Hi all,
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I checked the FAQ and a forum search and found references that this could be done but no real instructions.
My friend has a Vodafone UK Nexus One and as you probably know when Google release an OTA it's about a billion years (or at least it seems) before it's rolled out to him as it is my understanding that Vodafone have their own special build. Therefore I'm wondering if there's any way of flashing a stock ROM onto his Nexus One (probably after unlocking the bootloader) so he can get future OTA upgrades when everyone else does?
Any pointers gratefully accepted
- echo
You can unlock the bootloader if you want, or not.
If you unlock the bootloader, download the FRG83 system image from http://developer.htc.com and use fastboot to flash over the system and boot images
If you don't want to unlock it, then use SuperOneClick to gain root, install ROM Manager and use that to flash a custom recovery and boot into it. From there you can flash the stock but with root .zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=927935
Thanks Rusty, that seems to answer it! Now I've just got to convince my friend that flashing like this isn't actually that difficult and dangerous
As you're not touching the radio, it's not dangerous at all. Worst case scenario is you lose your data, so take a backup first to be safe.
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Been all over the forums and in order to flash Amans recovery, Modaco requires a rooted device and superboot. Well, we know superboot isn't available for FRF91 yet and to flash requires root.
How the heck does anybody flash a recovery image without root?
The goal here is to get root and and this point don't really care if the bootloader is locked or unlocked. Just need root access to run certain apps.
Was planning to boot into recovery, then run the passion update for root access, but this is a catch 22.
If you do a search... yadda yadda....
You must downgrade to frf83/5? i forget the exact number. There's at least 3 different posts on general...
fark it, start here, and then SEARCH.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717870
I was in the same boat as you. I flashed the RA Recovery and although it said it was flashed successfully, when I booted into recovery, i saw the stock recovery. Was on FRF91. So took a gamble and flashed the latest superboot from modoco. Cant remember if it was FRF83 or FRF85B and then reflashed RA recovery. It worked
Once in RA recovery I wiped and flashed a cooked ROM.
Already tried EPE76 and was screwed lol. Ran the universal update back to FRF91. Looks like I'm going to have to downgrade again unless there's another solution. Would like to know how to flash a recovery rom without root.
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Already tried EPE76 and was screwed lol. Ran the universal update back to FRF91. Looks like I'm going to have to downgrade again unless there's another solution. Would like to know how to flash a recovery rom without root.
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Well I was on FRF83 then recieved the FRF91 OTA from Google.
As there was no FRF91 superboot on Modaco i flashed the FRF83 version.
I also kept the universal update in my SD card just in case but it went smooth for me.
This bites. There's no clear cut guide how to root. Just bits and pieces of information and a complex labyrinth of instructions. Most of the info is outdated and requires a downgrade, then upgrade, then recovery. The recovery requires root and the whole goal is root lmao. It's no wonder there are almost daily posts of guys trying to root and/or unlock bootloaders but nobody knows how to explain the procedure. The stickies have dead links, and everyone says "hit the search button" and not one person has created a sticky for rooting instructions on the FRF91. I actually downgraded to EPE76 and got stuck due to the inability to upgrade to anything except back to FRF91 AT&T stock.
It would be nice is someone actually took a few minutes to explain a working procedure how to downgrade, upgrade, and use recovery to gain root. Really don't care about the bootloader. Somebody will get rich with paypal donations and I'll be the first to donate.
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This bites. There's no clear cut guide how to root. Just bits and pieces of information and a complex labyrinth of instructions. Most of the info is outdated and requires a downgrade, then upgrade, then recovery. The recovery requires root and the whole goal is root lmao. It's no wonder there are almost daily posts of guys trying to root and/or unlock bootloaders but nobody knows how to explain the procedure. The stickies have dead links, and everyone says "hit the search button" and not one person has created a sticky for rooting instructions on the FRF91. I actually downgraded to EPE76 and got stuck due to the inability to upgrade to anything except back to FRF91 AT&T stock.
It would be nice is someone actually took a few minutes to explain a working procedure how to downgrade, upgrade, and use recovery to gain root. Really don't care about the bootloader. Somebody will get rich with paypal donations and I'll be the first to donate.
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just read the sticky for rooting without unlocking bootloader in the android dev section
its up to date. if you unlocked your bootloader, the outdated root guides are fine to use even now. you need to ensure you flash a custom rom so the recovery isnt replaced on reboot
Hi All,
A friend of mine has a Vodafone uk Nexus One (whilst I have a Three UK Desire lol), and I used to have a T-Mobile UK G1. One of the things you could do with that (and from experiences with friends' Heros) was create a goldcard and flash a google unbranded image.
Question is, can that be done with the Nexus one? I know how to create goldcards, but I don't see any RUU exe files anywhere. Obviously he'd like to get froyo asap and avoid the voda delays in future too.
So, he doesn't want to do custom roms, just would like to have the option of stock roms and ideally OTA updates when google give them not when voda mess about with them and eventualy release them. He doesn't want to void the warranty though, so as I understand it, fastbooting a .img file is out as he'd have to unlock the bootloader?
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Martyn
Hmm, unrooted nexii one are able to flash froyo without a goldcard, no idea about branded handsets. I'd suggest finding the link for frf91(latest froyo build) somewhere around these boards, chucking it on the sdcard as update.zip and hope for the best.
Maybe get the noradio .zip first, just incase it goes terribly wrong. I doubt it will though, it will either work or not flash at all, so give it a try.
We tried using a goldcard with an frf91 universal rom (i.e. the direct from google signed zip), but it failed verifiation on the phone's update system. I'm assuming RUU checked for goldcard but the standard recovery ignores goldcards
Anyone got any more suggestions?
Root the phone / unlock the bootloader, and flash whatever you want. There is no "unbranding", since Nexus isn't branded. It's just that there is no stock update that is based on your version (EPF21?), so no update will be executed.
He can try the "non-voiding-warranty" root, though it's specified to work for Froyo. If it doesn't work for him - he can try the PASSIMG.zip way of upgrading to some version that will allow root. If that fails too - oh well... Either root the usual way, unlocking bootloader, or accept the fate.
ranyardm said:
Hi All,
A friend of mine has a Vodafone uk Nexus One (whilst I have a Three UK Desire lol), and I used to have a T-Mobile UK G1. One of the things you could do with that (and from experiences with friends' Heros) was create a goldcard and flash a google unbranded image.
Question is, can that be done with the Nexus one? I know how to create goldcards, but I don't see any RUU exe files anywhere. Obviously he'd like to get froyo asap and avoid the voda delays in future too.
So, he doesn't want to do custom roms, just would like to have the option of stock roms and ideally OTA updates when google give them not when voda mess about with them and eventualy release them. He doesn't want to void the warranty though, so as I understand it, fastbooting a .img file is out as he'd have to unlock the bootloader?
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Martyn
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You can try the tutorial at http://bloginblack.de/2010/07/how-t...e-google-nexus-one-from-epf30-to-froyo-today/
I had same issues as my N1 was EPF30 build probably a EU one and the above tutorial helped me get all the new updates OTA, because to the best of my knowledge Froyo is not yet available OTA in EU, atleast that's what i found in google
Cheers
Hi
i bought the nexus 6 32GB unlocked from google, it came with 5.0 then i got an update for 5.0.1 and now i decided to root my nexus 6, no rom, kernel change, just root, so i used the nexus toolkit to unlock the bootloader, so now i have busybox installed, and root.
now i want to update to 5.1 via OTA but when i check for updates there are no updates, could it be because of root or unlocking bootloader?
and i use t-mobile but the phone is factory unlocked so should i install the t-mobile version or just ignore the t-mobile versions?
Hi, you have a few options available. I don't use or recommend the use of toolkits unless you have some basic knowledge of fastboot and ADB. However, I believe you can use the toolkit to accomplish what you're trying to do. Also, I would recommend, because you're already unlocked, to just manually install the factory image via fastboot. As long as you don't flash user data, you won't loose any data. So in essence, it's like taking the OTA. Most of all, I recommend that you read as much as time allows so you know what you're going into.
Once you root you are not able to take any OTAs. To take an OTA you would have to go back to pure stock and stay there. If you would like to keep root there are many threads in this forum that walk you through the process of updating. Hope this answered some of your questions.
Thanks guys,
im familiar with android, ADB and fastboot, never had to use it much, this is my first nexus device but i have worked with many android phones in the past
im just trying to figure out the nexus 6
thanks, i got an answer i will go from here
I'm overwhelmed by all the shop speak regarding the android OS. Everything's an acronym, and everything sounds vaguely similar to everything else. Stock recovery, stock rom, stock firmware, factory reset, I'm a computer literate person, and I don't know what the difference is between any of these things, I only know that they're serious.
So here's my situation:
I have a Sprint HTC One M8, unlocked with s-off.
I have adb installed on my PC, TWRP and Super SU installed on my phone,
I need to install system updates, first to install KitKat 4.4.4, then immediately after, Lollipop.
When I go to install
my phone boots into TWRP mode
I go to update
select the update zip
swipe to flash
and get "updating partition details... failed"
I gather that I'm supposed to first restore to a stock recovery, and I think I found the correct one here, but the instructions I'm finding are very convoluted. I need to either unlock or lock my bootloader using adb. I need to flash one of the downloads on that page, but I'm not certain which one, how to flash it.
I understand that this isn't a forum for newbies, but that's just the thing, I'm not usually lost when it comes to this stuff, which makes me think many others are probablylost as well.
Can anyone clearly explain the steps I need to take, with a minimum of acronyms, to do whatever you do with a stock recovery to then be able to install Sprint updates?
I posted this question in a different way back in November and had one member keep posting unhelpful answers until the whole thread got hijacked by piggyback questions. I've also found step by step guides that each conflict with one another. One may have 5 steps and the other may have 12, and in one way or another they've always gone off the rails until they no longer seemed to apply to my use case.
If you can help, thank you.
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I'm completely overwhelmed by all the shop speak regarding the android OS. Everything's an acronym, and everything sounds vaguely similar to everything else. Stock recovery, stock rom, stock firmware, factory reset, I don't know what the difference is between any of these things, I only know that they're serious.
So here's my situation:
I have a Sprint HTC One M8, unlocked with s-off.
I have adb installed on my PC, TWRP and Super SU installed on my phone,
I need to install system updates, first to install KitKat 4.4.4, then immediately after, Lollipop.
When I go to install
my phone boots into TWRP mode
I go to update
select the update zip
swipe to flash
and get "updating partition details... failed"
I gather that I'm supposed to first restore to a stock recovery, and I think I found the correct one here, but the instructions I'm finding are very convoluted. I need to either unlock or lock my bootloader using adb. I need to flash one of the downloads on that page, but I'm not certain which one, how to flash it.
I understand that this isn't a forum for newbies, but that's just the thing, I'm not usually lost when it comes to this stuff, which makes me think many others are probablylost as well.
Can anyone clearly explain the steps I need to take, with a minimum of acronyms, to do whatever you do with a stock recovery to then be able to install Sprint updates?
I posted this question in a different way back in November and had one member keep posting unhelpful answers until the whole thread got hijacked by piggyback questions.
If you can help, thank you.
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First things first, this is a forum for all kinds but there is a Q&A section.
On to the update.
The first thing you need to do is boot to fastboot and type "fastboot oem lock" without quotes and press enter.
The device should be locked and from there you should be able to run the RUU (ROM update utility) that comes directly from htc, no need to do the incremental updates from KK (kitkat) to LP (Lollipop) unless you are looking to do something specific on a certain radio or firmware.
No need to flash stock recovery if you run the RUU, only lock the bootloader.
The RUU files are found on the HTC website or in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173 and you should find the directions there, just follow the S-on procedure if you are S-ON, you would know because at this point the only way to obtain S_OFF is to pay 25$ to use the Sunshine app.
This might be able to be moved to the Q&A by a mod and there are plenty of users and devs around here willing to help, just ask questions and try to follow the directions first.
dopy25 said:
First things first, this is a forum for all kinds but there is a Q&A section.
On to the update.
The first thing you need to do is boot to fastboot and type "fastboot oem lock" without quotes and press enter.
The device should be locked and from there you should be able to run the RUU (ROM update utility) that comes directly from htc, no need to do the incremental updates from KK (kitkat) to LP (Lollipop) unless you are looking to do something specific on a certain radio or firmware.
The RUU files are found on the HTC website or in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173 and you should find the directions there, just follow the S-on procedure if you are S-ON, you would know because at this point the only way to obtain S_OFF is to pay 25$ to use the Sunshine app.
This might be able to be moved to the Q&A by a mod and there are plenty of users and devs around here willing to help, just ask questions and try to follow the directions first.
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Thank you very much, I'll run through these steps.
Question, I installed a couple firmware patches after I got s-off. when this is finished, will those be overwritten? Will my phone still be s-off, or would I have to pay to have that done again?
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Thank you very much, I'll run through these steps.
Question, I installed a couple firmware patches after I got s-off. when this is finished, will those be overwritten? Will my phone still be s-off, or would I have to pay to have that done again?
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So you are S-OFF, OK.
No, the S_OFF is tracked by the device I believe, and would still be able to be used without having to pay again. I have read that many places.
I would not do the full RUU if you are s-off, but the thread I linked has zips to flash firmwares and roms and keep S_OFF. I am still on so I have no experience with S-OFF but I would not lock the bootloader until another s-off user confirms.
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So you are S-OFF, OK.
No, the S_OFF is tracked by the device I believe, and would still be able to be used without having to pay again. I have read that many places.
I would not do the full RUU if you are s-off, but the thread I linked has zips to flash firmwares and roms and keep S_OFF. I am still on so I have no experience with S-OFF but I would not lock the bootloader until another s-off user confirms.
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I got a little wreckless and just went ahead and tried it. Everything worked. I'm running Lollipop, I still have S-off, and I just re-rooted through the HTC dev program. The firmware patches I installed were overwritten, but, you can't have everything.
Thank you very much, I'd been dealing with system update messages for months.
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I got a little wreckless and just went ahead and tried it. Everything worked. I'm running Lollipop, I still have S-off, and I just re-rooted through the HTC dev program. The firmware patches I installed were overwritten, but, you can't have everything.
Thank you very much, I'd been dealing with system update messages for months.
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What do you mean by patches? Just specific bits of firmware? I don't really know of any benefits to having specific bootloader or hboot or radio over another. It used to matter back in the day but I think it is best to have the most updated if you are going to run a newer ROM anyway.
Also, if you are S-OFF you can always downgrade any of them at any time. So if any of the patches you had before gave you any benefits you can always run them again.
Glad you got it taken care of. On any note, if you muck something up you can always run the RUU to get back to stock. HTC did us a huge favor with those.
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What do you mean by patches? Just specific bits of firmware? I don't really know of any benefits to having specific bootloader or hboot or radio over another. It used to matter back in the day but I think it is best to have the most updated if you are going to run a newer ROM anyway.
Also, if you are S-OFF you can always downgrade any of them at any time. So if any of the patches you had before gave you any benefits you can always run them again.
Glad you got it taken care of. On any note, if you muck something up you can always run the RUU to get back to stock. HTC did us a huge favor with those.
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It's a patch that adds Harmon Kardon sound. Then I incorrectly remembered an app that enables Snapdragon audio (which is far superior to HK sound) but that's not firmware, you just need a rooted phone to be able to drop it into the system folder.
First of all, first post here so hello everyone and thanks for having me
My issue is the following, I have a C6906 which I bought a couple of years ago from Ancel (one of the carriers here in Uruguay) and it has always had a branded 4.3 (14.2.A.1.136 to be precise) which has never been updated by Ancel (the version listed in XperiFirm is the same I have and my phone has never offered an OTA update). I asked Ancel about this recently to see if I could expect any official updates and was basically told "yeah, that's not happening".
So what I would like to do is upgrade the phone to Lollipop by myself, namely to 14.6.A.1.236 from the US which seems to be the most current and generic stock available. Rooting and custom ROMs are (at this point) not something I'm looking at.
So I read a bunch of stuff and I think I'm "ready" to do my upgrade, but before messing around with my phone, I wanted to have somebody else more knowledgeable check my plan and give me a couple of pointers so I avoid any snafus as much as possible
Right now I have Flashtool (0.9.21.0), XperiFirm (4.9.1) and I've used it to download/unpack the ROM I think I want (C6906_Customized US_1276-7484_14.6.A.1.236_R2D), so my questions are:
1) Are there any glaring mistakes in the tools/approach described above?
2) Since I'm doing stock -> stock, can I perform the flash/upgrade without unlocking my bootloader? As I understand it, the bootloader checks for the installed ROM signature and I would expect the new one to also be signed by Sony, but I don't know if the signature also includes my carrier (and that's why I haven't been offered an upgrade yet).
3) If the answer to 1 is negative (i.e. I have to unlock my bootloader anyway), is there any advantage in going for stock instead of some other custom ROMs? As I understand it, unlocking the bootloader removes DRM keys that might kill some functionality (like "advanced" camera algorithms), would that happen for both stock and custom ROMs?
Thanks a lot in advance for any replies/pointers :fingers-crossed:
You don't need to unlock bootloader to flash stock ROM. Unlocking is need if you want a custom kernel which is not your case. Anyway you can backup your DRM keys and use that to lock/unlock your bootloader whenever you want to. See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2292598
Thanks... Just to confirm something else, if I try to flash without unlocking the bootloader, there's no chance the version I'm installing won't work right? If it's not a properly signed version the locked bootloader will prevent Flashtool from putting it on the phone?