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You don't need root. EP1W writes over everything through odin. Phone isn't even "booted" when it's flashed.

I waited for a while, and gave in before lunch today. WOW this thing is fast, eliminates the home screen redraw lag, and I've been streaming without any "hiccups" for quite a while. That hiccup used to bug the heck out of me.

Showed EP1W to a friend with a charge, he played with it for about 15 seconds and asked if I could flash his. He's been loving it all day!

I'm talking about the "bloated" version, apparently there are some TW4 issues on the non-bloated.

Syntrix, did you use a specific tutorial? I've been wanting to do this but dont want to screw everything up, lol.
 
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No need to hit power but yeah thats about it. Hold volume down as you plug it in without the battery. Once you see download mode pop up on the phones screen and odin sees it you can then put the battery back in. Make sure you flash using pda and not phone. Also make sure auto reboot and f reset time are unchecked. When you see odin say pass you can then remove the battery, unplug the cable and reboot the phone.
 
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I surely hope Gingerbread comes out soon.. is there a chance of verizon giving us a "non-bloat" version - or just a rooted one will be non-bloat? I just care about battery life, and network connectivity issues. Also, I can't find where to go to start a new post, so please advise, and my question is that I WANT to get notifications of SMS or EMail during calls, but I do not. Any thoughts much appreciated.
 
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I surely hope Gingerbread comes out soon.. is there a chance of verizon giving us a "non-bloat" version - or just a rooted one will be non-bloat? I just care about battery life, and network connectivity issues. Also, I can't find where to go to start a new post, so please advise, and my question is that I WANT to get notifications of SMS or EMail during calls, but I do not. Any thoughts much appreciated.

There will be ZERO chance that Verizon will give us a debloated version. You'll need root to remove those bloats.
 
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I am currently running gummy charged 2.0 with 2.3 and imoeyon 2.0.8 kernel. i also have the ep1w radio. the GC GBE build is a ep1w build. so far so good.

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so im dying to do the flash leak of 2.3. Ive read the instructions and am confident that i can do it without issue. My question is what data does it erase? just music and pictures? And also once i do this i know i will void warranty but could i go back to "normal" if i wanted to? And for any future ota's that come out will i get them and can i download them? Any info would be awesome im about to pull the trigger on flashing it today.
 
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so im dying to do the flash leak of 2.3. Ive read the instructions and am confident that i can do it without issue. My question is what data does it erase? just music and pictures? And also once i do this i know i will void warranty but could i go back to "normal" if i wanted to? And for any future ota's that come out will i get them and can i download them? Any info would be awesome im about to pull the trigger on flashing it today.

Im right here with you. I have read that if there is and OTA update that if you allow it, it will over write over any flashing. Not 100% on that.

Good Luck. And thanks to all here, they are extremely helpful!!
 
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rule of thumb boys - always flash back to a stock version to do OTAs. you'll usually lose root and other silly things may happen. same thing with wiping data before each ROM flash.

P3Droid's leak (mydroidworld.com - in the charge forums) provides a .bin to flash back to EE4 so you can update OTA gingerbread whenever on earth that happens.

treat the whole rooting thing like a research project - check multiple forums, gather the most credible advice, and always search threads on multiple forums for your answers...9/10 they're always able to be found.

have fun!!
 
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