When the 2.2 update comes out officially will the update wipe out the phone and we need to start all over again or will it just update the OS leaving all of our apps and settings?
No it wont clear it like a PC / WinMobile.
It updates the firmware, but leaves your installs, contacts, pictures, etc.
The only 1 thing that might change is how you have laid out your homescreens etc, but 10-15mins will fix that.
I always thought flashing the phone would reset it to whatever came from the factory?
also, tumpin, i hated the x1 as well. put me off of SE for good.
If by some miracle froyo does indeed land, is it best to unroot and remove lag fixes before upgrading.
I cant bare the thought of a brick.
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Hi my phone has recently had the froyo build from keis using the reg hack and it's definately worse than before. I want to do the following but just want to check its a good idea/ best way.
I want to do a factory reset (to clear out any 2.1 garbage hanging around)
root the phone
install a lag fix
possibly install another fw
I have backed up the apps I car about with astro I was then going to do a factory reset
Then root the phone with SuperOneClick
Then install CFLagFix
Then hopefully my phone would stop behaving badly.
Also a bit worried about the fact I used the keis hack should I have waited for the uk release? How will I be able to install the uk froyo build when it is released?
Is there a fw with all this stuff pre done which would work better?
(another question is there any fw out yet which support the wii mote?)
Thanks
Sorry also had another question. Is it a good idea to install another launcher and if so whats the best way to do this is there some kind of lite rom I can install which wouldn't come with all the anoying smasung stuff and touch wiz?
I upgraded to Froyo via the reg hack, and having not done a factory reset, it was slow as **** even with OCLF.
But once I installed voodoo, it was like night and day. Vastly faster than 2.1 ever was, even with OCLF. And I still haven't done a factory reset, and probably won't.
So I rooted my phone with CF-Root-XX_XEU_JPY-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1.zip using Odin. However, my phone has the firmware version JPW ( I could've sworn it was JPY ), and then installed and ran One click Lag Fix and since doing it certain apps would crash and the phone became sluggish. So, I undid the Lag Fix but things got worse from there, such as not being able to add widgets to home screens.
So I performed a factory reset but the phone is still rooted and a little sluggish still. I've also noticed the addition of the messaging icon on the bottom bar and it wasn't there before.
How do I unroot the phone? Or am I stuck until I update to Gingerbread?
Cheers.
Ray
just flash the correct CF-root over the current one, using Odin,
then do a wipe in recovery and you should be fixed up.
if not, then its not related to the CF-root, you will have to flash a full firmware.
Thanks for the reply. However, there isn't a CF-Root for JPW nor is there a Firmware for JPW available for download from samfirmware.
I really should have looked before I leapt.
In conclusion, I'm an idiot.
All the best.
Ray
flash a kernel instead, that gives you the 2e recovery, plus a ton of extra tweaks
I've got the 2e recovery, thanks to the root I performed.
Whats worrying me is though, will my warranty be void either with my network carrier or with Samsung whilst this root is in place?
I understand Gingerbread is just around the corner, and that upgrading firmware will remove rooting, so I don't mind waiting a couple of weeks or so for the 2.3 update. After this balls up ( entirely my own fault ) I'm not confident of flashing any new firmwares or kernels or anything else until I've learned a thing or two first, as I've only had the phone a month and have mainly been a Nokia / Symbian user.
Many thanks for your help.
Ray
rooting will void warranty, but you can remove root access so know one ever knows,
flashing an official firmware will remove root, thats entirely upto you.
you can flash what you like, you can always go back to stock before sending off for repair
Well, being a total noob to Android I think I'll wait for Gingerbread and leave things on stock.
What disappointed me with Kies was I couldn't re-install the stock Firmware like I can do with my Nokia via Nokia Ovi suite or Nokia Software updater. That comes in really useful in situations such as this.
Oh well, I've learned some valuable lessons today so not all bad.
Once again thanks for the assistance.
All the best.
Ray
you can spoof kies to make it update to whatever you want
I tried that, and kies said an update was available. So I proceeded to update, Kies downloaded the update, then said my phone cannot be updated.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Ray
I have a Galaxy S which i rooted and installed a lagfix on. I think it was Ryans OCLF i used for the lagfix.
I want to update to the official Froyo available from T-mobile via kies but having lots of problems getting it to connect (as everyone does). I have backed up contacts etc. I havent bothered backing up apps as i just wrote down the settings i have in each one and will just reinstall them after the upgrade.
What im planning on doing was completely resetting the phone back to factory settings and wiping it altogether so i have a clean phone to do the upgrade.
The problems im expecting or want to know how to avoid is with the root and lagfix i have installed. Will doing a factory reset or other reset (hopefully somebody can tell me another way of resetting) get rid of the root and lagfix or do i need to do something manually before wiping the phone? I know of something about the lagfix creating partitions etc so would a factory reset cancel the lagfix or would it cause all sorts of problems?
How do i go about removing the lagfix and resetting to the standard software that came with the phone? Also i have apps that require root so if i unroot the phone will this cause problems when they try to start or will they just not work and not be an issue?
Im not running any custom roms just the original one that came on the phone.
Sorry for all the questions and a rather long first post but im hoping to do this soon as the phone is running like a bag of smelly brown stuff lol.
Disable the lagfix first and then wipe. Root will not go away but I dont think that would be problem.PS. If I would be you I would just use odin to upgrade, there is plenty of good guides including how to use odin
Undo lagfix before any firmware upgrade .Then factory reset then go to Kies .
Remove lagfix as per the instructions with whatever lagfix you used .
Unroot not a problem its only a user administrative rights fix giving you greater access .
Personally i undo anything i can before an upgrade .
jje
Yes i would definitely undo everything before upgrading its just a question of how i do it.
I used Ryans OneClickLagFix app that was on the market at the time but now it has been altered because it allowed you to root and google didnt like this. I still have the original version i downloaded on the phone so is it just a case of clicking on "remove lagfix" and that will sort it?
Also if the root remains on the phone after i have wiped it, will this cause any problems when i put froyo on it? Is there not a different method or file for rooting froyo to the one i have used on 2.1?
on "remove lagfix" and that will sort it?
Correct .
jje
Also click Remove Ext2 Tools, and the go into the Scheduler changer and return it to CFG and uncheck the tweak buttons, if you messed with any of that.
In which order should i do all of those?
Should i remove the ext2 tools and return cfg settings etc to default before i remove the lagfix or after?
So just a quick update.
Something went totally wrong the other night on its own. This is before i had even thought of upgrading that night. Was sitting on facebook happily playing away when it started force closing within a few seconds of opening. Tried to open the market to reinstall the facebook app and the market force closed in a few seconds. It did this with every app including the email and phone etc. Even the RyansOCLF would forceclose so i couldnt remove the lagfix or unroot etc. All my settings for apps and launcher pro settings had disappeared. Only a couple of icons i had set on the home screen of launcher pro remained but i couldnt use any of them. All my phone logs were there and so were my texts etc but everything else had reset. When i tried to reapply some of my settings and then restart the phone, when i had finished the restart the settings i had reapplyed had defaulted again. Disaster!!
The only thing i could do was run a factory reset from the options menu. I crossed my fingers hoping this wouldnt brick the phone and alas it worked perfectly. Sorted out kies and connected the phone and installed 2.2.1 android. The lagfix had been cleared by the factory reset. I keep wondering if this is why i had so many problems with it taking ages to start up before. Maybe because the lagfix never really worked properly it never fully rebuilt the file system so was removed easily? Although the benchmarks were coming up double the speed of the fastest device on the results so not too sure how it was performing so fast with a duff lagfix...who knows. Anyway got it all up and running and rooted and lagfixed using the voodoo fix. Stuck launcher pro on setup everything. Got the apps i previously purchased reinstalled and restored any apps i wanted from titanium backup. Works like a dream and alot better memory usage aswell.
Thanks for all the help guys but it seems although i didnt follow any of the instructions you all posted (not out of choice...just because the phone physically wouldnt let me) it seemed to get the upgrade done without any problems.
ok, hi fellow cappys... first i wanted to say that im started to learn more and more about all this (developments, modding, custom flashing, etc etc) which is cool, cuz ive gotten ballsier and flashed leaked roms (sometimes soft bricking my cappy and what not, but been able to fix the error with help from the forums), which leads me to my next train of thought...
ive just flashed [ROM] 2.3.5 Stock KJ2 with extended power menu.... (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1297223&page=1) and right off the bat have got to say that this rom is awesome! very fast, love the new looks, tweaks, etc, but have noticed that i am getting quite a bit of forced closes, and system freezes where the only thing that helps is taking he battery out, waiting a min or 2, and restarting the phone... wondering if anyone else has or is having this problem??? and if so, is there or will there be a workaround or fix for this?
second i just noticed that when i went in the settings, then about phone, my csc says UNKNOWN... what does that mean? is this bad? what should i do to fix?
third, my iternal sdcard space is almost gone, been through it with a fine tooth comb and cant figure out why there only like 300MB left for storage...
fourth, what bloatware can i safely remove from the stock 2.3.5 rom?
fifth, my settings for ringtone/notification/etc keep getting revert back to default after i reboot my phone... anyone else noticed this?
sixth, can someone please help me figure out how the naming of builds is done, am confused if kh3 is better/newer than kj1 or kj2, or jvr, etc? also, what does odexing mean and what is the benefit, as well as zipalign?
ok, think thats all it for now. thanks to everyone who posts replies on the forums for helping noobs like me, and to the devs for being so flippin incred for all their work in the creation of developments for all us cappys
p.s. was running uckb2 build 1106, and getting the sleep death issue.... since ive flashed the new rom i havent noticed that happening hardly at all... could this possibly be a fix, or is just temp? do/should i really send my cappy to samsung for fix or just deal with it...? thanks again!
1. When you upgraded, did you restore from a backup, and if so did you restore any system settings. Restoring apps is OK, restoring system data results in FCs. I would do clean install and then restore only your apps from backup (you can usually get away with restoring data from games, but never restore any system data).
2. CSC is Consumer Software Customization and has all of the carrier-specific software and settings. If your cell service, data, MMS, etc is all working, don't worry about it.
3. Are you referring to your application space or your mountable storage (where you would store music, pictures, etc)?
5. If you restored system data from backup, my guess is that is causing this problem as well. As with #1, I would start with a clean install.
6. As I understand it, if you treat the letters as if they were numbers (A < B < C), and then treat the whole version number as a 3 digit "number," you can figure out what is newer. KJ2 is newer than KJ1, but both are newer than KH3.
As far as deodex/zipalign goes, I have no first-hand experience but from what I understand deodexing moves all relevant data into the application .apk so it can be altered without messing up other programs. Zipaligning is a way of compressing the APKs so they can be read more efficiently.
I believe the sleep death issue was resolved after KB2 so it shouldn't be a fluke.
Good luck!
tjp419 said:
sixth, can someone please help me figure out how the naming of builds is done, am confused if kh3 is better/newer than kj1 or kj2, or jvr, etc?
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6. As I understand it, if you treat the letters as if they were numbers (A < B < C), and then treat the whole version number as a 3 digit "number," you can figure out what is newer. KJ2 is newer than KJ1, but both are newer than KH3.
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Here's my understanding of the letter naming conventions (at least for I897 ROMs...I900 ROMs "JVx" still don't make sense to me except for saying A<B<C, etc). Don't remember where in the forums I saw it though:
1st letter: year of the build
2nd letter: month of the build
number: build# within that month
Ex: "KH3" = 3rd build in August 2011
"KJ2" = 2nd build in October 2011, etc
As I said, "JVR" & "JVT", etc from I9000 ROMs still doesn't make sense to me though...
Hi all,
So, a little earlier today, i noticed the 'update available' appear on my phone here in the UK. Although I rooted my phone when it had Gingerbread, the update to ICS was fine, so I decided to go ahead and accept the software update to Jelly Bean.
Big mistake!
Now when I turn on my phone it is really sluggish, but after between 10 to 40 seconds it restarts itself.
It does this constantly so it is now impossible to use my Note.
I really need to get it back into a working state, ideally without losing my photos.
What would be the best solution?
If I can back up my photos to my PC then it won't matter if they get wiped from the phone. I'll try that as soon as it is charged up.
Another thing that may cause an issue is I can't remember which program I used to root the phone. I remember it was just a straight forward root, with no custom ROM installed, no clockwork mod thingy and no binary counter update.
Should I just try to unroot the phone to see if that fixes it?
Since I can't remember what software I used to root it, does that mean I can't unroot it?
Anyway, hope someone can help.
Cheers
Best would be to download stock rom from Samfirmware.com install Philz kernel. Do a wipe data, format system, cache, preload. Boot into download mode and flash the new rom. A fresh start might solve the issue. Make a backup of important data.