I own a rooted Note 3. (Take a look to the attached screenshot)
An OTA upgrade has been notified and downloaded. But I haven't installed yet because I think I'll lost my root if I do that thing.
Is that right?
Is there a "safe" way to upgrade my Note's firmware without loosing root?
cinciopillo said:
I own a rooted Note 3. (Take a look to the attached screenshot)
An OTA upgrade has been notified and downloaded. But I haven't installed yet because I think I'll lost my root if I do that thing.
Is that right?
Is there a "safe" way to upgrade my Note's firmware without loosing root?
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You cannot OTA update if the phone has been rooted. If you do that, the error message will be shown.
Follow this instruction to OTA update and keep root:
1. Open SuperSU settings
2. Scroll down to the bottom, Enable Pro
3. Check Survival mode
4. Uncheck Enable Superuser
5. Install OTA update
6. After reboot, Enable Superuser
7. Disable Survival mode
Note: You have to purchase Superuser Pro for this to work, and you have to reboot after upgrading to Pro.
cinciopillo said:
I own a rooted Note 3. (Take a look to the attached screenshot)
An OTA upgrade has been notified and downloaded. But I haven't installed yet because I think I'll lost my root if I do that thing.
Is that right?
Is there a "safe" way to upgrade my Note's firmware without loosing root?
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@cinciopillo you will loss root access. You have to root it again, if any way available to root it again. "Kindly ignore this"
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I'm looking to root my phone but I don't want to flash any new bootloader or custom roms. I'm under the impression that I'll still be able to get OTA updates if I do this. My question is if I download and install an OTA update will I still have root on the phone or will it remove root? Thanks!
psyphris said:
I'm looking to root my phone but I don't want to flash any new bootloader or custom roms. I'm under the impression that I'll still be able to get OTA updates if I do this. My question is if I download and install an OTA update will I still have root on the phone or will it remove root? Thanks!
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I was still able to receive and apply the OTA after rooting, but the OTA did cause me to lose root. But re-rooting was pretty painless.
Its sure than rooting phone you receive OTA and can install it?? If yes, I want to root my phone, only root, i dont want to change anything more for receiving OTAs.
How can I do? just only root, any link to the safest way?
Is the same way when I receive an OTA and i have to root again?
many thanks.
1. You can use an app called OTA Rootkeeper. Use it to hide root before you accept an OTA, then use it to restore root after.
2. Yes, you can use adb commands (possibly the Nexus 4 toolkit as well) to temporarily flash clockwork recovery and obtain root. You will need to unlock the bootloader though, and that will factory reset your device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993331
Nospin said:
1. You can use an app called OTA Rootkeeper. Use it to hide root before you accept an OTA, then use it to restore root after.
2. Yes, you can use adb commands (possibly the Nexus 4 toolkit as well) to temporarily flash clockwork recovery and obtain root. You will need to unlock the bootloader though, and that will factory reset your device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993331
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Good advice for OTA Rootkeeper! If I head down this path I'll make sure to use that. I'm still looking around for the best way to root without unlocking the bootloader or factory reseting.
Superuser contains a built in 'try and preserve root' function which worked well when I updated to 4.2.1
Hello, I am currently running MJE on my Verizon Galaxy Note 3 (rooted with Root De La Vega). Currently, I have SuperSU set to survival mode as I want to take the OTA update to 4.4.2. But every time I take the update, my device restarts and the update gives an error while it's attempting to upgrade. It then restarts and tells me that it failed to upgrade with error 402.
What I've Done:
Unfrozen all frozen apps within Titanium Backup
Used Wanam Xposed to set system status to "Official"
Set SuperSU to "Survival Mode" and disabled SuperUser
I'm not sure where to go next, as I don't want to have to remove everything from my device and start fresh again (I've already had to do that before!!). What should I do so that I can take OTA and keep my root status?
computerlife22 said:
Hello, I am currently running MJE on my Verizon Galaxy Note 3 (rooted with Root De La Vega). Currently, I have SuperSU set to survival mode as I want to take the OTA update to 4.4.2. But every time I take the update, my device restarts and the update gives an error while it's attempting to upgrade. It then restarts and tells me that it failed to upgrade with error 402.
What I've Done:
Unfrozen all frozen apps within Titanium Backup
Used Wanam Xposed to set system status to "Official"
Set SuperSU to "Survival Mode" and disabled SuperUser
I'm not sure where to go next, as I don't want to have to remove everything from my device and start fresh again (I've already had to do that before!!). What should I do so that I can take OTA and keep my root status?
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Did you ever install Safe Strap? If so, you can not use the OTA.
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I had something similar happen. Rooted with kingo, installed safestrap, used tibu to freeze every updater possible. Then was going to take the OTA did exactly as you did error message and all. I finally had to odin back to stock with the 4.3 tar file. I didn't reroot and just took the OTA after that.
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Is there anyone out there that was able to overcome the update failed without going back to stock first?
I had the same message but when I tried to flash stock back to it Odin and the computer won't recognize it
Hello,
I've got a new I9506 with 4.2.2 pre installed.
Prior to rooting it with this How-To (thanks for that) I downloaded the presented 4.3 OTA update.
Now my device is rooted and has the update ready.
It is bugging me all the time if i'd like to do the update.
Before I'd do that I would have four questions about what would happen:
1.) Will it even work?
2.) Will the device still be rooted?
3.) Will the KNOX bit stay untriggered?
4.) How do I get rid of the notification for the update, if I don't want to update?
Thanks in advance for any information.
1) You downloaded the update but unique way for install it is via STOCK RECOVERY coz u are rooted.
2) No. Your phone make factory reset when u install a update.
3) In theory yes. Its better unroot ur phone before apply the update avoid problems.
4) Deleting some apps of system/app with root explorer:
LocalFOTA.apk
SyncmIDM.apk
SyncmIDS.apk
Thanks mate,
bottomline I could unroot and update with stock recovery or flash the stock 4.3 directly.
But if I want to root 4.3 afterwards i would trigger the KNOX bit anyway, right?
Regarding the files: Will try to find them, thanks!
Hi,
is it possible to unroot from Towel root using the option in Supersu and then get OTA Updates again?
could I just do this every once in a while and then simply towel root again?
thanks for clarifying that for me.
no one?
nearlygod said:
no one?
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Hi. I have experience with that.
First, try Wanam Xposed to fake official status. If you want to keep root, force OTA survival in SuperSU (requires donation package for that, though. You can let it be, but you will have to root via recovery later).
Reboot and download the update. If you have removed too many system packages (bloatware too, sadly), the update may fail. In that case, check /cache/recovery/ for log file and see what went wrong (I guess it's the correct location, I don't remember).
Most likely, it's some package checksum mismatch, in that case you will have to flash via Odin. Which means no OTA for you. If you reached so far, you can aswell do a clean install.
I used towel root to root my S4, and I somehow allowed an auto update, which downloaded the updated, tried to install but failed. But I lost my root.
I am running 4.4.2 - Kitkat right?
So I don't have root, and I cannot update my phone - Is it possible for me to root it again? If so is there a link to instructions?
Thanks in advance, the DoridForums people sent me here -
Randy72560 said:
I used towel root to root my S4, and I somehow allowed an auto update, which downloaded the updated, tried to install but failed. But I lost my root.
I am running 4.4.2 - Kitkat right?
So I don't have root, and I cannot update my phone - Is it possible for me to root it again? If so is there a link to instructions?
Thanks in advance, the DoridForums people sent me here -
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I dunno what you are running.
1. You can take a look in your Settings - About device (Pic attached).
2. Try again Towel Root if you still running android 4.4.2 for root again your device.
3. Tell us how it works.
* You can download OTA udpates but you can't install them when you are rooted. Root your device modify system. It changes of OFFICIAL to CUSTOM. OTA detects it and give you a error when you try to install the update.
Ok attached is my about phone info -
I just tried towel root again, and it says this phone is not currently supported. So again, thought I would see what my easy options might be.
I can't post an image or links, Android version says 4.4.2 - If that's what you need? If not let me know which number you need
Use CF-Autoroot to root instead of Towelroot. While CF-Autoroot requires the Odin software to use, it's far more consistent in its results since it temporarily replaces the existing recovery with a recovery that will install SuperSU into the /system partition. Unlike Towelroot, CF-Autoroot is version agnostic, meaning it will work regardless of the version of Android installed.
There is an entire thread on CF-Autoroot. Hit the search bar at the top of the page and I'm sure you'll find it.