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I just got a message saying there is an update available. I told it not to do it. I do not want RC30 because it gets rid of root.
However, the other side of me is tempted to see if telnetd and all the other goodies are still there.
I'm also very tempted to install it to see if it removes root access. I hope someone who doesn't care about root access tests this out and reports back soon, because my curiosity is about to get the better of me.
It won't stop prompting me and I don't think I have the heart to keep saying no.
Look on your phone, and see if there is a file named "update.install" in the /cache folder. Or maybe in the /cache/recovery folder. If so, would you mind grabbing it off your phone and posting it somewhere?
Woobins said:
I'm also very tempted to install it to see if it removes root access. I hope someone who doesn't care about root access tests this out and reports back soon, because my curiosity is about to get the better of me.
It won't stop prompting me and I don't think I have the heart to keep saying no.
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If you ever do say yes can you tell us what your software version is?
JesusFreke said:
Look on your phone, and see if there is a file named "update.install" in the /cache folder. Or maybe in the /cache/recovery folder. If so, would you mind grabbing it off your phone and posting it somewhere?
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neoobs said:
If you ever do say yes can you tell us what your software version is?
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The only file of interest in the /cache directory is named, signed-RC30-from-RC29-fat.1582cace.zip. From this I'm assuming it's going to update my phone to RC30. I've made the file available here in case anyone is curious.
Ah, ok. It looks like that's the same file I just posted a link to then. Thanks
boo
neoobs said:
If you ever do say yes can you tell us what your software version is?
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It did it.
just as I get home to catch up on the "jailbreak" and start doing it I get an
error while connecting to server, "connection refused"
error while receiving from server null
So I figured I'd check (I neglect my phone when I'm at work, and no, I don't recall accepting the update)
lo and behold:
Build description: kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC30 116143
ota-rel-keys, release-keysBuild ID: TC4-RC30
Build Date: Fri Oct 31 19:00:53 PDT 2008
Build type: user
Phone type: dream
Product brand: tmobile
Build user: android-build
Build host: undroid11.corp.google.com
Linux kernel version: 2.6.25-01843-gfea26b0
[email protected] #6Mon Oct 6 14:13:36 PDT 2008Baseband version: 62.33.20.08H_1.22.12.29
RIL Impl version: HTC-RIL 1.0 (Aug 19 2008,21:32:33)
Default keyboard device: trout-keypad-v3
That just proves that RC30 is specificaly out to close the telnet jailbreak method.
No need to apply it to patch/update other parts of the OS since it doesn't have anything else.
MMTest97 said:
error while connecting to server, "connection refused" error while receiving from server null
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After starting telentd via pTerminal?
quedijo said:
That just proves that RC30 is specificaly out to close the telnet jailbreak method.
No need to apply it to patch/update other parts of the OS since it doesn't have anything else.
After starting telentd via pTerminal?
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It has more than just that fix. It patches quite a few other packages on the phone... for what purpose? I don't know.
quedijo said:
That just proves that RC30 is specificaly out to close the telnet jailbreak method.
No need to apply it to patch/update other parts of the OS since it doesn't have anything else.
After starting telentd via pTerminal?
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yes
tried pterminal and terminal emulator
netstat shows the ip
but telnet from pc fails to connect failed on port 23 and the port shown on netstat
I also tried the steps koush put up but still fail
granted I'm no linux/unix pro and I just installed cygwin a couple days after the connect bot app came out; so I may be doing something wrong
Does google check in the new change into the source tree before they push a update?
In addition to jailbreak fix there is a battery fix as well and a few others according to androidcommunity.com.
Well I finally got tired of clicking no and decided to go ahead and perform the update. After it finished, the phone rebooted and instead of booting up, the phone simply displays a '!' icon with a triangle around it and hangs. I'm not taking this as a good sign. I tried removing the battery but that didn't help.
I really hope the update didn't just brick my phone.
Woobins said:
Well I finally got tired of clicking no and decided to go ahead and perform the update. After it finished, the phone rebooted and instead of booting up, the phone simply displays a '!' icon with a triangle around it and hangs. I'm not taking this as a good sign. I tried removing the battery but that didn't help.
I really hope the update didn't just brick my phone.
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When you're at the screen with the ! and triangle, Try pressing home+back (maybe several times). It should reboot, and hopefully boot back up normally.
JesusFreke said:
When you're at the screen with the ! and triangle, Try pressing home+back (maybe several times). It should reboot, and hopefully boot back up normally.
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No dice. The phone reboots but still hangs at the error screen. The only thing I can think that might have caused it is that, while playing around, I set a root password and forgot to clear it before the update rebooted the phone. Who knows. I guess I'll call tmobile and see what can be done.
edit: I should mention that pressing alt-w to wipe the phone does not work either. It still returns to the error screen. I'm talking to tmobile tech support now and the original tech said that 'they were informed that a small number of users might experience this problem with the update'. I'm on hold waiting to talk to an android tech now. My advice to everyone who's played around with adding any extra files to /etc to hold off on upgrading for now. I'll report back with the results of my call with the android tech.
Now they're saying they would like to exchange the phone. Problem is the g1 isn't in their replacement program yet.
Aaaand they're out of stock so it's going to be at least 2 weeks.
I wish I'd have just kept hitting no.
Disturbing news, especially as I'm wanting to install a modified rc30. What exactly did you change?
I was playing around with trying to get dropbear to work and in the process I created some files in /etc (passwd, shadow, groups, etc). As well as creating a new regular user, I also added a password to the root account and carelessly forgot to remove it before applying the update. I'm only guessing here but I wouldn't be surprised if the new root password is what did it. The system does not have one by default and I wonder if that caused it to hang, waiting for a password to be entered while booting.
On a brighter note, I persisted and was able to get them to send me out a new phone immediatly. This has the added benefit of possibly fixing the loose-screen/creaking problem that I, like many others, am experiencing with the phone.
I'm wondering if I should try manually applying the update from the SD card while I wait for the new phone to see if that solves the problem. I probably should have tried that before calling. I'm hesitant to do that now, however, since if it does fix it, I'm not sure how tmobile would react to me returning a perfectly working phone.
Woobins said:
No dice. The phone reboots but still hangs at the error screen. The only thing I can think that might have caused it is that, while playing around, I set a root password and forgot to clear it before the update rebooted the phone. Who knows.
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I don't get it. The update should restore whole /system folder, isn't it? /etc is actually a symlink to /system/etc, so, it should be restored too and passwd file successively removed.
Otherwise, I don't see any problem to keep the root access! Since /system is mounted without nosiud (any changes in RC30?), just keep a copy of shell with chmod 4777 somewhere there... where it wouldn't be removed by update, as it keeps passwd, and that's it.
Please, tell me where am I wrong, cause I definitely should be wrong somewhere.
PS: BTW, what was the progress with dropbear? I actually tried to make it work too, creating passwd etc, but no success...
Dimath said:
I don't get it. The update should restore whole /system folder, isn't it? /etc is actually a symlink to /system/etc, so, it should be restored too and passwd file successively removed.
Otherwise, I don't see any problem to keep the root access! Since /system is mounted without nosiud (any changes in RC30?), just keep a copy of shell with chmod 4777 somewhere there... where it wouldn't be removed by update, as it keeps passwd, and that's it.
Please, tell me where am I wrong, cause I definitely should be wrong somewhere.
PS: BTW, what was the progress with dropbear? I actually tried to make it work too, creating passwd etc, but no success...
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Unlike the RC29 update, the RC30 update doesn't actually do a complete wipe and restore of the /system folder. It patches a number of files (which will fail if any of them have been modified), and does a recursive chmod on the entire /system directory to clear any suid bits.
I am a complete newbie. I tried to update to the ADP1.1, but it error'd out on the boot image. The phone now shows a triangle with and exclamation point and a graphic of a phone. I got advice on another community to try and install update.zip from the sd card. I downloaded the original ADP1 update.zip, and I tried to install. Here is what I got:
Installing from sdcard
finding update package
opening update package
verifying update package
installing update
copying files
copying files
formatting BOOT
writing BOOT
E:No space left on device
E:Error writing BOOT
E:Failure at line 8
write_raw_image PACKAGE:boot.img
BOOT
Installation aborted
Thoughts on where to go from here?
No thoughts? Is it now a paperweight?
Please post information regarding your device (brand, model, carrier, OS, etc, etc) That way, we might be able to help you.
I have the Android Dev Phone
Carrier: AT&T
It had the original version ADP1
Tried to update to ADP1.1, but it error'd on the Boot.img portion
Let me know if you need more information.
Thanks.
Mark.
Hindsight ~ 20/20
You probably needed to wipe it before flashing it. For the fix, listen to the experts. [here]
I am more than happy to listen to the experts. Any of them have an idea of what to do next?
Any thoughts?
Bricked Phones
Yeah, I do actually. I noticed a thread with the same topic somewhere else and its active. Check this thread out. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475244. Leme know if it does not help. Mail me direct if you wish.
Del
I am not sure this helps. The problem I am having is that once I start the update it stall out when trying to write the boot portion saying the phone is out of space. I have wiped the data/cache, but to no avail. Has anyone seen this before?
Mark. I am not ignoring you, I just don't have net access where I live, so unless I get out and come to my favorite parking lot, I can not email. No I have never heard of it either. Some one here should be able to help. I am NOT an expert, but if you want to hear my only idea here it is. Go way back and start by flashing the old rc29 bios on the phone. Then follow the directions to give yourself root access (i know you do not need to do this with a Developer phone), then flash the Jesus Freke's Android developer bios 1.0 then the 1.1. Try and contact Jesus Freke directly. I wish I could help more, but I am really new at this, and with out having your phone to play with, I doubt I could come up with a fix for you.
Is there anyone that can help with this?
Here is the error message I am getting when I try and install the update.zip from the sd card
E:No space left on device
E:Error writing BOOT
E:Failure at line 8
write_raw_image PACKAGE:boot.img
BOOT
Installation aborted
I have wiped the data, but to no avail. I would really like to get this resolved so I can go back to using my phone. If not, I am more than happy to sell this at a good discount.
I've tried installing the new 1.85 OTA update, but it really doesn't seem to be doing anything.
I do "check for updates" then it says a new update is found, so I click download. It says it'll download next time the phone is on Wifi (even though it was currently on wifi). I disconnect from wifi, reconnect to wifi, then it simply said "an update is available for your phone". Then I get the lovable lockout period before I can try again.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any advice or suggestions would be great.
HTC One XL on AT&T
Rooted and locked, running 1.73 from RUU
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I finally got the update to start downloading! I'm not sure which step it was specifically that fixed it, but here's the list:
In Titanium Backup, I used the "unfreeze all" option. As a side note, I hadn't uninstalled any of the system bloatware, just frozen using CleanTOOL v1.1 from CleanROM.
Moved the date forward about a month.
Dialed "*#*#CHECKIN#*#*" and waited till it said it was successful.
Ran the system update check, got the standard "new update found".
Waited a bit, got the "Please connect to Wifi" message. Previously, it stopped here.
After ~2 minutes, I got a notification that the download had started.
Hopefully the install doesn't nuke.
I did a bit of digging around and found a filed called OTAPkg.zip under /cache.
When I delete the file and run another update attempt, it gets replaced with the same contents.
On closer inspection, it's not even a .zip file, it's actually a .xml file with a zip extension.
I'd upload the contents to pastebin, but as I'm a newbie, I can't link externally. I've attached the XML as a .txt instead.
View attachment OTAPkg.txt
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695955
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701460
I'm running a stock 3G Xoom that I use exclusively over WiFi (never had a 3G contract for it). It's running 4.0.4 build IMM76L.
When I go to System Updates, it tells me the update to JZ054M is available and it says "Downloading 97.1 MB" under a gray line. I assume that line should move as it downloads, but it never does.
If I back out of it and then go back to it in portrait mode, I'll see a button "Retry Download" which I'll click and again get nothing. (I never see that button in landscape).
I have tried to force stop Google Services Framework and clear the data, but when I do, I get multiple notifications that other things have stopped working and the data level always remains around 160 KB.
At one point I thought I'd be clever and try to update from IMM76L to JRO03H through USB and then take it up to JZ054M, but when I try that, I get an error message "failed to mount /sdcard (no such file or directory)". This is another problem I cannot resolve.
I can't afford to wipe it with a factory reset (I have a 6 year-old who would be devastated at game progress being wiped out, and that's not worth it to me). Is there any way to update this device?
Thanks!
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Update
Part of the problem seems to have been that my flash drive (at 8GB) was too big. So I moved everything to a 1 GB stick and it read it without a problem. But then I got a NEW error: failed to verify whole-file signature I would think that this would be a corrupt file issue, but I've downloaded the file from old Google links and mirrors I've found here on XDA.
Any thoughts on what to try next?
Thanks!
I am a total newbie to Android modifications, and tried to find a way of specifying custom notifications on my HTC One Max. I have later found the application Ringdroid that fixes everything that I needed, but before I did that, I believed that I had to root the phone to achieve this. So, I read a lot of stuff, downloaded a lot of files, messed with adb, clockworkmod, rumrunner etc. without really knowing what I was doing, and in the end gave up, since it didn't look like I managed to root the phone properly after all. But, anyway, I understood that something had changed, since a couple of applications were missing. Anyway, the phone has worked fine since then, until recently, when I got a notice that software update 4.13.401.7, containing Android 5.0 Lollipop, and various other stuff, was ready for installation. So, I downloaded the update, and told it to install. The phone reboots, and then I get the following message:
CWM-based Recovery v6.0.5.1
E: Invalid command argument
E: Invalid command argument
Finding update package...
E: unknown volume for path [INTERNALSDCARD:0/Do
wnload/OTA_T6_UL_L50_SENSE60_MR_HTC_Europe_4.1
3.401.7-3.23.401.1_release_4360116ezjvoz69qm8r
zky.zip]
E: Can't mount INTERNALSDCARD:0/Download/OTA_T6
_UL_L50_SENSE60_MR_HTC_Eutope_4.13.401.7-3.23.
401.1_release_4360116ezjvoz69qm8rzky.zip
Installation aborted.
Rebooting...
Is there a way of letting me a) reset my phone to the default settings, letting me do this upgrade? or b), do this upgrade without resetting it?
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I am a total newbie to Android modifications, and tried to find a way of specifying custom notifications on my HTC One Max. I have later found the application Ringdroid that fixes everything that I needed, but before I did that, I believed that I had to root the phone to achieve this. So, I read a lot of stuff, downloaded a lot of files, messed with adb, clockworkmod, rumrunner etc. without really knowing what I was doing, and in the end gave up, since it didn't look like I managed to root the phone properly after all. But, anyway, I understood that something had changed, since a couple of applications were missing. Anyway, the phone has worked fine since then, until recently, when I got a notice that software update 4.13.401.7, containing Android 5.0 Lollipop, and various other stuff, was ready for installation. So, I downloaded the update, and told it to install. The phone reboots, and then I get the following message:
CWM-based Recovery v6.0.5.1
E: Invalid command argument
E: Invalid command argument
Finding update package...
E: unknown volume for path [INTERNALSDCARD:0/Do
wnload/OTA_T6_UL_L50_SENSE60_MR_HTC_Europe_4.1
3.401.7-3.23.401.1_release_4360116ezjvoz69qm8r
zky.zip]
E: Can't mount INTERNALSDCARD:0/Download/OTA_T6
_UL_L50_SENSE60_MR_HTC_Eutope_4.13.401.7-3.23.
401.1_release_4360116ezjvoz69qm8rzky.zip
Installation aborted.
Rebooting...
Is there a way of letting me a) reset my phone to the default settings, letting me do this upgrade? or b), do this upgrade without resetting it?
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Hi, thanks for using XDA assist!
First, please create an account so you can post in other forums.
Here is the main forum area for your device:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-max
Here's where you should ask for help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-max/help
Consider bookmarking these sites for future reference.
Your device experts are located there and will be able to help.
Good luck!