Hoping someone can help me. I had CM 10.1 installed. Decided I wanted to try KTManta kernel. But I can't get my tablet back to a clean 4.2.1 state.
First I tried restoring the nandroid backup I had created via Nexus 10 Toolkit prior to installing CM. Looked like it was doing something, but then went back to the main menu. Tried doing it manually on tablet. CWM couldnt find any files on my tablet via CWM to restore. Tried pushing the files from computer to tablet in the CWM backup directory. CWM didn't like them. They were unzipped. Maybe that's why? Maybe I can try making a tar file next.
So then I went about reverting back to stock, first using Nexus 10 Toolkit. Unrooted, restored stock recovery, relocked bootloader, etc. That all went fine. Got the notice for an OTA update. That's where things stop going fine. No matter what I try, I cannot get it to install. I either get the red exclamation mark android on his back or my tablet just crashes entirely and I have to reflash factory image from fastboot with the toolkit to get it to boot up.
I also tried WugFresh's Nexus Root Toolkit. Not much luck there, can't even flash factory image. When i try to let it auto download it gives me a hash mismatch error. When I try to install it manually, it fails. Gave up, went back to Nexus 10 Toolkit.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
Trying to sideload the 4.2.1 update via stock recovery fails: set_perm: some changes failed. Installation aborted.
cwm still can't see the nandroid i made via nexus 10 toolkit.
heeeelpppp. how the hell do i get 4.2.1 back on my tablet?
NM, got it installed thanks to six_dfx's post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016272&page=12
so glad i found this! yes his adjusted file worked perfect! thanks for sharing. Need to get a help sticky going for issues like this
If you had a backup 4.2 Factory Image, you may have an older, broken one. Google updated the 4.2 factory image on their site, which should work fine.
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So, as you're all well aware, Android 4.4 AOSP was released by Paranoid Android. I thought I'd give it a try. I've bumped into a problem though. If you've seen the news, you've also seen it won't flash with TWRP. So you need CWM. Well, I'm stuck with this. Using both traditional ADB and the Nexus Root Toolkit by Wug Fresh, I've attempted everything from flashing CWM to setting the phone back to stock. Whenever it gets to the point of asking me to go into TWRP and flash perm_recovery"xxxx".zip in the !ReadyToFlash! folder, it's not there. When I manually put this .zip in the root and flash it through TWRP, nothing happens after reboot. I've correctly configured USB Debugging, made sure MTP was turned off, all of that. Made sure nothing was encrypted. I'm completely stumped as to how I could fix this. It's like TWRP is literally taking over my phone.
dont use toolkits. you can flash kernels using fastboot, or the flashify app. btw, i posted a thread in the general section with the multirom modified twrp recovery, which work for flashing kitkat.
Thanks. I'll check it out. I managed to finally get the standard recovery back through spamming it. I think I'm going to stick with CWM from now on.
Hi all!!
On my Nexus 7 2012 (rooted) I'm running android 4.3 rom and I'm trying to manually update it to the new 4.4. It's not letting me flash the update because I changed the boot animation, and (of course) I forgot to backup the stock animation before adding the new one. I downloaded the stock "X" animation from someone and replaced the old one with the stock animation, but it still comes up with an error. Is there any way I can get it back to it's unaltered state so the update won't flag it as a problem? Also, if that's the only thing I altered and I can get it back to normal, can I just wait for the OTA update?
Other info:
Running M-Kernel
Using TWRP
Thanks!!
Same here
Download the factory image for 4.4 and flash it over adb, can't go wrong with that. Only thing is you'll have to re-root and reflash TWRP after that.
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cr0wnest said:
Download the factory image for 4.4 and flash it over adb, can't go wrong with that. Only thing is you'll have to re-root and reflash TWRP after that ...
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+1 on flashing the factory image via ADB - easy enough to re-install Custom Recovery & then Root by pushing SU v1.69
Otherwise, if running TWRP - look here, download the zip file and flash it from Recovery (first, full wipe - cache, dalvik & factory reset) - it will bring you to KitKat 4.4 (KRT16O)
There is a minor update (1.4MB in size) to KRT16S - flash it next once it's downloaded, and, then, reinstall TWRP and then root it.
Setup tablet, restore google account & customize home screen - enjoy.
Backup important files & data first, as always.
Ok, so newb here, but I have been searching the xda boards for the last 24 hours, spent a lot of time in the i9505g dev sub forum, but I cannot post there. So this seemed like the next best place.
I am running a GPE S4, i9505g. A while back I flashed CM 10.1 on to it, the jfltexx version. This changed my build.prop file and all was working fine. However, I decided that I wanted to try out 4.4 direct from google, so I tried to flash different versions of the rom, OTA, 'cleaned up' stock roms, etc... none of them would flash via clockwork or twrp. They all failed due to the build.prop being changed to reflect the jfltexx instead of whatever existed before the CM10.1 flash. So, I used adb to load up a stock build.prop (I think). After that, I could not boot anywhere past recovery and had no adb access other than sideload. Somewhere late in the evening I finally found a glimmer of hope and got my CM10.1 build.prop back on the phone and reflashed 10.1 then updated to 10.2.
So now, I'm back to a working phone on CM10.2 but I would like to revert back to stock GPE android 4.3 then use OTA to get to 4.4... I cannot find any specific information on the i9505g which apparently is different than the regular i9505. I believe I made a nandroid backup of my original system when I originally flash CM10.1, but that was months ago and the PC I had then no longer exists, so I have no original backup.
Currently running TWRP, CM10.2, and I have Odin 3.07 on my pc. Can anyone help me figure out how to get back to factory stock on the i9505G?
EDIT/UPDATE: Huzzah! I may have finally found the original nandroid backup. It appears to be a full backup from Oct... I just can't remember if it as a stock backup or a CM10.1 backup. Either way, I may have that to use to get back to stock. Is there anyway to dig into the backup files and see what rom it is?
UPDATE 2: I made a copy of the system.tar.a file in my nandroid backup, renamed it to .tar, and opened it with 7zip. According to the build.prop file in that folder it is a jgedlte build, so that should be the stock nandroid, though it did say version 4.2.2, which I guess is better than nothing. Looks like I may be able to restore that nandroid to get the phone back to stock.
UPDATE 3: So, the original nandroid backup I found, appears to be corrupt. First CWM told me the MD5 checksum didn't match. So I used md5sum to regenerate the nandroid.md5 file. (md5sum *img > nandroid.md5) When I tried to apply it, CWM reports: Error while restoring /system!
So, I restored the nandroid backup I made of CM10.2 today and now it boots into CWM 6.0.4.7 continuously. Going to flash TWRP over CWMR and see if it will boot into the os. :/
Thanks,
freakypenguin
Fixed it all up finally. Found a 4.4.2 odin tar, full image, was able to push that out via odin and the phone booted write up.
I searched for my particular issue and haven't found a solution that works yet so here goes. any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
I've painted myself into corners before tinkering with this phone and always found a way out but this time I'm stumped.
HOW I BROKE MY PHONE:
1) had latest CM 11 nightly installed but wanted to try the OTA.
2) In TWRP I restored a back up of my stock rooted software.
3) Unfroze bloat in titanium back up.
4) Checked on phone for OTA, received notification, and began download
5) On completion of download I initiated the update.
6) It booted to recovery (TWRP) and every time I rebooted, or started the phone from powered down it always goes into TWRP.
7) I attempted a factory reset and restoration of my stock back up- same result. It booted straight into recovery.
8) I factory reset and installed cm11 fresh from the SD card- same result
9) Here's my real screw up: since neither installing a fresh ROM or restoring my stock recovery weren't working I went for the nuclear option, I decided to format everything and use the LG Flash tool to get this puppy back up and running.
10) Only to discover I can't get into Download mode and while the G2 is "seen" by my PC it's listed under "other devices."
Dear kind and wise individual who's read my tale of woe. What might my next step be? I've considered attempting to sideload a ROM with TWRP in sideload mode, but I'm afraid I'd just have the same result as when I tried reinstalling CM11 from the SD card.
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Many thanks! I'll give this a try.
Nexus 4 with stock (originally 4.4.2), which wouldn't update to 4.4.3, due to TWRP being installed, so when 4.4.4 came around, thought I would download and flash myself. Not a huge expert, but have certainly flashed several phones successfully previously.
Initially using the Nexus Root Toolkit, unrooted etc, downloaded the correct file from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images, tried to update, and would not write the radio file (waited for ages), tried to do using adb etc, no go.
Finally downloaded the 4.4.2 image, and using fastboot, this successfully did everything up to userdata, erased userdata successfully, and sent file, but never completes writing. (writing 'userdata'...) If I reboot, just gets stuck on the 4 circles.
Have installed CWM and tried doing a factory reset, but can not mount data....
Anyone able to assist?
Thanks
hornetster said:
Have installed CWM and tried doing a factory reset, but can not mount data....
Anyone able to assist?
Thanks
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Panic over...
Perseverence seemed to pay off. Just did more of the same, and tried installing the userdata by itself. Seems to have worked.
But now am stock, and still doesn't seem to want to install the updates....
Well, thought it was stock, but the latest OTA didn't install. Don't really know why, as I wasn't watching, but it did the download, then kicked off the install, but when I came back to it, was just sitting at the home screen, no messages and the update hadn't happened - still sitting on 4.4.2.
I had flashed 4.4.2, and I thought the only bit that hadn't worked was the userdata, which I flashed separately, recovery has been flashed to stock recovery...
Why hasn't it updated?
And how can I tell if 'everything' is stock?
Thanks.