FC09 Software Update Question

[cb2367]

I finally received the notice on my phone that the software update released in March was now available to install. I have installed a custom recovery on the phone so that I can succesfully install patches like the GPS Fix.

Can I install the FC09 update on top of the custom recovery without any affect on applications and data, or am I going to have to go back to stock recovery, install the update, and then put the custom recovery back on?

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[rando991]

Are you rooted? You must be if you have a custom recovery. If so, then don't update with the OTA, go get the prerooted deodexed FC09 that Kennyglass over at the xda epic forum made and install that...quick, easy and no going back to stock or reverting to pre GPS Fix steps.
Make sure to do a Titanium backup or at least a nandroid with your custom recovery before doing.
Here's the link:
[ROM][FC19][BML][MTD] Stock Odexed Prerooted - xda-developers

 

[cb2367]

I have not rooted the phone. All I did was replace the stock recovery with the ACSyndicate custom recovery so that the GPS Fix could be permanently applied. Now that the update has been pushed out to my phone, I have to keep pressing the 'install later' option until I can find out if I can install this update with the custom recovery installed (will the update overwrite the recovery partition)?

I don't want to install the update and then encounter an error and end up losing everything.

 

[rando991]

from what I know, having root OR the GPS fix will prevent the normal OTA from installing. You either have to restore to stock, or return the GPS back to stock. I've never heard of whether the OTA will work on a phone with other than a custom recovery. I'm thinking you could save yourselve a lot of work and frustration by going ahead with root, then download the deodexed, prerooted FC09 and installing that. That way you're not going to wipe anything, and you are going to have to spend time rebuilding the setup you had. You have to search to find how to restore the old GPS libraries, but again, I don't know if this is futile, because you have the custom recovery. If you root and use it a few weeks you'll never want to go back to the dark ages. Especially since you can always ODIN back to factory condition if you need to turn the phone in. How long have you had your phone? I would think doing the custom recovery voids the 1 year waranty Samsung just like going all the way with root would.

 

[demopedro]

Hello all....
So I THOUGHT I updated my phone to the new FC09 update via the XDA link (Which actually shows it as the "FC19" update) but once I rebooted....it still shows my Build as GINGERBREAD.EL30 (I though the update was EL30 to FC09) BUT it shows myBaseband version as S: D700.0.5S.FC19.

So did I install the update? Is the "EL30" in my build name the name of the modem version? So All I really did was kept the "old" EL30 build and updated the modem? As I am guessing that's all the update entailed?

Am I correct in saying if I did do the OTA update (By ODIN'ing back to stock) the only diffrence would be my build would read GINGERBREAD.FC09 and my baseband would read S: D700.0.5S.FC09? (And the FC19 I have is kind of the same thing?)

There was no true change to the Android O/S itself in the OTA update?

Just making sure I am not missing out on any worthwhile updates.....