New OTA pushing now

[Kmcferrin]

Wow. Three days into it and I still haven't seen the update yet. I've tried rebooting my phone and still nothing.

At first I wondered if I had rooted the phone at some point in the past and then failed to remove root correctly, so I downloaded a couple of apps that required root access and they all barked that they couldn't run due to lack of root. So I'm pretty sure that's not it.

Any suggestions on how to get the update OTA? I'd still rather do that than download a separate installation from a source that I don't know.

 

[coastrider#AC]

I normally wait for the OTA, but since this is my work phone I didn't feel like waiting for Verizon's phased release. So as per mmaestro's thread, you can download the update zip from the XDA forum, copy it to your SD card, then apply it in recovery. It was the first time I've done it and it was a piece of cake. I kept all of my data and settings and it was non-eventful. I only had to adjust a few widgets and do some updates, but really simple. Even my corporate email kept working fine. Also, I'm bone stock- not rooted, nor unlocked.

 

[Moo Cow]

How do you get into recovery? I can't seem to get it to go into that mode.

 

[piratefan]

Once at the "triangle screen" press the up AND don volume buttons for a few seconds. This brings up a new menu.

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[Moo Cow]

Once at the "triangle screen" press the up AND don volume buttons for a few seconds. This brings up a new menu.

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I can't even get there. I admit I am at work right now, so I am quite a bit distracted, but I have no clue how to reboot in recovery.

 

[piratefan]

Turn the phone off. Once completely off, press and hold the volume up AND down buttons and press power. On the menu that pops up choose "recovery". On the next screen, follow my previous instructions. Choose "update from sd", then navigate to the appropriate location.

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[Moo Cow]

Turn the phone off. Once completely off, press and hold the volume up AND down buttons and press power. On the menu that pops up choose "recovery". On the next screen, follow my previous instructions. Choose "update from sd", then navigate to the appropriate location.

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Ahhhh. You pointed out a key step I had missed because another website didn't say it. I didn't know it had to be powered off. It said to power it off using both volume keys held down. Big difference. Big big difference.

Now I'm moving right along.

 

[Moo Cow]

Okay wow everything looks spiffy. I need to tweak a few things on appearance, since before there were four icons at the bottom taskbar and now there's five (it gave me "People" twice lol), but overall it seems nice. I'll be checking it out several different things over time, as I just updated a lot of stuff. We'll see how it goes. But not an issue to speak of on the initial lookover.

 

[piratefan]

Download Chrome from Google Play.

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[Kmcferrin]

So as per mmaestro's thread, you can download the update zip from the XDA forum, copy it to your SD card, then apply it in recovery.

Yeah, I know XDA and all, but I'm also really paranoid about security. If I download it from XDA, I have no way of really knowing what's in the ROM. If it comes OTA via Moto/VZW then at least I'll know it's "official" without anyone sticking in funny backdoors in it.

 

[piratefan]

If it comes from XDA you can pretty much bank on it being legit.

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[pstokely]

Turn the phone off. Once completely off, press and hold the volume up AND down buttons and press power. On the menu that pops up choose "recovery". On the next screen, follow my previous instructions. Choose "update from sd", then navigate to the appropriate location.

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Will OTA rootkeeper still work at re-rooting the phone after the installation?

 

[piratefan]

This is a non-rooted version so I doubt it. OTA keeps the phone from downloading the update from the carrier. You're essentially sideloading the update in this case, so you'll probably break root.

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[neiromn]

I got tired of waiting for the OTA to push so I found a good a copy that seems to be the official ICS package. I flashed last night using RSDLite 5.7 and everything is working just fine.

Here is the step by step of what I did Last night.
Android 4.0.4 System Version 6.16.217
6.7.2-180_DR4-16_M2-37
Blur_Version.6.16.217.XT894.Verizon.en.US

1. Download the upgrade package (803.5 MB)
2. Download and install RSDLite 5.7
3. Download and install the Motorola USB Drivers
4. Power off your phone
5. Connect your phone to your PC with USB cable.
6. Hold the volume up, volume down, and power buttons at the same time until you see the bootloader menu
7. Use the volume down button to navigate to "AP Fastboot" then use the volume up button to select it
8. Open RSDLite, press the "..." button at the top, and select the image .zip file
9. Select "Decompress And Start Flashing" and wait for the process to finish (it will take around 30-40 minutes)
10. During this time the phone will reboot and you should see the Android upgrading screen followed by another reboot and loading into initial phone setup once ICS starts.

MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS FULLY CHARGED BEFORE YOU DO THIS!
To my knowledge there is no way to return to gingerbread once you do this update.
Take note that I did this upgrade after flashing back to a stock gingerbread package, I do not know if it works with rooted/modded setups. if anyone tries this out on rooted or modded please let us know.

 

[reggieoto]

I got tired of waiting for the OTA to push so I found a good a copy that seems to be the official ICS package. I flashed last night using RSDLite 5.7 and everything is working just fine.

Here is the step by step of what I did Last night.
Android 4.0.4 System Version 6.16.217
6.7.2-180_DR4-16_M2-37
Blur_Version.6.16.217.XT894.Verizon.en.US

1. Download the upgrade package (803.5 MB)
2. Download and install RSDLite 5.7
3. Download and install the Motorola USB Drivers
4. Power off your phone
5. Connect your phone to your PC with USB cable.
6. Hold the volume up, volume down, and power buttons at the same time until you see the bootloader menu
7. Use the volume down button to navigate to "AP Fastboot" then use the volume up button to select it
8. Open RSDLite, press the "..." button at the top, and select the image .zip file
9. Select "Decompress And Start Flashing" and wait for the process to finish (it will take around 30-40 minutes)
10. During this time the phone will reboot and you should see the Android upgrading screen followed by another reboot and loading into initial phone setup once ICS starts.

MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS FULLY CHARGED BEFORE YOU DO THIS!
To my knowledge there is no way to return to gingerbread once you do this update.
Take note that I did this upgrade after flashing back to a stock gingerbread package, I do not know if it works with rooted/modded setups. if anyone tries this out on rooted or modded please let us know.

This method worked perfectly. Thanks

 

[Kmcferrin]

So I'm not the only one still waiting on this via OTA? That's somewhat comforting.

 

[the9thwonder]

I've been checking for updates since I read this thread 2 days ago, still nothing.

I'm in AZ if it matters.

 

[mmaestro]

I've been checking for updates since I read this thread 2 days ago, still nothing. .

VZW is notoriously slow in pushing updates. I wouldn't expect them to finish pushing this to everyone for 4-6 weeks. FWIW, I work in an office of 30 people and everyone was issued a Droid 4, and only 2 of us have ICS. And we both manually forced the update.

 

[Moo Cow]

So how in the world do you connect the phone to the computer now? I can't find a mass USB storage option.

EDIT: Scratch that. It was the wire I was using.

 

[delrey1900]

No OTA yet, ChicagoLand!