Cannot upgrade Droid4 to 6.13.215

[stuartofoz]

I foolishly uninstalled (instead of freezing - yes, I now know better) some of the bloatware from the standard (6.13.2150 release (like Yahoo and etc) and ran foul of the contacts error described in
Error Contact Storage

I followed the method to correct but obviously had some other files missing.

Then along came the OTA upgrade to 6.13.219 which failed - so I tried the manual method using
Motorola DROID 4 Update 6.13.219

the upgrade starts but aborts complaining

assert failed apply_patch_check ("/system/app/BlurGallery.apk" ......... (some long numbers)
E:Error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip
(Status7)
Installation aborted.


Would someone mind posting BlurGallery.apk from the original version -- or better yet perhaps all the /system/app directory (as who knows what else I'm missing) ?

[myfishbear]

you can use my dump to restore any deleted system files.
Droid 4 dump

1.root your phone. and voodoo rootkeep it.
2.install root explorer.
3.copy the needed files to your sd card(apk, odex)
4.navigate to /system/app with root explorer
5.change the folder to rw from ro
6.copy the odex and apk from your sdcard to /system/app
8.change the folder back to ro
7.change permissions of the odexs and apks to rw-r-r
9.copy build.prop to /system/ with root explorer
10.change permissions to rw-r-r
11.reboot and flash the update

[stuartofoz]

Thanks --

I found your dump a couple of hours ago and am back on track - have successfully upgraded.
Since I had not seen your post - I followed a slightly different sequence to the one you outlined, basically without retaining root.

The one thing you mentioned was "copy build.prop to /system/ .." I did not do that - but all seems well.

So - for my edification - what does build.prop do? Did I miss an essential step ?

[myfishbear]

Thanks --

I found your dump a couple of hours ago and am back on track - have successfully upgraded.
Since I had not seen your post - I followed a slightly different sequence to the one you outlined, basically without retaining root.

The one thing you mentioned was "copy build.prop to /system/ .." I did not do that - but all seems well.

So - for my edification - what does build.prop do? Did I miss an essential step ?

it is like the id of your phone. this one says its a d4, but you can change it to say you got like a kindle fire or a nexus s. personally the v6 script i ran on mine edited my build.prop so i had to replace it as well.

[Ttdag]

This gives my phone a bootloop, idk what I'm doing wrong i followed the instructions,anytime i copy something from your dump into my phone with root explorer it just turns off, goes to boot animation and boot loops me =(

[myfishbear]

just replace missing files dont copy them all over, and remember the permissions rw-r-r. the other thing you should try is rootbrowser because if i remember correctly some versions of root explorer dont work on the phone.

[Ttdag]

But how do know which files I'm missing? I think i have all of them, but when i try to install the update it tells me i have an error with the files i already have. And also i have the change the permissions of the files in your dump before i replace my own or after?

[ampersandman]

I am having the same exact problem. ^^^^

[daryls61]

I get the same error (Status 7). I am rooted but I don't think I uninstalled any apps. I did freeze them using titanium backup. I tried unfreezing all the apps and that did not work. Still get the error. One thing I did do was "integrate updates of system apps into ROM" I didnt think this would be a problem with the OTA update but maybe it is. Going to try and restore the system apps and see if it works then.

[Ttdag]

Ugh this is frustrating .-.