Root [Virgin Mobile] Android 4.4.2 VM SPH-L710

dennytechno · May 31, 2014

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I'm unrooted, on stock, still waiting.

jdsingle76 · May 31, 2014

dennytechno said:
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I'm unrooted, on stock, still waiting.

It's not available to anyone on Kies yet. And it appears to be going out at random

SpecialKeezie · May 31, 2014

Well i still have Kit Kat on my phone, and it's working fantastically. I already had everything taken care of before Britton posted the SD fix unfortunately, but i'm glad others found it helpful!

The only thing i did differently was NOT flash the rom from XDA. i just installed the tar, philz recovery, and did a factory reset from recovery for good measure. once i had it up and running, i restored some of my apps with Titanium backup and everything is working beautifully

The only issue i'm still having is sometimes GPS has a hard time locking onto me, but it usually corrects itself after i back out of navigation and click back onto my route again. this was not an issue before the update

other than that, i'm very happy i took the plunge, and i hope this helps others who may have had issues after flashing the deodexed rom from XDA

vinnievegas · May 31, 2014

Im on stock 4.1.2 mg2 with philz recovery and rooted. Do I need to be unrooted and have stock recovery to get the 4.3 update that keeps popping up on my phone? I want to also be able to update to 4.4 when it notifies me as well. If I do need to be unrooted and stock recovery, how do I unroot and how do I get stock recovery back? And Is it possible to get philz recovery and root again once 4.3 and 4.4 have been applied to my phone via ota?

Thanks

macknificent1 · May 31, 2014

vinnievegas said:
Im on stock 4.1.2 mg2 with philz recovery and rooted. Do I need to be unrooted and have stock recovery to get the 4.3 update that keeps popping up on my phone? I want to also be able to update to 4.4 when it notifies me as well. If I do need to be unrooted and stock recovery, how do I unroot and how do I get stock recovery back? And Is it possible to get philz recovery and root again once 4.3 and 4.4 have been applied to my phone via ota?

Thanks

You can just grab one of the flashable zips for 4.3 but for the 4.4 update, if you want the ota, you need the stock recovery.

vinnievegas · Jun 1, 2014

macknificent1 said:
You can just grab one of the flashable zips for 4.3 but for the 4.4 update, if you want the ota, you need the stock recovery.

Im using this one and keeps failing!

macknificent1 · Jun 1, 2014

vinnievegas said:
Im using this one and keeps failing!

There is an option that says something like don't allow old binaries or something like that. Make sure that option is not checked off and it will allow the zip with no problem. I used to have the same problem lol.

vinnievegas · Jun 1, 2014

macknificent1 said:
There is an option that says something like don't allow old binaries or something like that. Make sure that option is not checked off and it will allow the zip with no problem. I used to have the same problem lol.

in odin??

macknificent1 · Jun 1, 2014

vinnievegas said:
in odin??

in phil'z recovery

vinnievegas · Jun 1, 2014

macknificent1 said:
in phil'z recovery

I used the stock 4.3 recovery with odin and it worked. After I successfully upgraded to 4.3 I had a notification of a system update. I assume this was the update to 4.4.... I chose to install the update and my phone rebooted to install the update but immediately it gave failed message and rebooted back into 4.3... Now I don

jdsingle76 · Jun 1, 2014

vinnievegas said:
I used the stock 4.3 recovery with odin and it worked. After I successfully upgraded to 4.3 I had a notification of a system update. I assume this was the update to 4.4.... I chose to install the update and my phone rebooted to install the update but immediately it gave failed message and rebooted back into 4.3... Now I don

vinnievegas · Jun 1, 2014

jdsingle76 said:
Yep, you sure are... For now anyway. Until you flash back to stock and stay that way

I am stock.

jdsingle76 · Jun 1, 2014

vinnievegas said:
I am stock.

So you flashed mk5 tar, got the 4.3 update via ota, and then it said you had ANOTHER update, and you tried flashing it, and it failed? That's strange. Something didn't download to your phone from the 4.4 OTA then. Maybe try a factory reset and see if the update notification comes back?

jdsingle76 · Jun 1, 2014

And I'm assuming no one has gotten it through Kies yet?

vinnievegas · Jun 1, 2014

vinnievegas said:
Im on stock 4.1.2 mg2 with philz recovery and rooted. Do I need to be unrooted and have stock recovery to get the 4.3 update that keeps popping up on my phone? I want to also be able to update to 4.4 when it notifies me as well. If I do need to be unrooted and stock recovery, how do I unroot and how do I get stock recovery back? And Is it possible to get philz recovery and root again once 4.3 and 4.4 have been applied to my phone via ota?

Thanks

jdsingle76 said:
So you flashed mk5 tar, got the 4.3 update via ota, and then it said you had ANOTHER update, and you tried flashing it, and it failed? That's strange. Something didn't download to your phone from the 4.4 OTA then. Maybe try a factory reset and see if the update notification comes back?

I quoted my first post so you would know what's going on.

moonknightus · Jun 1, 2014

vinnievegas said:
I quoted my first post so you would know what's going on.

Custom recoveries can't flash stock OTA's. You'd need to be on stock recovery to flash the OTA update.

vinnievegas · Jun 1, 2014

I used this [FULL RESTORE][TAR] Stock MK5 Odin FLASHABLE [4.3] - xda-developers to get to 4.3... it was the only way I knew of to get stock recovery back.

jdsingle76 · Jun 1, 2014

moonknightus said:
Custom recoveries can't flash stock OTA's. You'd need to be on stock recovery to flash the OTA update.

That's the thing. If he flashed that tar, he was on stock recovery.

moonknightus · Jun 1, 2014

jdsingle76 said:
That's the thing. If he flashed that tar, he was on stock recovery.

Sorry, read 'flashed tar' as 'flashed zip.' My bad. LOL too much staring at XML files...

sean19661 · Jun 2, 2014

I wonder if he can't get the update if Knox has been triped

6burgh · Jun 2, 2014

Got my notice this morning. Of course it failed. Do i need to just unroot my phone or do i need put the knoxed version of 4.3 on before hand?

peter counias · Jun 2, 2014

You need the stock recovery system !! The update will uproot your phone !!
it might be best to run the full tar file threw Odin !!

jdsingle76 · Jun 2, 2014

peter counias said:
You need the stock recovery system !! The update will uproot your phone !!
it might be best to run the full tar file threw Odin !!

Tar hasn't been captured yet that I know of. Not showing up on Kies.

peter counias · Jun 2, 2014

I know I was saying to get back MK5 !!

jdsingle76 · Jun 2, 2014

peter counias said:
I know I was saying to get back MK5 !!

Ahhh got it. My misunderstanding.

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