I have had my Droid Incredible 2 rooted for several months now and have not had any issue. I do not have a custom ROM, just rooted to mainly use the wifi tether app, among other things.
Today, the phone shut itself down and attempted to install a software update. The update stopped after about 2 seconds and switched to the droid with the exclamation point (guessing error) and stayed there until I popped the battery out and rebooted it. Each time I boot the phone, however; it goes through this same process, so my phone is essentially useless at the moment.
I assume the upgrade is not working because of the root. If that is so, how do I go about correcting this problem.
Any input will help. Thanks!
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As the title says, I have no data from my home WiFi or 4G from the cell signal, despite them being shown as connected.
I noticed it just a few minutes ago. I was looking into Voodoo RootKeeper because I haven't updated to the latest OTA update and I've been wanting to soon, it was mentioned that SuperUser should be fully updated for it to work. While looking through SU settings, I noticed the option to set SU as a system app, so I did it. It rebooted and just before finishing the boot it had a message saying something about configuring apps (similar to what you would see after an update, I believe). Once it finished I was going to update some apps that needed updating and Play said it had no connection, checked Chrome and it was the same story. So here I am.
It is rooted, also has an unlocked bootloader (which is why I've waited so long to do the OTA). I haven't updated since I got it at the beginning of December last year, so the current version I'm running is 4.1.1
Any help is really extremely appreciated; my smartphone becomes a dumb phone without any networking, dumb phones make me sad :crying:
Edit: I fixed it, somehow. I temp-unrooted with Voodoo, tried to complete the OTA update (failed because of recovery or something), re-enabled root after update, and then I had data back. Leaving this post here in case someone comes across a similar problem.
I am having an issue with updating via OTA with Verizon. The OTA update came out a couple of weeks ago but I never received notice. When I went to search for it I got an error message, no matter where I was or whether it was on 3g, 4g or wifi. The message states "service unavailable". My service is working fine and I can use the internet without any issues. I called Verizon and they didn't know what was causing it but they did confirm I have an update available. I have powered off, taken out the battery cleared cache, tried to update manually with ODIN (which failed) and have come to my wits end. I am trying to avoid factory resetting the device and having to wait for all my apps to be reinstalled. I have rooted several devices before but don't want to do that this time.
Does anyone have a suggestion to help me accept the OTA from Verizon? Again, I am locked and unrooted running everything stock.
Thanks for your help!
So I've been running KitKat via CM11 nightlies for quite a while now and about every other week the I lose signal and have to reflash stock. I Use Razr Utility (http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...-verizon-droid-razr-and-droid-razr-maxx-only/) to flash stock, get signal, reroot, and reinstall SafeStrap. Have done it I think like 80 times or so now.
Today when I did it, when I pressed start at the Setup Wizard it said "Preparing may take a few minutes ... blah blah" then it reboots. I rebooted and tried again, over and over it won't get past the language selection, and if I leave it alone for a few minutes w/o pressing anything it will reboot on its own still; it continually reboots over and over. Also I am no longer getting service back on a fresh stock flash. I have tried 1.8/1.82/newest of RAZR Utility, all received the same result. So I tried House of Moto with 2 different VZW firmwares (2 newest JB) and still same result.
I was able to get root w/o having to mess with Smart Actions and then use ADB w/ su and PM to disable all the setupwizard BS so I could install SS and get back to CM11. (Setup Wizard is locked and no way to bypass, even tried build.prop tweaks to turn it off and nothing) Now on CM11 it is liking to randomly reboot whenever it feels like it too; that is if it even boots back into CM11 after rebooting, sometimes it makes it all the way to CM11, sometimes it doesn't.
Does anyone know WTF is going on with my device and how to fix it. I'm going to try and get a new SIM tomorrow and see my SIM fried or something (though I never received the "No SIM" error). I'm honestly about to chuck this phone through the friggin wall....
Update: Was finally able to get CM11 to stop rebooting, upgraded to newest nightly and wiped Dalvik & Cache, and Fix Permissions. Signal has sort of come back, it goes in and out; very finicky.
Update 2: Service is completely gone and can't get it back now.
Hello,
I got this Cricket phone, and mostly successfully had it switched over to be an AT&T phone. It was working well for awhile, then started freezing up from time to time, and I had to take the battery out to get a reboot. I did a factory reset, thought I had it fixed, then did a Kingroot. It was working well, again, for a little while, then started up again with freezing up, but now it was also sometimes not using data, or it said my data was not available. My husband's was fine, so I knew my account with AT&T was fine.
My intention was to uninstall the kingroot, then restore to factory, but after the uninstall of kingroot, it got stuck in Authentication Failed Error #9.
I have successfully installed drivers on my computer, and I am able to get it into Firmware update status, but my question is, I'm not sure what I should flash to the phone to have it work best with my AT&T service. Should I start back at the Cricket initial instal, or can I skip all that and go to a nice rooted ROM?
Thanks for your help!
Cynthia
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Hello,
I got this Cricket phone, and mostly successfully had it switched over to be an AT&T phone. It was working well for awhile, then started freezing up from time to time, and I had to take the battery out to get a reboot. I did a factory reset, thought I had it fixed, then did a Kingroot. It was working well, again, for a little while, then started up again with freezing up, but now it was also sometimes not using data, or it said my data was not available. My husband's was fine, so I knew my account with AT&T was fine.
My intention was to uninstall the kingroot, then restore to factory, but after the uninstall of kingroot, it got stuck in Authentication Failed Error #9.
I have successfully installed drivers on my computer, and I am able to get it into Firmware update status, but my question is, I'm not sure what I should flash to the phone to have it work best with my AT&T service. Should I start back at the Cricket initial instal, or can I skip all that and go to a nice rooted ROM?
Thanks for your help!
Cynthia
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Last week on Thursday, I allowed Verizon to install their Software Update 21 (April 2020.) It made it as far as the going through the optimizing apps and then was stuck in a boot loop. The phone would be usable for about a minute, then would freeze, and then reboot. If I clicked on the System Update option in settings, it would say that a system update was in progress. I chatted with Verizon, and they ended up telling me that the only way to stop the update was to do a factory reset, which I am doing everything I can not to do that as I don't want to lose my data.
I changed it into maximum power mode and it did stop the update for that time being and I was able to use the phone, texting, etc. This allowed me to at least connect the phone to my computer to backup all of the directories. After many reboots, on Friday it finally stopped doing the update and gave me an error which I think was 410. It thought it was updated, though did show as failed. When checking for updates, it said it was the current version. Twice I was able to get the phone to stop by freezing when going to the app and stopping some programs (sadly, I was not able to remember the exact combination that worked) which allowed me to use the phone like normal. All this while, I was uninstalling a large amount of the apps that I had installed hoping that would minimize whatever may have been causing the problem.
Went to each of the google and samsung apps, stopped, disable, and reverted them all back to factory defaults. Guess that was a bad idea, from then on I received an error as soon as the phone started which caused it to go directly into recovery mode. I chatted with samsung and they thought it might be a hardware issue. I still think it is related to their software update, so not a hardware issue.
By using Odin, I loaded the firmware from March 2020, and when it rebooted, it did go as far as optimizing the apps, though anytime it booted up, it would never get past the white verizon loading screen. It took me hours before I discovered that Odin was failing to load the firmware on the phone as the Windows 10 laptop only had USB 3.0 ports which don't always work with Odin, and ended up being successful using my old Windows XP laptop as the USB 2.0 ports worked fine. After a bit hanging on the verizon loading screen, it would reboot and never went past. I have been able to load the March and April 2020, though none of them will ever get past that white verizon loading screen. I did see something say that in loading TWRP, I could possibly do a full backup of the phone which is what I would like to do.
One time I only loaded the AB file for a different version than I had loaded, and it was the first time it went beyond the white screen, only to tell me that the verification failed and it would need for me to do a factory reset. I was able to reboot the phone without actually doing the reset.
I have read many posts here and the forums on androidcentral, and with so many things, I really needed to post to get guidance from people here that can point me in the right direction for any other things that I can try. As you have read, doing everything that I can to get the phone working by keeping my data. Any help would really be appreciated.