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Cannot complete installation of new OTA update 2.2.1

As a new owner of DHD I would like to share my problem....
Yesterday, I downloaded (completely 40 mb) the new 2.2.1 OTA update... i experienced the following malfunction...
In the middle of procedure... green bar stops moving... and a green exclamation mark appears... after a while turn to red into a circle... and everything seems to be struggled... I had to remove battery to get a reboot... I did it two times, but I got the same result...
For your information I use visionary for temproot (no temproot on boot). Each time I tried to process new update.... root was off, after a clean reboot...
If anyone knows a solution to help me...
Thanks in advance
Sent from my Desire HD

Hi, I posted this in 3 separate but very similar threads.
Seems like the PermRoot breaks the update.
There are countless other threads saying basically the same.
Installed Visionary+, Rooted, Removed HTC apps, OTA Update doesn't work.
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You could try installing via bootloader, but your DHD would return to factory settings.
Download This ROM. Rename it to PD98IMG.zip and place on your SD Card.
Turn off your DHD (Disable FastBoot) and power on holding VOL DOWN.
Your DHD will then apply the update itself. With the new update you will not be able to root, HTC have fixed the exploit Visionary+ used. A new method to root will have to be found. I know you said you have only used TempRoot, but perhaps Visionary+ modifies something that the HTC Update checks.

NO IMAGE
i done what u have said and im just getting no image help

What exactly is happening?

help
well i go into the bootloader it scans the sd card find the file pd98img but then it sez missing files with a blue bar goining along on the side

kernal
does it matter what kernal am using??

Did you open the PD98IMG.zip file on your computer?

no
no sorry was i ment to open it on my computer then what?? bit of a newbie sorry

lose
also will i lose all my numbers and my settings?

Don't open it on your computer. You will break the signature and it definitely wont work then.
The kernel shouldn't affect the flashing in bootloader
EDIT: If you numbers are synced to you Google account, then no. But you will lose all your settings.
Is your DHD unbranded or carried branded?

ok
well i rename t put it on my sd card the went into bootloader and i just does like wht i said be4!!

[Q] Update Failed?!!

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.

Rooted gingerbread keeps trying to download verizon update

Hey all,
I looked through the posts and wasn't able to find the answer so I am leaving this. Basically I upgraded my X from a rooted froyo to GB using the 2 files provided by P3Droid to go from the SBF froyo to GB rooted. It works great and I am having no freezing issues however the phone keeps trying to update and download the GB over the air update. I don't know how to stop this from happening or if I did something wrong. I have deleted a few of the Verizon apps that should stop any update from taking place anyway. I thank you in advance for your help.

I downloaded the "rooted gingerbread .596" from p3droid and my Droid X has never asked to update.

the only other thing I can think of is that I accidentally hit check for update on my phone but I don't think that it should have even found the gingerbread once I had installed it myself...

I just went into my settings and into "about phone". I also checked for a update and it says that it is up to date no update is necessary. So I have no idea what is going on. Only thing I can suggest is if it continues, is to SBF back to Froyo and reinstall p3Droid's rooted .596 again. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

You could let the update happen, it would go partially, fail and reboot and you're all set

Same problem with Sprint EVO 4g
I have also just installed "4.22.651.2 Rooted & De-Odexed" after accidentally dl the OTA update last week. I just hoped that installing the new ROM would eliminate the notifications to install the update but unfortunately it did not.
I did try to let it install so as to let it fail and rebooted, and the notification is still there.
Is there maybe a way to manually remove the update file?

Tecrekka said:
I have also just installed "4.22.651.2 Rooted & De-Odexed" after accidentally dl the OTA update last week. I just hoped that installing the new ROM would eliminate the notifications to install the update but unfortunately it did not.
I did try to let it install so as to let it fail and rebooted, and the notification is still there.
Is there maybe a way to manually remove the update file?
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this is the Droid X sub-forum. You will get the proper help if you post in the Evo section.

Sorry I just didn't find anything even closely related to this issue here and thought it would be best to not start a new thread. Isn't this a software issue and therefore somewhat universal?

Tecrekka said:
Sorry I just didn't find anything even closely related to this issue here and thought it would be best to not start a new thread. Isn't this a software issue and therefore somewhat universal?
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here a link to the thread for your 4.22.651.2 Rooted & De-Odexed rom in the EVO section... and there's discussion in there about your exact problem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110733

Thank you very much!

I'm having the same problem. It comes and goes with no ability to clear. It always pops up after a reboot. It never actually downloads, at least that I've seen....
Does anyone know which package to freeze so the updater stops flagging?

Stop OTA Updates
Freeze the application called "Updater 2.3.3".

Before installing official gingerbread

Flashing the official gingerbread in u8800 its irreversivel process, at least for now.
If you flash it you have to keep it as no way of going back.
If you root it using the only available method, bye bye!
Everytime you reboot the endless bootlooping starts and the only way to stop it is formatting data.
Which means everytime you reboot = bye bye all data and apps etc.
I think is something that its major importance and no one is mentioning this!!!!

I don't know, maybe I've been preaching to deaf ears or something...but...you can re-install the old ROM back, the CWM recovery won't work with the official GB - that much is true - but you will be able to downgrade to an official 2.2.2 (I used the B162) version with the regular update method (at least I was and everything is working just as normal as it used to).
So, irreversible - I don't think so
with the current CWM recovery - it's a no-go
edit: that being said, what works for me, doesn't necessarily work for everyone, so be careful and blame the guy in the mirror -not me, if it doesn't work for you. =)

I think Huawei says wrong here. I flashed 2.3 yesterday. After that, because of the haptic issue I flashed back to official 2.2. Only problem after the 2.2, recovery console had opened. I did factory reset there and phone started without a problem. Then, I had upgraded to 2.3 again. Still haptic don't vibrate. Other than, no problem here. Maybe, I will go back again to 2.2.

Well you are lucky then because you are the only one.
Perhaps what is saying in the official intructions that will be impossible to dowgread after this upgrade won't apply to you.
I have try it with at least 8/9 versions of official release and nothing works!!!!

what 2.2 version is that and you did it after or before rooting?

Have you tried with internal sd? I copied dload folder to internal and started the upgrade process from Storage-Upgrade Firmware. Where did your phone stuck?
Edit: I didn't root my phone. Waiting proper solution. I had used B138.

no, I'm using external SD.
now I'm downloading another official release to try to downgrade using another one...
this time is U8800 V100R001C17B162CUSTC17D001

Druida69 said:
Well you are lucky then because you are the only one.
Perhaps what is saying in the official intructions that will be impossible to dowgread after this upgrade won't apply to you.
I have try it with at least 8/9 versions of official release and nothing works!!!!
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Well, like I said, what works for me doesn't necessarily work for you.
Anyway, this is what I did and it worked, maybe it can help others.
0. Copy the original B162 ROM ("dload"-folder which has two files, UPDATE.APP AND UPDATE_CUST.APP) to the root of your SDCARD
1. Update to B162 by holding down +- keys while turning on the phone
2. After the first reboot, it's giving error messages for not being able to mount this and that...just ignore it and...
--> Wipe data / factory reset --> remove battery
3. Update the B162 again --> this time everything should go OK, if so, your phone is back to stock B162 and you're ready to use it or update a custom rom (just install Clockwork recovery like you used to and start from there)
The last point (3) may be unnecessary, but I did so just to make sure everything's ok.
Edit: OK, and I meant b162, not b160...

Druida69 said:
no, I'm using external SD.
now I'm downloading another official release to try to downgrade using another one...
this time is U8800 V100R001C17B162CUSTC17D001
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For me it also works. I have downgrade without any problem and I use to the b 162 version. Now Ian back to oxygen
Sent from my u8800 using XDA App

yes I made it with this B162.
**** this **** I'm going back to custom rom.
No point of using this official release if future customs will use the libs from this one.

Druida69 said:
yes I made it with this B162.
**** this **** I'm going back to custom rom.
No point of using this official release if future customs will use the libs from this one.
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And then there's the fact that the official gb is still beta, it's not supposed to work perfectly. But as long as the dev team here stays active, I think that I'm gonna stick with custom roms too.

ho my god.
didn't work.
is always booting into recovery

I am stuck here also (
Nothing worked
I tried clockwork recovery - it doesnt get to. It is just rebooting.
I tried with various dload UPDATE.IMG's (GB Overseas, GB orig chinese,B162,B138) nothing is working - stucked in "Step 1/2 Unpacking" window forever.
Anyone has solution for this ?

Two weeks ago I've flashed the U8800Pro version - real mistake
I've started a topic here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1327715
katu2006 and on the second page flibblesan gave me a method to start my phone working well.
Post #4, #11 and #13.
Maybe this will help you,too?

sbasil said:
Anyway, this is what I did and it worked, maybe it can help others. (...)
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You sir are a LEGEND. My phone "lives" again! On CM7 again...

manage to install miui.
several versions now up to the newest one.
I noticed on all of them that it mount the SD card when connected to USB but only shows the system files and not allow writing, copy, cut, etc.
Saying that I dont have permission to change the SD

Druida69 said:
Flashing the official gingerbread in u8800 its irreversivel process, at least for now.
If you flash it you have to keep it as no way of going back.
If you root it using the only available method, bye bye!
Everytime you reboot the endless bootlooping starts and the only way to stop it is formatting data.
Which means everytime you reboot = bye bye all data and apps etc.
I think is something that its major importance and no one is mentioning this!!!!
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I have just flashed with new U8800V100R001C00B517G001(Beta1.0)(Overseas Normal)(Gingerbread) but after flashing I kept waiting for start my phone. I restasted many times but same, then I format data its worked and when restarted again it goes in same condition any help ?

until flash disk is writable and it is - there will always be way to go back to old versions it just files.. like reinstalling windows on your pc.

Since the new Rom is public I have read all posts about it here. Maybe I had lucky, or simple due it without messing with the files.
Yesterday I made the upgrade to the new rom, directly from the last Oxigen version, without downgrade to 2.2. I simply create the dload folder on SD card, put there de update file, boot with +- Power, and chose upgrade from SD card.
After step 2 I reboot the phone a install step 3 upgrade. Everything as installed fine, no boot loops, nothing...
Also the root method decribed in this forum as work on first time.
24 hours after the upgrade, and some reboots to test, I never se the boot loops, and the phone is working well.
The new ROM, even in beta stage, to me is a great improvement.

Well either you were lucky or me and the majority were unlucky.
But issues only start to happens when rooting.
So that you can see it fried me the 1 USB cable. This cable is only good to charge the battery now....
Also, ****ed the device USB storage MOUNT.
I connect it to the computer and the computer sees it as a CD drive not allowing any changes.
Also when press the button to mount the USB on the device it never gets mounted and gives the messages that the SD can now be removed.
So I have put this issue many times but up to the moment no one even reply to help.

Accidental OTA update

Sorry for the post first.... I am sure the answer is here somewhere and I am going to start reading up.
But if anyone happens to know the quick and easy answer.
My V20 was in a drawer after doing a nice job for a few years. But I pulled it out as a backup phone and got it a cheap MVNO sim on ATT towers.
Didn't think much of it - but apparently I haven't had it on ATT towers for some time and it found a OTA update. It has downloaded it I guess and says it will install it in 10 seconds... no options to quit or delay or nothing.
I am rooted, unlocked and flashed - honestly don't remember exactly where... but I'd guess in the AO Rom at 20H and TWRP.
BTW - Don't need to really update to anything as the use case is backup really. I need WiFi calling so flashing Lineage is out too.
Open to thoughts and ideas.
Thanks in advance.

AT&T has update towers specifically to do updates. They're are fast. Get within range and bam.
Disable the OTA update app or ask AT&T tech support to disable OTA updates on their end... they can.

Yep - thanks but they got me already. It won't complete the update because when they execute the script TWRP loads instead - which is nice. But if I reboot - it stays live for 20 seconds and says rebooting to complete update, to twrp boot, to shutdown to reboot - stays live for 20 seconds and says rebooting....
Not exactly a handy backup phone...
Any ideas how to get out of the boot loop.
Looking at all my old notes now - just gonna flash it again I think but can't remember where/what...
Anyway - thanks and my studying continues.
Oh and - I had no idea folks were pushing uphill on getting Android 12 on the V20. That would be amazing. Great phone to get this on.

What if you disable the updater while in TWRP using adb?

Arealhooman said:
What if you disable the updater while in TWRP using adb?
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YES - exactly what I am trying to find out how to do?
I'm in TWRP now looking for the file that I presume it downloaded that it is trying to install. Presuming the OS looks for a file and when it is there it does the prompt - "Shutting down in 10 seconds to install update".

Found some notes and TWRP backups - so restored my backup of AlphaOmega.
Then - enabled developer options and disabled automatic updates from there
I think that is all I have to do.

wantpizza said:
Found some notes and TWRP backups - so restored my backup of AlphaOmega.
Then - enabled developer options and disabled automatic updates from there
I think that is all I have to do.
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On Samsung's that won't do anything except not auto update when the phone restarts. OTA updates is still active and can hijack control of the phone. It has every permission under the sun, might as well be malware.
If the app is still running it's likely going to screw you up...

Yah - I wasn't satisfied either...
I installed Magisk and installed some root app uninstaller. Not exactly sure what I am looking for - but the only apk with OTA in it was something FOTA - so sounded Forced.... I uninstalled.
Heck - haven't customized much yet - figure it is time to try and break it...
We will see what happens.

wantpizza said:
Yah - I wasn't satisfied either...
I installed Magisk and installed some root app uninstaller. Not exactly sure what I am looking for - but the only apk with OTA in it was something FOTA - so sounded Forced.... I uninstalled.
Heck - haven't customized much yet - figure it is time to try and break it...
We will see what happens.
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Does the update option appear in the settings menu still? If not you got it.

Look for apps with the word update in them

I did completely blow up the phone and biffed it while updating TWRP.
Posted here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/bad-day-kernel-panic-trying-to-update-twrp.4534615/
But I have it all back up and running. I didn't delete anything yet but it runs and isn't boot looped in the update cycle. I did disable updates inside developer options. But now I don't have any cell service where I am currently staying so I am probably going to put this aside for a while. Thanks all for the help.