So I bought an lg g4 on eBay (yeah, I know, that's mistake number one) and it's the T-Mobile version of the g4 as far as I can tell so here are the symptoms of my problem:
I get a notification for a system update, it's been downloaded and it just asks me to start the installation process
I tap install, it starts it's little countdown and reboots the phone
The system update starts with the little android wiggling its ears and at about a third of the the filing progress bar an error gets thrown
I used to take out the battery at this point but just now when it failed again I've let it be and the phone booted normally again
There seems to be no damage done after the update failure, the phone functions almost normally (I'll get to the almost part soon)
Of course, the about phone section says I'm still on android 5.1
After googling around a bunch, I've found that people trying to help others in similar situations recommend checking for updates by going to the about phone section in the settings and tapping something like "software updates" except I don't have that. I have the update center in that section but that only offers app updates
Okay, it's no big deal, lollipop is just fine for the most part but remember how the update is downloaded automatically? Yeah, it doesn't care if I'm on WiFi or not... It's a 1GB update... It sucked my data plan dry. When I checked what drained a gig from the cellular network 'android OS' is named as the perpetrator
So I guess if there's nothing that can be done about the update, can I at least disable this mechanism?
Of course there's more, here's what I already tried to do to fix this:
Use lg bridge to force the update (didn't work because the phone can't go to mtp mode... It was set to it by default but even tho it said 'connected as mtp device' it didn't actually get recognised by the windows PC (but if I can remember correctly, it was once recognised by my Linux box (xUbuntu), and later I've set it to 'charge only' and now it won't go back))
Use the lg flash tool with the update in kdz format (the flash tool just gave me an error regarding its ability to contact 'the server' but I did wait another 10 minutes or so for it to get it together as it seems to be doing in other people's cases, not in mine tho)
Try to install the update without a SIM card and once just in airplane mode (because it's an unlocked phone and i don't use a T-Mobile SIM card)
My next try is going to be the flash tool again and then twrp with cyanogen maybe... But I want that only as a last resort because of the slim chances of me being able to flash a totally different ROM but not the stock one lol
Thanks for any help you can offer
I get a notification for a system update, it's been downloaded and it just asks me to start the installation process
I tap install, it starts it's little countdown and reboots the phone
The system update starts with the little android wiggling its ears and at about a third of the the filing progress bar an error gets thrown
I used to take out the battery at this point but just now when it failed again I've let it be and the phone booted normally again
There seems to be no damage done after the update failure, the phone functions almost normally (I'll get to the almost part soon)
Of course, the about phone section says I'm still on android 5.1
After googling around a bunch, I've found that people trying to help others in similar situations recommend checking for updates by going to the about phone section in the settings and tapping something like "software updates" except I don't have that. I have the update center in that section but that only offers app updates
Okay, it's no big deal, lollipop is just fine for the most part but remember how the update is downloaded automatically? Yeah, it doesn't care if I'm on WiFi or not... It's a 1GB update... It sucked my data plan dry. When I checked what drained a gig from the cellular network 'android OS' is named as the perpetrator
So I guess if there's nothing that can be done about the update, can I at least disable this mechanism?
Of course there's more, here's what I already tried to do to fix this:
Use lg bridge to force the update (didn't work because the phone can't go to mtp mode... It was set to it by default but even tho it said 'connected as mtp device' it didn't actually get recognised by the windows PC (but if I can remember correctly, it was once recognised by my Linux box (xUbuntu), and later I've set it to 'charge only' and now it won't go back))
Use the lg flash tool with the update in kdz format (the flash tool just gave me an error regarding its ability to contact 'the server' but I did wait another 10 minutes or so for it to get it together as it seems to be doing in other people's cases, not in mine tho)
Try to install the update without a SIM card and once just in airplane mode (because it's an unlocked phone and i don't use a T-Mobile SIM card)
My next try is going to be the flash tool again and then twrp with cyanogen maybe... But I want that only as a last resort because of the slim chances of me being able to flash a totally different ROM but not the stock one lol
Thanks for any help you can offer
