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[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Update wasn't complete firmware for sure as it downloaded relatively fast (I didn't pay attention of the size - accidentally pressed update now). I am afraid SBF situation for us with Bell phones, remains unchanged.

Yeah - I say stock with this one. There's not much bloat if at all compared to what Verizon does on their phones, plus I am one of the few who likes blur :) Though, I have to admit it was really difficult not to follow my own rules not to "sway off the light side" if aint way back.. Glad now I resisted :)

Too bad no update will ever fix the crappy display or the abysmal amount of RAM for this generation of phones Motorola opted in.. /end rant!
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
Anybody knows if we need to unroot before the update ?

Also, does any changes to the system partition will prevent the update from installing ?

Do I need to restore "frozen" APKs from Titanium ?

I'm kind of excited for this...

How do we pull the update files from the phone memory ?

Can't seem to get the update from the system menu....

So many questions !!!
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Did they patch the root vulnerability, or are you using rootkeeper

xt860, android 2.3.5, Eclipse 1.1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
Haven't got the update notification yet, but I was wondering if any of my questions would have an impact on the updating process.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Couple of updates on my findings yet:

1) power drain after using the car dock has been resolved

2) auto brightness not restoring back to normal when undock from media station/stand is fixed too

3) keyboard auto-repeat bug seems to be resolved too (I have not experienced it since the update and I was quite a bit before!)

4) cell standby no longer at the top of power use stats, but I can't comment on battery life until at least couple of days of use. Looks quite promising though!

5) receiving SMS while docked in car dock does not crash anymore - screen offering you to read/reply - you can listen to the message and reply back using voice commands. Before the update, whenever I received SMS I get a message to force close a process which died.

6) camera makes significantly better shots color wise. Images are still "noisy" though. I don't find camera any faster than before. It also shows some ill effects - every now and then (say 1 out of 5-6 times) camera crashes upon taking a pic - no force close - just exit to home screen and picture being taken at the time of crash does not get saved. Still better than Avatar-like looking people..

7) connected music player app has been revamped. Color scheme now matches the rest of the interface. Playback windows has been optimized for landscape use.

8) MotoPrint has been updated too - now available on market actually. Supported any printer I threw on it (and we have plenty of different variety at the office).

So far I am VERY impressed, as the biggest hurdles have been resolved!

I just got off a 40 minute long call which consumed less than 10% battery (7% if circle battery widget is right), phone didn't get excessively hot either, I'd even say it stayed surprisingly cool during this call.

I have not noticed any improvements on download/upload speeds - they stay the same as before. For couple of days I am using ADW launcher EX (bought for 10 cents) and I really like it, I am yet to test with Motorola default launcher (where lack of RAM was most prominent).
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Judging from my Droid 2 Global experience - being rooted does not fail the update process. What does, though, is if you have recovery installed (or any other alternation of a file located in /system. Since update is distributed as patch - it fails only if a file it tries to patch has been modified (which is the case if you have hijack installed to get clockwork mod working). Extra files (like su binary and superuser.apk) do not seem to disturb the update. Most definitely you must have all files in /system (no frozen/deleted stuff).

This doesn't mean Motorola have not changed the process to verify if phone is rooted (easiest thing - check for su and superuser.apk) or calculate check sum of /system partition to ensure it was not tampered with.

If you are rooted when you receive the update - you can use privileged access to pull the update file before it is installed - check in /cache for it. It is easy to spot it.

Due to the lack of SBF (and my principles) my XT860 wasn't rooted when I installed the update, so I can't confirm my findings from D2G are valid here. But I am sure it won't be long before everyone receives it.
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
Thanks for the reply ! Very helpful

So, should I uninstall the bootstrap ?

If I can't get the update to install, I'll try to recover an old system.img nandroid backup I did when it first came out for D3.

Anyways, thanks for the reply ! I'll let you all know how it goes once I get the OTA
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Uninstalling the bootstrap doesn't remove the hijack. There's actually a file called hijack somewhere on your.phone you need to remove and also remove logwrapper and rename logwrapper.bin to logwrapper. I can't for the life of me remember where these are located. Also someone may wish to confirm these instructions. I've mixed it up before

xt860, android 2.3.5, Eclipse 1.1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
How does one go about pulling thenupdate file off the phone. Im on brazil fw but my gfs daughter has a stock xt860

xt860, android 2.3.5, Eclipse 1.1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
I'm trying a full restore from my nandroid backup then will try to dd the initial system.img I created back in September, might throw in a titaniumbackup restore as well.. Although if all goes bad I will just go to retail SBF (that one looks way better than the vivo one, I had to load it up for a few min today). Wish me luck with it all! I did sign up for the update beta a while ago, let's see if I'm in the pool or not...

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Didn't work... I am just going to restore to brazil retail and will keep my phone like that until bell SBF comes around :)
[Motorola Droid 3] Nardholio:
Unfroze all my system apps in Titanium, update failing for me. Hope I don't have to unroot.

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Here's the update. I tried to flash it with CWM but I got an error. I'm not much of a chef so I can't figure out how to mod it to work. The link is for the unmodded version.

https://rapidshare.com/files/3968311425/Blur_Version.5.1.544.XT860.BellMobility.en.CA.zip
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Nardholio, thanks for posting the zip. I'll have a look to see what was actually changed. But at 50MB or so it is a serious overhaul.

You're getting the error, because of the CWM. You need to uninstall it and restore the hijacked logwrapper. I had a post somewhere of how to do it manually, will look it up and link it here. Edit: here is it - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17333863&postcount=152 should be the same for this phone as was for D2G I believe. Be careful - if you break the logwrapper, phone will stay on M logo.

Another thing I noticed today which got some nice improvements is the connected music app. Now color scheme matches the rest of the phone and layout has been rearranged to get better use of the landscape position (when phone is docked in). Battery consumption seems really improved, but again - it is too early to report real stats on this.
[Motorola Droid 3] DoubleYouPee:
2.3.6!! That's not fair!

Hehe, anyway good to see XT860 getting some support too!
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
I totally forgot about the camera. It was so useless before that I pretty much never used it. Now it has been updated. Starts fairly quick and pics aren't so blue/bad as before. But it crashed on me twice...
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
...damn, that's rude of Bell to leapfrog my Brazilian 2.3.5
[Motorola Droid 3] Mathieu2k4:
How do you install it?

The .zip providen by leobg

Envoyé depuis mon XT860 utilisant Tapatalk
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
At least they didn't leap to android 4. Bet you would be ****ting bricks. :p

xt860, android 2.3.5, Eclipse 1.1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] ChaoticWeaponry:
Relax my friend :) XT862 has a pre-alpha version of Android 4.0.1.
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
Hey, who let the 862 riffraff in here?
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
...what exactly are the differences between 2.3.5 and 2.3.6? (Uh, besides the last number)
[Motorola Droid 3] ChaoticWeaponry:
Hey you guys have 4G, shush :)
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Not really. I get 5Mb dl 1 up. What do you get?

xt860, android 2.3.5, Eclipse 1.1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Not a clue

xt860, android 2.3.5, Eclipse 1.1.1
[Motorola Droid 3] ChaoticWeaponry:
I'm guessing if most of my downloads are 200 - 300 kilobytes per second, around 1.6 to 2.4 megabits per second. Upload speeds around 400 - 500 kilobits per second..
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
zip is courtesy of Nardholio.

To install it rename to update.zip and place in root of storage area (/sdcard). Then reboot in stock recovery and perform apply update.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
:) mine has been up to 8.3 down and 2.4 up. Not bad for our fake 4G ;)

But I guess radio is optimized for Bell because in the store on the demo unit I've seen as much as 11 down! I can't complain about speeds here on Rogers.
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
Has anyone who has done the update been able to maintain root or regain root using one of the methods on XDA?

If so, what process did you follow?
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Could you post your build.prop?
[Motorola Droid 3] :
Ok I figured out why I was having trouble flashing this. I needed to restore the default build.prop (you can find that here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1337089&page=3) to /system/build.prop and then run fix permissions (from ROM manager or CWM). Also CWM won't flash it. To go to stock recovery to flash it, power the phone off, slide open your keyboard, and hold down x, then the power key until a little Android robot image appears. Then release those keys and hold down the volume up and down keys. The file has to be saved to /sdcard (not the external sd). Just to be safe I wiped my cache partition too.

WARNING: I APPEAR TO HAVE LOST ROOT AFTER THIS UPDATE.
[Motorola Droid 3] :
Regained root with this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18805560#post18805560
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
Which version of the tool did you use?
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
I'd try version 2, I couldn't root the brazil retail release with v3 for some reason.
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
For those of you trying to root the 2.3.6, use version 3 of DoomLord's tool. Version 2 was unsuccessful for me.
[Motorola Droid 3] DoubleYouPee:
So does the XT860..
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Question for the OP, did you sign up for the beta on moto's website? I did and they asked for imei etc, I wonder if they could be pushing updates to specific phones? No idea how well the ota update system was planned, coded and executed but realistically it could have easily been built into it. Checking that post makes me think their beta is ongoing though. I'm talking about the Moto beta testers request thread(links to their thread @ support.motorola. com) via the [XT860] Bell Update Inevitable? thread. This sounds like a leaked beta to me, also when I consider the fact that no other users have posted about an update as well.

It's UMTS/hspa, bell's allowed to label their network 4g because it's *supposed* to have comparable speeds. I guess it depends on where you're standing, just like where your computer's plugged in, I hear fiber optics are as advertised anyways and I bet you have a pretty nice view when you're standing on a cell tower.
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
...I signed up as well Willis. Just last night I received a "private" message from Mark the forums manager saying that their servers had lost contact with my phone, and to check my data delivery settings. Is this because of the update, or something else? And did my flashing of the Brazilian retail muck everything up?
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
I'm not sure, are you running a custom rom via safestrap? That would be more likely to muck it up. If I was you I would just push the bell stock build.prop back into the brazil retail rom and respond that my phone had been off for a few days while I was camping or something. Another user mentioned that to apply the update you need to remove root as well. Now I've got to check my inbox!

Edit: Maybe I shouldn't have registered with the same nick I use on xda but honestly that should make me a more likely candidate if moto is trying to work openly with rom developers etc. I would consider most of us "hackers" at least. If you want to forward that email from Mark to Willis111 on the moto forums so I can ask him where my beta invite is I would appreciate it :P And if I can't get ahold of him at least I'll have a mail in my inbox too lol
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
I don't think just changing the build.prop file will do much. I just spent most night last night trying to get my old Bell system.img back on it, but no luck. I also tried doing a nandroid restore, but again no luck. I'm begining to realize that there is NO way to go back to bell retail at this point in time, unless someone can generate an SBF file using some of the files packed in the update...? Or, where is daywalker? hehe :):)
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
So, I just installed the ZIP file from rapidshare using recovery "Power+X". I had to revert back to my previous build.prop and libtalk.jni.so so I could update. The patch installed successfully and I am now up and running on 2.3.6. I am now trying to root using the link provided a few posts earlier... started it 2-3 minutes ago, but no progess indicator... waiting for root to complete !

Didn't have to uninstall bootstrapper or rename the hijack and logwrapper file.

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Can't root using V2 or V3.... maybe it's just the drivers, but i'm using the same drivers that I used when running PSouza's root method...

I'll try again from home, unless somebody has an idea.

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I tried the command adb devices, no devices attached. So I think there might be a problem on the phone or with the cable.
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
Not necessary to remove root. Prior to update, I was running stock and had frozen most of blur stuff with TB. I unfroze and was able to flash update via stock recovery. As my previous posts indicate, I did lose root but was able to get it back with DoomLords tool V3.
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Can anyone else confirm the camera crashed? Would be ashame.

But another question is this the official update or a beta????
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
I have been always signed up there since my days with Droid 2 Global. I keep my profile updated, so they have my IMEI. Signing up at MFN does not guarantee you will get selected for a test. I haven't got invited to participate in a test with the XT860. I wouldn't have posted here otherwise - it is against the rules.

It is not only me who got the update - Nardholio who actually contributed the update zip here also got it (not sure if he's part of MFN)

My phone is not the original I bought back in Aug. That one malfunctioned and I got it replaced directly via Motorola (since I'm not Bell customer). BTW - to my (big) surprise that replacement phone came unlocked(!) Maybe this has something to do with my 'early update'.
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Has anyone how has the update tried safestrap yet? If it works you could have custom roms on stock bell fw

xt860, android 2.3.5, Monster rom
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
I haven't had any issues with the camera yet (knock on wood). The blue tint is definitely gone and it doesn't seem to be as buggy as before, launches much more quickly and quality of pictures is improved as well.

Hard to say if this is the beta leak or official. I am guessing beta because if it was official, it would have been rolling out to more users by now.

Been using since last night and no glaring issues. Will give a full report after a few days use.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Reading more about Motorola's software update deployment practices, now I believe I was just one of the few percent of the total user base who were randomly picked to receive the update without consent, aside from the beta testers who are supposed to provide the main feedback. If they don't find any issues, I guess the mass deployment is going to follow as early as later this week.

My camera whoes will likely be fixed if I go thru a hard reset, but I really don't want to do this at the moment. Hearing that gbarayah doesn't experience issues with his/her phone makes me not as concerned about these crashes.
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
OK thanks for the answer. But some people got it without signing up for the beta . Right???

Anyways. Good news. I will install it on my friends phone . Guess we'll be able to update it even after this beta.
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Yes - that's how it works apparently. And yes - you should be still on the upgrade path even if they find something and release another official update. I've been thru this with my D2G.
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
Not sure if this made a difference or not, but I did wipe the cache partition via the stock recovery before installing the update (old habit).
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Right read that. But what does it delete exactly. I always do it when installing a custom ROM on the SGS2. But that's of course when I'm about to install a new one. I just don't wanna delete anything of my friends phone :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
I didn't lose any data/information from my phone. All contacts, application data, passwords, etc were all still there after wiping cache and installing update.
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Now as I mentioned I flashed before on the SGS2.....

Put it on the SD card. But when going to the internal phone storage it's there too.....

When I go to the stock recovery it's not there....when I go to install update.

I get failed to mount SDcard
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Ok so I went to my friend. 10 min by bike. Thought I had it all figured out because you guys informed me about everything the whole day.

But when I had the phone in my hand. Went into recovery I got to the point where it failed to see the SDcard.

So got stuck. And exactly that time nobody was there to answer my post here . Probably you guys were off work and at the dinner table .

Tried everything. Debugging on off and what not. But nothing worked.

So it placed it on the sdcard but once in recovery it wasn't working.

Will try again tomorrow but hope by then I understand what I did wrong.

I am sure I am doing something really dumb for it not to work.

Followed what was said here. X and power and got into recovery.
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
She was still on the 5.1.544 from bell.
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Guys I really need some help :-(

Anyone???
[Motorola Droid 3] danifunker:
What exactly is the problem? Put the file in /sdcard (not the external SD card) and run recovery.

Internal SDcard is the same as /sdcard.
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
I put it there. But once in stock recovery it says. Fails to load SDcard. No such directory.

Have no clue what to do.
[Motorola Droid 3] gbarayah:
I actually had to install the update from my external SD card - it wouldn't see it on the internal memory on the phone...
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Oh. Uhm that's kind of good to know. I might have to buy one then I guess.
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
Same for me, had to install the update from the external SDcard.
[Motorola Droid 3] eezdva:
Ok thanks you guys it's booting up.

Alright after using it a bit. I have to say it feels like having a completely new phone really. Everything seems much snappier .

Rather awesome.
[Motorola Droid 3] floored24:
thanks nardholio

kicked a few thank you clicks. Your upload, instructions and build prop worked flawlessly. now running bell latest from root. I may start using this phone and put away my DZ running glite...
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
I think this may be rolling out to general public. My gfs daughter got a push today notifying of the.update. cell standby is fixed on it and camera seems faster

xt860, android 2.3.5, Monster rom
[Motorola Droid 3] :
My phone failed to update OTA (just had it pushed on me), although it tried to install. My phone is rooted and some applications have been removed. I certainly welcome some step-by-step instructions on how to load this update on a modified phone. I'd play around with it my self, but I nearly bricked my phone way back when by removing yahoo contacts, a bit hesitant to get experimental here.
[Motorola Droid 3] DoubleYouPee:
Well you have to re-bloat and put the apps back
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
When I tried to update mine the first time(s), recovery would tell me which system file was missing or modified. All I did is replace the "new" files that I had changed for my backed up one, and the update installed flawlessly. Mine only had build.prop, libtalk.jni.so and talk2.apk that was changed... so it was pretty easy to fix for myself.

So basically, boot in recovery using Power+X, then try to flash the ZIP file and it will tell you in yellow which file was modifed so you can replace it with the original one that you should have backed up. I DID NOT have to re-bloat my phone for this to work.

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Anybody here found that once the update was applied, everytime you boot up your phone it takes double the time it used to take ?

It seems to reboot after a while on the first M logo (the static one) so I see it twice, then boots to the dynamic logo.
[Motorola Droid 3] SX86:
Root ADB

Still can't get ADB to connect to my device so I can root it. I tried on 4 different computer, all running different versions of Windows. If I type in the command ADB DEVICES, I get the serial number of my device, but it always shows as offline. USB Debugging is turn on, but I have a feeling it doesn't really turn it on. I was able to root my phone beofre I updated, but can't get it to work since the update. Anybody else had this issue ?
[Motorola Droid 3] Endoroid:
Try unplug, toggle usb debugging off/on and.plug back.in. i had the same issue

xt860, android 2.3.5, Monster rom
[Motorola Droid 3] LifeInAnalog:
...same here. I had to toggle usb debugging off and on about 5 or 6 times before it caught.
[Motorola Droid 3] Bob_760:
Got my update push last night and it failed too...

XT860 unlocked by original owner

Rooted using psouza4's droid 3 tool

Bloat backed up/uninstalled using Titanium Backup

After the update failed I tried restoring all the apps i'd removed using titanium backup. Failed.

I tried unrooting the phone. Failed.

Then I found this thread and downloaded the zip.

When I try to install from the zip I get an error

assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/app/Quickoffice.apk","bd23a7397707dc227bd877c7c29afe0a13cd7ab8","7ef1825578fcd844a1604f3ef1c8e87580eac1e3")

E:Error in /tmp/sideload/package/zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.

I tried uninstalling/restoring Quickoffice again using titanium backup

I re-rooted the phone and tried pushing someone elses backup of Quickoffice.apk using ADB

I deleted Quickoffice.apk and pushed it again confirming that it worked

I pushed a default copy of build.prop just to see if it'd help, got CWM Rom Manager and ran Fix Permissions.

No matter what I do I get the exact same error message...

any ideas?