Hi,
I am trying to update my phone to an OTA update from HTC that will bring my phone up to Android 4.3 and Sense 5. When I try to install it, my phone boots into Twerp v.2.6.0.1. I go to Install - Download Folder and click on the OTA file and then Swipe to Flash. It Fails and the last line above Failed is Updating Partition Table. Can someone help me?
Also, I noticed I wasn't running the latest version of Twerp. I was goin to download it but I can't recall whether I have the International version or AT&T version of the phone. Is there a quick way for me to figure that out? (if i need the updated Twerp).
Thanks.
John
Are you trying to do the OTA from within the OS or flashing a zip? If you try to do OTA from within the OS, it'll boot to TWERP because you're not supposed to do OTAs with a custom recovery. If you're trying to flash a zip though, it should work fine.
As far as I know, TWERP is the same for the international version and the AT&T version (only Sprint is different), anyway you can get all your essential info using this:
reboot to bootloader, then into fastboot
fastboot getvar all
Should give you all the information. Hope this helps!
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Hi there...
I am running a stock ROM software number 1.29.708.4, Android version 4.1.2
I have successfully rooted my HTC ONE to use some Superuser features but never installed an alternative ROM. Now the OTA update 4.2.2 is coming in, which I would like to install. I learned that I cannot install OTA updates on an unlocked phone,so I tried following this guide here to re-lock the phone and then flash it again to install the OTA.
So my first question: Isn't it easier to simply flash the target version of the OTA? Is there a way to get to the 400MB large update and install it with the current bootloader/recovery? The software update that is being downloaded is version 2.24.708.4
So according to the instruction linked above, I installed fastboot, HTC Sync and relocked the bootloader successfully. Then I downloaded the RUU EXE file here and tried to start it while the phone was in the USB fastboot, but the RUU starts and then silently dies without ever showing any activity. I assume this is not normal, but I do not know what and how to change there.
The other thing that makes me think is I read that I need to "Flash a stock recovery". Is that the same as flashing a 1GB large RUU? Or is there a simpler way to just flash the recovery software? If so, where do I get that?
Hello, I would very much appreciate any help provided.
I just got a moto x developer edition gsm. I'll be using it on tmobile.
I've rooted lots of android phones and have never had this many problems. I tried a lot of different things on these forums and have had some success but i'm stuck now.
I was able to unlock the bootloader using motorola's site. I also have TWRP recovery installed (2.6.3.1). Currently the phone has 4.2.2 (build 13.9.0Q2.x-116-x-17-57) and its rooted, working fine.
The moral of the story is that i'm unable to update to 4.4. I've tried the OTA update twice and it downloads fine, then reboots to twrp to install it and it fails, saying something about its not ghost. Although in my system version it does say ghost. I also downloaded the 4.4 rom and manually tried to install it using twrp, also fails.
I'm not totally sure if the rom i'm on now is the same one that the phone came with. The rom that's on it now was obtained from this page:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=0
(Android 4.2.2 Blur_Version.139.12.57.ghost_row.Retail.en.US) for t-mobile US
Please help me be able to update to 4.4 and ideally keep root.
Jay10826 said:
Hello, I would very much appreciate any help provided.
I just got a moto x developer edition gsm. I'll be using it on tmobile.
I've rooted lots of android phones and have never had this many problems. I tried a lot of different things on these forums and have had some success but i'm stuck now.
I was able to unlock the bootloader using motorola's site. I also have TWRP recovery installed (2.6.3.1). Currently the phone has 4.2.2 (build 13.9.0Q2.x-116-x-17-57) and its rooted, working fine.
The moral of the story is that i'm unable to update to 4.4. I've tried the OTA update twice and it downloads fine, then reboots to twrp to install it and it fails, saying something about its not ghost. Although in my system version it does say ghost. I also downloaded the 4.4 rom and manually tried to install it using twrp, also fails.
I'm not totally sure if the rom i'm on now is the same one that the phone came with. The rom that's on it now was obtained from this page:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=0
(Android 4.2.2 Blur_Version.139.12.57.ghost_row.Retail.en.US) for t-mobile US
Please help me be able to update to 4.4 and ideally keep root.
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You need to be stock, unrooted, with stock recovery to take the OTA. Use the sbf you have to flash back your stock system and recovery and you should be good to go to accept the update.
Jay10826 said:
The moral of the story is that i'm unable to update to 4.4. I've tried the OTA update twice and it downloads fine, then reboots to twrp to install it and it fails, saying something about its not ghost. Although in my system version it does say ghost. I also downloaded the 4.4 rom and manually tried to install it using twrp, also fails..
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that is your problem. The OTA installs will not install via 3rd party recovery like TWRP and CWM.
fastboot flash the stock recovery back on your phone and try the OTA.
Thanks for the help guys, going back to completely stock enabled me to get to 4.4. After that luckily I found out that rooting and installing twrp was very simple, unlike all the info i was reading in the developer forum. All set now
Why didn't you flash the official firmware manually using fastboot? Once done, boot into Android and run adb reboot bootloader. Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img, select recovery, adb push su.zip /sdcard/, flash su.zip, adb reboot?
I rooted my HTC One a while ago.
Recently, I got the request from my phone to preform a system update. I wasn't used to my phone being rooted and forgot it was rooted and preformed the update. When the update tried to install, it opened up my recovery (ClockworkMod Recovery) and rebooted my phone (I guess this is the normal reaction).
I really like my phone to be up-to-date. How can I get the official 4.4.2. update on my phone?
(If necessary, I wouldn't mind losing my root access in the process as long as I can root back after the update. However, I would prefer my Bootloader to remain unlocked so I won't have to format again.)
I am very interested in Android, but i know very little about things like this so please, if you know how, explain it to me step by step without leaving out little details.
Thanks in advance.
JellyFox said:
I rooted my HTC One a while ago.
Recently, I got the request from my phone to preform a system update. I wasn't used to my phone being rooted and forgot it was rooted and preformed the update. When the update tried to install, it opened up my recovery (ClockworkMod Recovery) and rebooted my phone (I guess this is the normal reaction).
I really like my phone to be up-to-date. How can I get the official 4.4.2. update on my phone?
(If necessary, I wouldn't mind losing my root access in the process as long as I can root back after the update. However, I would prefer my Bootloader to remain unlocked so I won't have to format again.)
I am very interested in Android, but i know very little about things like this so please, if you know how, explain it to me step by step without leaving out little details.
Thanks in advance.
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Many things are required to flash ota updates. First one is the stock recovery, you can't install an ota update with a custom recovery like cwm or twrp. So flash back the stock recovery that match the version you have on your phone. If you have modified or deleted files in /system, you'll have to revert those changes. The updater script of the ota update MD5 cheksum these files. If only 1 file doesn't match the expected value, the installation will fail. Same thing apply to preloaded app that get wiped when you unlock bootloader (calculator, flashlight etc...)
So first, flash your stock recovery and try to install the ota. If it doesn't work, post the output of ''fastboot getvar all'' (except imei/sn) and we will check what you can do to updates your phone
alray said:
Many things are required to flash ota updates. First one is the stock recovery, you can't install an ota update with a custom recovery like cwm or twrp. So flash back the stock recovery that match the version you have on your phone. If you have modified or deleted files in /system, you'll have to revert those changes. The updater script of the ota update MD5 cheksum these files. If only 1 file doesn't match the expected value, the installation will fail. Same thing apply to preloaded app that get wiped when you unlock bootloader (calculator, flashlight etc...)
So first, flash your stock recovery and try to install the ota. If it doesn't work, post the output of ''fastboot getvar all'' (except imei/sn) and we will check what you can do to updates your phone
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Thank you for the reply.
I wasn't able to try this since my phone broke down and i had to return it to the store.
(The person working there knew what he was talking about and was familiar with Bootloader.)
I will use your info if i ever need it again.
Guys, I have 901E and on android 4.4 with sense 5.5, my device is rooted, bootloader unlocked and S-ON, I am trying to update to Sense 6, as I received an OTA update, as I did before, I returned back to stock ROM that available in this article (DLXPUL_TW_1.21.709.3.zip), then downloading the OTA directly from device, but currently when the update finish, device keeps going on boot loop, (starting device>>>hTC logo appear>>>then restart again), I need to flash boot image from the OTA file in order to bypass this issue......
please advise
EDIT: when updating from 4.2.2 to 4.3 (stuck on boot loop, need to flash boot.img)
when updating from 4.3 to 4.4.2 w/sense 5.5 stuck on the white screen with htc logo and beats audio
I made the same procedure before when I got 4.4.2 update with Sense 5.5 as I was also rooted on 4.3, please help, I might forget some steps....
Guys please advise......
Bareq said:
Guys please advise......
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Well, I, for one, can't help you because from your first post it is not clear at all what you did and what went wrong. Or what exactly you need from us. If you need the firmware image to flash, then just download the OTA package linked elsewhere in this forum, and extract the firmware from there. If you need more help, be more clear.
koniiiik said:
Well, I, for one, can't help you because from your first post it is not clear at all what you did and what went wrong. Or what exactly you need from us. If you need the firmware image to flash, then just download the OTA package linked elsewhere in this forum, and extract the firmware from there. If you need more help, be more clear.
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koniiiik thanks for your reply, let try to make it more clear....
- what I want: want to update my current version of Android.
- what I had before: Android 4.4.2 with Sense 5.5 and want to update to 4.4.2 with Sense 6 (as I received a notification to update).
- what modification I had: bootloader unlocked with htcdev, device is rooted, S-ON and TWRP installed.
- what I did: I flashed the stock ROM for my device (Android 4.2.2) in order to remove root and return to stock recovery and a complete stock ROM.
- why I did the last step: in order to get the OTA directly from device one by one (from 4.2.2 w/sense5 then 4.3 w/sense5.5 then 4.4.2 w/sense 5.5 and finally to 4.4.2 w/sense6).
- what I got: after flashing the stock ROM (Android 4.2.2 w/sense5) through TWRP, device works fine.
- then after downloading the OTA (4.3 w/sense 5.5) device stuck on bootloop
- what I did to bypass this issue: flashing boot.img from the OTA file.
- what I did next: downloaded the OTA (4.4.2 w/sense5.5) directly from the device, and install it.
- what I got: stuck on the white screen with htc logo (please not colors are not correct on the htc logo)
- what I did: tried to flash the boot.img from the OTA file, but this cannot help (just the colors are fine now)
- what is my question: why I need to flash boot.img as mentioned above? and how to get the 4.4.2 with sense 5.5 work (please be informed that I did the same steps to update to android 4.4.2 with sense 5.5 and everything works fine without any issues and no need to flash the boot.img as I mentioned before)
Bareq said:
koniiiik thanks for your reply, let try to make it more clear....
- what I want: want to update my current version of Android.
- what I had before: Android 4.4.2 with Sense 5.5 and want to update to 4.4.2 with Sense 6 (as I received a notification to update).
- what modification I had: bootloader unlocked with htcdev, device is rooted, S-ON and TWRP installed.
- what I did: I flashed the stock ROM for my device (Android 4.2.2) in order to remove root and return to stock recovery and a complete stock ROM.
- why I did the last step: in order to get the OTA directly from device one by one (from 4.2.2 w/sense5 then 4.3 w/sense5.5 then 4.4.2 w/sense 5.5 and finally to 4.4.2 w/sense6).
- what I got: after flashing the stock ROM (Android 4.2.2 w/sense5) through TWRP, device works fine.
- then after downloading the OTA (4.3 w/sense 5.5) device stuck on bootloop
- what I did to bypass this issue: flashing boot.img from the OTA file.
- what I did next: downloaded the OTA (4.4.2 w/sense5.5) directly from the device, and install it.
- what I got: stuck on the white screen with htc logo (please not colors are not correct on the htc logo)
- what I did: tried to flash the boot.img from the OTA file, but this cannot help (just the colors are fine now)
- what is my question: why I need to flash boot.img as mentioned above? and how to get the 4.4.2 with sense 5.5 work (please be informed that I did the same steps to update to android 4.4.2 with sense 5.5 and everything works fine without any issues and no need to flash the boot.img as I mentioned before)
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How did you install the OTA updates? Did you flash the stock recovery first, or were you trying to do that with TWRP? Did you try to download and install OTA updates by hand or did you let the phone itself download and install them? What are the precise version numbers involved? I'm not just interested in numbers such as 4.2.2, 4.3 or 4.4, but the full version string of the ROM, in each step. It sounds to me like you're trying to mix different branches of the system.
koniiiik said:
How did you install the OTA updates? Did you flash the stock recovery first, or were you trying to do that with TWRP? Did you try to download and install OTA updates by hand or did you let the phone itself download and install them? What are the precise version numbers involved? I'm not just interested in numbers such as 4.2.2, 4.3 or 4.4, but the full version string of the ROM, in each step. It sounds to me like you're trying to mix different branches of the system.
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my friend I am not trying to mix anything, I just flashed ROM version 1.21.709.3 as mentioned above which it is available in the butterfly s General section through TWRP as mentioned also in the instructions in order to return back to stock, means stock ROM and recovery, then leaving the phone to download and install updates by itself
Bareq said:
my friend I am not trying to mix anything, I just flashed ROM version 1.21.709.3 as mentioned above which it is available in the butterfly s General section through TWRP as mentioned also in the instructions in order to return back to stock, means stock ROM and recovery, then leaving the phone to download and install updates by itself
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In that case I don't know. You might try to use the latest stock recovery, when installing the 3.06.708.3 update on my phone I found that I had to use the recovery from that update; using anything older just failed.
Hello, Again.
I postes earlier today about loading tve 5.1 update on ny rooted N6 w/o a computar or adb method. I got no answer, so i assume it isnt posible.
However, since i am rooted stock 5.0.1 with TWRP recovery, i should be able to flash a custom rom without issue.
So ny question is:
If i flash a custom rom, will i be able to flash tve stock 5.1 over it and not use adb?
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Flash tve?
I'm not sure what you're asking. To flash OTA via direct download or via adb, you must be 100% stock. No root, no custom recovery.
If you want to retain your data and get to almost any version of 5 .1 download the toolkit, select the version would like to go to, select retain userdata and go. If you need help;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/toolkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-9-8-t2947452
I think the only caveat is the T Mobile version you have to be on stock recovery and on a particular version to take the OTA and there is no factory image for that one yet. But you could use the tool kit to get to that version then used to sideload option to force the OTA.
Sent from my Google N6 on VZ