[GUIDE] Step by Step ROM Firmware Upgrade & Migration to Froyo 2.2 [JL2] Bell I9000M

[GUIDE] Step by Step ROM Firmware Upgrade & Migration to Froyo 2.2 [JL2] Bell I9000M


[WARNING!] Do Not flash Any ROM until you can get the 3 buttons DOWNLOAD MODE working

[CAUTION!] Make sure you know what your doing before you flash any ROM. It is your own fault if you kill your phone.



Before you begin...

Make a full backup of everything with Titanium Backup
Make a full backup with CW ROM Manager
Mount your SD card
Manually drag/drop the CW ROM backup and Titanium Backup from the phone to your PC
If you have CoPilot, make sure to snatch the whole copilot directory from the internal SD to your PC... it'll save you the trouble to have to re-configure & re-download the maps later

Now you can Have Fun & Happy Flashing!

Part 1

Choose your update method, you can Flash via the scary ODIN, or via the "safe" KIES.
Each will have its own set of conundrums & gotchas.

If ODIN, follow these steps:
If successful:
If WiFi:
Else If APN:

If KIES, follow these steps:

Note #1: If you get and error about KIES Server not available, just retry a few times until you get it, you might even need to wait a couple of hours for it to come back
Note #2: If KIES says something like JK4: "This device's version cannot be upgraded." use the registry patch to make KIES believe you have JG9 or JH2, and it will let you upgrade to JL2


If successful:
If WiFi:
Else If APN:


Part 2

Take advantage of the new features in Froyo 2.2


Troubleshooting & Known Bugs

Note 1: Titanium Backup
in newer versions of TB the batch option has been renamed to "Restore missing apps with data"
Then on the next screen you get to choose if you want to restore
user apps + data, or user apps only, or user data only

BUG: Titanium Backup might get stuck when doing loooooooong batch operations in Froyo, if you jump to another App or do something else and then come back, the status on the system tray will remain forever there, and will not end, you'll have to manually Kill it using any task manager app.

Note 2: External SD
in Eclair 2.1 the External SD was on /sdcard/sd/
in Froyo 2.2 the External SD has been moved to /sdcard/external_sd/
you'll have to manually update Apps that uses hard coded paths

Note 3: Restoring CoPilot
Let Titanium Backup finish the 400+ apps restore
Copy the Copilot folder you backed up earlier back to Internal SD from PC or External SD
Run Copilot,
The registration key should already be listed in the box
Hit Ok
It should say Activation Completed Successfully, with the thumbs up picture

Note 4: Re-install No LED
After restoring No Led from backup it kept complaining about it needing to be re-installed
Once you re-install it, everything works great as usual.

Note 5: News and Weather Genie Widget does not work on 2.2
It's NOT compatible with Froyo, it keeps force closing everytime you try to run it.
Good thing is, this App was totally optional, it was just a plug in for DeskClock which itself was a plug in for Alarm Clock PlusV2? (the best alarm app for android)

Note 6: Z4Root not showing on market for some people
if you are having trouble with market, the alternative is to download it from the topic
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953




Thanks to: TriC_101, ragin, Chainfire for JL2 tar ball, RyanZA, TitaniuBackup developer(s), and all the great people in XDA-Developers.com

Froyo Quick Review

Froyo is Awesome!

After upgrading to 2.2, i found a whole bunch of apps which was no longer necessary, as many of the status/features i wanted already came build in, or allowed other apps which i already had installed before to work even better

by unlocking some of its feature that was only accessible on 2.2, but disabled on 2.1

the JK3 came with all the Broadware from Bell, had to uninstall a bunch of them

Overall the phone now runs really really smooth, specially when Installing Apps on Android Market and doing other stuff, it no longer hangs for a few sec until it finishes the install

back in 2.1 the phone was working great, but everytime an App is installed via Market, it will hang abit until it's done installing, and sometimes it gets very annoying when you have like 20 apps updates to install

still need to test the GPS using Google Maps / Track to see if it made any improvement on the accuracy.

no changes to CoPilot, it still work just perfect as usual

no no, those are just steps to go Online to the Internet and access Android Market for the rest of the steps

yiannisthegreek said:

@Allgamer,

What doy ou mean exactly by the following?...


If WiFi:
•Scan for WiFi connections
•Select your preferred WiFi connection
•Enter password

Else If APN:
•Create new APN
•Save and Exit APN
•Enable APN


Are these things that get messed up when you flash to JK3 that need to be fixed?

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greeced said:

Question as I've never flashed my phone before (and its not rooted).

If you flash your phone with this method and then have jk3 on it, what happens when Bell/Samsung officially release it? Will you be able to update to that released version? Or would you have to downgrade to upgrade again?

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yes, you can upgrade again easily with the registry patcher to "roll back" KIES

xZeDgEx said:

I did not lose any data on my phone. However I did do a factory reset after just in case. It was working fine either way. I don't think its completely necessary to factory reset.

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while this is true, for some people it might become a problem over time

it's best to do a wipe now than later

as you might have seen on the other Froyo upgrades many users have had problems leaving the old data in

personally i rather start fresh i prevent any problem from creeping up on me later on.

Android OS + apps + google makes it so extremely easy to restore from scratch, everything is sync-ed online, 1 click restore of user apps+user data

it can't be any easier than that