I have only recently begun flashing roms to my phone, so I am still just a noob I guess.
I am running a rom with an OTA update and I am curious about the updates. Will this update maintain my rom or will I be starting over again? I am having troubles with my contacts being properly backed up.
Could I boot into non-safe and do a stock contacts backup onto my sdcard and then toggle back and wipe/install my update? Or will the update just flash on top without a system reset?
I also have google apps update, but when I use it I get an error saying that it expected 4 arguments and only got 3. I am certain I was updating the proper apps for my xt912. I have another copy that works, but it would be nice to only OTA the right update.
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Does anybody know a way to disable OTA updates on Thunderbolt? I have a rooted phone, and don't want to deal with updating for now. My problem is the OTA updates cause the phone to reboot, the update fails and then I have to reboot into recovery, clear the caches, reboot again. It's a pain, and it seems to be happening at least once a day now.
Any hacks out there I can apply to disable the OTA updates?
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Does anybody know a way to disable OTA updates on Thunderbolt? I have a rooted phone, and don't want to deal with updating for now. My problem is the OTA updates cause the phone to reboot, the update fails and then I have to reboot into recovery, clear the caches, reboot again. It's a pain, and it seems to be happening at least once a day now.
Any hacks out there I can apply to disable the OTA updates?
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If you have Titaniumbackup Pro then just freeze the update/updater apk. If not, I would suggest getting it, it is well worth the cost.
Great suggestion. I have TiBu Pro and have frozen the two Update apps I found in the list along with "VZW Package Installer 1.0" and "Field Test 2.1-update1" and "Field Trial 2.2.1", having done the last three just now. It did try to do yet another update a few hours ago, so we'll have to see if the last three do the trick.
Anybody got any other suggestions for Apps I should freeze to prevent OTA updates?
Update: None of the items I've frozen seems to have made a difference. Still looking for other ideas.
I'm thinking it was DM.apk or something similiar that controlled ota updates. I don't have a stock rom running atm so i can't be sure. When you find the correct one you won't be able to get to the update phone screen from settings any longer. Wish i could be more help but i just can't remember.
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I was having that same problem and I just broke down and applied the update. I used clockwork rom manager and a rooted/deodexed update file that I found on the forums (linked from androidpolice, i think). Flashed the update, without wiping the current setup, then flashed the radio from the bootloader. Worked like a charm. I've got the update, it's not searching for more, and it reinstalled all the bloatware that I deleted instead of freezing when I got the phone. I went back through and freezed all the bloat junk, and my TB is running better than ever. Oh, and I'm just running a rooted stock rom.
I too suffered the same problem. I just ended up installing a custom rom to get rid of it for good. Best decision I ever made, I really like the Synergy build.
Ok so i updated to the ota jelly bean update on my verizon droid razr xt912 everything seem to go fine till i wanted to flash roms followed instalation directions and none but two would fire up then a couple of days ago i started noticing that my apps where acting up closing when trying to open or disapearing off my home screens after installing even to the point of disapearing from the phone completely as if i never installed them funny thing xda app is the most persistant in doing this now some how the boot manager bm is installed and not showing as being installed and i cant remove it .... i want to do a fresh install of the update so i can reroot it and start from scratch but everytime i try this i get an error saying its not secure ... how do i clean the phone and reinstall a fresh install of the ota jellybean update with the blur rom stock so i can start over from scratch?????/
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Ok so i updated to the ota jelly bean update on my verizon droid razr xt912 everything seem to go fine till i wanted to flash roms followed instalation directions and none but two would fire up then a couple of days ago i started noticing that my apps where acting up closing when trying to open or disapearing off my home screens after installing even to the point of disapearing from the phone completely as if i never installed them funny thing xda app is the most persistant in doing this now some how the boot manager bm is installed and not showing as being installed and i cant remove it .... i want to do a fresh install of the update so i can reroot it and start from scratch but everytime i try this i get an error saying its not secure ... how do i clean the phone and reinstall a fresh install of the ota jellybean update with the blur rom stock so i can start over from scratch?????/
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Help anybody? As I am having similar problems and wanna start from scratch.
Boot into recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache
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Ok, I have a what i think is a rooted droid razr. I was on jelly-wizz rom and i went back to my stock rom with safestrap 3.11. My phone told me there was an OTA update that i did successfully and brought me to 98.72.16.XT912.Verizon.en.US (4.1.2). I had already manually updates the xmas leak so I was on 4.1.2 before the OTA. I erased the jelly-wizz rom slot and wanted to use the new Eclipse Razr JB v1.1 so I went threw all the steps and that and installed and activated the new rom. That put me into a boot loop. I then activated the stock rom and figured that I would start from scratch and unroot then root and start all over. The problem is i uninstalled Safestrap and didn't remove the recovery. I tried to reinstall safestrap and it takes but when i try to launch it it says safestrap has stopped and wont let me in. When i reboot, I get the safestrap menu saying it is disabled and can get into safestrap but any rom i install just puts me in a boot loop but I can boot to stock fine.
I just want to unroot and start from scratch and deleting all rom slots and factory reset does nothing. Any Ideas????
Use this to get you unrooted. It will take you back as if you never rooted, it will also delete your apps so back them up.
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/12777-droid-razr-utility-xt912-jellybean-windows-mac-linux-all-in-one/page__pid__227369#entry227369
That was actually my next plan of attack. Worked like a charm. Made me unrooted and just had to start over from scratch which is fine. Nice that Matt has a root process built right into the app. I found out that the Eclipse JB Rom v1.1 can only be used on the xmas leak and if you do the official OTA then it just boot loops. That was the other half of my problem. Will just have to look for a new rom for the time being. Thanks!!
I think Jelly-Wiz has the same problem as the Eclipse. It just puts me in a boot loop as well. Guess I'll stay with stock for the time being
I had the same exact problem with the bootloop after updating to the Verizon OTA. I guess the kernel had some minor changes or something because any ROM built for the Xmas leak caused the same issue. I've been very happy using one of the CM 10.1 nightlies. Works like a charm even with the OTA update. I also heard of a ROM called FlyingJelly that works with the OTA update but I haven't tried it myself.
How do you do the cm10 mods. I've heard about them but haven't yet. Are they any different or better. I'd assume you use cm for them instead of bootstrap?
[Edit] I found out on droidrzr.com that there are actually 6 roms that work with the .16 kernel.
Aviator
Cyclone
Black Widow HDish***
Flying Jelly***
Rage ROM
Breakneck Blur***
*** These three have the circle widget from the Razr M (I'm guessing) I'm using the Breakneck Blur one and its really nice. Just over one page of installed apps and everything works great on it so far. I hate all the bloat that Verizon and moto put on these phones that you never use and cant uninstall.
Hey all,
I have a Razr Maxx (well until a few months from now when i can get a better phone).
It is rooted. and has SafeStrap (I used to use the other slots to try some 4.1.2 and 4.3 roms but they all had issues with the radio signal so just been using Stock rooted rom), and VooDoo OTA rootkeeper (Verizon updated my phone OTA the other day, VooDoo seemed to work yay.... still was at 4.1.2, think it was only a security update heh).
Anyway, I'd like to do a Factory Reset since the stock rom, after installing all the apps I thought I wanted, becomes so slow.
Curious if I can do it via SafeStrap->Wipe->Advanced Wipe for the Stock Rom Slot .... or should I do any safety things like remove SafeStrap or TempUnroot it via VooDoo then do it via the phone way of doing it (by pressing some buttons at once). I'd like to still keep root. Wasnt sure what best procedure is.
Probably will just have Google Maps and Spotify on there (Titanium Backup, VooDoo, and a few others) and never install the 100 'used only once/twice a year' apps on there currently.
Thanks for any advice,
Ari
Rant: My phone seems to always get so slow once install the cool apps I want... and I've tried all the cache-clearing solutions on the stock rom but never works. (not sure why, me and all my android friends seem to have these issues once install apps. None of these apps seem to be doing anything on boot/startup based on Memory/TaskKiller apps I use to look at current apps, so not sure what slows the phone down).
armyofda12mnkeys said:
Hey all,
I have a Razr Maxx (well until a few months from now when i can get a better phone).
It is rooted. and has SafeStrap (I used to use the other slots to try some 4.1.2 and 4.3 roms but they all had issues with the radio signal so just been using Stock rooted rom), and VooDoo OTA rootkeeper (Verizon updated my phone OTA the other day, VooDoo seemed to work yay.... still was at 4.1.2, think it was only a security update heh).
Anyway, I'd like to do a Factory Reset since the stock rom, after installing all the apps I thought I wanted, becomes so slow.
Curious if I can do it via SafeStrap->Wipe->Advanced Wipe for the Stock Rom Slot .... or should I do any safety things like remove SafeStrap or TempUnroot it via VooDoo then do it via the phone way of doing it (by pressing some buttons at once). I'd like to still keep root. Wasnt sure what best procedure is.
Probably will just have Google Maps and Spotify on there (Titanium Backup, VooDoo, and a few others) and never install the 100 'used only once/twice a year' apps on there currently.
Thanks for any advice,
Ari
Rant: My phone seems to always get so slow once install the cool apps I want... and I've tried all the cache-clearing solutions on the stock rom but never works. (not sure why, me and all my android friends seem to have these issues once install apps. None of these apps seem to be doing anything on boot/startup based on Memory/TaskKiller apps I use to look at current apps, so not sure what slows the phone down).
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did it work out?
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did it work out?
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Yeh it did work out. I think I just the regular button? combo to do a Hard Factory Reset.
I may have done the VooDoo Unroot and re-added it back in via VooDoo...
that or I may have had to re-root the phone though (think latter is what i did).
Either way I got root back.
The annoying thing is Verizon or Google? backed up which programs I had installed and it just reinstalled all of them immediately after a factory reset.... so it became mostly unusable again. Tried a few programs to figure out if its CPU or Memory and cant figure out why still slow.
armyofda12mnkeys said:
Hey all,
I have a Razr Maxx (well until a few months from now when i can get a better phone).
It is rooted. and has SafeStrap (I used to use the other slots to try some 4.1.2 and 4.3 roms but they all had issues with the radio signal so just been using Stock rooted rom), and VooDoo OTA rootkeeper (Verizon updated my phone OTA the other day, VooDoo seemed to work yay.... still was at 4.1.2, think it was only a security update heh).
Anyway, I'd like to do a Factory Reset since the stock rom, after installing all the apps I thought I wanted, becomes so slow.
Curious if I can do it via SafeStrap->Wipe->Advanced Wipe for the Stock Rom Slot .... or should I do any safety things like remove SafeStrap or TempUnroot it via VooDoo then do it via the phone way of doing it (by pressing some buttons at once). I'd like to still keep root. Wasnt sure what best procedure is.
Probably will just have Google Maps and Spotify on there (Titanium Backup, VooDoo, and a few others) and never install the 100 'used only once/twice a year' apps on there currently.
Thanks for any advice,
Ari
Rant: My phone seems to always get so slow once install the cool apps I want... and I've tried all the cache-clearing solutions on the stock rom but never works. (not sure why, me and all my android friends seem to have these issues once install apps. None of these apps seem to be doing anything on boot/startup based on Memory/TaskKiller apps I use to look at current apps, so not sure what slows the phone down).
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armyofda12mnkeys said:
Yeh it did work out.
I may have done the VooDoo Unroot and re-added it back in via VooDoo...
that or I may have had to re-root the phone though (think latter is what i did).
Either way I got root back.
The annoying thing is Verizon or Google? backed up which programs I had installed and it just reinstalled all of them immediately after a factory reset.... so it became mostly unusable again. Tried a few programs to figure out if its CPU or Memory and cant figure out why still slow.
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so you would advise against
SafeStrap->Wipe->Advanced Wipe for the Stock Rom Slot.
the reason why im asking is because I cant seem to load back into my stock rom, and i carelessly did not make a backup. I was thinking maybe a factory wipe on the stock would help.
armyofda12mnkeys said:
Hey all,
I have a Razr Maxx (well until a few months from now when i can get a better phone).
It is rooted. and has SafeStrap (I used to use the other slots to try some 4.1.2 and 4.3 roms but they all had issues with the radio signal so just been using Stock rooted rom), and VooDoo OTA rootkeeper (Verizon updated my phone OTA the other day, VooDoo seemed to work yay.... still was at 4.1.2, think it was only a security update heh).
Anyway, I'd like to do a Factory Reset since the stock rom, after installing all the apps I thought I wanted, becomes so slow.
Curious if I can do it via SafeStrap->Wipe->Advanced Wipe for the Stock Rom Slot .... or should I do any safety things like remove SafeStrap or TempUnroot it via VooDoo then do it via the phone way of doing it (by pressing some buttons at once). I'd like to still keep root. Wasnt sure what best procedure is.
Probably will just have Google Maps and Spotify on there (Titanium Backup, VooDoo, and a few others) and never install the 100 'used only once/twice a year' apps on there currently.
Thanks for any advice,
Ari
Rant: My phone seems to always get so slow once install the cool apps I want... and I've tried all the cache-clearing solutions on the stock rom but never works. (not sure why, me and all my android friends seem to have these issues once install apps. None of these apps seem to be doing anything on boot/startup based on Memory/TaskKiller apps I use to look at current apps, so not sure what slows the phone down).
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When you try other rom you must download the cdma if u are in USA...the gsm don't work
for the stock slow rom try greenify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=it
and clean master https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard&hl=it
and when you do a factory reset and set google account uncheck backup or when play store start download,go in my app and stop the all the download
Today I had a small update to the OS of about 12MB. Normally when there is a major version update such as to Lollipop I reset the phone post install and reinstall and set everything up. But since this minor system update done via Settings...."Software update" quiet a few apps went through updates. The problem is a certain number of these apps are getting stuck on the Installing stage. I have to stop the Playstore app and disable the auto update for a handful of my apps that are having problems so that other apps can install. I have tried rebooting the phone with no success.
What I want to know is what is the correct procedure after a major or minor update to the Android OS?
Should one just reset and install everything again or is there a less drastic way of ensuring everything works cleanly?
Thanks