Hello to everyone,
I have a Moto G of a friend. He would to update to last OTA update but he already did root & custom recovery (cwm recovery)..
The OTA update fails with the custom recovery as we expected... so we tried to flash stock recovery, but also this make the update fails...
So my question is if and where we can find a zip of the OTA update flashable with CWM or TWRP recovery...
Hoping you can help us
Regards
Davide
Flash stock fw first then apply OTA.
is there a way without losing everything?
Of course it is,just dont enter last 2 commands(wipe cache and data) and you are good.
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I rooted my ville c2 and installed twrp. And after that i downloaded OTA 4.1.1 and clicked the install button. But it ended up in twrp. And i can't even flash the ota.zip through twrp and fastboot. It always said error. status 7... So somebody show me a way and if you have stock recovery.img, share it please.
Little K said:
I rooted my ville c2 and installed twrp. And after that i downloaded OTA 4.1.1 and clicked the install button. But it ended up in twrp. And i can't even flash the ota.zip through twrp and fastboot. It always said error. status 7... So somebody show me a way and if you have stock recovery.img, share it please.
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you need the stock recovery for installing OTAs,
flash the stock recovery and install the OTA (you dont need to relock your bootloader)
after installing the OTA you can flash your custom recovery back again.
It could be that you will loose your root after installing the OTA so you have to root your phone again.
I dont have any experience with root-keeper etc. so I cant tell you anything about it.
you will find the stock recovery for the One S C2 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28087059&postcount=18
I installed this rom on my phone:
[ROM] 4.4.2 GPE, philz recovery, fixed logo, easy for noobs and no noobs
I have failed to read a warning not to update rom via OTA. I updated via OTA to 4.4.4. As a result, I lost the recovery.
How do I regain the recovery?
I tried flashing the stock recovery and then CWM over it and it didn't help.
Please help.
retfeg said:
I installed this rom on my phone:
[ROM] 4.4.2 GPE, philz recovery, fixed logo, easy for noobs and no noobs
I have failed to read a warning not to update rom via OTA. I updated via OTA to 4.4.4. As a result, I lost the recovery.
How do I regain the recovery?
I tried flashing the stock recovery and then CWM over it and it didn't help.
Please help.
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you'll surely loose the recovery after the ota install stock rom then stock recovery then cwm over it..
Trying to flash 5.0 OTA from 4.4.4 without losing data on Nexus 5.
I don't know how to remove custom recovery so I can sideload the OTA zip in the stock recovery. It keeps loading into TWRP instead.
Can someone explain step by step how I flash the factory recovery.img?
That's not even possible (as far as I know)...
XDA Visitor said:
Trying to flash 5.0 OTA from 4.4.4 without losing data on Nexus 5.
I don't know how to remove custom recovery so I can sideload the OTA zip in the stock recovery. It keeps loading into TWRP instead.
Can someone explain step by step how I flash the factory recovery.img?
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Removing a custom recovery while preserving data is not possible, you should backup all your data, remove the custom recovery, flash 5.0 and then restore your custom recovery.
Are you using the Nexus Root Toolkit? It's incredibly easy and I use it for almost all my flashing, rooting, etc.
You can't apply an OTA on a rooted phone. On Kitkat and before you could end up in a boot loop. After Lollipop the OTA changed to system-level verification, and any change to the ROM stopped the OTA - all you get is a reboot to an unchanged system.
In any case, major ROM jumps usually work best with a total wipe and clean install of the new ROM. somerandomatoms is right - back up and install the new ROM. But why go to 5? You may as well go straight to 6.0.1.
I rooted my OnePlus with TWRP recovery sometime back and current image is CM11. I need to upgrade it to CM12 however all the manuals I found require stock recovery to upgrade from CM11 to CM12
I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade to CM12 with TWRP recovery? If not, how I can get stock recovery restored?
Also, if I manage to upgrade to CM12, is there a possibility for OTA updates in future?
Dud download lollipop bootanimation and flash through TWRP
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yetanotherse said:
I rooted my OnePlus with TWRP recovery sometime back and current image is CM11. I need to upgrade it to CM12 however all the manuals I found require stock recovery to upgrade from CM11 to CM12
I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade to CM12 with TWRP recovery? If not, how I can get stock recovery restored?
Also, if I manage to upgrade to CM12, is there a possibility for OTA updates in future?
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1. Download the flashable CM12s zip file.
2. Store it under the root directory.
3. Go to TWRP recovery (Please make sure you use the latest version 2.8.6.0).
4. Do factory reset (wipe dalvic cache and other memory)
5. Flash the CM12 zip.
6. Reboot and enjoy....
Also, you will get OTA if you manually flash the CM12s.
yetanotherse said:
I rooted my OnePlus with TWRP recovery sometime back and current image is CM11. I need to upgrade it to CM12 however all the manuals I found require stock recovery to upgrade from CM11 to CM12
I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade to CM12 with TWRP recovery? If not, how I can get stock recovery restored?
Also, if I manage to upgrade to CM12, is there a possibility for OTA updates in future?
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You don't need stock recovery, just flash with TWRP.
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Thanks for your help. Was able to flash CM12 successfully.
But facing another issue now - As soon as phone booted with CM12, it downloaded OTA system update. When I try to install the update, phone reboots in twrp recovery and update doesn't complete. Tried numerous times (with and without 'update CM recovery' toggle) but with same result.
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Thanks for your help. Was able to flash CM12 successfully.
But facing another issue now - As soon as phone booted with CM12, it downloaded OTA system update. When I try to install the update, phone reboots in twrp recovery and update doesn't complete. Tried numerous times (with and without 'update CM recovery' toggle) but with same result.
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What error message do you get?
Shankar9822 said:
What error message do you get?
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Some md5 error. Was able to workaround it by flashing the OTA update via TWRP directly
yetanotherse said:
Some md5 error. Was able to workaround it by flashing the OTA update via TWRP directly
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Good to hear that.... MD5 error occurs when the downloaded file is corrupted.
Hey guys, yesterday I rooted my phone using KingRoot and XZRecovery to flash Super SU and now I want to flash back the stock recovery again because I want install future system updates without problems.
How can I flash it again? (I have my bootloader locked)
kapucho19 said:
Hey guys, yesterday I rooted my phone using KingRoot and XZRecovery to flash Super SU and now I want to flash back the stock recovery again because I want install future system updates without problems.
How can I flash it again? (I have my bootloader locked)
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There is no accessible stock recovery on Xperia phones, the actual recovery partition will still be there. Dual recovery is installed on the system partition.
If your bootloader is locked you will be able to OTA, but you will lose root. The best thing to do is flash a pre-rooted flashable zip in the dual recovery you have. As soon as there is an update you can make a new pre-rooted flashable zip using PRFCreator.