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[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
Why does the OP not mention whether or not this update breaks VISIONary?

I still have no idea. We shouldn't have to search through 17 pages of this thread to find out.
[G2 and Desire Z General] innerlight:
Is that just for those who update manually?
[G2 and Desire Z General] innerlight:
I would think it would break it. After all, it is over riding the previous setup.

Even though it might break it I have no doubt visionary will be working through an update of the program.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ~~Tito~~:
It doesn't break root, Paul confirmed this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] innerlight:
My bad...
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
gonna need to give it some time seeing how we just got the update..I'll know for sure in a about a day or so when i go out of state.. I always have random reboots out there.
[G2 and Desire Z General] OFinch:
hey guys.. I did all the steps.. renamed it to update.zip.. put on root of sd card.. boot into recovery.. but then it's going to a HTC screen then a black screen with a black phone with a red triangle with a explomation point inside it.. anyone know what I am doing wrong? thanx for the help
[G2 and Desire Z General] scottch699:
Schaumburg here buddy.
[G2 and Desire Z General] scottch699:
do not type the name update.zip

just type in update in the name do not put the ".zip" and try again...
[G2 and Desire Z General] Bishybob:
I was going to wait for the OTA to be pushed to me but I couldn't wait.

Downloaded update manually and installed. Tether is working fine. Signal seems more stable.

Will test wifi calling when I get home.

Happy days!
[G2 and Desire Z General] OFinch:
still not asking me to install.. I saved it as UPDATE and put on root of SD card.. went to recovery and I get a black phone with a red symbol? any suggestions? I've tried waiting with it on that screen for a few minutes but nothing. any button to press? or....?
[G2 and Desire Z General] srtpro4mance:
Press Vol Up + Power
[G2 and Desire Z General] marqi.k:
At this point, press. ' Vol up' + ' Power'. The phone will eventually get to a similar screen where you will just let it run until it reboots a couple of times.Then you're done.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mftek1:
Rename it Update.zip and put it on the root of your sd. Turn your phone off and press vol down and power. Hold until you get to the screen. Click on recovery. You will get that screen you had. Press and hold vol up + power at the sametime. You will enter recovery mode. Install the undate.zip and the process will go from there......
[G2 and Desire Z General] cellycell619:
Tried that but still getting the following error

--Install from sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

Installing update...

Copying fotaboot to/data/system for customize reload...

Verifying current system...

assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/app/GoogleGoggles.apk",

I'm assuming this has something to do with Google Goggles, but I already used Paul's method of fastboot to reverse the google goggles install. Any ideas???

NEVER MIND...I guess slowing down and paying attention to what I read will simplify things...if the image stops part way...reflush the image right away :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] starkruzr:
Thanks. Can someone please update the OP with this info?
[G2 and Desire Z General] kinacool:
http://androidandme.com/2010/11/new...tall-the-new-ota-update-for-your-t-mobile-g2/
[G2 and Desire Z General] OFinch:
ok it worked.. they just left out directions to hit up and power button again.. Another question.. how do I see the radio.. because I did my friends and I am yet to do mine.. so I just want to look at them both side by side
[G2 and Desire Z General] dilfatx:
Press volume and power buttons to get to recovery from there. I think I pressed volume up and power from there to get to recovery.

I just now used my steps to manually update my girlfriend phone and retained all her settings and apps
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhodes588:
Settings-about phone
[G2 and Desire Z General] Android Approved:
Has any one notice a speed increase after the update. It feels a lot smoother to me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Bishybob:
Just wanted to update that my wifi calling works great. Text messages also go over wifi. I also noticed that network type goes to "GSM Only" when you connect with the wifi calling app. My cellular signal goes to zero bars so that's weird.

GPS seems the same as before, but I never had problems with it. I noticed a much better H signal on my drive home. Also notices better upload speeds than normal.
[G2 and Desire Z General] swags:
It looks like the OTA included a fix for the wonky autobrightness behavior. My phone is no longer going into "OMGITBURNS" brightness in a dark room. Watching logcat shows that much higher light sensor readings are needed to increase the brightness.
[G2 and Desire Z General] carlsbad0331:
I escaped from Joliet in December 1988 and never looked back. Today it was 98 degrees and sunny in San Diego, CA!

I knew several Papesh's in the Joliet area...
[G2 and Desire Z General] nandesho:
The lock/unlock sounds work now! I missed those!!

To me the backlight still seems just as stupid now :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] carlsbad0331:
Im having absolutely no luck at all getting back to the stock rom. I have used Pauls fastboot method as well as putting the original rom on the Sd card as update.zip and trying to flash it in recovery.

I get an error about signature verification failed... installation aborted.

Any suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
I got the chance to put an updated instructions list on how to install the OTA update manually in OP

Got tired of waiting and I was constantly having the 'usual' problems so I decided to go the manual route... will have to test this out & see if everything is now fixed.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhodes588:
Still no resolution for the MMS picture messaging :( Back to ugly handcent.
[G2 and Desire Z General] swags:
Yeah, looks like I spoke too soon. Auto brightness behaved properly for a little while and then went back to getting way too bright. :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] darkjuan:
Well I have it installed and running, but now I can’t overclock the CPU. I’ve tried rebooting the phone, my computer, disabled WIFI calling, re enabled WIFI calling, but can’t for the life of me get it to work. I keep getting this message in the command field on my computer…

“insmod: init_module ‘/data/local/vision_oc.ko’ failed (Exec format error)”

any ideas? I double checked and VISIONary is running and phone is rooted
[G2 and Desire Z General] GDev:
Mine now vibrates every 5-10 seconds. Trying to revert to stock rom but get error saying Main Version is Older. Any workaround to get back to stock so I can reapply the update?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Wranglersm:
Check ~1.42ghz thread. New kernel had been released to support the ota.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ~~Tito~~:
Anyone getting a text lag? I had basically no issues, but the OTA update seems a bit more laggier, expecially with the text issue.
[G2 and Desire Z General] interceptor63:
These instructions worked perfectly for me! I an up and running. Did it all on my phone and used estrong file manager to rename the file and moved it to the root!
[G2 and Desire Z General] interceptor63:
I've got to admit the sms is amazingly fast and I get an immediate connection when I make a call instead of a 5 to 10 second delay before I could connect!

I also noticed that the native email application was updated so that now my exchange mail has the ability to move and view my existing folders.

The best thing is I get signal in my house! Thank you GOD!
[G2 and Desire Z General] darkjuan:
thanks! Much appreciated. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] ayalah1986:
so i followed the instructions to the letter.... or i think but i must have made a noob error somewhere, because i get through all the way down to update menu in recovery but when i select it it says:

E: Cant' open /cache/recovery/command

and then when i try to Apply sdcard:update.zip it goes on to say...

--Install from sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted...

someone help me!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] ayalah1986:
nm i guess its CASE sensitive lol i put another update.zip in lower case and it worked like a charm!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
This is by far, the greatest question. Made me laugh long time...

With that being said, I am requesting that a moderator close this thread for the simple fact that it is now useless with all the "nada yet" posts.

I mean, common! This thread already has 30+ pages of NOTHING!

Granted, questions have been asked but they have also been answered. All info needed is in the OP and if more info is needed, pretty sure the OP will be updated in a timely manner

The point has been made people. It's really amazing how most DON'T read the rules and do EXACTLY what is asked not to do right after it's been asked.

It's shouldn't have to be asked. IT SHOULD BE KNOWN!

Many of you are lucky that I'm not a mod cause I would be suspending a lot of you and many posts would be wiped. I would have a wonderful day killing off all the "nada" posts along with taking down other threads to make them EASY TO GET INFORMATION FROM!!!

I have done my share of off-topic posts and really don't have any room to talk, (for instance, when CM5-test1 was about to come out...) but this is getting ridiculous.

This thread isn't even in the right section!

I don't mean to anger anyone but ....... I have. I don't want to make enemies over this but ....... I have

Doesn't matter, I would rather have people not like me then to sit here all night trying to figure out if this is a legit OTA or one similar to what happened to EVO users. Unfortunately, I could not find the information I was looking for and I now have no time to do anything else but sleep. Thank you all who posted wasted space...

With that said, flame on!
[G2 and Desire Z General] whyteejr:
No it will not erase anything
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ssantos6981:
Wow, waste of space indeed. I don't think you will make enemies, only because people don't really care. Lol, its just a forum, no need to whine. Cojelo con take it easy meng.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tekkaman_01:
I'm quoting this in the hopes that someone will see one of the two posts, for I am having the EXACT same issue, and before you ask no, i have not done the remove Google goggles thing that is stopping a lot of people. Any info on this error would be greatly appreciated.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tehtide:
If you take airplane mode off and then go into the wifi calling app there are settings there where you can change the preference. I'm in Ireland for the time being and I set mine to Wifi only and it seems to be working ok.
[G2 and Desire Z General] geckobear:
I had the same problem. It worked after I added zip back to the filename, and used lowercase instead of caps. (update.zip)
[G2 and Desire Z General] geckobear:
Make sure that the filename is update.zip when you move it to the sd card. The instructions said to take out the zip in the filename so that the file was just called UPDATE. I had the same problem before adding zip back, and then it worked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] chrapojr:
Thanks. I finally found this last night too. It's exactly what I need to avoid risking making any calls on the regular network.
[G2 and Desire Z General] OFinch:
weird you say that because mine wasn't working until I removed the ".ZIP" out of the file name just naming it "update" . Everything is working perfectly, wi fi calling has saved me LIFE! I can now get perfect reception in my basement for recieving text and calls. I was one of the people getting 8 random reboots a day.. so far I have got NONE!. I also was the guy that woke up one morning and all my text were deleted. I also factory reset my phone... I have been having soo many problems but this update has seemed to fix everything.. don't want to ginx anything. Just letting you guys know this thing is working perfect
[G2 and Desire Z General] xomikronx:
No have not. I just updated last night. I was waiting for the new OC module.

Thanks for the info. :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] whywhy1:
THank you Sir!
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
to those of you having trouble it may be the name of the file itself... it is infact supposed to be all lowercase --> update

I put it in caps in the Op so one can easily differentiate the name of the file from the rest of the times the word Update was mentioned.

I've edited it so it does not cause further confusion.
[G2 and Desire Z General] cparekh:
It was also updated so that it is now compliant with server exchange policies, meaning that you are required to enter a password every time you want to use the phone. Very, very, annoying. It's probably not fixable until someone gets us permaroot. There is a hacked email.apk out there, but it cannot be installed on the G2 because it erases at reboot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
SO because I removed Goggles this wont work?

I get to the red arrow exclaimation mark but the up volume button doesn't bring up a menu.
[G2 and Desire Z General] minotauri:
yes, Paul posted a howto in the General Forum and on his Modaco forum on how to fix it. Essentially you need to re-install the original stock ROM using fastboot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bloggert:
i'm running the g2 on at&t right now, does this make any difference in regards to the OTA update?
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Paul screwed everybody. You think he'd mention we can't get OTA updates or manual updates if we use an app. I guess we only have ourselves to blame but wtf..
[G2 and Desire Z General] spullar:
I would guess he didn't know that it would mess up the OTA. If he did, I'm sure he would have mentioned it. It's a risk you take when you decide to go messing with the internals of your phone. Don't blame him for trying to make things easier for you. As noted above, he has posted a fix.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Yeah have you read his fix lol. If you're not a programmer/coder you pretty much have no clue what to do, as is indicated repeatedly throughout the thread. I'm just frustrated at the whole situation.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TL24:
Wow, Paul is working hard to make our G2 one of the best android device and here you are saying he screwed you over? He never promised his methods would make you grow some balls and take you to the promise land.

Im no programmer or nothin' and this is my first Android based phone, but you dont see me struggling with his instructions.

Appreciate dont hate.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ready2Mosh:
Be frustrated at yourself for doing it in the first place. If you don't know what your doing it's better not to do it. This is a forum for people with some knowledge of what they are doing, sorry it's difficult for you, but don't get mad at him, he does the all of this without getting paid and he spends his free time doing it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
My point is, he should have mentioned in the Goggles Remover app that it would **** up all future OTA's (something you think G2 users want, right?) Right now in the market there is no mention of this on the app, which is pretty messed up. I would think a huge warning that says, "Only download this if you would rather remove google goggles then ever receive an update from T-Mobile/Google again"
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ready2Mosh:
He has a fix for it, so get over it. Instead of being mad, ask someone to help you revert back to the original rom, there problem solved.
[G2 and Desire Z General] carlsbad0331:
What the hell are you talking about? Download the original ROM, change the name, put it on your SD card, boot in to recovery and wait 2 minutes while the original ROM loads. Then install the update.

There is nothing even remotely difficult about this. Took me about 5 minutes total.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
WRONG IMAGE! That's all I get.. I've tried the different methods. Hence my frustration.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dwny:
You almost there.....

Press the volume down key to recovery mode

press pwr button

On screen w/device crossed out...press vol. up & pwr

press volume down to select 'update.zip'

press pwr key & ota will now install

I was stuck there a while myself

None of this will work if you didn't rename the ota & place it on the root of your sd card

Good luck

Reply done while wireless tethering from G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] ZeroSX:
Did you name it PC10IMG.zip? Do you have file extensions turned on or off? It's really easy for anyone to add an extra .zip in there which throws the whole thing off and will give you that error. I have a copy of the stock rom that works for me at home, can upload it to a fileshare when I'm off work, else idk what to tell you.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Thanks, but I'm not at that part yet. I'm just tryign to get back to the stock image after using Paul's system editing app.

I renamed "PC10IMG_Vision_TMOUS_1.19.531.1_Radio_12.21.60.09b_26.02.01.15_M2_release_149459_signed"

I'm in the root of sd. I've tried PC10IMG.zip and the lowercase version...
[G2 and Desire Z General] MERKJONES:
Did this OTA fix that annoying Slideshow MMS thing?
[G2 and Desire Z General] kev30:
nope. MMS still shows up as slideshow. so annoying.
[G2 and Desire Z General] roman.gsr:
Simple update file name did the trick
[G2 and Desire Z General] l3wish:
Yes, it does work :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] MERKJONES:
Well that's pretty lame. Are there any files to modify the default SMS app to act as another type or something? Like how we could impersonate different phones in the mms apk under CM6. I refuse to use those iPhone looking apps like ChompSMS and Handscent. Chomp was cool way back in the day. But the 2.2 mms app is much better.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ZeroSX:
We'd need write access to the system to modify the stock sms app. :/
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Handcent looks however you want it to. I have mine set to look just like the default messaging app. No slideshow.
[G2 and Desire Z General] MERKJONES:
How? I sat there for an hour trying to figure out that fugly app.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kricket:
i downloaded update and ran now i got wifi calling this is great
[G2 and Desire Z General] carlsbad0331:
Use a different MSD card with nothing else on it. When I was doing this to my wives phone, it would hang at the same spot yours is. Others recommended using a different MSD card and that worked perfectly. Just have the zip file on the card with nothing else.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
I just deleted the file off the sd card and redownloaded the file right from my phone, renaming with Astro. That FINALLY got it working. It's a shame I had to go through all that and do a factory reset just to get this update. All because of Goggles... and app I never, ever use.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tekkaman_01:
not the answer, I still get this error message no matter what I name the file, or the capitalization of any letters, ive downloaded the file 7 or 8 times hoping it was just corrupted, I even downloaded the file from my phone 2 times.

E: Cant' open /cache/recovery/command

and then when i try to Apply sdcard:update.zip it goes on to say...

--Install from sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted...
[G2 and Desire Z General] xblue95:
I'm sorry, but I haven't had time to read through this thread. Are we or aren't we loading this OTA update? Will it screw up our chances for root or is it just a maint fix?

My phone keeps getting the notification to update
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
The ota works fine with root.

If you used Paul's Google Goggles remover app it's kind of a ***** because you have to restore the original image before being able to use the manual or OTA update. Right now I'm on the OTA update, and rooted and overclocked.

The only real question is WHY did I bother updating. WiFi tether was already available prior to this ota via root. I'm waiting for an official changelog, since the installed Tethering app is surely to get disabled if we don't pay for tethering... in which case we'll all be using the root app version anyway.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tekkaman_01:
Update your phone. as of now we still get temp root which its all we have had so fast anyway
[G2 and Desire Z General] dilfatx:
Hmm I posted exact same instructions very early in the post..
[G2 and Desire Z General] syrkles:
visionary does not work wit ota
[G2 and Desire Z General] Shambala001:
The second I saw this I started laughing, but good call.
[G2 and Desire Z General] xdviper:
Is there a automated way to do this? Its getting annoying typing it in every 30minutes or so. Lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
The phone does it automatically anyway. No need to do it every half hour. The OTA roll-out probably won't even start until midnight PST anyway (purely speculation).
[G2 and Desire Z General] suffix-:
I texted it to myself, and just copy paste it everytime I want to checkin..
[G2 and Desire Z General] Master Loon:
Cool :-)
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
This should be in OP ASAP.... so the questions doesnt get asked again... with a little explanation of checkin is needed. :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z General] AreOh:
FINALLY! I get bad service when I'm home and this is really needed.... although this just means that using the wifi will drain the battery faster, but oh well.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ephayzee:
Nice!
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
done :D ...
[G2 and Desire Z General] xyrcncp:
Oh you did it now, you'll get quoted. There will be posts saying "I read it will be pushed at midnight PST" and when it's not or it's 12:30 and people haven't received it, those posts will change to "Maybe we should complain or sue T-Mobile!!!11111"...LOL
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
Nobody will even pay attention to the "purely speculation" part. :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z General] scrizz:
LOL, too late.

i'm already in the process of getting rid of the G2

:D
[G2 and Desire Z General] gravis86:
What!? Why don't you do what I did and just keep both? As a matter of fact, I have a perfectly good N900 laying around as well...
[G2 and Desire Z General] scrizz:
we're not all rich like that.

I pay $500 for my phones....

$1000 in phones? nty

unless someone is feeling generous

;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] ArcticWolf91:
Does the update fix the loose hinge issue? :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] rhcp011235:
You should update the op with the instructions for those who know how to get the file location of the OTA.

Via sniffing / logcatting etc. We want the files.
[G2 and Desire Z General] andrewklau:
Maybe also include that no one should be trying to install the OTA if they want to risk a chance of losing the ability to root in the (hopefully) near future.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jmd1981:
My service is shut-off since I am out of the country and haven't unlocked yet. Is there a way for me to get this? I was actually about to send the phone back, but if this fixes the reboot issue I'll keep it.

edit, Checkin still works even though I don't have service.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ~~Tito~~:
No OTA update yet. 12:23am here in Vegas
[G2 and Desire Z General] Paris_Carter:
1:03 still no update...
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
yes. it does... or at least it works with the Manual version of the OTA update.

Works fine... but you'll have to have the latest version of Visionary and you'll have to use the new overclocking script visionary_co.ko
[G2 and Desire Z General] arich:
Not true, works fine. Don't spread falseness
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
24 hrs later after manual update everything (so far) is great. Better and stronger signal, wifi tether is awsome and wifi calling is amazing. Hinge is still strong and no random reboots or mysterious power downs where the thing just shuts off by itself.