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updates and root

folks, i have updated my wildfire to 1.25.x.x.x in system updates.
than i rooted my phone and checked for updates again and it found 1.37.x.x.x
So when i run that update, it reboots phone - shows unpacking icon with android and than shows triangle with exclamation which is Clockwork recovery.
Any idea what i should do to update it?
should i unroot it? or is there another way around it?
it shows Signature verification failed, thats why it won't install update.
thanks
Shucks, found solution

4.1.2 update fails

My wife's nexus 7 won't update to 4.1.2. I wasn't paying attention to it, just noticed today she is still on 4.1.1. I keep going to update after stopping and clearing the Google services framework and I keep getting the red triangle. The error says assert failed... no app is listed, but it does say tegra 3 in the long error message.
More info:
Bone stock, never been rooted.
I have wiped cache.
I do NOT want to do a factory reset as she has stuff everywhere.
I am guessing I will have to load the update from the Google servers, but even then it might fail.
Of course I have done a Google search and got nothing useful other than to root and load a Rom. This is not mine and I am frequently gone, don't want to root it or anything as I am rarely home to fix any issues.

Could you please share the exact error here? It will be much easier to find a solution to the problem once we see what the error is.
Sent from my Nexus 4

Here is the messages during the update:
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update...
Verifying current system...
Assert failed: apply_patch_check("Emmc:/dev/ block/ platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/lnx:5007360:089ca623419a5766da5b95b17352cffcbf1c610:5013504:c48f8e86c73fb2c2ba1794f5ec98e27c9e206ed5")
Installation aborted.

That error means that the update was attempting to patch the kernel and failed. That is very strange if the device has not been modded at all.
Has the bootloader been unlocked?
Sent from my Nexus 4

Ya positive its never been unlocked. And I know it is still locked as one of the screens I went into last night showed this.
After sleeping on it, I got to thinking I can probably just call Google for tech support. This is actually a legit issue I didn't cause by playing with it! For once. Lol

Okay, I called Google and they just told me to do what I did, which of course wasn't helpful. They said to do a factory reset, which didn't work. I tried to do the following update to 4.1.2, and that had the same error:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwlXQoAzrBE
I am still on 4.1.1 build JRO03S. I am trying to do this without root but clearly I can sideload files with adb. I read someone else had the same problem but the display was changed from 213. My bootloader is locked and everything, so no root, not sure how mine could have been changed.
Anyone know how to manually update to 4.1.2 without root? (other than the instrucitons above, I see there is more than one version of 4.1.1, so maybe I used the wrong update file when I manually tried).
Please help!!!
Thanks

Use wugs toolkit to unlock boot loader, then reflash your nexus with the update you want. Once that finishes simply relock the boot loader. I had your same problem. Just make sure to use wugs to backup as boot loader unlocks wipe the device.
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[Q] GPE Virgin ROM is getting official OTA updates?

So I had the S4 from Rogers which I believe is the i337m. I flashed the Virgin Rom which is a 4.3 Google Play Edition Rom (my phone also says that it is a i9505G in the settings now) and a few times now, I get a message in the notification shade that a system update has been downloaded and needs to be installed. It says that it is the 4.3 edition update (even though I'm already on a 4.3 ROM) but when I click to install it, it just boots into TWRP and does nothing. I'm wondering, if I remove TWRP and return to stock recovery, will my phone install the update that it keeps prompting me to install, and somehow make my phone react like a regular GPE phone with OTA updates?

LiquidPrince said:
So I had the S4 from Rogers which I believe is the i337m. I flashed the Virgin Rom which is a 4.3 Google Play Edition Rom (my phone also says that it is a i9505G in the settings now) and a few times now, I get a message in the notification shade that a system update has been downloaded and needs to be installed. It says that it is the 4.3 edition update (even though I'm already on a 4.3 ROM) but when I click to install it, it just boots into TWRP and does nothing. I'm wondering, if I remove TWRP and return to stock recovery, will my phone install the update that it keeps prompting me to install, and somehow make my phone react like a regular GPE phone with OTA updates?
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No, even if you return to stock recovery. You still won't be able to apply the new update. It will fail.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk 4

I'm not sure about TWRP, but if they don't have the correct buildprops that are expected by the OTA zip, you wont be able to install it.
I had the official clockwork recovery installed on my i9505G. When it tried to install the official OTA, it downloaded and booted into CWM and tried to install, but since this recovery is built for i9505, the buildprops are wrong, so the OTA fails to install. I extracted CWM and changed the device build properties to match what are on the stock i9505G. Then I booted into that CWM and used "adb sideload ..." to install the update which is still saved in your /cache partition. Since the update will break superuser/su, i then used "adb sideload ..." again to install the zip for superuser again.

Tmobile S4 virgin rom
keep getting the ota update for 4.3 even though i'm already on 4.3 is there any way to stop this from happening have tried to install ota update but phone is not a original google play edition so requirements don't match up and installation fails. just want to stop this from popping up on notification bar. thanks for any help.

ChrisS4 said:
keep getting the ota update for 4.3 even though i'm already on 4.3 is there any way to stop this from happening have tried to install ota update but phone is not a original google play edition so requirements don't match up and installation fails. just want to stop this from popping up on notification bar. thanks for any help.
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Just hide the notification by holding it, click App Info, then uncheck show notifications.

works great
Raiken_ said:
Just hide the notification by holding it, click App Info, then uncheck show notifications.
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Thanks that works great.just hate seeing on ny phone.

[Q] 5.0.1 update error on unrooted stock Nexus 4

My nexus 4 just comes up with an android error screen during installation of the 5.0.1 update . It appears the phone then rolls back the update, reboots and then after a while the OTA notification comes up again and if I try to install it I get the same results? I would happily leave my phone on 5.0.0 but as far as I can see I would need to root to turn of the system updates and the notifications that go with them. I think this is the same complaint here on the google forum but no solutions it seems? https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/svgo7hsNMMQ[101-125-false]
Anyone any ideas? I tried clearing cache from recovery but I can't get into the menu that lets you clear the cache for some reason?

I think my fire tablet just updated on its own despite having the adb hide stuff done

Ive just rebooted my fire tablet after installing some minecraft mods, when I turnt it back on it came up with a promt saying it was installing the latest software or what ever it does when doing the ota, I knew this from upgrading to 5.0.1.
is it possible it was just doing what happens when normal android optimises apps on boot. is there a app to check the installed software version as im not near my pc to unhide and go in and check what firmware im on. I put this in general as it wasnt a question but just to inform that my tablet possibly had a update despite the proper steps taken to hide the ota and updates.

Saw Same Message But No Update (whew)!
For a split second I saw that same message too when first starting the Fire up. But nothing happened and nothing updated. So I think it's still blocked. Even checking for updates still fails.
So I think we're OK!

dubliner52 said:
For a split second I saw that same message too when first starting the Fire up. But nothing happened and nothing updated. So I think it's still blocked. Even checking for updates still fails.
So I think we're OK!
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Have you tried unhiding to see the software version
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

I didn't unhide it, but it says I'm still on 5.0.1. There was no update.

I saw the same thing but it didn't seem to update. I know the method i provided works for 5.0.0 to 5.0.1. Until there is a bump to 5.0.2 or whatever we don't know for sure if the "fix" works under 5.0.1.

Same thing happened to me but it was 3 days ago. I had been trying all day to install my adb drivers without success and switched off the device. When I restarted it immediately went into an update and I went into a panic that the new update would block the ability to access google play but immediately after the assumed "update" I successfully installed the adb drivers and google play without problem. I also checked the version and it still showed 5.0.1 so I wondered if my initial update on switching on the fire for the 1st time had somehow been unsuccessful and that had been what had been causing the inability to load the adb drivers although the tablet hadn't seemed to have any other problems and I had already downloaded and used several apps from Amazon.

I let it update upon first booting my Fire to 5.0.1. I was still successful in installing Google Playstore and hiding ads on lockscreen.

I'm not sure but i think that 'installing the latest software' screen is the android OS updating the dalvik runtime files after rebooting when an apk is modified. nothing to do with an ota.

julianpaul said:
I'm not sure but i think that 'installing the latest software' screen is the android OS updating the dalvik files after rebooting when an apk is modified. nothing to do with an ota.
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That is my conclusion also.

I had this happen to me also. Considering amazon patched a root method I made sure to root and nuke any chance of a future OTA unless I wanted it too. That was a cheap move, Amazon.