I was planning on rooting our DINCs tomorrow night, but the Boss Lady started getting the prompt for the OTA update this morning. So far she has just been using the Back arrow to get back to the Home screen.
We want to NOT install the OTA update until after I root the phones (going to do it TONIGHT now).
So we know what happens if she taps Install Now.
What happens if she taps Install Later or Close?
I don't want the OTA to start pinging the phone and screw up the root process later on tonight.
Update:
Rooted and got s-off on my phone and proceeded to the Boss Lady's
Kept getting the "offer" every minute. I guess because we just backed out of the dialog.
Got hers rooted and s-off.
Next offer, she tapped Install Now.
Waited 30 minutes at a black screen with an icon of a folder with an exclamation mark in a triangle.
Battery was cool so I figured the download wasn't really happening.
Pressed Power and got a log from Clockwork that showed that it had tried to install and failed.
Rebooted.
Still rooted with s-off. No Froyo and no more offers to install the OTA update.
When I held off on updating it was reminding me something like every hour. And every time I rebooted the phone the update popped up. I was able to unrevoke after the notifications came up without any issues.
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Getting worried now.
I just unrevoked my Desire and put the latest radio onto the SD Card named update.zip
I used Rom Manager option to install ROM update and checked both the Wipe/Reset options..
My Desire is currently stuck on the screen with the White Warning Triangle and Yellow Exclamation mark, with the little Android.. for over an hour now.
Pulling the battery seems to be a complete no-no, but is over an hour wait normal ?
What do i do now...!?
Nevermind, I took a deep breath and pressed a few of the buttons and the Clockwork Recovery screen popped up with an Authentication Error for the update.zip...
er .. i think you have to press vol up + power simultaneously for the recovery menu to show up while you're in that screen... though I'm not 100% sure if that's the combo for the desire.
..and it all works!
Hacking phones gone 2am.. it's been a while!
Anyways, it's all working now. I decided to try the custom ROM update first which took just a few minutes, followed by another Recovery Reboot for the Radio ROM which took a few more minutes in the end.
I'm assuming the Signature Verification thing was something that is turn on/offable, because after trying the Custom ROM update first I then noticed in Clockwork Recovery that there is an option for having verification on or off.. but it was already set to off!
I'm sure in the myriad of HOWTO posts it's written in there, but believe me, during that hour and a half of waiting to see if i'd bricked my phone, I was reading just about every HOWTO that's been written!!
Anyways, knowing now how easy it actually is to unrEVOke, then apply custom ROMs/Radio I wish i'd done it sooner.. or at least started earlier in the day.
So, I flashed yesterdays CM10.2 and had no problems, up until today. I was in class, using twitter, set the phone down, and looked back at it 5 minutes later to find it shut off. I restarted it, figured no big deal, it turned off again. I thought there was a problem with that nightly so I flashed back an older, more stable one(still 10.2). It booted up, and shut off again. Now, though, the phone boots up, shows Samsung, then shows the GS3 and CM logo, then just goes into a loop from there. I went to recovery and tried to wipe, which, oddly, the phone restarted again. Luckily I was able to get in and wipe data before a new reboot, but even that didn't fix it. I rebooted into recovery again, and it said something like "root access available" and asked me if I would like to use root, which I didn't get the chance to fully read because it restarted again. When I am able to successfully boot into recovery though, I get a warning saying "no file_contexts", this could be it?
I've already tried to flash back stock Touchwiz with Odin, but it keeps failing to do so. Any help with this?
EDIT: After successfully booting up a CM10.1 backup, I've begun to believe the power button is broke, because the power menu will randomly popup, followed by a shut down.
It's called SDS sudden death syndrome it's very common on the S3. It's a failure of the power button. It's a defect. If your phone is newer than a year old put it back to stock and take it to sprint.
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
I've been trying to install a lollipop rom for weeks now and nothing has worked. I cannot S-off and thought all hope was lost. UNTIL! CM put out their CM12 nightly and I was super excited to try it out, only to have it APPEAR to soft brick. I waited for a good 4 minutes the first time and just flashed a back up... But today! I was so mad I just left my phone on my desk and walked away. When I came back my phones screen was black, thinking it was odd i tried to power my phone on only to have it show me CM 12! I guess my question is, why the hell didn't it show my the boot logo!?
UPDATE: Just rebooted to install the new Gapps and it still doesn't show a boot logo :s. Anyone got a fix?
UPDATE 2: It still takes an eon to boot, after flashing the Gapps it took 10 minutes to reboot.
I have a NOTE 4 that was just sent to me as a replacement from Sprint. It came with Lollipop loaded. I rooted using Chainfire autoroot. When I loaded the phone it told me that I didn't have root.
I think used the battery pull method to try and get TWRP to load. So I ran CF-Auto (I know I used the correct one). This time I unchecked auto reset or restart. I pulled the battery and went into TWRP manually
Once there I flashed the BOBv2 and Noterized Rom as well.
Each time I reboot with either of them it just HANGS and the yellow Sprint spark screen. I have tried to wipe cache, I did the factory reset with TWRP. I reflashed them...still NOTHING. Just hangs at that screen regardless of what ROM it is. Please help.
Are you giving it time to load? Maybe like fifteen minutes.
Yeah, got to give it at least 15 minutes to boot up after that. Hell I've gone up to 25 minutes.
It takes a super long time not like pre lolipop days. It make me hate flasing as much . Everyone phone takes super long to boot . It will just be patient. I wasted my time thinking it wouldn't boot to. Then i listened to everyone and they was right takes a long time. Let us know how things go
ART, known as Android Run Time can be a pain when loading your applications and optimizing the device. But once it's all loaded, your device will fly.
Thank u guys. I was just being impatient
My Galaxy Tab S prompted me for an update last night. I was at 5.0.2, so I'm not certain what I was getting upgraded to but it was about a 190MB download. The download went fine and the install seemed to go OK. However, at the end of the update install, the tablet rebooted, and that's when everything screwed up. It went through a normal reboot sequence but, when it started to come up like it was going to take me to the home screen, I got hundreds of error windows popping up one on top of the other. They all said "Unfortunately, this has stopped." or that has stopped, basically running through pretty much every default pre-installed and me-installed app on my tablet. And they kept appearing faster than I could press OK. I have just a black screen with these white error boxes. I'm never able to get to the home screen at all. I've rebooted. I've completely powered down and waited for several minutes before booting. Nothing seems to help. I keep getting a normal boot sequence, right up until the point that it would relinquish control to me, and then these same hundreds of error boxes and no home screen or any sort of control over my tablet. I have no idea what to do.
Has anyone ever heard of any behavior like this or know what I should do?
Thanks.
try to enter the recovery mode by pressing home+vol up+power button. and reset your device
or you can download your full firmware and flash it using odin.
edan1979 said:
try to enter the recovery mode by pressing home+vol up+power button. and reset your device
or you can download your full firmware and flash it using odin.
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Just got up for the day and saw your response. I'm on nights right now, sorry.
Thank you very much for your reply. I was able to get into recovery mode. Just to clarify, when you say "reset", are you saying a reboot (the first option) or wipe data/factory reset (the fourth option)?
EDIT:
You can disregard. I went ahead and rebooted, and that did what I figured; pretty much nothing. Basically just rebooted, got out of recovery mode, and booted right back into the state that it was in before, which was screwed up. Factory resetting now.
Thanks.
OK, system wiped OK and it's restoring from a Google Backup right now. So, I guess we'll see how it goes the next time I try to update. I have the Wi-Fi version, just standard SM-T800. Isn't Marshmallow available as an update now? I'll see how things go I guess and see what updates are available.
Gotta remember recovery mode, for when all seems darkest!
Thanks again for your help.
OK, so, my tablet is back up and running, but that update won't install. It isn't causing the same problems as before, but it still won't install. I'm at 5.02 and the update is 190MB. It downloads and it starts to install after I accept the EULA. The screen goes black, the little Samsung logo pops up, then the little Android guy comes up and it says installing update 0%, waits for about two seconds, then the little Android guys is on his side with his cover plate up and it says error, then reboots. I can still use my tablet, I just can't install this update, whatever it is. I'm pretty sure it isn't the Marshmallow update, because I'd heard that was up over 1GB. Still, if I can't get this update, whatever it is, I doubt I'll ever be able to get the Marshmallow update.
Now I'm happy I have my tablet back, but frustrated because it won't update.
definitely it already has MM update. you could go to Odin way. Update it manually. can download the firmware here.
http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?q=T800&order=date&dir=desc&exact=1
edan1979 said:
definitely it already has MM update. you could go to Odin way. Update it manually. can download the firmware here.
http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?q=T800&order=date&dir=desc&exact=1
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It doesn't seem too hard. I'm reading up on it now. I'll download everything I need and possibly try it this weekend. I intentionally haven't reinstalled a lot on my tablet yet, thinking I was going to go that route.
Hopefully, that will take care of my issues.
Thanks again for the advice.
Well, updating with Odin went off without a hitch. After it had updated, I performed a factory reset, just to be safe, and reinstalled everything. It's running great now and I sitting pretty with 6.0.1.
Thanks again for your help.