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Ota 6.12.173
- Thread starter Jungle King 76
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My update went without a hitch, simply a matter of following the directions in the thread. I did, however, ensure my Razr met the requirements noted at the top of the instructions. I was looking forward to the better radio signal, but have noticed it is actually worse than before. If it continues to show a degredation from previously I will post more information and how I resolved the issue. Hopefully it's just a transient/fluke issue that I can resolve fairly easily.
I think coincidence is the right word, unless you also suffered a failed upgrade like me.
I am going to run the .173 downgrade to see if I can get the radios working again in .748, and if that doesn't work, I'll go back to .744 through Fastboot and start over. I did clear cache but that didn't solve the problem either so there was something the upgrade didn't like about my phone. The downgrade is running at the moment, I'll report back with my results there and we'll see how it goes.
Downgrade to 748 was SUCCESSFUL, and the 4G and 3G radios woke immediately. Ironically, the phone started ringing almost immediately after getting a signal and I though something was REALLY screwed up, but fortunately it was my wifey calling!
I did follow the instructions but there is some confusion regarding the safestrap.
When I read the instructions, it mentions "***IF YOU HAVE EVER USED HASHCODES SAFESTRAP... STOP HERE AND DO A FULL RSD!!***". Further down in the instructions, it mentions "Step 2: Disable Safestrap via the app. You do not have to remove the apk itself, but the system needs to be disabled.", so I don't know if the "safestrap" that I was running was "hashcodes" or not, but I don't remember seeing that name, so since I did have Safestrap running I did the shut-down on line 2, but I don't believe I had "hashcodes" safestrap. If I did, that may be the reason for the failure.
I decided to follow the 1 through 9 instructions. The upgrade went well until I hit the LTE portion.
Perhaps someone can clarify the difference between the big warning at the top and the very gentle instruction number 2.
In the mean time, I may simply RSD to Fastboot and try again when I have more time. For now, I need the connectivity so I will stay with 748 at least through the day today.
UPDATE: It seems as though perhaps SOME of the upgrades stuck, or perhaps I never realized they've been there all along, but in maps, by tapping the Compass icon at the top right corner, I can now "tilt" the view or perspective as though I am looking at the ground at an angle such as if I was flying rather than straight down.
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I was using Camera Zoom FX as my default camera program, but now I am considering going back to the stock Camera program.
Jungle King 76
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When using safestrap, some system files are changed which is why the uodate would fail. I have heard some say they had no issues updating even with safestrap but I had to fastboot back to 744.
Safestrap is by hashcodes. He created the program.
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I do appreciate the information, and I also asked this question on DroidRzr.com and got the same answer. This brings me to the question of why even mention hashcodes? If safestrap is safestrap, simply say "***IF YOU HAVE EVER USED SAFESTRAP... STOP HERE AND DO A FULL RSD!!***"? This would have prevented me from misunderstanding the "apparent" conflicting information between the warning and step 2, and the resulting belief that "hashcodes safestrap" and "safestrap" are two different things, and I would NOT have proceeded to the step 2. Instead I would have done the RSD to 744 first and wouldn't have landed in the quagmire that I did. :blink:
Fortunately I was able to use the roll-back and get working radios again today. I'll RSD and flash tonight.
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Running RSD to Fastboot into .744 right now. Will then do the .748 upgrade, root, Voodoo OTA Root protect, then flash recovery on new .173, and finally restore root. Just rebooted from RSD so here goes!!
Jungle King 76
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Jungle King 76
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Running RSD to Fastboot into .744 right now. Will then do the .748 upgrade, root, Voodoo OTA Root protect, then flash recovery on new .173, and finally restore root. Just rebooted from RSD so here goes!!
Good luck. I am sure you will like the new upgrades.
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Running RSD to Fastboot into .744 right now. Will then do the .748 upgrade, root, Voodoo OTA Root protect, then flash recovery on new .173, and finally restore root. Just rebooted from RSD so here goes!!
Currently doing the .748 OTA upgrade download...
Thanks, I am hoping it all goes well this time. Last time, I didn't understand the Safestrap requirement to RSD Fastboot to .744 first...and then OTA to .748, so I did a straight upgrade to .173 and it failed leaving me with no cellular or GPS radios.
Fortunately WIFI still worked. I was able to recover by doing the downgrade to 748, but I had to start over to do the upgrade...so, back to the drawing board.
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Well, apparently the update to .173 the first time around killed root and even though I RSD'd back to .744 with Fastboot and then OTA'd to ,748, I can't get root back. Voodoo Root Keeper didn't work and I ran both V2 & V4 of the Doomlord's root at least a dozen times, each time trying all different "fixes" (unplug and plug USB, switch from USB development and back, reboot of PC & of phone), but all attempts were not successful. So I simply ran the update to .173 again and at least this time it appears to have taken successfully, or at least didn't fail during the update. I am rebooting now. I'll check radios and GPS in a moment.
Update: So the phone booted with a window telling me I had removed the SIM card (which of course - I didn't) and that I had to re-enter my password to authenticate. The only problem is neither of the two selections I had for usernames (email addresses) were my Gmail email address so I was unable to authenticate. So now I am resetting the phone.
Update: So the phone booted with a window telling me I had removed the SIM card (which of course - I didn't) and that I had to re-enter my password to authenticate. The only problem is neither of the two selections I had for usernames (email addresses) were my Gmail email address so I was unable to authenticate. So now I am resetting the phone.
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Jungle King 76
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Wow, sounds like your phone is just not cooperating. Odd that after fastbooting you couldn't root. I have been really messing with my phone and experimenting and have fastbooted back to 744 like three times now and root has not been an issue. I have had my rough moments but in the end i have been able to recover fully.
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