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[cmh714]

Curious what some of you are considering....take/flash the OTA or just wait for the full package.

 

thx

[JustAGuy]

I've updated 2 devices so far to 5.1, as far as the OS goes, there is not much of any change. I'd only update if you are having bad problems.

I'm waiting for the image before I update the N6. What's a couple more days.

[SamuriHL]

Already did the OTA as I'm impatient, but, it was a pain in the ass.

[cmh714]

Already did the OTA as I'm impatient, but, it was a pain in the ass.

 We all know you just needed the practice

[SamuriHL]

Except that OTA's on new devices that have been modified in ANY WAY are a nightmare.  It MUST be returned COMPLETELY to stock.  The OTA does not hash files on system.  It hashes the system partition as a whole, so, modifying even one byte is enough to fail the assertion check.  The OTA then patches the partition rather than files.  This is not well understood for these new devices.

[JustAGuy]

They just released the factory image, so go to it.

[SamuriHL]

I just used HoN to flash it on mine to ensure it'll work for everyone.  No issues.  Fully rooted 5.1 11 minutes after the image was released.  LMAO

[cmh714]

Hmm, when I run the jar file, it wont let me select the image.....never seen that one before. and this worked for me before....odd

[SamuriHL]

Don't know.  Worked for me.  

[cmh714]

Don't know.  Worked for me.  

Yeah, seriously very strange as I used HoN before and it all worked. Of course this is on my Mac, so unless there is something in the latest java that broke me, I dont know...

[cmh714]

If I cant figure it out, I may just edit the previous script by hand and extract the files myself

 

 

EDIT: NM, me a knucklehead for some reason I could swear I needed to do the first extraction, silly....I guess I fergot

[SamuriHL]

LMAO!  The simpler I make it for people the more problems seem to crop up.  

[matjmonk]

Well dumb gluteus Maximus me decided not to use HoN to upgrade and for the first time since I started messing with Nexuses, I got bit. In the past I usually just modified the flash-all.bat file to remove the "-w", run it and then manually flash the system.img file after it errors out and everything is fine. This time, I did the same procedure, didn't see any errors but the usual one about the system.img but when I rebooted, the system went into a seriously freaky boot loop. No problem, rebooted to recovery to clear cache, but wait this isn't the stock recovery, it's TWRP!! WTF!! Hoping against hope, I used TWRP to wipe cache and data, rebooted, got the first boot asking for my PIN, entered it and made it to "starting apps" then once more got a nasty boot loop! So I figured it might be due to one of the apps doing something crazy so extracted the original flash-all.bat so that it would do the wipe, ran it, rebooted and you got it, boot loop City once more! Once again when I rebooted to recovery I saw that TWRP was still installed (mind you, I haven't been getting any errors during the flash process) so I did a standard wipe again through TWRP and got the same nasty problem. So then I thought I would flash the files using the manual steps, again, no errors, another boot loop and still had TWRP recovery (any before you ask, yes I had checked the MD5 of the download!). So getting desperate, I booted into TWRP and wiped EVERYTHING and then flashed all the files manually again. This time the phone finally booted correctly but I had, of course, lost all my data and had to set everything back up either manually or using TIBU. Needless to say, I'm not going to attempt to update the SO's whale until I figure out what went on with this install since she'll go nuts if she loses her data. I guess I'll make a backup and then fire up HoN and then reflash 5.0.1 and then 5.1 to see if this time the install will go as it's supposed to.

[SamuriHL]

Um....wow.  That sucks.

[cmh714]

I know that when I went from unencrypted BlissPop back to a backup of encrypted Stock it wiped me out.....so I just started with a fresh flash of 5.1...at least thats what happened to me.