I've rooted a few phones in the past and what i tend to avoid is overwriting the stock recovery because i still want to be able to update ota the phone in the case that i want to and so far i haven't seen any tutorial on how to do that for the lg g4 .
Thanks in advance.
-Keith
Yes, you can install root without a custom recovery. You can backup the existing recovery and install a custom recovery by using fastboot. So even if you install a custom recovery, you can return to stock. A custom recovery just makes fixing a broken phone easy.
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I'm thinking about unlocking the bootloader of my Moto X and I have a few questions. I hope you guys can help me.
1. At the moment I'm using PwnMyMoto, which means I dont have the stock recovery. Will this be a problem to unlock the bootloader using 'Motorola website' method? i.e. is this method stock recovery dependent? Do I have to go back stock using RSDlite first?
2. After unlocking the bootloader I will probably install a custom recovery (maybe TWRP). As far as I know, when using a custom recovery we should not install OTA, right? It will bootloop. Can anyone confirm this?
3. When using TWRP, is it possible to flash a ROM using RSDlite and keep the custom recovery? i.e. only flash system. This way I could backup my actual ROM before I flash the new one, and if anything goes wrong I can restore it.
Thank you all!
xitake said:
I'm thinking about unlocking the bootloader of my Moto X and I have a few questions. I hope you guys can help me.
1. At the moment I'm using PwnMyMoto, which means I dont have the stock recovery. Will this be a problem to unlock the bootloader using 'Motorola website' method? i.e. is this method stock recovery dependent? Do I have to go back stock using RSDlite first?
2. After unlocking the bootloader I will probably install a custom recovery (maybe TWRP). As far as I know, when using a custom recovery we should not install OTA, right? It will bootloop. Can anyone confirm this?
3. When using TWRP, is it possible to flash a ROM using RSDlite and keep the custom recovery? i.e. only flash system. This way I could backup my actual ROM before I flash the new one, and if anything goes wrong I can restore it.
Thank you all!
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1. Fastboot the stock recovery. You will likely have problems unlocking as it performs a factory reset.
2. Don't take OTAs with a custom recovery. You will bootloop. Wait for a flashable zip or fastboot back to stock to get the OTA.
3. You flash ROMs in recovery. You shouldn't need to use fastboot (or rsdlite) unless you want to return to stock or you run into serious phone issues.
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So I have a T-mo rooted Nexus 6 running stock rom and kernel presently. I would like to decrypt the phone as I've heard/read I will see an improvement in both performance and battery life. So first question is what would be the best/easiest method to do this and second will I lose root and have to re-root after decrypting. Thanks in advance for any help.
Basically you will have to flash a different boot image that disable the encryption flag.
This will require you to completely wipe your device and start over. Yes, you would have to re-root but if you know how to flash a stock no-encrypt image then rooting is easy and simply requires you to flash the current SuperSU zip from recovery once you are all set up.
Basically follow the long version of this guide. Technically you don't need to flash completely stock and couold just follow the guide in the next section but if you have to factory reset anyway I would want to start fresh:http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-flash-factory-images-nexus-6shamu-t2954008
But use this no-encrypt boot image instead that matches the stock google rom you flash:http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/disable-forced-encryption-gain-root-t2946715
Once that is done you can flash recovery (or simply boot into TWRP temporarily if you want to keep the stock recovery) and flash Supersu.zip from here and then you're rooted again. I think you could also flash TWRP in the first step above when you are going back to stock but I usually do it at the end for some reason:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Thank you so much
I was wondering if this would be possible:
Use Recovery to flash a rooted stock Lollipop system partition, then flash everything else from stock FTF, but skip system. This would overwrite the (currently useless) recovery with stock content, but you'd be rooted.
Forgive me if that's what the current method does. I'm trying to avoid a compromised/non-functional/boot-looping recovery if the current method installs one, but if the recovery in that method simply overwrites itself with stock then I'm fine with that. I just don't understand what's installed in the recovery sequence when you finish following the current method on a LB device.
i dont think it will be possible since sony is really good at patching holes in their system
I've tried, it doesn't work.
Is it possible to flash a stock recovery img via Flashify or do you have to do a total stock restore via TOT or KDZ method to get stock recovery back?Ive googled so much im getting the looks like automated traffic message from google and i still cant find the answer.I rooted stock 27A via stump root and installed twrp via AutoRec.Ive successfully flashed several Roms and am currently back on my rooted stock nand.
What I'm trying to do is flash stock 27A recovery back so i can OTA to lollipop.Ive modified no other system files in my stock nand other than root and obviously TWRP.Theoretically i should be able to restore stock recovery and thus gaining the ability to take the OTA.
Im aware of the various other methods to do this ,I'm only interested in whether i can flash a stock recovery img via flashify and if so does anyone have a copy they'd be willing to share?Im not a noob by any means but LG is a new area for me.Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Hi , i want root and install twrp but , can i , after unlock bootloader ,install twrp and root my device restore it later with stock firmware/recovery/rom/bootloader?
And how backup stock fw/bootloader/recovery from my unrooted device?
It's possible. I think you should do this... Before rooting, if you have not already done that, in TWRP, don't allow system modifications when it boots up. Then make a full backup(which is your stock rom unrooted) and save it. Then even after rooting, coming back to stock would just need a reflash in TWRP.