cdoria87

I read somewhere today that rooting a droid phone can effect OS updates and other things like that? This is my first smartphone and im just getting a hang of things. But when Android comes up with updates and a new OS will my phone being rooted effect the downloading of this? Or should I unroot my phone?

DragonSlayer95

If you root, you'll hear from many "never ever receive an OTA" main reason it'll break your root and you'll need to root all over again

9 times out of 10 a week after a major OTA for instance firmware or os upgrade there will he a dev that's created or modified a Rom solely for that OTA so root users won't have to unroot to take the update.

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Last edited by DragonSlayer95; October 3rd, 2012 at 04:02 PM.

euph_22

Close. For the last few updates for the Razr, the update broken root but there are easy ways to "save" root and restore root afterwards.

Oh, and I've been running rooted phones since android 1.5, generally with the stock OS. By installing the updates myself, I have generally gotten upgrades weeks before I would have received them OTA.

Last edited by euph_22; October 3rd, 2012 at 04:53 PM.

DragonSlayer95

I'm not familiar with Motorola droids as far as root goes, thought I would throw my input for my experiences with HTC root devices.

Thanks for the correction.

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lunatic59

*moved to Motorola Droid RAZR / RAZR MAXX > RAZR / RAZR MAXX - All Things Root*

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SyrStorm

After flashing a ROM you can still fastboot back to stock and unroot using Matt's utility 1.81. Also, if you use safestrap as a custom recovery, then you can revert back to stock if you made a nandroid, and then you can temp unroot and receive the OS update, and if you want, you can reroot.

Biotic

rooting will stop future OTA updates on stock

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cdoria87

Good stuff. Im a newb to smartphone technology. Is it easy to save the OS updates like you explained? Thanks for your help.