[HOW TO] BE READY to FLASH GB/2nd-INIT ROMs

[Miles]

I am reading and preparing to make the jump to CyanogenMOD, but I have a question.

I would like to update my radio while I'm updating things. As i understand, the only way to do this is to use p3's two part update from .340 to jump to .602. Then, in order to be ready for CyanogenMOD, I would need to SBF back to .340. From the looks of it, using p3's SBF doesn't wipe the radio version and such like the maderstock SBF does. Does this sound right?

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[macpro88]

You will need to SBF to .340 and install the radio only file then you may update to CM7. This will require less work. The radio only file should be in the hacks section.

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[macpro88]

DXC - Baseband Update .13P

Here is the radio file. Follow instructions. Need to be on .340.

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[towboy123]

Thank you for the write up had no clue what CM4DX doing differently than a rom. This was very understandable.

Now that all the hard work was put into CM4DX they will unlock the bootloader I bet.

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[macpro88]

Thank you for the write up had no clue what CM4DX doing differently than a rom. This was very understandable.

Now that all the hard work was put into CM4DX they will unlock the bootloader I bet.

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Sorry still no hope for an unlocked bootloader. Its uncrackable. Motorola would have to unlock it for us.

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[towboy123]

Sorry still no hope for an unlocked bootloader. Its uncrackable. Motorola would have to unlock it for us.

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That's what I meant now that this is available to us vzw will unlock the bootloader. Murphy's law

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[chuck54]

The madderstcok sbf file doesn't work on gingerbread is what droidmodderx 's website says

You thought you were once a bad noob? You haven't thought about me..... (haha)

[3club]

@macpro, thanks for the excellent lesson. I even read your first link, the tl;dr, and get the general idea. But I'm still confused about something:

If the locked bootloader prevents us from replacing the froyo kernel, how does the ota replace it with gingerbread? And if 2nd init is the only way to trick it into running another OS, then what are the ROMs like Apex? How do they do it? They're not 2nd init, or are they?

Sorry if my head is seeming thick. Hope I'm not the only one who doesn't get it.

[Nemo aeternamn]

@macpro, thanks for the excellent lesson. I even read your first link, the tl;dr, and get the general idea. But I'm still confused about something:

If the locked bootloader prevents us from replacing the froyo kernel, how does the ota replace it with gingerbread? And if 2nd init is the only way to trick it into running another OS, then what are the ROMs like Apex? How do they do it? They're not 2nd init, or are they?

Sorry if my head is seeming thick. Hope I'm not the only one who doesn't get it.

with the bootloader locked... doesn't mean it can't be switched... it just means that it has to be signed by motorola... so the ota get's us on the factory updated kernel...

and the other builds like apex, liberty and what not... they don't use the 2nd init process... as they are built on the ota famework.... and builds like cm7 are build from the aosp... the same base that motorola uses for their builds...

[towboy123]

The way I understand it roms simply strip away what Motorola has layered on. An example would be when on liberty if you remove to much blur it starts to become unstable. With 2nd init it is ASOP therefore no blur must be removed. Its just a sneaky ingenious way around the BS.

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