The updater in Galaxy S5 can detect route and refuse to do an OTA update. While it's possible to reflash an updated stock version via recover/Kies, the process requires downloading files that are over 1GB in size and may cause root to be lost.
Is there any better solution if my intention of rooting is just to use some root utilities on top of the stock firmware?
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Hi -- I've just installed the OTA update for Android 4.3 on my Galaxy S4 i9505G phone (following the Heimdall instructions here to restore stock 4.2.2 before installing the OTA update to 4.3) and I'm wondering what the best option is for rooting. I'm thinking not only about getting root access now but about making it as easy as possible to accept the next OTA update when it comes, presumably in the next few months.
I think I could root via Chainfire's Auto-Root method or by the method posted here, which requires installing ClockwordMod Recovery. Does anyone have any input on which of these paths (or any other!) are the best route for rooting the the i9505G running stock 4.3? Will installing ClockworkMod Recovery make it any harder to download and install the next (post 4.3) Android OTA update whenever it comes?
Thanks!
Alan
carrot34 said:
Hi -- I've just installed the OTA update for Android 4.3 on my Galaxy S4 i9505G phone (following the Heimdall instructions here to restore stock 4.2.2 before installing the OTA update to 4.3) and I'm wondering what the best option is for rooting. I'm thinking not only about getting root access now but about making it as easy as possible to accept the next OTA update when it comes, presumably in the next few months.
I think I could root via Chainfire's Auto-Root method or by the method posted here, which requires installing ClockwordMod Recovery. Does anyone have any input on which of these paths (or any other!) are the best route for rooting the the i9505G running stock 4.3? Will installing ClockworkMod Recovery make it any harder to download and install the next (post 4.3) Android OTA update whenever it comes?
Thanks!
Alan
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OK -- I ended up using this method, which seems to have worked great and left me with a stock bootloader again.
I always like to have the latest stable updates from google.
If I root my MXP, will I be loosing these updates and should depend only on custom ROMs?
Yes you won't get any updates...so why do you want to root ,if you want a stable phone?
Some custom ROM's are stable .
Using the marshmallux 2.0 myself,with better performance then the original android 6.
there is a root method called systemless root.with this supersu (systemless) you can receive OTA normally and then from another app,you can install this update and then also this app will re-root your phone.
If you root you can stil get the ota updates mate!!!!!!!! just download the ota file whenever you get the update then unroot your device from the supersu itself and flash the update!!!!! i have a rooted x play and when i get any updates i unroot and then install the ota and the again root my device ...... as simple as that
http://www.howtogeek.com/249162/what-is-systemless-root-on-android-and-why-is-it-better/ even more easy!
Hello. New here.
I rooted my S7 G930A running Nougat 7.0 following this guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/root-s7-att-g930a-g935a-t3410538
I actually found the guide somewhere else, but these are the files and instructions I used.
Rooting worked with no issues, and my phone works fine. Now I am interested in unrooting the device because of applications that won't work due to the safety net API knowing the phone is rooted.
I have already tried many things. There is an unroot.bat that comes with the files downloaded in the guide, but running that doesn't seem to actually unroot. SuperSU is still installed, and applications still don't work. I have also tried deleting the files using the ES File Manager, but I can only locate one "su" file which will not delete, and the superuser.apk or supersu.apk files are nowhere to be found. When trying to full unroot using SuperSU, I get the error "Uninstall failed!" I have also tried going back to the stock firmware using odin, but odin fails to install that as well.
Are there any current ways of unrooting that I'm missing?
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
Also, if this helps my baseband version is G930AUCS4BQC2
Okay, so I think I solved my own issue here. I was using the modified version of odin to install the stock firmware. Used the official odin and went back to G930AUCU4BQA6.
I have an additional question now. Since it reset the phone, any application that I made a system application is no longer a system app now right? But if I re-root the device, make the same apps system apps, and then use odin to upgrade to G930AUCS4BQC2 again it will unroot and my apps will still be system apps?
Thanks
Crossbows said:
Okay, so I think I solved my own issue here. I was using the modified version of odin to install the stock firmware. Used the official odin and went back to G930AUCU4BQA6.
I have an additional question now. Since it reset the phone, any application that I made a system application is no longer a system app now right? But if I re-root the device, make the same apps system apps, and then use odin to upgrade to G930AUCS4BQC2 again it will unroot and my apps will still be system apps?
Thanks
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If you flash any ODIN file, it will wipe the system partition and then replace it with the one in the package. There's no way to get rooted system changes to persist through an ODIN.
Hi all, I have a problem with my device and I can not use the data port USB to perform the conventional method of root (flashing with Odin), so I wanted to get It using those "one click root" but most of these applications throw me errors (may be because I am in the latest version kitkat 4.4.4) before this problem I wanted to downgrade installing an official and signed version of android 4.3, through the stock recovery (with the option to apply update in the SD card) And I wanted to know if this recovery option works also to install another version of android without necessarily being an update. I would also like to receive recommendations on others Methods to root or install a custom recovery that apply to my specific case, thanks.
Hi all, I have a problem with my device and I can not use the data port USB to perform the conventional method of root (flashing with Odin), so I wanted to get It using those "one click root" but most of these applications throw me errors (may be because I am in the latest version kitkat 4.4.4) before this problem I wanted to downgrade installing an official and signed version of android 4.3, through the stock recovery (with the option to apply update in the SD card) And I wanted to know if this recovery option works also to install another version of android without necessarily being an update. I would also like to receive recommendations on others Methods to root or install a custom recovery that apply to my specific case, thanks