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[Q] How do I remove update notification after manual JI6 update?

I got the OTA notification letting me know an update was available. I ignored it because after reading about all the horror stories here on XDA I didn't want to have a bricked phone. So I went ahead and successfully applied the JI6 update manually using Mini Kies as described on Samsung's website. However, I still get the update notification like before! How do I get rid of it?

I couldn't find a way to get rid of it, so I just ran it and planned on having to redo the update via odin. It applied just fine however.

Interesting. One of my theories is that I could go ahead and apply the OTA but when it downloaded and did a check against the current version it would give up and move along. Do you think that's what happened? How long did the "update" take? Did you notice a new update.zip file or other telltale signs it attempted an update? Were you rooted?
Thanks!
Sean

Just go ahead and do the update, it will download it but won't actually update because it will determine you are on the latest version. Then the message won't appear anymore.
I updated mine via Odin, then click on Update on the OTA notification, and it did not do a full update (much too quick and did not lose root, like I did when I Odin it).

I was bugging out over the same question... but the notification seems to have gone away out of the blue (took between 4 and 5 days).
I may have accidentally missed the 'postpone' button and applied at some point... can't be totally sure... but it's possible the notification will eventually just go away...
anyway it's comforting to hear nothing bad happens =). Thanks for asking the question!
[EDIT]: The icon will deceptively disappear then reappear, apparently. Applied the update this time. It rebooted the phone and appears to have done no damage. Phone is still rooted with RyanZa's OCLF.

It appears mine went away mysteriously as well. I did say postpone 1 day, but it still had the notification in the top with a little clock next to it. When I woke up this morning, it was gone. Thanks for the answers everyone!

Verizon G tab and root question

Hey guys,
quick question. I just picked up a G tab and used Z4 root app. My problem is, everytime I shut off the unit and power it on, for the next use, I lose root and app downloaded apps are gone. Is this a known issue or is there something specific I need to do?

Well maybe you did temporary root ?
I know for a certain fact that after JM6 the z4root wouldnt work well, you might wanna give a go at SuperOneClick.

sedde said:
Well maybe you did temporary root ?
I know for a certain fact that after JM6 the z4root wouldnt work well, you might wanna give a go at SuperOneClick.
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I try the Z4 multiple times and it was the permanent root option.
Right now it's 100% stock. Where can I get the Super One click?

I just re-booted my VZW Tab and it was rooted with Z4 and it seems to be permanent here. Not sure why yours would not be. Mine is completely stock with root.

siafu said:
I just re-booted my VZW Tab and it was rooted with Z4 and it seems to be permanent here. Not sure why yours would not be. Mine is completely stock with root.
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Yeah I don't get it at all. The Z4 root app disappear from my list and the new market I installed disappears as well. I have to reinstall both after every boot. Does anyone have any ideas what to do?

Breakthecycle2 said:
Yeah I don't get it at all. The Z4 root app disappear from my list and the new market I installed disappears as well. I have to reinstall both after every boot. Does anyone have any ideas what to do?
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I would say you should try a hard reset and re-do it.
SuperOneClicker can be found here in xda.

I can also vouch for Z4 permanent root on the Verizon Tab.

I have a real problem I think. Before I go return it, does anyone have a system dump so I can try and reflash this tab and start fresh? I did a system wipe and now Im getting FC in masses. Nothing stays installed and it keeps asking me to log in after every boot as if I just bought it.

I had a similar problem - I couldn't remove anything I had installed to one point and couldn't install anything new. I ran 'dmesg | busybox grep error' in a terminal on it and had lots of errors on the device used for the /data partition. I had to bring it back to verizon and get it replaced. New tab had been fine since then.
-Dan

Problem With Verizon Galaxy Tab
i am having the exact same issue as well. Seams as anyhting you do, it just goes back to the way it was after a reboot.

dragonfire540 said:
i am having the exact same issue as well. Seams as anyhting you do, it just goes back to the way it was after a reboot.
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So it seems to be a few of us. I guess I'm going back to best buy for a new one.

I ended up returning mine. Best Buy said they've never seen anything like this and there was def something wrong...lol. Really BB?

Editing,,,

Well, it worked flawlessly on my new tab so I guess it was just the defective one. Thanks guys.

OK. I rooted using Z4 I added Rom Manager and some other apps. I wanted to created a back and the tab when back to the original state, I unrooted and uninstall all the apps and rebooted the Gtab but now it bringing back to the with Rom manager FC.... any ideas?
I'm trying to do a hard reset by pressing vol up and power.... it goes into recovery and it stop about 20% I get the triangle imagen and reboots....
Can someone help me to do the right steps?
thanks

I had the issue where rebooting my tab caused everything to revert back to a previous state and giving me various force close messages. This was on a completely stock Verizon tab with no attempts at rooting. I did a full factory reset dozens of times, and every time it went back to a previous state. I posted on here about it a few weeks ago, and no one seemed familiar with the problem. I ended up returning the tab to Best Buy and exchanging it for a new one. No problems since then.

teardropcity said:
I had the issue where rebooting my tab caused everything to revert back to a previous state and giving me various force close messages. This was on a completely stock Verizon tab with no attempts at rooting. I did a full factory reset dozens of times, and every time it went back to a previous state. I posted on here about it a few weeks ago, and no one seemed familiar with the problem. I ended up returning the tab to Best Buy and exchanging it for a new one. No problems since then.
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Exact same string of problems here. I too returned mine and no issues since.

Fascinate Facebook Sync errors

My roommate just got a new Fascinate. I have been trying to get it to sync with Facebook but I get multiple errors. At first it can't login, when I finally get that to work it says it says sync is unavailable. I've seen solutions to this but nothing works or is recent.
I convinced him to get an Android over an IPhone and he is ready to return it. Any ideas?
Edit: He will not root. I am going to try a hard reset tomorrow, but this seems to be a problem with the Galaxy S devices from what I have read in the last few hours.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

Rooting would not help this issue, unfortunately. As far as I know, there hasn't ever been a known fix for this issue. It typically resolves itself within a couple days. Keep in mind that you can always install the Facebook app, and it will sync fine. It just won't sync the Facebook contacts. Once the SNS sync works out its attitude issues, FB contact syncing will work too. Tell him to give it a little time.

So would a hard reset be worth it at all?

I've had mine for a month. The Feeds and updates widget started having issues last week, I think on the 27th. It had worked fine before that. Since then it has been on and off.
You can install the official Facebook app for Android. It looks like it works correctly.

Doubtful. This same problem happened to me after I got a warranty replacement Fascinate. I tried everything, but nothing worked, so I gave up for a while. A few days later, I tried again, and then it synced without any problem.
Btw, the official Samsung Froyo upgrade was just leaked this morning. I can't guarantee that it will fix this issue, but it's worth a shot, and there are other benefits as well. It appears that it's been packaged so that it's installable using the stock recovery, so you shouldn't need to root in order to install it. However, the phone will be rooted as part of the install. You can download it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937237
Just download that zip file to the phone's SD card, boot into recovery (hold power button + volume up + volume down from a powered off state) and flash it from there. Just FYI, if the concern with rooting is about warranty, we have methods of returning the phone to a 100% stock configuration in case you have to do a return or something, so there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

I would have to sneak it by him. I have flashed more roms than I can count on my N1 so I am definitely capable. What are the chances of bricking?
Edit: It looks like I can sneak it by after reading the thread fully. I need to do some research first. I am way too broke to brick a phone.
Thanks for your help btw.

It's almost impossible to brick this phone. As long as you can get into download mode and link it to the ODIN app on your PC, you can restore to full stock configuration. The best ODIN restore to use, should it come to that, is Adrynalyne's complete DI01 restore. It restores the ROM, kernel, radio, and recovery all to bone stock DI05 build. Just make sure that anything you flash from ODIN is done using the PDA button, NOT the Phone button. Using the Phone button will nuke the radio to an unrecoverable state.

I think I've figured it out now. Thanks for your help.

OTA Update Fails

Wtf got the ota update and its starts all good but then it hangs a yellow ! appears.. what can i do? i even did a factory reset i only was rooted and i took care of that.

zero313 said:
Wtf got the ota update and its starts all good but then it hangs a yellow ! appears.. what can i do? i even did a factory reset i only was rooted and i took care of that.
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at least you are getting something OTA

Ditto
Unfortunately, I get the same thing. I was rooted, but I unrooted (not quite as thoroughly as you did, as I only used the "Unroot" option, but we got the same results). Wonder if it is something wrong with the update...

seanfrisbey said:
Unfortunately, I get the same thing. I was rooted, but I unrooted (not quite as thoroughly as you did, as I only used the "Unroot" option, but we got the same results). Wonder if it is something wrong with the update...
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Did you change ANYTHING when rooted? Did you freeze, rename, modify or delete ANY of the files in the original ROM in any way, shape or form?

Same thing here
When I bought this device 3 weeks ago, I rooted it with z4root. Not too long after an update disabled z4root on the tablet.
I thought no big deal, but then today comes and I the OTA update won't work.
Anyone more experienced than me have any ideas of how to get this update applied properly?

Me too. Update failed to install. Not sure why. I have also tried unrooting.

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Did you change ANYTHING when rooted? Did you freeze, rename, modify or delete ANY of the files in the original ROM in any way, shape or form?
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I'm confused, if I froze an application, didn't unfreeze it but did a factory reset...wouldn't that resolve the issue?

ok so i woke up this morning and my a500 notified me the there was an update available so as you can imagine I was very happy to finally have this, so i updated and when it was done it said update successuful but when I checked it still said 3.01......WTF
Not rooted ever..

Those interested in getting back their OTA, properly backing up their original ROMS or restoring them, please follow the tutorials in this thread:
Going back to stock TUTORIAL
Be helpful and provide your firmware if you have a backup so we can build a database for those who don't.
Be sure to report what is working and what is not working for you once you've tried the tutorials!
Unlike the 14 threads on these matter I take the responsibility as OP to upgrade my original post as firmwares and new info becomes available.
Let's create a focused troubleshooting and tutorial thread,
Thanks.

I'm rooted via gingerbreak and the update worked fine while still rooted. It did break root. Just had to re-apply gingerbreak and all is good, back to root with latest update.

gingerbreak worked with official 3.1 ?
it didn't work with 'leaked' 3.1 ?

OTA
Ok after long night and hours of research i found out a lot.
1 if you have modded ad hoc in wpa_supplicant file recover the original file
2 if you have modded the phone.apk and telephoneyprovider.apk to save battery this is the reason why you won't get the update.
i put these files back and instantly got an update, i mean the exact second i set those back
i can't believe this my updates keep failing to install. FING POS i tried everything, factory reset
i have tried everything, even factory reset, it fails while installing after reboot
acer support are a bunch of retards, they don't even know they sell tablets????????
need help i can't upgrade, it fails every time
does anyone know where the install logs are

the log is \cache\recovery\last-log

Oklahoma City, OK noon CST
First attempt failed:
Changed the wpa_supplicant back to original and all went smooth the second time

I never changed anything and it failed.
**Edit: I rebooted my devices and left it completely alone after unzip and it rebooted into recovery mode and seems to be installing **

I had the same problem, It was pretty disheartening.... but I unrooted my device, re-booted and tried again and SUCCESS!!!
But now I can't get it to re-root using gingerbreak... HELP!

SUCCESS!
Ok. I got OTA update 4.010.08 (122.71 MB) this morning. It failed.
So I unrooted my device. Re-started it and tried again... SUCCESS!
I tried using Gingerbreak to root it again. FAIL!
So I used this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138228
SUCCESS!
Hope this helps those of you who are having problems.

No need to unroot nor go to stock.
I had the same issues. Then I simply used Acer Recovery to install stock recovery and everything worked fine.
Ceger

Acer Recovery?
Did Acer Recovery come with the tablet?

I tried the update numerous times over the last 4 days. Most of the time the download would fail, which I put down to my slow internet connection and overloaded Acer servers. But about 5 times it would finish downloading and then error out on install with a message about the update being invalid. I tried rebooting several times during this process. I have never rooted the tablet and only have a few apps installed as it was a recent purchase.
Finally it worked when I ejected the external SD card and rebooted. It may be a coincidence, but anyone else who gets the "invalid update" warning during install on an unrooted device may wish to try this prior to the download/install.

[Q] {FIXED}Problem with new OTA update..??....software"failed to update" message....

[Q] {FIXED}Problem with new OTA update..??....software"failed to update" message....
I have downloaded the update and clicked update now three times, and keep getting a failed to update message??.....any ideas..??.....I am rooted, but have used Voodoo to unroot......edit (now have tried 7 times......gets to the little android, and about one third of the way through installing, I get the triangle of death)
EDIT: See response below.......

Same thing is happening to me, except the phone is useless, because if I pull the battery and let it start up normally, the auto-update shutdown happens, and the cycle starts all over again.
If it matters, I'm on a stock AT&T rom with an unlocked bootloader.

FINALLY!!!
Finally got it......went to Moto.....tried through manual update with sd card......didn't work.......tried Autoupdater......didn't work the first time......ran Autoupdater a second time and IT WORKED........try that......

Still not working for me, what do you mean by Autoupdater? I've tried the SD card method and the downloaded method.

I'm having the same problem. Stock rom, rooted. the only modding i've done is the webtop over hdmi hack. tried both the manual and auto update.

There are two options on Moto......one is sd card.....the other is Auto......
http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-EN/Android_Products/ATRIX-4G_Software_Update_Page

But Voodoo did not save root......gotta find another way to root......not unlocking bootloader......maybe Pete's OneClick will update to 2.3.6 soon......

i factory reset to see if it would fix the update. ew ew ew ew motoblur ew ew ew ew ew. kill it with fire. oh the things i do for updates....

iM having problems with ota updates... phone is on 2.3.4 unlocked bootloader, i do the ota update... ended up failed to boot 4starting rsd.. flashing the 2.3.4 unlocked sbf brings phone back to life... i USED THE MOTOROLA SOFTWARE UPDATERand phone is on offical 2.3.6 software and firmware. with locked bootloader.

I keep trying the auto updater but How do I make my phone stop the auto shutdown. I cant make it stay on for more than 30 seconds I do a battery pull reboot the phone boots up fine works then 30 seconds later shuts-down and tries to install the update again and it gives me the exclamation with the android. Never mind I did a factory reset via recovery phone works fine.

acondie13 said:
I'm having the same problem. Stock rom, rooted. the only modding i've done is the webtop over hdmi hack. tried both the manual and auto update.
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THAT.
this is the same problem that's happened literally every time there has been a carrier update. search on how to restore webtop hack to stock and you'll be able to update after that.

rooted, locked bootloader, some hacks like HDMI webtop got fail to update massage
Those who don't know how to restore some hacks to stock, just go to http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-EN/Android_Products/ATRIX-4G_Software_Update_Page
choose Automated upgrade, download Motorola_Software_Update.exe, follow the steps to update.
Good luck!