How do i get the lollipop update without going back to stock kitkat? Is it possible to make a flashable zip yet? I know that the other varients including tmobile's g2 has a flashable zip.
theinspector said:
How do i get the lollipop update without going back to stock kitkat? Is it possible to make a flashable zip yet? I know that the other varients including tmobile's g2 has a flashable zip.
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Trust me, ive looked and couldnt find a way. So had to do FOTA upgrade.
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Is there anyway to integrate the OTA zip into the stock firmware zip?
vbdss said:
Is there anyway to integrate the OTA zip into the stock firmware zip?
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Ota patches a lot of system files despite a little size
So, if someone makes flashable zip it will look like a ROM based on stock 4.4.2
I doubt if somebody will do this
I would say make yourself a flashable zip with recovery.
Install Stock patch it to latest update, Backup.......voila.
I have searched and search for a 4.4 verizon ota zip but I cant find any. Phone is bricked and had to make a new rom slot. Trying to get just a stock 4.4 zip installed or a stable 4.4.
aceofskies05 said:
I have searched and search for a 4.4 verizon ota zip but I cant find any. Phone is bricked and had to make a new rom slot. Trying to get just a stock 4.4 zip installed or a stable 4.4.
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There isn't one yet. Might be within the next week or so since the M just got a full FXZ image for 4.4 released. But, do NOT use the M's image to flash. You will perma-brick your phone for good and there is no way to recover from it.
Is there a pure stock 5.0.1 zip for the Nexus 5? Basically a zip version of the OTA update. I'm rooted with a custom recovery so I can't do the OTA. I was looking around but couldn't find it.
scottharris4 said:
Is there a pure stock 5.0.1 zip for the Nexus 5? Basically a zip version of the OTA update. I'm rooted with a custom recovery so I can't do the OTA. I was looking around but couldn't find it.
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You're not going to find an ota zip that works in a custom recovery. Flash the stock recovery then sideload the ota zip in it. You'll have to re-root and reinstall the custom recovery.
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scottharris4 said:
Is there a pure stock 5.0.1 zip for the Nexus 5? Basically a zip version of the OTA update. I'm rooted with a custom recovery so I can't do the OTA. I was looking around but couldn't find it.
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Uhh...what 5.0.1 OTA? N5 5.0.1 hasn't been released yet
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
scottharris4 said:
Is there a pure stock 5.0.1 zip for the Nexus 5? Basically a zip version of the OTA update. I'm rooted with a custom recovery so I can't do the OTA. I was looking around but couldn't find it.
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You will never be able to flash an OTA again if you modified your device in any way. One of the biggest changes for Lollipop that no one noticed.
upndwn4par said:
You will never be able to flash an OTA again if you modified your device in any way. One of the biggest changes for Lollipop that no one noticed.
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Interesting. I normally just flash factory images or a custom ROM.
scottharris4 said:
Interesting. I normally just flash factory images or a custom ROM.
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You will still be able to flash the factory image when it becomes available.
Anyone can suggest what upgrade I should choose and which one is more stable? I want to root my phone as well so if anyone with the official Marshmallow update can give me a good reason to upgrade from 5.0.2 I'd really appreciate it.
Besides sense 7 is there anything else to look forward to in Marshmallow for HTC?
Also anyone with the Marshmallow GPE Rom or Viper M8 please share your experiences with the roms.
For the first time I'm having trouble deciding what to flash on my E8 thanks to all the devs!
I tried everything, and - offical 6.0.1 is better choise. There is best camera. They really updated drivers or libs, i don't know. Stock ROM + custom kernel it's always good. All custom ROM's here is based on older firmwares.
Jestercore said:
I tried everything, and - offical 6.0.1 is better choise. There is best camera. They really updated drivers or libs, i don't know. Stock ROM + custom kernel it's always good. All custom ROM's here is based on older firmwares.
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How did you Root and get the custom kernel (without the system write protection) on Marshmallow? Same as how you'd do it on 5.0.x?
Yes, my 6.0.1 rooted, but custom kernel not exist this time. We waiting.
Jestercore said:
Yes, my 6.0.1 rooted, but custom kernel not exist this time. We waiting.
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Would you please explain how to root your E8 6.0.1? I prefer to get just root without installing custom recovery, so I can backup stock recovery using flashify just in case for future OTA.
i dont know about way like this. In future u can extract stock recovery from OTA package, that u gonna receive. This always works.
I've flashed supersu 2.67 via recovery.
Jestercore said:
i dont know about way like this. In future u can extract stock recovery from OTA package, that u gonna receive. This always works.
I've flashed supersu 2.67 via recovery.
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I received OTA and installed it directly. I forgot to backup the OTA file first so I don't have a chance anymore to extract the stock recovery. I tried to downgrade to 5.02 but always failed.
wildanw2 said:
I received OTA and installed it directly. I forgot to backup the OTA file first so I don't have a chance anymore to extract the stock recovery. I tried to downgrade to 5.02 but always failed.
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don't worry, u can use future OTA's recovery to install the same OTA
Downgrading is easy. You need to flash TWRP recovery via fastboot. Do not need full root. ERASE everying. The flash lollipop RUU via external SD.
parthasd said:
Downgrading is easy. You need to flash TWRP recovery via fastboot. Do not need full root. ERASE everying. The flash lollipop RUU via external SD.
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I have M8SW and it is S-ON, it currently running BinDroid ONE V1.3.0 Android 4.4.4. I'm thinking about trying marshmallow ROM but I've read that is hard to downgrade to Kitkat once the firmware has been upgraded to higher version. But you said above it is easy to downgrade, can you please provide me with the steps to downgrade from marshmallow to kitkat rom. Thanks
Hey folks, I was thinking of downgrading from 6.0.1 which I am using now to 5.1 so I can try some different Roms. My phone was already on 6.01 when I bought it so not sure going down to 5.1 is safe or not.
Any help would be awesome.
PAP
PAPTOGAS said:
Hey folks, I was thinking of downgrading from 6.0.1 which I am using now to 5.1 so I can try some different Roms. My phone was already on 6.01 when I bought it so not sure going down to 5.1 is safe or not.
Any help would be awesome.
PAP
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As far as I know downgrading firmware is not possible on this phone.
But any of the older roms should work just fine regardless of the marshmallow update
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From what I understand we cannot downgrade. But I was thinking this. . .what if someone who has made a twrp backup of their LL stock firmware sent that download to me. Then I would download and flash via TWRP. Would that work? I was trying to break open the tar.md5 from my phone to see where the verification of the firmware would be to delete that particular string in the metadata script. I haven't really looked into it deeply but it may be a start. The backup stock ROM from TWRP might be our best bet if someone still is on stock LL.
So we r able to flash LP Roms even tbough we r on MM?
PAPTOGAS said:
So we r able to flash LP Roms even tbough we r on MM?
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In theory since we can flash a twrp backup. We would have to convert that backup into a flashable zip file. I'll work on how to do it this weekend. But once I get a zipped file it's going to have to be tested. If this works we still need someone with LP rom to do the backup.