Root What Must I Have To Install ICS Or Something Like It?

[Teague]

Dont Yell Yet.. Ive Read Threads On How To Install ICS And Stuff.. I Got My Phone Rooted Thats All.. Is There Any Apps Or Anything Else I Should Have On My Phone Before I Download Anything And Try To "Mod" My Phone? Any Backup/Restore App Or Anything, Juss Double Checking So I Dont Eff Something Up From Being Careless, Fairly New To This, I Did Have CWM7 On My Ascend From MetroPCS.. Any Help Please?

 

[Teague]

I Do Have Titanium Backup, And ROM Manager.. And Busybox. Thats All.

 

[johnlgalt]

First of all you have to understand one (of many) key thing.

ICS is an upgrade to GB. There are ROMs that take GB components and make them look and feel like ICS, and there are ROMs that are based upon ICS leaks.

Motorola is working on releasing (or else teasing us with false promises to release ) a true ICS Blur version for our phones, which will take our phones from 5.9.905 to 6.7.2xx. If you are interested in what a stock Motorola ICS upgrade would look like, I suggest that you check out 6.7.232 (the last ICS leak from which you can go back to 5.9.905, which is where you'll have to be to take the official release when Motorola an VZW release it).

Also, do note another thing - GB cannot run multiple cores - only a single one. ICS can run multiple cores. So, if you take a ROM that makes GB look and feel like ICS, it will only partially do so, as it still only uses one core.

If you take an ICS ROM that is based upon ICS, you'll need to apply the leaked upgrade first in order to use that ROM. 6.7.2231, 6.7.2233, 6.7.229, 6.7.230 and 6.7.230 are the safe leaks o install, from any one of them you can go back to 5.905. Anything higher and you're stuck on it, unless you use HoB - and even then, you'll never be able to go back to 5.9.905, which means you'll have to hope and pray that the final release is compliant with the current latest release of 6.7.244, so that you can use HoB to install it - else you'll be semi-permanently stuck on .244.

I know I threw a lot of terms at you, and this is a very small portion of what you really should know before going any further, but essential knowledge to your exact question.

 

[Teague]

First of all you have to understand one (of many) key thing.

ICS is an upgrade to GB. There are ROMs that take GB components and make them look and feel like ICS, and there are ROMs that are based upon ICS leaks.

Motorola is working on releasing (or else teasing us with false promises to release ) a true ICS Blur version for our phones, which will take our phones from 5.9.905 to 6.7.2xx. If you are interested in what a stock Motorola ICS upgrade would look like, I suggest that you check out 6.7.232 (the last ICS leak from which you can go back to 5.9.905, which is where you'll have to be to take the official release when Motorola an VZW release it).

Also, do note another thing - GB cannot run multiple cores - only a single one. ICS can run multiple cores. So, if you take a ROM that makes GB look and feel like ICS, it will only partially do so, as it still only uses one core.

If you take an ICS ROM that is based upon ICS, you'll need to apply the leaked upgrade first in order to use that ROM. 6.7.2231, 6.7.2233, 6.7.229, 6.7.230 and 6.7.230 are the safe leaks o install, from any one of them you can go back to 5.905. Anything higher and you're stuck on it, unless you use HoB - and even then, you'll never be able to go back to 5.9.905, which means you'll have to hope and pray that the final release is compliant with the current latest release of 6.7.244, so that you can use HoB to install it - else you'll be semi-permanently stuck on .244.

I know I threw a lot of terms at you, and this is a very small portion of what you really should know before going any further, but essential knowledge to your exact question.

I Think Imma Stay On The Beach And Enjoy The Scenery, Im Not Gonna Get My Feet Wet.. Thanks For The Info.

 

[Satires]

First of all you have to understand one (of many) key thing.

ICS is an upgrade to GB. There are ROMs that take GB components and make them look and feel like ICS, and there are ROMs that are based upon ICS leaks.

Motorola is working on releasing (or else teasing us with false promises to release ) a true ICS Blur version for our phones, which will take our phones from 5.9.905 to 6.7.2xx. If you are interested in what a stock Motorola ICS upgrade would look like, I suggest that you check out 6.7.232 (the last ICS leak from which you can go back to 5.9.905, which is where you'll have to be to take the official release when Motorola an VZW release it).

Also, do note another thing - GB cannot run multiple cores - only a single one. ICS can run multiple cores. So, if you take a ROM that makes GB look and feel like ICS, it will only partially do so, as it still only uses one core.

If you take an ICS ROM that is based upon ICS, you'll need to apply the leaked upgrade first in order to use that ROM. 6.7.2231, 6.7.2233, 6.7.229, 6.7.230 and 6.7.230 are the safe leaks o install, from any one of them you can go back to 5.905. Anything higher and you're stuck on it, unless you use HoB - and even then, you'll never be able to go back to 5.9.905, which means you'll have to hope and pray that the final release is compliant with the current latest release of 6.7.244, so that you can use HoB to install it - else you'll be semi-permanently stuck on .244.

I know I threw a lot of terms at you, and this is a very small portion of what you really should know before going any further, but essential knowledge to your exact question.

Gingerbread doesn't use both cores?

Why does my system panel show the use of both cores? If I have the app on the monitoring page and flck the screen up and down really fast, it does show that both cores are working.

I'm just asking.

 

[PowerBomb]

Moto is promising official ICS this month, so yeah if you're not too familiar with flashing ROMs and all that stuff, you might as well wait to see if the official update does indeed come out in the next 9 days. If we were months and months away from the official update, it might be worth trying to learn how to do it all yourself, but hopefully tthe official update really is coming soon.

If you end up deciding to do it, you don't need anything unless it is mentioned in one of the many how-to guides we have in the pinned threads at the top of the forums here. To get onto an ICS leak you pretty much just need to be rooted, install a custom recovery, download the ICS leak that you want to use, put it on your SD card, and install it from recovery. Just follow the guides. If it's important to back anything up, the guide will say so. If you need to have any specific apps for the process, the guide will say so.

But if you did do this, then when the official ICS update does come out, you'd need to put your phone back to stock software 905 Gingerbread, which is a bit more complicated process of downloading a program called RSDLite, plugging your phone in, flashing it back to the 905 software version, etc etc etc.

 

[OutOfPhase]

If you end up deciding to do it, you don't need anything unless it is mentioned in one of the many how-to guides we have in the pinned threads at the top of the forums here. To get onto an ICS leak you pretty much just need to be rooted, install a custom recovery, download the ICS leak that you want to use, put it on your SD card, and install it from recovery. Just follow the guides. If it's important to back anything up, the guide will say so. If you need to have any specific apps for the process, the guide will say so.

You can skip the rooting and custom recovery because you can't install a leak through a custom recovery, only stock recovery .

Download the leak ( I recommend 6.7.232 to anybody that does not know what you are doing because you can recovery easily) to your SD card-ext.

Boot into stock recovery. With the phone off hold both volume buttons and press the power button until a menu appears.

Use volume down button to move the selector to recovery and then press volume up.

When you see the android with the ! press both volume buttons again.

You are now in stock recovery.

Use volume up or down to "install update from zip" or (something similar)

Press power button to select.

find the leak that you put on your SD card-ext using volume up or down and click the power button again.

Select yes and watch it install.

When it is done select reboot.

 

[Paraflier]

After this latest push back on the OTA, I think it's about time I tate control of my own device and get the most from it.

Sounds pretty self explanatory from the above post. I'll just make sure to thaw the bloat ware I have, and boot into recovery and slam that ICS leak like a champ.

If the unthinkable happens and the OTA comes out next week (lol) after I'm on "the leak" I hear it's just about as easy to jump back to GB. Is that true? Or just wishful thinking?

I have read the posts you need x to get back. I just don't want to end up screwing myself.

Have a good one, all.

 

[johnlgalt]

If you install 6.7.2231/6.7.2233 or anything 6.7.232 or below, you're fine, you an FXZ back to .905 to take the OTA.

If you install 6.7.235+ the you'll need to use the HoB utility to put a non-bootable .905 on your system to fool the OTA so the phone will install it.