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[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
Just modify the script to not wipe and not flash userdata. Same with recovery.
[Nexus 7 General] jb0ne:
I took the -w out before the "update", in flash-all.bat so it won't wipe -- but I notice it doesn't have a separate recovery img inside the zip. Will my TWRP remain intact since there's no recovery in the .bat file or the .zip?

Edit: I take it back. there is a recovery in there. Can I just fastboot flash each component myself, leaving recovery out?

Edit 2: What if I just take the recovery out of the .zip file and then run the flash-all.bat; that should work right?
[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
Option 1:

In the bat file, comment out all the erase lines for partions you do not want erased (recovery, userdata)

Then go into the update zip and delete those same partitions

I recommend not updating the bootloader assuming you are already on 4.23, so comment out those lines in both places.

You can also just delete the lines

Option 2:

Do the same thing manaully

I am going to just flash system and boot, and use TWRP to wipe data. Need to go back to EXT4, etc. first which take some time, so maybe not tonight.

@ECHO OFF
PATH=%PATH%;"%SYSTEMROOT%\System32"
::fastboot oem unlock
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
::fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
::fastboot erase userdata
::fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-grouper-4.23.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping -n 10 127.0.0.1 >nul
fastboot -w update image-nakasi-ktu84l.zip

echo Press any key to exit...
pause >nul
exit

Might have to add a fastboot reboot-bootloader at the beginning to replace the oem unlock.
[Nexus 7 General] jb0ne:
I think the nexus 5 flash all bat must be different-it just fastboot flashes bootloader, then radio, then .fastboot update hammerheadXXXX.zip.

I don't know if it does some hash or signature check with that "update" command. I was thinking of replacing the recovery.IMG within it with twrp named recovery.img then running the. Bat file.

Or... Just fastboot flash each img by hand...

[QUOTE=brizey;53112500]Option 1:

In the bat file, comment out all the erase lines for partions you do not want erased (recovery, userdata)

Then go into the update zip and delete those same partitions

I recommend not updating the bootloader assuming you are already on 4.23, so comment out those lines in both places.

You can also just delete the lines

Option 2:

Do the same thing manaully

I am going to just flash system and boot, and use TWRP to wipe data. Need to go back to EXT4, etc. first which take some time, so maybe not tonight.

@ECHO OFF
PATH=%PATH%;"%SYSTEMROOT%\System32"
::fastboot oem unlock
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
::fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
::fastboot erase userdata
::fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-grouper-4.23.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping -n 10 127.0.0.1 >nul
fastboot -w update image-nakasi-ktu84l.zip

echo Press any key to exit...
pause >nul
exit

Might have to add a fastboot reboot-bootloader at the beginning to replace the oem unlock.[/QUOTE]
[Nexus 7 General] jb0ne:
Ok I know this is an N7 thread (and I'll update my N7 next) but for my N5, to update it and keep my data I did:

adb reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.1.13.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

Then I sequentially flashed: boot.img, cache.imd, system.img

Intentionally left out recovery and userdata as I noticed fastboot flash was erasing the partitions on its own before writing to them!

And while userdata is 140mb uncompressed, it's only about 159kb compressed -- don't know what's in there, but getting 159k worth of apps or whatever is not worth my time to restore my entire data partition from backup.

I AM curious what's in userdata though,,,Anyway system is running fine on 4.4.3 now.
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
Looking forward to the OTA zip (4.4.3) for nakasig / tilapia (N7 2012-3G)...

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[Nexus 7 General] Laugher19:
If someone makes a zip that will update and won't wipe my nexus 7, please post it,
[Nexus 7 General] Ja_som:
I have also one request :)

Can someone make full flashable zip, not only OTA, but whole system.

Thank you
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Looks like we're still waiting on the OTA link for the 2012 Nexus 7 (both nakasi and nakasig). If anyone gets these OTAs, please post the filenames here. Thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] ironmaskusa:
I request the flashable zip as well for grouper. So I can put it on multirom. Please?? ?
[Nexus 7 General] gsmyth:
There's a flashable zip in the post below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53125741
[Nexus 7 General] Raj joshi:
Guys i am on stock 4.4.2

Baseband: DEB-G00_2.37.0_1024

Build Number : KOT49H

I haven't received any OTA yet..is there any problem? I just bough N7 a week ago plz help
[Nexus 7 General] Ja_som:
No, no problem, you need to wait...
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
The LTE Nexus 7 (deb) has not received its update yet. There's no problem.
[Nexus 7 General] Raj joshi:
I get this when i try to update..new firmware is available but i am not able to update via OTA..
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
KVT49L is still Android 4.4.2 and is only going to be offered to you via OTA if you have a Verizon SIM card in your device. KVT49L was released back in February and just contained some Verizon-specific changes. Because of that, Google restricted the OTA to devices with Verizon SIM cards. Devices with any other SIM card will remain on 4.4.2/KOT49H until the 4.4.3/KTU84L update is released.
[Nexus 7 General] ironmaskusa:
Just wait or manually flash it like I just did on my grouper.
[Nexus 7 General] zard:
Damn, tried a few cables and different usb ports but still couldn't get my Nexus 7 recognised on my computer. Even re-downloaded the usb driver but no go. Without that, I can't try this method at all.

Edit:

I started with my tilapia with stock and rooted with SuperSU-1.99r3 and M-kernel_a67.

Although my Nexus 7 in Device Manager had an exclamation mark in Windows 8.1, I just rebooted into bootloader manually (volume down + power buttons) and went ahead using fastboot commands to erase boot.img and system.img and flashing the new boot.img and system.img.

Next, I booted to recovery, flashed M-kernel_a67 and SuperSU-v1.99r3.

Now on "Android is upgrading ...."

Success!

4.4.3 and KTU84L. Unfortunately, I had FC for Google Search. Nonetheless, I went to Play store and saw many Google apps being upgraded. I think everything should be fine after that.
[Nexus 7 General] Raj joshi:
Thanks for your explaination mate!! :) I am an indian user with no sim card inserted in my Nexus 7..will i get the update without sim card? Sorry for such question but i am a new nexus user..:)
[Nexus 7 General] NEERO:
So I have stock rooted 3g variant, and the update for 4.4.3 is available to me, should I download and try to install, will that cause any data loss or should I flash stock recovery first, if anyone can help or guide me to some thread then that would be great.
[Nexus 7 General] ironmaskusa:
I think you will as long as you have WiFi.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Please grab the filename before you update! Look in your /cache folder. The file is in there.
[Nexus 7 General] NEERO:
I am getting a ota update and it's asking to be downloaded, is it recommendable to do ota on rooted, please be more clear with the file thing, what should I do with the file.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
OK. Download the file but when it prompts you to install it, don't. Instead go into a file manager app and look in your /cache folder and post the name of the .zip file that you see in there. After that, you can update. You'll lose root, but you can just re-root after the update just like you did the first time.
[Nexus 7 General] NEERO:
OK so downloaded the update, I am putting a screenshot of the /cache, now tell me what next.

Please tell me if I will loose my pics or apps after updating.

Thanks for the quick replies.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
There was no screenshot attached to your post. Can you try again? Also, updates do not wipe data so you shouldn't lose pictures or anything of that sort
[Nexus 7 General] NEERO:
Just edited the post, please refresh.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
We're close. That's not the full filename, though. Can you long press on the filename and go under either File Info or Properties and post a screenshot of that?
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
There we go! Thank you!! http://android.clients.google.com/p...igned-nakasig-KTU84L-from-KOT49H.21863855.zip
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
The first post has been updated. If anyone gets the OTA for the WiFi model, please post the filename here.
[Nexus 7 General] NEERO:
Should I just install the ota now.

Will there be any data loss.

Will I need to wipe cache or something??
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Give it a try. OTAs do not wipe data. Once you update, your device should work the same as it always has.
[Nexus 7 General] NEERO:
Thanks for all the quick replies.

Will try right now.

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Well it's still 4.4.2 any pointers for solving this issue would be great.
[Nexus 7 General] panlinux:
My Nexus 7 complains about that zip file:

The md5 of the zip downloaded via the above link is:

My device is a Nexus 7 nakasi (device "grouper"), WiFi only, running KOT49H
[Nexus 7 General] TheManii:
Well why wouldn't it complain? The ota for your device hasn't been found yet.

You need to use the right one for it to patch.
[Nexus 7 General] panlinux:
Ahh, nakasi vs nakasig, sorry.
[Nexus 7 General] ironmaskusa:
For some reason I'm having trouble accessing Google play and other Gapps on 4.4.3. Is anyone else having this problem? Just wandering if it is Google or something wrong with my ROM. I have even reflashed the zip to see if it fixed it but no dice. ?
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
4.4.3 OTA for nakasig / tilapia not working

I have the latest custom recovery (TWRP v2.7.0.0) and I just tried flashing the OTA zip (68MB) but it wouldn't work. TWRP says FAILED :(

something about unexpected SMSBasicReceiver.apk ....

is this because of the SMS tethering MOD that was used earlier by myself?
[Nexus 7 General] blasterrr:
If you are using exposed framework, disable all modules, uninstall xposed framework itself, unroot (super su), use stock recovery preferably to install update. Zip. Re-Root installing super su and custom recovery.

Reinstall xposed framework and enable modules.
[Nexus 7 General] litan1106:
Thanks

Good work:good:
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
Sounds good. Will give that a try.

Again though... U sure it's nothing to do with the SMS tethering mod yeah? Coz it did say SMS(something).apk error.

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Return back to stock recovery how?

WugFreah's Root Toolkit does that?

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[Nexus 7 General] blasterrr:
You can try disabling the tethering mod and see if update goes through. If your system SMS settings were messed with during the tethering mod then yes getting rid of that mod will help.

Yes, you can install stock recover using wug toolkit.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Damn, still no link for nakasi?

N4, N5, N7nakasig, N72013's, N10 got Ota. Everyone but us, ffs.

I'm starting to see the same scenario that happened with 4.4.1 -> It never came, since a bug was discovered and they released 4.4.2 directly instead. I feel something like this is happening, it's not normal for a single product ota to take this long..
[Nexus 7 General] cyberundertaker:
deleted...
[Nexus 7 General] gsmyth:
Looks like someone in the UK is getting the ota tonight so its on its way. We're just bottom of the pile now our device is a bit older.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53189356

If you have a PC you can always fastboot flash it or use a tool kit. I'm rooted and flashed bshiznit's rooted stock ROM from the development section and its working a treat.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Damn finally! hope he posts the link :P.

And no, I don't root my N7 (don't feed any need too, honestly), and i'm so doggy to run scripts or flash the partitions one by one on it :P
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
If anyone gets the update, make sure you post the filename here before you install it!
[Nexus 7 General] pjmarkert:
Update sucessful

Mine needed a good cleaning and wipe anyway, so I flashed the full image from the google website, then rooted with wugs, working great. Play store restored all of my apps automatically.
[Nexus 7 General] Raj joshi:
Still no update for Nexus 7 2013 3G/LTE versions :( sad to hear this...Are Google devs aware of this? What's the reason of delay?
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
Disabled Xposed. Disabled SMS tethering and reverted back to stock.

Still update says Failed.

Any suggestions?

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[Nexus 7 General] ironmaskusa:
Did you disable the demodulator?! ?
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
What's that now?

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[Nexus 7 General] malkavi:
What is your Nexus 7 version? Wifi or 3g? You're trying to flash NakasiG version (3G version).

And... that forum is for the WiFi version. Check your Nexus version and the file name before flashing.
[Nexus 7 General] vignesh_jariwala:
When will the android 4.4.3 OTA zip file be available for nakasi(WiFi model). I am in India and have still not got the update. So it would be very helpful if somebody could upload the file.

Thanks
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
We don't have it yet. Nobody has posted the link. We're all playing the waiting game.
[Nexus 7 General] vignesh_jariwala:
Okay
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
Mine is the tilapia / nakasig (2012, 3G version).

The OTA zip file available in this thread is for the nakasig (3G)... OTA for wifi version of 2012 Nexus 7 was not available when I checked last.... Which was yesterday.... So I'm sure I have the right OTA for the right device.

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[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Hey, is there any way to grab the link if the device isn't rooted? (No logcat, no access to /cache, etc..)
[Nexus 7 General] gsmyth:
According to [MENTION=3423169]oldblue910[/MENTION] if you're not rooted you can enable USB Debugging in developer settings, then tap "Take Bug Report". That'll email a big bug report to your gmail account. Open the text file that's attached to that email and search for ".zip". Post what you find.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
It doesn't work, it lets you use gmail to send a report but no report is sent or saved on "sent" folder, wtf
[Nexus 7 General] gsmyth:
dammnn.. out of ideas, as I believe the bug report (if its been captured properly is stored under the /data partition which you need root to access. :mad:

Maybe give it a minute to come through as the bug report can be quite large, so may take a minute or two?
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Finally! after rebooting the tablet, all the mails arrived. a big wtf, but whatever. Will be ready for if the ota appears :D, thanks!

EDIT: No such thing as OTA being delivered for grouper yet.. this is REAAAALLY strange. I see a 4.4.4 coming.
[Nexus 7 General] AuroEdge:
I wonder if Google is trying to fix the rotation/orientation bug (assuming it's a software issue).
[Nexus 7 General] blasterrr:
I have 2 Nexus 7 2013 both rotate fine. Are you referring to the 1st Gen model?
[Nexus 7 General] ALD3:
I have 2 first gen Nexus 7 and never had a rotation problem. Think after 1 update, I did have to go into settings and check rotation.
[Nexus 7 General] AuroEdge:
My variant is the 2012 1st gen, completely stock. Sometimes it has trouble going into portrait mode. The symptoms are when holding it in portrait mode the screen will be in landscape. Then when turning the tablet on its side the screen goes into upside down portrait mode. Eventually everything goes back to normal, sometimes requiring a reset. Perhaps it just has a cheap accelerometer.
[Nexus 7 General] sriku1993:
i have a nexus 7 1st gen and there are no rotation problems. Is any one having a problem with otg not getting mounted automatically on the stock 4.4.2 kitkat version ?. i do not have root access.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
I can confirm this, it has a cheap accelerometer and all sensors in general, with 3 fingers on screen you can literally make those sensors go crazy when you intersect lines (which sucks in some multi-finger games, suddently its like you didn't touch the screen..).
[Nexus 7 General] le_prof:
Anybody else on the watch for the OTA or is it just me?

Envoyé de mon Nexus 7 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
I am too, and there is no ****ing sign of it.

I think google has forgotten about this device, or they're fixing a last hour bug and will release a new version (it happened on 4.4.1, thats why we never got it and everyone jumped to 4.4.2 the day later)
[Nexus 7 General] le_prof:
That indeed is a possibility. Then, it might be a good thing to be patient rather than flash 4.4.3 using fastboot.

I wonder if anyone flashed the factory image only to find out that there were such bugs. Anyone ?

Envoyé de mon Nexus 7 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 General] ALD3:
Grouper,4.4.3,said to be rolling out. OTA.zip can be found here.

Edit......384mg and as mentioned below, this looks like the full 4.4.3 and NOT the OTA. Dripper has it listed as the OTA.
[Nexus 7 General] TheManii:
Those arn't otas, someone just took the factory image and turned it into a flashable zip (by the looks of the filename and sizes, I didnt actually download them to confirm)
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Wtf is that, and we anyway don't want a zip with the ota, we want the link from google servers.
[Nexus 7 General] ajua:
It's been weird that we still haven't seen the OTA show on Grouper/Nakasi yet
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
At this stage, the only logical explanation I can come up with is that Google found a bug that it considers a deal breaker.
[Nexus 7 General] ajua:
I'm leaning over that assumption too. Let's wait and see what happens.
[Nexus 7 General] Ohgami_Ichiro:
That doesn't make much sense since the Factory Image is out. Is there really that much difference between the 2 other than the Image has all the apps etc included?
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Maybe, but the OTA is how the world outside XDA (99% of device owners) get their updates. If there was an issue, they would pull the OTA and not necessarily pull the factory images. Factory images mean nothing to anyone in the grand scheme of things. Google has no real need to pull factory images because they know that the only people who even know what they are are people like us.
[Nexus 7 General] TheManii:
(If we assume that the ota is in fact stopped) This isnt the first time goog has stopped an ota, even with the release of factory images.

Even for just the 2012 N7, KRT16O was canceled shortly after it's release, the otas for KRT16O/nakasig were never even found.

Everyone jumped to KRT16S not long after.

We wont know if goog in fact stopped the ota for KTU84L until we see otas for it or something else, but canceling otas is hardly a new thing.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
I am also on this boat. The OTA for grouper must have been cancelled. So expect 4.4.4 soon. It's fun because the device where they didn't release 4.4.1 and jumped everyone to 4.4.2 was also grouper...

Btw, KRT16O wasn't the problem, the OTA we never saw before and that made everyone jump to a further android version was KOT49E (4.4.1).

The ota for KRT16O is in the OP's post..

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KRT16O from JWR66Y - http://android.clients.google.com/p...signed-nakasi-KRT16O-from-JWR66Y.13088e35.zip

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[Nexus 7 General] TheManii:
nakasig-krt16o-factory-845367d6.tgz

The factory image for KRT16O/nakasig is still available, but the ota for it was never found. The matching ota for it will likely never be found.

KOT49E was not available at all for either nakasi/nakasig though.

(technically it may be more correct to say they were not found, I would not be surprised if the urls for everything in question exist and are available. But if we dont know the filenames: they may as well not exist)

One question is if it'll actually be called "4.4.4", since KRT16O -> KRT16S was as critical an update as KOT49E -> KOT49H.

Both updates involved critical bug/security fixes, but only the latter recieved an actual android version number change.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Big fail, edit.
[Nexus 7 General] TheManii:
That's nakasi, for KRT16O I specifically mentioned nakasig
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Dude, the OTA your linking to is nakasi. TheManii is talking about nakasig. Two different firmware variants.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
Ah, didn't see that. My bad :fingers-crossed:

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Yeah, didn't notice he talked about tilapia. My bad :P

Btw, you're limited to 8 thanks per day. Sucks..

[MENTION=3289998]TheManii[/MENTION] [MENTION=3423169]oldblue910[/MENTION]

Are the strings before and after the file random, or they have any sense? If they have, could we be able to get any link? I guess you already tried this :P, but its always an string of 40 letters before and one with 8 at the end.. (at least since they are from their /data/ directory)
[Nexus 7 General] TheManii:
They're SHA1 hashes, current naming scheme is: (this is an example below)

[COLOR="Red"]21863855a5d1e8960003f841347313feab3c665b[/COLOR].signed-[COLOR="DarkRed"]nakasig[/COLOR]-[COLOR="Indigo"]KTU84L[/COLOR]-from-[COLOR="YellowGreen"]KOT49H[/COLOR].[COLOR="DarkOrange"]21863855[/COLOR].zip
[COLOR="Red"]<Full SHA1 hash>[/COLOR].signed-[COLOR="DarkRed"]<branch name>[/COLOR]-[COLOR="Indigo"]<new build>[/COLOR]-from-[COLOR="YellowGreen"]<old build>[/COLOR].[COLOR="DarkOrange"]<1st 8 chars from full SHA1 hash>[/COLOR].zip

The issue is figuring out what the hash is, 40^16 possible combinations for the hash if you're just brute forcing it.

That's far too high to realistically try and guess at.
[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
They're SHA1 hashes from the own file? In that case yeah, unless so anyone has already the file we're screwed :(

Thanks! Will thanks tomorrow :P
[Nexus 7 General] keneth_c:
The KTU84L (4.4.3) from KOT49H (4.4.2) OTA zip file for nakasig (N7-2012-3G) didn't work for me at all. Tried everything possible.

Used the factory image to upgrade to KTU84L (4.4.3) using the Nexus Root Toolkit by WugFresh as last resort.

All good now.

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[Nexus 7 General] RusherDude:
STILL no ota available? what the hell is happening??
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Google must have found some kind of bug that it considered a deal breaker. That's the only logical explanation.
[Nexus 7 General] fozzie:
You've just dropped your dummy?

It's only an update. Chill!

Perhaps Google have dropped OTA support for the old N7.
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Impossible. If they dropped OTA support, there wouldn't be factory images that exist. There are images for 4.4.3, just no OTA.
[Nexus 7 General] pjmarkert:
Have had 4.4. 3 about a week, touch issues are back
[Nexus 7 General] rockknee:
"Good guy Google found a deal breaker bug to prevent OTAs, still shares factory image." :D
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
Yeah. 99% of N7 owners get their updates via OTA, not via factory images. Google knows that the only people who even know what factory images are, much less care about them, are people like us. So yeah, they left the factory images but halted the OTA for some reason. They've done it before. KRT16O had factory images for nakasig and razorg but there was never an OTA. GRK39F had factory images for the Korean Nexus S (sojuk) but there was never an OTA. So yeah, this isn't without historical precedent.
[Nexus 7 General] NikolForAll:
Got my OTA update KTU84L this morning. Other users in my local android forum are reporting for OTA update received since yesterday.

East Europe region :)
[Nexus 7 General] ariesgodofwar:
Would one of them be kind enough to copy the file before they update?
[Nexus 7 General] Ohgami_Ichiro:
Don't really need a copy of it just need the file name.