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Help VZW 2.2 Update Doesn't Work/ Cant Access Settings

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Greg90

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To make it easy to understand what's going on I'll provide a bulleted order of events:

  • An update to Android 2.2 got sent to my phone by VZW
  • I click install update and phone reboots
  • Partially into update process, the progress bar freezes and a big yellow exclamation point appears
  • After waiting for update to finish I finally restart phone as it is frozen
  • When phone reboots, I can't access settings to set a password, change ringtone, etc.
  • This was several months ago. I never had time to go to the VZW store and get it fixed.
  • Today I finally went to the store
  • The store asks if I tried a reset from recovery mode. I said yes. It didn't work
  • The store says that they cannot flash the software on my droid and since its under warranty I'll need to buy a new phone
  • I stare in amazement that Verizon wants to sell me a new phone over a software issue (let alone one their update caused)

So is there anything I can do to flash the phone and fix this?

With my old Droid I had installed a custom ROM (Bugless Beast) and remember how to do so, but I'm not sure if installing a custom ROM will actually fix my problems here.

Thanks for the help in advance
 
I'm not - their techs are less techy and more salespersons. With a few notable exceptions (such as a few mods here, among others). but they are not folks that you'll normally find in retail stores, either.
 
johnlgalt said:
I'm not - their techs are less techy and more salespersons. With a few notable exceptions (such as a few mods here, among others). but they are not folks that you'll normally find in retail stores, either.
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Yeah the guy didn't even know how to boot the phone into recovery mode. *sigh*

I guess this is why Atlas Shrugged ;-)
 
LMFAO - 'zactly.

Seriously, though, I joined here about a week before the D1 dropped to really research if this was the phone that I wanted. I read and read and read and compared and decided that this was the one - and I am supremely happy with it.

Had I had the money to buy the N1 from Google directly, it would have been possibly a better choice for me - but I am addicted hook, line, and sinker (yes, mixing cliches) to this phone, and it's gonna be a long time before I 'upgrade' - I hate all the special features being added by the OEMs these days, like Moto BLAH or the other one on the HTC phones....I like my phone to be mine - has what I want, doesn't what I don'. Period.

For previous dumb phones I used Howard Forums as my one stop repository for apps, and for my old HP iPaqs I used to use ZDAa lot for coked ROMs, but for Android, I stick to this place. You'll learn a lot, and you'll be amazed at some of the things this 'ancient' phone can still do....
 
I've run just about all of them. I used to run UD, have tried Simply Stunning, BB (which I like, but it is so not customized...Pete likes keepin as close to stock as he can), LFY (my current fav) and a few others. There are some newer ROMs (like MIUI) that I ahven't tried, but the interface is .. too minimalistic for me.

I am currently runnign LFY 1.96 (private build, 1.95 is the current public build) OC'd to 1100 MHz and with around 130-135 user apps installed. Oh, and I am testing anywhere from 4-6 apps at any given moment, including a couple from here....

With the OC and the high number of apps I have installed, I need stability over anything else, and then responsiveness. It's why I ran UD for a long period of time, regardless of all the infamy that the dev garnered over his practices, and why I run LFY now.
 
FYI after Verizon insisted nothing could be done to fix it and I needed to BUY A NEW PHONE I fixed it in 10 minutes with those instructions you linked me to. :D

Now I'm going to try a few different ROMs till I find which one I like. First is LFY

Update: I'm running LFY. I've run some ROMs before but my Droid is like a new phone now. Holy crap I can't believe how much faster and stable it is than Verizon's standard rom. Makes me want to keep this phone for a long long time.
 
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