Update Storage? - Droid 2 General

Does anyone know where verizon / droid stores the OTA files it pushes to your phone for updates???
I have download the gingerbread update twice today which takes about 2+ hrs to download and both times it had failed to install.
Thanks, Slim!

UPDATE:
Still don't know where it stores the files for updating, however I turned on my Wifi and grabed the update in mins and finally got it to take after flashing sbf, factory restore, and downloading the update for the 3rd time... haha.

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OTA 2.2 update, problems.

I got my OTA update today, unfortunately something went wrong. I told it to install now, and the screen with the android and caution symbol showed up. After 10-15 minutes I hit the power button. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to wait for that screen to clear or if that screen wasn't a good sign. Well hitting power took me to recovery and said that there was an error with the install.
What did I do wrong. Was I just supposed to wait longer? I had previously rooted my phone with unrevoked, but was running the stock ROM, should I have unrooted it? Was it some other error?
Any insight into what happened so when the update comes back around I can do it right. Also is there anyway to get the OTA update back, or do I just have to wait patiently again.
jaredkent said:
I got my OTA update today, unfortunately something went wrong. I told it to install now, and the screen with the android and caution symbol showed up. After 10-15 minutes I hit the power button. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to wait for that screen to clear or if that screen wasn't a good sign. Well hitting power took me to recovery and said that there was an error with the install.
What did I do wrong. Was I just supposed to wait longer? I had previously rooted my phone with unrevoked, but was running the stock ROM, should I have unrooted it? Was it some other error?
Any insight into what happened so when the update comes back around I can do it right. Also is there anyway to get the OTA update back, or do I just have to wait patiently again.
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You can not update a rooted phone. Go to my post on updating 2.2 made easy and you canupdate to 2.2 and reroot the phone. This is the OTA update.
I'm sort of in the same boat. I had rooted with unrevoked and was running cyanogenmod. I reverted back to stock (retaining root). I received the OTA notification, it downloaded and started installing, but showed the <!> with the android.
I thought...ok...I'll return back completely to stock (no root) and now I'm sitting waiting for another OTA notification.
It's been three days now, and still no notification. I've tried checking for updates so many times that I've lost count.
Does anyone know whether or not a failed update gets another OTA notification? -or- why the software shows up-to-date when it's still at 2.1u1?
Thanks
Either take it to Verizon for them to push it onto the phone or use one of the methods here.
fygar66 said:
I'm sort of in the same boat. I had rooted with unrevoked and was running cyanogenmod. I reverted back to stock (retaining root). I received the OTA notification, it downloaded and started installing, but showed the <!> with the android.
I thought...ok...I'll return back completely to stock (no root) and now I'm sitting waiting for another OTA notification.
It's been three days now, and still no notification. I've tried checking for updates so many times that I've lost count.
Does anyone know whether or not a failed update gets another OTA notification? -or- why the software shows up-to-date when it's still at 2.1u1?
Thanks
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Go to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771178

Update available on Mot software updater now

I had previously tried to update OTA and with the Moto sofware updater more than 20 times and either way I tried always said no software available and the phone was up to date. Today I went to the software updater and it had found the new software. I did this time connect as mass storage device, not sure if that had anything to do with it but those that had issues updating before go try it out now.
I got 4.1.83 OTA about 20 mins ago. Problem is it reboots and starts extracting and craps out.
I'm running stock, rooted and I manually uninstalled some of the bloatware...any ideas on what I need to do?

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.

1,8 MB OTA update again?

Since I didn't see any news about this, I think that it's an error on my phone. I just got another OTA update with a size of 1,8 MB.
I already installed the tiny update 1-2 weeks ago, but in the end the updating progress said "Failed". However, after a reboot, it didn't offer any updates again, so I thought it would be good - now what's up with this update? Is my phone trying to install the update again?
I'm using stock recovery and image on a rooted Nexus 4.

Update from RU1.1.112 to RU1.1.124 issue

USA user of Russian version yotaphone 2. Got notified three days ago of the 1.1.124 update but every time I tried the phone would reboot, fail to update, reboot back to android and re-download the update to try again. I made a video of what it did. After two days of trying and an unanswered tweet and support email later it magically corrected itself.
https://youtu.be/kG4tyuoOq0M
I did try copying the update from cache and sideloading. I'm rooted but with stock recovery. Recovery at least gave me a better understanding of what could have happened. Seems there was a problem with the zip. Apparently there was a problem with ALL of them since I re-downloaded it about 8 times before it worked!
I post this here as a reference.
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UK user of the same. Tried the OTA but was still on TWRP, didn't work. Then flashed stock recovery. Now it downloads, and that's kind of it: I press 'restart & install', it count down to restart then just switches to prior screen saying "your system is up to date". Going to try pulling it from the cache and adb sideload weh I get a chance.
How'd the sideloading go?
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radbme said:
How'd the sideloading go?
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Any decent new features / battery improvements?
Just updating to say have got a new phone. Loved the Yota for the first year and it's use when outside is outstanding but have spent far too long trying to update and fix things, it doesn't really last more than a month without getting intolerably slow so I've upgraded. Might get around to sorting the Yota out but probably more likely to just reset it and save it for sunny days reading in the park or summit.

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