So I see there is a new bootloader that came with the newest flo update. People seem to be flashing it when using clean rom, but should it be something we should flash when on any rom?
This is my first nexus device so seeing a new bootloader is new for me. I'm currently keeping with aokp official builds right now, but nandroid to several roms trying others out.
When flashing a bootloader, does this always stay after other rom changes and nandroid switches?
Is there a way to go back to the old bootloader, does the new one affect going back to stock and relocking the bootloader?
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help with my questions.
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Once you update or return to stock using the factory images, the version stays the same and no need to flash it. I would recommend using the newest bootloader and just leave it be.
You can lock and unlock no problems with the latest bootloader. It will stay no matter what you flash to your device.
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So I'm on the official aokp right now. I can just flash the new bootloader Scott made flashable in his jss15r thread and that's that?
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...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
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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
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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:/
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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:/
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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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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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Hey guys
I am having an issue after my nexus has been updated to the latest 4.04 release
My phone has been rooted and boot loader unlocked with the Franco kernel installed but my phone still says I need to install the update 4.04 in which it has already been installed
So I go through the install again it crashes out I then take the battery out to reboot the phone it then clears says no update required then it comes back ready to install update is there anyway to stop the update check to the device
Thanks
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steelmm said:
Hey guys
I am having an issue after my nexus has been updated to the latest 4.04 release
My phone has been rooted and boot loader unlocked with the Franco kernel installed but my phone still says I need to install the update 4.04 in which it has already been installed
So I go through the install again it crashes out I then take the battery out to reboot the phone it then clears says no update required then it comes back ready to install update is there anyway to stop the update check to the device
Thanks
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You are running IMM76D (which is 4.0.4), and you are getting the update notification for IMM76I (which is also 4.0.4, but a newer build).
I would suggest you install it - but to do so, you need to flash back the stock IMM76D kernel, install it, then flash back your custom kernel.
EDIT: I can also tell you how to disable the notification, in case you don't want to install the update, but I would recommend you install it.
Hi
Many thanks for your solution
Please could I have the solution to turn off the update notification to the device I will prefer to do this time than to reinstall all my data
Thanks mark
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steelmm said:
Hi
Many thanks for your solution
Please could I have the solution to turn off the update notification to the device I will prefer to do this time than to reinstall all my data
Thanks mark
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The update is an incremental update, and it will NOT wipe any of your data. You just have to flash the stock boot image (which does not wipe any data either), then accept the update, then flash back your preferred kernel.
But in any case, if you want to disable it, you need to edit a line in your build.prop file. Change the line that begins with ro.build.fingerprint to the following:
ro.build.fingerprint=google/yakju/maguro:4.0.4/IMM76I/330937:user/release-keys
Make sure you back up your original first.
Many thanks for everything I will do this later tonite.
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hi, i have a galaxy nexus with cyanogenmod 9 whick is android 4.0.4 (i did not flash it, it came with that rom) and i want to let the gnex in stock to get the jellybean update...
the thing is , i have seen a lot of guides but really it is too much, i was installing the drivers and then i saw the 100000 steps extra that i needed to do, and i just dont wanna do that lol... then i found the gnex toolkit (seems a lot easier) and there is an option to go back to stock, but i dont know if that works to go back from a rom like cyanogen or it just work for phones with stock roms that are rooted and with unlocked bootleader.
go ask in the toolkit thread since you are lazy.
You can use Wugfresh's toolkit to revert your GN to stock, and it will even give you the option to select which build you want, it would download it for you, follow the on screen instructions. You need unlock bootloader to flash stock, you can always lock it though.
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You can use Wugfresh's toolkit to revert your GN to stock, and it will even give you the option to select which build you want, it would download it for you, follow the on screen instructions. You need unlock bootloader to flash stock, you can always lock it though.
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thanks for your answer, i'll download it.. i guess i have unlocked bootloader since this gnex is running cyanogen...
edit: thanks to that toolkit i was able to easily upgrade to jellybean without knowking much about this stuff.. thank you!! this thread can be closed now!!
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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