Friend of mine isn't much of a thinker... Anyway, he wanted Froyo, and for whatever reason that flashing his GSM Milestone with Verizon Droid software would work. For obvious reasons, it does not.
Is there any way to rescue his phone? It turns on, and it works, but odd things like the phone speaker won't work, etc. Just don't know if this has happened to anyone else and they could offer some advice.
Thank you.
Flash Froyo sbf for milestone using rsdlite from the link below.
http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone221
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sileshn said:
Flash Froyo sbf for milestone using rsdlite from the link below.
sbf:milestone221 [And Developers]
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Will give this a shot. Thank you.
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Hi everybody,
I got this phone on ebay when i was in US. I didnt check the phone when I was there.. It is being to late to send it back i guess..
The phone has problem with wifi and bluetooth. Wifi shows error when i try to enable it. and bluetooth show nothing.. NO Mac address shows on info.
After a little search as i understand, i need to flash the kernel on the phone. But i have no knowlage on flahing kernel..
Any ideas would be appreciated.. thanks.
Can't flash the kernal due to the locked bootloader. You can try using RSDlite to flash the fastboot files. Look in the dev section
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no resolution yet
Maybe you can try flashing a stock ROM and SBFing?
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Maybe you can try flashing a stock ROM and SBFing?
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seems a good idea but can you give a link shows how to do? i know i ask too much but i really dont know which one i need to flash. thanks.
No you're not asking too much. Lemme see if I can find it.
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Oh duh, is this the Verizon D3? (862) I ask because that is all the SBF will work for. The 860 doesn't have SBF yet AFAIK.
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I need the xt862 5.5.959 firmware so I can flash my DROID 3 to stock for rooting issues. Someone please help
To restore to stock 5.5.890 follow this guide. Could not find one where you can restore to .959
MAKE SURE YOUR BATTERY IS FULLY CHARGED.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255198
"I'm not responsibe for what you do to your phone"
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WALLINGTM87 said:
I need the xt862 5.5.959 firmware so I can flash my DROID 3 to stock for rooting issues. Someone please help
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Why 5.5. and not 5.6.xxx?
5.6.890 offers the same root-ablility.. just SBF back to 5.6.890.
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890 doesnt allow me to connect to pc with the wie i have. And i cant afford to buy the moto stock wire(BILLS).
has anyone tried flashing a razr rom on the droid 3 im curios to know if it will work?
Nope can't different system radio and so on. Can't go into much detail as I don't know all of it. But generally speaking roms are phone specific
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has anyone tried flashing a razr rom on the droid 3 im curios to know if it will work?
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If some one's willing to port it, then yeah, unless you wanna brick, don't try to flash it
After many months of discussions, I was wondering if anybody had ever flashed an XT860 radio on an XT862. I know people were using the XT883 to get Tmo/ATT access on their XT862, but has anybody ever tried using the XT860 radio? Some have said it's different radio hardware. I'm not 100% sure, and would like to hear from experience.
Also, if anybody needs it, the SBF for the Bell XT860 has been released so you can easily pull the radio file from there.
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Curious about this myself. I've heard the same question asked in a couple other Droid 3 threads but it doesn't look like anyone's tried it yet.
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Dunno, but with ATT having the Note (one sexy beast) why would you want a D3 on ATT?
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Dunno, but with ATT having the Note (one sexy beast) why would you want a D3 on ATT?
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I'm interested more for the overall engineering process for motorola. Do the different model numbers actually have different hardware on the inside? Or is it all software based?
Also, the note doesn't have a physical keyboard
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After many months of discussions, I was wondering if anybody had ever flashed an XT860 radio on an XT862. I know people were using the XT883 to get Tmo/ATT access on their XT862, but has anybody ever tried using the XT860 radio? Some have said it's different radio hardware. I'm not 100% sure, and would like to hear from experience.
Also, if anybody needs it, the SBF for the Bell XT860 has been released so you can easily pull the radio file from there.
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I know this is an old thread but since some time has passed and more people have had time to play with using the xt883 radio on the xt862 I'm wondering if anyone has gotten around to trying the xt860 radio? I have an xt861 I'd like to put the xt883 radio on and don't really have the experience needed to try out the xt860 radio without some idea it would work but it seems to me that if this worked it would be a better solution than using the xt883 radio and having to deal with the few bugs that has then just using the xt860 radio which to my understanding is a straight gsm radio to start with. If there were a way to use the xt883 radio and maintain cdma and gsm then I could see the point but since we lose cdma anyways why not just go with the xt860 anyways? If someone wanted to provide the files and walk me through it I'd be willing to try it either on the xt861 I have or on an old xt862 if you'd rather after I get the 861 up and running on the 883 radio. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree and this has already been tried and didn't work but I haven't seen anyone state that to be the case when I went searching. Anyone have anythoughts on this?
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You can always go back to original radio so there is no risk for you, maybe the latest baseband (newer than Verizon's one) from sbf.droi-developers.org the ACG OR ACG-nTelos will work fine, who knows maybe is US gsm-unlocked, just extract and flash the radio.img, no modified build.prop is neccesary
For the moment I don't have a D3 at my disposal to try the 860 radio but you can try to mount the system.img from the xt860 sbf zip file(mount -o loop) and copy the build.prop if after flashing you have unknown baseband version.
Regards
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Don't flash the 860 radio on an 861/862/883 or vice versa. If you want GSM use the 883 radio, if it will let you.
lucize said:
You can always go back to original radio so there is no risk for you, maybe the latest baseband (newer than Verizon's one) from sbf.droi-developers.org the ACG OR ACG-nTelos will work fine, who knows maybe is US gsm-unlocked, just extract and flash the radio.img, no modified build.prop is neccesary
For the moment I don't have a D3 at my disposal to try the 860 radio but you can try to mount the system.img from the xt860 sbf zip file(mount -o loop) and copy the build.prop if after flashing you have unknown baseband version.
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The baseband on the xt861 I have is n_03.18.37P . This is different than the xt862 I'm using now and appears to be newer would this cause a problem with using the xt883 radio? If so is there a way to change the baseband on the xt861 to the same as the one on my xt862? Would using the one click unbrick found on this forum change the baseband?
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The baseband on the xt861 I have is n_03.18.37P . This is different than the xt862 I'm using now and appears to be newer would this cause a problem with using the xt883 radio? If so is there a way to change the baseband on the xt861 to the same as the one on my xt862? Would using the one click unbrick found on this forum change the baseband?
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It's easy to change it, you only have to write de radio partition with the radio.img file, the user data can remain intact. the ACG version number I remember that it's ending with 37 and the verizon's one is ending with 32
you have to put the phone in fastboot mode and use the moto-fastboot.exe /flash radio radio.img
all the radio.img versions can be found in the zip files from the http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ site, it takes around 5 minutes to do it, but as I said maybe you need a modified buid.prop from xt860, because for xt863 if is not modded you will have unknown version number for the baseband and no radio signal.
When I did this I didn't need to change the build prop. It work just fine for me. It worked while I was in Afghanistan and works on ATT and T-Mobile here stateside.
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Don't flash the 860 radio on an 861/862/883 or vice versa. If you want GSM use the 883 radio, if it will let you.
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I appreciate the advice and I have used the 883 radio sp successfully several times but what I want to know is why can't we just use the 860 radio? Is there a hardware difference or will it just not work ith the 862 firmware? If the firmware is the problem could we just puut the entire 860 firmware on an 862/861/883 and essentially make it an 860? Have you tried this and it didn't work?
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When I did this I didn't need to change the build prop. It work just fine for me. It worked while I was in Afghanistan and works on ATT and T-Mobile here stateside.
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I think I read somewhere that with a foreign sim in the phone it will work on at&t and tmo and it would work in afghanistan anyways so I guess my question is were you using a sim from a carrier in afghanistan when you returned here?
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I have a droid 4 with bad esn, I want to update from ics but need to use cricket, is this possible?
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You can use the phone on cricket but you need to flash over to cricket. I have my Droid 4 on cricket with talk, text, Internet and MMS. I also using CM 11 nightly builds using Safestrap 3.65.
So it can be updated to the latest firmware, and still be flashed to cricket?
I found some tutorials, but they were done when the phone had ics, so I was concerned that maybe that method may not work.
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Bugly Astard said:
So it can be updated to the latest firmware, and still be flashed to cricket?
I found some tutorials, but they were done when the phone had ics, so I was concerned that maybe that method may not work.
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Confirmed flash works on jellybean.
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OK, well I've been up all night trying to use a tutorial and it's not working. There's no PC mode so I tried BP tools mode. Still not working. I'm probably just going to pay someone to do it. I'm literally giving this phone to a friend out of the kindness of my heart, but I don't want to end up paying a bunch of money.
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I used a web service called flash to talk. Good service and quick. Are u on stock BTW?
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Yeah, it's stock. It's jelly bean, says there's a small update but I read its harder to root so I'm not doing it.
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Bugly Astard said:
Yeah, it's stock. It's jelly bean, says there's a small update but I read its harder to root so I'm not doing it.
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Not really just do the update and reset smart actions and follow RAZR blade root. Easy peasy.
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I called that flash to talk. They are only for busineses not individuals. They refered me to a local place, which told me that cricket and Verizon are sharing blacklist soon so it's not worth it.
Good news is I found out that my esn is actually NOT bad! Awesome.
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