Hi everyone, this is the only place i can think of since all my searches are turning up nothing.
I have a friend that force updated his Droid to 2.2 FRG01B and its made his phone alot slower and he needs to rollback to 2.1
My two questions are,
when the official 2.2 OTA rolls out, will the phone be prompted to download it?
other question is, is there any way he can get back to 2.1 without losing all his data (ie: apps/passwords/setup) he is NOT rooted
Thanks everyone for heads up
In most cases a factory wipe will fix it without needing to downgrade
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thecrackbaby said:
In most cases a factory wipe will fix it without needing to downgrade
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A factory reset will only erase your data, not your firmware. Basically the firmware is a chalkboard, and the factory reset erases it and gives you a clean slate so to speak. So if you were on 2.2 and did a factory reset, you'd wipe all data and still be on 2.2, having to set up the phone as you did when you bought it.
In order to get back to 2.1 you'd need to download the SBF file and run RSD Lite on the phone to get it back to stock 2.1. If you need help join us on the IRC in #droid
Hope this helps
I was running lithium on a 2.2 i wanted to try the blackdroid new era. After downloading my 2.2 update is gone.... back to 2.1
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Should I re-upgrade to 2.2?
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Yesterday i flashed if i remember the 223 leak. I flashed from 905, rooted with razor ics root. I went in to sqlite and changed the setting to get the free hotspot and than rebooted. Now on my top banner the wifi icon and my signal icon stay gray! They never got to blue! I have data service but the are always gray. Also later my signal strength went noticeably lower than before i flashed! Any help would be great! ...... also i just noticed that my browser is talking! Had chrome installed, couldn't find anything in the settings so i uninstalled and went to reinstall. Play store says that NOW its not compatible with my device! And now my stock browser is talking to me! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
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One thing at a tine.
Browser talking - check you're accessibility settings, see if Talkback is enabled.
For the GNow, that does not come with the ICS leaks. Either you installed an unofficial leak, or you installed GNow before the leak, or you installed it after the leak. There is a thread in XDA that details how to get GNow working in ICS.
For the sqlite mod, change the string back. Foxfi is free, doesn't require root, and works.
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Thanks, I FXZed back and reloaded everything no sqlite no root and everything seems good! Still lost data for a while last night but l don't have great service at home! Might root later today, we'll see!
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I do have one more question! If i go from .233 can i just flash .235 or do i need to FXZ again?
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Each time you try to flash a new ics leak you HAVE TO FLASH BACK TO 902/905
if you flash to 235 YOU CAN NOT FLASH BACK TO 902/905 but you can only move foward
I recommend you stay on 232 unless you dont care about flashing back to gb
bhp117 said:
Each time you try to flash a new ics leak you HAVE TO FLASH BACK TO 902/905
if you flash to 235 YOU CAN NOT FLASH BACK TO 902/905 but you can only move foward
I recommend you stay on 232 unless you dont care about flashing back to gb
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If people are going to keep stating this, then they need to qualify it with the fact that you can still install GB roms on the safe side. You can even put .905 stock back on safe or unsafe using the backup restore within Safestrap (if you have the stock .905 backup file that is). There's a lot of scare about .235, but all you have to do is change how you flash and you don't "lose" anything. **Wonder if I will have to make another tutorial for people on .235...goodness**
What? We have a locked boot loader... can't run .235 on one side and .905 on the other lol
What he said was correct.. you cannot use RSD lite to fxz back to .902/.905 with .235 so unless you're a fool don't make the move... 232 is great
Finally Iced Out Legitimately... Bionic is back
You cannot go back to fully stock Gingerbread anything once you flash .235 so for the sake of newer users being thrown off the upgrade path and not being able to FXZ back to .905 we all should just leave it at that.
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I do have one more question! If i go from .233 can i just flash .235 or do i need to FXZ again?
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I think you've gotten the gist of the info, but I'll reiterate.
You have to be on .905 to flash any of the current ICS leaks (and there is a 99% chance of that being true with any future leaks / soak tests / final OTA b/c .905 is the current official OS version for the BIONIC.
You can flash .235 off of .905, but once you are in .235, you cannot restore your phone to .905 via FXZ, and you cannot try to fool the system with a simple Nandroid backup of .905 that you restore over .235. The reason is that the update script also looks to patch several things.
First of all, no update script ever includes the boot.img of the version that is being installed. It includes a patch file that requires you to have either the boot.img of the system that you are coming from, or the system that you are going to. Any other version and it throws up an error and does not allow the update to continue. IOW, if, say, leak .241 comes out, and you're on .235, you have no way to getting .241 without using a method to make the .241 kernel. You cannot flash the .905 kernel onto a .235 system - it trips eFuse and bricks the phone. You have no .241 kernel to install b/c, as I said, the update only includes a patch file, not the full kernel.
Second, even provide that you pass that (which in theory you might as you are on a .235 leak with only .905 /system restored from a Nandroid backup, and if the new leak uses the exact same kernel you'll pass), it also verifies every file in /system that it is going to patch, along with every file in /preinstall that you are going to patch. Restoring that Nandroid backup does wonders for having the .905 /system on your phone, but the current leak you are on has already patched several files in /preinstall, so those signatures will not match, and you'll fail the verification step, and ultimately the update will fail.
For the record, a typical FXZ flashes 17 different partitions on our phones. Nandroid backups on the BIONIC typically can only make backups of 3-4 of those partitions. We have figured out ways to grab a few more of them, but we are still stuck at grabbing a couple of them, and there are 4-5 that we cannot grab from our phones at all.
Since the folks with RAZRs went through something very similar in May and June, mattlgroff figured out a way to fool the update into thinking you have all the components correct in place that need to be there, and the update proceeds. Thus far, after bricking my phone trying to FXZ back to .905 / .902, I used a script to get back on .235, then verified that the move to reinstall the .235 leak works. If another leak is found, then I can test the second part of the script, that which allows new leaks to be installed. The script does not allow any older ICS leak to be installed, and currently there is no way to go back to a previous leak nor a previous GB stock FXZ at all. Even if we had a .223X ICS FXZ or a .22X ICS FXZ or a .230/.232 FXZ, they would not work on a phone that has been updated to .235.
That is why we're saying hold off unless you're 100% positive you're willing to accept the risk - this is way beyond the risk associated with rooting your phone. If Motorola makes the next leak force the phone to have components from .905 that we cannot flash into a .235 upgraded phone, I (and several others that have taken the plunge) might be permanently stuck on .235 until an FXZ for a version of ICS higher than or equal to .235 is released. And that typically takes 6-8 weeks.
HTH
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If people are going to keep stating this, then they need to qualify it with the fact that you can still install GB roms on the safe side. You can even put .905 stock back on safe or unsafe using the backup restore within Safestrap (if you have the stock .905 backup file that is). There's a lot of scare about .235, but all you have to do is change how you flash and you don't "lose" anything. **Wonder if I will have to make another tutorial for people on .235...goodness**
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Make a guide if you will and state the proper steps to do so
I had one issue with. 232. I noticed the lock screen is useless. My home button unlicked the screen plus the notification bar scrolled down to unlock also lol. Other that that it amazing
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I had one issue with. 232. I noticed the lock screen is useless. My home button unlicked the screen plus the notification bar scrolled down to unlock also lol. Other that that it amazing
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i noticed that the other day when I got a text while my screen was locked. I naturally pulled the notification bar down and noticed that I didn't unlock my phone at first. Tried it just now and it's unlocking without swiping to unlock. My home button doesn't do anything howerver.
so i shot my self on the foot here, i have a droid bionic with the latest software of gingerbread 905 available i decided to root my phone using motofail
then i installed and dowloaded bionic bootstrap.apk then downloaded this rom and installed it Steel Droid: 5.6 - Ice Cream Sandwich
worked fine but no browser connection and many bugs so i deleted from my sd card and installed MOTO ICS 5.7.235 rom, before doing so i did a factory reset and erased all cache, but the rom did not work either so now i am stuck at the bootstrap menu please help
i figure i can take out my memory card hook it up to my pc and download a new rom or something thanks for your time guys
You have to install the ics leaks from .905 using stock recovery. Your best bet will be to use House of Bionic utility which will basically return your phone too stock. I assume the .235 leak didn't install at all, so you should probably be safe to return to .905, from which you should install the .232 ics leak, not the.235, as you can't go back from it.
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You have to install the ics leaks from .905 using stock recovery. Your best bet will be to use House of Bionic utility which will basically return your phone too stock. I assume the .235 leak didn't install at all, so you should probably be safe to return to .905, from which you should install the .232 ics leak, not the.235, as you can't go back from it.
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thanks, you are a life saver went back to 905 and now will install 232 leak!
have a good weekend bro!
I rooted my sister in laws Bionic months ago and have not touched since. I want to restore to stock so she can take the ICS update. I current has gingerbread and the update fails. It has safestrap 1.7, and its been so long since I touched this, I can't remember how to do anything. Can someone please help me get this back to stock.
Either use SamuriHL's HoB to apply the update / revert to stock and apply the update, or else use the ICS FXZ to do it all at one time. Since there are a lot of changes going to ICS, I'd recommend that you backup apps, SMS, etc. using Titanium Backup and then use the 6.7.246 FXZ through RSD Lite and start from pure scratch.
My borther has a bionic, but never once got an update and when he tries to pull updates the phone doesn't find them. He's still on the original GB build. (I know and he calls himself a tech guy right?!) Question is does he have to first FXZ to .905 then to .246 or can he RSD Lite straight to build .246 He has never modded, rooted, ran leaked builds/roms or messed with phone in any of those ways. Thanks!
FXZ is a direct process. He can directly FXZ to .246.
It will erase his INTERNAL storage, though, so advise him to make a backup of the internal storage first.
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Thanks for the help!