How do I rollback to gingerbread on my new replacement phone

**deadby100cuts** · 11-15-2012, 07:29 PM

So the earphone jack on my old vivid broke, i got my replacement in today, and I HATE ics, I mean HATE HATE HATE, I loved the other one how can I put the new phones software back to what I was use to on my old phone( gingerbread). the only good how to I found is for samsung phones and I don't know if it will work on a htc

**apoc53** · 11-16-2012, 04:57 PM

Root and custom ROM. AT&T wants everyone on the same software version, so short of this, I'm afraid you're stuck with ICS like the rest of us.

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**OperationA7X** · 11-17-2012, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by apoc53

Root and custom ROM. AT&T wants everyone on the same software version, so short of this, I'm afraid you're stuck with ICS like the rest of us.

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Stuck? Stuck? I wanted it, I desired it. And I got it. And I freaking loved it! But what you said, custom ROM, you don't need to root to get a custom ROM unless you're using ROM Manager.

**apoc53** · 11-17-2012, 11:10 PM

Had a feeling you'd say something like that, but evidenced by OP: there's at least two of us that are "stuck with" ICS.

. Now that it's been out a while, a lot of the incompatibilities in apps have been worked out (Skype, Netflix [mostly], ServeStream, etc.) so it's not AS bad as it was.

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**OperationA7X** · 11-20-2012, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by apoc53

Had a feeling you'd say something like that, but evidenced by OP: there's at least two of us that are "stuck with" ICS.

. Now that it's been out a while, a lot of the incompatibilities in apps have been worked out (Skype, Netflix [mostly], ServeStream, etc.) so it's not AS bad as it was.

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Well, hey, I am just an ICS/JB (HTC Inspire 4G/HTC Desire HD) Junkie! XD But yeah, it's easiest to root with a custom ROM, and there are a decent amount of GB ROMs for the Vivid, you just gotta look. A great place to start would be XDA.