Plus one on this may be my problem on why it fails every time?

Originally Posted by Admiral2145

do I disable root then do the system update or leave root on and do system update?

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Originally Posted by camblue

Plus one on this may be my problem on why it fails every time?

lost root after ota that I did after checking for system updates then restored root and now im rooted on .26

Originally Posted by Admiral2145

do I disable root then do the system update or leave root on and do system update?

You need to backup root with Voodoo OTA RootKeeper then you can do update, no need to disable root.

Do any of you have the .17 blog on your SD card or external SD card? I keep trying to update and it fails everytime?

Originally Posted by jgaf

You need to backup root with Voodoo OTA RootKeeper then you can do update, no need to disable root.

Originally Posted by camblue

Do any of you have the .17 blog on your SD card or external SD card? I keep trying to update and it fails everytime?

Cam if you're already in .17 you can delete the blob, try to update after deleting it.

If it still doesn't work, I guess you'll have to do a wipe and begin again or wait for more recommendations.

You want to stay rooted and voodoo ota. I finally got the. 26 update and when I rebooted I didn't have to do anything. Stayed rooted. I thought that was pretty cool. I double checked the version and I'm on .26.

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using XDA

When you say all the magic starting to happen,,,what do you mean? I did the same thing and copied the update.zip to my microSD and even rebooted nothing happened?

Edit; I unzipped the update launcher zip and placed that zip on my microSD card and it is updating just do not know if I will be able to root again using Voodoo, fingers crossed LOL

Edit; No joy damn it LOL lost root have to do it all over again WTF!

Originally Posted by JoelParke

Just to report back in about my experience with the downgrade and the following work....

As I reported earlier, the downgrade went well. BUT as others have reported, one must put the blob on device.

After the downgrade I then used:
SparkyRoot.apk to root.
THEN -- important I immediately used:
Voodoo OTA RootKeeper.apk to save the root. This excellent apk allows you to turn root off and on at will. This also survives the upgrade as well -- see below.

-- NEXT I turned off root and attempted to upgrade... this seemed to not be happening -- although I couldn't tell if this was just a busy network or server, but I suspect it might be that I had rooted.
SO I went back to http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...mer+Pad+TF300T and downloaded the V9.4.3.26 firmware for US and followed the manual description described there of how to upgrade, by copying the
US_epaduser9_4_3_26UpdateLauncher.zip
file to my microSD card and then inserted it into the reader.

Immediately all the magic happened and I am now at 9.4.3.26
NOTE right after this I opened the Voodoo OTA RootKeeper.apk and restored my root.

SO now all is working and I finally have a pad with all the magic I need. I suspect that for future upgrades, I may need to copy the zip file from the Asus site above.

I hope my experience is helpful to those wanting to make this happen. Nothing new listed here, just the hard work of so many others.

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I will try to wipe and start it from the beginning, just dont want to do that, heard that when you wipe on these tablets it wipes everything on the internal SD card too.

Originally Posted by jgaf

Cam if you're already in .17 you can delete the blob, try to update after deleting it.

If it still doesn't work, I guess you'll have to do a wipe and begin again or wait for more recommendations.

error while in adb shell

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I know the .blob is on my device now. (root of the device)
When i try to use the "dd if=/sdcard/blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" command i get an error stating that "no such file or directory".

Thanks in advance for all your help. (pretty new at using command prompt)

When you are in ADB SHELL, execute "ls /sdcard" and give the output to us.

Originally Posted by trparky

When you are in ADB SHELL, execute "ls /sdcard" and give the output to us.

i get /sdcard after executing the command ls /sdcard