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Froyo update fails - OTA / Manual

Aubiek

Lurker
Aug 17, 2010
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Running a non(never) rooted droid, running 2.1-update1, ESE81
My OTA update yesterday and today both failed, so I went ahead and tried the manual update as per the guide here - downloaded the update files, made sure they were in the /sdroot named correctly (update.zip) not (update.zip.zip)
on boot, went into recovery mode - hit update from update.zip - checks the file, finds it, works fine, gets to:

verifying current system... assert failed

gives me two values (clearly different) and then says update aborted.

Again, never rooted or anything - so I tried both an SD format and factory reset (same time) then rebooted - again received a 2.2 OTA update notification, tried again, same failure.

I have seen a few other people with this type issue, but re-downloading the update, or doing a factory reset seemed to fix it.... also a lot of those issues were on rooted, or previously rooted phones.


Thanks,

Andrew
 

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