Hi guys, i'm new here and a bit of a noob to the whole Android world.
I got my a500 about a month ago and loving it, Rooted it and got rid of all the bloat ware and is running like a dream.... love it....
A couple of days ago, i got an update: System Update 1.139,05, downloaded it and went to install, rebooted but nothing, Update failed!
I already have Android version 3.0.1 and Kernel version 2.6.36.3.
Is it me doing some thing wrong? Is it because its rooted? Do i need the update, please help, just want it to be up to date. Love the forum, thanks
chickin2000 said:
Hi guys, i'm new here and a bit of a noob to the whole Android world.
I got my a500 about a month ago and loving it, Rooted it and got rid of all the bloat ware and is running like a dream.... love it....
A couple of days ago, i got an update: System Update 1.139,05, downloaded it and went to install, rebooted but nothing, Update failed!
I already have Android version 3.0.1 and Kernel version 2.6.36.3.
Is it me doing some thing wrong? Is it because its rooted? Do i need the update, please help, just want it to be up to date. Love the forum, thanks
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I've seen that some other users have had issues with the update if they removed the bloatware. Have you put it back before you attempted the update? If not, you'll have to put everything you've removed back and if you've edited any of the system files like build.prop, etc..you'll have to put it back to original also.
Thanks for the reply JackMetal! ERRRRRMMMM Q: is this a big update and if so then how would i put everything back, would it be factury settings? and if i do need to put everything back on why did i root it? lol sorry for being suck a noob! )
chickin2000 said:
Thanks for the reply JackMetal! ERRRRRMMMM Q: is this a big update and if so then how would i put everything back, would it be factury settings? and if i do need to put everything back on why did i root it? lol sorry for being suck a noob! )
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LOL - yeah, I know..it's kind of a sucky move on Acer's part to force that. ;-) How did you remove them? Did you just delete them or freeze them within Titanium Backup? If deleted, did you happen to make a backup of them first so you could restore them now.
You can look at /cache/recovery/last_log and see exactly what it's complaining about. If you don't have the files you deleted, you can ask in the forum to see if another user can send them to you. I'd be glad to send mine, but I would imagine mine probably wouldn't help you since they are from 'after' the update and the checksum would still fail since they're changed. We could give it a shot though, and if it doesn't work you can see if someone that hasn't updated or happens to have the previous versions backed up, could send you the files.
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Actually, I've got a few Titanium Backups from before the update, so I may just have the files you need!
Sweet dude, right will have to give it a look as i deleted them, noob thing to do i know lol still learning, thanks again for the super quick reply!
Same thing happened to me and this was after I restored my A500 to factory stock. I re-started the update download from the settings/info menu and this time it went without a hitch. I now have the updated A500, rooted it and am ready to go.
Advice for those people rooting their tablets. Don't just delete any .apks you don't want; move them to a folder on the internal sd card instead so whenever you need to restore them it's a simple matter of just moving them back).
Right, just an update.......
don't laugh, but i did try to put back all of the bloat ware!!!!! However, i replace some things and got rid of others, NOT GOOD! " HOME NOT WORKING ", yes thats what it said or words to that effect! Restarted as i thought that would help! OMG BOOT LOOP! Phone acer and sent it back for repair, UPS picked it up and acer received it this morning, and 30 mins again i got a text message with it done you douche bag, well they didn't say douche bag, but hay they should have done! Yes i'm a noob at all this, but i have learnt my lesson. Must say thanks for the help anyway from the forum!
P.S UPS SUCK BALLS, they are rude and v unprofessional! (had problems with them picking up the tablet).
P.P.S Back up everything and the back it up again! And DONT get rid of any system file or anything, to quote someone from the forum, " you have plenty of room! ", I have the 32Gb so yes i have the room lol!
O and just one more thing............ BACK THING UP NOOBS !!!!!!! )
Or Rename!
iCurmudgeon said:
Same thing happened to me and this was after I restored my A500 to factory stock. I re-started the update download from the settings/info menu and this time it went without a hitch. I now have the updated A500, rooted it and am ready to go.
Advice for those people rooting their tablets. Don't just delete any .apks you don't want; move them to a folder on the internal sd card instead so whenever you need to restore them it's a simple matter of just moving them back).
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Also to make easy, just rename the .apk's to .bak or freeze them in Titanium backup!
Not to sound like a smartass but you know you could have done it yourself? Flash the device i mean.
What you do is you look for the boot.img and system.img and update.zip files in this forum or somewhere.
First the chinese one that you can just place in your External SD card and press Power+Vol- when device is turned of.
Then proceed to look for the American version, or whatever you wish if it's available.
Then you do this: place the boot.img and system.img in the root internal memory called Sdcard and place the update.zip in your EXTERNAL MicroSDcard.
Install Terminal emulator and push the boot and system img's 1st boot, 2ndSystem. Have superuser installed to.
After that when the images are pushed (usually the tablet would freeze after the system.img)
Then you force stop and power up the unit by holding Power button + Vol-
and that's it! No need to send to repair and pay money perhaps.
I have been looking for a while so if there is a solved thread a link would be helpful vs scolding
I am trying to create a custom boot animation for my new G2 from scratch (themed for work) and I have been able to look at the stock animation files so I thought I imitated the files pretty good but now when I boot the phone the animation is just blank.
If I put the stock animation file back the boot animation stays blank. Im not upset about it as I like blank vs the stupid verizon one but really would like the get the custom boot animation working.
I am rooted and use root browser. I was able to change the one on my galaxy s4 with no problems just by replacing the files but this one has me stumped as it has even blocked the stock boot.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Does anyone know how...?I tried many things and programs but they didnt work I tried unpacking boot.img but i dont know what to do then...I though that it would be a .bin or a ordinary image file but no luck...I wanna make a TW ICS Based Rom much better than the other but i want to change the boot logo.
Any help would be appreciated!
You can maybe try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184611
Maybe i change my boot logo now! Thank you!
EDIT: Hardcore work! After many search, i think it's too hard for me.
Hey everyone, let me first of all say, that I am a noob when it comes to android (I'm using iphone) but my father got a gionee e7 recently and didn't liked how it looked and stuff. To the point, I tried putting a custom ROM on it but everytime I try, CWM gives Section 7 error. I read that if u remove the asserts from the script file it fixes it, but there weren't any asserts lines in any of the files. I tried at least 4 different ROMs, even tried stock rom with QCOM tools but nothing works. Currently, the phone is stuck at the Elife logo and that's it. Before I could access CWM from there but now i can't even do that. Any help is appreciated, if you need any info, just post a reply.
Thanks a bunch, and once again ,sorry, a big noob on android here.
Edit: I forgot to mention, CWM was in chinese so i messed around with it a bit. i went to advanced then clicked recovery or something, the phone turned off and i haven't been able to get to CWM since.
Still no solution, anyone?
Hey everyone. I just want to say I've searched here as much as I could and i can't find an answer so I'm hoping someone might be able to help.
I have a rooted T-Mobile Samsung galaxy s8. After this last time rooting my phone I used the flashable font pack of 1060 fonts and it's always worked in the past. This time after flashing them they worked for a little bit but now that are suddenly gone and I only have the fonts that came with the phone. I've made sure that everything was in the right place with the right permissions. They are just suddenly gone. So I was wondering if anyone had any idea why this is happening or how to fix it? I've tried re flashing and pushing the apk manually again but still nothing. If anyone can help that would be awesome. Thank you everyone and have a great day! ( or night in my case)
sparky2029 said:
Hey everyone. I just want to say I've searched here as much as I could and i can't find an answer so I'm hoping someone might be able to help.
I have a rooted T-Mobile Samsung galaxy s8. After this last time rooting my phone I used the flashable font pack of 1060 fonts and it's always worked in the past. This time after flashing them they worked for a little bit but now that are suddenly gone and I only have the fonts that came with the phone. I've made sure that everything was in the right place with the right permissions. They are just suddenly gone. So I was wondering if anyone had any idea why this is happening or how to fix it? I've tried re flashing and pushing the apk manually again but still nothing. If anyone can help that would be awesome. Thank you everyone and have a great day! ( or night in my case)
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Have you tried extracting the zip, putting apks in storage and installing the apks normally thru package installer??
moocman42 said:
Have you tried extracting the zip, putting apks in storage and installing the apks normally thru package installer??
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Yea I get the app conflicts with package message