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Help OTA jellybean update when rooted

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mailroomman

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Hi all quick question for the guys in the knowledge but here goes.
My S3 is rooted with the stock rom I only did it so I could use a extended battery.
Now when jelly bean finnaly lands Can I simply update lt
OTA or is that not advisable.?
I understand I would loose my root but I can live with that.
Is it as straight forward as that or do I need to go down a different road.
Would using OTA mess my phone up?

Thanks
 
I'm not sure why you had to root to use an extended battery. But a rooted version of the OTA will likely be out shortly after it's released. It's possible you may even be able to flash the rooted version of the OTA before your phone is selected for the rollout of the update. Meaning, just because an update is released doesn't mean you'll get it that moment, even if you check manually for an update. Roll outs prevent severe server strain by only allowing a certain number of phones to accept the update at a time. Where rooted updates are only constrained by the bandwidth of the servers they are hosted/mirrored on.
 
When I first got my extended battery it would only do the same work life of the standard battery
And was looking around on the net to find a way around this and saw that rooting and using mugen
Battery calibration app was the only way.
I'm guessing root was not needed after all?
 
The calibration just speeds up the process -- it should be fine without it.

A lot of times you will still get the OTA update if you just rooted, but didn't flash a new ROM. It could be dangerous to install it, though.
 
mailroomman said:
When I first got my extended battery it would only do the same work life of the standard battery
And was looking around on the net to find a way around this and saw that rooting and using mugen
Battery calibration app was the only way.
I'm guessing root was not needed after all?
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I have the Hyperion 4000 mAH battery and it worked right out of the box.
 
But surely if I update the firmware it will wipe and start again in the same way it does when jailbreaking.
Even when apple have an OTA you can update and start from scratch.
There would be traces left in the blobs but no harm could come of it I've done it many time on a previous I phone 4
But I need some. Ore feedback on this forum before I risk an OTA
 
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