I have received the OTA update for my stock rooted 4.3 device. When I tell the system to update, it reboots into recovery, which for me is TWRP. If I go to "install" it defaults to the sdcard/downloads folder and there is a file there called: ota_M7_UL_SENSE55-MR_TMOUS_4.19.531.10-3.24.531.3_release_351678 If I choose to "install" this, there's a bunch of error messages, first with "unable to locate zip" (references a specific file), followed by an "assert failed" and the "error executing update binary..."
I will assume that this is because of the fact that I'm rooted and have TWRP.
It's important for me to be stock (I need the TM WiFi calling) and I want to retain root. Given that, how can I update to Kit Kat?
You'll have to flash back to stock recovery and redo the OTA (or, if you know where the OTA file is on your device, boot into stock recovery and select that file for the update).
You will most likely loose root, but it's easy enough to reflash TWRP and superuser to get root back, I would imagine.
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You'll have to flash back to stock recovery and redo the OTA (or, if you know where the OTA file is on your device, boot into stock recovery and select that file for the update).
You will most likely loose root, but it's easy enough to reflash TWRP and superuser to get root back, I would imagine.
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I found and flashed a stock recovery and then reran the OTA update. It appeared to have gone all the way through the process. When I reboot the device I get a pink screen that blinks with white dashes, and it does get to an HTC One splash screen with a blue beats audio icon (different than in 4.3). It never gets passed there.
I am able to adb and fastboot at that screen, so I was able to reflash TWRP, and tried rebooting, but get stuck at the same spot. I had done a TWRP backup a couple weeks ago, so I restored that so that at least I'm functional again.
Any advice on how to get 4.4 on this device?
When I was unlocked and rooted on 4.3 I relocked the bootloader, ran the 4.3 RUU and was able to get the OTA update then re-unlock and re-root
Basically, I did the same thing gwingzero said he did in this post
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Okay, so this is what happened:
1) I received the OTA update and everything went fine with upgrading the my T-mobile Springboard tab to ICS 4.0.3
2) I then got brave and went ahead with rooting and installing SU using the technique described in "Root Stock T-Mobile Springboard" by xdajunkman. That worked fine and I was able to get CWM recovery installed.
3) I then tried to install the [ROM][ICS] [Unofficial] Root-ready Huawei/Springboard International ROM and downloaded the dload folder to my SDCard, etc. I tried using the dload folder with the ulmt.cfg file in it and that failed with a "Installation aborted" message. I then removed that file and tried to go into CWM and tried "Install from zip" approach. Same thing...installation aborted message.
4) So, then I did the next stupid thing...in CWM, I formatted my /system, /data, and /cache. That was a big mistake! I now have officially bricked by tab.
5) I tried to get rid of CWM recovery by extracting the recovery.img file from the stock rom zip file. I fastboot flashed that to the recovery and recovery2 partitions. I then thought, let me try extracting the update.zip from the stock rom zip and put that on the root of my sdcard and tried to install that. No go...it just says, update failed with a big red "FAIL" message in the center.
6) I then tried to install CM10, to see if that would work. I downloaded the TWRP recovery and also the CM10 ROM .zip file, along with the google apps zip. I flashed the TWRP recovery using fastboot. That worked fine. I was also able to install the CM10 Rom, or at least it reported back "Successful". Same with the google apps zip. But then when I reboot, it only gets to the T-mobile Splash screen and stays there forever.
Please help! I tried to install the Stock Rom using the TWRP recovery, but again, it reports "Installation aborted." So, what am I doing wrong or what can I do to fix this?
Thanks.
[UPDATE] -
Okay, so I actually tried installing CM10 again using the TWRP recovery since it said that it was "Successful." And sure enough, it was successful, it seems. Once I installed it, rebooted the tablet and waited on the T-mobile Springboard screen for about 10 minutes, it launched CyanogenMod. I then set up the tablet with CM10. I had received the unlock code from T-mobile and so my tablet was sim unlocked. I put a AT&T sim card and sure enough it got signal and I was able to surf the web and make phone calls. I downloaded the speed test app from the Play Store and noticed that I was getting about 1.5Mbps download and about 600kbps upload. Not bad. The problem I noticed is that I can't receive calls. I can call out, but when someone tries to call me, the tablet doesn't acknowledge an incoming call. The caller just goes straight to voicemail. I do get a voicemail alert.
So, I don't know whether that is an issue with the CM10 build or a problem in my network / APN settings.
I would like to get the rooted T-mobile International stock ROM on there so that I can try it with that. I'll keep you all posted.
Thanks!
9 times out of 10, I get installation aborted errors because of a botched download. Try downloading the file again, and if available, verify that the MD5 sum of your downloaded file matches the one provided by the developer.
And if I'm not mistaken, TWRP recovery and CWM recovery aren't capable of flashing the T-Mobile stock recovery. If you have TWRP working properly, I would continue trying to flash one of the unlocked ROMs available. I highly recommend HWMOD's ICS (available here)
Best bet would be to fastboot flash the recovery img from the hauwei site update.zip. Then do the standard pop the stock hauwei update.zip on the sd card and do the normal upgrade method. That should full wipe the phone and then you can start tinkering with it again. Also huawei posted the offical root on their site.
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Best bet would be to fastboot flash the recovery img from the hauwei site update.zip. Then do the standard pop the stock hauwei update.zip on the sd card and do the normal upgrade method. That should full wipe the phone and then you can start tinkering with it again. Also huawei posted the offical root on their site.
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I don't want to mix up the T-mobile images with the Huawei images. Even though I've screwed things up already. But, if you read my previous post, I've got CM10 working, but no incoming calls.
Hi so after updating from the stock zv6 to lollipop update my phone won't install a custom ROM. Every time I try to turn it on it goes straight to TWRP and went I install a ROM or try to load a backup as soon as I hit reboot it goes back to the TWRP page. Amy ideas?
You must flash back, using Flashtool, to zv4, then reroot, then flash newest TWRP. OTA software not included, because they flash every partition of the phone, including the boot loader. Stock roms like zv6 and zv8(lollipop)or AOSP, must be flashed from xda from here on out, because they've been modified to work correctly on zv4 boot loader. TWRP and root access only work correctly with zv4 boot loader.
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It sounds like there is no OS installed or it is stuck a reboot-loop. Try pulling the battery out for 10 seconds and if it still goes into twrp you know that it isn't a reboot-loop. When you go to restore a rom and it has the bar that shows the amount of storage does it say "0 MB"? If it does it means that twrp can't mount the storage on the phone thus causing it to not install/reboot. Have you tried side loading a rom via adb? Are you trying to install a rom off of a sdcard? I have seen many issues in the past sdcard related.
If you can please answer the following:
1) What is the message you are getting from twrp (if there is any)?
2) Have you installed a custom kernel and if so witch one?
3) What twrp are you running (the bumped one from xda or from the official twrp site) and what version is it?
4) Have you tried adb and pulling the battery?
If you answer these questions they should be able to tell us all that we need to know in order to help you out.
I rooted and installed TWRP recovery. I want to update my stock rom with the OTA update. The update is downloaded to my phone, but won't update, re-boots and goes into TWRP. I think I need to first install a stock recovery, but I can't find one. If I find the stock recovery will that allow me to update OTA.
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I rooted and installed TWRP recovery. I want to update my stock rom with the OTA update. The update is downloaded to my phone, but won't update, re-boots and goes into TWRP. I think I need to first install a stock recovery, but I can't find one. If I find the stock recovery will that allow me to update OTA.
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As long as you haven't modified your rom you should be able to take the OTA with a STOCK recovery. You can find them here.
Also you might want to unroot before taking the OTA then reroot afterwards.
Got the ota and clicked install by mistake with stock recovery and root. It failed and had to do a battery pull to get it to boot. So yeah I'd unroot just in case.
I unrooted and installed stock recovery, but update failed?
Guys iam unrooted my one plus x for getting official ota updates , but after unrooting iam getting ota notification and click on install , but in process of update in recovry mode it says failed and reboot , pls pls help me how to solve this problem and get back to official opx device
1. Download OnePlusOxygen_14_OTA_008_all_201601221550.zip .
2. Just flash it.
3. You'll be on OxygenOS 2.2.0 without any other files to flash. Don't wipe data and cache to retain your apps and data.
The right answer is : you won't have Over The Air. You have to flash it manually as @StraightEdgeKid just said.
You should flash the next updates the same too.
After installing full 2.2.0 ROM, he'll be unrooted completely, and if he has stock recovery, he can install OTA's afterwards, unless he remains on stock.
Yeah but it always depends on the way he rooted the phone. The OneCmlickRoot solution have to be bannished on OPX!
Ofcourse not, if he flashes full 2.2.0 ROM, everything from system will be overwritten, leaving no place for previous stuff in system. /system will be cleaned completely.
Thanks for this. Downloaded the file, flashed through stock "recovery", and voila.
Flash the full ota and after that check you are on stock recovery or custom recovery(twrp) if its custom then flash stock recovery and you will be able to get otas
Troubles started when trying to upgrade to 23.5.A.0.575 shown here. The ROM simply got itself unrooted and ate my recovery. So I downgrade to 17.1.2.A.0.314 in order to root, successfully root, and then try every goddamn way to install a recovery but it just does not work. I've used the Nut's dual recovery here, the install script reports everything's peachy, it installs NDRUtils, but when I ask to reboot to recovery it just reboots normally. Also uring one of my attempts, the final ROM stayed rooted but /system became readonly, rendering it useless.
What do I do? If I flash the older firmware, shouldn't it wipe everything and make it possible to install the recovery normally - a recovery claimed to work with locked bootloaders? (I'm not unlocking my bootloader).
I lost my root (when updating to 575 from 570)three four days back, I installed lollipop ftf,rooted and installed recovery.
Didnt have any issues.
I installed .28 lp
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-root-xperia-z3-z2-android-5-0-2-firmware-build-23-1-28-1509398