i just flashed a stock rom/unrooted my phone, but now im unable to update latest update from verizon. ive tried threw my phone which says error while installing, and threw my computer using verizon upgrade assistant without any luck
try using odin and flashing back to stock with the tar file from there you should be able to download the update.
matt1733 said:
try using odin and flashing back to stock with the tar file from there you should be able to download the update.
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that is how i unrooted, was by flashing the stock tar in odin, everythings back to 100% stock besides the phone letting me update it
i wouldnt
i wouldn't update because unfortunately like myself and others update causes you to loose your root,and rooting capabilities and locks the boot-loader. If you want the new baseband there is a link in development forum to flash via odin just baseband not the hole firmware. just my opinion tho.
i dont want to be rooted, i just want to be 100% stock again.
mindlogiczero said:
i dont want to be rooted, i just want to be 100% stock again.
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I am trying to do the same thing. I flashed back to stock using "VRUAMDK_NoWipe.tar.md5",it successfully flashed and it was unrooted. I then factory reset the phone. When I try to do the update (over the air) it says update failed.
My phone has a broken proximity sensor and I have to return it. I want it back to stock before I do. My thought is that it is not stock if it won't take the update.
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I have 4.1.1 Jellybean on my phone, is unlocked, an had no trouble updating to 4.1.1 from ICS. Now that my phone shows "Updates Available", downloads them files( I think), but does not install and rather says "Your device has been modified. Software updates are not available". The new updates I have seen in my mate's phone are good, and as he told me he had no trouble updating to it unlike mine.
What is the problem and the best way to solve this issue?
Also I'd like to ask, if I used Odin to update it manually, will I be able to update my phone with later releases without having to use Odin again?
airbends said:
I have 4.1.1 Jellybean on my phone, is unlocked, an had no trouble updating to 4.1.1 from ICS. Now that my phone shows "Updates Available", downloads them files( I think), but does not install and rather says "Your device has been modified. Software updates are not available". The new updates I have seen in my mate's phone are good, and as he told me he had no trouble updating to it unlike mine.
What is the problem and the best way to solve this issue?
Also I'd like to ask, if I used Odin to update it manually, will I be able to update my phone with later releases without having to use Odin again?
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You answered your question yourself...modified = no ota update. Go back to stock unmodified or easier, download the new version from xda or sammobile and flash via odin
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OTA on rooted phones.
airbends said:
I have 4.1.1 Jellybean on my phone, is unlocked, an had no trouble updating to 4.1.1 from ICS. Now that my phone shows "Updates Available", downloads them files( I think), but does not install and rather says "Your device has been modified. Software updates are not available". The new updates I have seen in my mate's phone are good, and as he told me he had no trouble updating to it unlike mine.
What is the problem and the best way to solve this issue?
Also I'd like to ask, if I used Odin to update it manually, will I be able to update my phone with later releases without having to use Odin again?
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Well i don't know what you mean with "unlocked" . If you mean rooted then it's easy :fingers-crossed:. You might have rooted with CF-Root or Toolbox or whatever. And in that process you were forced to install Clockworkmod Recovery and that's the reason you can't get OTA. If you want to have a rooted phone and OTA all you have to do is. Root your phone, stay on stock rom and flash the stock recovery via odin. But this means you loose CWM Recovery and a lot of the fun part about a rooted phone is gone.
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Well i don't know what you mean with "unlocked" . If you mean rooted then it's easy :fingers-crossed:. You might have rooted with CF-Root or Toolbox or whatever. And in that process you were forced to install Clockworkmod Recovery and that's the reason you can't get OTA. If you want to have a rooted phone and OTA all you have to do is. Root your phone, stay on stock rom and flash the stock recovery via odin. But this means you loose CWM Recovery and a lot of the fun part about a rooted phone is gone.
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What part of "Unlocked" is confusing to you? It means the phone can run any sim card of any sim provider, thats what I meant, and no, the phone is not rooted or never even have tried rooting it... Never mind, I factory reset the phone and the update is done. Anyways kudos for your reply
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Hey everyone, i am not a very experienced android user by any means and i made the mistake of updating my stock ROM on my Verizon GS4 while rooted. The phone worked properly but i lost my root. I tried to revert the phone back to stock by downloading the SCH-I545_MDK_562219_Srock_restore.tar file, but when i used Odin to flash the "stock" tar file, it failed and my phone now says that there is a problem updating the firmware (something about placing the phone into recovery and into Kies.) I can still boot the phone to that display page and i can still get into "download" mode. I really need Help.
PS: I tried searching the forums but i couldn't find anything similar to my problem based on the fact that i updated my firmware...
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Hey everyone, i am not a very experienced android user by any means and i made the mistake of updating my stock ROM on my Verizon GS4 while rooted. The phone worked properly but i lost my root. I tried to revert the phone back to stock by downloading the SCH-I545_MDK_562219_Srock_restore.tar file, but when i used Odin to flash the "stock" tar file, it failed and my phone now says that there is a problem updating the firmware (something about placing the phone into recovery and into Kies.) I can still boot the phone to that display page and i can still get into "download" mode. I really need Help.
PS: I tried searching the forums but i couldn't find anything similar to my problem based on the fact that i updated my firmware...
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Once updated, the bootloader will not allow you to revert to older images.
Grab the ME7 image from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357235
and flash it using Odin.
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Once updated, the bootloader will not allow you to revert to older images.
Grab the ME7 image from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357235
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Thank you so much, it worked perfectly. I just couldn't find the image. :good: :good:
I picked up a Verizon Galaxy S4 today, and it installed the OTA update.
Tonight I tried to root the phone, and it did not work, and now I can't get the phone to start back up. It gives me the "firmware update encountered an issue message."
I can get the phone into download mode, but I haven't been able to install a stock rom using ODIN. I think maybe I'm using the wrong ROM.
What should I be doing?
Mechachrome said:
I picked up a Verizon Galaxy S4 today, and it installed the OTA update.
Tonight I tried to root the phone, and it did not work, and now I can't get the phone to start back up. It gives me the "firmware update encountered an issue message."
I can get the phone into download mode, but I haven't been able to install a stock rom using ODIN. I think maybe I'm using the wrong ROM.
What should I be doing?
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You're probably using the wrong ROM.
Which OTA? What baseband were you on prior to and after the OTA? What errors did you see in ODIN and on the phone.
If you were on MJ7 and updated to MK2, then you should be able to flash the MJ7 no-wipe ROM to recover.
Failing that, install Samsung Kies and use it to recover your phone.
Okay here's my tale of woe..
I rooted my phone last year - but at some point - took an update and lost root.
Though the phone still displays the "custom" boot screen with the padlock.
I tried to take the Lollipop update through the OTA but it fails and I get the "laying on his back" failed Android dude...
The phone DID take the first update.
I have: wiped cache in recovery, wiped data and cache in download manager.
No luck.
I have tried loading the NC5 kernel back on (via Odin 3.09) - but that makes the phone 100% unstable...reboots every 3 minutes..no access to apps - they lock and reboot etc etc.
Loaded the NG6 kernel back on to re-stabilize the phone and tried to Kies the update.
Kies downloads the update then when it tries to apply it the phone boots into "download mode"
I have been advised to:
I had the same custom boot screen--even after unrooting. Tried using Triangle Away to reset the binary count, but the count was already at 0. So ultimately I had to re-flash the NC5 kernel via Odin to get things truly back to being recognized as stock.
Then updates started rolling in for NG6, then NK1. Finally the two-part update for Lollipop.
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and - of course that doesn't work. NC5 won't let the phone run long enough to take an update..
It has been said:
Try to flash the OC1 with the pit file
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But I haven't found the stock OC1 file anywhere to even try and begin to get it loaded.
Honestly - I'm not even really concerned about rooting right now. I'd really just like to get the phone back to a stock configuration and kernel and lollipop.
Developer mode is enabled. Obviously both Kies and Odin talk to the phone with no problems.
Any ideas ?
Thanks, Dan
Get your phone to 4.4.2, use the verizon software upgrade assistant program preloaded on your phone to update. I had this exact same problem and that's how I got to 5.0.1
You WILL lose root. And there's no method to root 5.0 right now, and people have been saying that there might never be. You also won't be able to downgrade, or at least there's no method to do so at the moment, so you will be stuck with lollipop for a while, maybe forever.
Yes.
Maybe I need to clarify.
I do not care about root at this point. I just want to get the phone back to a stock state and take the Lollipop update.
I'm curious as to why I will never be able to update beyond Lollipop.
Doesn't matter I guess - the phone will have been replaced by then - but still...why ?
Thanks, Dan
CyrusKhane said:
Get your phone to 4.4.2, use the verizon software upgrade assistant program preloaded on your phone to update. I had this exact same problem and that's how I got to 5.0.1
You WILL lose root. And there's no method to root 5.0 right now, and people have been saying that there might never be. You also won't be able to downgrade, or at least there's no method to do so at the moment, so you will be stuck with lollipop for a while, maybe forever.
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I've downloaded (3) different 4.4.2 Firmwares.
FNK1
FNC5 (No Wipe)
FNG6 (No Wipe)
Any opinion on which one is best ?
Did you download these manually or OTA? When I re-flashed the NC5 kernel, I received NG6 then NK1 then the 2-part Lollipop updates all OTA back-to-back.
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I would use the ng6. That's what I was running.
Rip Syntaxx said:
Did you download these manually or OTA? When I re-flashed the NC5 kernel, I received NG6 then NK1 then the 2-part Lollipop updates all OTA back-to-back.
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Manually - from these (XDA) forums.
danielzink said:
Manually - from these (XDA) forums.
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Hmm... I'm not sure if it makes a difference to download OTA instead of manually. I would think it's worth a shot flashing NC5 (if it will let you downgrade) and using the software update feature to update OTA the rest of the way.
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Got it finally !
started out by flashing (FNG6 (No Wipe)) in Odin 3.09
That got me to regular boots with no "custom" screen showing the lock symbol.
Then I had to take OTA updates to FNK1 then the OTA preliminary Lollipop update then (OTA) finally Lollipop itself.
No root - but that's OK.
It took about an hour and a couple shutdowns to get things running smoothly but it's all good now.
Thanks everyone for their help.
I've had this pending on my phone for quite awhile, I haven't done it because I'm rooted. I decided one day to try it, my phone rebooted to TWRP and nothing happened. Which is exactly what I thought would happen. So I pulled the stock recovery from the stock rom and successfully flashed it. Tried the update again and I am getting a bit error from the stock recovery. The phone goes into "wtf just happened" mode and I have to do a battery pull and reboot. Which works fine. I don't really want to backup everything and re-root and reinstall everything, so does anyone know what my bootloader isn't seeing, but needs to see in order to push the update through?
Also, my phone isn't reading my brand new 64gb SanDisk evo suddenly. Was reading it fine last week... And ideas?
I'm on stock rooted ZV8 with sprint naval kernel.
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partitions may be zv4/zv6 on your phone? that may be why you cant do the OTA. what about dirty flashing stock rooted ZVA(not recommended, but works great for me)? there is a navel kernel for it also. Make a backup and if you dont like it, flash back? what connectivity fix does the ZVA update claim? I thought the only (LISTED) update was they added factory reset protection?
He can't take the OTA cause he has TWRP installed. OTA will only install with stock recovery. Probably will need to use the flashtool to go to complete stock if you want to receive the OTA.
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Arjohns said:
He can't take the OTA cause he has TWRP installed. OTA will only install with stock recovery. Probably will need to use the flashtool to go to complete stock if you want to receive the OTA.
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He said he put stock recovery back on, but yes he would probably need to flash completely stock to do the ota
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Guess I should have read that better, sorry. As stated, try the rooted ZVA. OTA can be stopped due to edited build prop, debloating, etc. So complete stock through flashtool or flashing a rooted ZVA would be the only way to get to the new version.
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