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Root y'all gonna love this....
- Thread starter johnlgalt
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thetingster
Android Enthusiast
Great work!
OutOfPhase
Premium Member
Nice work John! thanks for being the guinea pig. I see the kernels and radio for 5.9.901 are different from my 5.8.894. Did they change again with the newest update?
RDKamikaze
Android Enthusiast
Do you have a donate button? 
If not, put one in your tut!
If not, put one in your tut!
johnlgalt
Antidisestablishmentarian
That is the latest update thus far, that we've found - but yeah, it is definitely different.
However, if my theory holds true, then from here on out we should have a nearly flawless system of reverting any time we want.
The key is going to be:
1) remember what customizations you've applied - for example another user in the other thread at RW is still stuck after applying the update. He had issues with WebTop and with zumocast missing, neither of which I had done.
moral of the story - don't delete your apps - the updates check for them, seemingly randomly, but actually because the updates contain patches to / replacements for the existing stock updates.
Do tell. Thousand of Bionic users including myself will be extremely grateful.
I have everything up at 5.5.893 except the radio. I do have a radio.zip flash to goto the stock radio.( CDMA_N_03.1C.50R ltedc_u_05.15.00) one now needs to be made to get to this radio CDMA_N_03.1C.57Rltedc_u_05.15.01. Once someone makes that zip we should be back on the update path and can apply the newest update.
thetingster
Android Enthusiast
The biggest reason is that by all appearances 5.7.893 is off the update path and there is a newer update that cannot be obtained from 5.7.893. So if one wants the latest fixes this method John has discovered will allow some of us to now have it.
johnlgalt
Antidisestablishmentarian
5.5.893, 5.7.893 and 5.8.894 all update from 5.5.886. 5.9.901 (accidental leak this week) updates only from 5.5.893.
IOW, it's supposed (not necessarily factual at this point) that the next update released will load only on 5.5.893. 5.7.893 is already ahead of that, and thus the theory is that 5.7.893 users currently are off the upgrade track, and supposition is that this may be indefinite.
As to what I did - I'll make a post about it in a new thread, so I can keep this one open for discussion without cluttering up the info in that post.
We now have a second methodology as well, and I want to incorporate that into the post - but that post will probably not be until later tonight as I'm about to start packing to go to South Carolina. Plus, I did not actually use that second methodology, so I have to copy and paste from another thread, and I want confirmation that this is actually a working method too before posting it.
WARNING!!! This procedure to revert TO stock in order to apply the update of your choice WILL soft brick your phone. It may become permanent, as one user has figured out - he is unable to flash any of the update files onto his phone, and it locks hard with a boot fail. He's lucky in that he went to the VZW store and they went ahead an initiated a replacement for him even after he told them exactly what he had been doing, including the running of leaked updates. If yours goes hte same way, you may not be as lucky....
IOW, DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!
Oh, and as an aside - I also have ICS on the phone via safestrap (which makes use of 2init, I believe, or at least something similar) but since I have bounced my phone to 5.9.901 it gets no signal - currently.
IOW, it's supposed (not necessarily factual at this point) that the next update released will load only on 5.5.893. 5.7.893 is already ahead of that, and thus the theory is that 5.7.893 users currently are off the upgrade track, and supposition is that this may be indefinite.
As to what I did - I'll make a post about it in a new thread, so I can keep this one open for discussion without cluttering up the info in that post.
We now have a second methodology as well, and I want to incorporate that into the post - but that post will probably not be until later tonight as I'm about to start packing to go to South Carolina. Plus, I did not actually use that second methodology, so I have to copy and paste from another thread, and I want confirmation that this is actually a working method too before posting it.
WARNING!!! This procedure to revert TO stock in order to apply the update of your choice WILL soft brick your phone. It may become permanent, as one user has figured out - he is unable to flash any of the update files onto his phone, and it locks hard with a boot fail. He's lucky in that he went to the VZW store and they went ahead an initiated a replacement for him even after he told them exactly what he had been doing, including the running of leaked updates. If yours goes hte same way, you may not be as lucky....
IOW, DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!
Oh, and as an aside - I also have ICS on the phone via safestrap (which makes use of 2init, I believe, or at least something similar) but since I have bounced my phone to 5.9.901 it gets no signal - currently.
thetingster
Android Enthusiast
This is the method I found and used and it worked great.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1931864
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1931864
johnlgalt
Antidisestablishmentarian
Actually, you don't have to root to get this done.
There are a few one-click methods out there as well as a few manual methods, but the majority of the success depends upon what you've actually done to get where you are.
What update are you on, an assuming that you're not rooted, do you want to root at all, or remain rootless?
There are a few one-click methods out there as well as a few manual methods, but the majority of the success depends upon what you've actually done to get where you are.
What update are you on, an assuming that you're not rooted, do you want to root at all, or remain rootless?