Just curious to see how many people would go back to stock to update. Personally I wouldn't.
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I will as I'm still stock. I will root if one of the following 2 conditions are met. We are told we won't get ICS through "official" channels, or I upgrade to the rumored Holiday when my upgrade hits in December. I'm confident we will get an official upgrade to gingerbread. HTC did say something earlier this year about it arriving sometime this summer. However, I'm not gonna get anxious about it until we see a leaked ROM for it.
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Rooted and running Gingerbread with CM7 and loving it.
ZeroRilix said:
I will as I'm still stock. I will root if one of the following 2 conditions are met. We are told we won't get ICS through "official" channels, or I upgrade to the rumored Holiday when my upgrade hits in December. I'm confident we will get an official upgrade to gingerbread. HTC did say something earlier this year about it arriving sometime this summer. However, I'm not gonna get anxious about it until we see a leaked ROM for it.
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Yeah I'm am waiting for the holiday also but as far as releasing the update, that's up to at&t not HTC
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I ran the Asian WWE, from about a month or more ago, then the telus update from last week. It's no big deal to manually mod the package to install like a normal update. When the official AT$T update comes out, you probably won't have to go back to stock, just wait a day or less and someone will have modded it to install cleanly from clockwork. If it takes more than 24 hours, then I'll certainly post one.
Note that if you do revert to stock just to get the update, you'll probably lose the ability to root your phone afterwards. See:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1140104
What's going to happen is people are going to go back to stock, hate it then realize that they can no longer root.
So far anything with the build number 2.37 and up cannot be downgraded and rooted/soff. There is quite a few threads of this in the dhd forum.
Plus well get alot of posts of I'm rooted why doesn't the Ota's work again.
I'm happily running gingerbeast and wont plan on going stock again
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Yeah I'm am waiting for the holiday also but as far as releasing the update, that's up to at&t not HTC
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As I recall, from the same time, ATT did reiterate what HTC said regarding the update. That it will be upgraded this summer. With HTC working to unlock the bootloader on the Evo 3D and Sensation, it is possible they would they would unlock ours as well. However, I just wouldn't count on it. For those that are rooted, I would recommend staying rooted until these [email protected] devs here on XDA finally get root on the official gingerbread update.
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What's going to happen is people are going to go back to stock, hate it then realize that they can no longer root.
So far anything with the build number 2.37 and up cannot be downgraded and rooted/soff. There is quite a few threads of this in the dhd forum.
Plus well get alot of posts of I'm rooted why doesn't the Ota's work again.
I'm happily running gingerbeast and wont plan on going stock again
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Didn't know it would be locked
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Didn't know it would be locked
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Yeah, unfortunately these newer phones have been shipping with locked bootloaders. Still, HTC said that the bootloaders will be unlocked and that will come via those phones first OTA updates. We, on the other hand, would have to wait till the devs obtain root on the update before nonrooted users can root and those users who went back stock to obtain the update can go back to being rooted. As we all know, our bootloader was locked to begin with. The Desire HDs haven't got their bootloader officially unlocked, and I doubt they ever will. Same goes for us, since thet Inspire and Desire HD both came out before HTC said they would unlock the bootloaders on their devices.
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Why would anyone unroot just to get an update you can get right now? And if you are going to lose the option to go back to root, then definitely forget it. If it's true the bootloader will be locked it should be announced so we can make a stink with HTC again.
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Why would anyone unroot just to get an update you can get right now? And if you are going to lose the option to go back to root, then definitely forget it. If it's true the bootloader will be locked it should be announced so we can make a stink with HTC again.
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It's not the bootloader per se; those have always been locked. HTC just plugged the holes that allowed us to get temproot which is the first step needed to do the rest.
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Why would anyone unroot just to get an update you can get right now? And if you are going to lose the option to go back to root, then definitely forget it. If it's true the bootloader will be locked it should be announced so we can make a stink with HTC again.
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Technically, you can't get it now, since it hasn't been released or leaked. All the current custom gingerbread roms here are actually DHD roms. I have rooted in anticipation of a leaked US Inspire gingerbread rom. Once we get that, we should start to see some more stable roms that don't require apn and gps fixes and require far less updating. Thanks to all the great devs that will make this happen.
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So would we ever see an update for HTC or is that out?
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So would we ever see an update for HTC or is that out?
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Ask ATT as it is there call. We may see one update but that's about it.
Once it's officially released, just wait a few days and all the major ROMs will be updated. Absolutely no reason to go back to stock.
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Once it's officially released, just wait a few days and all the major ROMs will be updated. Absolutely no reason to go back to stock.
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Well the update is supposed to be locked
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As I recall, from the same time, ATT did reiterate what HTC said regarding the update. That it will be upgraded this summer. With HTC working to unlock the bootloader on the Evo 3D and Sensation, it is possible they would they would unlock ours as well. However, I just wouldn't count on it. For those that are rooted, I would recommend staying rooted until these [email protected] devs here on XDA finally get root on the official gingerbread update.
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is there any news on the gingerbread update for the inspire 4g I read that it would it would come out in the 2nd quarter of 2011 and still no update.
That's why I put Virtuous Unity with GB and Sense 3 on
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That's why I put Virtuous Unity with GB and Sense 3 on
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I 2nd this motion! Virtuous Unity is the best, most stable & responsive rom i have flashed on my inspire. This Rom is a keeper!
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I 2nd this motion! Virtuous Unity is the best, most stable & responsive rom i have flashed on my inspire. This Rom is a keeper!
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Gingerbeast for me
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I've recently got a d2g for overseas use and with rom manager it will only flash a very old version of cwr that wont even let me backup b4 I change roms so how can I flash cwr 3.x.x or 4.0.0? Sorry for the noob question I'm used to me hd2 and g2x
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You need Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.droid2.bootstrap&feature=search_result
Forget about ROM Manager.
Thanks also this has probly been asked before but can I flash regulaur Droid 2 roms like the cm7 nightlies to my d2g?
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This has been stated in every other topic.
Droid 2 Global is incompatible with Droid 2 ROMs. The only exceptions being, I think, Liberty and some other one (both can be patched for the A956 by that ROMer software).
Thanks. Its just that my main internet is down and its kinda hard to search with the xda app
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Im seriously considering unlocking the bootloader. What are the pros and cons of doing this? Any replies are greatly appreciated..
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You can flash ROMs, radios, and kernels with an unlocked bootloader. Without it you cant.
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What are some advantages to that as opposed to waiting for an ota?
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All custom ROMs offer various mods, tweaks, and overall improvements to the Android experience versus stock ROMs. Generally the OTAs leak long before they're pushed out, and and devs always update their ROMs accordingly so you never have to worry about accepting an OTA. Check out the development section and read through some of the ROM threads and you'll see what I mean about the tweaks and mods. If you find a ROM you'd like to have on your phone, only way to do it is by unlocking the bootloader. It's a lot easier and safer than you might think.
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Im rooted on 1.85 stock rom. Does the one click unlock method still work?
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Yes sir it does.
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Will that automatically put a custom recovery on the phone or would I have to get one from somewhere.. Sorry for all the questions..
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No, you will have to flash the recovery yourself. There are a few threads in development for recoveries, and there are even a couple one click methods. Just look for them, should be on the first couple of pages.
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The only cons are a very small chance of bricking your phone and rendering it unusable (follow instructions and you should be fine). Also, as of now, once you unlock the bootloader you will not be able to take the phone back for warranty or other reasons. In the future there may be ways to undo this process, but none that I know of right now.
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The only cons are a very small chance of bricking your phone and rendering it unusable (follow instructions and you should be fine). Also, as of now, once you unlock the bootloader you will not be able to take the phone back for warranty or other reasons. In the future there may be ways to undo this process, but none that I know of right now.
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It is very difficult to brick a phone and 99 times out of 100 it's recoverable. If you follow directions and only flash stuff that is made for your phone, then you will not brick it. As far as warranty claims are concerned, if it's a hardware issue they will still more likely than not take care of it. I've exchanged a few HOXs, all for hardware issues, and not once did they check the bootloader to see if it was unlocked at one point.
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If your thorough in following directions, there's a thread I posted in development on unlocking your boot loader without voiding HTC warranty. Also if u do unlock, just go to the market and download goo manager beta. It will flash the recovery for you. Very nice tool to have.
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My mother in law has an i4g and is having a lot of lag and app fc so I want to backup everything on her phone including the Rom itself. This is due to the only way of unlocking I have found is through the dev unlock on HTC website. Didn't know if I could do an adb backup without having s-off or unlocked bootloader. Any help us appreciated.
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Anyone?
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