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9505 OTA to 4.3 fails

Hello,
Can't update to 4.3, I get new FW notificaiton, it downloads, starts installation at quits at about 25% by rebooting itself and showing a message that I either need to update via Kies or get it to the service center. Any ideas what may be causing this?
I've got 4.2.2 rooted stock with triangle away, got another exactly the same phone and everything went really smoothly w/o any issues.
The worst of all that update is roughly 700 mb big and I have to redownload it again every time it fails.

Basileus_AU said:
Hello,
Can't update to 4.3, I get new FW notificaiton, it downloads, starts installation at quits at about 25% by rebooting itself and showing a message that I either need to update via Kies or get it to the service center. Any ideas what may be causing this?
I've got 4.2.2 rooted stock with triangle away, got another exactly the same phone and everything went really smoothly w/o any issues.
The worst of all that update is roughly 700 mb big and I have to redownload it again every time it fails.
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happened to me also when upgrading to 4.3 on rooted stock w/ triangle away...
you have to unroot by reflashing a stock firmware in your region via odin...

Maybe I'd get a new OTA as tar file and flash it on top of current one w/o downgrading to stock?

Yoga Tab 2 830f Is there a soft brick fix?

I've searched but apparently it seems like most of the answers have been deleted or redacted.
My problem...
I was just given a Yoga Tab 2 from my sister who has given up on trying to fix it.
The tab was on 5.01 and rooted when she got a system update. She ran the update but now the tablet freezes during/after the boot animation.
It will go into fastboot but is not recognized by ADB.
She tried to install the original Lollipop firmware through recovery but ended up getting a system 7 error.
This is exactly what I see when in the bootloader screen
FASTBOOT MODE
PRODUCT_NAME - YT2
VARIANT - YOGA Tab1
HW_VERSION -
BOOTLOADER VERSION - unknown
IFWI VERSION - Blade_21.x64.0005.R00.1504101447 FFD8_X64_R_
SERIAL NUMBER - BaytrailD454B***
SIGNING - ?
SECURE_BOOT - ?
E: No valid installer medium found
I know nothing about Lenovo and how they do things but I know that with HTC you have to go back to 100% locked and stock before you can install an OTA. If you do try the OTA usually just won't install but unfortunately this thing seems to be at least soft bricked.
Is there a way for me to maybe roll back? I've read about people going back to KK in order to get the LP OTA but all links to the KK firmware are gone.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate any help I can get...
BTW, She is under warranty but of course she was rooted and is worried that repair will cost her almost as much as she paid for the Tab when they realize and void her warranty.

If its the same as the 1050f try these files.
http://tinyurl.com/zmmaww5
http://tinyurl.com/zgt7sjo do not bother about the warning with this one, its something to do with its size, just download it.

corasman said:
If its the same as the 1050f try these files.
http://tinyurl.com/zmmaww5
http://tinyurl.com/zgt7sjo do not bother about the warning with this one, its something to do with its size, just download it.
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Thank you. I used the Restore KitKat Bios you posted along with an 830F specific KitKat firmware from the Russian Lenove site. Worked fine after editing the flash.xml file to allow for a larger system.img file.
The tablet is now back from the dead. Unfortunately it gets the 5.0 update but fails in the Lenovo Recovery when trying to flash the OTA. It gets to 100%, stays like that for a bit and then a blue X saying flash failed. After that I'm back to a black screen and have to reflash the kitkat firmware to get up and running again.
I have no idea why the OTA flash constantly fails but I guess I have to do a bit more research and hope I can get her up to date.

Did you set the country code , without setting it updates fail.
Look at this advice from ionioni to me about setting the code
http://forum.xda-developers.com/thinkpad-tablet/general/set-country-code-t3308024

corasman said:
Did you set the country code , without setting it updates fail.
Look at this advice from ionioni to me about setting the code
http://forum.xda-developers.com/thinkpad-tablet/general/set-country-code-t3308024
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Outstanding!!! I entered the code in contacts and it gave me a menu of different countries to choose from. I Chose US and she rebooted, went into recovery, ran a bit and rebooted into another fresh install which looked completely different. We're talking different wallpaper, and different apps. After that it successfully installed 4 or 5 OTAs and as far as I can tell it is now completely up to date!
Android Version is 5.01
Build is S100250-160119
Kernel Version is 3.10.20-x86_64byt-g9f7fad7
Security patch is dated 2016-02-01
I'll wait a few days before I root and install Xposed just to be 100% certain it's up to date.
Of course my sister will probably ask for it back now.
Either way, THANK YOU VERY MUCH corasman!!! Your help has been invaluable!

I am so pleased it worked for you, ionioni helped me so much and now I am trying to do the same for others.

Software upgrade failed MM

I am unrooted running a stock B180 right now on my PLK-L01 Honor 7 device. I have over the past few months waited for Marshmallow 6.0 Upgrade as it was promised that it would come over OTA the start of this year. Though it hasn't so I decided to manually upgrade the software so I downloaded the latest full version firmware of B320-330 from the hihonor UK website. The software installation goes fine up until 60% then suddenly I get an error message saying "software failed". Why am I getting this error message when the firmware is correct? I am located in Sweden and the closest region to mine is UK so therefore I got on their website and downloaded this firmware. There is only 1 firmware that applies to the Europe region because there is no firmware that's particularly for Sweden itself.
Funny thing is even though I get an error message "software failed" the device still reboots and the Android v.6 works perfectly. If it does not install properly, marshmallow shouldn't even be working! Guys what could be wrong please help! I want to do a clean installation without any error message.

singh_harman said:
The software installation goes fine up until 60% then suddenly I get an error message saying "software failed".
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this is normal!
Now you can redo the update process with pressing vol+ & vol- & power button for more than 3 sec.
After than the update process starts again! This time it should be finished with 100%.

Thanks for your reply,
Really? That's strange. This is the first time I am to believe that even after an error message something works just as good. So just after the error message shows up I need to press vol+,- and power button at the same time so it will resume. Didn't know that. Instead what I did was I did a rollback to B300 and then updated to B330 this way I didn't get any error message. Very cumbersome.

If you are on B330 now, you should know this code too: *#*#2846579#*#*
If you enter this code, you will see a new service menu! This you need to manual update in the next future!
To manual update, you have to copy the update.zip into folder "dload" at your ext.sd.
After than, you use menu point 4 to have the possibility to start the update process manuay.
So don't forget this code.

Yes I know that code but honestly it doesn't matter whether you use that code or do a forced upgrade it still results in error message. Yes I did exactly as you are saying even before your message that's how I did it.
A question I have to you. If sometime later I regret and wanna go back to b180 can I do so and still get the marshmallow update OTA? Like going back to the stock b180 software which I had earlier or before I did any manual upgrade at all.

singh_harman said:
A question I have to you. If sometime later I regret and wanna go back to b180 can I do so and still get the marshmallow update OTA? Like going back to the stock b180 software which I had earlier or before I did any manual upgrade at all.
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this should be possible. -> Rollback B300 -> reboot -> now you are on B300! -> Update B180 Full rom from the Honor page -> reboot.
If all is going right, you are back on B180.
During the rollback, all datas will be erased! So make a backup at first!!!
See my signature point 1 & 2!!!
BTW: I think there is no difference between the manual or OTA update becaus e it is nearls the same procedure and it has the same file.
Maybe it is possible to extract the B330 update.app with honrorextractor. Than you have to flash most of the extracted files with fastboot.
(Boot; Recovery2; Recovery; System; Data; Modem; Cust; *.img files)
After the next reboot (fingers crossed!) the update procedure should finished without errors.

Yes that's the way I had imagined it to be, doing a rollback to B300 and then downgrade to B180 however will this be the official stock firmware? What is signature point 1 & 2, I don't understand?
Also, where can I get the honorextractor from? Never heard of it besides flashing and fastboot all refers to when the device is rooted and mine is not. I am familiar with these terms as my previous phone was rooted so. I don't understand this boot, recovery, data ,modem, cust part etc its very confusing

read this -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454
and look there -> http://www.hihonor.com/de/support/details/?DOC_ID=77724
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singh_harman said:
Thanks for your reply,
Really? That's strange. This is the first time I am to believe that even after an error message something works just as good. So just after the error message shows up I need to press vol+,- and power button at the same time so it will resume. Didn't know that. Instead what I did was I did a rollback to B300 and then updated to B330 this way I didn't get any error message. Very cumbersome.
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hi Harman, sent you a private message if you can reply please. thanks

Just bought a Mate 8 (NXT-L09C636B191) and not showing nougat available in updater.

Is there an easy way to get it? I tried the firmware finder app from the play store and it's still not working. I show the updates available, but when I try to send to updater it keeps bringing up that notice saying I need to go into my wifi and change proxy to localhost and 8080, even though I've already done that. Is there any other way I can get the nougat update?

I'm having the same problem I can't update to any nougat firmware I'm on c636b191

See my post in the OTHER thread you created.

You must update to b200 via dload and then boom u get nougat update

Finding stock roms

Hi there, I recently moved from an old samsung phone to the huawei p10 and I made the rookie mistake of not
backing up my stock rom before rooting my phone. Now when I try to update my phone with the new firmware (I tried the partial update and full update file) they both did not work. I also tried the dload method since I have a micro SD card in my phone, but after doing more reading in the user manual it suggests that since my phone is rooted I will not be able to apply the update.
I was wondering if anyone knows where to get the stock rom for model WAS-L03T so I can fix this. Please and thanks

I have had a look around but can't find anything but, filmware finder might have it. Link to the playstore app below. They also have a PC version.
You will need to flash stock recovery to be able to flash stock filmware.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teammt.gmanrainy.huaweifirmwarefinder

Hi there, thanks for responding, but I was wondering if it was possible to find a stock rom and not the stock firmware for my device.
I am able to download the firmware through my updater but applying the update is where I am having issues. :good: