Rooted Droid 3 now update failure

[indee2025]

I got the Droid 3 recently and it had 5.5959.XT862.Verizon.en.US

I rooted right away and deleted all the bloatware (I know some like to freeze bloatware rather than delete but I clean up a lot more system files out of the system than you can do with just freezing)

Tonight I got a OTA for version 5.6.890 and when I installed it after download it rebooted looked fine then said "Install Failed!"

I'm okay with this part as I know the OTA update saw no bloatware and said EEK problem GACK and failed..my concern is that after a few hours or a day I will get that OTA message to download and install the update and the cycle will rinse & repeat for the life of the device....any truth to this?

 

[lotzakritters]

I got the Droid 3 recently and it had 5.5959.XT862.Verizon.en.US

I rooted right away and deleted all the bloatware (I know some like to freeze bloatware rather than delete but I clean up a lot more system files out of the system than you can do with just freezing)

Tonight I got a OTA for version 5.6.890 and when I installed it after download it rebooted looked fine then said "Install Failed!"

I'm okay with this part as I know the OTA update saw no bloatware and said EEK problem GACK and failed..my concern is that after a few hours or a day I will get that OTA message to download and install the update and the cycle will rinse & repeat for the life of the device....any truth to this?

I saw on one of the forums, that the leak testers will only get one chance, not sure if that is true or not. Sorry, forgot what forum that was. Hopefully that isn't true for you. Good luck

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[indee2025]

I saw on one of the forums, that the leak testers will only get one chance, not sure if that is true or not. Sorry, forgot what forum that was. Hopefully that isn't true for you. Good luck

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Well I don't know, if I go to system updates and check to see if there's something there it brings up the opportunity to download 5.6.890 as much as I want....I'm really not caring about the update as much as I'm afraid of an OTA loop of asking me 3 times a day and attempting to do it (both download & install have countdown timers)

 

[lotzakritters]

Well I don't know, if I go to system updates and check to see if there's something there it brings up the opportunity to download 5.6.890 as much as I want....I'm really not caring about the update as much as I'm afraid of an OTA loop of asking me 3 times a day and attempting to do it (both download & install have countdown timers)

It looks to be the same one that leaked awhile ago. You can just load that one up, it you can't get it to work right. I'm sure the asking will stop if you do. That's what I have on and still rooted, with out any problems.

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[mrcastillo]

u have to use rsdlite n flash the xml file for 5.959 n then run the update. U can find it on XDA

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255198

 

[DeadDroid3]

No. reinstall bloatware and you should be fine. It will unroot you but you can use the one click root again.

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[trebor_edwards]

does any one have an easier way to find bloatware to install, or better instructions to flash?

 

[BenLand150]

Don't believe there is nor will there be.

 

[xyvyx]

let's see

curious how much this update will improve things. In a nutshell, when I first got my D3, I was ready to return it within 48 hours... it crashed doing lots of routine things (camera, mid-call, unable to answer, etc..). After I cleared all my imported wifi settings, then removed a bit of bloatware, it's been performing GREAT. ie: it's been really fast and battery life has been much better. By better, I mean I got 28 hours out of it before it got down to the 20% remaining level.

So I had to copy the bloat back before this update would install (I'd just moved a handful of APKs to my SDcard), but it worked smoothly after I put everything back. Then I was able to move/disable them again and so far, it's behaving just fine.

The APKs I moved include:
Blockbuster
Flickr authenticator
LastFM Authenticator
Myspace Authenticator
Orkut Authenticator
Skyrock Authenticator
Yahoo Mail Authenticator
NFF Mobile
V Cast Media Manager
Slacker
Apps (vcast.apk)
V Cast Tones
V Cast Music
V Cast Videos
VZ Navigator
Yahoo Contacts
ZumoCast

 

[DELUXDroid]

What if your bloat is all just frozen? I've frozen stuff with Titanium, not deleted anything? Is it safe to do the update?

 

[darkmatter]

I froze a lotof stuff. didn't unfreeze, didn't unroot, and update went through just fine...but that could be just me.

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[wildride89]

Yeah I didn't unfreeze anything and my update went fine. I just haven't been able to regain root

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[akhi216]

curious how much this update will improve things. In a nutshell, when I first got my D3, I was ready to return it within 48 hours... it crashed doing lots of routine things (camera, mid-call, unable to answer, etc..). After I cleared all my imported wifi settings, then removed a bit of bloatware, it's been performing GREAT. ie: it's been really fast and battery life has been much better. By better, I mean I got 28 hours out of it before it got down to the 20% remaining level.

So I had to copy the bloat back before this update would install (I'd just moved a handful of APKs to my SDcard), but it worked smoothly after I put everything back. Then I was able to move/disable them again and so far, it's behaving just fine.

The APKs I moved include:
Blockbuster
Flickr authenticator
LastFM Authenticator
Myspace Authenticator
Orkut Authenticator
Skyrock Authenticator
Yahoo Mail Authenticator
NFF Mobile
V Cast Media Manager
Slacker
Apps (vcast.apk)
V Cast Tones
V Cast Music
V Cast Videos
VZ Navigator
Yahoo Contacts
ZumoCast

NFL Mobile does NOT equal bloatware.

Sorry but I had to add that.

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[xyvyx]

I guess freezing leaves the files intact (but changes their permissions/status? dunno), so that keeps the update script happy. I had no problems re-rooting after the update, though...

 

[xyvyx]

heh.. NFF? oops..
I don't know what kind of resources the ~5MB NFL APK consumed, but I didn't use or want it, so I consider it bloatware... others can say the same about the yahoo and other mail connectors. A rose in a tulip garden is still a weed