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hey everybody its Joe from pocketnow.com cool thing happened just the other day and that was Google i/o 2010 now that's the Google Developers Conference and in day 2 they showed us Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo running on the Nexus One now that's really neat today we found out that a lot of people are getting Froyo pushed over-the-air to their Nexus ones but a lot of people aren't it looks like the press release versions of the phone are getting it but everybody else is gonna have to wait unless you're watching this video and I'm going to show you how so what I've got is a nexus one running CyanogenMod it's unlocked it's rooted and running a custom recovery ROM and a custom ROM so I've got a lot of work to do to be able to get this update but if you come with me I'll show you how to do that let's go okay for us to be able to install this update we have to go back from CyanogenMod to the stock rom so anytime we do that first thing we want to do is make a backup I've already done that I've booted up into recovery mode and I'm running the allman raw recovery bran nexus 1.7 point 0 really awesome recovery round by the way so I've gone ahead and done that back up next thing that I need to do is wipe everything so I'm gonna go ahead and do that we're gonna wipe there and I'm going to keep stepping through all of these options to wipe absolutely everything except for the SD card ext extension so that's going to take me a minute or so here and we're good to go now I'm gonna go back to the main menu and now we are going to flash a zip file from the SD card this one is ERD 79 which is the stock rom we'll go ahead and flash that now and this is going to take a couple minutes so I'm going to let that run and I'll be right back I'm not done yet for this to work not only do I have to have the stock rom on the phone but I also have to have the stock recovery rom on the phone now it's important to note this is not going to relock your phone you're still going to have the Nexus unlock symbol every time you boot I still don't know how to go about relocking your phone so like I said in previous videos once you've unlocked it you've unlocked it you can't go back but what we do need to do is put the stock recovery ROM on so to do that we're going to reboot the system and we're going to boot it back up into our fastboot mode go ahead and reboot the system now hold down the volume down button and there's our H boot menu now you can see here we've got options for fastboot recovery clear storage and sim lock we want to go into fastboot so we'll select that and press the power key to choose it and now we're in fastboot mode so from here I'm going to plug in my phone and then we're going to go over to the desktop computer or the laptop in this case and I'm going to show you what I've got and what we're going to do from there to get the recovery image back on I've gone ahead and downloaded and installed the Android SDK for Windows where to get that is going to be in the article that accompanies this video on pocketnow.com in fact all of the files that I'm going to reference here are going to be hyperlinked in that article so if you wonder where to get it go to pocketnow.com look up this article and you can find it all there that said what I've done is inside this tools folder there's a whole bunch of tools that come with the SDK I've added some things to this most importantly is fastboot again check the article for the link for that and after that is the recovery image just right here it's only 2.3 megabytes so not very big but that's the stock recovery image and we have to put that back on the phone to be able to flash the updated froyo version so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna switch over here to a command prompt in administrator mode and I'm gonna run you'll notice that I'm in that same folder in the tools folder I'm gonna run fast boot space devices make sure I spelled that right we're gonna press ENTER now the reason we do that is to make sure that the device is not only connected what you can see there it is but also that it's recognized and right there you can see yes we have a device showing up if the device wasn't connected it would either return nothing or throw an error so we should be good to go now this next part gets a little bit tricky I need to check my notes to get the syntax exactly correct okay here is that syntax again we're running flash boot and this time we're passing it the flash parameter and we want to flash into the recovery partition the recovery dot IMG so this recovery dot IMG needs to be in that tools folder right along with flash boot which I just showed you so we'll go ahead and do that now it's sending it writing it and done so all of one point two seven seconds so awesome what we need to do now is reboot our phone okay I've booted the system up for the first time and I'm getting the welcome to Nexus One Touch Android to begin prompt so I'm gonna go ahead and do that but I'm gonna skip through absolutely everything and at this point I'm looking at the stock wallpaper the the stock icon layout everything so I know that so far so good let's go in here and see if there's an update available for the phone menu settings gonna go to down to about phone and we are on firmware version 2.1 build number ERD 79 so so far so good we're gonna check for system updates and it has not noted that there are any updates yet so we're going to check a couple other things and be right back and the next thing we're gonna do is force an over-the-air check in so to do this on your dialer you dial star pound star pound two four three two five four six pound star pound star when you do that the screen should go blank and you should get a update that says check and results success you cannot do this over Wi-Fi or it will fail you have to do it over your carrier so you do have to have your SIM card installed an active plan blah blah blah all that but once you do that hopefully when we come back here to settings and go to about phone and check for system updates you'll see that we are now getting an update in this case we're getting Android update 2.1 update 1 now we could have gone ahead and flashed that version to begin with or flash the version that we did and then flash this update but the reason I want to do this is I want to make sure that that recovery ROM is doing its job if this update fails we know we've got something else to do and we cannot flash that Froyo update so we're going to go ahead and do this now it's going to take a little bit of time to finish downloading it's 15.2 megabytes so we'll do that and be right back ok after that system update has been downloaded it'll ask you if you want to install now later or get more information we want to install now so we'll go ahead and do that it's now going to boot up into recovery mode and this is where we get to see if that work that we did flashing the stock recovery ROM did what it was supposed to do now if you try this with the almond Raw ROM it will fail so you have to go through those steps ok now if we take a look here this is in the phone about information again we can see that the firmware version has now been updated to 2.1 update 1 the build number is e re 27 so we know that over the year update just worked successfully we're going to come in here to system updates it still says there are none we could check to see if there is another update and force it that way but we know that there are not at least not at this point so what we're gonna do is reboot the phone again into recovery mode to do that we wait for it to power off and then we boot up and hold the down of volume while it's booting so here we are in H boot we wait for it to do its initial load it's doing then we go down to recovery select that with the power and it reboots into recovery mode now we've already got the Froyo update zip file on the root of the SD card if you don't you should have we're going to go back in to flash their recovery in here when that should be power there we go and volume up and we are going to scroll down to apply SD card update dot zip and it's finding opening and verifying and this should take another couple minutes okay and we're up with the initial wallpaper let's go in and check the build so we'll unlock now the first thing that you'll notice this is indeed Froyo we now have down in the launcher area and I'm sorry I did the pinkie point again for that individual who commented that I pinkie point a lot you've got a phone icon your launcher icon and then your global icon which is the browser you also now have your Google search in color with some other options in the drop down menu you can search everything the web apps contacts etc etc but let's go back home the launcher is now even faster than it was before it seems to scroll through more than just one line at a time now when you do it so that's really cool but like I was saying let's go into about so we'll go into settings all the way at the bottom about phone and right there Android version 2.2 this is build number f RF 50 and we are running kernel version 2.6 point 32 0.9 yada yada yada so there you go guys how to take a hacked or a customized version of your Nexus One restore it back to stock then flash Froyo or Android 2.2 on it so sorry about the length but this has been a pretty in-depth video for pocketnow.com I am Joe Levi and enjoy your frozen yogurt