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post update, still reading 4.1

i tried to update from 4.1 to 4.1.1, and it rebooted into recovery with the android and open chest and exlamation, then i rebooted after hard reset, and found that it still says i am in android version 4.1.
however, i check system updates, and it says that i am up to date. my version is 4.1, build is JRN84D, and kernel is 3.1.10-g55edff4 android [email protected] )
#1 smp preempt mon jun 18 155626 PDT 2012
does anoyne have any suggestions?

Your signature says your N7 is unlocked and rooted. Are you using CWM recovery? If so thats why your update failed you need stock recovery to take OTA. Use an update zip from development to upgrade on custom recovery.
If you want to go back to stock recovery:
Download ota rootkeeper and backup your root
Download the system image from here
Extract the recovery.img and stick it in your fastboot folder
boot into fastboot and type fastboot erase recovery
type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
wait for flash
type fastboot reboot-bootloader
Reboot into nexus and go to All Apps, and force close "Google Services Framework", clear data, exit settings then go back and system update
updated fine go back into voodoo and restore root and done!! You can then reflash CWM if you want custom again

NeoMagus said:
Your signature says your N7 is unlocked and rooted. Are you using CWM recovery? If so thats why your update failed you need stock recovery to take OTA. Use an update zip from development to upgrade on custom recovery.
If you want to go back to stock recovery:
Download ota rootkeeper and backup your root
Download the system image from here
Extract the recovery.img and stick it in your fastboot folder
boot into fastboot and type fastboot erase recovery
type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
wait for flash
type fastboot reboot-bootloader
Reboot into nexus and go to All Apps, and force close "Google Services Framework", clear data, exit settings then go back and system update
updated fine go back into voodoo and restore root and done!! You can then reflash CWM if you want custom again
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i was using wugs toolkit. unlcokekd, rooted, but CWM never held permanently. i reflashed stock recovery via wugs toolkit, but still dont have option to update (shows no updates available).
do you suggest manually doing this? does anyone have an image of the OTA updates?

joshtb86 said:
i was using wugs toolkit. unlcokekd, rooted, but CWM never held permanently. i reflashed stock recovery via wugs toolkit, but still dont have option to update (shows no updates available).
do you suggest manually doing this? does anyone have an image of the OTA updates?
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You need to go into Apps All and force stop "Google Services Framework" and clear data before checking for the update again. If you are not on the stock recovery it will just fail again. The link in my first post goes to the factory images.

You can flash the ota via cwm as well. Make sure you have signature verification turned off and it should flash. However this will cause you to lose root+cwm so you'll have to re-flash cwm via fastboot and then flash the superuser binary via cwm.
You could also use voodoo ota rootkeeper or the root survival modes in supersu/superuser however make sure that you disable those/delete the root backup before you make another backup using cwm or else you will not be able to restore it.

i reflashed stock recovery.
it was stuck in a bootloop at the google screen.
hard reset - rebooted into system - still at 4.1, even with google services with no data stored.
says that i do not have updates available again.
why am i not having any luck with this?
reflashed stock recovery twice - 2nd time manually (not via toolkit). went to install - same problem.
installed update a 2nd time - i got the android with the little blue icon indicating its installing update, then the open chest/exclamation point. rebooted - still in 4.1.
anoyne else have suggestsions?

posted in error

tried another method - flashed CWM, downloaded the idnividual update images (from another post in this forum) tried flashing with both CWM and TWRP
got this error
verifying current systme
assert failed : apply_patch_check ("/system/app/googleservicesframework.apkl" "a bunch of #s and letters," "another bunch of #s and letters"
E: error in /sdcard/download/the image im trying to flash
(status 7)
installation aborted
anyone have any advice? this sucks.

joshtb86 said:
tried another method - flashed CWM, downloaded the idnividual update images (from another post in this forum) tried flashing with both CWM and TWRP
got this error
verifying current systme
assert failed : apply_patch_check ("/system/app/googleservicesframework.apkl" "a bunch of #s and letters," "another bunch of #s and letters"
E: error in /sdcard/download/the image im trying to flash
(status 7)
installation aborted
anyone have any advice? this sucks.
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Flash the system.IMG from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
The ota should then install correctly.
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El Daddy said:
Flash the system.IMG from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
The ota should then install correctly.
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what command do i use to flash the system image? do i also have to erase it first?

Read this walkthrough for commands

NeoMagus said:
Read this walkthrough for commands
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thanks! i dont want to flash the whole image however, just the system.img
would the command be fastboot erase system
then fastboot flash system system.img ?

you got it

Noob question about update

I hate to ask to questions here but im pretty desperate and confused. Ive tried searching for a solution to my problem but i cant seem to find a definite one.
I have a stock rooted Nexus 4 running on 4.2.1. Months ago, when the android 4.3 was first released, i disabled the OTA update notification somehow (forgot how!). Now when i tried chekcing for OTA update, my phone can only update to 4.2.2.
I did download the 4.2.2 update hoping that it might help my phone detect the 4.3 update after flashing it on my phone. But after flashing the 4.2.2 zip file using CWM, the installation failed due to some verification problem.
Now im at lost. I just want to update my phone to 4.3.
Do i need to unroot first? Or can i just manually update my phone through the computer using some toolkit or something?

Yes u will need to unroot your device first before it can be detected for an update. Since you already have cwmr+rooted; why not just download 4.3 stock image from Google site or from xda and flash it via cwmr? When installation fails; it could be due to bad download.
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Edit: for 4.3 make sure to download the 4.3 bootloader. Flash the boot loader before flashing 4.3 ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

My recommendation is to update to the latest recovery first, older recoveries will have issues with flashing: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995440
Before you flash a rom, make sure to do a factory reset wipe.
If you want to flash stock 4.3 through CWM, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010887, it can receive OTA.
Or if you want to flash a clean factory image using fastboot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

eksasol said:
My recommendation is to update to the latest recovery first, older recoveries will have issues with flashing: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995440
Before you flash a rom, make sure to do a factory reset wipe.
If you want to flash stock 4.3 through CWM, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010887, it can receive OTA.
Or if you want to flash a clean factory image using fastboot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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So do i just flash it through cwm like any other zip file? Sorry for asking too many questions. I used to know this stuff until i got busy with my studies.

I'm not sure what you mean by it. If its a rom.zip or a flashable package, then you can flash it through recovery. And if its not, it wouldn't work if you try anyway.

K if this is all confusing to you just download the toolkit, it will do everything for you.
If you wanna do manually; first download all the files to ur SD card.
1. Download latest cwm recovery (from above post)
2. Download 4.3 ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010887
3. Download 4.3 bootloader
https://www.copy.com/s/JniBu/4.3 files (mako)
Once you copy all these files to our SD card. Reboot to cwm recovery.
1. Flash latest cwm recovery
2. Reboot to recovery again
3. Wipe data/factory reset
4. Flash 4.3 bootloader
5. Flash 4.3 ROM
6. Wipe cache partition + dalvic
7. Reboot and enjoy
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OTA update to 4.3 isnt available anymore. Atleast thats what my phone said yesterday when i was doing OTA from 4.2.2 to 4.3. "Only available untill Nov 3rd xx:yy AM" (dont remember exact time)

4.4 update problem

Can't update from 4.3 Using stock kernel ( swapped from franco to install the ota)
Tried CWM and TWRP, both fail.
here what happens: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6a1oesuwa3zgk1h/2013-11-14%2004.12.43.jpg?m

the same problem, the same CWM version

Not sure if it helps, but I followed this guide and now I am on KitKat

Download the JWR66Y factory image, extract everything and flash the system.img in fastboot mode, which should restore any changes made to the system partition. Try again after that

I'm having the same issue. I was on JWR66V and tried to update to 4.4 in cwm but it wanted me to be on JWR66Y... so after much hunting around I finally found a working JWR66Y flash able zip and was able to update to that.
However, I noticed that supersu got screwed up in the process, saying it couldn't find binaries. I downloaded and flashed the latest supersu, but that had no effect. I figured I would go ahead and try updating to 4.4 anyway and fix the root issue later...
The 4.4 update seemed to be going OK in cwm until I hit that same issue you did at about 75%. I've seen elsewhere that certain versions of supersu have been causing update problems. My only other thought is maybe I need to update my cwm to a newer version.

Eregoth said:
Download the JWR66Y factory image, extract everything and flash the system.img in fastboot mode, which should restore any changes made to the system partition. Try again after that
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Why not getting directly the kitkat-image and flash boot.img and system.img in fastboot mode? No further update needed ...
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[Q] OTA downloaded but not installed

I am currently running stock 4.4 on my Nexus 4. FTP doesn't work with 4.4 and I don't like that, I use my FTP a lot. Now did I get a notification about half an hour ago that there was an update (4.4.2) available. I chose to update and pressed the restart an install updates button.
But my N4 didn't install the update, it simply booted into TWRP recovery. So I chose reboot > system and my phone just booted. Just not to 4.4.2, but to 4.4. When I check for updates in the settings it says that there are no updates available. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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thedjdoorn said:
I am currently running stock 4.4 on my Nexus 4. FTP doesn't work with 4.4 and I don't like that, I use my FTP a lot. Now did I get a notification about half an hour ago that there was an update (4.4.2) available. I chose to update and pressed the restart an install updates button.
But my N4 didn't install the update, it simply booted into TWRP recovery. So I chose reboot > system and my phone just booted. Just not to 4.4.2, but to 4.4. When I check for updates in the settings it says that there are no updates available. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Download the update to your pc from here. If you are running 4.4.1, then download from here.
Copy the update.zip to your phone
Boot into TWRP recovery. Choose install zip from sdcard, navigate and select the update.zip and flash. Re-flash the SuperSU/Superuser binaries if you want to keep root (not flashing this, might replace twrp with the stock recovery ). Reboot.
If you have modified ANY system file, then this won't work and you will have to revert to stock first.

Ibrahim.Rahman said:
Download the update to your pc from {I am not allowed to post links yet}.. If you are running 4.4.1, then download from {I am not allowed to post links yet}.
Copy the update.zip to your phone
Boot into TWRP recovery. Choose install zip from sdcard, navigate and select the update.zip and flash. Re-flash the SuperSU/Superuser binaries if you want to keep root (not flashing this, might replace twrp with the stock recovery ). Reboot.
If you have modified ANY system file, then this won't work and you will have to revert to stock first.
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Didn't work but i've found a solution myself.
To update to 4.4, I've flashed the factory image without wiping the cache.
I used the following command lines
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader*.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-*.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot
Maybe that is the reason why it doesn't work. I've downloaded the 4.4.2 factory image now and flashed it like this, it worked.

[Q] NEXUS 4 Wont Update to Android 5.0.1

Hi,
I have a rooted Nexus 4 with android 5.0 lollipop build LRX21T.
I have TWRP recovery installed version : v2.8.0.1
The device id rooted via placing the zip file in the device and flashng it via TWRP recovery.
But i am not able to update to android 5.0.1 via google OTA update.
Everytime i try to install the 5.0.1 OTA it goes to TWRP recovery.
I found that the downloaded OTA update file is placed in /cache folder , so i try to update it manually but failed as it shows some update partition error.
"E: error executing updater binary in zip '/cache/e93b********************.signed-occam-LRX22c-from-LRX21T.e93b****.zip"
update partition details.....
I think i am getting this error because the device is rooted.
Can someone guide me how to update my device..and if this because of the rooted device how to unroot without going back to stock.
Thanks in advance....

You can't flash the ota in twrp. You have to be 100% stock recovery, system, kernel, and radio. Flash the stock recovery with fastboot then try the ota.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using XDA Free mobile app

I flashed the stock recovery the OTA update continued in the stock recovery , then it showed a error....and i had to restart the phone ...now the ota update has disappeared with the phone still in android 5.0 ...Can you tell me how to get the OTA update back...?
1)Does the error came because the phone is still rooted ?
2) If so how do i remove the root with returning stock .?
3) also if i root and return to stock will it wipe my phone apps and their data...
Now i got the OTA update downloaded manually on my laptop and and booted into stock recovery to try to sideload the zip it gave me the error
"package expects build fingerprint of google /occam/mako:5.0/LRX21T or google /occam/mako:5.0/LRX22C user release keys; this device has google/occam/mako:4.4/KRT160 user release keys .....
This is weird as i am running android android lollipop 5.0 LRX21T and not android kitkat....

Did you flash mods while rooted?
Sent from my Nexus 4

arkangel72 said:
Did you flash mods while rooted?
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Tried both...with and without Root....same error....

Try flashing factory image.
The OTA will flash only on the stock recovery it won't work in any modified/custom recovery. So flash stock recovery first then you are good to go.
Edit: You may also try flashing the factory image, u may lose your data while doing that
Head to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and download the latest image, flashing procedure is explained there too.Its not compulsory to lock bootloader afterwards BTW, its personal preference.

sachin.parmar100 said:
The OTA will flash only on the stock recovery it won't work in any modified/custom recovery. So flash stock recovery first then you are good to go.
Edit: You may also try flashing the factory image, u may lose your data while doing that
Head to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and download the latest image, flashing procedure is explained there too.Its not compulsory to lock bootloader afterwards BTW, its personal preference.
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Actually i dont want to flash stock as i will lose all the data in the process....
Any other way....?
If there is no other way could you please suggest any tool kit which will backup all data including sms ,contact, call logs and all app data and /data/media folder. in one go ...?

use advanced backup from twrp backup menu and select data only to create a nandroid backup of data only
you can also use titanium backup to backup to choose what to backup and restore it afterwards but it will need root again.
sync your contacts with google server

Flah rom in fastboot

Download factory image, flash system, bootloader and recovery manually. You won't lose your data.

You need stock recovery to proceed flashing the OTA, custom recovery won't flash the OTA, i don't think being rooted is the issue Just flash the stock recovery to solve the problem.

sachin.parmar100 said:
You need stock recovery to proceed flashing the OTA, custom recovery won't flash the OTA, i don't think being rooted is the issue Just flash the stock recovery to solve the problem.
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Rooted IS an issue. You can't be rooted and apply the OTA file, it will fail every time. As a previous poster has said, the phone MUST have stock bootloader, recovery and be not rooted for the stock OTA's to apply. If they see any modification during the process, they abort. It's been discussed many times.

Yaz75 said:
Rooted IS an issue. You can't be rooted and apply the OTA file, it will fail every time. As a previous poster has said, the phone MUST have stock bootloader, recovery and be not rooted for the stock OTA's to apply. If they see any modification during the process, they abort. It's been discussed many times.
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thanks for pointing out i was so wrong