I just got my champagne 32gb from TigerDirect today and as soon as I connected it to wifi it started updating to ICS. Didnt install yet because I'm at low battery. My question is - can I somehow negate the update and keep HC? This is my second prime and the first one locked and rebooted constantly. Im worried this will be the same issue with the ICS update again.
Im still unsure whether the rebooting is a hardware or software issue but I want to be safe and stick to HC while its figured out. How can I cancel the update and keep my HC? Help would be appreciated, thanks.
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First thing I want to say, this is a bone stock tablet. Everyone from XDA told me to try out the tablet first without it being hacked for a couple of weeks and then decide if you want it hacked later down the road. I have already searched this question and haven't yielded any results.
I have been trying to avoid posting a help thread for a very, very long time, but things have kinda gotten out of hands now. The other day I had been prompted to do the 4349 OTA update, but I waited because I wanted to see what the XDA community thought of it first before doing so. I set my tablet down, went into the other room for some lemonade, came back and my 3 yr old nephew got ahold of it. Somehow, he got into the settings folder, got into security, and did a "Factory data reset". I powered on my tablet and I have nothing. Nothing is on my device. Whatever Viewsonic sent it with, is gone now. Adobe Flash is gone, Facebook, Twitter, Angry Birds, and a couple of other apps are just not there. Now to be real honest, these aren't really that big of problems to me (I mean yea I was really far on Angry Birds, but whatever). The biggest problem to me is the fact that when I go to the OTA updater, it says my device is up to date being on the 3588 UI version. I want to get to 4349 somehow, but it is not letting me. I called Viewsonic and nobody had any idea. Does ANYBODY know what to do? Its getting pretty ridiculous that no one has any idea.
My goal for this tablet is to get a custom ROM on it (preferably one of Roebeets) with the VTL Launcher and support for an ad hoc network.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Hold Volume up while Powering on - let go of both buttons when the birds appear to go into recovery mode.
Try that out.
The update was pulled. They are preparing a new one to be released soon.
Recovery mode was not working, but apparently that doesn't matter anymore as the update has been removed. Thank you all.
So I just got my champagne 32gb from tigerdirect (came next day surprisingly) and it has 3.2 HC. As soon as I connected it to my wifi, it started downloading ICS, and I didnt know how to stop it (aside from turning off wi-fi). I tried shutting down DMClient, that didnt work. Now it's downloaded and my battery is below 15% so it wont install it.
How do I cancel this whole process or delete the new firmware? I want to keep HC as long as possible to see if my Prime has a hardware issue. Can I disable this auto-update firmware or is it just going to keep downloading it over and over? Help would be appreciated, and welcome back to everyone after the blackout.
liltizzel said:
So I just got my champagne 32gb from tigerdirect (came next day surprisingly) and it has 3.2 HC. As soon as I connected it to my wifi, it started downloading ICS, and I didnt know how to stop it (aside from turning off wi-fi). I tried shutting down DMClient, that didnt work. Now it's downloaded and my battery is below 15% so it wont install it.
How do I cancel this whole process or delete the new firmware? I want to keep HC as long as possible to see if my Prime has a hardware issue. Can I disable this auto-update firmware or is it just going to keep downloading it over and over? Help would be appreciated, and welcome back to everyone after the blackout.
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If you want to find out if you have a Prime that should be returned you should upgrade to ICS anyway if it borks it return it thats what I did and now I have one thats flawless with ICS.
It will keep downloading over and over.. you can do 3 delays of it.
However, there is a way, pretty positive you must be rooted, where you can use TiTanium Backup and "freeze" the updater file before it runs & updates.
PrimeTimeBro said:
If you want to find out if you have a Prime that should be returned you should upgrade to ICS anyway if it borks it return it thats what I did and now I have one thats flawless with ICS.
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I thought you had to load ICS to be sure you had a bum unit or not?
Reboot issue has been solved when I upgrade to 9.4.2.13
but after upgrade to 9.4.2.14, reboot issue come back again....
Please help how to solve, ths
Reboots
Yes, reboots very very often!!!!!
impossible to work!....how can i make downgrade to 9.4.2.13?
flavik said:
Yes, reboots very very often!!!!!
impossible to work!....how can i make downgrade to 9.4.2.13?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492887
Yes I had followed the link to downgrade, everything goes fine now (without reboot). But seems the wifi get worse...how come it be>.<
Man i had mine boxed up today after becoming very frustrated last night trying to use it. I was gonna return mine and pick up a ASUS ultrabook.
However i could not bring myself to return it at the store being i knew i would miss it too much. I still have a few days left on my return date. But currently my Prime is sitting in its boxed and i haven't fired it up since i boxed it up. And i am currently typing this on my GF's windows laptop
Im gonna update again on a fresh reboot and see how it goes.
Check this out When I first fired my new tablet up today it was on Honeycomb and I was shocked I have been through like 6 of these and I was getting good reception with this one. I could go to the furthest part away from my router and get 16-18MB/s download all other primes I have owned in the past would get 2-4MB/s. I thought that I finally got a good prime. yes! but that was not to be after upgrading to ICS I'm now getting the same old results as all my other tablets I've had problems with and had to send back or return. DAMMIT MAN!!!!
For the first time I really don't think its all the backplate only causing weak WiFi issues I haven't checked WiFi and BT together yet but its probably shot now too. F**K its, ICS and Asus don't have it running right. Nothing changed hardware wise on my tablet, so how can it be a hardware issue. I'm telling you I used to be fully on the bandwagon saying it was the backplate but how can that be its the same tablet I was getting good results with Honeycomb 20mb download then after these firmware upgrades I get 4MB download from same spot tested about 10X each. I tested it first thing as soon as I opened it with honeycomb and had these great results. Then upgraded to ICS and went to hell. Asus really needs to get to looking into other issues something broke from Honeycomb to ICS and they need to figure it out.
I got another Prime coming this week for backup and if it arrives with Honeycomb with the same results I will not upgrade it. I will have to stick with honeycomb. So Asus needs to quit blaming this on the backplate its the firmware upgrades that they cant get right.
Question - Can I downgrade back to Honeycomb with a blob file or something if so can someone tell me where to look Ive been searching.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492887
Hi all,
I got so excited today to get the new ICS update. But as soon as it was done, I got this weird looping restart. I have no idea what is causing it. I tried to update and I tried the emergency update like it's mentioned in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731654
Can anyone help me? What am I doing wrong?
To make things worse, now I can't even connect to Kies!
Help me obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope
I'm having the exact same issue on my non-rooted Note with the official AT&T update. Spent hours Googling this and can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Guess it's back to the iPhone 4s for a while.
Perhaps a factory reset will help you guys out? :/ Sorry I can not assist further.
XDA is no longer worth my time.