MrDangerous
Android Enthusiast
I think the OTA's and Radio Updates wipe the Dalvik cache to prevent stale stuff from causing problems. So that would explain the long boot time, it's just rebuilding.
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Just had a system update on Eris??
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I think the OTA's and Radio Updates wipe the Dalvik cache to prevent stale stuff from causing problems. So that would explain the long boot time, it's just rebuilding.
Thanks for the offer, madpebs.
As it turns out, all the info is already available.
You can download the OTA file (it's the last OTA listed in this XDA thread):
Consolidated HTC RUU, Leak, and OTA Downloads - #13
Here is how somebody that has 2.37.605.4 on a STOCK phone (not rooted phones with custom recoveries) would use it:
1) Download it and transfer it to the root folder of your SD card, and rename it to "update.zip".
2) Double check the exact file size (in bytes, value given in above mentioned link), and if you know how, the "MD5" checksum, too.
3) Charge your phone to 100% and then power your phone completely off.
4) Press Vol-Down+End/Power to boot your phone into HBOOT mode; then follow the menu on-screen to boot into recovery. When you see the recovery boot splash screen (black background, image of the phone, and a exclamation point in a triangle), press Vol-Up+End/Power. A menu with blue/lavender text should appear.
5) Choose the menu item which says something about flashing from "sd:update.zip".
6) Sit back and let the updater run. The phone will boot 2 or 3 times during this process; note that during the final boot, the phone will stay on the Verizon screen much longer than normal - just let it go; that is normal.
cheers
eu1
I got the update as well. I am now seeing more signal bars on the phone.
I know the bars are meaningless as far as real world performance, but seeing as my phone never displayed more than 2 bars regardless of where it was, it seems that this was a bug with the way the bars were reported. Glad its finally fixed!
Now we just need to wait for the rom developers to add this update to their roms!
I know the bars are meaningless as far as real world performance, but seeing as my phone never displayed more than 2 bars regardless of where it was, it seems that this was a bug with the way the bars were reported. Glad its finally fixed!
Now we just need to wait for the rom developers to add this update to their roms!
Definitly improoved battery life. My phones been unplugged since 9am and its 1130pm now with just under an hour of estimated life left. NEVER has it been this long on a single charge unless I turned airplane mode on. Wireless has been on all day, Bluetooth last few hours, and not greatest of signal where I've been.
That alone is worth the update. Use to have to put it on charger around 4 or 5 to keep it alive.
I've been assuming that the update would include fixes to the texting/sms bug where some would get sent to other parties and not register properly in the conversation view who was actually getting them.
This happened to a friend of mine who had one from time to time... luckily nothing embarrassing or over the top...
Got mine yesterday, and forgot my phone today. Dang.
This happened to a friend of mine who had one from time to time... luckily nothing embarrassing or over the top...
Got mine yesterday, and forgot my phone today. Dang.
highhacker
Newbie
Thats Great for non rooted instructions . Can i have the instructions with Amons recovery . I have searched hours and found N o t h i n g . Of coarse i got the nag also and it crapped out with no signature thing when it rebooted and never show back up . I really could use the extra battery life as i have yet to see more than 6-7 hours run time even with data disabled and one or two 10 min calls . Thanks a Bunch .
HH
So, you want a version of stock with the OTA update that you can install from Amon's Recovery?
Thanks to Erisuser1 (who is bftb0 at xda-developers.com), you can find that here: [ROM] HTC Eris March 2011 OTA Stock ROM - v2.41.605.6 - xda-developers
You would use the second download in this post :
xda-developers - View Single Post - New Eris ota for those that want to pick it apart
I haven't tried it, so I can not vouch for it. (Also note the direct IP address - I don't even know if the download files are still there any longer).
You need to be absolutely certain of the software version number you are starting with; note the two different versions available in that post. Whatever you do, you should make a nandroid backup before you begin.
doogalds advice will also work, but that will "wipe the slate clean", whereas the OTA style install is an in-place upgrade.
Finally, I should mention this: the July OTA (v 2.37.605.4) had excellent standby battery life - as good as the Eris gets, anyway. I'm not sure what you mean by "run time"; if you keep the screen on full time, you'll be lucky to get 4 hours out of an Eris. OTOH, a well-configured stock Eris that is idle, and also in a strong signal area, will only use a few % of battery life every 6 hours.
good luck,
eu1
justrelaxing
Newbie
Figure out what your backup strategy is for the items above, and then make a Nandroid backup of your current ROM, and then flash GSB v1.6 to your phone. Before you do that, read up on cache2cache (to see if you need to flash it before the first boot). Then configure the whole thing in one go (flash ROM, flash gapps, flash cache2cache), and start setting up a Gingerbread ROM. The best way to start figuring out how all this works is to start trying.
I would like to have improved performance, and would like to be able to store apps onto my SD card. Not sure what is meant by trying ROMS. So trying to grasp a lot of this. If this helps, great and if I can get help. If you dont want to post all here...shoot me a email.
Thanks
LeRoy
I would like to have improved performance, and would like to be able to store apps onto my SD card. Not sure what is meant by trying ROMS. So trying to grasp a lot of this. If this helps, great and if I can get help. If you dont want to post all here...shoot me a email.
Thanks
LeRoy
Why 1.6 when it is now up to 2.0? (It should also be noted that installing GSB requires not only a Nandroid backup of what you have now and a flash of GSB, but also a flash of Google apps after flashing GSB before you reboot the phone from Recovery.)
I'm not quite sure what you are saying here. Are you asking for help for installing apps to SD? Or are you offering help to somebody? This part of your post reads both ways.
Apps2sd will not improve performance by all that much, if it does at all. I have tested internal flash memory speed vs. my class 6 SD card and they perform almost exactly the same, and I think the stock SD card was class 2, so performance should be worse. Of course I don't think that most Android apps do a lot of reading and writing to storage as they are running anyway - this would just speed up load time and time to reactivate an app that was suspended in the background.
Because flash memory has such fast seek and read times, there is really no issue with storage fragmentation affecting speed as storage available space gets low as there is with mechanical hard disk storage, so moving apps to SD to help reduce storage space internally should not have a noticeable affect on performance.
justrelaxing
Newbie
Sorry for the confusing post. I am asking for help with all this.
The post is a few comments from EU1. If GSB has a newer version, I would like to do that. So I would like to get real good directions on how to do all this. I just went through and rooted the phone. That is where I stand.
For performance I think it was suggested that I upgrade to FROYO or Gingerbread.
Not sure the best method of saving apps to the SD card as cant have much on internal memory.
Does this make some sense?
The post is a few comments from EU1. If GSB has a newer version, I would like to do that. So I would like to get real good directions on how to do all this. I just went through and rooted the phone. That is where I stand.
For performance I think it was suggested that I upgrade to FROYO or Gingerbread.
Not sure the best method of saving apps to the SD card as cant have much on internal memory.
Does this make some sense?
Yes, it sure does. I couldn't tell if you were advising somebody else or asking for advice.
First, as for storing apps on SD, the cache2cache flash does seem to work very well, and it will give you a lot of extra space internally to store apps. My first suggestion is to give that a try before trying to store apps on SD, as I tend to have issues with apps on SD whenever I try using them - market updates do not seem to happen is the main issue that happens.
To install GSB, first you need to download three .zip files. You will find the first two of them in the first post here: [ROM][3/10/2011] GSB v2.0 | GingerBread 2.3.3 [CM7.0.0 RC2 NIGHTLY] - xda-developers
Scroll down to where is says downloads, and download from either of the two links (the first is best, I think, if it works.) Then download as well the link under Google apps. You will then need to move these two file to the top level of your SD card (also known as the root directory.) In other words, do not put these two files (GSB.v2.0-CM7.0.0_RC2_STABLE.zip and gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip) into a folder on your SD card - put them at the top level.
Cache2cache is here: [SCRIPT][1/22/2011] A Simple Cache2Cache for CM 6.x and 7.x ROMs - xda-developers - the zip file is at the bottom of the first post. Again, put this in the root directory of your SD card.
Also, try to make sure that your phone is well-charged. It may not need to be 100%, but certainly above 60% is safe. If you can plug it in while you are backing up, wiping and flashing in the steps to come, that won't hurt.
I think that you said that you are rooted (if not, correct me), so I assume that you have a custom recovery image called Amon's Recovery on your phone. It is from Amon's Recovery that you will install the new ROM.
Next, you should be aware that any apps that you have installed, and their data, will be lost when you install GSB. It will be as if you installed the phone for the first time. If it is important to back up and apps or data before you do this, there are ways that I can answer later if that is required. That said, and calendars that you have in Google Calendar will automatically sync back down to the phone after you install. Also, there are two kinds of contacts on the phone - Google contacts or phone contacts. If all of your contacts are synced to Google, they will all come back when you sync after installing GSB. If they are phone contacts, those will be lost and you should back those up so that you you can restore them later on. Also, all of your SMS and MMS messages will be lost, and your call logs will be lost. If it is important to back those up, there are ways to do that as well.
Once you are ready to install GSB, there is a definite procedure that you will follow. First, you must shut down the phone and restart with the Recovery Image. If you have not done this before, this is typically done by holding down the Vol UP key while you restart the phone by pressing the End/Power key. Hold the Vol UP until you see Amon's Recovery start, which will have a black background with green text.
From Amon's Recovery, you should use the trackball to roll down to the menu item "Backup/Restore". Press the trackball to select this, and it will open a new menu. From there, roll down to and press the trackball to choose "Nand backup", which will make an exact image of your phone as it is at the time you run the backup. This way, if anything happens, you can always go back to where you were and you'll be all set. Recovery will ask you to confirm by pressing the trackball, which you should do, and the backup will start and be stored on your SD card.
When he backup is complete and the menu reappears, press the Vol Dn key to return to the main menu. From there, go to the Wipe menu. From this menu you are going to do two things: "Wipe data/factory reset" and "Wipe Dalvik cache". Do each of these and, when done, again press the Vol Dn key to return to the main menu.
Now, go to the "Flash .zip from SD Card". This will show a list of all of the .zip files in your SD card. You are going to do two of them now, and then later on you will come back and do another.
Flash GSB.v2.0-CM7.0.0_RC2_STABLE.zip. If you get any error messages, it's probably because the .zip file did not download completely, or because you do not have enough battery. If this does happen, you will need to return to the main menu, go to the "Backup/Restore" menu, choose "Nand restore" and then choose the backup file that you just created (by default they are named something like "BDS-yyyymmdd-hhmm" ,where yyyymmdd and hhmm are the date and time that you ran the backup. Select that and let it restore and restart your phone and then make sure that you get complete downloads of all of the files.
If the flash does proceed successfully, before you restart the phone, go back to the "Flash..." menu and choose to flash gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip. Make sure that you do this before you restart the phone.
After this flash completes successfully, then choose the menu option "Reboot system now" to restart the phone. Go through the setup as you are prompted. After you log in with your Google account, the first thing it will do is to ask you which of a selection of Google applications that you want installed. Choose what you want and complete that, and it should return to the default home screen.
In the background, your Google contacts, calendars and gmail will sync with the phone, and the market should start installing all of the apps that you had on the phone before. Allow this to complete - it may take some time, like an hour or so. The phone will feel laggy while this is happening, but you can do things like organize your home screens while this is happening (though, honestly, it's probably best to allow the phone to work until it's done.)
When everything is installed (I believe that you will get a notification from the market telling you how many apps were installed when it is complete), you can restart the phone by long-pressing the power key and choosing the "Reboot" option. This will have a submenu where you can choose "Recovery" to restart in Amon's Recovery.
From here, go to the Flash menu, choose xtrCMCache2cache.zip, and then allow that to install. When that is complete, restart the phone. Hopefully, this will give you enough space so that apps2sd is unnecessary. You can check after the phone starts by looking at settings->SD Card and phone storage and look at how much available space that you have under "Internal phone storage". If it is more than 30 MB, there is probably little need to think about apps2sd.
Anyway, to summarize the steps:
- download GSB, Google apps, and cache2cache and put the .zip file in the root of the SD card
- Restart in recovery
- Nand backup
- Wipe factory/data reset
- Wipe Dalvik cache
- Flash GSB
- Flash gapps
- restart the phone, set up your account, and allow it to sync.
- Restart in Recovery
- Flash cache2cache
- Restart the phone
Sorry for the book, but unless you need to backup and restore app data, or messages and call logs, this should have all that you need to know. To see photos of what all of these steps look like, you can look at this post from Erisuser1: http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/127861-universal-eris-root-dummies.html#post1186824 (this has every step except for the extra Google apps and cache2cache flash, but at least you can see what things look like.)
highhacker
Newbie
Hi . Thanks but there is no way i am going to flash an entire rom for that update . I was hoping for an update patch for my stock 2.1 and only thing i did was root it for titanium backup . Also for those interested in freeing system memory , link2sd is way better than apps2sd and you don't need a special rom . all you need is to make a second ext2 partition on your sd card . It frees up your internal memory and moves apps and dalvik info to sd card . Works Great .. I have over 200 apps on my stock eris with still over 100 mb free on system memory and i even can over clock it with cpuboost . Runs very fast and no fc's when i turn it on past 600000mhz.
Is there an update.zip to put that update on my eris without all the hassle of burning an entire rom?Battery life sucks and it goes fast with just gps on and a black screen . Might be the battery but i have yet to see a 20min call after 6 hrs standby . and i use advanced task killer to kill all that other crap Verizon loaded on there .
HH
HH
As I said in my prior post,
"You would use the second download in this post"
I don't know how to make it any clearer than that.
Make sure to make a nandroid backup before you begin.
eu1
I've been using xtrSENSE 5.0 for about 3 hours now and it's working great. No issues. Thank you very much.
Oh and I did NOT wipe. Any danger there I should know about?
As far as I know, xtrSENSE is so compatible with stock that a data wipe is not necessary.
bberryhill0
Android Expert
Link 2sd looks interesting:
[App] Link2SD - xda-developers
[App] Link2SD - xda-developers
The only issue that I'm seeing thus far with xtrSENSE 5.0 (and it's a small one) is a very brief flash on the weather animation when you take the phone off of lock. Looking at the notes it looks like Zach knows of this but thought it was fixed?
I guess I should report this in the thread on XDA.
I guess I should report this in the thread on XDA.
He posted an update to 5.0.1 on xda that fixes this problem.
KE4NYV
Member
Funny, I must just be really easy on my Eris. I got mine brand new at a Verizon store, about a year and a half ago. I still have the same phone and it's going strong. I am rooted and running XtrROM.
using cache2cache on xtrsense you probably will not need apps2sd because it frees so much space. I have 174 apps and still plenty of internal memory without apps2sd...the new eris update which is included in the new beta xtrsense 5.0 improved my signal bars dramatically (not sure if the bars are a big deal) as well as improved my battery...