I'm running Safe Strap and have the stock rom in the stock slot, and Icarus in slot 2. Those are the only roms loaded on my phone. Every so often, I run the stock rom to update apps, etc. Recently, I got the notification for the system update, and I tried to update it. For whatever reaason, the update failed. Is it normal for Verizon updates to fail while running Safe Strap? I don't have any intenttion of running stock anyways, but am curious nonetheless.
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Since I am new to Android, I am not clear on what gets wiped and what does not when an upgrade gets pushed. So my question is - do I need to remove it before updating? And if so, how, since I don't see it under manage apps (it was installed as a package through ClockworkMod Recovery)
Note - I only installed the package, I did not flash a different kernel (I manually install the wlp2pservice after each reboot)
Guys,
I flashed my Note with a HK Original Samsung ROM (N7000ZSKK1, obtained at the development section).
When I bought it in Shanghai, it had a modified version of the original firmware with lots of china apps that meddle with what I want to do, and since it had superuser on there I knew it was flashed. probably from a China issue version that doesn't have google apps
All seems fine after flashing the original HK version, except for one thing: I get software update notifications, and when I try to install them, I get an installation failure notification. I thought that if a phone had a correct ROM installed, it would be able to receive OTA updates? I was hoping to get Samsung's ICS update officially (rather than performing ROM flashes each time an update comes along...).
I used Mobile Odin to flash the firmware. Without checking (e.g. by installing titanium backup) I don't know if it is still rooted or not. Prior to flashing it the unit was actually not rooted (the chinese unrooted it after flashing the custom HK ROM I think), and it had the same issue wrt not being able to install OTA updates.
Any idea why I cannot install OTA updates?
Alternatively, what's the easiest solution to keep my phone up to date with samsung's latest and greatest?
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Guys,
I flashed my Note with a HK Original Samsung ROM (N7000ZSKK1, obtained at the development section).
When I bought it in Shanghai, it had a modified version of the original firmware with lots of china apps that meddle with what I want to do, and since it had superuser on there I knew it was flashed. probably from a China issue version that doesn't have google apps
All seems fine after flashing the original HK version, except for one thing: I get software update notifications, and when I try to install them, I get an installation failure notification. I thought that if a phone had a correct ROM installed, it would be able to receive OTA updates? I was hoping to get Samsung's ICS update officially (rather than performing ROM flashes each time an update comes along...).
I used Mobile Odin to flash the firmware. Without checking (e.g. by installing titanium backup) I don't know if it is still rooted or not. Prior to flashing it the unit was actually not rooted (the chinese unrooted it after flashing the custom HK ROM I think), and it had the same issue wrt not being able to install OTA updates.
Any idea why I cannot install OTA updates?
Alternatively, what's the easiest solution to keep my phone up to date with samsung's latest and greatest?
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Sometimes OTA updates get fail. Try with Samsung Kies.
Tried that, but it gives the message "Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies". It states for current firmware version: PDA:KK1 / PHONE:KJ6 / CSC: (TGY)
SHould I be installing a different firmware?
Got BR3 installed on the Bionic, though never really used it until I realized I need to get my JB working, and OTA failed because I mucked with the bloatware with TB.
Any way, if I read this correctly (most guides with BR was based on BR1 or 2, and BR3 is completely different, based on TWRP) I have to
1) Backup the stock ROM
2) Setup a new ROM slot in BR3 (probably ROM-Slot-1) which is now setup, but blank and thus unbootable
3) Restore the "backup" (of stock) into this new ROM slot -- so now I have a CLONE of existing stock rom
and I can boot into either one, the clone or the real/original.
But from what I understand about the JB OTA, I CANNOT apply it through TWRP (I tried, won't recognize the file, just gives an error 6), or apparently ANY recovery except factory. But factory recovery failed because my setup is no longer "standard" (I got rid of some bloatware)
So is my only hope now to wipe the whole phone, reset to "stock" ICS, then try to pull the OTA JB or do factory recovery JB install?
Or should I wait for some intrepid hackers to repackage the OTA update into a script that is a bit more tolerate of power users?
And if I want to be intrepid and try, say, CM10.1 unofficial Targa, do I just install that into one of the ROM slots and boot off that, and ignore the JB update for now?
kschang said:
Got BR3 installed on the Bionic, though never really used it until I realized I need to get my JB working, and OTA failed because I mucked with the bloatware with TB.
Any way, if I read this correctly (most guides with BR was based on BR1 or 2, and BR3 is completely different, based on TWRP) I have to
1) Backup the stock ROM
2) Setup a new ROM slot in BR3 (probably ROM-Slot-1) which is now setup, but blank and thus unbootable
3) Restore the "backup" (of stock) into this new ROM slot -- so now I have a CLONE of existing stock rom
and I can boot into either one, the clone or the real/original.
But from what I understand about the JB OTA, I CANNOT apply it through TWRP (I tried, won't recognize the file, just gives an error 6), or apparently ANY recovery except factory. But factory recovery failed because my setup is no longer "standard" (I got rid of some bloatware)
So is my only hope now to wipe the whole phone, reset to "stock" ICS, then try to pull the OTA JB or do factory recovery JB install?
Or should I wait for some intrepid hackers to repackage the OTA update into a script that is a bit more tolerate of power users?
And if I want to be intrepid and try, say, CM10.1 unofficial Targa, do I just install that into one of the ROM slots and boot off that, and ignore the JB update for now?
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Until they get the root situation figured out with the official update, I would just forego it for now. From what I'm reading on the forums, doing the update could lose your root. Plenty of nice JB roms we can load on the Bionic, we aren't missing much. I even have Google Now running on Eclipse 1.3 ICS.
But yeah, if you wanted to do the update, you'd likely have to uninstall bootstrap/safestrap and do a factory reset on the phone. Unfreezing what you've frozen might work, but others have run into issues due to changes they have made. Worst case scenario, you have to flash it to stock using RSD Lite (which would definitely kill your root) and then updating, but a factory reset should do the job if unfreezing doesn't work. Like I said though, you may lose root in the process, even with SuperSU and OTA Rootkeeper installed and backing up the root.
I'm currently running latest Eclipse ICS ROM with SS v3.11. Just started getting "com.process.google.gapps has stopped" and "Google Play services have stopped" error messages nonstop, constant. Tried a couple recommended fixes, didn't work. Had been fine with Eclipse ROM up to this point but decided it's time to upgrade to JB.
So...
Booted in stock ROM slot via SS. Downloaded the OTA update, tried installing 3 different times. Upon reboot, all three times said the update failed.
First question: I assume I need the JB OTA update prior to flashing a JB ROM, correct? If so, any reason why the update is failing to install? Will I have to do anything with root and SS prior to and/or after OTA update?
Second question: Once I get the OTA to install, which Bionic JB ROM has proven most stable? I want few frills, fast, simple, clean. Any recommendations?
Really appreciate any help and advice, thanks as always all!
If anyone's curious, figured it out. Uninstalled recovery in stock rom, saved root with voodoo, installed 4.1.2 OTA manually.
I am currently on N910TUVS2EPG2 "July Security update" which I've only installed TWRP recovery and root. I went back to samsung stock recovery and unrooted. But system/data/other partitions were left alone. However when trying to install the "October Security update" the update still caught me with a modified phone.
I get a the familiar message:
Software Update
The operating system on your device had been modified in an unauthorized way. Try downloading software update using Smart Switch on your computer...
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Has anyone tried to sideload the TMO OTA "October Security update" through the the stock recovery? I'm referring to these 2 options in the stock recovery.
apply update from adb
apply update from sdcard
I know the full system images are uploaded by DeeXii and located HERE. But I don't see the OTA files anywhere. Where can i download the October OTA update?
Apparently there is this wonderful official Samsung app called Smart Switch. I had low expectations of getting the OTA since this seems like a generic cover all bases message from Samsung. Before running Smart Switch I had went back to Samsung's stock recovery and unrooted.
Software Update
The operating system on your device had been modified in an unauthorized way. Try downloading software update using Smart Switch on your computer...
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It detected N910TUVS2EPG2 "July Security update" running on the phone. And offered to upgrade to EPJ2 "October Security update". I accepted, the app took some time to download a big update. I'm guessing it's the full 2GB note 4 stock image. After the download was complete the phone automatically rebooted to "Download Mode". Smart Switch pushed the update, booted, cache had be to rebuilt.
At this point I am on the EPJ2 ROM and EPJ2 modem firmware. Everything was back to stock but my data, apps, settings are completely intact. I had to disable a few apps like Amazon, Facebook, Flipboard, Google+, Hangouts, etc. which were re-enabled by the new ROM. All that was left to do was use Odin to install twrp and SuperSU. Kudos to Samsung for making it easy. :good: :highfive: