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Root It's time for a new game called: WILL IT BREAK ROOT?

Apparently you cannot update unless you unroot first (according to folks on the xda developers Epic forum). The update will fail every time if you try to do it while rooted. According to at least one person there, the update does not kill the ability to root the phone again afterwards.
 
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Apparently you cannot update unless you unroot first (according to folks on the xda developers Epic forum). The update will fail every time if you try to do it while rooted. According to at least one person there, the update does not kill the ability to root the phone again afterwards.

I'm seeing reports that root is fine for this update. Here is a good post for anyone that's worried about this stuff due to meddling...

Update D107 goodness :) - xda-developers
 
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Apparently you cannot update unless you unroot first (according to folks on the xda developers Epic forum). The update will fail every time if you try to do it while rooted. According to at least one person there, the update does not kill the ability to root the phone again afterwards.


I did the OTA update while I was rooted, zero problems, didn't unroot - the only issue I ran into was one of my own stupidity playing with the wifi tether.
 
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