yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
Oh, I didn't know that.

Update always failed on my RAZR M if I didn't unfreeze bloat, so I thought there must be some checksum stuff going on that fails if bloat is frozen.

It was kind of a pain. I'd frozen a ton of bloat. Had to make a list in Notepad of everything and then went in and refroze it. Guess I should have tried it first before going through all that trouble!
[Droid Ultra General] kanagadeepan:
^^^^^

I have tried this on OG RazrMAXX. I have freezed bloat on GB. Got ICS OTA and got updated without any issue. The new apps are also frozen, if I remember correctly.

Don;t know it has changed on KitKat though...
[Droid Ultra General] spiral777:
Titanium backup >batch actions >defrost all user apps & system data

Such magic :)
[Droid Ultra General] ikirilenko:
Root unlocked droid maxx

Root unlocked droid maxx

after OTA update lost root.

How to root it again?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2645122 refer to this thread

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Yes
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
How do you regain root after using HouseofMoto then?
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Depends are u locked or unlocked. If your locked you can't. If your unlocked twrp installs root.
[Droid Ultra General] danger2u:
i just want u let know that is posibile DOWNGRADE from 19.6.3 update soak test to 4.4 19.5.3
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Yes it is but you can't root 4.4
[Droid Ultra General] sllab:
I'm currently on a stock rooted Droid Maxx, if I take this OTA will I lose root?

I've been trying to follow this thread for the answer, but I'm still unsure.
[Droid Ultra General] danger2u:
do u have bootloader unlocked?
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
You will lose root locked or unlocked however if your unlocked you just re root. If your locked your screwed.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Respectfully, that's not true. I am unlocked and rooted. Took the update and didn't have to re-root. Also there have been several reports of locked rooted users retaining root. Most said they used survival mode in super user. Not sure if that's even necessary. But better safe than sorry in that regard.

Sent From Droid Ultra

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[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
I didn't lose root

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Sorry my bad I was thinking of the 4.4.2 update that I did on my wifes razor m she lost root
[Droid Ultra General] MArtyChubbs:
Cause there is no known vulnerability allowing root access that exists with 19.5.3, thus 19.6.3 wouldn't patch a vulnerability disabling root access?
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
There actually is a vulnerability, but it hasn't been publicly released. Jcase rooted the Moto X on 4.4.2, but it doesn't disable write protection so its basically useless to the average user. He stated he will be releasing details on the bug in August at Blackhat but will not be making any exploits, that's up to someone else.
[Droid Ultra General] greged01:
Helo

I tried to download from the links and it says the there is no items there having the same problem with MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk/odex
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Sorry. I had taken them down to make room for other things. Here you go

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3kcx2uksjr6wai/MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ci5357yavcnr73/MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] greged01:
Help

Thanks would you have a copy of the VzwEntitlementService.Apk and Odex those files are missing as well?? Thanks
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lt840y6d7781e88/VzwEntitlementService.apk

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2xej4dgawlouab2/VzwEntitlementService.odex

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] livinitwarrior:
I heard that doing this caused you to retain root, but lose the Write-protection off????
[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
I just tried Root Explorer, did "Mount R/W" on /system, and was able to copy files into it. So write-protection is still off. :good:
[Droid Ultra General] livinitwarrior:
And your boot loaders locked?
[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
Yes, unfortunately, my bootloader is locked.
[Droid Ultra General] livinitwarrior:
Huh, I'd heard locked and updating you would keep root, but lose writing ability (ie no xposed). Since we have no real rooting ability for this update, I'm still wary. I love xposed
[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
Sure glad I didn't lose write ability, I would have been pretty upset if that happened! I don't know why the update would behave differently on two different devices, but you never know.
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
I could be wrong but I think that was on the Moto X update to 4.4.2. Everyone was able to retain root but there was no way to update without losing write protection off. That may happen if/when we get 4.4.2 but this patch is still 4.4.
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
If your rooted you can use ota snatcher from the Play Store. This will make a copy of the ota when it downloads on your phone
[Droid Ultra General] s_u_n:
Unfortunately, I am not rooted.
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
If I'm not mistaken, I think it goes to the cache folder on the root of the internal memory.
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Root filesystem is still readable, you just can't write to the root directory. You can still use a file viewer to copy the file from the cache to a folder in your regular storage space or something then upload it from your phone or transfer to computer and upload.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
This is simply for my own knowledge, because I am not part of the soak test, but what do you mean when you say it's in the cache? What's the difference between cache and other storage? (Apologies for noob-level questions)
[Droid Ultra General] destes37:
The file needs copied from cache before installing the update, correct?
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Yes if you update it erases the ota when finished.
[Droid Ultra General] destes37:
Great, I will neither confirm nor deny that the file will become available shortly after soak is rolled out to my phone... ;)
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Similarly, [MENTION=3423955]destes37[/MENTION] can you neither confirm nor deny having received the invite? It's been widely reported but no one has "neither confirmed or denied" getting an email that I can find.
[Droid Ultra General] destes37:
Yes sir, I can neither confirm nor deny receiving said soak test invite. :good:;)
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Well, very glad to not hear anything from you. ;) Hope to hear from you in the near future!
[Droid Ultra General] gfullwr70:
I can neither confirm nor deny that " I got left out this time " I got invites the last 2 times. Weird!!!!
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
If you use a file Explorer and navigate to the root of your internal storage, there is actually a folder labeled "cache" where the OTA downloads to temporarily until the phone reboots to recovery for installation.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
That's an excellent explanation, now I've learned at least one thing today!
[Droid Ultra General] destes37:
I will neither confirm nor deny that I received the "soak test starts tonight email" ;)
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
I'm somewhat disappointed that I wasn't included in this one. I have been in all the ones before this and for my RAZR maxx

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
If I could thank you 10 times for this comment I would...hypothetically...if the comment actually existed...
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Awwww yisss
[Droid Ultra General] dxl880517:
We all count on you now. Sir:p
[Droid Ultra General] Jimmy8881:
Woot!
[Droid Ultra General] hectorcde:
I have receive the OTA update notification few days ago, but when I tried to update and install it, it kept rebooting all the time. I made a backup before because i rather predicted that, so i went back to the way i had. But OTA notification keep poping everyday.

What should I do?it has that problem due to a unlocked and rooted device? I have de DEV EDITION DROID MAXX.

As far i red in this post the update doesn't do a sh...So why should I update?

But is kinda annoying to receive every day that notification.
[Droid Ultra General] almondman1:
Go to apps and disable Motorola Ota, this worked for me.
[Droid Ultra General] teerout:
i took the update a few days ago, im not rooted or unlocked. my problem was with a particular program. ive been playing The Respawnables, run and gun shooter. since taking the update it doesnt launch properly. it hangs on the loading screen. i can leave it for maybe 10 minutes and finally it loads. i may have figured out a work around by launching the game from the play store, it seems to load normally. just FYI for the community.
[Droid Ultra General] contesauce:
I had stupid battery drain on this update. WiFi disabled and then GPS kept asking be turned on and irritated me so I just flashed back to before the update.

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Also I am unable to disable moto ota, only have force quit option. I guess I'll have to freeze it and rename it.
[Droid Ultra General] fat_tire:
Weather.apk ?

I am unlocked and rooted. Went back to stock recovery hoping to flash the update. Getting a message that unexpected contents were found in the system/priv-app/Weather.apk. I had also restored the tether files and defrosted all the bloat although I may have deleted some that are now still gone.

Any ideas how to get past this?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Replace the weather.apk file

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] fat_tire:
Where can I find the stock version of the file?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Working on it for you

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"

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Try this https://www.dropbox.com/s/kk6cnm42tuyyemo/Weather.apk

Sent from my XT1080M "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] eflowbayboy:
can I or can't I root this ultra from Verizon.

Is this version able to or is it unable to?
[Droid Ultra General] pujdo1:
can someone test the following ?

enable usb debugging in developer options. connect the phone with usb. is mtp and ptp still working ?

disable usb debugging in developer options. connect the phone with usb. is mtp and ptp still working ?

because if i have usb debugging enabled, mtp is no more working. the pc (windows 8.1) is recognizing the phone, but it wont show up the phone in mtp mode. if the usb debugging option is disabled, everything works fine.
[Droid Ultra General] jcase:
http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/orig-development/root-4-4-x-pie-motorola-devices-t2771623

if downgrade works, then this will work for root
[Droid Ultra General] s_u_n:
Can you let me know how you have downgraded on a locked device?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Use rsd light to fxz

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] gotsaved289:
Get rid of update notification

Just an FYI

To get rid of update notification just long press the notification, click App info and uncheck "Show notifications".

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Also there's an app on the play store called Soft Reboot that will restart and keep root.
[Droid Ultra General] gotsaved289:
Can anyone verify if they've gotten the wifi tether method to work using this root method?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2578410

I couldn't get it to work, maybe because of the read/write limitations?

When I'd try step 7 it keeps saying operation failed, I've tried restarting the phone re-rooting and still the process still doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance and thank you jcase for all your work/help!
[Droid Ultra General] CrazyRussianXDA:
If I read the exploit description correctly, the current root method does not give you ability to write to system - hence, you will not be able to replace the file in step 7.

I've used other tether root methods in the past without system write, but it was a while back, and, I THINK, if I remember correctly, it might be possible to make the file modification of system files, but the change will not stick after a reboot. I duno. Someone with he current root will probably chime in with more info.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Not sure if this will work d/t reboots required. I know the mod works perfectly as I'm running it on my unlocked ultra. Worth try......no harm in trying this.

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] bagheadinc:
Using a combination of jcase's Pie exploit and MotoWpNoMo, you can achieve full r/w access to /system. I wrote a quick overview here.
[Droid Ultra General] almondman1:
I have kk 19.5.3 and when I try to apply the OTA 19.6.3 it reboots to twrp over and over. I have a Droid Maxx developer edition with an unlocked boot loader. How can I get the OTA to work?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
You need to use stock recovery

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] almondman1:
I am a newbie could you please give me a little more detail on how to get to stock recovery? I should also mention that I am rooted.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Use this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.recoverytools

To flash this recovery

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mk9rer5r1qxwn0s/recovery.img

To get TWRP back use same app to flash this

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7fsu02asgnseey/twrp-2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4.img

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
Question. Why was it that I was able to update my unlocked rooted Nexus 7 2013 to 4.4.3 without a computer, but my unlocked rooted consumer droid maxx I cannot update to 19.6.3 using similar steps?

I basically just enabled all apps, removed xposed, and flashed update from /cache in TWRP, installed su, done.

Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
[Droid Ultra General] gotsaved289:
can you install this from safestrap?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
No. Use that app I linked. It's the easiest way. Or you can flash it with fastboot

Sent From My Droid Ultra
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Are you neither confirming nor denying that you are currently in the process of downloading?
[Droid Ultra General] dxl880517:
I think he is confirming he is downloading it..
[Droid Ultra General] Jimmy8881:
You got apm
[Droid Ultra General] mikeymax:
Could the soak lock your boot loader back up?
[Droid Ultra General] kanagadeepan:
^^^^

Chance of re-locking BL is very very very less my friend... As only hundred+ users purchased the code and unlocked their phone's BL. It will be a heavy task for Moto to include a s/w with IMEI verification (remember Dev-Edition phones' BL should not be re-locked) and re-locking the BL for non-dev phones. Further we already have BL code.

It was possible for last year Droid_RazrMAXX_HD case, but Moto and Verizon left as it is. So we are almost safe, imho...
[Droid Ultra General] Einsteindks:
I'm looking back to comment on another thread where this is discussed, but got here instead. The radio is most obviously updated, as well as the build date, but the version is still 4.4. It would seem that Big Red snookered us once again. We got a lousy stinking 'patch'. I can say that I'm not even tempted to update the radio from this one.

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.
[Droid Ultra General] dxl880517:
Still 4.4? I cannot even believe how Moto could do this to us. Hope this is not true..

Broken heart...:(
[Droid Ultra General] summer.cat:
did you feel any improvement after update?

could you upload ZIP file with update here?
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
Didn't the moto X get 4.4.2?
[Droid Ultra General] italysfinest327:
has anyone here with an unlocked bootloader and twrp installed tried taking the update? Im in this position and am hesitant to try
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
AOSP 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 are just patch updates anyway. Who cares what they call it if the bugs are fixed? 4.4.2 added no functionality over 4.4.
[Droid Ultra General] summer.cat:
already got! google it)
[Droid Ultra General] Einsteindks:
LOL. Heck no! That's just my opinion there, I intend to keep root, so am avoiding this thing ...and it would seem well justified.

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.
[Droid Ultra General] summer.cat:
:) just read through carelessly))
[Droid Ultra General] kbl1224:
Go ogling and having no luck finding it. Can someone post a link please?

Sent from using XDA Free mobile app
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Does anyone have the new build number? Just out of curiosity.

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I'm not seeing it anywhere else either, but this is probably the first place it will pop up anyhow. I'm curious as to what posts have been deleted here, because a couple are quoted that no longer exist.
[Droid Ultra General] Pacnet_:
?

Apparently one of the soak testers has revealed this:

Blur_Version.9.18.94.XT926.Verizon.en.US.zip is the zip name,

and he said "looking at it, it's 4.4.2".

I don't get it because this appears to be a RAZR HD soak test file from May 10. So this is probably wrong.

You can download it here: http://crackflasher.com/blur_versio...zip-motorola-droid-razr-hd-cdma-livinginkaos/

Do not attempt to use this on your Droid Mini/ultra/maxx/maxxdevedition. This appears to be for XT926 (RAZR HD).

That's still cool. Maybe we will also get 4.4.2. I will post a source if you want.

Sent from my XT1030 (Droid Mini)
[Droid Ultra General] yay pie:
Googling for this turned up someone offering a 497MB file that was posted roughly six hours ago, so there's that.

Edit: yeah I misread where it said XT926, as I used to have a RAZR HD too and forgot I have an XT1080 now.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Yeah, I saw in that posted in the comments on AndroidCentral, but assumed there was some kind of mistake. Probably just confusion because the 2012 lineup of Droids is rolling out their own soak test at the same time?

EDIT: Yeah, it's frontpaging the news section on XDA now
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
I will neither confirm, nor deny, that you are all going to be PISSED. I can confirm that I am lol

If you were just DYING for white icons, I will neither confirm nor deny that you are getting your wish. If you wanted anything else BESIDES an update to the Verizon VM app like I was..................:mad:

I can't believe I reinstalled all the bloatware FOR THIS!!!
[Droid Ultra General] dxl880517:
Is it 4.4.2 or still 4.4?
[Droid Ultra General] gfullwr70:
Has anyone posted the file for our Maxx yet ?
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Neither confirming nor denying that it is still 4.4.
[Droid Ultra General] dxl880517:
Rather disappointed...
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Ditto
[Droid Ultra General] chuck1026:
Sounds pretty meh to me... Good thing the XT1080 is working ok as is.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
David Schuster's previous comments on his G+ page were along the lines of "No, it won't be 4.4.3, but we gotcha covered" as if they'd definitely be moving up to 4.4.2 and hopefully adding some bug fixes to that. This is really disheartening!
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
I have been posting in that thread if this is only a bug fix and is 4.4 his g+ page is going to blow up. As for all this I can neither admit or deny bs either post the update or a screen shot of the about phone or shut up your not helping. O see no proof this is 4.4 and not 4.4.2
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Lol like I have any reason to mislead anybody here. If you don't want to believe me you can wait for someone else to officially confirm it for you, because I will neither confirm nor deny anything ;)
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Then your useless
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
Yeah. I feel like there's actually more interest (on the G+ thread you mention) in the 2013 Droids than the 2012 lineup he was talking about originally. He's gonna have a nice little sh*tstorm on there!

Also, it makes little sense to me that they'd roll 4.4.2 out to the previous year's lineup ahead of 2013--although maybe the work to go from 4.x-->4.4.2 is about the same as it takes to go 4.x-->4.4, so they went ahead and did it whole hog.
[Droid Ultra General] lafont28:
What changes is everyone expecting from 442? Read the changelog for the X update. There are no huge effects. Its basically a bug and stability fix. The biggest change is the radio and we all know that never makes a big difference. Chances are our device won't see any huge updates before its end of life.

Sent from an unlocked and unVerizon'd Droid Maxx
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
The biggest change that I saw was improvements in battery life for a lot of users. 4.4 is notoriously good at burning up battery compared to 4.4.2. So I'd be happy staying on 4.4 if the bug fix that just went out addresses some of those issues. But I'd have more hope for a fix if it were 4.4.2
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Yea unfortunately I don't even think this is a big bug squasher...I doubt there will be any battery life improvement from a change to white icons lol
[Droid Ultra General] gfullwr70:
Can anyone on T-Mobile confirm if this fixes the LTE bug.
[Droid Ultra General] LeoBloom.:
Are there white icons now?
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Lol yes this is stupid at this point. It's a freaking 10mb patch, it changes the status bar icons white, and supposedly fixes some nonsense with exchange regarding an encrypted SD card. I'm not a soak tester so I can't provide a source, so you'll have to take my word for it. Have fun - https://www.dropbox.com/s/wntrzf3urmb833f/update.zip

Make sure you return completely to stock 4.4 before flashing in STOCK recovery, and don't forget to reinstall all the bloat you had uninstalled. It failed for me the first time because VVM was missing when it did a system check.

I will not be held responsible if you don't know what you're doing and somehow figure out a way to brick your device.

Here's your precious screenshot for the cynical people out there who think I have some motivation to mislead everyone into thinking there's white icons when there might not be ;)
[Droid Ultra General] LeoBloom.:
Thank you, I'm actually happy to see they changed the icons to white.

1) All the apps that make the notification bar a gradient looked terrible with blue

2) It looks like they fixed the buggy signal bars - if you look closely you will see that the gray bars are misaligned

http://i.imgur.com/axpO8Gh.png

That 2nd one has been bugging me forever.
[Droid Ultra General] rhouse1983:
soak test

I know everyone's up in a tizzy about this soak test but stop and think about what it is. A soak test. Is it possible that by sending this out then getting feedback they end up NOT sending it out as an actual update then fix a few things and re-send it out? Duh. Didn't another Motorola phone rollout several soak tests before finally sending out the actual OTA? Correct me if I'm wrong on that but the Droid X or the Moto Razr (not HD) they had like 5 different soaks and kept sending out new ones until everything was fixed. It's a soak test for feedback and if there's some mistakes they will fix it. It's not an official OTA. Just breathe. Disappointed? Yes I am too but patience folks.
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Don't get me wrong, it's nice that they fixed the icons, but come on! The older Droids are getting 4.4.2 and we're stuck on 4.4? Seems ass backwards to me lol.

If there were more technical fixes I'd believe this was a good substitute, but it was really just a framework update for white icons as far as I can tell. If I see my battery start lasting until day 2 like it did on 4.2.2 I'll eat crow, but I'm not expecting that to happen.
[Droid Ultra General] toyfj2k7:
I prefer white icons over blue any day.
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
That's what I'm hoping this is. I can't reconcile such a minor update with the previous updates from David Schuster saying they'd be getting 4.4.2. I have hope it'll happen yet, just feeling let down because I thought it was happening now.