I have a Droid X2 running Android 2.2.2 that's completely bone stock (no root, nothing). I want to upgrade to the new prerooted Gingerbread build, and from what I've been reading, I'll need to root my current Android 2.2.2 using Gingerbreak, install bootstrap and then upgrade to the new prerooted Gingerbread build.
My question is, will the update essentially reset my phone and cause me to lose all installed apps, contacts, photos, text messages, etc? I'm new to the Android world and this will be my first time flashing an Android phone.. I've searched but I can't seem to find anything regarding this particular question.
Thank you for your time!
Randy11 said:
I have a Droid X2 running Android 2.2.2 that's completely bone stock (no root, nothing). I want to upgrade to the new prerooted Gingerbread build, and from what I've been reading, I'll need to root my current Android 2.2.2 using Gingerbreak, install bootstrap and then upgrade to the new prerooted Gingerbread build.
My question is, will the update essentially reset my phone and cause me to lose all installed apps, contacts, photos, text messages, etc? I'm new to the Android world and this will be my first time flashing an Android phone.. I've searched but I can't seem to find anything regarding this particular question.
Thank you for your time!
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The only way to lose it with the update is if you wipe data/ factory reset it, other wise no, i kept everything Hope that helps, happy flashing xDD
I Highly recommend making a backup of everything (2.2.2) if you decide to sbf back, and then restoring ( after rooting, and cwm)
Thanks, that's an excellent idea - I'll look into backing everything up first. When I root my current Android 2.2.2 using Gingerbreak, install bootstrap and then upgrade to the new prerooted Gingerbread build, I won't need to wipe data/factory reset the phone, will I? Thank you!
I upgraded and all my apps stayed even the root ones.
Randy11 said:
Thanks, that's an excellent idea - I'll look into backing everything up first. When I root my current Android 2.2.2 using Gingerbreak, install bootstrap and then upgrade to the new prerooted Gingerbread build, I won't need to wipe data/factory reset the phone, will I? Thank you!
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Hello, relative n00b here but I'm trying to absorb as much as I possibly can...I do have a few questions that I haven't been able to quite find the answer to.
1.) Is there a way to backup my phone the way I could with my DIncredible? (full system image...if not, something that I could easily recover to if I don't like a ROM)?
2.) What is the process for installing new ROMs? I have tried P3's pre-rooted GB build but found my battery life to be horrendous (coupled with the fact that I tried installing an incorrect version of an Atrix recovery and had to SBF back to Froyo)
Do I just load up the bootstrap and rename the ROM as update.zip, or is there an easier way to do this?
ANY help is appreciated guys, thanks!
If you're rooted already, load the bootstrap and you can flash through the modified recovery. There's no need to rename anything in that you can navigate to your zip file once in recovery & flash away just like in regular clockworkmod or amonra's recovery.
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Jazz559 said:
... I have tried P3's pre-rooted GB build but found my battery life to be horrendous (coupled with the fact that I tried installing an incorrect version of an Atrix recovery and had to SBF back to Froyo)...
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I'm also a relative noob. I'm pretty sure that P3's pre-rooted GB is the OTA update with no changes other than the fact that it's rooted. I recommend going through the update process and taking the time to reset the phone at each step. Run GB for a while without restoring your old apps and data from a back up and see if your battery life changes. (Assuming of course, that you didn't already try this).
I had really bad battery life after upgrading too. I got excited and did it without resetting the phone properly. I charged my phone to 100%. Then I SBF'd back to Froyo again, made sure to wipe the data and cache, went through set up, flashed P3's GB and wiped again and went through set up again.
Then, I did not recover my apps from a backup. I re-installed them manually from the market and set up my accounts manually. Then I calibrated my battery. After freezing quite a bit of the bloat, my phone is now getting much better battery life and is MUCH faster and smoother.
I'm thinking about SBFing my rooted x2 back to 2.3.3 from 2.3.4 because of the terrible battery indicator, and was just wondering if I would be able to update straight to 2.3.5 (or possibly ICS) when the update comes. I don't know why this wouldn't be possible, but I just wanted to make sure before I actually SBFed the phone.
I also was wondering if my phone would still be rooted after the SBF because of the maintain-root-through-any-update mod. Any thoughts?
On a different note, if I had the x2 bootstrap, the maintain-root-through-any-update mod, and MyBackup Root, could I just backup all my apps and the system (using MyBackup Root and the bootstrap, respectively), SBF, then restore the phone by downloading the bootstrap and MyBackup Root and restoring my apps/system? Would this get my back to where I was before, or would I have to manually download each one of my apps and lose all previous data that I had on them? I'm just wondering what's the easiest way to restore my phone back to the layout that I had before I SBFed.
Thanks for your answers to any of these 3 questions!!! I definitely appreciate it.
germmeetsworld said:
I'm thinking about SBFing my rooted x2 back to 2.3.3 from 2.3.4 because of the terrible battery indicator, and was just wondering if I would be able to update straight to 2.3.5 (or possibly ICS) when the update comes. I don't know why this wouldn't be possible, but I just wanted to make sure before I actually SBFed the phone.
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Perhaps someone elses experience proves different however, I kept 2.2.2 on my DX2 for quite some time because of similar reasons. When I decided to take the plunge from 2.2.2 and upgraded to 2.3.4 OTA, my phone needed to first upgrade to 2.3.3 before it would upgrade to 2.3.4. Thus, I had to perform two separate OTA updates.
If you're going to SBF you can SBF directly from your current version to the desired version.
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I also was wondering if my phone would still be rooted after the SBF because of the maintain-root-through-any-update mod. Any thoughts?
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To be honest, I'm not sure. I personally prefer to SBF to a clean DX2, wiping all settings and cache. To me I treat it like formatting my computer with a clean install of it's OS.
Perhaps someone else will have more insight with the maintain root through updates mod.
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On a different note, if I had the x2 bootstrap, the maintain-root-through-any-update mod, and MyBackup Root, could I just backup all my apps and the system (using MyBackup Root and the bootstrap, respectively), SBF, then restore the phone by downloading the bootstrap and MyBackup Root and restoring my apps/system? Would this get my back to where I was before, or would I have to manually download each one of my apps and lose all previous data that I had on them? I'm just wondering what's the easiest way to restore my phone back to the layout that I had before I SBFed.
Thanks for your answers to any of these 3 questions!!! I definitely appreciate it.
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What I typically do is using the X2 Bootstrap, I make a Nandroid backup and restore directly from that. Performing an SBF is only going to be necessary if the backup was on a different kernel, otherwise if you may run into boot looping.
What exactly happened and what are you trying to do? Are you trying to restore your phone to an earlier point via SBF? As in you enjoyed the phone on 2.3.3, made a backup and now you're unhappy on 2.3.4 and wish to go back?
It sounds like if you were to SBF back to your desired version (the version you made the backups on) you would then be able to apply your backups and should be back to your desired phone state.
I'm slightly confused to the details due to the way it's worded. I know it's somewhat difficult to describe but that's the basic idea I'm getting. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or fill in the blanks.
Is 2.3.5 much better?
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Okay so what I did was SBF back to 2.3.3 (I did this two nights ago) and before I did that, I:
1. Renamed the bloatware back to .apk (I had the suffix's ".bak" as an alternate "freezing" method).
2. Used MyBackup Root to make a backup of all my apps+their data.
3. Made a backup of the phone using the bootstrap.
4. SBFed
5. Rooted
6. Downloaded MyBackup Root
7. Restored all my apps and data and it worked!!!
8. Celebrated! I had no faith in it working but all my apps are back! I was so impressed, I was expecting to have to redo all my games and everything. MyBackup Root is such a sweet app, or I'm just a loser.
I hoped this helped other people, I had no idea what was gonna happen, no one's ever told me how to specifically get my phone back to the layout that I wanted.
and related to reaktor's post, what I was doing was SBFing back to my desired state of 2.3.3, just because I hate the battery glitch on 2.3.4. It had nothing to do with any apps I had, sorry for the confusion.
Your last reply was a little off but that was my fault, I'm sorry for my wording haha. I just have never known how to NOT have to redownload all my apps and start over on my games' data once I restore/SBF a phone. Now I know.
BTW my phone didn't maintain its root, just for reference for others. I had to reroot.
Well... You might want to do that again. There's now a battery fix for 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 in the dev forum.
Pepperm1nt's battery fix thread @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350336
It works great
Greatttttt haha all that fer nuthin. I may update again, or I just might wait til I get bored with the phone again to install this. Thanks a bunch for the link though!
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The battery fix works great. Just flash it over stock or any custom rom. It works perfect!
Wife has a Razr MAXX through Verizon. I have previously rooted it and frozen some Bloat, but aside from that, it is stock. Android 2.3.6 and System ver 6.12.181.XT912.
Recently, the phone started getting Software update notifications, I am assuming this is the OTA ICS. My question is if I can somehow upgrade the phone to ICS (not a custom ROM, but stock or very stock-ish) and either not have to wipe the phone, or not have to unroot and the re-root (if that is even possible on ICS yet.)
Loaded questions, sorry, but I just want my wife to experience ICS without her b*tching about custom ROMs and so I can backup her APK+Data in Titanium.
Thanks in advance of your responses!
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Wife has a Razr MAXX through Verizon. I have previously rooted it and frozen some Bloat, but aside from that, it is stock. Android 2.3.6 and System ver 6.12.181.XT912.
Recently, the phone started getting Software update notifications, I am assuming this is the OTA ICS. My question is if I can somehow upgrade the phone to ICS (not a custom ROM, but stock or very stock-ish) and either not have to wipe the phone, or not have to unroot and the re-root (if that is even possible on ICS yet.)
Loaded questions, sorry, but I just want my wife to experience ICS without her b*tching about custom ROMs and so I can backup her APK+Data in Titanium.
Thanks in advance of your responses!
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Well, I decided to bite the bullet and just did a complete App/Data backup and flashed the Fastboot ICS files using RSD Lite. So far, it looks like things went well and I will root it and restore. Sorry for creating this thread, I guess I am too antsy!
Hello folks,
new here, but no new to Android, although I am not expert, thus please be patient
I have a 2-yr old Aria, which I rooted as soon as the warranty expired and it also has ClockworkMod Recovery on it, version 2.5.0.1. It is still running the stock 2.1 Eclair ROM, the really old one, with no OTA option.
Few days ago I became a victim of the infamous "download unsuccessful" issue with Market (running on 2.1 my Aria does not have Google Market). It just happened out of the blue, I had not installed any new application or done anything weird as root. After having tried all imaginable fixes, referring to the many Google search hit on the subject, but with no effect, I contacted Google support. Their suggestion: do a FDR....
Now, if I have to wipe my phone and rebuild the system, I'd rather take the plunge and upgrade to Froyo.I am getting a new phone soon, which will have ICS, therefore I am not interested at this time in any alternate ROM, the stock 2.2 from AT&T will do. I downloaded it a while ago but never upgraded.
My questions is: what is the correct procedure to upgrade to stock 2.2 Froyo with no danger of bricking the phone, since I have ClockworkMod on it? Do I just run the upgrade following the instructions on HTC web site because it will wipe CWM anyway or should I use the "apply sdcard:update.zip" or "install zip from sdcard" options in CWM Recovery main menu?
Also, should I decide to just do a FDR and go back to the original 2.1 ROM as Google suggested, the right way of doing it is through the "wipe data/factory reset" option in ClockworkMod Recovery, NOT through the "Factory Data Reset" option under "Settings -> Privacy", correct?
For many of you the answers will be obvious, but as much as I have searched over the internet, I have not found a straight answer, especially to my first question (how to upgrade to stock Froyo if you have ClockworkMod installed)
Thanks in advance for any guidance you may provide.
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run the upgrade following the instructions on HTC web site because it will wipe CWM anyway
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And factory reset in Android or recovery - doesn't really matter. Might be faster through recovery
WinSuk,
thanks for the speedy reply!! I suppose you mean doing a Factory Data Reset AFTER I run the HTC upgrade to 2.2, right?
And one more question, if I may: I believe I will lose root once I upgrade to stock Froyo, correct? At this time I do not mind, as Froyo should add a couple of missing features in Eclair that made me root in the first place, namely moving apps to SD and clearing the apps Data.
Thanks again! :good:
Batman66 said:
WinSuk,
thanks for the speedy reply!! I suppose you mean doing a Factory Data Reset AFTER I run the HTC upgrade to 2.2, right?
And one more question, if I may: I believe I will lose root once I upgrade to stock Froyo, correct? At this time I do not mind, as Froyo should add a couple of missing features in Eclair that made me root in the first place, namely moving apps to SD and clearing the apps Data.
Thanks again! :good:
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I meant about your second question..
It will wipe data automatically when updating. And yes, no more root
Oh, I get it now. I misinterpreted the "And" at the beginning of your second sentence. Reading on other forums about people who had upgraded their phones from Ginger Bread to Ice Scream Sandwich, I noticed that many of them had to do a FDR after upgrading to get everything working right. I thought you were referring to something similar, although in this case I see how it wouldn't make much sense, since everything that has to do with Eclair 2.1 will be completely wiped off the phone by the 2.2 install.
Is this possible? The full details are I had my phone stolen, and got a new one with android 4.0.4 on it. I have on my computer a copy of my latest backup of my old cognition gingerbread rom. Can I just use CWM to recover to my old rom, or do i need to first downgrade to a gingerbread rom, and then recover?
Thankyou very much for assistance
Edit: Also, I don't actually want to use the old rom, I just need the contacts it saved, afterwards I'll wipe everything and install a clean ICS mod. In case there's any way of doing this without having to revert
You'll probably need to restore the backup with a version of CWM close to the one the backup was made with, you can often have problems restoring if you're using a CWM version a lot (say 12 mths or more) newer than the one you made the backup with.
So I'd probably go GB/with a rooted GB kernel first, restore the backup & go from there. I mean, it could work first try with an ICS kernel that's running a recent CWM build, but there's a fair chance it won't.
Edit - And be really careful with stock 4.0.4, don't do a wipe while you're running that.
Wow. I just... wow.
Ok, so I did the stupid thing and just tried to restore my old backup without doing proper downgrading first and it ended up soft bricking my machine, couldn't get recovery mode up, but I got into download mode. So I downloaded my country's stock gingerbread rom from samsung's site and flashed it with odin just to see what happens, and somehow my old rom was working again, and I have all my contacts and data. saved everything up to google, upgraded to ICS, import.
Everything went better than expected.
Thanks for the help
Told you Important thing is you managed to fix it yourself without asking silly questions in Q&A. Not many people seem to be able to do that these days.
Well done. I'm glad you got it sorted
Edit -You're welcome