What. In. The. World. Got the "System update downloaded" notification this afternoon, and was puzzled since I got this a little over three weeks ago for 4.3, an experience that soft bricked my phone and ruined by life for a few days:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387196&page=3
Well, lo and behold, today's system update claims to be for 4.3 again:
Only I'm already ON 4.3.
Finally got everything rooted again and set up the way I want, and it's like Google knows it's time to come in and bork my phone again. I did a little poking and saw that this is no doubt the update from JWR66V to JWR66Y:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/08/2...ta-updates-for-the-nexus-7-hspa-galaxy-nexus/
Only after the last experience, I'm friggin terrified to mess with this and possibly end up in a bootloop or stuck at the X screen forever again. (I'm rooted, no custom ROM, just custom launcher.) EDIT: I should add that, since the last update, I've updated my radios to be able to use 4G LTE, installed the Android browser and all my bookmarks, and made a slew of other customizations, so I'm annoyed that this update comes three weeks on the heels of everything I set up.
Should I try the OTA install or flash the OTA zip files in CWM recovery like the article suggests? Most pain-free ways to ensure my current setup is reinstated without too many gray hairs? Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance!
It won't install because your rooted. The new root method relies on the recovery from boot.p file in system that SU changes.
You can flash this update zip file that has been modified not to check that file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44886292
BLACKED OUT LTE N4
The update is occurring because there is a new OTA that is build JWR66Y whereas yours is the V build.
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zephiK said:
The update is occurring because there is a new OTA that is build JWR66Y whereas yours is the V build.
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Yeah, thanks--I noted that. My question at the bottom of my post is, what's the best way to ensure I can back up/capture all the customizations I made since so I don't have to go through the nightmare of trying to take three weeks to set everything up again?
spaceman860 said:
It won't install because your rooted. The new root method relies on the recovery from boot.p file in system that SU changes.
You can flash this update zip file that has been modified not to check that file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44886292
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OK...I'm guessing that notification will go away once I've flashed that ZIP? My real question is whether once that's done if I have to re-set everything up all over again or if there's a way to backup my new radios/browser/etc.
nikonjunkie said:
OK...I'm guessing that notification will go away once I've flashed that ZIP? My real question is whether once that's done if I have to re-set everything up all over again or if there's a way to backup my new radios/browser/etc.
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I have read your edits to the OP and you have changed system files so the update won't install. You modified the build prop for lte and browser app maybe other stuff too. With this update your OK with not having the correct radio.
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As the title says, I'm getting notifications to upgrade my Nexus 7 to 4.2 even though I have 4.2 already. If it were the 4.2.1 update that it wanted me to update to, wound't it say 4.2.1 instead of 4.2?
Info on the device:
Rooted
Bootloader Unlocked
Stock ROM
I went ahead and tried installing the update many times and while it shutdown to do its dirty work, it eventually error-ed out (while the little Android guy is on his back). I have even done a factory reset and I still get the prompts to update to 4.2... from 4.2. Errors are there as well. Thank you for your help.
John J
P.S There are pics
jjimenezjj said:
As the title says, I'm getting notifications to upgrade my Nexus 7 to 4.2 even though I have 4.2 already. If it were the 4.2.1 update that it wanted me to update to, wound't it say 4.2.1 instead of 4.2?
Info on the device:
Rooted
Bootloader Unlocked
Stock ROM
I went ahead and tried installing the update many times and while it shutdown to do its dirty work, it eventually error-ed out (while the little Android guy is on his back). I have even done a factory reset and I still get the prompts to update to 4.2... from 4.2. Errors are there as well. Thank you for your help.
John J
P.S There are pics
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This has been posted about before.
Yes, the 4.2.1 upgrade says "4.2" in the update screen. Your device is trying to go from 4.2->4.2.1.
The upgrade however seems to be failing. Since you are using a stock recovery, there is no indication on what part is stopping it. It could just be a glitch or, more likely, you modified something. Did you install any mods or root and modify any system apps? Freezing them in TiBu/etc. will break it too.
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This has been posted about before.
Yes, the 4.2.1 upgrade says "4.2" in the update screen. Your device is trying to go from 4.2->4.2.1.
The upgrade however seems to be failing. Since you are using a stock recovery, there is no indication on what part is stopping it. It could just be a glitch or, more likely, you modified something. Did you install any mods or root and modify any system apps? Freezing them in TiBu/etc. will break it too.
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I did read other posts but they didn't seem to help.
After I rooted the device, I went ahead and pasted the original browser.apk in the System/App folder and installed it from there. From what I read, that was most likely my problem. I deleted it but still got the error. After that I said "screw this" and applied a data factory reset thinking that would solve my problems
Thank you for your reply.
John J
jjimenezjj said:
I did read other posts but they didn't seem to help.
After I rooted the device, I went ahead and pasted the original browser.apk in the System/App folder and installed it from there. From what I read, that was most likely my problem. I deleted it but still got the error. After that I said "screw this" and applied a data factory reset thinking that would solve my problems
Thank you for your reply.
John J
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Yes, that modification would certainly break the OTA update.
Doing a factory wipe won't help. That won't revert the old system apk back to stock. Nor will deleting it.
Your best bet is to download the full 4.2.1 image and flash that. Or, you could find and restore the original browser.apk.
This should serve as another reminder to people who make tweaks - always backup the original file!
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Yes, that modification would certainly break the OTA update.
Doing a factory wipe won't help. That won't revert the old system apk back to stock. Nor will deleting it.
Your best bet is to download the full 4.2.1 image and flash that. Or, you could find and restore the original browser.apk.
This should serve as another reminder to people who make tweaks - always backup the original file!
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It's not that bad. Everything works fine except for updating the thing. As for the restoring the original browser.apk, if you mean Chrome, I never touched it so it is there.
My guess is that I didn't install the CWM Recovery correctly because I can't boot into Recovery Mode. It just hangs and stays in a loop. I will re-install CWM and see if that helps.
John J
Re-installed CWM Recovery and flashed 4.2.1 from there. Lost everything but I had anything important backup already. All is good
My rooted, but otherwise standard N4 has been telling me it has downloaded the 4.3 update every couple of days since last week, but it won't install. All I get is a dead Android with a red triangle and the word Error! written above him. The phone then starts playing up, re-booting etc and I have to go into recovery and clear the cache for it to work properly again, still on 4.2.2 (obviously).
Now I'm not overly fussed about this update, but I do take issue with something that won't work taking up space in my phone (I'm tight and bought the 8GB one!), so my question is; can I get into where this duff download is being stored in my phone and delete it?
You should find it in /cache
yes, my ota update was in /cache folder; just use root manager or something similar.
Or un-root it, apply update, then re-root again. Win win.
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Thanks for that, I deleted it!
I never even considered unrooting the phone first, to be honest, but it looks quite long winded to do. I assume there will soon be 4.3 ROM builds where that won't be necessary?
simonali68 said:
Thanks for that, I deleted it!
I never even considered unrooting the phone first, to be honest, but it looks quite long winded to do. I assume there will soon be 4.3 ROM builds where that won't be necessary?
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You need the OTA to flash the new boot loader, but you can do it manually too so....not a big deal
Nexus 4+ Franco + LTE
Right, it has now downloaded for the 3rd time, so I'm not gonna bother deleting it again. Does anyone know a method of removing the notification?
joshuab227 said:
Finally managed to stop the update from downloading though ...
Heres what I did :
Installed Autorun Manager from the Play store.
Then entered its recommended advanced mode.
Went into the settings and enabled system entries and system app disable.
Disabled com.android.gsf.update.SystemUpdateService$Reciever under Google Service Framework
Hope this helps everyone else facing this problem and thanks to mikebz5 for the original post.
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this is from another thread. Worked for me
That did the trick. Ta very muchly!
I'm still on 4.2.1 on my nexus 4 (been a little slow with the updates...they always fail on me so I have to manually flash). My question is, can I download and flash the latest version (4.4.4) or is it best to update my way up (4.2.2, then 4.3, then 4.4, so on and so forth)?
If you have a flashable zip of 4.4.4 you can update to that. Otherwise I'd update to 4.4 and then incremental.
Make sure everything is up to date, recovery, boot img ect. ect. I had an issue with twrp and had to update it, problem was that the twrp updates would fail. Long story short, had to go the adb route and update my recovery...all went well after that.
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I'm still on 4.2.1 on my nexus 4 (been a little slow with the updates...they always fail on me so I have to manually flash). My question is, can I download and flash the latest version (4.4.4) or is it best to update my way up (4.2.2, then 4.3, then 4.4, so on and so forth)?
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My version was 4.4.2 and I flashed manually to 4.4.4. Only one app needed reinstall. (Hex editor)
See my reply http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/help-ota-t2802250
If you don't mind losing all of your data, then you can simply download the latest factory image from here and install it via one of the toolkits or using fastboot. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
If you're rooted, then you need to update to the latest TWRP, flash the latest radio and bootloader and then install any 4.4.4 ROM and Gapps. A factory reset is recommended however.
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If you're rooted, then you need to update to the latest TWRP, flash the latest radio and bootloader and then install any 4.4.4 ROM and Gapps. A factory reset is recommended however.
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When on a Nexus 4 the LTE is activated (hack) then flashing the latest radio is not a good idea.
After flashing LTE is gone.
Maybe my reply to another post is helpfull http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/help-ota-t2802250
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If you don't mind losing all of your data, then you can simply download the latest factory image from here and install it via one of the toolkits or using fastboot. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
If you're rooted, then you need to update to the latest TWRP, flash the latest radio and bootloader and then install any 4.4.4 ROM and Gapps. A factory reset is recommended however.
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Actually, if you download the factory image from google and extract it, you can change the flash-all.bat file so that it doesn't wipe your data.
Right click the file and select "edit" and delete the "-w" between "nutfastboot" and "update" towards the end and it prevents your data from being wiped. From there, you put your device into bootloader mode, then on your computer just right click the folder that you extracted while pressing shift and select "open command window here." Type in "flashboot devices" to make sure the phone is seen by the system, then type "flash-all.bat" and boom, good to go. Just flashed a factory image without wiping the data.
Upgraded right to 4.4.4. Did have to root again and reinstall TWRP, but the Nexus Root Toolkit makes that easy, lol. My only thing is that everything seems to take a bit longer. Transitions are smooth, but there's a lag from when I select something, to when it opens. For example, I use widget locker. When unlocking, it used to immediately unlock. Now it takes about 2 or 3 seconds, but that may just be the app itself. Probably would have been best to flash a little at a time (4.3, then 4.4, then 4.4.4) but oh well. Maybe when I get back from vacation next week, lol.
Also, wasn't concerned about losing LTE because I never really needed it to begin with. I only ever use data when i'm on my lunch at work and it's mostly playing something like Ruzzle or reading news articles. Plus, LTE pretty much cut my battery down to half of what it normally is. I'll be getting a new phone when the next Nexus is released anyway so i'm not too concerned about lack of LTE on my current phone. We got, what, 4 months before the next one is due?
Where was this ages ago?
matrix0886 said:
Right click the file and select "edit" and delete the "-w" between "nutfastboot" and "update" towards the end and it prevents your data from being wiped.
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Wow! Very thankful for such a simple "hack" :highfive:
I must have missed your argument for and against incrementally updating @matrix0886
knightowl439 said:
Wow! Very thankful for such a simple "hack" :highfive:
I must have missed your argument for and against incrementally updating @matrix0886
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Except, make sure you take the userdata.img out of the zip too or that'll wipe your device.
Edit, this already has the hacks http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53533289
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Except, make sure you take the userdata.img out of the zip too or that'll wipe your device.
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Are you sure, because I didn't take it out. All I did was delete "-w" from the batch file and that was it. Although, I do think I remember something about that as a secondary "just in case you're really worried about it" option.
Happy to be Guinea Pig
I had problems with my launcher @matrix0886 when I just deleted the "-w"
I'll give what @jd1639 said a shot too
Sorry for the late reply. I don't use the stock launcher (I use widget locker for my lockscreen and Apex for my home launcher) so I obviously haven't noticed any problems, lol. But how did the other option go for you @knightowl439?
Just received ota update to 4.4.4 45MB for xt 1045 lte usa version
djcody said:
Just received ota update to 4.4.4 45MB for xt 1045 lte usa version
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The update isn't working for me, even after reflashing the stock recovery. Did you have to do anything special to get it to work, or have you not modified the ROM at all?
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The update isn't working for me, even after reflashing the stock recovery. Did you have to do anything special to get it to work, or have you not modified the ROM at all?
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I had the stock 4.4.3 ROM rooted and with the Xposed Framework installed. No custom recovery or custom kernel ever installed (I always used "fastboot boot /path/to/recovery.img" rather than installing a recovery). The update worked fine for me. All I had to do was (after updating to 4.4.4) go into the Xposed framework installer, tell it to update/install the framework. I installed the 4.4.4 update through the OTA notification I received, not through the link in this thread. For me, the update was 41.1MB not 45MB. I downloaded the OTA over WiFi.
Before I installed the update, I booted ClockworkMod Recovery (again, booted not flashed) and made a nandroid backup. It couldn't backup my /data partition because it's encrypted, so I also made a full backup with Titanium Backup.
Full stock, no mods yet
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The update isn't working for me, even after reflashing the stock recovery. Did you have to do anything special to get it to work, or have you not modified the ROM at all?
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I had same problem
I was on 4.3.3 stock using exposed installer, I used MotoToolAioV3 to restore stock recovery then took OTA, during install I kept getting an error.
The solution for me was to download stock recovery from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53702274&postcount=268
extract the recovery then use MotoToolAioV3 to flash it, then accept the OTA and it should work, then if you're using exposed installer do what the other poster said and re-install xposed. Hope this helps.
castuis said:
I had same problem
I was on 4.3.3 stock using exposed installer, I used MotoToolAioV3 to restore stock recovery then took OTA, during install I kept getting an error.
The solution for me was to download stock recovery from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53702274&postcount=268
extract the recovery then use MotoToolAioV3 to flash it, then accept the OTA and it should work, then if you're using exposed installer do what the other poster said and re-install xposed. Hope this helps.
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Giving this a try, will report back
i just sad, I didn't mod anything because there is not yet full working ROM without bugs, mean the big one.
Anyway my One+ is on the way, Moto G is a good phone after breaking down my N4, going to sell soon
Got the update yesterday too working find no changes
Dialer still buggy
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Got the update yesterday too working find no changes
Dialer still buggy
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As I understand it, the main changes from 4.4.3 are compatibility with more SD cards, and some security updates to things like OpenSSL. I'm now able to use my 64GB Samsung EVO class 10 (MB-MP64DA/AM).
I managed to get the update installed after completely reflashing to stock (leaving the bootloader unlocked.)
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Got the update yesterday too working find no changes
Dialer still buggy
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The dialer is not buggy if you enable the animations in developer options (reset them to their default setting).
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The dialer is not buggy if you enable the animations in developer options (reset them to their default setting).
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Thanks dude
I turned it off because I hate it
New update is pretty great. Previously on 4.4.3 the radio would drop all connections seemingly at random when starting up a music app or YouTube, but after upgrading to 4.4.4 the radio seems to hold a much more consistent connection with fewer drops (none so far) . I previously thought this might have been a faulty SIM
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Hey,
I am new to CM13 and to custom roms in general and i got a few questions:
I received a couple of "available update" messages on my phone, and I want to update. Will it erase everything?
also - when i go to the update screen I have 4 Nightly versions there... do i just install the latest one? or do i need all 4?
The second question is about SD card and cameras... from what i found out, it is not possible to somehow install samsung's camera on CM13.... so im getting used to the camera... but why isn't there an option to save to the sd card? its driving me crazy! is there a way to solve this?
Thanks in advance!
I'm in your same boat, same questions, but I'm on CM 12.1 snapshot. Is there a stake release of cm13?
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comcoil said:
Hey,
I am new to CM13 and to custom roms in general and i got a few questions:
I received a couple of "available update" messages on my phone, and I want to update. Will it erase everything?
also - when i go to the update screen I have 4 Nightly versions there... do i just install the latest one? or do i need all 4?
The second question is about SD card and cameras... from what i found out, it is not possible to somehow install samsung's camera on CM13.... so im getting used to the camera... but why isn't there an option to save to the sd card? its driving me crazy! is there a way to solve this?
Thanks in advance!
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There is an option to save to sd when using stock CM Camera, Google Camera has no option. You only need one to flash.
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There is an option to save to sd when using stock CM Camera, Google Camera has no option. You only need one to flash.
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thanks.
how about the updates? will they erase everything on my phone if i install them?
comcoil said:
thanks.
how about the updates? will they erase everything on my phone if i install them?
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Normally updates wont erase anything from /data, tho on /system, if any custom file is in it, will be gone. That's all. I've been on CM13 since unofficial build, and it never erased any file for me.
midi_1996 said:
Normally updates wont erase anything from /data, tho on /system, if any custom file is in it, will be gone. That's all. I've been on CM13 since unofficial build, and it never erased any file for me.
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I tried installing the update and my phone restarted into recovery ran some code and than turned on without actually installing any update... how do i fix this?
comcoil said:
I tried installing the update and my phone restarted into recovery ran some code and than turned on without actually installing any update... how do i fix this?
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Lol, are you sure you chose the latest update from the update list? Check the date it's usually like that: YYYYMMDD . If it rebooted and it got some time to install then rebooted means it's installed, getting a new update means either:
- An update was just released (lol just after flashing yours)
- You didnt choose the latest file, and I don't know if it's really a problem, I usually update those "nightlies" (which mean that an update is released EVERY DAY) once a week.
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Lol, are you sure you chose the latest update from the update list? Check the date it's usually like that: YYYYMMDD . If it rebooted and it got some time to install then rebooted means it's installed, getting a new update means either:
- An update was just released (lol just after flashing yours)
- You didnt choose the latest file, and I don't know if it's really a problem, I usually update those "nightlies" (which mean that an update is released EVERY DAY) once a week.
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I chose the latest file. I downloaded it, Clicked on it and then it asked me to apply update so I clicked "update"
then the phone restarted into recovery there it ran some code for like 1 second and restarted back to the old version
I just want to understand because I'm new, if I'm on CM 12 I could skip cm12.1 and go directly to CM13? And what about downgrading how would to go from cm13 to let's day cm10 or a totally different ROM? What if a different ROM I want to try isn't on let's say lollipop but its on kitkat. How do you make that change?
I rely want to avoid bricking my phone
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