Sanity Check time...I've been avoiding (painfully, I might add) putting ICS in place as I don't want to get pulled off of the update path, and there seemed to be no way of reverting back to Gingerbread if something went haywire on me. Now, with Safestrap 2.0 being out, I'm giving serious consideration to jumping on in. Here is the process I believe i need to follow, given the following conditions and requirements:
1 - My standard stock Gingerberad Droid 4 is currently unrooted.
2 - I will need the ability to jump back to stock, unrooted, just in case.
3 - When the OTA ICS is released, I will need the ability to jump back to stock gingerbread to get this update.
4 - I completely understand that there are a multitude of things cat can go wrong, and that none of the above conditions are guaranteed. All positive responses are based solely on theory.
Downloads:
Safestrap 2.0
Droid 4 Utility
ICS 206
OK...so, here's whwat I THINK I need to do:
1 - Root my phone using Droid 4 Utility
here.
2 - Install the Safestrap .apk from
here.
3 - Place the Blur_Version.6.13.219.XT894.Verizon.en.US.zip file on my sd card.
4 - Follow the Safestrap docs
here, adjusting according to the new behavior of version 2.0 of Saestrap, and make a backup of my current phone, as it is, including webtop.
5 - Use Safestrap 2.0 to install the above .zip file to the Safe partition.
6 - Reboot, and ICS is looking happily at me.
Now, to recover back to Gingerbread...I am under the impression that rebooting the phone, going into the Safestrap menus and selecting recover, then the stock backup I created will bring me back to stock Gingerbread. Then it's just a matter of using the utility to unroot my phone, if required.
Am I way off base here? Are there any critical steps I'm missing? Thanks!