stock recovery and there is an option to sideload. Then on your pc in a command window you type adb sideload update.zip. or whatever the file name is that you're trying to sideload. Obviously, if you can't get adb to recognize your device that's a problem. But that's a separate driver issue.
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How can this be possible though without a custom recovery with the sideload feature? Stock recovery is essentially unusable as it just displays a picture of a dead android on a black screen.
Perhaps we're on different pages, or am I just confused still?

sideloading an OTA update from stock recovery
Hello, to make it work you will need to use the Google USB drivers you downloaded when you go into stock recovery then press the power button and volume up once then you will see a menu option with the "install update from adb option select this and plug in your phone to the computer. After this is done you will need to go to device manager and install the USB drivers from the Google USB drivers you downloaded. at this point after that is done you then go into the folder that has ADB installed and use adb sideload filename.zip
at this point your phone will accept the ota update package and you wont lose any data, I hope this helps..
-cs

Sane116 said:
How can this be possible though without a custom recovery with the sideload feature? Stock recovery is essentially unusable as it just displays a picture of a dead android on a black screen.
Perhaps we're on different pages, or am I just confused still?
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When you get the dead android you need to press vol up and then press and release power. That'll get you into the stock recovery. It's stupid and I don't know why they made it that way
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thanks all, can't believe i never knew that volumeup+power got me into stock recovery options.
new issue: sideload works all well and perfect, but how can I bypass the "signature verification failed" flag that kicks me from the zip install every time?

Sane116 said:
thanks all, can't believe i never knew that volumeup+power got me into stock recovery options.
new issue: sideload works all well and perfect, but how can I bypass the "signature verification failed" flag that kicks me from the zip install every time?
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Well you can't. The limitation of the stock recovery is you can only flash files signed by Google. That's why you need a custom recovery to flash most files
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jd1639 said:
Well you can't. The limitation of the stock recovery is you can only flash files signed by Google. That's why you need a custom recovery to flash most files
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So can I just flash twrp with fastboot and go about that method? I believe it can bypass the signature. I am unlocked without root currently.

Sane116 said:
So can I just flash twrp with fastboot and go about that method? I believe it can bypass the signature. I am unlocked without root currently.
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If you're trying to flash the update.zip to 5.0.1 you need to do that in the stock recovery. It will not work in twrp or cwm. I'm not sure what you're trying to do right now
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my apologies.
so originally i wanted to just flash the OTA. ended up performing a fresh install and un-rooted. but there's a few unsigned zips i like to have installed.
So I think I'm going to re-root, flash twrp, install my zips, and leave it at that. i'll just flash stock recovery whenever I need the OTA which should be quick now that I know what to do.
hope that sounds correct. thanks for all the help!

[N_7.0][NPJ25.93-14][TWRP][Boot]TWRP Backup of Stock Boot Partition

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT LIABLE TO ANY DAMAGE THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR DEVICE BECAUSE OF DOING ANYTHING WRONG.
MOTO G4 PLUS [XT1643]
This is for those who had flashed a custom kernel on their stock ROM and now want to revert to stock.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. TWRP 3.0.3-n2 by @Shreps .
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...covery-twrp-3-0-2-r3-moto-g4-g4-plus-t3494337
This one is more updated/maintained than the official 3.0.2 version.
2. 7Zip Compression Utility:
Download and install on your PC. I use this as it gives the maximum ultra level compression. See Downloads below.
PROCEDURE:
1. Download and extract the TWRP.7z using 7Zip.
2. Place the TWRP folder it in the root directory of your INTERNAL STORAGE.
2. Just reboot TWRP once and choose Restore and then choose this: athene_93-14_boot
3. Swipe to restore.
NOTE: As a general recommendation for all zip installations and backup/restore using twrp, Wipe Cache and ART Cache before you Reboot to System.
4. You're DONE
DOWNLOADS:
Google Drive Link for the file:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25DpDahxm52MDlBRlVqNElkaUE
7-ZIP Download Link:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
IF YOU WANT ENTIRE STOCK ROM ( TWRP BACKUP) VISIT THIS THREAD BY @Greekgodmerwyn .
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/android-7-0-moto-g4-plus-npj25-93-14-t3544601
HIT LIKE IF I HELPED YOU! :fingers-crossed: :good:

Hey I need the file bit it is in bin so give a alternative link

Can i install this to xt1644 retus?

Dont know bro I just want the 1643 one

dedik46 said:
Can i install this to xt1644 retus?
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Not tried. Make additional backups and try. :good:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25DpDahxm52MDlBRlVqNElkaUE
Not Found
Error 404
Please re-upload.

nextheart said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25DpDahxm52MDlBRlVqNElkaUE
Not Found
Error 404
Please re-upload.
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Oh wait. Try this, @nextheart
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120722570

@tywinlannister7 Thanks for quick reply.
As far as I can understand, this file should be flashed (restored) after restoring my TWRP back up of nougat stock rom taken in January-2017. Currently I am on RR-MM.
Shall I able to take OTA then?

nextheart said:
@tywinlannister7 Thanks for quick reply.
As far as I can understand, this file should be flashed (restored) after restoring my TWRP back up of nougat stock rom taken in January-2017. Currently I am on RR-MM.
Shall I able to take OTA then?
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For OTA updates to work, you'd need a stock recovery on your device too; TWRP is a no go. Once you've restored your TWRP backup of your Nougat stock ROM (which hopefully may have the stock boot still), you can flash the stock recovery linked here https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/how-to-ota-rooting-nougat-npj-25-93-14-t3601747
I imagine the easiest option is to flash the recovery in fastboot (same as you did with TWRP) using 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img', then rebooting into recovery.
I think, though I've not tried it with a stock recovery, that you should be able to flash the recovery image in TWRP:
tap Install in the TWRP menu
Select 'install image's
Find your stock recovery image and select
Choose recovery as the image type
Flash and reboot to recovery.
Then, provided your system has a stock kernel, no modifications to your system and a stock recovery (bootloader doesn't matter), you should be able to update via OTA.

@echo92 Thanks for detailed guide.
I had flashed SuperSU on Nougat stock ROM, so stock boot might be affected. Am I right?
In short, I want to sell the device, so I want to return to stock.

nextheart said:
@echo92 Thanks for detailed guide.
I had flashed SuperSU on Nougat stock ROM, so stock boot might be affected. Am I right?
In short, I want to sell the device, so I want to return to stock.
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You could have directly flashed the latest March 1 Security firmware via fastboot and lock your bootloader too.

tywinlannister7 said:
You could have directly flashed the latest March 1 Security firmware via fastboot and lock your bootloader too.
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Thank you for pointing out.
Will I lose my IMEI or WIFI MAK or any thing else by fastboot method? Because I have read that some users are losing such things by fastboot method.

nextheart said:
Thank you for pointing out.
Will I lose my IMEI or WIFI MAK or any thing else by fastboot method? Because I have read that some users are losing such things by fastboot method.
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Shouldn't create any such issues. Anyways, you can make an entire backup of the fsg and other partitions in twrp.
Yes, your data will be wiped though.