Safe to take OTA on rooted stock N4?

[shobuddy]

I have read conflicting reports and want to be sure. I'm on rooted stock 4.3 w/TWRP. Will the 4.4 OTA work on the phone? Some say its ok and others say I need to be on unrooted stock rom and stock recovery.

 

[Matt_Zenick]

100% safe although it will take away root and you will have to reroot

 

[shobuddy]

100% safe although it will take away root and you will have to reroot

Awesome thanks!

 

[abhishek1317]

Will it wipe the data while rerooting. ?

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[tgp]

I have read conflicting reports and want to be sure. I'm on rooted stock 4.3 w/TWRP. Will the 4.4 OTA work on the phone? Some say its ok and others say I need to be on unrooted stock rom and stock recovery.

In my experience the OTA failed unless I had the stock recovery and was unrooted.

 

[shobuddy]

In my experience the OTA failed unless I had the stock recovery and was unrooted.

Just so I know the risk I'm taking. It fails in what way? Like bootloop, brick fail or just fail error message and phone is still functional?

 

[tgp]

Just so I know the risk I'm taking. It fails in what way? Like bootloop, brick fail or just fail error message and phone is still functional?

It will go about updating, and at some point it will fail. Simply reboot and you're back to where you were before you started. No damage done, other than immense disappointment and a few minutes wasted!

 

[Matt_Zenick]

if it fails just restore a stock rom and you will be good to go to be extra safe backup using titanium backup ten restere to stock then apply the update

 

[shobuddy]

It will go about updating, and at some point it will fail. Simply reboot and you're back to where you were before you started. No damage done, other than immense disappointment and a few minutes wasted!

Cool thanks, then its worth a shot on my rooted phone. If it fails, I'll do it the long way as described by Matt.

 

[CoolBeit]

Let us know if this works. I would expect it to fail with a custom recovery, but I'm interested to find out.

Thanks!

 

[frenziedfemale]

I believe that with 4.3 you needed stock recovery to install the OTA without issue. I was rooted with stock recovery and got the 4.3 OTA no problem, but I lost root. not sure if having twrp will mess you up for 4.4 but thinking it will.

 

[Rizy7]

If you have TWRP then the OTA will work, all that will happen is you will lose root. If you have CWM then the OTA will not work.

 

[dsneedmd]

If your rooted, you should install VooDoo OTA Root restorer before you go to 4.4 then it will restore root automatically after you update. It worked great for me when I went from 4.2 to 4.3.

I believe that with 4.3 you needed stock recovery to install the OTA without issue. I was rooted with stock recovery and got the 4.3 OTA no problem, but I lost root. not sure if having twrp will mess you up for 4.4 but thinking it will.

 

[shobuddy]

If your rooted, you should install VooDoo OTA Root restorer before you go to 4.4 then it will restore root automatically after you update. It worked great for me when I went from 4.2 to 4.3.

It looks like rootkeeper does not support 4.3
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...jectvoodoo.otarootkeeper&hl=en&token=QSUVms2Z

 

[benhmadison]

As long as you have stock recovery, it doesn't matter if you are rooted you will still be able to take the ota. As stated you will lose root and will have to re-root.

Sent from my Nexus 5

 

[shobuddy]

As long as you have stock recovery, it doesn't matter if you are rooted you will still be able to take the ota. As stated you will lose root and will have to re-root.

Sent from my Nexus 5

TWRP recovery should also allow you to take the OTA update. You would just have to reroot.

 

[mr_nobody]

If your rooted, you should install VooDoo OTA Root restorer before you go to 4.4 then it will restore root automatically after you update. It worked great for me when I went from 4.2 to 4.3.

As noted above, that's extremely unlikely...