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!
WorldOfJohnboy said:
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!
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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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NP xDDDDDDDDD
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!
I'm finally getting around to updating my phone to 2.3.4 (bought a house over the summer and haven't had time to play with updates).
I currently have a rooted 2.2.2 Atrix with my apps/data backed up via Titanium Backup and saved off to my desktop for later restoration if needed. Except for Root and APN mod, the phone is otherwise stock.
I'm not necessarily interested in using a custom rom right now (though a wipe of data/apps may help clean things up), though I do need root, APN hack, and plan on installing the full-linux-webtop mod (if I can get my laptop dock to work reliably...). I assume things have evolved since the old posts I've come across about updating when it first came out.
What is the best method for updating to 2.3.4 at this stage?
thanks,
- David
In my opinion you should still unlock your phone even if you are staying with a stock rom. It is way easier to flash with CWM method, even if you are staying with a stock rom. Look at Fruitcake 2.3.4 and you can also flash a fruitcake 2.3.4 webtop. If you mess up your webtop hacking on it to get it just like you want it, your can reflash just the webtop.
Of course after you unlock your phone, you will probably get the itch to look at some of the custom roms that are out there. A lot of them are basically the stock rom with customizations built in.
I have a Droid RAZR that I've ran several roms on.
I am currently on .173 stock rooted. I've unrooted in the past and tried to take on the .181 OTA but it will not install the update. I take from other threads is due to me deleting certain system files I've seen as bloatware?
I am wanting to get to ICS then load Simplex 1.2.
How would you go about getting to ICS if your phone was stuck on .173 and wouldn't willingly update?
I know I can force it but am unsure if I am safe doing so or not..
Thanks for any help.
terminaloutlaw said:
I have a Droid RAZR that I've ran several roms on.
I am currently on .173 stock rooted. I've unrooted in the past and tried to take on the .181 OTA but it will not install the update. I take from other threads is due to me deleting certain system files I've seen as bloatware?
I am wanting to get to ICS then load Simplex 1.2.
How would you go about getting to ICS if your phone was stuck on .173 and wouldn't willingly update?
I know I can force it but am unsure if I am safe doing so or not..
Thanks for any help.
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From what I can tell, you're either going to have to restore those system files or use RSDLite to flash it back to stock
My wife and I both have original Droid Razrs (XT912). We just switched to T-mobile (with new phones) and she was reading about switching phones and she read where you should do a full factory reset to clear personal data...and, she did.
The problem is, I had her phone rooted and have Safestrap installed. So, now we have a phone that is not rooted, but still has Safestrap installed.
The good things are that it is no longer a daily driver and the phone still works fine.
My question: since the phone is no longer rooted (tried VooDoo...no dice...backup was gone), is there a good way to do a full restore of the phone to factory and remove Safestrap, so the phone is back to full factory?
I am including a screenshot of the phone information.
Thanks.
My stock rom on my razr shows I lost root back in Nov but I have cm 10 on rom slot 2 and the root checker app shows full root access but I cant install updates so im interested in a restore also, the droid razr utility was my go to for these issues but ive moved to a new device so im not sure if there is an update
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wagman67 said:
My wife and I both have original Droid Razrs (XT912). We just switched to T-mobile (with new phones) and she was reading about switching phones and she read where you should do a full factory reset to clear personal data...and, she did.
The problem is, I had her phone rooted and have Safestrap installed. So, now we have a phone that is not rooted, but still has Safestrap installed.
The good things are that it is no longer a daily driver and the phone still works fine.
My question: since the phone is no longer rooted (tried VooDoo...no dice...backup was gone), is there a good way to do a full restore of the phone to factory and remove Safestrap, so the phone is back to full factory?
I am including a screenshot of the phone information.
Thanks.
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Use Matt's utility. Find it in the Dev section. You can flash stock JB 4.1.2 with it. It will revert your phone to stock.
neo.ank said:
Use Matt's utility. Find it in the Dev section. You can flash stock JB 4.1.2 with it. It will revert your phone to stock.
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Okay, I will give that a go.
Thanks.
Matt's Utility did the trick.
Thanks