SBF to root and to unroot

[Tanknspank]

I just tested this by flashing back to ESE81, and flashing the SPRecovery sbf. So far everything worked fine. I have a custom recovery.

All I can say is thanks to [mbm] for this great script.

 

[segdoh49]

Ok here goes some newbie questions to using this posted proceedure:
1.) Does rooting with the ESE81update2.zip wipe out any Applications ?
2.) In the video posted from droid-life after the phone rebooted it said it had to be reprogrammed, is this the straight *228 or does it walk you though it (done off camera)
3.) After rooted with 2.1 will the update OTA to 2.2 cause your device to be unrooted ?
4.) If I decide to update myself (FRGO1B 2.2) is it still possible to go back to stock 2.01 and apply the 2.1 then get the 2.2 OTA update.

Kinda new and never rooted so any help to these questions would be greatly appreicated. Thank in advance...

Another Q. after installing theSBRecovery I performed a Simple backup, Should things go amiss, can I just do a restore and would this take me all the way back from whence I started to 2.1update1 (ESE81) ?

 

[furbearingmammal]

Ok here goes some newbie questions to using this posted proceedure:
1.) Does rooting with the ESE81update2.zip wipe out any Applications ?
2.) In the video posted from droid-life after the phone rebooted it said it had to be reprogrammed, is this the straight *228 or does it walk you though it (done off camera)
3.) After rooted with 2.1 will the update OTA to 2.2 cause your device to be unrooted ?
4.) If I decide to update myself (FRGO1B 2.2) is it still possible to go back to stock 2.01 and apply the 2.1 then get the 2.2 OTA update.

Kinda new and never rooted so any help to these questions would be greatly appreicated. Thank in advance...

Another Q. after installing theSBRecovery I performed a Simple backup, Should things go amiss, can I just do a restore and would this take me all the way back from whence I started to 2.1update1 (ESE81) ?

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.

 

[segdoh49]

Ok, Thanks furbear, guess I'd better back up my Appl to the SD....

 

[christim]

For 2.2 folks looking to root I've updated the first post of this thread with a nice shiny blue section up st the top of it.

Read the first post and understand what each of those options are for.

Then if you are on 2.2 looking to root make sure you follow the steps in the correct order. If you don't it really is no big deal, it will just take you longer to get sorted out and on your way. I basically took what was figured out in post 329 of this thread and added it to post 1 because who wants to wade through 329 posts?

 

[segdoh49]

Edit: If you are on a stock Android 2.2 rom looking to root you need to know that the SPRecovery file for ese81 comes with a kernel for Android 2.1

For those folks, understand that it is very likely that you can not boot up your phone and run that 2.1 kernel on android 2.2
Understanding this will help make sense of the following sequence:

1. Get the 2.2 rooted rom you want renamed to update.zip on the root of your card first.
2. use RSD Lite to flash the sprecovery file onto your phone
3. Hold down X and reboot into SPRecovery, instead of booting up the phone. (you boot into sprecovery or boot up the phone, you can't do both at the same time.
   
4. allow/install via the update.zip method explained in the below instructions.
5. If you forgot to get update.zip on your phone you can do it now using the mount option within SPRecovery

Just a little confused: Iam @ 2.1 with SPRecovery and not rooted. Last night I got the OTA nag to update but haven't initiated yet. Should I go forward with this OTA will this update render my SPRecovery null ? And what 2.2 rooted rom are you speaking of ? The one I have is Signed-voles-FRGO18 from ESE81. I am ready to root using the proceedure in the first post.(been studying it for two days making sure I have all my ducks in a row) Just haven't made up my mind as of yet. I don't want to do the OTA if it is going to render my phone unable to root in the future.I know rooting is personel decision. just don't want to not be able to with going ahead with the OTA update Need a little guidence please. Thanks
P.S. Found Petes FRG01BODEXEDOTA.zip file, but a lot of people seem to be having trouble with it as read in another post. BB issues.

 

[Tallica]

Edit: If you are on a stock Android 2.2 rom looking to root you need to know that the SPRecovery file for ese81 comes with a kernel for Android 2.1

For those folks, understand that it is very likely that you can not boot up your phone and run that 2.1 kernel on android 2.2
Understanding this will help make sense of the following sequence:

1. Get the 2.2 rooted rom you want renamed to update.zip on the root of your card first.
2. use RSD Lite to flash the sprecovery file onto your phone
3. Hold down X and reboot into SPRecovery, instead of booting up the phone. (you boot into sprecovery or boot up the phone, you can't do both at the same time.
4. allow/install via the update.zip method explained in the below instructions.
5. If you forgot to get update.zip on your phone you can do it now using the mount option within SPRecovery

Just a little confused: Iam @ 2.1 with SPRecovery and not rooted. Last night I got the OTA nag to update but haven't initiated yet. Should I go forward with this OTA will this update render my SPRecovery null ? And what 2.2 rooted rom are you speaking of ? The one I have is Signed-voles-FRGO18 from ESE81. I am ready to root using the proceedure in the first post.(been studying it for two days making sure I have all my ducks in a row) Just haven't made up my mind as of yet. I don't want to do the OTA if it is going to render my phone unable to root in the future.I know rooting is personel decision. just don't want to not be able to with going ahead with the OTA update Need a little guidence please. Thanks
P.S. Found Petes FRG01BODEXEDOTA.zip file, but a lot of people seem to be having trouble with it as read in another post. BB issues.

It's really up to you, If you do the OTA, SPR will block it I think, but if you want 2.2, from 2.1 with SPR you can simply install any 2.2 ROM in this section: Custom Roms you can follow the OP instructions to install. There is even a rooted version of the 2.2 OTA (no other changes) you can run.

I never ran Petes FRG01BODEXEDOTA but a few people I know have and they haven't had problems. Think this is the ROM i was refering to above.

If you want "bells and whistles" there are plenty of those ROMs there too.

ps-installing any of these ROMs will root automatically for you.

 

[segdoh49]

Soooo..... If I want to do the OTA and my SPRecovery blocks it How do I get rid of SPR ?

 

[Tallica]

You would have to flash the 2.0.1 .sbf. Following the Instructions in the OP, Option 1 then option 5, then reboot, and you should get prompted to install the OTA

 

[furbearingmammal]

Soooo..... If I want to do the OTA and my SPRecovery blocks it How do I get rid of SPR ?

Or you could allow the install. It's supposed to put the stock recovery image on. If that fails you could SBF back and update again.

EDIT:

SPRecovery menu> install> allow update.zip installation > install update.zip (deprecated)

 

[segdoh49]

Ok Thanks Tallica... I may just may run the Sapphire-0.7.0 update.zip to go to 2.2 with root access. Has anyone out there done this and had any known problems other than loosing all applications and have to relogon to Google ????

 

[furbearingmammal]

Ok Thanks Tallica... I may just may run the Sapphire-0.7.0 update.zip to go to 2.2 with root access. Has anyone out there done this and had any known problems other than loosing all applications and have to relogon to Google ????

Yes. There will always be someone with problems, so don't take that as indicative of your chances of having one. If you follow the directions you should be fine.

Also, isn't Sapphire up to at least 1.0 now?

 

[segdoh49]

Ota

Or you could allow the install. It's supposed to put the stock recovery image on. If that fails you could SBF back and update again.

EDIT:

SPRecovery menu> install> allow update.zip installation > install update.zip (deprecated)[/QUOTE]

So if I do allow and it then goes to FRGO18 (2.2) Will I ever be able to get SPRecovery back or be able to root the device in the future ?

 

[Tallica]

Or you could allow the install. It's supposed to put the stock recovery image on. If that fails you could SBF back and update again.

EDIT:

SPRecovery menu> install> allow update.zip installation > install update.zip (deprecated)

So if I do allow and it then goes to FRGO18 (2.2) Will I ever be able to get SPRecovery back or be able to root the device in the future ?[/QUOTE]

Yes u will

 

[segdoh49]

Ok I tried but it failed the install. So I guess it's back to 2.01
So is there any differance between which methode I use SBF or SPR ???