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Going from ICS NexusBeamHD to Official

I'm running NexusBeam 3.0 on my Nexus S i9020T. I just downloaded official OTA 4.0.3. Now I'm flashing official 2.3.6.
My question is, do I have to unroot before I flash official OTA because its gonna remove root?

If u have cwm it won't flash. U have to flash a pre rooted zip that cwm friendly or go all the way back to stock.
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So how do I unroot so I can install update?

Sucessfully installed stock ICS. thanks for your tip.

onasri15 said:
Sucessfully installed stock ICS. thanks for your tip.
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No problem sorry for the let post.
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Esteway.619 said:
If u have cwm it won't flash. U have to flash a pre rooted zip that cwm friendly or go all the way back to stock.
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That is wrong I flashed the stock from then flashed the update all in cwm the did a factory reset all at one time and now I'm running the new ics update no problems

onasri15 said:
Sucessfully installed stock ICS. thanks for your tip.
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Me too! So much better than the kangs!
Stock OTA ICS Version 4.0.3

skater4690 said:
That is wrong I flashed the stock from then flashed the update all in cwm the did a factory reset all at one time and now I'm running the new ics update no problems
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But he was referring to flash stock rooted then get the ota. It will abort cuz of the recovery.
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[Q] Noob Q about OTA's.

So as I've gathered I can't update OTA when one is available if I have a custom recovery (CWM, TWRP). My question however is if I will be able to apply the update using my custom recovery, and if so, will I retain root and all my frozen bloat from TiBa? Thanks.

If you're talking about stock ota, then no if you have a custom recovery
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blyndfyre said:
So as I've gathered I can't update OTA when one is available if I have a custom recovery (CWM, TWRP). My question however is if I will be able to apply the update using my custom recovery, and if so, will I retain root and all my frozen bloat from TiBa? Thanks.
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Will get custom updates that you can flash through recovery long before the carrier releases the same update..
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rcklss1 said:
Will get custom updates that you can flash through recovery long before the carrier releases the same update..
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You are referring to custom ROM's correct? I was hoping to remain stock and root and still be able to apply updates.
Maybe I should be the bullet and flash a custom ROM that still incorporates TW (want the gestures).
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blyndfyre said:
You are referring to custom ROM's correct? I was hoping to remain stock and root and still be able to apply updates.
Maybe I should be the bullet and flash a custom ROM that still incorporates TW (want the gestures).
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thats what i am doing.

[Q] Stock rooted

Motorola device manager says that there are updates available for my razr m. I'm wary to update "OTA" because I dont want to loose root/bootloader.
I'm pretty happy with the stock ROM (still called motoblur?) Is there a stock rooted rom with all the radio updates and security stuff thats the latest version?
The only other android phone I had was a sprint HTC EVO. That phone it seemed would always have a stock rooted ROM based on the newest updates. Is that the case with the RAZR M?
Thanks for the help and any info that can be provided guys.
Love this phone =)

Franteeko said:
Motorola device manager says that there are updates available for my razr m. I'm wary to update "OTA" because I dont want to loose root/bootloader.
I'm pretty happy with the stock ROM (still called motoblur?) Is there a stock rooted rom with all the radio updates and security stuff thats the latest version?
The only other android phone I had was a sprint HTC EVO. That phone it seemed would always have a stock rooted ROM based on the newest updates. Is that the case with the RAZR M?
Thanks for the help and any info that can be provided guys.
Love this phone =)
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Follow my routine here better then stock like a russian/ Australia ota
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246081

I don't really want anything but stock rooted latest update ROM. Am I safe to just take the OTA?
I am rooted with unlocked BL.
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Franteeko said:
I don't really want anything but stock rooted latest update ROM. Am I safe to just take the OTA?
I am rooted with unlocked BL.
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Yes
Do it from stock recovery.
See my xperia launcher page for steps in the rom mgr link

Franteeko said:
I don't really want anything but stock rooted latest update ROM. Am I safe to just take the OTA?
I am rooted with unlocked BL.
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Yeah, take the update, you'll probably need stock recovery to do it, and then re-root or you can just flash one of these: http://batakang.com/ftp/?dir=devs/mhous33/XT907 . The first zip can be flashed in recovery and the other is for RSD. You'll need to root these too, but that's easy enough if you're unlocked.

Okay I have safe strap recovery 4.33 or something like that. Where can I download the stock recovery?
I seem to remember clockwork was able to hot swap recoveries. Would that be a good method for swapping to stock then back to safe strap?
Also, do I just download the OTA in zip form? If so, where can I find it at?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks to everyone helping me with this.
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Franteeko said:
Okay I have safe strap recovery 4.33 or something like that. Where can I download the stock recovery?
I seem to remember clockwork was able to hot swap recoveries. Would that be a good method for swapping to stock then back to safe strap?
Also, do I just download the OTA in zip form? If so, where can I find it at?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks to everyone helping me with this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327340
Attached has recovery & see rom Mgr link for ota steps

Okay I have the stock recovery downloaded. What is the best way to flash it? Can I flash stock recovery from within TWRP?

Franteeko said:
Okay I have the stock recovery downloaded. What is the best way to flash it? Can I flash stock recovery from within TWRP?
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Yes.

For the life of me I can't figure out how to do that. I've nosed around everywhere in safestrap and can't find where to go to flash stock recovery. You have been a lot of help already man thank you.
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Could you just fast boot it... fastboot flash recovery "filename"... like you would twrp.... I really have no idea...
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Thank you I'll try that.
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Yeah, I haven't found a stock recovery.img that's flashable. Just flash the stock recovery.img in fastboot, exactly the same way you loaded up TWRP.

I took the ota with twrp installed and unlocked BL. It flashed and at the end twrp asked if I wanted to fix root, I selected yes and kept root. I was wary in doing it by reading the forums, afraid I was going to lose root, but it stayed. I'm now using stock ROM with arrrgh kernel and seeder. Its running extremely smooth.
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RikRong said:
Yeah, I haven't found a stock recovery.img that's flashable. Just flash the stock recovery.img in fastboot, exactly the same way you loaded up TWRP.
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As posted previously.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327340

aviwdoowks said:
As posted previously.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327340
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I don't see a stock recovery in there.
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RikRong said:
I don't see a stock recovery in there.
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I was cleaning up & deleted it. Fixed.

Where can I find arrggh kernal and seeder?

Okay so because of a previous response on this thread, I took the OTA. I had TWRP, root, and unlocked BL.
After the update, TWRP appears to be gone along with safestrap. I think my bootloader is still unlocked but I'm not sure how to tell.
Can someone please tell me how to get root back and how to get my customer recovery back? I am having such a hard time with this phone getting it to work properly. I remember with my EVO I had it down to a science but I've forgotten a lot of steps and many things have changed since then.
I need like a noob guide I think lol.
To reiterate, got latest OTA. My bootloader is still unlocked as far as I know. Need root and custom recovery back. Thanks XDA.
Next is flashing the arggh kernal and seeder I guess. First things first though.

Should have used voodoo. Now just fastboot cwmr img & flash UPDATESU both on my goodies page. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327340
You can extract the img out of the zip.

Can't update OTR after flashing back original

I rooted my phone and install a custome rom but today I tried to flash back my original rom I backup and tried to update my phone through kies and it says my firmware can't update due to a change in my firmware. My phone is still rooted and I still have a custome recovery install. Is that causing the problem? Sorry I'm new to all this. Thanks.

shinryu204 said:
I rooted my phone and install a custome rom but today I tried to flash back my original rom I backup and tried to update my phone through kies and it says my firmware can't update due to a change in my firmware. My phone is still rooted and I still have a custome recovery install. Is that causing the problem? Sorry I'm new to all this. Thanks.
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That's exactly the issue. If your device status is listed as modified, then Kies will not work. You basically forfeit your option to update through that program. I think unrooting would help, or just wait and flash the new 4.3 ROM that will be available soon.

This should have been posted in q&a. It would be helpful to know what specific phone you have. You say you've flashed back to the stock Rom but you still have a custom recovery? How did you flash back to stock?
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I have a Samsung galaxy s4 Im377. What I did was, I used twrp to restore back my original firmware I don't think that will restore back Odin back to my phone.
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jd1639 said:
This should have been posted in q&a. It would be helpful to know what specific phone you have. You say you've flashed back to the stock Rom but you still have a custom recovery? How did you flash back to stock?
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If you want to restore back to stock and remove the custom recovery you should use Odin. That should let you get the ota firmware upgrade.

So I have to use Odin to put back my original firmware? Also I'm not to sure how to put back Odin to stock recovery.
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jd1639 said:
If you want to restore back to stock and remove the custom recovery you should use Odin. That should let you get the ota firmware upgrade.
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When you flash the stock firmware with odin it'll put the stock recovery back on at the time. You don't have to do anything special.

shinryu204 said:
So I have to use Odin to put back my original firmware? Also I'm not to sure how to put back Odin to stock recovery.
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Sorry for the newbie question. How do I use Odin to flash my original backup which I use trwp to create?
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jd1639 said:
When you flash the stock firmware with odin it'll put the stock recovery back on at the time. You don't have to do anything special.
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You don't flash the backup with odin. Get the stock firmware from sammobile.com for your specific device and carrier.

So I would download Odin to my pc than download and install the original firmware with odin? Do you have a step by step on flashing with odin? Thanks!
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shinryu204 said:
So I would download Odin to my pc than download and install the original firmware with odin? Do you have a step by step on flashing with odin? Thanks!
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The attached guide is not for the i337 but the process is the same. Just don't use any linked files, except for Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924

Thank you all for all your help. Awesome forum.
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shinryu204 said:
Thank you all for all your help. Awesome forum.
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You're welcome

[Q] Which bootloader do I have?

Is there any easy way to tell without being able to boot fully? There isn't anything immediately obvious on google. I'm trying to help out a friend, his phone doesn't get past the boot animation anymore and he doesn't know which version he has. I can boot into download/recovery modes but don't see anything that screams MF3, MK2 or any of the others.
Updates: I can get to sideload but don't know if I can install any Roms through sideload without a custom recovery. The recovery right now is stock 3e I think.

StevenInMichigan said:
Is there any easy way to tell without being able to boot fully? There isn't anything immediately obvious on google. I'm trying to help out a friend, his phone doesn't get past the boot animation anymore and he doesn't know which version he has. I can boot into download/recovery modes but don't see anything that screams MF3, MK2 or any of the others.
Updates: I can get to sideload but don't know if I can install any Roms through sideload without a custom recovery. The recovery right now is stock 3e I think.
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Can't do anything from there. If recovery doesn't say NB1 in the corner then it's something before that. Only other way is to just try and flash only part of each one through Odin.
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DeadlySin9 said:
Can't do anything from there. If recovery doesn't say NB1 in the corner then it's something before that. Only other way is to just try and flash only part of each one through Odin.
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OK well it isn't nb1 so that's good I guess. Which part should I be flashing in odin? I can brick it by flashing an older version through Odin than is currently on there, can't I?

StevenInMichigan said:
OK well it isn't nb1 so that's good I guess. Which part should I be flashing in odin? I can brick it by flashing an older version through Odin than is currently on there, can't I?
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no, you can't brick. Odin will just fail
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jd1639 said:
no, you can't brick. Odin will just fail
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Excellent to hear. Guess I'll just start with the oldest I can get and work my way newer.

StevenInMichigan said:
Excellent to hear. Guess I'll just start with the oldest I can get and work my way newer.
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Has your friend ever had a custom recovery on, twrp or cwm? Or flashed any custom roms?
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jd1639 said:
Has your friend ever had a custom recovery on, twrp or cwm? Or flashed any custom roms?
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He was rooted at one point and then unrooted. Never any custom roms/recoveries. The phone was working after he unrooted it but for some reason will no longer pass the boot animation.
He was on android 4.3 so does that only correspond to MK2? As far as I can tell it does.

StevenInMichigan said:
He was rooted at one point and then unrooted. Never any custom roms. The phone was working after he unrooted it but for some reason will no longer pass the boot animation.
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Do you know if he took any ota updates? My opinion is you should just flash the nb1 tar file in Odin. It's doesn't sound like he is still on mdl firmware.Which would be the only reason he'd not want to go to nb1
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jd1639 said:
Do you know if he took any ota updates? My opinion is you should just flash the nb1 tar file in Odin. It's doesn't sound like he is still on mdl firmware.Which would be the only reason he'd not want to go to nb1
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If my goal is to get CM or any other aosp based rom on the phone will nb1 be any more restrictive than MK2? I haven't found anything breaking the differences between MKx/Nxx down yet.

StevenInMichigan said:
If my goal is to get CM or any other aosp based rom on the phone will nb1 be any more restrictive than MK2? I haven't found anything breaking the differences between MKx/Nxx down yet.
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If he's not on mdl you're not going to get cm or any aosp rom. Nb1 is no more restrictive than mf3, or mk2. In any case you'll have to use safestrap and only touch wiz based roms.
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jd1639 said:
If he's not on mdl you're not going to get cm or any aosp rom. Nb1 is no more restrictive than mf3, or mk2. In any case you'll have to use safestrap and only touch wiz based roms.
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Is there no odin flashable mdl file? I found a link to a tmobile one but since it's not the same phone I'm not about to try and flash that without checking. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628 <- TMobile, not ATT but linked from ATT faq thread.

StevenInMichigan said:
Is there no odin flashable mdl file? I found a link to a tmobile one but since it's not the same phone I'm not about to try and flash that without checking. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628 <- TMobile, not ATT but linked from ATT faq thread.
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Go to sammobile.com
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jd1639 said:
Go to sammobile.com
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Thanks for all the help c:

StevenInMichigan said:
Thanks for all the help c:
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No problem
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