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GNex rejecting ALL 4.1

RIght, it seems my phone is rejecting all and any 4.1 OTAs and ROMs.
I have tried every combination of stock takju, yakju, OTA, ROMs, recovery, radios the lot.
My phone applies the update ok then when it starts it just sits in a boot loop getting hotter and hotter.
Does anyone know what the hell is going on and what it could be?
Or has anyone else had this problem?
I can happily flash stock Google images (4.0.4), 4.x.x ROMs no problem it just seems to be JB.
Thanks

How long do you let it boot?
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gchild320 said:
How long do you let it boot?
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Sorry, it won't let me post in Dev. (to new to the site)
I let it boot for a good 20-30 mins, iv literally tried everything... WIth root, without root you name it, i tried it

rparkerbsgg said:
Sorry, it won't let me post in Dev. (to new to the site)
I let it boot for a good 20-30 mins, iv literally tried everything... WIth root, without root you name it, i tried it
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Have you tried super wipe?
Android revolution HD super wipe lite nexus or something of the sort. Its a flash able zip that may help you out.
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gchild320 said:
Have you tried super wipe?
Android revolution HD super wipe lite nexus or something of the sort. Its a flash able zip that may help you out.
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Yeah i did try that to no avail.. its starting to p!ss me off now

Why dont you tell us what exact phone you have, and walk is through a typical ROM installation
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Try locking then unlocking the bootloader (this should wipe all your data off the phone!). Then flash stock factory images via fastboot. If you still can't boot after doing that then something is wrong with your phone physically.
if you don't have the drivers and fastboot setup:
drivers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379875&highlight=naked+samsung
fastboot: http://www.modaco.com/topic/348161-01-feb-r4-superboot-rooting-the-gsm-lte-galaxy-nexus/ (just rename the fastboot and adb .exe's back to their original names w/o the -windows suffix).
factory images: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
edit: or use the toolkit that sarni84 mentioned below - if your not comfortable manually doing it via a command prompt.

Yes I would flash a stock image with the toolkit it should wipe everything it will suck but it seems like your problems are deeper. Then after flashing the 4.0.4 IMG use efrants guide to flash to new 4.1.1

running_penguin said:
Why dont you tell us what exact phone you have, and walk is through a typical ROM installation
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I have a GSM Galaxy Nexus from the UK, the day i got it i flashed the factory 4.0.2 image from google to bring it to clean yakju.
When i download a ROM or anything firstly i check the md5, assuming thats all good i follow the install proceedure to the letter (wipe data, cache, dalvik if needed) I have flashed many ROMs on my Nexus as well as my previous S2 and Nexus S before that.
I have literally tried everything from clean install of factory 4.0.4 yakju and takju, lock and unlock boot loader, root and un-root, OTA and custom ROMs but nothing seems to work.
I have even tried restoring a friends nandroid of stock 4.1.1 android via CWM just to see if that works but nothing.

well... so why not stay with 4.0.4 yakju and just wait for stock ROM 4.1.1 yakju to be available and/or working OTA update? why going through all this hassle?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

rparkerbsgg said:
I have a GSM Galaxy Nexus from the UK, the day i got it i flashed the factory 4.0.2 image from google to bring it to clean yakju.
When i download a ROM or anything firstly i check the md5, assuming thats all good i follow the install proceedure to the letter (wipe data, cache, dalvik if needed) I have flashed many ROMs on my Nexus as well as my previous S2 and Nexus S before that.
I have literally tried everything from clean install of factory 4.0.4 yakju and takju, lock and unlock boot loader, root and un-root, OTA and custom ROMs but nothing seems to work.
I have even tried restoring a friends nandroid of stock 4.1.1 android via CWM just to see if that works but nothing.
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Sounds like something is broken or your nand flash is corrupted or bad. Probably best to RMA it considering you've tried everything that should have restored it if it wasn't broken.

Hannes The Hun said:
well... so why not stay with 4.0.4 yakju and just wait for stock ROM 4.1.1 yakju to be available and/or working OTA update? why going through all this hassle?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
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I got the official OTA from our friends at google (i didn't do the framework services clear) it just came through.
i got the whole 145mb download, it verifies, reboots to the android guy with his front open, loads fine then on reboot, nothing, just the big X boot screen looping out.
It was after that didn't work that i explored the ROM route with the same results

Device Status : Modified

I know this was talked about here.
I have rooted my phone i have CWM recovery (installed status bar mod), and my device status is modified ( i cant run system update)..
Any way i can change it without loosing data ? Because all solutions i found included wiping data ... And i hate restoring data with titanium stuff etc...
Thanks folx !

In another thread i was told to go to chainfires root thread but there is only a way with wiping data...
Any one knows way without wiping any data ?

Try triangle away
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You can NOT use OTA updates after rooting. Period. Even if you get your device status to normal (which requires you to factory reset after rooting and running Triangle Away). OTA updates will only work on unmodified systems.
You can, however, get the update from sammobile and flash with Odin.

To quote a person who is a great deal more knowledgeable about the subject:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33709557&postcount=179

FloatingFatMan said:
You can NOT use OTA updates after rooting. Period. Even if you get your device status to normal (which requires you to factory reset after rooting and running Triangle Away). OTA updates will only work on unmodified systems.
You can, however, get the update from sammobile and flash with Odin.
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Erm, not true. I am rooted and device is normal. Recently I just did an OTA update. After that still used OTA Rootkeeper to restore root.

I have been trying to find a way to get my status: Modified back to normal without wiping data(rooted, stock rom/recovery) but I have had no luck...would be nice if there is a way to do it!

Seifer1975 said:
Erm, not true. I am rooted and device is normal. Recently I just did an OTA update. After that still used OTA Rootkeeper to restore root.
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That was sheer blind luck then. OTAs are incremental updates, so you could just have easily have bricked your phone doing that.
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gandalf21502 said:
I have been trying to find a way to get my status: Modified back to normal without wiping data(rooted, stock rom/recovery) but I have had no luck...would be nice if there is a way to do it!
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There isn't.

FloatingFatMan said:
That was sheer blind luck then. OTAs are incremental updates, so you could just have easily have bricked your phone doing that.
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There isn't.
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Oh, I doubt the risk of that happening is high. While I am rooted, everything else on my phone is still stock.
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gandalf21502 said:
I have been trying to find a way to get my status: Modified back to normal without wiping data(rooted, stock rom/recovery) but I have had no luck...would be nice if there is a way to do it!
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Well, I was rooted and my device shows normal. I did not wipe data, factory reset or flash a stock ROM again after rooting. In fact, my phone showed modified immediately after rooted and mysteriously changed to normal the day after without me doing anything at all. The only possibility I can think of is that I used the jig as well as triangle away. If you have a jig, you might want to try and see if it works.

FloatingFatMan said:
You can NOT use OTA updates after rooting. Period. Even if you get your device status to normal (which requires you to factory reset after rooting and running Triangle Away). OTA updates will only work on unmodified systems.
You can, however, get the update from sammobile and flash with Odin.
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FloatingFatMan said:
That was sheer blind luck then. OTAs are incremental updates, so you could just have easily have bricked your phone doing that.
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There isn't.
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You seem wrong about many things here in this thread. You can definitely do OTA updates after root, but you will most likely lose root... I'm aware you have 2000+ posts, but be careful what you say...
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I have jig... what have you done with it ? Just stick it in?
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You get "modified" status because of custom recovery. If you want "official" status just flash the stock recovery with ODIN. And yes you will lose root, but you will get OTA updates.
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DanDroidian said:
You seem wrong about many things here in this thread. You can definitely do OTA updates after root, but you will most likely lose root... I'm aware you have 2000+ posts, but be careful what you say...
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I guess you can quote Chainfire as being wrong as well then, because he says pretty much the same thing. OTA's are usually incremental updates, which means they patch existing files rather than replace them. IF you've just rooted and not done ANYthing else, you can probably get away with flashing an OTA. But if you've patched anything, expect trouble.
If you use ODIN to flash the OTA, you're probably safe as it has coding to fix such problems (as far as I can discern anyway), but flashing the OTA without is just asking for it.

OTA Updates are overrated, why wait for an OTA when you can download from sammobile at your leisure.
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kirilorius said:
You get "modified" status because of custom recovery. If you want "official" status just flash the stock recovery with ODIN. And yes you will lose root, but you will get OTA updates.
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Does anyone know if stock Rogers for i317m is available anywhere online yet?
And secondly, does this phone get OTA updates or is it via Kies? My SGS2 were via Kies only and carrier specific.
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Coud i flash different Country rom via ODIN? Will i have Some problems with it?
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My recovery is stock, and is say's modified. The only thing I did was root the phone, stock rom/recovery.
I have a Jig from my S2 days...how will inserting the jig reset it? Anything else need done other than insert it? Did not know the Jig would work with the N2...did not work with my S3.

With the phone off, insert the jig. It should boot into download mode. Then I reboot. That's all I did. I am not saying it will work, just that this was the only thing I did differently from others. Otherwise cannot explain why my status shows normal even though I am rooted and did not factory reset or wipe data after that.

FloatingFatMan said:
I guess you can quote Chainfire as being wrong as well then, because he says pretty much the same thing. OTA's are usually incremental updates, which means they patch existing files rather than replace them. IF you've just rooted and not done ANYthing else, you can probably get away with flashing an OTA. But if you've patched anything, expect trouble.
If you use ODIN to flash the OTA, you're probably safe as it has coding to fix such problems (as far as I can discern anyway), but flashing the OTA without is just asking for it.
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Hi,
I have a galaxy S2, and i have ordered note 2.
I was running a stock rom, with root, cwm, lots of mods, and many themes applied, and i was still able to get ota updates. So if you can do that on the s2, i would think you could it on a n2 too.
Corey
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Hope this helps:
As I mentioned in this thread, I now have rooted stock 4.1.2 and "Device status: Normal".
The OTA software update process doesn't hang anymore now
springer.music said:
I've just flashed this firmware with Mobile Odin Pro and selected all the wipes + root/mobile odin injection.
Now my N7105 is rooted with "Device status: Normal".
When I rooted it using this guide (stock recovery method), I had "Device status: Modified", so it was not possible to check for OTA updates.
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OTA

I'm on a 4.2 ROM and I cannot get the OTA Update message out of my status bar asking me to install 4.2. How do I get rid of it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Its for 4.2.1
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I got it once, but when I tried to install it, it failed (and the notification disappears btw). Can anyone tell me if its because of a custom kernel that the ota installation fails? Is there any way to force it? Where is the ota zip stored?
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Right. But if I update is it going to brick and/or unroot my phone? These are things I do not want to happen so I would like to know before I go ahead with it.
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Obviously flashing an OTA is going to unroot your phone (assuming it even installs). But it won't lock your bootloader so it will take 5 seconds to re root.

I'd rather not deal with it but I guess I'll probably have to anyway. I was just wondering if there is anyway to get rid of the message without installing it? Maybe flashing a 4.1.2 ROM?
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bbaaccoonn said:
I'd rather not deal with it but I guess I'll probably have to anyway. I was just wondering if there is anyway to get rid of the message without installing it? Maybe flashing a 4.1.2 ROM?
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huh....if you flash a custom rom, no OTA update should ever appear. Nor could you ever run a official OTA update.

bk201doesntexist said:
huh....if you flash a custom rom, no OTA update should ever appear. Nor could you ever run a official OTA update.
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Actually a notification for the ota can show up if your running a custom ROM, and you can run it, but as soon as it tries to install through recovery, it just fails/aborts.
I had it happen to me awhile back when I was running Pa
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OTA 4.2 to 4.2?
I have gsm maguro which I recently flashed stock 4.2 takju from 4.1.2 yakju.
I did not expect to be looking at an OTA update notice wanting me to update to 4.2 (which I am already on).
I would have thoght the update manager would check the build and version of my phone before offering update. Could it be that because I did an official OTA update from 4.1.1 yakju to 4.1.2 yakju that I am marked down as being on 4.1.2 now, and so is now offering 4.2 without checking the current build and version I am running.
I would like to know how to get rid of that update notification from my status bar if I can, or if I should do the update anyway. At the moment I have unlocked bootlocker but no root. I can not remember if OTA would wipe my apps and data, am guessing no as bootlocker already unlocked?
Some expert advice would come in handy. You know what an expert is yeah? X is an unknown quantity and a spurt is a drip under pressure.
Hmm, what to do. Nexus wizards, please advise. I have started downloading the 4.2.1 factory image anyways but I would still like to know what would be recommended in the situation I was in. I am fairly new, though I have learned to flash stock roms with adb, and have stuck with stock roms for the moment while I get the hang of things. Not sure if I get updates from google now or from Samsung. Am guessing google, but then why would google not offer to update me to 4.2.1 seeing as it is now out rather than to 4.2?
Shtrangeness.:cyclops:
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Its for 4.2.1
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When this gentleman says "Its for 4.2.1" I am guessing that he is saying the update which reads
"This software will upgrade your Galaxy Nexus to Android 4.2 Jellybean..." is actually the 4.2 to 4.2.1 OTA update, just not marked properly?
I just love it when things are marked incorrectly, makes life so much less confusing? They should always do that to keep me in a continuous state of bewliderment. New google policy, mark every file with the name of the file which preceeds it, except on Sundays, when they should be marked in any manner whatsoever.
Thanks for the answer bloke. You are the bees knees. I did kind of have an inkling that it might be 4.2.1. Crazy boyz and girlz. Just mad. Somewhere between irrational, nearly right, not correct, and just plain silly.

[Q] JWR66V OTA for Takju please!

Please somebody update the OTA (NO factory images) for the TAKJU Galaxy Nexus, Yakju has received recently! Thanks in advance!

Questions goes in the Q&A, read the rules sticky.
Beamed from my Maguro.

That's technically not a question...
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markitosd said:
Please somebody update the OTA (NO factory images) for the TAKJU Galaxy Nexus, Yakju has received recently! Thanks in advance!
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if you have an unlocked bootloader you can flash the stock images via fastboot. don't flash all together. Flash the bootloader then radio finally the image(make sure you remove the userdata.img from the image.zip). this is exactly what I did and I now have 4.3 and didn't lose a single bit of my app data.

mij1525 said:
That's technically not a question...
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There is a [Q] tag, so it goes there.
And regarding OTAs, just wait for it, nothing major..
Beamed from my Maguro.

You're seriously asking this? I didn't know we had google employees in xda. Why not just download the flash able image from the Google developers website and save time from making a post that's useless. Also someone can't make an OTA. Only google can.
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navodwickra said:
if you have an unlocked bootloader you can flash the stock images via fastboot. don't flash all together. Flash the bootloader then radio finally the image(make sure you remove the userdata.img from the image.zip). this is exactly what I did and I now have 4.3 and didn't lose a single bit of my app data.
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Can I do this from the phone only? I have no access to a usb cable or a computer, and I need to update completely from the phone.
Is that possible?
/Söder

soder said:
Can I do this from the phone only? I have no access to a usb cable or a computer, and I need to update completely from the phone.
Is that possible?
/Söder
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Then wait for the OTA..
Beamed from my Grouper

Mach3.2 said:
Then wait for the OTA..
Beamed from my Grouper
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Yeah, I wait and I wait and I wait. =) That's why I asked about this method.
But also with the OTA, there is a chance that is will not work to flash since there might be some stuff I have done to the /system.
That was the case the for me with the 4.2.2 update, and I needed to use the Google Factory Image, and reset my internal memory and all that (I didn'n know about methods to NOT reset the internal memory then).
Strange there are no flashable .zip's that are complete stock with only some kind of root added. Just stock, that should work to update to next version, like 5.0, with OTA then. Or is there?
EDIT: I found this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016452
Can someone please tell me if there was some new bootloader or radio or something like that, that I need to update more then using pure stock - odexed - UNTOUCHED?
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Trying OTA Update - Getting Dead Android Icon

Hey Guys,
I'm trying to apply the OTA update to move to KitKat but I've tried it twice now and both times before it even starts doing anything on the installation after turning off, I get a dead android icon with a red triangle and an exclamation point. I figured this issue was due to me removing some packages to uninstall bloat but I restored all the ones I backed up and I'm not sure if I'm missing something. I'm rooted using the saferoot on 98.30.1.XT907.Verizon.en.US. How can I get my phone to update? I'm aware that I'll lose root but it's not imperative for me. I really only use it to get rid of ads using AdAway. Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to get the apk's for all the system installed apps that come with the Droid RAZR M? I could go through and install the ones I'm missing that way. I thought I backed up any ones that I was removing so that this wouldn't happen when a new OTA came out but apparently not.

Your best bet will likely be to RSD back to stock and then take the OTA.
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Coronado is dead said:
Your best bet will likely be to RSD back to stock and then take the OTA.
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So I would just want to use RSDLite from here - http://www.4shared.com/zip/uOa2HVb9/RSDLite616.html
And then download the same version of Android I have now (98.30.1.XT907.Verizon.en.US) from here - http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=8 and install that?

You could flash the new firmware right away.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52755934&postcount=229.

lem22 said:
You could flash the new firmware right away.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52755934&postcount=229.
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Would that do a factory reset in the process? I just want to know if I need to backup my pictures before hand. I haven't had a problem with doing OTA's and losing pictures but I guess if there's some in there I want to keep I should back them up anyways. I don't really use my phone for many pictures though.

Using the linked files it shouldn't delete user data (wipe), but some system settings will get reset.
Please see this thread.

gjriehl said:
Hey Guys,
I'm trying to apply the OTA update to move to KitKat but I've tried it twice now and both times before it even starts doing anything on the installation after turning off, I get a dead android icon with a red triangle and an exclamation point. I figured this issue was due to me removing some packages to uninstall bloat but I restored all the ones I backed up and I'm not sure if I'm missing something. I'm rooted using the saferoot on 98.30.1.XT907.Verizon.en.US. How can I get my phone to update? I'm aware that I'll lose root but it's not imperative for me. I really only use it to get rid of ads using AdAway. Thanks in advance!
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I would use house of moto. It reflashed the system, boot.img, etc, and I kept all of my data. When it booted up, I took the update just fine. Here's a link to the forum: http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-22/
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lem22 said:
You could flash the new firmware right away.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52755934&postcount=229.
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Well I went this route and it worked great. Thanks!

gjriehl said:
Well I went this route and it worked great. Thanks!
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So we can follow the instructions for this coming from any rom?

romma1 said:
So we can follow the instructions for this coming from any rom?
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I'm not sure on that. I was on the stock rom to begin with but I had removed some bloat (thought I had backups for everything but I guess not) and after restoring it all it wouldn't install. Tried it twice to no avail. Then just grabbed the KK update zip file and RSD'ed it over and it was done in about 5-10 min. Phone was running slow while Google Play went and downloaded updates for all my apps but it's running beautifully now.

romma1 said:
So we can follow the instructions for this coming from any rom?
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Yes, as long it's the same or a newer system version you're flashing: You can restore your version, you can upgrade it to a newer one, but to downgrade the bootloader has to be unlocked.

lem22 said:
Yes, as long it's the same or a newer system version you're flashing: You can restore your version, you can upgrade it to a newer one, but to downgrade the bootloader has to be unlocked.
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I am unlocked. Thank you...

Truth be told, I never tried to downgrade from KitKat, so maybe there's something different now, but I believe it works, just as a downgrade from JB to ICS.