OK, so I finally got the system update for the D2G yesterday. I'm not new to this whole game, so I removed Clockworkmod, unrooted, and installed the update. The update downloads fine, but the with the little Android guy screen, I get an "!" in a triangle and then the phone reboots.
Maybe I didn't remove clockwork all the way? Don't you delete hijack and logwrapper, and then rename the logwrapper.bin to logwrapper?
well basiclly the phone needs to be untouch in terms of the file structure, in my case, I deleted a few of the stock apk files and when I tried to do the update it would fail because the stock apps were missing and the update is a patch not a full system OS so it cant install the default apps, I had to install them back to the system/app with root explorer and then set the permissions back to what they needed to be, unforchenitly a hard reset would not install the stock apps. Also make sure anything that the root touched has been set back to default
I have the same problem too. I can't get the update to work at all after installing Fission ROM. I even restored from a nandroid from a fresh D2G. It worked fine on the untouched phone tho. I checked all the files in the /system/app and they were there. Is there any magical restore .zip perhaps?
If anyone is looking for the update: http://dump.no/files/2501381a2bd4/Blur_Version.2.4.29.A956.Verizon.en.US.zip MD5: a493e4efc9d27c8932d604806f817a85
evilp8ntballer7 said:
well basiclly the phone needs to be untouch in terms of the file structure, in my case, I deleted a few of the stock apk files and when I tried to do the update it would fail because the stock apps were missing and the update is a patch not a full system OS so it cant install the default apps, I had to install them back to the system/app with root explorer and then set the permissions back to what they needed to be, unforchenitly a hard reset would not install the stock apps. Also make sure anything that the root touched has been set back to default
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I never touched anything... I stopped using Titanium Backup a long time ago when I uninstalled everything verizon and had the same OTA problem you described. I am at a loss for the problem that I have! All I ever did was root and put on clockwork, and I made sure they were gone when I updated.
Please, someone help!
did you uninstall of freeze any of the stock apps in /system/app? You need to restore them in order to successfully apply the OTA update. One file missing or modified in /system and checksums will fail/update fails.
leobg said:
did you uninstall of freeze any of the stock apps in /system/app? You need to restore them in order to successfully apply the OTA update. One file missing or modified in /system and checksums will fail/update fails.
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the only time I touched anything in /system was when I removed clockwork by deleting hijack and renaming logwrapper.bin. Can anyone give me a number of files I'm supposed to have in /system, or maybe a way to go back to stock. Man, that SBF would be mighty helpful right now...
There is system dump laying around. I'll PM you the link (not sure if appropriate to post it here). You can use it to compare content and recover missing file(s).
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There is system dump laying around. I'll PM you the link (not sure if appropriate to post it here). You can use it to compare content and recover missing file(s).
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Hi, I've been trying to find an answer, and I think you could help me.
I had the same problem as this person you were helping, but I already knew that I should look through the system dump and compare. I did that, and deleted one file called dbus.conf from /system/ect. Now, my phone just does the DROID animation over and over again! Please help, I made a copy of dbus.conf on my computer and did a nandroid backup. Please, you or someone else on here, HELP!
So you are in a boot loop. If you can't get the phone to boot into clockwork recovery, today is your lucky day! SBF was finally released!!! Get the SBF and reflash /system
leobg said:
So you are in a boot loop. If you can't get the phone to boot into clockwork recovery, today is your lucky day! SBF was finally released!!! Get the SBF and reflash /system
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Where is it? Isn't it only available to those with some app called TBH (or something like that)? And now I have to wait for a public release? And, if I'm wrong, can you give me a link to thee file? I can't find it anywhere...
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!
I would recommend you to approach the team black hat members and talk to them directly about how to get the sbf while your phone is non functional.
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But where is the system update located? I checked on the verizon website and there is nothing there. Also, do you have to be a verizon customer to get the update?
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i pretty much understand what rooting is, basically giving yourself admin privileges on the phone. however, i was wondering, if after rooting, does everything else stay stock and will i still get the OTA updates. the reason i'm asking is because i want to install the honeycomb music player on my stock nexus s and i believe i need to root it to do so. if i do the install, i should still get the OTA right?
Yes you will still get the ota.
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Root by itself won't stop you from getting the OTA, but if you mod your system with anything that changes the stock files in /system/app and a few other /system/ subfolders, or the kernel/boot.img file, the OTA will fail since the crc checks in the update script will abort the install once any of those files are checked.
Depending on how you install the honeycomb music player, that alone could be a reason for the update to abort. If it's pushed to your /system/app folder as a replacement (with the same name) as the stock player, the update will abort.
I am trying to install the OTA for Jelly bean and having issues i realized after trying to install it multiple times through the system updater and manually through recovery that I need the chromesystembrowser.apk which i uninstalled and didn't backup (really stupid). Can someone make an APK and post it. I need it to install the OTA. Maybe make a titanium backup of it. Without it i will not be able to update.
All else does someone have an original image of the phone that I can install.
I also tried to fake it by moving the crome browser to the system app folder, renaming it and installing it and nothing.
Thank you
Anyone know?
I tried renaming OTAcerts.zip to .bak but no luck
couldn't find htcOMADM.apk or similar
An OTA needs to be approved by the user, so unless you agree to run it, it won't happen.
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Remove COTA app?
If rooted, just use Titanium to freeze the process "updater".
I have rooted my A9 and deleted various system files to my liking. Im wanting to disable OTAs but ive noticed that things are different in the file system while browsing with root explorer. I installed the fotakill as a precation but I couldnt find any info on whether or not it would work on marshmallow. Also, I searched for the wssyncmldm.apk that att used for ota updates but couldnt find it either. Can anyone point me in the right direction? or will otas stop automatically now that ive alterned the system?
Just use titanium to freeze softwareupdater
I just wanted to follow up. After a few days rooted and deleting some system apps the "att software update" is totally gone from my settings. This is interesting because I didn't delete anything related to updating.
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You can do the "freeze" trick. But, if you are rooted: Root Explorer and just rename /system/priv-app/Updater/Updater.apk to Updater.bak
Restart. It will completely remove the updater option from your About/Software update location and won't check for updates any longer.