Xt1541 ota - Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've got a XT1541 8GB with LPI23.72-22 firmware Spain retail version. I've seen the retail firmware in the firmware's post but i haven't got the ota just yet. Has anyone with this device got the OTA? Is there any other way to install it? Downloading from motorla website and flashing maybe? Im on stock unrooted.
Also i would like to know if I stay on stock recovery and root the phone, will unrooting it before updating be enough to capture ota's without any problem? And then root again by temporarily boot into twrp?
Thanks for the help.

I have a different model but root won't stop you from downloading and capturing the OTA. I was able to capture the OTA even though I was rooted and updated while rooted. To be on the safe side, it would probably be best to unroot though. Before I rebooted after the OTA, I went into the cache and saved a copy of the OTA.
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So as long as i keep stock recovery and I unroot before updating i wont have any truble right?
Is motorola sending the OTA or my carrier? Because i got the unlocked phone on amazon and my carrier is not selling phones or giving them with a contract.
Anyway i think im gonna go for cyanogenmod as soon as it gets official support.

felipovicc said:
So as long as i keep stock recovery and I unroot before updating i wont have any truble right?
Is motorola sending the OTA or my carrier? Because i got the unlocked phone on amazon and my carrier is not selling phones or giving them with a contract.
Anyway i think im gonna go for cyanogenmod as soon as it gets official support.
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Right, you shouldn't have any problems. Motorola will be sending out the update, not your carrier. You probably wouldn't have any trouble updating while rooted, but to be on the safe side it wouldn't hurt. You'll have to root again after the update anyway, so you may as well un-root before the update.

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[Q] How do OTA updates affect root users?

Hello,
How does the upcoming OTA update (4.3) affect people with unlocked bootloaders and custom ROMs? I am new to this and this will be my first OTA update since rooting/unlocking.
Will I even get a notification requesting to update, or will it force me to update? And which should I choose? Will I have to re-root the phone after the update? Or can I even get the OTA update since it is rooted?
Sorry, I have a ton of questions, so if someone can just explain what is going to happen and what our choices are that would be great!
Thanks in advance!!!
-Joe
I'll try to answer a few
...
It seems like the ota is delayed but who knows..
If you want to stay unlocked and rooted don't take the ota until a respected developer says otherwise.
You may or may not get a notification depending on your ROM or other system tweaks. If you are rooted only, you provably will.
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joejaniczek said:
Hello,
How does the upcoming OTA update (4.3) affect people with unlocked bootloaders and custom ROMs? I am new to this and this will be my first OTA update since rooting/unlocking.
Will I even get a notification requesting to update, or will it force me to update? And which should I choose? Will I have to re-root the phone after the update? Or can I even get the OTA update since it is rooted?
Sorry, I have a ton of questions, so if someone can just explain what is going to happen and what our choices are that would be great!
Thanks in advance!!!
-Joe
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The OTA will note affect you at all, you will not even be prompted for it due to running a custom ROM.
If your running a stock rom and have only rooted/unlocked, an OTA will break root and relock your bootloader.
If your running a stock rom/unlocked/and a custom recovery, you'll get prompted for the OTA, but it will not install, it will fail due to the custom recovery (twrp/cwm/etc).
You'll need to Odin to stock to receive an official OTA, but remember there is always a risk of an OTA breaking root permanently....
My advice is to stay custom, and flash a rooted custom stock rom that will surely be appearing here within a day or two of the OTA... But Verizon will probably not release 4.3 to us, and if they do it'll be at least 4 months...

Tmobile pushed a 60mb update to my LG Stylo this morning? What to do?

Hello Folks
This morning I noticed, Tmobile pushed a 60mb update to my phone. I am rooted and unlocked but not on a custom rom.
Please advice what I need to do.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Is there any issuse with the update
I have not updated. As I mentioned I am rooted and unlocked. Not sure what to do hence posted my question in the forum.
I do not want to lock the bootloader. Just curious to see what others who might have got this update are doing about it.
Regards
Roism said:
I have not updated. As I mentioned I am rooted and unlocked. Not sure what to do hence posted my question in the forum.
I do not want to lock the bootloader. Just curious to see what others who might have got this update are doing about it.
Regards
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1. You don't have to worry about lock bootloader
2. Which Software version are you running? v10e, v10i or v10j?
3. If you update there is a way to downgrade cuz we have previews KDZ's
I am running version 10i,
I am guessing tmobile wants to upgrade me to v10j. Is there a flash able version for 10j that I can use?
Thanks
Roism said:
I am running version 10i,
Thanks
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Ok, you can go here and update to the latest version v10j using @GameTheory. V10j Full update/pre-rooted/untouch TWRP.
http://androidforums.com/threads/me...-v10j-rom-flashable-updated-9-26-2015.926221/
Thanks Draken,
Issue resolved
Regards
getting "error" when trying to install 60mb OTA update?
I was rooted on 5.1.1 (t-mobile version) but I unrooted via SuperSU app ( at least I think it unrooted)
and now each time I try to update I get the "error" and have to pull the battery out
before I unrooted I tried to "flash" 10vj Update but I do not know how to flash and it failed
this is my first time rooting any device and I was also unsuccessful at trying to download twrp
as a noob I am apologetic that I do not know such things
but I need help and really don't want to miss out on the marshmallow update
when it comes out in a couple months someone help????how do i fix this i will
need the easiest solution explained in great detail if possible
I really love this phone!!!
:crying:
lovejunkie777 said:
I was rooted on 5.1.1 (t-mobile version) but I unrooted via SuperSU app ( at least I think it unrooted)
and now each time I try to update I get the "error" and have to pull the battery out
before I unrooted I tried to "flash" 10vj Update but I do not know how to flash and it failed
this is my first time rooting any device and I was also unsuccessful at trying to download twrp
as a noob I am apologetic that I do not know such things
but I need help and really don't want to miss out on the marshmallow update
when it comes out in a couple months someone help????how do i fix this i will
need the easiest solution explained in great detail if possible
I really love this phone!!!
:crying:
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dummy you can't update that way you must remove all traces of root which the app can't do use the KDZ
If you are rooted and it says system update DO NOT INSTALL IT... it will brick your phone
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Getting new S6, confused if root/ROMable?

So... I'm about to get a new S6 for Verizon. There's pretty limited info in this thread, but a lot of it seems like a new S6(as of 10/01/2015) isn't rootable/ROMable because of the most recent OTA that I would assume would be on a phone bought now. Is that correct? If not can someone point me to threads that show how to root and get a custom recovery on?
Thanks,
Craig
Correct. You will not be able to root the new s6 unfortunately. You can likely buy one on swappa that hasn't been updated and is running fireflash or whatever.
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.....unless you get lucky and get a phone with OC3 or OE2. Verizon just sent me a replacement S6 (was having major BT issues) and I got lucky enough to get one on OC3. S6 + OE2 + root + greenify = me happy :laugh:
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csh8428 said:
So... I'm about to get a new S6 for Verizon. There's pretty limited info in this thread, but a lot of it seems like a new S6(as of 10/01/2015) isn't rootable/ROMable because of the most recent OTA that I would assume would be on a phone bought now. Is that correct? If not can someone point me to threads that show how to root and get a custom recovery on?
Thanks,
Craig
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Were you able to get a new S6 from Verizon with either OC3 or OE2, if so which one? I am interested in getting it too, but it's a no go if root is not possible.
NSRacer said:
.....unless you get lucky and get a phone with OC3 or OE2. Verizon just sent me a replacement S6 (was having major BT issues) and I got lucky enough to get one on OC3. S6 + OE2 + root + greenify = me happy :laugh:
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I'm worried that if I get a new S6 from verizon it will auto-update to 5.1.1 OG5 during the initial setup wizard/process. Can you explain how you stopped yours from updating to OE2 and OG5? Thanks in advance
The device won't auto-update itself without consent from the user. My replacement came with OC3, so I pulled down OE2 (from the web) and pushed that to the phone using ODIN. Once that was done, I applied root which prevents the phone from receiving OTA updates.
NSRacer said:
The device won't auto-update itself without consent from the user. My replacement came with OC3, so I pulled down OE2 (from the web) and pushed that to the phone using ODIN. Once that was done, I applied root which prevents the phone from receiving OTA updates.
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Thanks for the info! I went in to a verizon the other day and their answers were all over the place; it's amazing how they know so little about the devices they spend all day selling, servicing. They tried to tell me that a mandatory update came out Friday "for all verizon android phones" and the play store wouldn't work if it wasn't updated to it (though they told me also that the user has no choice to reject updates - lol)
NSRacer said:
The device won't auto-update itself without consent from the user. My replacement came with OC3, so I pulled down OE2 (from the web) and pushed that to the phone using ODIN. Once that was done, I applied root which prevents the phone from receiving OTA updates.
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I got my s6 from someone on swappa and for some reason, once I first booted and was doing initial setup, the phone automatically rebooted into update mode. As soon as it was back up and running, the build version was too new to root and the bootloader version had been updated too. I don't know why it did this for me, I was really tempted to hard reboot while it was in update mode to prevent it because I really wanted to root, but I was even more worried about bricking the phone. I figure maybe the guy who sold it to me had already downloaded the update but did not run it, and after doing a factory reset maybe the phone was somehow set to auto-execute the update...

Will the 6039H get the marshmallow update?

I bought this phone from T-Mobile and i still didn't get the update. Do you think i should wait or do something about it?
http://droididea.com/install-stock-...low-on-alcatel-idol-3-build-number-7vab-uebo/
Found this site,and im planning to update through the stock recovery, do you think this is possible? My only concern is that i have a T-Mobile carrier locked model (6039H). Any other solutions if this is not possible?

Drawbacks to manual update?

Today I noticed that OnePlus has the 9.5.7 update on their site, and I was curious if there any drawbacks to using that instead of waiting for the OTA. For context, I keep my phone stock unrooted with the T-Mobile firmware so I'm mostly concerned about being able to get future T-Mobile OTAs. Are there any reasons I should avoid applying the update before the OTA comes?
This may be a moot point, since the T-Mobile firmware doesn't have the easy button to install a local update and I'm too lazy for ADB and all that.
horatiopositronic said:
Today I noticed that OnePlus has the 9.5.7 update on their site, and I was curious if there any drawbacks to using that instead of waiting for the OTA. For context, I keep my phone stock unrooted with the T-Mobile firmware so I'm mostly concerned about being able to get future T-Mobile OTAs. Are there any reasons I should avoid applying the update before the OTA comes?
This may be a moot point, since the T-Mobile firmware doesn't have the easy button to install a local update and I'm too lazy for ADB and all that.
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My guess is that you should never simply flash an international OTA over a stock TMo OP7p... Otherwise, we probably wouldn't see all the threads in XDA about converting a TMo OP7p to the unlocked OP7p!

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