Rooted OTA available!!!

mirrin

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well i found 5.06 worked pretty well for me but i have been on most of them i only left it because people were saying it killed the wifi on their phones... as long as large numbers of reports of the same thing from 7.7 dont occur ill probably stay on that one...
 
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keyslapper

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Sweet

First post on XDA here, I registered primarily to give props to Joel and Incubus.

I grabbed the rooted OTA Incubus posted and flashed it with Rom Manager. Took a lot of patience, but it went pretty smooth. Thanks to you both (and everyone else who had a hand in this).

My DInc is just about to go out of warranty, so I'm going to be trying some other ROMs pretty soon. I'm pretty much locked into the root/S-Off status now, and I'm happy with it that way. I think I'll be hanging on to this phone for some time.

So far I like this update, but I've had a few random reboots. One or two while I was re-installing some of my apps or moving them to the SD card, and at least one while it was just sitting there on the charger.

For the moment, I'm going on the assumption that this is just some early stuff working itself out. When flashing the ROM, I cleared the Dalvik cache, but didn't do a data wipe. Anyone have any idea if this is a problem?

Again, thanks a million guys!

( Oh, LOVE the noob video! :D )
 

AJGO23

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First post on XDA here, I registered primarily to give props to Joel and Incubus.

I grabbed the rooted OTA Incubus posted and flashed it with Rom Manager. Took a lot of patience, but it went pretty smooth. Thanks to you both (and everyone else who had a hand in this).

My DInc is just about to go out of warranty, so I'm going to be trying some other ROMs pretty soon. I'm pretty much locked into the root/S-Off status now, and I'm happy with it that way. I think I'll be hanging on to this phone for some time.

So far I like this update, but I've had a few random reboots. One or two while I was re-installing some of my apps or moving them to the SD card, and at least one while it was just sitting there on the charger.

For the moment, I'm going on the assumption that this is just some early stuff working itself out. When flashing the ROM, I cleared the Dalvik cache, but didn't do a data wipe. Anyone have any idea if this is a problem?

Again, thanks a million guys!

( Oh, LOVE the noob video! :D )
Well first off, welcome! And yes. You should ALWAYS wipe data, cache, and dalvik at the minimum. It ensures that you have a better experience without lag, freezing, FC's, etc.. You have to do the setup every time, but it's worht it and you get used to it. And most devs don't recommend using Rom manager since it's known to have some issues, you're best bet is to go install through your CWM recovery.
 
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keyslapper

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Well first off, welcome! And yes. You should ALWAYS wipe data, cache, and dalvik at the minimum. It ensures that you have a better experience without lag, freezing, FC's, etc.. You have to do the setup every time, but it's worht it and you get used to it. And most devs don't recommend using Rom manager since it's known to have some issues, you're best bet is to go install through your CWM recovery.
Wow, seriously, ALL data? That means having to set up multiple mail accounts (GMail, private, work) and re-installing all my apps - well, Titanium at least.

Initially, I took over a month to get my phone just the way I liked it, and still wound up tweaking the hell out of the look and feel on a regular basis. Can application data backed up with Titanium be restored to get most of that back? Seems like it would take hours to get it back either way. I never found a thread on this, so I apologize if it is answered somewhere - I'd love to get a link to that thread if it is out there.

Now I think about it, this has been the biggest hurdle to my trying different ROMs. Screw the suits whining about how I use the services and devices I pay for, I just don't have the time to be messing with it that much.

Again, thanks for the info!
Cheers!
 

BMWPower06

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What did I do wrong? I DL'd the file in the thread, put it onto my SD card, then turned my phone off.

I rebooted into recovery (power and volume down button), chose update from .zip on SD card. Picked the file and let it update...

Now my phone will boot up and just stay stuck on the "Droid" screen. Any help?

was I supposed to rename the file or anything? Please help, my phone is stuck right now...
 
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carngeX

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What did I do wrong? I DL'd the file in the thread, put it onto my SD card, then turned my phone off.

I rebooted into recovery (power and volume down button), chose update from .zip on SD card. Picked the file and let it update...

Now my phone will boot up and just stay stuck on the "Droid" screen. Any help?

was I supposed to rename the file or anything? Please help, my phone is stuck right now...
Did you wipe anything? You should do a full wipe (data/system/cache/dalvik/etc.) before flashing a new ROM.
 

AJGO23

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Wow, seriously, ALL data? That means having to set up multiple mail accounts (GMail, private, work) and re-installing all my apps - well, Titanium at least.

Initially, I took over a month to get my phone just the way I liked it, and still wound up tweaking the hell out of the look and feel on a regular basis. Can application data backed up with Titanium be restored to get most of that back? Seems like it would take hours to get it back either way. I never found a thread on this, so I apologize if it is answered somewhere - I'd love to get a link to that thread if it is out there.

Now I think about it, this has been the biggest hurdle to my trying different ROMs. Screw the suits whining about how I use the services and devices I pay for, I just don't have the time to be messing with it that much.

Again, thanks for the info!
Cheers!
You can back up app data, but it is strongly recommended that you don't back up system data. And yes it means starting all over, and I too was skeptical to start over when I first started flashing ROMs, but now it takes me about 15-20 minutes to setup everything again. But then again I only reinstall about 45 apps.

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zerocool79346

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What did I do wrong? I DL'd the file in the thread, put it onto my SD card, then turned my phone off.

I rebooted into recovery (power and volume down button), chose update from .zip on SD card. Picked the file and let it update...

Now my phone will boot up and just stay stuck on the "Droid" screen. Any help?

was I supposed to rename the file or anything? Please help, my phone is stuck right now...
Boot into recovery and wipe everything 3x. Next choose install zip, then after that DO NOT CLICK ON update.zip, select choose zip from SD, then find your downloaded file (wherever you put it) and select that.
 
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dirtyjake

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Has anyone tried any Bluetooth devices? Keyboards or such to see if we did in fact get the full bt stack?

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