Finding the OTA File on SM-G900P running 4.4.2 rooted - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I can't find the OTA that the phone automatically downloaded while I was debloating it, and I'd like to find and remove this file as well as disable OTA checks/updates. I can't stand LP so I was able to successfully roll back from it.
Can someone help me find the location of the OTA that was downloaded? I've checked in /cache, /data/fota using es file explorer that has been granted root perms. Nothing's there.

Just clear cache from recovery and it will be deleted

*Detection* said:
Just clear cache from recovery and it will be deleted
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Doesn't work. Tried to clear both cache and dalvik.
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Disable 2.3.7 Update Notification

How can I disable this? I'm rooted so I can't apply the update, and I don't feel like wiping and updating to a current rom.
Copy the 2.3.7 build.prop with ur current one
Flash the 2.3.7 rooted update. You won't have to wipe data so you won't lose anything. Just wipe cache and dalvic cache.
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Emrys_90 said:
How can I disable this? I'm rooted so I can't apply the update, and I don't feel like wiping and updating to a current rom.
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You can apply the update if you're rooted and haven't made modifications to the things in /system that it modifies and install a stock recovery (at least temporarily). You'll just need to run a permissions fix or reflash busybox and superuser afterward.

Wipe phone? How do I do it without loosing root?

Hi there, my phone has been acting wonky the past week or so. I'd like to just factory reset (under settings or safestrap) not sure which one is better.
I am rooted running stock with some apps frozen.
What's the best way to reset without loosing root and safestrap?
Thanks!!
do I have to unfreeze everything first?
I tried searching (as I know search is my friend but I was getting contradictory information.
Thanks for your help!
You will not lose root from a factory data reset. All an FDR does is wipe caches, davlik, and system cache. It does not replace files or software, like it would if someone were to odin a firmware tar.
warpedmind0u812 said:
You will not lose root from a factory data reset. All an FDR does is wipe caches, davlik, and system cache. It does not replace files or software, like it would if someone were to odin a firmware tar.
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Thanks for getting back to me! So can I just reset? Or should unfreeze my apps first?
So it would just have the stock apps that come with the phone on it after a reset?
Thanks!
It's been so long since I've had to do this lol
warpedmind0u812 said:
You will not lose root from a factory data reset. All an FDR does is wipe caches, davlik, and system cache. It does not replace files or software, like it would if someone were to odin a firmware tar.
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you are totally wrong lol. a fdr does wipe the system so he would need to have a rom.zip stored on his internal storage/ext sdcard... if he uses SS to do a factory reset he will not boot until he flashes a rom.
now if he does an advanced wipe and selects only the caches thats a different story
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elliwigy said:
you are totally wrong lol. a fdr does wipe the system so he would need to have a rom.zip stored on his internal storage/ext sdcard... if he uses SS to do a factory reset he will not boot until he flashes a rom.
now if he does an advanced wipe and selects only the caches thats a different story
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yikes! So I won't use SS to wipe. If I just factory reset under settings....should I unfreeze all my apps first? When I boot up again the phone will have all the stock apps, and nothing more correct?
Thanks guys!
putney1477 said:
yikes! So I won't use SS to wipe. If I just factory reset under settings....should I unfreeze all my apps first? When I boot up again the phone will have all the stock apps, and nothing more correct?
Thanks guys!
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worst that will happen u will have to odin a stock tar and reroot.. i would back up all your pictures n everything onto a ext sdcard or pc.. essentially, a fdr from settings or the stock android recovery will make it like new again if you havent flashed a custom rom but i never use it.. i would always just odin a stock tar or use ss fdr and flash a stock rooted rom.zip through ss
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elliwigy said:
worst that will happen u will have to odin a stock tar and reroot.. i would back up all your pictures n everything onto a ext sdcard or pc.. essentially, a fdr from settings or the stock android recovery will make it like new again if you havent flashed a custom rom but i never use it.. i would always just odin a stock tar or use ss fdr and flash a stock rooted rom.zip through ss
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Oh boy lol....
Ok so if I odin back to nha, take Ota to ni2, odin stock ncg kernel, root with towelroot, odin stich ni2, reboot. I should be fresh out of the box right?
Then I can download ss and install.
Holy crap that's a lot of steps.
Thanks!
Heather
putney1477 said:
Oh boy lol....
Ok so if I odin back to nha, take Ota to ni2, odin stock ncg kernel, root with towelroot, odin stich ni2, reboot. I should be fresh out of the box right?
Then I can download ss and install.
Holy crap that's a lot of steps.
Thanks!
Heather
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yup.. if u have to.. like i said, if ur already rooted with ss installed you might as well wipe in ss and just flash a stock rooted ni2 rom
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putney1477 said:
yikes! So I won't use SS to wipe. If I just factory reset under settings....should I unfreeze all my apps first? When I boot up again the phone will have all the stock apps, and nothing more correct?
Thanks guys!
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elliwigy said:
you are totally wrong lol. a fdr does wipe the system so he would need to have a rom.zip stored on his internal storage/ext sdcard... if he uses SS to do a factory reset he will not boot until he flashes a rom.
now if he does an advanced wipe and selects only the caches thats a different story
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Just to clear this up a factory data reset from the settings menu and safestrap do the same thing. It resets the settings, removes any user installed apps as it wipes data folder where your user installed apps are stored. It will be the same ROM you flashed minus any user apps, root and safestrap will remain. If you enter safestrap and do a advanced wipe with system checked and try to boot without flashing a ROM you will have to Odin back to stock to boot back up because the system will be gone. Lastly if you enter the stock recovery and reset from there it will do the same thing as SS and the settings menu. The only way to return to stock is Odin. Hope this clears up any confusion.
Misterxtc said:
Just to clear this up a factory data reset from the settings menu and safestrap do the same thing. It resets the settings, removes any user installed apps and wipes data. It will be the same ROM you flashed minus any user apps, root and safestrap will remain. If you enter safestrap and do a advanced wipe with system checked and try to boot without flashing a ROM you will have to Odin back to stock to boot back up because the system will be gone. Lastly if you enter the stock recovery and reset from there it will do the same thing as SS and the settings menu. The only way to return to stock is Odin. Hope this clears up any confusion.
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what he said lol. i was just going off my past experience.. wiping via stock recovery caused me to have to odin back to stock.. it bootlooped and i didnt have ss recovery any longer.. ss default fdr has system wipe on as default so if you use tge default wipe you need to have another rom available to flash in ss or you will need to odin. Or of course do advanced wipe and unselect the wipe system portion.
theoretically, stock fdr should only wipe as misterxtc stated.. i suggest back up your stuff and try it and let us know how it goes lol
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elliwigy said:
what he said lol. i was just going off my past experience.. wiping via stock recovery caused me to have to odin back to stock.. it bootlooped and i didnt have ss recovery any longer.. ss default fdr has system wipe on as default so if you use tge default wipe you need to have another rom available to flash in ss or you will need to odin. Or of course do advanced wipe and unselect the wipe system portion.
theoretically, stock fdr should only wipe as misterxtc stated.. i suggest back up your stuff and try it and let us know how it goes lol
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Okay so I did exactly what you said. I wiped the phone from inside settings. When I booted it back up it was back to stock, because I'm not running a ROM. I did notice that when I signed into Google some of my apps started automatically redownloading. Actually almost all of them did. I am still rooted, & I do still have safestrap on my phone.
My question at this point is, I no longer have the safestrap app or the towel root app in my app drawer, but should I redownload them just so that they are in my app drawer? Will that affect the phone at all?
Thanks again
putney1477 said:
Okay so I did exactly what you said. I wiped the phone from inside settings. When I booted it back up it was back to stock, because I'm not running a ROM. I did notice that when I signed into Google some of my apps started automatically redownloading. Actually almost all of them did. I am still rooted, & I do still have safestrap on my phone.
My question at this point is, I no longer have the safestrap app or the towel root app in my app drawer, but should I redownload them just so that they are in my app drawer? Will that affect the phone at all?
Thanks again
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No you don't need them anymore. SS is where it needs to be regardless if it's in your app drawer or not. As long as you see it on boot up your good. Towelroot can be uninstalled after the root process is done, it's a one shot deal unless you Odin back to stock.
Misterxtc said:
No you don't need them anymore. SS is where it needs to be regardless if it's in your app drawer or not. As long as you see it on boot up your good. Towelroot can be uninstalled after the root process is done, it's a one shot deal unless you Odin back to stock.
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Awesome! Thanks again.
It's funny, I have been rooting and flashing roms for 5 years and I feel like I still have so much to learn.
putney1477 said:
Awesome! Thanks again.
It's funny, I have been rooting and flashing roms for 5 years and I feel like I still have so much to learn.
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No problem, I started about one year ago. I learned very early that a good backup and Odin are your best friends. lol It's pretty hard to mess up the phone beyond Odin or a backup, I've done some pretty risky things.
putney1477 said:
Awesome! Thanks again.
It's funny, I have been rooting and flashing roms for 5 years and I feel like I still have so much to learn.
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ive been on xda since the first galaxy phone made.
i also work for a cellular company..
i have never done a factory reset on my phone (obviously haha) i always use backups or just fresh installs
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[TWRP Backup ]Android 5.1 Brazil soak test [222.21.15] [12-05]

Hi,
This is the latest soak test backup of Android 5.1 Lollipop. verison 222.21.15.
Download:
https://goo.gl/GGx27V
Download latest TWRP for ghost (Moto X)
https://dl.twrp.me/ghost/twrp-2.8.6.0-ghost.img.html
how to restore,
- copy backup folder to your twrp backup folder
- restore backup (system & boot) via twrp
- wipe data, cache & dalvik cache
- reboot
this is a backup file of system and boot partition. can only be restored with TWRP Recovery. it will not touch your modem, bootloader or any other partition of your phone. backup your current system before resotre this twrp backup. if you have any question, just ask here in thread, xda community will response you..
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backup made for protect you mess your bootloader or modem with installing brazil firmware to your phone.
testet on xt1052 should work with most moto x variants.
Need more help ? look at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/general/how-to-install-5-1-lollipop-moto-x-t3089594
reserved
Is the last update?
I was waiting for this! Thank you very much, @proxuser!
Restored on my xt1053 over the top of the previous build and kept my data intact. Thanks
Did this fix the speakerphone bug?
Stock recovery
Original recovery from 222.12.15 included? I've updated to 222.12.15 from 222.12.7, but the recovery didn't changed, again :/
scht said:
Original recovery from 222.12.15 included? I've updated to 222.12.15 from 222.12.7, but the recovery didn't changed, again :/
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It's a TWRP backup so no, it isn't included.
How do I root after restoring the backup? I didn't get the option to install SuperSU after the restore.
Nope
athulele said:
Did this fix the speakerphone bug?
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I installed and the speakerphone bug is still present. Tried clearing app data for Phone and Dialler apps to no avail.
Side note:
Tried restoring from stock firmware in TWRP. Did not work twice. Got stuck on the Moto Blue Water logo. Third time, it worked inexplicably!
Any infos on what is changed?
Improval of battery life would be most interesting to me.
ron_gangte said:
How do I root after restoring the backup? I didn't get the option to install SuperSU after the restore.
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There is already a su file in the backup but that didn't work for me too. You have to delete the su file at /system/xbin/ manually via twrp file manager. If you reboot twrp will ask you to root again.
Kiristiba said:
There is already a su file in the backup but that didn't work for me too. You have to delete the su file at /system/xbin/ manually via twrp file manager. If you reboot twrp will ask you to root again.
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Can't find that folder in twrp
Hi, I rebooted my device and it is not switching on any more. Gets stuck at the Blue Water Moto logo. Waited for more than 10 minutes. Tried restore followed by wipe for cache and data again. But still stuck on blue logo. Any help?
johnrangoo said:
Can't find that folder in twrp
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Did you mount the system partition?
Kiristiba said:
There is already a su file in the backup but that didn't work for me too. You have to delete the su file at /system/xbin/ manually via twrp file manager. If you reboot twrp will ask you to root again.
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Thanks!
I found an alternate solution. I flashed the SuperSU zip, and it rooted the phone with no hassle. [emoji2]
I tried to restore it on my xt1052, it keeps saying that No partitions selected for restore. What should I do?
In your TWRP backup directory, there should be a folder with the date (2015-05-12--16-05-56_LPA23.12-15), make sure the image files are in this directory.
When I extracted the rar, it was 2015-05-12--16-05-56_LPA23.12-15\2015-05-12--16-05-56_LPA23.12-15\<image files>
it should be 2015-05-12--16-05-56_LPA23.12-15\<image files>
Can I install this from 4.4.4?
Test it. The proximity sensor also not work for active display.
So I back to 4.4.4 again.

Marsmallow 6.0 XT1092 reteu variant -Twrp backup variant

Unzip the file https://mega.nz/#!GIgwXKIL!fnuIUY7ETilk-758lv8qguUe3QxC7UwJ4rkRmXk0kMs and put the folder to the TWRP backup then restore.This is the clean sistem,no rooted!For root use and flash this zip : SuperSU-v2.52 http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/root-root-moto-x-2014-android-t3249105
Download the zip once, shows its corrupted. Downloading again.
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Thnx. Is this only system and boot? Or something more in it?
Cheers
Only system and boot,nothing more!
likurik said:
Only system and boot,nothing more!
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When looking in the zip i also saw efs and data backed up?
Boot
System
Data
Cache
Efs
ALL this!
Do you get future OTA's with this?
Yes of course! For the future update just i will be flash stock recovery image and update via OTA,.This is the stock marsmallow backup ,nothing touch it
It this a soak test backup or the final one?
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Using this method, I get an RPC error once Google Play updates to 6.0.2 that prevents me from downloading any more apps at all. It's quite annoying. Even the 'fix' for it (uninstalling updates, clearing cache, rebooting to recovery & clearing dalvik/cache from there) doesn't fix it permanently
For RPC error the fix is easy!
Go to settings >application > Play Store >storage>Clear Data & Clear Cache.
Go to accounts >Google >Remove account.
Reboot device.
Again Settings>Account >Google >Log In
likurik said:
For RPC error the fix is easy!
Go to settings >application > Play Store >storage>Clear Data & Clear Cache.
Go to accounts >Google >Remove account.
Reboot device.
Again Settings>Account >Google >Log In
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unfnknblvbl said:
Even the 'fix' for it (uninstalling updates, clearing cache, rebooting to recovery & clearing dalvik/cache from there) doesn't fix it permanently
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Anyway, I managed to fix it (and very nearly bricked my phone in the process). I originally restored System only, in an attempt to keep my existing data. It didn't work (kept getting an Unknown Play Services error). Then I restored Data in a separate session, and I kept getting the RPC error which would not go away once Play Store updated to 6.0.2 or whatever.
I then did some things which nearly bricked my phone, and just restored the whole archive in one session, which seems to have fixed the issue. Touch wood.
likurik said:
Unzip the file https://mega.nz/#!GIgwXKIL!fnuIUY7ETilk-758lv8qguUe3QxC7UwJ4rkRmXk0kMs and put the folder to the TWRP backup then restore.This is the clean sistem,no rooted!For root use and flash this zip : SuperSU-v2.62-3-20151211162651.zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64161125&postcount=3
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is it factory image?
unfnknblvbl said:
Anyway, I managed to fix it
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No such luck. This is quite annoying, since you can't just go ahead and downgrade back to 5.1 once you've done this
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reyon6 said:
is it factory image?
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No it's not. It's a recovery image that somebody (I assume the OP) made of their own install.
[dupe]
Can I flash this? I have an xt1092 and chnaged it to the brazilian model so that I could have the 6.0 update. If I flash this via twrp, will it brick my phone?
Download Link is Broken pls Reupp
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Download Link is Broken pls Reupp
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https://mega.nz/#!HN4QjJSK!fnuIUY7ETilk-758lv8qguUe3QxC7UwJ4rkRmXk0kMs
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https://mega.nz/#!HN4QjJSK!fnuIUY7ETilk-758lv8qguUe3QxC7UwJ4rkRmXk0kMs
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UK XT1092, flashed this by just
Code:
fastboot boot twrp
and phone signal. Probably caused by me having the US XT1095 modem installed so I flash an old UK modem and after rebooting I have 4G signal.
Booted twrp again and flashed BETA-SuperSU-v2.67-20160121175247.zip and got stuck on bootloader.
Booted twrp again and flash BETA-SuperSU-v2.52.zip and root-boot-6.0-xt1092.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/root-root-moto-x-2014-android-t3249105
Seems to be working.

can't wipe data partition

So, I tried installing the Note 8 port and now I can't seem to wipe the data partition. I have used every available version of TWRP with the same results. it won't mount the data partition.
from inside android doing a factory reset just restarts and nothing has been wiped.
I also lost root during this process and cant seem to get it back. I have a 935F/DS but the build number says N950F
r3xx3r said:
So, I tried installing the Note 8 port and now I can't seem to wipe the data partition. I have used every available version of TWRP with the same results. it won't mount the data partition.
from inside android doing a factory reset just restarts and nothing has been wiped.
I also lost root during this process and cant seem to get it back. I have a 935F/DS but the build number says N950F
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You need to go through the process of fixing the encrypted data partition.
See this link:
Flash TWRP
gcrutchr said:
You need to go through the process of fixing the encrypted data partition.
See this link:
Flash TWRP
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I have done all of that already to no avail. I have also tried flashing stock oreo firmware in Odin but after about 3 seconds it says it is done and nothing has changed. I am starting to think I must have done some irreversible damage to my Data partition. is that possible?
r3xx3r said:
I have done all of that already to no avail. I have also tried flashing stock oreo firmware in Odin but after about 3 seconds it says it is done and nothing has changed. I am starting to think I must have done some irreversible damage to my Data partition. is that possible?
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In TWRP, have you tried Wipe | Format Data?
This option is a button to the right of Advanced.
gcrutchr said:
In TWRP, have you tried Wipe | Format Data?
This option is a button to the right of Advanced.
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yea, i tried that. it says it cant mount the data partition
I think he means Format data by typing in yes. In twrp
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Z-Rock said:
I think he means Format data by typing in yes. In twrp
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I am so sorry. I am a moron. I thought I tried that but I didnt. it worked..... TY SO MUCH!
You will have to reroot after. I was Magisk 16.3 and 5.8.3 apk. Then the data fix. I also never update Magisk after its installed.
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Z-Rock said:
You will have to reroot after. I was Magisk 16.3 and 5.8.3 apk. Then the data fix. I also never update Magisk after its installed.
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thank you. I will take your advice and reroot with Magisk.
does Air Command work with Magisk?

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