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[Q] Update Failed?!!

Hi guys, i'm new here and a bit of a noob to the whole Android world.
I got my a500 about a month ago and loving it, Rooted it and got rid of all the bloat ware and is running like a dream.... love it....
A couple of days ago, i got an update: System Update 1.139,05, downloaded it and went to install, rebooted but nothing, Update failed!
I already have Android version 3.0.1 and Kernel version 2.6.36.3.
Is it me doing some thing wrong? Is it because its rooted? Do i need the update, please help, just want it to be up to date. Love the forum, thanks

chickin2000 said:
Hi guys, i'm new here and a bit of a noob to the whole Android world.
I got my a500 about a month ago and loving it, Rooted it and got rid of all the bloat ware and is running like a dream.... love it....
A couple of days ago, i got an update: System Update 1.139,05, downloaded it and went to install, rebooted but nothing, Update failed!
I already have Android version 3.0.1 and Kernel version 2.6.36.3.
Is it me doing some thing wrong? Is it because its rooted? Do i need the update, please help, just want it to be up to date. Love the forum, thanks
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I've seen that some other users have had issues with the update if they removed the bloatware. Have you put it back before you attempted the update? If not, you'll have to put everything you've removed back and if you've edited any of the system files like build.prop, etc..you'll have to put it back to original also.

Thanks for the reply JackMetal! ERRRRRMMMM Q: is this a big update and if so then how would i put everything back, would it be factury settings? and if i do need to put everything back on why did i root it? lol sorry for being suck a noob! )

chickin2000 said:
Thanks for the reply JackMetal! ERRRRRMMMM Q: is this a big update and if so then how would i put everything back, would it be factury settings? and if i do need to put everything back on why did i root it? lol sorry for being suck a noob! )
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LOL - yeah, I know..it's kind of a sucky move on Acer's part to force that. ;-) How did you remove them? Did you just delete them or freeze them within Titanium Backup? If deleted, did you happen to make a backup of them first so you could restore them now.
You can look at /cache/recovery/last_log and see exactly what it's complaining about. If you don't have the files you deleted, you can ask in the forum to see if another user can send them to you. I'd be glad to send mine, but I would imagine mine probably wouldn't help you since they are from 'after' the update and the checksum would still fail since they're changed. We could give it a shot though, and if it doesn't work you can see if someone that hasn't updated or happens to have the previous versions backed up, could send you the files.
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Actually, I've got a few Titanium Backups from before the update, so I may just have the files you need!

Sweet dude, right will have to give it a look as i deleted them, noob thing to do i know lol still learning, thanks again for the super quick reply!

Same thing happened to me and this was after I restored my A500 to factory stock. I re-started the update download from the settings/info menu and this time it went without a hitch. I now have the updated A500, rooted it and am ready to go.
Advice for those people rooting their tablets. Don't just delete any .apks you don't want; move them to a folder on the internal sd card instead so whenever you need to restore them it's a simple matter of just moving them back).

Right, just an update.......
don't laugh, but i did try to put back all of the bloat ware!!!!! However, i replace some things and got rid of others, NOT GOOD! " HOME NOT WORKING ", yes thats what it said or words to that effect! Restarted as i thought that would help! OMG BOOT LOOP! Phone acer and sent it back for repair, UPS picked it up and acer received it this morning, and 30 mins again i got a text message with it done you douche bag, well they didn't say douche bag, but hay they should have done! Yes i'm a noob at all this, but i have learnt my lesson. Must say thanks for the help anyway from the forum!
P.S UPS SUCK BALLS, they are rude and v unprofessional! (had problems with them picking up the tablet).
P.P.S Back up everything and the back it up again! And DONT get rid of any system file or anything, to quote someone from the forum, " you have plenty of room! ", I have the 32Gb so yes i have the room lol!
O and just one more thing............ BACK THING UP NOOBS !!!!!!! )

Or Rename!
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Same thing happened to me and this was after I restored my A500 to factory stock. I re-started the update download from the settings/info menu and this time it went without a hitch. I now have the updated A500, rooted it and am ready to go.
Advice for those people rooting their tablets. Don't just delete any .apks you don't want; move them to a folder on the internal sd card instead so whenever you need to restore them it's a simple matter of just moving them back).
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Also to make easy, just rename the .apk's to .bak or freeze them in Titanium backup!

Not to sound like a smartass but you know you could have done it yourself? Flash the device i mean.
What you do is you look for the boot.img and system.img and update.zip files in this forum or somewhere.
First the chinese one that you can just place in your External SD card and press Power+Vol- when device is turned of.
Then proceed to look for the American version, or whatever you wish if it's available.
Then you do this: place the boot.img and system.img in the root internal memory called Sdcard and place the update.zip in your EXTERNAL MicroSDcard.
Install Terminal emulator and push the boot and system img's 1st boot, 2ndSystem. Have superuser installed to.
After that when the images are pushed (usually the tablet would freeze after the system.img)
Then you force stop and power up the unit by holding Power button + Vol-
and that's it! No need to send to repair and pay money perhaps.

[Q]There is no update available

Hey guys, I really need some help here.
This morning there was a notification about system update, I bet it was the honeycomb 3.1 so I just let it run. However, it turned out that the update failed at last. Since then I can't get the system update notification anymore. I manually checked the update in settings and it showed that "There is no update available for your device currently." I have rebooted the unit several times and tried "Factory data reset" and got no change. I searched around the forum and found this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14345169
and tried the approach mentioned in it and it's still the same.
I even tried using the leaked update file to update the device and it still won't get updated.
Would you please help me look into this issue? Thanks a lot.

are you still on .9?
if so, just root the device, and install a 3.1 rom via clockwork.

xformulax said:
are you still on .9?
if so, just root the device, and install a 3.1 rom via clockwork.
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Yes, I have downgraded the firmware to .9. But the thing is, I have a mac and the root guide I found here seems require a windows system. And it really bothers me that something isn't working out of blue. So I'd really like to understand why this is happening. Thanks anyway, I will try to root it if I can't figure this out.

sirejulius said:
Yes, I have downgraded the firmware to .9. But the thing is, I have a mac and the root guide I found here seems require a windows system. And it really bothers me that something isn't working out of blue. So I'd really like to understand why this is happening. Thanks anyway, I will try to root it if I can't figure this out.
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http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/TF101/Update_Launcher_SOP_WW.pdf

I dug into the forum and found out a very helpful post about how to set adb work on your non-windows system. If somebody has the same problem, you maybe need to refer to this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649663

"Bricked" P1000

Hey Guys!
Sorry about writing about a topic that seems to have been covered many times before. The solutions I found did however not solve my problem, I am still stuck.
I have ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.0.5 installed, it boots fine but with tons of file system related errors.
E:\Unable to process volume! Skipping...
E:\unknown volume for path... this is repeated probably about 10 times one for each folder it tries to access
I tried going back to Odin and install different PIT files that I could find; gt-p1000_mr.pit and p1_add_hidden.pit
I then tried doing the dbdata.rfs.tar and just dbdata.tar
Still same problem with the filesystem
All of this started with my device just stopping at the Sammy logo after re-boot. The re-boot was a normal one, not related to any patching, modding or anything else. A normal daily reboot. I have an about one year old Overcome ROM in my phone that I haven't fiddled at all with since I installed it. It has been working just fine.
I didn't have the partion or filesystem problem at this point...
I booted into Clockwork and ran evert format/file wipe menu option I could find, with the intent to just install a newer ROM later to resolve the problem and get a new fresh completely clean tab.
The problem started after this... I thought that I would just be able to get a new Overcome, BOCA or some other nice ROM from the SD card. Problem was of course that my SD card couldn't be mounted after I had wiped everthing...
So I tried all the above stuff with the dbdata and pit files but it didn't recover...
Any ideas?
Thank you!

well, get the restock files from overcome site and flash a fresh gingerbread safe 5, all the needed files are in the zip.
good luck
ps: Read the manual, in case you forgot about something.
If I helped you, please press the thanks button

You did help me, thank you! I needed the stock ROM I did however manage to make things even worse and ended up with the "Phone-Exclamation mark-Computer"-logo. That got me worried. Some googling did however help me solve the problem.
I made a write up to help other come from this state to a completely working phone with custom ROM installed. Hope it will help others. http://blog.vel.nu/?p=97
Again, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

you're welcome
by the way, the process of debriking the tab is very well explained on your blog!
Thank you! (in case i brick mine, i will refer to your blog)
If I helped you, please press the thanks button

posterberg said:
You did help me, thank you! I needed the stock ROM I did however manage to make things even worse and ended up with the "Phone-Exclamation mark-Computer"-logo. That got me worried. Some googling did however help me solve the problem.
I made a write up to help other come from this state to a completely working phone with custom ROM installed. Hope it will help others.
Again, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
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I am with the same exact problem. That link you provided is not working.
I really need help if you or someone else can. Thank you

All what you need is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1881981
Best regards
Sifou
Using a Samsung N7100

[Q] need help with my newly rooted i9505

alright i literally rooted my phone 1 hour ago and as much of an idiot i am i proceeded to delete supposingly useless system apps, inclusing internet ,basically everything that said knox, s health and story album..
well that didnt go so well, google playstore stopped working and internet in general in the phone isnt connecting correctly, i tried to reset factory settings and wipe the chache but that didnt really do anything, do i really have to flash a stock rom again, can i even flash a stock rom now that my phone is rooted...?
i looked everywhere for the apks for s4 system apps and i couldnt find them, please help this poor little s4, he shouldn't suffer because of my mistakes...

F_julius said:
alright i literally rooted my phone 1 hour ago and as much of an idiot i am i proceeded to delete supposingly useless system apps, inclusing internet ,basically everything that said knox, s health and story album..
well that didnt go so well, google playstore stopped working and internet in general in the phone isnt connecting correctly, i tried to reset factory settings and wipe the chache but that didnt really do anything, do i really have to flash a stock rom again, can i even flash a stock rom now that my phone is rooted...?
i looked everywhere for the apks for s4 system apps and i couldnt find them, please help this poor little s4, he shouldn't suffer because of my mistakes...
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Hi ,
welcome to the wonderful world of flashing...
Easy way out would be after you backup everything important in your phone ( pics , music , contacts , video....) to flash and stock rom again ( same you had) with Odin and start all over again....
Option 2 but i would trip knox bit would be flash a custom recovery and flash a custom rom....

MAX 404 said:
Hi ,
welcome to the wonderful world of flashing...
Easy way out would be after you backup everything important in your phone ( pics , music , contacts , video....) to flash and stock rom again ( same you had) with Odin and start all over again....
Option 2 but i would trip knox bit would be flash a custom recovery and flash a custom rom....
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thank you for the quick replay!
while you're here is it possible to send the apps from another phone to mine, my roommates' got an unrooted note 3 with kitkat 4.2.2 just like my s4, is there any way to simply send an apk of those apps to my phone or is flashing the only way...?
because my cable is really horrible and to flash i have to walk a couple of miles to my friends house to use his cable and its REALLY HOT outside

F_julius said:
thank you for the quick replay!
while you're here is it possible to send the apps from another phone to mine, my roommates' got an unrooted note 3 with kitkat 4.2.2 just like my s4, is there any way to simply send an apk of those apps to my phone or is flashing the only way...?
because my cable is really horrible and to flash i have to walk a couple of miles to my friends house to use his cable and its REALLY HOT outside
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Hi ,
they are supposed to be compatible but i would not know for sure , if you are going to try that..... first back up all important thing , just in case you get into a bootloop and have to reflash......

MAX 404 said:
Hi ,
they are supposed to be compatible but i would not know for sure , if you are going to try that..... first back up all important thing , just in case you get into a bootloop and have to reflash......
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alright ill not risk it ill just re flash the rom, luckily i still have it saved on my hard-drive
so for anyone who might read this in the future who've done the same stupid mistake i have done ill just leave this here
wish iv'e seen your signature sooner...

F_julius said:
alright ill not risk it ill just re flash the rom, luckily i still have it saved on my hard-drive
so for anyone who might read this in the future who've done the same stupid mistake i have done ill just leave this here
wish iv'e seen your signature sooner...
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We all been there....
Easiest way out is reflashing and start all over ......you can try reinstalling from your friend also but you may get into a bootloop and you would have to reinstall firmware again.....
another option would be to download a custom rom for you phone and extract from the zip the missing apps and re install them in you rom again ( with the right permissions usually rw r r) that would possible save you re installing every thing .
Advice get an app like galaxysim unlock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.galaxsimunlock&hl=en
Make an EFS backup and save it in a safe place....( all your imei info is there) sometimes flashing gets unfriendly

[HELP] Edited build.props, and broke my phone

I did something incredibly stupid. Please help me out. I have a Redmi 2 Pro, and for a while, Google Camera was not working as before, and I was always looking for a fix, and then I found one: I have to add "ro.config.low_ram=false" to the build.props file.
I copied this file to I think "/storage/emulated/0/" ,edited it, and then copied it back to /system/, and then I restarted my phone, and now only the MI logo comes up.
I don't know much about Android and I've really never should have experimented with my own phone like this, I feel really stupid. This is the first time ever (probably also the last) when I do anything that needs root. I hope you can help me out! What should I do?

Argentoratum said:
I did something incredibly stupid. Please help me out. I have a Redmi 2 Pro, and for a while, Google Camera was not working as before, and I was always looking for a fix, and then I found one: I have to add "ro.config.low_ram=false" to the build.props file.
I copied this file to I think "/storage/emulated/0/" ,edited it, and then copied it back to /system/, and then I restarted my phone, and now only the MI logo comes up.
I don't know much about Android and I've really never should have experimented with my own phone like this, I feel really stupid. This is the first time ever (probably also the last) when I do anything that needs root. I hope you can help me out! What should I do?
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Do you have access to TWRP?

Dan_Jacques said:
Do you have access to TWRP?
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Yes, I've managed to solve it in the end by installing TWRP and chmodding build.prop from there, so my phone is working again! Thank you for your help.

Argentoratum said:
Yes, I've managed to solve it in the end by installing TWRP and chmodding build.prop from there, so my phone is working again! Thank you for your help.
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But dont stop do anything that's need root. Sometimes u make a mistake, me too.
When for the first time I flashed custom ROM, I DID NOT INSTALL CUSTOM RECOVERY. And I brick my phone just like u. I brick my phone 5 times. fortunately I have a backup.
Soooo, don't stop modifying !