Hi All,
Problem with TF700 with JB, rooted but not unlocked. I cannot enter into stock recovery: after volDown - volUP I have dead droid with red triangle. I think this my mistake: after was rooted in ICS .26, not unlocked, I tryed to install GooManager - after that I cannot enter to recovery in ICS. After that JB OTA installation was no problem, i backup and restore root, but still not have recovery.
So, now I have root in JB and can you point me to answer, how I can return stock recovery without unlock?
Thank you!
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rusm said:
Hi All,
Problem with TF700 with JB, rooted but not unlocked. I cannot enter into stock recovery: after volDown - volUP I have dead droid with red triangle. I think this my mistake: after was rooted in ICS .26, not unlocked, I tryed to install GooManager - after that I cannot enter to recovery in ICS. After that JB OTA installation was no problem, i backup and restore root, but still not have recovery.
So, now I have root in JB and can you point me to answer, how I can return stock recovery without unlock?
Thank you!
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Roman[/QUOTE
Turn off you tab, hold vol down then hold power button, as soon as you see the white text appeared on screen, release power button, then vol down button, tell me what you see on the screen? (how many icons?)
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rusm said:
Hi All,
Problem with TF700 with JB, rooted but not unlocked. I cannot enter into stock recovery: after volDown - volUP I have dead droid with red triangle. I think this my mistake: after was rooted in ICS .26, not unlocked, I tryed to install GooManager - after that I cannot enter to recovery in ICS. After that JB OTA installation was no problem, i backup and restore root, but still not have recovery.
So, now I have root in JB and can you point me to answer, how I can return stock recovery without unlock?
Thank you!
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Roman[/QUOTE
Turn off you tab, hold vol down then hold power button, as soon as you see the white text appeared on screen, release power button, then vol down button, tell me what you see on the screen? (how many icons?)
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I can see 4 icons: RCK, dont remember )), usb, and wipe. I try all icons exept wipe: red triangle.
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buhohitr said:
I can see 4 icons: RCK, dont remember )), usb, and wipe. I try all icons exept wipe: red triangle.
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That's great, so now what do you try to do?? if you don't have any update zip, it will give you the error, but if you have an update zip in there it will pickup and install. Your red triange is normal.
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rusm said:
That's great, so now what do you try to do?? if you don't have any update zip, it will give you the error, but if you have an update zip in there it will pickup and install. Your red triange is normal.
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I think it may be the future problem if recovery is broken, i think this red triangle indicate that may be I erase something important.
It is not right, you say this behavior is normal? So, if it is all OK now with device, I will have fun))
Thank you very much!!
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same problem
buhohitr said:
rusm said:
That's great, so now what do you try to do?? if you don't have any update zip, it will give you the error, but if you have an update zip in there it will pickup and install. Your red triangle is normal.
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This relates to same problem I have . See cannot open recovery in JB in this same QA forum a little further back. I get the icons and when I pick recovery I get to Red triangle Andy but then no matter what combo of buttons pushed nothing happens. In my thread I was given a solution but I am locked but rooted and I believe had to be unlocked to use it. My question is can you get to recovery with a locked rooted tab to wipe cache etc . I can no longer get to that menu.
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rusm said:
I think it may be the future problem if recovery is broken, i think this red triangle indicate that may be I erase something important.
It is not right, you say this behavior is normal? So, if it is all OK now with device, I will have fun))
Thank you very much!!
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Roman
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Tomv5314 said:
This relates to same problem I have . See cannot open recovery in JB in this same QA forum a little further back. I get the icons and when I pick recovery I get to Red triangle Andy but then no matter what combo of buttons pushed nothing happens. In my thread I was given a solution but I am locked but rooted and I believe had to be unlocked to use it. My question is can you get to recovery with a locked rooted tab to wipe cache etc . I can no longer get to that menu.
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I think what buhohitr was saying is that RCK is a recovery that you can only boot into when there is an update file waiting to be updated on the microSD card. Otherwise, it does nothing but give you that Android with the Red Triangle.
I can confirm this on JB, never tried it while still on ICS.
johnlgalt said:
I think what buhohitr was saying is that RCK is a recovery that you can only boot into when there is an update file waiting to be updated on the microSD card. Otherwise, it does nothing but give you that Android with the Red Triangle.
I can confirm this on JB, never tried it while still on ICS.
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It seems that the only solution is to unlock and put a custom recovery on . Unfortunately for me I did not unlock for warranty reasons and I updated to .30 and JB OTA and now it seems I have painted myself into a corner since I did not do nvflash or unlock downloads before accepting .30 and JB OTA. It appears ICS stock recovery is gone. Thanks for responses in this and my other thread Tom
see "Cannot use recovery after JB" in QA section further back
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It seems that the only solution is to unlock and put a custom recovery on . Unfortunately for me I did not unlock for warranty reasons and I updated to .30 and JB OTA and now it seems I have painted myself into a corner since I did not do nvflash or unlock downloads before accepting .30 and JB OTA. It appears ICS stock recovery is gone. Thanks for responses in this and my other thread Tom
see "Cannot use recovery after JB" in QA section further back
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No, you're not corner, you can easily downgrade from JB to .30 (download full version from Asus site), root your device, install superSU then save root with Voodoo OTA root keeper, then upgrade to JB through OTA, restore root using Voodoo OTA root keeper and you all set.
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No, you're not corner, you can easily downgrade from JB to .30 (download full version from Asus site), root your device, install superSU then save root with Voodoo OTA root keeper, then upgrade to JB through OTA, restore root using Voodoo OTA root keeper and you all set.
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I am rooted but locked boot loader. and I did save root with voodoo and do have Super SU.
my problem was no recovery. I am trying to get my other thread merged with this one where the solution I was given appears to be unlock then load CWM custom recovery for JB
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I am rooted but locked boot loader. and I did save root with voodoo and do have Super SU.
my problem was no recovery. I am trying to get my other thread merged with this one where the solution I was given appears to be unlock then load CWM custom recovery for JB
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If you downgrade back to .30 with full package then upgrade to JB it will fixed the issue.
Yip. I did exactly that.
Sent from my rooted BIONIC running ICS 6.7.247 (!) via Tapatalk 2
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If you downgrade back to .30 with full package then upgrade to JB it will fixed the issue.
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OK now I get what you are saying. lol full package upgrade Thanks I am going to redo things the way you have said tomorrow. thanks for the help
i had the same problem i upgraded to jb without unlocking first, i was rooted but couldnt access or install a recovery. read a couple threads and found out that the asus unlock tool works on JB also although it states that its only for ICS on the description. anyways unlocked the tablet and used goo to install twrp and everything works just fine.
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So, I finally got myself a transformer (B60). Used it for about a week, and decided i wanted to root it. I read around to make sure I wasn't going to bork my device. Rooted it just fine using razorclaw since i was on .19. I installed CWM with RecoveryInstaller, rebooted to recovery (using an app) and flashed this.
I played around with it a little more, and turned it off for the night. When i turned it back on this morning, my root seems to be gone. The superuser.apk is still installed, but every app that tries to request root says that I'm not rooted. If i go into terminal emulator, I can verify that busybox is installed, but when i try to SU, i get
Code:
reloc_library[1315]: 1038 cannot locate '_mktemp'...
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE
Does anyone know a way to fix this? Since I'm now on .21 do to flashing the pre-rooted update is there a way to root .21?
Edit: Key thing i may be missing... is there a way to get back to CWM via hardware buttons? On my phone it's just camera + volume down and power. Does the volume down + power allow me to get into CWM? The options i saw were i believe wipe data and boot into android...
You could try re-rooting the tablet with Root Toolkit and see if it works.
If you actually had CWM installed, power + vol down at boot will bring you to CWM
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You could try re-rooting the tablet with Root Toolkit and see if it works.
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Thanks, I'll try this later.
bud77 said:
If you actually had CWM installed, power + vol down at boot will bring you to CWM
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I had CWM installed, but when i use the volume down + power i get a message asking me if i want to go into RCK and then it gives me 2 options wipe data or boot into android.
DOH!!!! That did it. Didn't realize that RCK meant CWM Thanks, i should be able to get things working from here hopefully. I know my way around CWM enough.
Edit: Apparently what I thought would fix the issue, didn't. I think there might be an incompatibility with the pre-rooted rom and the way i rooted?
I do think so, last option available is re-root
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I do think so, last option available is re-root
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That's what I will do then, well as soon as i get home at least. Thanks!
If you can still get into CWM recovery you have options to flash custom ROM or even the 8.6.5.21 rooted rom
baseballfanz said:
If you can still get into CWM recovery you have options to flash custom ROM or even the 8.6.5.21 rooted rom
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Well... it downloaded the update, but i never initiated it actually performing the update. When it asked, i postponed it for 1 day.
You can go into Settings>About tablet and see what firmware you're currently on.
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You can go into Settings>About tablet and see what firmware you're currently on.
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Kernel Version:
2.6.3-00001-g9a21fc1
[email protected] #1
Build Number
HTK75.US_epad-8.6.5.21-20111216
Look like your tablet updated and you lost root
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Look like your tablet updated and you lost root
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Awesome, will the universal rootkit still work then? From what I've read .21 is a no root scenario.
Edit: Per this post, i should be good to go.
I also lost root when I upgraded to the latest rooted OTA. I get the same error as the OP in terminal emulator. I am going to give it a couple days and see if there is a fixed update and then I will probably just flash the full rooted rom.
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I also lost root when I upgraded to the latest rooted OTA. I get the same error as the OP in terminal emulator. I am going to give it a couple days and see if there is a fixed update and then I will probably just flash the full rooted rom.
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I'm on a B60 and I was able to use the universal root v7.1. This fixed the loss of root just fine.
So I decided to root my phone since Orange are taking soooooo long to update to ICS.
Typically, just as I gained S-OFF with Revolutionary with ClockworkMod Recovery I get the update.
Now the official ICS update starts and then just hangs. For hours. The image on screen is a blue Android with a yellow exclamation mark in a white triangle. It is not animated.
What do I do about this?
I've factory reset the phone but when I boot with Power and Vol Down I can still see that Revolutionary and ClockworkMod Recovery are still there.
It's CWM that's causing it to hang, you'll want the stock recovery back, which you will have to download from somewhere (pull it from an RUU, maybe) and fash, then install the OTA.
Thanks for the info!
Can you direct me a little? I've no idea where to start and I don't know what an RUU is.
Here's a guide for it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648
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Here's a guide for it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648
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Or you can go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599816
One of the two links should get you what you need
Thanks guys. I used Android Recovery Manager and it worked. Now have ICS! \o/
Ok so I downloaded the filefrom the other thread for my phone and moved it to my SDCARD like always I then reboot and pressed power and vol up key selected recovery, it then went to the android laying down with a ! in a red triangle, I changed the file name to update then tried update.zip then tried update.zip. and do all the same steps but then after a min with the red triangle it reboots itself normally like always, am I missing a step or something, I dont have root or anything....PLZ HELP ME myn is the Fido Nexus S
You can't apply this update with stock recovery. You need to use ClockworkMod Recovery. Read some of the other threads here for more info.
So i have to root my phone and everything if I understand, or I wait until it is pushed to my phone?
No. You just need unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery.
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So i have to root my phone and everything if I understand, or I wait until it is pushed to my phone?
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as he said. but be aware that unlocking (with fastboot) will wipe your phone clean !
Hmuserfriendly said:
So i have to root my phone and everything if I understand, or I wait until it is pushed to my phone?
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Correct. It's either wait for the official push to arrive on your phone, or unlock and install CWM. If you're nervous about it, try something like the Nexus Root Toolkit, which does almost everything for you (unlock, root, CWM, etc). Link to toolkit is: http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/nexus-root-toolkit/
Thank you so much guys for your help
What's up everybody. I've searched through the questions forum and can't seem to find a thread to help me, so...
I wanted to flash dhacker's 4.4 ROM. So first I want to make a backup of my phone pending something goes horribly wrong. I'm having issues booting into recovery. When I click on "recovery", the phone seems to restart like it's going into recovery, then I get a sleeping android bot with his belly open and a red triangle with an exclamation point in it on my screen, forcing me to reboot the phone. Any ideas?
- Is it that I don't have an updated version of CWM or TWRP? Anyone have links to working versions?
- Is it that I have the "lite" versions of said apps above and need to donate to open the recovery features?
- Is it something else and I'm just not smart enough to think of what it could be?
Thanks for the help!
LifeAsADroid said:
What's up everybody. I've searched through the questions forum and can't seem to find a thread to help me, so...
I wanted to flash dhacker's 4.4 ROM. So first I want to make a backup of my phone pending something goes horribly wrong. I'm having issues booting into recovery. When I click on "recovery", the phone seems to restart like it's going into recovery, then I get a sleeping android bot with his belly open and a red triangle with an exclamation point in it on my screen, forcing me to reboot the phone. Any ideas?
- Is it that I don't have an updated version of CWM or TWRP? Anyone have links to working versions?
- Is it that I have the "lite" versions of said apps above and need to donate to open the recovery features?
- Is it something else and I'm just not smart enough to think of what it could be?
Thanks for the help!
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The dead robot is your stock recovery screen. You need to hold vol+ and tap pwr at the same time to get into your stock recovery.
When you flash a recovery.img, you need to immediately boot back into the recovery to get the updater script to finish. If you don't boot straight into recovery after flashing, the stock recovery will override the aftermarket recovery. Also, do you have an unlocked bootloader?
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The dead robot is your stock recovery screen. You need to hold vol+ and tap pwr at the same time to get into your stock recovery.
When you flash a recovery.img, you need to immediately boot back into the recovery to get the updater script to finish. If you don't boot straight into recovery after flashing, the stock recovery will override the aftermarket recovery. Also, do you have an unlocked bootloader?
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
I did at one point have an unlocked bootloader, but I wasn't sure whether the latest OTA updates only blocked the ability to unlock (if someone hadn't already unlocked) or if it locked back up the already unlocked ones.
LifeAsADroid said:
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
I did at one point have an unlocked bootloader, but I wasn't sure whether the latest OTA updates only blocked the ability to unlock (if someone hadn't already unlocked) or if it locked back up the already unlocked ones.
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once the bootloader is unlocked, it cant be locked back.
Bonus. That's what I thought, something about creating a small nuclear explosion in the phone that destroys the bootloader locking resistor or something. Glad I took care of that prior to the update that shut the door on that exploit.
Something else I thought of... I'm reading that 4.4 makes it much harder to root phones. I guess we won't know until the OTA release comes out, but I'm hoping Voodoo Rootkeeper maintains root during the update like it has in the past for me in previous updates.
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Bonus. That's what I thought, something about creating a small nuclear explosion in the phone that destroys the bootloader locking resistor or something. Glad I took care of that prior to the update that shut the door on that exploit.
Something else I thought of... I'm reading that 4.4 makes it much harder to root phones. I guess we won't know until the OTA release comes out, but I'm hoping Voodoo Rootkeeper maintains root during the update like it has in the past for me in previous updates.
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If your bootloader is unlocked, you don't need to maintain root. You just need to flash a SU zip in recovery.
so if i unlock my bootloader, i will still be able to receive the eventual ota 4.4 update correct?
RikRong said:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you don't need to maintain root. You just need to flash a SU zip in recovery.
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peladoro said:
so if i unlock my bootloader, i will still be able to receive the eventual ota 4.4 update correct?
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Yes, but you won't be able to unlock if you're system version is newer than May.
hey rikrong...as i had mentioned in another thread, found out that i am indeed able to root unlock etc...(xt925). so it's safe to say that unlocking the bootloader for obvious reasons is needed to flash roms but is not negatively affecting the phone from functioning in anyway right? sorry if these r stupid questions but just trying to understand...the only issue is warranty
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Yes, but you won't be able to unlock if you're system version is newer than May.
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peladoro said:
hey rikrong...as i had mentioned in another thread, found out that i am indeed able to root unlock etc...(xt925). so it's safe to say that unlocking the bootloader for obvious reasons is needed to flash roms but is not negatively affecting the phone from functioning in anyway right? sorry if these r stupid questions but just trying to understand...the only issue is warranty
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Yeah, sorry, I lose track of the posts. Just simply unlocking the BL should have no adverse affect on the phone, just the warranty, like you said.
hehe...ok thanks again!!!
RikRong said:
Yeah, sorry, I lose track of the posts. Just simply unlocking the BL should have no adverse affect on the phone, just the warranty, like you said.
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RikRong said:
The dead robot is your stock recovery screen. You need to hold vol+ and tap pwr at the same time to get into your stock recovery.
When you flash a recovery.img, you need to immediately boot back into the recovery to get the updater script to finish. If you don't boot straight into recovery after flashing, the stock recovery will override the aftermarket recovery. Also, do you have an unlocked bootloader?
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Hello
Please can you explain step by step how to install a cwm ? (i just unlock the bootloader)
Do i have to root the phone to do that ?
Thank you
My Razr maxx hd (xt926) had been rooted and bootloader unlocked sitting on version 9.16.9 for a while. With KitKat available I downloaded the 9.18.49 rom file and reset the phone flashing it with the Blur_Version.9.30.1.XT926.Verizon.en.US rom and getting everything back to stock. At this point it shows build 9.8.1Q I loaded the KK rom on the SD card and tried to flash from stock recovery.
During verification it aborts, with an error
expects build fingerprint of xt926_verizon/vanquish:4.1.2/9.8.1q-94/56:user release-keys
this device has xt926_verizon/vanquish:4.1.2/9.8.1q-94-1/57:user/r
Any thoughts on how to deal with this?
try this posted by @zachariahpope http://crackflasher.com/blur_version-9-18-94-xt926-verizon-en-us-zip-motorola-droid-razr-hd-cdma-livinginkaos/
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try this posted by @zachariahpope http://crackflasher.com/blur_versio...zip-motorola-droid-razr-hd-cdma-livinginkaos/
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That's the file I was trying to flash
Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk
samabuelsamid said:
That's the file I was trying to flash
Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk
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okay then sorry i was confused try this one.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8pGrRdP0CpyckJnd2JoQklHSjQ/edit
posted by @Sabissimo
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okay then sorry i was confused try this one.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8pGrRdP0CpyckJnd2JoQklHSjQ/edit
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Bad news. I flashed that one from recovery and it put my phone into a boot loop
Time to start over from scratch
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Bad news. I flashed that one from recovery and it put my phone into a boot loop
Time to start over from scratch
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I was reading that it rewrites your recovery. Go back into your recovery (should be a new version) and try to I stall again.
Yeah you need to install 2 times.
Did it install the recovery?
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Yeah you need to install 2 times.
Did it install the recovery?
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I'll let you know later tonight. I had to reflash back to where I was so I'd have a working phone for my workday.
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I'll let you know later tonight. I had to reflash back to where I was so I'd have a working phone for my workday.
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Definitely, the reboot during the install back into recovery is what confused a lot of us who were part of the soak test and tried to apply it manually ourselves.
When you first go into recovery and install the OTA, it will reboot. At that point, it will boot back to the recovery screen. There, you must press volume up + power. That is different from the old vol up+ vol down.
Anyways, once you are back in the "hard to read" recovery (why did they reduce the brightness on the new recovery?), you need to go back and install the OTA again. This time it will continue on where it left off and apply the KK update to your system.
Profit!
You might want to go to my post here (
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52602576&postcount=1) and read some of the gotchas. Read them BEFORE you take the update so you don't bork your phone:
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Yeah you need to install 2 times.
Did it install the recovery?
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iBolski said:
Definitely, the reboot during the install back into recovery is what confused a lot of us who were part of the soak test and tried to apply it manually ourselves.
When you first go into recovery and install the OTA, it will reboot. At that point, it will boot back to the recovery screen. There, you must press volume up + power. That is different from the old vol up+ vol down.
Anyways, once you are back in the "hard to read" recovery (why did they reduce the brightness on the new recovery?), you need to go back and install the OTA again. This time it will continue on where it left off and apply the KK update to your system.
Profit!
You might want to go to my post here (
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52602576&postcount=1) and read some of the gotchas. Read them BEFORE you take the update so you don't bork your phone:
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Thanks, I'll provide an update of how this works!
iBolski said:
Definitely, the reboot during the install back into recovery is what confused a lot of us who were part of the soak test and tried to apply it manually ourselves.
When you first go into recovery and install the OTA, it will reboot. At that point, it will boot back to the recovery screen. There, you must press volume up + power. That is different from the old vol up+ vol down.
Anyways, once you are back in the "hard to read" recovery (why did they reduce the brightness on the new recovery?), you need to go back and install the OTA again. This time it will continue on where it left off and apply the KK update to your system.
Profit!
You might want to go to my post here (
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52602576&postcount=1) and read some of the gotchas. Read them BEFORE you take the update so you don't bork your phone:
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This all worked perfectly and I'm now rocking KitKat
iBolski said:
Definitely, the reboot during the install back into recovery is what confused a lot of us who were part of the soak test and tried to apply it manually ourselves.
When you first go into recovery and install the OTA, it will reboot. At that point, it will boot back to the recovery screen. There, you must press volume up + power. That is different from the old vol up+ vol down.
Anyways, once you are back in the "hard to read" recovery (why did they reduce the brightness on the new recovery?), you need to go back and install the OTA again. This time it will continue on where it left off and apply the KK update to your system.
Profit!
You might want to go to my post here (
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52602576&postcount=1) and read some of the gotchas. Read them BEFORE you take the update so you don't bork your phone:
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One other question: My bootloader is unlocked, I'm trying to find the directions to root again under kitkat by manually sideloading. Anyone have a link?
samabuelsamid said:
One other question: My bootloader is unlocked, I'm trying to find the directions to root again under kitkat by manually sideloading. Anyone have a link?
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All you need to do is flash CWM and then find a sideloadable SU package to sideload under CWM. That's it.
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All you need to do is flash CWM and then find a sideloadable SU package to sideload under CWM. That's it.
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Thanks. Just a couple more questions before I do this to make sure I don't send my phone back into oblivion and have to start all over again. Is the CWM recovery specific to any particular version of Android, current one available for XT926 on clockworkmod.com download page is 6.0.4.4. Similarly, does SU need to be specific to this phone/KitKat rom?
I've rooted numerous phones before, always using a script like Razr Hd utility. This is my first attempt at manual root so I appreciate your patience
samabuelsamid said:
Thanks. Just a couple more questions before I do this to make sure I don't send my phone back into oblivion and have to start all over again. Is the CWM recovery specific to any particular version of Android, current one available for XT926 on clockworkmod.com download page is 6.0.4.4. Similarly, does SU need to be specific to this phone/KitKat rom?
I've rooted numerous phones before, always using a script like Razr Hd utility. This is my first attempt at manual root so I appreciate your patience
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You need to download the new CWM for KK. xt926-KK-CWM-6048.img is the name. You can get it from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52564336&postcount=1
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You need to download the new CWM for KK. xt926-KK-CWM-6048.img is the name. You can get it from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52564336&postcount=1
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good thing I asked first
Update: not rooted on KitKat!
samabuelsamid said:
My Razr maxx hd (xt926) had been rooted and bootloader unlocked sitting on version 9.16.9 for a while. With KitKat available I downloaded the 9.18.49 rom file and reset the phone flashing it with the Blur_Version.9.30.1.XT926.Verizon.en.US rom and getting everything back to stock. At this point it shows build 9.8.1Q I loaded the KK rom on the SD card and tried to flash from stock recovery.
During verification it aborts, with an error
expects build fingerprint of xt926_verizon/vanquish:4.1.2/9.8.1q-94/56:user release-keys
this device has xt926_verizon/vanquish:4.1.2/9.8.1q-94-1/57:user/r
Any thoughts on how to deal with this?
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I have the same problem, but I'm getting the error message that expects your device. What was the image that you used? I have the vanquish:4.1.2/9.8
1Q-94/56:user.
samabuelsamid said:
good thing I asked first
Update: not rooted on KitKat!
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Then you cannot use CWM and there is no safe strap for KK.
Also, root is now lost, but SamuriHL is working on a theory that might work. Unfortunately, it requires locked phones that have NOT taken the soak or OTA yet and we have to wait for the official KK FXZ image file before he can continue. If the phone has had the OTA or soak applied to it, then it can't be part of the test.
iBolski said:
Then you cannot use CWM and there is no safe strap for KK.
Also, root is now lost, but SamuriHL is working on a theory that might work. Unfortunately, it requires locked phones that have NOT taken the soak or OTA yet and we have to wait for the official KK FXZ image file before he can continue. If the phone has had the OTA or soak applied to it, then it can't be part of the test.
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Sorry, that should have read NOW rooted. CWM worked fine as did Koush's superuser
samabuelsamid said:
Sorry, that should have read NOW rooted. CWM worked fine as did Koush's superuser
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you know what, color me stupid.
I've been helping so many people that when I read "no root", I interpreted it as "locked bootloader".
My bad.