Preparing EVO for Froyo?

[dfine1966]

O.K.,

Now that we are getting Froyo within the next few days, what do we need to do to get our phones ready for Froyo.

Will Froyo installation migrate our applications and games to the SD card?

Do we have to do a hard reset to make everything work properly?


Will some of the programs we have installed now not work with Froyo and cause an installation problem? For example, I have Lookout installed, do I need to uninstall this first.

What other programs would we have to uninstall?

I am sure there are a lot of other questions that we need to know before installing Froyo.

If anyone else has answers or questions about Froyo's install process, please add to this thread.

Thanks.

 

[Davejm74]

Wondering what (if anything) I need to back up. Will pics, memos, apps be lost? Looked at other parts of the forum but couldnt find anything that confirmed one way or the other.

 

[splmonster]

Wondering what (if anything) I need to back up. Will pics, memos, apps be lost? Looked at other parts of the forum but couldnt find anything that confirmed one way or the other.

Well pics are saved to your SD. Apps and such should be backed up during the process. Although if your afraid of losing them, start a Appbrain account, back them up there and redownload them all easy as pie when the update is finished.

 

[Davejm74]

Thanks!

 

[justin_aga]

so pics and contacts are ok? we dont need to back them up or anything?

 

[dekcufi]

make sure your battery is charged

 

[Jerzyiroc]

Just sync all of your accounts and start an AppBrain account to sync all of your applications just in case. You'll be good to go after that

 

[Jerzyiroc]

make sure your battery is charged

YEESSS!! VERY important. When I updated from 1.6 to 2.1 on my old Hero the battery went from 85 to somewhere in the 40's. I couldn't believe it.

 

[Stang68]

Nope, everything will be exactly as you left it

 

[AZwldcats]

So texts will be safe? O use the sms backup app but haven't tested if it is working correctly.

 

[Robbie317]

You shouldn't have to do a thing... You can back up your Apps and pictures as a precaution but for the most part other than the changes made to the OS every thing else is going to stay the same. Even when I did a factory reset to my phone my pictures were safe and since all my contact/Facebook junk was attached to my Google Account there were just a few minor steps to be right back where I was before the factory reset... Now with a factory reset you do lose your apps if you don't back them up.... But with this update it should be easy with nothing lost.... (Should)

 

[wsrep]

Will swype beta still work for froyo?

 

[AZwldcats]

If you are running the latest beta they say it should. If it stops working uninstalling and reinstalling it will fix it.

 

[ndrd_ct]

Perhaps a little off topic but ... if you are rooted and have a custom 2.1 rom installed , do i have to go back to stock in order to upgrade to 2.2 when it hits ? Thanks .

 

[rem_kujawa]

Can you backup your apps through the appbrain app that you can get in the marketplace?

 

[EVOLICIOUS]

how do we move exisiting apps to the sd card?

 

[rem_kujawa]

how do we move exisiting apps to the sd card?

I love your user name.

 

[Jerzyiroc]

Can you backup your apps through the appbrain app that you can get in the marketplace?

That's what I'm gonna do. After the update is done just go one by one and reinstall them. Whatever you do, don't download the app again and hit sync. Cuz it's gonna sync no apps to the online account and you're gonna lose your apps! Just go to the site after you update and just install one by one from the market.

 

[evoKY]

You can also back up all your apps to the sd card using Astro file manager under the tools section.

 

[rem_kujawa]

Im just going to use my systems panel app to back up the apps.