[Dell Venue] experx:
This is to help newbie's like me to simplify the upgrade Dell Venue to Gingerbread 2.2.3

While I read the various guides and steps, things were little confusing and there were links and downloads all over the place. After my first try, I was stuck at Dell

boot logo and couldn't move forward after many tries.

Finally, I got it working, there am combining these two posts for a simplified guide with direct link.

This guide may be irrelevant or outdated for today but as I said, am newbie to Android and this process cleared some confusion to me about upgrades and custom ROM

(although I upgraded CM ROMS before).

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19968194&postcount=45

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19836164&postcount=14

As usual, the breaking of your device disclaimer applies and am not responsible etc etc but more than likely it will work.

Waiting early for Honeycomd or even ICS ugrade.

Downloads

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1. Download Fastboot+ADB.zip (http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/Tools/Fastboot+ADB.zip)

2. Download venue233.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?hbag5amdukmxl2h)

3. Download 319 recovery img (http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/Venue/319/recovery.img)

4. Download 406 PKG (http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/Venue/Thunder_406_19576_14.pkg)

You can try 408 package too which is the latest (http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/Venue/Thunder_408_20707_14.pkg)

Steps (Windows)

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1. Create a folder called "Android" in C:\ (C:\Android).

2. Extract Fastboot+ADB.zip in c:\Android in it's own directory (C:\Android\Fastboot+ADB)

3. Extract venue233.rar in c:\Android as venue233.img and rename it to system.img (c:\Android\system.img)

4. Copy/Move 319 recovery img to c:\Android (c:\Android\recovery.img)

5. Copy/Move 406 package download (Thunder_406_19576_14.pkg) to your SD card inside Dell venue and rename it to update.pkg (inside SD card).

6. On your Venue, turn the "Mute" slide switch to "On" (you will see red).

7. Turn off the phone.

8. Turn it back on and at the same time hold the "Volume down" button. You will see a single line saying something like "ENTERING FASTBOOT MODE".

9. Now, connect your Venue to your PC via USB cable. On the Venue screen it will say something like "FASTBOOT_MODE 2 connected".

10. At that point you can start flashing (Windows Instructions Only, sorry).

11. Open a command prompt, navigate to the "C:\Android" folder you created earlier. i.e. cd c:\Android

12. Once in the folder, flash recovery by typing "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" without the quotes.

Most likely it won't find the path for fastboot. Then type in the following command from c:\Android

".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" flash recovery recovery.img

and press Enter

Which will look like

C:\Android>".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" flash recovery recovery.img

13. After you flashed the recovery, reboot the phone by typing "fastboot reboot" without the quotes from the same command prompt you used to flash the recovery. Your phone will now reboot. While it is rebooting unplug the USB cable. Get ready to quickly perform the next step.

or the following command

".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" reboot

and press Enter

Which will look like

C:\Android>".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" reboot

14. As soon as you see the Dell logo you need to press and hold both volume buttons (Up and Down). This will take you to a new white screen prompt which gives you three lines: one for factory reset, another for sd card update and Power Off.

15. Choose the "sd card update" by pressing the camera button and you will see a new screen prompt with blue letters.

16. At this point you need to press the camera button again and the update will start (it will take some time). Watch your screen, the phone will automatically reboot when done. You need to be ready to perform the next step when it does.

17. Once the update is installed your phone will automatically reboot and you need make sure your "mute" button is still on (you will see red) and press and hold the "volume down" button as soon as you see the Dell logo. You will see the familiar single line that says entering fastboot mode.

18. Now connect your phone via USB cable back to the PC and it will change the status on the Venue to "fastboot_mode 2 connected".

19. Now you can flash the system image.

20. Open a command prompt (or use the same one from when you flashed recovery if it is still open) and type "fastboot flash system system.img".

or

".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" flash system system.img

and press Enter

Which will look like

C:\Android>".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" flash system system.img

21. When the system.img is finished flashing (after about 140 seconds) , type "fastboot reboot" and the phone will reboot and factory reset on it's own.

or the following command

".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" reboot

and press Enter

Which will look like

C:\Android>".\Fastboot+ADB\Win32\fastboot.exe" reboot

22. The phone will boot up into GB! In Korean! Don't worry, the android setup wizard starts to run, I think the second thing it asks is what language you want, English and Hangul are the only two choices. Change it to English and continue the normal configuration from there.