Okay, this might not be the place to get some divine intervention to start (or stop) happening, but I'm really starting to get a nervous breakdown and I desperately need some help. I'm going to tell you my story, because it's my last resort before throwing this phone in a fire and never buy anything Samsung related ever.
So the phone came out of the box and for some magic reason I got the bootloader unlocked and phone rooted. It all started with installing CWM I think. This stopped my phone from taking OTA updates. Of course I could have known, but for some reason I installed CWM. I don't know why! I regret it, I don't even want a different ROM installed, I thought it was necessary to root the phone. So when I got the OTA, at first I was like YEAH YEAH, but then the on the back laying android with the exclamation mark turned up and I felt like I wanted to kill someone. It was 2 in the morning and I had to get up early to go to Dublin for two weeks. This was really not the time...
So after trying a few times of getting the OTA update message again and failing every time I got it, I started searching. Yes, CWM is installed so you can't OTA they all said. Nice, now I hate on the back laying androids AND CWM. Of course the one to hate is me, but I already hate myself so that's no use. Anyway I used the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit 5.6 to put back stock recovery. Now I had to wait a few weeks again before the update turned up again... By this time the phone started to be REALLY slow when scrolling through the home screen(s). It also is empty before the day is done, but I don't know if that's because of the phone being f'ed up or because I'm too demanding.
Anyway, back to the story. Finally the update came about a week ago, and again I was like YEAH YEAH! But then the on the back laying android with the exclamation mark turned up and I felt like I wanted to kill someone. To make things more fun it did a reset of my Go Launcher, 7 screens of widgets and autistic arranged shortcuts gone... Of course I wanted to try again, so this morning the OTA came again and had the same result. By now I killed quite a few, so this has to end, but don't worry there is more torment ahead.
I can't figure out what is wrong now, so I thought, f~ this s~, this phone deserves a full undress and back to the womb operation. So installing all Galaxy Nexus Toolkit v6.0 stuff and drivers. Connect phone, start toolkit, choose 3 (GSM 4.0.2. build ICL53F), phone turns up in main menu, try to put back recovery, -waiting for device-...
It stopped... Or it didn't really stop, it just stood there saying, -waiting for device-... So again a few innocent people died. Tried a different choice, (relock bootloader, just to give the phone a good beating) -waiting for device-...
I raged, pulled my hair, again killed a few, silently cried in a corner and finally started typing this eulogy...
Please kind sirs and madams, help me get this phone back to stock 4.0.4, accepting OTA, bootloader unlocked and rooted, I'm really desperate...
Why did you even root it? If u have root and cwm, you should be able to flash the rooted version of whatever stock os update you want. OTA's are a waste, you just wait a few hours for xda devs to root it and make it flash able.
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How do you proceed?
First you need the SDK for you system
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
After this you have to start the SDK manager and install "Android SDK Tools" and "Android SDK Plattform-tools" if you are using Windows you have to install USB drivers too. You could find this under the point "Extras".
After that you have to download the factory image to clean your device, once.
(Notice your SD-Card gets wiped)
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Look for right version, which fits to your device.
Now you have to bring your telefon into the bootloader by pressing all 3 buttons at the same time Volume+/Volume-/Power. After this you have to unlock your bootloader if you don't already done this.
Now plug in your phone into your computer an go into the unpacked folder from your factory image. There would be an file called flash-all. You have to run this file. Now your phone is flashed with stock rom, stock kernel newest baseband and stock recovery. Now you get ota updates from google. After this you should look for an howto root your phone in the developer section. You don't have to install clockworkmod recovery for rooting. But clockworkmod isn't change the ota. You get OTA with cwm.
Hope i understand your problem an you could understand my bad english. But i want to help. If some questions ask here into the thread.
regards
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Why did you even root it? If u have root and cwm, you should be able to flash the rooted version of whatever stock os update you want. OTA's are a waste, you just wait a few hours for xda devs to root it and make it flash able.
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I'm out of the house a lot, leaving for Brussels in a couple of hours. I don't want the hassle anymore. I just want to be able to leave the house to go to another hotel and update OTA. I don't have time for all this flashing stuff.
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When the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit says "-waiting for device-..." you need to turn off your phone, press the volume down then the volume up then the power button together. Once you have done that the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit will continue.
There is also tutorials on youtube on how to use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit.
I hope that helps.
If you want to head back to stock ROM, then one of the ways to do it would be to install Android SDK & then follow the instructions from Google developers site.
Else you can try using the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit to do this for you. I think the latest version is 5.7.
Android SDK - http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Android Images - https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#yakju
Galaxy Nexus Toolkit - http://windows.podnova.com/software/5996358.htm
smsmad said:
When the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit says "-waiting for device-..." you need to turn off your phone, press the volume down then the volume up then the power button together. Once you have done that the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit will continue.
There is also tutorials on youtube on how to use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit.
I hope that helps.
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Ah yes, I now see where I went wrong with the toolkit, I didn't put the phone in fastboot. Stupid...
How is the stock recovery supposed to look like? After putting back stock recovery with the GN Toolkit, I press 'vol+/vol-/power' and choose recovery. It then displays the belly up android with exclamation mark. Is that the way it should be? Am I doin' it wrong?
yes it is the stock recovery. But you dont need it. Flashing everything into fastboot mode(bootloader)
So, I'm currently running a stock phone, but OTA won't update my phone...? Why is OTA constantly failing if I'm running everything stock? Is my bootloader supposed to be locked? Is a rooted phone not updated OTA?
If you flashed the latest Factory-Image there is no OTA out there. It is the newest version of ICS for your Device.
Maybe i don't understand what you mean with failing OTA. Could you explain it a little bit more?
As I said in the long story, I'm currently 4.0.2. and every time when my phone says, "You have update 4.0.4. standing by, please reboot" it fails.
i would prefer to flash the factory image and root your phone again
then you have a cleaned phone and OTA should work but you don't need them because you are at latest version.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
i wrote how you could flash it page before, remeber you wipe your data from sdcard
Lex_Michdeandroid said:
So, I'm currently running a stock phone, but OTA won't update my phone...? Why is OTA constantly failing if I'm running everything stock? Is my bootloader supposed to be locked? Is a rooted phone not updated OTA?
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I don't know if I can answer why the OTA isn't working (I'll leave that to smarter men than I), but having an unlocked bootloader and root access won't stop the OTA. I had my phone in that state when the 4.0.4 update came out and all was fine, just had to run the command to get root of my phone again as OTA removes root.
Ah great! S~ has just hit the fan, it's bootlooping after trying option 8 (flash stock rom from google). Oh I really am going to kill myself sooner or later...
Edit: not killing myself yet, just had to pull the battery... Let's see what I f~ up next...
Very strange you problems i don't know the Toolkit and don't know how it flash the stock rom. But i could imagin that it only flash rom and not the other things like recovery and so on.
Try out the hard way without toolkit and use sdk and included batch file into the factory image. it is the clean way and you see whats done.
Ok, I now rebooted the phone after option 8 in the toolkit and it seems I'm running 4.0.4. I have to go to Brussels now for two weeks, but I'll try to post some screenshots later. I'll also be back to thank all of you for holding my hand, I just don't have the time right now. Of course this won't be my last problem (I still have a TF101 that needs some RMA action), but I hope I won't be needing too much time consuming support anymore.
Just got in the hotel, and unable to use my phone in Belgium. No available network... Wifi works, 2G/3G works in The Netherlands, 2G/3G unavailable in Belgium...
Screenshot of my device: http://oi46.tinypic.com/34xp89y.jpg
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Just tried my SIM in a different phone, problems are with my network. Phone works with different SIM, so false alarm.
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If you dont want to root and or flash roms, and knowing android its buggy and you gotta be stuffing with the phone all time to be able to be up to date, cuz even google releases updates oftem and even with OTA things can go wrong, meaning you have to do stuff again...
Dont blame Samsung or google the whole system needs some fixes all time.. I was devoted to stock but after i tried AOKP (Milestones) i wont ever go back to stock and or another rom, these guys has loads of features for a better user experience, stable as hell, and great support, but as you show with your very active/traveling life and those killer instints (poor innocent people), why dont you just go Iphone?
No need to flash anything and will plain work... Thats it no need to worry about anything but being an apple fan boy xDD
Cheers
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msedek said:
If you dont want to root and or flash roms, and knowing android its buggy and you gotta be stuffing with the phone all time to be able to be up to date, cuz even google releases updates oftem and even with OTA things can go wrong, meaning you have to do stuff again...
Dont blame Samsung or google the whole system needs some fixes all time.. I was devoted to stock but after i tried AOKP (Milestones) i wont ever go back to stock and or another rom, these guys has loads of features for a better user experience, stable as hell, and great support, but as you show with your very active/traveling life and those killer instints (poor innocent people), why dont you just go Iphone?
No need to flash anything and will plain work... Thats it no need to worry about anything but being an apple fan boy xDD
Cheers
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I rather eat my own shhhhh... shorts than buy something with an apple on it. With the help of you guys it always works out fine, it just takes a life or two.
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Hi,
I searched the forum but I couldn't find a similar problem, so Please I need some help.
Last week I got the new update 4.1.2 on my Galaxy Nexus gsm, so I went and installed it.
During installation when the device turned off and it was unpacking the update or even a little bit before that, I got a message which I really don't remember very much and didn't understand but i think it was from rom manager asking something maybe about flashing or something similar.
I remember as well, that it said that the action cannot be undone! and since I didn't understand very well what it was asking me, i chose something which seemed to me the safest at the time.
Which means, if it asked me to install something, I chose not to since it can't be undone.
I know I'm not giving as much information as i should but this is what happened.
After the installation was finished, I downloaded root checker to find if i had lost my root or not and it took awfully long time for the app to tell me that my device is rooted.
So, everything was okay and apps which needed root access were getting it from superuser app.
Today I decided to backup my rom so I opened rom manager premium and I was not able to backup the rom or even restart in recovery mode, so i uninstalled it and reinstalled it and I was getting always error that it was not granted superuser access.
So, i figured out that the problem is specifically with the rom manager because other app which needs root access were always getting it, so I went to titanium backup and rebooted through the app into recovery mode and it did but all i got is that black screen with the android icon in the middle having a red triangle on top. I had to take the battery off to restart the phone.
I tried again to reboot into recovery mode using the power and the volume button but I was unable to.
So, I'm asking whats the problem?
Am I still rooted? and how can i fix this problem?
I was thinking of using the nexus kit but I can't reboot in recovery mode at all so I guess it won't be much of a help.
I'm very sorry for the LONG question.
Thanks Guys
clouds73 said:
Hi,
I searched the forum but I couldn't find a similar problem, so Please I need some help.
Last week I got the new update 4.1.2 on my Galaxy Nexus gsm, so I went and installed it.
During installation when the device turned off and it was unpacking the update or even a little bit before that, I got a message which I really don't remember very much and didn't understand but i think it was from rom manager asking something maybe about flashing or something similar.
I remember as well, that it said that the action cannot be undone! and since I didn't understand very well what it was asking me, i chose something which seemed to me the safest at the time.
Which means, if it asked me to install something, I chose not to since it can't be undone.
I know I'm not giving as much information as i should but this is what happened.
After the installation was finished, I downloaded root checker to find if i had lost my root or not and it took awfully long time for the app to tell me that my device is rooted.
So, everything was okay and apps which needed root access were getting it from superuser app.
Today I decided to backup my rom so I opened rom manager premium and I was not able to backup the rom or even restart in recovery mode, so i uninstalled it and reinstalled it and I was getting always error that it was not granted superuser access.
So, i figured out that the problem is specifically with the rom manager because other app which needs root access were always getting it, so I went to titanium backup and rebooted through the app into recovery mode and it did but all i got is that black screen with the android icon in the middle having a red triangle on top. I had to take the battery off to restart the phone.
I tried again to reboot into recovery mode using the power and the volume button but I was unable to.
So, I'm asking whats the problem?
Am I still rooted? and how can i fix this problem?
I was thinking of using the nexus kit but I can't reboot in recovery mode at all so I guess it won't be much of a help.
I'm very sorry for the LONG question.
Thanks Guys
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Try to flash recovery through fastboot from PC
polimeno said:
Try to flash recovery through fastboot from PC
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Thanks for the answer.
Flashing recovery using what exactly? Gnexus Kit?
clouds73 said:
Thanks for the answer.
Flashing recovery using what exactly? Gnexus Kit?
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Yeah, Galaxy nexus toolkit will work fine. You can also download the recovery (it is a .img file) and flash it manually through fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img)
Does anyone know if there is a more updated way or (cant think of the word for it) rooting a Samsung Galaxy SIII SGH I747? I've wanted to do it for months and months, but I was terrified of screwing something up, and when I finally over came my fear and heavily prepared, researching and everything ( different technique and all) none of them of them worked. I tried toolkits, XDA troubleshooting tips, all kinds of links and etc. I only get so far in the process where there is a quick flash of some sort in the Odin portion where you input the path from the C: drive part and stuff. I've just had so many issues. I feel like giving up so bad. But I'm not that type of person. I'M GOING tO GET THIS IF IT KILLS ME! Yesterday, I stayed on this thing from 9:00 am till 10:00 pm. Trying over and over, recapping my steps, making sure I read and reread the directions, jumping from site to site to see what other folks have tried.
I think I used quickroot method. I tried the toolkit before and it didn't work either. I finally found a correct root method in the i747 Android Development forum. Ill try to find the forum for you.
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13 hours "trying" to root your phone with no success??? You're way over thinking it! Flash recovery to your phone through odin, then flash superuser through your newly installed recovery. Should take all of 10 minutes...
CF AUTO ROOT! It should take no more than a minute to root but it won't install a custom recovery so you'll need to use Rom Manager for CWM or GooManager to install TWRP after you root.
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Hello everyone! I really need some help here I just got my brand new nexus 7, and I am trying to update from 4.3 to 4.4. I have a problem though, because it keeps getting stuck at about where the letter "A" is on the screen. The bar will sit there for hours and not go any further. I have tried restarting, two factory resets, and I have no idea what else to do. Please someone help? Thanks so much!
Since it's new, I highly recommend downloading the full stock 4.2.2, rather than spending time trying to update. The "flash-all.bat" file will do a full wipe and install 4.2.2 completely, with no need to get updates.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#razor
You will need to "unlock" first, which can be done easily through the Nexus Root Toolkit. After that, the same Toolkit can root your new N7, if you so desire.
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
JakeReis said:
Hello everyone! I really need some help here I just got my brand new nexus 7, and I am trying to update from 4.3 to 4.4. I have a problem though, because it keeps getting stuck at about where the letter "A" is on the screen. The bar will sit there for hours and not go any further. I have tried restarting, two factory resets, and I have no idea what else to do. Please someone help? Thanks so much!
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Don't rely on tools. Do it manually, it's easy. Watch the tutorials.
Unlock bootloader and install custom recovery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k4rCaMPSQ8
Root http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTdUd-jlbP0&feature=youtu.be
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I also do everything manually, but for the sake of newer owners getting used to the device, I'll refer them to the kit.