My uncle has a SGH-I777 running 2.3.6 and is on straight talk. Was going to update to stock 4.1.2 for him but apparently Samsung (im a moto fan) is a pain to upgrade. OTA says hes up to date even though samsungs official site for this phone says newest ota is jellybean. I installed samsungs crappy kies on my laptop and typed in model and S/N and it downloaded but never would let me install. Im short on time. Does ANYONE have an ota zip that i could load on sd and flash? Please and thanks because I need to get this done ASAP!
Before Someone flips out saying "There's no stock jellbean" like i've seen in a couple other posts.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00047325&fm_seq=51324
^Yea. On my droid x you could easily find ota zips to flash in stock recovery. I would just flash cm11 on this thing but i'm sort of forbid to "hack" his device. lol but yea if someone could help me...i'd love that..
http://androidromupdate.com/2013/06...2-sgh-i777-official-4-1-2-jelly-bean-upgrade/
^I don't wanna deal with Odin just a simple ota.zip to flash....if I need to do incremental updates like on my droid x i'll need those too please. its running gingerbread 2.3.6 Baseband: I777UCKK6
Oggie7797 said:
My uncle has a SGH-I777 running 2.3.6 and is on straight talk. Was going to update to stock 4.1.2 for him but apparently Samsung (im a moto fan) is a pain to upgrade. OTA says hes up to date even though samsungs official site for this phone says newest ota is jellybean. I installed samsungs crappy kies on my laptop and typed in model and S/N and it downloaded but never would let me install. Im short on time. Does ANYONE have an ota zip that i could load on sd and flash? Please and thanks because I need to get this done ASAP!
Before Someone flips out saying "There's no stock jellbean" like i've seen in a couple other posts.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00047325&fm_seq=51324
^Yea. On my droid x you could easily find ota zips to flash in stock recovery. I would just flash cm11 on this thing but i'm sort of forbid to "hack" his device. lol but yea if someone could help me...i'd love that..
http://androidromupdate.com/2013/06...2-sgh-i777-official-4-1-2-jelly-bean-upgrade/
^I don't wanna deal with Odin just a simple ota.zip to flash....if I need to do incremental updates like on my droid x i'll need those too please. its running gingerbread 2.3.6 Baseband: I777UCKK6
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u need to use samsung kies on your pc. download it. plug in. then it will tell ya update is available.
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u need to use samsung kies on your pc. download it. plug in. then it will tell ya update is available.
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Yea i got that much but kies would never connect to his phone even after a reinstall of kies and 3 driver reinstalls lol im not new to android just samsung and their BS. I wiped his cache in stock recovery as a temp fix but iwant him past gb lol thats just sad. Thanks anyway. If I had my way I would unlock it and flash cm10.2.1 and send him on his way, but nope...
Oggie7797 said:
Yea i got that much but kies would never connect to his phone even after a reinstall of kies and 3 driver reinstalls lol im not new to android just samsung and their BS. I wiped his cache in stock recovery as a temp fix but iwant him past gb lol thats just sad. Thanks anyway. If I had my way I would unlock it and flash cm10.2.1 and send him on his way, but nope...
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yeah kies is a finicky beast. i cannot stand having to use it. this site might help ya. it is a bit more straight forward and the files to root and such are actually there. http://galaxys2root.com/att-galaxy-s2-faq/
hope ya manage to get through it. i have been at it all night. i lost root somewhere somehow. my recovery would not mount any drives etc. had to use odin to go back to ics. then root with ics. now i am trying to get the kit kat recovery installed... blah blah blah. good luck.
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yeah kies is a finicky beast. i cannot stand having to use it. this site might help ya. it is a bit more straight forward and the files to root and such are actually there. http://galaxys2root.com/att-galaxy-s2-faq/
hope ya manage to get through it. i have been at it all night. i lost root somewhere somehow. my recovery would not mount any drives etc. had to use odin to go back to ics. then root with ics. now i am trying to get the kit kat recovery installed... blah blah blah. good luck.
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yea thanks ill check that out. I'm used to devices with locked bootloaders and honestly, i prefer that. it's so easy to experient because worst case if you mess up just flash a .sbf file and you're fine. I get a kick out of LG G3 users and their petition for an unlock code lmao. Odin is neat but I'm not going to ever have to mess with it hoopefully
I don't recommend following the galaxys2root lead.
Kies and ODIN are your only options for flashing stock distribution to the i777 on a windows machine.
I see that you're trying to avoid ODIN, but it's the easier way to solve your current dilemma. As stated, Kies can be finnicky.
The stock UCMD8 4.1.2 distribution can be found in the i777 download repository (see sig), and ODIN is how we get folks back on track (for directions, see sig).
Happy Flashing
-Cyril
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yea thanks ill check that out. I'm used to devices with locked bootloaders and honestly, i prefer that. it's so easy to experient because worst case if you mess up just flash a .sbf file and you're fine. I get a kick out of LG G3 users and their petition for an unlock code lmao. Odin is neat but I'm not going to ever have to mess with it hoopefully
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cyril279 said:
I don't recommend following the galaxys2root lead.
Kies and ODIN are your only options for flashing stock distribution to the i777 on a windows machine.
I see that you're trying to avoid ODIN, but it's the easier way to solve your current dilemma. As stated, Kies can be finnicky.
The stock UCMD8 4.1.2 distribution can be found in the i777 download repository (see sig), and ODIN is how we get folks back on track (for directions, see sig).
Happy Flashing
-Cyril
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Wow you remind me of someone from the droid x realm. and his phone isn't with me. Btw i dual boot win8.1 and linux but kies is only available on windows so that's the only reason i was running it at the time of trying this. Honestly, i'm not that worried about it since apparently his problem was fixed. He couldn't send or receive MMS so i done standard trouble shooting and I think what finally got it fixed was wiping cache with sim out of it reinstalling sim and then dumping cache again. Thanks again though guys and i'll refer to the links if he has anymore problems.
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Illu ppl.
Was wondering if I could update through Kies even tho I have rooted my device (galaxy 10.1 tab /w 3g). Done nothing else with it.
Seen the s2 phones have gotten the ICS now and I havent on the tabb yet. Even tho it was announced.
So do the root have something to do with it?
LOL Root has nothing to do with it.
It's all regional based, that is if you still rely on ****ty Kies.
Another similar question: Can I update through kies or OTA if I am on custom rom, i.e. overcome? Do I have to edit the build.prop, or have a stock recovery?
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Misledz said:
LOL Root has nothing to do with it.
It's all regional based, that is if you still rely on ****ty Kies.
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Just tried kies for the first time. Got it to work or rather see my tab after some hours fighting with it, instaling sdk and get the extras instaled.
Did read about a person who had some problems updating on the s2 that was rooted. so I figured, why not ask. atleast then I would be 100% certain
I thought it would not have anything to do with it
ty for the reply.
Ah no worries Forgive the sarcasm but I've seen this question floating around way too much Then again, rooting just enables access to system files, it does nothing to affect OTA updates, HOWEVER some OTA updates would reset the phone to lose SU rights, so you may need to root again.
It's like a nail on the wall, you can get a new nail, but you still have to hammer it in.
@Pandos, No. It won't work as Custom ROM's are based on a firmware build but the kernel differs from the ones that come with the stock.
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Ah no worries Forgive the sarcasm but I've seen this question floating around way too much Then again, rooting just enables access to system files, it does nothing to affect OTA updates, HOWEVER some OTA updates would reset the phone to lose SU rights, so you may need to root again.
It's like a nail on the wall, you can get a new nail, but you still have to hammer it in.
@Pandos, No. It won't work as Custom ROM's are based on a firmware build but the kernel differs from the ones that come with the stock.
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No worries about the sarcasm figured you might be kinda tired of the question. I know what rooting do. Used it alot on my old htc to change roms, screw aroundwith coding in the terminal and sutch.
Then I'll just wait for the ics and test it before going withroms or dualboot with linux. Or try and fiugre out if I can have linux on asdcard and get it to boot from that when mounted.would be awsome
You can run linux via terminal app Dont need to double boot, Linux can be installed but only Gnome and ubuntu so far using VNC Viewer
I have a Galaxy Note i717 from AT&T that I rooted. Worked great.
Yesterday I upgraded to ICS via Kies. Worked great.
Then I proceeded to root it again using odin.
Unfortunately even after all the things done it now will not boot up at all.
All I get is the S a m s u n g logo. I can put it into boot mode and the computer see's it but nothing more.
If anyone can point me to any rom/bootloader/ etc. I would be most grateful.
Or just let me know what to do and where to get roms. I did search and there are many for the i700.
I guess I need a bootloader and rom right?
Sorry folks. Point me somewhere else will have to get another phone.
T h a n k s ...
Others would tell you to look in the dev section for the stock rom (its usually called something like "in case of brick) I've had issues issues getting it to work but Im certain it was user error as to why it didn't work for me. But another option that I think could work would be to get your phone into download mode and run the ics upgrade thru kies again. You'll lose everything in your phone but I think it'll get your phone up and running again. But before you do any other that...did you make a nandroid back of? Or have you downloaded any roms to your phone because if you did you can just enter cwm and reflash any rom you may have or just flash your backup, backups are so important when doing these sort of things, saves a lot of head aches.
Edit: after reading your post again it says your phone messed up after rooting, try and re run the root file thru Odin, I kinda sorta remember reading something similar to this were people had issue trying to root. I'll try and find the thread.
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this happened due to rooting with the Gingerbread method...so using Nash reply run/reinstall your Official ICS...and to root....
see My Links in red in my signature...go the GNote Super page....you should see what is being used to root the Official ICS...I used it and lots others, there prob more methods out there, but I found this is the easiest and more proven method....
Cant miss the info on GNote page regarding Rooting.
so to recap...since your believe you have bricked your phone...
use the method Nash replied to you with...put into download mode....run the official ics, you will need the model, serial number of your phone...
let us know how it works out for you...
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I have a Galaxy Note i717 from AT&T that I rooted. Worked great.
Yesterday I upgraded to ICS via Kies. Worked great.
Then I proceeded to root it again using odin.
Unfortunately even after all the things done it now will not boot up at all.
All I get is the S a m s u n g logo. I can put it into boot mode and the computer see's it but nothing more.
If anyone can point me to any rom/bootloader/ etc. I would be most grateful.
Or just let me know what to do and where to get roms. I did search and there are many for the i700.
I guess I need a bootloader and rom right?
Sorry folks. Point me somewhere else will have to get another phone.
T h a n k s ...
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And once you're rooted and all fixed up, enter cwm and create a backup. These are great because no matter what you do to your phone as long as you can enter cwm you'll always be able to fix your phone via backup.
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I wanted to mention, I'm not sure how you updated thru kies originally (legit update or emergency update) the method you'll be using this time (if you choose to fix thru kies) is the more or less emergency method. I wanted to mention this because when your in download mode and connect your phone to your PC and run kies, kies will try to connect to your device but will time out over time...it took me 2 days of Q and A before I realized kies won't connect with phone in download mode, but that's OK. Once phone is connected click tools/firmware upgrade and initialization, and as bigjoe said youll than need to input model and serial numbers (all caps) than click OK. You'll have a few prompts afterwards but yo basically on your way to a running phone.
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Brick = nothing at all happening on phone.
Samsung logo = bad flash (corrupt file used)
Brick can sometimes be revived with a JTAG device.
Samsung logo means re download file, re read instructions and relevent thread, and redo your work.
Don't be too anxious -you will fix it.
I suggest using Kies upgrade > emerency firmware method. Download mode is the key.
If you are with Rogers, the following is useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657262
I went through the exact same problem with someone else's Note that I was upgrading, subsequently flashing.
The above process bring the phone back to 100% stock gingerbread.
Thanks All and Resolved.
eugenekim618 said:
If you are with Rogers, the following is useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657262
I went through the exact same problem with someone else's Note that I was upgrading, subsequently flashing.
The above process bring the phone back to 100% stock gingerbread.
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Thanks all for the replies.
I was able to go to DEV Section and get the full AT&T ICS Rom. Used ODIN to get it back to factory ICS.
Then (with great care ) re-rooted it using ICS root stuff. I have it all in case anyone else needs this route. Else follow instructions above.
Thanks all. I think for now ICS is where this will stay. In fact Gingerbread was good enough except for not being able to use Chrome.
mpanwar said:
Thanks all for the replies.
I was able to go to DEV Section and get the full AT&T ICS Rom. Used ODIN to get it back to factory ICS.
Then (with great care ) re-rooted it using ICS root stuff. I have it all in case anyone else needs this route. Else follow instructions above.
Thanks all. I think for now ICS is where this will stay. In fact Gingerbread was good enough except for not being able to use Chrome.
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great, can you put solved in the title...thx
I just bought my Note today [came from an Atrix running CM7]. The rep at the store said I would get an OTA update of ICS when I booted up....but that didn't happen. Was he mistaken? So I decided to flash one directly from xda, I've rooted, got odin up and running, flashed CWM and was going to flash an ICS rom...but not sure which one. Most of the ROM threads say discontinued, some are hybrids, can't seem to find just a plain ICS rom. What is the best running ICS rom available? Was the rep wrong and the Note hasn't gotten an official ICS update, as it appears all these roms are from leaked versions that don't retain the original note features.
Any help from anyone that's been around the Note forum for a while and is up to date on all these choices for getting ICS would be awesome!
Thanks
It was released a while ago. You can try the official the kies if you want to give that a shot first. Also, there are some official ics rims (uclf6) means the official release so all of those are official not leaks. But yeah, just read a bit more I'd say.
I would suggest cm9 nightly if you had cm7 on your matrix. Black star is probably the closest to stock that's been updated recently
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The rep was mistaken
there was no OT but rather updated thru Kies
There is about 3 threads of non discontinued roms that are pure stock ICS
They're there ...
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Like everyone else is saying you get it through kies. You'll need to get that from the Samsung website. Run a search for it and it should send you the appropriate link
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here's the link to the post for the official ucfl6 for odin.
Use at your discretion as you can't blame other people for mistakes made when flashing, but I used this and I know it works, if you want a bit more info on it read the thread I linked, good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28525924&postcount=37
Are you US at&t or Canada? The ota update for Canada had problems so if that's you, don't accept it. Do as others have said and use Kies. Don't root or add a recovery until you install the upgrade.
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Like everyone else is saying you get it through kies. You'll need to get that from the Samsung website. Run a search for it and it should send you the appropriate link
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..and I thought I was pretty well read on Android [lol]. I didn't realize there would be such difference between manufacturers. Previously I've flashed everything via CWM. This will be my first device utilizing Odin, and Kies. I've already run a couple things via Odin with not problems. I see a lot of references to Kies, [One last question before I begin] is this the same Kies that comes installed on the Note [which appears to be a web-interface to browse your phone contents], or is there a different Kies I should be using for updating ROMs?
rangercaptain said:
Are you US at&t or Canada? The ota update for Canada had problems so if that's you, don't accept it. Do as others have said and use Kies. Don't root or add a recovery until you install the upgrade.
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Figures, you mention exactly the ONLY two things I've done to my device so far - Rooted, and added CWM. Do you say this because I will have to repeat those processes over again after upgrade, or because they will hinder the upgrade process?
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Figures, you mention exactly the ONLY two things I've done to my device so far - Rooted, and added CWM. Do you say this because I will have to repeat those processes over again after upgrade, or because they will hinder the upgrade process?
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yes you will loose root and cwm, so if you use the link I posted you can use odin instead of kies, get cwm from braway's thread for odin, and get superuser.zip for ics and put it on the sd card before you start the process, go to download mode, flash the update thru odin, then the cwm thru odin, and then you can boot into cwm and flash the superuser zip, and get root back. Easy. :good:
roloracer said:
yes you will loose root and cwm, so if you use the link I posted you can use odin instead of kies, get cwm from braway's thread for odin, and get superuser.zip for ics and put it on the sd card before you start the process, go to download mode, flash the update thru odin, then the cwm thru odin, and then you can boot into cwm and flash the superuser zip, and get root back. Easy. :good:
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Thanks, I started the ICS file download a few minutes ago, the 'free' download is really, really, really throttled so it looks like I've got about an hour to wait for that. I got all the other files waiting and ready...should be good to go when the d/l finishes.
Thanks
No that's Kies Air and its about as useless as a third nipple.
Go to the Samsung-Kies site for the upgrade and everyrhing will be there (files to download, drivers, step-by-step directions).
You do this with your pc. You use the stock usb cable. You use usb port on the back of your pc (powered usb).
What he said.....^^^^^^
rangercaptain said:
No that's Kies Air and its about as useless as a third nipple.
Go to the Samsung-Kies site for the upgrade and everyrhing will be there (files to download, drivers, step-by-step directions).
You do this with your pc. You use the stock usb cable. You use usb port on the back of your pc (powered usb).
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That would explain why I could not find the option to update firmware! Thanks...got the PC version from Samsung site. I'm really liking ICS. It seems like now official Android includes a lot of the features that were in Older Cyanogen Mod versions that made it so much better than stock Android. I'd say it's very possible to be happy with this device leaving it with a stock ROM. For those who have gone the custom route [I'm leaning towards CM9, as I've been happy with CM on my Atrix] are there any features that you couldn't imagine being without. Besides the usual performance tweaks, and bloat removal that would be nice...it would also be nice not chasing the 'nightly threads' and flashing updates at least once a week. It seems there a lot more people in this I717 forum who are sticking with stock ICS, than there were people sticking with stock GB on the Atrix forum. For those running the manufacturer ICS update, is there anything glaring missing that would make you inclined to go custom? I've only been using it for less than a day, and need to make a quick decision where to go custom or not because I leave for a week tomorrow morning.
Thanks again for any input...
...Sorry to all those who have helped with their replys and haven't been 'thanked' properly [get maxed out at 8 / day]. I will try and catch up on that each day, as I really appreciate everyone's input. It's been very useful in making the decision on what devices I purchase, and getting them up and running as desired quickly...especially when working with a device / manufacturer for the first time.
You have CWM. Just go get a few rom's, label them in different folders on your external sd card, get Titanium Backup, an sms and phone call baxkup and restore, and you can flash any rom and put your apps and stuff on without internet access.
When restoring with TiBU only never restore system data. Doing that will make even the fastest rom act sick.
I have to say the collective's aocp is an amazing smooth ROM you lose spen gestures
but there are other apps and features that make me not miss them.i would highly recommend it.
U will loose s pen with all ROMs that don't run touchwiz(cm9, 10, hybrids........) but ur phone will run better. U can get papyrus from the market if that bothers u.
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Ok I see that there are a couple of similar threads to this and I apologize in advance but I'm not sure exactly how to correctly interpret some of the answers on those threads...so I'm gonna start my own and see who can help lol. Once again I'm sorry if this new thread is considered obsolete by some or all.
I have a Motorola droid razr. Not the maxx just the standard razr. When I got my phone I started looking into rooting it after seeing one of my friends with a rooted thunderbolt. I successfully rooted my razr after doing a lot of research. I installed Titanium (not pro) and undelete. I'm fairly certain that I made a backup of everything on my phone shortly after installing Titanium Backup. Well through the course of tinkering around with my phone a bit I deleted certain files here and there that I considered useless or annoying to me that they were on my phone in the first place. Well when the upgrade to jellybean came out I tried to do a software update. It finishes, reboots my phone, then says the update was unsuccessful.
After some research I have realized that I probably deleted something that was important (lol yeah I'm an idiot) and so it wont let me update the software because of that. I realize that I could use titanium to restore those files but I have NO idea what files I deleted that were important. And I'm not all that comfortable with TB to just mess with it freely. TB has been something that I have used very little because I know I could probably cause some serious damage to my phone with it haha. I haven't done a factory reset because I know already that it wouldn't bring those files back.
If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. I'm not a very technical person so I probably shouldn't have rooted in the first place but I tried my hardest to do the research first. Thanks in advance for the help everyone
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Ok I see that there are a couple of similar threads to this and I apologize in advance but I'm not sure exactly how to correctly interpret some of the answers on those threads...so I'm gonna start my own and see who can help lol. Once again I'm sorry if this new thread is considered obsolete by some or all.
I have a Motorola droid razr. Not the maxx just the standard razr. When I got my phone I started looking into rooting it after seeing one of my friends with a rooted thunderbolt. I successfully rooted my razr after doing a lot of research. I installed Titanium (not pro) and undelete. I'm fairly certain that I made a backup of everything on my phone shortly after installing Titanium Backup. Well through the course of tinkering around with my phone a bit I deleted certain files here and there that I considered useless or annoying to me that they were on my phone in the first place. Well when the upgrade to jellybean came out I tried to do a software update. It finishes, reboots my phone, then says the update was unsuccessful.
After some research I have realized that I probably deleted something that was important (lol yeah I'm an idiot) and so it wont let me update the software because of that. I realize that I could use titanium to restore those files but I have NO idea what files I deleted that were important. And I'm not all that comfortable with TB to just mess with it freely. TB has been something that I have used very little because I know I could probably cause some serious damage to my phone with it haha. I haven't done a factory reset because I know already that it wouldn't bring those files back.
If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. I'm not a very technical person so I probably shouldn't have rooted in the first place but I tried my hardest to do the research first. Thanks in advance for the help everyone
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So does anyone have any suggestions??
im not sure about this particular phone but search for the SBF file for your phone model and how to use RSDLite. this is how to restore Motorola phones.
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It's never a good idea to do an OTA update over a rooted phone.
You should just download a rooted stock ROM from the dev forum (a 4.1 ROM) and flash it via your recovery (flash the zip file) or another custom ROM, they have some good ones!
OR I would just flash stock THEN do the OTA update, because whatever rooting method you used (I don't have that phone so I'm not sure) probably replaced your kernel with an insecure one or your system.img so you're failing the OTA update.
orangekid said:
It's never a good idea to do an OTA update over a rooted phone.
You should just download a rooted stock ROM from the dev forum (a 4.1 ROM) and flash it via your recovery (flash the zip file) or another custom ROM, they have some good ones!
OR I would just flash stock THEN do the OTA update, because whatever rooting method you used (I don't have that phone so I'm not sure) probably replaced your kernel with an insecure one or your system.img so you're failing the OTA update.
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this is a good point. i would only do the SBF if you can't get into custom recovery.
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OP I moved you, here into your device forum Q&A for more visibility from actual users for your device. Thank you.
just try to flash a stock ROM using RSD, and then take the OTA update.
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gregeorgeraldo said:
just try to flash a stock ROM using RSD, and then take the OTA update.
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Ok I'm not gonna lie that sounds like a different language to me haha. I know I probably shouldn't have done all this without really knowing exactly what i was doing but I'm sure im not the first lol. What exactly is RSD and when I flash the razr stock ROM will it erase anything I already have save on my phone? Sorry I'm not the most intelligent when it comes to stuff like this haha
gregeorgeraldo said:
just try to flash a stock ROM using RSD, and then take the OTA update.
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Is this a good source and video that might explain this to me a little better? I havent posted 10 times so i cant use the link but its a video on youtube called How to use fastboot files to return Droid Razr back to Android 2.3.5! It's the first vid that comes up. has about 9,300 views and was posted 7 months ago. I think my RAZR was on ice cream sandwich (not gingerbread) but it should be the same i guess? Thanks in advance everyone
The reason I suggest just flashing a custom ROM thru your recovery is once you RSD stock then do the OTA you're just going to want to root again and maybe flash a better custom ROM.
Just flash a CM10 ROM from the dev forum and see how you like it, it's jellybean with tons more options that the stock ROM.
orangekid said:
The reason I suggest just flashing a custom ROM thru your recovery is once you RSD stock then do the OTA you're just going to want to root again and maybe flash a better custom ROM.
Just flash a CM10 ROM from the dev forum and see how you like it, it's jellybean with tons more options that the stock ROM.
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The main issue i'm having is that after i rooted my phone flashing custom roms was pretty much the only aspect i didnt get into, so i'm not comfortable in the least with doing it. So just flashing a new rom might be a little strange for me. If i flash the stock rom will i lose everything i have? Like all my apps and pictures and info? And will it unroot my phone?? And if that video i posted above will work should i just try it that way?
I'm sorry to keep posting but I'm just trying to get some specific answers and I feel like if my thread falls too far down it will be forgotten lol. But that video title that I posted...does anyone know if that could be a viable solution? And if it isn't could someone explain. To me how to flash the stock rom so i can upgrade to ics. I don't think the razr has jellybean yet if I'm not mistaken
It sounds like you might be missing some of the stock apps. I had a similar problem while following the same upgrade path as you. I have a Verizon XT912 (standard RAZR) I'm lookin for a link to send you that helped with the issue...but basically there are several apps that would seem non-essential like Slacker radio or NFL Mobile that seem to have caused people trouble. If your update is failing at 30% or somewhere in the middle, this might be the problem. If this sounds like it could be it, Ill try and find the post that helped me find what I was missing.
watch your phone during the update, make sure its not actually cancelling and booting normally because of this error.
Do you know what version you were on before things happened? GB or ICS? You always use this utility just to start over and get back to stock. You could do like people are saying and get the files but this is easier. There is a version for either GB or ICS. Just need to get into AP Fast Boot mode and follow the directions. Also assume this is the Cdma phone? Here is something similar.
I would just start all over and flash.Make sure if you can that your phone is charged before starting.
blueis300 said:
Do you know what version you were on before things happened? GB or ICS? You always use this utility just to start over and get back to stock. You could do like people are saying and get the files but this is easier. There is a version for either GB or ICS. Just need to get into AP Fast Boot mode and follow the directions. Also assume this is the Cdma phone? Here is something similar.
I would just start all over and flash.Make sure if you can that your phone is charged before starting.
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I'm on gingerbread 2.3.6. So i can just go to the bootloader menu and use AP fast boot to do what? I'm a little confused lol sorry
So does anyone have any explanation? The only reason i'm so desperate is because i'm planning on potentially selling my razr for the note 2 and i cant do that if its unable to perform this update/missing apps/etc.. lol. please help
So I've been having issues lately with my update some time ago to official Rogers ICS 4.0.4. The issue is my root access. I had root access on 2.3.6 and everything functioned perfectly. However when I updated to ICS I sort of lost root. Why I say sort of, is because root files like su are still present but not functioning correctly. When I try to gain root access SuperSU tells me my su file is out of date. Also when I try to modify su in any way it gives me access denied. pedrotorresfilho being the good fellow that he is has been helping point me in the right direction as to what is happening. I just figured instead of bombarding his private messages with multi-questions I would post my troubles here in the hopes of gaining some more insight into the issue.
I now know that apparently my su file is damaged (was kind of obvious). Pedro has directed me to the path of factory reset/flashing the TIM.BR rom via RSD Lite. Keep in mind that I am still very much a n00b with linux/android. I AM learning, but slowly. I've been reading post after post here on xda and have actually learned quite a bit so far, yay. I now know what RSD Lite is and what it is used for. Haven't dared try it yet though. ANYHOW. I am wondering if when I do flash this LATAM rom and totally wipe my phone, can I somehow install a stock rogers ROM overtop? I do realize that there are no fastboot files for Rogers and that the BR version will suspositly flash on rogers razrs just fine. I'm just a little skeptical as to the aftermath. I don't want to lose any functionality. I've heard of people having txt message issues or data connection problems etc. Also I suppose I would lose the use of apps like Rogers My Account. This I can probably look past, it's the major issues I need to dodge.
I basically just want to gain my root access again and update to Rogers JB and keep root via OTA Rootkeeper. I don't know if that is even possible with my current broken su status. I don't know if I should just maybe say goodbye to rogers stock and go the Cyanogen mod route?
ANY opinions/tips for this whole scenario would be MUCH APPRECIATED! Thanks!
tbh, i didnt read it all, its too long lol.... sorry.
but here's what i know (assuming u have an XT910)
1. u can fastboot rogers ICS using RSD lite. super easy.
2. u can fastboot LATAM ICS using RSD lite. also super easy.
3. u can also fastboot rogers JB using RSD lite 6.0. easy and best - but remember so far there's no root and u CANT go back to ICS.
ICS files: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_spyder/list.php
JB files: check RAZR development forum, one of the sticky by pzyduck.
R3dbeaver said:
tbh, i didnt read it all, its too long lol.... sorry.
but here's what i know (assuming u have an XT910)
1. u can fastboot rogers ICS using RSD lite. super easy.
2. u can fastboot LATAM ICS using RSD lite. also super easy.
3. u can also fastboot rogers JB using RSD lite 6.0. easy and best - but remember so far there's no root and u CANT go back to ICS.
ICS files: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_spyder/list.php
JB files: check RAZR development forum, one of the sticky by pzyduck.
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Ya I tend to ramble on sometimes, no apology needed. In fact I should thank you! This is defiantly a step in the right direction and hopefully the solution I need. As I said before being the n00b that I am to this stuff I already screwed up my phone once. I believe I was trying to use RSD Lite and flash one of those ROM files. Perhaps I used the wrong one, I don't know. All I know is it failed and I was stuck in fastboot failure. I did fix this with an empty radio img, but I don't want to have the same issues again.
Is there anything I need to do before I do this? Also are there any good n00b oriented tutorials related to using RSD Lite to 'fastboot'? THANKS AGAIN!
EDIT: Once again Pedro has come through with more info for me. I was directed to this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974568 which seems pretty straightforward. I just need to know if I need to do anything other than factory reset that was suggested by Pedro before I proceed. Also by AP Fastboot mode they mean powering off then holding volume - and power? Is that fastboot mode?
SUCCESS! I used the recovery to wipe my data/factory reset. Then used latest RSD Lite to flash the Rogers ICS fastboot file and it went without a hitch. People on this forum are awesome. Special thanks to R3dbeaver and pedrotorresfilho for the awesome info!
Now I'm going to try and keep my root when I update to JB, wish me luck
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SUCCESS! I used the recovery to wipe my data/factory reset. Then used latest RSD Lite to flash the Rogers ICS fastboot file and it went without a hitch. People on this forum are awesome. Special thanks to R3dbeaver and pedrotorresfilho for the awesome info!
Now I'm going to try and keep my root when I update to JB, wish me luck
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good luck!
yes, google is your best friend. pedro is the next best thing
Well I went ahead and protected root using OTA Rootkeeper then install JB official update and successfully restored root. Awesome, but then I went and did something stupid and installed a program called Chainfire 3D and ran it, accepted the warning message totally by accident and completely screwed my phone again. I then had to fastboot (AGAIN) the ROM for JB, so I now have an unrooted RAZR running JB. Oh well, that'll learn me!
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Well I went ahead and protected root using OTA Rootkeeper then install JB official update and successfully restored root. Awesome, but then I went and did something stupid and installed a program called Chainfire 3D and ran it, accepted the warning message totally by accident and completely screwed my phone again. I then had to fastboot (AGAIN) the ROM for JB, so I now have an unrooted RAZR running JB. Oh well, that'll learn me!
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LOL
sometimes the best way to learn is to do it yourself.
oh well. im in the same boat and tbh im enjoying JB even without root for now.
R3dbeaver said:
LOL
sometimes the best way to learn is to do it yourself.
oh well. im in the same boat and tbh im enjoying JB even without root for now.
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FIXED. go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257137