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Will I lose memo after update?

My friend lost the memo app on her samsung phone after upgrading to 2.2. Will these DJ0509 updates er whatever do that to me?
Basically, I haven't updated the software at all. I rooted and uninstalled a ton of bloatware right after getting the phone, and I guess I lost whatever it is that does the updates so I'm still on day 1 version... I've been thinking of updating.

Well, if I understand the rooted rom/update scenario I've read a bunch of times here (though not done myself), when you use the rooted flash scenario to put on the updates, it will wipe your device. So you will need to back it all up with titanium or something.
If you are stock and you OTA update the DL09 that just released this morning, then nothing gets removed or lost on your phone. This I did do and it's all there.

Are you talking about doing the standard update, via Verizon and Innopath ????

Backup with Titanium Backup. Install your new ROM/Software/Kernel/Theme. Use ROM manager/Download ROM/SonofSkyWalker3/Stock Apps. Chose Memo to reinstall. Install/Reboot. Go into Titanium and restore memos. All of your saved memos will be there.
Hope that helps.

superchunkwii said:
Well, if I understand the rooted rom/update scenario I've read a bunch of times here (though not done myself), when you use the rooted flash scenario to put on the updates, it will wipe your device. So you will need to back it all up with titanium or something.
If you are stock and you OTA update the DL09 that just released this morning, then nothing gets removed or lost on your phone. This I did do and it's all there.
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Installing a rooted update .zip wont wipe user data. It will only wipe system. Also he wont be able to install via OTA because of the bloatware removal. Since OTA updates patch files instead of overwriting them. If it can't find them the update will fail.
So if you were to update using say super clean DL09 you won't lose user data. But if you were to flash the full odin DI01 so you could get the DL09 OTA, you will lose user data.
If you haven't done something please don't spread false information regardless of if you read about it many times, because you obviously got it wrong.
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[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?

[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

[Q] ATT OTA Update without permission. Bricked phone?

Once I saw that the phone said it was about to begin installing, I panicked. I'm on root and all my phone does is boot into Recovery. Is there a way to undo this?

Tymau5 said:
Once I saw that the phone said it was about to begin installing, I panicked. I'm on root and all my phone does is boot into Recovery. Is there a way to undo this?
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I just went through this same thing. If you have TWRP installed, follow this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
After that, go to the file manager in TWRP navigate to /cache/fota and delete the three files you see there. If you don't do this it will keep trying to install it every time you boot to the system.
Now you can boot into the system, as soon as you do go to settings and turn on Airplane mode to prevent it from downloading the update again. Use Titanium or Android Tools to freeze the Software Update app. Turn off Airplane mode and you're done!

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UMtiger said:
I just went through this same thing. If you have TWRP installed, follow this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
After that, go to the file manager in TWRP navigate to /cache/fota and delete the three files you see there. If you don't do this it will keep trying to install it every time you boot to the system.
Now you can boot into the system, as soon as you do go to settings and turn on Airplane mode to prevent it from downloading the update again. Use Titanium or Android Tools to freeze the Software Update app. Turn off Airplane mode and you're done!
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Thanks . It worked

And what do you do if you don't have the FOTA?? My phone didn't prompt to update, it updated on its own in my pocket. I tried to reboot out of TWRP recovery and it didn't let me. I didn't know my phone took the update so I wiped the phone and restored a backup of my root. I seen that thread afterwards and I don't see an option of it.
Before the update I rooted, downloaded xposed.
I have spent maybe 10+ hours looking for a solution with no luck. Oh, best part... had the phone for 5 days before it accepted the update (wish I knew LG just pushed the update :-/ )

Yep lg will push updates without your permission which I think is wrong that is why as soon as I flashed twrp I flashed cm I'm on Verizon but it might have an update by now we really should be throwing a fit to lg for pushing updates to devices with out permission
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ATT pushed the update to everyone and since it's not a large update it happens too quick to do much about it. Since you've already restored your backup via TWRP just follow the later part of what I said. Freeze the software update apk in the app of your choice so it doesn't happen again. The only other option you have (if you want to keep your stock rom) is to flash the OEM recovery, take the update and re-customize.

New marshmllow bug fix update

Just got a little update

How to install this patch update on rooted phone? Is it possible to make a stock recovery and unroot without losing any of data?
Thanks

Hitman said:
Just got a little update
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I did try to install it, the file downloaded and phone rebooted... then Prince's recovery screen loaded up, forgot I rooted the phone the other day using his excellent "Lenovo K3 Note Manager" tool
I might unroot my phone another day and try to install it again. The only thing bugging me about the marshmallow update is a problem I'm having with bluetooth streaming, songs aren't resuming when I disconnect/reconnect they restart. I doubt this update will fix it anyway, from what I've read it might have to wait until 6.0.1 is released..

crh66 said:
I might unroot my phone another day and try to install it again......
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Did you unroot your phone using a fabulous Lenovo K3 Note Manager 3.0? What about replacing TWRP with stock recovery? Does Note manager replace it automaticaly?
Thanks a lot, A.

pentaxon said:
Did you unroot your phone using a fabulous Lenovo K3 Note Manager 3.0? What about replacing TWRP with stock recovery? Does Note manager replace it automaticaly?
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I used version 3 to root the phone, but I haven't tried unrooting it yet.

After update the wifi is very stable and i am getting the full bandwidth that my ISP provide.

Any way this update can be packaged as an update.zip ??
My phone is rooted and on TWRP (s422 clean rom)... I would rather not unroot, and redo the stock recovery, just for this update, but I am getting data connection drops after power cycling.

Phat Phreddy said:
Any way this update can be packaged as an update.zip ??
My phone is rooted and on TWRP (s422 clean rom)... I would rather not unroot, and redo the stock recovery, just for this update, but I am getting data connection drops after power cycling.
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Use this Slick S424 ROM: http://www.needrom.com/download/slick-s424-row/
Make a complete backup via TWRP and follow the instructions below, than restore only data partitions you made before. Works like a charm

Thanks... Did that (not seamlessly) and its currently just updating my apps..

Phat Phreddy said:
Thanks... Did that (not seamlessly) and its currently just updating my apps..
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After updating, I found some issues. One of them is Ebay client - does not work anymore :crying:

Isn't there a way to replace the updater script from the original lenovo 4mb 424 update with a modified one so it works with TWRP?

But how sir give me updater scripts

I just flashed the s424 TWRP backup over my S422.. worked fine.. Kept root and TWRP.

Hitman said:
After update the wifi is very stable and i am getting the full bandwidth that my ISP provide.
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So was your phone rooted?
Did you lose the root access after updating or was it still there? AFAIK this update shouldn't do anything to root, but you can never tell

Phat Phreddy said:
I just flashed the s424 TWRP backup over my S422.. worked fine.. Kept root and TWRP.
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What did you use to flash over TWRP? did you modify update script inside the update file?

http://www.needrom.com/download/slick-s424-row/

shinudgr8 said:
So was your phone rooted?
Did you lose the root access after updating or was it still there? AFAIK this update shouldn't do anything to root, but you can never tell
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I was on stock Indian ROM and not rooted.