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[Q] Should I Update To Leaked 2.2 Or Wait For Official 3/22/11

Just got a Samsung Mesmerize for USCC and was told that Froyo will be pushing out soon. Should I root and update to leaked 2.2 or wait for official?
Also I was hearing that once Official Froyo is released Cyanogenmod ROM should become available? Is that correct and/or will more some become available once the Official update is released.

Phillip Fry said:
Just got a Samsung Mesmerize for USCC and was told that Froyo will be pushing out soon. Should I root and update to leaked 2.2 or wait for official?
Also I was hearing that once Official Froyo is released Cyanogenmod ROM should become available? Is that correct and/or will more some become available once the Official update is released.
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It's a personal choice.
If you upgrade your phone at all (even if only doing custom 2.1 installs) you are going to most likely have to use Odin to go back to stock 2.1-update1 in order to install the official release (I'm pretty sure your phone will have to be as it was out of the box to install their update)
And no, cyanogen MOD just doesn't become available once the source is released, there still has to be people to work on building it - but it will be a lot easier to do once we have official source code - then you may see a team get together to build a supported version for the galaxy s model (which we could then port to mes). Also, once we have that we can also expect to see the kernel MOD's make it into 2.2 from 2.1.
My question is, why is everyone so concerned about getting the official drop, when i'ts going to be bloated to hell just like stock 2.1 is? Soon after it drops, you're going to see a custom deodexed and non bloated ROM and a new kernel - so you're most likely going to end up upgrading to that anyway. So in my opinion, upgrade now - then skip the official bloat release and upgrade to our customized version once i'ts complete (built off of the official 2.2 source).

What Version of 2.2 is the most up to date EC10? And it wont update when the official OTA is dropped correct? Its actually for a friend of mine I have a Dinc and only have experience in that.
On a side note. Why is this Odin thing so popular here and not Flashing with Clockwork like on the Dinc?

Phillip Fry said:
So what do you recommend? Its actually for a friend of mine I have a Dinc and only have experience in that.
So if I just root it now (Z4root) will the the official update brake the root? If there is no stable 2.2 ROM yet then I will just wait. Really only need Wireless tether for now. Any and all help is appreciated.
On a side note. Why is this Odin thing so popular here and not Flashing with Clockwork like on the Dinc?
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He already told you what he recommends, get 2.2. The other questions are answered in various threads throughout these forums.
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akellar said:
He already told you what he recommends, get 2.2. The other questions are answered in various threads throughout these forums.
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What he said^
And btw, it isn't an OTA update - it would be downloaded on your PC and installed via Kies. (not sure of the details, but this is what I've heard many times)

2.2 is already at the stores as of yesterday, our tech was given permission to upgrade the Mesmerizes in stock and employee phones, so if you were to buy a new one it'd be running froyo..
I personally got my own i500 upgraded yesterday morning and got to spend the last 24 hours reinstalling all my apps.. USCC should make an announcement on Facebook very soon.
I'm interested in removing some of this bloatware, what would be the best way to do that running the offical 2.2?

MrWright said:
2.2 is already at the stores as of yesterday, our tech was given permission to upgrade the Mesmerizes in stock and employee phones, so if you were to buy a new one it'd be running froyo..
I personally got my own i500 upgraded yesterday morning and got to spend the last 24 hours reinstalling all my apps.. USCC should make an announcement on Facebook very soon.
I'm interested in removing some of this bloatware, what would be the best way to do that running the offical 2.2?
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Install the PnP.
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just use the ec10 pnp. and go with the voodoo kernel. you can always flash back to stock with odin. then you get your warrentee back

Motorola leaked 2.3 motoblur

I just read there was a gingerbread motoblur build leaked by Motorola. I guess they are hearing us complain about there software updates, and an official gingerbread build for the defy might be a reality.
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official froyo takes a long time,
and suddenly now there's a rumour about gingerbread update?

chubb16 said:
I just read there was a gingerbread motoblur build leaked by Motorola. I guess they are hearing us complain about there software updates, and an official gingerbread build for the defy might be a reality.
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can you provide the site link?
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http://www.androidcentral.com/hands...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
That is a hands on. I say only a matter of time for the defy. It is an insanely popular device worldwide.
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lol.. he cant found phone application.. of course.. there's no "phone" but dialer..
again. all we have to do is wait. and maybe this build come to defy next year or maybe someone just found the betas as usual..

quick question, if this doesn't become available for the defy is there any chance to port it to our phone without breaking the signing?

it possible with a nandroid backup but..its necessary see if the hardware its the same etc...etc...

they have similar hardware but not really the same

I won't recommend to install this Droid X update. It should be possible to flash it via clockworkmod, but the bootloader is only half the size than a normal defy bootloader. If everything goes wrong and you can't go into the flashmode (Vol + while starting) you'll never get your phone back running....

Indeed. And since it's not the same hardware, I do not see how this will help Defy users.
Furthermore, I disagree that the Defy is 'insanly popular'. Amongst current users, probably. But that's the case for any phone that a user picked out themselves.
That said, the author of the video seems rather .. unused to handling the phone, he regularly performs actions that seem to have no effect with the phone he is holding.

we can do a port from droid 2, but it if gingerbread can not be run on 2.6.32 kernel we will have to wait for a leak, for now there are two leaks( droid x and droid2) so who will be the next one?

well it would be awesome to have gingerbread on defy, but i dont think motorola is going to release it this early. and i dont think there is going to be a gingerbread rom for defy until the smart guys on cyanogenmod show some love for the lifeproof device. and its not likely that we are gettting gingerbread right now cuz we dont even have official updates for froyo till today. but its motorola, who knows, they might just release the update right now or even years later. lets hope they do it soon.

I don't think we we'll see an official Gingerbread Update for the Defy EVER. Why should they!? Till now the Defy is not such a high end device as the other Motorola Devices which got Gingerbread already or in near future. I think they only release an Froyo Update and then concentrate on other devices.
Furthermore i guess before they will take some men from their dev team to build a Gingerbread Update for our devices, they will release maybe a device like a Defy 2 with better specs and finally an actual software version.
But how much effort is it to build a official Gingerbread Rom for the Defy at Motorola? They already have a proper Version for the Droid X and the Milestone 2. Therefore it would only be the bootloader with the drivers which they have anyway. Or is it more difficult?
Bye

bihariel said:
we can do a port from droid 2, but it if gingerbread can not be run on 2.6.32 kernel we will have to wait for a leak, for now there are two leaks( droid x and droid2) so who will be the next one?
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N900 runs gingerbread on an older kernel, I hope that it can run using a froyo kernel

Aslong as the bootloader is locked this isn't easy to just port it..
I really don't like this policy of locked bootloaders..
Also I think before releasing a 2.3 for the Defy they might plan a Defy 2 with 2.3 as a "feature"

But about this, as i'm not a developer myself. Isn't is basically possible to sign gingerbread rom on the computer and have the rom in a form of nandroid backup? or a update.zip which you can install from stock recovery?

shad0wboss said:
But about this, as i'm not a developer myself. Isn't is basically possible to sign gingerbread rom on the computer and have the rom in a form of nandroid backup? or a update.zip which you can install from stock recovery?
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To sign you need The Key and we don't have The Key . Motorola's policy.

Can't we flash Droid-Firmware's without the bootloader(will the system boot)?

m11kkaa said:
Can't we flash Droid-Firmware's without the bootloader(will the system boot)?
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Try it...:
- get the droid x zip-file
- delete everything but the system.img
- delete all flashingcommands out the script under \META-INF\com\google\android\
- resign it with signapk
- copy it to your root of your sd-card
- rename it to update.zip
- reboot to clockworkmod recovery
- apply update.zip from your sdcard
- reboot and you'll done
Report back here... doing this won't damage your phone forever...if it does'nt boot any more, you can get it back to life with RSD-Lite and a sbf-file

you can also test with the recovery partition .. its another "kernel + initrd (cpio.gz)"

[Q] Droid 2 Global flashing Gingerbread ROM

I recently rooted and have been working on modding my D2G (Froyo 2.2). Found the Gingerbread ROM and flashed it using RSD Lite. When I rebooted, I was back in an UNrooted Froyo 2.2
Thoughts?
Edit: Umm, I might have just done a really n00bish thing and flashed a stock 2.2 ROM DROID2WE_X6_2.4.29_FULL.sbf (Got off of TeamBlackHat app). Is there a Gingerbread ROM for D2G out?
Thanks!

Not yet but soon

Looks like an option to me:
But I can't post links until I have eight or so posts...
droid-life.com/2011/03/29/how-to-root-gingerbread-on-droid-2/

Chrismas007 said:
Looks like an option to me:
But I can't post links until I have eight or so posts...
droid-life.com/2011/03/29/how-to-root-gingerbread-on-droid-2/
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the droid2 and droid2 global share different basebands and the same radios wont work. I tried it... until someone can unlock the basebands on the global with GB, we're stuck on froyo.

[SBF] "Bug Solver" 2.2.1 for Israel Devices

I have been getting complains from people with a Yellow Cellcom Sim card, that they cannot use ROMs like CM7.
I found a ROM that works great with all of this, even better than the NORDIC when it comes to CM7.
This is a leaked 2.2.1 with MOTOBLUR, will upload a nand later
Download:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/tjnmh6d98
Instructions:
Power off your phone
Hold Volume Up and turn on your phone Battery must be 90% and up
Flash via RSD Lite, make sure you have the proper drivers installed
The phone will turn on by it self, unplugging while flashing will cause a permanent brick.
Flash any Custom 2.3+ Rom

iYossi said:
I have been getting complains from people with a Yellow Cellcom Sim card, that they cannot use ROMs like CM7.
I found a ROM that works great with all of this, even better than the NORDIC when it comes to CM7.
This is a leaked 2.2.1 with MOTOBLUR, will upload a nand later
Download:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/tjnmh6d98
Instructions:
Power off your phone
Hold Volume Up and turn on your phone Battery must be 90% and up
Flash via RSD Lite, make sure you have the proper drivers installed
The phone will turn on by it self, unplugging while flashing will cause a permanent brick.
Flash any Custom 2.3+ Rom
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same problem with this simcards have the galaxy mini cm7 any of the buileds
phone restarts .....

i have the cellcom 2.1 . for flashing cm7 ill need this sbf ?

havlaz said:
i have the cellcom 2.1 . for flashing cm7 ill need this sbf ?
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Yes. Flash, root, then install CWM and flash CM7

yesssss. thank אחי

What languages are included in this ROM?

Need some help
after flashing this SBF, RSD lite show finished and result Pass, but on the device i see a white led on the top, but the device does not wake up.
Won't boot
tried to flash again. same issue.
tried to flash JORDN_U3_97.21.51 and device boot ok, but it is 2.1 :-(
any idea why the 2.2.1 SBF give a blank screen?
thanks

wich is best for defy plus if i want to flash a gb rom like cm7?

yaniv2203 said:
wich is best for defy plus if i want to flash a gb rom like cm7?
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You don't have to flash any SBF. Your DEFY+ comes with a Gingerbread firmware, right? (It's Android 2.3.x?)
You just need to use the "plus" version of the ROM. There are various names for those versions - jordan plus, defy plus or MB526.
(The standard (jordan/defy/MB525) versions are for phones with Froyo firmwares (Android 2.2.x).)

Its defy plus after i flashed it as mb526 instead of 525 is it matters?
And how can i download the right version of quarx for me?
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yaniv2203 said:
Its defy plus after i flashed it as mb526 instead of 525 is it matters?
And how can i download the right version of quarx for me?
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This is not the right thread for your question(s). If you want to install CM10.1 or CM10 they both have Support threads in the Defy General Discussion forum
P.S. Quarx is a guy named Nicolas, are you sure you want a version of HIM? :silly:
P.P.S. Here's the answer anyway - CM10 and CM10.1 are now 2ndboot ROMs - they have a custom kernel contained within and because of that they are universal, the same ROM is used for both DEFY and DEFY+!
Now please stop psoting in the wrong thread

niksy+ said:
This is not the right thread for your question(s). If you want to install CM10.1 or CM10 they both have Support threads in the Defy General Discussion forum
P.S. Quarx is a guy named Nicolas, are you sure you want a version of HIM? :silly:
P.P.S. Here's the answer anyway - CM10 and CM10.1 are now 2ndboot ROMs - they have a custom kernel contained within and because of that they are universal, the same ROM is used for both DEFY and DEFY+!
Now please stop psoting in the wrong thread
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thanx
just tell me where i should post my questions
does it kill free mem and battary?

GodSlayer said:
I have been getting complains from people with a Yellow Cellcom Sim card, that they cannot use ROMs like CM7.
I found a ROM that works great with all of this, even better than the NORDIC when it comes to CM7.
This is a leaked 2.2.1 with MOTOBLUR, will upload a nand later
Download:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/tjnmh6d98
Instructions:
Power off your phone
Hold Volume Up and turn on your phone Battery must be 90% and up
Flash via RSD Lite, make sure you have the proper drivers installed
The phone will turn on by it self, unplugging while flashing will cause a permanent brick.
Flash any Custom 2.3+ Rom
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i turned my defy to mb526 after i accedently flashed it with the wrong sbf.
can i turn it backwords and flash your sbf as a defy with no further problems?
this is my sbf
"DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-125_GR_SIGN_SIGNED"

How get back to original Froyo Faster

I have a red lens with CM7.2 running on it
when I purchased it had froyo android 2.2
then I flashed it with gingerbread
unfortunately since I had accidently flashed a full sbf 4.5.1_128 UK retail
http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy
I had no root or had no option to but use this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152377 to get back to froyo using a unique eclair and then using froyo nandroid and a fixed sbf of CEE froyo
then I installed CM 7 and have been using it since
Have been able to use MIUI and many walters ROMS but none could give me a good batery life except with CM7 which I am using now which takes me through one day atleast..
Now with release of new sbf with Bl6 Bl7 Bl5
could some one explain how to get back to froyo faster if I have to
may be that way I might get a better battery..
and save time in case something goes wrong when flashing another ROM next time

ashwanikoul said:
I have a red lens with CM7.2 running on it
when I purchased it had froyo android 2.2
then I flashed it with gingerbread
unfortunately since I had accidently flashed a full sbf 4.5.1_128 UK retail
http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy
I had no root or had no option to but use this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152377 to get back to froyo using a unique eclair and then using froyo nandroid and a fixed sbf of CEE froyo
then I installed CM 7 and have been using it since
Have been able to use MIUI and many walters ROMS but none could give me a good batery life except with CM7 which I am using now which takes me through one day atleast..
Now with release of new sbf with Bl6 Bl7 Bl5
could some one explain how to get back to froyo faster if I have to
may be that way I might get a better battery..
and save time in case something goes wrong when flashing another ROM next time
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read this for beggining

Maybe try to flash a rooted rom and then 2.2.2 nandroid backup?

Maybe post in the right section
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I want this too...
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jufa2401 said:
I want this too...
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Read my tutorial in defy general
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