#1 mobile woes and warnings
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:51 am
I feel a rant coming on, they(mobiles) are the devil's work.....
I don't have a mobile but the mem sahib does. She has just passed her old one to my son for use as a tablet for games. Trouble is it runs android 6 and doesn't allow apps to be run from the sd card and no chance of upgrading(its an alcatel pop4)...oh waily.....so my eldest gave him a redundant moto e2. I spent all day yesterday rooting it and trying to upload a bespoke android 7 with twrp et al. Couldnt push the zip file through with adb as in recovery mode the pc couldn't see the mobile....eventually got the recovery menu up(the volume button is broken on the moto) and managed to upload the 7 image with adb sideload....
bearing in mind this has now taken me from about 9 am to 4 pm.....well, after some time the installation aborted with the message
'failed to verify, whole-file signature verification failed, installation aborted'
fortunately the original android 6 still boots.....but, on closer inspection the android 6 in the moto allows the sd card to become part of the internal memory, where the alcatel didn't. From all I read on the interweb the restriction was generic to all marshmallows...not so it seems...
this is a whole day of my life I will never get back...and as far as I can see there is no value to the experience...waily waily
I don't have a mobile but the mem sahib does. She has just passed her old one to my son for use as a tablet for games. Trouble is it runs android 6 and doesn't allow apps to be run from the sd card and no chance of upgrading(its an alcatel pop4)...oh waily.....so my eldest gave him a redundant moto e2. I spent all day yesterday rooting it and trying to upload a bespoke android 7 with twrp et al. Couldnt push the zip file through with adb as in recovery mode the pc couldn't see the mobile....eventually got the recovery menu up(the volume button is broken on the moto) and managed to upload the 7 image with adb sideload....
bearing in mind this has now taken me from about 9 am to 4 pm.....well, after some time the installation aborted with the message
'failed to verify, whole-file signature verification failed, installation aborted'
fortunately the original android 6 still boots.....but, on closer inspection the android 6 in the moto allows the sd card to become part of the internal memory, where the alcatel didn't. From all I read on the interweb the restriction was generic to all marshmallows...not so it seems...
this is a whole day of my life I will never get back...and as far as I can see there is no value to the experience...waily waily