Hi Everyone,
In preparation for the official release of the ICS update on the A100, I was wondering if anyone on this forum is still running the Honeycomb EMEA firmware, and if they are, one the firmware upgrade rolls down the pipe, can you take a backup of the upgrade zip? Also, if anyone has the large update zip file for EMEA_GB firmware, I would be interested in that as well. Thanks in advance.
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I downgraded my A101 to EMEA GB ROM from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307046&page=13
It works fine.
If you don't mind having 3G related stuff installed, it should work on A100 too.
Thanks, but I want to play it really safe and get access to the exact original ROM that I had originally. Does anyone else have the original A100 EMEA_GB Honeycomb 3.2.1 update zip? I also have backups of all the partitions on my tablet but don't have a recovery shell installed to be able to dd the images back... any ideas?
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I was able to restore the original HC firmware with DD Images I took before I upgraded the tablet. I think I'll stick on HC for the next little while.
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I am a total noob when it comes to android, i did manage to unlock the bootloader , root and install cwm premium, now i want to update my phone so that i can get the updates directly from google and not from samsung, i have read a million posts and am confused as hell since some people are talking about flashing radio's and also new boitloaders? I have a canadian gsm BELL galaxy nexus can anybody guide me on the easiest way to get this done considering what i have done already?
Thanks
Gunner
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keep doing what you did to get where you are now. and find out you can't get updates from google. directly. now you have to do it on your own.
You could flash roms and kernals of your likings.
Rom is the firmware of the phone.
Kernal is like the main programmable engine that runs the phone. (Usually for OC and UV)
I don't recommend touching the radio though if you got your phone on bell and using it on bell network.
thanks for the help, so as for flashing the stock google firmware would i just download it and flash it using cwm's flash frim sd card option? Also is radio's something that the carrier usually updates or is it something thats there for the life of the phone unless you flash it with something new? Last question is by flashing the stock google firneware does it do anything to radio's or does it stay at stock? Thanks for all the help.
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Anybody help??
Gunner86 said:
Anybody help??
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Flash the latest google official update: click me.
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If you want actual OTA updates from Google, you cannot have CWM. And unless you are doing custom ROMs, I fail to see why you need CWM in the first place.
IMO just stick to stock recovery (flash it back if you already have CWM). Fastboot + adb will take you a long way, should you need to do some low-level work.
Only drawback is that you will need to reroot once you get your OTA updates.
Hi, I would like to downgrade from ICS Honeycomb, given the bugs of Android 4.0.3, I explained how to do?
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Same way you installed the leaked version of ICS. Download the 2007 build of HC for the A100, put it on root of your SD card, boot into recovery mode and the tablet will do the rest.
impossible, currently.
But you can do or not? I downloaded the version of January 2012, when I put the root of your SD card, rename to update.zip and flash, does not work?
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pakisan said:
Hi, I would like to downgrade from ICS Honeycomb, given the bugs of Android 4.0.3, I explained how to do?
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So, you installed a leaked alpha ROM without knowing what you were doing or how to roll it back?
/slowclap
So does not help anyone. I installed it knowing that it was enough to downgrade the rom official Honeycomb, copy it to your SD and install via external recovery, sought confirmation.
So I know the rule about never accepting otas but I was asked a question and couldn't remember. So if I accept an ota will it brick my phone or will it just update and unroot?
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depends on what you did to your phone with root access.
are you on stock? ROM?
Yea stock rom just rooted
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Well if you are on stock and you rooted, you will most likely lose your root (although some posts around here say that root aces is preserved during update in some rare cases).
If you are on a custom rom (e.g. if you installed an update using a custom recovery) and you are updating to a stock update then you will be likely screwing your phones system. depending on where you messed (or let a programmer mess using custom recovery or Rom managers) you could be bricking your phone as well since there are updates for boot and recovery in the stock updates to 4.0.2 and 4.0.4 (I don't count 4.0.3 since google pulled it off their site).
If you want a stock version of the newest android for your GN make it a manual patch by following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391881 make sure you do flash the boot, recovery and radio as well...
But before you do that check in with the forum thread or website were you got your custom rom or root method and ask them for advice, Yeah do that! It's the safest way to do something when you know how others got to the point where you wanna go!
Thx alot
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Please let us know how things worked out for you.
Hint: after following the steps above you are on the official google builds. Nice thing about that is you get new android versions as updates on the very second they are released. And most things that come with root are already available in the unrooted system (except overclocking) so why bother about root and stuff when you as a non-developing user can acces more priveleges on stock while rom builders for other phones try to keep up with YOUR system?
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I'm completely stock right now just a rooted 4.0.2 I will probably stay like this until cm9 becomes stable or AokP next milestone comes out because he current one did not agree with my phone at all
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Wondering if there is a pre-rooted stock OTA image of the latest official sprint update?
I rooted prior to the official Jellybean update and am running the CM10 nightlies (working just fine btw). However in the past with other phones I have rooted, a rom would come out a week or two later with a stock build of the latest release - in case you had to go into a sprint store etc.
Now, I have a recovery of the pre JB image - but wanted to see how stock sprint ran.
Am I missing it? My guess is I probably am but I searched the forum and also clockwork mod downloadables and don't see a thing.
Any help would be greatly apprectiated.
JOHN
Flash the stock image, take the OTA (or manually apply it if its being slow), then root. Rooting takes 2sec, just do it yourself.
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martonikaj said:
Flash the stock image, take the OTA (or manually apply it if its being slow), then root. Rooting takes 2sec, just do it yourself.
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+1 This.
I could make you a pre-rooted OTA, but it is more work to do that than to just flash the original OTA and flash the root zip after, so there is no real point.
Hi All,
I'm pretty new at this, so I hope I'm asking in the right place.
I'm waiting for the US KitKat update to come out via SamMobile, but I'm wondering if I need to update my bootloader at the same time that I flash the update?
I've read on this (Samsung Galaxy Note 8) Forum that some people where experiencing broken wifi when they updated with the UK KitKat version, and some were speculating that this could be because the bootloader in their device isn't compatible with KitKat?
I kinda wish I wouldn't have rooted and gone down this rabbit hole, but I figured that this would be the best way to get updates, also I really wanted to uninstall bloatware.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!
The official update should automatically update the bootloader, you can easily flash a full stock image and you should be good if that's the route you want to take.
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msd24200 said:
The official update should automatically update the bootloader, you can easily flash a full stock image and you should be good if that's the route you want to take.
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Thank you very much! That completely answers my question.
You are welcome, furthermore you can go here to get the full factory 4.1 image to flash http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41683517
[ROM]6/23/2013StockFACTORY IMAGE FOR N5110; N5110MD1,N5110UEEMF1,UEEMF2 FULL FIRMWARE
These are links to factory images that I have pulled from different sources and have posted here for you guys to use to to restore your tablets to factory out of the box status they all work. Personal......
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Hello,
if I upgrade the bootloader for KitKat, is it still posible to flash other roms like cm11?
Thank you for enlighten me
Grobie13 said:
Hello,
if I upgrade the bootloader for KitKat, is it still posible to flash other roms like cm11?
Thank you for enlighten me
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I would assume so, since CM11 is based on KitKat.
However, you may want to get a second opinion from someone with more knowledge than myself.
Yes you would be able to install CM11 as well as 4.2.2 version ROMS.
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