I have a Glacier that I rooted and put an ICS rom on a little while back. My fiance's phone recently died and I gave her the Glacier to go back to my Vibrant. Where I was able to appreciate ICS and enjoy it despite how unstable the ROM was, she really really hates it and now I need to revert back to Gingerbread. She wants stock, but I want to keep the phone rooted so I'm thinking something like CM or Ice-Glacier or something would be better.
Anyways, my question is do I need to do anything special to safely go back to a GB ROM from ICS?
ThCave said:
I have a Glacier that I rooted and put an ICS rom on a little while back. My fiance's phone recently died and I gave her the Glacier to go back to my Vibrant. Where I was able to appreciate ICS and enjoy it despite how unstable the ROM was, she really really hates it and now I need to revert back to Gingerbread. She wants stock, but I want to keep the phone rooted so I'm thinking something like CM or Ice-Glacier or something would be better.
Anyways, my question is do I need to do anything special to safely go back to a GB ROM from ICS?
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nope, just do a full wipe including wiping /system (just for safety measures) and flash the Gingerbread ROM.
saranhai said:
nope, just do a full wipe including wiping /system (just for safety measures) and flash the Gingerbread ROM.
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Awesome, thanks!
ThCave said:
Awesome, thanks!
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No problem
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No problem
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LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:good:
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Looks like the original Mytouch will be getting 2.2 update from HTC and T-Mobile, starting tomorrow.
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/10/t-mo...ceiving-android-2-2-froyo-beginning-tomorrow/
I'm excited finally will turn on my mytouch.its been like for months lol.
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jriv said:
Your wrong thats for 32b mytouch only it says right in the article that the 3.5mm mytouch and the fender mytouch will get it at a late date
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oops, read it too fast.
gonna ninja edit
jriv said:
I'm excited finally will turn on my mytouch.its been like for months lol.
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Yea, same here. I'm wiping the dust off my 32B MT3G and gonna wait for the ota. I wonder how its gonna run with the limited memory it has.
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Great! just when I've bricked my Magic with crapware ClockWorkMOD!!
awesome!!!
i'm sure this will provide an excellent base for future roms
zguithues said:
awesome!!!
i'm sure this will provide an excellent base for future roms
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I agree. I'm very curious of how it'll run with its 192MB RAM. Veryyy interesting.
To think I just sold mine for a G2.
Knedjo said:
Great! just when I've bricked my Magic with crapware ClockWorkMOD!!
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LoL...
How did you even manage that?.... Didn't read?
Does this mean we will lose root? I love all the options and features of root but it would be nice to have a solid froyo rom.
nevermind. i think i have to unroot before i can do the update.
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Looks like the original Mytouch will be getting 2.2 update from HTC and T-Mobile, starting tomorrow.
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/10/t-mo...ceiving-android-2-2-froyo-beginning-tomorrow/
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lol, I just nandroided back to CM6 this morning.
How do you guys think FroYo will run on the MT3G? I predict not well! I'm almost thinking I'd rather stay rooted on Donut or CM6 so I can at least overclock it.
Too bad I've got the 1.2.
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lol, I just nandroided back to CM6 this morning.
How do you guys think FroYo will run on the MT3G? I predict not well! I'm almost thinking I'd rather stay rooted on Donut or CM6 so I can at least overclock it.
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CM6 = Froyo and it flys and works great. Why wouldn't the tmo froyo release run well? And what rom were you using that you had to nandroid to CM6? I'm confused by your post.
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Does this mean we will lose root? I love all the options and features of root but it would be nice to have a solid froyo rom.
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I predict we won't get the OTA update if we're rooted, and if we are it will most likely wipe out root access. I'm gonna need to reinstall that stupid amazonmp3 apk and unroot so I can get this stupid update.
If I don't like it I'm gonna SAPPIMG.nbh back to 1.5 so I can use flashrec to get amon_ra back and then nandroid back to 1.6.
Jebus, I feel like I'm speaking in tongues, lol.
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I predict we won't get the OTA update if we're rooted, and if we are it will most likely wipe out root access. I'm gonna need to reinstall that stupid amazonmp3 apk and unroot so I can get this stupid update.
If I don't like it I'm gonna SAPPIMG.nbh back to 1.5 so I can use flashrec to get amon_ra back and then nandroid back to 1.6.
Jebus, I feel like I'm speaking in tongues, lol.
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most ROMs disable OTA updates.
and no way would I revert back to stock until it's confirmed that the official 2.2 doesn't somehow break root access.
Give the Devs until Thursday. and they will have the OTA with root to flash on our phones (if you want it). I, personally, won't go back to stock after tasting CM goodness!
Does anyone know where I can get the nbh file , and radio link to unroot? I have tried all the links on this site and none works anymore!
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pReTTyUnG1 said:
Does anyone know where I can get the nbh file , and radio link to unroot? I have tried all the links on this site and none works anymore!
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No radio update needed, the nbh file will take care of all of that.
Just copy this to the root of your SD card, boot into the bootloader (vol down + power), hit apply update and let it do it's thing.
DON'T restore anything through TiBa or mybackup until AFTER you've received the ota update. Should take about a day or two of the phone being on and connected to 3G.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DQWW0Y9N
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CM6 = Froyo and it flys and works great. Why wouldn't the tmo froyo release run well? And what rom were you using that you had to nandroid to CM6? I'm confused by your post.
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The MT3G just doesn't have enough ram to support an OS this large. CM6 is good but still way slower than oem 1.6 w/androot and overclock.
I rooted a few months back by using sappimg and flashrec, then installed CM5 with mediocre results. I got sick of the instability and unrooted. Then I rooted the stock 1.6 w/universal androot, overclocked it, and left it alone for a while.
A week or so ago I backed up my oem 1.6 w/root, then I flashed CM6. 3 or 4 days ago I backed up my CM6 and went back to my nandroid of oem1.6 w/root. This time I ditched CM due to crazy bad battery life and the phone running way hot. I suspected it would have done better with compcache disable but I got sick of screwing with it.
This morning I nandroided back to CM6 to screw around with it some more, (wanted to disable compcache and give it another shot) but just now I'm going back to the oem donut again because froyo is inherently slow on a phone with this little ram, although disabling compcache helped a bit. Also the gallery is too slow to use.
Does that make more sense? Basically I'm indecisive and keep switching back and forth, lol.
i've heard glacier will get gingerbread soon but mine is rooted ... soo question beeing as in title can i even apply ota update and if not are there any gingerbread aosp low bloat near stock roms with everything working someone could reccomend?
thanks again
Now you cannot apply it without messing up your phone.
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gh0zt36 said:
i've heard glacier will get gingerbread soon but mine is rooted ... soo question beeing as in title can i even apply ota update and if not are there any gingerbread aosp low bloat near stock roms with everything working someone could reccomend?
thanks again
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RoyalGinger is as close to stock as you'll get, although any gingerbread roms will have some bugs since they're using dumps and ports for their base rom so once the update comes out we'll have the kernels and correct drivers etc. Making for a now perfect Rom hope I helped
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Now you cannot apply it without messing up your phone.
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is unrooting a phone difficult? cause if possible id really love to have a stock gingerbread with everything functioning. but then again ive heard 2.3 shoulda been out a while ago for glacier and it still is not ... so who knows when it will even be available
gh0zt36 said:
but then again ive heard 2.3 shoulda been out a while ago for glacier and it still is not ... so who knows when it will even be available
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It will definitely be out before the end of June, so if you can wait that long and you're wary of rooting, it should be here within 9 weeks.
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It will definitely be out before the end of June, so if you can wait that long and you're wary of rooting, it should be here within 9 weeks.
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i already rooted it ... im just unsure of weather or not i wanna get a aosp or cooked rom where everything might not be working or wait for the ota .... im using stock 2.2.1 froyo with SPB mobile shell beta for the ui. and im checkin out cm7 also but just unsure
When I had my nexus s rooted I still received ota. So it should be the same for other devices
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gh0zt36 said:
i already rooted it ... im just unsure of weather or not i wanna get a aosp or cooked rom where everything might not be working or wait for the ota .... im using stock 2.2.1 froyo with SPB mobile shell beta for the ui. and im checkin out cm7 also but just unsure
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thats what i heard as long as your using stock rom
charlieb620 said:
When I had my nexus s rooted I still received ota. So it should be the same for other devices
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haha this the one i meant to quote not my own...anyways thats what i heard as long as you have stock romm you can just wanted to confirm
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230660143154&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
Most likely a rooted 2.2 evo running a rooted stock 2.3 gingerbread rom; this has to be the case as there is no root for gingerbread.
Obviously.
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Most likely a rooted two point two stock rooted gingerbread rom, as there is no root for gingerbread.
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what is a 2.2 rooted gingerbread rom? That doesnt even make sense.
There is absolutely root for stock gingerbread, just not if you accepted the OTA.
This guy probably just updated the phone to a pre-rooted Sprint EVO gingerbread rom obtained from right here on XDA.
teh roxxorz said:
Most likely a rooted two point two stock rooted gingerbread rom, as there is no root for gingerbread.
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Well you just failed, lol. Next time just type it out; 2.2. FYI gingerbread is 2.3.
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I think he means it was rooted as 2.2 and then updated to a 2.3 rom
Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.
Invisibility said:
Well you just failed, lol. Next time just type it out; 2.2. FYI gingerbread is 2.3.
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Sorry to everyone for that atrocious typo; I was on my thrive tablet, and xda wasn't playing nice. But yes, a rooted 2.2 running a 2.3 rooted stock rom.
teh roxxorz said:
Sorry to everyone for that atrocious typo; I was on my thrive tablet, and xda wasn't playing nice. But yes, a rooted 2.2 running a 2.3 rooted stock rom.
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Even with the typo it wasn't hard to understand.
mattykinsx said:
Even with the typo it wasn't hard to understand.
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Maybe so, but it got more attention than it should have, so it had to be fixed.
Though on the point, its people like him that scam everyone into buying something its not, then let someone new to xda buy it then start a thread of 'I HAVE S-OFF GINGERBREAD ROOT!'
Just calling it now.
Can anyone confirm that it is safe to take your phone to Tmobile and have them update the software on a rooted mytouch 4g? I just want to make sure I am not going to brick my phone...
makkunbakkun said:
Can anyone confirm that it is safe to take your phone to Tmobile and have them update the software on a rooted mytouch 4g? I just want to make sure I am not going to brick my phone...
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you should be good to update but you will lose your root and there is no way to root 2.3.4 right now
It's safe I took mine in and did it
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WOLF26915 said:
you should be good to update but you will lose your root and there is no way to root 2.3.4 right now
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that would be a big sacrifice if we want to update
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that would be a big sacrifice if we want to update
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I agree but i guess thats the price you pay to get the stock 2.3.4 right now
I spent most of the weekend researching what to do about this very thing. I was rooted but stock rom. I figured I needed a decision on what I was going to do before the OTA arrived.
After a lot of research I decided to go full S=off and install the Virtuous Unity ROM. I like Sense and it is a 3.0 ROM. If you wait for TMOB you'll only get 2.1.
EVERYTHING in this ROM works. None of the
"YOU GET THREADED TEXT MESSAGES!!! but the camera doesn't work"
Like in the bad old days of windows rooting.
I only wish I'd done this 6 months ago.
Yea every thing works but im wondering wit s off no root what can u do ?
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makkunbakkun said:
Can anyone confirm that it is safe to take your phone to Tmobile and have them update the software on a rooted mytouch 4g? I just want to make sure I am not going to brick my phone...
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Is it your intention to return to stock and run the phone unrooted with the 2.3.4 update or are you just concerned about having 2.3.4 on your phone? If you are looking for the most recent version of of Android OS, then MIUI is currently running 2.3.5... If you havent tried GenerationX mysense ROM, it is the newest update with bloat removed and i think there isnt anything broken with the faux's .7 kernel. Try it if you like stock, I bet you will like it.
I just want to get this straight, if someone can give an answer. My wife's phone currently has iced glacier and I want to go stock GB. If I take the phone to a Tmo store and ask for the update, it will take the phone back to stock and unroot? If so should I at least uninstall super user?
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I just want to get this straight, if someone can give an answer. My wife's phone currently has iced glacier and I want to go stock GB. If I take the phone to a Tmo store and ask for the update, it will take the phone back to stock and unroot? If so should I at least uninstall super user?
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You could go to the store or you can download the same T Mobile sdcard update that Gr33nF0x posted http://megaupload.com/?d=N8XGHXJC (IF YOU ARE ROOTED YOU WILL LOSE IT)
1. Download the PD15IMG.zip file posted
2. Put file on the root of your sdcard (don't put it in any folder)
3. go to settings/applications make sure fastboot is unchecked (on 2.2.1)
4.power off
5. push and hold volume down and power till you get into hboot
6. it will scan file when its done it should ask you to update push volume up
badaphooko01 said:
I just want to get this straight, if someone can give an answer. My wife's phone currently has iced glacier and I want to go stock GB. If I take the phone to a Tmo store and ask for the update, it will take the phone back to stock and unroot? If so should I at least uninstall super user?
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The answer is yes. If you load the update, whether download the one on the forums here or update at T-mo you will lose root. No need to uninstall superuser, because the update will wipe all data.
Thanks guys for the quick response.
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Thanks guys for the quick response.
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Why do you wanna go to being unrooted? There's rooted versions of the OTA here.
Ace42 said:
Why do you wanna go to being unrooted? There's rooted versions of the OTA here.
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Maybe he is no longer interested in having a super badass phone and wants to have a boring stock rom
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Maybe he is no longer interested in having a super badass phone and wants to have a boring stock rom
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Its my wifes phone and dosent need to mod it just needs to work properly. If I was to go the route of updating it with the rooted update, would I just need to flash through CW? To be honest I don't have much expreince with this phone as you can tell by how old her current rom is. Atleast with my phone its pretty much unbrickable, on this phone I wouldn't know how to recover if it did. I figure if tmobile does the update they are responsible for it. Is someone willing to post the steps for me?
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Its my wifes phone and dosent need to mod it just needs to work properly. If I was to go the route of updating it with the rooted update, would I just need to flash through CW? To be honest I don't have much expreince with this phone as you can tell by how old her current rom is. Atleast with my phone its pretty much unbrickable, on this phone I wouldn't know how to recover if it did. I figure if tmobile does the update they are responsible for it. Is someone willing to post the steps for me?
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If you want T Mobile to do it go to your local store let them do the sdcard update witch is the same as the one I posted one page back (Thanks goes to Gr33nF0x for uploading it) or wait for the OTA
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Maybe he is no longer interested in having a super badass phone and wants to have a boring stock rom
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^^^
funny
so i can still UPDATE even if i'm not rooted?
armstrong87 said:
so i can still UPDATE even if i'm not rooted?
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yes you can
I am currently running the energy ics rom, but would like to go back to rooted stock. Would one of the two stock roms from the development forum be my best bet? I'm sorry for the noob question, I'm still a bit new to rooting android, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916
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zombiegrrl86 said:
I am currently running the energy ics rom, but would like to go back to rooted stock. Would one of the two stock roms from the development forum be my best bet? I'm sorry for the noob question, I'm still a bit new to rooting android, lol.
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Did you backup your current rig before you flashed the ICS ROM? Using TWRP, I do a full backup....then flash a rom, try it out, then flash back to my backup of the rooted stock rom....doesn't skip a beat.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916
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Ahh yeah, I completely forgot about that Rom. For some reason it wanst wanting to download a few weeks ago and I gave up on it. Thanks