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[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
The easiest solution is to boot into twrp and clear dalvik and cache. When your phone boots back up you will get an error message to try again later and your boot loop will be gone. I did this at work and was freaking out until I tried it.
[Droid Ultra General] choza321:
Haha well I wish I saw this post earlier. I just spent a few hours teaching myself to use HouseofMoto, per the other suggestion. But I was able to reflash using HouseofMoto and I accepted the OTA update again, which worked.
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
Rooted on 4.4

Locked bootloader

So took the OTA. Downloaded successfully. Have supersu survival checked and tried to install by it failed for some reason. Then when I try again it says "no connection"

What do I do now?

Thanks guys
[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
Sorry ... I was a little late posting it I was at work. I'm unlocked and rooted and figured I saw another post saying it worked for him so I tried it. Nope. Bootloop and I was freaking. So I cleared cache and it worked.
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
I'm not sure it's related to your failed install. I'm getting the same message and I have NOT received the update, nor flashed it manually.
[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
Restart your phone. I did it to my wife's phone. After it restarted I tried it again and the message said there are no updates so I'm guessing something is up on their side.
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
So play the waiting game it sounds like?
[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
Flashed stock recovery using flashy app but I guess I used titanium and deleted apks I shouldn't have.
[Droid Ultra General] tombaldwin6:
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[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
I wasn't aware that the update would still push through despite being rooted and unlocked. Cool. Fully stocked 4.4, unlocked, xposed, twrp.

So I take it you didn't have xposed framework modules enabled or any system apks frozen. And I would still need to disable modules and enable frozen apps first?

I've seen enough good reviews of the update.

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[Droid Ultra General] 2THEXTRM:
I am not using xposed, many frozen apps via TiBu but no frozen system apk's. I did not defrost apps before update installed.

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[Droid Ultra General] weezel66613:
Where do you check supersu survival?
[Droid Ultra General] 2THEXTRM:
Under settings in SuperSU Pro

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[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
. . . . would Xposed be part reason why my update failed? This might be a really dumb question but I just started messing around with Xposed this last week and don't fully understand it yet.
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Absolutely exposed will cause an update to fail. The reason why is it makes changes to the system once the OTA notice's the changes it fails. Best bet is to fxz save data then take the ota.
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
Can I just uninstall Xposed instead? :D
[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
its not looking like that will work. when i ran the update it rebooted to TWRP but the install failed. time to fxz save data
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
So FXZ back to 19.5.3. using RSD then take the OTA? what about retaining root?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
That's probably the issue I had. I was running xposed and gravity box and the update wouldn't flash in twrp. All I did was flash stock recovery and it installed no problem

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[Droid Ultra General] akellar:
The issues is TWRP not xposed. You have to be on stock recovery.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Other people have flashed the update just fine using twrp, so it's either xposed or twrp. I personally think it's best to flash stock firmware on a stock recovery but to each his own

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[Droid Ultra General] 2THEXTRM:
Modifying stock system files would cause a failed install

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[Droid Ultra General] akellar:
You can't flash an ota in custom recovery.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Obviously there are some conflicting reports of what you can and can not do with TWRP. Seems that there are several people that have done it both ways, but the majority say that you can't do it in TWRP. Yes if you modified any system file (such as the entitlement/hotspot hack) then obviously the install will fail, but for me I could not sideload the OTA through TWRP without it failing, only to flash the stock recovery and it worked just fine.
[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
instead of fxz save data and taking the update, can't i just use house of moto and fxz save data using the 4th option here: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=4

Thanks

unlocked, rooted, twrp, 4.4 droid maxx xt1080m consumer edition
[Droid Ultra General] Einsteindks:
Thankfully, it would seem that every other notification that is non-stock or app-based continues to be in glorious color... offsetting the cheapo stock grey!

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.
[Droid Ultra General] jmaclean62:
Stock Recovery

Ok, I don't really care why it won't flash. How do I flash it with Stock Recovery. I try and go to recovery and TWRP keeps coming up.

Do I have to do RSD?

I am rooted, on an unlocked bootloader running gravity box and X-posed modules

Thanks,
[Droid Ultra General] akellar:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[Droid Ultra General] bturkel:
help with ota

I am rooted if I take this OTA will I lose the root and tethering?
[Droid Ultra General] jmaclean62:
I tried fastboot ( booting with power and vol down botton pushed), but when I go to recovery by using the down bottom to get to recovery and select it with the up arrow, the recovery is twrp.

Am I doing something else wrong or misunderstanding?
[Droid Ultra General] akellar:
You use fastboot in bootloader not recovery
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Twrp replaced your stock recovery. They're telling you that you need to flash the stock recovery in order to get it back. You flash it right in bootloader mode (vol dwn and pwr.)

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[Droid Ultra General] jmaclean62:
Ugh. I feel dumb. I am going to my bootloader (fastboot) . How do I flash recovery from there? When i chose recovery, it takes me to twrp. Where is the stock recovery? My update.zip file is in my download folder. If I have to, I can factory reset and then start the root/set-up all over again. I also see fxz stuff, but I haven't done my he on that.... Hmmmmm.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Are you familiar with adb? How did you get TWRP on your phone? Because that needed to be flashed with fastboot. You can get the recovery.img from the fxz. Then once in bootloader enter in

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

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maybe you could use an app to flash your recovery. You'll still need to get the recovery.img file sry I don't have that handy right now. I haven't used this app but I heard it works OK.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.recoverytools

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[Droid Ultra General] jmaclean62:
Thanks Caseyk, I need to go back and do my he. I installed everything months ago and got everything just how I wanted it and now have forgotten almost everything apparently. I will do some reading and remind this old brain of mine what I did before.

Thanks for trying to help.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
OK here you go. Down load this. Its the stock recovery for our phone.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mk9rer5r1qxwn0s/recovery.img

Then get the app that I posted in my last post. Select flash recovery. Navigate to recovery.img select it and flash it. From there you can boot right into stock recovery and flash the OTA! It works. I just tried it.

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[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Yes that is what I was saying fxz save data I use house of moto as well. All I did to update is fxz save data with HoM boot into recovery take the ota and your done. Then once booted up re install xposed and reboot and since you saved data all your gravity box settings will still be there. It took me less then an hour from downloading the update to be back to where I was before I started. Easy peasy Chinesey :)

Almost forgot also re install twrp and re root or course.
[Droid Ultra General] rlmesq:
Guess I'm a meathead...

Inadvertently installed on my rooted Maxx. Fortunately, I still have root, SuperSU and TiBu seem to be working okay.

However, I cannot seem to flash TWRP recovery. I get an error message that says it failed:

Is there any way to reflash TWRP without an unlocked bootloader?
[Droid Ultra General] xDroid4Lifex:
Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this, but when I pull down the notification bar to access the quick settings menu the button in the top right of the screen no longer works.. (looks like a blank contact image with 5 squares around the side and bottom)
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
Mine is working fine

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
can someone please answer this? If you FXZ does that mean you lose root..?
[Droid Ultra General] lkevinl:
OK, I have a non-dev Droid Maxx, on 4.4, 19.5.3. I rooted using the House of Moto/SlapMyMoto method and only have enabled the tether patch. I got the OTA notification and accidentally accepted it because it popped up as I was going to press something else and pressed "Accept" instead. The phone rebooted and when it tried to update, the update failed.

Now, when I go to check for system update, I see Last System Update Information showing Version 19.6.3.en.US, Status: Update failed.

When I try to check for system updates, I get:

Oops! You need a data connection to check for updates, even though my data connections are working.

How do I get out of this situation and/or how do I accept the OTA from my current phone state? Do I need to FXZ to something? If so, what?

Thanks in advance!
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
You can download the file from the OP in this thread. Put it on sd card. Boot into stock recovery and select "apply update from SD card." You'll need to change your entitlement apk (wifi tether) back to stock or the update will fail.

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[Droid Ultra General] lkevinl:
Yup, thanks, that did the trick! So, I undid entitlement hack and then redid it after update via recovery and all is good. I had set SuperSU Survival Mode, but I'm not sure if that was necessary or not.

One thing, when I check for System Updates, it still mentions version 19.6.3.en.US and says Status: Update failed and the time is the time I tried to take the OTA. Should this info change when I update via recovery?

Also, when I check for any system updates, I get the "Oops" message still rather than something saying that I'm currently up-to-date. Will this go away?

See attached screenshots.
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
Yes. This is due to server problems at Motorola, not anything on your phone. The oops message is an error based on the fact that whoever programmed it decided that it was more likely that your phone would lose a data connection to the internet rather than the server would go down.

See this thread on G+, scroll down to the Matt Jones comment from this morning: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidSchuster/posts/Dfpjj3F2K6T
[Droid Ultra General] lkevinl:
Great! I'm hoping that when I'm able to check, it'll say I'm up-to-date and the Status will change from failed to something else.
[Droid Ultra General] Piaband:
I downloaded the recovery.IMG file and flashed it in adb. I tried to boot into recover and got a "no command!" error. Am I missing something?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
You flashed with fastboot or adb? Are you getting the android laying on his back w the exclamation point? If so when you see that hold vol up and tap the pwr button

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Did you get things worked out?

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[Droid Ultra General] Piaband:
I actually tried to flash it with fastboot first, then I tried mfastboot. The results were the same with both. The android guy laying on his back with the exclamation point.

Does holding pwr+up go back into the bootloader? Or load the recovery? I've already flashed TWRP back until I can figure out what I need to do.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
You had it....once the android is laying on his back you press and hold the vol up and then tap pwr. It'll send you to recovery.

You can also use this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.recoverytools

To flash the recovery.img right from your phone. Then choose to boot to recovery. You'll still see the android in his back. But hold vol up and tap power and you'll be set. Let me know how it works out

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[Droid Ultra General] Piaband:
Ok, while I have you here...

I have a "Dev Edition" Maxx. I'm rooted, with a bunch of xposed modules installed, wifi entitlement.

Is there anything else I need to do before accepting the update?

Thanks for your help.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Yes! Just uninstall xposed. Don't worry you're settings will be saved for when you reinstall xposed. Also you'll need to put the stock entitlement apk and odex back. In the future there is an xposed module for WiFi tether...here....

http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.dym.motoxtether

Makes it easier to revert back for updates.

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[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
If you didn't use xposed for the hotspot hack then you will have to go back and fix the vzwentitlement.apk and .odex or the install will fail

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[Droid Ultra General] Piaband:
Can you explain how to do that?

Its been a while since I did it, I dont even know where I found out how to do it.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
Go to system/priv-app, find vzwentitlementservice.apkand vzwentitlementservice.odex and delete them. Find the ones you renamed with a .bak and rename them by deleting the .bak

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If you don't have a vzwentitlementservice.odex to delete, that's ok. Just make sure you have the .apk.bak and .odex.bak files to replace the current vzwentitlementservice.apk

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[Droid Ultra General] Piaband:
OK. Did it all. Everything seems to be working good on this new version.
[Droid Ultra General] jmaclean62:
Thanks Casey,

I finally got it to work. I am now running the newer 4.4 on my device.

I appreciate your help.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Awesome. Glad you got it working!

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[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
when side loading update i get /system/priv-app/gpacsmartcardservice.apk has unexpected contents. fxz?
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
That or just replace that file

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[Droid Ultra General] s_u_n:
Got the system update notification now. It will install 19.6.3.

I am without root and locked.

Any issued with the update that I should know of? I am hoping that the radio has no new problems.

I am using the phone outside US on GSM.
[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
Got notification this morning of 19.6.3 on my Droid Mini XT1030.

I'm rooted on LOCKED bootloader, used SlapMyMoto to preserve root from 4.2.2 to 4.4/19.5.3.

Looks like for many people, this is NOT unrooting, although those people had unlocked BLs.

Can anyone confirm this does not unroot a phone on locked BL?

Any special preparations I need to make to ensure my root is preserved? Saw mention of Survival Mode, didn't see that in my SuperSU menus, is this a Pro-only option? I assume I will need to unfreeze all frozen bloatware in Titanium first.

Okay to just update via standard OTA screens, or is there a need to manually install in recovery?
[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
" "/system/priv-app/fswriter.apk" has unexpected contents"

anyone know what these contents are that cause the update to fail when it verifies current system?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Its the Motorola Migrate app I think. Did you delete it or otherwise modify it?

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[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
deleted.. definitely deleted that.. haha
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Need me to upload it for you?

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[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
I just installed it from the playstore will that work? any other APK's I more than likely deleted I need back? Thanks
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Yes that will work. It will go through and check all your system apps. And it will let you know if anything is missing. If you need any apk let me know

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[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
Thanks Casey, looks like I need the following:

Called name ID

Vz navigator

Vz mobile security
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
This was in system/priv-app

https://www.dropbox.com/s/snmn3u0yircalyl/VMobileSecurity.apk

This was in system/app

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rs9ltmugusmwp3e/vznavigator.apk

Don't forget to set permissions to rw-r-r

What was the name of the caller Id one?

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[Droid Ultra General] Carrzy:
Which permissions?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Once you put the file where it needs to go you long press on it and change the permissions. Should set them like this.

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[Droid Ultra General] smooth781:
So I read this whole thread and did not see this answer. I have a unlocked rooted Maxx. I install the recovery program and have only installed the wireless apk hack. how do I undo that so I can take this update over the air? people have said I only need to fix the apk thing I did for the teether.
[Droid Ultra General] rmjones2006:
System/Priv-app delete vzwentitlementservice. Apk. Rename vzwentitlementservice. Apk.bak and .odex.bak to just .apk and .odex. I would also make sure you are on stock recovery

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[Droid Ultra General] davek1946:
Update fails

My phone is unlocked and rooted and stock. When I try to install the update it fails with the message, system/app/magicsmokewallpaper.apk, has unexpected contents. I haven't messed with that at all any suggestions will be appreciated.

Dave
[Droid Ultra General] smooth781:
Ok I did that

Thank you. how do I remove the trp recovery to get back to stock?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Look here just went through this earlier!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2755794

updating rooted dev edition droid maxx?

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3kcx2uksjr6wai/MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ci5357yavcnr73/MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex

Go into system/app and delete whatever you have for magicsmokewallpapers. If you have anything at all...

Then copy these two files to system/app and set permissions to rw-r-r for both. Should be good to go!

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[Droid Ultra General] wishthecuttlefish:
Blue Icons

... Am I the only one who misses the blue icons? ?

OTA applied with no noticeable changes...except ugly plain Jane white icons.

My phone is unlocked (thank you nameless Chines guy), rooted, and running TWRP.

I restored stock recovery, restored entitlement apk and odex files, and used SU survival mode.
[Droid Ultra General] bigv5150:
Nope that's why mine are blue courtesy of gravity box.:)
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
I don't care if they are blue or white, but I do miss having one color for no Google services connection and another for good connection (it used to be white/blue; now the stupid things are always white. Yes, I know the settings shade shows orange for no connection. It still is less information than it used to be.)
[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
Decided to throw caution to the wind and updated my rooted, locked BL Droid Mini on 19.5.3.

Updated SuperSU to Pro and enabled Survival Mode (not sure if necessary).

Unfroze all my frozen bloatware in Titanium Backup (pretty sure this is necessary).

Took the OTA.

Phone rebooted and all is well, got success message that I was updated to 19.6.3. Still have root!

Refroze all my bloatware in Titanium.

All is well, except I don't care for the white icons either. I had an app to enable battery percent on the actual battery icon on the status bar itself. It put a white % on the battery. Now that the battery icon is white, I can't see the % any more. Oh well, no biggie. I'm sure there are other apps that can put the % in the status bar, I just liked it on the battery icon itself.
[Droid Ultra General] Topsnake:
I was having some bad connectivity issues using WiFi tether on 19.6.3. I can report that after flashing the radio I posted in the Dev section along with the FSG(which I believe is different than the OTA FSG) the issues have resolved. No longer failing to load pages

Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
[Droid Ultra General] gchglobal:
So I am unlocked/rooted and just did a house of moto FXZ to the latest 19.6.3. I confirmed it updated but I still have blue icons. Not that I really care, but it seems strange.
[Droid Ultra General] davek1946:
wifi tether

Thanks so much for the Wifi tether update. You are the best.

Dave
[Droid Ultra General] SupremeOverlord:
Gravitybox can take care of that problem for you.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
If you say Gravity Box can help you should write how....

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[Droid Ultra General] SupremeOverlord:
He was sad because the app he had put a percent in the battery icon, but now can't see it because the icons are now the same color. Gravitybox can help with that because there is options to use. Including changing the white icons to whatever color he wants, or change the battery icons.

I guess I could of written all that out before, but I tried to imply it. The greatest thing about Gravitybox is the discovery of all the magic it can do. Do you use it?
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Indeed I do. It is awesome!

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[Droid Ultra General] GnatGoSplat:
Thanks, I did end up searching about it on Google. Unfortunately, it won't work for me because it runs in Xposed Framework and that doesn't currently support ART. I guess I could change back to Dalvik, but everything has been running great with ART and it's supposed to be the latest and greatest so at the moment I'd like to stick with it.
[Droid Ultra General] beelow319:
So I've been skimming through this thread. Is this update worth the hassle of going back to stock and updating?
[Droid Ultra General] CrazyRussianXDA:
By "going back to stock" part of your question I'm guessing that you are rooted - in which case, just install the radio from THIS THREAD and you'll have the most important part of the latest dinky update.
[Droid Ultra General] beelow319:
Yes I'm rooted. And I've made several system changes trying out various things so undoing all of that would be near impossible as I don't remember everything I tweaked. I could use house of moto but its still a pain. Thanks for the info on the radios though. I'll do that instead.
[Droid Ultra General] kanagadeepan:
I am just answering the part of questions I have marked in BOLD and underline...

You need NOT unfreeze bloat to get OTA working...

I am also in the same boat... I have removed about 50 bloat apps using Titanium Backup and my phone is flying... I will wait for 4.4.2 and skip this one as its not as great an update which is worth the hassle, imho...