About to take the Froyo plunge...

[fascinatej]

And will my apps work the same as they do now or should I expect to have to do some tweaking

 

[Ronindan]

If you are asking if you need to redo the settings for you apps. Then that will then if your back ups worked well or not.


Sent by my droid

 

[Sheepdog Elite]

Back to stock is ready if you have a pc. If the protection plan covers accidents they can't really turn you away for rooting. It's like you fall in a river and they say you shouldn't have gone next to the river with your phone. Rooting is fairly safe but accidents happen.

 

[jampot]

I also was considering the root. My concerns, paid for a protection plan from bestbuy, how do I put it back to original settings when necessary, will they void my warranty. How will this affect froyo if and when it is finally released.

Hey J,
So here's my .02..

I've been lurking in these forums for months. Bought my fascinate in November, realized I could do more with it, and finally yesterday I decided what the heck: why wait anymore when all these peeps were rocking Froyo and then some!?

One post in and Lando (Sharky to some) gave me the encouragement I needed. Add the expert advice and newfound friendship of Sheepdog, Davey, and DroidXcon, and you've got a very happy little mama here.

I followed the step-by-step instructions they provided, both in the this thread and in the links. When I hit technical difficulties (which were not really that difficult), they were on it with me. Within minutes! Wow. That's pretty amazing. It's like your own personal support team!

The process is super simple. You can easily go back to stock if you choose to. And when the OTA of Froyo is released, I doubt seriously you'll want to go there anyway, because Hallelujah, my phone is bloat-free and I have Google yay! It's like my phone was reborn the way I would have wanted it to begin with.

So again, my advice? You've got nothing to lose. Do it. It's painless and the feeling I've got right now with my "new" and much improved phone FAAAAAAAAR outweighs all the hemmin'-and-hawin' I put myself through over the last couple of months.

It really is a no-brainer.

Sorry, didn't mean to write a book.
I'm just seriously jazzed right now!

 

[Landshark]

Hey J,
So here's my .02..

I've been lurking in these forums for months. Bought my fascinate in November, realized I could do more with it, and finally yesterday I decided what the heck: why wait anymore when all these peeps were rocking Froyo and then some!?

One post in and Lando (Sharky to some) gave me the encouragement I needed. Add the expert advice and newfound friendship of Sheepdog, Davey, and DroidXcon, and you've got a very happy little mama here.

I followed the step-by-step instructions they provided, both in the this thread and in the links. When I hit technical difficulties (which were not really that difficult), they were on it with me. Within minutes! Wow. That's pretty amazing. It's like your own personal support team!

The process is super simple. You can easily go back to stock if you choose to. And when the OTA of Froyo is released, I doubt seriously you'll want to go there anyway, because Hallelujah, my phone is bloat-free and I have Google yay! It's like my phone was reborn the way I would have wanted it to begin with.

So again, my advice? You've got nothing to lose. Do it. It's painless and the feeling I've got right now with my "new" and much improved phone FAAAAAAAAR outweighs all the hemmin'-and-hawin' I put myself through over the last couple of months.

It really is a no-brainer.

Sorry, didn't mean to write a book.
I'm just seriously jazzed right now!

Nice input jampot. Thank you. And I've been telling everyone new to rooting they will eventually be like the rest of us here and not want to have anything to do with any official releases from VZW. If you think the phone is good now, just wait until you see what happens when Adrynalyne and the other devs make improvements to the official release.

 

[cygnusx1#AC]

Same here. Bought the Fascinate last September. Followed this forum for months, and finally just rooted and installed Froyo thanks to this forum. I can't imagine not having it now. Rooting is a cinch thanks to all the kind folks here who have taken their time to put together step by step instructions.

 

[melissasroja]

If I can do it anyone can. Seriously. Im not afraid to mess with my phone but my head always says "what if I make it totally unusable?" but here with the group of people this forum has I dont think that as much. Ive been on BB forums, WebOS forums none and I mean NONE have been nearly as helpful and supportive as this forum has been. Yeah they help on the others but you get those rude people who tell you not to do things if you dont know 110% what you are doing. Who knows how to do it the first few times? Hardly anyone. You have to learn somewhere. Read what you are about to do a few times. Make sure you understand the steps and you will be good. When I first started messing with my Palm's I was so scared lol. Im not so scared anymore though Ill admit I could never do the things gunnermike does lol. Bottom line is anyone who is unsure GO FOR IT! If you get stuck ask for help and I can guarantee the people here will do everything they can to fix you up. My Fascinate is now running better than ever. Hell its better than any phone Ive ever owned and Ive had a lot of phones. The main thing about this phone that I love is the screen and now it has all the other goods to go with that great screen. Its a keeper and I rarely feel like my phone is a keeper. I always wonder what else is out there that I might like better. Im not wondering that anymore!

 

[domenci]

So I went ahead and installed sc 2.9 and everything is up and running swimmingly after a titanium backup restore, but with one flight issue- the Market isn't showing all of the apps that TB restored, only ones i have since installed. They all show up in appbrain but not the market... what did I miss?

 

[Landshark]

So I went ahead and installed sc 2.9 and everything is up and running swimmingly after a titanium backup restore, but with one flight issue- the Market isn't showing all of the apps that TB restored, only ones i have since installed. They all show up in appbrain but not the market... what did I miss?

Go menu=>settings=>applications=>manage applications=>all=>scroll to market, click on market, click on clear data. See if the apps come back. Did you happen to use the Froyo feature of moving those apps to the sd card before the upgrade?

 

[domenci]

Go menu=>settings=>applications=>manage applications=>all=>scroll to market, click on market, click on clear data. See if the apps come back. Did you happen to use the Froyo feature of moving those apps to the sd card before the upgrade?

Awesome, that seems to have worked

As I upgraded from eclair there were no Froyo features available to me before.

 

[Landshark]

Awesome, that seems to have worked

As I upgraded from eclair there were no Froyo features available to me before.

Well, it's your lucky day. You can check out a whole list of new features available on Froyo here:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...faq-plus-stock-unrooted-rooted-downloads.html

 

[domenci]

Well, it's your lucky day. You can check out a whole list of new features available on Froyo here:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...faq-plus-stock-unrooted-rooted-downloads.html

I will probably eventually figure it out, but one more thing: I noticed there was a 2.9.1 update, which needs to be installed via Clockwork recovery. When I downloaded SC 2.9 the thread said CWR was included and to not install it, but when I reboot to recovery I get the blue text. I see that this is the stock recovery and that I need to apply update.zip to get clockwork, but not only is that file not on the SD card but when I select the option it does nothing but give me a little Android with a big yellow triangle with an exclamation point, causing me to have to pull the battery. I read about this http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...56394-beginners-rooting-read-me-3-3-11-a.html there but it seems to not have much how-to, mostly just explanations of what things are

 

[DroidXcon]

Theres a thread for that
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...-clockworkmod-recovery-w-screen-captures.html

 

[nickf126]

I have been reading this thread, and others about rooting/flashing. I just began the process, and I downloaded the one click root from here:
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Which is directly from your directions. As soon as I downloaded it, I got this:

http://s1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/nickf126/

Microsoft Security Essentials shows that it was a virus. What gives? I SERIOUSLY doubt that anyone on here would directly link to a virus, so is there some other explanation?

 

[domenci]

Thanks for the prompt reply, but let me repost my actual question since it seems I was unclear. The thread with all the SuperClean info says that Clockworkmod Recovery will be installed automatically when I use Odin to flash SC 2.9. I booted into recovery to find only the stock recovery available. Hitting apply update.zip did nothing. I don't see any links in your thread to something called update.zip. Which set of instructions in the thread you linked to should I follow to get CWM?

 

[DroidXcon]

I have been reading this thread, and others about rooting/flashing. I just began the process, and I downloaded the one click root from here:
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Which is directly from your directions. As soon as I downloaded it, I got this:

Microsoft Security Essentials shows that it was a virus. What gives? I SERIOUSLY doubt that anyone on here would directly link to a virus, so is there some other explanation?

rooting is injection a trojan into a phone and gaining access temporarliy so that the superuser file can be injected into the system side of the phone... thats exactly the way it works..you as the user are exploiting a security hole in the system

 

[domenci]

I have been reading this thread, and others about rooting/flashing. I just began the process, and I downloaded the one click root from here:
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Which is directly from your directions. As soon as I downloaded it, I got this:

Microsoft Security Essentials shows that it was a virus. What gives? I SERIOUSLY doubt that anyone on here would directly link to a virus, so is there some other explanation?

I got that one too, I just hit advanced and allowed the one file it had a problem with.

 

[nickf126]

Yes, but why is windows saying that it is a virus, and why isnt this mentioned elsewhere?

EDIT..read my post above, and check the photo that I linked to. Is that what I should be seeing?

 

[DroidXcon]

Thanks for the prompt reply, but let me repost my actual question since it seems I was unclear. The thread with all the SuperClean info says that Clockworkmod Recovery will be installed automatically when I use Odin to flash SC 2.9. I booted into recovery to find only the stock recovery available. Hitting apply update.zip did nothing. I don't see any links in your thread to something called update.zip. Which set of instructions in the thread you linked to should I follow to get CWM?

i had to build the odin packages different, i state it in the FAQ and the installation part of the thread i gave you ,,,so when you flash superclean with odin you are getting cwm froyo, not cwm all....if you followed my instructions in the odin thread the first instruction is to download update.zip and place it on your sdcard,,,, then when you boot into blue recovery you can apply sdcard:update.zip by hitting the home button...

but you can just use the thread i gave you can install cwm all with odin and it will go directly into clockwork

 

[DroidXcon]

Yes, but why is windows saying that it is a virus, and why isnt this mentioned elsewhere?

EDIT..read my post above, and check the photo that I linked to. Is that what I should be seeing?

thats what i just explained, its an exploit, a virus that you inject into your phone to gain root access,,, just allow it and use it, if you dont trust me then dont root your phone. i have thousands upon thousands of people who will tell you that its fine if you need for proof than my word