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[Shield Tablet General] B0unze:
The WiFi images work with the K1 as well right?
[Shield Tablet General] anotherdroidowner:
nst dir ota download

just one comment, for my nst, the download directory is data/data/com.nvidia.ota/app_download
[Shield Tablet General] GuyInDogSuit:
Why, was there another OTA?
[Shield Tablet General] gqukyo:
Probably just to let others know where to pull the update file if they wish to manually flash
[Shield Tablet General] Shaky156:
Anyone got Shield Tablet K1 WIFI OTA V5.2?
[Shield Tablet General] GuyInDogSuit:
What about 5.2 for LTE US?
[Shield Tablet General] Zuzuitu:
Before i do any mistake...

I'm having a custom rom based on android 6.0.1 and i want to go on this stock rom: https://xdaforums.com/shield-tablet/development/rom-optimized-stock-shield-tablet-k1-t3437791

Before i flash the full rom, do i need to flash the stock recovery 4.4 with twrp and then that rom ? This is the stock recovery i need: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZOK9TZlbPckksrSRbJLF7OKwkrHHwhRKVy ??

Also, when do i need to flash the nomoreota.zip file? After all roms are flashed ? Or do i need to enter in android to load it and then to reboot and flash it ?

Thanks
[Shield Tablet General] n0credit:
5.3 is rolling out, if anyone catches the OTA please share de url, thanks!
[Shield Tablet General] trixt:
meaning to say i need to unroot and flash it then root it again? sorry for my very noob question
[Shield Tablet General] Singularity_iOS:
Can I just dirty flash the future full OTAs and not lose my data?
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Unfortunately, because TWRP is reporting the wrong version for the device, I have a feeling that it will not work for you. It's worth a shot before wiping everything. Let me know what the outcome is.

No worries, I think I can answer your question.

If TWRP is reporting the wrong version for your device, I believe that the only way you will be able to update is by flashing a complete recovery image via fastboot. If TWRP reports the correct version for your device, flashing your entire device with a recovery image is unnecessary and really you should be using incremental or full OTAs.
[Shield Tablet General] Singularity_iOS:
No I meant in the future. I'm still going to flash the recovery img. I'll just backup my apps. Because will probably help the lag too. But for future updates I mean.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Then yes, you should be okay in the future.
[Shield Tablet General] Singularity_iOS:
All went well and the lag is gone too. But I noticed that the download for TWRP on the first page is actually CWM. Might want to fix that, but I found TWRP because of the link next to it. Thanks for all the help! :D
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Ah thanks, it's fixed now.

And yup, no worries. As a side-note, in the future it may be best to post questions in the "Q & A" part of the forums. I don't mind answering them here but I believe the mods would rather they be posted in the proper forum. But anyway, cheers!
[Shield Tablet General] trixt:
anyway i went ahead to wipe the system to factory but was unsuccessful as i am stuck at the system.img file writing to the tablet..

end up i flash twrp and side load the 2.2.1 into my tablet and its working fine now.. god noes wat will happen next.. my guess is i need to really go back to factory 1st.. how can i do it?
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
What do you mean by stuck? Did the command prompt just close or did it seem like it was hanging?

system.img and userdata.img are two of the larger files and they will take awhile to flash.
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
I might be having the issue that singularity had. I have the 32 gig version. I first went to flash the OTAs for the LTE version. That failed saying it expected OTAs for the wifi version. I downloaded those and noticed that recovery keeps expecting me to be on 4.2.2. I booted back up and checked the build.prop and it definitely has me at 5.0, 28311. At this point, does it mean I have to flash a full blown, newest OTA?
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Any way you could provide a picture of the error screen that your device shows? It sounds odd that your device would be reporting a need for the WiFi versions...

Also, are you running TWRP v2.8.5.0 or 2.8.2.0?
[Shield Tablet General] trixt:
the command prompt didnt close but it was stuck after the 2nd report of okay (18.xxs) which i think theres some problem.. cos when i watch the youtube video the guy finish the flashing in like 45 sec.. which i was quite suspicious..

so wats the time norm for the system.img and userdata.img?
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Sending and writing of system (total of 3 chunks) takes about 90 seconds and userdata (total of 4 chunks) takes about 137 seconds. You just gotta be patient.
[Shield Tablet General] trixt:
okie i will give a try later and see how it goes.. i rem i place it there for like 5mins.. and nothing happen... :(
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
It's CWM. Here's the errors. It definitely is the 32 gig ATT version because ATT All access is sitting there plain as day. Note that in the screenies, it's okay with going from a wifi version to a wifi update but it thinks my android version is not lollipop and yet it is.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
If I'm correct in assuming that you are rooted, then I guess it has to be an issue with the SU binary and Nvidia's update packages. Unfortunately I don't know a way around this besides using full OTAs or recovery packages.

Also, I believe error 7 means that the update is intended for a different device other than the one it is being applied to.
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
COuld I attempt to flash the latest SU in recovery and see if that fixes it? Yes, I am rooted for sure. If I flashed a full OTA from the beginning of the thread, would I have to do any data formatting or would a dirty flash work? Would flashing the latest TWRP instead of using my upside down CWM do anything?
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
I don't believe that flashing/updating to the newest SuperSU would change anything. I'll test a few things real quick and get back to you, but I believe a dirty flash of a full OTA would be your best bet here.

EDIT: I went back to look at your screenshots and the partial android version that CWM displays does not match any of the available builds. That's very odd.
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
Well I know flashing SU wouldn't affect anything poorly, I meant would flashing an OTA require a data wipe.

I worked on rooting and getting the recovery for this tab all from XDA. I'm 99% sure it all came from here - http://xdaforums.com/shield-tablet/development/root-root-nvidia-shield-tablet-lollipop-t2972316

Based on what I see here, somehow that recovery thinks I have some kind of a Nexus build even though when booted, it properly thinks I am a shield tablet.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...re-are-the-ota-zip-links-for-manual-updating/
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Nope, I just flashed the full OTA for 2.0 (updated from rooted 1.2.1) and then again for OTA 2.1 and I did not lose any data. I did have to re-flash SuperSU, but that's a given with any update.

OTA 2.1 (inc) via sideload [COLOR="red"][I]did not work[/I][/COLOR].
OTA 2.1 (inc) via CWM [COLOR="red"][I]did not work[/I][/COLOR].
OTA 2.1 (inc) via TWRP [COLOR="Red"][I]did not work[/I][/COLOR].

OTA 2.1 (full) via sideload [COLOR="YellowGreen"][I]did work[/I][/COLOR].
OTA 2.1 (full) via CWM [COLOR="YellowGreen"][I]did work[/I][/COLOR].
OTA 2.1 (full) via TWRP [COLOR="YellowGreen"][I]did work[/I][/COLOR].

So it looks like just those who are rooted cannot use the incremental OTAs. The full OTAs work just fine and do not seem to wipe any user data. I don't understand how SuperSU works so I cannot explain the exact reason for this behavior, but at least there is a way around it.

Also, this post might be an explanation for why CWM was reporting the need for a WiFi version. I checked and while both CWM and TWRP both report an incorrect version, they do not report the same incorrect version.

I can give you a download link for the correctly-oriented CWM (v6.0.5.2) if you'd like, but I'd recommend trying out TWRP. The touch interface is nice and I find it to be more useful.
[Shield Tablet General] Baldyshugga:
I have the OTA update. Uploading now.
[Shield Tablet General] drewski_1:
WiFi or LTE?
[Shield Tablet General] Baldyshugga:
Here is the full OTA. https://mega.nz/#!UZ0QWRpJ
[Shield Tablet General] player594:
It's the Wifi version.

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Decryption key: !TeIczwZNn81hBtJNhv2I6nhf6vUeMbaQTtAAsNeT9z4
[Shield Tablet General] robgee789:
hey guys which is the stock recovery for the shield k1 on 5.2, i want to flash the stock recovery so i can update to 5.3
[Shield Tablet General] drewski_1:
the Full OTA zips have been TWRP flashable for me, if you're running Stock otherwise.
[Shield Tablet General] robgee789:
ahh ok :) do you know where they get downloaded to mate?
[Shield Tablet General] Baldyshugga:
Three post up.
[Shield Tablet General] aquatix:
Odd, the above OTA won't flash in TWRP 3.2.0; it says it can't install this package (Thu Nov 16) over newer build (Fri Dec 1). Any idea why? Might be caused by my TWRP?
[Shield Tablet General] player594:
I had no issue flashing it. I'm using the same ver of twrp. Clear cache then try again or wait for the ota to download to your device normally then install it with twrp. That's how I got the image and installed it.
[Shield Tablet General] aquatix:
I flashed TWRP 3.0.2-2 and now everything seems to be flashing fine; apparently one can have a too new TWRP :)
[Shield Tablet General] sinichi21:
So how do you grab the full ota update? how do you know that it is full ota and not an incremental update?
[Shield Tablet General] sinichi21:
Oh well I got the full OTA 5.3 RoW LTE here is the link RoW LTE full OTA 5.3 I just flash it over through TWRP no wipe or anything if your base is ROW LTE
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
I would like to rollback to 5.2... 5.3 has battery issues where it drains all the power while on standby... Anyone has 5.2 LTE
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
There's some sort of check with TWRP that prevents you flashing the older 5.2 firmware once you are on 5.3. Anyone know how to disable this?

One way to overcome this from what I understand is to use the Images from Nvidia via a fastboot method of flashing from what I have read on the Nvidia forums. I don't want to do this however as I have a pyro tablet off of eBay and don't want to risk bricking the device with the nVidia OTA update that would get deployed. So temporarily I've backed up 5.3 using TWRP and switched over to a Custom Rom. Battery life seems to be pretty much back to normal on a custom Rom.

The main thing not supported is the Nvidia Shield controller, which I don't use very often, but still it will be nice when Nvidia release an updated firmware that fixes the Battery drain issue. Alternatively you can go into Performance Settings and set a custom plan to only use two CPU cores and lower the maximum speed.

Edit: So I figured out how to go back to 5.2. I hacked the Stock 5.1 LTE zip file in the Android Development thread (which doesn't include the 5.2 blob updates - which is what I think was preventing the normal OTA for 5.2 from installing), and replaced its contents with the 5.2 LTE file versions of the system.dat files and boot.img. After flashing, I also flashed the nomoreote.zip to keep my Pyro tablet safe from Nvidia Bricking it.

Seeing if I can upload the .ZIP file somewhere for you.

I tried androidfilehost.com, but it aborted. Will try again tomorrow
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
try on google.drive... Let me know. Thanks.
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FmI1zhY9bupNIKl-nImCSqQ44Eu9zMLX/view?usp=drivesdk

There you go
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
Just have to flash it on TWRP, i will do it and let you know... Thanks a lot.
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
It doesn't work, it stays at the nvidia logo... And I think i was at the 5.2, I though I was at the 5.3, I think i want to go back as far as 5.1, thats the one that was working fine for me.
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
You will have to wipe your data, cache partitions as 5.3 is based on a newer security patch Level, that normally modifies the data partition, so you will have to basically factory reset
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
I always do that, wipe everything... but it didnt work, where can i get 5.1... I would like to go back to that one...
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
There's a 5.1 lte in the android development thread
[Shield Tablet General] hectoralexgarcia:
so what is the order of flashing the tablet? I am coming from lineage os on a pyro tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
I searched there but the only one i could find was these ones:

https://xdaforums.com/shield-tablet/development/rom-aosp-nvidia-shield-tablet-lte-t3012876

https://xdaforums.com/shield-tablet/general/shield-tablet-firmware-update-5-1-t3569185

But there's no link to LTE US, only ROW
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
I don't have Us lte, only row lte
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
Do you know if i can just flash 5.1 ROW LTE without changing anything?
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
If you have the us lte ota.zip file you should be able to just replace the system image files and boot.img files in the zip file like i did to roll back to an older Android 7.0 build.

If you were on 5.3, then you may have been on ROW Lte as i am not sure if the Usa Lte 5.3 had come out yet.

The steps i did were.

1. Apply the latest twrp 3.2.0 for the Nvidia shield tablet, also keep a copy on internal memory or sd card to reflash afterwards (.img file)

Make a twrp full backup of your working 5.3 if you want an easy way to roll back. You should be able to flash the 5.3 ota again to get the device booting again, and then you can make a twrp backup if you want.

2. Copy Shield Tablet 5.2 zip file to internal memory or sdcard along with no more ota zip

(not the official nvidia ota, as because of the blob files twrp will complain that it's an older firmware and you can't flash it, maybe if you flashed the 5.1 blob files from the Android development thread that has the 5.1 row lte zip it might allow you to flash the official 5.2 ota from nvidia as it will consider that it is newer)

3. Wipe system, data, davlik and cache (but not internal memory or sdcard

4. Flash the 5.2 row lte.zip (5.2 wifi should also work if you have a wifi model and want to roll back)

5. Flash the nomoreota.zip to remove the danger for the pyro tab from being bricked, also this would stop you from being notified of the 5.3 update from Nvidia if you don't want it (this can be found in the st-yy battery thread)

6. Reflash twrp just in case rom updated recovery to stock

Then reboot the device.

That's how i rolled back
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
Thanks for the steps, I had problems previously with 5.2 and I did a few re-installations but with no success I couldn't fix the battery drains issue, now after I flashed your zip 5.2 it got stuck in the logo, I knew something was wrong because it took too long to boot, then I re-flashed the 5.2 that I downloaded before and the same one i have flashed before, i was waiting for your steps to rollback to 5.1 and see if I could go back, and now suddenly battery drains got fixed and I'm on 5.2. I always wipe everything dalvik/cache, etc. Glad i could got it working again like it should.
[Shield Tablet General] p3dboard:
Awesome, glad you're back up and running. Hopefully nvidia release a fix soon for the 5.3 update
[Shield Tablet General] w0rtez:
I will stay here for a long time i believe, i dont want to have that battery drain issue, its annoying, it gets from 100% to 90% in like 5-10 mins... Thanks anyway...
[Shield Tablet General] yka1988:
I know this is probably old news but i am leaving this here in case someone else stumbles upon the issues i had. So i read here that once you are in stock recovery mode, and once you see the "no command" screen, you should hold down the volume up button, and then press the power button once to enter recovery mode.

Well, it didn't work for me this way, and it was driving me nuts. Turns out I had to do the opposite: I had to hold down the power button, and press the volume up button once - and it worked!
[Shield Tablet General] nosfertu187av:
Hello every one I have an issue I tried to put kali into my device with no luck I dont know what happened but when I tried to reimage or load a stock image from nvidia I get stuck in the android screen. I have done the flash all like the instruction say but i still dont sem to go anywhere. Have I unknowingly bricked my tablet and have no otherway of fixing it? or is there still hope?
[Shield Tablet General] marvi0:
After successfully flashing stock firmware via adb fast boot, how long does it take for the tablet to boot. Its been on the green logo for 5 minutes should I leave it longer please?
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
So your final suggestion is switch to TWRP and then use the latest, full OTA and then reflash the latest SuperSU? Can going from CWM to TWRP be done via flashing TWRP in CWM or would I have to go into fastboot mode and flash it from the PC?

Any idea if these OTAs have helped these 2 things I noticed? 1-Orientation seems to get "stuck" with I close my cover and the display goes off. Fairly often, when I flip the cover off (not an official nvidia cover but a smart one still), the tablet will not change orientation when I turn it. I have to reboot it. 2-The hub constantly says poor network connectivity even when I'm in the room with the router and connected via 5ghz. My shield handles it like a champ but the tablet acts like my wifi is **** (ASUS RTN66U Dark Knight)
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Yup, TWRP -> OTA -> SuperSU. I'd do a reboot in between the OTA and SuperSU just to be safe.

TWRP replaces CWM so you'll have to reboot to the bootloader and flash it via "fastboot flash recovery {TWRP image}.img". If your tablet already trusts your computer, you could reboot to the bootloader by just using "adb reboot bootloader" from a command prompt and then run the fastboot command.

I can say that I have not experienced either of the issues you mentioned with 2.2.1, so you shouldn't see them after updating.
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
Thank you very much Midget. I will try it in the next day or so and let you know. I REALLY want to use it for PC gaming away from the PC (including building up a solid library of controller enabled games on steam) but when I kept getting "poor network connectivity", it was completely disappointing.
[Shield Tablet General] Duckers McQuack:
So how do i install the WHQL drivers? Theire all .inf files.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Good luck to ya, hopefully the connectivity crap goes away.

The second post in this thread outlines the driver install for you:

To install the driver:
1. Enable Developer Mode on the tablet - Go into About and Tap the Last selection 10 times.
2. Go Into Developer Mode and enable "Usb Debugging"
3. Plug the shield tablet into a USB 2.0 port
4. Go into device manager
5 Identify the device with an ! next to it. It should say shield tablet OR just a device id
6 Right mouse click and click update driver software. Select Browse my computer for driver software.
7. At the "Browse my computer for driver software" screen click Browse. Navigate to the driver folder (which you extracted from a zip) and allow the driver to load.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
I'm reorganizing the main post and am adding in new guides. My apologies if it's messy/jumbled for the next few hours. Guides have been updated. I'll finish the driver installation one at some point in the future. In the mean time, use the second post in this thread for instructions.
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
Midget, thank you VERY much for the help. I now have TWRP installed and I flashed the full ota (I see now where it says "if you're rooted, flash full OTAs"). Super SU got repushed by TWRP. So I booted up and I'm 5.0.1 with a build of LRX22C.29979_512.4856 but I'm still being prompted to install a 2.2.1 OTA. Am I a version off or something? Also needed to run that fix to the permissions.xml to allow things to work with the SD card properly.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Yea, that "if you're rooted" thing was added yesterday lol.

4856 is for OTA 2.2. Did you happen to download the wrong recovery image by any chance?
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
No. I snagged productionBL-droid-signed-wx_na_do-full_ota-29979_512.4856

Did you know under the LTE US, the 2.2.1 and 2.2 link to the same file? Maybe that's the issue :D
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
And that is why we don't mass-post links when we're tired :o

Thanks for letting me know lol, it's fixed
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
So I accidentally flashed the 2.2.1 that was under LTE RoW by mistake. When I booted up, I only had the back button down in the bar area and my notifications area didn't do the double pull down, it just pulled down only one level. I downloaded and flashed the proper 2.2.1 for an LTE US model but I still have the same issue. I'm missing my home and recent apps button and can only pull down the notification panel down one notch. Any ideas? Caches and reboot already have been done.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Someone posted the same issue in another thread and apparently this is the fix:

I'm assuming you have to run this from a terminal emulator on your device but I'm not sure.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
you can run that either on a local term on the device, or via adb shell.
[Shield Tablet General] NapalmDawn:
Thank you so much again Midget and Fards. It worked beautifully. I might add that I had to type in SU just to make sure it got super user rights and the first terminal I downloaded didn't work. I had to download a second one and then it worked fine. The only thing I lost was my widgets so that's definitely fine with me.

I'd still like to find out why it seems the tablet tends to have issues with my wifi more than my shield console. I took the case off my shield (not an official smart case but similar) thinking maybe it was interfering with the antenna but that didn't change things much.

Wifi analyzer definitely has my 2.4 coming in a bit stronger than my 5 but the console is tending to get better signal strength than the tab. My cell data is off on the tab because I don't have anything going with ATT so why bother expending battery for a service I don't use.
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
I don't think the wifi antenna is that all well placed on these, although it's better than my nvidia now 7 tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] MidgetMob:
Agreed, it seems the antenna is on the side opposite of the camera. Holding it in landscape mode can wreck your WiFi signal if you place your hand in the right spot.
[Shield Tablet General] bleached45:
Question:

I am slightly confused about what the difference is between the recovery images and full OTAs. Does the recovery image format everything? Does it only work from stock Nvidia recovery?

I have TWRP 2.8.6 and am downloading the full OTA for 2.2. I am on 2.0 (or maybe 2.1... I don't fully remember).

Hopefully this one will install from TWRP, without wiping user data. Thanks for any help. Maybe a brief explanation in the OP will help.
[Shield Tablet General] Mojar7070:
+1 on this.

I'm assuming that a recovery image will have to be flashed via fastboot or flashify and the full ota is twrp flashable zip. Please advise.

I'm trying to flash back to stock. So wiping the device is not an issue for me.

Thanks in advance.

Sent from my 1+1