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Root Unroot from Bugless .4 to Stock 2.1

luckystrike

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Aug 2, 2010
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Hey everyone. I've unrooted from Bugless Beast v.4 to a stock 2.1 via How To: Unroot the Motorola Droid | TheUnlockr. So basically I used RSDLite and did the steps listed on that site. I used their .sbf file as well.

Everything seems to work except one thing.. I cant update or install Facebook, Maps, and Goggles. If you look at the comments in that link, you'll see that a couple of people have the same issue. It says "
 
Hey everyone. I've unrooted from Bugless Beast v.4 to a stock 2.1 via How To: Unroot the Motorola Droid | TheUnlockr. So basically I used RSDLite and did the steps listed on that site. I used their .sbf file as well.

Everything seems to work except one thing.. I cant update or install Facebook, Maps, and Goggles. If you look at the comments in that link, you'll see that a couple of people have the same issue. It says "
 
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Just to mention. I used the same tutorial and the same thing happened with Maps, Facebook. There were some other apps that I had purchased that didn't show up either. I went over to droid-life and flashed back to 2.0.1

When I rebooted it downloaded 2.1 (ota) and it's been working great ever since.

One other thing...the stock 2.1 that was installed OTA is ESE81, if that helps...
 
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There were some other apps that I had purchased that didn't show up either. I went over to droid-life and flashed back to 2.0.1

When I rebooted it downloaded 2.1 (ota) and it's been working great ever since.

One other thing...the stock 2.1 that was installed OTA is ESE81, if that helps...

Is it possible to just follow these steps How to manually install Android 2.1 for Droid – Android and Me and use that file? I knwo it's the ESE81 so that's why I asked.. Keep in mind I'm on 2.1 now, so would I run into any errors if i put the ESE81 on my SD and booted into recovery?

And..how did you flash to 2.0.1? What was the process
 
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I just looked more closely and the problem is that the sbf file there is ESE53 which is one that was never actually push OTA. I didnt notice that when you first posted but ohmrsh is right it should be ESE81. I just assumed you went back to 2.0.1 then either forced the OTA or just let the phone download the OTA to 2.1.

My bad
 
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I just looked more closely and the problem is that the sbf file there is ESE53 which is one that was never actually push OTA. I didnt notice that when you first posted but ohmrsh is right it should be ESE81. I just assumed you went back to 2.0.1 then either forced the OTA or just let the phone download the OTA to 2.1.

My bad

Alright, cool. So what should I do?
1) Should I use one of the other .sbf files you posted and do RSDlite?
---EDIT: Are those 2.0.1 sbfs? Looks like they are
2) Should I manually put ESE81 on my SD and boot into recovery and install?
3) Should I go back to 2.0.1 (how would I go about that?) and then do a OTA update?
 
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Alright, cool. So what should I do?
1) Should I use one of the other .sbf files you posted and do RSDlite?
2) Should I manually put ESE81 on my SD and boot into recovery and install?
3) Should I go back to 2.0.1 (how would I go about that?) and then do a OTA update?

use either sbf I posted. The 2nd one is 2.0.1 and that is the better route. The first is 2.0

Then just check for updates and it will update you to 2.1
 
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So ok, I went to 2.0.1 thanks to OMJ's sbf link. Google maps updates and installs properly. Now when I goto the settings and system update, it says I'm up to date -- i'm on 2.0.1 mind you...

Is it normally a waiting process? Do I need to be on 3G for it to inform me? I'm currently on wifi. Could I just force/manual update by putting the ese81 update.zip and installing it? Where do I go from here?
 
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