Hi, device is rooted, and clockworkmod recovery 6.0.4.5 installed.
ROM is JB, the official update from LG. Today device reported there is an update to the installed firmware.
I rebooted in CM recovery, took a nandroid backup, booted, and accepted to download the official update to my official JB rom. After downloading I was asked to reboot (in order to install), and the phone reboots to the CM recovery.
From there I don't know what to do. I have tried rebooting, but again find myself to the CM recovery. I have tried "reboot to bootloader" and get stuck at the LG boot screen logo with the message "Now Ready!" in tiny white letters on the upper left corner.
I would try "install zip" but I don't know where the downloaded update is (if it even is in an acceptable zip format)
Phone isn't bricked, I guess I can always restore from the recently taken backup, but I really would like to know if there is a way to install this update.
Thank you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50645445
Could you please please please try to search the next time I've seen this question for probably 3-4 times
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you can't ota over unlocked bl/cwm, you must flash update manually
moneyvirus said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50645445
Could you please please please try to search the next time I've seen this question for probably 3-4 times
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You're right, but you know, sometimes you just can't nail the right keywords especially if its not your native language. I searched, but obviously not good enough.
Rudjgaard said:
you can't ota over unlocked bl/cwm, you must flash update manually
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Sadly, this seems to be the case.. bummer.
Thanks everyone
Not even my nandroid backup can help me get to where I was before? So much for nandroid being the ultimate backup, a "snapshot image" of the device...
So, what if, I use CM recovery to install a custom rom, and then restore from my nandroid backup (being the official JB) ?
Flash with kdz flasher original ROM then flash cwm you can put back your backup. I think the problem starts that the update pushes something in the boot section that is expecting an other (read original) recovery . when you installed cwm it boots up cwm so that's why an nandroid backup doesn't work I think ( to be honest I'm not 100% sure this is correct)
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I can't even flash cyanogenmod???
I downloaded latest stable build, copied it to sd card, selected it from the CM recovery ("install zip"), installed fine, reboot, still stuck at CM recovery!!!
What gives?
EPa said:
I can't even flash cyanogenmod???
I downloaded latest stable build, copied it to sd card, selected it from the CM recovery ("install zip"), installed fine, reboot, still stuck at CM recovery!!!
What gives?
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Have you yet followed the advice and installed the KDZ?
Trying to avoid that, as it seems too much work for a phone that was working fine, and stuck to recovery due to some silly boot flag or something.
Saw it as a chance to try cyanogenmod. But it seems having CM recovery and the cyanogenmod rom on the sd card won't cut it! Talk about failure..
EPa said:
Trying to avoid that, as it seems too much work for a phone that was working fine, and stuck to recovery due to some silly boot flag or something.
Saw it as a chance to try cyanogenmod. But it seems having CM recovery and the cyanogenmod rom on the sd card won't cut it! Talk about failure..
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I don't think you will have a choice. If you created the nandroid backup on your SD card then you aren't going to lose it, so just flash the KDZ, root again and install your backup, or accept the LG update and rebuild all your software again.
Yes, one thing is for sure. I had to install the KDZ to be able to proceed with anything..
It's just funny having a working CWM recovery and a cyanogen rom on the device and after flashing it, still not having a device that boots. A "recovery"/flash tool, should be able to "recover" from such a situation..
EPa said:
Yes, one thing is for sure. I had to install the KDZ to be able to proceed with anything..
It's just funny having a working CWM recovery and a cyanogen rom on the device and after flashing it, still not having a device that boots. A "recovery"/flash tool, should be able to "recover" from such a situation..
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You can't blame the recovery. It is clearly stated many, many times that you should never attempt an official OTA update with a non-standard (rooted or recovery installed) device. On other devices you could even hard-brick AFAIK, so consider yourself lucky that you only had to reflash a KDZ and start again.
For restoring stock rom use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682146 I can confirm it works and it is (very) easy.
Yes that's what I used and I also confirm it works and is very easy.
Well guys... I'm afraid that I'm in big trouble at the moment.
Hopefully this might sound familiar and some smart guys can help me out.
This afternoon I flashed the latest version of the Galaxy Project ROM for the i9305. I came from v16.10, and some older version of Philz Recovery. Flashed everything with the Aroma installer, without any troubles, and it worked. During the installation process, I've selected to install the newest v6.48.4 of Philz.
After a few hours, I wanted to re-flash the rom again, because I didn't like the transparent theme. But.. whenever I flash it now, the process stops at "Setting permissions". Then the phone shuts down, and reboots into recovery. Tried with both Philz and CWM recovery, latest versions and slightly older. Don't know that the issue is, recovery problem?
With the new versions of these recoveries, there is no more " fix permissions" option, that would be my first idea.
I cannot restore my older back-up, which sucks. And I really don't want to perform a "clean install" with losing all my files, as I just came back from half a year in South Africa and all my photos are still on my internal SD
Hopefully someone can help me out
Regards
EDIT: Turns out that I got this issue also if I try to flash other roms.
If I flash a stock version of Android 4.3 via Odin, do I keep all my photos? Can anyone confirm this?
Odin shouldn't touch internal storage, unless you explicitly tell it to.
I have a Lenovo K3 Note K50-t3s and I'm in a need of a stock ROM because the ROM that came with is a custom ROM (it's a second-hand phone). I went to this page, https://forum.xda-developers.com/k3-note/general/official-firmware-lenovo-k3-note-direct-t3326424 and downloaded the latest ROM in the "K50-t3s - Full ROM – DEV" part. After downloading, I went to extract it. But as soon as my 7-Zip shows the .zip's contents, it looks like it's an OTA update package, crud...I thought it was meant to be flashed through SP Flash Tool. I then copied the package to the internal storage and tried to install it through stock recovery, but it fails. I've tried other ROMs like the K50-T5, but it just leads to the disappearing of the System Update option in Settings > About phone (I believe that is what causing it to disappear). Not yet tried the K50a40, but I'm expecting it will do the same thing to the System Update option. I think by flashing the "real" ROM, then the System Update appears. So, how am I going to use the .zip I've downloaded to restore the phone when it fails through stock recovery and is not flashable through SP Flash Tool? I need at least an answer to "how to use that "failing" OTA package" or "where can I find the SP Flash Tool flashable K50-t3s ROM". Out of all phones I've unbricked, this is the hardest...
ok so basically i rooted my phone some time ago and it went kinda fine, after some time i realized i didn't really need it and i unrooted it just now with superSU, when doing so, superSU asked me if i wanted to return to the stock ROM, and i said yes, since i had an update to do, and you can't do those via OTA with a custom rom i think, anyways i said yes and unrooted my phone, the i proceded to delete lucky patcher, twrp, and everything root related, even after all this, after downloading the update my phone gets stuck in a bootloop and i have to press power+volumeup+volumedown to go into recovery mode (i think that's recovery mode?) and here it starts the update, after 5%, it says it failed and i have to reboot, how do i even check if i have my stock rom back?
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ok so basically i rooted my phone some time ago and it went kinda fine, after some time i realized i didn't really need it and i unrooted it just now with superSU, when doing so, superSU asked me if i wanted to return to the stock ROM, and i said yes, since i had an update to do, and you can't do those via OTA with a custom rom i think, anyways i said yes and unrooted my phone, the i proceded to delete lucky patcher, twrp, and everything root related, even after all this, after downloading the update my phone gets stuck in a bootloop and i have to press power+volumeup+volumedown to go into recovery mode (i think that's recovery mode?) and here it starts the update, after 5%, it says it failed and i have to reboot, how do i even check if i have my stock rom back?
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Because you have not flashed the stock boot. Use dload method to boot to stock rom now. You may flash the same build number or the one with ota.
Hi...
I have no idea how exatly how, but I might have bricked my galaxy. I installed LineageOS 19 and got the recent update and ofc. it didn't boot after (bootloop). I wiped it using twrp and installed the "first" version I tried again. Will boot untill I try installing gapps.
I have looked around and tried restoring using odin. The Download Mode screen says "unsupported version" in the cornor.
Soo now I'm looking for someone with a backup with a stock firmware so I can use that to get everything working again
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Many thanks, a lost s10 user (Simon)