{"id":205,"date":"2011-07-25T21:51:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T04:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blt.homenet.org\/wordpress\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-07-25T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T04:51:47","slug":"gingerbread-update-for-rooted-sprint-htc-evo-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Update for rooted Sprint HTC Evo Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I updated my Spring HTC Evo Shift to Gingerbread (Android 2.3).\u00a0 There was a pushed update by Sprint, but since I had rooted my phone it wouldn&#8217;t take.\u00a0 Lisa has the same phone, but not rooted and the update went just fine.\u00a0 So I resorted the internet to figure out what to do.\u00a0 I found this <a title=\"HTC Evo Shift List\" href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/evo-shift-all-things-root\/364855-list-evo-shift-roms-kernels.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> which listed and went to the &#8220;<a title=\"Rooted Gingerbread ROM\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=1127169\" target=\"_blank\">ROOTED &#8220;Official Update&#8221; &#8211; x99_GB_Sense_Stock_Rooted<\/a>&#8221; which linked to the <a title=\"Rooted Gingerbread ROM\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/iNX9qc\" target=\"_blank\">ROM download<\/a>.\u00a0 I tried downloading this on my phone, but the download site 4shared.com keeps restarting the counter.\u00a0 So I downloaded this on my PC and placed it into the root directory.\u00a0 Before I implemented the root I looked into how to best back up my phone before proceeding. \u00a0\u00a0 There was a good post on the same forum with the ROM that mentioned to use the following 3 programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apps\u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/search?q=titanium+backup\" target=\"_blank\">Titanium Backup<\/a> (Pro version preferred for batch restore, but I just used the regular version<\/li>\n<li>Call logs &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.riteshsahu.CallLogBackupRestore\" target=\"_blank\">Call Logs Backup &amp; Restore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SMS &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore\" target=\"_blank\">SMS Backup &amp; Restore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did a backup of the call logs, SMS, and then Apps (in that order).\u00a0 The I went to bootloader and did the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wipe data \/ factory reset<\/li>\n<li>install ROM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything loaded up fine and I started the recovery process.\u00a0 First I had to enter in my google account info and then downloaded the Titanium Backup App.\u00a0 Did the batch restore.\u00a0 This worked out pretty well.\u00a0 It was kind of annoying to choose to reinstall everything, but at least it worked for the most part.\u00a0 Some of the apps didn&#8217;t ask to reinstall, not too sure why, but I looked in my downloaded app in Google Market and just manually selected to re-download them.<\/p>\n<p>At one point I got an error that my phone was full at which point I realized that all the apps were installing to the phone and not the SD card.\u00a0 Before the update I had changed the settings in my phone to default to installing them on the SD card , obviously the new ROM didn&#8217;t have this.\u00a0 This<a title=\"Install Apps to SD Card by default\" href=\"http:\/\/androinica.com\/2010\/08\/how-to-install-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-on-android-2-2-froyo\/\" target=\"_blank\"> link<\/a> shows what to do for Android 2.2 and I suspect that it works for 2.3, but haven&#8217;t tried.\u00a0 I found that Titanium Backup had an option to move all apps to the SD card.\u00a0 I did this and then moved a few that I use frequently back to the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Well everything to restore pretty well.\u00a0 A few apps asked for login information again, but after that retained their setting.\u00a0 Some kept crashing, Google Maps and Facebook, but after going into the Manage Applications menu and clearing the Apps cache they worked fine. Next, I ran the restore function for both the SMS and call log apps.\u00a0 Presto their back.<\/p>\n<p>The next problem that I found is that the weather &amp; toggle widget that I use to emulate the HTC Sense clock wasn&#8217;t available to add as a widget.\u00a0 It was installed, so I uninstalled it, then re-installed it.\u00a0 Another Google search turned up that in Android 2.3 widgets can only be selected for apps installed on the phone, not on the SD card.\u00a0 So a quick move to the phone and my phone is back exactly the way it was before (except for 2.3 of course).<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a pretty painless process.\u00a0 It took a bit longer than I imaged, but I&#8217;m happy that with only a couple of hicups my phone looks just as it was before the update.<\/p>\n<p>The main thing I noticed from about 2.3 is how fast it turns on and off.\u00a0 Actually, I noticed this from Lisa&#8217;s phone when we were in Italy and was somewhat jealous.\u00a0 Other than that I haven&#8217;t seen or had a chance to see if the battery life is the better as claimed by Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I updated my Spring HTC Evo Shift to Gingerbread (Android 2.3).\u00a0 There was a pushed update by Sprint, but since I had rooted my phone it wouldn&#8217;t take.\u00a0 Lisa has the same phone, but not rooted and the update went just fine.\u00a0 So I resorted the internet to figure out what to do.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,20,21,24,25,23],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","tag-2-3","tag-evo-shift","tag-gingerbread","tag-root","tag-rooted","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}