This is probably a question answered a milion times. But my friend has a verizon droid and it has been slow ever since he got the OTA froyo update. He wants to go back to Stock 2.1. His phone is not rooted and he dosent care for it to be. I have flashed tons of samsungs back to stock and finding guides are easy. But for some reason I am having the hardest time finding what I need for this phone. Can someone please tell what I need to get and where to get them. So far I got RSD Lite v4.5.3. Please help. Thank you in advance.
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Hello, i have a few question regarding rooting and unrooting and if i wanted to get the official froyo update would i have to unroot? I am currently completely stock but kind of want to root so i can install nonmarket applications and do the lagfix. Okay so first off if i were to root my phone would the oclf + root be the best way to go? And if i were to unroot would i still have the factory warranty? And also would i still be able to get the froyo update if it ever comes? Haha any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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first and foremost.....no one has any real knowledge of the official FroYo (how its going to be released, how we are going to update, ie; kies or OTA) nor does anyone have any idea when its really going to be released....so that question is impossible to answer truthfully. you will have someone undoubtedly come in here and say you must stay stock and never root and then you will have someone else come in here and say that you can go back to stock and it will let you update, blah blah blah....
why are questions like this asked every few days? READ. SEARCH. all this has been debated before and there is no clear answer. if you dont like it, go get an iphone.
rooting is technically voiding the warranty, but if you can get back to stock it doesnt matter.
K heres the thing, a couple months back i couldnt wait for the 2.2 update. Not knowing what i was doing i flashed my perfectly good rogers 2.1 to at&t 2.2.
I then wanted to go back but found out i couldnt. For days was trying to flash back to stop and wasnt able to so i left it the way it is. I really started liking it except for i have the gps issue, im in my house and searching the gps and it tells my im like 20 blocks from my location:S lol
Anyways now what i wanted to do is if i got this problem i can atleast root it and have some fun. I tried rooting for the last 3 days but keeps saying its aborted. So now i wanna flash back to stock again and either root the 2.1 or update to rogers 2.2. What do u guys think i should do? im so stuck cuz also i dunno how to use odin. Do i need a specific odin to go back to stock??? i dont get it. Ive searched thousands of threads looking for this answer and when i finally found a good way to flash back all the links are broken aargggg ( Someone please help me out i would really appreciate it!!
After reading all these threads u guys are amazing..i wish i was that smart
Thanx guys!!
Zsolander said:
K heres the thing, a couple months back i couldnt wait for the 2.2 update. Not knowing what i was doing i flashed my perfectly good rogers 2.1 to at&t 2.2.
I then wanted to go back but found out i couldnt. For days was trying to flash back to stop and wasnt able to so i left it the way it is. I really started liking it except for i have the gps issue, im in my house and searching the gps and it tells my im like 20 blocks from my location:S lol
Anyways now what i wanted to do is if i got this problem i can atleast root it and have some fun. I tried rooting for the last 3 days but keeps saying its aborted. So now i wanna flash back to stock again and either root the 2.1 or update to rogers 2.2. What do u guys think i should do? im so stuck cuz also i dunno how to use odin. Do i need a specific odin to go back to stock??? i dont get it. Ive searched thousands of threads looking for this answer and when i finally found a good way to flash back all the links are broken aargggg ( Someone please help me out i would really appreciate it!!
After reading all these threads u guys are amazing..i wish i was that smart
Thanx guys!!
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Use Odin 1-click from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
or use Odin Odin with the 3 button fix using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=818439
Hope this helps
EDIT: For rooting, use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909547
Thanx a lot ill give it a try later tonight ill let u know what happens
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Guys,
I really appreciate the wealth of good information here about the Captivate. I do have a quick, specific question I haven't seen answered but perhaps I missed so apologies in advance if I did.
I am on a rooted factory 2.1 phone right now and would like to flash a new ROM (undecided but will probably try a few). I have seen a few mentions that it is advisable (necessary?) to revert to stock before doing this and I am curious if it matters if I revert back to 2.1 or if I can 'revert' to 2.2 and would that be any advantage/disadvantage since it seems to be a temporary thing anyway.
I see both files on mobiletechvideo's site among other places. Would really love to know if there is any difference and if, in fact, I do need to do this step at all.
Thanks.
-Dan
The only step you'd need to take is to backup your things, and to do a Master Clear. It shouldn't really matter too much actually, so if you can't be bothered, feel free to flash away!
Thanks, venomio.
To follow up, I ended up flashing to 2.1 but using a version that had the 3-button fix (for getting into recovery mode I believe, which my phone could not do). Everything worked pretty much flawlessly getting back to 2.1 and 3-button fix was successful.
Then I flashed to Cognition 4.2.2 and again, everything went perfectly.
So if anyone stumbles across this in their research, go for it.
I need some help. I have a revolution with 2.2.2 still on the phone. due to being a noob I tried to install a gingerbread version of a rom on the phone of course It didn't seem to work. by the way i should mention I am rooted and I can not upgrade veia the phone upgrade failed every time. However in the research I have done has lead me to believe that all of the roms I want to try to get a hold of are on a non existence web sight Right now I just need anything that will get my phone back up and running. I would very much like to use the revolt Rom but again the multiupload.com is down. Can anyone help me with this. I have searched the sight but I seem to be going around in a circle.
Ok so thank you for helping me out, however, being as I am slow to understand things. I figured things out. and just so everyone else doesn't feel bad. I have no problem with people laughing at me
this may help...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337386&highlight=zv4&page=1
im currently dabblin with this one since my phone is still runnin 2.2.2 as well, reverted to stock rom unrooted everything and no ota updates so this is how to do it manually.
as long as its not currently bricked otherwise u have to do it the long way. i think, unless im thinkin of my old droid... but if this doesnt help give more info and someone will be able to help
regarding OTA, does anyone know the name of the file, and what folder in which to find it? Tired of having to DL it aGAIN every time whatever I try fails. I'm guessing cache....nothing seems real obvious, like it was on my Bionic
(update, got update to complete 2nd try, MtMichaelson is slightly richer!)
So this might be a noob question, or answered elsewhere in the forum, but I can't find my exact answer or my phone. For the record rooting wasn't this difficult when I had my HTC Incredible before joining the Apple side for almost 2 years. Anyways I tried to root and successfully did so via towelroot, but upon trying to install liquid smooth rom (if there's any other rom's that are good on battery/ram please let me know haha) I got the dreaded take this phone to a Verizon store message. Well I flashed back to stock via Odin, but I still want to root my device in order to install some sort of rom that'll be nicer to my battery and would appreciate any help that can be given! Thanks in advance guys!
Did you manage to flash a recovery?