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Will "factory reset" break root?

I guess you'll find out shortly cause i'm about to do it

Factory reset should not touch /system which is where the binary and apk reside.
Sent from my MB865

Well, here are some preliminary findings
After rooting I was not able to use my phone for USB Mass storage, not exactly sure why, just an observation. Before root, it worked fine.
After FR, I am now able to use my phone for USB MS again. However, upon the first time trying to mount it as MS device I got a pop up window telling me of one or more problems on the disk (sdcard) and it said that happens when a file or files were not done writing to the card before it was unmounted. Not sure how that could have happened, but it did. It gave me two options, scan and fix Atrix 2 or scan w/o fixing Atrix 2. Choosing option 1 would run checkdisc and attempt to fix any problems found, that's what I did and it fixed the problem.
After rooting I was unable to check for system updates, let me clarify....I could physically tell the phone to check for them but I would get an error that said "Check for system update is not available at this time, please try again later."
After FR, I get a different message that states "Your device is up to date, no update necessary at this time."
After rooting I was able to use MyBackup Root to backup all my apps and stuff.
After FR, this is what I get when trying to open the app
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I am going to install SU to see if that changes anything re: root access, will post back with update.

i launched Titanium Backup the other day after rebooting and it said i didnt have root. rebooted again and launched the app, root came back....its really weird... had this happen on the Atrix 1 as well. even on custom roms that are pre-rooted.

A lot of times it is because the superuser app is not running or failed to launch. Opening superuser and going back to whatever app complained usually works for me.
IMO, I haven't even rooted this device (yet) but that's my experience on my last phone.

koriflame said:
A lot of times it is because the superuser app is not running or failed to launch. Opening superuser and going back to whatever app complained usually works for me.
IMO, I haven't even rooted this device (yet) but that's my experience on my last phone.
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out of all the devices i have and have had, the atrix and the atrix 2 are the only ones i have seen this on.

It's worth a try, next time it occurs. Again, I haven't done anything with this device specifically, so it could be something else.

I've decided not to try it, nothing really to gain at this point since rooting this phone doesn't accomplish much yet.

android device manager

On my old device ADM could locate my device. Since i get new device from RMA ADM cannot locate my device. I tried every suggestion that i found on forum and internet and nothing helped. Since it dont work since i get new device maybe the reason can be that i put the backuped partitions from old to the new device throuht twrp. So what shall i do?

DTFuser said:
On my old device ADM could locate my device. Since i get new device from RMA ADM cannot locate my device. I tried every suggestion that i found on forum and internet and nothing helped. Since it dont work since i get new device maybe the reason can be that i put the backuped partitions from old to the new device throuht twrp. So what shall i do?
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go into the main settings, security, make sure that the android device manager is set as an administrator.
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simms22 said:
go into the main settings, security, make sure that the android device manager is set as an administrator.
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It is. But as i said, it was working on old device so it should be something correlated to the restoring backup from old to the new device.

DTFuser said:
It is. But as i said, it was working on old device so it should be something correlated to the restoring backup from old to the new device.
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ah, it was an older nandroid you restored on a new device.. uninstall the app, then reinstall it.

simms22 said:
ah, it was an older nandroid you restored on a new device.. uninstall the app, then reinstall it.
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It did not helped.

This is one of many reasons I personally never recommend that people use a nandroid from one device to another.
Just wipe and flash stock with fastboot. Done.
Backup your user apps and data with titanium backup.

I will try that as a last resort since there is a little progress.
As can be seen on picture ADM locate my device, but it says that it is unavailable.
From second picture can be seen that ADM registered my both N5, and that old one was last been online on the 12 of July and that the new device was last online on the 4 of August. On the 4th August was my new device still with a original firmware. But after that when I put OmniROM and restore data from old device ADM thinks that my device was not online but it can locate it. Strange.
Any suggestions?

[Q] Titanium Backup aid (mobilepass)

Hope everyone is having a good week so far.
I am relatively new to my Nexus 5, and loving the phone so far. I am not new to flashing roms, rooting devices, etc., but definitely not a extreme power user by any means.
The one issue I am running into is preserving a particular application, MobilePass, as I flash a new rom on my Nexus 5. By flashing I mean a clean flash (clearing system data etc). I use titanium backup (paid version), and while it will restore the APK, it does not restore the app information. Why this is a problem is the program is used to generate a VPN key, and if the token information is not preserved I have to go through this long process at work to get the VPN working again (sending access code, having infrastructure enable, etc.) Will say, I can understand if it is not possible to restore a program like this for security reasons, but figured I will ask the community.
The steps I take in running the backup in titanium:
- Going to the batch screen
- Selecting backup apps + system data
Have never tried the option to create a flashable zip.
Anyone have pointers or other backup utilities they would suggest?
Additionally, did read over: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717159 but did not really give me anymore information than I did not already know.
Thanks for any help.
**Edit after installing helium (CM backup solution), it seems that there is an option in Android application development to not allow apk backup's. So there might not be a solution here.
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Some apps just don't respond well to being restored. Don't think there's much you can do. Maybe try another backup app to see if it's the same deal?

KJ said:
Some apps just don't respond well to being restored. Don't think there's much you can do. Maybe try another backup app to see if it's the same deal?
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Thanks for the fast reply. Are there any other backup programs you recommend?

Titanium is the best for a reason. Extremely reliable and paid version has many uses.
But just to see if your app is capable of restoring data... Try anything you find on playstore. Just backup that app. Then uninstall it. And try restore. There's "my backup root" and "Helium" . Those are the only 2 I know off hand.
Maybe try the apps website to see if you can find out if it's even possible to restore data maybe first though.

KJ said:
Titanium is the best for a reason. Extremely reliable and paid version has many uses.
But just to see if your app is capable of restoring data... Try anything you find on playstore. Just backup that app. Then uninstall it. And try restore. There's "my backup root" and "Helium" . Those are the only 2 I know off hand.
Maybe try the apps website to see if you can find out if it's even possible to restore data maybe first though.
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Thanks KJ. I did try Helium, and think I found the issue. Updated the first post with a screenshot. Would be nice if Titanium had the same notification system.

Remove apps from Playstore update list?

Got a rooted op7p & various versions of my favourite apps installed that I don't want to update. Because there not the latest versions they stay stuck in my update list in the play store!
Is there a magisk module or app I can run to remove them from the list so I'm not constantly told to update or accidentally update it?
Think I might have solved it!
Went into Titanium backup pro, found the app, scrolled across to 'special features', then 'detach from the market'! There no longer in the update list now anyway ?

Detach is one that is for this
Titanium Backup like you found is another option
However, in my experience, both apps don't keep apps removed. After some time, they will show up again

Yeah your right, already popped back up!
Any idea how to permanently get rid of them?

You can turn off updates from the google play store itself, and it never notifies you.
Go into google play > Settings > Auto-update apps | Set to Don't auto-update apps. If I want to update something, I go in manually and choose what I want to update.
As for Magisk modules, also under settings, turn off Check Updates.
Titanium Backup was my first play store purchase for those features as well

Hi there, I have found a work around for this.
Go to (https://github.com/yuk7/playstore-excl-upd)
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then follow the instructions on the page.
Make sure you create a txt file named as peulist.txt under root directory /data/cache/peulist.txt... once done reboot after flashing the file and include the apps with there package name that you want to exclude from the update list.

Bengemin14 said:
Hi there, I have found a work around for this.
Go to (https://github.com/yuk7/playstore-excl-upd)View attachment 5666533 then follow the instructions on the page.
Make sure you create a txt file named as peulist.txt under root directory /data/cache/peulist.txt... once done reboot after flashing the file and include the apps with there package name that you want to exclude from the update list. View attachment 5666537View attachment 5666539
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Thank you a lotttt, worked perfectly! :3 <3
Also hiding YouTube, so it won't override YouTube vanced, hihi

Bengemin14 said:
Hi there, I have found a work around for this.
Go to (https://github.com/yuk7/playstore-excl-upd)
then follow the instructions on the page.
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Um... any idea how you can UNDO this, so all available updates will show up again? I've tried disabling the module and rebooted, but the changes seem to stay...
Does anyone know what exactly this module does/changes? It does not seem to be really well documented...

Question S22 Ultra Beta

I opted in for the beta over the weekend and after consideration I decided not to update it since it is my daily. I unrolled from the beta, but can't seem to get the ota update to go away. Anyway how I can remove this? The update is downloaded and is asking me to install.

Try disabling these 2 apps.
That should kill. The com.ws.dm is probably the only one that needs disabled but better safe than updated
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blackhawk said:
Try disabling these 2 apps.
That should kill. The com.ws.dm is probably the only one that needs disabled but better safe than updated
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Tried that using alliance x. Gave me an error. If I can find a way to force stop then kill it I think the OTA update will disappear. I also went into apps and located the system update app and cleared data and cache.

dia_naji said:
Tried that using alliance x. Gave me an error. If I can find a way to force stop then kill it I think the OTA update will disappear. I also went into apps and located the system update app and cleared data and cache.
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Adb edit it. Someone said that clearing the system cache would purge the download however another member said this wasn't true.
That ws app might as well be a rootkit the way it behaves, very invasive with every permission under the sun. It's the first app I disable.

Surefire solution: backup, factory reset, restore. Problem solved.

blackhawk said:
Adb edit it. Someone said that clearing the system cache would purge the download however another member said this wasn't true.
That ws app might as well be a rootkit the way it behaves, very invasive with every permission under the sun. It's the first app I disable.
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A no go on the clear system cache. Will try and disable it through adb then re enable it.

dia_naji said:
Tried that using alliance x. Gave me an error. If I can find a way to force stop then kill it I think the OTA update will disappear. I also went into apps and located the system update app and cleared data and cache.
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Adb edit it. Someone said that clearing the system cache would purge the download however another member said this wasn't true.
That ws app might as well be a rootkit the way it behaves, very invasive with every permission under the sun. It's the first app I disable.

blackhawk said:
Adb edit it. Someone said that clearing the system cache would purge the download however another member said this wasn't true.
That ws app might as well be a rootkit the way it behaves, very invasive with every permission under the sun. It's the first app I disable.
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Fixed it. Had to do it through alliance x. All I had to do was go to the app in alliance swipe over to actions then wipe app data. Thanks for the help!