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Root [ROM] Android 2.2 FroYo - Brought to you by MDW (OC & Flash 10.1!)

Wow, I just had a really bad time with this ROM. It was up and running fine then rebooted and would not get past the droid eye so I was like ok restore my nandroid I just made....YEAH RIGHT....pulled the battery pressed x and powered back up...but it would not bring up recovery, CRAP. Tried to power back up and again would not get past the droid eye.

I had to RSD Lite back to 2.0.1 and then reroot then restore my backup....

Lets hope it goes better on this flash.
 
Wow, tried to sign in to my Google account, and it is saying that I don't have a connection, and wants me to establish WiFi - which, of course, it won't do until the Kernel has been installed. WTF?
 
johnlgalt said:
Wow, tried to sign in to my Google account, and it is saying that I don't have a connection, and wants me to establish WiFi - which, of course, it won't do until the Kernel has been installed. WTF?
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First boot, I had no 3G. A reboot fixed it. I was freaking out.

Also, I've put some basic instructions in the OP. Feel free to elaborate, anyone, and I'll post those up too (or instead).
 
johnlgalt said:
Wow, tried to sign in to my Google account, and it is saying that I don't have a connection, and wants me to establish WiFi - which, of course, it won't do until the Kernel has been installed. WTF?
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Boot into recovery and install a new kernel.
 
3G is showing activity when I try to sign in but it ain't signing me in. GDIT...

This is my second try now....
 
Fabolous said:
First boot, I had no 3G. A reboot fixed it. I was freaking out.

Also, I've put some basic instructions in the OP. Feel free to elaborate, anyone, and I'll post those up too (or instead).
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Thanks Fab. I did not know to do that. Power cycling now.

bp328i said:
Boot into recovery and install a new kernel.
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Though about doing that - thankfully already have the new kernels and Flash .apk on the phone, but lemme try this first.
 
Fabolous said:
First boot, I had no 3G. A reboot fixed it. I was freaking out.

Also, I've put some basic instructions in the OP. Feel free to elaborate, anyone, and I'll post those up too (or instead).
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I saw some talk in the early pages of this thread about some people going back to the old baseband (pre 2.1). I am running the current (C_01.3E.03P) baseband and haven't had a problem. Did anyone have to revert back to the older baseband to get their 3G to work? Just curious :)
 
Wow...Much better with wifi :D Depending on the stream, Justin TV looked pretty damn good and will be a nice bridge until the Slingbox app comes out.

Also, does anyone know if the original rom used a low volt kernel? My phone was getting really hot with heavy use...Now that I loaded the 1Ghz Low Volt, it seems to be running cooler (but still hotter than BB)...
 
I downloaded Nandroid 2.0 and put that file on the droid, renamed it to Nandroid.
I downloaded Froyo, unzipped it, put it in the nandroid folder.
Now what do I do
 
Huh - on reboot, as I am trying to get the info typed in to add my primary Google account, the sync indicator is on the phone - WTH is it syncing if I ain't logged in yet? lmfao....
 
cruud said:
I downloaded Nandroid 2.0 and put that file on the droid, renamed it to Nandroid.
I downloaded Froyo, unzipped it, put it in the nandroid folder.
Now what do I do
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Ummm, no. You need to have either SPRecovery or ClockWorkMod Recovery to use the Nandroid backups - go back to MDW page and read the mini descriptions thre to use either.

Do you have SPR / CWM?
 
johnlgalt said:
Huh - on reboot, as I am trying to get the info typed in to add my primary Google account, the sync indicator is on the phone - WTH is it syncing if I ain't logged in yet? lmfao....
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And still not getting me logged in.

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Finally! Never had that take so long, always made the connection within 20 seconds at most. Of course, that mysterious synchronizing that it is doing probably had something to do with it....
 
johnlgalt said:
Ummm, no. You need to have either SPRecovery or ClockWorkMod Recovery to use the Nandroid backups - go back to MDW page and read the mini descriptions thre to use either.

Do you have SPR / CWM?
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Yeah. I've got to the recovery screen. There's text saying Welcome to SPRecovery.
 
Finally got it! Lol woot. Love it. Of course now there are instructions after i figure it out...

So now i have 2.2 to install the overclocked ones just use clockwork again and reflash it?
 
Hmmm, now got an error message saying unable to install Maps....

I sincerely hope this is not going to turn into another all-night affair for me...
 
cruud said:
Yeah. I've got to the recovery screen. There's text saying Welcome to SPRecovery.
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you need to extract the folder and put in in the nandroid backup folder

Install Instructions SP Recovery:
1) Download file
2) Extract folder named froyo-BS-20100605-0547
3) Place BS-20100605-0547 in the /sdcard/nandroid folder on your sdcard
4) Restart phone in recovery
5) Go to Backup/Restore, select advanced restore, select the above folder and press the camera button.
 
Well I decided to give it another try since the kernels are out and so is the Wifi fix. But there are still a few bugs. The big one I can see is with task killer. As said before it will not kill itself. Also, the phone is still running a big sluggish and hesitates on screen presses before it executes. I sill claim that my 2.1 setup was faster. But with my CPU benchmark program, Im running a 823ms test OC'd to 1ghz, compared to 927ms OC'd to 1ghz on 2.1. So it seems to be running the CPU just a hair more effeciently, but I still dont understand why its so sluggish. I will run with it until it pisses me off, then I will go back to stock 2.1 until the real 2.2 for Droid goes live.
 
ZXMustang said:
Well I decided to give it another try since the kernels are out and so is the Wifi fix. But there are still a few bugs. The big one I can see is with task killer. As said before it will not kill itself. Also, the phone is still running a big sluggish and hesitates on screen presses before it executes. I sill claim that my 2.1 setup was faster. But with my CPU benchmark program, Im running a 823ms test OC'd to 1ghz, compared to 927ms OC'd to 1ghz on 2.1. So it seems to be running the CPU just a hair more effeciently, but I still dont understand why its so sluggish. I will run with it until it pisses me off, then I will go back to stock 2.1 until the real 2.2 for Droid goes live.
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i went back to my backup of cm 5.0.7.1. i had similar results. it just ran like crap on my phone even with the updated kernels. i will probably just wait to see what pet and koush come up with.
 
ZXMustang said:
Well I decided to give it another try since the kernels are out and so is the Wifi fix. But there are still a few bugs. The big one I can see is with task killer. As said before it will not kill itself. Also, the phone is still running a big sluggish and hesitates on screen presses before it executes. I sill claim that my 2.1 setup was faster. But with my CPU benchmark program, Im running a 823ms test OC'd to 1ghz, compared to 927ms OC'd to 1ghz on 2.1. So it seems to be running the CPU just a hair more effeciently, but I still dont understand why its so sluggish. I will run with it until it pisses me off, then I will go back to stock 2.1 until the real 2.2 for Droid goes live.
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I noticed that too. Also, it seems that auto memory manager isn't working for me. I set it to have 50mb free at all times and I checked at one point and it was down to 20. Hopefully pete will work his magic and get some of his BB features into this 2.2 rom
 
When I noticed that ATK didn't kill itself, I just uninstalled it.

Haven't even looked at my free memory since. I figure, if it's not slowing down, why bother :)
 
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