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Does the phone have to be completely bricked to use the SBF file for droid 3? Mine isn't working properly..i did a factory reset on my phone after i froze some of the bloatware...and now it doesn't work right
We have an official, working SBF for the D3? Where?
Yea wheres the sbf lol
Ru talking about the fastboot partitions?
haha its not official..it's the leaked version...i guess it's the fastboot partition..i dont exactly know the difference between the two
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?5103-SBF-Droid-3-Fastboot-files-(5.5.959-and-5.6.890)
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haha its not official..it's the leaked version...i guess it's the fastboot partition..i dont exactly know the difference between the two
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Yeah, I am sort of confused about this too. I thought that ROMS would be possible once we had CWRecovery working, and we've had the leaked current and OTA versions for a while. So how is a flashable recovery different from the SBF?s we have now, and why isn't the CWR that just released adequate?
I apologize if these are really newbish questions.
I'm having the same problems. Since my OTA update my phone has trouble finding WIFI.
the leak is the same as the official, and im pretty sure you dont have to be bricked to flash hope this helps
No you don't have to be bricked.. my phone wouldn't download the 890 so I flashed it to hopefully fix w/e issue was going on w/ system updates on it and hoping it may have fixed the speaker failing.. but it didn't. Got my replacement tho and rooted + debloated. Runs a lotttt better.
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Hey everyone. I rooted my phone a while back (around June), but it got unrooted during the update in July and I haven't bothered rooting it again. But now, when I try to update to Gingerbread, I always get a message saying "Update failed or incomplete" after downloading and rebooting. I noticed I still have SuperUser installed, so I tried unrooting with SuperOneClick, but SuperOneClick is stuck on "Waiting for Device". I have also tried to reset to factory settings, with the same result. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
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Hey everyone. I rooted my phone a while back (around June), but it got unrooted during the update in July and I haven't bothered rooting it again. But now, when I try to update to Gingerbread, I always get a message saying "Update failed or incomplete" after downloading and rebooting. I noticed I still have SuperUser installed, so I tried unrooting with SuperOneClick, but SuperOneClick is stuck on "Waiting for Device". I have also tried to reset to factory settings, with the same result. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
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You may not have updated like you thought. V6 should have gotten rid of root for you. I had to do a factory restore, wipe the data and image, all of it. When I went back to do all that stuff, I still had the Bionic splash screen, and it is because of that little change, that I was not able to update myself. You may have something similar going on with your phone, just in a different place. Anything beyond doing that, just ask, but it should take care of you. Make a backup first, just in case. You will have to set everything up again.
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You may not have updated like you thought. V6 should have gotten rid of root for you. I had to do a factory restore, wipe the data and image, all of it. When I went back to do all that stuff, I still had the Bionic splash screen, and it is because of that little change, that I was not able to update myself. You may have something similar going on with your phone, just in a different place. Anything beyond doing that, just ask, but it should take care of you. Make a backup first, just in case. You will have to set everything up again.
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Thanks for your reply. I have performed a factory reset, but the update still fails. I also notice that after the reset, SuperUser is still listed under my installed apps.
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Thanks for your reply. I have performed a factory reset, but the update still fails. I also notice that after the reset, SuperUser is still listed under my installed apps.
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Does the update fail, or does it just say no update available?
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mtmichaelson said:
Does the update fail, or does it just say no update available?
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It fails. the update downloads, and reboots to install. But about half way through the installation, the phone reboots again. when the home screen comes up, a screen pops up saying "update failed or incomplete".
I had the same problem. Did you reinstall the stock recovery program? I also had the bionic boot image from revolt1.5, which was messing things up. Once I reverted back to the stock boot image, the update went through.
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I had the same problem. Did you reinstall the stock recovery program? I also had the bionic boot image from revolt1.5, which was messing things up. Once I reverted back to the stock boot image, the update went through.
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How would I go about reverting back to stock image? sorry , I don't know much about this.
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How would I go about reverting back to stock image? sorry , I don't know much about this.
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The cubed had a stock revo file that he posted somewhere in the dev forum. Just flash that with CWM and you should be good to go.
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I am in a similar situation but when I try to update to gingerbread it says there is no update available. I too still have supreuser installed after reflashing from revolt 1.5 to thcubed zv4 rooted stock and then updating its to zv6. How can I get my phone to download zv7?
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jdleider said:
I am in a similar situation but when I try to update to gingerbread it says there is no update available. I too still have supreuser installed after reflashing from revolt 1.5 to thcubed zv4 rooted stock and then updating its to zv6. How can I get my phone to download zv7?
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Apparently the update hasn't been pushed to all phones yet...there's several of us on xda that still don't have it. Jackpot08 is working on a .tot but until then, we just have to wait.
Some people have called Verizon and they can't force the update to your phone, so don't bother with that.
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The cubed had a stock revo file that he posted somewhere in the dev forum. Just flash that with CWM and you should be good to go.
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Thanks! Found it and got it working. Just waiting for the update now.
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Apparently the update hasn't been pushed to all phones yet...there's several of us on xda that still don't have it. Jackpot08 is working on a .tot but until then, we just have to wait.
Some people have called Verizon and they can't force the update to your phone, so don't bother with that.
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Thanks for the info, guess the update hasn't been pushed to my phone yet.
I have been on stock for a week now, and its been horrible. I forgot how slow this was before devs streamlined the system, and how many rooted apps/functions I used.
I am going back to revolt today. I will see GB when the .TOT is available.
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Hey everyone. I rooted my phone a while back (around June), but it got unrooted during the update in July and I haven't bothered rooting it again. But now, when I try to update to Gingerbread, I always get a message saying "Update failed or incomplete" after downloading and rebooting. I noticed I still have SuperUser installed, so I tried unrooting with SuperOneClick, but SuperOneClick is stuck on "Waiting for Device". I have also tried to reset to factory settings, with the same result. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
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Were you attempting to update to gingerbread by using the TOT? Or was there an update available though your service provider?
If you were getting a failure through the network, it's likely because you haven't gone back to stock recovery and still have ClockWorkMod Recovery installed. Use DevToolKit to fix this.
If you are using the TOT and getting a failure, do a checksum on the TOT file.
I've been working on this actively as I have a revolution. LG has informed me the update push completed on November 2. Nobody at VZW or LG can tell me why some Revolutions haven't gotten the push.
VZW Engineering has apparently been alerted, but LG has been unresponsive to me to-date.
I'm not waiting and putting together a one-package manual update kit, but I do want to give LG and VZW time to give me an update. Thing is, it's been over 72 hours now and there hasn't been one, so my patience is wearing thin.
It's disappointing that LG hasn't responded to any of my inquiries... I'm asking the right people behind the scenes.
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I've been working on this actively as I have a revolution. LG has informed me the update push completed on November 2. Nobody at VZW or LG can tell me why some Revolutions haven't gotten the push.
VZW Engineering has apparently been alerted, but LG has been unresponsive to me to-date.
I'm not waiting and putting together a one-package manual update kit, but I do want to give LG and VZW time to give me an update. Thing is, it's been over 72 hours now and there hasn't been one, so my patience is wearing thin.
It's disappointing that LG hasn't responded to any of my inquiries... I'm asking the right people behind the scenes.
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I'm in Rochester NY and never got one. I gave it til 2 days ago and threw on the TOT.
Madert said:
I'm in Rochester NY and never got one. I gave it til 2 days ago and threw on the TOT.
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Yeah, I'm leaning towards drafting an idiot-proof TOT guide, it's just going to be really upsetting if I have to do that. If this was Apple, and not LG, we wouldn't even have this thread right now.
Option-click .ipk and done... not that Apple would even let ~1-5% of a device "miss" an update.
So, I've confirmed a few things with LG officially:
1) The ZV7 update has not been pulled.
2) LG was not aware of this issue until I reported it.
3) LG is just now starting the process of investigating.
I can't flash a TOT on mine right now, as LG may want to capture my unit for evaluation. I'll know more soon, hopefully by Monday.
Verizon was trying to push an update on me back on the 11th. It was the V6 update, as I was running V4. It failed, and I manually ran the tot through with LGNPST. Since thecubed had posted the V7 tot as well, I ran that through as well.
I probably did not need to go from V4 to V6 to get to V7, but I figured it wouldn't hurt.
But as I said, the only push I had received was on the 11th, well after the 2nd.
As a semi-newbie, it was easier to push the tot on than anything else.
LG Engineering is at least listening... they have agreed to capture my unit and send me a brand new Revolution simultaneously.
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Verizon was trying to push an update on me back on the 11th. It was the V6 update, as I was running V4. It failed, and I manually ran the tot through with LGNPST. Since thecubed had posted the V7 tot as well, I ran that through as well.
I probably did not need to go from V4 to V6 to get to V7, but I figured it wouldn't hurt.
But as I said, the only push I had received was on the 11th, well after the 2nd.
As a semi-newbie, it was easier to push the tot on than anything else.
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Did you have clockwork recovery installed when you tried to get Verizon s update
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Hey guys, I've been fiddling with this phone for 7 hours now...
I live in US, phone's on the Verizon carrier.
Right now the phone is on "LG_VS910ZV6_TO_V6A", it's stock ROM
It's rooted, and has ClockWorkMod recovery v4.0.something
The main annoyance is that it keeps trying to get the OTA updates, but because it's in a custom recovery - fails. So I figured if I'm going to fix the failed OTA updates, I might as well put something good on it, so what I want is to get BrokenOutRevo1.1 rom working (forum.xda-developers.com/...7423), but it required ZV8 being already installed.
the trouble i'm running into is all the posts I can find are either how to get ZV7 to ZV8, or how to get an OTA, while keeping root...
I did find this thread, which says it can bring ZV8 to any LG revolution... I've set everything up, and am waiting for the ROM to download (5 hours remaining)... In the mean time, maybe anyone knows a faster way to get to the BrokenOutRevo from ZV6?
Wow 5 hours remaining to download a ROM!? Your effort is good but I think you're trying too hard lol. Easiest way to do what you're doing (and fastest), would be to update to ZV7 using the LGNPST method and then going here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583023
Quickest and easiest there is right now. There is no ZV6 to ZV8 method available that I'm aware of.
Could be wrong though.
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Well those *.tot files are almost 1gb, and their host is slow on speed.
So, LGNPST won't be able to update directly to ZV8?
Took a minute to find. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337386 That has all tot files including ZV8. Then go here and try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho... name.
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Thank you all I uploaded ZV8 to phone using LGNPST, and then installed BrokenOut, everything warks flawless, thank you all!
Just saw this thread at droidforums: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-roms/208767-stock-motoblur-ics-droid4.html
Can anyone confirm if this is legit?
EDIT: Removed link to the update file for everyone's safety. This is not an update you want to install. It will take you off the update path and attempting to flash one of the currently available fastboot files will result in a brick.
I pulled the same thing by the cake method earlier today but was afraid to flash a unknown.
I tried, based on the instructions on the page, and as usual, cheesecake won't work for me. I get the "account needed" prompt. I'll try again tomorrow.
Thanks!
I'm downloading it now. I hope this works with Safestrap and I get to keep root. Or at least be able to re-root again. Have to be carefull. Need GSM to work
The day after I sold my T-Mo Sensation, and the day before I get my VZW Droid 4. Looks like the gods have decided not to smite me today.
Booted Safestrap. Flashed stock 215.
Can't update to 219 So no wonder I couldn't update to ICS... Here I go again...
It sounds like a couple of people over on DroidForums HAVE gotten this to load. To paraphrase what hashcode said over there, be very very careful with this guys. There are quite a few Razr owners now stuck outside of the upgrade path and unable to use fastboot to restore after flashing an ICS leak. I think I am going to hold off on this one personally. What I am REALLY hoping to see is some improvements to CM9, AOKP, and Gummy come out of this. Particularly the data issues.
Trying it the Cheesecake way and its downloading. Anyone tried it yet? Curious if Safestrap survived. As long as it works I'll be glad. Hope the different baseband fixed audio over UMTS/HSDPA.
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Trying it the Cheesecake way and its downloading. Anyone tried it yet? Curious if Safestrap survived. As long as it works I'll be glad. Hope the different baseband fixed audio over UMTS/HSDPA.
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You are a brave man Try using OTA RootKeeper. It worked with the last update. I would be very interested to see if it works with the ICS update as well.
Ok guys, I installed it. Voodoo OTA RootKeeper did NOT work for me, and attempting to flash the 6.13.219 fastboot file resulted in a brick.
I would strongly advise not installing this update.
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Ok guys, I installed it. Voodoo OTA RootKeeper did NOT work for me, and attempting to flash the 6.13.219 fastboot file resulted in a brick.
I would strongly advise not installing this update.
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Really sorry to hear that. Thanks so much for the information though. Did you try the .215 fastboot file? I'm guessing the result would be the same but might be worth a shot.
Can you tell us why you tried to install the fastboot file? You didn't like ICS or is it because of root priviliges? I've tried like 15 times. It just won't update. So now I temp unrooted, uninstalled Safestrap and hope for the best. Next step woul be to fastboot 219 and try on a fresh clean install. The only thing I can think of is that my build.prop gets in the way. Anyone mind posting a stock .219 build.prop?
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kwyrt said:
Really sorry to hear that. Thanks so much for the information though. Did you try the .215 fastboot file? I'm guessing the result would be the same but might be worth a shot.
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Downloading .215 as we speak, but I'm not getting my hopes up. No big deal though, VZW is overnighting me a warranty replacement and I've got an old phone I'm using for the day.
EDIT: .215 failed at 6/18 as well.
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Can you tell us why you tried to install the fastboot file? You didn't like ICS or is it because of root priviliges? I've tried like 15 times. It just won't update. So now I temp unrooted, uninstalled Safestrap and hope for the best. Next step woul be to fastboot 219 and try on a fresh clean install. The only thing I can think of is that my build.prop gets in the way. Anyone mind posting a stock .219 build.prop?
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There were a several things with this ICS build that were a bit disappointing (native ICS screenshot function didn't work, no "Charge only" mode when connected via USB to PC) but no root access was the dealbreaker. I knew flashing the .219 file was a risk based on what happened with the RAZR ICS leaks but I just figured I'd be the guinea pig
I had the same problem you did when attempting to install it, so I flashed the clean .219 fastboot file and then the ICS update was successful.
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Can you tell us why you tried to install the fastboot file? You didn't like ICS or is it because of root priviliges? I've tried like 15 times. It just won't update. So now I temp unrooted, uninstalled Safestrap and hope for the best. Next step woul be to fastboot 219 and try on a fresh clean install. The only thing I can think of is that my build.prop gets in the way. Anyone mind posting a stock .219 build.prop?
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Here is the build.prop file... it is compressed into a zip archive since .prop cannot be attached.
****EDIT: THIS IS THE .215 build.prop
build.prop 219
rumgool said:
Here is the build.prop file... it is compressed into a zip archive since .prop cannot be attached.
****EDIT: THIS IS THE .215 build.prop
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Okay... here is the 219 build.prop zipped
You gotta be kidding me pffffff. Those guys at Motorola check eeeeeeverything. Thnaks for the build.prop btw rumgool. But now it hangs on Motorola_XT894....3gp. Unbelievable...
Finally got it going. But like you said, had to flash SBF. That's some pretty scary **** . I'm used to Milestone / Droid 1 flashing and I've flashed a Razr before. This one takes twice as long. So for you wanting to flash SBF, don't be alarmed. It takes a while, a very loooong while.
Question: Why would the update prevent flashing via fastboot? I'm only familiar with SBFs, but the point of those were that no matter how bad things got, you could wipe everything out and start over. Is that no longer the case
GSM working!!!!!!
Yes!!!! audio over 3G GSM!!!!
Finally. Don't know what works and what doesn't. But audio works and you have GSM settings right from the get go. Now I'm gonna eat, then I'm gonna play and after that I'll tell you what I think of it.
Thanks guys!
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Question: Why would the update prevent flashing via fastboot? I'm only familiar with SBFs, but the point of those were that no matter how bad things got, you could wipe everything out and start over. Is that no longer the case
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The new fastboot files are nothing like the old sbf's. Wrong radio, different build number and many other things can cause it to fail. Then your stuck in fastboot mode with a soft brick.
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This is a really nice build! I am not at all sorry to have risked being stuck, to be honest.
Everything appears to work very well so far and I am posting from Chrome Beta.
Still looking for the downside...
I'm looking to upgrade to JB or another rom as my current version is starting to act up. My phone has gotten ridiculously slow and I struggle with switching tasks and random reboots. I'm currently running 6.7.232, I flashed this version last year before the official ICS release came out. Can I flash straight to JB from my current version or do I have to go back to GB then doing the OTA upgrades? I'm very confused on what order I should follow when trying to get JB. I've been trying to find a guide but I'm afraid of bricking my phone if I try to go back to GB or straight to JB.
Thanks for the help!
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I'm looking to upgrade to JB or another rom as my current version is starting to act up. My phone has gotten ridiculously slow and I struggle with switching tasks and random reboots. I'm currently running 6.7.232, I flashed this version last year before the official ICS release came out. Can I flash straight to JB from my current version or do I have to go back to GB then doing the OTA upgrades? I'm very confused on what order I should follow when trying to get JB. I've been trying to find a guide but I'm afraid of bricking my phone if I try to go back to GB or straight to JB.
Thanks for the help!
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My suggestion is don't touch the Jelly Bean leak. I check the thread out every couple days and nothing but problems. If you want to try Jelly Bean download Liquid Smooth 2.3. The only thing not working is Bluetooth (apparently, have no use for bluetooth).
I believe you must be on .246 to update to JB. No frozen, deleted, or altered system files either. I took the update and am very happy with it.
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My suggestion is don't touch the Jelly Bean leak. I check the thread out every couple days and nothing but problems. If you want to try Jelly Bean download Liquid Smooth 2.3. The only thing not working is Bluetooth (apparently, have no use for bluetooth).
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Even with it being an official upgrade?
Can't you flash to 246 using RSD then OTA to JB? I'm not sure you can flash to GB from 232 or whatever u said u are on. I tried doing that and got an error each time, but I was trying to go from 246 to GB. I flashed 246 over my installed 246 then OTA to JB and my device has been stellar since.
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Can't you flash to 246 using RSD then OTA to JB? I'm not sure you can flash to GB from 232 or whatever u said u are on. I tried doing that and got an error each time, but I was trying to go from 246 to GB. I flashed 246 over my installed 246 then OTA to JB and my device has been stellar since.
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That's exactly what I ended up doing. I flashed to 246 and OTA'd to JB. It ended up working quite well. I want to put on CM10.1, hopefully I don't have to flash back to 246.
A couple things here. First you could have saved time and effort by just fxz'ing to jb directly using the 98.72.22 fxz. Yes, even over 232. Second, your comment about "hoping you don't have to downgrade" is frightening. Simple solution to that one. You can't. Period.
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SamuriHL said:
A couple things here. First you could have saved time and effort by just fxz'ing to jb directly using the 98.72.22 fxz. Yes, even over 232. Second, your comment about "hoping you don't have to downgrade" is frightening. Simple solution to that one. You can't. Period.
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So if you've taken the OTA JB update then you're screwed? No possible way to go back to ICS?
My phone worked great on ICS but since the forced OTA JB update it has become a complete piece of crap. I lose Verizon signal constantly and have to reboot my phone to get it back. This happens probably 6-7 times a day. Text messages hang and don't send, I get strange UI FC's, etc.
Has anyone else run into these issues? Any suggestions on how to fix?
Thanks,
Michael
Correct, there is no possible way to downgrade to ICS once you've taken the JB update. The security mechanism behind this inability to downgrade has been well understood since the ICS days. Given that you couldn't downgrade to GB from ICS, I'm not sure why so many people are surprised to find the same situation with JB.
Anyway, to fix your issues you should probably do a Factory Data Reset (FDR). This will wipe your data partition so you will have to reinstall your apps and setup the phone as if it were brand new out of the box. However, this will give it a fresh start and will likely fix the issues you're seeing with the phone.
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Correct, there is no possible way to downgrade to ICS once you've taken the JB update. The security mechanism behind this inability to downgrade has been well understood since the ICS days. Given that you couldn't downgrade to GB from ICS, I'm not sure why so many people are surprised to find the same situation with JB.
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Honestly I am not surprised. I am the idiot who clicked OK without researching what the update was first. If I had, I wouldn't have taken it.
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Anyway, to fix your issues you should probably do a Factory Data Reset (FDR). This will wipe your data partition so you will have to reinstall your apps and setup the phone as if it were brand new out of the box. However, this will give it a fresh start and will likely fix the issues you're seeing with the phone.
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I thought about doing that, but I was hoping not to have to do so.
Since I was also dumb enough to not have OTA root keeper installed of course I lost root too. I see there is another post about rooting stock JB using Linux, etc. Has anyone developed another method yet? I have searched but haven't found anything. I used the motofail method to get root on ICS, but no posts as to whether that works on JB or not.
Thanks,
Michael
No possibility of root without using the Linux exploit. Don't bother waiting for a windows version as it's not coming. There are "easy root" solutions out there that are basically a virtualbox image that you can just load up and run the script.
As for an FDR, you're needing to if you're having those problems. Nothing else is going to fix it.
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No possibility of root without using the Linux exploit. Don't bother waiting for a windows version as it's not coming. There are "easy root" solutions out there that are basically a virtualbox image that you can just load up and run the script.
As for an FDR, you're needing to if you're having those problems. Nothing else is going to fix it.
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Ok so be it. I saw that post on the Easy Root using a virtualbox image.
I also saw this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40430047&postcount=73
Since I previously had root on ICS, will this work for me?
Thanks for patiently answering my questions, I appreciate it.
Michael
It's worth a shot. FDR won't affect the system partition at all so if it works you won't lose root doing the FDR.
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It's worth a shot. FDR won't affect the system partition at all so if it works you won't lose root doing the FDR.
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Ok I will give it a try and go from there..
Hopefully with root restored and FDR my phone will return to what it was and I will be happy with it once again.
Thanks again,
Michael