DROID Question

[DroidDefDoes]

Ok so when the 2.2 Froyo update hits my Droid and I accept it either through the settings menu on my phone and let it download that way and it dosent work,if needed, how would I go into SPRecovery to tell it to install the 2.2 update?

 

[furbearingmammal]

You hold down the X key on the keyboard as soon as you power the phone back on and hold it till SPREcovery loads, same as always.

 

[DroidDefDoes]

Ok so if I accept the 2.2 update and it dosent install would it save to my sd card?lol..Where would I find it is my question?
Im sorry Im being a pain. :blink:

 

[furbearingmammal]

It'll save to your SD card, yes, right on the root of it. When I say that, what I mean is if you were to plug the phone into your computer and turn on USB storage you'd find it in the window where you opened it up.

Sorry if that's at all confusing. Short sleep and a late night makes for gummy brain.

 

[ark(i)tek]

Hey Furbearing,
I am rooted 2.1 with no ROM just a few extras (P3 kernal, wifi tethering) I have ROM manager, Terminal Emulator, and SetCPU installed on the phone - will I lose these if I go from a rooted 2.1 to a stock 2.2?

 

[DroidDefDoes]

Got it and thank you!

 

[mkthnx001]

Hey Furbearing,
I am rooted 2.1 with no ROM just a few extras (P3 kernal, wifi tethering) I have ROM manager, Terminal Emulator, and SetCPU installed on the phone - will I lose these if I go from a rooted 2.1 to a stock 2.2?

By "stock 2.2" I'm assuming you mean you will unroot your device, than install Android 2.2 (Froyo) once the OTA update is available? If so, than yes, you will lose everything that requires root.

If you mean you will flash a leaked version of 2.2, than no; as long as you don't perform a factory reset before flashing.

 

[ark(i)tek]

Hey Furbearing,
I am rooted 2.1 with no ROM just a few extras (P3 kernal, wifi tethering) I have ROM manager, Terminal Emulator, and SetCPU installed on the phone - will I lose these if I go from a rooted 2.1 to a stock 2.2?

By "stock 2.2" I'm assuming you mean you will unroot your device, than install Android 2.2 (Froyo) once the OTA update is available? If so, than yes, you will lose everything that requires root.

If you mean you will flash a leaked version of 2.2, than no; as long as you don't perform a factory reset before flashing.

Actually I meant getting 2.2 while I was rooted and installing it - I guess that would un-root the phone and kick out those apps?

 

[mkthnx001]

Hey Furbearing,
I am rooted 2.1 with no ROM just a few extras (P3 kernal, wifi tethering) I have ROM manager, Terminal Emulator, and SetCPU installed on the phone - will I lose these if I go from a rooted 2.1 to a stock 2.2?

By "stock 2.2" I'm assuming you mean you will unroot your device, than install Android 2.2 (Froyo) once the OTA update is available? If so, than yes, you will lose everything that requires root.

If you mean you will flash a leaked version of 2.2, than no; as long as you don't perform a factory reset before flashing.

Actually I meant getting 2.2 while I was rooted and installing it - I guess that would un-root the phone and kick out those apps?

No, it will not unroot your device.

 

[ark(i)tek]

???
I thought if I installed 2.2 on a rooted 2.1 it would un-root it. So what would happen if I installed the OTA 2.2 update on my rooted 2.1 phone?

 

[tcrews]

???
I thought if I installed 2.2 on a rooted 2.1 it would un-root it. So what would happen if I installed the OTA 2.2 update on my rooted 2.1 phone?

If you install one of the released 2.2 with root you will still have root.

If you install the official OTA 2.2 with no root (of course) you will lose root.

 

[furbearingmammal]

Hey Furbearing,
I am rooted 2.1 with no ROM just a few extras (P3 kernal, wifi tethering) I have ROM manager, Terminal Emulator, and SetCPU installed on the phone - will I lose these if I go from a rooted 2.1 to a stock 2.2?

You'd lose the kernel and the other programs would cease functioning even if they remained installed on your phone. I'm assuming since you have WiFi tethering you'd want to keep it, so you'd have to stay rooted.

In case you missed it, speculation (and some hard data backs it up) is that the FRG01B update that hit a while ago is the official OTA -- http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-news/65039-official-ota-froyo-frg01b.html -- so you can just download and install a clean, rooted-but-otherwise-virgin FRG01B ahead of the update.

The only real issue with doing that is losing all your installed apps, but if you have Sync turned on it'll reinstall your apps as soon as you're done flashing the new ROM in.

 

[ark(i)tek]

Fur/Tcrews,
Thanks that cleared things up a bit. So I can basically take my 2.1 rooted droid - update to a rooted 2.2. and keep on trucking with the apps and settings I have already on the phone?
Is there a good tutorial/guide on the forum for doing that?
Thanks for your replies by the way - I appreciate it!

 

[ark(i)tek]

It seems like the OTA update is within DAYS of being released - I think I'll save my nandroid backups to my home computer and let the phone install the 2.2. update from Verizon - check it out and then root the 2.2. phone later if I think I get any benefit from it.
I thought 2.2. had wi-fi tether built into it - that's really the only "extra" I put on the rooted droid other than the overclocking kernel - but I also heard 2.2. is much faster than 2.1 was.

 

[furbearingmammal]

It seems like the OTA update is within DAYS of being released - I think I'll save my nandroid backups to my home computer and let the phone install the 2.2. update from Verizon - check it out and then root the 2.2. phone later if I think I get any benefit from it.
I thought 2.2. had wi-fi tether built into it - that's really the only "extra" I put on the rooted droid other than the overclocking kernel - but I also heard 2.2. is much faster than 2.1 was.

That sounds like a plan and it is faster. Official reports are 2x to 5x faster depending on the task, and a lot of people reported that when the first 2.2 leak came out their phones were running as fast at 600Mhz as when they were OC'd to 1Ghz.

WiFi tether is officially supported by Android 2.2, but it's up to the carrier's discretion as to allowing it, and none of them are going to do it for free. As far as I am aware, the only phone Verizon gave free WiFi tethering with was the Palm Pre -- and that was a marketing decision because the phone wasn't selling.

As such, the only way to get WiFi tethering on a Droid 1 is to root, but it has the added advantage of being free, so if you want to keep that feature you'll need to re-root once you get the update. If you want to just nandroid backup your current setup and then flash in the pre-rooted "official" update, I can help or any number of others here can help. All you have to do is ask.

And yes, I saw your prior post, but it seems like you'd changed your mind.