Wireless Moot

[SnydersWeb]

I dont know how to do that... This is partially why i didnt want to do this. Too much crap just to update to ICS when Motorola should be doing it for me.

Linux should have a built in command line that will let you quickly get the MD5 of it. Just do a quick search.. Sam posted the checksum for the download, make sure they match - biggest thing is you want to protect yourself. Be slow, be methodical, be careful and you'll arrive alive.

I've run Gentoo and one neat thing about the portage system on that is it automatically checks downloaded files against the MD5's it has in the database. No match - it fails it instantly. It does this to protect you.

 

[Dave12308]

I dont know how to do that... This is partially why i didnt want to do this. Too much crap just to update to ICS when Motorola should be doing it for me.

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM - just use the .zip filename instead of the Linux .iso filename, and compare with the hashes Sam posted.

 

[Lodmot]

Already found the md5. Gonna go to the faq and see if it matches

 

[SnydersWeb]

Already found the md5. Gonna go to the faq and see if it matches

if you have already extracted the contents out and and you're looking at Sam's scripts you may also find the md5 checksum for the update file itself.

HoB checks the uploaded file on your phone against a known hash to further reduce the chance of bricking.

 

[Lodmot]

Yeah, but like I said, unless I want to install ****ty Windows 8 on my laptop (which I don't want to), I can't really run HoB here...

I checked the MD5 of the zip file itself, but it didn't match with the one on the faq.

 

[Dave12308]

Yeah, but like I said, unless I want to install ****ty Windows 8 on my laptop (which I don't want to), I can't really run HoB here...

I checked the MD5 of the zip file itself, but it didn't match with the one on the faq.

This is mine: 2d2bab2011e6e358a27df46cff951690 - assuming you mean you checked the MD5 of Blur_Version.5.9.905.XT875.Verizon.en.US(67246).zip

 

[Lodmot]

This is mine: 2d2bab2011e6e358a27df46cff951690 - assuming you mean you checked the MD5 of Blur_Version.5.9.905.XT875.Verizon.en.US(67246).zip

Match confirmed. Proceeding to Step 2.

 

[Dave12308]

Match confirmed. Proceeding to Step 2.

Good luck, friend. I may be asleep by the time you finish. Just copy it to your external SD card, reboot the phone into stock recovery, and select the option to install a .zip file from the sdcard. Pick the option to choose a zip file, and you'll be on your way.

 

[Lodmot]

Good luck, friend. I may be asleep by the time you finish. Just copy it to your external SD card, reboot the phone into stock recovery, and select the option to install a .zip file from the sdcard. Pick the option to choose a zip file, and you'll be on your way.

Very well.

Copying zip to SD card.......... OK.
Battery charged...................... OK.
Now Rebooting phone.............

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[Dave12308]

The nice thing about the Moto .zip files is that checking the MD5 is basically an added safeguard, a corrupt file will fail its own self-check before installing, anyways. But it's always good to confirm, if nothing else, it saves the time of TRYING to install a bad .zip

 

[Lodmot]

The nice thing about the Moto .zip files is that checking the MD5 is basically an added safeguard, a corrupt file will fail its own self-check before installing, anyways. But it's always good to confirm, if nothing else, it saves the time of TRYING to install a bad .zip

Yeah, I agree. Doesn't happen too often thankfully. ^^

 

[Dave12308]

By the way, installing the update takes quite some time, so don't think it's going badly if it seems to be "hung" on a certain step in recovery. As long as it doesn't abort with an error, you are golden. Don't forget to clear your cache partition before you reboot.

 

[Lodmot]

By the way, installing the update takes quite some time, so don't think it's going badly if it seems to be "hung" on a certain step in recovery. As long as it doesn't abort with an error, you are golden. Don't forget to clear your cache partition before you reboot.

What does clearing the cache partition do? o.o

 

[Dave12308]

Yeah, I agree. Doesn't happen too often thankfully. ^^

I actually had a failure the first time I tried to install .905 after discovering the leak. But it was an incompatibility with Safestrap. I should have uninstalled it, instead I switched to my non-safe partition and took the update. Turns out Safestrap uses one of the partitions that the update checks. So the update simply didn't install. I was able to boot back into .902 with no issue, and uninstalled Safestrap.

 

[Kam2001]

I successfully completed the upgrade to ICS thanks to HoB. Consider me another happy customer!:biggrin: