4.3 ota update

[GSDer]

If you are not rooted, and therefore backed up with Titanium or the like, setting the phone back it will take forever.

Helium: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup = Titanium for non-rooters

Cloud Drive: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.amazon.clouddrive.photos
Drive Photo Uploader: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mynextandroid.drivephotosync
Dropsync: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync
are all methods to backup your pictures/videos to the cloud.

Kies software = method to backup your SMS/MMS (only way to handle MMS that I've found), pictures/videos, call logs and TouchWiz settings (most of them anyway).

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[GSDer]

Can someone give a link so I can manually install the 4.3 update

I can't find this mysterious update file. I haven't INSTALLED the OTA, but I've downloaded it and deferred it and can't find any trace of it.

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[curley]

I can't find this mysterious update file. I haven't INSTALLED the OTA, but I've downloaded it and deferred it and can't find any trace of it.

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You haven't found because no one has hacked it yet.

The update came with Knox and a locked boot loader. Other Samsung phone with Knox have berm able to root but with a locked boot loader. Every attempt developers have made on the d2vzw has caused a hard brick. Nonrecoverable.

Keep an eye on xda as donations have been given to beanstown to get another d2vzw an attempt to release a rom with out Knox.

Vzw and Samsung locked this one down and from what I saw, they did not release the firmware to anyone yet.

However, you can flash the update modem/radio without any issues.

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[GSDer]

curley,
Thanks for your response. However, I wasn't looking for an XDA version of the update - I was looking for the actual update.zip file that makes up the OTA. The person I was responding to wanted the file so that he could manually update a phone that currently isn't activated.

Anyway, I couldn't find the file because it's placed in the /cache directory, and I couldn't see it. Rooted the phone; found the file; made a copy; sent it off; reloaded stock unrooted (just because). Problem solved.

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[GSDer]

eibbed0001,
Please don't double post - it just leads to extra work. I already replied to your original post in the other thread.

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[krustybaguette]

Ug! I just did the OTA update and I had Root Keeper installed. I didn't find out till afterward that root keeper doesn't work with 4.3.
Is this the forum to watch if someone finds a way to re-root a 4.3 i535?

From the xda forums you'll find that you can re-root using "saferoot" But if you have the 4.3 OTA update you're stuck there with no possibility of recovery and new ROMs. Touchwiz 4.3 (VRUCML1) update discussion thread - xda-developers

 

[MrDoh]

Turns out that safestrap has been made to work now, so it's likely that even if you took the OTA you will be able to install ROMs:

How-To Safestrap (Updated for v3.04) | Hash-of-Codes