ok im not sure if im missing somthing or not but i have rooted my phone now i just cant fig out how to update it to 2.2 can someone help me plz
Google qdl tool. Pretty much fully automated. Driver are a bit of s pain in the ass, but other than that very simple. Let me know if you need any help using it.
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Google qdl tool. Pretty much fully automated. Driver are a bit of s pain in the ass, but other than that very simple. Let me know if you need any help using it.
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The embedded froyo 2.2 that comes with qdl too, does that work perfectly fine and flawless with AT&T dell streak? or are there some things that just don't work on there?
I have an ATT Streak and used QDL with no issues. After playing with it for a while, I took the plunge and upgraded to DJ_Steve's Streakdroid 1.5.1
If you want the best from your device...I suggest you do the same, but make sure you do your homework....search is your friend!
Meh I havent rolled to the sreakdroid rom yet lol. Im still rocking out the stock. And I think its fairly smooth.
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Meh I havent rolled to the sreakdroid rom yet lol. Im still rocking out the stock. And I think its fairly smooth.
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Used the stock software for a while and thought it was decent. Went to DJ Steve's 1.5.1 and realized how misguided I actually was. It turned what I thought was a worthless device on 1.6 and a decent device on 2.2 to absolute phone/tablet nirvana on DJ Steve's 1.5.1. I will never use AT&T stock software ever again for any purpose. It's shameful that they can spend such massive amounts of time with the resources they have and only come up with that while DJ Steve can work in his free time and come up with something that rapes AT&T development. Shameful.
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Used the stock software for a while and thought it was decent. Went to DJ Steve's 1.5.1 and realized how misguided I actually was. It turned what I thought was a worthless device on 1.6 and a decent device on 2.2 to absolute phone/tablet nirvana on DJ Steve's 1.5.1. I will never use AT&T stock software ever again for any purpose. It's shameful that they can spend such massive amounts of time with the resources they have and only come up with that while DJ Steve can work in his free time and come up with something that rapes AT&T development. Shameful.
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I think 2.2 is pretty decent tho your comment makes me want to try Steves. I just don't know how to install a recovery on the streak to do a backup. Also wanting to OC but cant since I dont have a recovery installed yet. Someone Plz help with installing the recovery
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Used the stock software for a while and thought it was decent. Went to DJ Steve's 1.5.1 and realized how misguided I actually was. It turned what I thought was a worthless device on 1.6 and a decent device on 2.2 to absolute phone/tablet nirvana on DJ Steve's 1.5.1. I will never use AT&T stock software ever again for any purpose. It's shameful that they can spend such massive amounts of time with the resources they have and only come up with that while DJ Steve can work in his free time and come up with something that rapes AT&T development. Shameful.
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certainly not trying to defend the Death Star here, but thought I might correct your thinking...
ATT doesnt make roms
Perhaps not, but they sure are damn good at delaying them, and then removing features (tether) and then making up for it with useless bloat that sometimes can't be removed without cooking up your own ROM anyway...
F U AT&T
I am just glad I took the plunge with the QDL method and didn't wait for the "official" from them. It has been pushed back to January now. I am using the "stock" 2.2 and not sure I am going to Steve's, even though I appreciate his efforts VERY much.
QDL is automated? Sounds good. Does your GPS work on AT&T? Specifically with navigation in Google Maps.
Use QDL, then update from 309 (which is what is on qdl?) to the 318 version, which for me was much faster than 309
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Use QDL, then update from 309 (which is what is on qdl?) to the 318 version, which for me was much faster than 309
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Is your bluetooth voice dial working in 318?
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Use QDL, then update from 309 (which is what is on qdl?) to the 318 version, which for me was much faster than 309
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I have updated to the posted 2.2 (318) rom and everything went perfectly. I originally updated with QDL first and then to 318 (QDL put on a strange build I could not locate in searches).
Everything is good (I don't like stage ui thought), Except. . . the bluetooth dial app does not "hear" anything or it is just plain broken. I can use voice dial with the phone alone, but if I connect the bluetooth and do the long press (Jawbone Icon) to get to voice dialing, it starts up and either crashes (force close) or it sits there "listening" until it times/errors out.
The error is LogService has stopped working process (com.oem)
I have seen posts on other forums from people with different phones having the same issues but NO fix or work around.
It seems to me it must be something in the hook between the bluetooth service and the voice dial app.
Maybe someone has found a fix or a working replacement for voice dial that works over bluetooth, assuming its the app and not the bluetooth services.
sad owner of Dell Streak Droid 1.6 now happy 2.2 thanks to XDA Dev
I was ready to return my streak back to bestbuy until a friend of my show me this site. he uses an HTC so he is very good at Droid, Im a newbie by the way. Just switch from iPhone 4 to Dell Streak and Im not coming back. I was tired of waiting for Dell update so we decided to try to get the 2.2 from UK and Oh! man, we were amaze how this new software works on my Streak. I love it! Thanks guy! now you have a new member. by the way Im a business owner of a pc place Im also a computer programmer and Technology guru so I'll be sending many people your way. Thanks again.
Glad you kept it! I was pretty happy with 1.6, but when at&t/Dell opted to "delay" the 2.2 update (I think it was more at&t than Dell), I said screw it, let's give it a try. Updated to v309, then got v318 on and it's like a completely different device!
just done flashing. not sure which path to go.. official Dell 2.2 or Dj 1.5.2.
Dell is easier but heard Dj is a cool one.
I'm on 309, haven't update to 318 yet.
What are the benefits really?
Bug fixes mainly.
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I'm on 309, haven't update to 318 yet.
What are the benefits really?
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318 its a lot stable and faster no FC on the stage widgetit means better than the other build out there...ive tried it trust me...
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318 its a lot stable and faster no FC on the stage widgetit means better than the other build out there...ive tried it trust me...
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I've heard some people have had battery problems, wireless problems etc with 318. What is FC?
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ok folks all im going to say is check out the image attached
and no its not a joke i do actualyl have this running on my streak. stock android 2.2 froyo - using dells eclair kernel source, as you can see its not usable (no wifi/bt/phone etc which we expected). working on gettign at least 3g going now.
great to see evidence this thing is moving if we wait on dell it wont happen for ages
but is 2.2 froyo based on the same kernnell as 2.1?
not really but dells kernel is a mash up or alot of differnet kernels including froyos
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not really but dells kernel is a mash up or alot of differnet kernels including froyos
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its a different kernel. there is 2.1 eclair and the new froyo 2.2. Dell made their own 2.1 Eclair development platform and drivers and some additions to the kernel to support the hardware. Most other company's use the android Eclipse developer platform.
some great enhancements in the 2.2 kernel is the support for the flash-light (the leds on the back, not this not-wanted screen lighters) , a speedboost of nearly 10% in some cases and a new support library for social networking.
some info on new stuff added http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html
edit: did i allmost forget the flash 10.1 support.
more edit: 2.1 official seems to come out in a few weeks up till december. 2.2 scheduled for februari
yup add a boot time of about 10 seconds too and its is SILLY fast running, smooth as silk
awesome!
Now what can we do to help? also is it just you work on this or others pitching in?
and if you don't mind, can you write up a guide or is it similar to the other devices of how to build AOSP?
I'm trying to learn but dont have much programming and dev background so its like starting from scratch!
http://pdk.android.com/online-pdk/guide/build_system.html
here you go
edit : and here maybe ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781069
Great work. Can't wait until a full release available. All of the efforts are appreciated.
just droped linpack onto this built, scored 34
How about framerate limit removal? I saw a video where removing it would dramatically improve input response time.
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repeating the same message over and over isnt going to help. its NOT a simple thing to sort out framerate and since ive still yet to find any info on how they managed it on the evo (tech info not simple videos) i dont even know where to start
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repeating the same message over and over isnt going to help.
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Indeed, there are bigger things to worry about, like all the sensors, drivers, etc. I personally find the framerate quite acceptable at 30fps, only thing it really hurts is benchmarks... is the actual screen designed to refresh at 60Hz anyways? I can run GlxGears at 1000fps, in that regard my computer is uncapped, its obviously impossible for me to view it that way... another mention of this will get someone reported.
You the man dj, I got faith in you homie, you can doit!!!
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You r da man! keep up the good work
Kudos. I'm patient and appreciative.
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Ok anyone who wants test build of 2.2 check my post on modaco..links their for build
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Ok anyone who wants test build of 2.2 check my post on modaco..links their for build
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Ok my test system.img for 2.2 is up
http://downloads.streakdroid.com/djsteve/builds/system.img
You need boot img from http://downloads.streakdroid.com/djsteve/2.2/boot.img
May be wise to wipe /data yourself too before flash
Working
Data/3g
dalvik with jit (linpack score in the 30s at moment
Google apps
sd card mount
Sound is still dodgy and likely not working
Nor working
pretty much everything else
Testers only please
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For anyone who doesn't want to spend 10 minutes searching.
There's a good reason that forcing novice users to search for 10minutes is a good thing and posting direct links isn't
The 2.2 isn't ready for mass consumption yet;
and if a whole load of people install it who don't really know what they're doing, then everyone involved is going to spend less time getting 2.2 working and more time getting those novices streaks back to working order.
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There's a good reason that forcing novice users to search for 10minutes is a good thing and posting direct links isn't
The 2.2 isn't ready for mass consumption yet;
and if a whole load of people install it who don't really know what they're doing, then everyone involved is going to spend less time getting 2.2 working and more time getting those novices streaks back to working order.
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Well here's a better idea, keep it private. Ask for volunteers etc. If they want to find it they will do.
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My girlfriend's Droid is running an older version of Bionix, I think it's 1.7 or something close to it (2.1-update1, Kernel version 2.6.29, Build number ECLAIR.UVJI6) and keeps getting a notification that an update is ready from T-Mobile. I haven't been following Android news so I don't know if this is the 2.2 update (or if the 2.2 update is even out for her phone yet), or just an update to 2.1 or what, but it's driving her nuts. Even when she postpones it it sends her several texts a day, and the max she can postpone it is 24 hours. Is there anyway to get rid of this notification? Custom ROMs for my Droid would do this by default, so I'm clueless how to fix it.
Secondly, she likes this ROM a lot, but it's about 3 months old now, have there been any major changes in current ROMs that would warrant me upgrading her phone? She is content with it as is, and I have a hard time hacking the Vibrant for some reason, though I never had any problems with my Droid. Basically what I'm saying here is, I WILL upgrade it if there's anything worth upgrading it for. Thanks in advance for any help with these questions!
Wait till bionix frost comes out and then re-flash her phone
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No.
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If you go ka7 or higher its froyo. This should be your standard.
But my wife runs jl5 with a ka7 modem and loves it.
So.....
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One thing I've learned when updating the wifes stuff: if it aint broke, dont fix it. If shes happy with the way it is. Leave it. Upgrading to a better version she might not notice is onl going to cause you a headache. Some app isnt playing nice with new build, some small bug in the rom, etc. It's your funeral!
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One thing I've learned when updating the wifes stuff: if it aint broke, dont fix it. If shes happy with the way it is. Leave it. Upgrading to a better version she might not notice is onl going to cause you a headache. Some app isnt playing nice with new build, some small bug in the rom, etc. It's your funeral!
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AMEN to that!
I updated my wife's Moto Cliq to 2.1 and I regret it everyday! Should have left her at 1.5...
There are a lot of 2.2 roms out there in the development section that are running 2.2 roms so smooth and fast and with bloatware removed. Try Bionix or Axura or Trigger. You don' t have to wait for ota froyo. My friend's phone did the ota update and it' s full of bugs
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Can't believe I typed 'my girlfriend's droid' in the first post, I hate when people refer to every Android phone as a 'droid', and I just did it myself, LOL. Anyway, thanks for the input guys. I'll probably wait until someone builds a 2.2 rom from source and upgrade her.
So there's no way to get rid of this upgrade notification? That sucks.
When is frost coming out?
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Bump, just looking for confirmation that there's no way to disable OTA update notifications?
turn off device management service using titanium backup. freeze it.
OTA FROM MOBILE. JUST GOT IT YESTERDAY. Sorry bout screaming testing it out. Really fast. Keyboard feels more responsive. Cool little features here n there. Overall like it. Try going to phone system update and check urs.
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We are waiting in uae
there's cm7 running 2.3, and you guys are hoping for 2.2? forgive me if i sound brash, but 2.2 really nowhere near the smoothness of 2.3.
2.2 better then 2.1
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I updated to 2.2 as well, but I downloaded the update.zip and loaded it to my SD card in recovery mode to install. Works like a charm.
I got a bit bored of waiting on the UK 2.2 release, not sure when it's coming out.
Anyway, I went the down the 2.3 route with CM7, and very happy with it.
A question I was going to ask before, but never did, is, if you were on 2.1 and went to 2.2 via the official route, would you still be able to update to 2.3 with CM7?
I'm wondering whether Motorola would lock the phone down further to try and prevent it.
Hi, no need to worry, you can update to cm7 without any problems.
Motorola understands that we don't want to be locked out of our phones.
The carriers are the ones who make motorola doing this locked bootloader thing.
greetings
first and foremost i would like to say that i LOVE the community yolu guys got going on here, i am a recent switcher from iphone, to the dell streak 5 and it was one of the best switches ive ever made, now i just have a few questions, i have figured out pretty much everything but the baseband thing i am wondering about, currently i am toronto canada and i have a rogers dell streaK 5 running on streakdroid 1.9, setcpu overclocked to 1.19ghz and 318 baseband, now i been reading around, now should i update to 351 as people were saying or should i stay bhere on 318? also i noticed when i got this phone i didnt check to see which version i already had, are the earlier versions of dj steves streak droid factory overclocked in the kernal? if so which version was it and what was it clocked at by default? i am just wondering if i am getting the full potential out of my phone, also which launcher is everyones favorite? also is there an app to see which apps are taking up how much CPU, and not just ram?
thank you so much in advance
-Davey
There are no stock overclocked roms as fast as I know. If you just got the phone and it was brand new, it likely had a baseband newer than 318.
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First off davey, welcome aboard. To answer your questions...
1. If you're running Streakdroid 1.9, DJSteve recommends updating to a specific baseband. The link for this baseband he provides in the Streakdroid 1.9 thread.
2. I do not know if earlier versions of Streakdroid were overclocked. My best guess is that they were. My opinion is that you do not gain much by overclocking in any event. I have a Streak with a rooted 351. The phone runs a heck of a lot faster just by ditching Dell's Stage UI, the Dell Sync program, and a few other programs Dell put into the ROM.
3. I believe you are using the phone to its full potential.
4. Watchdog Lite can tell you what percentage of CPU cycles are taken up by a particular app.
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First off davey, welcome aboard. To answer your questions...
1. If you're running Streakdroid 1.9, DJSteve recommends updating to a specific baseband. The link for this baseband he provides in the Streakdroid 1.9 thread.
2. I do not know if earlier versions of Streakdroid were overclocked. My best guess is that they were. My opinion is that you do not gain much by overclocking in any event. I have a Streak with a rooted 351. The phone runs a heck of a lot faster just by ditching Dell's Stage UI, the Dell Sync program, and a few other programs Dell put into the ROM.
3. I believe you are using the phone to its full potential.
4. Watchdog Lite can tell you what percentage of CPU cycles are taken up by a particular app.
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Most appreciated with your response, and i thank you kindly for welcoming to the community, the baseband 351 everyone is saying is better on battery life and wifi connection, that sort of thing, so i appreciate you leading me twoard there, question though, the QDL utility or whatever it is that you use to flash the baseband, where might i obtain it? when i bought the phone , fastboot was already on there so luckily i dont have to install that myself, but im not sure where to get the utility for my computer so that i may update the baseband once in the fastboot mod, now to get rid of the dell stage UI, do i have to completly redo my rom or might i be able too just uninstall it somehow without having to revamp my stuff again, because i know if i nandroid the backup that it will still include the dell stage ui since i have that during the nandroid backup, again thank you so much for your help!, and thanks again for the tip on the app download i have been looking for such things! , also one more question, how might i also remove the dell sync program? is that also available through the actual OS?
Much love!
-David
It should be in the development forum, but I would recommend doing a search for it on the forums because I don't know exactly where it is. I personally have no reason to use it, because I don't use StreakDroid (rooted 351 with Stage UI and bloatware removed).
You can use a program like Titanium Backup or Root Explorer to remove the .apk files for the programs you want to remove.
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You can use a program like Titanium Backup or Root Explorer to remove the .apk files for the programs you want to remove.
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WOW thank you so much titanium backup worked great! now for my last question, right now i have baseband 31800, should i upgrade to the 351? or what do you think?
Well I searched the forums and havent really found anyone with this problem so here it goes. I bricked my dell streak seriously by tampering with the files in streakflash trying to get it back to 1.6. So I have the Besybuy insurance so I took it back and they sent it off and will be sending me a new streak. When they get my new streak in, it will more than likely be on 2.2. I hate 2.2 on this device and really want 1.6, therefore my question being, is it possible to downgrade a new streak thats 2.2 out of the box to 1.6?
don't do it, simply flash 2.3.3 REV 2.1 international - it's fast, stable and nice
awww but i want 1.6 lol
What don't you like about 2.2?
take a look to google
Find original stock rom from dell and make restore over nandroid
take a look also in this forum
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Thats how i bricked my fist streak lol. anf i dont like 2.2 task bar and i dont like stage widgets and i dont like the icons lol im srry but 2.2 just not for me. I get my new streak on monday im hoping against hope that it will be 1.6.
Don't count on it. It's been almost a year since the unlocked Streaks were upgraded to 2.2. You can (and should) change the launcher from Stage UI to something like Go Launcher, where you can skin the icons. That should eliminate two of your concerns. The taskbar is however, a foolish pipe dream, especially when you lose far more by doing the downgrade than you would staying with what you have and changing the launcher. Think about it.
One more thing. That 2.2.2 taskbar that you're so keen to complain about is the default taskbar that is in virtually every Android phone on the planet. They may have some subtle tweaks such as color in a HTC device, or annoyances like having the carrier name pop up and obscuring the icons every thirty seconds thanks to executive meddling (phones from AT&T have that annoyance). Despite those small changes, functionally every taskbar is identical. Besides, Dell ditched their taskbar modifications for a reason in doing the upgrade, and it's simply that the newer versions of Android did what the 1.6 taskbar did, without requiring extensive modification.
Thats why I like 1.6 on dell streak so much because there's nothing else like it out there. I am aware that every 2.2 is virtually the same on every device that's one reason why dell streak's 1.6 was something special to me because of its uniqueness. Then you might say well why did you upgrade in the first place lol ( I guess I just wanted to have the latest thing i dunno). But I got tired of 2.2 fast and just want the old FW back. But I guess that's just the price I pay for upgrading haha and thanks guys for all your feedback!
We believe it to be special. Problem was that Dell released the Streak with ancient software compared to the standard (1.6 vs. 2.1), didn't do any marketing on it and expected it to sell like one of their PCs.
As to the bar, I never had it on my device as I had 2.2.2, 347 out of the box. But while Dell came up with a nifty solution to 1.6's shortcomings, their energy would have been better spent in putting a more current ROM on the device for release. Because of their choices the Streak has a permanent aura of being old and slow to catch up to those in the know, and a permanent aura of obscurity to those who don't.
Got my new dell streak today from best buy (using my best buy insurance) and it came with 1.6 installed ....Only thing since gmail and facebook have cracked down on 3rd parties is it possible to use the email and facebook widgets from dell 1.6?
Anyone know how to get the dell facebook widget working on 1.6?
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Unfortunately I don't think you can get the widgets working in 1.6. Those widgets are for 2.1 and up. You'll have to use the browser for both.