Hi guys, if I flash the new 3.3.3 which changed how it installs in the system, will I be able to get official Ota as in stock recovery??
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ujh said:
Hi guys, if I flash the new 3.3.3 which changed how it installs in the system, will I be able to get official Ota as in stock recovery??
Thanks
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No. You'd still upgrade the same way you did before.
hartleyshc said:
No. You'd still upgrade the same way you did before.
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Wiping everything, reflashing official rom and twrp? So what's the meaning of the new twrp feat?
ujh said:
Wiping everything, reflashing official rom and twrp? So what's the meaning of the new twrp feat?
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Normally the way to upgrade as long as you are doing official is to download the OTA and do a local update.
Then install TWRP. I never wipe to upgrade.
tech_head said:
Normally the way to upgrade as long as you are doing official is to download the OTA and do a local update.
Then install TWRP. I never wipe to upgrade.
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OK, since I only had custom roms and twrp and read somewhere that twrp didn't support official Ota I thought that to flash new Ota I had to wipe clean everything and reflash : x
ujh said:
OK, since I only had custom roms and twrp and read somewhere that twrp didn't support official Ota I thought that to flash new Ota I had to wipe clean everything and reflash : x
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No.
If you are on the stock OOS or the Beta OOS as long as you stay on the same stock or beta; you download the OTA and do a local install.
This preserves your data and you only need to install TWRP and Magisk again.
I don't understand people that whine about having to install TWRP or Magisk again since it only takes about 5 minutes to do correctly.
I just do an OTA local install and hook the phone up to my computer and re-install TWRP, etc.
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No.
If you are on the stock OOS or the Beta OOS as long as you stay on the same stock or beta; you download the OTA and do a local install.
This preserves your data and you only need to install TWRP and Magisk again.
I don't understand people that whine about having to install TWRP or Magisk again since it only takes about 5 minutes to do correctly.
I just do an OTA local install and hook the phone up to my computer and re-install TWRP, etc.
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Not whining at all. I said wipe everything, meaning EVERYTHING.
ujh said:
Not whining at all. I said wipe everything, meaning EVERYTHING.
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Sorry, was not talking about you specifically.
Going from a custom ROM to OTA, you do need to wipe.
Going from any ROM to any other ROM, you need to wipe.
you can always "dirty flash" but there is no guarantee for wonky behavior.
On the other hand people want to take the OTA and preserve root.
Rooting take five minute so I don't understand the jumping through hooks to keep root.
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Hi guys
What is the least troublesome way of getting to 7.1.1 rooted/twrp from 6.0 rooted/xposed/unlocked/twrp installed ?
I'm willing to wipe, and would really just like a flashable zip but don't see any.
I'm not that familiar with update.zip's , but it seems like that might be the long way around, is to wipe system, apply the update.zip from ZTE and then accept the latest OTA? I don't know if that overwrites TWRP or whether an update.zip will even apply over TWRP ... ?
thanks for any advice
bluenote73 said:
Hi guys
What is the least troublesome way of getting to 7.1.1 rooted/twrp from 6.0 rooted/xposed/unlocked/twrp installed ?
I'm willing to wipe, and would really just like a flashable zip but don't see any.
I'm not that familiar with update.zip's , but it seems like that might be the long way around, is to wipe system, apply the update.zip from ZTE and then accept the latest OTA? I don't know if that overwrites TWRP or whether an update.zip will even apply over TWRP ... ?
thanks for any advice
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68873482&postcount=2
I don't know if you can get to 7.1.1 yet, but you can get to 7.0. I think you might have to wipe, and XPosed isn't availible for Nougat quite yet. The OTA update from ZTE won't work because your phone doesn't have the stock signature. Most stock ROMs you flash will take away TWRP and replace it with the stock recovery.
Miflash b15 full, take ota, flash twrp and su.
TWRP Flashable B19 (7.1.1) is coming
lafester said:
Miflash b15 full, take ota, flash twrp and su.
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Thanks I muddled through by applying the B15 update.zip, then taking the OTA, and now I'm trying to get TWRP back and rooted.
bluenote73 said:
Thanks I muddled through by applying the B15 update.zip, then taking the OTA, and now I'm trying to get TWRP back and rooted.
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You've probably figured it out, but I'll give you this just in case: https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/help/upgraded-2017u-rooted-7-0-to-7-1-1-t3574033
I got the OTA update, and I stand corrected on not being able to receive them.
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You've probably figured it out, but I'll give you this just in case: https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/help/upgraded-2017u-rooted-7-0-to-7-1-1-t3574033
I got the OTA update, and I stand corrected on not being able to receive them.
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Thanks. It was a new development that I didn't know about that miflash can be used, so once I found where to get it, and got through it's idiosyncracies (what a horrible f-ing app it is) it was smooth sailing.
This morning I my phone pesented itself in TWRP.
Maybe this is because over the past days I repeatedly got notifications that a system upgrade wanted to install itself (I have a modified 26s X720 from Tora33).
I rejected those notifications.
Now I am stuck in TWRP and I cannot get around it. What I tried:
Reinstalling previous firmware (Tora33 26s) still on the phone
Restoring a TWRP backup from 6 months ago (TWRP didn't see it, maybe it's from a previous TWRP version, I now have v. 3.1)
Flash via fastbood factory image using Mauro's Tool All In One (error message "can't find file mke2fs.conf")
Wipe data, cache, dalvik cache, system; then install Mauro_V2.2 cleansed 23s firmware which I transferred to the phone
Every time it boots up in TWRP.
Your bricked you never flash ota with twrp you should read before doing anything.
The only thing that can help is ofil.
I suggest you study well before trying it.
Sent from my LEX720 using xda premium
mchlbenner said:
Your bricked you never flash ota with twrp you should read before doing anything.
The only thing that can help is ofil.
I suggest you study well before trying it.
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Oh boy. Thanks anyway. OTA flashed itself, couldn't stop it. Maybe I made it worse by trying to fix.
The bootloader is not locked according to the AIO tool. I can flash succesfully any firmware, only after flashing the phone will still boot in TWRP. It is strange it still boots in TWRP. Is there no simpler trick like flashing the standard recovery and then flashing OFW?
You mention Ofil; do you think the guide described here work?
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Oh boy. Thanks anyway. OTA flashed itself, couldn't stop it. Maybe I made it worse by trying to fix.
The bootloader is not locked according to the AIO tool. I can flash succesfully any firmware, only after flashing the phone will still boot in TWRP. It is strange it still boots in TWRP. Is there no simpler trick like flashing the standard recovery and then flashing OFW?
You mention Ofil; do you think the guide described here work?
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Yes, that QFIL guide is for the x720.
In my opinion, the best way to return stock is to push update.zip into phones main folder, then install stock recovery, then in this one install update zip then check that OS is working. If it is, then go into twrp and wipe. Can't do it?
I'll mention myself;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-pro3/how-to/guide-simple-to-return-to-stock-x720-t3618658
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In my opinion, the best way to return stock is to push update.zip into phones main folder, then install stock recovery, then in this one install update zip then check that OS is working. If it is, then go into twrp and wipe. Can't do it?
I'll mention myself;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-pro3/how-to/guide-simple-to-return-to-stock-x720-t3618658
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If he was just going back stock that would work he flash 28s ota with twrp so this will not work.
Sent from my LEX720 using xda premium
No brick after OFW push 28s
The pushed (unvoluntary) update didn't brick my phone after all. This may be important for those that have modified stock ROMs with TWRP.
Not being able to restore OFW was a bug in Mauro's All-in-One tool which he fixed last night. After I could easily flash 20S or 26S stock from his repository. I would also recommend this as safest/easiest procedure. Afterwards you can just flash TWRP from the same tool and move from there.
By the way, immediately after flashing 20s the FW notified it wanted to update itself, again!
n my opinion, the best way to return stock is to push update.zip into phones main folder, then install stock recovery, then in this one install update zip then check that OS is working. If it is, then go into twrp and wipe. Can't do it?
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Might have tried that
Hello, I recently got an exynos S8 and ai already installed TWRP and magisk. Is there a way to update to Oreo without losing my data and root? I barely finished setting everything up and it would be annoying to start over with a wipe
So, if We flash twrp straight after updating to oreo all data will be lost?
Use Titanium backup to get all your data back
I often change of custom ROM and I always keep all my data thanks to it
For the root, you will certainly lose it. But it takes 2min to flash the necessary file and get your root back
BigBen60 said:
Use Titanium backup to get all your data back
I often change of custom ROM and I always keep all my data thanks to it
For the root, you will certainly lose it. But it takes 2min to flash the necessary file and get your root back
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Sounds good.Wll I have to reinstall TWRP too?
aleessio said:
Sounds good.Wll I have to reinstall TWRP too?
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Not if you flash the ROM from TWRP.
But you will probably have to reinstall TWRP if you flash your ROM from Odin
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Not if you flash the ROM from TWRP.
But you will probably have to reinstall TWRP if you flash your ROM from Odin
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Can you point me to an official Oreo build I can flash trough TWRP? All guides I found use odin.
aleessio said:
Can you point me to an official Oreo build I can flash trough TWRP? All guides I found use odin.
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I'm afraid it's not possible.
Once you flash TWRP, you change the official recovery to a custom one. Once it's done, you can't get OTA anymore for example. So no more official stuffs.
If you want to get the lastest official build, you should use Odin. But it will also flash the official recovery and it will replace TWRP. So if you still want TWRP you'll have to flash it again (through Odin too and after you flashed the official firmware). But at this moment you'll lose official OTA
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I'm afraid it's not possible.
Once you flash TWRP, you change the official recovery to a custom one. Once it's done, you can't get OTA anymore for example. So no more official stuffs.
If you want to get the lastest official build, you should use Odin. But it will also flash the official recovery and it will replace TWRP. So if you still want TWRP you'll have to flash it again (through Odin too and after you flashed the official firmware). But at this moment you'll lose official OTA
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I feared that from my experience with previous devices. I'm not so scared to reinstall TWRP and root as much as to lose my data, as I have a lot of apps that are annoying to reinstall (such as two factors authenticators or banking apps). I was thinking to try what they suggest in this post. But then, to install TWRP and root I would still need to wipe data, so it doesn't really solve my problem.
When you backup apps using titanium backup, do apps keep their data and configurations? For example, do you need to set again google authenticator or do you lose all access to your account?
aleessio said:
I feared that from my experience with previous devices. I'm not so scared to reinstall TWRP and root as much as to lose my data, as I have a lot of apps that are annoying to reinstall (such as two factors authenticators or banking apps). I was thinking to try what they suggest in this post. But then, to install TWRP and root I would still need to wipe data, so it doesn't really solve my problem.
When you backup apps using titanium backup, do apps keep their data and configurations? For example, do you need to set again google authenticator or do you lose all access to your account?
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You keep everything as long as you restore app + data
So, I just rooted my phone yesterday, and then I saw that the October OTA had come out (I'm on Sprint, so it hadn't been pushed to my phone). I downloaded the OTA from online, and flashed it with TWRP. Next time I booted into recovery, it was replaced with the stock recover.
In the future, am I able to flash the TWRP zip before rebooting to keep TWRP without having to use a computer? Would I need to change slots?
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So, I just rooted my phone yesterday, and then I saw that the October OTA had come out (I'm on Sprint, so it hadn't been pushed to my phone). I downloaded the OTA from online, and flashed it with TWRP. Next time I booted into recovery, it was replaced with the stock recover.
In the future, am I able to flash the TWRP zip before rebooting to keep TWRP without having to use a computer? Would I need to change slots?
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If you're using the official TWRP, you have to flash the TWRP installer zip every time after flashing a new ROM.
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If you're using the official TWRP, you have to flash the TWRP installer zip every time after flashing a new ROM.
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On which slot?
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On which slot?
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Just flash it directly after flashing the ROM. It patches both slots.
Got a quick question. I'm on OOS 9.0.11 currently with bootloader unlocked, TWRP installed, and rooted with Magisk. I know how to flash correctly and keep root and recovery after. Is it safe for me to install the 9.0.17 OTA without flashing 12-16? Any issues that could arise from me not flashing the other OTAs first?
I jumped several versions without issue. As long as you are using the complete file (the ~1.8 GB) file you should be fine. You'll have issues if you use the incremental file (obviously).
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I jumped several versions without issue. As long as you are using the complete file (the ~1.8 GB) file you should be fine. You'll have issues if you use the incremental file (obviously).
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Thanks. And just to be sure I flash the update, then the TWRP installer, reboot to recovery, and then flash Magisk correct? After that I'm good to go?
DREWHAMM974 said:
Thanks. And just to be sure I flash the update, then the TWRP installer, reboot to recovery, and then flash Magisk correct? After that I'm good to go?
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That is correct. There is a new feature in TWRP that is supposed to eliminate the reflash, but I haven't tried that yet, I've just been flashing the installer, and rebooting to recovery, then flashing the rest.
OhioYJ said:
That is correct. There is a new feature in TWRP that is supposed to eliminate the reflash, but I haven't tried that yet, I've just been flashing the installer, and rebooting to recovery, then flashing the rest.
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I appreciate your help. I've been doing this stuff since the HTC Dream but with the way Android and smartphones in general change they're always more to learn