VS986 13B >>ROOTED<< >>DEBLOATED<< System Image & KDZ DOWNLOAD
EDIT:Thank you everyone for your support in this thread and to those that donated. This thread actually got me the first donations I've ever received just for tinkering around with phone operating systems; super cool. However, I will no longer be actively taking feature requests or looking for/fixing bugs as I have succumbed to the allure of the V10 and have retired my beloved G4 in less than a year of ownership. I must say the V10 is a gorgeous phone and I absolutely love it. I will continue to frequent this thread and answer any questions and offer any help that I can give to help anyone who may need it. My G4 is now on eBay (until Sunday) so if anyone is interested in a MINT condition Verizon G4 with a LOT of extras, PM me and I will give you the link listing as I believe posting it on here violates xda policy. Now time to explore the V10 forums. Cheers all!
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Fellow Big Red G4 owners,
I am providing for everyone a ROOTED BEBLOATED 13B system image for the Verizon G4. I was on 12A rooted and the OTA to 13B failed so I flashed the stock 12A image that I had laying around, took the OTA successfully, pulled a stock 13B image, used the root injection method found in these forums and flashed back. I can confirm this works!! I'm running it on my phone right now. This system image is also slightly debloated. No, I don't have some fancy program that can open the system image files and pick and choose what I want to delete. All I did was boot my phone on the rooted 13B system and use root explorer and root uninstaller to remove a bunch of stuff that wasn't needed. I made a few other changes as well. Once I was satisfied with my debloating I extracted the system image again and am sharing it with you all! Below is a list of the changes I made as well as the download link. WARNING!!!!!!!! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO WITH YOUR PHONE!! I ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING IF YOU PROCEED!!!!!!
EDIT 1: I put the img file in a highly compressed rar and 7z archive so the you now only have to download a 1.74 GB file instead of a 4GB+ file.
EDIT 2!! It looks like the official 13B KDZ is FINALLY here thanks to @autoprime !!! Get it HERE.
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The super user binaries are updated. (meaning you wont get prompted to update them on first boot.)
BusyBox has been pre-installed.
AdAway Host file baked in.
Google Chrome browser has been removed and has been replaced with the stock LG Browser!!
The following system apps have been replaced with those from the new LG V10:
SmartNotice (The best difference is that it's somewhat transparent so it looks WAY cooler.)
Calendar
File Manager
Gallery
Music
^^I was able to get odex files for the above V10 system apps so they don't have to be "optimized" on first boot.^^ Even though the Contacts and Home Launcher app are available from the V10, the Contacts app always force closed no matter what I did and the Home Launcher app would randomly pop up with a "Loading Apps..." pop-up box for about a second when you hit the Home button, so I left both those apps out.
All the VZW bloatware apps have been removed, save for visual voicemail, which I like and actually use. In response to a question I received as to why I removed the CallerNameID app, I use Advanced Calling and CallerNameID, as well as a few other Verizon apps, are not compatible with Advanced Calling according to Verizon's web-site. (See attached screenshot.)
The stock, very annoyingly bright red, could-have-been-a-flashlight-app (lol) Verizon boot animation has been deleted and was replaced with a nice, simple and unobtrusive stock android boot animation. White text on black background. Much better.
The DPI has been set to 560 compared to the stock 640. It will go as low as 540 with no FCs but 560 is just about perfect for me. If you don't like this size, use Textdroider app to change the dpi. NOTE: The only stock app I have found that doesn't work with this lower DPI setting is the LG Voice Recorder. It doesn't work on any DPI setting other than 640 (not even 639). However this app is still included in case you wish to revert back to stock 640 DPI and use it.
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First boot after a factory reset using this image will be really quick as it will only have to optimize 2 or 3 apps instead of 20+. If you don't like anything, such as the DPI, or visual voicemail, etc, you can change whatever you want since you'll be rooted. This is just how I like my phone.
YOU MUST have already taken the 13B OTA and you will need to be un-rooted to take the OTA. If you are on 11A or 12A rooted, the easiest way to un-root is to use the 13B KDZ to reset your phone to factory un-rooted stock. If you use the KDZ method be sure to backup your personal data as flashing a KDZ will wipe all your data.
You can follow the instructions on how to flash the system image HERE. You will more than likely run into problems if you are on 11A or 12A and try to flash this image without having first updated to 13B using one of the methods listed above (OTA or KDZ), so don't even try. I will not be able to help you get out of that predicament.
You can download the image file HERE!! (RAR Archive format)
Same image in 7z archive format HERE due to several users have MD5 mismatches with the RAR archive. (Needs free 7-Zip archiver program to unpack.)
The MD5 of this file (the IMG file; not the archive files) as it sits on my desktop is 1eca2a177f50f4a092bc5ef0939a99a7
Another thing to remember. Once you flash this image, there is no going back to the state your phone was in before (stock, un-rooted) unless you have a backup of your current system image. Meaning, even if you do a reset to factory defaults from the stock G4 recovery after you've flashed this system image, the defaults it will go back to are those of this system image.
IMPORTANT!! Resetting to factory defaults using the stock G4 recovery after you have flashed this image will NOT un-root your phone. You will have to flash a KDZ file to get back to stock un-rooted. There are instructions on how to extract your current system image HERE before you flash my image.
CREDITS
HUGE thanks, kudos and all credit for the LG Browser goes to @xdabbeb. I was never able to find a new version of the LG Browser that would work on the G4. I asked xdabbeb to see if he could get it working for me and he was gracious enough to do so; thank you!! I became hooked on the LG Browser being a long time fan and user of his ROMs for the Verizon G2.
Thanks to @BySezerSimsek for the V10 system apps. His thread with all the apps is HERE.
I do not take credit for any of the methods used in achieving this. All credits for superuser scripts, injection methods, ported V10 apps, etc goes to the appropriate people. You know who you are. I'm not a developer by any means. I'm just a power user who's not afraid to take the plunge and follow instructions from other very respected users who give all of us the tools we need to make our phones what we want them to be. Without these people, we would have very boring phones. lol. This is the least I can do to contribute back to the community who has helped me out in so many ways.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!
will give it a try in a few. I dont see clear instructions on how to pull my own system .img for back up purposes
Edit: I guess if i look i would find it. HaHA, to early in the morning to be reading XDA!
Anyone tried this yet?
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I cant get a good download of this? Is anyone else having success?
madmaverickmatt said:
I cant get a good download of this? Is anyone else having success?
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Nope, keeps failing. No worries. It's fairly new. Give it some time to work the kinks out.
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13B? When did that come out? I never even got 12A. Stuck on 11A with screen touch problems.
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13B? When did that come out? I never even got 12A. Stuck on 11A with screen touch problems.
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Within the last 24 hours I believe. I just checked for an update this morning via WiFi and got/installed it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg4/comments/3u3nfo/verizon_update_1124_wifi_fix/
I was on 11A and the 422.1MB download took me straight to 13B .
Any pointers for this VS986 + forum newbie on how to root 13B greatly appreciated .....
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Within the last 24 hours I believe. I just checked for an update this morning via WiFi and got/installed it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg4/comments/3u3nfo/verizon_update_1124_wifi_fix/
I was on 11A and the 422.1MB download took me straight to 13B .
Any pointers for this VS986 + forum newbie on how to root 13B greatly appreciated .....
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Again, like the 12a rooted image, there is no coming back from this if something goes wrong. Maybe someone could write a short step-by-step for those of us who want to make a personal backup of our system.img, and I really need to go find the instructions to flash the pre-rooted image since that was so long ago now. Really happy to see this though.
ps.- the download worked fine for me.
I second his advice to create a backup of your current system.img. If you don't you will need to factory reset again when you want to install another OTA, that's what happened to me. No matter what I tried, the OTA would not install on my system.img, even after I unrooted etc. I think I also went too far with moving system apps to the SD card and freezing some apps which prevented it from installing.
To install the OTA on a rooted VS986, is it necessary to flash a stock image (kdz), or can we simply unroot via SuperSU?
dvgb173 said:
To install the OTA on a rooted VS986, is it necessary to flash a stock image (kdz), or can we simply unroot via SuperSU?
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I'm on 11A and I am wondering this as well. Not sure where to go from here....
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I'm on 11A and I am wondering this as well. Not sure where to go from here....
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On 11A as well.
I'm pretty fed up with this phone, so when I get home I'm going to kdz 11a stock with LGUP tool, factory reset, take the 13B OTA, back up the stock system image, then inject root and see how that runs.
Then I'll probably flash the debloated image later this weekend.
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To install the OTA on a rooted VS986, is it necessary to flash a stock image (kdz), or can we simply unroot via SuperSU?
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The update will not install if you are rooted. You can try, it will go through the motions and throw an error.
If you KDZ, make sure you use the KDZ of the version you are on. If you are on 12A and flash the 11A KDZ, you will brick your phone.
The proper way to do this is to BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM.IMG BEFORE YOU DO ANY ROOTING so you can just restore your original system image and restore back to out of the box experience.
If you did NOT backup the system image, then I would recommend looking for a STOCK UNROOTED system image of the same level you are currently running. Push the system.img back onto your phone, take the OTA, BACKUP, and push a rooted system image.
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On 11A as well.
I'm pretty fed up with this phone, so when I get home I'm going to kdz 11a stock with LGUP tool, factory reset, take the 13B OTA, back up the stock system image, then inject root and see how that runs.
Then I'll probably flash the debloated image later this weekend.
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My plan, too, but without the debloated image. Backing everything up now....
I don't have the original stock image. Can anyone provide a link to an 11A stock image?
Sys img Bkup command?
Is this the correct code to run a backup on my 12a unrooted stock, using the LG Root.zip?
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=8192 skip=65536 count=548352 of=/data/media/0/system.img
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I don't have the original stock image. Can anyone provide a link to an 11A stock image?
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Here is a link to a kdz:
http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/LG+G4/Verizon+VS986/
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Here is a link to a kdz:
http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/LG+G4/Verizon+VS986/
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Thanks. Maybe I mistyped. What I meant is, the stock image we pull off when we first root. I deleted mine. Is KDZ the only way to go or are the two essentially the same?
usr folder
Hello Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could pull there /system/usr folder from 13 and upload it?
I'd like to tryout the new idc to see if that resolves the last of my touch issues on 11A
Thanks in advance,
~Eugene
player911 said:
<snip>...If you did NOT backup the system image, then I would recommend looking for a STOCK UNROOTED system image of the same level you are currently running. Push the system.img back onto your phone, take the OTA, BACKUP, and push a rooted system image.
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I don't remember backing up system image as part of the Low Effort Root procedure. I will go check, but if it wasn't in the steps, I didnt do it.
If it was, I should have it somewhere.
I do have the original 11a stock rooted image saved. But that won't do me any good.
How is the system image backup accomplished without root? It is probably in the Inject Root thread.
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Hello, I made a noob mistake the other day and now my tablet won't stop popping up with gapps crashing messages.
Here's what I did:
I was in titanium Backup, I wanted to integrate updated apps into the ROM, when it got to some Google Apps it wouldn't continue on. So then I had the wonderful idea of rebooting the device to get it to stop trying to integrate the app (probably mistake #2...). Afterwards it started spitting out the loop of gapps crashing messages. I found a zip file of gapps for my version of Android online, put that on the SD card, and tried installing them in safe mode, but that hasn't helped at all.
Currently I have root, but no custom recovery and no stock ROM. I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-pad-83/general/firmware-lg-vk815-verizon-lg-gpad-x8-3-t3131399
It leads to a supposed stock ROM for the verizon VK815, but I can't download it or understand fully the steps to use it. Could anyone point me in the direction of what to do next (aside from stopping doing things that I don't know how to do)?
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Hello, I made a noob mistake the other day and now my tablet won't stop popping up with gapps crashing messages.
Here's what I did:
I was in titanium Backup, I wanted to integrate updated apps into the ROM, when it got to some Google Apps it wouldn't continue on. So then I had the wonderful idea of rebooting the device to get it to stop trying to integrate the app (probably mistake #2...). Afterwards it started spitting out the loop of gapps crashing messages. I found a zip file of gapps for my version of Android online, put that on the SD card, and tried installing them in safe mode, but that hasn't helped at all.
Currently I have root, but no custom recovery and no stock ROM. I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-pad-83/general/firmware-lg-vk815-verizon-lg-gpad-x8-3-t3131399
It leads to a supposed stock ROM for the verizon VK815, but I can't download it or understand fully the steps to use it. Could anyone point me in the direction of what to do next (aside from stopping doing things that I don't know how to do)?
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I am not really sure how to help you here. Have you tried to do a factory reset?
We have root access on the 815 tablet, so you can always manually copy APK files over. My best guess is to ADB push all of the files from a Lollipop GAPPS package.
Do you know which one is barking at you? We do not have a custom recovery yet to flash GAPPS, but I have never known one to be able to flash a GAPPS package over a stock rom.
I found a system dump of the X8.3, I'll try pushing the gapps files from that. I'm not sure which one it is, so I think I'll just push them all. It's been a long time since I had an Android, so it might take me a bit to figure out how to set up ADB and push files again.
Thanks for the idea
I can't push files to it at all, it will only mount as read only in ADB, I also can't install with ADB, it gets some UID error. adb root just tells me it can't be done in production builds. Pretty much all I can do with adb is adb shell -> su.
Any idea on how to push the files? I tried googling around a bunch and can't find anything.
I tried a factory reset, it still gets the loop, so the only change is now I can't get past the setup UI. I might have to just wait for there to be a stock image to flash that I can access or a custom recovery or custom rom..
Try the official LG Flash Tool (not LG Flash Tool 2014) on Windows PC, which will download the right KDZ and flash it?
First make sure you have the latest LG Verizon drivers (v2.22 is the latest I've seen) installed, reboot, then put your tablet in Download mode, plug it into the PC and wait up to 10 minutes for it to load the drivers you installed.
Then try the official LG Flash Tool. I don't have links handy and I don't have the X8.3, but those instructions should be good for any new LG device.
Good luck!
P.S. I've found out the hard way that especially certain Google Apps can't be reintegrated on a Stock ROM. Google Play Services and the Play Store are definitely no no on every Android device I've tried. The rest may be okay, YMMV.
[VK810.4G] [altev] [ViKtory810ROM] official LG G Pad 8.3 Lollipop 35A_08 5.0.2
[VK810.4G] [altev] official LG G Pad 8.3 Lollipop 35A_08 5.0.2 DEBLOAT SCRIPTS and copies of all the files they remove
[VK810.4G] [altev] OTAs, .IMGs and KDZs, oh my
Thanks for the further suggestion, I'll give it a shot.
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Thanks for the further suggestion, I'll give it a shot.
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Just a little typo I had to correct in my post. I had typed "v2.2" of the drivers. Actually the latest I've seen is v2.22, and this could potentially be critical since v2.22 came out around the time that the X8.3 did. I always go straight to the manufacturer's website for drivers so I always get the right thing.
Thanks for all the suggestions, so far there's nothing working but at least I've tried. Currently the LG tool just tells me I already have the latest firmware and won't do anything from there. I'm pretty sure i'll just have to wait until someone releases either the stock firmware on a site that I can access (it's on a Chinese site, but I don't want to spam their forum (in a different language, no less), just to be able to download the file), or releases a custom recovery, or a custom ROM. Any of those should make it an easy fix, or also if LG ever releases an update for the device that should make it so I can fix it.
I'm not in a huge hurry anyway, I've never been a big Android user (I've owned about 12 Androids, so I don't mean for it to sound as though I don't like the OS, it's a fun OS to play with), I just wanted to be able to play all the games that I own on Android from the Humble Bundles and other purchases I've done over the years, but 90% (at least, and I'm not kidding) of them wouldn't run on the tablet with the stock ROM anyway. They just crashed when opening, no idea why, I think it's because of the switch to 64-bit but that's just a guess.
Thanks again for all the suggestions though, I greatly appreciate them.
Sure, you're welcome! I was thinking that there was a menu near the upper right corner of the official LG flash tool that when you clicked on it, it had a "Update Recovery" option. I thought that option forced it to do a fresh flash of the stock ROM, once it downloaded it, but if it didn't then it's just because I only used that tool once or twice and it was last year.
Two sites I used to use, on which you could enter the IMEI of your LG device and it would give you a direct from LG download link for the latest KDZ, don't work any more.
This one still does, however. Maybe they're using their own servers or they have the up to date links from LG or something:
http://devtester.ro/projects/lg-firmwares/download.php
Then you could use (the unofficial) LG Flash Tool 2014 (not the one you tried before) to flash this KDZ to your VK815 with it in Download mode.
This is another interesting tool to download the latest KDZ. It works for my VK810, but similar to that link I put in my last post, I don't know if it uses it's own databases so I don't know if it'll have your VK815 KDZ:
http://runamux.net/search/view/zip/ObaB6da3ba/lg_imei_checker_2014_b1.html
Try using the method that was used to obtain root through a USB com port. That provides su access and should be able to push files just like the root files.
I thought about that, but I really don't know what all one-click root does to gain root access and be able to push files.
How did you root the VK815 version
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How did you root the VK815 version
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+1 on this. How did you root the VK815? On latest software.
Hello Everyone,
A while back i rooted my phone through stump, and knowing the risk of rooting, i used flashify to get twrp to backup everything.
All was going well, until i used a cleaning app to delete unnecessary files and unused apps, it deleted my stock recovery as i found out later.
Later the Lollipop software update came around for the att lg g3, and so i clicked to get it, and as the update went through it went to twrp and couldnt complete the update, and so i used a command in twrp
to get to the phone, and when it finally booted up, it forces me to take the update, and so i have to force stop the Software Update app, to stop the notifications and the forced update.
Is there a way for me to get recovery and get the update, an without losing any personal data.
Thanks
You should never take an OTA update w/ a custom recovery installed. And some phones will refuse to boot after taking an OTA while rooted. The only way you can take the update at this point is by first returning the phone to stock. Depending on the model of G3 you have, there are up to three methods of returning the phone to stock. Flash the KDZ, TOT, or stock image via TWRP that's specific to your phone model.
[Guide] LG G3 Stock Firmware (Go Back to Stock) KDZ & TOT Method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
I rooted my att LG g pad x 10 with kingroot and everything was working well until I ran the su-me software to remove the extra apps kingroot added to my device. I looks like the sume app got about 75% of the way through before finally freezing. After rebooting I can now only see the clock and the virtual buttons at the bottom of the screen. I tried to use the lg tool to download the firmware and reflash the device but it says Im up to date and wont reflash it, How do I wipe this back to stock and start over Im sure this is because supersu and king root had conflicts. Is there a way to get the att firmware and force it to reimage the device?
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I rooted my att LG g pad x 10 with kingroot and everything was working well until I ran the su-me software to remove the extra apps kingroot added to my device. I looks like the sume app got about 75% of the way through before finally freezing. After rebooting I can now only see the clock and the virtual buttons at the bottom of the screen. I tried to use the lg tool to download the firmware and reflash the device but it says Im up to date and wont reflash it, How do I wipe this back to stock and start over Im sure this is because supersu and king root had conflicts. Is there a way to get the att firmware and force it to reimage the device?
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You could follow this thread to restore your tablet.
That's a pretty complicated fix. I'd try a factory reset in the stock recovery just in case to start with.
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You could follow this thread to restore your tablet.
That's a pretty complicated fix. I'd try a factory reset in the stock recovery just in case to start with.
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I need the firmware to restore the backup. I have no problem performing the restore but I cant find the firmware they do everything OTA, If you can show me where the firmware is Id owe you. Im going to try to return the tablet but its got king root on it figures the one screen you can get to is settings and installed apps and since kingroot is a system app I cant remove before returning.
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I need the firmware to restore the backup. I have no problem performing the restore but I cant find the firmware they do everything OTA, If you can show me where the firmware is Id owe you. Im going to try to return the tablet but its got king root on it figures the one screen you can get to is settings and installed apps and since kingroot is a system app I cant remove before returning.
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This thread links to a kitkat kdz. It resizes some partitions though. To get your full storage back you have to follow the procedure in that first link.
It's the only full firmware package I know of for the v410. Since you're on the lollipop bootloader it's the only fix I know.
i used that KDZ to fix my LG G Pad 10.1 -- and that s why I am now looking for an actual KDZ or the 10.1 -- that file left my 10.1 DEAD. DEAD. QSHUSB_BULK is what it shows now in the device manager and there is supposedly a fix -- but this forum is waaaaaay bad for these. Most software and help is NOT for the 10.1 -- be careful.
Full disclosure, I'm 100% new to all of this and I'm having a hard time picking up the lingo. I flashed the 47a kdz onto my g3 and it all went well. Everything is working on the phone except my internet. I have none. After doing some reading I'm assuming it is because I need the 35b bootstack for the modem. I had downloaded the 35b bootstack, unzipped it, and moved the files into my internal storage. I thought this was all I needed to do, but apparently I did something. Can someone help me with how exactly to flash a bootstack, or whatever else I could have done wrong that is causing my internet not to work. Everything is working perfectly. Thank you very much in advance.
You shouldn't have to flash the 35B bootstack, that's for people that use a custom recovery.
You have the latest 47A images (same ones that the 35B bootstack uses, but newer) and there is no reason to downgrade your images.
First try a hard factory reset, if I have to guess that'll fix your issue.
Else redownload and reflash your KDZ (yes, redownload it; some of the images could be messed up and/or the flash might have messed up).
Else, try a new SIM card; sometimes (rarely from what I have seen) this can be the issue so this is a last resort.
PS: When you have a file to flash, it's supposed to be left zipped and done in custom recovery. You will not need to flash though, like previously stated that bootstack is for users that have a custom recovery.
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You shouldn't have to flash the 35B bootstack, that's for people that use a custom recovery.
You have the latest 47A images (same ones that the 35B bootstack uses, but newer) and there is no reason to downgrade your images.
First try a hard factory reset, if I have to guess that'll fix your issue.
Else redownload and reflash your KDZ (yes, redownload it; some of the images could be messed up and/or the flash might have messed up).
Else, try a new SIM card; sometimes (rarely from what I have seen) this can be the issue so this is a last resort.
PS: When you have a file to flash, it's supposed to be left zipped and done in custom recovery. You will not need to flash though, like previously stated that bootstack is for users that have a custom recovery.
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I will give it a try! Thanks so much for the help. I'm at work on the wifi, I'll give it a go tomorrow. Should it Make any difference that the phone is being used on straight talk?
I tried a hard reset and still nothing. 3g/4g shows up at the top but the bars showing it's active are non existent, and I have no mobile network. I will try to re download and flash again tomorrow. Thanks again for the help.
Edit: I think I used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...t/vs985-46a-stock-flashable-firmware-t3304365
I think I may have used the wrong one? But it's the only stock kdz I saw. Unfortunately I'm brand new to all of this ?
Ariac Konrel said:
You shouldn't have to flash the 35B bootstack, that's for people that use a custom recovery.
You have the latest 47A images (same ones that the 35B bootstack uses, but newer) and there is no reason to downgrade your images.
First try a hard factory reset, if I have to guess that'll fix your issue.
Else redownload and reflash your KDZ (yes, redownload it; some of the images could be messed up and/or the flash might have messed up).
Else, try a new SIM card; sometimes (rarely from what I have seen) this can be the issue so this is a last resort.
PS: When you have a file to flash, it's supposed to be left zipped and done in custom recovery. You will not need to flash though, like previously stated that bootstack is for users that have a custom recovery.
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Tried everything you said, and tried this http://www.mylgphones.com/how-to-flash-android-6-0-m-stock-firmware-on-lg-vs985-using-lg-up-software . I did not try a different sim card yet, as I only have this one, but the internet will still not work.
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I will give it a try! Thanks so much for the help. I'm at work on the wifi, I'll give it a go tomorrow. Should it Make any difference that the phone is being used on straight talk?
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It may, I think you just have to set your APNs.
This is the Straight Talk APN.
stevehug said:
Tried everything you said, and tried this http://www.mylgphones.com/how-to-flash-android-6-0-m-stock-firmware-on-lg-vs985-using-lg-up-software . I did not try a different sim card yet, as I only have this one, but the internet will still not work.
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That's a full ROM that is used to be flashed in TWRP (AKA custom recovery).
THIS is the KDZ method I use:
Guide that always works for me here.
VS98547A KDZ download here.
Extract the 7Z file until you just have the KDZ file.
This method will COMPLETELY wipe your phone, pictures, videos, games, apps, etc.
Make backups!
THIS is the KDZ method I use:
[URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/guide-flash-to-stock-10b-kdz-method-t2928140" said:
Guide that always works for me here.[/URL]
VS98547A KDZ download here.
Extract the 7Z file until you just have the KDZ file.
This method will COMPLETELY wipe your phone, pictures, videos, games, apps, etc.
Make backups!
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I'm following the guide spot on, when I try to flash back to 10b, I get an error and the process won't continue the "upgrade". This is so frustrating, I guess I should have left well enough alone when I got the phone instead of wanting the newest update
Ariac Konrel said:
It may, I think you just have to set your APNs.
This is the Straight Talk APN.
That's a full ROM that is used to be flashed in TWRP (AKA custom recovery).
THIS is the KDZ method I use:
Guide that always works for me here.
VS98547A KDZ download here.
Extract the 7Z file until you just have the KDZ file.
This method will COMPLETELY wipe your phone, pictures, videos, games, apps, etc.
Make backups!
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I was able to flash back to 35b and my phone is fully functional again, I cannot thank you enough for your help. My wife was ready to kick my butt! haha. Maybe I will try going to 47a now knowing that I can go to 35b and be funtional if it doesn't work. Again, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness and your help, you saved me a large headache!
stevehug said:
I was able to flash back to 35b and my phone is fully functional again, I cannot thank you enough for your help. My wife was ready to kick my butt! haha. Maybe I will try going to 47a now knowing that I can go to 35b and be funtional if it doesn't work. Again, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness and your help, you saved me a large headache!
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Since this is the Verizon version, my suggestion is go to the Verizon specific forums. And yes, if you took one of the 47a images, that's not an official image. And yes, you must have the 35b modem and bootstack because TWRP will not work with those and the 47a image assumes that's what you have. Usually, it can result in a brick which requires a TOT or KDZ flash to fix.
I have not been able to update my shield tv 2015 16gb device to 5.2.
The device is rooted with latest 3.1.1 TWRP recovery. Each time I select upgrade with the stock settings it will reboot into recovery and won't update.
Does anyone have a link to the latest ROM or know where Nvidia stores the OTA file? I would rather flash the image my self if I can find get the ROM.
I'm sure this we'll help a few other people I can't be the only one with this issue. Need the 5.2 image not the 5.0.2 which is the previous version of Shield experience update.
you should not flash TWRP to your device reflash original recovery and remove su then try update again
BTDTGTTS Simply unrooting, and replacing TWRP with a Stock Recovery. Will not sadly be enough. The only way out is to Factory Reset. Which, in my case (Pro Owner), means a Two Hours of down time. While the Shield is busy away at nuking the /data Partition. Only after that will you be fully unrooted. Of course if you are using TWRP as your Recovery, you WILL have to replace it with a Stock Recovery for your Update to work.
It's a real PItA for just some extra (Non-working) Plex Channels, and making the needed edits to settings.db to prevent it from kicking iPlayer off after each Power Cycle / IP Address reset. (Though that last one... Has more legs on it then just the Plex Channels.)
Ichijoe said:
BTDTGTTS Simply unrooting, and replacing TWRP with a Stock Recovery. Will not sadly be enough. The only way out is to Factory Reset. Which, in my case (Pro Owner), means a Two Hours of down time. While the Shield is busy away at nuking the /data Partition. Only after that will you be fully unrooted. Of course if you are using TWRP as your Recovery, you WILL have to replace it with a Stock Recovery for your Update to work.
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i didnt know that :good:
but if he has TWRP installed couldnt he format data pation from TWRP thus saving hours of thumb twiddling
Ichijoe said:
BTDTGTTS Simply unrooting, and replacing TWRP with a Stock Recovery. Will not sadly be enough. The only way out is to Factory Reset. Which, in my case (Pro Owner), means a Two Hours of down time. While the Shield is busy away at nuking the /data Partition. Only after that will you be fully unrooted. Of course if you are using TWRP as your Recovery, you WILL have to replace it with a Stock Recovery for your Update to work.
It's a real PItA for just some extra (Non-working) Plex Channels, and making the needed edits to settings.db to prevent it from kicking iPlayer off after each Power Cycle / IP Address reset. (Though that last one... Has more legs on it then just the Plex Channels.)
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Obviously thats a much longer and worse route.
afgok said:
you should not flash TWRP to your device reflash original recovery and remove su then try update again
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I have upgraded the shield tv many times with OTA updates. Shouldn't need to be stock just to do this. So your saying root has more restrictions....
TWRP is much better than stock recovery, now it might not be finding the OTA update when it gets pushed to recovery.
The other option I mentioned in the original post was for manually selecting the OTA image with TWRP and flashing.
Does anyone one know where the temp folder is for OTA files or a direct link online?
On another thread looks like others are having this same issue with only this version 5.2.. ill just wait for the Dev Images to show up hopefully soon.
I unrooted but still got the same issue, it wont install. But I also have another issue, i can't restore my 2015 shield 16gb by using official recovery rom and official tutorials. It consistently fails to flash system.img and vendor.img by saying that the data is too large. The only way I got my system back was by flashing this file https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/shield-tv-2015-ota-5-1-feb-17-zip-file-t3559062 through twrp
Diehardshorty said:
Obviously thats a much longer and worse route.
I have upgraded the shield tv many times with OTA updates. Shouldn't need to be stock just to do this. So your saying root has more restrictions....
TWRP is much better than stock recovery, now it might not be finding the OTA update when it gets pushed to recovery.
The other option I mentioned in the original post was for manually selecting the OTA image with TWRP and flashing.
Does anyone one know where the temp folder is for OTA files or a direct link online?
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Again TWRP can not be used to flash an OTA Update. I mean sure feel free to knock yourself out. But, in the end it will fail. (Error 7 IIRC), As it is it seems that it will only work on a stock Recovery, and not on TWRP. I mean if it were this easy, everyone would be doing it. And again if the Update were working over TWRP, we wouldn't have a constant update loop. (e.g. Download Update, restart Shield, wait forever for the Shield to try (and, fail!) at applying said Update, rebooting, and wash rinse, repeat).
BTW: I never said that my way* was the 'best' way, or indeed the 'only' way. Its just the only way I know of to Nuke it from orbit all the time, everytime. And, yes it is a huge PITA. If you count a /system root as being more restrictive. In the case of Netflix making active noises about blocking rooted Devices. Then yes slowly I would say that rooting has more restrictions than stock.
*My way being to Factory wipe the Shield (Pro) which in the case of the Pro most likely means a Two plus Hours of dead time. I would assume it's much MUCH quicker for our 16GB eMMC Cousins though. But, not having One, I'm unable to confirm it.
P.s. You have also mentioned the fact that you have managed to update your rooted Shield TV on multiple occasions. Would you care to share this info with us? I for One would love to know how to do this. As having to Factory Reset the Device is a real time waster. Because after the reset, comes the rebuild. And, thats an even bigger *****.
Ichijoe said:
Again TWRP can not be used to flash an OTA Update. I mean sure feel free to knock yourself out. But, in the end it will fail. (Error 7 IIRC), As it is it seems that it will only work on a stock Recovery, and not on TWRP. I mean if it were this easy, everyone would be doing it. And again if the Update were working over TWRP, we wouldn't have a constant update loop. (e.g. Download Update, restart Shield, wait forever for the Shield to try (and, fail!) at applying said Update, rebooting, and wash rinse, repeat).
BTW: I never said that my way* was the 'best' way, or indeed the 'only' way. Its just the only way I know of to Nuke it from orbit all the time, everytime. And, yes it is a huge PITA. If you count a /system root as being more restrictive. In the case of Netflix making active noises about blocking rooted Devices. Then yes slowly I would say that rooting has more restrictions than stock.
*My way being to Factory wipe the Shield (Pro) which in the case of the Pro most likely means a Two plus Hours of dead time. I would assume it's much MUCH quicker for our 16GB eMMC Cousins though. But, not having One, I'm unable to confirm it.
P.s. You have also mentioned the fact that you have managed to update your rooted Shield TV on multiple occasions. Would you care to share this info with us? I for One would love to know how to do this. As having to Factory Reset the Device is a real time waster. Because after the reset, comes the rebuild. And, thats an even bigger *****.
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Dirty flashing a dev image is they way I have managed to update my shield but right now the dev images are not updated, still the 5.1.0
If you're rooted, the right answer is to wait for Nvidia to release the 5.2 image.
If you absolutely need 5.2 right now for some reason, several people said that doing a factory restore worked. Just unrooting and restoring stock recovery won't do it, you need to do a full restore.
Diehardshorty said:
Dirty flashing a dev image is they way I have managed to update my shield but right now the dev images are not updated, still the 5.1.0
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The Dev images are quite a bit different, and are also on an entirely different timeline to either the Preview, (Which I'm on), or the most current version.
But, yeah I could see how those would work. Alas mores the pitty that the rooted asspects of those Dev Images, only go as far as ADB, and not say a full /system wide root. Than again... It's probably for the best that way.
But, that doesn't really change the answer if you want / need to update (From root), than you are going to have to bite the big One, and run a Factory Reset. Which again, on the Pro, means a 2h+ reformating (zeroing out), of the /data Partition.
16gb version doesn't take as long to format but I've always remember flashing SuperSU.zip after ROM just incase. Short response for now at work.
Diehardshorty said:
The other option I mentioned in the original post was for manually selecting the OTA image with TWRP and flashing.
Does anyone one know where the temp folder is for OTA files or a direct link online?
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Use to be here:
/data/data/com.nvidia.ota/app_download
You obviously need root to reach that folder...
If i have time i will upload later this small OTA update to MEGA.
I uploaded the 5.2 small update OTA for Shield TV 2015 (NON-PRO):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/shield-tv-2015-small-update-ota-5-2-t3621886
sammarbella said:
I uploaded the 5.2 small update OTA for Shield TV 2015 (NON-PRO):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/shield-tv-2015-small-update-ota-5-2-t3621886
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Sweet thanks I'll give that a try from the sounds of it it might not work but I'll give a shot after work. Thanks
No luck flashing my own OTA zip I took it out of data\data\com.nvidia.ota flashed it with TWRT 3.1.1.
I might end up doing the factory restore then updating and root. Wouldn't mind a new clean OS
Diehardshorty said:
No luck flashing my own OTA zip I took it out of data\data\com.nvidia.ota flashed it with TWRT 3.1.1.
I might end up doing the factory restore then updating and root. Wouldn't mind a new clean OS
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Check out https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/how-to-update-ota-5-2-2017-update-t3622540 just posted a guide on how to update
Cameron581 said:
Check out https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/how-to-update-ota-5-2-2017-update-t3622540 just posted a guide on how to update
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Only difference there is that your using flashfire instead of TWRP. I can't see how that may work but worth a shot.
Diehardshorty said:
Only difference there is that your using flashfire instead of TWRP. I can't see how that may work but worth a shot.
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Just make sure you flash the right update, and it's because the ota provided by the devs don't support ota due to device fingerprint issues along with partition finding stuff found inside the meta-inf, the reason you can't sideload the room via stock is because there is a check for modified system tables. Granted you could take out that comment and rezip it then it will fail for zip verification, after that I had tried to sign the package to regain that but then it failed due to it only signed the packages not the entire system. Long story short it's super duper picky and ChainFire made one that pleases all of the variables or ignores then.
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Just make sure you flash the right update, and it's because the ota provided by the devs don't support ota due to device fingerprint issues along with partition finding stuff found inside the meta-inf, the reason you can't sideload the room via stock is because there is a check for modified system tables. Granted you could take out that comment and rezip it then it will fail for zip verification, after that I had tried to sign the package to regain that but then it failed due to it only signed the packages not the entire system. Long story short it's super duper picky and ChainFire made one that pleases all of the variables or ignores then.
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Ahhhhh that missing point for "error 7".
So the new app bypass that problem!
Thanks for posting it. :good: