updating rooted phone

[bcroft]

Hey guys..

Kind of new to the android community as im coming from a bberry. I rooted my X in order to get rid of bloatware. If there comes a time where I need to update my firmware, would I need to unroot my phone then update and reroot when it becomes available?

Thanks!

 

[racinwarrior]

No you shouldn't. But you can always use the sbf to go back to stock

 

[bcroft]

Okay just making sure I don't brick my phone!

 

[corlissimo]

Are you worried about the new 2.2.1 update that's currently out?

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[bcroft]

Yes. Im seeing all this news about updates being pushed. Just want to be on the safe side.

 

[Skatedawg]

Most of the time when you root and then you update, it takes away your root even though it appears to still be there. After some tweaking and some help from one-click root applications, you will be back up and running in no time...unless you screw up like i did for the 2.2.1 update and then your stuck for hours trying to figure it out and send up using a SBF to get it back to operational status but losing everything....after rooting get a application to do a back up (such as nandroid backup). For the droid X i got the Droid X Bootstrapper from the market place.

 

[bcroft]

Alright thank you. Ill try to stay clear from updates until a root is found. I don't really see the need to update right away anyway, phone is running fine!

 

[corlissimo]

How did you remove your bloatware? (sorry if I missed it)

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[bcroft]

I rooted my phone and bought titanium backup and removed bloatware! Just make sure you don't remove blur items.

 

[corlissimo]

Here's how I handled the update this morning...

I'm running a stock ROM and am rooted (z4root) with all my bloatware iced up. The update took 2 minutes to run. These are the steps I used:

1. Unfreeze bloatware
2. Unroot (using z4root)
3. Apply update
4. Run z4root again to root (permanent)
5. One extra manual reboot (just for luck) :^)
6. Re-freeze bloatware
7. Final reboot

The Whole process took less than 15 minutes. So far, the phone does seem more responsive, especially when scrolling through screens. I never experienced many of the bugs that others did, so I guess I've been lucky with my DX.


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[cdunn05#AC]

No you shouldn't. But you can always use the sbf to go back to stock

What is 'the sbf' and how do I get it?