The new Velocity 1.1 will be available tonight as a Midnight release, we have been working all day to ensure the process is smooth. Here is how it is going to work, Trident is going to host the standalone and mirror it on a separate server. I will be hosting the OTA version the script will download on the 3 Velocity OTA mirrors. This gives us a total of 5 separate servers hosting the rom, so bandwidth should not be a problem.
Flashing Standalone Update:
The Standalone Rom will be flashed just like any of the previous versions. There is however one new feature. [ (doing the following may result in an inability to send MMS messages) If you are coming from Velocity 1.0 it is possible to flash the rom and retain all of your downloaded applications and settings. Simply Wipe Dalvik-Cache and Cache in recovery before flashing (instead of wiping all userdata) ]
So heres a step by step for those of you not used to this:
- Download the Standalone Rom from the Release thread (available tonight at midnight)
- Copy the file to your phones sdcard
- Reboot your phone into recovery
- Make a nandroid backup
- Wipe [(doing the following may result in an inability to send MMS messages)] (if coming from 1.0 you can skip data and only wipe cache and dalvik as mentioned above)
- Flash the ROM from your sdcard
- Reboot and enjoy!
From the Script OTA:
As you have probably noticed there is a option in the script to check for Rom Updates in the script menu. Well it will finally report an update as available at midnight tonight! The script will let you choose between an update that will wipe data and one that will not. The choice is entirely up to you, (failure to wipe may result in an inability to send MMS messages) if you choose to wipe data it will be like restoring factory defaults, which is nice if you want a clean slate, or if you have some apps causing problems. But if you do not wipe it will leave all the apps you have in /data/app and your sdcard. And retain their data, as usual perform a nandroid if you don't have a recent one. The rom OTA is a large file (115mb) so it will take awhile to download, its not recommended to attempt this over 3g, while it is possible it would be hard to retain a connection for that long without some corruption. So for best results, get on wifi, and either plug your phone in and turn the display sleep off, or turn off the wifi sleep policy, (Menu, Wifi, Wifi Settings, Settings, Wifi Sleep). If the download is going horrendously slow you could always exit the script and start it again to get a different mirror. The script will check the Roms MD5 before it trys and flashes, so if it says the md5 fails, it will automatically remove downloaded files and take you back to the main menu, you can try again. Here is a step by step:
- Open a terminal and type su for superuser access
- Start the velocity by invoking velocity in the terminal
- Enter the Rom Update checker (4 then 2)
- Choose The Wipe or No Wipe OTA (failure to wipe may result in an inability to send MMS messages)[/B
[*]Download OTA (115mb)
[*]Select Y to reboot into recovery and flash automatically
[*]OTA will flash and phone will reboot to 1.1 automatically
[EDIT BY TRIDENT:] It has been found that failure to wipe ALL userdata will result in the failure of MMS messages on send and receive! YOU MUST WIPE EVERYTHING!
