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[Q] OTA problems

I realized my Nexus 7 is still on 4.1 and it couldn't find the 4.1.1 OTA update. I had rooted but not installed a rom. I can force the Nexus to find the OTA update 4.1.1 by force quitting the framework services app but it doesn't actually install. It goes through the download and reboot but after reboot no 4.1.1 just 4.1. I restored to factory settings but same problem. What gives?!
This is pretty frustrating especially since this is suppose to be the Google flagship tablet. Can't even get its own updates to stick to a factory resetted device.
And of course Google support is nonexistent.
Any suggestions outside of manually installing which I don't really want to do? Is it too much to expect updates to actually install?

Wombats inc said:
I realized my Nexus 7 is still on 4.1 and it couldn't find the 4.1.1 OTA update. I had rooted but not installed a rom. I can force the Nexus to find the OTA update 4.1.1 by force quitting the framework services app but it doesn't actually install. It goes through the download and reboot but after reboot no 4.1.1 just 4.1. I restored to factory settings but same problem. What gives?!
This is pretty frustrating especially since this is suppose to be the Google flagship tablet. Can't even get its own updates to stick to a factory resetted device.
And of course Google support is nonexistent.
Any suggestions outside of manually installing which I don't really want to do? Is it too much to expect updates to actually install?
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Couple of things, do NOT! use the Framework trick, as it causes no end of issues such as Play Store not working etc etc. TRUST ME DONT!
Second of all, if you've rooted, you have a custom recovery and hense cannot install OTA updates.
Do it manually, using the adb commands when connected to your PC.
There is a tutorial on doing it manually in XDA, it took me a couple of minutes, literally, and I kept root and everything was strawberries and cream.
I'll say again, Framework trick may seem good and easy, but it creates more errors than it does good
Hope this helps !

Wilks3y said:
Couple of things, do NOT! use the Framework trick, as it causes no end of issues such as Play Store not working etc etc. TRUST ME DONT!
Second of all, if you've rooted, you have a custom recovery and hense cannot install OTA updates.
Do it manually, using the adb commands when connected to your PC.
There is a tutorial on doing it manually in XDA, it took me a couple of minutes, literally, and I kept root and everything was strawberries and cream.
I'll say again, Framework trick may seem good and easy, but it creates more errors than it does good
Hope this helps !
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Quick question; does factory reset unroot? The only reason I rooted was to get USB host support. But now I use the media importer app I don't have a real need for a root. So if factory reset doesn't unroot, I gotta unroot by the rooting utility? It's a real pain in the butt to have to manually update if I don't need root access anymore. I'd prefer it just update normally since my previous need for a root no longer exists.

Wombats inc said:
Quick question; does factory reset unroot? The only reason I rooted was to get USB host support. But now I use the media importer app I don't have a real need for a root. So if factory reset doesn't unroot, I gotta unroot by the rooting utility? It's a real pain in the butt to have to manually update if I don't need root access anymore. I'd prefer it just update normally since my previous need for a root no longer exists.
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No you will keep Root when factory resetting as it is part of the /system directory.

Wilks3y said:
No you will keep Root when factory resetting as it is part of the /system directory.
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I'm having a heck of a time unrooting. Using the tool kit but it won't actually wipe or unroot my device at all. I run through the unlock, flash stock and nothing actually happens.
This is frustrating.

Follow this and fast boot the files with adb. Just follow the commands.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
If you do this you will know what to do and never need a toolkit again. This will bring you to complete stock!
Its really easy. Put your android-sdk on your c drive and there will be a folder that reads platform-tools. Place the files in there and make sure when you open the command prompt you point to the right directory in my case it is c:/android-sdk/platform-tools

Travisdroidx2 said:
Follow this and fast boot the files with adb. Just follow the commands.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
If you do this you will know what to do and never need a toolkit again. This will bring you to complete stock!
Its really easy. Put your android-sdk on your c drive and there will be a folder that reads platform-tools. Place the files in there and make sure when you open the command prompt you point to the right directory in my case it is c:/android-sdk/platform-tools
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Realized I was using the older toolkit, switch over to Tool Kit 5.14 and it did it just fine.
Thanks guys!

[Q] JB OTA update won't work! Help!

Checked for the new JB update, downloaded it. I went to install it and it got about a third of the way there, failed, rebooted and I am still on 4.0.4
Then it gives me a notification saying the update failed to which I can only press OK.
I've tried to update three times now and it does the same thing.
My phone is rooted, but I don't think that should cause problems
At a loss here...

ogal said:
Checked for the new JB update, downloaded it. I went to install it and it got about a third of the way there, failed, rebooted and I am still on 4.0.4
Then it gives me a notification saying the update failed to which I can only press OK.
I've tried to update three times now and it does the same thing.
My phone is rooted, but I don't think that should cause problems
At a loss here...
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why dont u just make a nandroid, fastboot back to stock ics with rsd, dont root your phone or do if you think it doesnt matter which ur right ive flashed the leak and official multiple times already both rooted and not, boot back to recovery and try it again...i heard this might help although i never have had to but rename it update.zip.
heres the one i used have never had a problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982934

Hi, I've downloaded the OTA update from Verizon for my Razr M three times this morning because each install shows "The Software Update Failed". It'd be just peachy if they didn't make me download all 250 MB each time I tried. Sheesh.
Aside from that, it's still not updating. This phone is rooted, but has never had a custom ROM put on it.
Hmmm...now that I think about it, I do have a bunch of apps disabled, including some Verizon apps, etc. I'll try enabling them and trying this all again.

Hmmm...didn't work. Still getting the failed error message. Going to back everything up and do a Factory Reset.

lostpilot28 said:
Hmmm...didn't work. Still getting the failed error message. Going to back everything up and do a Factory Reset.
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I am currently having the same issue in attempting to download/install the latest VZ update. I've done a factory reset and tried voodoo rootkeeper to temp unroot the phone to no avail. The only modifications I had made before the reset were deleting some of the bloatware manually with root explorer- those apps were subsequently restored from the reset.
Any idea how I can update the phone? Given that there is currently no way to install a custom ROM currently and can only delete bloatware, I'm thinking rooting this phone doesn't really help much if we are then not able to update it

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fiendebass said:
I am currently having the same issue in attempting to download/install the latest VZ update. I've done a factory reset and tried voodoo rootkeeper to temp unroot the phone to no avail. The only modifications I had made before the reset were deleting some of the bloatware manually with root explorer- those apps were subsequently restored from the reset.
Any idea how I can update the phone? Given that there is currently no way to install a custom ROM currently and can only delete bloatware, I'm thinking rooting this phone doesn't really help much if we are then not able to update it
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I've restored the phone to stock ICS via the Fastboot method. This allowed me to automatically update to Official Jellybean.

ogal said:
Checked for the new JB update, downloaded it. I went to install it and it got about a third of the way there, failed, rebooted and I am still on 4.0.4
Then it gives me a notification saying the update failed to which I can only press OK.
I've tried to update three times now and it does the same thing.
My phone is rooted, but I don't think that should cause problems
At a loss here...
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I upgraded to JB via OTA from Verizon, you will not lose anything if you upgrade that way, nor will you have to setup anything again. If you flash it through RSD lite than you probably will lose everything plus have to go thru the setup process again. Hope this helps. Make sure you uninstall safe strap recovery and if you're rooted make sure you backup and save root via the voodoo app, before accepting the OTA. I found out the hard way. If you don't uninstall the safe strap recovery the OTA will fail every time.
Being rooted does not have anything to do with the OTA failing. Its safe strap if you are using that.
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fiendebass said:
I've restored the phone to stock ICS via the Fastboot method. This allowed me to automatically update to Official Jellybean.
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I used this method phonearena.com/news/How-to-restore-your-Motorola-DROID-RAZR-M-back-to-stock-ICS-from-the-JB-leak_id35580 .
Followed all the links and tried to RSD back to stock and then OTA, but now Im bricked....any suggestions on flashing a fresh copy of ICS using RSD LITE??

fiendebass said:
I've restored the phone to stock ICS via the Fastboot method. This allowed me to automatically update to Official Jellybean.
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Could you direct me to somewhere I can find out details about this? What is the fastboot method?

Notified to update OTA to 4.2... from 4.2???

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.

phonic said:
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!

phonic said:
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

[Q][Root/cwm lost?]

Hi guys,
Recently I updated my i9505 to official 4.3 version XXUEMJ7...then i rooted it successfully, flashed philz cwm, it worked...i did a backup, then flashed a mod (lightning effect on lockscreen), turned on the phone. Suddenly my wifi won't work so I decided to do a restore from the backup that i made 10 minutes before that. While it was restoring i noticed that i didnt had enough storage so it skipped few things. When it was successfully restored, I turned my phone on and here are the problems:
When it has booted up i recieved so many errors and fc's like procedure system has stopped, com.google.process.gapps error and so on...
I taught ok, lets delete some HD games to gain space and restore it again. But now there was no cwm or any recovery. I can't use Google Play and every app that uses Google files (youtube, gmail, stock internet browser and even facebook)
I'm not sure if I lost root and/or cwm. My question is how to get it back? What do i need to flash over Odin? Download mode works.
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Hello.
I have same problem. Nothing works. I think it's a protected bootloader that will rewrite every custom rom/recovery. I had rom for ~20 days, and was just doing my daily routine, rebooted and lost root and CWM. After this same symptoms occured.
I downloaded XXUEMJ7 prerooted now, and it was only rom that I could flash. Have no custom recovery by now and root works... But probably not for long. What's most important - wifi works. This is partial solution for using your phone while someone smarter will explain us what's going on.

socah said:
Hello.
I have same problem. Nothing works. I think it's a protected bootloader that will rewrite every custom rom/recovery. I had rom for ~20 days, and was just doing my daily routine, rebooted and lost root and CWM. After this same symptoms occured.
I downloaded XXUEMJ7 prerooted now, and it was only rom that I could flash. Have no custom recovery by now and root works... But probably not for long. What's most important - wifi works. This is partial solution for using your phone while someone smarter will explain us what's going on.
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Thank you. I'll try that.
EDIT: can you give me a link, and you flashed it via Odin?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
In this thread, use "ctrl+f" and write "PDA: XXUEMJ7" There will be prerooted odin flashable link.
By the way, flashing this new knox bootloader with 4.3 was worst thing that I done do my phone. And I'm really pissed off on samsung. Hope some smart devs will solve this someday and we will be able to downgrade or bypass this.

Well, I still get those errors all the time... :crying:
I taught this would remove them, but unfotunately didn't..

Samsungi9OO said:
Well, I still get those errors all the time... :crying:
I taught this would remove them, but unfotunately didn't..
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Try factory reset

socah said:
Try factory reset
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Thank you

No going back?

So, to my new found knowledge I made a big mistake.
I rooted my Nexus 6P for the first time ever, and I used the Nexus Toolkit to root after failing miserably via the classic method. After I rooted I installed some minor tweaks and I then decided to step it up and install lineage OS. I installed it with not much problem. I tried installing another slight tweak and I saw the message of "System UI has stopped". I panicked and factory reset and am installing again to the first version of Lineage I tried (which worked). I then started thinking...
If I want to uninstall lineage how do I get back to my stock OS?
I then saw all the forum posts on other devices and they all said just install the old ROM you backed up.
Guess who didn't back it up.
I wanted to see if there was any way I could get my stock OS back, I don't care if I can or can't sync my app with Titanium backup I just want stock back. I would've posted this in anohter seciton but since im new I thought I would put it in general rather than other less fitting subsections.

You can always go back. Just download the factory image and use adb to reinstall a fresh factory install.

jinosong said:
You can always go back. Just download the factory image and use adb to reinstall a fresh factory install.
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Well know that I know its possible, is there any guide here to do it?

BiteFilms said:
Well know that I know its possible, is there any guide here to do it?
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The first thread in general under how to go back to stock.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928

BiteFilms said:
Well know that I know its possible, is there any guide here to do it?
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Instructions and image downloads straight from Google.
https://developers.google.com/android/images
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Easiest thing to do is download the stock OTA from Google and simply adb sideload it via adb sideload command on your pc. Also I recommend trying different roms than lineage as many roms are based off it but with added features and improvements. I use this rom which includes the opengapps package for Google apps like play store. I recommend wiping everything and going back to stock and trying this rom or another one of your choice.
https://download.bbqdroid.org