Just as an FYI for anyone else. I was just able to take the NE5 OTA while being rooted with the towelroot method just fine.
If you have done the hotspot mod, you need to revert it back before you can get the OTA to take. Otherwise it will error out during the update file hash check and fail.
After the update is complete, just follow the steps like before and use towelroot to re-root. I had to reboot, then open supersu to install root binaries. A second reboot after install was done per instructions in the root install process.
Again, l did not uninstall xposed framework, unfreeze any apps that I had frozen, or uninstall wanam xposed. The only thing I had to do was revert the hotspot mod files to get the OTA past the file hash check.
Good luck!
What is the easiest way to remove the hotspot stuff so that I can take the OTA. That is the only thing I've done since rooting.
Thanks
SWhetsel said:
Just as an FYI for anyone else. I was just able to take the NE5 OTA while being rooted with the towelroot method just fine.
If you have done the hotspot mod, you need to revert it back before you can get the OTA to take. Otherwise it will error out during the update file hash check and fail.
After the update is complete, just follow the steps like before and use towelroot to re-root. I had to reboot, then open supersu to install root binaries. A second reboot after install was done per instructions in the root install process.
Again, l did not uninstall xposed framework, unfreeze any apps that I had frozen, or uninstall wanam xposed. The only thing I had to do was revert the hotspot mod files to get the OTA past the file hash check.
Good luck!
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ksfireman82 said:
What is the easiest way to remove the hotspot stuff so that I can take the OTA. That is the only thing I've done since rooting.
Thanks
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When you did the mod, if you just replaced the services.odex and services.jar files, hopefully you saved the original files. When you replace a system file you should make backups of the original files.
So for instance, I renamed both of those files to services.odex.old and services.jar.old before placing the new files into the folder. So to revert the files, I deleted the replacement edited files, and then renamed the originals back to the correct names.
However, if you didn't make a back up, I can attach my two original files to this post. I just can't promise it will work for you.
SWhetsel said:
When you did the mod, if you just replaced the services.odex and services.jar files, hopefully you saved the original files. When you replace a system file you should make backups of the original files.
So for instance, I renamed both of those files to services.odex.old and services.jar.old before placing the new files into the folder. So to revert the files, I deleted the replacement edited files, and then renamed the originals back to the correct names.
However, if you didn't make a back up, I can attach my two original files to this post. I just can't promise it will work for you.
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Damn, didn't rename or save the original files. I had the OTA first then did the hot spot mod.
Original files.
I MAKE NO GUARANTEE THESE WILL WORK FOR YOU!
NOT A FLASHABLE ZIP.
So I rooted my device, hten followed a guide, that Instructed me to replace two files in the system/framework folder, services.jar and services.odex, i backed them up, but like a fool i backed them up in the same folder, which i can't access, I can restore from CWM and i was actually hoping someone had a system recovery that i could borrow, since i can't seem to figure out how to change the files back within my cwm backup.
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So I rooted my device, hten followed a guide, that Instructed me to replace two files in the system/framework folder, services.jar and services.odex, i backed them up, but like a fool i backed them up in the same folder, which i can't access, I can restore from CWM and i was actually hoping someone had a system recovery that i could borrow, since i can't seem to figure out how to change the files back within my cwm backup.
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Okay, slow down. You can fix this. There are only a few steps:
1. Download the stock odexed rom. You can find it here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712466565
2. Extract the stock rom.
3. Navigate to the system/framework folder
4. Copy services.jar and services.odex to your phone (download folder or anywhere on your sdcard is fine)
5. Since you are rooted, you can use a root file explorer to copy those files to your system/framework folder on your phone. Locate the two files you copied from the stock odex rom on your computer. Paste these into system framework, and overwrite the two existing files (you can use ES file manager or other root browser to accomplish this)
That's it! There are many other ways to do this, but this is probably the simplest.
I'd just flash a custom rom with hotspot though
I've tried to download twrp I need a list of files to download to root this phone or is there a one click root app that will work king root doesn't work
I cannot copy any file from local storage to root directory. anyone can help?
note: my samsung grand 2 setting app not work after install custom rom. now trying to change the old setting apk to new apk (which collect from xda) from root directory
I'm on the latest up, unlocked and rooted. I've followed sugestions found here. I've tried twrp, root file explorer, root explorer, total commander and x-plore. I just can't seem to replace it. The closeest has been root file explorer. It states that it was successful but it always returns to default. Help please