• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Root OTA update while rooted

H

HTCTundaBow

Well-Known Member
My phone just started the OTA update. Problem is, I'm rooted so I pulled the battery to stop the update. I heard you're not supposed to accept updates when you're rooted. How do I stop the update once I put my battery back in?
 
Boot into recovery, I think you can clear cache and dalvik cache and that will stop it, or just flash a rom.

Edit: Did you root via revolutionary? If so you shouldn't have an issue accepting the update IIRC you will just need to flash superuser afterwards
 
Yeahha said:
Boot into recovery, I think you can clear cache and dalvik cache and that will stop it, or just flash a rom.

Edit: Did you root via revolutionary? If so you shouldn't have an issue accepting the update IIRC you will just need to flash superuser afterwards
Click to expand...

I did use Revolutionary, but it's been acting up the past week and a half. Superuser won't allow any of my "root only" apps to work. And, it's been running slow, so slow, that I've had to restart it a couple times. I've been meaning to re-root before I flashed a rom, but just haven't gotten the time to do so. Could this be a problem?
 
If you can boot to recovery you should be able to flash a rom without needing to re-root if you can get titanium backup working you won't lose the data from your apps.
 
Yeahha said:
If you can boot to recovery you should be able to flash a rom without needing to re-root if you can get titanium backup working you won't lose the data from your apps.
Click to expand...

That's one of my problems. I've tried to use titanium backup, but superuser won't allow it. Is there anyway I can just power my phone on normally and manually stop the update, so I can re-root and backup my data before flashing a rom?
 
Try booting into recovery and wiping cache and dalvik cache, you won't lose any info and I think it will stop the OTA. Then power up normally. You haven't lost root it sounds like you either rejected some permissions for superuser or you need to update superuser either way it should be fixable with minimal issues. You could try just flashing the stock rooted OTA rom without a data wipe *warning be sure to do a nandroid first so if you have issues with it you can restore* but without wiping if you are going from stock to stock there shouldn't be any issues or data loss.
 
Yeahha said:
Try booting into recovery and wiping cache and dalvik cache, you won't lose any info and I think it will stop the OTA. Then power up normally. You haven't lost root it sounds like you either rejected some permissions for superuser or you need to update superuser either way it should be fixable with minimal issues. You could try just flashing the stock rooted OTA rom without a data wipe *warning be sure to do a nandroid first so if you have issues with it you can restore* but without wiping if you are going from stock to stock there shouldn't be any issues or data loss.
Click to expand...

Okay, booted into recovery and wiped cache partition, but I don't see "dalvik cache". I'm not the most literate when it come to phones, so bear with me :P
 
fdnj48 said:
What will happen to the phone if it updates while you are rooted?
Click to expand...

its not being rooted,and its not having the revolutionary hboot that matters to the OTA.

it is the custom recovery that causes prollems. i assume the OTA is named update.zip and is picked up and applied by the stock recovery. clockwork will also try and apply an update.zip,but its apparently not in a format that it understands(most OTAs are simply a bunch of patch files) so then it trys,it fails.

then end result is anything from a harmlessly failed,revcoverable bootloop,to an unrecoverable brick :eek:

ive actually never helped someone whose phone hasnt been fixed by wiping cache and dalvik cache,but there is a claim from someone on another forum who says he never got his phone working again after it tried to auto-accept an ota without his knowledge,so i wouldnt want to make lite of the situation if theres even a remote chance of that.

you are perfectly fine to accept an OTA while rooted and with revolutionarys hboot,as long as you replace the custom recovery with the stock one.

re-rooting after the ota is as simple as how you rooted after running revolutionary the first time,since s-off will remain:
1)flash recovery in hboot
2)flash superuser in recovery :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom