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
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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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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?
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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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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
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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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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.
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Ok just got prompted for this. I'm rooted, is it safe to update and reroot? Anyone know what changed? Thanks
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Just flash a ROM that's based off the current ota. Or if you want to go the stock route there is a rooted pc36img.zip floating around development that will upgrade your radios, hboot, kernel and ROM.
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Oh boy!...
Just flash one of the custom ROMs that already have this update implemented. There is no need to unroot and regain root privileges.
I don't want a custom Rom. If I can upgrade and reroot that is what ill do. Just asking is it safe.
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Just flash a ROM that's based off the current ota. Or if you want to go the stock route there is a rooted pc36img.zip floating around development that will upgrade your radios, hboot, kernel and ROM.
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I'm assuming this is an image of the updated Rom. Hard to search via tapatalk
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I'm assuming this is an image of the updated Rom. Hard to search via tapatalk
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That's correct. It's the easiest way to update everything to the latest ota without losing root.
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Do you have a link. I actually tried to go through with the update via OTA and it failed during install.
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If failed because you still have a custom recovery on your phone. You can only install an actual OTA if you have a stock recovery. Sorry, no link. On the xda app right now. If you still need it when I get home later I'll post it for you.
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Yes please thanks. Unsure of the fixes in this update.
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I rooted with Unrevoked and running the stock rom is ok to run ota update?
Why do you guys want to apply an ota after going through root? There are completely stock roms from the latest update so it'll be just like an ota except keeping root. Steelh rom I believe is one of them
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I rooted with Unrevoked and running the stock rom is ok to run ota update?
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No, it will not work for the same reasons that I described earlier.
Here is the link to the thread that has the rooted stock pc36img.zip. Download the file, rename it to pc36img, put it on the root of your sd card, boot into hboot and run the update once it's done loading. More detailed instructions are in the first post of that thread. You will lose all your data so make sure to back it up with Titanium or MyBackup so you can load everything back on after the update.
Why do you guys want to apply an ota after going through root? There are completely stock roms from the latest update so it'll be just like an ota except keeping root. Steelh rom I believe is one of them
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Doing it the way I described will ensure they are fully up to date, including radios, pri and hboot. Simply flashing a ROM won't update those. I think doing it this way will be easier for the inexperienced, with much less potential for screwing something up.
I dont know if I really wanna flash my radio though, I heard flashing a radio can really jack up your 4G.
its getting damn annoying. I don't want to update yet until there's a clean way with clockwork or something
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can I flash the stock recovery then update to 2.3.1 and reflash clockwork?
or can I just update over clockwork?
all that I've done so far is unlock the bootloader, install clockwork, and root.
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jaker.the.skater said:
can I flash the stock recovery then update to 2.3.1 and reflash clockwork?
or can I just update over clockwork?
all that I've done so far is unlock the bootloader, install clockwork, and root.
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as of now my understanding is that the "stock" recovery cannot be flashed over clockwork mod. he is working on a recovery to allow this
Why don't you just accept it? If it fails because of ClockworkMod then you will never see it again.
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so can I flash the ota from rom manager?
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TheBiles said:
Why don't you just accept it? If it fails because of ClockworkMod then you will never see it again.
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because I didn't know if it would mess anything up. didn't want to try it on a brand new phone
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jaker.the.skater said:
because I didn't know if it would mess anything up. didn't want to try it on a brand new phone
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Uh... It's an official update. Why would it mess anything up?
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because i didnt know if clockwork affected it all.
but its irrelevant now, i installed the update and re rooted and everything so im good.
jaker.the.skater said:
because i didnt know if clockwork affected it all.
but its irrelevant now, i installed the update and re rooted and everything so im good.
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Clockwork Recovery doesn't affect that. People are spreading misinformation.
It's modified boot.img's that are preventing updating. If you used one of the easy root methods, such as superboot, it replaces the stock boot.img with a modified one... this causes a MD5 mismatch when trying to update.
To fix it, you need to get the stock boot.img, and flash it back before updating. You can update via CWR (I did it myself).
im all updated now so im good thank you for explaining that though
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Clockwork Recovery doesn't affect that. People are spreading misinformation.
It's modified boot.img's that are preventing updating. If you used one of the easy root methods, such as superboot, it replaces the stock boot.img with a modified one... this causes a MD5 mismatch when trying to update.
To fix it, you need to get the stock boot.img, and flash it back before updating. You can update via CWR (I did it myself).
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Where'd you get the stock boot.img?
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Where'd you get the stock boot.img?
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You can get a 2.3.0 boot.img that works with fastboot here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10027638&postcount=1
im a on custom rom right now and i have nandriod back up of stock touch wiz. if there is an ota update can i just go back to the back up i made and just do the update
Won't work if you have a custom recovery. You'd have to wait for a modified update than you can flash.
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Won't work if you have a custom recovery. You'd have to wait for a modified update than you can flash.[
i would flash the modified version just like any other rom
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Stealyourface said:
Won't work if you have a custom recovery. You'd have to wait for a modified update than you can flash.[
i would flash the modified version just like any other rom
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correct!
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Won't work if you have a custom recovery. You'd have to wait for a modified update than you can flash.
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Isn't there a way to return the phone back to completely stock?
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Delakit said:
Isn't there a way to return the phone back to completely stock?
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Yes. But I was assuming that's not what the OP wanted.
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To get this all straight to update I would have to flash rom version of the update?
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To get this all straight to update I would have to flash rom version of the update?
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Since you are already running a custom rom you can just flash an MDL based rom. However, you will not have the MDL modem/firmware. If you want this either get your phone back to factory stock via Odin or if you can restore a nandroid and stock recovery (whatever it takes to flash the OTA update) then you can get to the MDL stock rom with MDL modem/firmware. From what I have read most have to Odin back to stock but a few have said with stock recovery and no app changes the OTA flashed successfully. Personally I would just use Odin, take the update, root/custom recovery, and be done with it. Your choice.
**EDIT....can now flash the modems separately without having to use the OTA procedure: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2338919
I am kind of in the same boat. I have stock rom but I rooted it and installed custom recovery. I can't seem to find any of the flashable modded OTA updates. Can some one point me to them?
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I am kind of in the same boat. I have stock rom but I rooted it and installed custom recovery. I can't seem to find any of the flashable modded OTA updates. Can some one point me to them?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256950
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41192248
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I have a razr m and I want to rom and recovery it.. I am having a hard time putting root on.. I am unlocked I also have the latest ota from Verizon.. I thought about using matts utility to go back to the original sw version be for the ota.. Will that work? Or will I still have the latest Ota? I don't know how to do a custom recovery with out root.. And every root I do try to flash it won't work.. I need help plz.. I want to start running the pacman root and try to get Google wallet installed. Thank you
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jabiles11 said:
I have a razr m and I want to rom and recovery it.. I am having a hard time putting root on.. I am unlocked I also have the latest ota from Verizon.. I thought about using matts utility to go back to the original sw version be for the ota.. Will that work? Or will I still have the latest Ota? I don't know how to do a custom recovery with out root.. And every root I do try to flash it won't work.. I need help plz.. I want to start running the pacman root and try to get Google wallet installed. Thank you
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You can use this & restore your data back when done-the steps are in the op.
If all you need is custom recovery. Rom manager works and will allow you to flash cwmr right from your rooted phone- no pc needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382561
Hey guys quick question my n4 is rooted and running cm10.1.3. I never bothered to upgrade to 4.3, so my radio, kernel and bootloader are stock 4.2.2. Is it better to get the ota update and be up on things or flash stock kernel, boot loader and radio for 4.4 when ever there available? Or maybe factory image?
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Just flash the stock images for kit Kat when they are available, right now back up all your data
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sacramento458 said:
Hey guys quick question my n4 is rooted and running cm10.1.3. I never bothered to upgrade to 4.3, so my radio, kernel and bootloader are stock 4.2.2. Is it better to get the ota update and be up on things or flash stock kernel, boot loader and radio for 4.4 when ever there available? Or maybe factory image?
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my friend as this will pop up all over the forum the best thing to do is just wait for a rooted version to show up. I did not upgrade my bootloader and I have not had any issues with 4.3 which mind you is a great running OS you should try it.
I dont understand having root then unrooting to flash stock which you obviously dont like since you run cm and then wait to root it all over again to back an upgraded rooted version of cm...
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Just flash the stock images for kit Kat when they are available, right now back up all your data
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Alright thanks will do
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Question on the way for the custom recovery+kernel guys on 4.3 what is the best to upgrade besides wiping your entire phone and flashing the stock images entirely?.
I think i know 2 ways just not sure they are recommended, 1st is flashing stock kernel + returning recovery to stock (should get OTA)
2nd is flashing only the system.img and the bootloader me thinks.
Feel free to verify this.
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playya said:
my friend as this will pop up all over the forum the best thing to do is just wait for a rooted version to show up. I did not upgrade my bootloader and I have not had any issues with 4.3 which mind you is a great running OS you should try it.
I dont understand having root then unrooting to flash stock which you obviously dont like since you run cm and then wait to root it all over again to back an upgraded rooted version of cm...
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You make a lot of sense ,its more of curiosity and so I won't brick my nexus. So I can get away with not upgrading my bootloader for 4.4?
What about kernel, do I need to update that for 4.4 or is that judgement call?
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sacramento458 said:
You make a lot of sense ,its more of curiosity and so I won't brick my nexus. So I can get away with not upgrading my bootloader for 4.4?
What about kernel, do I need to update that for 4.4 or is that judgement call?
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you are asking questions that trial and error are going to figure out for us. Kernels of course if you are on a 4.4 rom you would use a 4.4 kernel. Upgrading your bootloader may or may not be needed but we wont know until kitkat starts popping. everyone said you needed to upgrade bootloader for 4.3 but I have never had any issue at all.... Just wait it out and read read read
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Question on the way for the custom recovery+kernel guys on 4.3 what is the best to upgrade besides wiping your entire phone and flashing the stock images entirely?.
I think i know 2 ways just not sure they are recommended, 1st is flashing stock kernel + returning recovery to stock (should get OTA)
2nd is flashing only the system.img and the bootloader me thinks.
Feel free to verify this.
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Not to sure but as long as you're on stock ROM and stock kernel you should be fine although I don't know if custom recovery keeps you from getting update.
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playya said:
you are asking questions that trial and error are going to figure out for us. Kernels of course if you are on a 4.4 rom you would use a 4.4 kernel. Upgrading your bootloader may or may not be needed but we wont know until kitkat starts popping. everyone said you needed to upgrade bootloader for 4.3 but I have never had any issue at all.... Just wait it out and read read read
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Thanks for the clarification, appreciate the support.
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Thanks for the clarification, appreciate the support.
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no problem hopefully you can pass it on to others like you who may be unsure of what to do...
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no problem hopefully you can pass it on to others like you who may be unsure of what to do...
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Absolutely bro
You do have to be on stock recovery, stock bootloader for the update to go thru properly otherwise it'll fail.
Tricepz said:
Question on the way for the custom recovery+kernel guys on 4.3 what is the best to upgrade besides wiping your entire phone and flashing the stock images entirely?.
I think i know 2 ways just not sure they are recommended, 1st is flashing stock kernel + returning recovery to stock (should get OTA)
2nd is flashing only the system.img and the bootloader me thinks.
Feel free to verify this.
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If you are still on stock rom and you just have custom kernel+recovery, U could do the following for not using any current apps or files.
- Wait till your favorite Toolkit (e.g Wug) get updated for 4.4 and then download the official factory rom.
- Extract it and keep all separate zips, like radio, bootloader,system etc.
- Unroot and flash stock kernel
- Flash all previous zips, EXCEPT user.img which will delete everything
- Reroot and U r ready to flash again custom kernel
Maybe a noob question but my n4 is rooted. Will this cause any problems withe the update?
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If you are still on stock rom and you just have custom kernel+recovery, U could do the following for not using any current apps or files.
- Wait till your favorite Toolkit (e.g Wug) get updated for 4.4 and then download the official factory rom.
- Extract it and keep all separate zips, like radio, bootloader,system etc.
- Unroot and flash stock kernel
- Flash all previous zips, EXCEPT user.img which will delete everything
- Reroot and U r ready to flash again custom kernel
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The original stock kernel of 4.3 is on the bootloader.img on the google source code aye?
Thanks, now we just need to wait for the official 4.4 on google's developers.
Tricepz said:
The original stock kernel of 4.3 is on the bootloader.img on the google source code aye?
Thanks, now we just need to wait for the official 4.4 on google's developers.
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Here a direct link for stock kernel 0.84 from JWR66V factory image
http://d-h.st/cIJ
Hello,
My phone has already had the radio upgraded to latest so it can run 4.3. I am rooted, have TWRP 2.6.3.0, will I be ok to flash the PA 4.4 and gapps? I keep posts about folks losing their sdcard data and their custom recovery being removed (not sure how!).
Thanks.
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Maybe a noob question but my n4 is rooted. Will this cause any problems withe the update?
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Do you have a custom recover?
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Schur1k said:
Maybe a noob question but my n4 is rooted. Will this cause any problems withe the update?
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Do you have a custom recovery?
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maritimesbob said:
Hello,
My phone has already had the radio upgraded to latest so it can run 4.3. I am rooted, have TWRP 2.6.3.0, will I be ok to flash the PA 4.4 and gapps? I keep posts about folks losing their sdcard data and their custom recovery being removed (not sure how!).
Thanks.
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I'm sure that radio doesn't affect your ability to flash certain ROMs so you shouldn't have a problem flashing 4.4. As far as losing SD data not sure how that's happening.
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