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Need Help, Updating Fails 2.3.6

Don't know what went wrong, but every time I try to update to 2.3.6 I get an error image and then it reboots. Done this 5 times and its driving me crazy

J94w said:
Don't know what went wrong, but every time I try to update to 2.3.6 I get an error image and then it reboots. Done this 5 times and its driving me crazy
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Are you rooted? If so what modifications have you done?
Have you uninstalled any of the stock bloatware, even if it was uninstallable without root? The update requires all bloatware to be installed.

J94w said:
Don't know what went wrong, but every time I try to update to 2.3.6 I get an error image and then it reboots. Done this 5 times and its driving me crazy
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Seriously people, search before you post!! We have covered this at least 10 times!Anyways, If you have deleted any of the AT&T bloatware the update will fail. It is STRONGLY recommend that you flash the fkz's to get back to stock before you apply the update, especially if you have rooted and performed any mods. Just be sure to re-root and apply the 4ever root mod to keep root over the OTA.

Or just wait for lfaber to make something awesome with it!

Thanks, I just now stumbled on the other thread's also saying the same thing my bad. And also another question why is the bloatware so important?

J94w said:
Thanks, I just now stumbled on the other thread's also saying the same thing my bad. And also another question why is the bloatware so important?
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It's not that it's important... it's that the update file is filled with a bunch of patches, some of which are for the bloatware, and so if the bloatware isn't there the patches don't install and the update won't begin (it checks everything at first.)

Oh ok thanks

It's not working for me too . I removed alot of the bloatware yes any solution beside restoring fxz ?
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alcatel444 said:
It's not working for me too . I removed alot of the bloatware yes any solution beside restoring fxz ?
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Sadly not...
you can just wait for custom ROMs to be based off of 2.3.6 and flash them... this update really isn't very major.

How can I tell if it's even trying to update. I manually started the update about 4 hours ago, but it doesn't look like anything is downloading. When I click on system update again, it says an update is currently being downloaded, but according to 3G watchdog, my wi-fi usage isn't changing. If I turn off wi-fi, it says the download will resume when wi-fi is back on, but the percentage is at 0%, and when I turn wi-fi back on, it stays at 0%.
If it's going to error out, does it not say something? I'm not getting any indication that it failed. Is there not a progress bar in notifications or anything? At first, I figured the server was just busy, but after 4 hours, something should have downloaded by now, right?

stedean said:
How can I tell if it's even trying to update. I manually started the update about 4 hours ago, but it doesn't look like anything is downloading. When I click on system update again, it says an update is currently being downloaded, but according to 3G watchdog, my wi-fi usage isn't changing. If I turn off wi-fi, it says the download will resume when wi-fi is back on, but the percentage is at 0%, and when I turn wi-fi back on, it stays at 0%.
If it's going to error out, does it not say something? I'm not getting any indication that it failed. Is there not a progress bar in notifications or anything? At first, I figured the server was just busy, but after 4 hours, something should have downloaded by now, right?
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A reboot can't hurt.

Ok i had issues upgrading to 2.3.6 tonight.. I realized i had stupidly uninstalled YahooContacts.apk and FMRadioService.apk... As we know Titanium can't restore these. However what I did do was this:
open /cache/recover/last_log in a text viewer
scroll to the bottom, it will tell you what is causing the installer to fail.
Mine i could clearly see it couldn't find FMRadioService.apk I took the .gz file from the titanium backup directory, un-gzipped it, renamed the .apk to FMRadioService.apk and placed it in /system/app I then re-tried the update, it failed again, repeated with YahooContacts.apk
and viola... all was well..
-t

I tried that. The progress bar that was stuck at 0% went away after reboot, but it's still not downloading anything, as far as I can tell. That's why I was wondering if there is any kind of progress bar normally.
I'm thinking that, since I'm at work, our wi-fi is blocking it. I can't get it to download over 3G, so I guess I'll wait until the morning, when I'm home.

BTW, if your phone dies ("Battery Low - Cannot program" message) while trying a rollback to 2.3.5 try the following procedure. It's risky but I was able to bring my Atrix 2 to live:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892026

[Q] "DMClient has stopped working"

Every now and then this msg "DMClient has stopped working" pops up two times. I googled a bit and found out that force stopping and clearing data/cache should stop this from happening, but the pop-up is still bugging me. I found out that when I enter the firmware update section in "About tablet/phone" and tap the "Check for updates" button, the DMClient stops working and it throws me out of the 'update page/menu/thing'.
Is this a very common problem? Are there solutions?

Well, it started a firmware download and now it's installing new firmware. Let's see if that was part of the sudden problems.
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The DMClient is what handle the OTA update.

baseballfanz said:
The DMClient is what handle the OTA update.
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I figured they were related. After this update I'm still on 4.0.3. I guess this is how it should be?
Edit: ah... Lost my root with this update. That sucks, because OF COURSE I'm not going to be home the next two weeks... The nerve Asus has to ruin my hardware in this way...
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have a look at thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622628
it tells you how to downgrate and OTA back for both rooted and un-rooted TF

e154037 said:
have a look at thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622628
it tells you how to downgrate and OTA back for both rooted and un-rooted TF
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This will come in handy as soon as I get home in about two weeks. But for now I'm stuck...
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After 4.2.1 update, lag , crashes, very slow

i purchased the Transformer Infinity back in december. it has been an awesome device since then. never rooted. after the 4.2.1 update last week , all my apps crash, i cannot browse, just to type this it has taken 20 mins thus far, i have to type and wait for it to show up. how do i downgrade from 4.2.1 or what do i need to do to get the most optimized 4.2.1

apophus said:
i purchased the Transformer Infinity back in december. it has been an awesome device since then. never rooted. after the 4.2.1 update last week , all my apps crash, i cannot browse, just to type this it has taken 20 mins thus far, i have to type and wait for it to show up. how do i downgrade from 4.2.1 or what do i need to do to get the most optimized 4.2.1
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make backup of your download apps, then try a cold boot, if not help you may need to do a factory reset.

buhohitr said:
make backup of your download apps, then try a cold boot, if not help you may need to do a factory reset.
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Perform a cold boot but holding down the power button and the volume down button, then once there are three icons select the "Android" by using the volume down button and select it using the volume up button, it will cold boot. Should help.
Tylor
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UPDATE FOR TF700 USERS!!! AND THE 4.2.1 UPDATE http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2204100

thanks for the suggestions, i did the cold boot and still getting lag, crashes etc, guess it will have to be a factory reset then?

apophus said:
thanks for the suggestions, i did the cold boot and still getting lag, crashes etc, guess it will have to be a factory reset then?
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Yes, you should and please report back with the results.

apophus said:
thanks for the suggestions, i did the cold boot and still getting lag, crashes etc, guess it will have to be a factory reset then?
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Yep but make sure you back up your data and apps before doing so.
Tylor
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Rom: Stock 4.2.1 Rooted.
UPDATE FOR TF700 USERS!!! AND THE 4.2.1 UPDATE http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2204100

I was experiencing the same problem as the OP and have completed a reset.
Going through the process of putting icons and stuff back where I remember them.
I wish I remember the Appbackup only backs up apps and not the other folders on the Internal Storage, but I'm not worried as I had nothing on it of any significant importance.
Tablet is operating fine ATM, no slug performance that I was experiencing prior to the hard factory reset.

Nothing works....
the_game_master said:
I was experiencing the same problem as the OP and have completed a reset.
Going through the process of putting icons and stuff back where I remember them.
I wish I remember the Appbackup only backs up apps and not the other folders on the Internal Storage, but I'm not worried as I had nothing on it of any significant importance.
Tablet is operating fine ATM, no slug performance that I was experiencing prior to the hard factory reset.
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Hey guys!
Ive also had these problems with my tablet and i have done EVERYTHING Cold Boot, Factory Reset and the Firmware updates don't fix anything!
I have contacted ASUS and they said that it was a HARDWARE problem and they gave me a RMA to send it in. Should I send it in? Would they do anything?
Thanks!
Im also new to the forum so thanks!

rileylarche said:
Hey guys!
Ive also had these problems with my tablet and i have done EVERYTHING Cold Boot, Factory Reset and the Firmware updates don't fix anything!
I have contacted ASUS and they said that it was a HARDWARE problem and they gave me a RMA to send it in. Should I send it in? Would they do anything?
Thanks!
Im also new to the forum so thanks!
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Welcome to the forum!
FYI: Double posting is very frowned upon here
But since you're new, you shall be forgiven - see my answer in the thread you opened....
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TF300 - No Bluetooth on JB 4.2.1

Hey guys,
I'm having a problem turning Bluetooth on on my TF300. I am on the latest stock Asus JB 4.2.1 build on my device, with root access. My device is working fine with WiFi, but when I go to the top right hand corner and try to turn on Bluetooth, it won't work. I try to pull the bar from off to on in the settings and goes immediately back to off.
I wasn't having any issues with Bluetooth before, but to be honest I probably haven't tried it since this latest update.
I want to retain root access, as I'm not sure there's a way to get it back without unlocking the bootloader, which I don't want to do yet.
My warranty expires in about a month, so if I need to send it in for repair that's okay.. but Im hoping it can be corrected without that.
To my knowledge, both the WiFi and Bluetooth are on the same radio, so both should work, right?
Anyways... I've tried cold booting... that didn't do anything. So I'm out of ideas...
Is there something I can do in terminal to restart the Bluetooth service? Do you think I got a corrupted OTA update?
All help is greatly appreciated.

TDMVP73 said:
Hey guys,
I'm having a problem turning Bluetooth on on my TF300. I am on the latest stock Asus JB 4.2.1 build on my device, with root access. My device is working fine with WiFi, but when I go to the top right hand corner and try to turn on Bluetooth, it won't work. I try to pull the bar from off to on in the settings and goes immediately back to off.
I wasn't having any issues with Bluetooth before, but to be honest I probably haven't tried it since this latest update.
I want to retain root access, as I'm not sure there's a way to get it back without unlocking the bootloader, which I don't want to do yet.
My warranty expires in about a month, so if I need to send it in for repair that's okay.. but Im hoping it can be corrected without that.
To my knowledge, both the WiFi and Bluetooth are on the same radio, so both should work, right?
Anyways... I've tried cold booting... that didn't do anything. So I'm out of ideas...
Is there something I can do in terminal to restart the Bluetooth service? Do you think I got a corrupted OTA update?
All help is greatly appreciated.
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That used to happen on my AOKP ROM, with the only solution being to restart. But since you cold booted, i have no idea

why dont you just reinstall stock asus firmware and retain root with ota rootkeeper????? that seems like it might fix it if its a minor software issue
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Had the same problem with the exact same setup. Solved it by bricking the device. My suggestion is to contact ASUS and do the hard reset/factory wipe procedure they will make you do, then have them warranty it.

steveb05 said:
Had the same problem with the exact same setup. Solved it by bricking the device. My suggestion is to contact ASUS and do the hard reset/factory wipe procedure they will make you do, then have them warranty it.
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I bet it was just the factory reset that fixed it. Did you think about that?? I seriously doubt this guy needs to rma his device for what seems to be a minor software issue. Try a data wipe and reflash firmware. Try some things first before you waste time sending it into Asus
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markymark567 said:
why dont you just reinstall stock asus firmware and retain root with ota rootkeeper????? that seems like it might fix it if its a minor software issue
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app
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markymark567 said:
I bet it was just the factory reset that fixed it. Did you think about that?? I seriously doubt this guy needs to rma his device for what seems to be a minor software issue. Try a data wipe and reflash firmware. Try some things first before you waste time sending it into Asus
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I thought OTA Rootkeeper only retains the root if you install the Asus Firmware Over-The-Air? If I download the firmware from the Asus support site and reflash it, won't I lose root access?
I'm just asking... because my device is working fine now.
I ended up cold booting a few more times, wiped the dalvik cache... and magically Bluetooth started working again.

You have to be rooted and go into system/vendor/lib and right hold the libbt-vendor.so file.
You have to change permissions and set
owner r/w
group r
others r
and save. It's set to read only for some reason. Strangely enough though I did this and it still did not fix it. But I read somewhere that this is supposed to fix it. I'm new to File Explorer though so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Also when I reset it the file was still read only for some reason. I'm also posting this to see if someone can fix this. I know I read about the actual steps somewhere but don't remember where that thread was.
Otherwise like everyone else said wait for OTA. I think ASUS has even admitted to this bug.

[Q] Lollipop OTA downloaded, install failed, now it says I'm up to date?

Hello,
So I finally got the notification to download OTA Lollipop today, which I did. Problem is, when I went to install it, the phone restarted, an ERROR screen popped up. I restarted the phone, the update wasn't installed and now when I "Check for Updates" it says I'm up to date.
How can I install the update without side-loading it?

couto607 said:
Hello,
So I finally got the notification to download OTA Lollipop today, which I did. Problem is, when I went to install it, the phone restarted, an ERROR screen popped up. I restarted the phone, the update wasn't installed and now when I "Check for Updates" it says I'm up to date.
How can I install the update without side-loading it?
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I had the exact same issue but it sounds like a good thing it didn't update from all the issues everyone keeps posting all over the net. Is your device rooted? OTA only works on completely stock devices I read somwhere.

I too ran into this problem. But before i returned my phone to stock i converted it to kali linux. At first i thought it was an encryption issue, so i restored my phone. I still received the error message.
To install kali linux i had to unlock the boot loader, then flash the software. I returned to stock by wiping, flashing stock, then locking the boot loader.
With Xposed not supporting 5.0 I am thinking of stating 4.4.4

I want to stay at 4.4.4. Can't get rid of the Update nag -- and I've tried everything.
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couto607 said:
Hello,
So I finally got the notification to download OTA Lollipop today, which I did. Problem is, when I went to install it, the phone restarted, an ERROR screen popped up. I restarted the phone, the update wasn't installed and now when I "Check for Updates" it says I'm up to date.
How can I install the update without side-loading it?
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socialphobia said:
I had the exact same issue but it sounds like a good thing it didn't update from all the issues everyone keeps posting all over the net. Is your device rooted? OTA only works on completely stock devices I read somwhere.
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I found my problem. My gps.conf file was edited by Faster GPS. I forgot to revert before the OTA and thus my error occurred. I hope this helps.

I'm still getting the same issue after supposed install:
I've had the OTA notification for a while but it won't install. It downloads and then when it does the reboot I see it trying to update then I get the 'Red Triangle'. It reboots again back to 4.4.4
Phone was rooted but still using the stock ROM so I did a factory restore, I'm still getting the same issue.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

socialphobia said:
I'm still getting the same issue after supposed install:
I've had the OTA notification for a while but it won't install. It downloads and then when it does the reboot I see it trying to update then I get the 'Red Triangle'. It reboots again back to 4.4.4
Phone was rooted but still using the stock ROM so I did a factory restore, I'm still getting the same issue.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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Flash the stock recovery, system, and boot images from 4.4.4 in fastboot
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