I'm having an issue with updates after returning to 100% stock. I'll fastboot flash the stock recovery, then adb side load 3.2.6, and relock my bootloader. After that I'll try to install the 3.2.7 update and it always fails. Am I doing something wrong? Or are there extra steps I should take?
Ideally I'd like to return to 100% stock and then adb side load the 3.5.4 community build, but if im having this issue updating the stable build, will I have the same issue updating the community builds?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
fourbiscuits said:
I'm having an issue with updates after returning to 100% stock. I'll fastboot flash the stock recovery, then adb side load 3.2.6, and relock my bootloader. After that I'll try to install the 3.2.7 update and it always fails. Am I doing something wrong? Or are there extra steps I should take?
Ideally I'd like to return to 100% stock and then adb side load the 3.5.4 community build, but if im having this issue updating the stable build, will I have the same issue updating the community builds?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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The firmwares between 3.2.6 and whatever you had before might be different. Google is your friend.
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Hi i just recently unlocked s-off and rooted my HTC one and played around in custom roms. I disliked most of them and when back to the stock rom. The only thing is now a new update came out and i cant update because when i try to install it i just go into my custom recovery (TWRP). I don't care about re locking, s-on and unroot all i want to be able to do is update the stock rom. thanks fro your time hope you can help.
Kojoez said:
Hi i just recently unlocked s-off and rooted my HTC one and played around in custom roms. I disliked most of them and when back to the stock rom. The only thing is now a new update came out and i cant update because when i try to install it i just go into my custom recovery (TWRP). I don't care about re locking, s-on and unroot all i want to be able to do is update the stock rom. thanks fro your time hope you can help.
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This is all i did to get the updates to 15:
I have used Santod040 roms in case i need to go back to pure stock ROM only: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2485319
You will need the odex one to run any OTA . i would download/flash the stock 10 to be sure you get the full firmware to get the 15 update.
then
Get into fastboot and flash the stock recovery you can get below:
You can get it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgzgq84svzahvnv/htconerecovery_signed.img
fastboot flash recovery htconerecovery_signed.img
You can try to update.
That should resolve your problem and you might want to post this kinda stuff under help and troubleshooting since it fits that better.
Good Luck
htconerecovery_signed.img
MD5: E3F5208454689BE7F09835D4A60953A8
SHA-1: 1B0734D97732039528159AD1409AFEE858B5E9F1
SHA3-256: E0741EB77E5DEBEA932EE74F374FAC9E1037776178944279E8 B12832C30E2546
I am going to purchase a Nexus 7 2013 and will be wanting to unlock the bootloader and root the device straightaway. I would be grateful if someone could tell me the best way to go about this. Should I carry out these tasks with no ROM updates applied, i.e. on 4.3 or should I update to Lollipop first? Thanks in advance.
With the nexus 7 its as simple as typing fast boot OEM unlock, but here is a more comprehensive guide on the matter. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381698
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Unlock the bootloader before doing anything else, as it will wipe your data in the process.
If you plan on staying with the stock rom, don't bother rooting or installing a custom recovery until you've updated all the way to lollipop, as it can cause the ota updates to fail and you'll just lose root with each update anyways. Beware of taking this route though, the are lots of posts around saying that the latest ota update bricked devices. Might be safer to fastboot flash the latest factory image directly.
If you plan on using custom ROMs, go ahead and root it and install custom recovery then flash away to your heart's content. You may need to update the bootloader to latest version first to successfully flash lollipop ROMs though. I think its version 4.04, and there are flashable zips for doing this somewhere around here that worked great for me.
crazymonkey05 said:
With the nexus 7 its as simple as typing fast boot OEM unlock, but here is a more comprehensive guide on the matter. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381698
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Many thanks. I used the excellent Nexus Root Toolkit.
PrizmaticSmoke said:
Unlock the bootloader before doing anything else, as it will wipe your data in the process.
If you plan on staying with the stock rom, don't bother rooting or installing a custom recovery until you've updated all the way to lollipop, as it can cause the ota updates to fail and you'll just lose root with each update anyways. Beware of taking this route though, the are lots of posts around saying that the latest ota update bricked devices. Might be safer to fastboot flash the latest factory image directly.
If you plan on using custom ROMs, go ahead and root it and install custom recovery then flash away to your heart's content. You may need to update the bootloader to latest version first to successfully flash lollipop ROMs though. I think its version 4.04, and there are flashable zips for doing this somewhere around here that worked great for me.
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I unlocked the bootloader, updated to Lollipop 5.0.2 by flashing the latest factory image, then rooted and flashed TWRP. I would now like to flash custom ROMS. You mentioned I may need to update the bootloader in order to successfully flash custom Lollipop ROMS? Am I correct in thinking I will have the latest bootloader, now that I have updated to Lollipop 5.0.2? Thanks.
pretty pixel said:
I unlocked the bootloader, updated to Lollipop 5.0.2 by flashing the latest factory image, then rooted and flashed TWRP. I would now like to flash custom ROMS. You mentioned I may need to update the bootloader in order to successfully flash custom Lollipop ROMS? Am I correct in thinking I will have the latest bootloader, now that I have updated to Lollipop 5.0.2? Thanks.
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Yep, you're correct. If you flashed the factory image, you should already be on the latest bootloader. :good:
By the way, 5.1 factory image finally was released today for this device.
PrizmaticSmoke said:
Yep, you're correct. If you flashed the factory image, you should already be on the latest bootloader. :good:
By the way, 5.1 factory image finally was released today for this device.
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Great, thanks for letting me know. Do you recommend I update to the 5.1 factory image before I flash any custom ROMS, or doesn't it matter?
pretty pixel said:
Great, thanks for letting me know. Do you recommend I update to the 5.1 factory image before I flash any custom ROMS, or doesn't it matter?
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Doesn't matter, though you may wait for the custom ROMs to update to 5.1 so they will have the latest binaries.
PrizmaticSmoke said:
Doesn't matter, though you may wait for the custom ROMs to update to 5.1 so they will have the latest binaries.
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Thanks. Do you know if CM12 has moved to 5.1 yet?
Not sure, don't really follow cm, but u can just check their website.
pretty pixel said:
Thanks. Do you know if CM12 has moved to 5.1 yet?
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as i know only few devices are on 5.1 yet
Please some body will help to revert back to 3.2.4 on pure stock to get the ota
Thanks
Unlock bootloader, flash modded twrp, flash oxygen os.zip, flash oxygen recovery. In case you want to relock bootloader again, you can do so but you'll have to adb sideload oxygen os after that. All your data and media will be wiped off the phone
Hello,
I have rooted my HTC One m8(No S-OFF). It also has TWRP and it's on Android 5.0.1/HTC Sense 6
I googled and read about reverting to stock recovery and then doing an OTA upgrade of the OS. But I'd rather not go back to stock and then TWRP back again.
Is there any way or instructional to follow that can enable me to update to Android 6 whilst keeping TWRP and my root settings on.
Any help is appreciated
My experience, is that Marshmallow ROMs work fine on Lollipop firmware. I've been doing so since December, for no better reason than I've been too lazy to update my firmware.
So that means you should be able to just restore the proper Marshmallow TWRP backup for your version, and just run that without updating anything else. Although, be sure to leave yourself an escape plan, just in case it doesn't work (either your own LP backup, or be prepared to use one from the collection).
However, for best compatibility, you should really update your firmware. And doing so, either by flashing stock firmware, OTA, or RUU by "official" means (and official/signed means are what you need to use, since you are s-on) will by definition wipe out TWRP.
But honestly, flashing TWRP back to the phone is easy. You just download the .img file to your computer, than flash with a single fastboot command, with the phone connected. This is actually a fast and simple process, when compared to the other stuff you are talking about doing (restoring stock backup and recovery, OTA update).
Plus, since you are updating to Marshmallow, you'll also want to update to TWRP 3.0.2 anyway.
redpoint73 said:
My experience, is that Marshmallow ROMs work fine on Lollipop firmware. I've been doing so since December, for no better reason than I've been too lazy to update my firmware.
So that means you should be able to just restore the proper Marshmallow TWRP backup for your version, and just run that without updating anything else. Although, be sure to leave yourself an escape plan, just in case it doesn't work (either your own LP backup, or be prepared to use one from the collection).
However, for best compatibility, you should really update your firmware. And doing so, either by flashing stock firmware, OTA, or RUU by "official" means (and official/signed means are what you need to use, since you are s-on) will by definition wipe out TWRP.
But honestly, flashing TWRP back to the phone is easy. You just download the .img file to your computer, than flash with a single fastboot command, with the phone connected. This is actually a fast and simple process, when compared to the other stuff you are talking about doing (restoring stock backup and recovery, OTA update).
Plus, since you are updating to Marshmallow, you'll also want to update to TWRP 3.0.2 anyway.
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Thanks redpoint73.
My chief motivation behind moving to Android 6 is a sound problem I've been having lately. I installed the AcousticX sound mod but when I listen to audiobooks, I hear a clipping sound sometimes.
The developer over @ AcousticX suggested a few things and one of which was making the switch to marshmallow.
thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68881108#post68881108
From some reading and your suggestions, I gathered the right way to go about this is, is to flash stock recovery(overriding twrp). Do an OTA upgrade(1.6 gb download/install) and afterwards reinstall TWRP and whatever else was previously done.
Am I correct in surmising this?
Thanks
AadilK said:
From some reading and your suggestions, I gathered the right way to go about this is, is to flash stock recovery(overriding twrp). Do an OTA upgrade(1.6 gb download/install) and afterwards reinstall TWRP and whatever else was previously done.
Am I correct in surmising this?
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Not only the stock recovery, but you also need to restore the unrooted TWRP backup (never rooted ROM, "unrooting" doesn't work). Since having root will prevent OTA.
The full process is described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860
The other option, depending on what M8 version you have, may be to RUU to Marshmallow. That allows you skip a lot of the steps needed in the previous method (restoring a never rooted TWRP backup, restoring stock recovery, OTA updated) but adds a couple other steps (relock bootloader to RUU, unlock it again after RUU to flash TWRP); plus the RUU will wipe all user data on the device.
So its a judgment call for you (if your version has RUU) what path is preferred.
The phone is on 7.0, with TWRP recovery and rooted with Magisk. Is there a way to flash just stock recovery in order to receive 7.1.1 OTA but without losing everything? Also, how do I unroot?
Thanks.
ViperX85 said:
The phone is on 7.0, with TWRP recovery and rooted with Magisk. Is there a way to flash just stock recovery in order to receive 7.1.1 OTA but without losing everything? Also, how do I unroot?
Thanks.
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I always say before people do something to their phone they should have a strong idea on how un-do it first. With that said. The best way is to start from scratch. Download your Software version from the link below, unzip and install each command in ADB. Do your research before jumping ahead...
https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/addison/official/