ALERT! 2.2 FroYo Circus continues...FRG01B is Official get it here.

[dwoid]

Usually the battery pull is a last resort because you cannot turn your Droid off to reboot it. And yes, you literally take the battery out, wait about 10 seconds, then put it back in and try again.

If you can turn your Droid off, you don't need to pull the battery. Pulling the battery won't do anything better for you than just turning the Droid off.

 

[scf]

Getting an error. Invalid or deleted file.

Getting an error. Invalid or deleted file.

I was getting that error, and it was because I renamed the update file "update.zip" instead of just "update" before I moved it. This was mentioned a bit earlier in the thread. I was in Windows Vista, and I had "View Extensions" turned off in the file explorer settings, so I was adding an extra ".zip" to the filename before I copied to my SD card.

When I finally got it to work, I still got an error message above the update progress, but it appears it was unrelated to the update itself.

Getting that error when trying to download file to begin with.

 

[jdsingle]

After reading 21 of the 27 pages thought I would comment. I threw on last weeks update manually. No problems or bugs with it. Just a curious windows user who is used to preferring clean install rather than patches and updates.

Just for ****s and grins I think I will install Easy Root, it sounds like that takes you back to 2.1...and then mess around with a rooted phone to see if I like it more. If not, then I will push this one to my phone. Or, I can still wait for the OTA update correct?

Also...will a Verizon tech be able to tell I rooted my phone and then pushed this manual update if I have to take it in for any reason? I have had enough phones go haywire for weird reasons to take my warranty seriously.

If it goes in with a rooted OS they'll be able to tell. You'd have to unroot to take it back. If you flash in an alternate recovery image you'd have to apply this update or RSDLite a stock SBF to get the phone back to virgin status for repair.

And no, it just adds the elements needed to allow root access to the OS. No flashing back to 2.1 is involved via Easy Root.

I wouldn't take it in rooted. I would use easy root, tinker around with stuff for a while, then take this update and push it to my phone to overwrite everything. That should get rid of my root, correct? I'm just asking because using easyroot then running this update sounds a lot easier than other methods of rooting than flashing back so I can install update.

One other curiosity question, if you manually update your phone with this and it it stock, can Verizon tell you didn't receive the OTA? It seems like if I rooted and installed anything else and then did a search for updates using the phone it should notice I don't have the latest update. Sorry about all the questions lumped together and thanks for all insight and answers.

 

[PhoenixGTR]

I just read in another thread that easyroot is giving people fits. I don't get it. The video looks easy enough. Anyone know what this is about?

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[RW-1]

You people are all a bad, bad influence. Shame on you all, touting the fun and excitement of rooting, custom ROMs and installing grey-market updates. You have caused a tech-paranoid, law-abiding (and kinda handsome!) member of the forum to throw caution to the wind and start doing bad things to his phone that VZW would not approve of. It doesn't matter that his phone is faster now, has lots of cool new features and he no longer has "Froyo Envy". Shame on him and shame on you guys, especially thehirsches, who posted the simplest, safest way to get the Droid of his dreams.

:biggrin:

All together now:

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.........."

I'll give you a small example of this morning.

Backed up current FRG22 ...

Grabbed Sapphire ROM, Google Apps, and theme, boot to SPR, wipe cache, factory reset, installed each, one at a time.

Completely new phone!

Used Nex Theme, but one, didn't get the fonts that were in the screenshots (CK ??) and realized the theme borrows from HTC, didnt like, so back to FRG22 with a simple reboot to recovery and restore from backup!

One can throw a whole bunch of ROM's and lip as you desire, that is the beauty of it. On weekdays have one ROM, on weekends another, let's see the ithing do that!

 

[AllFallsApart]

I just read in another thread that easyroot is giving people fits. I don't get it. The video looks easy enough. Anyone know what this is about?

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I can't speak for others, but EasyRoot worked very well for me. Don't know if had anything to do at all with paying a little extra than the minimum for the key.

Before I used EasyRoot and installed FROYO last night, I had never attempted to do anything to my stock phone, so perhaps it worked for me because I had a clean slate so to speak.

 

[dwoid]

The ithing can do it, but they have to hold it differently.

... let's see the ithing do that!

 

[doctordoctor]

I got it working now but I am stuck trying to get SPRecovery or clockworkloaded through rom manager. I finally got busybox loaded and did a backup on titanium. Want to do nandroid backup and then load 928 black theme. Help!!!

 

[lnxtinman]

silly question....should the zipped file be named "update" then place the ZIPPED file on droid? or should the file be unzipped and place the unzipped files in a folder called update on the droid? tia

 

[clashfan]

I'm too scared to update manually, I want to wait for official OTA. Does anyone know when OTA is suppose to go live?

 

[doctordoctor]

silly question....should the zipped file be named "update" then place the ZIPPED file on droid? or should the file be unzipped and place the unzipped files in a folder called update on the droid? tia

no just keep it zipped. and just name it update. I had this probelm last night as you can see from my posts it pissed me off big time. i downloaded it to my computer first the to my sd card. Once on my phone I long held it... hit edit... then rename... clicked next to ".zip" and deleted file name until all I had was ".zip" then I typed update so my final name was "update.zip

 

[scf]

Strange. I can download the file no problem with my PC, but can't download it directly to the Droid.

 

[doctordoctor]

Strange. I can download the file no problem with my PC, but can't download it directly to the Droid.

Yeah had same problem!!!! Let me know if you get stuck... I will be here. Need help with rom manager hopefully you can figure it out and get back to me

 

[amblefinie]

What's the deal with all of this root talk?

If this is indeed an official update.zip, it will work in stock recovery, so you don't need root to load it. If you need root, it's not the official update.

I guess there is some fuzzy space if you have the previous 2.2 OTA update and a custom recovery (easy root does install a custom recovery, right?) somehow doesn't do the version checking before installing??? Otherwise, I don't see how root vs non-root would make a difference.

Also, I find it interesting that this thread is 8 pages long of people jumping on this update and a total of 1 or 2 people have reported receiving this update OTA.

Anyway, continue on ...

 

[RW-1]

silly question....should the zipped file be named "update" then place the ZIPPED file on droid? or should the file be unzipped and place the unzipped files in a folder called update on the droid? tia

Not silly, but of repeated, you will not be the last ....

The downloaded file name needs to be "update.zip"

You then place (typically) on the root of your SD Card.

(Meaning the SD card itself, if you connect to your computer, and you open it to view files, you are there)

You place that zip file there. You do not unzip the contents.

Repeated questions may cause headaches, but will result in further answers