[PLUG] Upgrading rooted Samsung Android phone

carl day carl0spamday at gmail.com
Sat Jul 8 05:02:21 UTC 2017


Normally if root android OS is upgraded
ROOT needs to be reloaded. The wiki of keis
sounds like a "sideloading" of the upgraded image.
There is a TWRP version for that phone.
I read XDA and used adb/fastboot when i did my roots.
Most of the "1-click" roots are M$-Windoz based
which i do not trust.

On 7/7/17, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> If you're rooted you can't do it in the usual way (over the air) - if
> you go into System Settings > General > About Device > Software Update
> you get "Your device has been modified, software updates are not
> available,"
>
> According to internet advice you can upgrade a rooted Android phone
> with Kies, a Samsung app normally used to sync your phone with your
> computer. Unfortunately, you must install Kies on a Windows or a Mac
> computer. Just as well - the last thing I'd ever want to do is sync my
> phone with my computer.
>
> My phone is a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (now KitKat 4.4.2), which
> I have loved since I got it three or four years ago. I paid someone $10
> to root it for me because I couldn't figure out how to do it myself.
> Being rooted is great - for example, I uninstalled the texting app so I
> can no longer receive the spam text messages from the carrier (now Metro
> PCS).
>
> If anyone knows how to upgrade a rooted KitKat phone to Lollipop or
> later, I'm all ears. And if no one here knows, maybe this could be
> addressed at the next Clinic.
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