Downgrade from ICS to JB - RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I received my Razr I today and it already has JB on it
So I was wondering, any chance that I could downgrade it to ICS?
From what I've read on xda and some German forums it did work for some people...
I'm referring to this threat:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184877
So in the end, is it possible or not?
Thanks in advance!

Yes, you should definitely be able to do this. You need to install a custom recovery on to your device to start with. I think the ROM Manager app on the Play Store supports your device. If you download it you can flash CWM Recovery onto your device. Then you need the zip file for the ICS stock firmware which can be found easily by Googling it (I've already seen it so it exists). Once you've moved the zip file on to your SD card, boot into recovery and install the zip file and you should be back to ICS stock.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

tothehawks said:
Yes, you should definitely be able to do this. You need to install a custom recovery on to your device to start with. I think the ROM Manager app on the Play Store supports your device. If you download it you can flash CWM Recovery onto your device. Then you need the zip file for the ICS stock firmware which can be found easily by Googling it (I've already seen it so it exists). Once you've moved the zip file on to your SD card, boot into recovery and install the zip file and you should be back to ICS stock.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well I have the files and everything (RSDlite) but from what I've read there might be a problem flashing the fastboot files...

He talked about flashing over CWM and not with RSD-Lite...
via RazR I & Tapatalk 4

ICuaI said:
He talked about flashing over CWM and not with RSD-Lite...
via RazR I & Tapatalk 4
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
But for CWM I need root, for root I need unlocked BL and I don't have it and also don't want to unlock my BL.
So, locked BL JB -->locked BL ICS

Then you must stay with unrooted JB. Downgrade to ICS with RSD is not possible afaik.
via RazR I & Tapatalk 4

Related

[ODIN][N8013]Stock Kernel and Recovery Images

This post will contain N8013 stock kernel and recovery images. For UEALGB these were dumped from a device that was rooted using the "root injection of /system" approach. For UEALH2, they are simply extracted from the Kies dump at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847706 so that you can get a stock kernel or recovery without downloading 1GB of files.
If you flash any of these using Odin, they should not trigger your flash counter. Note that for some reason, flashing these in Heimdall will trigger the counter (unlike Heimdall on most other devices).
Pardon for some ignorance. What should be the steps to follow in order to root from an updated to latest OTA update stock Rom on a 32gb USA version? Do I need to flash the kernel, or just recovery should be ok?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
sgndroid1 said:
Pardon for some ignorance. What should be the steps to follow in order to root from an updated to latest OTA update stock Rom on a 32gb USA version? Do I need to flash the kernel, or just recovery should be ok?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Why don't u ask this in the root thread?
Here is what you should do:
Root Via CWM (method 2 in the root thread)
1. Download and put the superuserzip on your internal memory on your device
2. In odin uncheck auto reboot and load the cwmrecovery tar in the pda slot
3. Start odin
4. Once finished boot directly into clockwork (volume up and power til the samsung screen then let go of power while holding volume up)
5. Use the volume rockers to scroll in clockwork cause its finicky and flash the superuser zip you put on your device.
6. reboot
7. Make sure you have root and touch screen and pen works
8. Download goo manager
9. In goo manager hit menu and hit the install recovery script
10. DONE
Have any problems odin back to a stock image and if things go bad flash entropys triangle away kernel and clear your binary count
Any chance you could update the thread to account for the updated kernel for the N8013, that adds support for exFAT?
NessLookAlike said:
Any chance you could update the thread to account for the updated kernel for the N8013, that adds support for exFAT?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Um it is here the H2 one
BeerChameleon said:
Um it is here the H2 one
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
..now I feel embarassed.. :silly:
I have tried to flash the stock UEALGB recovery tar from Mobil Odin and every time it says partition could not be found in file, any ideas?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using xda premium
Hey guys,I just picked up a GT-N8010 -Canadian Wifi version - running LG4 firrmware, will any of these stock recoveries work for me or do I need an LG4 recovery?
Looking to root via cwm then restore stock recovery so I can receive OTA's.
Android564 said:
Hey guys,I just picked up a GT-N8010 -Canadian Wifi version - running LG4 firrmware, will any of these stock recoveries work for me or do I need an LG4 recovery?
Looking to root via cwm then restore stock recovery so I can receive OTA's.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For OTAs - no, these will probably not work.
Ok I downloaded the UEALGB stock recovery tar again and it contains only boot.img. Is the link bad or am I just screwy?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using xda premium
Thanks Entropy, as much as I want to root now I am going to wait for either a stock LG4 recovery or a root injected LG4.
Sent from my GT-N8010 using xda app-developers app
Android564 said:
Hey guys,I just picked up a GT-N8010 -Canadian Wifi version - running LG4 firrmware, will any of these stock recoveries work for me or do I need an LG4 recovery?
Looking to root via cwm then restore stock recovery so I can receive OTA's.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the Canadian 8010 model, and installed the prerooted firmware that was provided. It didnt flash right the first time but the second time it did. Everything works great and Im rooted with CWM. The only thing I noticed is that it says I have the 8013 model now which is probably because of the firmware but its not a big deal.
Robert542 said:
Ok I downloaded the UEALGB stock recovery tar again and it contains only boot.img. Is the link bad or am I just screwy?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Crud, I probably uploaded the wrong thing. Will look into this.
Robert542 said:
Ok I downloaded the UEALGB stock recovery tar again and it contains only boot.img. Is the link bad or am I just screwy?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It still only has boot.img.
Does anyone have a working UEALGB stock recovery?
Please, update the LGB recovery. I think that's the kernel.
Can I flash the H2 recovery in a LGB rom??
Cheers!
el_charlie said:
Please, update the LGB recovery. I think that's the kernel.
Can I flash the H2 recovery in a LGB rom??
Cheers!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can't, but you can flash the entire H2 ODIN image from here (about 1GB):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847706
and not lose your data. You lose root though (which you can get again through the alternate recovery method)
Can we get a kernel and recovery from UEALI3 please.
Can someone dump latest firmware please and pm me.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
Anybody have stock recovery for N8010?
N8013 UEALI3 Recovery
Can anyone post the UEALI3 stock recovery? I want to root my Note, but want to root my Note with the CWM method, and go back to stock recovery so I can get OTA updates.
Thank you.

CWM Flashable Stock recovery

In the future we may be blessed with a Jelly bean update, like the n7000 is getting now. In that case we may want to install our stock recovery. Well in the absence of a CWM/ TWRP flashable stock recovery I created one for our phone.
Step one download file to your SD card. (Internal for CWM External for TWRP)
Step two reboot to recovery.
Step three install from sd card.
Step four Choose RecoverystockT879.
Flash.
Confirmed working on both CWM and TWRP.
A special thanx to tomin.fhl for providing the stock Recovery.img.
Thank you. Now I feel a little less inhibited trying this.
No problem.
Sent from my SGH-T879 using xda app-developers app
I'm using the i717 At&T version. If I flash this will it cause my unlock to disappear?
I got a notification. This morning there is a software update available but my phone boots into cwm and it will not install update.
Sent from my SGH-T879 using xda app-developers app
mahgninnuc93 said:
I'm using the i717 At&T version. If I flash this will it cause my unlock to disappear?
I got a notification. This morning there is a software update available but my phone boots into cwm and it will not install update.
Sent from my SGH-T879 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No it won't. You need to have your phone nand unlocked and have the unlock code. Unfortunately you can't legally do that anymore. Att might do it for you for a small fee, I don't know for sure. About the ota update, don't do it it will take you for a bootloop. The update is for the T879 not for the I717.
Sent from my SGH-T879 using xda app-developers app
bot42 said:
In the future we may be blessed with a Jelly bean update, like the n7000 is getting now. In that case we may want to install our stock recovery. Well in the absence of a CWM/ TWRP flashable stock recovery I created one for our phone.
Step one download file to your SD card. (Internal for CWM External for TWRP)
Step two reboot to recovery.
Step three install from sd card.
Step four Choose RecoverystockT879.
Flash.
Confirmed working on both CWM and TWRP.
A special thanx to tomin.fhl for providing the stock Recovery.img.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
does this work?

Once unlocked, can't relock & get OTA?

Hello,
So I just want to clear something out. So once I have used a the Asus app and unlocked my tab, I CANNOT relock it again? Also once unlocked, I can no longer receive OTA from Asus and therefore have to download it manually?
I just need clarification on these two questions. Thank you.
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
No re lock, no ota
Sent from my Note II using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Yep, it's a one-way process.
But we can still download the official update from Asus and flash as long as we are on stock recovery, correct? And if i'm not mistaken, we can always revert back to stock recovery. Just can't go back to a locked bootloader.
Damn if I knew this I wouldn't have... oh well. Thanks for the answers!
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
Another problem: I up had installed cwm recovery and cromi Rom from here. I wanted to revert back to stock firmware, so I downloaded the zip from asus site and put in root directory, however when I flash the zip with CWM it always gives me status 6 error. I searched this and I tried a possible solution using notepad++ but didn't work. Can anyone help me why I can't install stock firmware without getting the status 6 error?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
zabih107 said:
Another problem: I up had installed cwm recovery and cromi Rom from here. I wanted to revert back to stock firmware, so I downloaded the zip from asus site and put in root directory, however when I flash the zip with CWM it always gives me status 6 error. I searched this and I tried a possible solution using notepad++ but didn't work. Can anyone help me why I can't install stock firmware without getting the status 6 error?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can't flash the stock firmware from cwm. You need to fastboot flash the stock recovery from droid basement and then extract the stock zip onto your internal card and boot that way. Alternatively you could just flash my stock ROM in the Dev section.
Why do you want to go back to pure stock?
Wow lol I spend hours trying to flash through CWM. thank u very much sdbags. I wanted to revert back because, lol my WiFi was acting wiered with the ROM. some apps like "showbox" worked fine with stock, but with cromi it would go very slow and take really long to load a list of movies or shows. I Donni maybe wifi drivers are not same on cromi? Anyway, thanks for the stock installation solution.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
You can't use fastboot to lock the bootloader?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
YayYouFixedIt said:
You can't use fastboot to lock the bootloader?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope! Not on the transformers. It's a one way street.
When do we get unconditional lifetime warranties. There's in search of incredible.
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
sbdags said:
You can't flash the stock firmware from cwm. You need to fastboot flash the stock recovery from droid basement and then extract the stock zip onto your internal card and boot that way. Alternatively you could just flash my stock ROM in the Dev section.
Why do you want to go back to pure stock?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
K I flashed the stock recovery from droid basement. I pasted the stock firmware zip file which I download from asus site into the root directory. I reboot tab into boot loader and enter the RCK but I see an android guy updating for 1 sec then falls on back with an exclamation mark on him. What am i doing wrong now?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
zabih107 said:
K I flashed the stock recovery from droid basement. I pasted the stock firmware zip file which I download from asus site into the root directory. I reboot tab into boot loader and enter the RCK but I see an android guy updating for 1 sec then falls on back with an exclamation mark on him. What am i doing wrong now?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you paste the zip inside the zip?
Yes
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
The reason I think why it not flashing because ur cromi Rom is 4.3 and the stock firmware is also 4.3 so I guess tablet thinks it's not new so it does t flash it.
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
But I did flash the stock recovery so I have stock recovery now
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
I just want to Install the stock firmware too and that's it
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
sbdags said:
Did you paste the zip inside the zip?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is it possible to push or install the stock zip file from windows where fastboot.exe is located? If so, I donno the cmd commands, can u tell me those commands?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
zabih107 said:
Is it possible to push or install the stock zip file from windows where fastboot.exe is located? If so, I donno the cmd commands, can u tell me those commands?
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Why don't you just flash my Asus Stock ROM first? It's 99.9% the Asus files - just with ROOT added.
I haven't tested the following but if you MUST flash the Asus Stock from a PC you would do it using the following. I won't take any responsibility if you brick and you do this at your own risk. Personally if I were you I wouldn't do it this way as flashing my Asus Stock will do EXACTLY the same. Note that the below instructions are for 4.2.2. Be warned - it will erase the bootloader so if it doesn't flash properly you will brick permanently.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47933481&postcount=1
sbdags said:
Why don't you just flash my Asus Stock ROM first? It's 99.9% the Asus files - just with ROOT added.
I haven't tested the following but if you MUST flash the Asus Stock from a PC you would do it using the following. I won't take any responsibility if you brick and you do this at your own risk. Personally if I were you I wouldn't do it this way as flashing my Asus Stock will do EXACTLY the same. Note that the below instructions are for 4.2.2. Be warned - it will erase the bootloader so if it doesn't flash properly you will brick permanently.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47933481&postcount=1
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey I fixed it! Thanks for all the help sdbag. Ur one great guy ( or girl).
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

[Q] How to install new recovery?

Well i currently have CWM, and want to install philz touch, do i need to go back to stock rom, and root and unlock bootloader again, i don't want to loose all my data
You could use a tool to do it or flash it if it's flashable. There is no need to to anything else but what I mentioned before. At least, that's what I've done in past experience
Sent from my MB886 using Tapatalk
chococomaxim said:
You could use a tool to do it or flash it if it's flashable. There is no need to to anything else but what I mentioned before. At least, that's what I've done in past experience
Sent from my MB886 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1. Just download the flashble zip, copy it to sd card, flash it from your existing custom recovery.

[OTA] [KITKAT] For 98.18.94 stock phones

I had my phone download this and then just copied it off. My phones build was 98.18.94. Not sure what the difference between this and 98.30 is. I'm rooted so I haven't installed it but it's here for anyone that wants it. My phone downloaded a different version than I found online. It was version 182.46.10XT907.Verizon.en.US. I don't know what other phone builds it will work with. Either way use at your own discretion.
Here is the update for phones running 98.18.94
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU6nmErI6QFS0M1Z0o3QmlrTmM/edit?usp=sharing
Here is the update for phones running 98.30.1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU6nmErI6QFRkdyUGdxZk9TeW8/edit?usp=sharing
Did anybody try it with unlocked bootloader?
Bootloader still unlocked or OTA relock it?
St.Noigel said:
Did anybody try it with unlocked bootloader?
Bootloader still unlocked or OTA relock it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My understand is that it should leave the bootloader unlocked. It will replace the recovery, radio and other system partitions. If you removed anything from the /system/apps folder then I think it will fail/abort install. I've removed some so I need/want to RSD back to stock and then update but if I do then I'll lose root which I use.
Yes, and with SELinux and some other enhancements in KitKat I wouldn't even take a future root for granted.
remijenkins said:
I had my phone download this and then just copied it off. My phones build was 98.18.94. Not sure what the difference between this and 98.30 is. I'm rooted so I haven't installed it but it's here for anyone that wants it. My phone downloaded a different version than I found online. It was version 182.46.10XT907.Verizon.en.US. I don't know what other phone builds it will work with. Either way use at your own discretion.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU6nmErI6QFS0M1Z0o3QmlrTmM/edit?usp=sharing
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Posting updates on how to use this thru the stock recovery.
This is how it is supposed to be used:
1 - Flash LATEST stock SBF of JB thru RSD. (Android 4.1.2
Blur_Version.98.30.1.XT907.Verizon.en.US)
2 - After RSD flash reboot phone on stock recovery and proceed to install update from SD card, here select the file that is provided at the beginning of the thread.
3 - After this first flash completes, phone is going to reboot in recovery again, to open the menu of this specific recovery, the combo of the buttons is power + vol up.
4 - proceed to install from sd card again and select the same file that you selected on the second step.
5 - Wait for it to finish
6 - Wipe data/factory reset
7 - Select restart system, Phone will restart in KK, enjoy guys.
Keep in mind that you have to follow the explanation at the beggining of the thread or this one, if you dont follow this steps like this, you wont be able to install this update or you wont be able to finish installing the update.
is this the offical KK update?
Yes it is official. Like I posted earlier, its OTA from Verizon.
Sent from my XT907 using XDA Free mobile app
And it works like a charm.
roxy.schram said:
I had my phone download this and then just copied it off. My phones build was 98.18.94. Not sure what the difference between this and 98.30 is. I'm rooted so I haven't installed it but it's here for anyone that wants it. My phone downloaded a different version than I found online. It was version 182.46.10XT907.Verizon.en.US. I don't know what other phone builds it will work with. Either way use at your own discretion.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU6nmErI6QFS0M1Z0o3QmlrTmM/edit?usp=sharing
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Where does one locate the file to copy? Id like to share... I am downloading the ota now and I'm currently on 98.30.1.
[DELETE]
Can you flash this using a custom recovery?
Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk
H0LT3R said:
Can you flash this using a custom recovery?
Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I doubt it. It's for stock phones. It will need a stock recovery I do believe.
Hmmm..
My razr is stock & rooted, and I have manually removed several bloat apps. If I attempt to this update ota could it cause any harm to my system aside from possible abort/update fail? Will it remove root? Gracias.
It won't install... or its not suppose to.
Sent from my XT907 using XDA Free mobile app
Does it lose root after OTA?
Sent from my DROID RAZR M using XDA Free mobile app
allen_ho said:
Does it lose root after OTA?
Sent from my DROID RAZR M using XDA Free mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes.
allen_ho said:
Does it lose root after OTA?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My understanding is you can retain some root functionality using SuperSU Pro's Survival Mode. I believe you'll still lose R/W capability.
The best approach would be to unlock your bootloader. I've heard some success with custom recovery, though stock recovery would be best bet.
triloger said:
Posting updates on how to use this thru the stock recovery.
This is how it is supposed to be used:
1 - Flash LATEST stock SBF of JB thru RSD. (Android 4.1.2
Blur_Version.98.30.1.XT907.Verizon.en.US)
2 - After RSD flash reboot phone on stock recovery and proceed to install update from SD card, here select the file that is provided at the beginning of the thread.
3 - After this first flash completes, phone is going to reboot in recovery again, to open the menu of this specific recovery, the combo of the buttons is power + vol up.
4 - proceed to install from sd card again and select the same file that you selected on the second step.
5 - Wait for it to finish
6 - Wipe data/factory reset
7 - Select restart system, Phone will restart in KK, enjoy guys.
Keep in mind that you have to follow the explanation at the beggining of the thread or this one, if you dont follow this steps like this, you wont be able to install this update or you wont be able to finish installing the update.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This method did not work for me after i flashed back to 98.30.1 the stock recovery doesnt see the update and i just get the android logo. When i go to software updates the service is unavailable/
my bootloader has unlock. and does it mean I can have root permission after I flash the stock zip package?
OK here it is, black and white and very simple:
Bootloader Locked - NO ROOT, NO CUSTOM RECOVERY.
Bootloader Unlocked - CWM Recovery and FULL ROOT with SuperSu.
That's it, no if ands or buts.
Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk

Categories

Resources