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Anyone else having trouble with the market and maps download today?
Anyone else having trouble with the market and maps download today?
Per koush and cyanogen (twitter), Froyo just dropped on AOSP.
Per koush and cyanogen (twitter), Froyo just dropped on AOSP.
just saw this dancedroiddancedroiddancedroid
My first reaction was filled with so many curses and swear words I think I just saw a sailor blush and I'm nowhere near a large body of water. Instead of posting it, I'm going to say "this means a 'stock' plus root ROM will be out post haste, yes?"Per koush and cyanogen (twitter), Froyo just dropped on AOSP.
Yo. I'm trying to do this whole update but i'm a total noob. Can someone show me where the steps are outlined? I can't read through 1,000s of posts
This is what I have done so far...downloaded the update, (update.zip) and moved it to the root on my Droid. When I try to restart...all hell breaks loose.
How do you restart in safe mode?
I have never updated anything on my droid. Is there something I am missing.
Oh, and be gentle to me. :icon_eek:
Mikey,
First off, are you rooted? If not, you will be after this is done, so if that's an issue stop now. Secondly, do you have SPRecovery flashed in? If not, you'll need it for an update.zip. Otherwise you'll need to go here:
A Guide to get Froyo - for NON-ROOTED users
If you use Clockwork, good luck. I don't use it and from what I was reading when the leaks first came out it often caused a lot of issues trying to install. Instructions are floating around and I'm sure one of the Mods can point you at them a lot easier than I can. Therefore all the instructions will be based on SPRecovery and, since I'm pressed for time, won't be super-clean, but they will be complete.
As for booting into recovery, you need to hold down X on the keyboard and power the phone on, holding the X key until SPRecovery boots. If nothing happens and it boots normally, try again. You have to be holding the X down before the M appears -- hold it down THEN power the phone on. If nothing happens this time and you're 100% sure you did it right, you don't have SPRecovery flashed in properly. There's a great video on Youtube that will walk you through it. Alternatively, go here http://www.droidforums.net/forum/hacking-faqs/39254-sbf-root-unroot.html and follow the directions carefully.
Installation at this point becomes relatively simple. You make a nandroid backup (instructions are elsewhere and readily found with a forum search but I know how non-effective that can be sometimes)but can be had easily for the price of another question. After that, flash your system memory and cache at least twice and many recommend three times -- that means three of the one and three of the other -- and then do an advanced nandroid recovery of the FroYo ROM.
Unfortunately, you can't do that as an update.zip, so you'll need to extract the files from the update.zip you have on your SD card's root and move them into the nandroid folder you just created with SPRecovery. Rinse and repeat, or in this case, reboot and recovery.
Don't be alarmed if the boot after the install takes forever. This is normal.
I hope this helps. If you just want FroYo and don't mind flashing in a ROM and don't want to go through the hassle (as little as it is one) to do a nandroid recovery instead of the update.zip method, I know for sure that Chevyno1's Simply Stunning is available as an update.zip and I imagine others are as well at this point.
However, if you don't mind waiting a few days, the source code was just released for the developers to hack on, so ROMs built from source instead of just modified release candidates will be available soon. I hope.
64 bit right?