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[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
You can update the new one without any worries. Only the old tablet can be deactivated while updating.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Shelkan:
KillSwitch on RomStock nividia 6.0

Hello everyone, Thanks for the topic. I've some quetions

I've flash an Nvidia Rom (6.0) on my old tablet (found on XDA), then I deleted the TegraOta and instaled Nomoreota.

So i want to know if the killswhitch it still present on 6.0 RomStock, and if my tablet it's still in danger.

Can I let my tablet on 6.0RomStock or is it better to install a custom Rom?

I wait to run my new tablet
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
If TegraOTA is surely removed, the old tablet is safe. To be sure, check in Settings->About Tablet if you have System Updates in blue (safe) or green (not safe) colour. If is green, tegraota is still running and you did not remove it properly.

If you did not run the new tablet so far, you could remove TegraOTA on the new tablet as well, before going online and then you are double sure the Killswitch will not be released. To check that, use Bogracutu web page to check the OLD tablet serial if returns ST-yy update. DO NOT ever check the new tablet serial there, or you release the killswitch yourself !

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Shelkan:
Run new tablet on 6.0

I run my new tablet and no problem for the moment, both on 6.0 android. thank you so much for your help !
[Shield Tablet General] !S.R.G.O.:
Shelkan, which version are you running the old one?

Mine is running on 4.0. I just wanted to know if I can update to the latest ones without worries using the OTAs provided here on the forum.
[Shield Tablet General] Shelkan:
I've flashed my old tablet with an Android 6.0 nvidia romstock found on xda. So you shouldn't have any problems if you deleting tegra Ota and installing nomoreota after flashing the desired rom.

Ps: I've taken the nvidia rom on this topic :

https://xdaforums.com/shield-tablet/general/stock-recovery-images-ota-library-guides-t2988881
[Shield Tablet General] helois974:
I've flashed last TWRP, last rom stock update 4.4, supersu and nomoreota on my old shield Tablet. it's OK :)
[Shield Tablet General] Cedric1127:
I may ask something that was aleready asked but to made it simple, I have my old shield in 5.0 with nomoreota launched when I flashed it(the kill switch was trigged), I want to upgrade to 6.0.

What do I need to do ?

Install the update with TWRP Recovery and launch nomoreota.zip ?

Or do something else?

Is it safe ? nobody killed their shield tablet?
[Shield Tablet General] Shelkan:
Like I said on a previous post I updated my old tablet on 6.0

You have to flash the android 6.0 then install nomorota and don't forget to delete TegraOta with superUser for example.

Report you to my previous post for more details

Good luck
[Shield Tablet General] Cedric1127:
Seems like it was a bad idea...

Flash was ok but after it asked me to install supersu, when it rebooted...bricked on nvidia logo

Can't acces to TWRP , stuck at nvidia logo to if i choose recovery menu... ma last option is fastboot..****
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
That is not looking like the killswitch. If you see the nvidia logo, is good.

Just a miss-flash or something.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Cedric1127:
Yeah seems like a bad version of TWRP

I need tu use fastboot to flash it again.

https://xdaforums.com/shield-tablet/help/bricked-shield-tablet-t3319254
[Shield Tablet General] Cedric1127:
Hey I managed to recover the shield, but when i try to install no more ota from twrp, the recovery takes me to main menu.

How can I be sure that I don't have TERGA OTA?

I don't see anything on the file manager but when I go to tablet option I see "Update system" instead of nothing on my android 5 version
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
If is the update menu is Blue in color, then is the updater from Android and the tablet is safe.

If the menu is Green, then is from nVidia and is bad (TegraOTA is still running).

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Cedric1127:
like this ?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
Yes. That is safe. The new Android has its own updater that has nothing to do with nVidia or the killswitch.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Cedric1127:
Thank you :)
[Shield Tablet General] Hogwarts:
Ok so just to be 100% sure

I have shield running 4.4 blob , 6.0.1 stock rom, which Is pre-recall. (Rom by GtrCraft, its stock)

I am on blue screen (confirming the tegra updates are removed)

I ran the nomoreota.zip.

So is there any other ways that Nvidia has to shut down tablet? OTA is the only way correct?

even for 6.0.1?

I looked and theyre saying the stock recovery will also brick the device, not sure how this is possible. I am using TWRP recovery.
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
Nothing is 100% sure unless you stay offline. So far it seems the updater from nVidia is the culprit.

The recovery is used to flash the ST-yy update that kills the tablet. Sure if is removed, there is no way it can be flashed. Unfortunately you have to remove it completely to work. TWRP (or any other recovery) would also flash any OTA that comes.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] kissamopo:
so guys, i got my hands on this device today and happily connected to the internet to download the latest updates. little did i know that i would be bricking it. from memory the update was the infamous ST-yy, 12MB size (that's for sure). installed the update, autoreboot, android logo flashes briefly and i haven't been able to start the device since.

what's weird here is that nvidia support checked the S/N (13 digits from the box) and told me that this device doesn't have a faulty battery. it's a replacement sent for an earlier device that had the battery issue!

but still i got the killswitch update. what's going on here?

i'm trying to contact the guy i got this from tomorrow. nvidia wants to continue solving the problem with him...

edit: i just realized that the serial numbers on the left side of the device and on the packaging do not match. i gave nvidia rep the s/n on the box...this probably means that i've been given the battery affected unit after all?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
I think the person who sold the tablet to you, gave you the recalled tablet in the box from the new tab.

He should have told you that is a recalled item and not to update it. Get your money back because recalled items are not allowed to be sold.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] WeirdBren:
Nougat

So I was on marshmellow and rooted with removed OTA, but have now updated to Nougat on the shield tablet and was going to root it again to delete the OTA but I came across a setting in the Dev Options to "disable automatic system updates" which would be great if it would disable nvidia from sending down the kill switch! Anyone have any ideas on how to check what exactly that setting is doing and if it would stop the kill switch? Thanks!
[Shield Tablet General] Fatboy99999:
I Apologize for not knowing the answer to your question, but do you possibly have a link for instructions on upgrading to Nougat like you did? Im on Lollipop with OTA removed and have been finding a hard time on how to upgrade. TY in advanced :)
[Shield Tablet General] WeirdBren:
No worries, so what I did was kind of risky as I added my OTA file back as I had backed it up in a different location and updated it normally, so the kill switch could have been sent down in the process but I just didn't want to wait for the rom to be uploaded by nvidia to flash it. I can't add links here but if you google "nvidia shield tablet drivers", the first two results will be where they will add the new roms in the next week or two. Then you flash the rom and root your tablet again
[Shield Tablet General] Fatboy99999:
follow this post
[Shield Tablet General] GuyInDogSuit:
It probably would not. That particular update is force-installed regardless so it's best to remove/disable the system upgrader to be safe.
[Shield Tablet General] kenkiller:
So....anyone tried this the 7.0 update on a killswitch incoming tablet? Or is the killswitch no longer there.
[Shield Tablet General] endiz:
Patiently waiting for someone to release a pre-rooted 7.0 rom with pre-applied no-ota :)
[Shield Tablet General] dzefo:
nomoreota.zip work on nughat?
[Shield Tablet General] The Philosopher:
Did yesterday a full ota update using TWRP on my pyro LTE US tablet using the LTE ROW 7.0 rom found in a different thread, ran supersu 2.79 and nomoreota.zip, my tablet works fine under Nougat (meaning not killed). System Updates appear as opposed to System Upgrade where tegraota is atill running. Everything works like before.
[Shield Tablet General] alucard_xs:
you should check, the nomoreota.zip did not work for me on nougat; had o remove the tegraOTA.apk manualy.
[Shield Tablet General] The Philosopher:
Yeah, indeed I always flash it a couple of times and then check in the file manager to make sure it both system apps and system priv-apps. But my tab is safe as I said, I get the blue screen instead of a green screen. (I also have an OG tablet with B01 battery to compare)
[Shield Tablet General] dzefo:
where is lockated tegraOTA.apk?
[Shield Tablet General] loick2728:
On the first page of this post!
[Shield Tablet General] kenkiller:
That's not what he's asking.
[Shield Tablet General] The Philosopher:
The answer is indeed on the first post of this thread.
[Shield Tablet General] loick2728:
+1

With android 6.0.1 TegraOTA is placed in system/priv-app, But i don't not know if it's the same with Nougat

And sorry if I don't understand well, I try to help with my low level
[Shield Tablet General] The Philosopher:
Yes it is for Nougat, same place. My pyro tab is still running fine.
[Shield Tablet General] miro101:
pyro is the one with the battery right?

i had to flash the "kill switch" twice.

first time it failed.

i booted to OS (didnt set up wifi)

reboot to twrp

2nd time, kill switch got killed.

great :)

thanks for the killer!
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
You did what ? Flashed the killswitch ? And you needed 2 tries to manage to kill the tablet ! Hardcore :p

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] soulsounds:
Noobster question Here, I've got my Old Shield rooted using this tutorial nvidiashieldzone.com/shield-tablet/shield-tablet-k1/android-7-nougat/root-shield-tablet-k1-nougat , now, I've downloaded the nomoreota.zip file, but i'm not sure how to flash install it, i've tried to use the flashify app to do a zip install but when I select the nomoreota.zip it only opens the sip file (the file doesn't have the thunder symbol). What am I doing wrong? thanks in advance
[Shield Tablet General] ~phoeny~:
did i understand this right? i cab flash any stock ota but i have to flash nomoreota.zip everytime i update? should i be good then?
[Shield Tablet General] ajanhakan:
Hello,

Update Nougat from lollipop. (Twrp). But I forgot to make root :( But twrp not working, fastboot not working :( How to root again and remove OTA :( Please help me . Thank you
[Shield Tablet General] loick2728:
your "pyro tablet" is K1 or shield wifi 2014 ?
[Shield Tablet General] The Philosopher:
My Pyro tablet is an OG LTE Nvidia Shield 2014 with a Y01 battery. K1 does not have the battery problem.

5.1 has been dropped for Wifi (upgrading my B01 OG tablet as we speak) and as for my Pyro tablet, once the full OTA is available for download, I will install it like usual (Copy image and other zip files to microsd card, put tablet into Airplane mode, forget personal Wifi, boot into TWRP, flash 5.1 OTA image, flash SuperSU, flash nomoreOTA.zip, check directories for TegraOTA to be deleted using File Manager in TWRP, reboot, wait 5 minutes, check for System Updates and not for System Upgrade, reinstall TWRP recovery)
[Shield Tablet General] nawoa:
I've updated to 5.1.0 (Android 7.0) and I can't find the file I'm supposed to delete.

There's supposed to be a system\app folder but there's only a system\bin and system\lib folder, neither of which have any APKs. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks

edit: Nevermind, looks like I just needed to mount system first.
[Shield Tablet General] dikidera:
Just to be clear, a Shield tablet that has been deactivated for sure, cannot in any way be fixed? I found a really cheap one, deactivated and without battery and if it can be fixed, that would be really nice.
[Shield Tablet General] jimore19:
After some advice - I have a shield tablet that is on Nougat (official OTA) and is Y01 , and has just been registered for the recall

So is still working fine until new tablet turns up and is switched on

What is the best way to protect it ? Flash it with a non OTA rom ?

Does that then also still need the killswitch program running afterwards or does flashing it to non standard clear nvidias kill switch ?

Thanks
[Shield Tablet General] snebojsa:
Sorrry for maybe stupid question, but kill switch? Is that because of the faulty battery?

I'm new to Nvidia Shield, bought it second hand a month ago, 2014. model with stylus.

It's on Nougat, completely stock. I got update couple days ago, Nvidia 5.1 update.

I run it, and it's all ok, everything working perfectly.

Checked the battery, it's B01 model.

Am I safe of kill switch?

Thanks.

On the http://shield.bogdacutu.me said:

Next OTA: SHIELD Tablet Software Upgrade 3.1.1 - WiFi

Is that ok?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
The tablet with B01 battery is not recalled. Your tablet is not getting killed.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] snebojsa:
Ok, thanks!
[Shield Tablet General] Neodreamer24:
I have Y01 tablet with 5.0 android version... in the first post said that i could flash nougat manually but if i do it, it will kill my tablet or how?
[Shield Tablet General] Bednys:
worked out
[Shield Tablet General] kazet92:
TWRP 3.0.2-2 work with Nougat? And SU 1.79?
[Shield Tablet General] jimore19:
Ok will answer my own question as no one came back :(

unlocked the bootloader and used twrp recovery to sideload root

Then rebooted and confirmed root and rebooted and sideloaded nomoreota.zip

Rebooted - Job Done :) - many thanks

One question , now I am rooted can I flash any modified roms and then have no fear of the kill switch ?

I need to get this back before a Nougat release anyway as want to use it mainly for DJI GO, so any custom roms include hdmi out ?
[Shield Tablet General] thefiqs:
As far as I know modified roms don't include tegraota but bacically costs nothing to check it after flash. HDMI should work, imo. But it is always the best to look for your answers in the own thread of the rom of your choose.
[Shield Tablet General] jimore19:
Does flashing a custom rom like bliss , carbon or CM require staging blobs ? Or do i just boot TWRP and clear and wipe then flash preferred ROM then Gapps
[Shield Tablet General] thefiqs:
To be honest I don't know. Never tried because I was needed the controller and back in those times I used mine, official wireless controller support was broken. Hopefully, someone can / will answer you but I think you can find in the installation instructions section of the custom ROM you want to flash.
[Shield Tablet General] l337g0g0:
So I've been using mine from the point of the recall till now as a twitch you tube watching device and the battery just flexed on me.

I watched a few you tube videos and seen this is something that happens to the older recall ones.

Just want you to all know that it looks like the battery will pop eventually over time, it's not if but when.

So you all need to be super careful.

So does anyone know of a good battery i can buy for it?
[Shield Tablet General] CodinRanger:
I bought and replace the battery with the following: "https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/L238-3-7V-5000mAH-3564150-PLIB-polymer-lithium-ion-battery-LG-cell-Li-ion-battery/945908873.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.dzQHqD"

If you do the same remember to replace the original battery PCB with the new one. If you don't the tablet won't turn on because the tablet checks the serial number of the battery.
[Shield Tablet General] l337g0g0:
Thank you.

How do i see this in English? I can't buy it like this cause I don't know what to click.

I have an aliexpress account but it's not converting to English for me.

EDIT: after a copy translation it says can not deliver to Canada. :(
[Shield Tablet General] CodinRanger:
Request: EMMC Dump

ah, too bad :(

Request:

Could someone send me an full EMMC dump of his Nvidia Shield Tablet? I managed to get a direct EMMC connection, so if I have an EMMC dump I could technically revive my Nvidia Shield Tablet. :fingers-crossed:
[Shield Tablet General] Jintoki:
I've bricked my pyro shield and i cannot boot into twrp because i updated it to latest but it didnt work.

Now i dont have any system and recovery. My plan is to revert into nvidia recovery image. Now my questions. will it still trigger the switch or it will not? the latest nvidia recovery is what im planning to use.
[Shield Tablet General] CodinRanger:
The kill switch is in the bootloader(boot.img), so flashing recovery and system should not be a problem. I honestly dont think the latest official image from nvidia contains the kill switch, but if so you wont be affected if you only flash recovery and system. Do remember to remove tegraOTA after you have installed system because otherwise system will download the last update and kill your tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] bunny0007:
boot.img have nothing to do with the bootloader.

The boot image (boot.img) is the kernel image.
[Shield Tablet General] CodinRanger:
Then where is the bootloader?
[Shield Tablet General] bunny0007:
Im not sure witch updates there contains bootloader updates, the bootloader are not updated often, but major updates like update to android 5 on my shield tv had an booloader update.
[Shield Tablet General] marce002:
Hello

I have my dead Shield with APX mode only, wonder if changing motherboard from another tablet is the way to go, just swaping them.... also is there any way of testing if a screen is ok in case that we have apx mode only? (it is black dead)
[Shield Tablet General] CodinRanger:
Swapping a working motherboard should work. As far as I know there is no way to test the screen except with a working motherboard.
[Shield Tablet General] girish_7:
Hey guys, I just rooted my old tablet (on stock Nougat 7.0) to kill the kill-switch. I booted via fastboot then booted TWRP and SuperSU and finally the nomoreota.zip

I used ES File Explorer to check the Tegra OTA file, and it isn't there anymore (/system/app/TegraOTA or /system/priv-app/TegraOTA). Does that mean that the old tablet is now free from the kill-switch and will continue to work?

One more question I wanted to ask is, I only booted to TWRP when I was connected via adb, so it only loaded TWRP temporarily, thus I still have the stock ROM (minus Tegra OTA) and stock recovery. Can the Tegra OTA come back somehow through the stock recovery, or am I safe now that I deleted it? Or will I have to permanently flash TWRP?

Any advantages of TWRP instead of the stock recovery?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
I also have 2 questions: is the System Updates option in About Tablet is still blue for TegraOTA removed and green for not removed (in Nougat) ? - With TWRP is still possible for the Killing update to install itself ?

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] nex86:
if your still able to go into apx mode, flashing an emmc dump should revive the tablet as far as I heard.

To unflag your tablet, spoof your serial. then you won't need nomoreota anymore.
[Shield Tablet General] Bryanx86:
As long as tegraota folder/file is deleted, you should be fine. I've flashed stock several times to my pyro tab that I've had for over a year now. Second question,you only use recovery mainly for flashing, so it would be easier for you to flash zips if you replaced your stock recovery with twrp. A lot more functionality with twrp.
[Shield Tablet General] xanathos33:
Hi guys !

I searched but didn't find answer to my question so here it is : I bought a shield tablet 1st gen to a friend but this one was touch by recall. I asked a new one to Nvidia and they sended me a new one (K1 - I'm so lucky !).

Concerning the old tablet, it was now rooted with the last update, got TWRP, tegra OTA was erased and i flashed nomeota.zip but still have update menu in parameters.

QUESTION : Is it normal and can I use the new one ?

Thank you.

X
[Shield Tablet General] bluegizmo83:
You should be fine to use both tablet. If you want to be 100% safe (kill switch wise) just don't ever update the old one anymore. I still have my old tablet also and I removed the Terga OTA stuff way back when the recall first happened, and that tablet is still working great to this day. I just never upgraded the firmware on it after I removed that Tegra OTA, it's still on Android KitKat. You CAN update the old one later if you want to, but you have to be very careful and make sure you do not let the tablet boot up after flashing the updates until you remove the Tegra OTA stuff again after flashing an update, and verifying it's gone by checking though the TWRP built-in file manager or ADB shell commands.
[Shield Tablet General] xanathos33:
Thank you for answering, it's always very nice to find someone to give you an answer on this forum ! :good:

X
[Shield Tablet General] Bryanx86:
I've updated to the latest stock image on my pyro tab, 5.2, flashed nomoreota.zip, checked in TWRP file man. for tegraota. It wasn't there, it booted just fine, and after just put a custom ROM on it, runs just as good as my new one. Safe way is to only keep stock on your new device, I've also not ever had the tegraota file on my new device, not even when I first booted it about 18 months ago....
[Shield Tablet General] jigar7:
Hey there,

So I am currently on Software Upgrade 3.1 (Android L - 5.1.1) on both my Old and New Shield tablets (nomoreeta installed as well). I haven't upgraded both my tablets since 5.1.1 (Android L), fearing I might brick both or at least the replacement one. I was wondering if updating to Software Upgrade 5.2 (Android 7) will brick my old tablet. I have TWRP installed on my tablet. Would really like to upgrade to 5.2 on both tablets.

1. Does nomoreeta still work with the latest 5.2 (Android 7.0) update?

2. Like in old versions, the 'Software Update' tab totally disappears after running nomoreeta, does it work in the same way for the new version? (I read that the software upgrade text turns 'blue' or 'green'... no knowing what it does exactly.)
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
Nomoreota works on Android 7.0. I have it installed for a while and had no problems.

System Updates remains in About tablet now, but it must be colored in Blue ! If is Green, tegraOTA is still running.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] jigar7:
Thank You :)

Thank you [MENTION=392665]topcat36[/MENTION]. One more question, I downloaded the entire 2.2 GB of firmware (Software Upgrade 5.2 LTE ROW) from nVidia's dev website. I am assuming that it is the full package and not just the OTA for 7. If I copy the file on my device and run the 2GB file via TWRP, will it work? Will I still have TWRP post flashing the firmware file?

I have flashed an update exactly once, so I am kind of a noob in this. I'm glad I havent yet managed to brick my old tablet. I will be trying this on the new one first though, just to be on the safe side.
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
I think TWRP will be gone after you flash the OTA.

I fastbooted in TWRP, flashed one after another the full OTA, SuperSU and Nomoreota, then rebooted the tablet, without any connection. Checked TegraOTA is gone in root explorer and in About (to be blue) and then connected back to internet. Tablet still working :)

Eventually, you could flash also TWRP again after all the other packages, to be sure.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.