Mordy, I just flashed for the first time (went very smoothly), and the info in your posts #3 and #4 was very helpful. Thank you. Started ppcgeeks reading about MR last December; read thru the 1500+ pages in the prior thread, then read all of them here. I figured I couldn't flash until I had read every post, and I couldn't catch up until now that it has slowed down a little!
Since the experience is fresh in my mind, I have a few suggestions for your FAQ (post #3) that would help newbies like me (assuming helping newbies is of interest
).
First, how about defining some terms in your FAQ: "clear storage," "hard reset," and "bootloader"? You have some excellent info on why & when to do them, but you don't say HOW to do them. For instance, "clear storage is done by settings/all settings/system/memory/clear storage (in 6.1) or settings/all settings/system/clear storage (in 6.5.x)." Maybe hard reset and bootloader should be in post #4 where you discuss specific providers if it is different for each provider.
I was able to find how to do these by searching thru this forum, and it probably is in a general TP2 forum sticky somewhere, but it would be nice to have in the FAQ here.
How about step-by-step instructions of how to flash if we are using Task 29, which it seems is becoming the recommended method? Eg, "Replace instructions 2-5 in post #1 with the following: 2. Download the Task29 and Mighty ROM of your choice to your computer -- these are exe files. 3. Make sure everything you want to save from your phone is backed up or on the SD card. 4. Follow instructions to run Task29
here. 5. Put phone into bootloader mode (see above), and connect it to your computer with the USB connection. Then run the exe file for Mighty ROM and follow the instructions."
It was a little confusing, because you start Task29 with activesync, but the flash starts with bootloader, not activesync.
Also, as I said over in the Task29 thread, you should warn us that some of the instructions given by the RUU cannot be done. For instance, there is no readme file. Also, since we just ran Task29, we cannot make an activesync/wmdc connection. But that's ok, since we started in the bootloader.
By the way, do we still clear storage after the flash if did Task29?
Another idea for the FAQ: an explanation for how to flash using the SD card.
I would ask Curtis if this info should be posted into the wiki, but I never see him around any more.
