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[Q] how to "forget" an update?

After 4.1 ive had lines flickering across the screen. I religously checked for updates each day until it found one, but before applying it i checked online for patchnotes,where i discovered it wouldnt address any issues i was having. Ive had this update in my notification area since then but now there is an even newer update that i do want, but would like to skip the one thats already downloaded from before, because most of these updates break my device until i wipe/reset my device. id like to minimize the risks involved in the patch.
Tl;dr: how do i delete/forget a pending ota update that has already been downloaded and ready for install?

scott.m said:
Ive had this update in my notification area since then but now there is an even newer update that i do want, but would like to skip the one thats already downloaded from before
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Updates are incremental, you cannot skip one.

_that said:
Updates are incremental, you cannot skip one.
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In that case, i really need to invest in titanium backup -_-

scott.m said:
In that case, i really need to invest in titanium backup -_-
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Tibu won't necessarily help you as you need to be rooted.
Either try a cold boot by holding down vol down and power until options pop up or factory reset. I would also take the latest Asus update. It fixes some issues.

[Q] How do I get an Android L developer's preview?

Hi, I read that anyone with a developer's account can access the developers' preview build of Android L, that was supposed to be available today, I have a developer's account (to upload apps to the market) but I don't see any build of android L, is this the required account? or is there any other type of account required? thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
Hi, I read that anyone with a developer's account can access the developers' preview build of Android L, that was supposed to be available today, I have a developer's account (to upload apps to the market) but I don't see any build of android L, is this the required account? or is there any other type of account required? thanks!
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it will be here when its released, as of yet it is not released
http://developer.android.com/index.html
keep refreshing the page like the rest of us

saman0suke1 said:
Hi, I read that anyone with a developer's account can access the developers' preview build of Android L, that was supposed to be available today, I have a developer's account (to upload apps to the market) but I don't see any build of android L, is this the required account? or is there any other type of account required? thanks!
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I guess it'll be available in a few hours.

I guess they just haven't released it, yet.
Don't forget their different timezone.

Thank you all, maybe I'm getting too desperate I just wanted to confirm that my account is the right one, I'll be refreshing until it appears, thanks again!
EDIT: I believe being rooted would not be a problem at the moment of the installation, right? I know that I'll lose root after that, but as long as the actual installation does not give me problems, it's fine.

saman0suke1 said:
Thank you all, maybe I'm getting too desperate I just wanted to confirm that my account is the right one, I'll be refreshing until it appears, thanks again!
EDIT: I believe being rooted would not be a problem at the moment of the installation, right? I know that I'll lose root after that, but as long as the actual installation does not give me problems, it's fine.
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Considering that the images will have to be flashed through fastboot, you'll probably lose root and everything else on data/system partitions (unless they don't wipe it, but I think it does).

saman0suke1 said:
Thank you all, maybe I'm getting too desperate I just wanted to confirm that my account is the right one, I'll be refreshing until it appears, thanks again!
EDIT: I believe being rooted would not be a problem at the moment of the installation, right? I know that I'll lose root after that, but as long as the actual installation does not give me problems, it's fine.
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maybe it will be problem to root new androi L cause I've read somwhere that there is a lot of security updates and also samsung knox in new android so we will see if it will be able to root

saman0suke1 said:
Thank you all, maybe I'm getting too desperate I just wanted to confirm that my account is the right one, I'll be refreshing until it appears, thanks again!
EDIT: I believe being rooted would not be a problem at the moment of the installation, right? I know that I'll lose root after that, but as long as the actual installation does not give me problems, it's fine.
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if it's a factory image it'll wipe the whole phone and root probably wont work until its updated to support L

MidnightDevil said:
Considering that the images will have to be flashed through fastboot, you'll probably lose root and everything else on data/system partitions (unless they don't wipe it, but I think it does).
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That's fine, I believe that flash through fastboot does not include a total wipe including camera folder and all that right? never done it that way, better be prepared. Thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
That's fine, I believe that flash through fastboot does not include a total wipe including camera folder and all that right? never done it that way, better be prepared. Thanks!
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As long as you don't flash the userdata.img, all /sdcard data will be fine. You don't have to flash userdata.img to bump android versions! System, boot would do just fine (and bootloader if they bump it as well)

Or you could just wait till a flashable zip is posted. Someone will have one up within hours of release.

Roxas598 said:
if it's a factory image it'll wipe the whole phone and root probably wont work until its updated to support L
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Whole phone means photos, and any kind of files? I prefer to ask so I make a backup first :S , never done it this way, thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
Whole phone means photos, and any kind of files? I prefer to ask so I make a backup first :S , never done it this way, thanks!
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Read my previous post.

saman0suke1 said:
Whole phone means photos, and any kind of files? I prefer to ask so I make a backup first :S , never done it this way, thanks!
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Yep every single thing on the phone will be gone so backup everything you need

saman0suke1 said:
That's fine, I believe that flash through fastboot does not include a total wipe including camera folder and all that right? never done it that way, better be prepared. Thanks!
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You'll lost everything... Photos,data file...

vin4yak said:
As long as you don't flash the userdata.img, all /sdcard data will be fine. You don't have to flash userdata.img to bump android versions! System, boot would do just fine (and bootloader if they bump it as well)
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Unless they changed the folder structure like they did a few releases ago - if they did, best to do a clean install.

I'm backing up right now just in case.
Don't wanna mess with the installation script by flashing some things and not others (although there would be virtually no risk by flashing system and boot partition), but better safe than sorry, after all, we can just shove everything back when finished
Consider ir a backup routine, and you'll have an updated bk

jj14 said:
Unless they changed the folder structure like they did a few releases ago - if they did, best to do a clean install.
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That's an entirely different scenario. Each and everyone of us would need to wipe clean if that happens but usually a system and boot flash would do just fine

The N5 has been my FIRST of many, many, many Android phones and even Windows Pocket PC phones that I haven't felt the need to unlock/root etc. Everything has just worked great on it and I have always been able to do everything I wanted to do from this phone. I have been so satisfied with the phone that it has kept me away from XDA for a while. Don't know if that is a good thing or bad, lol. I used to be on this site for hours every single day and now I feel like I am light years behind in rooting. HA!
L has me interested though and I am contemplating unlocking my bootloader for it which just becomes a PITA with losing your data and adding things back and all that great stuff that takes so much of your time. Then if things suck you have to flash back to something else and the never ending process continues. The N5 has gotten me so much time back in my life but I feel like it might demand some of my time back to it. Oh I hate this stuff!!!!

I think I'll make a backup, just in case, as someone said previously, I would prefer to make a clean installation if it's needed and use the image provided by Google.
Thanks!

[Q] TWRP and encrypted storage

I just updated to Lollipop. I tried to run TWRP without flashing (use fastboot boot command) and it run smoothly. However, after I encrypted my phone TWRP cannot decrypt the storage like it could in Kitkat even though I enabled encryption in Kikkat too

nerodarknight said:
TWRP cannot decrypt the storage like it could in Kitkat
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Correct.

rootSU said:
Correct.
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So no worry then, I thought it's only my phone lol. Do you happen to know if TWRP or CWM will make it compatible with Lollipop encryption?

nerodarknight said:
So no worry then, I thought it's only my phone lol. Do you happen to know if TWRP or CWM will make it compatible with Lollipop encryption?
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Forget CWM, it doesn't even support encryption for KK.

Anybody know how long it has taken the devs of TWRP to update to the new encryption for previous versions? Just curious about when this will work again.
Thanks for any info,
Fly

FlyOnTheWall43 said:
Anybody know how long it has taken the devs of TWRP to update to the new encryption for previous versions? Just curious about when this will work again.
Thanks for any info,
Fly
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It will come when it comes.

Lethargy said:
Forget CWM, it doesn't even support encryption for KK.
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Forget encryption, It doesn't even support /sdcard for JB!

Lethargy said:
It will come when it comes.
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Is it just me or are these responses the least productive thing on the internet?
I would understand if I came in here demanding an exact ETA, but I feel like I respectfully asked for estimated past turn around times so that I could have a basic idea (2 weeks/2 months/2 years) of when I'll be able to use TWRP on my phone again.
And I understand that the devs are probably working very hard on getting this done (I see that there is version 2.8.2 for the Nexus 9 that allows decryption on Lollipop, so maybe they're really close), and although I am an entry level programmer, this kind of stuff goes way over my head, I do really appreciate the work that they do.
I am fairly new to the wonderful world of this level of Android customization and I'm just trying to learn how the process works.
Does anybody else have any useful info?

FlyOnTheWall43 said:
Is it just me or are these responses the least productive thing on the internet?
I would understand if I came in here demanding an exact ETA, but I feel like I respectfully asked for estimated past turn around times so that I could have a basic idea (2 weeks/2 months/2 years) of when I'll be able to use TWRP on my phone again.
And I understand that the devs are probably working very hard on getting this done (I see that there is version 2.8.2 for the Nexus 9 that allows decryption on Lollipop, so maybe they're really close), and although I am an entry level programmer, this kind of stuff goes way over my head, I do really appreciate the work that they do.
I am fairly new to the wonderful world of this level of Android customization and I'm just trying to learn how the process works.
Does anybody else have any useful info?
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There isn't anything else to say other than what I did in the post. Check repos and see if there is any progress.
But still.

As mentioned, we don't know anything. We haven't had any feedback. You have access to the same info we do (TWRP dev thread and github). There is no point asking us the answer. You'd be more upset if no one answered at all.

Again, I wasn't asking for when the next version will be released, I understand nobody knows that... I asked for:
FlyOnTheWall43 said:
for estimated past turn around times so that I could have a basic idea (2 weeks/2 months/2 years)
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Just a rough guess, that's all I'm wondering.

FlyOnTheWall43 said:
Again, I wasn't asking for when the next version will be released, I understand nobody knows that... I asked for:
Just a rough guess, that's all I'm wondering.
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Without knowing the complexities of encryption and the development involved and the fact that past development turn around has nothing to do with the future, we can give only the same answer.
I'd say you can only ask the dev, but since that's against the rules, you'll just have to wait and find out when everyone else does. You have the same information available as we have, including past turn around dates.

New 2.8.2.0 with Android 5 encryption support is available at the TWRP site and confirmed working on my Nexus 5

Oreo 8.1 out of Beta!!!

FINALLY! Still waiting for the Ota to hit my phone... Anyone gotten it yet? And I'm betting March's security update is going to be included too.

electrogiz said:
FINALLY! Still waiting for the Ota to hit my phone... Anyone gotten it yet? And I'm betting March's security update is going to be included too.
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Just got the OTA notification!

electrogiz said:
Just got the OTA notification!
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I'll wait until I can manually flash.

Downloading it now. I will be really interested to see if they managed to address the stand-by bug that was causing excess drain and upgrade the modem firmware to improve connectivity. Those are the two main remaining issues with this phone. Hopefully they also implemented a method to force applications into full-screen, but I'm not holding my breath on it.

Updating now!!!

dhorgas said:
Downloading it now. I will be really interested to see if they managed to address the stand-by bug that was causing excess drain and upgrade the modem firmware to improve connectivity. Those are the two main remaining issues with this phone. Hopefully they also implemented a method to force applications into full-screen, but I'm not holding my breath on it.
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Already disappointed on the modem firmware front. No upgrade there. Also, no ability to force full-screen. Going to pass judgement on stand-by bug after 48 hour or so, unless obviously an issue.

The fact that it was not released to beta first makes me think it may just be an official release of the beta

crixley said:
The fact that it was not released to beta first makes me think it may just be an official release of the beta
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I sure as hell hope not because the deep-sleep issue is horrible. You lose an average of 1.5-2h of actual SoT and the drain is regularly >1% per hour in stand-by.

I just keep getting an installation error, now I have a permanent notification telling me that the installation failed.

dhorgas said:
I sure as hell hope not because the deep-sleep issue is horrible. You lose an average of 1.5-2h of actual SoT and the drain is regularly >1% per hour in stand-by.
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Hopefully. SoT and Deep-sleeps issues were horrendous!

epicbeardman911 said:
I just keep getting an installation error, now I have a permanent notification telling me that the installation failed.
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you are probably on Rooted device, or activate usb debug mode. Try to unroot if you are

tanker666 said:
you are probably on Rooted device, or activate usb debug mode. Try to unroot if you are
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I am on 8.1b1 rooted. I flashed the stock 8.1b1 boot img to remove root. Then tried to sideload the 8.1 official OTA zip, and I get this:
E: Package is for source build essential/mata/mata:8.1.0/OPM1.180104.010/144:user/release-keys but expected essential/mata/mata:8.1.0/OPM1.180104.010/144:user/test-keys
Installation aborted.
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Not sure what else I can try short of the full flashable build image once Essential posts it to their website.

GospelNerd said:
I am on 8.1b1 rooted. I flashed the stock 8.1b1 boot img to remove root. Then tried to sideload the 8.1 official OTA zip, and I get this:
Not sure what else I can try short of the full flashable build image once Essential posts it to their website.
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I was in the same boat as you. I was on 8.1B1 rooted so I fastboot flashed the boot.img, then rebooted , downloaded the OTA which wouldn't install.
Went back to boot-loader, flashed the boot.img to both slots, rebooted, took OTA, and it still won't work. I get "couldn't update installation problem"
I didn't have an issue getting the last OTA, the same way.
I dunno
Edit: Mine just did a factory data reset on boot up. I think I'll be able to install the OTA now.....

NaterTots said:
Edit: Mine just did a factory data reset on boot up. I think I'll be able to install the OTA now.....
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Yea..not looking to start over.
The OTA I downloaded was off the reddit announcement thread. I'm assuming that guy pulled it off the device. Essential said they were going to post "sideloading files" also. So, I'm hoping that those are somehow different. (Otherwise why wouldn't they just throw a link up there)

Wonder if Essential pushed it since Pixel is now offering pre release of Android P?

My radio has noticeably improved, instead of VZW its finally showing Verizon wireless. And the new developer options are nice

GospelNerd said:
Yea..not looking to start over.
The OTA I downloaded was off the reddit announcement thread. I'm assuming that guy pulled it off the device. Essential said they were going to post "sideloading files" also. So, I'm hoping that those are somehow different. (Otherwise why wouldn't they just throw a link up there)
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My install wasn't working either at first (same boat as you guys, Magisk rooted with custom kernel). At first I just did a Magisk uninstall and reboot but it wouldn't install. Thought maybe I still had a custom recovery installed, but there was no TWRP in recovery. So, I just did a sideload install of the 8.1 beta using adb and then rebooted. That put me back on stock 8.1b1 and retained all my settings/data. Then I made sure my settings were correct in developer options (USB debugging, etc.), and it's finally installing. Not sure, maybe I just didn't hold my mouth right the first couple times, but it's working now.

Can anyone tell me if stable has multitouch issues that were on beta?

Rooted 7.1.1 took the update just fine, lost root and twrp

Looking at META_INF\com\android\metadata, it's expecting essential/mata/mata:8.1.0/OPM1.180104.010/144:user/release-keys but, based on the text at the top of the screen when sideloading, the device is at ssential/mata/mata:8.1.0/OPM1.180104.010/144:user/test-keys. Changing it is pointless, since META_INF\MANIFEST.MF contains a SHA-256 hash of of the metadata file. I'm going to try recomputing the hash and updating the OTA zip.
Edit: Didn't work. But has someone on reddit confirm Jank4AUs situation.

Oreo 8.1 update

My Nokia 3 is now getting the update, that comes also with December security patch!

V4.42D

anryl said:
V4.42D
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How can we sideload this package? Using the stock recovery?

DJBhardwaj said:
How can we sideload this package? Using the stock recovery?
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On the Nokia 6.1threead it's renamed to update.zip copied onto internal storage and rebooted. Or dial *#*#874#*#*

anryl said:
V4.42D
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can i install it to ta-1032?

oazisn said:
can i install it to ta-1032?
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I think so but it's from ta-1020 just one sim

Something tells me we won't be getting android P/

Hi all! I I tell you guys what is my first experience with the new update. I have a Nokia 3 TA-1032 dual sim, I use it with SD card, and I formatted as an internal storage. When today I decided to search for some updates to the system, and suprise: Hell ya boy, it have. So first the update is downloaded, then reboot. The phone was failed. I don't know what happened. So a reboot again whatta heck is happened, and I just see, the background image has changed, and all of the app icons dissappeared, and sadly some of the apps are lost huge amount of data. But! No upgrade. I'm quite not happy. After this, I repeated the update 2 times: failed. Than I decided to eject(I mean pick it out from my device) my SD card, and repeat the process. Remember, my SD is formatted as an integral storage. After this circus I finally get the update, and installed. So, I just looked my apps: hello Google, nice unnecessary apps what you got there. Your eyes my friend is good: with the update, we get some unnecessary apps, like: Google docs, and other type of things. I'm so happy Nokia. Oh, and the new 8.1 system is using more ram! JUST THE SYSTEM WITHOUT APPS! Please guys, think twice before installing this "very useful and super" update...

please give some reviews on oreo 8. 1 update
is there any performance and Battery improvement?

Hello, I never wrote here, but I am desperate and I need your help. I upgraded to 8.1 tonight and it really sucks, I asked Nokia on their chat but it doesn't seem to be possible to rollback to 8.0, can I root my phone or something?

DoubleCat said:
Hello, I never wrote here, but I am desperate and I need your help. I upgraded to 8.1 tonight and it really sucks, I asked Nokia on their chat but it doesn't seem to be possible to rollback to 8.0, can I root my phone or something?
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Only thing you can do is flash a 7.x rom using ost then upgrade to 8.0, but you will lose all your data.
There are threads on how this is done. I'm guessing you haven't unlocked your bootloader

Indeed, I never did anything like that, at all, I know nothing when it comes to telephones, so all these root and bootloader things scare me a lot. But I just can't keep 8.1, it turns on the screen when I get a notification, I can't play pokémon go, and the brightness is wrong. This is such a mess, also I have no money to buy another phone, I just want to cry
By the way, why do I have to rollback to 7 instead of 8 directly? And how can I ensure that I'll get 8.0 instead of 8.1 when I upgrade? Sorry for all these questions but as I said I know nothing, if you can give me detailed steps and/or links to relevant guides I'll be grateful.

Fernandus91 said:
My Nokia 3 is now getting the update, that comes also with December security patch!
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when on ta-1032
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DoubleCat said:
Indeed, I never did anything like that, at all, I know nothing when it comes to telephones, so all these root and bootloader things scare me a lot. But I just can't keep 8.1, it turns on the screen when I get a notification, I can't play pokémon go, and the brightness is wrong. This is such a mess, also I have no money to buy another phone, I just want to cry
By the way, why do I have to rollback to 7 instead of 8 directly? And how can I ensure that I'll get 8.0 instead of 8.1 when I upgrade? Sorry for all these questions but as I said I know nothing, if you can give me detailed steps and/or links to relevant guides I'll be grateful.
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Try This:- Go To Settings>Apps & Notifications>Notifications> Then Click On "Lockscreen Notification" And Then Don't Show at All.
Try It
Maybe It Work
I Am Still On 8.0 And Eagerly Waiting For 8.1 Update.

Mine is TA-1032, just check in the settings if there is any update

tech2update said:
Try This:- Go To Settings>Apps & Notifications>Notifications> Then Click On "Lockscreen Notification" And Then Don't Show at All.
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No, I *want* the notifications to be on the lock screen, but I don't want the screen to lit up when I receive a notification. Because, as other people said elsewhere, if I receive a notification while the phone is in my pocket, it might start doing other things since the screen became responsive instead of staying off. But I do want to see the notifications on the lock screen if I press the power button, otherwise I'd need to unlock the phone all the times. I hope that this makes sense.
None of that matters anyway since I'm mainly disappointed by Pokémon Go.

tech2update said:
please give some reviews on oreo 8. 1 update
is there any performance and Battery improvement?
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As for performance: it's MUCH better. Everything opens at least twice as fast as on 8.0, but there's a sacrifice for this: the general smoothness of system has degraded. In-app performance is best and it's pretty smoother than 8.0, but in such places as recent apps menu and drop-down bar it's quite laggy.
As for battery, I see no changes at all.

Yes, in 8.1 the recent apps menu is terrible laggy. I hope they fix it as soon as possible.

Is there any gcam 6.1xxxxx working on nokia 3??

This is the ****est update i had ever got.
only December patch in india no oreo 8.1
my phone is not even charging after the update