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New 5.5.891 update (root users do not update)

I've had a few people I know get this update. Its supposed to be updated in november. Guess they are rolling out early.
Go here for more information on the forever root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312555
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Is this the one that fixes everything?!
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This is not an Ota update right? I am enjoying [R3]BLURR3D V1.8 way to much to loose root.

P3droid released a mod to keep root on any updates.
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and I hope that works, I did the exact same thing..
So, I am fearless.. Where can we get the update?

Have they actually gotten the update with a stock Bionic or did they find it online and decide to install it?
As far as I've seen, the current leaked OTA is 5.5.893....5.5.892 was being tested by the Motorola Field Testers and today a small update to 5.5.893 was released so I assume the Motorola Field Testers are now testing 5.5.893.
I wouldn't install anything till we at least have confirmation that it is the actual OTA...otherwise you might not be able to get future updates.

dpw2atox said:
I wouldn't install anything till we at least have confirmation that it is the actual OTA...otherwise you might not be able to get future updates.
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I'm gonna go look at his phone tomorrow and check the numbers myself.
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Has anyone updated to 891-893 after applying the "forever root" technique? If so experience?
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Well i tried and. . . I still have root. 5.5.893 with root
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I did the forever root along with the update and everything turned out fine.

Glad it worked
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Are you guys getting OTA updates or installing something?

Both lol
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Has anyone ripped the update? I am REALLY sick of the 4g failures.

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Are you guys getting OTA updates or installing something?
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Im wondering this too, Ive looked all over for a file since when I check for updates it says my software is up to date 5.5.886

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312555
Go to this thread.
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.901 fixed the bionic!

Im so glad I updated my phone to this version! 5.5.893 did not fix anything and I was so disappointed .... but .901 makes my bionic a bad ass phone... 3 days running with zero data lost. Battery life is a lot better too. If u are in the same situation I was don't think about it and update your phone to this version.
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I just did this like 10 mins ago and now running eclipse 2.1. So far so good. Coming from .893 and KIN3TiX
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question if i flash @ 100 percent stock will i still able to see otas and accept them?? only thing holding me back right now
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anyone???!!!! 0
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You shouldn't have a problem updating if you flash 901 and leave it stock. They pushed it ota to som bionics, so they should support it for future ota updates. Even if they don't support it for some reason, you can use P3droid's one click to revert back and take the update.

sweet tganks man
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just glasged the 901 update 3g went from 200kbps to about 2.6 megs so glad i did this and downtown almkst 4 megs amaxing!!!!
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Yeah everyone who went to 901 kept saying to flash it. But u always see those posts. But really now that I did it....they're right everyone should flash it
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Liberty Themes

Why is it so hard to find themes for the liberty rom? I keep finding broken links.
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because Eclipse is where it's at
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where as liberty is an excelent rom, it is out of date. eclipse is the most current rom.

Eclipse runs slower for me and doesn't pick up 4g (I live at the border of a 4g area, get 4g with liberty, get 3g with eclipse.
I dont really see liberty as being outdated but more of a completed rom that doesn't need to be worked on. I really don't see too much more they can do to it until Motorola releases ICS. performance and battery life have been great (battery was better before they got the 4g to my house but that's to be expected)
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smokedkill said:
Eclipse runs slower for me and doesn't pick up 4g (I live at the border of a 4g area, get 4g with liberty, get 3g with eclipse.
I dont really see liberty as being outdated but more of a completed rom that doesn't need to be worked on. I really don't see too much more they can do to it until Motorola releases ICS. performance and battery life have been great (battery was better before they got the 4g to my house but that's to be expected)
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Eclipse runs better for me. Liberty was my favorite rom on the Droid X so that's what I thought I'd stick with. I started running it as soon as I got my bionic and it was an improvement over stock and I thought that with a few more releases that it would be a beast but support was dropped and it was still lacking performance. Then I tried Eclipse and I was pleasantly surprised, it runs as good as I expected Liberty to run.

But even if liberty is outdated, its a bad sign for our community that we can't find themes for it. I'm still able find themes for the Droid Eris that I used 2 years ago but can't find a theme for a newer phone.
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smokedkill said:
But even if liberty is outdated, its a bad sign for our community that we can't find themes for it. I'm still able find themes for the Droid Eris that I used 2 years ago but can't find a theme for a newer phone.
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you can find themes for your phone, just not the rom you want. the system version has nothing to do with your data connection, thats what the radio is for. there will be so performance differance between users, but for the most part people should get similar results.
http://gunnermike53.com/Bionic/Liberty/
thats the links to my 2 liberty bionic themes. some of the apps will be out dated, but the systemui and frameworks will be the same.
if you are satisfied with liberty then by all means stick with it, i am in no way minimizing team liberty's skills. they just havent done any work on the bionic since they all got thier new toy.

gunnermike said:
you can find themes for your phone, just not the rom you want. the system version has nothing to do with your data connection, thats what the radio is for. there will be so performance differance between users, but for the most part people should get similar results.
http://gunnermike53.com/Bionic/Liberty/
thats the links to my 2 liberty bionic themes. some of the apps will be out dated, but the systemui and frameworks will be the same.
if you are satisfied with liberty then by all means stick with it, i am in no way minimizing team liberty's skills. they just havent done any work on the bionic since they all got thier new toy.
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I talked to kejar and he told me that liberty was intended to be something other developers could build off of. I'm not sure.what else they could do to it because the performance I get is outstanding. Unfortunately we don't have too many rom development enthusiasts on the bionic to play with it.
I also don't believe it to be a radio issue because I get 4g on liberty and only 3g with eclipse with the same radio. If I was having problems with 4g on liberty, I would agree. But the radio works just fine with one rom and doesn't on the other. I'm on liberty gold I believe it is, the last version they released.
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smokedkill said:
I talked to kejar and he told me that liberty was intended to be something other developers could build off of. I'm not sure.what else they could do to it because the performance I get is outstanding. Unfortunately we don't have too many rom development enthusiasts on the bionic to play with it.
I also don't believe it to be a radio issue because I get 4g on liberty and only 3g with eclipse with the same radio. If I was having problems with 4g on liberty, I would agree. But the radio works just fine with one rom and doesn't on the other. I'm on liberty gold I believe it is, the last version they released.
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yes it was built for others to work with. again, that change when the new builds came out.
it doesnt matter what you believe about the data issue. the fact is that the radio is what controls your data connection. if you want to go on beliveing something that isnt true, well, thats up to you. ive told you what the facts are, its up to you what you do with it.

If it is the radio, why does it only impact the one rom but not the other? It seems that if the problem was the radio, I would have issues with both roms.
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And I know that the radio controls the data, but that still does not explain why I don't have the same data issues on both roms. The radio hasn't changed on my phone. Only thing different is the rom. If radio isn't giving me problems with one rom, why is it giving me problems with another. That's why I don't believe the issue is with the radio itself. It could have something to do with how the rom reads the radio.
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smokedkill said:
And I know that the radio controls the data, but that still does not explain why I don't have the same data issues on both roms. The radio hasn't changed on my phone. Only thing different is the rom. If radio isn't giving me problems with one rom, why is it giving me problems with another. That's why I don't believe the issue is with the radio itself. It could have something to do with how the rom reads the radio.
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im not going to continue to argue with you. the fact is your wrong. you can argue that all you want. the most likely thing is that you did something wrong and thats why you had problems. either way i dont care. run what ever rom you want. but you have your answer as to the lack of themes for liberty.

I'm not trying to argue. I'm just curious why its an issue with one rom and not another. Apparently there isn't anyone who can give me an explanation of why? Just saying its a radio issue doesn't really explain why it works fine on the other rom.
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But thanks for explaining why there aren't more themes for liberty.
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[Q] Will we ever see Miui on the Bionic?

Is this even a possibility? Is there any interest in this? What needs to happen to get a functional daily driver Miui rom on the Bionic?
Does someone just need to port it, or is there some kind of issue because of the encrypted bootloader that makes it an impossibility?
My Google searches do not turn up many answers. How can we make this happen. I love miui, mainly the theme changing aspects.

I believe it is the same thing as cm7/9 we are waiting not sure on his name to fix the 3g 4g stuff and the til I believe its called its not going to be too difficult as far as development are concerned not that miui is going open source so 4g will soon be possible so i think it is just a aosp based issue that needs to be resolved anyone correct me if I am off my rocker
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Yea you are probably right. They need to get the 4g data issue fixed on aosp first. I think the Bionic has some great potential for development, hopefully the devs figure it out soon.
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Fyi after I posted this I searched to see if I was right and I Google's bionic miui and there was a thread on miui.us about this exact issue Google is your best friend aside from me ha ga
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Yes I see something now. Here is the link I found http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?5433-Motorola-Droid-Bionic-ROM-REQUEST!
Yes, it looks 4g in CM for Bionic needs to be established first. Time for me to look into more developer friendly phones I guess, lol.

I give it 3 months and the development will skyrocket especially since muiu is now open source with source code available
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I think development will become more active once Motorola releases ICS for the bionic. I think some developers are waiting until it's released to see what they have to work with. Right now its just a waiting game.
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Exactly about three months plus we should have a working ics rom with in a month is my guuess at least what motor told me
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I hope you guys are right. I have seen lulls in development before, but nothing quite like what the Bionic is experiencing. I didn't know Miui was open source, that's good news at least.

Ya saw it on androidcenyral the other day
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Best choice for backups?

I haven't been keeping up on the development of the bionic as much add i did with my Dinc. I'm asking for facts and opinions as to the best way to back up a ROM, and compatibility as far as going from one version to another. i.e. if you save a back up on the 6.7.2233 leak, what if any will work once official update comes out
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Titanium backup has never let me down for back up.
Now as for compatibility for upgrading. There's a script from SamuriHL i believe that will allow you to upgrade and retain all data. I have not used said script but a search I'm the forum should be able to point you to the right track.
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