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I have been seeing MANY threads lately involving questions such as, "How do I get on ICS?", "Should I update to ICS?", "I think I am bricked, how can I fix this?", and "How do I FXZ back to GB?" So I am creating this thread as an information only thread to answer these questions and more with links to proper threads that have already been posted for your benefit. Unless otherwise noted by the OP's or myself the following threads apply to the AT&T MB865. So without further ado....
What you need to know about ICS and your Atrix 2
The first link you need to look at is the Noob thread. I am going to be using terms like "Bootloader", "Soft-Brick", "Hard-Brick", "FXZ", "Fastboot", "OTA", and the like and user/developer JRW28 has posted a FANTASTIC thread to help you familiarize yourself with certain Android terminologies and certain HOWTO's that will help you understand and accomplish much of what I am going to be referring to. So with the Atrix 2, if you are confused with something. START WITH THE NOOB THREAD. Find it here: JRW28's NOOB Thread
Done? Well read it AGAIN.
Oh, what's that? You read it twice and memorized it? Okay, moving on....
The first question that needs to be answered is:
SHOULD I UPDATE TO ICS?
Well, we have all been waiting for ICS to come out, and it has officially been running on the Atrix 2 for a while via a find through Cheesecake. The initial leak is NOT the final OTA that is still trickling out. You need to first understand that. Is ICS better than GB? Of course it is. No one will argue that here, but what we are tackling is, should you upgrade to it?
When it comes to XDA, we are always looking for ways to improve our phones. That's why we're all here right? This is a DEVELOPERS site. With developing comes trials, and with trials comes ERRORS. Now when it comes to the Atrix 2 (A2 from here on) we have a locked bootloader. This means that recovering from developing, and/or modding errors is not as easy as recovering from errors and mistakes with phones that have unlocked bootloaders. Normally, on phones with unlocked bootloaders, it is easy enough to jump into Clockwork Recovery and restore a previously saved nandroid backup, because with unlocked phones the modified recovery REPLACES the original. Poof. Back to normal.
On locked down phones such as the A2, we have to depend on either a bootstrap recovery or the like to make up for the lack of our locked phones. Do we have recoveries? Sure, but they DO NOT replace the original stock recovery and therefore we depend on things such as Bootmenu and Safestrap to makeup for this. While this works it is definitely not ideal. So what happens when the recovery get's borked, ROM goes belly up, or your phone is stuck at the splash screen and won't boot into recovery?
Well this is where the ICS upgrade question comes into play. This phones DEPENDS on FXZ's (see noob thread for more info). If the above scenario(s) happen then we depend on being able to jump into Fastboot (FB from here on) and reflash our phone back to stock. With Gingerbread this was easy enough as we had an FXZ for GB.
With ICS, ONLY THE FIRST LEAK IS ABLE TO REFLASH BACK TO GB! WE HAVE NO WAY TO REFLASH BACK TO GB WITH THE LATEST LEAKS AND THE SOON TO BE OTA UPDATE!!!!!!
Only when we find an ICS FXZ will this be possible!
Now I can hear it now. Some might say at this point, "Well once I'm on ICS, I won't want to go back to Gingerbread." The point, my friend, is not WANTING to go back to GB, it is needing a way to fix your phone. I myself have a paperweight for an A2 for EXACTLY this reason. I was running the latest of the leaks (NOT the first, which we can go back with). I had made a couple of mods, as bootmenu was working for it, and I made a backup. Well, I flashed a mod, rebooted and BOOM. Bootloop. No biggie, I thought, I will just restore my backup. But apparently I had deleted my backup. I tried, with the help of Devs (whom will be named later) to FXZ back and quickly found that this was impossible to do at this point. Now I have a phone that is able to boot in FB, with no way of restoring it. Fastboot does us no good without a proper working FXZ to flash.
So upgrading to ICS at this point, is fine, but be warned, if you make just the littlest boo boo, you might have a paperweight on your hands. Myself, many of the other Senior Members, and many of the A2 developers are recommending to run the first leak, because it is the most stable and dependable as far as getting yourself out of a jam. Also, many of the the more stable leaks have been baked into the current ICS ROMS we have. Now once you are on the first leak, you will have no problems flashing these ROMS with the more stable versions on them, but you MUST be on the first leak beforehand!!!!! As always read carefully the install instructions from the developer and if you're unsure, ask a question in the ROM's thread before flashing!!!!
UDPATE 9/20/12 It seems as though Moto and AT&T are now releasing OTA updates to our leak! Remember the reasons as to why we are advising against them! IF YOU GET A MESSAGE TO UPDATE WHILE ON THE FIRST LEAK, COMPARE THE FIRMWARE INFO WITH THOSE LISTED IN THE THREAD BELOW BEFORE UPDATING!!!!!
THREAD WITH INFO ON OTHER ICS LEAKS AND WHY WE ARE ADVISING AGAINST THEM AT THIS POINT. Originally posted by alteredlikeness
The rest of this will mainly be references to threads as most questions have already been answered in other threads as I just felt we needed a place to consolidate all the info out there on this. Here goes...
In the following theads, PLEASE thank the OP's!
HOW DO I UPDATE TO ICS?
Other than the OTA method that has been trickling out at this point, I am ONLY going to refer you to the thread to get you onto the initial leak. Because at this point many of us see this is as the safest leak. As you have a way out. Because we want to do what is best for you and YOUR phone.
NOTE: The rest of these threads (unless otherwise specified) refer ONLY to the first leak, and to NOTHING ELSE!!!!
How to get your phone on ICS, and how to root it: Originally posted by Jimbridgman
Ok so now that you are comfortably running ICS and rooted.....
HOW DO I INSTALL A RECOVERY?
We currently have two recoveries for the first ICS leak. Both are very stable and work well, but are slightly different. Read each of the following threads for how to install and the differences between them.
BOOTMENU RECOVERY Originally posted and developed by lukensteinz and Whirleyes
SAFESTRAP RECOVERY Originally developed and posted by Recognized Developer Hashcode
And FOR PETE'S SAKE, now that you have a slick recovery working MAKE A BACKUP!. And then copy it and put one on your desktop!!!!
I MADE A MISTAKE, HOW DO I FXZ BACK?
You are ONLY going to be doing this if you somehow messed up a MOD, didn't make a backup, and now you are in a bootloop. REMEMBER, THIS IS ONLY FOR THE FIRST LEAK. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DID NOT READ THROUGH FAR ENOUGH AND BRICK YOUR PHONE. If you managed to try and FXZ back while NOT on the first leak, or your phone won't turn on or go into FB, then, well sorry mate, but you are HARD-BRICKED. But if you are on the first leak then the following should work.
HOW TO FXZ BACK TO GINGERBREAD FROM THE FIRST ICS LEAK Originally posted and developed by Jimbridgman
ROMS TO INSTALL BASED ON THE FIRST LEAK
NOTE: You must be on the first ICS leak in aforementioned post to properly install the following ROMS, unless otherwise noted by the devs! And as always read CAREFULLY the installation procedure as laid out by the developer!!!
ScV7 - ICSupercharged Originally developed and posted by rdavisct
De-odexed and De-bloated basic ROM Originally developed and posted by timmytim
ROMS THAT ARE STILL A WIP:
MIUI PORT FOR A2 V4 2.8.17 Originally developed and posted by rdavisct
CYANOGENMOD 10 - JELLYBEAN Originally posted and ported by wanggjghost with continued help and fixes by rdavisct and Jimbridgman
In closing, hopefully this will answer all your who's, what's, and how's of ICS on the A2. Please DO NOT post questions regarding the threads themselves here. Post those in the appropriate posted thread, as this is what this is for. TO KEEP THINGS ORGANIZED!!!!!
If I need to update the OP, or have left something out. Feel free to post it here.
Enjoy ICS! And remember! ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP!!!!!!!
Special thanks to the following: Jimbridgman, rdavisct, alteredlikeness, Apex_Strider, DX2Trip, Mtnlion and any others I left out.
One quick question what does bootloader, hard-brick and fastboot mean. JK
Thanks for the write up. I hope this saves alot of question's from being posted.
Sent from my MB865 on ICS
Good post man. Answered alot of my questions
Thanks for this, plenty of good information.
rdhoggattjr said:
One quick question what does bootloader, hard-brick and fastboot mean. JK
Thanks for the write up. I hope this saves alot of question's from being posted.
Sent from my MB865 on ICS
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Consider your bootloader a prison warden. Nothing happens unless the bootloader says so. Pretty much plain and simple really. It's the partition on your device, which initiates first. And it checks to make sure the OS is a legitimate one. Ultimate security. If it thinks everything is in order (after communicating with the kernel), it boots the OS. This is the security most devs have to work at, to allow installation of custom recovery and roms.
There are 2 types of "bricks". A hard and soft brick. Soft bricks you can usually recover from. A hard brick, well, it's not impossible, but difficult. Typically with a hard brick, your device is basically dead. No response, or stuck at the logo screen forever more. forever more. forever more...... Edgar Allen Poe. You always want to avoid a hard brick. In essence, your device becomes nothing more than a ....brick.
Fastboot, is a part of the Android SDK. It allows some types of files to be "flashed" to certain partitions of the device, without a need for a custom recovery. For example a boot.img (kernel for easier terms), a recovery image, and a few other image files. Of course depending on the Bootloader, depends on what fastboot capability you have.
Some devices, Devs have been able to re-write the Bootloader to enable fastboot when it wasn't there from the factory. See Iconia A500. By virtue of patching, and re-writing, the bootloader was stripped of all security and features added. But you can't do this with all bootloaders.
Hope this explained.
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Hey Bro I have an Ics ota now. Will that unroot the phone? If yes how do I root it back? And is there gonna b any problem if I update with root?
Sent from my stock rooted Atrix2!
If you are stock 2.3.6 rooted, then yes you will lose root.
As far as rooting ICS goes you should be able to root it with Jim's script from the thread I posted in the OP.
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Just a question out of the discussion but not of the thread. Why does ATT gets last the ICS OTA?? I see Cambodia and India got it already while ATT phones are still on leaks!!! Isnt this weird considering that ATT is the biggest Moto fan?!
how is the battery life on ics? better or less than GB???
V1P3R92 said:
Just a question out of the discussion but not of the thread. Why does ATT gets last the ICS OTA?? I see Cambodia and India got it already while ATT phones are still on leaks!!! Isnt this weird considering that ATT is the biggest Moto fan?!
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Ahem, Viper? Did you not read my post man? TRUST ME. You want to be on the leak.
hemanbond said:
how is the battery life on ics? better or less than GB???
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When I was on the leak, I personally was getting better battery life.
However, remember that battery life is all subjective. What might be good for me might not be others!
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and what about root checker?
Yes there is a "Root checker" however, it will not hinder your installation, but as far as long term issues? We have no idea as to what Motorola is going to do with this.
its obvious for voiding our warranty
hemanbond said:
its obvious for voiding our warranty
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If you're rooting/modding/theming/tweaking/overclocking/underclocking/changing voltages/editing build.prop/etc./etc./etc. haven't you already thrown caution to the wind in regards to your warranty?
If you are concerned about it, they (Apple) just released a new iToy, so all you have to do is pull it out of the box and use it.. as is... unless you 'jailbreak it', in which case, warranty worries wander back into the equation, right?
once started how do i stop the ota download
You don't. You can download it, and then NOT install it if you like. Once downloaded it will be in your cache folder.
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it said update failed and now its asking me to download again....wth
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downloading was so slow that it took me 4 hrs...damn...and now it failed and asking me to download again
hemanbond said:
it said update failed and now its asking me to download again....wth
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If update failed because of checksum error, downloading again won't be of help. Most likely you have changed a file that the update is trying to patch. Better you go back to stock 2.3.6 and then apply OTA.
Same happened with me as to the person above. Downloaded the update. I but it says update failed? Do I have to unroot or something?
Sent from my stock rooted Atrix2!
I see a lot of people in here asking for stock apps that they removed instead of froze, and have also seen people having issues with the OTA not working, due to trying to save root through an OTA, or having bootstrap/bootmenu installed.
Look guys this has been covered a billion times in here, since the 2.3.6 update was out in Jan.
Please use the fxz back to 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 if you were on 2.3.6, or if you are on leak 1 then use my script in the dev section, then do the ota with out installing ANY apps at all.
This is really the safest easiest way. If you are on leak 2, then that is the exact same as the OTA, so no need to apply the OTA, you will gain nothing and you already can not fxz back, so..
Oh didn't realize that leak 2 was the ota. Awesome, I'll stop spamming update checks now. Thanks Jim!
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I see a lot of people in here asking for stock apps that they removed instead of froze, and have also seen people having issues with the OTA not working, due to trying to save root through an OTA, or having bootstrap/bootmenu installed.
Look guys this has been covered a billion times in here, since the 2.3.6 update was out in Jan.
Please use the fxz back to 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 if you were on 2.3.6, or if you are on leak 1 then use my script in the dev section, then do the ota with out installing ANY apps at all.
This is really the safest easiest way. If you are on leak 2, then that is the exact same as the OTA, so no need to apply the OTA, you will gain nothing and you already can not fxz back, so..
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thanks jim
will FXZ back to 2.3.6 before applying the update.
phone currently says that "you are up to date"
I think you had mentioned in one of your posts that when we FXZ back to stock 2.3.6, do not login to google and then try OTA.
It will go through? wont get up to date message. Am I correct
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Sent from my locked MB865 on Ice Cream Sandwich.
Restore back up from AT&T 4.0.4 1st leak on SCV7 to official OTA 4.0.4 also on SCV7?
I haven't made the mistake just yet, but inevitably, I am sure I will need to FXZ at some point. When I do, would it be OK to restore my current backup (AT&T 1st leak on SCV7) on the official OTA on the same ROM, or would that cause any problems? I have read that I wouldn't be able to restore app DATA from one ROM to another, but haven't found anything that said either way based on the firmware version. Thank you in advance.
I didn't have anything clever to say here.
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I haven't made the mistake just yet, but inevitably, I am sure I will need to FXZ at some point. When I do, would it be OK to restore my current backup (AT&T 1st leak on SCV7) on the official OTA on the same ROM, or would that cause any problems? I have read that I wouldn't be able to restore app DATA from one ROM to another, but haven't found anything that said either way based on the firmware version. Thank you in advance.
I went ahead and just tried myself, and the answer is yes. I'm not really sure if I didn't get a response nobody knew the answer, so I figured I should report my findings.
I didn't have anything clever to say here.
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Atrix2 ATT, on stock GB 2.3.6
I accidentally hit download on the prompt for ICA OTA. Couldn't stop the darn download so it's now downloaded and keeps prompting me everyday to install it.
How do I get rid of it? I don't want it. Rather hope & wait on the JB port that Jim is working on
Thx
The downloaded file is in /cache, I think you can delete it
But the ICS is awesome, there're no reasons to stay on GB
Anyway, you must be on ICS to flash JB
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The downloaded file is in /cache, I think you can delete it
But the ICS is awesome, there're no reasons to stay on GB
Anyway, you must be on ICS to flash JB
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Where exactly is this cache? and is it safe to do so?
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Where exactly is this cache? and is it safe to do so?
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You'll need to be rooted and have a root explorer/browser app installed to delete it. The directory is simply /cache and yes it's safe to remove it. If it was me I'd just let it install since jimbridgman has already said that porting the jb leak was not likely to happen and he isn't working on it anymore. See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37823784
But it's your phone, and your decision.
Sent from this thing.
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You'll need to be rooted and have a root explorer/browser app installed to delete it. The directory is simply /cache and yes it's safe to remove it. If it was me I'd just let it install since jimbridgman has already said that porting the jb leak was not likely to happen and he isn't working on it anymore. See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37823784
But it's your phone, and your decision.
Sent from this thing.
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hmm... but don't I have to be on the ICS leak1 to install other ATT support custom roms like NUMA?
gcretro said:
hmm... but don't I have to be on the ICS leak1 to install other ATT support custom roms like NUMA?
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You can install NUMA on leak1 or leak2(which is the same as the ota). No matter what, you have to be on ICS in order to install an ICS ROM. Personally, I am on the ota and running NUMA, so I can say from personal experience that it works. NUMA is a very good choice, by the way. :thumbup:
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You can install NUMA on leak1 or leak2(which is the same as the ota). No matter what, you have to be on ICS in order to install an ICS ROM. Personally, I am on the ota and running NUMA, so I can say from personal experience that it works. NUMA is a very good choice, by the way. :thumbup:
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Thx for helping a noob :good:. But I have more questions:
1. So you have an US AT&T atrix 2 that you OTA's to ICS? And then put on NUMA? I see a gamma version of Numa out, what are the bugs that you know of? I recall seeing that in ICS, icons (like the dialer button etc) were made smaller. Is it the same in NUMA?
2. If I OTA to ICS and put Numa, then want to revert back to the ICA OTA, is that possible?
3. Different question: If a JB based rom comes out in the future for us, will being on ICS OTA be a disadvantage. I suppose NO. I recall reading many times esp in Jim's posts, that many things require being on ICS leak1 and not to OTA. Is that constraint gone now?
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Thx for helping a noob :good:. But I have more questions:
1. So you have an US AT&T atrix 2 that you OTA's to ICS? And then put on NUMA? I see a gamma version of Numa out, what are the bugs that you know of? I recall seeing that in ICS, icons (like the dialer button etc) were made smaller. Is it the same in NUMA?
2. If I OTA to ICS and put Numa, then want to revert back to the ICA OTA, is that possible?
3. Different question: If a JB based rom comes out in the future for us, will being on ICS OTA be a disadvantage. I suppose NO. I recall reading many times esp in Jim's posts, that many things require being on ICS leak1 and not to OTA. Is that constraint gone now?
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You have a lot of reading to do.lol Bugs in NUMA will be listed in the change log in the op. Personally, I haven't had any issues with it, but read the entire thread to see what others are reporting.
To revert to ICS ota you'll need the fxz, aka firmware, posted by Pzyduck over in the development section. For a tutorial on how to do that look in the general section, Alteredlikeness has a great one called something like "fxz what?" or something similar.
There is Paranoid Android, CM10, CM10.1, and Magic Mod, all of which are jb ROMs that can be flashed on ICS.
Staying on leak1 was most important before Pzyduck posted the ICS fxz. Now the only reason that I know of to stay on leak1 is if you intend to go back to gb. I don't know of any reason to go back to gb unless you just want the better version of webtop.
Now do yourself a huge favor and read, read, read, read before doing anything else. And just when you think you understand, read it all again.
Good luck to ya.:thumbup:
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Thx for helping a noob :good:. But I have more questions:
1. So you have an US AT&T atrix 2 that you OTA's to ICS? And then put on NUMA? I see a gamma version of Numa out, what are the bugs that you know of? I recall seeing that in ICS, icons (like the dialer button etc) were made smaller. Is it the same in NUMA?
2. If I OTA to ICS and put Numa, then want to revert back to the ICA OTA, is that possible?
3. Different question: If a JB based rom comes out in the future for us, will being on ICS OTA be a disadvantage. I suppose NO. I recall reading many times esp in Jim's posts, that many things require being on ICS leak1 and not to OTA. Is that constraint gone now?
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I will answer number 3 for you.
It is safe now to upgrade to the ICS OTA, since we do have an official AT&T ICS FXZ version that can be flashed through RSD lite. Now if you are a fan of webtop or GB, and want the ability to go back to GB, then do not update to the OTA, or leak 2. You can go back to GB from ICS leak one ONLY, I have a script in the dev section for just that. There is NO difference between leak 1, leak 2, or the "official" OTA, so you can pick what you want to install based on the notes I have given here.
Yes you can load any ICS or JB ROM once you are on ICS, just not any of the GB ROMs.
Sorry but I do not have much knowledge on NUMA, since I was mostly working on CM, and the like, or I would have tried to answer your other questions.
Thx!!
yes. I located the thread with the ICS FZX here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961310&page=11. There was dropbox link from where I downloaded "InlineFlashing_Edison_67.21.125_CFC_P3_APBP.xml.zip". (I have no use for this now. Just downloaded it in case these links die later and I have to search again.).
Alright baby steps. I am ready to finally accept the OTA to ICS. Its already downloaded.
---I am stock GB (only thing I have done is uninstalled some ATT bloatware apps like ATT navigator etc...).
---I assume the ICS OTA will be successful? If something happens, what should I do?
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Thx!!
yes. I located the thread with the ICS FZX here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961310&page=11. There was dropbox link from where I downloaded "InlineFlashing_Edison_67.21.125_CFC_P3_APBP.xml.zip". (I have no use for this now. Just downloaded it in case these links die later and I have to search again.).
Alright baby steps. I am ready to finally accept the OTA to ICS. Its already downloaded.
---I am stock GB (only thing I have done is uninstalled some ATT bloatware apps like ATT navigator etc...).
---I assume the ICS OTA will be successful? If something happens, what should I do?
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The OTA will most likely fail since you've removed some system apps. You'll probably have to factory reset, then push the OTA. If all else fails, you can flash the FXZ that you downloaded using RSDlite, same effect, but it isn't an upgrade like an OTA is, it's just raw flashing. If the OTA fails, no worries, you'll be able to boot back up, but you'll have to explore the options I just stated.
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I will answer number 3 for you.
It is safe now to upgrade to the ICS OTA, since we do have an official AT&T ICS FXZ version that can be flashed through RSD lite. Now if you are a fan of webtop or GB, and want the ability to go back to GB, then do not update to the OTA, or leak 2. You can go back to GB from ICS leak one ONLY, I have a script in the dev section for just that. There is NO difference between leak 1, leak 2, or the "official" OTA, so you can pick what you want to install based on the notes I have given here.
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Thx Jim. I found your post on how to get toe leak 1 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779968
However, your line "There is NO difference between leak 1, leak 2, or the "official" OTA..." confused me? No difference as the are the exact same?
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Thx Jim. I found your post on how to get toe leak 1 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779968
However, your line "There is NO difference between leak 1, leak 2, or the "official" OTA..." confused me? No difference as the are the exact same?
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Sort of, but not exactly. The only real difference between leak 1 and leak 2 is the bootloader version that gets installed, once leak 2 is installed the bootloader will not allow you to go back to GB no matter what. As far as the firmware/ROM itself, all three do not have really any noticeable differences, so you can use any JB or ICS ROM on top of any of them with out issue. I think that there might have also been a small kernel update in leak 2 and the OTA as well, but it was a very small one, that does not effect much for the end user.
On thing we have noticed with leaks and OTA's since the 2.3.6 update, is that motorola will not put a leak on their servers until it is very stable and very close to the final OTA.
Also note that ONLY AT&T phones can use the leaks that we are speaking of. There were different ICS leaks for the international and the TW/HK versions of the atrix2 as well, so they will have different posts out there, if you need those, and you can not flash any other firmware if you are on the AT&T branded phone, and if you are on an international, or the TW/HK phone I would NOT flash the AT&T version (it might lock you to that firmware). The AT&T phone will hard brick if you install the wrong firmware, so be very careful.
Here is the link for the official FXZ and also where all the FXZ files are kept, for future reference:
All FXZ files for the atrix2:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/list.php
The one for ICS and AT&T:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/InlineFlashing_Edison_67.21.125_CFC_P3_APBP.xml.zip
Now the FXZ method is the best and easiest way to do this, the leak method that I have is a real PIA, so I am laying them both out here for you, so you have all the cards in the deck.
Again the ONLY reason to stay on GB is the ubuntu webtop, and while I still had my A2, I kept it on leak 1 without any issues, and would go back to GB weekly to try and get the ubuntu webtop ported to ICS, but without much luck. so.... there it is all laid out for you.
Let us know what you decide to do and how it goes, then also how you like ICS, I think it runs awesome on the A2, much better than GB.
Done. ATT OTA to ICS was successful. My my setting and apps were retained.
Now: since I am test engineer by profession, on to finding issues.
1. I read somewhere that ICS was to bump the cpu to 1.2ghz? I downloaded android system info and it said current frequency is 1ghz :crying:
2. Next I plan to root. I assume rooting is needed (for trying custom roms later on?) and has no negative aspects. I should follow this thread to root right? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787796
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Done. ATT OTA to ICS was successful. My my setting and apps were retained.
Now: since I am test engineer by profession, on to finding issues.
1. I read somewhere that ICS was to bump the cpu to 1.2ghz? I downloaded android system info and it said current frequency is 1ghz :crying:
2. Next I plan to root. I assume rooting is needed (for trying custom roms later on?) and has no negative aspects. I should follow this thread to root right? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787796
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Thanks for reporting back. I'm glad you got it.:thumbup: The root method I use is the one posted by jimbridgman here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28934153
Other than the things I have screwed up by my own mistakes, I haven't noticed anything but positive effects by rooting. No biggie as long as you have an fxz and/or nandroid backups. You will need to be rooted to install custom ROMs, and you'll need a custom recovery as well. Some ROMs are specific to certain custom recoveries, just be sure to follow the install instructions for each ROM to a T and you can't go wrong. As far as CPU speed goes, it's a really weird thing that seems to vary for some reason I don't quite understand so I can't elaborate on that too much. (Maybe someone with more knowledge on that can fill in the blanks for us both.) But daavis has some over clock zips posted in the development section. I haven't used them since I was one of the lucky ones that got 1.2 GHz out of the box, but most people seem to have had good luck with them.
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Please forgive me if my questions have been answered many times but I really don't know what to look for in the search menu to address my questions.
1. I have rooted my phone and installed Liquid smooth but I went back to stock (still on 4.1.2 TW) and would like to update to at least 4.3 or higher. One issue I'm having is that when the OTA comes through and I go to update it gives me an error. But even before that as I am rooted it boots into TeamWin and wants me to install from there. It has been a while since I've done anything with the boot loader and I'm afraid to install from there and/or if that is wise. (frankly I've forgotten how)
Honestly I just want a quick way to install the update to 4.3 or 4.4 or whatever the next OTA is so that I can move on. I really don't even want to mess with it much right now as my life is way to busy.
2. My search so far has shown me that others are having similar issues but they are saying that the ota update is messing up certain things with their rooted phones (haven't found the answers I'm searching for either). Should I wait on updating? If so, how do I get the ota to stop wanting me to update my phone?
Thank you for any help you can provide.
wouldn't you know, that as soon as I submit this post I find another thread dealing with the same thing... Sorry for the clutter.
Here is the thread I found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49249510
Sithlyone said:
Please forgive me if my questions have been answered many times but I really don't know what to look for in the search menu to address my questions.
1. I have rooted my phone and installed Liquid smooth but I went back to stock (still on 4.1.2 TW) and would like to update to at least 4.3 or higher. One issue I'm having is that when the OTA comes through and I go to update it gives me an error. But even before that as I am rooted it boots into TeamWin and wants me to install from there. It has been a while since I've done anything with the boot loader and I'm afraid to install from there and/or if that is wise. (frankly I've forgotten how)
Honestly I just want a quick way to install the update to 4.3 or 4.4 or whatever the next OTA is so that I can move on. I really don't even want to mess with it much right now as my life is way to busy.
2. My search so far has shown me that others are having similar issues but they are saying that the ota update is messing up certain things with their rooted phones (haven't found the answers I'm searching for either). Should I wait on updating? If so, how do I get the ota to stop wanting me to update my phone?
Thank you for any help you can provide.
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Since your life is too busy and you don't want to mess with your phone anymore, your best bet is go back to stock 4.3 which is very good by the way, very stable, smooth and bug free. After so many complaints from my wife I rolled it back to stock 4.3 and she's so happy now.
1. Flash stock MF1 here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 , just unzip the flash with Odin
2. Your phone should take the 4.3 OTA update and you're home free.
buhohitr said:
Since your life is too busy and you don't want to mess with your phone anymore, your best bet is go back to stock 4.3 which is very good by the way, very stable, smooth and bug free. After so many complaints from my wife I rolled it back to stock 4.3 and she's so happy now.
1. Flash stock MF1 here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 , just unzip the flash with Odin
2. Your phone should take the 4.3 OTA update and you're home free.
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Thanks so much, but now that I've put a little more research into this update I'm seeing that others are having issues with tethering and that would be a serious issue for me.
Also I used twrp to root my phone and did not use odin so I don't know how to flash with odin (or even have the files on my computer) is there a way to us twrp?
It looks like I will need to put a little more time into this than I wanted. Anyway, thanks for the help.
Sithlyone said:
Thanks so much, but now that I've put a little more research into this update I'm seeing that others are having issues with tethering and that would be a serious issue for me.
Also I used twrp to root my phone and did not use odin so I don't know how to flash with odin (or even have the files on my computer) is there a way to us twrp?
It looks like I will need to put a little more time into this than I wanted. Anyway, thanks for the help.
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No issue with tethering for me, just root then install wifi tether router.