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GENERIC_UK R2A latest X1 firmware now here!

Hi Guys!
Just thought I'd give you a heads up over on this section of the board that the latest GENERIC_UK R2A firmware that a LOT of people have been waiting for is NOW AVAILABLE at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
Have at it guys! We've been waiting ages for this baby!
And please thank PavelX1 and his anonymous friend for this!

could you maybe also give us a heads up if the generic_NL r2 comes out? I know alot of people are waiting for that aswell!
Thanx anyway to both you and pavel (and friend)

nyan187 said:
could you maybe also give us a heads up if the generic_NL r2 comes out? I know alot of people are waiting for that aswell!
Thanx anyway to both you and pavel (and friend)
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it's also in that thread

All available ROMS are also listed in the XPERIA ROM LIBRARY too. Some of them already have FTP mirrors
You should take a look
Happy flashing

so is UK_Generic R2A also available through SEUS??

what are the improvements in this new rom you guys? i'm hesitant to flash bc i'm too lazy to backup all my junk... unless of course this rom has some pretty sweet improvements. judging by the other r2a roms though, there are only minor bug fixes and slight speed improvement... if it's worth it though, you guys let me know

tnx for the heads up. gona use seus to update later.

can somebody just give me a heads up .. I heard that there is new firmware so I ran the SE update software but it says that I already have the latest version.. ?
did something go wrong or whats happening? .. I m a uk user
thanks

Amanox said:
can somebody just give me a heads up .. I heard that there is new firmware so I ran the SE update software but it says that I already have the latest version.. ?
did something go wrong or whats happening? .. I m a uk user
thanks
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EDITED: As of JAN 31 2009, these ROMS (UK, FR, SPAIN) ARE NOT "officialy released", thus SEUS WILL NOT UPDATE

will restoring from spb backup after flashing to this new rom be o.k.? or will i have to manually install everything again? i'm asking because of the system files being backed-up as well, i dont want to overwrite anything from the new rom. thanks

Thanks!
Yeah! Been waiting for this too.

am trying to update my rom with seus but seus is displaying "the software in your phone is up-to-date" and theres no option to "continue anyway"..
weird...

Cos it is not officially released by SE yet.

^o ok then. maybe the service centers can help. or ill just update another time

New FW generic uk is crap
I have just made the flash and played around for 30 minutes... its all crap! It is slower now, no real improvements that I could find. Besides those updates of radio, browser (still NO flash support!), etc.
Nothing of value to me. The camera still sucks big time, still NO zoom for 3MP and the quality still bad.
Again, I could not find any real improvement and/or feature enhancement. Too bad, waited and waited... just to be disappointed again by SE. Perhaps its time after all to move on to a different brand.

michaelthemage I updated to the new r2a rom too, and after like 2 hrs i was about too flash back my old rom, but then i tried to soft reset, and it worked a little bit better, then using it for a couple of days, the performance increased and became stable, i'm most satisfied with the media panel that now feels much quicker, i can now browse my images as fast as i want, the system became overall faster and snappier, but it's really weird that the performance increased gradually,
So if I were you i'd give it 2 days before flashing back !
P.S i wanted to know if the now released uk rom will be the same as the one officialy released by SE or if there is any chance SE could improve it till the official release date ???

im a n00b
hey
m really excited about the new rom. but i had a few question and as u can see my post count. im new to this world and a bit of a noob. so i would be greatfull if u take time to reply my idiot question.
1. does TouchFlo3D work with the new rom.
2. i hear that some people flash without doing HardSPL. is that safe
3. the image file i downloaded is named GENERIC_UK.image . do i rename THIS file to Kovsimg.nbh or some other .nbh file.
thank you for ur time
m using generic uk rom at the moment

agent_47 said:
hey
m really excited about the new rom. but i had a few question and as u can see my post count. im new to this world and a bit of a noob. so i would be greatfull if u take time to reply my idiot question.
1. does TouchFlo3D work with the new rom.
2. i hear that some people flash without doing HardSPL. is that safe
3. the image file i downloaded is named GENERIC_UK.image . do i rename THIS file to Kovsimg.nbh or some other .nbh file.
thank you for ur time
m using generic uk rom at the moment
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your no idiot, just as you stated: a noob
1. yes
2. yes, because its official rom. hard-spl is needed to unlock so you can flash custom roms or perhaps stock roms with other languages.
3. rename it to ruu_signed.nbh or Kovsimg.nbh if you do from sd-card

Just did the update, SD card method worked fine, it lasted only 10 minutes. Unfortunately I have a 210 MB sprite backup file, so I needed to delete some custom files and choose not to restore some unnecessary ones before the restore. If you are using Sprite Backup too, be sure to choose Level 2 as the restore option (Level 1 did not work fully, unfortunately).
Restoring now...
Someone cooking R2A UK ROM already?

I was gonna switch to the iphone before this rom, but now......
Some improvements i have noticed:
1: Boot time is much faster.
2: iGo08 now takes about 10 seconds to load up instead of over 30!
3: Infact pretty much all programs load much faster than the previous rom.
4. PanelSwitching is faster.
5: Phone signal is much better and more consistant (im on 3UK)
6. General Speed improvements all round.
Not fixed/worse:
1. On the sony ericsson panel i still cant get weather updates on my city/town (Doncaster UK) even though its a city i can select.
2. Media Panel now does not detect photos in my storage card stored in folder my documents/mypictures. Now previously taken pictures have to be stored in my pictures in the storage card root directory.
Overall a very good update, im impressed, looks like i have an iphone to sell!

[Q] 2.1 Leak - restores my phone to stock O2 ROM

I acquired the 'leaked 2.1 update' and flashed it to my Streak.
It goes through one status bar, resets, goes to a nice graphic of an unpacked box and another status bar, resets...and reboots into a fresh stock original ROM.
I'm not fussed that i've lost data & apps as the phone is taking a back burner to my HD2 - what does annoy me is that I was REALLY looking forward to playing with the 2.1 OS.
Any ideas why this is happening? I don't need to root the thing first do I? It doesn't suggest this is the case on the modaco thread, just to put the .spk file onto the SD card etc etc etc.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi there r u sure it's not the 2.1?
The 2.1 still has the o2 bubble screen on it, the way to tell is when the home screen loads if u have the lock slider on the bottom right and the sound slider on the top right then u have 2.1
2.1 makes the streak much better-faster n fun to play with. Another way to tell would be to hit the middle button on right n hold, get up the wall papers n there will be a sub folder for live wallpapers (really cool) if u have that then u have 2.1
Or just goto about n it will tell u ur firmware version.
If u don't sound like u have an incorrect rom. But u must try the streak with 2.1 its amazing.
As for ur apps all u have to do is log back into app store, hit downloads n ur apps will be there(ok u have to re-install them)
Hope this helps

Hi, thanks for your reply.
It turns out although the update I was downloading was 'suggested' to be the 2.1 update - the numbers in the filename are different from the one that I have now found and successfully applied.
At a guess, this may have actually been the stock O2 ROM for those people who required to change to stock O2 first and then move to 2.1, but that's a pretty big guess.
Anyway, I can happily report i'm now running 2.1 and the first thing i'm going to do is apply the VR Tunnel live wallpaper.
Regards
Dan.

where did you get the 2.1 upgrade ad what version number should I be looking for..
I cant wait!

navrac said:
where did you get the 2.1 upgrade ad what version number should I be looking for..
I cant wait!
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Whilst searching for the reason why my upgrade wouldn't work I stumbled across the actual file.
I'd suggest you do a Google search for "Dell Streak 2.1 O2" and have a look through the results. You'll likely end up having to get the file from MediaFire or some other file host.
As long as you've got an O2 Streak and you find the correct upgrade .spk (the one I downloaded from the original forum thread was the one that kept putting me back on 1.6) it's really easy to do.

Can I flash ATT 31-US baseband > Dell Unlocked 00?

Hi all
I am sure this question has already been answered, but I can not find it, either here or at Modaco. There are threads for the European basebands 21>00, but I can not for the life of me find the US equivalent.
Obviously, I want to get the unlocked Dell baseband for the 2.2 ota update, plus the features that ATT are sure to lock out.
Is there a walkthrough for this? Or at least, a link to the official rom?
Thanks

I would like this too
I am interested in doing this as well. I am guessing ATT will change the market, and will also not have the hotspot feature.

Good question...I'm sending back my locked AT&T Streak so I can re-order an unlocked US Streak once they are available in a week or two. If I could just flash it to the unlocked baseband that would fix everything.

Spectre51 said:
Good question...I'm sending back my locked AT&T Streak so I can re-order an unlocked US Streak once they are available in a week or two. If I could just flash it to the unlocked baseband that would fix everything.
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Sorry a bit off topic...
dude that seems like a lot of hazzle why not just call ATT and ask for the unlock number?
If its warranty then I said nothing

BrokenPixel said:
Sorry a bit off topic...
dude that seems like a lot of hazzle why not just call ATT and ask for the unlock number?
If its warranty then I said nothing
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Because even if I get an unlock code the 2.2 version that will be pushed out to this phone will still have to be the version approved by them. So that will probably mean no tethering built in. I would rather have 2.2 without AT&T's hands all over it.

This can be done.
I have the official dell 2.2 running on my ATT locked phone. Here is how it can be done, but it wasn't easy and I would not recommend it to a novice.
I am not responsible for any damage you do to your phone, do this at your own risk.
I first tried to flash right too the new firmware and a system image from another forum post, that didn't work and messed up my phone, so I used instructions here hxxp://android.modaco.com/content-page/315825/bricked-streak-after-update-to-2-1-and-rooting/page/48/# to get my phone to O2's 1.6, and then upgrade to O2's 2.2. These instructions also have you on the 21 baseband.
I then used instructions and a download from DJ Steve's post here hxxp://android.modaco.com/content/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/323484/2-2-out-for-us-bets-streaks/ to flash my firmware and a system img and a boot image, and now my ATT locked streak is at 00 firmware and running the official dell 2.2 froyo build. I don't have to worry about ATT locking my apps, and I also can install apk's that aren't from the android market.

Hello all. I just ordered my Streak today from Rogers, which I believe is ATT's northern brother so to speak. Why can't we just run Vanilla Android 2.2 on our Streak's?? It was my understanding that once full root was achieved it was a matter of porting the OS to our device. Now, im no dev so im probably talking out of my a$$ here, but its been done on the HTC HD2 which is a freaking Win Mobile phone! So why can't someone, say, port the Nexus One 2.2 rom over to the Streak?? Man this stuff confuses me. Is there an "Android for Dummies" text out there?

Yes, I am running the 00 BB and the Official Update. http://android.modaco.com/content/d...how-to-install-official-dell-2-2-upgrade-pkg/

If I do this to make my at&t streak essentially an unlocked dell unit because of the 00 baseband, will I still automatically get update notifications in the future when they are released for the unlocked models? or if an update for like 2.3 ever comes out will we need to manually find a way to install that update on the phone using like fastboot because the phone has been modified from an at&t model to an unlocked dell one?
Basically I just want to know if the automatic download and install notifications for new software (gingerbread) that may come out later will still work and it would just give us the unlocked dell version of the software instead of the at&t one?

Thanks Homiss
I'm giving that guide a go now.
Will post back later

When I go to flash the 6267 build I get to the recovery and tell it to do software upgrade via Update.pkg and then it goes to a black screen and stays there. Nothing happens after that. I have gone through the process on http://android.modaco.com/content/d...l-official-dell-2-2-upgrade-pkg/#entry1481942 5+ times now trying to get it to work. I had a 1.6 US AT&T streak. flashed to O2 1.6 just fine then this issue.

A big thanks to homeiss
Followed the instructions posted over at Modaco and flashed the Official 2.2
Dell Streak - US ATT (Unlocked by ATT)
-- Was on O2 - 2.1 (for about 3 weeks after using the homeiss guide for upgrading/downgrading)
Today:
--- Followed the instructions to downgrade to O2 - 1.6 (4399)
--- Followed the instructions to get 00 baseband and 1.6 (6267) flashed
--- Followed the instructions to get 309_00_00 - 2.2 flashed
w00t

I was finally able to get mine working as well. Some things I like about froyo and some things I don't. I miss the notification bar and menu bar from 1.6. Stage isn't that great.
Sent from my Dell Streak

Spectre51 said:
I was finally able to get mine working as well. Some things I like about froyo and some things I don't. I miss the notification bar and menu bar from 1.6. Stage isn't that great.
Sent from my Dell Streak
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can you share if your baseband is changed by this upgrade to 2.2 ?

Yes it is changed. It's now on the 00-US baseband.
Sent from my Dell Streak

Spectre51 said:
Yes it is changed. It's now on the 00-US baseband.
Sent from my Dell Streak
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thnx
i was going to upgrade too with this package untill i realised that there is a european and an american version. the difference in here lies probably in the radio frequenties used/enabled. with the engineer app one can enable these again so that shouldnt be much of a problem. have no idea what else is different.
edit: seems eu version has few apps more and radiofrequencies are different.

DroidCanuck said:
A big thanks to homeiss
Followed the instructions posted over at Modaco and flashed the Official 2.2
Dell Streak - US ATT (Unlocked by ATT)
-- Was on O2 - 2.1 (for about 3 weeks after using the homeiss guide for upgrading/downgrading)
Today:
--- Followed the instructions to downgrade to O2 - 1.6 (4399)
--- Followed the instructions to get 00 baseband and 1.6 (6267) flashed
--- Followed the instructions to get 309_00_00 - 2.2 flashed
w00t
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Do you remember what was your baseband and build when you were in O2 2.1?
(just trying to see if your starting point is the same as mine)
Thanks

toronto65 said:
Do you remember what was your baseband and build when you were in O2 2.1?
(just trying to see if your starting point is the same as mine)
Thanks
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Hello fellow Canuck
I was on O2 - 2.1 (8105) with a baseband of 21

Using the pages suggested by Homiss, I have managed to get to the O2 1.6 build (4399).
But even though I can modify system files after using Universal Androot, I can not get su?! I have used a few different terminal emulators, my preference being connectbot and they all report 'permission denied.
Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? I am stuck with 4399 at the moment which is slow, and has the flashing led issue! very uncool...

homeiss said:
Yes, I am running the 00 BB and the Official Update. http://android.modaco.com/content/d...how-to-install-official-dell-2-2-upgrade-pkg/
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I performed the upgrade on my ATT phone today and am looking at 2.2 and it's beautiful!!!
Thank you Homeiss!!!

Support for Baseband 7921 - Tips,Guidance,How-To's

While the rest of you guys have been tinkering and hacking your Dell Streaks for quite a few months now, those of us in Canada have only just started getting our Dell Streaks through the Rogers network.
Unfortunately Dell is shipping these Streaks with the Baseband numbered as 7921 - and very little, and in some cases, zero tutorials or information is available on doing anything with this Baseband.
Having come from an HTC Desire that has been ridiculously easy to root and modify, I am pleading, almost begging for the Dell Streak community here on XDA to help out with any solid clues and/or tips to working with 7921.
Even the Superboot method doesn't have any files available for 7921. As of now, I can't root this thing unless I just take a blind chance with some other Baseband's superboot method.
Having read some other forum posts, both here and on MoDaCo ( and believe me, I have used the search feature to go through every related post possible ) - I know that there are a few people out there who have managed to root 7921 and even upgrade, but nobody has posted a single solid tutorial.
Please?
A few tips, some guidance, maybe a tutorial?
Pretty please?
Anyone?

Im in this boat. Ive tried everything i cannot get this thing to upload a update.pkg i can flash recoveries no problem, nothing seems to work i have tried going to o2 1.6 will not flash o2 2.1 nothing. mostly i get the status 7 error while its trying to flash assert failed /tmp/boot.img
I rooted with universal androot.

actually does anyone have the "original" recovery that came with a 7921 device?

Can you try using this : mobileupdate.dell.com/PackageProductionLocations/Streak_318_12821_00.pkg
smoku on #dellstreak – freenode on IRC suggested it. This should also flash the AMSS and I'm presuming that it will change your baseband to 00. That should open up the possibility of updating to Dell 2.2 or Steve's ROM.
But I can't confirm this until you try it first.. let me know please?

Well I still have a Virgin 7921 phone, if I can figure out how to extract the recovery image. I've never done that before..

I bought mine a few weeks ago and I followed a couple of tutorials in this forum and the modaco forum as well... I was able to change my baseband to 00 and after that update to stock 2.2 .... now I'm running the 318 build and i'm very happy with it....
Just search for the guide to downgrade to baseband 00 is a little tricky but it works... at the end you will have enough experience to move to any build or baseband.
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk

Hi Ivancho,
Is there any chance you could provide us with the exact link to the directions you used? I've read so many different sets of the instructions that I'm confused now. I swear, if I can successfully get 2.2 on this without screwing it up I will write a full blown walk through myself

somebody9 said:
Hi Ivancho,
Is there any chance you could provide us with the exact link to the directions you used? I've read so many different sets of the instructions that I'm confused now. I swear, if I can successfully get 2.2 on this without screwing it up I will write a full blown walk through myself
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I second that. in the meantime im downloading the file you suggested, but i dont have good hopes. I think i tried flashing every pkg on this forum.

somebody9 said:
Can you try using this : mobileupdate.dell.com/PackageProductionLocations/Streak_318_12821_00.pkg
smoku on #dellstreak – freenode on IRC suggested it. This should also flash the AMSS and I'm presuming that it will change your baseband to 00. That should open up the possibility of updating to Dell 2.2 or Steve's ROM.
But I can't confirm this until you try it first.. let me know please?
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FOTA Model name mismatch, rebooting in 30 seconds.
got that while trying to flash the above.

Dammit. Sorry. Was hoping that would work. Kind of getting demoralized with this now.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!do this. i just finished and now am at build 6601! This works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805112
scroll down till u get to where it says
if you just wanted to revert to O2 1.6 (build 4399) then you are done. If you are going to AT&T 1.6 (build 6601) we have to change the system so it will upgrade the the AT&T ROM.

Need help getting back to Froyo

Hi Guys,
I am really sorry if this is a repeated post,
I am not a expert but can follow instructions very well,
I am using a Dell Streak 5 and it was shipped with 2.2 and i recently upgraded to 2.3.3(Olleh) version and the base band version is 357 and the kernel is 2.6.35.7-perf and i am not liking this version of OS and i want to get back to the original OS which was shipped with the phone.
The phone is rooted as well.
My friend did this for me,I am not sure how he did this.
Can anyone help me step by step on how to get back to factory installed 2.2 version??
That would be a great help for me if anyone can help me with this.

Ok...so your 2.2.2 version was 357, you went to 407 and now you want to go back to 357?
The basic steps to flash a ROM are found in the Dell Streak wiki. There is additional information in the thread titled "Everything you always wanted to know about the Streak but were too busy bricking it" that may be helpful. With those two sources of information there is no need to give you a detailed how-to since it has already been done. The main thing you need to do other than following the directions is download the 357 recovery and the 357 update package from the wiki.

Hi i looked for 357 package and its no available in wiki,
Any idea where i can get them from??
cant i try the lates version??

357 is only available preinstalled on devices, there's no way to return to it as the pkgs are not available for it.

Hi Thank you for replying me back,
Can i install any other package apart from this??

If you want Froyo, flash Streakdroid 1.9.1. You'll find it here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Dell_Streak_5/ROMs

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Hi Thank you for replying me back,
Can i install any other package apart from this??
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I didn't look at the list of ROMs so I had no clue 357 was a preinstalled ROM. Sorry about that. Use 360 instead. It includes some apps Dell thought might be useful but are also easily removed. What it doesn't have is bloatware forced on it from the cellular service providers.

HI Guys,
Thanks for your valuable replies,
I have fixed the issue,
Let me tell you what i have done so that others can try.
I have initialised fastboot and used flashrecovery 0.8 and used 357 ROM and after the phone rebooted after the flash i HELD THE VOLUME DOWN KEY AND THE POWER BUTTON AND THE PHONE STARTED TO BOOT FINE.

uday2012 said:
HI Guys,
Thanks for your valuable replies,
I have fixed the issue,
Let me tell you what i have done so that others can try.
I have initialised fastboot and used flashrecovery 0.8 and used 357 ROM and after the phone rebooted after the flash i HELD THE VOLUME DOWN KEY AND THE POWER BUTTON AND THE PHONE STARTED TO BOOT FINE.
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Where did you find rom 357 ???
Can anyone send me its nandroid excluding data.img ??? It will be a great help.
Thanks in advance.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA

Don't go back to Froyo, go all the way to CM7!
Once you're at 407 rom go the next step and go CM7:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23527490&postcount=216
You MUST try out CM7 on the streak. You MUST!