There was some OTA update that Verizon pushed out, and I've had pop ups on my phone for over a week now trying to trick me into updating it. I had it rooted so I avoided them until I could find time to look up the status of upgrading without root.
Now just a few minutes ago, I tried to open and app and the System Update pop-up appeared, right underneath my finger as I tapped on the screen, conveniently hitting the "Install Now" button. The phone immediately shut off, and then installed updates on boot. I tried to stop it but there was not anything I could do. After it got done updating, I went into BootStrap and started doing a system backup, which is progressing at a snail's pace. But I dont think I have any old backups, if I do it would be from right after I rooted it.
Any suggestions for what to do next? I have to go to class in a few minutes lasting until late tonight, wont even have time to screw with this thing for a couple more days. Right now I can't even use it because of Bootstrap going so slow. I was lucky I even had enough SD card space left to save a backup to.
Really pissed off with Verizon & Samsung (?) right now, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2905848
This will allow you to root it again, if you want.
Or just downgrade back to NC5.
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Ok so here's the deal. I had the OTA from T-Mobile pop up on my phone early this morning. Not fully thinking that decision through, I let it do its thing. I went back to sleep for a little bit, and when I woke up (30 minutes later) it was still on the boot up screen. I let it sit some more while I jumped on here to read what other people were experiencing. An hour and a half later, it's still on the same screen.
Next I pull the battery and pop it back in and try to get into recovery mode... No go. I try this at least ten times and it would go black and then come right back to the Vibrant screen. Now irritated, I search around more intently now on what i should do but none of the threads or google searches I pulled up are of people yielding the same results. Some time in my searching away the key lights light up and remain that way for a good ten minutes (from what i saw) but nothing else happens. I let it sit for another half hour roughly with no positive results.
I pull the battery yet again and this time when I try to access recovery mode, it works. Ecstatic that i'm making some progress, I load a nandroid that I saved last week. I let it do its thing then when it's complete I opt to reboot the phone. Now here we are back at square one because it just sits at the Vibrant screen. Mind you this isn't my first time restoring a backup on an android phone and I am aware that it takes a while for the initial boot to get everything going. 45 minutes later... I still have nothing. I can get back into recovery but that's about as far as that goes.
I've exhausted my personal resources and I've never used ODIN (not even exactly sure what that is). Is there anyone else that has experienced this same exact dilemma or am I a one man show on this one? My main reason for diligently trying to restore my phone is I don't want to lose any of my media etc.
Is there any hope for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
you wont lose any media as long as you have photos and videos save to your external SD card (not the 16 GB). you'll lose settings, programs, and contacts saved to your phone; but all contacts are usually saved to your gmail account anyways.
if you're phone is stuck at the vibrant screen, you have to do the odin trick. the odin trick is very easy ans straight forward; longest thing is downloading the package from the thread. you will lose all of your phone settings and contacts, but not the media as long as you saved it to your smaller SD card. if you don't want to lose those settings/contacts...then you'll also be stuck with a phone stcuk at the vibrant screen.
Try this thread.. it's a common problem with the OTA. If you just follow the second set of instructions to flash to JI6 without a pit file or repartitioning, your data should not be affected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803492
This worked for many of us to fix the problem.
The problem is I don't have all that stuff saved to the external. It's all on the 16GB i'm afraid.
Going to attempt the ODIN process right meow.
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The problem is I don't have all that stuff saved to the external. It's all on the 16GB i'm afraid.
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The flash to JI6 shouldn't touch any user data on the internal 16 GB either.. at least it didn't in my experience. Don't use the PIT file or repartition and you *should* be fine.
mapinkerton said:
The flash to JI6 shouldn't touch any user data on the internal 16 GB either.. at least it didn't in my experience. Don't use the PIT file or repartition and you *should* be fine.
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Thank you for the info. Going to try and see where it gets me
Same thing just happened to me man. Let me know if this works for you. I am rooted but I have never used ODIN
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
steambrick said:
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
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That's nice of ya GreatOne
+1 vote for personalized help...
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Coworker got an Atrix recently on 1.8.3. She asked if I could add it to the wireless network at work to do the OTA 2.3.4 update (as the little triangle is annoying her in the status bar). I put her on our wifi and went to download the OTA and nothing happens. When I go to status check for updates it says download in progress but it's not. I left it running for three hours and got nothing. Her phone is stock so I don't wanna screw any future updates up so I was weary about manually flashing anything. Any tricks I don't know about on getting this to her phone? I'm kind of confused as it should've been pretty easy and straight forward. I rebooted a couple of times and still no go. Anything I can do or should I have her take it to the AT&T store?
Hello all. I've been reading with much dread on the changes to my phone with the Verizon forced OTA update. I really don't care about the extra battery bar, and didn't want to have my battery life wasted by the Verizon Location bloatware. I caught my phone twice trying to install the OTA, and I defered it until tomorrow.
That's when I notice you can "reject" the update. Currently if you go into settings, status, you can then click on reject. It appears the OTA will not install.
Hope this helps,
BOBBY
PS- I have a screen shot but can't post a Photobucket link as a new member yet.
I read on here that it will be forced upon you on Feb. 5.
Don't be afraid...
Nope
I rejected the OTA a couple of times; didn't stop it from installing when I wasn't looking a few days ago.
It really sucks that you can't permanently reject an update if you don't want it.
My son has a DroidX that is bone stock. He doesn't care about mods whatever, his phone is all beat up and he could care less what the wallpaper/icons etc are. He just wants it to work.
When the GB update came out for it, he absolutely DID NOT want it but eventually it installed anyway and his phone has been really messed up ever since (it worked fine before the update)
He has so many apps installed that he really doesn't want to factory reset it ( he doesn't even know where he got half of them) but it is going to have to be reset soon.
MINIATURE-ART said:
Hello all. I've been reading with much dread on the changes to my phone with the Verizon forced OTA update. I really don't care about the extra battery bar, and didn't want to have my battery life wasted by the Verizon Location bloatware. I caught my phone twice trying to install the OTA, and I defered it until tomorrow.
That's when I notice you can "reject" the update. Currently if you go into settings, status, you can then click on reject. It appears the OTA will not install.
Hope this helps,
BOBBY
PS- I have a screen shot but can't post a Photobucket link as a new member yet.
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My phones actually rejecting it normally. Ive restarted my phone a couple of times and it notifies me that its DL however it just fails to install. I don't want the update right now but i do wonder if that will come back to bite me in the as*
Ever since the update my phone seems to lag just a little bit when scrolling screens in sense. Or has it always been this way and I'm just noticing?
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My phones actually rejecting it normally. Ive restarted my phone a couple of times and it notifies me that its DL however it just fails to install. I don't want the update right now but i do wonder if that will come back to bite me in the as*
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You can always save it for later.
The file is called OTAPkg.zip and should be in /cache/fumo. You can just download it and postpone the install then move it out to somewhere where you can always use it at a later date.
I will make this short as possible. My friend has a VZW RAZR, all stock the way it comes from the store, no root, no mods. The past couple weeks he has told me his LTE hasn't been working. He was unable to get the ICS OTA to install, he tried several times. I went to help him Saturday and have been doing some reading and such. It always fails on the install about a third of the way through the progress bar. I learned that holding both volume buttons brings up the text saying what the install process is doing and eventually the error. Sure enough, every time it gets to the LTE part it errors and fails, apparently his LTE just decided to kill itself a few weeks ago. Even a factory reset didn't solve anything. Anyways I plan to go help him later this evening and I was hoping to get some directing how I can manually install the update or what it is I need to do to fix the LTE error and complete the OTA. Any help is much appreciated!!
EDIT: Whoops, forgot to mention I know about this thread and this is what I plan to try if nothing else. I just couldn't find anything in the forums about LTE crapping out for no reason. Anybody think this is the method I should try or have a different suggestion?