Hello all,
I have a rooted GT-I9300 running stock 4.1.2
It was rooted back in the days of ExynosAbuse, and since then SuperSU survived all OTA upgrades up to build JZO54K.I9300XXEMG4
My current status is "Normal".
There's currently a ~400Mb OTA pending, which I suppose is the 4.3 upgrade.
My question is, what are the chances that OTA (or Kies, or ODIN maybe?) update will complete with SuperSU (latest, Pro) surviving?
If not, how bad is to have a broken SuperSU on the phone?
If doing an OTA in these circumstances is a bad idea, what is the best route to upgrade while maintaining root?
if the OTA upgrade breakes the root privileges on your phone, you can simply do it again, by using auto-root from Chainfire
when I flashed 4.3 on my S3, I did break the root (that is because I flashed it via Odin, and not OTA)
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I've just revived an OTA on my rooted international Galaxy S3.,
It says in the "Update Details" *You cannot downgrade to the old Software after this new software upgrade, due to the security reason.
This makes me think there going to lock my bootloader or something and if that's the case I'll just delete the update and change the phones internal settings so it won't download OTA's.
Recently I've been keeping my phones pretty much stock, a few small tweaks and a few apps that require root,
I'm thinking it will probably just fail the OTA update with the phones status now saying / being modified.
I've also got Mobile Odin installed with enable Everoot, Inject SuperSU and Inject Mobile Odin.
Has anyone been through this ( Int SGS3 Stock Samsung firmware, rooted with chainfires root software - OTA to 4.3 from 4.1.2 if you have how did you get on ??
Any help greatly appreciated.
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OTA will fail if you have rooted. If you want to update to 4.3 then best results come from wiping, format internal storage then flash MK6 via odin.
My SGH-I337 (ATT GS4) has been rooted for a month or two now but lately it's been having issues so I tried to restore it to stock. But, I manually removed the root via SuperSU so I would be able to update to 4.4 (I've been stuck on 4.2.2 because I was never notified 4.3 came out). Every time I update OTA it fails at 25%, so I tried via Kies. My firmware isn't even supported to update like that. I tried unrooting with Odin but that also didn't work. I've restored it to factory settings now, but the boot image still says custom and I can't use Yellow Triangle because that doesn't support locked AT&T basebands (which I read is unfixable). Is there ANY way I can fix this and get 4.4????
TL;DR
My phone is too rooted to OTA update but not rooted enough for Odin to work and I want KitKat
ghdawg6197 said:
My SGH-I337 (ATT GS4) has been rooted for a month or two now but lately it's been having issues so I tried to restore it to stock. But, I manually removed the root via SuperSU so I would be able to update to 4.4 (I've been stuck on 4.2.2 because I was never notified 4.3 came out). Every time I update OTA it fails at 25%, so I tried via Kies. My firmware isn't even supported to update like that. I tried unrooting with Odin but that also didn't work. I've restored it to factory settings now, but the boot image still says custom and I can't use Yellow Triangle because that doesn't support locked AT&T basebands (which I read is unfixable). Is there ANY way I can fix this and get 4.4????
TL;DR
My phone is too rooted to OTA update but not rooted enough for Odin to work and I want KitKat
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Hello all, I did a quick search and found nothing new on here.
I have a Vz I545 4.3 (MK2) that I rooted years ago. I never got the OTA update to 4.4.2 because I was rooted.
It asks everyday and I just tell it later.
I am ready to wipe my phone and install 4.4.2 (hopefully rooted).
Hoping its fairly easy. Any help appreciated.
It's as easy as downloading the nc2 or nc5 full wipe tar file to flash through Odin. After that you just need to download towelroot, selinux changer, and Safestrap 3.72/3.75 then you're good to go!
[Q] Is there root process for I337UCUFNJ5?
Hello,
Recently there was a firmware OTA sent out from ATT for the Galaxy S4 SGH-I337.
Prior to this I rooted the phone using towelroot.
Of course after the update I lost my root and now I want to root it again!
Will I have to reflash an older firmware (NJ4) or does anyone know of a process to root this current firmware NJ5?
I took the update also. Lost root. I then used Odin to flash the I337_NC1_Stock_Kernel. Have Towel root v3 on phone before flashing since I lost wifi and data after the flash. Run towelroot and its rooted. Then odin I337_NJ4_Stock_Kernel on. Its rooted. Use Titanium to stop update of NJ5. Until someone figures out how....
Hi there. I just broke my s6 and so had to go back to my old s4, heh. I currently have a rooted OC1, and I was looking at the latest info on available root methods and see that the OF1 can be rooted using kingroot. My phone shows an OTA available but repeatedly fails when trying to update.
My question is, should I try to figure out what is causing the failure, update the "right" way, and then root with kingroot? Or should I just figure out another way to get the update, like I think the old way was to downgrade to OC1, root, then odin the OF1 update. Should I just do that?
This happens when you try to ota on a rom which has root or has been modified. Just dont update it doesnt add any features