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Since the update never popped up, I never realized, or thought about, why my atrix never received the update notification. The only thing I have ever done to this phone is use aRoot on it, and installed a couple of launchers. I never froze anything in titanium. I MAY have uninstalled some ATT programs when I first got it but I'm almost positive that that didn't affect the updating.
What are the files I need to make sure that my updater is running correctly? I don't want to resort to reflashing my SBF just yet. Thanks in advanced!
EDIT: Actually, I'll just factory reset my phone first!
Hey guys. I hate making my first post a really noobie question but here it goes.
I just updated my rooted Xperia Play to 2.3.3 and it erased and/or re-wrote all of my system apps. I stupidly converted some of my downloaded apps into system apps using Titanium (because system apps turn red on the list. It helped me quickly figure out what was external and what was internal. Stupid, yes, and more trouble then it was actually worth.) so those apps were lost. Didn't matter, I had backups but I lost my root so I couldn't access them.
Forgetting what I used to root my phone originally I decided to use z4root after reading about it somewhere. The site I got it from is usually trust worthy but when I downloaded the file my OfficeScan (its a school bought computer) warned me of a potential virus threat. I wrote it off as just the pop-up ad and un-zipped and transferred the file to my phone. I still am not sure if it was a virus or not... Running z4root it got up to "acquiring shell root..." or something like that before kicking me back to the home screen with no change. I, again, stupidly, re-ran it several times without rebooting between each attempt. Giving up I then realized to reboot. Strangely rebooting was A LOT faster then it was usually is and I don't know if that was z4 or 2.3.3.
Anyway I remembered that I used Gingerbreak last time and re-installed that. I made several attempts with that with no change either. Too many to count, but at least more than 8. Several attempts I got a call or a text and, checking them, ended the process. 2 attempts I left running for about half an hour (I know that the instructions say it will never take more then 10 minutes) and some I ended with a battery pull after more then 10mins(as per instruction).
So I guess I have several questions:
1. How bad did I f* up, If I did so?
2. Any suggestions on how to re-root/fix it?
3. Will switching to an empty SD card, successfully rooting it, and switching back to the full card still keep the root?
4. Does an in phone factory reset work the same as flashing the same rom or will I need to actually flash that new rom?
5. If I do need to flash, where can I find a regular Play rom? Or do you have suggestions about a better rom?
6. Is the fast reboot the work of the half done, possibly a virus, z4root process or just the 2.3.3 update?
7.Lastly Was this tl and you ;dr?
Normally, I wouldn't care if there was no fix; My phone boots much faster, I didn't lose all my apps and only some apps launch a little slower then before. But I made tons of progress on Zenonia 2 and I want my back ups for that... lol.
Any help appreciated. Also thanks for putting up with a noob that's writing way to formally
1. Messing with the system apps, and not backing them up probably caused you to not have an OTA update. I'm guessing you flashed it? Not restoring anything and not doing an OTA was mistake number one. Trying to use z4root was mistake number 2.
2. Get the generic UK firmware from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097591
-Flash that with Bin4ry and Androxhyde's flashtool
-Put in your carrier's APN settings, configure your google account, wifi etc. etc.
-Get Gingerbreak 1.2, run it(I used Astro to open the apk, and you need uunknown sources enabled).
Gingerbreak only worked for me when I formatted an SD card right before running it. I used a spare that was lying around, not the usual one with all my data, and I suggest you do the same if you kept your titanium backups. Hopefully you'll get rooted after about 3-5 minutes. Do not mess with any apps/bloatware after you have the root.
-After you have root, go into the settings menu and start an OTA update.
You should now have 2.3.3 WITH root.
-Once the phone is updated, install Titanium Backup and start backing up your old apps from before you messed up the phone and lost root.
-At this point feel free to remove the bloatware, but make sure you back it up in titanium for later.
3. Switching SD cards won't affect root at all.
4. A factory reset will reset whatever ROM was installed last. In other words, you can't revert back to 2.3.2 with a reset, it'll just reset 2.3.3 - It's really just for wiping data and settings.
5.The regular play ROM is the UK generic I posted above. The only "better" roms are customs that you need an unlocked bootloader to install. Currently they're still buggy and in development and not worth getting unless you like incomplete ROMs with bugs, and wanna lose the ability to update normally. Both OTA updates and the Sony Ericsson Update Service will brick your phone once the bootloader's unlocked.
6. My phone was booting a bit faster after updating to 2.3.3, and became even faster after removing some bloatware.
-Root doesn't speed up the boot process.
-I highly doubt an Android phone would have a virus that makes it boot faster, it's probably just from the update.
7. No, it wasn't. No, I didn't.
Thanks for the (semi-)quick response. Been browsing around the web with this tab open, constantly refreshing like a creep. I'll try your advice soon but its like 3am, just wanted to say thanks and love your Stocking pic.
Btw is there a difference between A US, UK or CAN rom or do those even exist?
The only real differences are carrier specific apps, and some versions have different games installed.
Sent from my R800
Seems like I was to late to flash and the link to the rom you gave me may have been updated to 2.3.3 as well. I was looking for a Canada/Rodgers rom anyway but the forum search isn't turning up anything and google seems to hate me...
Help anyone?
The link was for 2.3.2 in the generic.
The only rogers rom available is for 2.3.3 so you won't be getting root without an unlocked bootloader with that one.
Just follow the directions and it should be fine.
The rogers apps are available in the android market separately.
Sent from my R800
I keep adb turned off most of the time to secure my device, however I realized if my system apps folder is overwritten I'll lose my helper widget which performs this function for me. This would lock me out permanently unless a device factory reset is performed which I assume will wipe out settings.db as well as everything else.
It would seem to me the prudent thing to do would be to kill automatic updates and apply them manually. Any ideas?
I'm guessing if we know the url of the update server, we could just route it to localhost in the /etc/hosts file. Maybe not the best method, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I noticed an application file called "SilentOTAUpdate" (Something like that) while poking around in TitanumBackup but I was too scared to Freeze it.
MinionOfEckerd said:
I noticed an application file called "SilentOTAUpdate" (Something like that) while poking around in TitanumBackup but I was too scared to Freeze it.
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I froze this app last night, but I think it had already downloaded the update on me. Some others have also froze it and they have not had the update yet, but who knows if it actually worked. I think the jury is still out sadly.
-Eric
I had it frozen and still it updated on me late last night.
alternative to stop updates
This will work for you if you arent married to shopping on amazon
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19850105
EABonney said:
I froze this app last night, but I think it had already downloaded the update on me. Some others have also froze it and they have not had the update yet, but who knows if it actually worked. I think the jury is still out sadly.
-Eric
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I booted up when I heard about it, installed titanium backup. I then used it to back everything up, froze the OTASilentInstaller, and used the VooDoo OTA Rootkeeper app to backup my SU and Temp Unrooted. So Far, havn't had it update.
I've had my Note 4 for a while and after a few Lollipop update incidents I finally after a lot of hesitation decided to root my phone (with the TWRP bootloader) and disable the update notifier. Since then, I've always stuck to the latest stock version of KitKat 4.4.4.
Since I've rooted my phone, I made the following modifications that require root priviliges: I installed XPrivacy mod, YouTube AdAway mod, NoSafeVolumeWarning mod, PlayPermissionsExposed mod, and CrappaLinks mod for the Xposed framework. I also installed Titanium backup to freeze/uninstall the updater and AdAway. After XPosed was installed I had to change a line in /system/build.prop to 'ro.securestorage.support=false' to make 'S Health' work again. I did that with the 'FX' app.
That's it, I had made no more modifications and the phone seemed to work quite well for a month or so.
Two days ago I decided to try out Instagram, I've been quite wary with social apps but figured Instagram shouldn't hurt and everything was fine. Then I installed a bunch of dating apps, I started with Match.com and Tinder. Tinder didn't work because it required FB and Match didn't work because it refused to, probably because of denied permissions with XPrivacy so I gave up on them and uninstalled them.
But I also installed OkCupid and Motesplatsen and enjoyed playing around with these apps. They didn't seem to interfere with XPrivacy and worked rather fine. Motesplatsen was rather intense with sending me notifications of girls who watched my profile and sent me (rather strange) messages whereas OkCupid was rather calm.
Then something strange happened.
Yesterday I started noticing that the battery was draining considerably faster than normal during normal day. It was almost empty whereas it usually is half full after a full day, I also noticed that the phone was unusually warm. I forgot to put it on the charger and woke up today with a dead phone. I put it on charge and after about an hour the battery was full again.
When I tried to turn on the phone it was stuck on boot loop. I first tried disabling XPosed by "touch /data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/conf/disabled" using the 'terminal' tool in the TWRP bootloader. It didn't help. I tried flushing the cache/dalvik cache but it didn't work either. Then I did a total factory reset, but that didn't work. I noticed that during boot, the phone froze so hard that it doesn't even respond to button pushes. I had to take out the battery to reboot (that's one reason why I never will buy S6).
So then I decided to flash the phone with stock KitKat once again using Odin and that finally restored the phone.
Now, here's one of my questions, how can things go so bad with a phone that not even a factory reset will fix it? We're talking stock firmware here, albeit it is rooted.
What boot logs could be worth looking into when such a thing occurs and what is the easiest way to extract them? The terminal tool in the bootloader seems promising, plus I saw a 'copy log to SD' option which I neglected this time.
I'm puzzled, does anyone know what happened? I made no root modifications in the process of installing these apps and they don't advertise themselves as needing root privileges. How can a seemingly inconspicuous app directly from Google play **** a phone up like that?
I originally updated my Verizon V20 to VS99513A before doing the Dirty Santa process a while back. All was well. But in the last couple of weeks or so, I've been getting an OTA prompt for a system update, for - you guessed it - VS99513A. My phone's software info already shows 13A installed (as it was already at that revision before Dirty Santa), but I get this OTA Update prompt every day now.
Questions: What's up with that? If I can't get rid of this prompt, can I turn off the process(es) that check for updates, and if so, what processes are they? It's an annoyance to have to reschedule this update each day for 24 hours knowing it's coming back, and annoying that I already have it installed.
Thoughts?
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I originally updated my Verizon V20 to VS99513A before doing the Dirty Santa process a while back. All was well. But in the last couple of weeks or so, I've been getting an OTA prompt for a system update, for - you guessed it - VS99513A. My phone's software info already shows 13A installed (as it was already at that revision before Dirty Santa), but I get this OTA Update prompt every day now.
Questions: What's up with that? If I can't get rid of this prompt, can I turn off the process(es) that check for updates, and if so, what processes are they? It's an annoyance to have to reschedule this update each day for 24 hours knowing it's coming back, and annoying that I already have it installed.
Thoughts?
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Disable both system update apps and this problem will be solved. One of them can be disabled through the application manager. The other can either be frozen through titanium backup, disabled via ADB or shell commands, or you can renamed the apk itself to .bak via a root explorer and rebooting (I don't recommend this unless you really know what you are doing).