Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fixes

[hvalergir]

I have heard that a lot of the common problems with the bionic, such as the 3G/4G connection issues and the ever annoying landscape/portrait SMS scrolling issue, will be amended with an OTA update sometime "in November" according to Moto. My question(s) is this:

Currently I have rooted my phone with the root/unroot tool and have frozen all of the bloat. What steps do i need to perform to ensure I receive this OTA correctly? My current guess is just to unfreeze the bloat, but leave the phone rooted.

Also: How do I deny an OTA update should I decide to go the custom ROM route in the future?

Side question: I know CM 7 is making its way to the Droid 3, and several tweaked/deodexed roms are starting to come in for the Bionic. Anyone know if these new ROMs have solved the above issues? I was waiting to ROM my bionic until the first wave of bug fixes comes in from Motorola, so we (the community) have a less buggy base from which to work off of.

Thanks for your replies.

 

[greydarrah]

Re: Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fix

This thread answers your biggest questions (I have no idea what any future ROMs may do):

http://forums.androidcentral.com/bi...-how-install-verizon-update-rooted-phone.html

 

[KillerG]

Re: Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fix

This thread answers your biggest questions (I have no idea what any future ROMs may do):

http://forums.androidcentral.com/bi...-how-install-verizon-update-rooted-phone.html

That's a good thread to look at, but I'm also interested as well. I already flashed a ROM and no one in the whole forum will explain to me how to flash back to stock if I wanted to. Maybe I'll be stuck with HAVING to wait until a custom ROM comes out based on the update. Maybe it'll be better anyways.

 

[envizion]

Re: Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fix

this link should help you out, but i believe the devs will update their roms with the OTA files within a week or two of its release

One Click Fast Boot Restore and Root

 

[rduckwor]

Re: Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fix

That's a good thread to look at, but I'm also interested as well. I already flashed a ROM and no one in the whole forum will explain to me how to flash back to stock if I wanted to. Maybe I'll be stuck with HAVING to wait until a custom ROM comes out based on the update. Maybe it'll be better anyways.

XDA Developers will tell all. Droid Bionic Android Development - xda-developers

Basically looks like you need to rebloat and unroot.

RMD

 

[greydarrah]

Re: Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fix

That's a good thread to look at, but I'm also interested as well. I already flashed a ROM and no one in the whole forum will explain to me how to flash back to stock if I wanted to. Maybe I'll be stuck with HAVING to wait until a custom ROM comes out based on the update. Maybe it'll be better anyways.

If you already flashed a ROM, you have two options to get back to stock:

1. sbf back (this assumes that an sbf file exist for your device/OS)
2. BEFORE you flash any ROM, you should make a nandroid backup of your phone. This way, you can get back to stock (rooted) in a few minutes. Also, make a nandroid of the ROMs you flash and you can switch between them if you're trying different ones out.

 

[hvalergir]

Re: Required steps for rooted Bionics before November bug OTA fix

Ya i just said screw it and flashed UNL3SH3D. Pretty nice so far, though i detect an increased rate of battery consumption,a long with several others. And to boot, i believe this rom has some of the fixes found in a leaked OTA (892). not sure if this is the BIG fix OTA or a minor one.