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[Q] Latest OTA won't install.

I got the latest OTA (3.70.651.1) and went to install it. It'll restart the phone and start the progress bar, but at ~25% or so it'll go to this screen:
i.imgur.com/qs7rt.jpg (sorry, can't post an outside link due to being a new user)
I have the stock rom with unrevoked. Any ideas why it won't install? I tried to search but found nothing.

You wanna lose your root? Why you loading the OTA? Grab a rooted 3.7 rom from here and load it!

dkd711 said:
You wanna lose your root? Why you loading the OTA? Grab a rooted 3.7 rom from here and load it!
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+1 couldn't have said it better

I thought the latest unrevoked (the one just released) worked with this OTA?

your trying to take a difficult path for an easy process, there is no benefit to installing the OTA when you are already rooted and can install that software quickly and easily without needing to install ota then rooting again, if your wanting the stock sprint rom 3.70 I can post a link, if you are wanting your radio/pri/wimax upgraded I can post a link for that too,
does your phone boot into your rom our does it go straight to the android guy with the red triangle and exclamation mark?

My phone boots normally now.. it's just when I try to apply the OTA that it does that.
I dunno.. it seems simpler to install the OTA and just do unrevoked again. It's what I've done all along and it's worked up until now.

You don't want to do that, even if unrevoked 3.3 works. ( it does I rooted late night with it ) Just pull a rooted Rom here, besides the update is not so great. Not much new a game, Swype, and Blockbuster. Nothing to write home about.
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[Q] unroot help for OTA DL09

Can someone please help me out. I've tried to get the OTA for DL09 all day, and every time it errors out. I'm rooted but I'm running completely stock with the exception of launcher pro plus. I can't just flash the files through odin because I don't have a PC, just a mac.
can I just remove the SU file from the xbin folder using root explorer? I'm assuming that I can't update because of the root and CWM?

Don't you have a friend with a pc? You may need a pc if you unroot to root the second time.. I had to use adb when I rooted the second time
Rocking dj05 and jt's voodoo 5

Make sure u aren't using wifi to pull the update. 3G ONLY. Being rooted shouldn't cause error problems with the download??? U are rooted....I would follow the instructions for the leak DL09 since u will have to reroot anyway.
-Blackhole 3.0

I rooted through terminal on my mac the first time, is there a way to unroot by opening a shell through terminal again?.
my fiance has a pc, but she took it with her for her overnight shift at work..

40kalkillah said:
Make sure u aren't using wifi to pull the update. 3G ONLY. Being rooted shouldn't cause error problems with the download??? U are rooted....I would follow the instructions for the leak DL09 since u will have to reroot anyway.
-Blackhole 3.0
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yeah, i'm on 3g I made sure of that. the download happens fine, it just errors out when it tries to install the update.

Follow the Mac instructions in this thread:
http://androidmixer.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=446
In terms of getting the OTA, I read that CWM is what is stopping you from updating.

so I unrooted my phone last night and reverted it back to stock as much as i could, but CWM was still installed (it worked when I selected "update.zip" from the stock recovery) I have no idea how to get rid of it if that's the actual cause of my problems. the OTA still won't work when it goes to install the download.
My only thought as what may also be wrong is after I rooted I had installed adblocker and thought it may have been messing up my phone, so i uninstalled the app.. problem was, that i still don't see any ads in any of my apps. Could the adblocker have done something to my system enough to screw up the OTA?

thanks to those who have responded so far, does anyone have any other thoughts on why this is happening or how I can fix it? please?

If you have CWM you have to get rid of it. You do this by flashing the stock recovery and kernel from fallingup's "return to stock"thread I the development forum

Get Odin, download the official DL09 from this site and do it that way. Odin wipes CWM, and the official DL09 has the kernel, fs, recovery and modem in one.

okay, i'll have to commandere the fiance's laptop when i get home and download odin. Thank you for the help guys! hopefully after i get it back to stock, the OTA will work.. if not, I'm going to replace the phone at VZW.

b_beau_09 said:
okay, i'll have to commandere the fiance's laptop when i get home and download odin. Thank you for the help guys! hopefully after i get it back to stock, the OTA will work.. if not, I'm going to replace the phone at VZW.
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If you haven't moved any of the bloat (or have already moved it back) then all you need to do is flash the kernel and recovery found here. The links in the OP seem to be down, so just follow those and you should be good. Had to do it to my wife's Fascinate yesterday for the OTA to take

just an update, used odin to flash back to stock DI01 and was able to download the OTA for DL09. Now i"m running DL09, and have already re-rooted using adb on my mac, and installed CWM. now to move on to some of these better non-voodoo kernel's! FINALLY!
Thanks for all your help guys! very much appreciated!

[Q] OTA Gingerbread update

So I use an Samsung Epic, however my friend uses a Droid X with the OTA update on it. From what I've read it seems the only way to root is phone would be to flash his phone back to a earlier version that already has root then update via Boot strap. Is this the only method? Or is it possible to get Bootstrap to work on his OTAed phone and then flash the Update over top of it. Or even just to flash the .zip of the rooted version of the OTA through the stock recovery by renaming it Update.zip? I just would like to know. I wanted to give him root because he is currently having issues with his keyboard and phone slowing down due to the bloatware on it.

metalblaster said:
So I use an Samsung Epic, however my friend uses a Droid X with the OTA update on it. From what I've read it seems the only way to root is phone would be to flash his phone back to a earlier version that already has root then update via Boot strap. Is this the only method? Or is it possible to get Bootstrap to work on his OTAed phone and then flash the Update over top of it. Or even just to flash the .zip of the rooted version of the OTA through the stock recovery by renaming it Update.zip? I just would like to know. I wanted to give him root because he is currently having issues with his keyboard and phone slowing down due to the bloatware on it.
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Yeah I believe he is going to sbf back to froyo then root then install the 2 part 596 GB rooted version (you can get it from multiple places -try Team Black Hat's app) then he should be good to go.

Gingerbread OTA back to Froyo

Has anyone tried going back to froyo from the new gingerbread OTA using the sbf file for froyo..... ?

No, why would you want to do that?
I would imagine the RSD Lite method via pc would do it.

If I root it i want to know if i can get back to stock to be able to take back for repairs if i need too....

Should be able to. I can't guarantee as I'm not going to attempt it myself (new phone in 3 days anyway).

I thought you should be able too also but not sure I wanna try without knowing for sure.....

Well to put it in perspective, I ran the leaked GB before SBFing back to stock Froyo. Then ran the OTA. The ability should be there, dunno why I didn't think to mention this before.

Guess maybe a better question would be can you unroot the gingerbread OTA if you root it using the oneclick method ?

This appears to be the blog of the creator, perhaps contact him. I don't have plans to unroot, if I happened to need to bring it in and not void the warranty, I'd just SBF froyo then OTA again. That will surely remove the root.

Yes you can
I have just fixed my phone via the RSDLite method, i got stuck in a bootloop i couldnt get out of and just flashed back to stock froyo without an issue, ran the OTA update and am good to go, so its extremely easy to do

What have i done!

Ive got a Samsung Galaxy S unlocked on 3 Network using Gingerbread 2.3.3. What ive done is i tried to gain access to the SuperUser account using the CF-Root method. All went well until i wanted to see if i could remove the SuperUser account because when it comes to Christmas i am wanting to sell the phone to a Friend. When i used GingerBreak 1.2 to UnRoot the Phone the SuperUser app uninstalled it self but the CWM and Tweaks app was still on the Phone. I attempted to remove the Apps going through Settings > Applications > Manage Applications but then i noticed it was locked into the phone unable to delete (FACEPALM). So i tried to Re-Root the phone using the CF-Root method again but it didnt give me back SuperUser access nor did it install the SuperUser app but the Odin Application claimed that it was successfully installed.
So what i am wanting to do is remove them two applications from my phone (CWM and Tweaks).
The Plan was to Root the phone and then install Darkys Rom since it looks Cool and Green But since ive never done anything like Rooting the phone or Jailbreaking an Ipod i really didnt have a clue what i was doing. Youtube help me to root it but then i messed it up.
Hope someone will know how to fix this phone and maybe get back on track on installing Darkys Rom

the tweaks and cwm apps are baked into the kernel.
If you want to get rid of them you'll have to flash a stock kernel

2 questions.
1) How do i flash it back to a Stock Firmware
2) How do i find the Stock Firmware right for my phone

grahamn95 said:
2 questions.
1) How do i flash it back to a Stock Firmware
2) How do i find the Stock Firmware right for my phone
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www.samfirmware.com
it has all the stock firmwares and also has instructions on how to flash them
good luck !

Well flashing the stock firmware is actually quite easy but there's loads of them out there depending on what country you're in and network. If you're in the UK I'd go for I9000XXJVQ which I think is still the latest, I'm using it anyway.
Sign yourself up at http://www.samfirmware.com and you can go in to the firmware section, then in to android and then the I9000 and there's a whole list of them there.
They've also got guides in there to follow on how to use Odin which is the flashing software, oh and bit of advice I'd go for Odin V1.3 if I were you. I've heard a few rumors about problems with V1.8. I alway use 1.3
Good news is its actually quite difficult to really kill a galaxy S so take it nice and easy and follow the instructions and you'll be fine. Anyway the best way to learn is fixing it after its gone wrong he he.

Dudes, JVR is the latest
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Sorry I wasn't very clear there.
The latest stock firmware in the UK according to Kies on my phone was JVQ.
I took it right back to the original JM1 it came with and that's as far as it went for me.

i am amused how do you try to help not knowing what is going on, thank god noone said put the phone to fridge for 5 minutes
to regain su flash cfroot for example and then via cwm this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14900939&postcount=311
but cfroot untouched itdelf should give you su as long as you will not try to update it via market - if you will lose su after that or due flashing some newb kernels use above link to regain it