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Downgrading 4.4.4 > 4.4.2

Due to bugs that started from 4.4.3, i will be downgrading from 4.4.4 to 4.4.2
I'm running stock rom (4.4.4) with xposed + gravity box.
Each time when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 etc I would simply flash the system.img from the downloaded factory image, then reinstall xposed and root, hence not needing to wipe userdata.
Would it be ok to do this in reverse? Ie flash the system.img of 4.4.2 without wiping anything? Cheers!

Yeah it'll be fine
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did you wipe data to ensure your bugs aren't just incompatible data from an older version?
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rootSU said:
did you wipe data to ensure your bugs aren't just incompatible data from an older version?
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I haven't but many other users are having the same issues with 4.4.3
There shouldn't be incompatible data anyway as i'm upgrading from stock rom to stock rom. Flashing the system and boot images through fastboot would give the same result as updating via the OTA updates as far as i understand

Nbsss said:
I haven't but many other users are having the same issues with 4.4.3
There shouldn't be incompatible data anyway as i'm upgrading from stock rom to stock rom. Flashing the system and boot images through fastboot would give the same result as updating via the OTA updates as far as i understand
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Yes you're right it would. I always recommend a wipe after an OTA too. Your OTA doesn't know if the apps you have are compatible or not.
What's the bug out of interest?
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Yes you're right it would. I always recommend a wipe after an OTA too. Your OTA doesn't know if the apps you have are compatible or not.
What's the bug out of interest?
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GPS issues and android system wakelocks (higher up than screen, on battery usage)
Thanks for your help

Nbsss said:
GPS issues and android system wakelocks (higher up than screen, on battery usage)
Thanks for your help
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well 4.4.2 booted just fine, so i'll see how i go without wiping data
now to figure out how to hide the system update notification...hmm

5.0.1 OTA?

just got the update alert on my nexus 5
Since I installed 5.0 is it safe to just take the OTA and re root or do you have to restore to stock recovery and all that jazz again?

It won't apply unless you're 100% stock.

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It won't apply unless you're 100% stock.
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Arg
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tevil said:
Arg
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You could just grab a stock 5.0.1 zip that's more than likely floating around. Someone always releases one, usually with root. Just don't forget the modem and kernel.

I looked for one an hour nor two back for someone. Think there will be one soon, but not yet that in could find but yeah, waiting for that is the best option

5.0.1 update
N/A

What is so different now that it needs to be stock for updates? Is it the new file system?
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tevil said:
What is so different now that it needs to be stock for updates? Is it the new file system?
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The update updates in blobs, not complete files. So if there is anything modified or missing it fails. That includes the recovery, system, kernel and radio.
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The update updates in blobs, not complete files. So if there is anything modified or missing it fails. That includes the recovery, system, kernel and radio.
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So if I flashed 4.4.2 radio on 5.0 earlier that could cause the update to fail?

stivelio said:
So if I flashed 4.4.2 radio on 5.0 earlier that could cause the update to fail?
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Yes
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Hi.
I'm trying to apply 5.0.1 OTA file to my Nexus 5.0.0 (rooted with SuperSU).
When upgrading from 4.4.4 to 5.0.0, I had to flash stock recovery over TWRP to be able to apply 5.0.0 from 4.4.4 OTA file.
So I made the same now :
- reflash stock recovery from 5.0.0 stock
- upgrade adb to 1.0.32
But when I try to sideload OTA ZIP file, upload stop at 60% and I have this error :
Code:
"/system/bin/install-recovery.sh" has unespected contents.
E:Error in /sideload/package.zip
(Status 7)
I have to reflash system.img from 5.0.0 stock too ? I won't loose any data unless I flash userdata.img file, right ?
Thanks for your help.

mikebzh44 said:
Hi.
I'm trying to apply 5.0.1 OTA file to my Nexus 5.0.0 (rooted with SuperSU).
When upgrading from 4.4.4 to 5.0.0, I had to flash stock recovery over TWRP to be able to apply 5.0.0 from 4.4.4 OTA file.
So I made the same now :
- reflash stock recovery from 5.0.0 stock
- upgrade adb to 1.0.32
But when I try to sideload OTA ZIP file, upload stop at 60% and I have this error :
Code:
"/system/bin/install-recovery.sh" has unespected contents.
E:Error in /sideload/package.zip
(Status 7)
I have to reflash system.img from 5.0.0 stock too ? I won't loose any data unless I flash userdata.img file, right ?
Thanks for your help.
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You went lose any data. I'd recommend you flash the boot.img too
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[Q] Backup won't restore.

So I installed the lateat CM12 nightly, wasn't really impressed yet and went to go restore my backup and once it's done restoring, it get stuck at the bootscreen animation. Just keeps going and going abs going. I used the latest cwm touch recovery as CM12 is not compatible with MultiROM. I would just flash the factory img back but my computer decided to it doesn't ever want to recognize adb avid fastboot on Linux.
Anyone know where I can find a flashable zip for the factory 5.0.1 ROM? Any help would be appreciated!

Try googling Nexus 5 factory image...

Here's a flashable 5.0 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-android-4-4-3-ktu84m-rooted-busybox-t2557523

Niflheimer said:
Here's a flashable 5.0 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-android-4-4-3-ktu84m-rooted-busybox-t2557523
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Now I'm assuming I'd have to unroot it and flash stock recovery and lock the bootloader to get it to update to 5.0.1?

No, it's flashable in your custom recovery. It's 5.0 though
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Yeap , ota needs stock recovery. Also , switch to twrp since cwm isn't playing nice with L.

jd1639 said:
No, it's flashable in your custom recovery. It's 5.0 though
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I was talking about the 5.0.1 update but thanks.

Niflheimer said:
Yeap , ota needs stock recovery. Also , switch to twrp since cwm isn't playing nice with L.
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I'm on the stock ROM you linked too, stock recovery, and unrooted but, when I get the update for 5.0.1 and try and install it, I get an error. Do I need to relock my boatloader?

asd87 said:
I'm on the stock ROM you linked too, stock recovery, and unrooted but, when I get the update for 5.0.1 and try and install it, I get an error. Do I need to relock my boatloader?
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You're on a custom Rom. The ota isn't going to work. And you don't need to relock your bootloader. If you can afford to wipe your data download the 5.0.1 factory image. Extract it and use the flash-all.bat
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jd1639 said:
You're on a custom Rom. The ota isn't going to work. And you don't need to relock your bootloader. If you can afford to wipe your data download the 5.0.1 factory image. Extract it and use the flash-all.bat
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My computer is Linux, and adb and fastboot for whatever reason unknown to me, won't install. That's why I asked for a zip file of the factory image. Thanks for the help though.

asd87 said:
My computer is Linux, and adb and fastboot for whatever reason unknown to me, won't install. That's why I asked for a zip file of the factory image. Thanks for the help though.
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Well, unfortunately, there isn't a 5.0.1 flashable rom available right now. If you can't get fastboot to work on your Linux machine you're kind of sol as you need to be 100% stock to get the ota to work. That means stock recovery in your case. Google recovery zip collection xda. There's a custom recovery flashable stock recovery there.
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Well, unfortunately, there isn't a 5.0.1 flashable rom available right now. If you can't get fastboot to work on your Linux machine you're kind of sol as you need to be 100% stock to get the ota to work. That means stock recovery in your case. Google recovery zip collection xda. There's a custom recovery flashable stock recovery there.
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I have the stock 5.0 recovery that I installed through Flashify. I'll barrow a windows computer or something lol

asd87 said:
I have the stock 5.0 recovery that I installed through Flashify. I'll barrow a windows computer or something lol
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I'd work on getting adb/fastboot working on your Linux machine. You're going to need it in the long run.
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I'd work on getting adb/fastboot working on your Linux machine. You're going to need it in the long run.
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I've spent hours trying to get it work one night. I'll do some note searching for more advice and again thanks.

jd1639 said:
I'd work on getting adb/fastboot working on your Linux machine. You're going to need it in the long run.
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Did some more digging, got it install, and flashed the factory img for 5.0.1 and twrp recovery then superSU through twrp.
Mods please lock the thread thanks.

Get wugfreshes Toolbox. It has access to all factory images. Some people are not fans of "one click solutions" but this has never let me down.
There's a flushable zip on here also. Put it in a search in the app and you should come across it. It IS the full version.

Did you ever find out why the CWM restore led to getting stuck on boot animation??
Just ran into this last night. Tried restoring 2 different CWM backups and both got stuck on boot animation.
I eventually got a new ROM flashed. Going to try TWRP recovery I suppose.
I know I never had this problem with 4.4, this was the first time I have restored a LP ROM..

one7dchevy said:
Did you ever find out why the CWM restore led to getting stuck on boot animation??
Just ran into this last night. Tried restoring 2 different CWM backups and both got stuck on boot animation.
I eventually got a new ROM flashed. Going to try TWRP recovery I suppose.
I know I never had this problem with 4.4, this was the first time I have restored a LP ROM..
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My guess would be; cwm hasn't been optimized for Lollipop. Cyanogen has just recently started working on 5.0 and they probably haven't touched the recovery too much. But that's just my guess.

asd87 said:
My guess would be; cwm hasn't been optimized for Lollipop. Cyanogen has just recently started working on 5.0 and they probably haven't touched the recovery too much. But that's just my guess.
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Yea figured something like that.
Got TWRP installed, will try to update after my next nandroid restore so that any old CWM users will know..

Q: Error in flashing 5.1. Status 7, showing mismatch in just keys from kitkat 4.4

Hi Experts,
I've Nexus 5 running stock ROM LRX22C with CWM. I'm trying to flash stock 5.1 but I get the error in the start where it says my device has fingerprint user keys from kitkat 4.4 instead of 5.0. The exact message is as follows:
This device has Google/hammerhead/hammerhead:4.4/KRT16M/893903:user/release-keys
Status 7
I can edit the updater script to avoid checking it but I would like to fix it. Please advise if I need to go back to stock 4.4 and then upgrade to 5.0 and then 5.1?
Is there any lesser tedious method to fix it?
Thanks in advance for your help.

perceptorz said:
Hi Experts,
I've Nexus 5 running stock ROM LRX22C with CWM. I'm trying to flash stock 5.1 but I get the error in the start where it says my device has fingerprint user keys from kitkat 4.4 instead of 5.0. The exact message is as follows:
This device has Google/hammerhead/hammerhead:4.4/KRT16M/893903:user/release-keys
Status 7
I can edit the updater script to avoid checking it but I would like to fix it. Please advise if I need to go back to stock 4.4 and then upgrade to 5.0 and then 5.1?
Is there any lesser tedious method to fix it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Download factory images and flash system.img, boot.img, radio.img and bootloader.img using fastboot while booted into the bootloader.

Just so that I can understand better, do I need to flash for all versions of just 5.1?
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perceptorz said:
Just so that I can understand better, do I need to flash for all versions of just 5.1?
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What do you mean?
If you mean flash old factory images first, then no, there is no point. Just download the 5.1 factory images and flash the .img files I mentioned (don't flash userdata.img since it'll wipe all data).

Thanks. I'll follow the instructions.
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perceptorz said:
Thanks. I'll follow the instructions.
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You can't take an OTA with a custom recovery, that's the problem.
Also, it's time to get rid of CWM.

So, what's your suggestion?
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Downgrade 5.1 to 5.0?

Hey, I was wondering if it'd be possible to downgrade from stock 5.1 back to stock 5.0.1 by running the flash command in the factory nexus 5 image (for android 5.0.1), also downgrading the bootloader and radio in the process?
I'm not sure about this device, but I recently hard bricked my moto g downgrading from the android 5 bootloader to the android 4.4 bootloader, so I was hesitant to just run the downgrade process.
Thanks.

arx160le said:
Hey, I was wondering if it'd be possible to downgrade from stock 5.1 back to stock 5.0.1 by running the flash command in the factory nexus 5 image (for android 5.0.1), also downgrading the bootloader and radio in the process?
I'm not sure about this device, but I recently hard bricked my moto g downgrading from the android 5 bootloader to the android 4.4 bootloader, so I was hesitant to just run the downgrade process.
Thanks.
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Yes, it's a nexus device. You can flash whatever factory image version you want on it.
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arx160le said:
Hey, I was wondering if it'd be possible to downgrade from stock 5.1 back to stock 5.0.1 by running the flash command in the factory nexus 5 image (for android 5.0.1), also downgrading the bootloader and radio in the process?
I'm not sure about this device, but I recently hard bricked my moto g downgrading from the android 5 bootloader to the android 4.4 bootloader, so I was hesitant to just run the downgrade process.
Thanks.
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jd1639 said:
Yes, it's a nexus device. You can flash whatever factory image version you want on it.
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The Ultimate Device - The One. Using 5.0.1 with xPosed - couldn't be better.

arx160le said:
Hey, I was wondering if it'd be possible to downgrade from stock 5.1 back to stock 5.0.1 by running the flash command in the factory nexus 5 image (for android 5.0.1), also downgrading the bootloader and radio in the process?
I'm not sure about this device, but I recently hard bricked my moto g downgrading from the android 5 bootloader to the android 4.4 bootloader, so I was hesitant to just run the downgrade process.
Thanks.
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jd1639 said:
Yes, it's a nexus device. You can flash whatever factory image version you want on it.
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zagorteney said:
The Ultimate Device - The One. Using 5.0.1 with xPosed - couldn't be better.
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Can I just follow this instructions to downgrade from 5.1 to 5.0.1? Or should I do something else? I'll lose root, right? 5.1 messed up my Nexus 5, battery is lasting 40% less than it used to, and Google Play Services seems to be to blame. Getting real sick of this.

Yes.
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ldubs said:
Yes.
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Yes I can just follow the instructions? Yes I need to do something else? Yes I'll lose root?

Adrianrff said:
Yes I can just follow the instructions? Yes I need to do something else? Yes I'll lose root?
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Yes, follow the instructions. And, yes, you'll lose root. And, no, you don't need to do anything else. Except maybe root it again you want that. Also see this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Will it wipe data?
If i downgrade android 5.1 to 5.0 will i have to wipe? (My bootloader is already unlocked, as I have had it rooted before, but android is stock and I dont have a custom recovery)

Pure_Android said:
If i downgrade android 5.1 to 5.0 will i have to wipe? (My bootloader is already unlocked, as I have had it rooted before, but android is stock and I dont have a custom recovery)
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Anytime you flash any factory images you're device will be wiped clean. Data, app, everything. So back up anything important.
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Mojar7070 said:
Anytime you flash any factory images you're device will be wiped clean. Data, app, everything. So back up anything important.
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Is there any way to get my user data back, so app settings ans so on? If i just restore the data partition from the backup i made on 5.1 with TWRP i get a botloop. It makes sense that i can't just use my user data from a higher version but how do i fix this?

exquyre said:
Is there any way to get my user data back, so app settings ans so on? If i just restore the data partition from the backup i made on 5.1 with TWRP i get a botloop. It makes sense that i can't just use my user data from a higher version but how do i fix this?
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You have to flash 5.1 again. Restore data from TWRP. Boot the phone and use some backup program (titanium backup is my favourite). Flash 5.0.1 again (do not restore backup from TWRP), boot and restore from the app you choose. You will probably get some force closes, but you can then just wipe data for those FC apps.
Quick suggestion: if it is possible, make .xml backups for system data.