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[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
1) you will get notification, but it will not install it since you messed with system files. You should install system.img from 4.4.4 stock rom to fix that.

2) yes you can

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] darkkid85:
i have deleted only the hangouts apk and couple of others, how do i put it back to system/app?

i have no root anymore, as i just un-rooted

thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Reroot and flash system.img from 4.4.4

Then you will be 100% stock.

It's much easier then searching which apps are missing and replace them manually.

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] darkkid85:
ok excellent, thanks sir!

So i assume i need to flash system.img and then the recovery.img as well(in no particular order)? I am on CWM recovery, like it told u earlier.

ROM and Kernel are still stock stock :) thanks heavens!!
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Correct. Radio is stock too? If not flash it also.
[Nexus 4 General] smash85:
This worked very well for me

Thank you.
[Nexus 4 General] darkkid85:
yea radio is stock, if i flash the system.img wont it wipe my existing data?

Do u want me to download the stuff from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and then try?

Ramu
[Nexus 4 General] sadsac:
System is different to user data so no it won't wipe it
[Nexus 4 General] dgn4:
Seems like Google has stopped the OTA rollout: http://www.myce.com/news/android-5-0-lollipop-contains-serious-sms-bug-on-nexus-4-5-and-6-73508/
[Nexus 4 General] Bokoblin:
So no OTA until when ?? Will they reproduce wave 1% again ? I don't want to have it in December. Nexus = first on update, it's no longer that. :(

The worse is that they don't inform us.
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
This article reports that " that the company has stopped the updates to Android Lollipop on the affected mobile devices till the bug has been resolved".

So it doesn't say that they stopped the OTA for everyone. Only for the affected devices.

It's network connected.

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] dgn4:
Well "the affeced devices" == "Nexus 4 & 5"
[Nexus 4 General] Rickd_:
"The affected devices "are: nexus 4 and nexus 5;)
[Nexus 4 General] sink1991:
Nexus 4 OTA

Yes you will!
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
You're correct that he'll get it. But it won't install. You have to be on 100%, stock. No deleted or modified system files, no custom recovery or kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] dd23:
I'm on a rooted Stock 4.4.4.

I used AdAway, which afaik modifies the hosts-file to block certain ad domains.

Does that count as modified system file? Will that prevent the OTA update? Cause I still didn't get any update notification...
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
With modified system files you'll still get the ota. It'll just fail to install. The ota comes in staged roll outs so it probably just isn't your time yet. I'm not sure if adaway modified system files so to be safe just flash the system.img from 4.4.4 before trying the ota.
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Yes, Adaway and all ad blockers affect system files.

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] dd23:
Well, I just read on another forum (in German unfortunately), that OTA does work even with a modified hosts file.

So, I guess I'll just wait a bit longer...
[Nexus 4 General] Rickd_:
Are you kidding? The link is in the year 2013
[Nexus 4 General] dd23:
So? That was when 4.2.2 came out. Sure, that's not the most recent version, but it might be close enough, such that the OTA process is still the same.
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
The ota process for 5.0 is much different than previous versions. You have to be 100% stock recovery, system and kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] dd23:
Ok, thx for the info. I didn't know that.

So changing /etc/hosts will most certainly count as modified system, right?
[Nexus 4 General] CalculatedRisk:
Yes, I believe so.
[Nexus 4 General] TopazUser1:
Does anybody know how long it actually takes to receive an OTA? I know it's a couple of weeks but is there a way to speed it up? I went fully stock after the images were put up to finally be able to receive an OTA. I've been doing roms since 2009 so I finally wanted a set it and forget it option, but man it's taking forever! Anyone want to guess when most of the population will receive the OTA?
[Nexus 4 General] dgn4:
The OTA has been suspended i.e stopped due to an SMS bug see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56947527&postcount=3354
[Nexus 4 General] gialakias:
I can confirm that adaway does not affect the ota. It applies with no problem.
[Nexus 4 General] sadsac:
Same here, I had adaway and ota installed no problem

---------- Post added at 08:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:42 AM ----------

Using SMS in hangouts seems to make my battery go into meltdown and I have to reboot
[Nexus 4 General] jok3r.card:
Just got my update from KTU84P -> LRX21T . Is this the version with the SMS bug?
[Nexus 4 General] TopazUser1:
No offense but I've never heard of myce.com. Not saying it isn't true just highly unlikely since the main android news sources aren't reporting it.
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
The sms bug was affecting some devices and not the majority.

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Madfysh:
As I understand, only some mobile operators are affected, not related to devices.
[Nexus 4 General] dgn4:
That's not the point. The issue is that it apperently affected enough people to cause Google to suspend the OTA rollout (assuming the citied source is correct). OTA rollouts are not per network. Did annyone get an OTA notification on a Nexus 4 or 5 after this? I have not seen any such reports, just people saying that there are still waiting.
[Nexus 4 General] Madfysh:
I didn't say anything about rollouts being related to mobile operaters though on other phone manufactures (sometime) it does depends on operator.

I only said that it's not related to devices, but to mobile operaters, which is why I quoted RASTAVIPER's post.

Now back on topic. I strongly suggest everyone to flash factory image instead OTA, especially in case of big OS update like 4.X.X->5.X Even though OTA's should be tested before release, chances to run into "strange" or "weird" bugs are pretty high when using OTA.

There should be rule, when someone reports bug on stock, write was it OTA or image.. :)
[Nexus 4 General] nowster:
Adaway, SuperSU and Busybox were all installed when I did the OTA to 5.0. It applied without complaining. I did have to boot (but not necessarily flash) the 4.4.4 recovery image to sideload the OTA file.
[Nexus 4 General] Bokoblin:
question about ota

When OTA will be back for Nexus 4(with new build) , will I receive the OTA NOTIFICATION if I have a stock 4.4.4 rom rooted + multirom, it kernel patch and TWRP for Multirom ? + When do you think OTA will be back ?

PS: I don't speek about if I can install it. I know I'll must uninstall multirom, root and put the initial recovery to install it.
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
It's already back.

Many people started to receive the OTA and it's the same build.

Apparently they didn't fix anything.
[Nexus 4 General] Bokoblin:
okay thanks and for my question about receiving the notification ?

EDIT 21:15 : I just receive it too ! Yeah !!
[Nexus 4 General] urfel:
I just got notification too, but I'm hesitant about installation. Seems like there are lots of problems with this one.
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
If you go ahead and install it just make sure your 100% stock recovery, system, and kernel before hand
[Nexus 4 General] urfel:
Only modification I have is root, but I think it should not affect update.

By problems I rather meant bug in the release itself.
[Nexus 4 General] dgn4:
Well got the OTA today (all stock) the update went well and everything works just fine afterwards. Don't get scared by negative reports you always find more people with problems in forums than people without problems saying "works for me" ;)
[Nexus 4 General] shankarcps:
I just got OTA notification on my nexus 4 saying 5.0 is available..then it downloaded 394 MB and asked me to reboot..since I was rooted the reboot went into CWM and in that it asked 'whether to install from untrusted zip' , I said yes..then it asked 'root access may be lost ' No or Yes ( fix.....) I said no..it came out of the installation saying 'installation aborted' .

What should I do now..pls help

Update: I tried to locate the file and found it on /cache then I moved to sdcard and tried to install it from recovery but still there is an error like below

'Package expects build finger print of Google/Occam/mako :4.4.4/KTU84P/1227136: user/release-keys or Google /Occam/mako:5.0/LRX21T/1576899 : user/release keys : this device has Google Occam/mako:4.4.2/KOT49H/937116 : user/release keys'

but I m already on 4.4.4 , I can see it in about phone...why this error

Also I tried disabling the 'signature verification' but no use..pls help to install 5.0

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[Nexus 4 General] dd23:
I'm not 100% sure on this one, but I'd say the content of the updates are identical, just the process of applying them is different (automatic OTA vs. manual flashing via adb/usb/...). I am however pretty sure that the OTA updates (probably also all others) are verified before they are installed. That means in case the download went wrong, this check will fail and you have to download again. So there should not be any kind of problems that happen just because of the OTA update. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Can also confirm. As said above, I was running a rooted KitKat with AdAway installed (modified hosts file) and the OTA update finally showed up just a few hours ago. Download took forever but it just finished installing and runs fine.

Since hosts is in/etc that is technically correct, but it does not affect the OTA update.
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
You need 100% stock, recovery, system, and kernel for the ota to work. I don't know what you've fine to your device but as an absolute minimum you need to flash the stock recovery from 4.4.4 in fastboot. I'd recommend you go ahead and flash system and boot image too. It won't wipe your device.
[Nexus 4 General] shankarcps:
Hi ,

Thanks for your reply.. I will flash all stock.

Also some more info on why installation aborted

'Package expects build finger print of Google/Occam/mako :4.4.4/KTU84P/1227136: user/release-keys or Google /Occam/mako:5.0/LRX21T/1576899 : user/release keys : this device has Google Occam/mako:4.4.2/KOT49H/937116 : user/release keys'

but I m already on 4.4.4 , I can see it in about phone...why this error
[Nexus 4 General] heat361:
so i reinstalled the sdk and i keep getting adb server failed code -1
[Nexus 4 General] Sploat:
AW: [INFO] Nexus OTA Help-Desk

But when I flash the complete zip(tgz) then it will works but everything is wiped?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] eskeyy:
If you flash complete tgz then yes
[Nexus 4 General] jayclarke:
Re: [INFO] Nexus OTA Help-Desk

When you talking about flashing the tgz folder. Is it basically just dragging it on to your phone and installing it that way? I'm new to all this.

Cheera
[Nexus 4 General] Xeodus:
Nice!

An amazingly helpful post - thanks guys :)
[Nexus 4 General] eskeyy:
It not as simple, to flashing tgz archieve (its not folder just one file like .zip) you must use fastboot
[Nexus 4 General] jayclarke:
Ah right. I came from a HTC and when we received jelly bean we installed it like I stated above.

Ah well, waiting it is.

Cheers
[Nexus 4 General] stealthj:
kept getting a status 7... don't know why, iu had faux kernel but i reflashed stock and evrything... dunno why it kept giving me status 7, no other mods..

fastboot pushed system.img, radio, boot, and recovery..

for those that don't know, the nexus toolkit by mskip makes it pretty easy for you to push those image files separately from each other...

and all is working fine now... lets see if my kernel and everything will re install properly...
[Nexus 4 General] eskeyy:
Pushed? You mean flashed I think :) Btw some kernels modyfying files in system thats reason sometimes flashing boot.img is not enough, the best is flash boot and system then should will be not problems at all
[Nexus 4 General] efrant:
You know that the status 7 error actually tells you which file is missing/modified, so you can easily identify it... if you actually read the error message.
[Nexus 4 General] eskeyy:
Thats true but if you must flash kerenel anyway then is faster to flash system as well, somtimes it is easier than replacing one or few files and you have sure your system is completly stock
[Nexus 4 General] thesebastian:
I had to reboot 2 times my nexus 4 (with 4.2.2) after having issues when calling, losing the menu to quit calls.

i.e.:

- After ending a call, the call prevail as "Unknown ongoing call" on the notification panel. Had to reboot to fix.

P.s: the only unusual thing i did....was install the new whatsapp version (with new interface) from whatsapp.com
[Nexus 4 General] usafle:
Ok, I've installed some mods (namely the 'themed Google Music apk) and the update wouldn't take. Tried to roll back to what I thought was a CWM backup that I had that was before my tinkering with the Google Music.apk but still the same error, framework, etc... and the update wouldn't take.

So a kind person on there told me to fastboot the system.img and all should be well. So I downloaded and extracted the original system.img and used ADB to fastboot flash system system.img.

Phone rebooted and got to the Nexus screen and wouldn't boot. I left it on for a few hours because I had things to take care of, and the battery died. Now it's back on and still won't boot. Stuck at the "X" screen.

I attempted to fastboot flash system system.img and then I also did fastboot flash boot boot.img. I am still stuck on the "X" screen and the phone won't boot.

Ummm... help?

(My pebble finally shipped and it won't do me any good w/o a working phone! LOL)
[Nexus 4 General] dispatch:
Good luck bro. I was stuck at the 'x' too. Followed all the directions to a 't', including the two to fix the 'stuck on x issue'. I ended up having to factory reset, but I'm all good now.
[Nexus 4 General] Rizy7:
I used Wugfresh toolkit when I rooted, so I have a rooted phone with TWRP recovery, stock everything else.

Is there anyway to keep root? I keep hearing about rootkeeper?

Also, the OTA.zip file, can it be placed anywhere on the phone?
[Nexus 4 General] eskeyy:
that kind person it was probably I ... I had something like this when i attempted to backup files using TB, it is possible something is not as should be with userdata. Try factory reset and if that not help you then flash whole factory image, that sholud help but you lost everything from memory including sdcard.
[Nexus 4 General] SupaDupaFly24:
Anyone willing to walk me through how to manually update on a mac cause I am kinda confused lol..
[Nexus 4 General] heat361:
can someone please help me in trying to flash the cwm.img via fastboot, but fastboot keeps getting stuck at waiting for device
[Nexus 4 General] efrant:
I totally agree. I was just responding to your comment which said "kept getting a status 7... don't know why, iu had faux kernel but i reflashed stock and evrything... dunno why it kept giving me status 7, no other mods."

When you are stuck at the "X" screen, you need to reboot into the bootloader, go to recovery, when you are at the screen with the Android and the red triangle, hold power and then press volume up, and wipe cache. Then it should boot.
[Nexus 4 General] stealthj:
said something about google release keys. no idea what that was so yeah, i meant "flashed" :)

then i booted android, put superSU ZIP file that i found in one of these toolkit folders, booted back into fastboot, flashed CWM touch that i downloaded from clockworkmod website, entered CWM, flashed SU, rebooted and all is all good, rebooted again flashed faux and still all gravy :D
[Nexus 4 General] silvagroup:
Never got ota notification since I was heavily modified even tough it was "stock" ROM. So I did complete wipe install using fastboot and see no issues with L. It is a good product. Can't wait for the developers to get all the goodies rolled out to enhance L even more.
[Nexus 4 General] Edogawa Conan:
Can OTA update be installed on rooted nexus? If not, how do I unroot the phone without wiping data?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 4 General] sadsac:
Because you HAVE to have stock recovery not CWM
[Nexus 4 General] urfel:
If root is the only modification (no other changes to system) you will be fine. I did it yesterday, and did not have any problems since. You will loose root though.
[Nexus 4 General] Edogawa Conan:
Link for stock recovery image?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 4 General] sadsac:
Answered many times in this thread - search
[Nexus 4 General] darkkid85:
Hi dude,

Download from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Download the full factory image for ur current build and just unzip the recovery.IMG to ur desktop or whatever.

Flash the same in fastboot mode using command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Let me know any doubts, Ramu:good:
[Nexus 4 General] shamin17:
Link for OTA zip file Android 5/Nexus 4

Hello,

I have a Nexux 4, on stock, with root. (TWRP Recovery without any modifications or deletions.)

Received the OTA notification message but havent installed it yet.

Saw a post that there is an issue with sending SMS after installing Android 5.0 so am not very willing to install it.

when will a new version of Android 5 be released to correct the bug with SMS

Does anyone know when the main post on this thread will be updated to provide the OTA zip link ?

Thanks

Shamina
[Nexus 4 General] :
I'm on stock 5.0 and I don't experience any SMS bug. Or maybe I don't send too many SMS nowadays.

But, but, but.. Do not install the OTA. A custom recovery will most likely softbrick your phone since OTA uses stock recovery to install itself. If you want, flash first the stock recovery from your current android version.
[Nexus 4 General] darkkid85:
go ahead wit the isntall, noting will happen!

the sms issue affects very few carriers anyway, so its not a deal breaker :)
[Nexus 4 General] shankarcps:
Yes, you are right..I just flashed stock recovery and updated using OTA , everything went successful..

Thank You !.
[Nexus 4 General] shamin17:
thanks for the replies

if i install via the notification it i will lose root access and I would like to keep the TRWP recovery.

seems that the latest TRWP 2.8.2.0 is compatible with android 5

would it be ok if i flash this new TRWP then i flash the OTA zip manually for Android 5 ?
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
It won't work. You have to be 100% stock recovery, system and kernel for the ota to work. You can't flash the zip in twrp. You'll have to sideload it in the stock recovery.
[Nexus 4 General] shamin17:
i have received the Android 5 OTA notification on my nexus4. will it work if i install the OTA from phone notification ?

(my Nexus 4 is on stock with root plus TWRP Recovery without any modifications or deletions)

i know that installing the OTA like this will unroot the phone. but i can still root it afterwards, right?

please confirm that all this will not wipe personal data

thanks
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
You need to have the stock recovery, not twrp. I would flash the recovery, system, and boot images from 4.4.4 in fastboot. Then take the ota. None of it will wipe your device.
[Nexus 4 General] Rody2k6:
I need help. I got the OTA (5.0) file on my PC. Using Wugfresh I selected the option to go back to stock recovery, after it went thru I used the option to flash system image but now my phone keeps rebooting back into TWRP it won't boot normally and Wugfresh won't detect the phone since it only goes to TWRP.

I did the Factory Reset (data, cache and dalvik) on TWRP but it still boots to Google logo and goes back to TWRP.
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
See my post right above yours. Flash recovery, system, and boot images in fastboot
[Nexus 4 General] Rody2k6:
How do I go into fastboot? I got the lollipop recovery stock image allright, it only boots to it. From there I'm trying to update via sideload the 5.0 zip but it gives me an error message saying that the zip has unexpected contents.

I've tried to install the 4.4.4 zip but it says that the it found 5.0 files and can't install.

EDIT: I got it into fastboot mode, now using Wugfresh I'm pushing the system.img via fastbook.
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
See this on how to use fastboot. Only flash the recovery, system, and boot images from 4.4.4. Then try the ota.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34552123
[Nexus 4 General] TheArt.:
Waiting for OTA from 5.0 to 5.0.1, i would like to sideload it, but it doesn't come out yet :(
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Fastboot through Wug toolkit do u mean?
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
no just use fastboot on your pc. You don't need wug.
[Nexus 4 General] ronakchavan:
Guys my sister got the ota so she downloaded it and installed it. During installation she had the Android bot with a nut scree and for alot of time it stayed right there with the installation bar finished. She thought it hanged so she force rebooted and now it gets stuck on the boot animation. I am at least 200kms away from her and I don't know how to help her from here . She's on full stock Rom and unrooted

Sent from Gotham
[Nexus 4 General] :
I'm guessing she bricked her phone. Send her efrant's guide on how to flash using fastboot, and help her out via an other platform, such as facebook.

In order for you to save her files you can try to first flash 4.4.4 (or whichever version she was on first) without userdata so she doesn't lose all her stuff. Connect her phone via PC and copy important files, pictures, etc. Then let her do the OTA again. If that doesn't work you'll have to clean flash 5.0.
[Nexus 4 General] ronakchavan:
Yeah told her the same thing.. Let's see what she does... Anyways thank you mate

Sent from Gotham
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Or just use teamviewer to get direct access to her pc, install Wugfresh toolkit to her pc, connect the phone and do all the flashing yourself.
[Nexus 4 General] shamin17:
Could you please provide me some guide for flashing recovery, system, and boot images in fastboot (without wiping user data)?

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Check here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] rpiton:
I'm currently using team win recovery on stock 5.0, how can i restore the stock recovery?
[Nexus 4 General] rpiton:
How can i go back to stock recovery?
[Nexus 4 General] nemanja066:
This doesn't mean that there are no changes in kernel. I noticed different MD5 (checksums) in IMG file. Have some changes, but which, I don't know.

Extract recovery.img from google image zip. fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[Nexus 4 General] rpiton:
i'm runing stock 5.0 and pushing the file with adb gave me error status 7.
[Nexus 4 General] silvagroup:
Check OP
[Nexus 4 General] Shawtux:
Tried flashing through twrp but I get the following error text. I'm on stock and rooted.

I:Legacy property environment initialized.

script aborted: Package expects build fingerprint of google/occam/mako:5.0/LRX21T/1576899:user/release-keys or google/occam/mako:5.0.1/LRX22C/1602158:user/release-keys; this device has Android/aosp_mako/mako:5.0/LRX21M/dees_troy11200935:userdebug/test-keys.

Package expects build fingerprint of google/occam/mako:5.0/LRX21T/1576899:user/release-keys or google/occam/mako:5.0.1/LRX22C/1602158:user/release-keys; this device has Android/aosp_mako/mako:5.0/LRX21M/dees_troy11200935:userdebug/test-keys.

Any ideas?
[Nexus 4 General] shobuddy:
Same here. Tried flashing w/TWRP and got an error. Screenshot attached. Also tried using TWRP Manager and it doesn't even see the zip file.
[Nexus 4 General] jd1639:
You can't flash the ota through twrp. You have to sideload the ota zip in the stock recovery. This is new for 5.0
[Nexus 4 General] shobuddy:
Thanks for the info., had no idea. I'm stock rooted on 5.0 w/TWRP and no other modifications. Will I get OTA notification and will it work?
[Nexus 4 General] :
You ahve to unroot first, or just keep your phone rooted and sideload the OTA file.