I just noticed this when I was buying a new MicroSD Card for my SM-G900F. When I was about to format the new MicroSD Card while I was still inside the store, the Settings just crashed and takes back again at it's menu. During that time I had the BPA2 (Israel) firmware installed. The I decided to download other firmwares and successfully flashed them, but shows the same problem. I can download the firmwares, but when I try to extract them, my pc's Winrar will show an error message saying that the archive is corrupt. So then I decided instead to use a custom firmware ALEXNDR Rom which is based on the same firmware I had. I downloaded it with no problems, even extracted the contents without any issues, but to my surprise it also has the same problem like those of the stock firmwares! At first I though maybe an issue with my network, but when the same thing happens with the custom firmware, it made me think that perhaps it's an issue with Samsung.
Luckily I managed to save firmware copy of an older firmware (XXUPOJ1) and also have a Nandroid Backup.
Perhaps someone can try to recreate my problem.
Format the card in a PC first?
Make sure you're using WinRar's latest 5.31 to extract the firmware
Here's the latest lollipop BOJ1 already extracted
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!fVhhzRBC!A79uC8Fgg1mGCZOaujQCzBxcUUN9z_ctVVkigD8ffVM
For (United Kingdom) BTU G900F
I just puchased a yotaPhone 2 and as all of us know there is no native update button in phone ,i downloaded firmware through yotaflasher but cannot find it in my PC and showing error ..where to download the firmware from and where to place it for flashing the firmware,can anyone please provide me detail instructions on how to flash lollipop on this phone . thanks in advance!
Yotaflasher should take care of all that, it stores firmware in the firmware sub folder. There is no need to look at anything. Just select download zip, then select flash in yotaflasher.
Try repeating it.
For detailed instructions, plz read the other posts on this Yotaphone group .
Also don't forget too put your phone in download mode! And make sure windows finds the drivers for the phone or you'll be really frustrated!
hi,i tried to upgrade to Lolipop but now i'm stuck.Using adb devices finds my device connected but when i write adb sideload <filename.zip> does nothing and after a while i get the message in my phone E:footer is wrong E:signature verification failed.
I have tried with 4 different firmwares ..same result.Any ideas please? i'm stuck in the Android system recovery and can't do anything with the phone.
Don't sideload the zips from the yota ftp - they can't be flashed like that.
Instead use yotaflasher. If needed delete the folder where yotaflasher is installed on your PC, then reinstall it again.
In YotaFlasher download latest RU firmware, put the phone in download mode ( power+ volume down) and start flashing.
std_ said:
Don't sideload the zips from the yota ftp - they can't be flashed like that.
Instead use yotaflasher. If needed delete the folder where yotaflasher is installed on your PC, then reinstall it again.
In YotaFlasher download latest RU firmware, put the phone in download mode ( power+ volume down) and start flashing.
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- I bought YD206 CN firmware(4.4.4) and downloaded the latest firmware(5.0) under CN directory of YOTA firmwares and successfully installed it using Yotaflasher.
- After upgrading, model number reflects YD201 and the build number - LRX21M.5.0.0-HK1.1.124d
My question is can I flash the latest RU build on the firmware mentioned above?
Thanks in advance.
You need to flash RU 124 and then update with OTA to RU 134.
So in conclusion If I have HK 2006 phone Is better to upgrade to 5.0.0-HK1.1.66.zip and after that need to flash again if I want EU or RU version, never do that directly because would be problems.
I yotaflashed yd206 from HK 4.4.4 kitkat to latest Russian kit kat, then did an OTA to get the latest Russian lollipop firmware. No problems, but there is a long wait at the yotaphone animation for 5 minutes after lollipop upgrade.
I had no problems with radio (frequency bands) on newly configured Yd201 but I live in Asia.
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I yotaflashed yd206 from HK 4.4.4 kitkat to latest Russian kit kat, then did an OTA to get the latest Russian lollipop firmware. No problems, but there is a long wait at the yotaphone animation for 5 minutes after lollipop upgrade.
I had no problems with radio (frequency bands) on newly configured Yd201 but I live in Asia.
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So you say is better to upgrade the firmware from HK 4.4 to RU 4.4 and then i flash the firmware again with 5.-.-0?
No, only 1 flash is required using my method, HK4.4 -> RU4.4
You can then update RU4.4 kitkat -> RU1.1.124 lollipop by OTA (Over The Air) because it can then be updated directly in the phone settings. This OTA must be done anyway in order to get to latest RU version.
The size of the OTA is 1GB, a huge download. During the first boot up of the lollipop, there is a very very long wait for lollipop to start for the first time, where it updates all your apps to new lollipop format. Be patient at the yotaphone animation during first lollipop boot up.
I'm not saying my method is better, I only use this method because I read here that a few people had problems flashing directly from HK 4.4 -> RU 5.0 But Many people have successfully flashed direct from HK4.4 -> RU1.1.124
Forgot putting the phone in download mode
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Also don't forget too put your phone in download mode! And make sure windows finds the drivers for the phone or you'll be really frustrated!
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So I did, and you right know I am really frustrated. My yota is stuck on "Powered by Android" screen, what can I do? Posted more information on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69919853&postcount=24
Hey there! I am on my build WAS-LX1AC185B172. its fully stock, unmodified, unrooted , stock recovery and bootloader locked. So i decided to update it to WAS-LX1AC185B181, this firmware is officialy available in my country via OTA, but it weighs 2.35 Gb and my internet connection is week so i was unable to download it via OTA. so instead i downloaded a FULL-OTA firmware from firmware finder app (my friend did it for me). and i want to install it through DLOAD (three buttons method) but its starts and stucks at 5% and throws an error "Update install failed" , I dont know what is going on. Kindly help me how to install this firmware, and also can it be flashed through TWRP. as the Update.zip file seems to be flashable. or is there any other method to do it.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
I have issues with my current ROM, and need to flash a new one.
My firmware is the L31C432B411 however there seem to be three .zip files out there.
A update.zip, a update_full_VNS-L31_hw_eu.zip and a update_data_full_public.zip.
Back when I used to flash Roms in my Galaxy S3 there were only ever one .zip I needed to flash so I'm a bit confused.
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I have issues with my current ROM, and need to flash a new one.
My firmware is the L31C432B411 however there seem to be three .zip files out there.
A update.zip, a update_full_VNS-L31_hw_eu.zip and a update_data_full_public.zip.
Back when I used to flash Roms in my Galaxy S3 there were only ever one .zip I needed to flash so I'm a bit confused.
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Hi Pman96,
yes those firmwares ( FULL OTA MF ) include three files you must use all.
If you cannot use Firmware Finder to directly update, then exist a couple of methods ( similar to themselves )
like HWOTA or HuRU that can do the trick. Both methods requires your bootloader should be unlocked
and install a custom recovery.
You have single sim model so choose B413 or latest B415, just in case...
Best regards
Hello Everyone,
I'm a long time iphone user since 2013, and I just transferred to Samsung.
Recently I bought a new unlocked S10+ from samsung website. As a AT&T user and I need to use WiFi calling since my reception at work and home is bad. I did some search on the forum and flashed my software to 975U AT&T version, by using the files in SAT-1-9.0 folder in this link(https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=290649).
After I unzipped the G975U_SAT_1.zip files I got the BL, AP, CP ,CSC files, and I also downloaded the USERDATA file in that folder as well(USERDATA_ATT_G975USQU1ASAT_CL15296297_QB21819666_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.zip).
I try to search online find if I should upload the USERDATA into Odin but I'm unable to find any, but I did it anyway and upload BL, AP, CP, CSC, HOMEDATA all together.
The flash was successful and I was able to get ATT logo during booting and all the apps in the phone. Then I found out the SAT version of firmware is kinda old, there are newer updates available already.
Back in to that website folder, there are SBA and SD3 available as well, in SBA folder there are G975U_SBA_1.zip, 3.5 GB just like the previous SAT one, so I assume this is the main file. They also have USERDATA available as well and I saw the ATT one is in there too.
The SD3 folder doesn't have any "Main file", it only has USERDATA.
I tried to clicked check updates in the phone but it showing me my current software is up to date but apparently it's not(SAT version is back in Feb and there are SBA and SD3 already)?
Then I downloaded a new firmware (SD3) on firmware.science web last night and flashed it using the SD card, it wiped my data but the flash was good and the phone is now showing SD3 version.
My question is:
1. Will I get OTA updates in the future?
2. What does USERDATA do? I'm guess it let your software has specific carrier features, that's why the file name contains carrier brand name, the SBA and SD3 are all carrier updates, so if I want to flash to a newer version, I need to upload newer USERDATA into Odin, is that correct?
3. I flashed the SD3 using the MicroSD card. If I want to flash it using Odin, what should I do?
4. Is the SD3 file on the firmware.science website the same to USERDATA file in SD3 folder on androidfilehost.com?
5. How can I update without losing the data? Yesterday during the SD card flash I have to factory reset before update otherwise it will stuck at "Starting android" forever.
Thank you very much.