Latest OTA installed and now only boots to recovery. anyone help?.

[Guest Gavjbrown]

Hi All, any chance someone can point me in the right direction to fix my phone.

I installed the latest OTA and now the phone Sticks on the "powered by android" screen for a while and the reboots to stock recovery.

 

Any help would be great.

[Guest Gavjbrown]

If I then put an update.zip on the sd card and flash that, I get the below. 

[Guest mrflibbles]

Can you wipe the cache and attempt a reboot?

Edited March 30, 2016 by mrflibbles

[Guest Gavjbrown]

6 minutes ago, mrflibbles said:

Can you wipe the cache and attempt a reboot?

yes, tried wiping cache and it just reboots to recovery again. 

[Guest mrflibbles]

I think you'll need to use a different file :

 

[Guest Gavjbrown]

Thanks for the link, ive had a read but still not sure what I need to do from here. All I can do is boot to stock recovery and flashing a stock rom or stock recovery fails. 

 

 

 

[Guest BlueMoonRising]

3 hours ago, Gavjbrown said:

 

I've no idea if it's significant but in recovery mine says VDF-995NB01-UK_MRO1d.

Is yours German?

[Guest gitanillo87]

4 hours ago, Gavjbrown said:

If I then put an update.zip on the sd card and flash that, I get the below. 

ok...try this

before,pay atention,this error on recovery are a verification error,maybe , you try to flash a uk update on portuguese(for example) rom soo if you want to bypass this error follow 

this instruction maybe it helps you

 

-open update.zip of update and go to updater-script file  rute: META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script

-open the file with any text editor or similar

-delete the 2 first lines,started "getprop......"

 

-save file with the same name save update.zip....repack if nedeed

-try to flash from sdcard 

Edited March 30, 2016 by gitanillo87

[Guest Gavjbrown]

1 hour ago, BlueMoonRising said:

I've no idea if it's significant but in recovery mine says VDF-995NB01-UK_MRO1d.

Is yours German?

No its not German but maybe it's something Ive done to it in the past 

[Guest Gavjbrown]

29 minutes ago, gitanillo87 said:

ok...try this

before,pay atention,this error on recovery are a verification error,maybe , you try to flash a uk update on portuguese(for example) rom soo if you want to bypass this error follow 

this instruction maybe it helps you

 

-open update.zip of update and go to updater-script file  rute: META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script

-open the file with any text editor or similar

-delete the 2 first lines,started "getprop......"

 

-save file with the same name save update.zip....repack if nedeed

-try to flash from sdcard 

Thanks, I'll try this now. 

[Guest Gavjbrown]

Unzipped update.zip and edited the 2 lines with notepad++.  Saved and rezipped. Just tried to flash it and it says as the photo. 

[Guest gitanillo87]

Unzipped update.zip and edited the 2 lines with notepad++.  Saved and rezipped. Just tried to flash it and it says as the photo. 

sorry i forget youbhave the stock recovery..for solution you need to know wich rom did you have...

[Guest Gavjbrown]

Good question, it was the latest rom other than the update which came out today (If that makes any sense).

 

Thank you .

[Guest gitanillo87]

Good question, it was the latest rom other than the update which came out today (If that makes any sense).

 

Thank you .

uk rom?

[Guest Gavjbrown]

Yes, I think so. 

 

Thanks 

[Guest BlueMoonRising]

11 hours ago, Gavjbrown said:

Yes, I think so. 

 

Thanks 

Yours says VDF-995NB02-DE01b, mine is VDF-995NB01-UK_MRO1d although I installed the Turkish rom. I'm UK based BTW and bought it off Amazon UK so presumably it's as indicated, a UK SU6. Yours appears to be German which is perhaps why it threw a wobbler in the OTA update. Can I ask where you got your from? Silly question perhaps (we have had someone trying to put a SU6 rom on a Smart Prime 6 on here) but is it a Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 phone?

[Guest Gavjbrown]

1 hour ago, BlueMoonRising said:

Yours says VDF-995NB02-DE01b, mine is VDF-995NB01-UK_MRO1d although I installed the Turkish rom. I'm UK based BTW and bought it off Amazon UK so presumably it's as indicated, a UK SU6. Yours appears to be German which is perhaps why it threw a wobbler in the OTA update. Can I ask where you got your from? Silly question perhaps (we have had someone trying to put a SU6 rom on a Smart Prime 6 on here) but is it a Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 phone?

It came from a Vodafone shop here in the UK. The problems I'm having must be caused by something I've done previously. I'll look into the possibility of the rom being German. Yes, its a smart ultra 6. 

 

Thanks 

Edited March 31, 2016 by Gavjbrown

[Guest erimhan]

I'm having the same problem. Could you find the right ROM?

[Guest Gavjbrown]

No not yet. Had to start using an old phone. Really hope someone can offer some help as I love the smart ultra 6. 

[Guest erimhan]

OK thanks.

[Guest BlueMoonRising]

On 31/03/2016 at 11:41 AM, Gavjbrown said:

It came from a Vodafone shop here in the UK. The problems I'm having must be caused by something I've done previously. I'll look into the possibility of the rom being German. Yes, its a smart ultra 6. 

 

Thanks 

That's looking like a visit to the Vodafone shop to me I'm afraid.

[Guest nhmanas]

Wipe everything, flash twrp and flash a ROM in twrp this is the fastest way

Then you will think about update

[Guest Gavjbrown]

How do I root and flash twrp from the stock recovery screen. The phone won't boot. 

[Guest deaglecat]

(OP sorry I can't be any help)

.... but thank you.  

I was gonna update (53% downloaded) when I saw this thread.    Now I have cancelled until we get confirmation whether this is an isolated incident or a borked upgrade.

UPDATE: Never mind...risked it and it worked fine.   apparently it does fix the BT headset/call ringing problem.

 

Deag,

Edited April 1, 2016 by deaglecat

[Guest anafernandes27]

Go to ZTE's website and download the stock rom. Copy the update.zip to your sd card and install that through the stock recovery.