* Tips: Power button is Page-back in recovery screen, volume is up/down and camera is
1. Rooting - Followed instructions on www.droidforums.net/forum
Files: MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.zip
MotoCache1_Complete_Root_v1.1-update.zip
sbf_flash (run as sudo)
- Boot with X pressed
- Option 5 is backup/restore
- Pick one of 4 choices: Simple Nandroid Backup (and Restore), Advanced Nandroid Backup (and Restore)
- Go back to the main Recovery Mode menu and chose 'reboot system now'
- Copy the \SD Card\nandroid directory entire to your hard disk or somewhere else safe
3. Titanium Backup
- Must be rooted to use this
- Download from Android Market
- Do initial batch backup of your programs and data
4. Sapphire ROM - Download at Sapphire 1.1.0
Installation is performed using the standard update.zip installation method:
- Download the update.zip file at the top of this page
- Reboot your phone into recovery mode
- MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR PHONE
- Reset phone to factory default (THIS STEP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS VERSION
- Push sapphire-1.1.0-update.zip to /sdcard/update.zip
- Tell your recovery to allow update.zip installation
- Install from /sdcard/update.zip
- If you plan on installing a new kernel or theme, simply follow the same steps as above with those zip files.
5. Google Apps - Download at http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/releases/sapphire-1.1.0
File: sapphire-1.1.0-gapps-update.zip
- All my apps musta been set to sync because market apps were re-installed!
- All my apps musta been set to sync because market apps were re-installed!
- Google took a couple minutes to sync but everything was back on in no time!
6. Different Sapphire theme
Black Bar theme on http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/releases/sapphire-1.0.0
- update GEM Setting: change Clock, Date, Ticker Text to #ffffffff (was #ff000000)
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