[Q] Bootstrap Recovery 3, Jelly Bean OTA

[kschang]

Got BR3 installed on the Bionic, though never really used it until I realized I need to get my JB working, and OTA failed because I mucked with the bloatware with TB.

Any way, if I read this correctly (most guides with BR was based on BR1 or 2, and BR3 is completely different, based on TWRP) I have to

1) Backup the stock ROM
2) Setup a new ROM slot in BR3 (probably ROM-Slot-1) which is now setup, but blank and thus unbootable
3) Restore the "backup" (of stock) into this new ROM slot -- so now I have a CLONE of existing stock rom

and I can boot into either one, the clone or the real/original.

But from what I understand about the JB OTA, I CANNOT apply it through TWRP (I tried, won't recognize the file, just gives an error 6), or apparently ANY recovery except factory. But factory recovery failed because my setup is no longer "standard" (I got rid of some bloatware)

So is my only hope now to wipe the whole phone, reset to "stock" ICS, then try to pull the OTA JB or do factory recovery JB install?

Or should I wait for some intrepid hackers to repackage the OTA update into a script that is a bit more tolerate of power users?

And if I want to be intrepid and try, say, CM10.1 unofficial Targa, do I just install that into one of the ROM slots and boot off that, and ignore the JB update for now?

 

[theistus]

Got BR3 installed on the Bionic, though never really used it until I realized I need to get my JB working, and OTA failed because I mucked with the bloatware with TB.

Any way, if I read this correctly (most guides with BR was based on BR1 or 2, and BR3 is completely different, based on TWRP) I have to

1) Backup the stock ROM
2) Setup a new ROM slot in BR3 (probably ROM-Slot-1) which is now setup, but blank and thus unbootable
3) Restore the "backup" (of stock) into this new ROM slot -- so now I have a CLONE of existing stock rom

and I can boot into either one, the clone or the real/original.

But from what I understand about the JB OTA, I CANNOT apply it through TWRP (I tried, won't recognize the file, just gives an error 6), or apparently ANY recovery except factory. But factory recovery failed because my setup is no longer "standard" (I got rid of some bloatware)

So is my only hope now to wipe the whole phone, reset to "stock" ICS, then try to pull the OTA JB or do factory recovery JB install?

Or should I wait for some intrepid hackers to repackage the OTA update into a script that is a bit more tolerate of power users?

And if I want to be intrepid and try, say, CM10.1 unofficial Targa, do I just install that into one of the ROM slots and boot off that, and ignore the JB update for now?

Until they get the root situation figured out with the official update, I would just forego it for now. From what I'm reading on the forums, doing the update could lose your root. Plenty of nice JB roms we can load on the Bionic, we aren't missing much. I even have Google Now running on Eclipse 1.3 ICS.

But yeah, if you wanted to do the update, you'd likely have to uninstall bootstrap/safestrap and do a factory reset on the phone. Unfreezing what you've frozen might work, but others have run into issues due to changes they have made. Worst case scenario, you have to flash it to stock using RSD Lite (which would definitely kill your root) and then updating, but a factory reset should do the job if unfreezing doesn't work. Like I said though, you may lose root in the process, even with SuperSU and OTA Rootkeeper installed and backing up the root.