Talk:Full Update Guide - G1/Dream Firmware to CyanogenMod

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[edit] RA-Recovery vs. CM-Recovery

Is there any reason in particular we're guiding people to CM-Recovery instead of Amon_Ra's much more updated recovery? I'd like to update the guide with the RA-Recovery link and change the rest of the instructions to reflect that (at least on the G1 page, since that's the only phone I have direct experience with). With the way it is now, when I direct people to the guide, I have to walk them through the last half if I want them to have a set-up that I feel is as good as it can be. Any objections? --Johntastic 14:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

While the Amon_Ra recovery is great and has a lot of nice features, it's not an official CM product. While Cyanogen has stopped making recoveries, CM-1.4 is predictable and stable and does everything we need it to do for rooting. I'd rather people had to flash Amon_Ra later on when they learn more than us having to re-write the wiki page every new version because Amon_Ra changed something. I won't undo any edits if you put in a suggestion for Amon_Ra recovery, but that's my rationale for not doing so. PsychoI3oy 14:58, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

[edit] rooting vs upgrading

Should we consider separating the rooting and upgrading instructions? As it stands, if the upgrade process changes this will just be another page that needs to be updated to reflect those changes. Also, do you think we should have different pages for upgrading different hardware, or different categories on the same page? --Loonacy 20:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Confused ? Seperate steps, or separate things ?

I'm confused between Downgrading to RC29 (US) or RC7 (Europe) and Flash Android 1.6 & CyanogenMod 4.2.4/4.1.9999 Are these separate goals, or steps part of the same process ? Why would one need to 'flash to factory settings' after installing the Downgrade? --anonymous

You downgrade to RC29/7 to have a version that can be exploited by telnetd. Then you upgrade to an up-to-date (1.6) base image to have current google apps and framwork for the CM install to pull from. These are steps in the same process. All the instructions on this page are steps in the process of rooting the phone and getting an up-to-date CM installation. PsychoI3oy 06:20, 19 November 2009 (UTC)