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New defy user needs help..

Hey friends...
My friend has recently bought a defy in India... It came with eclair...
Now he wants to upgrade to gingerbread... But he doesn't want to root... So can anyone please help me? As I'm a Samsung user, I don't know anything about Motorola devices or how to upgrade them... So I would appreciate a noob friendly guide...
Thanks...

u cannot upgrade to gingerbread w/o rooting...defy has got the official froyo, not gingerbread..
please read the pinned posts if u wish to know how to flash a custom gingerbread rom..

adiles said:
Hey friends...
My friend has recently bought a defy in India... It came with eclair...
Now he wants to upgrade to gingerbread... But he doesn't want to root... So can anyone please help me? As I'm a Samsung user, I don't know anything about Motorola devices or how to upgrade them... So I would appreciate a noob friendly guide...
Thanks...
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He can update to Froyo, but there is no official Gingerbread update from Motorola for the Defy (and there will never be one).
If he doesn't want to tinker a bit he won't get Gingerbread (there are also 2.3 ports of the Defy Plus that work quite well, but rooting is necessary to install anything like that).

adiles said:
Hey friends...
My friend has recently bought a defy in India... It came with eclair...
Now he wants to upgrade to gingerbread... But he doesn't want to root... So can anyone please help me? As I'm a Samsung user, I don't know anything about Motorola devices or how to upgrade them... So I would appreciate a noob friendly guide...
Thanks...
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You should read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982

Thanks for your replies... one last question...
After rooting and flashing a gb rom, is there a way to go back to fully stock?
Thanks...

adiles said:
Thanks for your replies... one last question...
After rooting and flashing a gb rom, is there a way to go back to fully stock?
Thanks...
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I still think you got everything you need in ChirmiPlay's post with link just above your last posting

adiles said:
Thanks for your replies... one last question...
After rooting and flashing a gb rom, is there a way to go back to fully stock?
Thanks...
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You can mess around with your Defy s much as you want, root, install ROMs, flash sbfs... And you can ALWAYS go back to the stock Foyo/ Eclair firmware your Defy came with. Even if something went wrong and the phone doesn't boot anymore, just flash a stock clean Motorola firmware and everything's gone (the ROM you had before, also the root). So also if your Defy has a hardware problem and you want to send it back, just go back to stock before and you don't have to worry about the warranty.

Arjoma said:
You can mess around with your Defy s much as you want, root, install ROMs, flash sbfs... And you can ALWAYS go back to the stock Foyo/ Eclair firmware your Defy came with.
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I don't think so. if you changed the bootloader version you will be stuck on some higher kernel and can not easily go back.. (that was what happend to epsylon3 - one of the main devs of CM9 for defy) - so if you flashed official froyo - you will not be able to go back to eclair for example. (as is also pointed out here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537)
A piece of advice: read a lot (here in this forums) before you flash something. It help you not getting in trouble with your phone.

adiles said:
Thanks for your replies... one last question...
After rooting and flashing a gb rom, is there a way to go back to fully stock?
Thanks...
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There is no point in using defy with the buggy stock Eclair/Froyo ..
If u want to see the complete potential of defy Root it and Install CM7..
and yes you can go back when ever you want but make sure u take the Nandroid backup of the stock ROM that u r using and check whether the official sbf of ur region is available to download.so that u can flash it and restore the nandroid backup .. !!

mearoth said:
I don't think so. if you changed the bootloader version you will be stuck on some higher kernel and can not easily go back..
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Right, that was the only thing I wasn't thinking about. That is what is usually written in big red letters when there's something about these sbfs. But normally there is no need to change the bootloader version by installing the (not fixed) 2.3.4 sbf.
The only really current reliable options for the Defy imho are CM7.1, MIUI (and some versions based on it) and the Defy+ based ROMs (like MS2Ginger). With none of them you risk to be stuck somewhere - I flashed stock Froyo a dozen times without problems.

Thanks all for your replies....
I'll root and flash cm today....

adiles said:
Thanks all for your replies....
I'll root and flash cm today....
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Good luck!

Any Custom ROM to Official ICS Tutorial Needed

Hello can anyone write a tutorial that will send any T989 with custom ROM and RADIO to it's original configuration so Kias can upgrade phone to ICS ? Let's say I am on Darkside with radio from Blaze 4G and I do have my original ROM backed up with ROM Manager ....now what ? From what I understand I need 3 things to make a smooth transition.
1. Original 2.3.6
2. Original RADIO
3. No Custom Recovery (no clockwork)
I may be incorrect on clockwork but I know for sure radio and rom has to be exact. So is there anyone can write a tutorial that will put any T989 and ANY Custom ROM to it's original state ? (I hjope it's even possible)
Thank you.

Thread here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359

usernotfound said:
Thread here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
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Aha !
So with this I can safely say that Kias will have no problem with my phone right ?
Thank you very much !

russiandivxclub said:
Aha !
So with this I can safely say that Kias will have no problem with my phone right ?
Thank you very much !
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I guess that link is for old stock ROM (ULKL1) . They upgrade it one more time before IcS to UVLDE. There is thread on general section.
Follow that
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

bikrame said:
I guess that link is for old stock ROM (ULKL1) . They upgrade it one more time before IcS to UVLDE. There is thread on general section.
Follow that
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
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Is that mean I'll have to do an upgrade before I can do ICS ? Or I can just go from that straight to ICS ?

if you find the UVLDE md5.tar file in whatever thread it is in, you only need to go back to that STOCK version, there is no further update from that.
You can then do the ICS update after that.

russiandivxclub said:
Hello can anyone write a tutorial that will send any T989 with custom ROM and RADIO to it's original configuration so Kias can upgrade phone to ICS ? Let's say I am on Darkside with radio from Blaze 4G and I do have my original ROM backed up with ROM Manager ....now what ? From what I understand I need 3 things to make a smooth transition.
1. Original 2.3.6
2. Original RADIO
3. No Custom Recovery (no clockwork)
I may be incorrect on clockwork but I know for sure radio and rom has to be exact. So is there anyone can write a tutorial that will put any T989 and ANY Custom ROM to it's original state ? (I hjope it's even possible)
Thank you.
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Why not wait a few days for us to play with it first? Updating through Kies could render your device unrootable. With what I have been reading/hearing they may lock the bootloader and make it impossible to root until a security flaw is found and exploited. This could take days to even months if even possible. Like I said, my advice is to wait.

Jamison904 said:
Why not wait a few days for us to play with it first? Updating through Kies could render your device unrootable. With what I have been reading/hearing they may lock the bootloader and make it impossible to root until a security flaw is found and exploited. This could take days to even months if even possible. Like I said, my advice is to wait.
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Crap ...... well I am with ICS now and hoping for ROOT ATM meanwhile I just glad whole process was painless and straight forward. One question if possible. So at this stage It'll be impossible to use same guide and return to 2.3.6 stock from before right ?
Thanks !

[Q] Is there an official US 4.2.2 firmware available for N5110?

No offense to the folks running good versions of the UK 4.2.2 firmware, but since the U.S. version is out does anyone have that available to install on a a rooted but stock N5110 wifi note 8?
www androidcentral com/android-422-now-available-wifi-galaxy-note-8-kies-and-ota
I don't want the UK version (nothing against UK), but I can't seem to find the US one on the forums. Can someone link me if it is available? If not, just confirm that it isn't available yet and I'll just have to unroot and re-root.
Thanks

US stock firmware 4.2.2 is not available.

Royaltiger said:
US stock firmware 4.2.2 is not available.
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Thank you for making that clear.

lordstylz said:
Thank you for making that clear.
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My US GT-N5110 Note 8.0 was updated to 4.2.2 through the setup menu last week. I found a couple issues with it. I would rather to stay with 4.1.2.

not sure why you can't just upgrade to the US 4.2.2 via Kies and then just root it? I can see if you were asking for a deoxed zipalign stock version, but since you didn't mention anything of that... just unroot and turn your 4.1.2 back to stock, and load up Kies and upgrade to 4.2.2 then root it.

lordstylz said:
Thank you for making that clear.
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no. it is available....where did you guys come up that it is not?

First I was talking about a version to get that was downloadable on my own not via ota or kies.
I rooted but i am not running custom rom or recovery... Kept everything else stock.
And I can't unroot and update via ota because I get message about my device being modified still after I use voodoo rootkeeper. Anyway I am at a loss on how to update now anyway and I really don't want to use a custom rom. .
Sent from my GT-N5110 using xda app-developers app

I have 2 Note 8.0s (GT-N5110). One is running CM10.2 and the other WAS running that CivZ ROM; now it's running stock 4.2.2 with root. I go back and forth between original ROM with these 2 units. Just using Kies going back to stock. and they are US version of 4.2.2

jazzespresso said:
no. it is available....where did you guys come up that it is not?
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Could you please let us know where to download the US firmware?

Royaltiger said:
Could you please let us know where to download the US firmware?
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it is at http://www.sammobile.com/, go search your device number...make sure you download the right version. If you have N5110 US WiFi, you should be downloading "N5110UEFMI1_N5110XARFMI1_XAR.zip", unzip it, when you unzip, you should end up N5110UEFMI1_N5110XARFMI1_HOME.tar.md5, and then use odin to flash it...remember, this is stock firmware, so if you device rooted, you will loose...

[Q] No LTE after CM 10.2 install on SPH-L710

Hello,
I have gotten some great help here on xda and have tried different modems (MD4 works best, MK3 caused battery drain, MB1 no service) I have been told to flash a touchwiz ROM and grab the APN then flash back to CM. I have not been able to find a touchwiz ROM that will work and on top of that, all the download sites have really annoying adware. Can anyone point me in the direction of a TWR that will work on my phone so I can get LTE finally?
Thank you in advance for your input and help and thank you to all that have offered advice on other threads.

flash a TW rom thats the same version as your current cm (4.3?), that should work no matter what

winepoet said:
Hello,
I have gotten some great help here on xda and have tried different modems (MD4 works best, MK3 caused battery drain, MB1 no service) I have been told to flash a touchwiz ROM and grab the APN then flash back to CM. I have not been able to find a touchwiz ROM that will work and on top of that, all the download sites have really annoying adware. Can anyone point me in the direction of a TWR that will work on my phone so I can get LTE finally?
Thank you in advance for your input and help and thank you to all that have offered advice on other threads.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
do that install the recovery and the root access. setup do the apn like we talked about. then go back to your backup of cm and either keep md4 modem or flash mk3.

Thank you, but...
kaos420 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
do that install the recovery and the root access. setup do the apn like we talked about. then go back to your backup of cm and either keep md4 modem or flash mk3.
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Thank you kaos420, however I have not been able to find a ROM that will work. I would welcome any and all suggestion for a TWR. Please.
Happy Thanksgiving.

Duh..!
winepoet said:
Thank you kaos420, however I have not been able to find a ROM that will work. I would welcome any and all suggestion for a TWR. Please.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Ciao kaos420, if I only clicked on the link you supplied I wouldn't be removing my foot from my mouth at this moment! Thanks.

winepoet said:
Ciao kaos420, if I only clicked on the link you supplied I wouldn't be removing my foot from my mouth at this moment! Thanks.
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ya that link will place you back to stock. just flash the recovery and root zip after and before reboot. reboot . run the setup. go through that. will fix alot of issues. as well as you can get your apn. fyi tw 4.3 rom is pretty sweet as well. im running the stock 4.3 now. runs great.

kaos420 said:
ya that link will place you back to stock. just flash the recovery and root zip after and before reboot. reboot . run the setup. go through that. will fix alot of issues. as well as you can get your apn. fyi tw 4.3 rom is pretty sweet as well. im running the stock 4.3 now. runs great.
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Where did you get that stock tw 4.3?

winepoet said:
Where did you get that stock tw 4.3?
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It's posted in sprint Android development. I'd link you but mobile. Mk3 is new band. Works great.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541900
That's new stock rooted 4.3 fantastic so far.

Custom ROM AXES ROM v.1 (Android nougat) on Modem Android Oreo???

Friends (My A520W) I have a doubt because when I installed a Custom ROM Android 7 on the modem in Android 8 I'm going the IMEI?
There is some way to recover the IMEI in that Custom ROM
There is some way to work like this or it is impossible????'
Why is the IMEI broken?

your phone is dead. samsung will reject it.
offline store will ask you to throw your phone away.
but i, i will pay for your phone. us$10?

flakomix said:
Friends (My A520W) I have a doubt because when I installed a Custom ROM Android 7 on the modem in Android 8 I'm going the IMEI?
There is some way to recover the IMEI in that Custom ROM
There is some way to work like this or it is impossible????'
Why is the IMEI broken?
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You need to flash android Nougat bootloader and modem. Those two versions need to be the same as the android version. There is a guide in the guides section that can help you. Also, you can't install earlier version of bootloader and modem if those are the newest versions right now. If that is the case, you can install an 8.1 custom ROM and it should be fine.

sheepkill15 said:
Stop talking bull****, trying to scam people this way.
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u need to take holiday sir, seriously..
its getting funnier here.
since you are also a senior member here. u could see all posts i posted, right?
and... i face the same problem. but i solved this problem by my own.
do you think im serious want to buy his phone? hell no....

leo31 said:
u need to take holiday sir, seriously..
its getting funnier here.
since you are also a senior member here. u could see all posts i posted, right?
and... i face the same problem. but i solved this problem by my own.
do you think im serious want to buy his phone? hell no....
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I see. I couldn't realize the irony... Looking back on that, I feel bad, please forgive me.

flakomix said:
Friends (My A520W) I have a doubt because when I installed a Custom ROM Android 7 on the modem in Android 8 I'm going the IMEI?
There is some way to recover the IMEI in that Custom ROM
There is some way to work like this or it is impossible????'
Why is the IMEI broken?
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just flash whole nougat rom. and then flash oreo using odin.
it will solve the problem

But I could not because I have Bit5 in Oreo and I did not find a bit 5 in nougat. Can someone help me? A520W Baseband Version A520WVLU5CRJ3 Android Security pacht 1 Nov 2018