Bionic build 5.9.901....Initial impressions......and what we know so far

[nateohio]

given that I've done the entire going back to stock
and to the multiple times I screwed my phone up over this debacle
and finally getting back on track I've got some experience on this

if you run the 901 OTA, you will not be able to just restore your old backup and call it good.
won't work.

as was found with custom ROMs over at rootzwiki, you need certain system/lib files in order to get the radio working with 5.9.901

if you apply the update, don't like it, then restore your old "system" back, you won't have those files in place
and you're phone will not work like it should.

it's a buyer beware situation. the 901 could be a huge increase for you. or it could make things worse for you.

going forward is easy, going back is definitely not so easy (1 click method or long manual method, it's a pain to have to do it)

That's what I was trying to say, but wasn't thinking clearly enough.

 

[krazykid6911]

The link in the op is brining me to 893. Anyone know where I can find 901?

 

[nateohio]

The link in the op is brining me to 893. Anyone know where I can find 901?

That is the 901 update, moto names their updates for what they are upgrading from.

 

[Mbk]

ok gentlemen my question is im on the 893 OTA update doing fine atm ..... i want to try this upgrade , all i have to do is put the zip file on my SD and flash as i would anything else correct ...? wipe data etc & flash if anything goes wrong i can always just revert to my back up correct ?

also in the future when the official one comes out i should be able to grab that right ? im 4ever rooted deodexed stock official OTA 893

thanking you for your help in advance

Not that simple, there is a method to roll back that was developed by the guys at roozwiki and P3Droid developed a one click script for it. Butt I haven't tested it a and my knowledge of it is limited.

Is it as simple as flashing a nandroid backup, no its not. To my knowledge at least. I think a few guys floating around here have done it, MBK being one of them. Maybe ask him for guidance.

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The nandroid I restored was my OTA 5.5.893 'after' I went to .901 and came back to .893..... so basically once I reverted back to .893 I restored my nandroid of stock .893 so that I didn't have to setup everything all over again from scratch... I did not restore a 7.893 or 5.893 nandroid over .901, I already knew it wouldn't work

 

[rck76]

Going in to the 4th day on the 901 radio and haven't had a single data drop out yet

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[parton1080]

.901 stock rooted, 4g 3g handoff seems to happen much quicker now.

 

[yiannis]

Lost 43V3R root even with the improved 1-click method posted by realbbb at mydroidworld.

No improvements to speak of on my phone. I wish I had never updated to 5.5.901.

Will someone please root this build? That would be awesome. Thanks.

 

[sgregory111]

I am still happy with .901

I am surprised that there are some people that still have significant problems on 901. I was fairly happy with 7.893 and as close to 100% satisfied with 901 as I can imagine being.

I apologize to those still struggling. Reading a post like this must be very frustrating. I have no doubt your problems are real. I have seen some posts that say "Not all bionics are created equal". I believe that is possible. But also I remember reading about people in strong 4g areas saying they have received multiple replacements from VZW with no relief to their problems. Obviously 901 is to new for people to have tried multiple units on it yet.

So what could the problem be?

• Bad handset
• geographic area
• software

Perhaps these people are at the point that they need to revisit their basic assumptions. If I was having the problems they were I would attempt to get my phone to as close to 100% stock as possible including radio and kernel. Fortunately this is now possible. I would not install any apps what so ever. No third party apps. I would not freeze any apps. I would not even use the same gmail account or any of the same email accounts. I would set up a new gmail account and use that for testing. I would leave all setup with default values, except battery saver which I would put in performance mode.

If the phone failed I would take it strait to a VZW corporate owned store and show it to them. If it did not fail I would begin slowly added back my email accounts and apps. And I mean SLOWLY.

These people with what seem to be extreme problems with their Bionic phones are not noobs. They obviously know what they are doing. During my long carrier developing software and systems when I found myself at a point where things were defying logic, then something I was assuming to be true was not.

We should not have to debug our VZW phones for them, but perhaps the problem is something we have added or tweaked. Something that was so simple we are not even thinking about it. Perhaps the problem is in the email accounts and the synchronizing is causing the problem. Who knows.

Good luck to those still struggling.

 

[parton1080]

I may have lost root, bionic bootstrap is being granted SU, but I have two free file explorers that are not.

 

[bigtex52]

I may have lost root, bionic bootstrap is being granted SU, but I have two free file explorers that are not.

I think if you lost root, bionic bootstrap would be failing too. Maybe it's the two file explorers that are incompatible somehow.

 

[parton1080]

What's an easy way to confirm/test one way or the other?

 

[bigtex52]

Try opening a terminal session and type su If you have root, it should return a #

 

[parton1080]

How do you open a terminal session?

 

[bigtex52]

terminal emulator. If you don't have it in your app drawer, it's a free download in the market.

 

[parton1080]

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