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Added on June 9, 2011, 12:08 am

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Added on June 9, 2011, 12:06 amThat's good news for those that are still on 2.3.2 and havent updated OTA or via SEUS.

Personally, I was with that exact set up, however I did NOT do an OTA update but a SE PCC one and lost my Gingerbreak root, though retained all other settings and apps.

I would be cautious and wait for more comments at the XDA, especially from the senior members.

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Added on June 9, 2011, 12:10 amFactory reset always clear all user apps - that's why its called a FACTORY reset. However, your 2.3.3 ROM will still be 2.3.3 Good luck

This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 9 2011, 01:46 AM

Ya and tell us all if it worked and which ROM you used. Happy rooting.

You dont seem to be alone. Look at the forum.xda-developers.comXDA forum on this same issue you are facing. Seems that those in Singapore, Indonesia and other parts of the world are also facing OTA update problems - seems that 'OTA service' was down / up / down recently.

Try again next day or next few days and let us know if you were finally successful.





This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 10 2011, 12:22 AM

Did this process wipe everything off your phone - ie was it like a fresh brand new phone all over again or your stuff/contacts were still in tact after the process?

Bravo to you

This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 10 2011, 02:01 AM

Unfortunately your friend is not wrong. Although there are apk that you can help move the games/apps to SD card, your friend is right that some of the apps cannot be fully moved into SD card - some portions remain in internal storage - which is really, yes youre right - very low. Light users (those that dont gila games or apps) install a few apps, be prepared to see around 190+MB left in the internal storage; I think you can imagine medium to heavy apps and games users - sorryla, this is not the phone for you to do that. This is a 'gentleman' phone some say.

Some programs crash with 'force close' yes, your friend is also correct, but this depends on many other factors - cant blame low internal storage.

Ya you seem to clearly know your stuff and you have clear personal opinions about what you want - go for what suites you then - why regret if you get one you hear people talk so good about but dont suite your specific needs...right?

Im a new android user and my SE Arc only 2+ weeks old but Ive already read all the XDA threads on how to mod, upgrade, root etc it - so far so good but I bought this phone mainly bcos of what people said about the camera - photo and video. Comparing to my older SE camera and Nokia N8, I honestly think that all the marketing talk is really marketing talk - especially the video capability. Video shooting at HD only eats up more and more of the SD space, eventually I set it to 'Full Wide VGA' (which is better than just VGA) - so you think - whats the point of having a HD capable camera but dont use it - I think - ya la, whats the point, but whats the point if the video clip is so large and when processed in a video editor, the colors are good but the so called video image stabilizer still does not stabilize the clip - see these I took with the video camera to show indoorsindoors and outdooroutdoors

Many other things to cheong hei but Im only a new member, so I better not talk so much. Good luck

Thank you everyone for talking so much about this, especially Ultima for pointing to the discussion at the XDA forum.

Here's a short 4 minute video I made on how I did it from where I had compiled from all kinds and many days, nights of reading forum threads on how to downgrade to 2.3.2, root with Gingerbreak, then update OTA to 2.3.3 and still retaining root rights.

Enjoy the video and thank you everyone once again that had discussed and shared about this initiative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQefgUa_MWc

Actually you indirectly gave me the courage and inspiration to go ahead with the initiative - I had read a lot of success and failure stories from the XDA forum but most if not all of them are Europeans and their OTA availability would surely be on different servers; however you successfully did it / dared to do it, hence it gave us Malaysians over here some level of confidence that it can be done - so thanks to you, we now have some sort of a rough howto from the video I made.

So how much did u regret buying it for? Wait till u get the random self reboot and the wifi self disconnect problem; at least more than 50% chance owners will encounter this... sorry man

But so far all u mentioned i believe quite common to those that own this phone... and oh, sorry again, theres also the camera video not sync with sound thingy... alamak how?

This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 11 2011, 06:37 PM

Ya, sure can fix with update but poor guy buy new, highly marketed phone but got so many mafan things to fix - thats why he said new thing also dont feel shockshock, feel normal-heavy heart pulak

This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 11 2011, 07:47 PM

Just search the internet / google speed dial android and you will get all kinds of ideas, apps.

Ya thanks to all of you and others here especially Ultima for letting us know that there is such a process at XDA

"SEUS has the ability to check for unlocked/locked bootloader. OTA Update won't work either because DRM keys have been wiped in the unlocking process. You can still get updates but these will have to be done through FlashTool." -- lollylost100

This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 12 2011, 07:21 PM

"it is a smartphone... but it ain't the user that is" -- lollylost69

Arc or Neo? Do a factory reset.
How to factory reset Neo Neo reset here
How to factory reset Arc Arc reset here


Be more specific with more details if you really want people to give you more help

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Added on June 13, 2011, 2:17 amNah, read this, maybe helpful to Neo users like you.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread...eo#post14422439

This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 13 2011, 02:18 AM

My sharing.
1. I have had similiar arguments with Maxis - indeed more than mere arguments. Curious how it is that you have a 500MB data plan and they said you used over RM200 of data/internet usage? You mean above and over the 500MB/mth data plan?
2. I use 3G WD too and it has helped me stay within my mere 100MB/mth usage.
3. Hard to impossible to argue this off with them, we are literally at the mercy of these the big corp suckers. Perhaps you will have to pay first and start monitoring from scratch - ie reset WD and monitor ever so closely from a particular date; and audit that bill of yours like it's your income tax rebate column...

Why dont you follow the advice by Ultima where you can downgrade to 2.3.2 then root it, then upgrade to 2.3.3 and still have root access?

Is the instructions from XDA too hard to follow? Complicated I guess

There are a few Neo users that have also 'bricked' the Neo bcos of this downgrade-upgrade method. Can you share here what were the steps you took to get your Neo working again and is it on 2.3.3?

Advance Thank you from the Neo users that will benefit from your sharing.

Fantastic! You've done a good deed at this forum; many Neos will thank you. Good job.

For those of you that are considering UNLOCKING your Arc's bootloader - this poor Malaysian guy did just that and this is what SE Malaysia did to him as he put it "as if he's a criminal'

Hey friends, this is Malaysia not some Western country. Think 3 times.

Ultima, you have an unlocked bootloader. Any comments?

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This post has been edited by ricstc: Jun 15 2011, 01:35 AM