I have a 3xl rooted with Android 11 on it. I've never installed Android 12 because I wasn't sure if I had to de-root the phone prior to upgrading to Android 12. Can I simply go to Settings>System>System Update>Download and Install and be good to go or do I need to return it to factory prior to upgrading to Android 12? Also, I'd like to perform a factory reset on the phone because it's never had it done on this phone and the phones beginning to glitch up. What's the best order to factory reset vs upgrading to Android 12, etc? Thanks for all help in advance.
EDIT: I just saw that I have Majisk on the phone as well. It's out of date too. So any help on what order I need to perform all of the above actions in would be very helpful. I'm guessing step 1: update Majisk, 2. Upgrade to Android 12, 3. Factory Reset?
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Hello – does the 5.02 OTA notification pop up right away now for all 2013 Nexus 7s that haven’t yet been updated to Lollipop?
I want to factory reset my wife’s 4.4.4 Nexus 7 before upgrading to 5.02. It currently has the notification to upgrade, but I’ve ignored it (actually I disabled notifications for Google Play Services to avoid the nag for the past several weeks).
I want to avoid doing the factory reset and then not being offered the OTA notification for a day, week, or longer.
Will doing a factory reset right after updating to 5.0.2 make the device just as pristine as doing it just before? Maybe I should avoid worrying about when I’ll get the offer to go to 5.0.2 and do it now while I have it, and then factory reset – if the end results will be the same.
I want to ensure the tablet will work the best it can with 5.0.2. We had some really bad experiences with the original Nexus 7 2012 and I want to avoid having the update from 4.4.4 make things worse. We have a couple Nexus 5s that are working good enough with 5.0.1.
Thanks in advance.
GaryP2 said:
Hello – does the 5.02 OTA notification pop up right away now for all 2013 Nexus 7s that haven’t yet been updated to Lollipop?
I want to factory reset my wife’s 4.4.4 Nexus 7 before upgrading to 5.02. It currently has the notification to upgrade, but I’ve ignored it (actually I disabled notifications for Google Play Services to avoid the nag for the past several weeks).
I want to avoid doing the factory reset and then not being offered the OTA notification for a day, week, or longer.
Will doing a factory reset right after updating to 5.0.2 make the device just as pristine as doing it just before? Maybe I should avoid worrying about when I’ll get the offer to go to 5.0.2 and do it now while I have it, and then factory reset – if the end results will be the same.
I want to ensure the tablet will work the best it can with 5.0.2. We had some really bad experiences with the original Nexus 7 2012 and I want to avoid having the update from 4.4.4 make things worse. We have a couple Nexus 5s that are working good enough with 5.0.1.
Thanks in advance.
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If you're gonna do a factory reset, you might as well just flash the factory image. That will guarantee that you'll have the possible install.
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If you're gonna do a factory reset, you might as well just flash the factory image. That will guarantee that you'll have the possible install.
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Thanks for the advice - that's what I ended up doing this morning and it went well!
Although I had adb working on a Windows box for some time, I hadn't taken the opportunity to flash a factory image until now.
Hi,
am using a Pixel XL 1 on Android 8.1, bootloader unlocked, patch level of February. Now I have the problem that since about December no OTA updates are shown/offered at all. Therefor I always had to manually update.
Even the manual triggering of searching for updates, which has recently been changed so that the devices explicitly should get the currently available update, does not work.
The device was rooted, but I have unrooted it (Magisk) now, and is running the standard firmware from Feburar on it.
Does anyone have any clue why my device is not offered any OTA updates?
Anyone?
What kind of recovery do you have installed? Stock or TWRP?
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What kind of recovery do you have installed? Stock or TWRP?
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Stock. So everything should be as vanilla as possible! I'm really clueless.
i don't get it either. pixels running a non-stock os should get notifications about a new update. they won't install successfully though. i'm guessing, but maybe going through the unroot process to get rid of magisk did not return your os to completely stock. maybe some junk was left behind and that's causing your issue.
my suggestion is to flash a full factory image to start fresh. i would edit the flash-all.bat script to remove the -w option to keep data. if that doesn't work, put the -w option back and rerun to wipe data and flash the factory image. if you really want to see if that fixes your problem, flash an older image like the february or january one, and see if the update notification comes back. or flash the march image to be up to date and wait until april to see if you get the update notification.
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i don't get it either. pixels running a non-stock os should get notifications about a new update. they won't install successfully though. i'm guessing, but maybe going through the unroot process to get rid of magisk did not return your os to completely stock. maybe some junk was left behind and that's causing your issue.
my suggestion is to flash a full factory image to start fresh. i would edit the flash-all.bat script to remove the -w option to keep data.
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That's what I've did already No difference.
if that doesn't work, put the -w option back and rerun to wipe data and flash the factory image.
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It's just the hassle installing everything from scratch again.
I wish recovery/backup was as easy as on iOS. Without necessity of any tricks, root etc.
Is this phone enrolled in the Android Beta Program ? I've had trouble getting OTA updates on my phone after the beta program ended for it until I un-enrolled from the program, then I got updates like normal. There will be warnings about having to wipe the device, but if your on the the stock/stable version already you won't have to.
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Is this phone enrolled in the Android Beta Program ? I've had trouble getting OTA updates on my phone after the beta program ended for it until I un-enrolled from the program, then I got updates like normal. There will be warnings about having to wipe the device, but if your on the the stock/stable version already you won't have to.
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Tried that one as well. I was on a beta at some point, but unsubscribed from the beta. Also tried to unsubscribe again, but it the well know link took me to a page where it said that there is no beta, hence I couldn't try to unsubscribe again.
When you flashed the full factory image did you use the newest march update? if you did then you wouldnt get anything because you are already current
Gotta say, exactly the same problem.. stuck on 8.0 November lol. Haven't found a solution, too lazy to manually flash for now. Let me know if you find a solution!
have you tried deleting the data and cache on the google services app?
So I stupidly tried to upgrade to the Pixel 4 Launcher before the official Dec update came and even after trying to uninstall/reinstall the .apk and downgrade etc, I still can't get the launcher to be remotely usable without the error popups if I have gestures on. So I am resorting to factory resetting and just starting from scratch.
I feel extremely dumb asking this as I've been rooting/customizing my phones since the G1, but about 6 months ago I had to send in a phone for RMA and when I factory reset it, wiped the OS and the bootloader was locked, so I am making sure I don't do that this time as I'm now out of warranty.
What is the process of factory resetting when I am rooted with Magisk and have the bootloader unlocked? I don't have a custom rom, just stock Android and I do not have TWRP installed. I feel like it's as simple as just going into Settings and hitting Factory Reset in Reset Options, but I can't remember if I did that or something else when I bricked the RMA phone and want to make sure.
Again, sorry for the completely stupid question, just trying to cover the bases. Thanks in advance!
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So I stupidly tried to upgrade to the Pixel 4 Launcher before the official Dec update came and even after trying to uninstall/reinstall the .apk and downgrade etc, I still can't get the launcher to be remotely usable without the error popups if I have gestures on. So I am resorting to factory resetting and just starting from scratch.
I feel extremely dumb asking this as I've been rooting/customizing my phones since the G1, but about 6 months ago I had to send in a phone for RMA and when I factory reset it, wiped the OS and the bootloader was locked, so I am making sure I don't do that this time as I'm now out of warranty.
What is the process of factory resetting when I am rooted with Magisk and have the bootloader unlocked? I don't have a custom rom, just stock Android and I do not have TWRP installed. I feel like it's as simple as just going into Settings and hitting Factory Reset in Reset Options, but I can't remember if I did that or something else when I bricked the RMA phone and want to make sure.
Again, sorry for the completely stupid question, just trying to cover the bases. Thanks in advance!
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It's like you said, go to settings and factory reset. Or, go to stock recovery and do it from there :good:
I once tried the regular firmware update from Oreo to Android 9 and ended up with a factory reset phone. Got everything back through nandroid but never tried that again. Now, years later, however, it's finally time for the job. But I don't want to loose the hundreds of settings I made over the years.
Is there any easy way to take a (graphical) look at all the settings of my current installation, when the phone can no longer show them (after the factory reset)?
Would it for example be possible to execute my nandroid in the Android SDK? I know, not directly because of hardware/emulator incompatibilities, but could it be possible to do something like this with the Android SDK:
- install a default Android8
- install all the apps that currently are on my phone
- copy the settings from my nandroid
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Or anything similar? Any ideas welcome!
I just bought a used Pixel 2 XL and it is really in great shape. It came with Android 11 installed and I'm not so sure I like it. If I do a factory reset will it go back to the Android version that was installed new, think 8 or 9? Or will it just wipe things and come back with Android 11? I'm somewhat confused on what the term factory reset implies. Thanks....
A factory reset completely wipes the data partition of the device, resulting in a device with no apps when you reboot. The phone retains the version of Android it currently has. So long as yours is NOT a Verizon unit you can use a factory image from Google and fastboot commands to install an older version of Android. If you have a Verizon device you're SOL.
OK thank you for clearing that up for me. Mine is the Google version so I will have that option to install older versions....I will need to do some research here for instructions. I believe it is unlocked already so that helps the process....