my sister just got a mt3g today on tmo network. out of the box it is currently running 1.5. how long will it take to recieve an ota for 1.6 or is there something i can do to speed up the process?
You could flash cyanogen's rom for G1 or MT3G. You'd have to root though. It's a 2 step process when flashing it. You flash a 1.6 rom which he provides links for, then you flash his "update" on top of that. He has an instructional wiki about it. I had to flash a custom 1.6 rom due to the fact i had edge. I enjoyed it more than ever having the OTA update anyway.
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Hello,
I just bought a new myTouch 3G (T-Mobile USA) which has the perfect SPL. I want to root my phone and I am new to Linux. I have collected a lot of information about rooting the perfect SPL phone.
One thing is not yet clear to me is how to back up the stock ROM that came with the phone so that I can unroot it later, if need be. There are a lot warnings of doing backups before rooting. But no descriptions about how to go about doing it.
What I want to do is backup my stock ROM as the first step before I do anything. I understand that I need to downgrade my ROM to Cupcake before I can root my phone. But, before I replace my stock ROM (Donut?) with Cupcake, I want to backup my stock ROM. How can I do it?
There is a step of doing a backup using the Flashrecovery after I have downgraded to Cupcake. But, at that point, am I not backing up the older version of the ROM?
Thanks for your help in this regard.
I'm new so be easy on me I done some hacking on my PSP and was about take a stab at my Eris I have 1.5 on it. I have searched the forum and Google it and I didn't get the answer I needed. I need to know how to downgrade back to 1.5 from 2.1 root before I upgrade. step by step would be nice or point me in the right direction Thanks
Do able, I did it somewhat by
unpacking a 1.5 rom,
Taking taking boot.img and system.img and re flashing it.
This will give you atleast at a glance stock phone, course you will still have the engineering bootloader, and the new radio firmware.
Sorry no step by step, no indepth how to. Not feeling good, not wanting "OMG U BROKE MY KNOW" messages.
Ok so no one has put up a step by step full downgrade up yet Now I got to decide if I want to upgrade to 2.1 or wait I have 2 Eris one with the 2.1 leak on it and the other 1.5 I'm not liking the 2.1 leak after upgrading my phone had lots of FC and Buggy **** happen besides the root whats so different with the 2.1 leak and the 2.1 root Thanks
Hello everyone!
I've had my mytouch 3g since preorders were available and I rooted my phone the day the first root was released. Since that day, I have been though many of moded roms and other system modifications that I would like to "reset" my phone the way I first bought it. Is this possible? To completely clear the memory, unroot it, revert the radio, and get the stock tmobile rom?
Thanks in advance!
read this guide HERE from theunlockr
Ive read some reviews about froyo on wildfire and their not good ones.
Should i upgrade?
Is it slow,does it lag, is the battery life rubbish, is text mesaging slow?
Please help,
Thanks.
kenzgrayx
Don't upgrade OTA. Root it, then push some custom rom, like cyanogenmod, together with custom kernel, and voila, you have a perfectly good smartphone
In other words if you update via updater you will get lock because oryginal froyo updates with new boatloader which will lock ur phone and u will be unable to load customs roms which in my opinion are better cuz they are faster and u can change the whole look of ur android
Sent from my HTC Wildfire
If you are happy with the stock ROM, and have no intentions to root, install Custom ROM's or Root only apps, go ahead and update to 2.2 OTA.
However, for best performance after update, remember to factory reset and format the SD card too.
If you intend to root (now, or in the future), stay away from the OTA.
First off, my experience level with Android is pretty high. I have a rooted G2 running CM7 Nightlies and a rooted G1 with the mytouch SPL and Radio running BiffMod. My problem is that a few months ago, my brother got the update for his MT3G 1.2(I think its 32a, its the not original one but its the one with the 3.5mm jack) to go to 2.2.1, every since he updated, his phone is EXTREMELY laggy. I have already tried going into the recovery and doing a factory reset and there was no change. My brother's friend has the original MT3G running the OTA just fine, no lag from what I have noticed. My brother's phone is running stock and I would like to either get it back to stock 1.6 or make his phone run stock 2.2.1 without lag and I would like to do one of the two without rooting. Is it possible to do either one? And yes, I have searched the forums but I didn't really find much. Also, is it possible to flash one of those sappimg images on his stock phone to get back to 1.6 or even a lag free 2.2.1? If you need any other information then feel free to ask.