I will make this short as possible. My friend has a VZW RAZR, all stock the way it comes from the store, no root, no mods. The past couple weeks he has told me his LTE hasn't been working. He was unable to get the ICS OTA to install, he tried several times. I went to help him Saturday and have been doing some reading and such. It always fails on the install about a third of the way through the progress bar. I learned that holding both volume buttons brings up the text saying what the install process is doing and eventually the error. Sure enough, every time it gets to the LTE part it errors and fails, apparently his LTE just decided to kill itself a few weeks ago. Even a factory reset didn't solve anything. Anyways I plan to go help him later this evening and I was hoping to get some directing how I can manually install the update or what it is I need to do to fix the LTE error and complete the OTA. Any help is much appreciated!!
EDIT: Whoops, forgot to mention I know about this thread and this is what I plan to try if nothing else. I just couldn't find anything in the forums about LTE crapping out for no reason. Anybody think this is the method I should try or have a different suggestion?
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Coworker got an Atrix recently on 1.8.3. She asked if I could add it to the wireless network at work to do the OTA 2.3.4 update (as the little triangle is annoying her in the status bar). I put her on our wifi and went to download the OTA and nothing happens. When I go to status check for updates it says download in progress but it's not. I left it running for three hours and got nothing. Her phone is stock so I don't wanna screw any future updates up so I was weary about manually flashing anything. Any tricks I don't know about on getting this to her phone? I'm kind of confused as it should've been pretty easy and straight forward. I rebooted a couple of times and still no go. Anything I can do or should I have her take it to the AT&T store?
Hello all. I've been reading with much dread on the changes to my phone with the Verizon forced OTA update. I really don't care about the extra battery bar, and didn't want to have my battery life wasted by the Verizon Location bloatware. I caught my phone twice trying to install the OTA, and I defered it until tomorrow.
That's when I notice you can "reject" the update. Currently if you go into settings, status, you can then click on reject. It appears the OTA will not install.
Hope this helps,
BOBBY
PS- I have a screen shot but can't post a Photobucket link as a new member yet.
I read on here that it will be forced upon you on Feb. 5.
Don't be afraid...
Nope
I rejected the OTA a couple of times; didn't stop it from installing when I wasn't looking a few days ago.
It really sucks that you can't permanently reject an update if you don't want it.
My son has a DroidX that is bone stock. He doesn't care about mods whatever, his phone is all beat up and he could care less what the wallpaper/icons etc are. He just wants it to work.
When the GB update came out for it, he absolutely DID NOT want it but eventually it installed anyway and his phone has been really messed up ever since (it worked fine before the update)
He has so many apps installed that he really doesn't want to factory reset it ( he doesn't even know where he got half of them) but it is going to have to be reset soon.
MINIATURE-ART said:
Hello all. I've been reading with much dread on the changes to my phone with the Verizon forced OTA update. I really don't care about the extra battery bar, and didn't want to have my battery life wasted by the Verizon Location bloatware. I caught my phone twice trying to install the OTA, and I defered it until tomorrow.
That's when I notice you can "reject" the update. Currently if you go into settings, status, you can then click on reject. It appears the OTA will not install.
Hope this helps,
BOBBY
PS- I have a screen shot but can't post a Photobucket link as a new member yet.
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My phones actually rejecting it normally. Ive restarted my phone a couple of times and it notifies me that its DL however it just fails to install. I don't want the update right now but i do wonder if that will come back to bite me in the as*
Ever since the update my phone seems to lag just a little bit when scrolling screens in sense. Or has it always been this way and I'm just noticing?
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My phones actually rejecting it normally. Ive restarted my phone a couple of times and it notifies me that its DL however it just fails to install. I don't want the update right now but i do wonder if that will come back to bite me in the as*
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You can always save it for later.
The file is called OTAPkg.zip and should be in /cache/fumo. You can just download it and postpone the install then move it out to somewhere where you can always use it at a later date.
Ok, so here's the scoop.
Earlier today for no reason that I can pinpoint I lost all Cellular connectivity on my photon while at work. No calling, no 3G, etc. I figured it was just a hiccup or possibly that they where working on the towers in my area and that it would eventually just come back up.
That was over 12 hours ago, and I have already traveled from work, to home and still no change.
I began to think that maybe my PRL was out of date, so I flashed back to a blur based Rom that has worked for me in the past (I normally use CWM7.2 and moved to Imperium_Initiative_v1.0.5 to try and do this) and tried to initiate the update there.
Still, no results. Not only would the PRL & profile not update but I got a general "NETWORK_ERROR" every time I attempted to do so.
I'm getting a little desperate because I really need to have my phone active for work and other reasons.
I've already restored old NAND backups, restarted the phone numerous times, and so far nothing is working...
If it is indeed a PRL issue, is there a way to manually flash an updated version onto the phone?
Any help that anyone can offer is greatly appreciated!
-Timboman
P.S. The only major change that has been made to the phone recently was I purchased a new extended battery about a month back. It's been working great since I broke it in, and have no so much as flashed a new rom image since I got it. It's the Trexcell Motorola Photon 3570mah Extended Battery.
Well I decided to bite the bullet and do a full re-lock and stock re-flash and I now have gotten my signal back.
Still have no idea why it happened to begin with, but I have apparently solved my issue.
If anyone can give me a reason this might have happened then at least this topic can be of future use to someone else.
-Timboman
Timboman said:
Well I decided to bite the bullet and do a full re-lock and stock re-flash and I now have gotten my signal back.
Still have no idea why it happened to begin with, but I have apparently solved my issue.
If anyone can give me a reason this might have happened then at least this topic can be of future use to someone else.
-Timboman
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This happened to me once while on cm7, again, for no apparent reason. After being baffled for an hour i got pissed and went to bed thinking my radio died. Signal was back by morning. Id be willing to bet yours would have come back too. Pawn it off as a hiccup and keep flashin stuffs.
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Hi folks, new here. This is in regards to my mothers phone, an LG Fuel L34C. Phone is not rooted or anything and has worked fine for some time. A couple of weeks ago the above error started. It constantly pops up making trying to clear caches, etc very hard. I have googled nonstop for a couple of days now and have yet to figure it out. She will be getting a new phone in about a month but until then will be without because I haven't been able to get this one working. I have backed up and reset via settings with no change. I have set it up without adding google account or anything and it still does it. I found directions for a hard reset but I can not get into it for some reason. Hoping you guys can help me out so she can get here phone working again.
I have never rooted anything nor done any thing in terms of getting inside a phone and changing things, but I follow directions pretty good. lol
Sunday evening, I went through HELL fixing my phone. Once I realized a text wouldn't go through, I tried the data and calling. Only data worked. I've rooted my phones since the Evo 4G and never had this issue before. I called Sprint at 3:30pm, spent an hr which got me nowhere and actually made it worse. She told me to do the ##72786# which shows the MDN and MSID. I've done this in the past for activation sake on previous phones, on the M9 it doesn't allow you to manually change the values which was a major problem. Once i did the reset, both values were the same and incorrect. At this point I was like OH SHIIT, cause I just realized you can't manually input the values. And because those values have to be your number, I knew was screwed...after the restart I lost my LTE as well since Sprint didn't know this was my phone due to no MDN/MSID values. I thought for sure I would have to do a new fresh install which I did NOT want to do as everything with the phone was perfect and a fresh install takes a looot of time to backup everything, reinstall, make sure settings and everything are like before. I told her to activate my S7 and reactivate the M9 to see if that did the trick to force the M9 into hands free activation and push through the MDN/MSID. I wasn't hopeful at all since I activated the M9 BEFORE I rooted it just to be sure and also cause I bought it off ebay so had to make sure all way well.
Once i got off the phone, I started searching on google/xda for a solution. It's quite a specific issue and similar ones were sparse and had a range of reasons for the issue. Mind you, all was well before this, it's basically the stock Venom rom, no major tweaking and this issue just randomly appeared for no apparent reason. I never used Titanium Backup up to this point(1 yr using the phone) or any Rom backups so I was like, might as well since I'm gonna have to start flashing to see if it fixes it. First I flashed the venom rom to see if a fresh flash did the trick...possibly the clean install requests MDN/MSID from Sprint to get the phone working. Didn't fix it. Next, I flashed the stock rooted rom which thankfully I saved when I first rooted the phone. Phone booted up, BINGO! Instant 4g connection. Phew, thank God. Then, I flashed venom again but with a full wipe to see if the stock install carried the MDN/MSID over, didn't fix it. I was so pisssed cause at this point I knew I was screwed.
Mind you, backing up/flashing and at the same time searching and trouble shooting is VERY time consuming! A fresh flash/boot alone takes maybe 10 min. I was also doing some extensive searching for the best SMS/MMS backup out there as I always keep my text records(which I'm making another thread to discuss). It's almost midnight and im PISSSED. My entire Sunday evening wasted and a random stupid problem on my phone that came out of the blue for NO reason. I'm guessing Sprint did some network update and the phone need a Profile/PRL update which it couldnt get. Not sure how that works.
I can't find the thread it was mentioned in, and I searched MANY, but someone mentioned the Sprint PRL patch(for a different issue) in Venom Hub. I didn't think that would do anything as that's preferred roaming list. I had nothing to lose and it was a Sprint specific patch so I tried it. I never used Venom Hub as I mentioned the phone is pretty much stock venom so I didn't know it was there. Prior to this I checked Venom tweaks, nothing of course. Phone restarts, still no data. I go to the settings mainly to see "phone information" and what do you know, "System Updates" is there. I click Update Profile, phone restarts, and BAM we are back online! You have no idea how happy I was! Was able to keep my phone as it was with no wipe/fresh start!
I don't know why software updates was removed in the first place! That's why I NEVER had this issue or data/call/text issues on previous phones, as I would periodically do a Profile/PRL update for good measure. Any1 know why it was removed?!? This is a vital feature to have on the phone! Mind you I never had issues, but you have no other options once you do run into an issue like this other than to do the Profile update. I don't see why they removed it, it's not bothering anything or taking up space/resources/etc. To my understanding from prior phones and years of rooting, it's standard procedure to do Profile/PRL updates from time to time to "sync/update" the phone when network/tower updates are done with Sprint.
I know this post is looong, but I literally spent from 3:30pm to 1:30am this Sunday talking to Sprint, flashing, backing up, researching. I was beyond pissed as the hrs went by with no solution on hand(I did NOT want to start fresh). This is my first post ever and my first time becoming a member for this reason. This issue is rare as I never, ever had an issue like this, but if any1 else out there runs into it, I hope they find this thread!