So I finally got around to rooting my GSM galaxy nexus and unlocking the boot loader without any problems, my problem is getting the recovery to stick/stay, what I mean by that is I installed a recovery through ADB it worked, then I rebooted into recovery read to flash a rom and ended up getting an Android with a red explanation (I think that's how you spell it lol) mark, so I pulled the battery and rebooted the phone and went to the play store and downloaded Rom Manager and flashed clockwork mod recovery, rebooted into recovery and saw that it worked fine, so rebooted my phone so i can backup all of my apps with titanium backup just to save time. I reboot my phone into recovery once more this time ready to flash my desired rom just to find the android with the red explanation point.
Can any help me with getting the recovery to stick.
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This has been answered many times: there are two files that are responsible for re-flashing the stock recovery on every boot. Delete them and all will be fine:
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
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707BeastMode707 said:
So I finally got around to rooting my GSM galaxy nexus and unlocking the boot loader without any problems, my problem is getting the recovery to stick/stay, what I mean by that is I installed a recovery through ADB it worked, then I rebooted into recovery read to flash a rom and ended up getting an Android with a red explanation (I think that's how you spell it lol) mark, so I pulled the battery and rebooted the phone and went to the play store and downloaded Rom Manager and flashed clockwork mod recovery, rebooted into recovery and saw that it worked fine, so rebooted my phone so i can backup all of my apps with titanium backup just to save time. I reboot my phone into recovery once more this time ready to flash my desired rom just to find the android with the red explanation point.
Can any help me with getting the recovery to stick.
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Sorry I can't help with your phone issue, but I feel you should know the correct spelling of the word you were having issues with (I sincerely hope English is not your first language, lol)...it's exclamation mark/point.
efrant said:
This has been answered many times: there are two files that are responsible for re-flashing the stock recovery on every boot. Delete them and all will be fine:
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
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Thanks for the help, sorry I didn't know it was that common of problem
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mk_ln said:
Sorry I can't help with your phone issue, but I feel you should know the correct spelling of the word you were having issues with (I sincerely hope English is not your first language, lol)...it's exclamation mark/point.
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Yeah English is my first language, thanks for helping me out. I was just drawing a blank at the moment, no need to be an ass about it.
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707BeastMode707 said:
Thanks for the help, sorry I didn't know it was that common of problem
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It's not really a problem. It's a security feature that Android has. If you update via an OTA update, it removes your root access and places those two files on your system that reflash the stock recovery (which is the Android on his back with the "!").
efrant said:
It's not really a problem. It's a security feature that Android has. If you update via an OTA update, it removes your root access and places those two files on your system that reflash the stock recovery (which is the Android on his back with the "!").
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I got it now, thanks
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Related
...I downloaded the 4.0.4 update and went to install and reboot. But the phone got stuck at the screen with the android belly up and a exclamation point. Pulled the battery and rebooted and was at 4.0.2 still. Haven't gotten another OTA notification. Do I get another OTA alert or do I have to update manually.
I have a GSM Nexus, rooted but with stock 4.0.2. And I activated OTA RootKeeper before downloading the update. Any help will be greatly accepted.
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Besides root and maybe unlock your bootloader, did you change anything in your system (install mods, different radio etc. or rename system files)? If you are not completely stock your OTA will not work and you will have to update manually or get back to Stock first.
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Nothing changed. Except for root and unlocked bootloader everything is stock.
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Well the screen you were looking at (Android belly up) is the stock recovery. If you see that: no need to pull battery. Simply push volume up + power simultaneously and you'll get into the recovery menu. Scrolling through the options can be done with the volume buttons, select with the power button.
That said: I think no one knows for sure but I myself would not wait and update myself. There are a lot of guides here on how to do that and if you flash the stock images you will have the same as anyone who had the OTA. Make a proper backup first (you allways should)! You will lose all your data if you have to unlock your bootloader.
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jrodsep said:
Nothing changed. Except for root and unlocked bootloader everything is stock.
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Have you installed CWM recovery installed?
The "belly up" android is the phone trying to boot in the stock recovery to update the phone. But as you may have CWM recovery installed (which replaces the stock recovery) the phone cannot complete the update.
You will need to re-install the stock recovery. I believe you can do this with the GNex Toolkit.
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stuu.f said:
Have you installed CWM recovery installed?
The "belly up" android is the phone trying to boot in the stock recovery to update the phone. But as you may have CWM recovery installed (which replaces the stock recovery) the phone cannot complete the update.
You will need to re-install the stock recovery. I believe you can do this with the GNex Toolkit.
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Is it possible to get the Stock Recovery Screen when you have CWM installed? Didn't think that was possible... that it would just boot into CWM recovery. That is why I didn't mention it (trying to learn here).
Same problem here. Stock 4.0.2, rooted, CWM installed.
Does this mean we will lose settings before we are able to update the device?
Lex_Michdeandroid said:
Same problem here. Stock 4.0.2, rooted, CWM installed.
Does this mean we will lose settings before we are able to update the device?
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this mean you are not eligible for the OTA update mate, because you have a custom recovery
i suggest you to
flash the stock rom manually
flash a custom rom wih 4.04 inside
my 2 cents
Viridis Draco said:
this mean you are not eligible for the OTA update mate, because you have a custom recovery
i suggest you to
flash the stock rom manually
flash a custom rom wih 4.04 inside
my 2 cents
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I don't even understand why I have CWM installed in the first place. I only neet root acces, all the rest can stay stock for all I care... Is there a way to avoid these problems in the future? So be able to root and OTA at the same time?
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Lex_Michdeandroid said:
I don't even understand why I have CWM installed in the first place. I only neet root acces, all the rest can stay stock for all I care... Is there a way to avoid these problems in the future? So be able to root and OTA at the same time?
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custom recovery is needed in order to install custom ROM dude, is quite simple
and yes, you can root the stock ROM without custom recovery, there are a lot of guide about that in the developer section
Viridis Draco said:
custom recovery is needed in order to install custom ROM dude, is quite simple
and yes, you can root the stock ROM without custom recovery, there are a lot of guide about that in the developer section
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So my only option to fix this now is flash 4.0.4 manually (will I lose stuff?) and then root again and get stock recovery back? Sorry for my n00b questions, thanks for your help!
Edit: would it be easier if I just get the stock recovery back and then try to get the OTA to turn up again?
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Lex_Michdeandroid said:
So my only option to fix this now is flash 4.0.4 manually (will I lose stuff?) and then root again and get stock recovery back? Sorry for my n00b questions, thanks for your help!
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you have nothing broken mate, i can't tell you if you will lose data, it depend on your ROM, what you flash and mainly how
the Force and the Developer Section is with you, young padawan
damn, i'm playing SW:TOR too much:/
Viridis Draco said:
you have nothing broken mate, i can't tell you if you will lose data, it depend on your ROM, what you flash and mainly how
the Force and the Developer Section is with you, young padawan
damn, i'm playing SW:TOR too much:/
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Thank you master for your soothing words. I just want my Galaxy Nexus to be like he is right out of the box, but rooted. Thats all I need from him... I am guessing my girlfriends Nexus S is going to be a pain in my assholes in a few weeks bc its still on GB and my TF101 will also go haywire because of my rooting adventures...
First this GN nuisance... Guess I am going to have to wait until tomorrow, I am flying to Dublin in about two hours and I don't think I can fix this in time...
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Lex_Michdeandroid said:
Thank you master for your soothing words. I just want my Galaxy Nexus to be like he is right out of the box, but rooted. Thats all I need from him... I am guessing my girlfriends Nexus S is going to be a pain in my assholes in a few weeks bc its still on GB and my TF101 will also go haywire because of my rooting adventures...
First this GN nuisance... Guess I am going to have to wait until tomorrow, I am flying to Dublin in about two hours and I don't think I can fix this in time...
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i agree, take your time and you wouldn't regret it
I want to manually flash 4.0.4 and stay unrooted. Should I use the GNex Toolkit to flash 4.0.4 directly or do I need to flash the same version I have on my phone?
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I had the same issue described by the OP, the belly up android when trying to update to 4.0.4 from the OTA notification. I had previously changed to 4.0.2 yakju using efrant's instructions from the first post in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391881
However, I had skipped the optional sections. In particular step 12 to flash the recovery partition. I went back and just executed step 12 (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) and rebooted. Then I was able to update to 4.0.4 successfully from the OTA notification.
I'm guessing I didn't have the "stock recovery" because I previously had the default Samsung version?
Just got the update again OTA, and again the belly up droid. I'm really pissed now, bc it also reset my Go launcher... Had 7 screens w/ widgets and shortcuts...
Why did it go wrong again? I thought I put back the recovery to stock to solve the OTA problem... Should I do other things? The phone starts to really slow down and I'm ready to toss this piece of c* in the bin...
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Lex_Michdeandroid said:
Just got the update again OTA, and again the belly up droid. I'm really pissed now, bc it also reset my Go launcher... Had 7 screens w/ widgets and shortcuts...
Why did it go wrong again? I thought I put back the recovery to stock to solve the OTA problem... Should I do other things? The phone starts to really slow down and I'm ready to toss this piece of c* in the bin...
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I had the same issue just now with my phone (unlocked, rooted, stock revcovery), but a quick reboot allowed the update to complete and I'm now on 4.0.4. Did you check the version number again after this latest attempt?
Yes, still 4.0.2.
And of course, my phone says I'm up to date. Lovely, NAAAAAT!
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I flashed the latest GSM small 4.0.4 update on stock rom using cwm, but forgot to use RootKeeper app, and of course I lost root . Any way to bring it back? Thanx.
PS: I did remove the recovery folder from the update before flashing, come recovery still installed.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
Im writing this post cause i havent 10. Im new in this forum but not in development Knowledge, and i consider its a stupid rule. Im sorry if i write any Irrelevant post.
I just don't want reset everything and starting from the beggining
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guinnes.s said:
I flashed the latest GSM small 4.0.4 update on stock rom using cwm, but forgot to use RootKeeper app, and of course I lost root . Any way to bring it back? Thanx.
PS: I did remove the recovery folder from the update before flashing, come recovery still installed.
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If you still have CWM installed, then just download this and flash it in CWM. Done.
Hi,
Galaxy Nexus was on 4.0.2 with unlocked bootloader.
My phone is GSM and I'm in Australia
I tried to use Rom Manager and "Koush's Jellybean" to upgrade, but was unsuccessful. When phone rebooted I just got an android on its side and a red exclamation mark above it.
So I tried to do it manually using clockworkmod.
Phone rebooted and now I'm stuck at multi coloured X which continues to highlight different parts.
Yes I made a back Up using ROM Manager before I did any of this. Folder called "clockworkmod" and is about 1.22Gb
What NOW? I don't want to make things any worse, if thats at all possible.
How long has it been? When I flashed jb I thought I boot looped like you but after like 6 minutes it booted up. Either way your phone is not dead you may need to flash stock image if it continues bootlooping
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Thanks Exodian,
It looped for at least 10 minutes. Pulled the battery out and have tried rebooted multiple times with no luck.
More then happy to "flash a stock image", Just point me in the right direction.
Note: I made a Back Up using Rom Manager before attempting this.
Boot into cwm and flash the backup
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i would try using the Nexus Toolkit to boot temp in CWR and restore your backup. otherwise, you can download the google developer images from google and push them via ADB to your phone too if you can get to recovery. good luck buddy!
Yeah SORRY Exodian, I'm going to need a little more guidance then that.
Noob here sorry..........
Thanks for the advice seamonkey
I've downloaded the file yakju-imm76i-factory-8001e72f.tgz from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#yakju
Would love to be able to load/install/flash that..... if at all possible.
Assuming you have cwm recovery.
With the phone off hold down both volume buttons and the battery button until the phone vibrates then let go. You will see a screen with and open chested android and the word start at the top. Hit the volume down button twice so that start becomes recovery. Hit the power button. Once in cwm recovery scroll down to backup and restore enter that and hit restore. Select your backup and flash it. When its done reboot and hopefully all will be good
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Thanks Exodian, I did as you suggested but after hitting the power button once the phone reboots, I just end up with the open chested android on its side again with the red exclamation mark
Is this after you try reflashing your backup?
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You might not be able to get into recovery. If that's the case you will need to follow the advice that someone else posted and use the toolkit to flash stock images.
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Same thing happened to me I got an error with koush jellybean install an just got stuck at Google boot screen because I shouldn't have clicked reboot after faulty rom flash, I managed to get back into recovery holding both volume keys an power button an restored my nandroid backup then flashed bigiex jelleybean rom no problem.
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slayr76 said:
Same thing happened to me I got an error with koush jellybean install an just got stuck at Google boot screen because I shouldn't have clicked reboot after faulty rom flash, I managed to get back into recovery holding both volume keys an power button an restored my nandroid backup then flashed bigiex jelleybean rom no problem.
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It happened to me i was stuck in google. I simply removed battery went back to cwm. Wiped cache partition. Wiped data and dalvik and reinstall zip jb. Voila all working
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Have you WIPED your device and what's your RADIO
Flash the XXLA2 Radio and WIPE your phone may help,you can find the radio in the offical image
Exodian said:
Is this after you try reflashing your backup?
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@ Exodian this is how far i got before I got before ending up with the open chested android on its side again with the red exclamation mark.
With the phone off hold down both volume buttons and the battery button until the phone vibrates then let go. You will see a screen with and open chested android and the word start at the top. Hit the volume down button twice so that start becomes recovery. Hit the power button.
Thanks to everyone for their advice :highfive:
I think I'm going to try and install the "Factory Images "takju" for Galaxy Nexus "maguro" (GSM/HSPA+) (with Google Wallet)" version 4.0.4 (IMM76I)
I'm in Australia, will installing the above ROM work? I'd like wallet :good:
So I need Nexus Toolkit?
creamop66 said:
Thanks to everyone for their advice :highfive:
I think I'm going to try and install the "Factory Images "takju" for Galaxy Nexus "maguro" (GSM/HSPA+) (with Google Wallet)" version 4.0.4 (IMM76I)
I'm in Australia, will installing the above ROM work? I'd like wallet :good:
So I need Nexus Toolkit?
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You can flash either the takju or yakju images, the hardware requirements are the same.
Before flashing stock...
Code:
adb pull /data/media/ /sdbackup/
(Backs up your SDcard to an "sdbackup" folder.
Use that code.
You'll need to use ADB: Post one of my guide will set that up.
Ignore the unlocking bootloader part, obviously.
Just open ADB as explained in the guide and run that code.
Flashing stock images will factory reset your phone and delete your SDcard contents.
The above code backs them up.
Thanks Jubakuba. I copied my phones drive before I started, but will definitely have a look at your guides. I keep reading about adb....but not to sure what it is or how to use it...
I plan on using GALAXY NEXUS TOOLKIT V7.0 by mskip to install the stock ROM mentioned above.....
Anything I need to know???
No, you'll be fine in doing that.
I decided to install Cyanogen Mod on my Nexus. I already rooted it and downloaded rom manager + titanium back-up. I watched a tutorial on how to download and install roms using rom manager and everything seemed to go as planned and Cyanogen 9 was installed. The phone automatically rebooted and the boot animation the Cyanogen started. But after a half hour I realized it was stuck. So I tried to go into recovery mode to restore my backup (of the stock) but when I went there, the phone automatically turn off. It's not when I click, it's just after a certain period. It even turned off while restoring. To make things worse, when I turn it on now, it's stuck on the Google logo with the unlocked slot at the bottom. I hope you guys can help me because I'm starting to freak out.
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Additional info
I did not delete evreything when I flashed
GSM version
rom was downloaded from rom manager
I backed up my stock rom
I did google but everything leads to bootloader which is broken
Yes I'm a noob
marcusabu said:
I decided to install Cyanogen Mod on my Nexus. I already rooted it and downloaded rom manager + titanium back-up. I watched a tutorial on how to download and install roms using rom manager and everything seemed to go as planned and Cyanogen 9 was installed. The phone automatically rebooted and the boot animation the Cyanogen started. But after a half hour I realized it was stuck. So I tried to go into recovery mode to restore my backup (of the stock) but when I went there, the phone automatically turn off. It's not when I click, it's just after a certain period. It even turned off while restoring. To make things worse, when I turn it on now, it's stuck on the Google logo with the unlocked slot at the bottom. I hope you guys can help me because I'm starting to freak out.
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Additional info
I did not delete evreything when I flashed
GSM version
rom was downloaded from rom manager
I backed up my stock rom
I did google but everything leads to bootloader which is broken
Yes I'm a noob
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Is your battery charged? Have you tried reflashing recovery? if not I'd try reflashing recovery, not sure what it might be hope this helps
jv2543 said:
Is your battery charged? Have you tried reflashing recovery? if not I'd try reflashing recovery, not sure what it might be hope this helps
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Where can I find this option and what does it do exactly? I have the Nexus Toolkit too, should I do anything there?
1.Don't panic
2. Try to go on bootloader then reset factory or fastboot then from pc flash recovery
3. Try to get back recovery then factory reset and flash backup
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OP, here. Learn before you do some damage with tools you don't understand.
I mean, it's the easiest thing to fix damnit if you cared to learn in the first place...
Beamed from Maguro
Odin back to stock
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gagb1967 said:
Odin back to stock
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I wouldn't recommend Odin to beginners. OP is better off with the fastboot guide mentioned by bk201doesntexist.
When I was a noob, Odin was the thing that save my life... a while back of course
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gagb1967 said:
When I was a noob, Odin was the thing that save my life... a while back of course
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was it a nexus? maybe/probably not, but if it was, you should have used fastboot. it's officially supported by GOOGLE. if you want to flash a factory image, they tell you to use fastboot. why would we use anything else? a leak? that the community barely really knows anything about?
i'd rather use Heimdall!! (not sure i9250 is supported though.)
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Hello everyone!
Im not sure if this post belongs in this thread, but I thought it would be best suited in the Sprint Galaxy Nexus thread.
Can someone please make a stock 4.3 rooted rom for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus? Or, if someone has already received the update, could you post a nand backup?
I want to update, but I dont want to lose root. However, If there isn't any other solution, I will definitely take the plunge
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vincentallen2 said:
Hello everyone!
Im not sure if this post belongs in this thread, but I thought it would be best suited in the Sprint Galaxy Nexus thread.
Can someone please make a stock 4.3 rooted rom for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus? Or, if someone has already received the update, could you post a nand backup?
I want to update, but I dont want to lose root. However, If there isn't any other solution, I will definitely take the plunge
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what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
tomh1979 said:
what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
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Ive downloaded that yesterday, but just like QBKing said, itd probably be better to wait for a stock rooted option. I think it would be just less of a hassle than to go through all the motions of unrooting and updating.
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tomh1979 said:
what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
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when I updated from 4.1 to 4.2.1, I had CWM, and I got the ota, with it prompting me to keep root and disable recovery flash. I actually have the zip on my phone, I'm just scared of what will happen if I try to flash it. I don't have access to a PC, so there's no way to recover if I f*ck up.
mattchew86 said:
when I updated from 4.1 to 4.2.1, I had CWM, and I got the ota, with it prompting me to keep root and disable recovery flash. I actually have the zip on my phone, I'm just scared of what will happen if I try to flash it. I don't have access to a PC, so there's no way to recover if I f*ck up.
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Nandroid backup just in case.
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tomh1979 said:
what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
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If you're doubting the update don't, the OTA process involves sending the update 1 by 1 randomly so that everyone doesn't download the file at once and overload the download servers, causing bad downloads, and bricking devices and in the end you'll get unhappy customers.
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Savoca said:
Nandroid backup just in case.
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If he loses root or custom recovery how's he gonna restore ? I'm thinking of trying it as well . I've made a nandroid , just wondering if I'd be able to get it restored complete with root and custom recovery ? Thanks
Jimlarck said:
If you're doubting the update don't, the OTA process involves sending the update 1 by 1 randomly so that everyone doesn't download the file at once and overload the download servers, causing bad downloads, and bricking devices and in the end you'll get unhappy customers.
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I never said I was doubting, just surprised I haven't seen anyone saying they got it yet since it was supposed to start rolling out yesterday,
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I actually flashed the 155 mb zip and rooted using nexus toolkit and all is well.
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Been running stock rooted all day today. I just used Odin to go back to 4.2.1 and used that zip Phandroid (I think it was them) renamed it update.zip put it in root of storage. Booted the phone and it said there was an update. Choose to reboot and it installed it. Then fastboot flashed twrp and flashed an su zip. Granted It wiped my phone but I just used helium to restore data on some of my apps and everything has been fine
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MonstaDriva said:
If he loses root or custom recovery how's he gonna restore ? I'm thinking of trying it as well . I've made a nandroid , just wondering if I'd be able to get it restored complete with root and custom recovery ? Thanks
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Tl;dr custom recovery stayed, root obtained by flashing supersu.
Last night I used fastboot to flash system user data radios and boot images from the 4.2.1 factory image. Flashed the 4.3 zip in twrp. Made a nandroid of stock, then flashed supersu zip. All is good
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I tried flashing the zip in TWRP and it failed. Not sure why maybe a bad download.
Savoca said:
Nandroid backup just in case.
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I went ahead and flashed it, in CWM, and everything is working great. Had to reflash Superuser, in this case, Koush's Superuser, and everything is fine.
mattchew86 said:
I went ahead and flashed it, in CWM, and everything is working great. Had to reflash Superuser, in this case, Koush's Superuser, and everything is fine.
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I renamed the file update.zip and tried this, and no go, what am I doing wrong, could it be due to being on a 4.2.2 ROM?
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I tried a fresh download using CWM this time and it still failed. What am I missing?
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tomh1979 said:
I renamed the file update.zip and tried this, and no go, what am I doing wrong, could it be due to being on a 4.2.2 ROM?
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I went and restored a backup of Stock 4.2.1, and just flashed over that. No wiping or anything. Do you have a Stock backup?
mattchew86 said:
I went and restored a backup of Stock 4.2.1, and just flashed over that. No wiping or anything. Do you have a Stock backup?
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Nope, any chance on flashing a stock rooted ROM perhaps.
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Nope, any chance on flashing a stock rooted ROM perhaps.
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You could try it. My Stock ROM was rooted, and I all I had to do was reflash my Superuser zip after I let it boot up once, just to make sure the update took properly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419170
Download the file from the linked thread there for our device and then pick which instruction set applies to you from the second post in that thread. Since I'm leaving Sprint and giving my Gnex to my two year old, I unrooted, returned to stock, and locked the device. After following the directions for adb sideload, everything came up great.
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