Can anyone tell me the easiest way to flash to the 5.5.901? Right now I have the 5.5.893
I'm waiting for the official push. I know that "901" was obtained from an accidental/intentional VZW push and that everyone seems to like it, but still there is no guarantee that they won't find something that needs to be fixed - leading them to bump the release number, and potentially stranding "901" users off the upgrade path. For example, a "945" release might not bother to recognize "901" as a valid version to upgrade from. It should, given that they sent "901" to some, but again no guarantee. Last year, Thunderbolt users got a pre-release and some bricked their phones, requiring replacement. Different situation, but demonstrates that installing pre-releases is not without risk. If "901" is as good as they say, it should start pushing any time now...
"7. Reboot into stock recovery (adb reboot recovery) by holding Power and Volume Up/Down at the same time."
Does this delete your phone data?
I sincerely appreciate everyone's help. I updated and did NOT lose my data. it's still dropped 3g connection however which pisses me off but maybe this time it won't be as often.
You know I took my phone into the verizon store and the employee (without even bothering to try to look at my phone) said "all bionics have trouble connecting to 3g. I can give you another phone but it'll do the same thing." I said "then I want out of my contract since you sold me a defective model phone." "oh NO, let's see what we can do..."
I followed the steps exactly and i can't get the the update file to show up in my recovery directory