Root Forced OTA Update Success!

[SystemDave]

Ok I was messing around with my phone and figured out how to force the update for the radio and software on stock rom. NO ROOT, NO CUSTOM RECOVERY! You DO need to have S-Off. Just do the juno bear's S-Off stuff. Once S-Off run the stock RUU. Your bootloader will be "LOCKED" and not "RELOCKED" but you will still be S-Off. While S-Off just put the update.zip from the Update forum on your SD card. Then boot into bootloader and run recovery. The stock recovery will boot but you will get the red triangle err. Now Hold the UP volume key and press the power button untill your into the factory recovery. Select update from external memory and search for the update file and run it. BOOM now your phone is updated.

Now to your S-OFF back to S-On. Boot into bootloader and run your cmd/sdk command. Type " Fastboot oem writesecureflag 3 " This will turn S-Off to S-On. Just check by rebooting bootloader. BOOM! Phone is now 100% stock with the OTA Update. Yes I understand its a lot of work to do but in my opinion if your wanting a 100% stock evo v and have the update its worth it. I just couldnt find a custom rom that I liked but I do like the stock rom. I dont really get any issues with it. My hope is that someone might be able to make a script that with implement the juno bear's S-Off trick and have the option to go complete stock with the OTA update (or any OTA update) as an option befor turn S-On back on.

P.S. Phone may hickup on the first boot after turning S-On on. Dont worry it will reboot like normal..

 

[OverByter]

Why would anyone go through the process of gaining s-off and then remove it? It doesn't affect the phone in any way and if there was ever another update you where waiting for you'd have to do it all over again.

 

[magohn]

Why would anyone go through the process of gaining s-off and then remove it? It doesn't affect the phone in any way and if there was ever another update you where waiting for you'd have to do it all over again.

+1

I appreciate your enthusiasm but if I were S-OFF I would have installed the update manually weeks ago.

 

[SystemDave]

I do agree its about pointless but a person is able to be 100% stock with the update. That was more my point. I know ppl dont want to have to s-off but I thought it was cool I was able to become stock and have the update w/o having to wait for the "rolling OTA". Sorry if you think this was pointless but I thought it was cool to do and I havent seen anyone else talking about it but once and they never mentioned being s-off to flash the official OTA. To me it was a learning and fun experience.

 

[magohn]

I do agree its about pointless but a person is able to be 100% stock with the update. That was more my point. I know ppl dont want to have to s-off but I thought it was cool I was able to become stock and have the update w/o having to wait for the "rolling OTA". Sorry if you think this was pointless but I thought it was cool to do and I havent seen anyone else talking about it but once and they never mentioned being s-off to flash the official OTA. To me it was a learning and fun experience.

Good points. Everything helps - thanks

 

[Tejer]

I personally found it pretty useful. I had been checking here to see if someone would discover how to do it, so nobody 'had' to wait for the darn OTA to finally roll to you again or however it works.

Update:

Ok, so the method you posted after running the RUU I can confirm works 100%!

Now, I had this idea to bypass the RUU by simply pushing the stock recovery to the device and running the RUU after I had installed JMZ's stock rom. For root users this would be a bit faster as a simply way to stay root and all and remain stock. But, for some reason when trying to install it in the stock recovery it gave me some error 7. So this wont work for now unless someone else decides to explore into this matter. Otherwise your way works just fine.