Installing the OTA 2.1 file

[TDianna]

Yeah, this is very strange. It worked right away for the OP, but noone else can get it to work. Very weird.

Damn!

 

[Caddyman]

mine ran through the process fine first try, then aborted...

 

[Tooleman694]

If I let mine sit at the exclamation it shuts off..

 

[TDianna]

If I let mine sit at the exclamation it shuts off..

Has anyone got in touch with arothrock?

 

[truelove79]

Those who are getting to the exclamation and then nothing... WAIT a few minutes after hitting power and volume up.... I thought mine did not work, set it down, and came back to it a few minutes later to see it had changed.

What did it change to? And yes, my phone has been sitting here for about 5 minutes after pressing the combination of power and vol up. It simply doesn't work.

 

[truelove79]

Has anyone got in touch with arothrock?

Yeah, he's mentioned he doesn't know what the problem is.

 

[hakoreh]

by the way the exclamation in the pics is not the exclamation i get

i get an exclamation with a phone next to it - is that what every else is getting

 

[arothrock]

Has anyone got in touch with arothrock?

I'm still here, but can't figure out why it isn't working for anyone else. I wish I had another phone to try it on...incase I forgot to write down a step.

The only other thing I can think of is since this is a newly replaced phone from Verizon, maybe something else would be different??

 

[mrshdavis]

Those who are getting to the exclamation and then nothing... WAIT a few minutes after hitting power and volume up.... I thought mine did not work, set it down, and came back to it a few minutes later to see it had changed.

how long did you wait? I'm currently letting it sit...but so far nothing has changed....

 

[NickDroid86]

This is worthless... Just download v3

 

[BigBeefy]

Hmm BigBeefy ! Knoxville huh ? If I say LBxx can you tell me the last two letters

As much as I love riddles, I can not figure this one out. Sorry.

 

[yewslus]

History of my handset:

1.5 to rooted 2.1
Heard about OTA, removed root and restored to 1.5 stock, now on Hboot 1.47

Tried the above methods, starting with rename to UPDATE.ZIP
-FASTBOOT ran right through because it didn't see the PB00IMG.ZIP, no unpacking took place
-Recover console would not flash UPDATE.ZIP from SD, failed (sorry, forgot fail code)

Also tried from start with PB00IMG.ZIP
-FASTBOOT saw the PB file, unpacked and then went to recovery
-Tried to flash PB00IMG.ZIP from SD, failed (Verification failed)

Toggled USB-MS and changed zip on the fly from PB to UPDATE, still no good.

<sigh>

 

[arothrock]

The only other thing I can think of is before I got it to work, I was trying other stuff.

I did name it PB00IMG.zip and tried doing it that way. Pressed VOL down and power, it loaded PB00IMG.zip, It went through a progress bar, then just went back to the main screen. Nothing changed.

At this point, I renamed PB00IMG.zip to update.zip and tried the recovery method.

I didn't think this would have done anything, but maybe it did??? Give that a try.

Has anyone tried this?

Does it load up with a vertical progress bar like it's doing something? See attached picture.

 

[Mangomon]

Did it work????

 

[Irie Atlantis]

Wife got the OTA last night (she was on 1.5) her PRL is 51803
I am on v3 with no OTA and my PRL is 51866

If this is location based, why do we have different numbers?

 

[Jshizzy]

DO NOT name it PB00IMG.zip as it will try to load in the next step.

Did everyone follow this step? How about deleting the old PB00IMG file?

I am at work so I dont have the time as of now to try for myself. Maybe renaming the file throws it off.

I am on v3, and if no one has tried these variables yet, I will try as soon as possible and post what I find.

 

[truelove79]

I'm still here, but can't figure out why it isn't working for anyone else. I wish I had another phone to try it on...incase I forgot to write down a step.

The only other thing I can think of is since this is a newly replaced phone from Verizon, maybe something else would be different??

You didn't skip a step. This is the exact same process the Motodroid peeps used to update their phones a while back. You can google it if you don't believe me. They did mention that the combination of buttons (it's different on the Motodroid) is tricky, but they said it would go eventually. Well something's definitely going on here though, because they said it was tricky, not impossible. I simply can't get it to work.

 

[vertig0730]

Wife got the OTA last night (she was on 1.5) her PRL is 51803
I am on v3 with no OTA and my PRL is 51866

If this is location based, why do we have different numbers?

Do a *228 option 2 then see if they match

 

[Frisco]

Disclaimer - Try this at your own risk. I'm not liable if you brick your phone. I didn't really know what I was doing, and probably shouldn't have tried it on my eris because I sold it on ebay a few days ago and i'm waiting for the buyer to pay me for it.. lol! This is a simliar process for installing updates on the Moto Droid.

NOTE: I DIDN'T LOSE ANY DATA AFTER THE UPGRADE!!

Okay, this is all coming from 1.5.

First, download this OTA file:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...36.605.1_1.17.605.1_release_0420.79112f65.zip

I named mine update.zip and put it on the SD card.

DO NOT name it PB00IMG.zip as it will try to load in the next step.

Turn off the phone, hold down VOL DOWN and POWER, just like you normally would to install a leak.

It will search for the files like PB00IMG.zip, etc..etc..

Scroll down to RECOVERY and press the POWER button. The phone will reboot with an exclamation point.

Press the POWER button and VOLUME UP at the same time, and you should be presented with a menu. One of the options should be "Apply sdcard:update.zip". Choose that one.

It will start the installation process.

I got a little worried because it started deleting files and stayed in one spot for what seemed like 10 minutes, (probably 4 in reality), but it eventually finished.

When it's done, choose the reboot option and let it do its thing. It will take a few minutes to boot up intially.

Nice work there.

 

[xxfrozen]

Has anyone tried this?

Does it load up with a vertical progress bar like it's doing something? See attached picture.

I did try this on 2.1 v3 leak. It did exactly what you show in the screen shot as far as loading the vertical progress bar, but then it goes back and says installation aborted or something to that effect. All in all it doesn't work. I tried renaming to update and PB0001 etc. Redoing the steps, same result.

 

[mrshdavis]

Has anyone tried this?

Does it load up with a vertical progress bar like it's doing something? See attached picture.

Mine did the screen like this...then it gets stuck on the exclamation point in a triangle screen with a phone next to it...

 

[Caddyman]

by the way the exclamation in the pics is not the exclamation i get

i get an exclamation with a phone next to it - is that what every else is getting

mine was with the phone next to it, i think this is just a difference between 1.5 and 2.1 though...the images changed.

 

[NickDroid86]

Mine loaded like that then went to normal boot screen

 

[Tooleman694]

yeah I tried that.. didnt work either.. it did load up the file for a little bit.. still cant get passed exclamationpoint..

 

[mdeblaz]

Wife got the OTA last night (she was on 1.5) her PRL is 51803
I am on v3 with no OTA and my PRL is 51866

If this is location based, why do we have different numbers?

has she performed the *228 option 2 update yet? Try that, I bet that puts her on 51866, if not then the mystery continues