Nexus 7, rooted, has multirom installed
about tablet:
android 4.4.4
Baseband version
DEB-G00_2.42.0_1204
Kernel version
3.4.0-g80964c2
[email protected] #214
Thu Jun 5 13:00:39 CEST 2014
Build number
KTU84P
The problem:
When the update to 5.0.2 came out OTA and appeared in my notifications, I downloaded it and tried to install it. The 5.0.2 update won't install on my Nexus 7.
Possible reasons for the failure:
A) Google pushed to wrong update to my device (unlikely)
B) Multirom is interfering. I suspect multirom is the culprit because I have another device, a phone with multirom on it, that wouldn't update. After uninstalling multirom, it updated.
C) The fact that my Nexus 7 is rooted is causing the update to fail.
My first attempt at fixing the problem was to uninstall multirom. Couldn't make it uninstall. I have downloaded the uninstaller from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457063 and it didn't work. I looked elsewhere and found another uninstaller, which also didn't work. Flashing from TWRP recovery, or using flashify, never succeeds even after many tries.
If would like to remove multirom from my Nexus 7 but at this point would need expert guidance to have any chance of success.
I am willing to flash my device back to stock, if that is the only way. I have the wugfresh toolkit on my computer but I am enough of a noob that I'm kind of afraid something will go wrong. Will going back to stock fix my problem? I just want the update to Lollipop.
Based on expert opinion, what is the next step in troubleshooting/fixing this problem?
Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. The best idea for you right now is to flash the device back to stock. I'd advise against using a toolkit though, there's a good guide here:
[GUIDE] Factory Image Posted-Return your Nexus 7 (2013) to stock
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Hi all,
Looking for some advice please as a newbie to Android.
I have a Nexus 5 32gb on order that is being delivered any day now.
My assumption is that when I turn it on, it will have Android 4.4 installed as default.
I intend to immediately root my device prior to setting it up with all my personal data etc.
My questions are:
Do I install the 4.4.2 update OTA prior to rooting the device? I imagine this would make the most sense as there may not be further updates for a while - is this right?
If I do install the 4.4.2 update OTA and then root the device - for future updates, do I then have to install a 'Custom Rom'? - for example if/when Android upgrades to 4.5
Are there some good guides showing how to install a stock/vanilla Android upgrade?
If/when I install a 'Custom Rom' of 4.5 , what would happen to my root priviledges? I assume they would disappear? what then?
Is there a good repo/site for stock/vanilla Android OS?
Many thanks in advance,
litfoo
You'll want to first update to 4.4.2, as it will save a bit of time.
What happened with my Nexus is I rooted it while on the 4.4.1 update, and then when 4.4.2 came around, I was able to use OTA which installed it through TWRP. I had to re-root my device and reinstall TWRP after this.
There are guides on how to sideload OTA updates, which is a way to update android.
Most custom roms will come with root, so you may not have to re-root.
Factory nexus 5 images are available here
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
amcgavin said:
You'll want to first update to 4.4.2, as it will save a bit of time.
What happened with my Nexus is I rooted it while on the 4.4.1 update, and then when 4.4.2 came around, I was able to use OTA which installed it through TWRP. I had to re-root my device and reinstall TWRP after this.
There are guides on how to sideload OTA updates, which is a way to update android.
Most custom roms will come with root, so you may not have to re-root.
Factory nexus 5 images are available here
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Many thanks for this .
So - once rooted, I can flash device with an updated Factory Nexus 5 image? If yes, I assume this will lose root?
If I wanted a custom rom of a factory Nexus5 image, but with root - where's the best place to find these and what are the most popular ones?
Cheers,
litfoo
Alright so I have a 2013 Moto G, and basically in the past while on KitKat I've rooted my phone, given it custom recovery (TWRP), and messed around with the ROM (changed it to CM, PA and a few others and back). Now I've come to update to Lollipop and of course I need stock recovery to update my phone via OTA, and when it first prompted me to update, I had TWRP and I didn't really think, I just updated, this sent my phone into a bootloop, rebooting straight into TWRP every time I turned my phone on. Luckily I had a backup and I just restored to that and that fixed it. Recently I've been trying to fix the correct stock recovery for my phone so I can update, and I found some MotoTool AIO thing, and that changed my recovery back to KitKat stock (or so it says), now when I go into recovery it LOOKS like stock, can do everything you could normally do with stock recovery, but when I came to update it, about a quarter of the way though the update process, it errors and reboots my phone. Luckily this time my phone recognizes it has errored and just cancels the update instead of sending me into a boorloop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Tom.
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. To update to 5.x you need to be 100% stock. That means no custom recovery, no root,etc. It would be best to ask your question here,http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help where the experts on your device reside. And you may need this,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
Good luck!
Thread closed.
URGENT HELP
On installing the update of 16.1 mb. The droid shows a error while installing after the reboot.
Nothing happens after that and the phone reboots
Right now it it running on 5.1.1
Same problem, LMY48B
I have the same problem, OTA update comes in a few times a day and never works, i simply get the message "Error". My update is 10.1 Mb. I am on build nr LMY48B and have Android version 5.1.1. When restarting using the power and volume button, the error message says "Empty". I tried Nexus Root Toolkit to update, no result.
Has anyone an idee to eather update or kill the updates all together?
Solution found !!Huraay!!
I just found a solution to this problem. You ll have to flash your nexus to stock (it is formatting not rooting)
Here are simple steps to it:
1. Enable Bootlegger
2. Turn on developer mode, enable USB debugging
3. Use a flash factory image (download it from any source)
Now you ll get 3 back to back OTA updates in settings, just install them and finally you ll get Marshmallow update of 403mb.
DONE.....
Cheers.
Contact if you still have a problem.
Thanks for sharing this. I tried to follow your instructions, using NEXUS Root Toolkit. At first i tried factory image 5.1.1, but this did not work , it just stopped. After that i tried to flash Hammerhead 6.0.0. Wich actually looked very promissing during the proces. After finishing reboot started, and it won't get out of reboot. I tried several times, up to 15 minutes. I also tried a factory reset, but it still keeps running the marsmellow startup grafic. Since i can't get into unlock mode, i do not have the opportunity to reflash the phone. Any ideas how to get out of reboot?
Hi,
We need to know more, what's actually failing. We could try and flash the update with TWRP, we'll get some output from there. Might be your radio or bootloader versions, for example.
And you using a toolkit, it doesn't help.
So, go learn some fastboot and some adb while you're at it, because you're going to need it. Guides to both are stickied everywhere around here.
Also, don't see the point on flashing a 5.1.1 factory image at this point, if the goal is to update to 6.0 (looking at the other user posting on this thread): just flash 6.0 factory image.
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Hi there.
I just wanted to know does anyone tested flashfire app to work with our device
(Moto g 2015 8/16gb)
I have used the app on amazon fire 7 2015 (ford) device and it's working like charm.
Wonder if anyone tried be brave enough to have a go.
For those who don't know this app let's you install custom ROMs without recovery. Only thing required is root.
No not yet because a tried it with my nvidia k1 tablet and almost bricked the damn thing
flashfire is working
it has been a while since i asked this question and because there was not answer i give it a go.
recently i installed cyanogenmod 13 on my device, because i converted my sdcard as internal storage i couldn't flash ota updates with cyanogenmod recovery. so i decided to come back to twrp which was working fine.
however twrp was for some unknown reason booting only to splash screen and then hang for ages without response. i've tried many tricks but nothing worked. after few attempts of flashing twrp again and again with many build numbers and no success i looked on my fire 7 tablet and there was my answer.
Flashfire app.
http://flashfireapk.com/
Unfortunately because of cyanogenmod os selinux is set to enforcing which is not letting flashfire app to operate.
Good old Google search send me to app that can change this setting to permissive.
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=selinux&fdid=com.mrbimc.selinux -
This app after acquiring root permission gave me option to change it. After that i was able to use flashfire app properly
I will not get into details how to use this app as there are many tutorials how to do it
here https://youtu.be/p0q0ytHkzoI - to point one
Anyway i was able to flash cyanogenmod 13 without recovery.
now i don't know if it will work on all devices my one is xt1542 uk model.
please let me know if you managed to succeed too. - we need to let people know it is much simpler than using recovery, it can even flash ota's.
Here is a proof
View attachment 3786839
A close friend of mine has a Nexus 5 that I rooted for him around 2 years ago. He's not very tech savy and doesn't bother with upgrading his software and stuff like that. I convinced him to finally update his phone to the latest version. I also flashed a custom recovery and CM 11, but the phone now has only 16gb instead of the 32 that it came with.
Since it's been a long time I used his device, I forgot how to properly update. Do I just flash a MM ROM în recovery? Do I flash the bootloader and modem separately through some kind of software? I'm only used to samsung devices so I'm familiar with odin, I don't have a clue what to do.
Can someone guide me a bit please?
Here is some info about his current setup.
Flash the factory image with fastboot. You'll want to clear cache and do a factory reset in the stock recovery. That'll correct the 16 Gb issue and get you back to 32. See how to flash a factory image in the general forum (sticky roll up thread). Note, this will wipe the device so backup everything off the device first.
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