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How to Install an Android OTA Update Without Losing Root

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Over-the-air updates have long been the bane of many rooted Android users’ existences. It’s an endless battle: installing the update breaks root or won’t flash at all, but everyone wants the latest version of their mobile OS. Thanks to a new tool called FlashFire, the struggle may be over. Android is based on Linux, so Android devices come with a “root” user that functions like the Administrator user account on Windows. By default, Android doesn’t give you access to the root account. Rootin So far, it has been tested extensively on Nexus and Samsung devices, though theoretically it should work on most Android 4.2+ handsets. However, if you’re running a rooted device that’s getting a full version update—from Lollipop to Marshmallow, for example—things may get a little murky. Since there’s no way to root Marshmallow without an unlocked bootloader, you’ll completely lose root access if your device’s bootloader is locked. That’s unavoidable. If you’ve unlocked the bootloader, howe...

How to Install and Move Android Apps to the SD Card

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If you have an Android phone or tablet with a small amount of storage, you probably keep uninstalling apps to make room for other ones. But there is a way to expand the storage of an Android device if it has an SD card slot. By default, Android apps install to your phone’s internal storage, which can be quite small. If you have an SD card, you can set it as the default install location for some apps–thus freeing up space for more apps than you would have otherwise been able to install. You can also move almost any currently installed app to the SD card. Before we start, we should note: running an app off your SD card will almost undoubtedly be slower than running it off the internal storage, so only use this if you absolutely have to–and if you can, try to use it for apps that don’t require a lot of speed to run well. There are a few different ways to do this, and which you use depends on your version of Android and which apps you want to move. Android...