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I searched and found no answer. My Vibrant is just rooted to turn off the boot up and turn off sounds. Nothing else has done, is the OTA safe for my phone?
parahelium said:
I searched and found no answer. My Vibrant is just rooted to turn off the boot up and turn off sounds. Nothing else has done, is the OTA safe for my phone?
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There are reports that it works with RyanZA's lag fix and root in some instances.
There are reports that the OTA update bricks even virgin stock phones, so it is a shot in a dark.
Personally I think I'm gonna wait till some one uploads the update and does some testing to see what is making the phone soft brick .
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I searched and found no answer. My Vibrant is just rooted to turn off the boot up and turn off sounds. Nothing else has done, is the OTA safe for my phone?
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Root is ok but you will have to undo any lagfixes if you applied them.
It will most likely unroot your device but you can use the same method to root again.
dublued said:
Root is ok but you will have to undo any lagfixes if you applied them.
It will most likely unroot your device but you can use the same method to root again.
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Not to be a downer but not necessarily. I was rooted with no lag fix (currently or prior) at all and it soft bricked my phone. I had the Samsung AP installed but that is about it, didn't remove bloatware or change the startup/shutdown sounds.
Got the phone running again with ODIN so I am back to stock now, without the update
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Not to be a downer but not necessarily. I was rooted with no lag fix (currently or prior) at all and it soft bricked my phone. I had the Samsung AP installed but that is about it, didn't remove bloatware or change the startup/shutdown sounds.
Got the phone running again with ODIN so I am back to stock now, without the update
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What a bummer...I'm rooted w/ Ryans LagFix....hope to hear some good news in a few on a solution...
lqaddict said:
There are reports that it works with RyanZA's lag fix and root in some instances.
There are reports that the OTA update bricks even virgin stock phones, so it is a shot in a dark.
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does the virgin stock phones mean that it is unrooted or nothing is changed in the out of the box phone?
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My Rooted Vibrant that also went through OCLF failed to boot and hung on the Vibrant splash screen. Had to use Odin and the stock build to get it back and running. Thankful I had made backups prior to trying the OTA.
I've since renamed /etc/system/otacerts.zip to stop the OTA update but I would love to get rid of the OTA update icon. Anyone have any ideas?
mine was rooted with just the ji6 modem flashed from odin.. and some other mods like mobile ap and metamorph..
so i got the update.. and it failed on install... ahhh.... flashed back pure stock on odin.. waaaaiiitning.. praying it comes back again!
Stock phone, rooted with no lagfix ever applied.
Phone is toast. I'm at work so waiting for Odin to download slowly so I can reflash the phone to stock.
Might just say skip it and apply one of the custom roms. It seems neither TMO or Samsung can get their **** together. I waited patiently for the OTA and got screwed.
Updated ok with root
My phone had the OCLF v 2.1 plus root installed. Yesterday I removed the lag fix since most folks recommended this prior to updating. Crossed my fingers and hoped my update would arrive soon.
Today my update arrived. It installed with no issues, after which my phone is still rooted. It did pause for several minutes at the Galaxy S screen, I was wondering if I had bricked it but I waited and it came through ok.
I'm not planning to reinstall the lag fix anytime soon as I don't notice that much of a change - except in the Quadant scores ;-)
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Stock phone, rooted with no lagfix ever applied.
Phone is toast. I'm at work so waiting for Odin to download slowly so I can reflash the phone to stock.
Might just say skip it and apply one of the custom roms. It seems neither TMO or Samsung can get their **** together. I waited patiently for the OTA and got screwed.
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That's what I ended up doing. I didn't want to potentially wait until the end of October so I just went ahead and flashed Bionix. I don't think I'm going back to stock ever.
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My phone had the OCLF v 2.1 plus root installed. Yesterday I removed the lag fix since most folks recommended this prior to updating. Crossed my fingers and hoped my update would arrive soon.
Today my update arrived. It installed with no issues, after which my phone is still rooted. It did pause for several minutes at the Galaxy S screen, I was wondering if I had bricked it but I waited and it came through ok.
I'm not planning to reinstall the lag fix anytime soon as I don't notice that much of a change - except in the Quadant scores ;-)
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How many "minutes" did you wait? The notice before the update said it would take 10 minutes. I'm willing to wait, but not all night
The update portion with a status bar went my pretty quickly. My phone's been sitting on "Vibrant" for about 5 minutes and I'm starting to sweat.
I had been rooted and had OCLF but reversed both before applying the update. I also had the mobile AP, customized swype skin and custom battery meter but everything else was stock.
gancho said:
Not to be a downer but not necessarily. I was rooted with no lag fix (currently or prior) at all and it soft bricked my phone. I had the Samsung AP installed but that is about it, didn't remove bloatware or change the startup/shutdown sounds.
Got the phone running again with ODIN so I am back to stock now, without the update
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i want to remove mobile AP just incase that is what is causing the soft bricks. ive noticed many people have problems have flashed the mobile ap. is there a way to remove with like uninstalling an application?
--without odin or flashing back to stock
I was rooted and removed some of the Samsung bloatware apps such as MediaHub etc...saw the update was available this morning and started it, phone was stuck on the Samsung Vibrant screen ever since. I put in for a replacement, could probably fix it with ODIN but new phone should be here tomorrow. I was actually having issues before that, so it could have been the phone itself...no way to be 100% sure.
For the people who had issues with their OTA, did you have a file named update.zip previously on the /sdcard directory? It's the only thing I can think of that might interfere with the OTA download, causing it to truncate. Phone is recovered and re-rooted, but the Update Firmware shows no update available. I'm going to Odin flash the 9-28 JI6 image.
That is what I am thinking as well. I have removed the update.zip from the internal storage now. The OTA is here and I postponed for a day just to be safe. I really need the GPS fix.
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For the people who had issues with their OTA, did you have a file named update.zip previously on the /sdcard directory? It's the only thing I can think of that might interfere with the OTA download, causing it to truncate. Phone is recovered and re-rooted, but the Update Firmware shows no update available. I'm going to Odin flash the 9-28 JI6 image.
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fine over here
My phone is rooted with RyanZA's one click lag fix and the update worked fine for me. I've never removed bloatware or anything though. Total I think it took about 8 minutes from start to finish.
I received the update this morning but my battery was below 10% and said I need more juice in order to install. I recharged and it kept saying the same thing after postponing a couple times. I restarted my phone and all works good now.
I'm noticing very good improvements in signal strength and flawless gps now. Maybe a speed increase also? I'm not sure about the speed thing just yet. Seems a bit snappier to me.
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I updated to JI6 using odin based on the info in android development section, and I most definitely lost root.
Trying one click root/unroot to see if I can get root back
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I updated to JI6 using odin based on the info in android development section, and I most definitely lost root.
Trying one click root/unroot to see if I can get root back
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Using the recovery mode / update.zip (the classic root method) worked for me after Odin flashing JI6.
I've been searching the net for the past few days and can't find anything specific to my issue. I'm hoping one of you guys can help me out, or at least point me in the right direction.
I'm currently on 98.15.66.xt907.en.us and I've gotten the OTA message, but any attempt to update fails. I had some bloatware frozen, so I unfroze it, pretty much back to stock, but the OTA update still fails. I have always been rooted, and I attempt to protect the root with Voodoo.
Yesterday, I took the further step of UNLOCKING my bootloader. So, now I'm unlocked, rooted, and I'm running TWRP 2.5 for recovery.
Here's what happens now, if i attempt to install the OTA. The file downloads, it reboots my phone, which immediately launches into TWRP. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do at this point, so I just click "Reboot system".
It gets stuck in a boot loop...it loads all the way up, but goes back to "Shutting down" (assuming to perform the OTA upgrade again) within a minute or so.
At this point, I have to do a Restore in TWRP to make my phone stop looping.
What I would like to do is get the upgrade to 98.18.78 and be on my merry way. I can't seem to find the OTA file for download, so I can attempt to install it in TWRP. Not even sure if that's possible.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
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I've been searching the net for the past few days and can't find anything specific to my issue. I'm hoping one of you guys can help me out, or at least point me in the right direction.
I'm currently on 98.15.66.xt907.en.us and I've gotten the OTA message, but any attempt to update fails. I had some bloatware frozen, so I unfroze it, pretty much back to stock, but the OTA update still fails. I have always been rooted, and I attempt to protect the root with Voodoo.
Yesterday, I took the further step of UNLOCKING my bootloader. So, now I'm unlocked, rooted, and I'm running TWRP 2.5 for recovery.
Here's what happens now, if i attempt to install the OTA. The file downloads, it reboots my phone, which immediately launches into TWRP. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do at this point, so I just click "Reboot system".
It gets stuck in a boot loop...it loads all the way up, but goes back to "Shutting down" (assuming to perform the OTA upgrade again) within a minute or so.
At this point, I have to do a Restore in TWRP to make my phone stop looping.
What I would like to do is get the upgrade to 98.18.78 and be on my merry way. I can't seem to find the OTA file for download, so I can attempt to install it in TWRP. Not even sure if that's possible.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44213644&postcount=5
Just do my restore in the Dev section.
I did not notice your handle Hi again.
lostpilot28 said:
I've been searching the net for the past few days and can't find anything specific to my issue. I'm hoping one of you guys can help me out, or at least point me in the right direction.
I'm currently on 98.15.66.xt907.en.us and I've gotten the OTA message, but any attempt to update fails. I had some bloatware frozen, so I unfroze it, pretty much back to stock, but the OTA update still fails. I have always been rooted, and I attempt to protect the root with Voodoo.
Yesterday, I took the further step of UNLOCKING my bootloader. So, now I'm unlocked, rooted, and I'm running TWRP 2.5 for recovery.
Here's what happens now, if i attempt to install the OTA. The file downloads, it reboots my phone, which immediately launches into TWRP. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do at this point, so I just click "Reboot system".
It gets stuck in a boot loop...it loads all the way up, but goes back to "Shutting down" (assuming to perform the OTA upgrade again) within a minute or so.
At this point, I have to do a Restore in TWRP to make my phone stop looping.
What I would like to do is get the upgrade to 98.18.78 and be on my merry way. I can't seem to find the OTA file for download, so I can attempt to install it in TWRP. Not even sure if that's possible.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
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I would NOT accept the OTA - the main purpose is to install a security patch to prevent you from unlocking the bootloader.
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I would NOT accept the OTA - the main purpose is to install a security patch to prevent you from unlocking the bootloader.
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I was under the impression that once the Bootloader was unlocked it could never be "re-locked". Are you saying that's not the case? My BL is currently unlocked. But, I would like the bug fixes that come with the OTA update.
aviwdoowks said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44213644&postcount=5
Just do my restore in the Dev section.
I did not notice your handle Hi again.
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OK, thanks...just wasn't sure about the other one since you said it fixes the 4G and WiFi. I didn't think they were broken with the OTA, so I thought yours was a custom ROM or something.
lostpilot28 said:
OK, thanks...just wasn't sure about the other one since you said it fixes the 4G and WiFi. I didn't think they were broken with the OTA, so I thought yours was a custom ROM or something.
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Once you blow the UL fuse no way back.
lostpilot28 said:
I was under the impression that once the Bootloader was unlocked it could never be "re-locked". Are you saying that's not the case? My BL is currently unlocked. But, I would like the bug fixes that come with the OTA update.
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correct. however, in accepting the OTA, the phone tries to enter it's own recovery, and since you have replaced it, you are getting the error picture.
I think I read somewhere that some got a hold of the updated radio, so you can flash that if you like. but otherwise, no "real" bug fixes.
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Once you blow the UL fuse no way back.
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Actually, not exactly the case. Since we haven't had something like this (retail phone getting unlocked by exploit) involving moto phones, we don't know that it can't be relocked. For all we know, moto could OTA an update to the bootloader that makes it ignore the fuse entirely. We just don't know. Hence the warning about taking OTAs
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Hello,
I might be a moron, but 1 hour ago I received the notification of Android 5.0 OTA update on my Nexus 4 running stock Android 4.4.4. I said I might be a moron because due to the lack of space on my 8GB Nexus 4 I decided to make a factory reset before updating to the new OS. I did it, but I have no update notification anymore. My apps are still updating, but it says the system is up to date when I check for updates.
Please help me, can you tell me if the update dissapeared forever or will it reappear? I waited too long for this.
PS: I want the over-the-air update, I don't want to install it manually.
It will reappear, but as the update rolls out step by step the devices are randomly chosen and you'll have to wait some more time now
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It will reappear, but as the update rolls out step by step the devices are randomly chosen and you'll have to wait some more time now
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Oh, I guess I'll have to facepalm myself for a week or maybe more.
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Oh, I guess I'll have to facepalm myself for a week or maybe more.
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But why don't you flash the ota zip in the recovery? There's no difference if you wait for the ota or if you flash it in the stock recovery as it's the same package
mihahn said:
But why don't you flash the ota zip in the recovery? There's no difference if you wait for the ota or if you flash it in the stock recovery as it's the same package
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Well...will I still receive updates like I would if I install it in ota-mode? I mean, for example, if I flash the OTA zip and after a month the Android 5.1 is released, will the update appear like 5.0 appeared this evening, or I'll have to flash that manually too? I have not many aknowledge about this.
veketash said:
Well...will I still receive updates like I would if I install it in ota-mode? I mean, for example, if I flash the OTA zip and after a month the Android 5.1 is released, will the update appear like 5.0 appeared this evening, or I'll have to flash that manually too? I have not many aknowledge about this.
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Yes, later updates will still show up on your phone
There are some guides about it. You simply download the ota zip (there are some threads with the link to download the file from Google's servers) and then you sideload it using adb on your PC. You shouldn't have any issues with it
Sideload and ota are the same. The only difference is that your sending the file to the phone through a computer (manually) instead of downloading on the device itself (automatically)
I was sitting in my car and looked at the screen and I noticed that the phone was downloading MotorolaOTA 4.0 Does anyone know what it is? I am currently running KitKat 4.4.4 and never did the Lollipop update.
I also stopped the download in process but it appears that the phone would love to continue the download.
Thanks
gman
The phone has an app called MotorolaOTA, which is responsible for downloading system updates. If it was a software update it'd say it's 23.11.39.
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Just caught my Turbo
I am running KitKat 4.4.4. version 21.44.12 the file it's trying to download is 770 megabytes. Could it be trying to sneak in Lollipop?
gman781 said:
I am running KitKat 4.4.4. version 21.44.12 the file it's trying to download is 770 megabytes. Could it be trying to sneak in Lollipop?
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Yes, it will download the update but, afaik you MUST confirm installation of it... It's not going to install on it's own...
smokie75 said:
Yes, it will download the update but, afaik you MUST confirm installation of it... It's not going to install on it's own...
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For over a month I have been getting the update screen and I would just put it off. Now it seems like it is pushing it's way into my phone.
Motorola confirmed recently that they would be patching the Stagefright exploit for the Turbo via OTA. I wonder if they can somehow force the update since it's such an important security issue this time around. I seem to remember Samsung doing something similar with the S6 shortly after release. I would recommend disabling Motorola OTA until more is known.
Not rooted, cannot disable.
Caught my phone doing the same thing. Is Lollipop larger than 770MB? I thought so, but haven't checked into it.
That's what I have been trying to figure out.
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Caught my phone doing the same thing. Is Lollipop larger than 770MB? I thought so, but haven't checked into it.
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CM 12.1 ROM (Lollipop 5.1.1) for our Quarks is only 390 MB.
So, yeah, Lollipop 5.1 with Verizon bloatware is probably 770MB.
But the 5.1 OTA for Droid Turbo XT1254 posted here is 1.1GB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/dro...quark-stock-firmware-moto-maxx-droid-t3063470
Still 770MB is huge.
Just freeze it
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Not rooted and will not allow disable.
My phone downloaded it. Been telling it no thanks for a few days now. Some home after telling it to remind me later it then decided to reboot and start installing. I haven't rooted yet but I have bought moforoot and don't want my 20 bucks to go to waste! Of course I can boot up without it wanting to install. Went into bootloader and powered it off. Almost though i couldn't get into that.
Any way I can stop this thing? Trying to get someone at home to turn on my PC since that is where my moforoot is at and stupid me didn't put it on my server which is on 24/7. Any ideas?
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My phone downloaded it. Been telling it no thanks for a few days now. Some home after telling it to remind me later it then decided to reboot and start installing. I haven't rooted yet but I have bought moforoot and don't want my 20 bucks to go to waste! Of course I can boot up without it wanting to install. Went into bootloader and powered it off. Almost though i couldn't get into that.
Any way I can stop this thing? Trying to get someone at home to turn on my PC since that is where my moforoot is at and stupid me didn't put it on my server which is on 24/7. Any ideas?
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Before my turbo was rooted, I was able to block the OTA's by installing the motorola drivers on my windows pc and installing Minimal ADB / Fastboot. Go here for instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57436867&postcount=26
However, I never did download any of the OTA's to my phone but I hope this helps. I believe this is by Rootjunky as far as credits are concerned.
Also by Misterxtc
gman781 said:
Not rooted and will not allow disable.
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RL_Wells said:
Before my turbo was rooted, I was able to block the OTA's by installing the motorola drivers on my windows pc and installing Minimal ADB / Fastboot. Go here for instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57436867&postcount=26
However, I never did download any of the OTA's to my phone but I hope this helps. I believe this is by Rootjunky as far as credits are concerned.
Also by Misterxtc
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The debloat tool is a much easier way to disable any app on your phone. On kitkat it disables and on lollipop it hides the apps. The hide command on lollipop has the same effect as the disable command on kitkat.
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drtweak said:
My phone downloaded it. Been telling it no thanks for a few days now. Some home after telling it to remind me later it then decided to reboot and start installing. I haven't rooted yet but I have bought moforoot and don't want my 20 bucks to go to waste! Of course I can boot up without it wanting to install. Went into bootloader and powered it off. Almost though i couldn't get into that.
Any way I can stop this thing? Trying to get someone at home to turn on my PC since that is where my moforoot is at and stupid me didn't put it on my server which is on 24/7. Any ideas?
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Enter recovery mode, clear cache and use the debloat tool to disable the OTA.
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Yea no go on Recovery. It just goes straight to "Installing System update" Got my PC on, downloaded my mofo to my work PC, and not installing drivers and also downloading a stock but rooted version of 4.4.4. not quite ready to move on to 5.1 yet.
Thanks for the help though and tryin to help out! Now to finally jump into my Turbo after 8 months of having it. I miss the days of TWRP on my Razr HD. Funny because i had to reload an old backed up image so i could get some old wifi passwords.
UGH this damn phone. Won't power off when in Fastboot, so i just have to let it sit in fastboot and watch it and just restart everytime it starts up. got 20 minutes left of downloading an image. About ready to say F'it and just factory reset it for now and see if that fixes it or not.
Well flashing a stock rooted rom didn't work. Uses the rooted Quark 21.44.12 image that I download and I know i was on 21.44.12 when i checked last time. So don't know if it was because of the starting up the update or what.
Soft bricked my turbo, time to use RSD Lite again. Haven't had to use this in a LOOOOOONG time (Like Droid X Days)
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Well flashing a stock rooted rom didn't work. Uses the rooted Quark 21.44.12 image that I download and I know i was on 21.44.12 when i checked last time. So don't know if it was because of the starting up the update or what.
Soft bricked my turbo, time to use RSD Lite again. Haven't had to use this in a LOOOOOONG time (Like Droid X Days)
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I'm probably too late but have you tried this to get back to KitKat? I used it earlier today and it worked great.
Misterxtc said:
I'm probably too late but have you tried this to get back to KitKat? I used it earlier today and it worked great.
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No I had to get my phone backup asap. using the RSD Lite method actually didn't work. the program would keep freezing right after it read the zip file and then crash. Had to use Root Junky's method. I was able to restore back to stock 21.44.12 and everything was there as if nothing happened so I'm all good.
Just got a notification for an update to this and I'm rooted now and do not want to lose root. How can I get the update with retaining root?
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Just got a notification for an update to this and I'm rooted now and do not want to lose root. How can I get the update with retaining root?
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Install update. DO NOT REBOOT!!! Open magisk and install via OTA.
REBOOT
Should be good from there.
Last time I updated I spent the day reinstalling everything. Have many others tried this?
GrandMstrBud said:
Last time I updated I spent the day reinstalling everything. Have many others tried this?
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Bootlooped me
GrandMstrBud said:
Just got a notification for an update to this and I'm rooted now and do not want to lose root. How can I get the update with retaining root?
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Unfortunately that is an incremental update. If you are rooted (with magisk), it won't flash, it will fail. Hopefully oneplus will release the full update in the very near future. Then it is very easy to upgrade and keep root.
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Check page 2. There's two ways to do it on there (post 1 and post 2 on this page). One requires a PC, the other one does not.
Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-8-pro/help/updating-to-ota-11-0-1-1-in11a-t4191241
Glad I didn't try it, I have way to much on this phone and didn't want to waste half a day restoring it
GrandMstrBud said:
Glad I didn't try it, I have way to much on this phone and didn't want to waste half a day restoring it
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I didn't have to restore anything; my phone was not wiped.
The update is available with the Oxygen updater but still afraid of it going into a boot loop.
Couldn't see your screen shot. Is that the full update?
It's 400 MB so no and I tried downloading it and doing local upgrade and it failed.
GrandMstrBud said:
It's 400 MB so no and I tried downloading it and doing local upgrade and it failed.
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Oxygen Updater has the update posted. Download it, and use the payload dumper.
To do what? Not sure how to use that to install the update and keep root
GrandMstrBud said:
To do what? Not sure how to use that to install the update and keep root
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Follow my guide its easy mate
4th section in post 1
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-8-pro/how-to/root-uk-eu-patched-magisk-boot-img-t4175033
Thanks but when I do that I get update failed and it doesn't go past 1%. I tried downloading it again and same thing.