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Nexus 5, Marshmallow 6.0 MRA58N - OTA notification

Hi Guys
After one of the custom 5.1 roms crashed and left me without the phone, I have decided that I will go live with Marshmallow.
I have installed the original stock 6.0 MRA58K which after booting quickly went into MRA58N with OTA update.
Once I have realised how many things I am missing in my phone, due to using the stock ROM, I was looking for a perfect solution and decided that I will no longer be flashing custom ROMs, but use XPOSED as a framework with additional modules.
I have installed the elementalx kernel and added the correct XPOSED framework.
Everything was working fine until yesterday, where I have received notification about OTA update to 6.0.1.
First I thought that I don't really care about emojis, however I do like the option of "Do not disturb until next alarm".
I know that I can achieved by some additional modules to the xposed, however the OTA update is quite annoying.
Because I was on TWRP as a recovery, I have also installed the BusyBox and SimpleRecoverySwitch hoping that this will resolve the issue. Quickly reflashed stock recovery (don't know why, but every time when I was using fastboot to flash recovery with stock recovery.img, TWRP was still there) and found that I still can't use OTA update to 6.0.1. due to error:
"app_process 32 has unexpected contents".
After googling I have found that this is because I have xposed up and running.
Googled than for "unistalling" xposed and found plenty of topics, however none of them have provided me clear answers, especially to the question of "how to uninstall xposed". I have not found any original.img, so I suppose xposed installer have not created any backup, also when I will open xposed Installer - options to "uninstall xposed" are greyed out.
So my question would be - how can I easily remove xposed (temporary) without loosing data/restarting fully the phone, because after 5 days of flashing/reflashing/factory resets I am slowly tired from setting up personal configuration on my phone (even when on Marshmallow is much more easier than on lollipop 5.1).
If this is not possible, how I could remove OTA update from not only notifying me all the time, but also not restarting the phone (wakelock?)

Once you root the phone, you will not be able to upgrade via OTA. Your choices are to follow the instructions on this thread or to completely go back to stock without root and do the OTA.

Reboot doesn't apply Gravitybox tweaks/RRO layers

So, after receiving Marshmallow OTA and updating (i have the european version), i unlocked the bootloader, installed twrp and rooted. Everything works. I installed Xposed, and it works, but when i choose some gravitybox (MM) tweaks that require me to reboot the phone, even after rebooting, they do not apply. it seems like i haven't rebooted at all. I tried using layers after reading a post in the forum, and every theme does not apply after reboot (and i have busybox installed).
any help is appreciated! this is my only (working) smartphone, so consider this.
thanks in advance and sorry for my English, I'm italian.

OTA Updates on Rooted Knox tripped SM-N915G India

Hi,
I recently acquired a Note Edge N915G and was going through the rigmarole of finding a rom to suit my eyes and my requirements from the phone. in doing that I rooted the device and flashed micky387 MM rom 1.0 on the device and then tried the noble rom and RR rom too. I wasnt too excited about them so thought of downgrading to lollipop and trying some custom roms on lollipop base. I did that and found the alliance rom and having used their roms on my note 2 and note 3 I was happy to find one for note edge and flashed it after flashing a stock lollipop rom through odin it was N915GXXU1BOBC_N915GODD1BOC1_INS but it did not let alliance rom boot past the startup logo.
After trying different options i thought ill go back to MM as it was a stable rom and flashed stock N915GXXU1DPE1_N915GODD1DPE1_N915GDDU1DPB6_HOME.tar rom and decided to boot it up and see what it is like. I found it okay and installed twrp recovery from odin and then added su through recovery along with sony walkman, dolby atmos and viperfx.
the thing which got me here is that i received notifications of system updates available to me and on accepting them last night got 3-4 updates starting at 350 mb or so and upto 700 mb (Not exact) . My knox was already tripped and showed 4 before this but i got the ota updates and they installed without any issues.
I was always under the impression that rooting takes away the option of ota updates as the device becomes unofficial. I am unable to understand how i could get those updates after i had rooted and tried different roms and then loaded a stock rom through odin. I am also unable to get alliance past the initial boot logo and would appreciate suggestions. i installed stock N915GXXU1BOBC_N915GODD1BOC1_INU before flashing twrp and then Alliance through recovery. it wasnt booting past the first screen and i tried adding the permissive kernel which got it to conme to the alliance logo and it is animated but doesnt go any further.
thanks in advance for all the help and my thanks to xda and the great develo[pers who have given us more than the manufacturers ever could in making our devices as unique as each one of you.

Root OpenKirin Resurrection Remix 6.2.0

So I am running beta 3 of Ressurection Remix from OpenKirin website. Everything is smooth even after heavy tweaks. But I want to root this ROM. Reason is I want to uninstall built-in apps and some of my apps require root access. I already tried rooting the ramdisk.img. it failed. Even though it was rooted root access wasn't available. So can I directly flash latest magisk via elemental ROM TWRP? Or is there any other method?

Like you, I'm on the same build from yesterday, and obviously the minimum that I'd like to do is to root the ROM, since that we already miss a fully working TWRP and a compatible Xposed framework.
I discovered just yesterday topjohnwu's thread about patching the stock boot.img with the custom Magisk Manager apk for Huawei devices, but before doing everything I've decided to make a search on XDA, and I've stumbled upon this. So neither patching the stock ramdisk.img works?? Dammit. Becsuse standing by what i know, flashing latest Magisk on an A only GSI works, but i haven't read successful cases rooting an OpenKirin ROM yet.
I'd like to test this method, but i still have to setup some stuff on this ROM, and so i don't want to try something that could mess up system, trashing all the time that I've spent on configuring the device.
I'll update ya as soon as i can, if something useful should come out. I hope to update you soon!

Dude. I have done it and would like to tell you that it can be flashed normally. Currently enjoying root with all modules working. If you have an honor 6x just flash TWRP from elemental room thread and then latest magisk. So far no issues, no bootloop. However after first installation I recommend you to install via direct patch once again to ensure everything works. i.eif you still wanna know. This is way simpler

Thanks for letting me know mate, yeah i have a 6X. Actually I've installed TWRP and flashed latest stable Magisk, V17.1. Magisk is correctly detected by Magisk Manager.
Now, the file that i should provide to patch on Magisk Manager is stock EMUI 8.0 boot.img, correct?

Nope. If you have magisk installed just direct install once again via magisk manager and you're good to go

Thanks Mannan, I'm enjoying root goodies too now.
I take the chance to ask ya if sound mods like Viper/Dolby Atmos will also work or not as a Magisk module, since that time ago (but even recently) i saw some users that was saying in a couple of threads that flashing one of these would corrupt system files, and so EMUI 8 had to be flashed again.

First of all we aren't on EMUI 8bso no corruption. We are on Android 8.1 so any Sound Mod for this Firmware should work. Now I haven't flashed it yet cause mainly I have to find a working one and of the risk of soft brick. But I will try and let you know if I find a working one. Same goes for exposed framework

Got it. Well it would be great, especially Xposed in systemless version.
EDIT - going off topic a while, even you notice a charging time much slower than on stock? Before, i usually charged something like 60-65% in one hour, now it tooks at least 1 hour and an half to achieve the same percentage of battery. Gotta tweak this someway.

Tried installing Viper4android. Gives IO error while mounting driver. Xposed I havent tried

Mannan Qamar said:
Tried installing Viper4android. Gives IO error while mounting driver. Xposed I havent tried
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Thanks for the feedback. Sadly i think that Xposed won't work too.

Rooting Pie?

I have a question. I want to root my phone (upgraded from oreo to pie, stock), but i'm not sure what should i do. Should i use oreo rooting instructions? I can't find any tutorial for rooting on pie. I don't want to change my rom, i just want to have a root and be able do use the magick and modules that's all. It would be nice to have step by step instruction.
I know i have to unlock my bootloader first at htcdev, then install twrp (not sure which twrp and if the installation is same as on oreo?)
In the past i rooted one phone but it was completely different and i almost bricked my device, because some idiot posted wrong link on the forum... There is so many versions of everything and i'm feeling lost in it.

I hope this helps, but Pie is still very new for the HTC U11. Some even are saying that clean flashes of the Pie RUU have flash, camera, and wifi issues. I am currently running the amazing RR-P rom (which is based on pie), but it runs on the latest Oreo RUU. I have no issues with the ROM and I get insane SoT even without battery savings. I am excited for the future of this phone, since I love the hardware navbar (never liked the on-screen one / though my HTC m8 is still a boss, and even the forums there have a very solid Lineage 17.0 (android 10) working on it).
https://dl.twrp.me/ocn/
Above is the official link to the US HTC u11 TWRP recoveries. I don't think (to be safer than sorry) these are 100% compatible over the PIE firmware though.
I checked HTCdev, and it doesn't seem to have any difference in the instructions in unlocking the bootloader. No mention of Nougat or Oreo, so I would assume there's no difference in doing the same with Pie.

I flashed my U11 after Pie update, working fine, no problems with flash, wifi or anything else (CID: HTC__034)
1. Unlock bootloader via htcdev
2. Flash latest TWRP from the official site. Instructions here for example: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-twrp/
3. Flash Magisk (also from official Magisk site)… that was a little trickier, since TWRP can't mount the encrypted partitions. The workaround is to copy the Magisk ZIP onto an SD Card and flash it from there while in TWRP.
4. Enjoy.
I decided to root this U11 for the first time, since I don't expect any futur software updates coming form HTC.

Thank you for all your help, i'll try this out today. :good:

So i did everything and it's working but i have one problem. After installing magisk i tried to install some modules, and one of them caused bootloop and i was unable to delete it, and also i was unable to install module uninstaller (fail). So i had to do factory reset - any solution to avoid this kind of problems in future?
Also i installed xposed successfully, but none of modules was working..

Togzyk said:
So i did everything and it's working but i have one problem. After installing magisk i tried to install some modules, and one of them caused bootloop and i was unable to delete it, and also i was unable to install module uninstaller (fail). So i had to do factory reset - any solution to avoid this kind of problems in future?
Also i installed xposed successfully, but none of modules was working..
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I have no answers, but as u can see a rooted pie is problematic, hence the many people reverting back to oreo and or nougat, but some people somehow make it work. Not me I could not downgrade quick enough after rooting, unrooted pie worked great, but my many 'need for root apps' did not , so back to oreo for me . Just my 2 cents!! Good luck.

hammered58 said:
I have no answers, but as u can see a rooted pie is problematic, hence the many people reverting back to oreo and or nougat, but some people somehow make it work. Not me I could not downgrade quick enough after rooting, unrooted pie worked great, but my many 'need for root apps' did not , so back to oreo for me . Just my 2 cents!! Good luck.
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I found many working apps. The biggest problem is "substratum", especially when it comes to changing navbar buttons. But gravitybox is working, and I'm happy with it. Thanks for your help

My rooted Pie works fine, but I didn't install Substratum or Xposed.