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[Q] Trying to install 4.3 OTA

My phone is rooted, and has TWRP custom recovery installed.
The phone automatically downloaded the OTA, and tried to install it. With TWRP, the update failed and my phone is working fine now.
I don't need the rooting anymore (was for teetering, but with new data plan it's now included). So I'm okay with losing the root and all.
Using SuperSU I deselected the rooting, and after reboot RootCheck tells me my phone is not rooted. I still have TWRP installed.
Now, I'm stock MF1/ 4.1.2. How do I install the 4.3 update and remove the TWRP recovery? I found in another thread the 4.3 Tar file. Do I simply use Odin on my PC and flash it on my phone? What about TWRP?

airtrons said:
My phone is rooted, and has TWRP custom recovery installed.
The phone automatically downloaded the OTA, and tried to install it. With TWRP, the update failed and my phone is working fine now.
I don't need the rooting anymore (was for teetering, but with new data plan it's now included). So I'm okay with losing the root and all.
Using SuperSU I deselected the rooting, and after reboot RootCheck tells me my phone is not rooted. I still have TWRP installed.
Now, I'm stock MF1/ 4.1.2. How do I install the 4.3 update and remove the TWRP recovery? I found in another thread the 4.3 Tar file. Do I simply use Odin on my PC and flash it on my phone? What about TWRP?
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Are you sure you want the 4.3, this latest rom will lock your bootloader permanently, meaning you will NOT able to install CWM,TWRP, custom rom/kernel or downgrade the OS to the early version. The only thing you can do once updated is root. If you still decided to upgrade, just Odin the full rom MF1 here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 then after bootup your OS should auto update to the latest (OTA).

airtrons said:
My phone is rooted, and has TWRP custom recovery installed.
The phone automatically downloaded the OTA, and tried to install it. With TWRP, the update failed and my phone is working fine now.
I don't need the rooting anymore (was for teetering, but with new data plan it's now included). So I'm okay with losing the root and all.
Using SuperSU I deselected the rooting, and after reboot RootCheck tells me my phone is not rooted. I still have TWRP installed.
Now, I'm stock MF1/ 4.1.2. How do I install the 4.3 update and remove the TWRP recovery? I found in another thread the 4.3 Tar file. Do I simply use Odin on my PC and flash it on my phone? What about TWRP?
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I had the same question myself, and have been proverbially "running around in circles" today (instead of working). Anybody have success flashing said Odin file and then upgrading via the OTA?
Ha! I came from a mytouch3g years ago, flashing incessantly. I got this phone so i could stop. Then rooted to take the ads away, and got a bit more than I bargained for... now I just want back on OTA stock.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Cheers

Kevvy1066 said:
I had the same question myself, and have been proverbially "running around in circles" today (instead of working). Anybody have success flashing said Odin file and then upgrading via the OTA?
Ha! I came from a mytouch3g years ago, flashing incessantly. I got this phone so i could stop. Then rooted to take the ads away, and got a bit more than I bargained for... now I just want back on OTA stock.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Cheers
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if you download this full firmware http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 unzip the file then use Odin to flash, this will bring you back to pure stock rom with stock recovery (no more twrp/cwm). After this you will be prompt for OTA and just take the upgrade. Once done you should be on the latest factory 4.3 with locked bootloader.

I ended up downloading the 4.3 files from another post here, and flashing it with Odin. Worked fine.
Of course, without a root, can't recover my apps from Titanium but oh well.

airtrons said:
I ended up downloading the 4.3 files from another post here, and flashing it with Odin. Worked fine.
Of course, without a root, can't recover my apps from Titanium but oh well.
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Why don't you just root with saferoot found here?http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758

I wish I would have found this thread before starting my own... woops. Anyway I would like to install 4.3 and I too rooted with twrp. I don't care anymore if I am rooted or not. I stopped flashing roms and such a while back and will be upgrading this next year to the s5 most likely.
Is there a way to install 4.3 w/out removing root? If not, since I never used odin, and used twrp what steps do/should I take to get back to where I can install 4.3?
Thank you.

Sithlyone said:
I wish I would have found this thread before starting my own... woops. Anyway I would like to install 4.3 and I too rooted with twrp. I don't care anymore if I am rooted or not. I stopped flashing roms and such a while back and will be upgrading this next year to the s5 most likely.
Is there a way to install 4.3 w/out removing root? If not, since I never used odin, and used twrp what steps do/should I take to get back to where I can install 4.3?
Thank you.
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Since your life is too busy and you don't want to mess with your phone anymore, your best bet is go back to stock 4.3 which is very good by the way, very stable, smooth and bug free. After so many complaints from my wife I rolled it back to stock 4.3 and she's so happy now.
1. Flash stock MF1 here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 , just unzip the flash with Odin
2. Your phone should take the 4.3 OTA update and you're home free.

[Q] How do I update android on my rooted Moto G?

Every time I download the 4.4.2 update through the phone's menu, it gives me an Error while it is installing and the phone just reboots. I'm guessing it's because the phone is rooted.
What do I do? Phone is a European model if it matters.

I have the same problem.
Any suggestions?

I dont think it makes any difference if its rooted, have u installed a different recovery or kernel? I know u need stock rom, recovery and kernel or it'll bootloop, this happened to me
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The solution that I'm aware of...
Hi there, as far as I know, the only way to be able to update the firmware is by unrooting the phone,
flash the stock ROM, install the update, then re-root it. I know it's a hassle, but otherwise you won't be able to unless you use a custom ROM. Hope that helps!

You need the original recovery
Sent from my Moto G

You need stock recovery.
The KitKat installation script also checks each file that it updates. If a file is found to differ from the stock file then the update fails.
So if you are rooted then at least one file is different from stock. Basically you need to unroot or flash stock before you can update.
Unrooting may still not allow you to update if the unroot process leaves any files different from stock. Best bet is to flash stock ROM then update.
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Download voodoo ota root keeper and use that

Will bear the above in mind, thanks.

[Q] OTA update ?

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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[Recovery][4.4.4] STOCK RECOVERY for XT1033

As we All know we are going to get Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA in coming days and for OTA stock recovery is necessary.
Downloading whole firmware just for stock recovery is not worthy that's why I'm sharing stock recovery of Asian variant(XT1033 including India).
LINK:-
Stock recovery(Here)
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Waiting so anxiously for Lollipop

BUT, flashing the ENTIRE firmware to OTA your device is a MUST.
OTA will fail if your device was rooted then unrooted because system partition was modified by root.. So, for the update to succesfully work, you have to flash entire firmware (including stock recovery), like it or not, to have an untouched system partition.
Flashing only stock recovery again is not enough, it will make no difference, OTA will fail.
So, this thread is kinda useless if you think about it...

MarckozZ said:
BUT, flashing the ENTIRE firmware to OTA your device is a MUST.
OTA will fail if your device was rooted then unrooted because system partition was modified by root.. So, for the update to succesfully work, you have to flash entire firmware (including stock recovery), like it or not, to have an untouched system partition.
Flashing only stock recovery again is not enough, it will make no difference, OTA will fail.
So, this thread is kinda useless if you think about it...
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Now that you said... Agreed
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Flashing Stock recovery alone wont work... I tried flashing the stock recovery alone for upgrading to 4.4.4.. but it didn't work..... We need to flash the whole firmware again for successful upgrade..

But it's good if somebody else want to find official recovery
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[Question] Is there a way to convert custom revocery files into flashable odin files?

Hi,
I have a Note edge N915W8 which i updated to 5.1.1 the moment it became available on Sammobile (big mistake). as everyone knows, i lost root in the process. And no root availble at this time.
Important history of the phone:
I acquired the device from a friend that had rooted it when it was in its original stock 4..4.4 config. He then tried to flash a custom rom which ended up in a bootloop which he was unable to recover from because there wasn't a stock rom available at the time. Long story short, I ended up with a bootlooped Note Edge and after a week i managed to acquire someones backup zip from XDA -- which i then used to free my device from the loop and function properly with root.
I got too eager and flashed the 5.1.1 without reading up on it and lost root.
So, i was hoping there would be a way or method that i could use that would allow me to use that same custom recovery backup of 4.4.4, only this time be able to flash it through odin on my stock 5.1.1
Any advice would help.
Thanks

From what I know once you take 5.1 update you cant backroll to 4.4.4.
BOOTLOADER was patch'd BY the GREATS to throw another wrech in our plans!
And also I do blv there is ROOT for 5.1 but it trips knox & you have to install twrp thru Odin then flash SUPERSU & BEASTMODE Kernel that allows root and then take root
READ THIS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not.../root-supported-kernel-5-1-1-testers-t3176651

Ickyz said:
From what I know once you take 5.1 update you cant backroll to 4.4.4.
BOOTLOADER was patch'd BY the GREATS to throw another wrech in our plans!
And also I do blv there is ROOT for 5.1 but it trips knox & you have to install twrp thru Odin then flash SUPERSU & BEASTMODE Kernel that allows root and then take root
READ THIS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not.../root-supported-kernel-5-1-1-testers-t3176651
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Thanks I appreciate it.
just out of curiosity, Are you running a rooted 5.1? or have you heard any feedback about this method
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itsmemikeeey said:
Thanks I appreciate it.
just out of curiosity, Are you running a rooted 5.1? or have you heard any feedback about this method
Sent from my SM-N915W8 using X D A Free mobile app
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No I cant get Twrp 2 flash thru Odin as md5 everything I download comes out as IMG & that does me no good