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

[acles003]

I would like to download the non-patch version of froyo to my droid. Do I have to be rooted to install the 76mg version of froyo? or am I stuck with the patch version? I have a mac so I dont have any of the recovery applications.

If I install froyo and its buggy or doesnt install correctly, how would I be able to return to 2.1?

My droid is the only phone I have, so I need to know there would be a way to return to "normal" if my experience of manually updating my phone was a bad one.

Or.. should I just keep waiting for the OTA and not mess around?

 

[bhall238]

Just my opinion, and I am assuming this is your only means of contact with the world, I would wait. I am waiting; if all goes according to plan, worse case, we have at most 5 days to wait. If you do go ahead and somehow mess things up, there are many people more than willing to help you. It's up to you.

 

[Osprey]

I would like to download the non-patch version of froyo to my droid. Do I have to be rooted to install the 76mg version of froyo? or am I stuck with the patch version? I have a mac so I dont have any of the recovery applications.

If I install froyo and its buggy or doesnt install correctly, how would I be able to return to 2.1?

My droid is the only phone I have, so I need to know there would be a way to return to "normal" if my experience of manually updating my phone was a bad one.

Or.. should I just keep waiting for the OTA and not mess around?

If you would just scroll up a bit and look at the note I left for leslieho99, you will see the answer. THE DROID 1 (ORIGINAL) ONLY "IS NOT FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE ORIGINAL DROID" NEED NOT BE ROOTED TO INSTALL THE UPDATE

Can't advise you on the Mac...I for one did not have any problems with the install. If you don't feel comfortable just wait.

 

[furbearingmammal]

I would like to download the non-patch version of froyo to my droid. Do I have to be rooted to install the 76mg version of froyo? or am I stuck with the patch version? I have a mac so I dont have any of the recovery applications.

If I install froyo and its buggy or doesnt install correctly, how would I be able to return to 2.1?

My droid is the only phone I have, so I need to know there would be a way to return to "normal" if my experience of manually updating my phone was a bad one.

Or.. should I just keep waiting for the OTA and not mess around?

You do not need root to install this update. If you are rooted it will break root.

I feel like a broken record here.

As the likelihood of a broken upgrade is roughly the same using a manual update versus an OTA-dropped update, the choice is yours. However, since this is the only phone you have, proceed cautiously. One option would be to take you phone to a Verizon Wireless store that can do software updates and ask them to put the update on your phone. With an official update in the works they should be capable of doing so without an issue, but there's no guarantee they'll know anything. Verizon techs and reps are usually the last to know anything because Verizon treats them like mushrooms until they have to update them.

If you're going to do a manual install this file is recommended as it replaces the system instead of just patching it. The end result for the user is a cleaner install with lower likelihood of issues. The OTA update is still the patched update.

 

[jeffe65]

I didn't see where this was addressed after wading through all 80 pages (Lots of info to remember), so I'm going to ask:

According to Page 1 :
"4) If you have either release on your Droid, you will not get alerted by Verizon to do an OTA install. You'll already have it, unless an even newer one is eventually released (which noone knows at this point will occur)."

If we have either release but are rooted, are we going to get the alert to do the OTA install? If so, can we unroot and then let it try to install, which it should abort because it finds 2.2 already there? I thought someone said it would, but I'm just checking.

Jrummy on page 6 has a copy of the same FRG01 that went out OTA for rooters. If you have that installed you shouldn't get the notice. If not you probably will get the notice but just say yes and SPRecovery or Clockwork will block the install.

Why would you unroot, just take the one Jrummy has.

I'm using EasyRoot, and hadn't applied SPRecovery or Clockwork because I'm new to this and didn't want to screw something up because I don't have my feeble brain wrapped around the process yet. I held off on Jrummy's install, but that may be the simplest solution for the time being.

 

[acles003]

I would like to download the non-patch version of froyo to my droid. Do I have to be rooted to install the 76mg version of froyo? or am I stuck with the patch version? I have a mac so I dont have any of the recovery applications.

If I install froyo and its buggy or doesnt install correctly, how would I be able to return to 2.1?

My droid is the only phone I have, so I need to know there would be a way to return to "normal" if my experience of manually updating my phone was a bad one.

Or.. should I just keep waiting for the OTA and not mess around?

You do not need root to install this update. If you are rooted it will break root.

I feel like a broken record here.

As the likelihood of a broken upgrade is roughly the same using a manual update versus an OTA-dropped update, the choice is yours. However, since this is the only phone you have, proceed cautiously. One option would be to take you phone to a Verizon Wireless store that can do software updates and ask them to put the update on your phone. With an official update in the works they should be capable of doing so without an issue, but there's no guarantee they'll know anything. Verizon techs and reps are usually the last to know anything because Verizon treats them like mushrooms until they have to update them.

If you're going to do a manual install this file is recommended as it replaces the system instead of just patching it. The end result for the user is a cleaner install with lower likelihood of issues. The OTA update is still the patched update.

Thanks for responding. So if I chose to do the manual update, is there anyway for me to go back to 2.1? not having a PC and not knowing much about rooting, I did download Easy Root, and I have seen people mentioning Titanium Backup or something like that, would it make more sense for me to root, install the backup from market, back up my droid, and then try the manual update so that if something goes wrong, I can reboot and revert back to 2.1?

 

[furbearingmammal]

Easy Root is stolen code. You'd be better off waiting for DMUpdater to be released, which should be soon. Easy Root also has not done the best job of rooting some people's phones.

Okay, having said that and assuming you used it... Considering you don't have a PC the only way to make that 2.1 backup you want in case something goes wrong is to install ROM Manager from the market and use it to flash ClockworkMOD Recovery or SPRecovery in as alternate recovery images. Either one is fine. ROM Manager, however, does not play nicely with FroYo for everyone at this point in time. Future updates will probably fix that, but at the moment you're better off using it to flash your recovery image and then get rid of it.

Titanium Backup is a great app, but since it requires a working root you'd need to reroot your phone to use it if you ever went back to 2.1, and it doesn't make a complete restore image like a Nandroid or ClockworkMOD backup.

Basically what you'd need to do is root and use ROM Manager, or borrow a friend's PC and install RSDLite, etc, and then flash SPRecovery/ClockworkMOD Recovery onto your phone, then use that to make your backup and then root. I'd recommend the latter if you could do it, or the former if you don't mind using stolen code and have no other choice but want to root NOW. No matter what, unless you're running an alternate recovery image or don't mind flashing SBFs, there's no going back to 2.1 once you have 2.2.

 

[drpaul07]

I finally just installed the 77mb file from jrummy. I was stock rooted 2.1 with sprecovery and wanted stock 2.2 rooted. I wrote on this thread trying to find out how to update without losing apps and data, and a lot of people helped me with my questions. And afterwards, it seemed like there was no way to do it without losing apps and data, so i decided on using the 77mb file.

I used titanium backup to backup apps and data. I used the apps organizer app to label all the apps i wanted to backup. I only chose apps that i knew wouldn't have trouble with the 2.1 to 2.2 transition (so apps i DIDN'T backup were things like Maps, MP3 Store, Browser, Camera, etc). I also backed up my call log and contacts info. I performed a nandroid backup too. Then cleared cache and data x 3, and installed the update.zip. I used titanium backup to get everything back and it worked perfectly! Haven't had a single problem with the stock rooted froyo. I'm very happy i installed the 'clean' build.

 

[hookbill]

I would like to download the non-patch version of froyo to my droid. Do I have to be rooted to install the 76mg version of froyo? or am I stuck with the patch version? I have a mac so I dont have any of the recovery applications.

If I install froyo and its buggy or doesnt install correctly, how would I be able to return to 2.1?

My droid is the only phone I have, so I need to know there would be a way to return to "normal" if my experience of manually updating my phone was a bad one.

Or.. should I just keep waiting for the OTA and not mess around?

You do not need root to install this update. If you are rooted it will break root.

I feel like a broken record here.

As the likelihood of a broken upgrade is roughly the same using a manual update versus an OTA-dropped update, the choice is yours. However, since this is the only phone you have, proceed cautiously. One option would be to take you phone to a Verizon Wireless store that can do software updates and ask them to put the update on your phone. With an official update in the works they should be capable of doing so without an issue, but there's no guarantee they'll know anything. Verizon techs and reps are usually the last to know anything because Verizon treats them like mushrooms until they have to update them.

If you're going to do a manual install this file is recommended as it replaces the system instead of just patching it. The end result for the user is a cleaner install with lower likelihood of issues. The OTA update is still the patched update.

Thanks for responding. So if I chose to do the manual update, is there anyway for me to go back to 2.1? not having a PC and not knowing much about rooting, I did download Easy Root, and I have seen people mentioning Titanium Backup or something like that, would it make more sense for me to root, install the backup from market, back up my droid, and then try the manual update so that if something goes wrong, I can reboot and revert back to 2.1?

I think it's only fair to point out that there is a copy of the same stock 2.2 OTA file available for rooted Droids on page 6 of this forum in Jrummy's post.
You may want to try it, I suggest a wipe if you do. I tried it and got a few random resets. Well, just 2 to be exact but that's more then I wanted to see.

Your choice.

 

[furbearingmammal]

I finally just installed the 77mb file from jrummy. I was stock rooted 2.1 with sprecovery and wanted stock 2.2 rooted. I wrote on this thread trying to find out how to update without losing apps and data, and a lot of people helped me with my questions. And afterwards, it seemed like there was no way to do it without losing apps and data, so i decided on using the 77mb file.

I used titanium backup to backup apps and data. I used the apps organizer app to label all the apps i wanted to backup. I only chose apps that i knew wouldn't have trouble with the 2.1 to 2.2 transition (so apps i DIDN'T backup were things like Maps, MP3 Store, Browser, Camera, etc). I also backed up my call log and contacts info. I performed a nandroid backup too. Then cleared cache and data x 3, and installed the update.zip. I used titanium backup to get everything back and it worked perfectly! Haven't had a single problem with the stock rooted froyo. I'm very happy i installed the 'clean' build.

Another success story. Brings a smile to my face. Thanks for the update!

 

[soba1]

I have custom themes on my X do I need to remove them. I renamed it and moved the file to my sd/card. But it would not load the update.zip please advise. Thanks

This is not for the X.

Thanks.........

 

[gavinsnana]

I downloaded the update file the other day to my computer. Thought I would wait for the official OTA. But got impatient. I was very nervous-spent the better part of today reading and rereading all the posts regarding the update and manually installing it. Printed the directions. This evening-15 minutes ago- I installed the update manually and it was easier than I ever thought. Thanks to all the people in the forum for all the great information.

Now my nephew-in-law is trying to talk me into rooting. He rooted his DINC and says I will not be sorry. So I guess I will spend the next few days soaking up all your information.

I don't post very much. I usually find my answer by looking through the posts. So again thank you to everyone who is a moderator, tech and just plain ole folks who know what they are talking about so that someone like me can learn.

 

[cereal killer]

uh oh ^^^^ he's going to jump overboard I feel it : )

I'm giving gavinsnana no more than a week before he/she roots.

 

[furbearingmammal]

uh oh ^^^^ he's going to jump overboard I feel it : )

I'm giving gavinsnana no more than a week before he/she roots.

Probably.

Come to the Dark Side! We have cookies!

(Soon in Gingerbread flavor!)

 

[lnxtinman]

i tried installing the update from jrummy on page 6....
i renamed it update.zip...placed it on sd card
when i run the update i get err saying...
--install from sd card...
finding update package...
opening update package...
verifying update package...
e: failed to open / sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory)
e:signature verification failed
installation aborted.


can any1 help?