TO ANYONE TRYING TO OTA UPDATE AND IT WON'T TAKE:
If your software version is saying vzc still, and you have made changes to your build.prop. Also, as mentioned below by Mista_J, if you have removed system apps, this will also cause the update to fail. The update checks all of those for integrity.
I changed one thing in my build.prop and it didn't take, changed it back, and whammo, worked well, even being rooted.
Yes, you will lose partial root after the update. The files will still be in place, but you will have to use the ratc method via Short Fuse's Super One Click Root again, to get guid and suid functionality back. Also, you will have to do the su update in Super User, to re-update the su binary.
The only changes I've found so far is an update for the radio (I'm guessing to get the phone ready for the LTE rollout, even though it's still not switched and I'm in a LTE release city), Polaris Office, which I don't recall being there before, and the idiots actually made a /etc/install_recovery.sh, which should have been part of vzc, as far as I can tell.
Here is the recook that bypasses all checks:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ka937078huhovm8
(yes, I'm well aware that this isn't the most secure way of doing things, but it works.. or at least, it should.. lol)
Easy steps:
1) download above and move it to your sd card via an adb push, or simply using an sd card adapter, and rename it to update.zip (however you do it, just make sure you rename it)
2)
a) reboot via adb "adb reboot recovery"
b) reboot via an app such as DroidGrams or ROOT Toolbox Lite
3) let the magick happen! (if it prompts you, tap your home soft-key on 'apply update.zip from sdcard/', and it's obvious from there)
4) (reboot by tapping home on 'reboot system now') play with, and enjoy your updated phone
Hope this helps everyone!
Later folks,
~WickiD~
P.S. Once I figure out the whole 'magick' thing, I may have a working cwr for us! (wow.. this means backtracking about a year and a half to my old moto backflip scripts - they do things very similar..)
If your software version is saying vzc still, and you have made changes to your build.prop. Also, as mentioned below by Mista_J, if you have removed system apps, this will also cause the update to fail. The update checks all of those for integrity.
I changed one thing in my build.prop and it didn't take, changed it back, and whammo, worked well, even being rooted.
Yes, you will lose partial root after the update. The files will still be in place, but you will have to use the ratc method via Short Fuse's Super One Click Root again, to get guid and suid functionality back. Also, you will have to do the su update in Super User, to re-update the su binary.
The only changes I've found so far is an update for the radio (I'm guessing to get the phone ready for the LTE rollout, even though it's still not switched and I'm in a LTE release city), Polaris Office, which I don't recall being there before, and the idiots actually made a /etc/install_recovery.sh, which should have been part of vzc, as far as I can tell.
Here is the recook that bypasses all checks:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ka937078huhovm8
(yes, I'm well aware that this isn't the most secure way of doing things, but it works.. or at least, it should.. lol)
Easy steps:
1) download above and move it to your sd card via an adb push, or simply using an sd card adapter, and rename it to update.zip (however you do it, just make sure you rename it)
2)
a) reboot via adb "adb reboot recovery"
b) reboot via an app such as DroidGrams or ROOT Toolbox Lite
3) let the magick happen! (if it prompts you, tap your home soft-key on 'apply update.zip from sdcard/', and it's obvious from there)
4) (reboot by tapping home on 'reboot system now') play with, and enjoy your updated phone
Hope this helps everyone!
Later folks,
~WickiD~
P.S. Once I figure out the whole 'magick' thing, I may have a working cwr for us! (wow.. this means backtracking about a year and a half to my old moto backflip scripts - they do things very similar..)
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