How to get stuck 9.1 OTA update to install - Huawei Mate 20 Pro Questions & Answers

I had EMUI9.1 offered via HiCare. But when I clicked the new version in the "Software update" screen, I saw a short black screen and then nothing. It had downloaded 9.1.0.300 though, but the installer won't start.
So I waited 2 days and at regular times the system would show a popup if I want to install it. I clicked "Install now" and then a screen flashed and nothing happened.
This is how I got it to install, maybe it will help others. The issue seems to be a screen resolution issue with the update package.
What I did was:
1. Set font sizes back to "Normal" value (this is the top font size option in Display -> Font sizes).
After that I was able to install 9.1 OTA. Note that to view the changelog afterwards you also need to set to "Normal" font size, any other will also auto close the changelog window.

I got offered too, but in system update it said I was up to date (emui9.0).
Do you know what to do, to get the update?

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[Neutrino] V2.9 GT bugs

I have experienced few bugs related to that ROM. First with the LauncherPro. I noticed than if you move phone to the landscape position, all icons in the app drawer get placed in one position. It looks like all of them move to position in row-1, first column. As I see dev behind the LauncherPro stopped updating it more than a year ago, but is there any other fix to this? That problem was in V2.8 of Neutrino as well.
Second bug is with OTA Updater. Whenever I run it detects V2.91 update correctly, and downloads it. The problem occurs after sudden shutdown (phone doesn't show that reboot screen, and works for a few seconds, just suddenly restarts). When booting again I get a little Android picture with yellow exclamation mark inside a triangle. After that I have to take the battery out, and after successful reboot, there is no update installed.
For the record - In SuperSU I've made sure that OTA Updater has its permissions.
kacpr said:
I have experienced few bugs related to that ROM. First with the LauncherPro. I noticed than if you move phone to the landscape position, all icons in the app drawer get placed in one position. It looks like all of them move to position in row-1, first column. As I see dev behind the LauncherPro stopped updating it more than a year ago, but is there any other fix to this? That problem was in V2.8 of Neutrino as well.
Second bug is with OTA Updater. Whenever I run it detects V2.91 update correctly, and downloads it. The problem occurs after sudden shutdown (phone doesn't show that reboot screen, and works for a few seconds, just suddenly restarts). When booting again I get a little Android picture with yellow exclamation mark inside a triangle. After that I have to take the battery out, and after successful reboot, there is no update installed.
For the record - In SuperSU I've made sure that OTA Updater has its permissions.
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To update enter recovery and install the zip from /sdcard/OTA-Updater
lord182 said:
To update enter recovery and install the zip from /sdcard/OTA-Updater
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shouldn't it work automatically though?

[Q] Freshly installed 4.3 produces ghost OTA update notifications

I have installed Android 4.3 from occam image downloaded from Google to my Google Nexus 4. The phone has been rooted and set up with TWCR.
The problem is that every week or so the phone thinks there is an OTA OS update from Google: a notification icon pops up telling that an "update to Android 4.3" has been downloaded (update size 1.8M). The update "installs" in a second, boots into TWCR which offer to repairs root access (and I do), and then boots normally. There is no that "optimizing app N of M" lengthy process as with a real OS upgrade.
I confirmed that the build incremental version in /system/build.prop does not change; in fact, the build fingerprint is not changed by this "update":
Code:
ro.build.fingerprint=google/occam/mako:4.3/JWR66V/737497:user/release-keys
Why does this happen and what may I try to do to prevent this?
same issue happened yesterday with my phone
andorkin said:
same issue happened yesterday with my phone
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My wife's all stock Nexus 4 with Android 4.3 got an update notification today, and run an upgrade that did not change anything in the "About phone" page. Unlike mine, thought, it did the "Optimizing application X of Y" step after a reboot.
So maybe there was a systemic glitch which just coincided with my phone re-flash? This explanation would hold if I do not see any more of these "updates" coming in the next few weeks.
Hi kkm000
today I unroot my phone and flash stock recovery and then successfully installed the update.
version of the build changed from JWR66V to JWR66Y

How I downgraded my snapdragon Note 7 after the OTA update. Charging to 100 again!

About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
This has worked for me few days ago!! All went too smooth!
Good Job Raider! This will be useful to so many people.
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
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How do you go about doing this"Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update package" where in the phone i much go to uninstall and disable update package
joseph- said:
How do you go about doing this"Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update package" where in the phone i much go to uninstall and disable update package
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In my case, my date wasn't deleted. I had "Package Disabler Pro" application installed (the latest update which didn't show the OTA packages).
I uninstalled it, then downloaded the 6.3 version (which shows the packages) and disabled the OTA files
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
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Funny because i tried same thing and odin failed. It won't allow rolling bk to original rom.
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
WORKED FOR ME AS WELL!!! Green Battery is back! now lets see if it charges over 60%
I've downloaded Package Disabler Pro 6.3 on my Note 7 after sucessfully using Odin to go back one software update.
However, I've disabled all the following...
com.policydm
com.sec.android.soagent
com.samsung.android.omcagent
com.wssyncmldm
com.sec.spp.push
Except for the most important ones...
com.samsung.firmware.sensorhub
com.samsung.android.firmware.tsp
Because they don't come up.
Will this be an issue?
Can you not just root and install a custom rom?
marvi0 said:
Can you not just root and install a custom rom?
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No root for the snapdragon
Maiesta_Miyabi said:
I've downloaded Package Disabler Pro 6.3 on my Note 7 after sucessfully using Odin to go back one software update.
However, I've disabled all the following...
com.policydm
com.sec.android.soagent
com.samsung.android.omcagent
com.wssyncmldm
com.sec.spp.push
Except for the most important ones...
com.samsung.firmware.sensorhub
com.samsung.android.firmware.tsp
Because they don't come up.
Will this be an issue?
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Did you have a previous version installed?
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So this is funny but i kinda fixes my phone lol now it charges up to 100. I tried koodo firmware and i was able to restore it. Originally i tried the general Samsung firmware for note 7 nd it kept on failing in odin then i realized wen i put my simcard in back wen first got the phone it looked to koodo. Now i used pkg disabler to disable updates too.
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Mine is SM-930A. It's the AT&T version. Please help.
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
worked thank you
I did the same thing as instructed and was able to downgrade my note 7 snap dragon to a previous stock version before the forced update. Battery is back to 100%, no update messages everything seems to be running great. However I noticed my Secure folder is no longer working. Has anyone else having this issue? When I try to open secure folder or setup the folder it gives me a error message saying " Secure folder cannot be set up because unauthorized software was installed on the device. I got the rom from Sam mobile for my Rogers phone Sept update. Sometimes the error messages says " Failed to create knox mode. Try again. When I use an app to check my if my knox has been tripped is says everything is normal, 0x0 valid warrenty. Any ideas what a solution could be?
By the way... Thanks for posting how to downgrade and get my note 7 back to normal working condition!
goldensun7 said:
I did the same thing as instructed and was able to downgrade my note 7 snap dragon to a previous stock version before the forced update. Battery is back to 100%, no update messages everything seems to be running great. However I noticed my Secure folder is no longer working. Has anyone else having this issue? When I try to open secure folder or setup the folder it gives me a error message saying " Secure folder cannot be set up because unauthorized software was installed on the device. I got the rom from Sam mobile for my Rogers phone Sept update. Sometimes the error messages says " Failed to create knox mode. Try again. When I use an app to check my if my knox has been tripped is says everything is normal, 0x0 valid warrenty. Any ideas what a solution could be?
By the way... Thanks for posting how to downgrade and get my note 7 back to normal working condition!
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Ok looks like I fixed the problem. I only flashed the larger AP file and not all the files in the stock rom. Once I flashed the other files, secure folder became available.
Be sure to flash all files in the stock rom.
oh man I cant thank you enough for helping me bring some life back into my phone! the 60% was brutal! back to 100% charge now!!!
I did run into some issues, and in case this helps anyone else who couldnt get odin to pass the most important thing is to make sure your downloading the right carrier version of the firmware. You need to use the carrier version that matches the same one the phone was originally activated. In my case, my Bell note 7 was originally activated using a virgin mobile sim card so odin would fail until I used the VMC region instead of BMC.
Thanks again!
would someone be kind enough to post a youtube video for those of us who are not so familiar with using ODIN
Thank You.
Its great that some of you are able to fight back against the 60 percent update, i blocked mine before it even happened but nothing will help us when the carriers block our devices... i just got off the phone with sprint (US) and they told me they will definately block the note 7s in the near future long before the 8 comes out... if someone has a solution, please pm me or post it here if you can...
Personally my story about keeping the no seven is probably a lot different than most people...
In February my now ex wife stole my Note Edge and kicked me out of my own house at gunpoint.... thankfully i got away with my tab 4... but it got stolen when i was homeless from being kicked out and living in my car...
So two devices stolen from me in less than a year, but hope was on the horizon. I had heard the note seven was coming out and so I stayed without a phone for three to four months and got the note seven the day it was released.
The note 7 is my trophy, it is my monument to not ever getting robbed again and then samsung wants to take it.
rkawli said:
would someone be kind enough to post a youtube video for those of us who are not so familiar with using ODIN
Thank You.
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check youtube there are a lot of instructional vids. the process is the same for every ROM. you can download the ROM from sammobile.com firmware section. let me know if you can't figure it out still. I can try and help.

Update software through FOTA error at 30%

Hello, i just bought s9+, and it shows theres a software update, so i updated it and choose install now, but when it restart to the blue screen installing screen, it shows error at 30% and it reboot to the homescreen, and an error shows up "software update failed" :crying:
Anybody know how to fix that? I already tried clear cache partition and no help, thx guys
aditia581999 said:
Hello, i just bought s9+, and it shows theres a software update, so i updated it and choose install now, but when it restart to the blue screen installing screen, it shows error at 30% and it reboot to the homescreen, and an error shows up "software update failed" :crying:
Anybody know how to fix that? I already tried clear cache partition and no help, thx guys
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Try a Factory Reset & See if you can get the OTA & successfully update - If not - You can Download the latest Stock Samsung Firmware from sammobile.com and Flash with Odin 3.13.1 ?
Sent from my SM-G965W ??
aditia581999 said:
Hello, i just bought s9+, and it shows theres a software update, so i updated it and choose install now, but when it restart to the blue screen installing screen, it shows error at 30% and it reboot to the homescreen, and an error shows up "software update failed" :crying:
Anybody know how to fix that? I already tried clear cache partition and no help, thx guys
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This happened on my ATT S9+ on ARG7. It was failing the OTA to ARG8. I Odin'd to 3ARG8 and haven't had an ota since.

How I got Mate 20 Pro unstuck, from 9.1 (same patch for months) to Android 10 OTA

Background info:
My Mate 20 Pro stopped receiving updates several months ago, maybe almost one year.
I never got notifications about new updates, and searching for one was useless.
I figured I was stuck on 9.1.0.300 forever, for some reason.
Recently I finally got it "unstuck" and updated to the latest Android 10 version (as of writing) 10.0.0.206.
Here is how I did it.
DISCLAIMER: I am only describing what I did; maybe it will be useful information for someone.
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What I did, that finally worked, to update Mate 20 Pro to EMUI 10 (Android 10) from 9.1.300:
I went from 9.1.0.300 (down)-> 9.0.0.210 (up)-> 9.1.0.320 (up)-> 10.0.0.187 (up)-> 10.0.0.206
First two steps I did manually / hacked HiSuite, last two steps were official OTA through Wifi.
1 - First I downgraded from 9.1 to 9.0:
I followed this youtube video ,that is basically an explanation of this original XDA post
In the Youtube page's description there is a link to get a ZIP from Google Drive containing the older version of HiSuite, and the patcher for it.
So I downloaded and used those.
For the "update_full_base.zip" I downloaded the 9.0.0.210 from the XDA post (direct link for it here). Which is mentioned in the Youtube tutorial.
IMPORTANT!!: The install process on phone screen (progress circle) went smoothly, and the phone rebooted automatically (as expected);
BUT the boot screen Huawei logo was static, not oscillating or indicating any progress.
I waited a good 10 minutes and it did not move from that.
So I force-powered down the phone holding "vol up + power button" for several seconds;
It rebooted into a screen saying like "your files system is severely corrupted, recovering....."
Then it recovered successfully, and rebooted into a "brand new" 9.0.0.210 Android)
>I SKIPPED CHOOSING AN APN DURING ANDROID INITIAL SETUP!<
>I ALSO DID NOT CONNECT TO WIFI!<
>Skipped everything on initial setup, just to get to the home screen<
2 - Then same process all over again, with the same HiSuite and patch files, but different "update_full_base.zip", for 9.1:
I downloaded a 9.1.0.320 zip from the ONLINE FIRMWARE DATABASE https://pro-teammt.ru/en/online-firmware-database/
(for me specifically, I used LYA-L29C675E17R1P17B320 (9.1.0.320)) <- my phone is c635, this file is for c675, but I could bot find one for c635 lya-l29 9.1
DIRECT LINK TO THIS update_full_base.zip http://update.dbankcdn.com/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G4500/g1755/v319250/f1/full//update_full_base.zip if someone does not want to or cannot use the Online Firmware Database website.
IMPORTANT!!:
At the very end of the install process on the phone screen (the progress circle), install said "FAILED!", but then when the phone rebooted it had in fact been upgraded.
I had updated to a "brand new" 9.1.0.320.
3 - Minor update to 9.1.0.362:
On the phone itself I finally connected to Wifi for the first time (STILL SKIPPED APN);
checked online for update (on Settings), found a minor update to 9.1.0.362. Installed it.
Rebooted normally into 9.1.0.362.
4 - Finally updated to Android 10:
Checked Settings for update again (Wifi was already configured/connected), 10.0.0.187 was available;
downloaded/installed it.
I got finally to Android 10 (10.0.0.187)
5 - Minor update to Android 10.0.0.206:
After installation, just a couple of seconds after the reboot of the fresh Android 10, another even newer version (10.0.0.206) pop-up showed automatically, so I installed it too.
PS: Only after having installed the latest 10.0.0.206 version and booting into it, I enabled the correct APN from phone's Settings.

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