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**If You Want to Root You NEED to do It PRIOR to the Next OTA**

WormDoes

WormDoes

Android Expert
If you want to root anytime in the near future, it's time to seriously consider pulling the trigger soon. This was just tweeted by TeamAndIRC on Twitter about 20 minutes ago..


TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
Thunderbolt users, if you want root, root now before the next OTA. All publicly known temproot exploits are patched in it.

This isn't uncommon as the same thing happend to the Incredible and the EVO 4G still doesn't have root after the gingerbread OTA. That's not to say we won't get root again after the upcoming OTA, but this track record speaks for itself.

This post is not to pressure anyone and it shouldn't be taken that way. This is simply to inform and let people who are "on the fence" know that they may not have an option if they don't root soon. Rooting isn't for everyone and if you don't want to root, that's fine. As I said this is for the people who are considering it.

Please don't turn this into "when is gingerbread coming to the TB" I will delete any and all posts relating to a possible OTA date.

Cheers

UPDATE:

TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
I have vivow and mecha both running the next OTA (not released, unrootable with current methods).

This was tweeted about 2 hours ago. The OTA is coming very soon. Just another friendly reminder if you want to root you should do it ASAP. Once this new OTA rolls out you won't be able to root until JCase and crew find a new method. Which means they're basically starting from scratch all over again. This isn't to pressure anyone, it's purely for information purposes only
 
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean. I can't imagine no root for the Thunderbolt. If this is true, I'm sure something will come along in time. I will not be surprised if people are rooting to Ice Cream Sandwich some day. In fact that might be the only way you will get it for the Thunderbolt.
 
Not the most recent OTA so you are fine. Also if you root go ahead and flash a rom so if an OTA hits you aren't asked to update. I think there is a way to root the evo still bit it involves rolling back to froyo
 
Whatstreet said:
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean. I can't imagine no root for the Thunderbolt. If this is true, I'm sure something will come along in time. I will not be surprised if people are rooting to Ice Cream Sandwich some day. In fact that might be the only way you will get it for the Thunderbolt.
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If you are rooted prior to the upcoming OTA then you won't have a problem upgrading as new builds are released (IE: Ice Cream Sandwich). As I said in my OP there are devices that still haven't been re-rooted after HTC patched the known exploits used to root in the first place.
 
Oh man, I really have to make up my damn mind now. Oh, and by saying it's not to pressure, you put the pressure on. :D

So, let me make sure I have this straight. Next OTA could screw the pooch for rooting for quite a while it would appear.
 
Bomfy said:
So, let me make sure I have this straight. Next OTA could screw the pooch for rooting for quite a while it would appear.
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If history repeats itself, which it usually does, then yes

superstretch said:
So much for HTC's pledge to be more customer-friendly, ie. unlocked bootloader
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This has nothing to do with locking/unlocking the bootloader. Patching the exploits are a responsible thing to do whether we like it or not. HTC and every company does it regardless of their stance on "openness"
 
AndroidPolice
Testing something really awesome right now. There's hope that we can make it available to you guys. If so, you'll see it soon. #tease

TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
interesting aye, Thunderbolt Gingerbread is in phase2 testing at Verizon. Just sayin'


Hmmmmm....
 
So now here's hoping we can ignore the first tweet?
If so I still thank you for bringing it to our attention!
Better to be forewarned than saying if I only knew :-)
Thanks,
Bryan
 
trapperjohn said:
So now here's hoping we can ignore the first tweet?
If so I still thank you for bringing it to our attention!
Better to be forewarned than saying if I only knew :-)
Thanks,
Bryan
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That's exactly why I posted this. It's for the people who want to do it, but may keep putting it off thinking they can do it "later"
 
Could this get a sticky? I would think it may help as when the OTA hits there will be 10+ new threads about it, who got the OTA, who didn't get it, what is new, does netflix work, what I don't like about the OTA, what the OTA broke, ect…
 
Sure does seem like GB will be here soon... and I have a feeling root will not be obtained for a long while. To me, it seems like a lot of the devs that migrated to the TB immediately have already jumped ship and moved on to other devices. Am I wrong?
 
mdeblaz said:
Sure does seem like GB will be here soon... and I have a feeling root will not be obtained for a long while. To me, it seems like a lot of the devs that migrated to the TB immediately have already jumped ship and moved on to other devices. Am I wrong?
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Yes, you're wrong about the developers jumping ship. Correct about Gingerbread being here very soon. The Thunderbolt has one of the largest developer community of all Android devices.
 
mdeblaz said:
Sure does seem like GB will be here soon... and I have a feeling root will not be obtained for a long while. To me, it seems like a lot of the devs that migrated to the TB immediately have already jumped ship and moved on to other devices. Am I wrong?
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Yeah you are quite wrong :) out of the VZW LTE devices the bolt has the biggest root community. There are many devs still working on roms for the bolt both sense and AOSP roms. A lot of devs now also develop for multiple phones. When I had a D1 only CM did that (that I was aware of at least) and now it seems like every dev is part of a team that develops for most VZW phone or HTC phones.
 
WormDoes said:
If you want to root anytime in the near future, it's time to seriously consider pulling the trigger soon. This was just tweeted by TeamAndIRC on Twitter about 20 minutes ago..


TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
Thunderbolt users, if you want root, root now before the next OTA. All publicly known temproot exploits are patched in it.

This isn't uncommon as the same thing happend to the Incredible and the EVO 4G still doesn't have root after the gingerbread OTA. That's not to say we won't get root again after the upcoming OTA, but this track record speaks for itself.

This post is not to pressure anyone and it shouldn't be taken that way. This is simply to inform and let people who are "on the fence" know that they may not have an option if they don't root soon. Rooting isn't for everyone and if you don't want to root, that's fine. As I said this is for the people who are considering it.

Please don't turn this into "when is gingerbread coming to the TB" I will delete any and all posts relating to a possible OTA date.

Cheers

UPDATE:

TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
I have vivow and mecha both running the next OTA (not released, unrootable with current methods).

This was tweeted about 2 hours ago. The OTA is coming very soon. Just another friendly reminder if you want to root you should do it ASAP. Once this new OTA rolls out you won't be able to root until JCase and crew find a new method. Which means they're basically starting from scratch all over again. This isn't to pressure anyone, it's purely for information purposes only
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I am rooted but I was under the impression (mistaken?) that if I accepted this update (got notified twice today and rejected it) it would mess up my root. Is that true or can I accept it and be ok? Thanks.
 
djscoe said:
I am rooted but I was under the impression (mistaken?) that if I accepted this update (got notified twice today and rejected it) it would mess up my root. Is that true or can I accept it and be ok? Thanks.
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You're correct, don't accept any OTA update if you're rooted. End of story, it will cause problems. Any for future reference you don't need to quote the entire OP to ask a question relating to it.
 
WormDoes said:
You're correct, don't accept any OTA update if you're rooted. End of story, it will cause problems. Any for future reference you don't need to quote the entire OP to ask a question relating to it.
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Do I need to quote another post when asking a question relating to it?

djscoe said:
I am rooted but I was under the impression (mistaken?) that if I accepted this update (got notified twice today and rejected it) it would mess up my root. Is that true or can I accept it and be ok? Thanks.
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How about the post it was in reference to?

:D

@djscoe, there have been several people try to accept the OTA while rooted and it messes up the phone, they stay rooted and can recover. I would suggest flashing to a different rom that way would just are not prompted for updates. Plus roms offer functionality that is not available in the stock rom and can be smaller than stock (AOSP FTW) which provides you a snappier phone overall
 
Yeahha said:
Do I need to quote another post when asking a question relating to it?



How about the post it was in reference to?

:D
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Not sure why you're breaking my balls :eek:, but to quote the entire OP, especially when he added a title to his question was unnecessary, IMO
 
WormDoes said:
Not sure why you're breaking my balls :eek:, but to quote the entire OP, especially when he added a title to his question was unnecessary, IMO
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Nothing against you Worm, you work hard here. I am bored and working "hard" at my desk and there isn't all that much going in the all things root section. I've never even paid attention that we could add titles to posts until right now, but I agree it is unnecessary to add a title if you are going to ask the same question in a post.
 
WormDoes said:
AndroidPolice
Testing something really awesome right now. There's hope that we can make it available to you guys. If so, you'll see it soon. #tease

TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
interesting aye, Thunderbolt Gingerbread is in phase2 testing at Verizon. Just sayin'


Hmmmmm....
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Has there been any update on the really awesome fix?
Thanks,
Bryan
 
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