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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedrogers61:
"system partition has unexpected contents" March 2016 OTA or Sideload Failed Error 7

Hi,

My N5 is rooted and on factory images (6.0.1). I have reverted to stock recovery from twrp 3.0.0.0 because my system wouldn't accept Feb security updates.

After reverting to stock recovery, Feb updates worked fine.

March updates however :rolleyes: continually fail with Error 7 (modified system partition?), either by system OTA or sideloading over adb / stock recovery.

I think, the last thing that I did was installed Wake Lock Detector, converted to a system app, this broke and couldn't be removed or converted back to a user app, so I had to force remove it via a convoluted system of Ti and other Root Uninstaller apps. Got rid of it in the end.

Anyway, this is the only thing I can think of that may be causing this Error 7, and I'm out of options. That's why I'm here.

The CM team seem to have some solutions to this issue. Anyone have any ideas for stock peeps?

Do I really need to unroot and reflash stock etc etc etc? I'd rather not.

Thanks, as ever, for the great support on XDA!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farsight73:
1. Check if the bootloader is hhz12k

2. Try use twrp 2.8.7.1 instead

3. Check adb version installed in your pc
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedrogers61:
I've gone back to pure stock...huge pain. Before I did this I reset to full stock, rooted and tested again...root broke the OTA and side load with error 7. Hence why I'm back unrooted and fully stock again. I want updates.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdaning:
Not many people replied to you as it has been said over and over and over. On marshmallow any change to system partition breaks the ability to apply OTAs. If you want the updates so bad, just download the new factory image and fastboot flash system.img. Then re-root. You wont lose data this way.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedrogers61:
Thanks very much. I didn't know this and I swear I searched high and low...obviously not in the right areas. I ask a question on XDA when I feel I've googled the topic to death with no satisfactory outcome. So I can reflash a new system image over the top and all data remains intact? Good to know. Thank you.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warlord711:
[MENTION=4800568]tedrogers61[/MENTION]: Make sure you only flash the system.img part - you have to do that manualy, dont use the .bat in the package.

Otherwise you WILL lose your data 100%, because the .bat file is flashing anything AND erase userdata+cache partition by default !

What you need to do :

1. Download factory image at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerhead

2. Use 7zip to unpack the .tgz, then again unzip the .tar, then unzip the image-hammerhead-mmb29v.zip (if you are using windows)

3. copy the system.img to a easy to find location (optional, just helps to find the system.img)

4. if you have USB Debug activated+USB cable + ADB installed (which i guess you have), connect your phone to USB, Phone runing normally and open a command prompt.

Enter these commands:

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash system <path-to-your-system.img>

On first command, the phone should reboot and display should show an android laying on his back ;)

Next command should give you feedback in command prompt like "Erasing system"..."sending system"..."writing system".

The phone display should show similiar informations.

Thats it - you need to apply root after this.

You need to restart the phone manualy but as long as the command prompt shows OKAY and "finished. total time xyz seconds", everything worked fine.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedrogers61:
Thank you [MENTION=2877046]Warlord711[/MENTION], I worked out it was fastboot flash system system.img.

Testing this on my N5 right not which won't receive April OTA.

Might give this a go on my N5X later, which won't go past Feb OTA.

Is there a pattern here? Is there something wrong with my account which is preventing OTA's perhaps?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mercan01:
Thank you very much. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdaning:
As mentioned, if anything is modified (root, custom recovery, etc) you will not be able to use OTA. Another problem, for people like me, cannot access google servers. Your google account is not linked to OTA, so it is not that. Doesn't really matter anyway, like you found, easy enough to just do it yourself. I live in China so have no choice anyway, haha, but it is simple. Personally, I do not use stock roms anyway, so don't really care.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] resist:
If I am correct, tmobile US will release their version of the Kaiser in the future. Does anyone know if HTC will offer a fully functional (for lack of better terms) unlocked kaiser. By fully functional, I mean with all the hardware features like dual cameras along with the ability to handle the 1700 band for tmobiles 3g network.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Lavachild:
i have an unlocked kaiser on tmobile and it works perfect. The hope is that t-mobile will purchase another frequency that works with the kaiser!!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] resist:
that's all fine and good but with the currently available kaiser (and also the TILT once released and unlocked) you will not be able to take full advantage of tmobiles 3G network once launched. I'd like to keep tmobile as my US provider while still having the front cam for video calls.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Buzz313th:
I would also like to change from ATT to T-mobile with my current unlocked Kaiser. I am hoping that the current kaiser is just a, "Rom change" away from picking up the 1700 Mghtz 3G frequency when T-Mobile brings it out.

Anybody here have any idea, if the Kaiser is hardware capable of picking up 1700? You would assume, that it would be easier and cheaper to put the hardware in there and just disable it with software.

JB
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dwella:
I wouldn't worry to much. By the time tmob gets 3g maybe late 08 in some areas maybe 09 there will be another latest greatest phone

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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Buzz313th:
Good point... :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] JonnoB:
I figure in on the 'newer phone' liklihood as well. I had a Wizard and thought the remaining feature differences (GPS, Tilt display, faster processer, double RAM, double storage, SDHC support, etc) were more than enough to justify an upgrade. I am using in on T-Mobile with the great data plan. I have access to WiFi when I need speed (Sling, Orb, etc), so EDGE is good enough for uses at other times (casual web browsing and push email).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] resist:
I'm sure they will release their version of the Kaiser before 2008 if they want to reap the rewards...and, I don't think they will release it without the 3g network running as their version is supposed to support the 1700 band. Of course, their version will be lacking other features of the hardware like the front facing camera. In turn, my original question about wanted a fully featured unlocked Kaiser remains.

Additionally, to the person hoping thecurrent kaiser may have 1700 support through a rom update, from what I hear the answer is no. I am told it is a hardware issue and the hardware on the current kaiser model is not equipped to handle it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dwella:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=333595

You might check this thread out. Dont know if it will work here.

I don't believe HTC will make a Kaiser for tmo here but this variation could come here. If you look at the phones released to ttmo and att most of the light and young peoples phones are released to tmo and the more work oriented are released to att (excluding the Iphone which should have went to tmo but was att shot to bring in some young blood. just my ho for what its worth

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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] resist:
Thanks dwella,

However, i feel pretty confident that T-mobile US will release the Kaiser for many reasons. Mainly because they have already cleared their version of the device through the FCC and there is a Tmobile manual for the device that is clearly for the US market (as it mentions specifics exclusive to the T-mo US market such as My Favs, etc. They don't exist in UK). The FCC also list Tmobiles variant as having the 1700 band and as you may know, Tmobile US is setting up half of their 3g network on that band (upstream I believe). Since that band is not used in UK (or anywhere iirc) it's pretty certain that the documentation is for the US.

Then again, this is all speculation.

My problem however is that I want a fully featured unlocked Kaiser with all bands and all hardware options. I take residence in both US and abroad (Asia). Asia is no issue as the bands are common. Tmo US is my provider in the states though (and I have a really, really god data plan through them) and want 3g to work through them when in the US. Since the fact that they will use the 1700 band is my main hang up (otherwise, I probably would have had the Kaiser on day 1 ;) )

The wait and uncertainty is killing me...I even emailed HTC some time ago about this but they have not responded.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] omaralt:
hey guys, i'm also picking up the tilt and gonna use it on tmobile. just wondering, is anybody using the 5.99 proxy internet deal on the tilt? just making sure its gonna work, thanks

omar
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mofoliar:
yes it works fine
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] we3zy:
Can you give me instructions on the 5.99 workaround, I can't seem to get it to work with any of the settings here, nor the auto setting downloader.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mofoliar:
start>settings>connections>connections

under proxy settings check: this network connects to the internet

check this network uses a proxy server to connect to the internet

proxy server should be :216.155.165.50

click advanced

http: 216.155.165.50:8080

wap: 216.155.165.50:9201

secure wap: 216.155.165.50:9201

socks (blank)

under modem, your access point name should be : wap.voicestream.com

name and password blank.

under advanced check use server assigned ip address

use software compression

use ip header compression.

Works great!!

The only thing i found I cant get to work is the MMS setting, though i did find the post for it, but did not work for me.. so if anyone has setting that work for Tmobile w/tilt, much appreciated..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] we3zy:
Thanks for you help, my MMS setting works. Here's are my setting:

Messaging -> MMS -> Tools -> Options:

Servers -> MMS Configurations:

Server Name: T-Mobile MMS

Gateway: 216.155.165.50

Port: 8080

Server Address: http://216.155.165.174.84/servlets/mms

Connect via: T-Mobile MMS

By the way, these are the default settings the "Auto Connection" tool gave me.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mofoliar:
i am pretty sure i tried that myself,but it wont hurt to try again.. i did get it to work 1 time that was it.. now all it does is sit in either sent or draft folder w/ and red x next to the envelope.. thanks for the info!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Lethol:
I just got the Kaiser for Christmas, and I got it working with the HTC rom on T-Mobiles network. My question is since my Kaiser was purchased on eBay and was for the Singapore/Vietnam market is there a US rom I can load that will better recognized T-Mobiles network. I have it working for normal phone calls and I am using BlackBerry Connect on it but every time I connect to the internet to use the browser it disconnects the BlackBerry Connect service. I would like both internet and BlackBerry to use the same connections. Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks in advances
[LG Optimus G Pro] ArsCam:
Please help !!! (sorry my not good english)

My phone LG Optimus GK (F220K) firmware is F220K20d - stock firmware.

I was try to get CWM or TWRP on my phone

Root i wad got long time ago and don't remember wich way.

I try to instal Freegee but it say unsupport my version firmware F220K20d

I was go to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2342695

And download - LG Optimus G Pro CWM

It have lte2jbrecovery.rar file with APK - lte2jbrecovery.apk

After install it and try to get CWM my phone not see any SD card.

no, it see SD card but cannot mount it.

Please help!!!!!
[LG Optimus G Pro] irt118:
try this rec: Rec F220
[LG Optimus G Pro] ArsCam:
Thanks for reply first!

Does flash these files recovery.img (Recovery image), boot.img (Boot image) and

aboot.img (Bootloader image) is safe for my phone data like EFS, Modem, IMEI?

And also safe for my user data and my installed software?

I ask becouse many backup programs like Titanium Backup cannot work withot external SD.

Any ideas how to make full backup all my user and software data ?
[LG Optimus G Pro] irt118:
So your phone doesn't recognize sd card or the recovery doesn't recognize sd card?

If it's your phone then you should try to kdz again.

If it's the rec then you can flash "recovery.img" via flashify (If you're on 4.4) and no need to flash "boot.img or aboot.img".
[General Questions and Answers] afifazz9:
hi, i have a samsung s4(i9505). i have rooted it longtime ago. i had no problem since then until now. it says that SU binary is not installed. and i have to reroot it. so can anyone tell me how to do it? pleaaseeee ..
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenfar:
hi, i am trying to testing make the NA version to become a International version of Nexus 6p.

that i need a fsg partiton backup to compare with NA version.

can anyone who has a international nexus 6p backup your fsg partiton for me?

here is how to back up fsg partiton.

you must rooted or flash a twrp recovery.

1, enter twrp recovery and connect your phone to pc.

2,install adb in your pc.

3 connect to your nexus 6p with adb shell

4 execute : dd if=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/fsg of=/tmp/fsg.img

then: adb pull /tmp/fsg.img

like the pic below.

View attachment 3683645

thank you!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emanoj.i9103:
Refer attached file. I did a live backup though.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0o7N8Lfu5pdSHhwSFVaNzFGOWM/view?usp=docslist_api
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenfar:
Thanks.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amjadfirst:
Hello,

I have a "no service" problem with my nexus 6p and it seems that some people managed to fix it by flashing another nexus's fsg partition. If you have a NA version could you post it if it's no trouble?

Thanks.
[LG G Watch] Kranket:
I can downgrade from 6.0.1 to 5.1.1?
[LG G Watch] KevinX8:
Yeah just get the stock system and boot images for 5.1.1 will send you links soon
[LG G Watch] KevinX8:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347803309
[LG G Watch] turbomann:
Hi, this files needs to be flashed through Odin, right?
[LG G Watch] KevinX8:
No just no. Only samsung phones and tablets use odin, literally every android watch uses fastboot. If you've never heard of it Google ''adb minimal' install it somewhere, open a command prompt there and fastboot flash each partition ie.

Fastboot flash boot boot.img etc
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arunkrishnanr:
N910CXXU2COJ5 - Is there any new firmware update for this baseband version?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lemalelt:
I think Yes, recieved OTA yesterday N910CXXS2CPB3/N910CSEB2COJ2/N910CXXU1COJ5 but am afraid running it :) Will wait little bit for more info about this update, cause heard rummors about s7 locked bootloader with no options to flash custom recovery.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sam-Picotte:
Hello guys.

May I ask your help for a weird issue I have since the MM based stock ROMs. Indeed, I run CM based ROMs since kitkat

But 3 weeks ago, I decided to test the Fulmics ROM. I did a full wipe (including internal storage), then I installed fulmics from internal storage, and after the first boot, I arrived on the lockscreen asking me to draw a pattern to unlock my phone (nothing about unlock SIM card).. But, obviously, I never configured the ROM to have that pattern, given the fact it's the first boot. And any of the random patterns I draw are working of course....

I tried different parameters in the Aroma installer (i double and triple checked that I had D855 chosen), I also tried with other MM based stock ROMs, but I still have this damn pattern. The weird thing is that I don't have this problem with LP based stock ROMs.

As I am using TWRP 3.0, I installed both official and unofficial versions. I even tried to reinstall TWRP 2.7, but the bug was still there.

Do you have any idea what's going on ? Thank you very much guys !!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akksnv:
After flashing, at first boot it sound take you through the setup stuff then take you to your home screen when you're finished. At that point you should be able to go into the settings and look at the lockscreen settings. Does it immediately go from the setup to the lockscreen, or is there a delay that causes the screen to get locked? Which other MM ROMs have you tried and had this happen with? I would think doing a full wipe beforehand would make this impossible unless it was maybe a bad build, which could maybe be possible if it was one ROM (maybe), but very unlikely multiple developers would happen to make this same mistake when building.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sam-Picotte:
Hi akksnv, thank you for your answer !

Yes it goes directly to the lockscreen after the bootamination. I've tried different fulmics versions (3.1, 3.5, 4.0), the Nova Stock ROM, and the SeXy ROM, and yes, with all these ROMs I have this bug.

Yes, it's definitively a bug with my phone and not with these ROMs. And yes, it's very strange that after a full wipe, this locksreen stuff shows up... Because I use this pattern lockscreen on my actual Resurrection Remix ROM, but the wipe should erase every setting....

Other werid thing, I have 30 attemps to unlock the phone, and after the first try, the cycle counter goes to 29/30 and comes back to 30/30 after 3 seconds.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akksnv:
I saw something somewhere else that sounded like this kind of thing also happens if you have a locked/encrypted SIM card, could that possibly be the case? I don't know that this behavior would be different between LP and MM if this were the cause, but thought I'd mention it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sam-Picotte:
I have no idea about my sim card but maybe it worths trying to install without it in the phone.

Anyway, thanks for your help man !
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sam-Picotte:
For those it can help, I resolved my problem by installing a lollipop KDZ file, through LG Flashtool.

I don't know why, but my lockscreen problem disappeared after that.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] beegee:
Is there any way to improve camera quality on Cyanogen Mod latest nightly (official) for Z1 Compact?

CM fully works now but i dont like camera quality, like I have 8mpx, and front one is bad.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Don't know about improving it, but there's some ports/alternative camera apps out there that will take better pictures. Google cam, Jishnu's h2o cam port, and one on play store called Camera HD ultra, or something like that. I've found that they all take better pics. Personally I'm waiting for a MM update to the Sony camera port.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] rzlatic:
think there will be official MM camera blobs for aosp, levelone1? :)

onto the OP: no way to improve aosp camera, as manufacturers (sony is not alone) doesn't publish full featured camera drivers to aosp so the community uses generic hw layer for cameras therefore almost every camera (by that i mean big manufacturers) is worse than stock. there was a lot commentary written already on that matter, aiming mostly on google and aosp architecture overall.

agree with levelone1, you can try jishnu sur's ports as they include binary libraries ripped from stock roms. it doesn't always work on every rom and hardware but you can try. he have g+ community https://plus.google.com/communities...2/stream/d8676ee7-0970-452e-82f3-a10e3b0b4a36 and publishes regulary camera ports.
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatzman:
Hi guys

I have just bought a second hand Z4 tablet from E-Bay. It is MXTP (protected) ane the question i'm asking is

Am I screwed?

is there anyway of unlocking/flashing/rooting this device ?.

it's a SGP712 / android Ver 5.0.2

Kernel

3.10.49 Perf-g301bca-02001-gdfcafe9

builduser@buildhost #1

Build No

28.0.A.8.251

Woukd be grateful for any advice

thanks Martin
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lirex:
Don't worry. You can unlock the bootloader and the root the device with the AndroPlus' kernel. Check here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3170689
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zippy01:
And why would that solve the op? Please don't reply if you don't know what your talking about.

As for op. If the bootloader is unlockable and oem option is checked then you should be able to follow the link that lirex posted.

If that doesn't succeed then it's possible either the oem unlock option isn't selected and/or the bootloader is not unlockable.

If that's the case you have a couple of options.

Contact the seller ask him for his Google details. (doubtful)

Contact ebay resolution center to either get him to give you details or send the item back.

I blame Sony as they don't give much documentation on this and how to sell a device properly.

In order to do it a factory reset alone is not ok. The Google account needs to be removed first then factory reset.

AFAIK it's not possible from his side to remove this but I could be wrong.
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lirex:
I apologize if my advice was not good.
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatzman:
Thanks to everyone for the advice.

I couldnt unlock the bootloader but I did contact the original owner and he very kindly gave me his password.

all reset and now unlocked so happy now.

cheers Fatzman :good::good:
[General Questions and Answers] anjugeorge:
I already have Ipad but one penta is being unusable planned to give it to my nephew for playing games so how to root . please do help.
[General Questions and Answers] Hunkman:
Try looking at this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1969766