Unrooted and now can't update

[jason1mc]

Kept getting dialog that I needed to update. So unrooted my phone (wasn't really doing that much anyway). Unroot went great - thanks Skunkape.

Now when I go to Android System Update, it says it's "downloaded and verified: 157.7 mb" but when I hit restart and Install... it counts down but doesn't do anything...

Thanks!

 

[seanskiT1]

Kept getting dialog that I needed to update. So unrooted my phone (wasn't really doing that much anyway). Unroot went great - thanks Skunkape.

Now when I go to Android System Update, it says it's "downloaded and verified: 157.7 mb" but when I hit restart and Install... it counts down but doesn't do anything...

Thanks!

Have you checked in the about phone and verified if the baseband ends with MD4 or not? If does then it is updated. If not see below.

Since you have unrooted I am gonna say you are on stock recovery. If so go here and see post #1

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=2730989

sent from my GS3 running Wicked

 

[Golfdriver97]

Kept getting dialog that I needed to update. So unrooted my phone (wasn't really doing that much anyway). Unroot went great - thanks Skunkape.

Now when I go to Android System Update, it says it's "downloaded and verified: 157.7 mb" but when I hit restart and Install... it counts down but doesn't do anything...

Thanks!

My guess is when your phone had a bad download of part of the file. I would follow the update method that seanskiT1 linked, and go from there.

 

[jason1mc]

Can i just factory reset?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Can i just factory reset?

It wouod be best to follow the post and apply thenupdate manually. In actuality it woukd be easiest.

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[gollum18]

Could you do us a favor and go to settings - > about phone - > status, scroll all the way down and if device status says "modified" the update will fail. To get it back to stock you have to restore with the len ota Odin file and upgrade back.

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[Ramer84015]

Could you do us a favor and go to settings - > about phone - > status, scroll all the way down and if device status says "modified" the update will fail. To get it back to stock you have to restore with the len ota Odin file and upgrade back.

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IMO, you don't have to restore. Thanks to KennyGlass, developer of The People's Rom, you can flash this file to get your GS3 to report Status: Normal

 

[meyerweb#CB]

That changes the value displayed, but it doesn't really reset the device to normal. I don't think the OTA will be fooled by that.

 

[Golfdriver97]

If I may, you don't have to restore. Thanks to KennyGlass, developer of The People's Rom, you can flash this file to get your GS3 to report Status: Normal

I am inclined to agree with meyer. Rooting adds lines of code, which the OTA looks for.

Sent from a M.O.A.R. Galaxy S3

 

[seanskiT1]

I am inclined to agree with meyer. Rooting adds lines of code, which the OTA looks for.

Sent from a M.O.A.R. Galaxy S3

Same here

sent from my GS3 running Wicked

 

[Ramer84015]

As always, I'm wrong. I bow to the superior knowledge of Ambassador Golfdriver97, ex-Ambassador meyerweb (hmm....) and seanskiT1. Should anyone who wants to try to help forum members run all posts through the three of you to get your blessing? Oh, and "Same here" is a very helpful post, trying to get your posts count up?

I expect to get banned now, so much for my First Amendment right.

 

[seanskiT1]

As always, I'm wrong. I bow to the superior knowledge of Ambassador Golfdriver97, ex-Ambassador meyerweb (hmm....) and seanskiT1. Should anyone who wants to try to help forum members run all posts through the three of you to get your blessing? Oh, and "Same here" is a very helpful post, trying to get your posts count up?

I expect to get banned now, so much for my First Amendment right.

I was just expressing that from what I've read, that we had the same understanding. I could care less about post counts. And definitely not gonna say you need to be banned. You've been as helpful as anyone else, and prolly more then me as I haven't been on here as long. If you find something from the xda forums that says different then I will gladly admit I was wrong.

sent from my GS3 running Wicked

 

[Golfdriver97]

As always, I'm wrong. I bow to the superior knowledge of Ambassador Golfdriver97, ex-Ambassador meyerweb (hmm....) and seanskiT1. Should anyone who wants to try to help forum members run all posts through the three of you to get your blessing? Oh, and "Same here" is a very helpful post, trying to get your posts count up?

I expect to get banned now, so much for my First Amendment right.

You don't have to be rude.
Rooting does add lines of code. That is why you have to add files when you root.
Status modified or not is irrelevant. I had a normal status on my S2 that was rooted. Every OTA update failed. I found out that was the reason on XDA.
Sent from a M.O.A.R. Galaxy S3

 

[Jennifer Stough]

Golfdriver is a member of the android central forums leadership team and deserves to be treated as such. He goes out of his way and spares HIS time to respond to and answer every thread that he can, and has done a wonderful job helping the members of our forums. He deserves your respect just as much as a moderator of this forum. Snarkiness and putting down of others will not be tolerated, and I suggest you take the time to review the rules before posting again.

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[Paul627g]

As always, I'm wrong. I bow to the superior knowledge of Ambassador Golfdriver97, ex-Ambassador meyerweb (hmm....) and seanskiT1. Should anyone who wants to try to help forum members run all posts through the three of you to get your blessing? Oh, and "Same here" is a very helpful post, trying to get your posts count up?

I expect to get banned now, so much for my First Amendment right.

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Paul627g
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[meyerweb#CB]

Ramer, the point wasn't that you were (or weren't) wrong, it was to provide the most helpful information for the members of this forum. You've provided lots of helpful answers here, but this one wasn't correct. None of us are perfect, and I've had to correct my own mistakes here, too.

And if you're really interested in why I'm an "ex-ambassador", feel free to PM me.

 

[Nick Karnes]

Hi guys, not sure if you are all done arguing, but I have a question regarding the file that I flashed to return my status to normal. After flashing it, I can no longer access my settings. Touchwiz is gone. I've tried installing other launchers, no such luck. Anyone have any suggestions? Trying to avoid a factory reset, and actually read somewhere else that it doesn't work anyway.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

It might help us to know what you did.

 

[parvus1202]

If you click the update on your phoe, settings: about device: software update, then yes it wont update. But if you update the firmware using kies then your phone will go back to normal. It will be unrooted again. That happened to me. I unrooted it to use GSM unlock, but when I update the firmware my phone is locked again. So I unrrot it again so I can unlock it again.