Root Post 2.3 Questions

[Jcol]

I'm in Canada waiting for Rogers to release 2.3 however may phone has been acting so sluggish recently that I took the plunge and installed Wolfbreaks Rom. I had not done the custom Rom thing before but I was familiar with rooting and using Flashtool and Xrecovery. I must say that withe the 2.3 rom the phone works so much better that I'm sorry I waited so long. It's scores just over 1000 on the Quadrant test where before on stock 2.1 it was under 500. Nice improvement. I do however have a couple of questions.

Before I flashed rooted the phone and made a backup in Xrecovery however I didn't realize that that does not save the baseband or Kernel. I did not note what baseband I was on with my stock 2.1 so if I need to go back do I just flash the genaric dual touch 2.1 XA firmware that I found over at XDA or do I need the specific one that was paired with my Rom from Rogers Canada?

Second, after I rooted in 2.1 first I did a full back up using Titatium backup. I also stored all my contacts to my sim card and did a sync to PC Companion. After flashing to 2.3 I was able to restore most of my apps using Titatium and my contacts came across from my sim card. The only thing I am missing is my email and text messages. I don't really care about not getting them back as I have them on my tablet as well, however I was wondering what I should have done to save and restore them?

I am still amazed at how much better this phone now works. I understand that it will improve a bit after a couple of days as things get cached but even now it's like a new phone again. Thanks for all the help I got from the various posts here that made it very easy to do.

 

[beau420]

I'm in Canada waiting for Rogers to release 2.3 however may phone has been acting so sluggish recently that I took the plunge and installed Wolfbreaks Rom. I had not done the custom Rom thing before but I was familiar with rooting and using Flashtool and Xrecovery. I must say that withe the 2.3 rom the phone works so much better that I'm sorry I waited so long. It's scores just over 1000 on the Quadrant test where before on stock 2.1 it was under 500. Nice improvement. I do however have a couple of questions.

Before I flashed rooted the phone and made a backup in Xrecovery however I didn't realize that that does not save the baseband or Kernel. I did not note what baseband I was on with my stock 2.1 so if I need to go back do I just flash the genaric dual touch 2.1 XA firmware that I found over at XDA or do I need the specific one that was paired with my Rom from Rogers Canada?

Second, after I rooted in 2.1 first I did a full back up using Titatium backup. I also stored all my contacts to my sim card and did a sync to PC Companion. After flashing to 2.3 I was able to restore most of my apps using Titatium and my contacts came across from my sim card. The only thing I am missing is my email and text messages. I don't really care about not getting them back as I have them on my tablet as well, however I was wondering what I should have done to save and restore them?

I am still amazed at how much better this phone now works. I understand that it will improve a bit after a couple of days as things get cached but even now it's like a new phone again. Thanks for all the help I got from the various posts here that made it very easy to do.

2.1 apps only work on 2.1. So, if you wanted to go back to 2.1 and restore all that stuff it is kind of a pain.

Here is what I had to do.

If I have a new baseband or version, I wasn't allowed to simply use SEUS or PC Companion and go back to an old version.

I needed to install the Flashtool and download an old baseband and version. Matter of fact...I had a hard time getting the x10a version. I had to install the x10i version of 2.1 using the flashtool. Then everything was working again on 2.1....then you should be able to restore all the backed up 2.1 software from Titanium.

Hope that helps a bit.