Unable to update OTA on vzw gs4...fails - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

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I have tried at least 5x's on 2 seperate wifi networks to update and it fails every time. I was rooted prior. Now unrooted and bootloader is locked. I checked all files and there is no trace of any recoveries in my files..anyone know what I can do? Even if I can stop the prompt to update would be great.
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Are you still getting the notification after your phone rebooted? Go to about phone what baseband are you on.
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Yes i am. It wont stop notifying me.
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Youre still on mdk which is good. If you lost root youll have to reroot. Rename sdm.apk to sdm.apk.bak or delete if you so choose and itll stop the notifications. Quite a few threads on this as well :thumbup:
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Do you wqnt to trade phones? Seriously, id rather not return this and buy the dev edition. I have vruame7 running. Phone is 5 days old.
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obstinate1 said:
Do you wqnt to trade phones? Seriously, id rather not return this and buy the dev edition. I have vruame7 running. Phone is 5 days old.
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Haha. No thanks. Appreciate the offer though. Eventually they will have root for me7 as well.
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Has anyone found a fix? There's a root method for the update and I'm getting the same error. I've renamed all files back to original that I need to and still get fails.
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jaydoubledub said:
Has anyone found a fix? There's a root method for the update and I'm getting the same error. I've renamed all files back to original that I need to and still get fails.
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There's a root method, but it's a gimped one. Only update if flashing recoveries, roms, kernels, etc is unimportant to you.
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najaboy said:
There's a root method, but it's a gimped one. Only update if flashing recoveries, roms, kernels, etc is unimportant to you.
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I am fine with stock rom and root.
BTW, I found the issue....
I had updated the sound files to boost the level outputs in system/etc/snd_soc_msm folder. When I was using the recovery method to install the update stored in /cache/fota that's when the error presented itself (instead of just "update failed"). As a good boy, I kept the original files and just pasted them over the modded ones. The update is flashing as we speak. As long as I have root file access and maybe tethering, then I'm good.
I WOULD like to tinker with ROMs, but, there isn't time for that anyways.