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Holiday Gingerbread anyone?

I love this update, runs smooth.

I installed Danalo1979's ODIN image of it which is rooted, deodexed, and debloated (no Verizon junk... YAY!). But, even before all of the tweaks I put into place the phone ran smooth, much much better than Froyo ever did.

Anyways, I tweaked the shit out of this phone. I have it running almost 1.5 times better than when I first loaded his ODIN image. But yes, even without the massive amounts of tweaks I applied the phone ran smooth on Gingerbread.

I have to say... as I've said it before. This is the way that this phone should've been when it launched. Putting Froyo on it when they launched it was a mistake. Gingerbread, figuratively speaking, breathes new life into the phone and makes it the phone it should've been when it was launched.
 
It is running good! Hard to believe how little the interface changed, was kinda hoping for something refreshing but... the fact it is running smooth is good.

So far, so good.

Now, if someone would post a guide to how to manually debloat this thing it'd be awesome! Would love to free up some memory and get rid of things running that I care nothing about.
 
If you have root, download Titanium Backup. You can then use that app to uninstall the bloat.

As for what's safe to remove, you're in luck. I compiled a list of things that are safe to remove. It can be found here.
 
I also didn't want to wait for my OTA so I installed the stock, unrooted version of the GB update from XDA. My phone isn't even a week old and it ran pretty nicely before the update, but the update definitely makes it better, without a doubt.

It's very smooth. I'll eventually root this, but for now I want to see what it's like on stock.
 
jasf said:
zadillo
Does the xda-developers version have all of the Verizon bloatware? If its as easy as you've said and there is no bloat I may just hold off on the OTA do that one this weekend.
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To clarify, the one I linked to is just the official gingerbread release (or the final one that Samsung sent to verizon to verify, same as what is being sent out OTA). So it still has the Verizon bloatware/etc. (you'd need to root and install a debloated ROM for that). You only should do it if you're just tired of waiting for the OTA to hit your phone.

Even with the bloatware though, it's much smoother and faster for me than Froyo was.
 
One other really nice thing I've noticed - with Froyo, I often had problems with listening to audio while performing other operations (especially over bluetooth). For example, if I was reloading a webpage, it would often cause the audio to stutter.

Since upgrading the Gingerbread, I have yet to find an operation that will cause the audio to stutter - this was one of my other major annoyances, so I'm really glad that so far it seems to be gone.
 
I've been checking my phone non-stop for the past 2 days and still havent' gotten the update.

Im seriously thinking about rooting my phone just to get rid of the bloatware.
 
trparky said:
I love this update, runs smooth.

I installed Danalo1979's ODIN image of it which is rooted, deodexed, and debloated (no Verizon junk... YAY!). But, even before all of the tweaks I put into place the phone ran smooth, much much better than Froyo ever did.

Anyways, I tweaked the shit out of this phone. I have it running almost 1.5 times better than when I first loaded his ODIN image. But yes, even without the massive amounts of tweaks I applied the phone ran smooth on Gingerbread.

I have to say... as I've said it before. This is the way that this phone should've been when it launched. Putting Froyo on it when they launched it was a mistake. Gingerbread, figuratively speaking, breathes new life into the phone and makes it the phone it should've been when it was launched.
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trparky, I am probably going to install Danalo's ODIN image tonight just like you did. Just out of curiosity, which other tweaks did you add after putting Danalo's image on? I want to do the same things that you did, lol.

As of now, I am running GummyCharged GBE 2.1 with Fugu Tweaks and V6 Supercharger. Am I on the right path, or is there more I can do?

Thanks!
 
I enabled SmartAssV2 governor, tweaked the minimum CPU speed of the CPU from 100 MHz to 400 MHz, enabled CRON, etc.

I have a ZIP file that I made with all of the functions and tweaks I run.

Unzip the file and put the folder "rootstuff" on your phone's SDCard, the root of it, not in any folder. Then open Terminal, su to become root. Execute "smartass enable". Reboot. Open Terminal again, su to become root, execute "cd /sdcard/rootstuff" and then execute "sh enablecrond".
 

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Still no update for me. Area code 319 but i live in Indianapolis. Purchased the phone in August. If I don't get it by tomorrow night, rooting this will be a weekend project for me!
 
zadillo said:
To clarify, the one I linked to is just the official gingerbread release (or the final one that Samsung sent to verizon to verify, same as what is being sent out OTA). So it still has the Verizon bloatware/etc. (you'd need to root and install a debloated ROM for that). You only should do it if you're just tired of waiting for the OTA to hit your phone.

Even with the bloatware though, it's much smoother and faster for me than Froyo was.
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I tired of waiting for the update, too. I downloaded the stock bloated version you referred to, onto my sd card, since I was not yet comfortable about rooting. I followed the key combination instructions and it began to install. The progress bar has now been finished for a long time,(it took about 20 minutes) and the phone keeps rebooting to the colorful animated "Droid" thingy...

But it keeps doing that...rebooting over and over again, and has been doing so for over an hour.

What do I do? Is this the norm, so do I keep allowing it to reboot, or do I shut it down and power up again?

I don't know what to look for in this process;) I'm on AC power, so no worries there, but can't use my phone while this is going on.
 
As of 11:40 PM eastern time, I had not received any update. Both level 1 and level 2 support at Verizon just confirmed that Verizon has not yet pushed an update. They say the last update for the Droid Charge was in June and it was not for Gingerbread. I'm confused, If Verizon says they have not pushed the update, where is everyone reporting the update getting it from? Are the received update reports just fabrications? Something is not right with either Verizon or the forums.
 
Verizon is wrong. Why would people who have the Droid Charge already be receiving an update via OTA when it doesn't exist?

The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
 
Got mine this morning. Took 15 minutes to complete. I had to charge my battery first as I had a message that my battery was to low to complete update.
 
Does anyone still have that update.zip file still on their phones? If so, can you download it to your computer and do some checks for me.

Look on your SDCard, it should be in the root of the SDCard meaning it shouldn't be in a folder. Find that file and download it to your computer. Once you do that, compute the MD5 hash of the file. When you do that, post the MD5 hash as a reply to this thread.

If you need a utility for Windows to compute the MD5 hash of a file, you can find a utility here.
 
trparky said:
Does anyone still have that update.zip file still on their phones? If so, can you download it to your computer and do some checks for me.

Look on your SDCard, it should be in the root of the SDCard meaning it shouldn't be in a folder. Find that file and download it to your computer. Once you do that, compute the MD5 hash of the file. When you do that, post the MD5 hash as a reply to this thread.

If you need a utility for Windows to compute the MD5 hash of a file, you can find a utility here.
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Did exactly as you asked, MD5 is:

DEA220D570A3B477A04CD2141CD08BC3
 
CONFIRMED!

The ZIP file that people have been getting from Verizon's OTA update matches that of which has been leaked. Thanks Bozz5384, the MD5 signature you posted confirmed everything we needed to know.

What does this mean? Simple... those people who are unlucky enough to not get the OTA update (yet) can skip getting the OTA update and download the update.zip file that we have, put it on your SDCard, and manually start the update!

This is good news for all of us here!

You can download the update.zip file here (no annoying ads) or here.
 
Noticed when I woke up that the Verizon fairy had left Gingerbread on my phone overnight. Installed with no problems and looks as good as Gingerbread is supposed to. Thanks.
 
Also waiting, 9:45am Pacific time. And getting pretty irate. I bought this phone the weekend it came out, so you would THINK I'd be one of the first to get the update. <sigh> Anybody know for sure when they expect to be done with the update process?
 
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