verizon forced an update on my rooted stock thunderbolt. i have Revolutionary for recovery but when i load it up it immediately tries to install an update. i cannot select any options.
it asks for me to install or cancel the update. after canceling there are no options but reboot.
what should i do to try to recover out this?
thanks
You need to download a recovery and clear caches and then see what happens. You will have to fastboot flash the recovery. I'm not 100% sure but you may be able to delete the update file from your sd card to stop the update.
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you need to boot into rev and goto advanced unmount /cache and format /cache and reboot the ota update will say failed when u and you'll be good had the same issue couple days ago
the issue is i cannot clear cache via Revolutionary because as soon as it starts i get "Do you want to start update?". if i choose no i can only reboot from there. if i choose yes it will just try to update and hang
i also cannot seem to get to fastboot because of the above as well.
any other options here?
You need to delete the downloaded update from your sd card. If you don't then it will continue to do this.
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thanks so much.
i booted to Revolutionary w/o the SD card. Then flashed Clockwork using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694
After that i was able to the wipe the cache using Clockwork and get back into my phone. from there deleted the update file
going to add the OTABlock from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664082
hopefully that will stop verizon from pushing on another one
thanks!
Deleting Update File
Forgive me, bit of a noob to rooting and such. I downloaded Astro File Manager and also hooked up my phone to my PC and entered the USB storage but cannot find the update zip.
How should I find it?
It will be in the root directory of the SD card and called "PG05IMG.img" i believe
Finding update ZIP
Can I find it via Astro File Manager or do I need to plug into a PC?
Yeah you sure can
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Big Red been killing me too. I just cleared the cache on the sd and will see what that does. I am a complete n00b at this so I dont know how to load the blockota program without a .exe. GGRRRR
Deleting Zip
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I have looked all over the SD Card, and I cannot find the file. For the third straight night, after deleting the cache, it tried to force the update, and my phone went into the shut down loop.
I went into a folder labeled "root" but it was empty. I'm trying to flash the zip that will disable the OTA now, but can anyone instruct me on where to go on the SD Card to delete the update?
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I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I have looked all over the SD Card, and I cannot find the file. For the third straight night, after deleting the cache, it tried to force the update, and my phone went into the shut down loop.
I went into a folder labeled "root" but it was empty. I'm trying to flash the zip that will disable the OTA now, but can anyone instruct me on where to go on the SD Card to delete the update?
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When you open the SD card it will be below the folders. You won't have to go into any folders to find it.
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disconnecktie said:
When you open the SD card it will be below the folders. You won't have to go into any folders to find it.
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When I Open the SD card with Astro, the only files below the folders are "pcsc_pcsc_00001," "SELog," and Superuser. No update Zip.
Try this. Go into system/etc/security and change otacerts to otacerts.bak this will prevent the update from trying to start ever again.
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disconnecktie said:
Try this. Go into system/etc/security and change otacerts to otacerts.bak this will prevent the update from trying to start ever again.
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Before I do that, I finished installing the OTA Block Zip about an hour ago. Should I wait to see if that holds and fixes the issue before I do what you suggested? Thanks for all the help, appreciate it.
SBS0311 said:
Before I do that, I finished installing the OTA Block Zip about an hour ago. Should I wait to see if that holds and fixes the issue before I do what you suggested? Thanks for all the help, appreciate it.
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It wouldn't hurt to wait and see.
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SBS0311 said:
Before I do that, I finished installing the OTA Block Zip about an hour ago. Should I wait to see if that holds and fixes the issue before I do what you suggested? Thanks for all the help, appreciate it.
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Did it work for you? My girlfriend's phone is in the same situation and I really don't want to take her off stock as she is happy with her phone even after all this time (got her tbolt a month after it dropped).
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I really thought I got it when I found what I thought to be the update in the folder temp.apk. but no. please give me a cliff note hoe to load the OTAblock HELP ME I AM GOING TO SET MY HAIR ON FIRE
ok I'm also new to the thunderbolt on 2.2.1 but this is what i did to fix it. first thing i did was turn on wifi and connected to my home network by the time it connected the phone rebooted and tried to flash update but it failed and got stuck at the android with the triangle so i did a battery pull and it booted normally as soon as i could open the playstore i downloaded rom manager free.as soon as it finished installing the phone powered down and tried the update again and failed and got stuck so i did another battery pull. i powered up and as soon as i could i opened rom manager and flashed a recovery as soon as it finished the phone powered down again, it tried to flash again and failed i did one last battery pull and when it rebooted i opened rom manager and rebooted into recovery and just cleared cache and then rebooted. finally when it booted it said install failed and hasn't came back yet I'll post if it tries to update again
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Hey guys,
I did something stupid, by accident, that I know better than, and now I need help. So my phone is rooted, using the 1 click root method that came out when the phone first dropped. Everything went fine with that and it has been working great. Someone asked about an update and if it was available and so I thought I would use my software update to check and see if one was available. Mecha_VERIZON_WWE_1.13.605.7-1.12.605.6 was sitting there waiting to be installed, and I accidentally hit OK instead of reject. This cause the phone to reboot and attempt to install the update. It fails however, with CMR saying failed to verify whole-file signature, which is fine. The problem is, when I reboot and the phone starts up, I get in for about 15 seconds and then it shuts the phone down and attempts to install the update file again. It will then fail on the signature verification again, and I can then reboot, and that just starts the whole process over. What do I need to do? How can I keep my phone from attempting to install this update every time it starts up?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Ray
I take it that you did not make a backup in recovery. If so you should try to boot in recovery and install the backup.
I didn't. My guess is because I was stupid and lazy and did the one click method rather than putting in the time and energy to do it all myself and make sure that step was done. What recourse do I have at this point? Is my only option to wipe data/factory reset?
Remove your SD card, put it in an adapter, put it in your PC (or a card reader connected to your PC), and delete the PG05IMG.zip file.
Agree with the post above. But the issue doesn't have anything to do with your method of rooting.
There are a few things you should always do... Make backups and either rename the PG05IMG files or delete them.
Don't even need to remove the card most explorer apps can delete from the sdcard
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tumbleweed65 said:
Don't even need to remove the card most explorer apps can delete from the sdcard
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Not if its in a loop that only gives him 15 seconds to access it. Unless he is crazy fast lol. Try using the card reader method...although I wonder if an update sent by Verizon is handled the same way as the ones we do are. Hopefully it will be as simple as finding the PG05IMG.zip file on your sd-card.
Beastclaw said:
Not if its in a loop that only gives him 15 seconds to access it. Unless he is crazy fast lol. Try using the card reader method...although I wonder if an update sent by Verizon is handled the same way as the ones we do are. Hopefully it will be as simple as finding the PG05IMG.zip file on your sd-card.
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My bad didn't catch the 15 sec reference.........but with REALLY fast fingers......lol
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I have a rooted thunderbolt running bamf and i found the font settings in the toolkit and i thought wow this would be cool to change fonts, so i picked out one that i liked and it said has to reboot to apply so i clicked reboot and now my phone is stuck on the htc screen when you initially boot.. the only thing i did was pick a font..
.. i tried to get into bootloader but it wont let me pick any options to reboot it just goes to a update and wont let me pick any option..
i did have a backup in clockwork made but i dont know how to get into it since i cant even get the phone on
need some help guys..
Well if it is trying to update while in HBoot that means you have an existing PG015img.zip on your phone (probably a radio that you flashed awhile ago). This is a big mistake to have not deleted this file. Always delete a PG015img.zip after using it (or renaming it)
The only thing I can suggest is if you have a friend with another smartphone, put your SD card in their phone, and delete that file.
Or if you have a micro sd card reader for your computer, use that to delete the file.
With that file on your SD card, you won't be able to boot into your bootloader, because it will automatically flash a PG015img.zip
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Well if it is trying to update while in HBoot that means you have an existing PG015img.zip on your phone (probably a radio that you flashed awhile ago). This is a big mistake to have not deleted this file. Always delete a PG015img.zip after using it (or renaming it)
The only thing I can suggest is if you have a friend with another smartphone, put your SD card in their phone, and delete that file.
Or if you have a micro sd card reader for your computer, use that to delete the file.
With that file on your SD card, you won't be able to boot into your bootloader, because it will automatically flash a PG015img.zip
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Yeah thats where im at right now, i just got a sd card reader and removed it so i could get it into recovery, got that part out of the way, now i need to put it back on so i can get it updated and then get a radio on there
Willis_G said:
Yeah thats where im at right now, i just got a sd card reader and removed it so i could get it into recovery, got that part out of the way, now i need to put it back on so i can get it updated and then get a radio on there
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?? Don't put the radio back on there. Once you flash a radio, its done, its on your phone. The only time you should have a radio on your SD card is when you need to actually put a different one on your phone. You phone does not run off of radio on your SD card
I agree...the one time I forgot to delete the radio image off my SD after an update...I had my phone get caught in hboot trying to update again while at work. I had to borrow a friends micro SD reader to pull the file before I could resolve my issues. Would have been much easier if I had deleted it when I was done.
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?? Don't put the radio back on there. Once you flash a radio, its done, its on your phone. The only time you should have a radio on your SD card is when you need to actually put a different one on your phone. You phone does not run off of radio on your SD card
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I know i realised that shortly after and never reinstalled it Thank you for the reminder.
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I agree...the one time I forgot to delete the radio image off my SD after an update...I had my phone get caught in hboot trying to update again while at work. I had to borrow a friends micro SD reader to pull the file before I could resolve my issues. Would have been much easier if I had deleted it when I was done.
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Yeah thats exactly what i had to do too, it freaked me out becuase i couldnt use any of the options in the menu and it kept just jumping to the updates
but its all good now.. kinda crazy how the phone bricked because of a font selection, i wont ever touch that option again though.
If you have a back up from clockworkmod try using adb... type adb reboot recovery in command prompt while your phone is connected to your computer, and once you get into clockworkmod recovery restore your back up. I had a problem with my lockscreen, I also didn't delete my radio, and this worked for me.
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Willis_G said:
Yeah thats exactly what i had to do too, it freaked me out becuase i couldnt use any of the options in the menu and it kept just jumping to the updates
but its all good now.. kinda crazy how the phone bricked because of a font selection, i wont ever touch that option again though.
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It didn't brick. It just froze.
If it bricks you will know it.
As for the radio, keep it on your SD. That way if you need to change it, its there. Just rename it.
For example: "MR2-PG05IMG.zip"
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CanesDrew said:
It didn't brick. It just froze.
If it bricks you will know it.
As for the radio, keep it on your SD. That way if you need to change it, its there. Just rename it.
For example: "MR2-PG05IMG.zip"
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That's exactly what I do, and what I suggest in my q AND a thread. Also, after it's there on your root and renamed, CHECK the MD5!
The problem started when after I flashed the recovery with Odin. When I booted into the recovery and tried to install the superuser zip file I keep getting this message: "E:cant copy META-INF/google/android/update-binary". I get this message when I try to flash a Rom: "E:Can't open /sdcard/update-unamed-1.3.1-full.zip". I've been trying to flash the CM7 nightlies and the "Unamed" Rom. Any help with this will be much appreciated.
Also, I ended up having to install superuser via SuperOneClick
Honestly, I stopped trying after the phone kept confusing me with SD Card, External Card, and Internal Card/External SD Card BS it was giving me.
I just left my phone rooted, lol.
Sometimes, this tends to happen if you rooted your phone with an anti-virus software running on your PC which can hinder the rooting process. (always the case with my HTC Inspire 4G). So turning it off could allow you to re-download Odin, and run the program again to root it again so it can install the proper files.
Once you get it re-rooted, get into CWM, do a backup, and Clear your Cache, Data and reinstall the ROM from your Internal Card or External Card (which ever you used to place the ROM in).
Good luck.
homescrub said:
Honestly, I stopped trying after the phone kept confusing me with SD Card, External Card, and Internal Card/External SD Card BS it was giving me.
I just left my phone rooted, lol.
Sometimes, this tends to happen if you rooted your phone with an anti-virus software running on your PC which can hinder the rooting process. (always the case with my HTC Inspire 4G). So turning it off could allow you to re-download Odin, and run the program again to root it again so it can install the proper files.
Once you get it re-rooted, get into CWM, do a backup, and Clear your Cache, Data and reinstall the ROM from your Internal Card or External Card (which ever you used to place the ROM in).
Good luck.
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CWM and root are not even related....
root is root access to your OS /system and its functions. it has nothing to do with RECOVERY or anything outside of a RUNNING OS. i wish everyone would understand that.
as long as CWM is there, AND WORKING PROPERLY, rooting has nothing to do with it. you can flash a new rom from bone stock OS, as long as you have the CWM kernel.
@OP, you have these files (roms) located on the INTERNAL SD right?
I think that's why @homescrub said:
"and run the program again to root it again so it can install the proper files."
Proper files being cwm. As of yet I don't know of a way to install cwm without root on this phone. I know the captivate previously allowed an update to be flashed using stock recovery to get cwm.
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Are you clearing your cache before trying to flash zip from sd card? I know I got a similar problem when I didn't clear cache.
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I think that's why @homescrub said:
"and run the program again to root it again so it can install the proper files."
Proper files being cwm. As of yet I don't know of a way to install cwm without root on this phone. I know the captivate previously allowed an update to be flashed using stock recovery to get cwm.
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how do you flash CWM?
through ODIN
that does NOT require root. you dont flash it via ROM manager....so whats the need for root to add CWM?
and what is this 'proper files' crap? you either have CWM or you dont, its not half-assed
nah its cool. im done here. i will let the misinformation fly. let the noobs run in circles. this website is going to **** so fast these days.
No man ....you should help these guys....just lighten up...and I apologize for coming off like that.....and one place I CAN understand is seeing what's going on in the forums....it is chaos sometimes.....I am just tired of seeing noobs who need help get ripped up.....just as much as I am tired seeing noobs posting +1 and Great Job, in the Dev forums. I just think this is the place to help them get a good understanding so there is not another new thread with this same question.
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AntwanL said:
Are you clearing your cache before trying to flash zip from sd card? I know I got a similar problem when I didn't clear cache.
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Thanks this really helped!! Lol I can't believe I forgot to do something like this lol I Odined back to FULL stock, flashed the zedomax kernal with root, wiped data and cache, flashed the rom now all is well
Come on guys, you are both better than this. Shake hands, help the OP, and lets make xda a better place..
First off, I am loving Cubed ICS 1.0.2 on my Rezound. I am seeing an the When attempting to run the OTA updater to catch up with the the update that addresses "Patch for the repair of Power Menu". According to the OTA Updater I am on ROM IML74K, ROM Version 1.0.2 (August 12, 2012 7:00:00 AM). When I select the available update and click on Download, I most often get a brief flash of the download box and then a message that the MD5 check has failed. Sometimes it does appear to download the entire update (59 elements) but ends up with the same MD5 error. Any advice?
Go to Settings, Apps, All, OTA Updater. Force Stop it and Clear Data.
Then go on the SD card and delete the OTA Updater folder. Check both cards!
Then try it again.
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this fixed part of the problem
dsb9938 said:
Go to Settings, Apps, All, OTA Updater. Force Stop it and Clear Data.
Then go on the SD card and delete the OTA Updater folder. Check both cards!
Then try it again.
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So, this fixed the issue with getting the download, but after reboot while in recovery, the process can't locate the update file and it aborts.
success: manually moved zip file
ekarjala said:
So, this fixed the issue with getting the download, but after reboot while in recovery, the process can't locate the update file and it aborts.
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For whatever reason, AmonRa recovery could not see the file on the internal SD, so I moved it to the external and was able to run the update successfully.
They are working on a fix for this.
AmonRa doesn't auto mount the SD. I will be issuing an update soon.
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thank you!
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They are working on a fix for this.
AmonRa doesn't auto mount the SD. I will be issuing an update soon.
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any chance the fix is in the 1.0.3?
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any chance the fix is in the 1.0.3?
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Kind of. It seems CWR and TWRP auto mount the SDCard when they start, but AmonRa does not.
So it will fail, but you just go to the install option and do it manually. You wont have to move any files.
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1.0.3 installed
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Kind of. It seems CWR and TWRP auto mount the SDCard when they start, but AmonRa does not.
So it will fail, but you just go to the install option and do it manually. You wont have to move any files.
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Thanks for the reply. I was able to use the semi-manual approach for 1.0.3 - works great!
Guys,
I've looked long and hard on t'interwebs for an answer to this. I'm currently trying to do do a fresh reinstall on my Prime. My Prime hasn't been unlocked, it was rooted before I did the Jellybean update though and I removed a few Asus apps with Titanium backup. I'm trying to get it to run super smooth so that's why I want the complete fresh reinstall.
I've downloaded the latest V10.4.2.15 WW firmware off the Asus website, and upzipped the file so I'm left with the 2nd zip file which is contains. Put this on a FAT32 formatted SD card. I've also tried to copy this onto the root of the internal memory of the Prime. I just can't get the device to see the firmware and reinstall though. Is this because the device is already running V10.4.2.15? Is their any way around this without unlocking the Prime? I've also tried to reinstall using the boot menu, but it won't give me the option either.
Please help!
I also tried to reinstall the update by putting it on a sdcard and had no luck. I concluded that this method must only work for a true upgrade.
Chicaned_UK said:
Guys,
I've looked long and hard on t'interwebs for an answer to this. I'm currently trying to do do a fresh reinstall on my Prime. My Prime hasn't been unlocked, it was rooted before I did the Jellybean update though and I removed a few Asus apps with Titanium backup. I'm trying to get it to run super smooth so that's why I want the complete fresh reinstall.
I've downloaded the latest V10.4.2.15 WW firmware off the Asus website, and upzipped the file so I'm left with the 2nd zip file which is contains. Put this on a FAT32 formatted SD card. I've also tried to copy this onto the root of the internal memory of the Prime. I just can't get the device to see the firmware and reinstall though. Is this because the device is already running V10.4.2.15? Is their any way around this without unlocking the Prime? I've also tried to reinstall using the boot menu, but it won't give me the option either.
Please help!
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Outside of trying in flash/recovery mode try this:
Rename the Zip file you put on the SDCard for JB to the same name as the last 9.4 OS: US_epad-user-9.4.2.28.zip
With that on the SDCard it may take a removal/reinsert of the SDCard but it should offer to "Downgrade" but once you reboot in to recovery it will be a full flash of new OS. It did NOT wipe my data. I would recommend doing that after. Shutting down and then booting with vol down and power on until the recovery menu comes on then using vol down I believe it is to move the selected option over to "WIPE" then vol up to initiate.
This should yield a "Clean install".
For those nay-sayers out there, I had partial root until I did the above and lost it so I know it overwrites the OS paritition.
Cheers. I'll give that a go when I get home. I'm not too fussed about losing root. I'm even thinking about trading my Prime in for a Nexus 10 depending on the performance of my Prime after the rebuild.
Hmm.. renamed the .zip to WW_epad-user-9.4.2.28.zip but when I when the Prime sees it, I get no notification Tried a reboot but still get nothing. Anyone with any other ideas for this? Can anyone else confirm this works for them?
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Hmm.. renamed the .zip to WW_epad-user-9.4.2.28.zip but when I when the Prime sees it, I get no notification Tried a reboot but still get nothing. Anyone with any other ideas for this? Can anyone else confirm this works for them?
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Hrm, I just did it again with the US version because my exchange syncing broke.
My file was called US_epad-user-9.4.2.28.zip
Again, this assumes you have unzipped the official ASUS ROM download from their site and unzipped that file. This will yield a new zip file which is what I renambed and put on the ROOT of my SD card formated as FAT.
I just wrapped it up too, did a full app backup with the asus tool, wiped, reflashed this ROM again and restored and resynced exchange.
You might try giving it the US name. I don't think it would matter because the contents are correct for your device.
I'll try and format the card as FAT instead of FAT32. I'll also try US. Really hope this works!
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No dice I'm afraid. Tried a different SD card and renaming it US but get no option to update
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