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[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inffy:
You can install OTA updates even with a TWRP installed. You just have to untick the CM Recory option from Settings -> Developer Settings -> CM Recovery

What that does it tells the OTA update not to update your recovery when the option is unticked. If you leave the tick on, then every OTA will relock your bootloader and install CM recovery.

But all in all, OTAs work fine with root + twrp
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott62185:
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Great! Thanks
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrashTestDroid:
That won't let you keep root, though it's easy to flash SuperSU from TWRP after every OTA.

A solution to OP's problem could be SuperSU Pro which lets you keep root even after OTA updates. I haven't tested it yet but the option is there.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blax123:
I unlocked my device, then booted into twrp via adb, then flashed supersu but i have no root. the app is installed but i cannot grand titanium backup for example root rights. so the root process did not worked but why? tried it severall times and downloaded everything from scratch sever times. no chance. help me pls..
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrashTestDroid:
open the SuperSU app, see if it complains about missing busybox or anything
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleemLDJ:
How do I install busybox?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blax123:
Nevermind, I found the solution. I had to disable a Option in SuperSU settings because the CM comes not rooted from out of the box

Sent from my Carbonized Nexus 4
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharp2G:
If I do this, will I lose root upon OTA?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inffy:
No if you have supersu pro installed and have selected the setting to keep root after ota
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quinnaay:
Will towelroot work on this?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Jack of Clubs:
im not sure people have really tried. youre welcome to give it a shot as it says its possibly compatible with everything. but theres already a root method that doesnt require bootloader unlocking and installs supersu which is most peoples favorite root manager.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quinnaay:
Towelroot is incredibly simple I get a little nervous otherwise.. Is there a tutorial on the easy alternative, I only want titanium backup to restore my apps from s4 (considering I can do that)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharp2G:
Where is the option to "keep root after OTA" in SU?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tofuboi01:
I managed to boot the twrp recovery on 4.4.2..but updated to 4.4.4 33R and now it says SU binaries not installed...also cant boot recovery on fastboot as it says need to unlock the bootloader?

Why did update prevent this now?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flame0n:
Did you untick the option to update CM recovery during your update?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tofuboi01:
I didnt untick it no, but i never flashed the custom recovery in the first place as i just booted it up from fastboot on 25R, on 33R however its been disabled and requires unlocked bootloader.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayem_unlimited:
[MENTION=251020]inffy[/MENTION],

Hi,

I unlocked bootloader before installing 22R and updated 25, 30, 33 & 38R with OTA from 'System updates' menu. After 38R i flashed TWRP recovery and rooted my phone without unlocking the phone again & its working fine. Perhaps, the we don't need to unlock bootloader again once it unlocked. Can anyone confirm it??
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amer28:
I was wondering if there is an IRC Channel for the Droid ULTRA?

A place where we can all get together and talk. I do understand that is in part what XDA is here for, but getting answers for quick little question would be a lot painless.

Is there one that.. most people here would know about?
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwanying:
Can anyone extract the watchon remote app for me?

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimC149:
Download it from the Samsung app store.
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5438687:
Hi Guys,

i am from india and recently i have bought factory unlocked Motorola Droid Ultra from USA.

before this one, i was using Motorola Defy Plus with CyanogenMod.

so now i want to install CyanogenMod on Droid Ultra as well.

but before i step ahead and mess up with anything,

i just want to keep a backup file with my self to unbrick my droid ultra in case something goes wrong.

but there was a sbf file (firmware file) for Motorola Defy Plus which we can use with RSD Lite and restore our phone easily.

so my main question is-

Motorola Droid Ultra is a Verizon phone and if i flash latest verizon firmware file from here,

will it lock carrier network to Verizon or not?

if it locks, then is there any patch to unlock it?

and one more question,

as our device supports Moto X firmwares and roms,

can i flash the latest firmware file from here (Android 4.4.2, Blur_Version.164.55.2.ghost_verizon.Verizon.en.US) directly on our Droid Ultra?

will it work or brick?

*Sorry for my bad English.
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmjones2006:
If you have an unlocked bootloader you can flash the moto x firmware, just know that there are certain files that once you flash to 4.4.2, they cannot be downgraded back to 4.4.

As far as flashing the stock Droid Ultra firmware, I do not think that it will relock to the carrier. It is my understanding that the carrier lock is not based on the software but is unlocked on verizon's end.
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5438687:
thanks for your reply... i have downloaded the latest firmware but now can see that Verizon is already rolling out 4.4.4... so i will update it first...
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s_u_n:
I think your 'factory unlocked' phone is carrier unlocked, but the bootloader is still locked.

In that case, once you upgrade to 4.4.4, you won't be able to root since the vulnerability is patched.

So, you have to root before you upgrade to 4.4.4.

You can use a tool called House of Moto to downgrade to 19.5.3 without losing your data. Then you can root.

The site you are using for downloading FXZ is correct.
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5438687:
WTF! you mean to say that i was able to downgrade from (4.4 KK) 19.6.3 to 19.5.3? and can root it on a locked bootloader?
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5438687:
Sadly, yesterday i have updated it to 4.4.4 using OTA. now is it possible to flash 4.4 16.5.3 using that tool?
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s_u_n:
Now, it is not possible since the bootloader itself has got updated in 4.4.4. So, you cannot downgrade.
[Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5438687:
Damn!! When i was on 4.4, everyone told me that 4.4 is not rootable and now after upgrading to 4.4.4, you are telling me that 4.4 was rootable... :'(
[Android General] shaffaf:
What do you guys think
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Coronado is dead:
I see a few kernels 4 cm based roms, but I'd like to keep the stock rom. I am willing to install a new kernel to make it work; does anybody know of a kernel that will allow for display calibration so that I can increase the saturation?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cpspecial:
I've always wished they would include this option in stock Android. I come from a home theater background and wish I could calibrate my screens on my mobile devices. The closest thing I've seen is Cinema mode on the newer galaxies.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] mdamaged:
I know ElementalX and francos kernel, as well as fauxs allow for adjustment, of course you are limited to whatever the app you use can do, for that you can use faux123 KEP, or something a little more advanced such as Voodoo.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] markmcrobie:
I have a 512MB card installed with TomTom map, music, some apps installed, etc.

If I buy a new, bigger card, can I just use the card reader in my PC to cut/paste everything onto my new card, re-insert it into my XDA Mini and it'll all work?

Cheers

PS - can someone recommend me a good reliable place to buy miniSD cards? I'm wary of sites offering very cheap brand name cards (SanDisk, etc) in case they're fakes.

Cheers
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] bilbo_28:
Yes you are correct you can just transfer the data from your old card to a folder on the PC then to the new card with a card reader.

While I was in the UK I bought cards from http://www.photo-scotland.co.uk/ and in the US from Amazon.com.

Hope that helps.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mjl3781:
Why? Okay maybe if they are pushing brand name cards, but why pay more than you have to? I got a 4gb Mini-SD card from the same Chinese shops that makes brand named cards for under $30! Try that at Best Buy. Heck you can not even BUY a 4gb Mini-SD or a 2gb Micro-SD from a big box store. At least none that I have seen. If it is all made in China, why pay the middle man???
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] felipely:
www.newegg.com usually has good prices.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] markmcrobie:
Purely because I've heard horror stories of people losing data from fake cards (mostly on PSP forums)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Menneisyys:
Yes. I've even written a full tutorial on this; see http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=516&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Ryanmt:
I had a fault with a 2gb peak card that it would randomly not be read or corrupt all the data. I swapped it for another and that works fine, ive used cheap brands in the past and this is the only one that ive had thats faulty.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Xoom:
I have heard stories of minsd's in particular that have been "hacked" to display as 4gb cards but only be 2gb while in use. Those of course comes from ebay.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] weezy:
Yes, stick with Newegg.com

I've have actually seen them, a guy tried to sell my the load of mini and micro sd cards. I can tell the firmware were hack, there was no way he had more than a hundred 4gb cards. And if your buying from ebay, buy from someone with alot of postive comments, and stay away from generics.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mueekaa:
I was trying yo follow the instructions on this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2486134

but once I started the process on the device this screen came up, eventually the process fail

heres a picture of my screen now every time I reboot my device.

HELP PLEASE !!!

THANKSSS !!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tkepk181:
What baseband/firmware were you on before? If you had the MJA baseband and firmeware on up you can't downgrade to MF9 firmware
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mueekaa:
Really new on this, I can't recall what baseband was, the phone has the stock room. \

what can i do ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] r0ckstar:
Your odin flashing sequence failed. Repeat the odin flash procedure with that screen up until successful. Make sure you're plugged into at least a usb2.0 port on your computer, and using the original usb cable that came with the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 1monday:
If you're unsure of what baseband you originally had, your best bet is to flash the latest firmware
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
If you can't get the latest tar to install using odin, try to run cf autoroot through odin. It has been known to fix that error,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] daniel4653:
The OP should really come back online and let us know of he has been able to fix the problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] droidtom:
He probably got it fixed or he would still be asking for help. But yeah would be nice to come back and say it's fixed and what he did to fix it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] parcou:
Just got this device and when it sits for a while it begins plays music in the background...puts you in mind of being at a Spa...has water sounds to it. It is the same sound just looping over and over.

I have looked at every setting and options and I cannot find the sound source at all. Does not do it all the time but I cannot track where this sound comes from when device sits for a while...

Sounds crazy but anyone have this experience on new 4.4.2 device?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] kcrudup:
Do you have an alarm set?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] parcou:
No...I use AlarmDroid but not installed yet and none created on device in Alarms
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] 22sl22:
Since you just got this device I take it you're not rooted. Otherwise you could install App Ops via xposed installer and go to Media and control what apps are using Media function of your device (Screenshot is from my Nexus 4 but its the same for the Note, I was too lazy to go get it :p )

Are you sure there's no alarm apps, or maybe live wallpapers? Or maybe if you side loaded an apk then maybe it could be that. I'm just pulling at straws.

Post a list of installed user apps and I'll take a look and see if anything seems out of the ordinary :good:

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[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] parcou:
Thx...I am rooted and opened Xposed and loaded Apps OPS...so I need wait until sound comes back and look under Media to see if something is there?

This is a nice tool iHeart ready always pop-up in notification area when I have not used for days...wonder can this app kill that as well?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] 22sl22:
Yeah, you should see it running under media and then you can just block access.

The same applies to the other heart app you were taking about. You can also block notifications in App Ops. There's also another way to do this. Go to settings-apps, select the Heart one and press the 'show notifications button'
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Well sitting around today I figured I would e-mail samsung about the locked bootloader and how that would eventually kill off sales for those in the know on Modding, development and wanting ultimate control of there device. So I would suggest anyone who cares to should do the same. I think if we show them the love we have for Samsung devices as a community maybe they will rethink their strategy and start giving their fans what they want, and that is options, unlimited options to flash and mod the way we want. I mean heck isn't that what google released android for was to be open sourced. So please take time to send samsung an e-mail and voice your support to stop locking bootloaders and unlock our locked ones, cause we all know it's easier for them to do it and just pass it on to us than for a dev to do it and get nothing but thanks when I reality samsung should send him a check, but we know that won't happen.

UPDATE: Link to online petition below please sign and tell your friends. Also petition is linked to c.e.o. Randall Stephenson @ rs2982@att.com so he will know of every signature we gain. So come on and let's try to get our device the freedom it and we deserve.

https://www.change.org/petitions/at...ootloaders-on-mobile-phones?just_created=true
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] shortydoggg:
Samsung does not insist on locking the bootloaders. The carriers do. That's why both AT&T and Verizon bootloaders are lock, while Sprint and Tmobile and not. AT&T and Verizon's locked bootloaders have not dropped Samsung sales below that rival company, who leaves their bootloaders to be unlocked by the customer on that special webstite, whose sales of their top selling phone are fading based on what I am reading.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Did not know that. you would think samsung would be like "hey att don't do that people want access not restrictions" but like you said if the device is a top seller I guess on their end there is no reason to conform to what smaller groups of people like us think the state of the phone upon release should be. Well I'll send att an e-mail to might not do any good but I would like to try. Again if you support this send them(samsung, att, verizon, etc.) an e-mail and voice your response. Tell them we want freedom not a locked down p.o.s.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Come on folks let's make this happen. Petition linked also to Google and samsung. STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT IT AND SIGN THIS THING. MAYBE IF IF WE STIR UP THE POT WE CAN GET SOME RESULTS. PLEASE DON'T LET MY EFFORTS BE WAISTED FOR NOTHING WE CAN DO THIS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] shortydoggg:
You must be new to this forum. They already have a petition for this, but maybe not to the CEO. It has not accomplished anything.

http://www.change.org/petitions/ran...axy-s5-users-unlocked-bootloader-upon-request

It received less than 500 signatures before there was any root, then once we finally got root, pretty much all support just stopped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Thanks for swift kick in the nuts pal. Lol. New to s5 forum not xda. Well I'm trying spent all day on this so please at least take five minutes to sign it. In the time it takes to post here that's another signature we could have. Even if nothing happens at least pledge to switch to a less b.s. carrier. If anything declining profit margins should have some effect, at least you'd think.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Intub8:
I personally received a cease and desist letter for harassing the ceo's secretary about the locked bootloader on my LG g2. The bottom line is 5% or less modify their phones.1% will actually complain about it and I would bet less than 20% of that 1 percent would actually write a letter. Att doesn't care about the opinions of .20% of its customer base. The only way to get this to work is to unite across all devices with locked bootloader's on at&t.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
So fight back. Sim unlock, switch carriers and stick it to the man. That's the only way I can think of getting our point across, falling short of waiting out your contract or paying ETF's(if u have good credit, I dont.lol). If I have to starting tomorrow I will reach out to other att customers with other models with Locked bootloaders. This needs to happen regardless what majority we are, we spent damn hard earned money for open source OS not a closed one and why should it be left up to someone here on xda or another dev site to unlock this mess.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Intub8:
I do stick it to the man, the man keeps giving me free stuff. The last phone I bought was the LG g2. After a few weeks I had a bad pixel so they gave me a brand new note 3. A month after that I talked them into a free galaxy gear. When the boredom kicked in I got "the man" to take the note 3 back and send me a good flex. I sold the watch. In June I once again told them I wasn't happy with the flex so they told me to pick any phone I wanted, I chose this phone. Now it is aggravating and I probably wasted hours of my time harassing them but it pays off.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Love it. Take them for all you can cause they sure love to do it to us. Toss your John Hancock on it if you don't mind, I'm not going to admit defeat yet. Tomorrow I will look up att models with Locked bootloaders and try to reach out to their community for signatures.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] nbrent1007:
Who cares at this point. We have root
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
OK smart ass. Get us a custom kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] cmerlyn:
I signed it. Putting in my 2 cents worth; I was the 6th person to sign. And I don't even have an S5 yet, planning on getting one soon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] shortydoggg:
Hey, that was mean, but not enough people are going to care. A lot of people are satisfied just being able to run rooted apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Thank you for your support
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Gonna try. I want locked bootloaders gone for good if you can get one carrier to do it maybe it will be the norm, which I believe is what google intended.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
How you feel toward att? Me.........
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
E-mail I just got from samsung tech support
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] drock212:
This is all on the AT&T end of things. If they could come to an agreement to have something similar to what HTC has where you go to their website and agree to void your warranty then the site unlocks it that would be great. We need to put pressure on AT&T for something like that as it would not cause them to lose money or their government contracts. But like someone stated earlier our demographic is so small that they don't care. Normal people just care that their phones work and can take good pictures. I can tell you that back when the Motorola atrix came out there was a petition to also unlock the bootloader it got tons of signatures and even the attention of Motorola and AT&T enough so that they issued a statement that they would provide a solution to the locked bootloader and guess what, the solution never came but we did get their attention so it is possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Yea I'm kinda feeling the blues I come from a galaxy S4G from t-mobile they jacked up my bill so I jacked there phone. I quit paying for it ( the contract that is, bad credit here. can't wait for that financial system to crash) and did a network unlock and threw it on sprint prepaid. After that I learned what little I know about root, roms, and flashing. I've made a few themes for the S4G with u.o.t. but that's neither here nor there.

Now I move on and wouldn't you know the second smart phone I have ever had is locked down like a terrorist in Gitmo (I mean sheesh even they get light 1 hour a day).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Russ77:
bloody hell...

1. petitions don't work. this is coming from the guy who's approach was the premise for the at&t and vzw petitions.

2. at&t and vzw mandate the locked boot loader, NOT Samsung. they do it because of $. NOT because of their stupid services or apps or search hits or whatever tinfoil hat speculation prevails this week. they do it to minimize warranty claims. you buy from the carrier and the carrier bears the warranty costs.

3. point 2 is best evidenced by the significant increase in "halp I froze/deleted/modified/tweaked/xposed a bunch of stuff and Noe my phone doesn't wurk right" or "bad user experiences after root" threads. root didn't do this to your phones, you did. good thing these mods probably tripped the Knox counter or we'd all be paying that cost in the S6...

4. if you got the phone on a 2 year contract or a next plan, you did NOT buy the phone, you are basically financing or leasing it. up until that point that its paid off, its not yours to do as you wish.

5. if aosp/cm/aokp/pa/countless other baked/tweaked/modified/themed Roms is your thing, do your research and find out if the phone you want is unlocked or unlockable.

5a. aosp base Roms are nowhere near as good on a Samsung device as they are on a nexus device, too many other closed source or proprietary things going on with Sammy's. this isn't a knock against our developers, they are pretty freaking awesome for being able to reverse engineer this stuff well enough to get a working ROM. nexus is better though because it was BUILT for that.

6. carrier bloat can be frozen on an unrooted device., plain and simple. the stuff is there but you're not forced into using it, you can freeze it from the app drawer in about 30 seconds in one shot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
..l.,
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] GDofWR420:
Sent this out today. To the C.E.O. Randall Stephenson
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] bertoteo:
unlock bootloader g870a

Any news?

I probably have a bootloader with some problems: any codes provided by paying websites won't work, won't unlock sim for other countries. I'm stuck
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] darthmalus:
It's 2016 and those of us with an at&t branded device are never going to see root or a bootloader unlock. Your best bet is to buy an unlocked t-mobile or a SM-900m model they will both work on at&t and the bootloaders should be unlockable.