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Root Misbehaving Bionic with Question about returning to stock image.

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Vixer

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My Bionic has been misbehaving a lot lately when using the car dock and Car Home Ultra so I would like to return it to stock, obtain the updates from Verizon, and then reroot the phone.

I am currently rooted with 5.8.894.XT875 and the KIN3TX V1.0 ROM.

I plan to reload the stock image I made with Titanium Backup right after I rooted. Obtain the radio updates from Verizon, then reroot and reinstall my apps using my Titatium backups.

Does this sound like a viable path?

Thank you very much in advance for any advice.
 
Vixer said:
My Bionic has been misbehaving a lot lately when using the car dock and Car Home Ultra so I would like to return it to stock, obtain the updates from Verizon, and then reroot the phone.

I am currently rooted with 5.8.894.XT875 and the KIN3TX V1.0 ROM.

I plan to reload the stock image I made with Titanium Backup right after I rooted. Obtain the radio updates from Verizon, then reroot and reinstall my apps using my Titatium backups.

Does this sound like a viable path?

Thank you very much in advance for any advice.
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If you do forever root before you update you will keep root while updating. When restoring with Titanium backup I would just restore the apps and not the data. With the system changes that are made I find that restoring from different ota seems to cause issues, not many but some.
 
Thank you dfib.

I will use the 4Ever root process prior to reinstalling the stock image.

Need to wait until I get home though. I will let you know of the outcome.
 
dfib,

I ran the Motofail (Root and 43V3R Root, for 5.5.886-5.9.902) as directed. It ran successfully all the way through the 2 reboots.

I then restored the stock image successfully.

I then did the OTA system update. It actually ran 2 OTA updates with an interim update and then the 5.9.902 update.

Then I tried to restore my apps that were backed up, but Titanium tells me that I am not rooted now.

Can I just rerun the Motofail root process again to reroot?

Thank you again,
Vixer
 
Vixer said:
dfib,

I ran the Motofail (Root and 43V3R Root, for 5.5.886-5.9.902) as directed. It ran successfully all the way through the 2 reboots.

I then restored the stock image successfully.

I then did the OTA system update. It actually ran 2 OTA updates with an interim update and then the 5.9.902 update.

Then I tried to restore my apps that were backed up, but Titanium tells me that I am not rooted now.

Can I just rerun the Motofail root process again to reroot?

Thank you again,
Vixer
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Yes.
 
dfib,

You are the greatest. I now have root back as promised.

Thank you very much. :D

Now to start restoring my Titanium backups.
 
After restoring the backup of apps only (not data) Google Play (formerly Market) doesn't work. I get the following pop up:

"The application Google Play Store (process.com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." ....along with a Force Close and a Report button.

I tried searching the forums for this, but couldn't find anything.

Thank you.
 
Okay, I went to settings..applications..and uninstalled updates for google play.

I rebooted the phone and at least now I have Market working, not the newer Google Play. Maybe I will get the Play update some day. For now Market seems to work.
 
Just one more question....I promise.

Now that I am back on stock (5.9.902) and rooted is the Bionic Bootstrapper still the the best app to use for backing up the entire system?
 
Vixer said:
Just one more question....I promise.

Now that I am back on stock (5.9.902) and rooted is the Bionic Bootstrapper still the the best app to use for backing up the entire system?
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It depends on what you are doing. If you are going to remain stock or use a "safe" custom rom (one based off of .902) and not modify your bionic to much ten I say stay with bootstrasp with the clockwork recovery. If you want to really mess around or run an ICS rom then I would go with safestrap where you phone always boots into recovery first. This way you can always restore a backup if you phone get messed up.

All of the links and info on how to do both of these are in this thread here. http://androidforums.com/bionic-all...-all-things-root-guide-updated-2-14-12-a.html
 
Uninstalled ROM Manager and Bionic Bootstrapper.

Installed Safeboot and am doing a backup right now even though I plan to stay stock for a while, but then again you never know.

Thanks dfib.
 
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