Well, I’ve decided to start this thread to see what the general consensus is regarding the best way to update to Jelly Bean (official) from Gingerbread (official). So basically, what’s the best way to get the latest stock firmware on an otherwise stock and/or new XT910.
Hopefully this thread can come in handy for future users, who, like me, are a bit confused and do not have access to wifi and/or official over the air updates.
If rooting is something one is after, this shouldn’t be an issue as thanks to the amazing work of djrbliss over at droidrzr.com, rooting for JB is now readily available (thread here). I will as such disregard rooting methods in this thread.
So what it comes down to is this:
- The OTA way: as described in this thread. Before installing the OTA from the ext SD Card, it is strongly advised to flash the official ICS .XML first via RDS Lite.
- The direct way: flash the official JB .XML via RDS Lite, without flashing the ICS .XML first.
- The alternative way: flash the official ICS .XML via RDS Lite, and then flash the official JB .XML via RDS Lite.
Remember, we’re talking about updating from Gingerbread to Jelly Bean.
One thing I’m particularly concerned about is bricking the device in the process. I understand that, for instance, flashing the official ICS .XML on a device that had been updated to JB via the OTA way will brick the device (no going back to previous firmwares). Is it possible to brick the device by flashing the official JB .XML directly on Gingerbread, without updating to ICS first?
Have people actually tried any of the direct and alternative ways? What do you guys think? Which is the safest/best way to update from Gingerbread to Jelly Bean?
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I am running motorola software update and everytime I try I get there is no software update at this time. I want to re-install the offical motorola atrix att update but seem unable to. My att atrix is rooted and is running the stock rom.
is your phone from at&t? as far as I know, there's no recent update since 2.3.4 was released.
Yeah what are you talking about? It sounds like you are on stock already, just rooted.
Sent from my CM7 Atrix 4G
Why do you want to install the latest again if you are currently running it, which it appears you are if there is no update available?
If you want to just reinstall your stock ROM, and you are already on the latest ROM, you cannot do this through update. You will have to flash the latest ROM (which would be your current version) via other means such as RSDLite and a SBF, or via fastboot per the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163342
Link above is for AT&T device.
It is adviseable to NOT flash a SBF though.
Simple search and some reading will give you all the information you need, but it sounds like you probably have no experience or you wouldn't be asking this, so I would say to be very careful and/or not do anything with your phone if stock is what you want.
I don't know very well, and in deep, all this steps to upgrade to a CustomROM:
changing file sistem to ext4
deoxing
aligning
changing kernel
changing bootloader
...and I'm a bit afraid to try a CustomROM (CM7 or CM9) for all these changes made by the ROM to the phone.
Using a CustomROM (when ICS will come out officially from Motorola) I think it will be impossibile use OTA upgrade, right?
So: how we will upgrade officially to fully official ICS ROM?
(I'm a Windows programmer so I can understand your technical answers)
emandt said:
I don't know very well, and in deep, all this steps to upgrade to a CustomROM:
changing file sistem to ext4
deoxing
aligning
changing kernel
changing bootloader
...and I'm a bit afraid to try a CustomROM (CM7 or CM9) for all these changes made by the ROM to the phone.
Using a CustomROM (when ICS will come out officially from Motorola) I think it will be impossibile use OTA upgrade, right?
So: how we will upgrade officially to fully official ICS ROM?
(I'm a Windows programmer so I can understand your technical answers)
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To be able to install a custom rom you need to do the following:
1. Root phone
2. Unlock bootloader
3. Install custom recovery
4. Install custom rom
There is a guide for beginners on how to do all of them:
Thanks for the answer, but I was interested in "how to install official ICS, when it will be avaiable, if I'm already using CM7 or CM9 CustomROM with all those changes like Ext4, deoxed, etc..."
Though there may be better ways, if I was faced with the scenario you are discussing, I would flash the newest "stock rom" like Nottachtrix (keeping is ext3 and with a stock kernel) to my phone before flashing a stock ICS fruitcake, which someone will likely post.
The purpose of the intermediate flash, as I see it, would be to return the phone to the state nearest to stock (kernel, ext3, etc.) before applying an upgrade that may rely on stock variables in order to properly "take". Making your own fruitcake from the OTA update files is not remarkably difficult either, but I am sure there will be at least a few devs left making the official ICS release even better. I am eager to see what changes Moto makes to webtop for the Atrix, or if the webtop changes are just for newer models.
Good luck!
emandt said:
Thanks for the answer, but I was interested in "how to install official ICS, when it will be avaiable, if I'm already using CM7 or CM9 CustomROM with all those changes like Ext4, deoxed, etc..."
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Lol…sorry misunderstood you . From what I know going back to stock is risky business. There are some people who did go back using fruitcake. I think the previous post gives a good method.
Ok, thanks.
I'll stay with Stock until I can try official ICS....if official ICS is not very good, I'll consider to use a CustomROM at the end
Hi I have the latest omega rom on my phone but when I try to software update on my phone it says that latest updates are installed even though I know theres a new updates.
If I try to update via kies it says my phone is not compatible to update (or something along those lines)
Can anyone tell me how to get the latest update thanks
You need to stick with stock ROMs if you want OTA updates and via kies, you should also understand all the drawbacks, risks and benefits of customs ROMs before you flash them.
Omega, like all other custom ROMs will break OTA firmware updates and kies. Go to the Omega thread, download the latest version and follow the chef's instuctions to flash it.
Hi,
So i've heard rumors that Samsung, soon, is gonna release an official JB update. And i would like to have it.
I, atm, have a rooted GSG2 GT-i9100 with AllianceROM ICS and Siyah Kernel 5.0.1.
So, do i have to unroot my phone back to stock, if i want to upgrade my phone to official (stock) JB?
I want to try out stock JB before trying other JB ROMs, just to see what improvements there are etc etc.
And i on SamMobile Firmware, i should use the Stock ROM for my country, right?
And also, if i flash the ROM from SamMobile, will it totally unroot my phone? Cause i still have an "not-stock" Kernel, and it isn't specified wether the Kernel also becomes stock or not.
Thank you for the time and extra thanx for replies
Regards.
It seems likely that the JB update for SGS2 variants will include some additional repartitioning of the device memory.
Unless you are really confident you know what you're doing, it might be safer flashing back to unrooted stock 4.0.4 and using Kies to do the JB upgrade 'properly'.
Then, once you have the official JB firmware and a safely repartitioned memory system you can go about rooting and restoring your app backups (but be careful with your system file backups, most of which it would be unwise to restore on a new firmware).
All this is theoretical since there is no official JB firmware out there yet.
Oh, I'm on jb leak. Won't be able to update.
hummmm.............................Got it, I'll flash.
Hi,
I have a Verizon Galaxy Note II I605 running Android 4.1.1 that I had originally rooted via Odin and followed instructions on the galaxynote2root website last Jan/Feb in 2012
I would like to upgrade to a stock ROM of 4.3 and keep root and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction in regards to which ROM to use and the steps to do so. I really only use root for the wifi tether and would like to keep the phone as close to stock as possible. I've gone through a number of different forums and posts but can't seem to find some good instructions with a corresponding recommendation on an Official OTA 4.3 ROM to use. I've found a lot variations on 4.3 ROMs, but most of them have gutted a lot of things or discussing having to flash firmware which makes me nervous.
Also, is it true I may be forced to take the OTA in the near future and potentially soft brick my phone if I don't either revert back to stock or install a 4.3 ROM which disables the update app. I'm not sure if the ROM i'm currently running has this disabled or not.
Thanks in advance for any help,
eugenikz
Beanstown or sophisticated rom will be the official stock 4.3, however your gonna have to flash the Official MJ9 firmware via Odin. You could take the OTA but the bootloader will be locked afterwards. There is root available with the OTA stock but you won't be able to load a custom recovery therefore no more custom roms.
+1. I did this with my note2. Was the same as yours. I'm now on sophisticated 2.0 highly recommended. I also updated recovery to Phils, which seems to be the conventional wisdom for flashing 4.3.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda app-developers app