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When will VZW push a fixed GB OTA

  • 10/11/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 10/17/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 10/24/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 10/31/11

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • 11/07/11

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • 11/14/111

    Votes: 22 20.6%
  • 11/21/11

    Votes: 6 5.6%
  • Don't care (rooted already, etc)

    Votes: 23 21.5%
  • Before Christmas

    Votes: 12 11.2%
  • Never, the lobsters ate all the testers so it got cancelled

    Votes: 11 10.3%
  • It isn't coming at all now

    Votes: 13 12.1%
  • Any minute now

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Immediately after Jimmy Hoffa's body is found

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • The day after the apocalypse

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Sometime after the sun goes supernova

    Votes: 9 8.4%

  • Total voters
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I was pretty much in same boat as you,
I went thru and deleted until I was over 500MB free, cleared cache using the hboot method, 'set date forward one month' route after wiping cache, then did the check for update took a few tries but it finally worked.

Massive power drain after it was complete, though that seemed to be due to all the auto updates and sync the phone was completing.
AT the very least I figure several apps will need re-tweaking in the power management and location aware area


More likely the update wiped the battery statistics. Give it a couple charge/drastic cycles to catch up, or you can recalibrate the power meter (drain the battery fully, then charge it completely).
 
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PS, I have at least 525MB free on internal storage, is that enough? Thanks!

No one seems to know the answer to that question. It appears that no one knows definitively if it is the 640mb of phone memory, the cache memory, or the \data\ area that needs to be freed up or how much needs to be free. All we know so far is that if you follow the directions in:

Second GB Update/Patch Won't Reboot Issue - SOLVED! - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

to clear internal cache, set your time ahead by one month, and have enough room on your phone (there again is that uncertainity!), the update will install.
 
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No one seems to know the answer to that question. It appears that no one knows definitively if it is the 640mb of phone memory, the cache memory, or the \data\ area that needs to be freed up or how much needs to be free. All we know so far is that if you follow the directions in:

Second GB Update/Patch Won't Reboot Issue - SOLVED! - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

to clear internal cache, set your time ahead by one month, and have enough room on your phone (there again is that uncertainity!), the update will install.

link?
nevermind ... set date, repoot, now downloading 4.08.605.2
 
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More likely the update wiped the battery statistics. Give it a couple charge/drastic cycles to catch up, or you can recalibrate the power meter (drain the battery fully, then charge it completely).

Yes, it could have and I was hoping to run it pretty low for that reason (recal) , so I was using it heavy enough for it to get much warmer than usual, probably 2+hrs of update attempts and then market updates so for me massive is 60% in 3-4 hrs of heavy use.

Though on a side note the update did cause an increase in power use due to some of my (missing) installed apps reappeared, updated and sync'd.

Guess like always, it really depends on what apps you have installed and the settings on them.

All of this when I'm getting a nexus anyway :cool:
 
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Did anyone else see this on gingerbread?
Go to Menu>settings>about phone>battery>battery use>then click on the new banner at the top (gray banner) when you click it, it will bring up a new screen showing phone signal, awake, screen on, charging and yellow and blue graph.

Isn't that new? alot of graphics here.
I feel like a maroon, where does it show the percentage of battery life left? I see the graph but I thought it used to tell me the percentage of battery life left.
 
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this frustration is getting the better of me. i followed all of the instructions outlined here. booted into recovery, moved the date ahead one year, got the system update resent to my phone and followed it thru to the part where it asks if i want to reboot and install. now its been stuck for over 10 mins saying that its "rebooting now" but clearly its not doing anything and i think i need to cancel the install. has anybody else encountered this, and if so, does anybody know the solution? im ready to throw this damn thing out the window....
 
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For several reasons, I am considering a factory reset to get all of the recent patches to install on my phone. Can anyone who has successfully done this provide step-by-step instructions on how to do this? In particular, I'm wondering whether the updates automatically pop up after the reset completes or whether I still have to go fiddling with the phone's date/time. Also, do I need to activate it before the updates pop up?

Many thanks for the help.


Obviously,back everything up, and then start the process. After you activate the phone, it should already be downloading the patch, that is if you already have the first OTA installed. You can also go look in system updates & it should almost be done by the time you look. After that it will reboot & such. Then, you should be as good as gold. Let us know how it goes.
 
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I had gotten the notification of the 1st update (4.06), but it hung up after the "rebooting now". I rebooted manually and the update was no longer available. I tried every trick I could find to get the update to redownload, including a factory reset, the date trick, *#*#checkin#*#*, but nothing was working. Note that before I did the factory reset, I did inventory my apps and backup my data.

My phone is NOT rooted, but I followed steps 4-5 from this link http://androidforums.com/incredible...ally-install-gingerbread-ota-s-if-rooted.html to manually install the 4.06 update. The link here (4.06.605.3) is the actual Verizon/Google/HTC update as far as I can tell. On reboot (after a few minutes), the 2nd update (4.08) notification automatically showed up, so I did not continue with the manual install steps for 4.08. Note that my factory reset had killed all my apps/data, so losing them was not a concern. Due to an app that I use for work, my phone can't be rooted, so I did not do any of the other steps either to gain root/superuser.

As far as I can tell, this worked for me...now time to restore all my apps and redownload my data. YMMV. Good luck.
 
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I had gotten the notification of the 1st update (4.06), but it hung up after the "rebooting now". I rebooted manually and the update was no longer available. I tried every trick I could find to get the update to redownload, including a factory reset, the date trick, *#*#checkin#*#*, but nothing was working. Note that before I did the factory reset, I did inventory my apps and backup my data.

My phone is NOT rooted, but I followed steps 4-5 from this link http://androidforums.com/incredible...ally-install-gingerbread-ota-s-if-rooted.html to manually install the 4.06 update. The link to the download in that post is the actual Verizon/Google/HTC update as far as I can tell. On reboot (after a few minutes), the 2nd update (4.08) notification automatically showed up, so I did not continue with the manual install steps for 4.08. Note that my factory reset had killed all my apps/data, so losing them was not a concern. Due to an app that I use for work, my phone can't be rooted, so I did not do any of the other steps either to gain root/superuser.

As far as I can tell, this worked for me...now time to restore all my apps and redownload my data. YMMV. Good luck.


Am I understanding you, that you couldn't get the OTA to push to your phone again (like myself) for the 1st download...you then installed it/this manually....then the 2nd update downloaded automatically OTA? If so, I'll give that sucker a try too.

EDIT: How the hell did you get the install to start? I've got the zip on the phone, but there are a lot of files, folders, many .apk files, etc.

EDIT AGAIN: Never mind, I didn't read some of your instructions. It appears to be updating. I'll report back.
 
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Am I understanding you, that you couldn't get the OTA to push to your phone again (like myself) for the 1st download...you then installed it/this manually....then the 2nd update downloaded automatically OTA? If so, I'll give that sucker a try too.

EDIT: How the hell did you get the install to start? I've got the zip on the phone, but there are a lot of files, folders, many .apk files, etc.

That's right. I downloaded the 4.06 file, then renamed it to update.zip, and copied it to the root directory of the SD card. I turned off the phone, then powered up while holding down the volume down key. I don't remember if it kicked off then, or if I had to select Recovery, hit power/volume up when the red triangle screen showed up, then selected Apply sdcard:update.zip. (I think it was the former, but I've been thru it so many times, I was on autopilot.) The 2nd update showed up OTA a few minutes after the final reboot.
 
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That's right. I downloaded the 4.06 file, then renamed it to update.zip, and copied it to the root directory of the SD card. I turned off the phone, then powered up while holding down the volume down key. I don't remember if it kicked off then, or if I had to select Recovery, hit power/volume up when the red triangle screen showed up, then selected Apply sdcard:update.zip. (I think it was the former, but I've been thru it so many times, I was on autopilot.) The 2nd update showed up OTA a few minutes after the final reboot.

Thanks, after trying everything this method worked!!! It took me about about 45 minutes. I backed everything up, but it was unnecessary; everything was still there.
 
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OK guys, for those who can't get any of the methods on here to work for yourself (and like myself), please check nytroutbum's post #3982 and JLR's posts #3984 & #3986 should work for you....I can confirm this. I've tried, since getting the update to install on Tuesday morning (which failed), every method on here to get the update again with no success. This manual method has worked for me (at last). It would be a good idea to still back everything up, but all my data was still on my phone. Good luck.
 
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No one seems to know the answer to that question. It appears that no one knows definitively if it is the 640mb of phone memory, the cache memory, or the \data\ area that needs to be freed up or how much needs to be free. All we know so far is that if you follow the directions in:

Second GB Update/Patch Won't Reboot Issue - SOLVED! - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

to clear internal cache, set your time ahead by one month, and have enough room on your phone (there again is that uncertainity!), the update will install.

+1
about 473mb
set date 1 month ahead
settings/phone/system update a few times and there it was
 
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