Root Hypothetical rooting question

[FreeRangers]

I may be getting a Nexus sometime soon (either a 4 or 5) and have a quick question about rooting. I plan on rooting the phone to install items such as Clockwork Mod recovery, titanium backup, Superuser, etc... I plan on keeping the stock rom. My question is if I root, but still keep the stock rom will I still be able to get google's OS updates OTA and if I can get these updates will they remove my root privileges when they install? Thanks.

 

[lunatic59]

Yes you get the updates. However, to apply the updates you must unroot, update and then reroot. It's pretty easy stuff, so don't let it dissuade you from rooting.

 

[FreeRangers]

Thanks. I know that unrooting and rerooting is pretty easy, I have to do it when there are updates for my Galaxy S III, it's just a bit tedious, because then I have to go and remove all the crap samsung adds to their updates (like touch whiz and all their other garbage apps). But I probably wouldn't have this problem with a nexus as the updates are straight from google and pure vanilla (as is my understanding anyway).

 

[John Bean]

My experience with the Nexus 4 through several OTA updates is that it's not necessary to unroot - the OTA will work anyway, breaking root in the process so re-rooting afterwards is needed anyhow.

More important is that the stock ROM is untouched - changes to the build configuration or removal of ROM apps will break the OTA, even just freezing apps broke one OTA for me.

Otherwise it's very straightforward, no real issues at all.

 

[lion7718]

Xposed Framework broke OTA for me, I just flashed the zip with TWRP & re-rooted the same way and was fine.

 

[D-U-R-X]

I rooted my N4 and was running CM10.1, but went back to stock, rooted and just downloaded the ota and let it install. Got rid of root (least until I get my laptop fixed)