I have an XT912 flashed to PagePlus. I want to update it to .165 but it's not letting me.
First, the OTA nags stopped the second I connected to PP so I found an update zip to manually flash it over at Droidrazr.com. From Howardforums, people said they were able to do the OTA by reverting a setting in the buildprop that was changed during the flashing and temp unrooted with Voodoo. Then just put everything back when it was done.
I went into recovery and attempted to flash it. There were errors about Acousticwarning.apk. After some reading, it seems there was a conflict that the update couldn't find the bloatware that I removed. One thread said to copy/paste the apks from the system/app file in the stock rom elsewhere to my phone (I took them from the stock rom in Matt's utility). Didn't work. So, I used Matt's utility to flash stock (without data wipe) and tried again. No dice. The phone started downloading the OTA and then aborted the install. Twice. During all of this, I had lost the settings for the PP flash. I reflashed for PP and got everything working, but I still can't get the .165 update to install.
Any ideas?
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Recently, I reflashed 1.26, rooted via gladroot, then updated via OTA to 1.57 then 1.83, retaining root both times. I immediately backed up my system via CWM. At that point, I was running stock, rooted 1.83, and did not download anything and did not change any settings.
My question is, if I want to uninstall a theme or gingerblur, or if I screw something up, would it be cleaner to re-flash 1.26 and re-do all the steps above, or will simply restoring from CWM put me in the exact same spot?
Thanks.
Nobody? I can't post in the development forum, otherwise I would have asked in Tenfar's thread.
beans3660 said:
Recently, I reflashed 1.26, rooted via gladroot, then updated via OTA to 1.57 then 1.83, retaining root both times. I immediately backed up my system via CWM. At that point, I was running stock, rooted 1.83, and did not download anything and did not change any settings.
My question is, if I want to uninstall a theme or gingerblur, or if I screw something up, would it be cleaner to re-flash 1.26 and re-do all the steps above, or will simply restoring from CWM put me in the exact same spot?
Thanks.
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I believe you can restore with CWM if you want to go back to the same point, but not if you want to restore apps and data to a later updated firmware revision.
I haven't tried this myself yet, but will the next time I clean off my phone for whatever reason............new "ROM" maybe. I up till now have been flashing back to 4.1.26 and then updating to keep everything clean.
I have an AT&T Atrix and have done very minor mod's. Gingerbreak to get root, the radio fix, and allowed tethering by changing the true/false flag in the config.
Runing 1.57 at the moment and figured I should get around to updating to 1.83 (i had frozen this with titanium backup), however it fails and I get the triangle/exclamation mark/robot picture on boot and have to pull the battery and restart.
Am I going to have to somehow go back to defaults and wipe phone to be able to update? If so how?
Help appreciated, this is my first android phone
I was having the same problem. So i flashed back to 1.26 thru rsd lite and then with the phone completely unmodded I downloaded and installed the OTA update. Then proceeded to apply mods.
Quickest way would be the 1.8.3 sbf followed by the 1.2.6 sbf then ota to 1.8.3 in a close second. Both options wipes the phone AFAIK so backup user data
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SBF to 1.8.3 Gingerbreak. Done. wipes your internal sd, so backup.
Great thanks for the advice, I had a feeling I was going to have to reflash it in some way.
ok I picked up some directions from brief mobile (it wont let me show the link) ... however it keeps failing during the update.
Everything works fine does exactly what the guide says, it start executing and then after about a minute or so it fails.
Anyone have some better directions or another sbf file? Preferably an sbf for 1.83?
Never mind, sorted it out, just my work computer being retarded for some reason.
GladRoot is still my preferred method of root, whenever moto releases a new update all I have to do is accept it and run afterupdate.bat.
Guys I'm new to the forum but have been messing around with custom pseudo-roms for the Atrix for a little while now. I was running Adeo, then Gingerblur, then Greyblur all without a hitch when I heard about the new OTA update coming to the phone and Gingerbread coming up, so I wanted to go back to any build that would allow me to get the HSUPA update as well as the gingerbread update, but when I went to flash my phone to sbf using rsdlite, it said internal programming fail and nothing else happened. I installed gingerblur over greyblur in an attempt to see if it would flash, but nothing. Have done a factory data wipe, still can't flash. I can't even get into the stock Android Recovery, all that comes up is a triangle and exclamation point. Could someone please help me out here, I'm running gingerblur on a rooted Atrix on 1.5.7 and cannot get it to flash sbf, all I want to do is go back to stock att rom for the coming updates.
Thanks,
BK
Hey,
I have the same exact set up as you. It seems vague in your post if you re-flashed back to 1.26, and that may be why you're getting errors? Every time I update roms, I re-flash to 1.26 using the method in the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
Then I ran Gladroot to unlock, enable sideloading, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016060
Downloaded and install the 1.83 update online (not on-air because I didn't get prompted)
http://www.motorola.com/consumers/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=9098bc50a569f210VgnVCM10000081bbb00aRCRD
I ran the 'afterupdate.bat' on Gladroot after installing the update.
And I now have 2.2.2 / 1.8.3
Thanks bud, what I ended up doing was trying to manually uninstall gingerblur and greyblur and the adeo rom by using scripts etc but it never worked. My phone started acting weird, the home button stopped working, no 3g connectivity, it would say I have superuser but it wouldn't be rooted... something was seriously messed up. I tried to get into the stock android recovery but it wouldn't boot, I think something was corrupted. I knew sbf files rewrite system and boot data, so I went into tenfar's custom recovery (after rooting for the 10th time) and deleted system and boot data, system data was deleted, but boot data had an error. I wiped the caches and all and I tried to sbf flash to 1.8.3 but nothing and the phone bricked. I then tried it on another computer with more memory than mine (mine was running kind of low because of a linux partition) and the flash worked and I'm on 1.8.3. I think I'll wait for official gingerbread and unlocked bootloader in July before I mess with my phone again.
My x2 doesnt seem to wont to update to gingerbread i tried to install the pre rooted gingerbread from p3 yesterday to no avail ..i tried wiping data and cache after several failed installs coming rooted 2.2 i decided to try the locked down offical update from vzw. The update always fails to install after it reboots and goes into the recovery. Upon rebooting and goin back to the homescreen the installation still fails. Any suggestions . i even tried unrooting and removing apps that required super user access and still no luck.
You need to SBF your phone back to complete stock in order to install either update. There can't be any removed system apps, or modified system files.
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You need to SBF your phone back to complete stock in order to install either update. There can't be any removed system apps, or modified system files.
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yeah do that also you understand that both versions Are exactly THE SAME XDDDDD, The only difference is the rooted one has a patch
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My x2 doesnt seem to wont to update to gingerbread i tried to install the pre rooted gingerbread from p3 yesterday to no avail ..i tried wiping data and cache after several failed installs coming rooted 2.2 i decided to try the locked down offical update from vzw. The update always fails to install after it reboots and goes into the recovery. Upon rebooting and goin back to the homescreen the installation still fails. Any suggestions . i even tried unrooting and removing apps that required super user access and still no luck.
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You are not the only one. I did a pre-emptive total defrost and factory reset before downloading the update, so everything should have been stock. The update starts to install, makes it about a fourth of the way through, then the phone reboots and tells me the update failed. After spending an hour with Verizon's tech support I finally convinced them to replace the phone, hopefully with one that already has the update installed..
God, I'm starting to hate smartphones. My old Moto KRZR never gave me this kind of trouble ... I'm seriously thinking of going back to it.
Ok, Just so I have this right. I have to reset the phone to factory settings, then update to GB. A simple unroot will not do the trick. (I tried this and the update failed)
I factory reset my wife's DX before updating to GB and had no issues.
Also as of this post it appears there is no way to root GB 2.3.3 correct?
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Ok, Just so I have this right. I have to reset the phone to factory settings, then update to GB. A simple unroot will not do the trick. (I tried this and the update failed)
I factory reset my wife's DX before updating to GB and had no issues.
Also as of this post it appears there is no way to root GB 2.3.3 correct?
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Nope. Needs to be prerooted because the exploit used by gingerbreak is fixed in the update.
Go to my thread here, it explains how to install the update.
Here's what I did:
From a rooted 2.2.2 - unrooted using gingerbreak, then followed the spf tutorial.
Now back to stock with all my apps, ran the update. Installed fine.
SBF
Just do the SBF procedure listed on several threads and it will work fine. Something that has been done to your phone isn't playing nice with either update. There is virtually no difference between the updates other than the patch for root. I format and factory reset, then sbf and then wipe/data in recovery every time before I flash new roms or updates, just to eliminate any crap that might cause problems. Helps to narrow down what I need and don't need. If I forget to re-install it, I probably don't need it anyways. Good Luck. After root try the eclipse rom it pretty basic mostly just a debloat.
so you can not yet root when you do the GB update......
I was going to post this in reply to this thread, but since I'm new it won't let me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905674&page=165
So here's my problem. We have 2 Nabi's in our house both rooted with Gapps installed. One is working fine, one was having issues with charging and the screen locking up. I decided to try to un-root the one with the problems and see if I could get a replacement. I then realized that there was a software update, so I decided to try to update first before being without a tablet for any amount of time for a warranty issue.
My plan was to restore to a backup I had, install the OTA update, then re-root it and install Gapps again. All went well with the restore and OTA update, but now I'm stuck at not being able to install root or gapps! I get no errors on the scripts and everything seems to complete fine, but when I boot up again there is no root and no gapps. Post 1647 in the link above indicates it could be a space issue which makes sense, but now my question is how do I delete anything in the system/vendor/app folder without root access?
Both root.zip and gapps.zip were pushed to the tablet and when I select install through TWRP it goes through the process really quick with no errors and says it is complete, but it doesn't appear to be actually doing anything.
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!
Ok, I think I may have figured this out. I ended up restoring back to my un-rooted stock backup which took me back to version 2.05 with no modifications. I was then able to install root and gapps. I then used the update file provided here to update:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45369304&postcount=1605
When I tried this file the first time before doing any sort of restores it kept failing because I was missing a bunch of files after going delete happy to get rid of all of the bloat. Since I restored to the stock backup it installed fine and I'm now on 2.1 after almost a whole day of messing with this. Now I just have to remove all of the bloat again and restore apps.
So is it safe to say there is an issue with 2.1 and the standard root/gapps files? At least now I know before I try to update the other daughter's tablet. Now to see if the update resolved some of the issues we've been having with this one....