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CAUTION -- careful with 1.2.4349

Everyone:
My tablet is just loading the new 1.2.4349 OTA update -- and seeing the "2"
in the version number requires me to say be cautious on a couple of counts:
1. The last experience we had with something with 1.2 at the front of it was
the 1.2.3991 UAT. As long as folks went up from stock 3588 things were not
too bad. If I were giving advice (and I admit this is still a developing process)
I would tell folks to clean up your tablet as much as you can before going back
to stock. Then load either stock 3588, or load to something lower than that
and OTA update so that you have stock 3588 to update from!
EDIT: MAKE SURE YOU ARE COMPLETELY STOCK AND RUNNING 3588!!!
2. My tablet is up and running on 1.2.4349 now and it does have what I call
"blue recovery" on it. When you push power/volume+ to go into recovery,
it will give you a blue lettered screen that looks a whole like like CWM.
This tells me YOU SHOULD NOT LOAD CWM back on your machine until the gurus
check it out. Bekit .8 CWM didn't work with the 1.2.3991!
Other than the above two comments aimed at keeping anyone from getting
into difficulties -- it looks good so far. I flashed back to bekit 1105 (2638) and
then did back-to-back OTA updates to 3588 and the 1.2.4349 without any
difficulties whatsoever.
Good luck folks!!! Be careful and cautious!!!
Rev
P. S. To those of you who played with 3991, this looks just like that update and it really worked very well.

x2. I am doing some test scenarios, right now. I should know within an hour or so if this ROM has the same issues we saw with 3991.

Sure sounds like they updated the bootloader, which will mean all custom Roms will need updating, as well, if they want to install over this new stock.
Roe,
Looks like you got the major update you were expecting.

I did the OTA and now most of my apps are force closing. Even the default browser is having issues.

After downloading the update it reboots the tablet. My screen shows an exclamation mark in a triangle with and android icon to the bottom right of triangle.
The only thing none stock on my 3558 tablet was the nvidia enhancement pack. Any ideas
EDITED
I tried rebooting tablet and it reboots and comes up with message that says the update failed please try again later.

atakapa said:
Sure sounds like they updated the bootloader, which will mean all custom Roms will need updating, as well, if they want to install over this new stock.
Roe,
Looks like you got the major update you were expecting.
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Yeah, and it's blowing up in my face.
Early tests show that it has the same issues as stock 3991 (which was the basis of TNT Lite 5). Most of the mods here may have issues with this stock update, but I am still testing.

SgtJake said:
I did the OTA and now most of my apps are force closing. Even the default browser is having issues.
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Wiping user data/factory reset might be in your future. Boot into recovery and clear cache first to see if that helps before blowing all your apps with the reset.

Gaslight,
Yes, with enhancements your tablet is not completely stock.
If you are still running enough to get to Settings/Security/
Reset Factory Data -- you might see if that will help.
Rev

Yah, that didn't work. Looks like it on to a wipe and reset. My G Tab was completely stock too. No add-ons. What a pain in the butt...

SgtJake,
Are you on 1.2.4349 -- such as you've got!!??
Rev
EDIT: Sorry -- too little too late. Somebody else must have
had you do something!!

Yup. 1.2-4349.

Sarge Jake,
If the user wipe doesn't help, you may have re-partition the sdcard to 2048 and 0 to resolve the force closing of apps. BACK-UP your data first, it will get deleted.
Hey, what a great time to test the new recovery software and see if it can re-partition/ re-build the bct table correctly.
Let us know

atakapa said:
Sarge Jake,
If the user wipe doesn't help, you may have re-partition the sdcard to 2048 and 0 to resolve the force closing of apps. BACK-UP your data first, it will get deleted.
Hey, what a great time to test the new recovery software and see if it can re-partition/ re-build the bct table correctly.
Let us know
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legacy cwm .8 may not work with 4349 (I have to confirm that).

roebeet said:
legacy cwm .8 may not work with 4349 (I have to confirm that).
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I was talking about the new VS recovery and please, please don't tell me they didn't include a re-partition function. Viewsonic>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I'll have to test this out later. Battery is about to die and I don't have my charger. I sure wish this thing could be charged via USB.

atakapa said:
I was talking about the new VS recovery and please, please don't tell me they didn't include a re-partition function. Viewsonic>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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They did not in 3991, but I haven't looked at 4349 (yet).

atakapa,
We went through this when the UAT 3991 came out back well before the Wooters
came on board. Roebeet literally had to pull TTX, which is based on 3991, because
so many people were crashing and burning in bad ways -- boot loops, etc.
No the "blue recovery" does not have all the functions of CWM.
Unless someone can tell me a better way, if someone has boot loops or major problems
with 1.2.4349 loaded, they need to:
1. NVFlash back to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
Do the procedure exactly and do not skip steps, substitute files,
etc. This will take you to Version 2638 -- called bekit 1105.
It is time proven reliable.
2. Then set up wifi and follow the OTA update process to Version
3588.
3. If 3588 installs and runs fine, then Update again to 1.2.4349.
We may have to refine this as things develop, but losing CWM makes
things harder.
Rev

For the Curious...
Quadrant Standard -- 4 runs all in the 1700-2000 range.
If this is typical, not as quick as I had hoped. At least
as tests go.
Will have to talk about perceived performance later.
Rev

I didn’t see a recovery option in the recovery menu. I was able to get it back by doing the factory data reset from the Settings | Security menu. Now I just have to put everything back.
Has anyone tried installing the market on this yet?
Thanks

SgtJake said:
I didn’t see a recovery option in the recovery menu. I was able to get it back by doing the factory data reset from the Settings | Security menu. Now I just have to put everything back.
Has anyone tried installing the market on this yet?
Thanks
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I'm not a pro at this stuff, but all my attempts to install the market have failed and the enhancement pack results in a semi-brick.

[Q] JB not working with encryption

When I upgraded my unrooted, encrypted TF700 to JB it froze and I had to do a factory reset. The reset automatically put JB on it and it worked again. Once JB was installed and working I tried to re-encrypt and it froze again. I now suspect that JB simply won't work with encryption on my tablet. Has anyone else had this experience as well? If so, have you found a resolution to this problem?
I value encryption more than the last upgrade to JB and if there's no fix to the encryption issue, then I would like to know how to roll back to ICS.

This also happened to mine and had to factory reset as you did. I have not attempted to re-encrypt and do not plan on it since each time it took so long to boot up and because I like quick access to my information and entering a pin everytime was slowing me down.

Phuljum said:
When I upgraded my unrooted, encrypted TF700 to JB it froze and I had to do a factory reset. The reset automatically put JB on it and it worked again. Once JB was installed and working I tried to re-encrypt and it froze again. I now suspect that JB simply won't work with encryption on my tablet. Has anyone else had this experience as well? If so, have you found a resolution to this problem?
I value encryption more than the last upgrade to JB and if there's no fix to the encryption issue, then I would like to know how to roll back to ICS.
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Wow, I had been planning on encrypting my tablet in the next day or two, so this is good to know.
I will post the results of my attempt. Hopefully you can get things working.

johnpwu said:
Wow, I had been planning on encrypting my tablet in the next day or two, so this is good to know.
I will post the results of my attempt. Hopefully you can get things working.
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This thread somehow got split in two parts. More activity is visible in the other part, found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929392
Post further comment in the other thread.

tf700 Major, strange problem after update!

Everyone help! I just updated my tf700 to the newest update which was supposed to be minor. Everything went smooth but upon boot up everything went wrong. Every single app force closes upon unlocking the lock screen. I get a pop up for just about every single app that's trying to start saying sorry the app has closed. Oddly, any app that was originally on the device works OK. I did a normal reboot and then again I saw the upgrading message and another message saying optimizing apps and it counts through the apps its optimizing. Then again when I reboot fully it does the same thing. I did a cold reboot and it seemed a little smoother but then again I had the same force closes and error messages. And still only the stock apps will function, anything and everything else force closes upon opening.
I've never even heard of errors or problems such as this. I have no idea what to do and I have lots of data on the device I don't want to lose and can't lose. By the way I am rooted and I did not uninstall any stock apps. Just froze a couple. Build # now 10.6.1.14.10-20130801
Please any and all suggestions!
Ps - under kernel version it says (concerned about name cancer):
3.1.10-gba9af5
[email protected] #1
Thu Aug 1 17:00:24 cst 2013

bobstone said:
Just froze a couple.
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There's your problem...
Sorry mate, but I can't help myself - attention everyone, here comes a rant:
I cannot believe how many people do not backup the data on their tablets! This is the second time in as many days that I read: "Something unexpected went wrong and I cannot loose my data".
If you did not back it up the question is not if you loose it, the question is WHEN!
This is a portable device! Pre-destined to be lost, stolen, dropped, submerged, spilled upon, run over by trucks - and those are everyday scenarios which are LIKELY. Don't even want to get into freak accidents... It's so easy to protect your data now-a-days! There's Dropbox in conjunction with Dropsync, there's Google Drive and a host of other solutions. There is no excuse for having only one copy of important data...... End of rant
To your problem. Before you apply a stock update you have to replace/unfreeze all stock apps. Usually the update just fails if you have frozen system apps - I do not know what went wrong in your case.
How did you update? OTA or manually?
It sounds as if your data partition is corrupted since the stock apps (installed in /system) work, but your user apps (installed in /data) do not. But that your system apps work is the good news! At least you didn't brick your tablet.
One of the stock apps is the file browser. See if you can copy your precious data to a microSD. And I'm only talking about data like pictures, files, video, projects. Don't worry about your apps.
If the file browser cannot see your data you're gonna have to get into the area of data recovery tools - lots of research ahead of you there.....
Another possibility may be - if you can access your tablet from your PC through USB - to ADB pull files off your tablet, check if your computer recognizes your tablet.
Once you have your data safe (or given up on it) you can perform a factory reset and possibly have to reflash the firmware.
BTW, if you did not protect root with Voodoo Rootkeeper before the update or if you flashed the full firmware (as opposed to doing an OTA update) you also lost root. And Asus plugged the hole Motochopper used in the latest firmware version. At this point 10.6.1.14.10 is not rootable without unlocking.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 4

bobstone said:
Everyone help! I just updated my tf700 to the newest update which was supposed to be minor. Everything went smooth but upon boot up everything went wrong. Every single app force closes upon unlocking the lock screen. I get a pop up for just about every single app that's trying to start saying sorry the app has closed. Oddly, any app that was originally on the device works OK. I did a normal reboot and then again I saw the upgrading message and another message saying optimizing apps and it counts through the apps its optimizing. Then again when I reboot fully it does the same thing. I did a cold reboot and it seemed a little smoother but then again I had the same force closes and error messages. And still only the stock apps will function, anything and everything else force closes upon opening.
I've never even heard of errors or problems such as this. I have no idea what to do and I have lots of data on the device I don't want to lose and can't lose. By the way I am rooted and I did not uninstall any stock apps. Just froze a couple. Build # now 10.6.1.14.10-20130801
Please any and all suggestions!
Ps - under kernel version it says (concerned about name cancer):
3.1.10-gba9af5
[email protected] #1
Thu Aug 1 17:00:24 cst 2013
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I would just wipe and start over, even if you get it functional again you could end up with problems.

Hmmm - I too think you are going to lose your data here as I can't see how you can recover without wiping if everything is force closing now.
BTW don't worry about the kernel version being cancer that is Asus naming convention. They have been using planets and have now run out so they are now using astrology instead of astronomy which is rather odd but there you go.
Previously we had mercury, venus, jupiter, uranus etc now we have aquarius and cancer......

What don't make sense and I can't accept, I've updated this device 4 times now total and never had a problem like this. Also, I've updated a few devices with frozen apps and had no problems. Are frozen apps really the cause? I can't see it.
And if I do have to wipe, and I really don't want to, will I still be rooted after wiping and is there a way to back up things since I can't use 3rd party apps? (Also, I used voodoo)
It just seems like something went wrong with the update, say something initializing or cache problem, and im sure there's an easy fix.
Please, keep the ideas coming...

I guess, I just need to clerify , stock bootloader, stock ROM, but rooted??
Sent from my [email protected]
Sorry all was reading it on the app wow that really is not good lol

Correct, stock rom rooted. No interest in custom roms. I know there's gotta be something simple, maybe even a chkdsk in linux or something. I just hate to wipe n start over. My files seem to be intact and non stock apps start to open for a split second then they force close.

Any responses guys? Would really appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Sent from my rooted Galaxy S4

bobstone said:
Any responses guys? Would really appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Sent from my rooted Galaxy S4
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I think you will have to wipe mate as said. Painful but can't see any other way around it.

bobstone said:
Correct, stock rom rooted. No interest in custom roms. I know there's gotta be something simple, maybe even a chkdsk in linux or something. I just hate to wipe n start over. My files seem to be intact and non stock apps start to open for a split second then they force close.
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Yea, wipe, and no you won't keep root on a stock rom wipe. As I said previously even if you managed to "fix" the problem you would be creating potential for lockups/forced reboots. Your also not the first to have issues when upgrading with sys apps frozen, look around the forum, its been discussed before. Sucks, but there it is.

I have the same issue, and I can't remember freezing any apps. I don't have any critical data that I can't loose though. Still it sucks to have to wipe if there's another way.
Stock, locked bootloader, rooted. Temp unrooted using OTA Rootkeeper and did the OTA. Then upon the next reboot, all apps FC. All earlier updates has worked flawless. :/

vatvedt said:
I have the same issue, and I can't remember freezing any apps. I don't have any critical data that I can't loose though. Still it sucks to have to wipe if there's another way.
Stock, locked bootloader, rooted. Temp unrooted using OTA Rootkeeper and did the OTA. Then upon the next reboot, all apps FC. All earlier updates has worked flawless. :/
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boy, i can't believe how close i was to actually going forward with this OTA when it "pooped" up in the notification area. good thing i had just been reading xda forums and i saw a couple posts bout ppl losing root and whatnot with said update.
now i am a happy camper on Cromi-x =D
best bet as a few already said is to try to extract your data from the thingy, and wipe it out, if you wanna take a n00b advice, if you're close to the end of your warranty period, go ahead and unlock it then proceed to cromi-x it. i was of the same position as you back when i bought it, not interested in custom roms and whatnot, just root...... but since my warranty was expiring next month anyways, and it had grown considerably sloppy and laggy, i figured out, why not? and i gotta tell you, it was the right thing to do.
hands down
anyways, good luck on your recovery.

I wiped and downgraded to .8 and will happily stay there for now. Maybe until I unlock the bootloader in the future.

vatvedt said:
I have the same issue, and I can't remember freezing any apps. I don't have any critical data that I can't loose though. Still it sucks to have to wipe if there's another way.
Stock, locked bootloader, rooted. Temp unrooted using OTA Rootkeeper and did the OTA. Then upon the next reboot, all apps FC. All earlier updates has worked flawless. :/
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If you don't have it download Titanium Backup, hit Menu and wipe Dalvic cache. Reboot. The reboot will take a while because the Dalvic has to be rebuild - so don't panic
If that doesn't do it, I'm fresh out of ideas.

I tried to wipe via the stock recovery, but all the FC's was still there, and what's worse was that because of the FC's I couldn't finish (or quit) the "Set up your tablet" thingie. I always crashed on setting up a gmail account. Didn't matter if I was connected to the internet or not, or if I declined setting it up. So I had to do everything from the stock recovery.
Downloaded the .8 firwmare, unpacked the first .zip file, renamed the second .zip (to EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip) and put it on an empty micro SD, made sure the SD-card was FAT32, booted to recovery (Power Vol down for 5 sec) and installed it via RCK, Android stock recovery.
Thanks for the tip, though. It might have worked. I don't know.

Please help, stuck in Bootloop !!

Recently I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp and succesfully rooted my device, but while I was tinkering with my device I accidentally wipe all data, partition, etc in TWRP now I guess I wiped out everything including OS !!!
How can I restore ? Do I need to flash new hammerhead image ?
Right now I'm following this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
It'll be great if anyone of you can point me right way.

You can just flash any custom rom using this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575150
Or
Follow the thread you posted to restore a factory image..
But restoring a factory image will unroot your device..

You have twrp so the first thing you did was make a nandroid, right? Live and learn.

Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.

Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.

Huh? You're doing an RMA why?
sent from my hammerhead

albertpaulp said:
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
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Why are you rma'ing it. Was wifi messed up before you erased everything?

jd1639 said:
Why are you rma'ing it. Was wifi messed up before you erased everything?
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Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586410

jd1639 said:
You have twrp so the first thing you did was make a nandroid, right? Live and learn.
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Awesome advice. I made a nandroid of my N5 first thing after getting all my apps straight. Playing with flashing a rom in TWRP I did a manual "wipe data" which proceded to wipe out the entire SDCARD in the process including my nandroid. Sooooo.... Yes, make a nandroid but also back it up to your computer or dropbox right away.

albertpaulp said:
Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586410
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Don't RMA it, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. All you have to do is reflash the factory image. If you didn't know what you were doing, you shouldn't have been messing around with your phone in the first place. Reflash your phone back to its factory state and next time do your homework before you start tinkering. People like you are going to cause Google to change their return policy so that returns are much more heavily scrutinized.

BirchBarlow said:
Don't RMA it, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. All you have to do is reflash the factory image. If you didn't know what you were doing, you shouldn't have been messing around with your phone in the first place. Reflash your phone back to its factory state and next time do your homework before you start tinkering. People like you are going to cause Google to change their return policy so that returns are much more heavily scrutinized.
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Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
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You know how to read right ? also I did reflashed to stock image and unrooted + locked bootloader but problem persists, what do you propose I do now ? I started loving my phone now I'm getting new one, it's hard for me too, it's like adopting a son.

[Q] XT926 Stuck on 11/07 CM 11

I have an XT926 running KKBL CM11 nightlies and have been updating through Cyandelta since Towelroot gave me an unlocked bootloader (thanks Geo). I have been updating without issue until the 11/07 nightly. Ever since then, Cyandelta shows no updates but if I go through the CM Updater, it shows all of the updates released for the moto_msm8960. If I try to apply any of these updates outside of Cyandelta (either through CM Updater or flashing full zip through recovery), I can boot my phone but will start getting a persistent error saying "There's a problem with com.android.phone process and it has to close" or something to that effect. I have tried wiping both caches and even doing factory resets but the process crashing starts back within a few minutes of getting everything set up. I did notice that even though I did a factory reset, all of the apps I have installed still had data from before the wipe so I feel like the wipe is missing something that is causing the crash(?). I've been using custom ROMs for a while on a few different devices but this is the first time I've ran across this. Any advice?

Nuke and pave.
Something is stuck and vaguely familiar to me but at this point, if it were me, that's what I would do. Just time consuming.

CWGSM3VO said:
Nuke and pave.
Something is stuck and vaguely familiar to me but at this point, if it were me, that's what I would do. Just time consuming.
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I've never had to go further than a factory reset before. Which partitions should I format?

I'd format system, data, cache and dalvik. Definitely time to flash clean.
When I had my XT926, I also found that after so many updates via Cyandelta, that I would get the same issue. I would then go back, clean flash the latest update and things would be good. I eventually stopped using Cyandelta altogether. It's a nice idea, but I just don't know if I completely trust its abilities in determining what to bring down and what not to. I'd rather go with the CM updater instead. Yeah, it means longer downloads, but which is longer: downloading the full update from CM and having it work, or downloading via Cyandelta and then having to wipe clean, install and then restore all your backups?

iBolski said:
When I had my XT926,
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You did abandon ship!

lloydsw said:
You did abandon ship!
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Yup, but I stated in my post (where I said my goodbyes), that I would still hang around and help out. I know there are a lot of people still on this phone, especially with CM12 now running on it.
But, loving my G3. Still on stock, though (4.4.2), but I have no reason to go to anything else right now. Runs smooth, but it is rooted so I can run TiBu and also enable SD writing. But, I have no other reason to go to CM12 at this time.
I can get at LEAST one day if not more. Usually, after 24 hours, I'm right around 50% on battery. I probably could go even longer, but definitely I get more battery life out this phone than I did on the XT926 (non-MAXX), but I was able to do the same on my non-MAXX, but only if I didn't use it much. With the G3, I can do quite a lot and make it through the day without having to recharge during the day. I love that!
In any case, I'm still lurking about these forums to see if anyone needs help.