I'll start by saying I'm quite a newbie to rooting and otherwise tinkering with my phone, but I learn quick so bear with me.
I have a Verizon S4 on 4.3 MK2.
I took the plunge a while back and learned to get rooted out of frustration with all the bloatware eating up storage, RAM, and battery life. From there I used System App Uninstaller and Titanium Backup to go on an all out deleting spree deleting any bloatware I never cared to use or felt safe to delete. My phone ran better and had better battery life than ever. I never got into flashing different ROMs or anything just deleted bloatware, in turn dubbing the phone "custom" per the boot screen.
Word of this new 4.4 KitKat update coming came and like so many I had the itch to update to the hot new OS. Even knowing the update would kill my root I wanted the update. So when I got the word the upgrade rolled out I checked and there it was ready to download. I went thru the "unroot" in my SuperSU app settings and confirmed I no longer was rooted and the OTA update failed. After much research here and on xda I learned even having "unrooted" my Rom was still labeled as custom after deleting all the bloatware (and not backing it up, which is where this is going, again bear with me).
So I went through the process of learning to reflash the stock 4.3 MK2 Rom via ODIN with success. Now here I am back at square one. I can now take the 4.4 update OTA right?
I haven't tried, because honestly now that I know how well my phone ran on 4.3 rooted/debloated, and there is no root discovered for 4.4 yet, and there's no easy going back once you update, and there's been such widespread love/hate for 4.4, I'm not even really that sure I want it now. I think I'm more content to sit tight on an OS I know I can root and make my phone run awesome rather than jump on the unproven newest thing.
So this brings me to my real question. I read everywhere in my research how it's sooooo important to have recoveries/backups made once you root. Why?
It took me some careful research and taking things slow but I really found just reflashing the stock Rom via ODIN to be an easy and slick process for recovering myself back to stock. Why make backups if you can do that?
I've already re-rooted (with Saferoot) since my ODIN reflash. I just want to get some education on before I go debloating again. For the time being I have used the system functions in the app manager to disable all the bloatware and App Freezer to get the few that couldn't be disabled in the app manager.
So school me. What's the big difference between making a backup on your own with say Titanium Backup, and just using ODIN to flash back to stock if need be? Be gentle, like I said I'm kind of a newbie to this just looking to learn...
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I have a Verizon S4 on 4.3 MK2.
I took the plunge a while back and learned to get rooted out of frustration with all the bloatware eating up storage, RAM, and battery life. From there I used System App Uninstaller and Titanium Backup to go on an all out deleting spree deleting any bloatware I never cared to use or felt safe to delete. My phone ran better and had better battery life than ever. I never got into flashing different ROMs or anything just deleted bloatware, in turn dubbing the phone "custom" per the boot screen.
Word of this new 4.4 KitKat update coming came and like so many I had the itch to update to the hot new OS. Even knowing the update would kill my root I wanted the update. So when I got the word the upgrade rolled out I checked and there it was ready to download. I went thru the "unroot" in my SuperSU app settings and confirmed I no longer was rooted and the OTA update failed. After much research here and on xda I learned even having "unrooted" my Rom was still labeled as custom after deleting all the bloatware (and not backing it up, which is where this is going, again bear with me).
So I went through the process of learning to reflash the stock 4.3 MK2 Rom via ODIN with success. Now here I am back at square one. I can now take the 4.4 update OTA right?
I haven't tried, because honestly now that I know how well my phone ran on 4.3 rooted/debloated, and there is no root discovered for 4.4 yet, and there's no easy going back once you update, and there's been such widespread love/hate for 4.4, I'm not even really that sure I want it now. I think I'm more content to sit tight on an OS I know I can root and make my phone run awesome rather than jump on the unproven newest thing.
So this brings me to my real question. I read everywhere in my research how it's sooooo important to have recoveries/backups made once you root. Why?
It took me some careful research and taking things slow but I really found just reflashing the stock Rom via ODIN to be an easy and slick process for recovering myself back to stock. Why make backups if you can do that?
I've already re-rooted (with Saferoot) since my ODIN reflash. I just want to get some education on before I go debloating again. For the time being I have used the system functions in the app manager to disable all the bloatware and App Freezer to get the few that couldn't be disabled in the app manager.
So school me. What's the big difference between making a backup on your own with say Titanium Backup, and just using ODIN to flash back to stock if need be? Be gentle, like I said I'm kind of a newbie to this just looking to learn...
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