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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
Go into Superuser settings and check your permissions for the apps that don't work. You may have accidentally hit "Deny" instead of "Allow" on those apps. Also there should be a way to update your SU binaries in the superuser settings as well. Try that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
By the way my last response was suppose to be to you. I've tried to flash su several times with no luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
No sir that's not it. Not freaking out just a little odd.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
Try flashing the stock 4.0.2 system image in fastboot that I posted about a page back. Then run the su.zip file in CWM again.

EDIT: Flash stock 4.0.2 system using fastboot: Link
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cshort0982:
I have the same problem. SU Apps that were already installed worked fine just couldnt get any new downloads to work
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
Yeah that's odd... I don't really want to flash all the way back to a new system. There has got to be something easier.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cshort0982:
I just restored my nandroid everything is kosher
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
You won't lose your personal data. Besides, the 4.0.4 update will change your system partition either way. You just need to be on a completely 4.0.2 system before going up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
The way I understood I was completely stock, just rooted and unlocked. Does that not count? Been out of the game for a while.

Edit:Did you just restore a nandroid?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] superchunkwii:
Hi, new to the gnex. I'm completely stock and unrooted.

How would I go about installing this? Copy file to /sdcard? When I looked in the stock recovery I did not see a way to update from SD. Only from cache and I don't have root thus no access to cache... I think.

So I'm a little stumped.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
I can for sure tell you that my phone seems to run faster and smoother so I don't really wanna downgrade. Like I said I'm fairly new to Android seeing as I've been on a iPhone 4 and 4S since my og incredible and the D1 before that so I'm kind of clueless if there is anyway you could give me a qwik step by step I can do it easily. Lol I downloaded all 10GB of Google music to my phone so don't wanna lose that lol. I'd appreciate anything you can do:-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
Faster smoother and a hell of alot of signal strength! I think we have a winner. Forsure. Thanks op! Im steady at 4 bars on the ****ter :P used to get 1!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
Agreed!!! Now if I could just get friggin root back on a few random apps!!! Wtf!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mwalt2:
It's flashable via a custom recovery. You can install clockworkmod while in bootloader, press volume up and select recovery, flash the 4.0.4 OTA update, and reboot. The stock recovery will be re-written when you boot assuming you haven't messed with 'recovery-from-boot.p' under /system.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cshort0982:
People are saying use the GNEX toolkit and root using the 4.0.2 method
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] trpcltrbl:
I flashed the update and everything went fine until Writing CDMA Radio. Since then it said Installation Aborted and I went to reboot. It has been at the boot logo for a while now. I made a nandroid before. Anyone experiencing this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
+1

Did that and im good as gold :)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
Now root toolkit just hangs at waiting for USB debugging!!!!!wtf. Again not mad just confused.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oc3rulz:
i tried to push this to my fiance 100% stock device using:

adb push update.zip /cache/update.zip

I just get permission denied. I think you must be rooted to push this where it needs to go, which at that point you just install CWM and be done with it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mwalt2:
It hangs there for awhile because it's giving you time to check the box. I don't think there's anyway for it to know when it's checked or not, so it waits some amount of time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cshort0982:
+1

I just did it that way and worked well!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] will748:
So let me get this straight, if your are bone stock, locked boot loader, stock recovery, no root, you cannot install this update?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mistawolfe:
I flashed this over AOKP m3 with 4.0.3 radios/boot loader and it flashed just fine through CWM. Not sure why people say it doesn't work.

Also, for fun, I applied it from completely stock 4.0.2. No root for TB either, but got it for other apps. Just letting that one guy know he's not alone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oc3rulz:
so I tried flashing via fastboot and I get this:

C:\sdk>fastboot update c:\sdk\update.zip

archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'

archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'

error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt

I need the 100% stock OTA to be flashed through fastboot
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] swordrune10:
u cant fastboot it, its an ota.. has to be done thru recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
Here is the stock 4.0.4 kernel with the proper flags to set adb to root.

http://aospdev.com/rhcp/dev/404boot_root.img

Please thank if this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cosine83:
Just going to leave this right here. Full, flashable 4.0.4 zip

http://www.mydroidworld.com/index.html/_/articles/full-imm30b-update-not-the-ota-r73
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
That is not 4.0.4 at all. That is a hybrid like i posted on here.

100% lie. and you want proof? superuser.apk doesnt work on 4.0.4 (We even tested the superuser from his rom)

Do not flash this thing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
I'm using Superuser.apk on 4.0.4 right now. How do you think everyone else is getting rooted again?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
Quite hard to believe.

Full logcat:
E[/su ( 1950): sudb - Opening database
E/su ( 1950): sudb - Database opened
E/su ( 1950): sudb - Database closed
E/ActivityManager( 178): Activity Manager Crash
E/ActivityManager( 178): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URI type: 7
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.net.Uri$1.createFromParcel(Uri.java:1734)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.net.Uri$1.createFromParcel(Uri.java:1723)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.content.Intent.readFromParcel(Intent.java:6131)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.content.Intent.(Intent.java:6126)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.content.Intent.readFromParcel(Intent.java:6153)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.content.Intent.(Intent.java:6126)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.content.Intent$1.createFromParcel(Intent.java:6117)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.content.Intent$1.createFromParcel(Intent.java:6115)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.app.ActivityManagerNative.onTransact(ActivityManagerNative.java:298)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at .android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.onTransact(ActivityManagerService.java:1545)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:338)
E/ActivityManager( 178): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method)
E/su ( 1950): select failed with 2: No such file or directory
W/su ( 1950): request rejected (10071->0 /system/bin/sh)

Thats from 4.0.4. If you have superuser working you are not on true 4.0.4 or have some hacked superuser.apk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cosine83:
O rly? Shows up as 4.0.4 in DDMS and system info. Superuser works just fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
He is too good at fooling people :) What a good troll.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mark manning:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10279283-android-users-most-likely-to-use-phones-on-toilet?chromedomain=gadgetbox
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
Just took all these screenshots for you:

Not enough proof? Tell me what else you want? :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
Showing a version number + flashing the real radio's to show the correct baseband. is just tricking you into thinking you are on 4.0.4.

Trust me. Superuser does not work.

go flash the real thing. the correct way and try superuser and dont lie. bet you it fails.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
Are you actually telling me that YOU know what I flashed and didn't flash? Like I said. Tell me what more proof you want and I'll post it.

---------- Post added at 03:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:32 AM ----------

More proof this is the actual 4.0.4 build and not just radios

---------- Post added at 03:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:38 AM ----------

Let me guess.....are you going to tell me I'm photoshopping these now?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jcase:
I haven't looked into any of this and don't know (care) either way, but your proof made me laugh. Best way to prove it would maybe diff the files.

or

who the hell cares to prove it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Berzerker7:
I want you to flash back to mysid stock using the factory images from google, then flash this exact zip. Then you will know that superuser doesn't work on an *actual* copy of patched 4.0.4. P3Droid's is a hybrid build of 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 which doesn't have all the changes.

Seriously, P3 does troll quite a bit and has you wrapped around his finger so easily.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cosine83:
27 files went through optimization after flashing the zip. Does it take updating 27 files to modify the version number? You're pretty paranoid about this.

http://pastebin.com/6Rwm00WK

D/Su.Util ( 2998): Start PermissionsDbService
I/Su.SuRequestActivity( 2998): Sending result: ALLOW for UID: 10136
D/dalvikvm( 1032): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 316K, 9% free 15631K/17031K, paused 18ms
I/ImageManager( 1032): Writing file: 82bf066d36f990a41223e3439949afce
D/dalvikvm( 176): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 109K, 10% free 20516K/22599K, paused 83ms
I/dalvikvm-heap( 176): Grow heap (frag case) to 20.320MB for 230416-byte allocation
D/ScrollableDataDb( 1032): [11] addData
D/dalvikvm( 176): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 6K, 10% free 20735K/22855K, paused 81ms
D/su ( 3182): 10136 com.blizzard.bma executing 0 /system/bin/sh using shell /system/bin/sh : sh
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): onHandleIntent()
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): permissions.sqlite opened
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): got cursor from su.db
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): row 13 dirty, handle it
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): Updating permissions.sqlite for Battle.net Mobile Authenticator
I/ActivityManager( 176): START {flg=0x4000000 cmp=com.blizzard.bma/.WarningActivity} from pid 3143
D/PgcalStackRemoteViewsFactory( 1032): [11] getCount 32
D/CalendarLayoutFiller( 1032): appWidgetUri = content://org.koxx.pure_grid_calendar/appwidgets/11
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): completed update
D/Su.PermissionsProvider( 2998): Row not dirty, don't update permissions.sqlite
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): updated su.db as clean
D/Su.PermissionsDbService( 2998): closing permissions.sqlite
D/dalvikvm( 2998): GC_CONCURRENT freed 367K, 10% free 14138K/15623K, paused 3ms+5ms
I/ActivityManager( 176): Displayed com.blizzard.bma/.WarningActivity: +304ms

I've compared SHA-1s of files that were flashed in compared to what they should be from the update.zip. They maaaaaaatch.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
It's not so much the caring but the ignorance of someone to openly saying something like "Superuser.apk" doesn't work on a certain build version. I'm trying to prevent other people from believing such FUD. Misinformation is the enemy here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jcase:
That I can comment on, the 4.0.4 stock build does seem to have problems with superuser.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
*facepalm* You have got to be kidding me right? :mad:

This is EXACTLY what I did! I started posting about this even way before P3's post.

Want proof?

Here you go: Link Here

Look at the time stamp of my post and the time/date in the screenshot there "February 4th, 07:13 PM" (EST)

When did P3 make his post? Link Here

February 5, 12:11AM (EST)

---------- Post added at 03:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:51 AM ----------

I just want to point out that I'm not average joe user here. I know exactly what you're talking about when you refer to stock images, radios, bootloaders, etc... Heck, I'm one of the guys who mentioned them in the first place on here. I'm not sure why some of you are having issues but I have not run into a single problem with superuser, except for the fact that I had to flash it manually in CWM after I updated because I obviously had flash the unrooted stock 4.0.2 system partition to be able to update.

Sidenote: Kinda pissed now that I can't return my softkey, battery, and reboot menu mods. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] baldcyclops:
Could you please post up a quick step-by-step on how you did this? I currently cannot get superuser to work with 4.0.4. I've tried flashing su.zip twice now and nothing can get root on the phone. Curiously, I can get root through an adb shell when I su though?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
1. Flash stock 4.0.2 system using fastboot: Link

2. Flash superuser in CWM: Link

3. Check your permissions in the Superuser app to make sure they are all set to allow and update your Su binary in the settings. Alternately you can install titanium backup and a message will come up asking you about an SU fix and just hit yes.

I did all that and every root app I have works for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
I can't get the radios/bootloader to flash. I keep getting a "ro.build.product" error (status 7).

I tryed while running 4.0.2 bootloader and radio, GummyNex 0.7.0 and stock 4.0.2 and it returned the same error...any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
Follow this step by step. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1481488 Sorry OP for the cross post.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
Thanks, but if I do that can I still go back to my backup and keep the radios?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
More proof that Superuser works with 4.0.4 (this one was a little tricky to capture *selected from recent apps menu and had to be quick before it switch over to the app*)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rhcp011235:
In order to fix su.

You can try to flash http://downloads.androidsu.com/superuser/su-bin-3.0.3.2-efghi-signed.zip

If you get an assert failure.

You will need to unzip that. and put the su bin in place via recovery then set perm 04755 to it.

Hope this helps. Comes from chains
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] M Diddy:
Awesome! Worked for me.

Had to do the manual method though. Flashing in CWM didn't work so I mounted -rw, pushed, set perm and bam.

Thanks dude!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ddpacino:
I downloaded the zip and tried to flash over my custom ROM but wouldn't work. Restored my stock ROM and immediately flashed without a reboot and it worked. Lost root though.

Is there anyway to get rooted again?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cshort0982:
Use gnex toolkit and root with 4.0.2 method. It will hang for about a min or two when it reboots.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pakxelaos:
Sorry for this :D

But could you give some specific step how to do this.

Thanks

Edit: Found solutions
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kenyu73:
Had stock root, flashed this and then francoKernel and no issues that I can see yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] baldcyclops:
This is how I did it:

I put the phone into cwm recovery (if cwm recovery is no longer flashed, you can just click the "root" button in the gnex tools program and follow the steps)

Unzip su somewhere onto your computer

Open a dos prompt on your computer and CD into the data directory in gnex tools.

Once the phone is sitting at the cwm recovery screen, type in your dos prompt:

adb push (path to where you saved su on your computer) su

adb shell

mv su /system/bin

chmod 6755 /system/bin/su

exit

That's it. Reboot the phone and you should have root! Thanks to rhcp for the link to su.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] techbeck:
So, I rooted my phone and have kept it stock. So all i need to do is flash this in CWM and I will be on 4.0.4 stock? I understand i will loose root but when I re-root my phone...I will lose all my data again so I should back it up...correct?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
how can i do this without rooting the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
I got it fixed. I knew it was suppose to hang. Just not for 20+ minutes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tidbits:
Hmmm phone never wants to sleep...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
Switch the kernel to Franco's :)

It works well.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ceredics:
03 kernels working for this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
Indeed :)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] angel.de.marc:
I got the update installed no prob; however, I partially lost root. What does that mean? Well, the Superuser app never went away and I have this...

But Busybox is not installed, although it still appears in my app draw. Also, when I try to use TiBu I get this...

Plus, I can still flash CWM and Reboot into recovery. So, idk...

Is it confirmed that GNex toolkit for 4.0.2 does solve the root problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rezn:
I don't think you can. I asked this same question in another thread. The OP states stock LTE rename to update.zip and flash, but I can't figure out how to flash it with stock factory setup. If anyone can let us know it would be appreciated!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
If you are unlocked, temp boot a pre-rooted kernel. http://www.box.com/s/xf6bz8f1j004bk0zc78a

fastboot reboot bootloader

fastboot boot newboot.img

Once booted:

adb remount

adb push nameofupdate.zip /cache/

adb reboot recovery

In stock recovery:

flash from /cache
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
OT Question

: If it's a locked device, like a Motorola for example, is it possible to use the same fastboot command to boot an unmodified official boot.img? Because I haven't seemed to get any success with that in the past.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
No. You must be unlocked, even for this device.

You see a message like:

FAILED (remote: Bootloader Locked - Use "fastboot oem unlock" to Unlock)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
I see...makes sense now. Thanks for confirming. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dco717:
with the new 4.0.4 ota leak the signal is a little better. the 4g in my area stops like 2 blocks away from my house vzw maps from the website show it. so im mostly stuck on 3g and i think my dads droid 3 runs faster on the 3g network. also at times when it switches from 3g/4g i get a random reboot
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] caifan:
At least in my case...no signal improvement for CDMA coming from 4.0.2. I'm not in a 4g area so can't report on that. God I hope this isn't the upcoming OTA.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
LOL...

Prepare to have your hopes dashed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kspeaksster:
Just flashed this update. Signal quality seems a little better. I did flash from stock root. I did notice that after flashing, it did not get rid of the super user app. Tried to uninstall from phone settings and through the market but there was no option to uninstalled. Just went into settings and disabled it. Performance seems a lot better, haven't experienced lag yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KidCuda:
I was hoping they would have updated the news and weather app to actually look good, like hi res icons and such. Does anybody's app crash when you click on the weather in the app for more info?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Futur Innovations:
I could never get it to work for me :/ I tried flashing it with cwm and it gave me some weird error. Something about error 7 and something to do with the build.prop values of device and something else. I have changed my soft keys and that's all I have changed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pdanders:
Ok, I must be slow on this or something. My family has 8 android devices and I've rooted/flashed custom roms/etc a bunch of times.

I am on 4.0.2 rooted stock with CWM. How do I apply the OTA update? Can I just reboot into CWM and flash this update? Do I need to do something else?

I read adrynalynes summary thread but I still must be missing something

Ok I flashed the update via CWM and everything is working fine except I don't have root! I've tried flashing su.zip twice via CWM and it still doesn't work. Do I need to remove the old one first?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Skrazz:
You have to be unlocked. I used that Gnex toolkit to temporarily boot into cwm recovery, flashed and rebooted. Profit.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pdanders:
I am unlocked. I never lost recovery. I flashed the update through clockwork mod.

Superuser.apk is still there, but it doesn't work and I can't remove it. I just tried putting on a new su through recovery and manually setting permissions and that didn't work either.

I think the problem is that I need to get rid of the superuser that I have so I can flash a new one through CWM. The problem is I can't get rid of su without root!

Maybe I can get rid of it through CWM... I'll try that

EDIT: I finally figured it out. I had to remove Voodoo OTA root keeper (forgot I had that).. then go in CWM delete superuser and su.. then flash the su.zip from adrynalynes thread.

I'm guessing without OTA root keeper this would have been much easier
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thebballkid:
Help a brotha out

I know this is unlikely, but I have a fully stock, unrooted Verizon GN that has the data encrypted as well. Any chance I can get this on without having to wipe/lose data? Thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
.... Now that you ask, I never really paid attention to that part lol. Couldn't tell ya.. sorry. I don't think it'll wipe data tho.. I could be wrong!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pakxelaos:
It will be wiped when you unlock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thebballkid:
Thanks. Could I still do a Nandroid backup of locked+encrypted data before unlocking or am I SOL?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
SOL. Gonna need to root for that. Sorry

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crankerchick:
Why not IMM30B, deodexed, rooted, etc?

I have followed this thread from the beginning and am still trying to understand why there are some people posting who are rooted and are trying to flash this when there is a stock rooted ROM flashable with CWM already posted in another thread? Am I missing something? Is there something "not stock" about the ones that claim to be stock rooted?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
^^^

Odexed vs deodex

And people keep this OTA file backed up for later OTA builds which are... odexed. Can't take a OTA with a deodexed rom. :)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sting0387:
So I meta morphed some soft button mods and now I'm unable to flash the 4.0.4 update because it halts on the systemui saying there is a mismatch (obviously). Is there a way to update without have to reflash with Odin? I've looked around for a bit and haven't found anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rickt:
hmm, i keep getting

failed to verify whole-file signature

signature verification failed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luckylui:
Root tool kit.

Grab the Google system images for 4.0.2 and go from there. That's the only way.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] demlv:
CWM Error 7 on check of build.prop

Ditto here. I am running the rooted stock rom, stock radios, bootloader, using standard (non-touch) CWM Recovery 5.5.0.4 and I have not installed any mods.

This keeps bombing out on me. The "Error 7" message in CWM reads like the install script is finding a mismatch in the MD5 of my build.prop (which I had tweaked a bit). When I first saw the error I thought I was lucky because I had copied the original build.prop to the SD card, and I have since restored it to the /system folder, hoping that the problem would be fixed.....but still no joy.

I assumed that simply copying a file to a new location and back wouldn't change the MD5. Am I completely misunderstanding this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crankerchick:
Aha, that makes sense. For anyone that cares, Peter Alfonso has the stock, rooted, odexed ROMs on his website.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tbrouwer:
would this wipe all data? And where do i get these images?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] caifan:
Crossing my fingers for 4.0.6...where are you?!!