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Root keep root after OTA?

Oooo that's a touchy subject. Unitypunk got his phone borked running a zip that was supposed to pull the system image files. I have a warranty replacement coming on Tuesday & I plan to pull the image files for 4.0.4, run the update, and then pull the 4.1.2 images and get them to the folks that are smarter than me.
 
at this point i would be overjoyed with a stock backup with all the pieces that are missing from my phone lol
 
rooted here but just got the prompt for the update...
can I successfully 'unroot' and then safely update without hitting the soft/hard bricks or is it more complex than that?

what can I do to get the update and not brick my phone?
 
Its a mixed bag. I *think* if you are rooted but otherwise unmolested you'll be okay. If you have flashed the CWM recovery then you're going to have problems
 
yea, I just want to get confirmation from someone in the same situation, namely:

rooted and disabled bloatware
disabled root, reinstalled all bloat apps
perhaps factory reset
update without bricking

I made the mistake of trying to update my original commando while rooted and bricked it, luckily didn't cost me anything to replace.

anyone help me out?
 
I've seen a couple of posts from people who were rooted but otherwise unmolested (nothing deleted, only frozen) who updated without issue and only lost root. I had flashed the CWM recovery and then flashed back to the stock recovery and was stuck at the white screen for hours. Then I rebooted into the stock recovery and had an issue where any time the phone went to sleep it would take a battery pull to wake it up. I semi-fixed it but lost LTE & had terrible battery life in the process. I have since received a replacement that updated without issue.
 
rjglenn said:
I've seen a couple of posts from people who were rooted but otherwise unmolested (nothing deleted, only frozen) who updated without issue and only lost root. I had flashed the CWM recovery and then flashed back to the stock recovery and was stuck at the white screen for hours. Then I rebooted into the stock recovery and had an issue where any time the phone went to sleep it would take a battery pull to wake it up. I semi-fixed it but lost LTE & had terrible battery life in the process. I have since received a replacement that updated without issue.
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How did you get stock recovery back. I would like to get on 4.1.2 but am so cautious about updating if anything is a mis I can't get replacement as mine isn't on Verizon right now...
 
I had saved it with flashify when I flashed CWM the first time. I did fix it more or less, except for the LTE part.

You would be better served waiting until one of our European friends develops an update.zip that brings you to 4.1.2. If you have the CWM recovery you are off the update path & will break your phone trying to get back on it.
 
If you can reboot to the stock recovery that has the install menu item then yes you can. I would think if you flashed the 410 initialization tool that will give you the recovery that has the install menu, then select and install the update. Maybe it would work, maybe not...
 
unitypunk said:
seconded. i sure hope so.

i have stock recovery image, maybe flash it with flashify after you flash a stock rom with cwm?
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I just want to get 4.1.2 on my Phone. I feel it may be a while for a more stable ROM to come based on 4.1.2 that CWM can flash. I know there is a ROM Doctoror provided. But it seems to have some issues. Otherwise I'd flash it.
 
i was talking to the guys in #android and they said if someone used adb backup, then i could use their adb back up to recover to stock using that... was gonna try to get someone with an unmolsted commando to do it for me.
 
xmguy1 said:
I just want to get 4.1.2 on my Phone. I feel it may be a while for a more stable ROM to come based on 4.1.2 that CWM can flash. I know there is a ROM Doctoror provided. But it seems to have some issues. Otherwise I'd flash it.
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I had no important issues flashing Doctoror's jb rom.
One issue is Wi-Fi it didn't work at first time but it is just a matter turn airplane mode on then off, and the other one is apn editor, it is not enabled. But you can use offline sim apn from play store, if you're not a gsm user it doesn't even matter since it takes the apn from sim card.
 
whofleck said:
confirmation: just updated with no problems or bootloops.

I was rooted with only disabled apps, nothing deleted or major modifications.
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i have a similar situation. i disabled a handful of things (including mobilecare apps) and deleted a few. i only deleted things that were blatantly obvious like nfl something and a couple others.

i re-enabled mobile care apps and have attempted the update process. every time i try to update it pops up a message that says please wait while checking for updates but never seems to get anywhere. i let it sit for quite some time and that is as far as it got.

1) am i missing something here with apps that i disabled?
2) is there a way to download/install the update other than OTA?
 
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