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[Q] How to root Milestone A853 with Android 2.2.1 ?

Hello,
I have Motorola Milestone A853 Retail Brazil with Android 2.2.1 .
z4root is failing to permanent root it.
Is there another easy way to permanet root it, please?
Regards.

Flash VR and use AOR to root.
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Yes, I can use VR with AOR to root it.
sileshn said:
Flash VR and use AOR to root.
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Hello,
I saw the VR with AOR procedure.
Thank you very much.

How would one go about rooting a Telus Milestone with a VR? Which VR do you choose?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12271864&postcount=3
I just did this yesterday to get the telus update off my phone.
The vr sbf is tiny.

I am trying to start the SBF using RSD Lite, but when I navigate to the SBF file and have my phone plugged in, the "start" button is greyed out. I have no way to click on it.
I installed the Motorola Mobile Drivers v4.9 (64-bit Windows) and RSD Lite v4.6.
Help please!

does it show the phone as connected?
If not, set the usb mode to memory card access or portal tools

zeppelinrox said:
does it show the phone as connected?
If not, set the usb mode to memory card access or portal tools
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How do you do that in bootloader mode required for flashing sbf?

skadude66 said:
I am trying to start the SBF using RSD Lite, but when I navigate to the SBF file and have my phone plugged in, the "start" button is greyed out. I have no way to click on it.
I installed the Motorola Mobile Drivers v4.9 (64-bit Windows) and RSD Lite v4.6.
Help please!
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Power off phone. Press dial pad up key + power button and release. You will be in bootloader mode. Plug in your phone. rsdlite should recognise your phone. Flash the VR.
Once the phone starts rebooting, before it shows the M logo, press and hold the "x" button for a few seconds and release. It should take you into recovery mode. Run AOR and using console type " rm -f /system/etc/install-recovery.sh " ( without the quotes ).
You can root using phone using the option in AOR.

I ended up rooting with Universal Androot. It seemed to work but I can't get to flashing FroyoMod, I explained it more in detail here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011153
If anybody could help me out on that, it would be great!
EDIT: I guess I could also just unroot with Universal androot and try the other methods you've suggested, sileshn?

skadude66 said:
I ended up rooting with Universal Androot. It seemed to work but I can't get to flashing FroyoMod, I explained it more in detail here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011153
If anybody could help me out on that, it would be great!
EDIT: I guess I could also just unroot with Universal androot and try the other methods you've suggested, sileshn?
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You got the EOCD error because VR was not flashed. Root is not required for flashing froyoMOD or CM7. VR is the one that's needed. The above method will work for sure.

sileshn said:
Power off phone. Press dial pad up key + power button and release. You will be in bootloader mode. Plug in your phone. rsdlite should recognise your phone. Flash the VR.
Once the phone starts rebooting, before it shows the M logo, press and hold the "x" button for a few seconds and release. It should take you into recovery mode. Run AOR and using console type " rm -f /system/etc/install-recovery.sh " ( without the quotes ).
You can root using phone using the option in AOR.
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Here is what I have for RSD Lite and it will not work..
http://imgur.com/IicCA
I got the VR from http://android.doshaska.net/rootable
Is there anything I'm doing wrong here?

skadude66 said:
Here is what I have for RSD Lite and it will not work..
http://imgur.com/IicCA
I got the VR from http://android.doshaska.net/rootable
Is there anything I'm doing wrong here?
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Try renaming the sbf to something shorter, like VR_90.78.sbf and try.

Alright so I was able to start it but it immediately came up with this error: "Failed flashing process. (0x7100); phone connected."
My bootloader is 90.78, so that SBF should work, right?

skadude66 said:
Alright so I was able to start it but it immediately came up with this error: "Failed flashing process. (0x7100); phone connected."
My bootloader is 90.78, so that SBF should work, right?
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This might help. I have never got that error ever.
http://androidforums.com/droid-all-...hing-process-0x7100-rsd-lite.html#post1274587

That worked! Unfortunately, I didn't hit the x key fast enough. Can I just go into recovery mode afterwards and apply update.zip?

skadude66 said:
That worked! Unfortunately, I didn't hit the x key fast enough. Can I just go into recovery mode afterwards and apply update.zip?
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Try running AOR. If you get EOCD error, flash vr again.
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It seems to have worked! I'm on the Droid boot animation, not sure how long it should be taking.
EDIT: It's been about 5 minutes that it's stuck on the droid boot animation, is this a bootloop? Did I mess something up? The only thing I did not do was create a nandroid backup, but that shouldn't affect the update, no?

sileshn said:
How do you do that in bootloader mode required for flashing sbf?
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?When doing RSD Lite I always just hook up the phone while android is running. Not sure when it boots into boot loader mode though but it just gets there during the process lol
skadude66 said:
It seems to have worked! I'm on the Droid boot animation, not sure how long it should be taking.
EDIT: It's been about 5 minutes that it's stuck on the droid boot animation, is this a bootloop? Did I mess something up? The only thing I did not do was create a nandroid backup, but that shouldn't affect the update, no?
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Which animation is it. Just the word Android and thats it? If it's that one, it's hard to tell if it's bootlooping but you would see it flicker if it is.

I got past the Motorola M logo, but now it's been at least 10 minutes that it's stuck on an Android logo, and a green circle around him.
I also cannot turn off the phone by holding the power button.

How do you boot into Recovery

I am new to the Revolution and just bought a used one. When the phone boots up is there anyway to boot directly into recovery. I do have the revo tools and can get into recovery from the running phone. I just worry I may accidentally muck thing up and will need to boot into recovery to restore my phone from a backup. But not sure if it is possible to boot directly into recovery. I have searched the net but not having much luck.
Thanks

You are rooted right? If rooted just put gingervolt on and it's in the power menu. On another note turn off then turn back on hold power button and volume down through lg logo. Screen will come up that says to erase data click confirm by the power button and it will go into cwm. It won't actually erase the data.
GINGERVOLTED!

Thanks again. That worked. I appreciate the quick reply.
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No problem!
GINGERVOLTED!

Rodhargis said:
I am new to the Revolution and just bought a used one. When the phone boots up is there anyway to boot directly into recovery. I do have the revo tools and can get into recovery from the running phone. I just worry I may accidentally muck thing up and will need to boot into recovery to restore my phone from a backup. But not sure if it is possible to boot directly into recovery. I have searched the net but not having much luck.
Thanks
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To boot directly into cwm from and off phone just hold down power and volume down. Then press power twice to confirm the wipe. It won't wipe anything. It just pushes you into cwm
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Also had a question about this. I used mt's all in one batch to root and install cwm, but I have no revotoolkit in my appdrawer? Is there a way to tell I actually have cwm without risking erasing my data on the phone by booting into it?

Mt's all in one is not Revo Toolkit which is why you don't see it. Everything you need to root or unroot is in the all in one package. If you used the all in one then you have CWM. Long press power button and choose recovery if you are using GingerVolt 1.3.
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sevron said:
Also had a question about this. I used mt's all in one batch to root and install cwm, but I have no revotoolkit in my appdrawer? Is there a way to tell I actually have cwm without risking erasing my data on the phone by booting into it?
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Download Quick Boot from the market and select recovery. If it cwm it will boot into it, if not it will just reboot.
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Now what, booting into sticky bit fastboot

I was having some issues with my phone shutting down so I attempted to wipe and use rds to install the stock firmware. Now I am stuck in this sticky bit fastboot. Am I screwed or is there an option to fix this? Thanks.
Joe

SUCCESS
re downloaded files and tried again, SUCCESS!!!

I've redownloaded many times and still boots into sticky bit :s
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Av8tor86 said:
re downloaded files and tried again, SUCCESS!!!
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can you upload your correct firmware file dude.
i try the everything. we need to unlocked bootloader

Download from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885561
Hold power and volume down to boot into bootloader and use rds lite. I also did a factory reset. Kept trying till it worked.
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Av8tor86 said:
Download from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885561
Hold power and volume down to boot into bootloader and use rds lite. I also did a factory reset. Kept trying till it worked.
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I also have this problem now on my AHD. im also desperate and suicidal...lol..
ill try your test procedures. thanks

3.41 bootloader info from google support

Well I decided to call Google about the boot loader recovery not working as it should. I was hoping this call would help them to work on another update but they say that's the way its supposed to work. Here's the email Instructions:
1. Power down your device
2. Press and hold both volume keys and the power button to enter
Bootloader mode
3. Press the volume keys to cycle to the Recovery mode option
4. Press the power button to select Recovery mode
5. From the Recovery mode screen, press and hold the Power button then
press the Volume up button.
6. Use the volume buttons to select wipe data/factory reset.
7. Select Yes -- delete all user data.
8. The factory data reset process will now start. Once its finished,
select 'Reboot system now.'
The only option we have in the new recovery is to wipe data. Maybe for those having problems accessing twrp or cwm will be able to a access it with step 5. I don't know haven't rooted yet. So I decided to ask about nvflash and they said they're not going to release any nvflash tools or files.

um, yup. thats how stock bootloader and stock recovery work. lol
whats the issue? if your not even rooted, you wouldn't even know if you have an issue or not with the new bootloader.

Are you saying that you can't flash a different recovery? Or that when you do you still get the same stock recovery? I'm not quite sure what the issue is here, because that is exactly how the stock bootloader, and recovery are supposed to work.
Are you making sure to unlock fastboot before trying to flash recovery. I don't recall seeing or hearing anyone say anything about not being able to get to clockwork mod once its installed.

xjman said:
Are you saying that you can't flash a different recovery? Or that when you do you still get the same stock recovery? I'm not quite sure what the issue is here, because that is exactly how the stock bootloader, and recovery are supposed to work.
Are you making sure to unlock fastboot before trying to flash recovery. I don't recall seeing or hearing anyone say anything about not being able to get to clockwork mod once its installed.
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No. I saw people posting they couldn't get go cwm and could only see the red exclamation point. And I was just saying maybe after choosing recovery then holding volume up and power it would then go to cWm or twrp. I was hoping for someone to try it who is still on 3.41 Recovery. A lot of people downgraded back to 3.39 or whatever version it was

kieso said:
I was hoping for someone to try it who is still on 3.41 Recovery. A lot of people downgraded back to 3.39 or whatever version it was
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I can confirm that to get in to the stock recovery you hold down 'power' and then tap 'vol up'.
At present I am running the latest CWM touch recovery. This boots straight into it from the bootloader without any extra button presses.
My personal preference to go into CWM is from either QuickBoot or ROM Manager.
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smirkis said:
didn't know being informed makes me an asshole. stupid me, reading and understanding.
for what its worth, im on the newest bootloader, and selecting recovery goes straight to twrp. which is the recovery i installed.
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I wonder why some on 3.41 can't go straight to twrp and some can. Sorry for the ahole comment I thought you were trying to be a smartass towards me. I'm just trying to find out as much info from people before I root. I am experienced at flashing and a little adb but I just read a lot of HELP BRICKED MY NEXUS posts. Did you use wugs toolkit or adb to unlock and root?

mr_tris said:
I can confirm that to get in to the stock recovery you hold down 'power' and then tap 'vol up'.
At present I am running the latest CWM touch recovery. This boots straight into it from the bootloader without any extra button presses.
My personal preference to go into CWM is from either QuickBoot or ROM Manager.
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Thanks for the info. I'm going to try unlocking and rooting when I get home. I really want to use the OTG cable and the 720p mod.

kieso said:
I wonder why some on 3.41 can't go straight to twrp and some can. Sorry for the ahole comment I thought you were trying to be a smartass towards me. I'm just trying to find out as much info from people before I root. I am experienced at flashing and a little adb but I just read a lot of HELP BRICKED MY NEXUS posts. Did you use wugs toolkit or adb to unlock and root?
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When I first flashed TWRP onto my Nexus 7 after that official 4.1.2 OTA update, I wasn't able to boot into it. I then flashed it again via fastboot, and then booted the TWRP image that was on my computer, and then TWRP loaded.
I believe TWRP does work normally now as well (I can boot into it and reboot into it).

kieso said:
I'm going to try unlocking and rooting when I get home.
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Well if I was you I'd just use mskips toolkit, its absolutely epic it'll save you a lot of farting around. I take it that your fully updated? ( Not that it matters) You seem to know and understand your way around adb so just go for it and enjoy.
Its works smooth as silk and save you a lot off time. The options available to you are just staggering!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
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going to recovery from bootloader works fine after 3.41.....wat r u talkin abt? (i m stock rooted+twrp)
oh yea...u hav 2 remove that recovery stock.p file thingy first.

There are plenty of people that are having issues with recovery on 3.41 bootloader.... Its confirmed some have it some don't.
The issue is that with 3.41 bootloader on some Nexus 7 Devices a custom recovery is unbootable no matter how you try, every time it will try to load recovery and fail at a black screen then reboot into the OS. It does not matter how you try from ADB reboot to recovery or from bootloader with USB attached or not.

psycho2097 said:
going to recovery from bootloader works fine after 3.41.....wat r u talkin abt? (i m stock rooted+twrp)
oh yea...u hav 2 remove that recovery stock.p file thingy first.
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Ohh crap I read about that in some thread. Any idea exactly what has to be done. The only way I can get into cwm is with ROM toolbox but I have to reflash cwm every time then hit boot into recovery.

kieso said:
Ohh crap I read about that in some thread. Any idea exactly what has to be done. The only way I can get into cwm is with ROM toolbox but I have to reflash cwm every time then hit boot into recovery.
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In your system folder there's a file called 'recovery-from-boot.p'
Go into a file manager with w/r access and rename it ' recovery-from-boot.p.bak'
When the system boots it reads that file and resets the recovery to stock, by changing the name you remove the problem.
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mr_tris said:
In your system folder there's a file called 'recovery-from-boot.p'
Go into a file manager with w/r access and rename it ' recovery-from-boot.p.bak'
When the system boots it reads that file and resets the recovery to stock, by changing the name you remove the problem.
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Thank you for all the help! I appreciate it.

kieso said:
Thank you for all the help! I appreciate it.
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No problem, a click on the 'Thanks' button for me and my colleagues on this thread would really make our day. :thumbup:
I hope you get sorted mate, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night until I got custom recovery working properly on any of my devices!
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i tried changing the name of the file, but.. after reboot, the tablet gets stuck on google screen, recovery never loads... any suggestion? Thanks =)

Is there a way to restore root after a factory reset on JB?

So I'm on the latest JB firmware and I am rooted. However, my phone will randomly freeze and I want to perform a factory reset to fix the problem. Can I restore root using Voodoo, or is there any other way perhaps?
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install safestrap before reset.. so you`ll have root 4ever i think

Root is usually kept after factory reset. Because the related hack is done inside the system directory？
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You cannot, I've done that already and list root after my phone got bricked. Use safestrap
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BreakShadow said:
You cannot, I've done that already and list root after my phone got bricked. Use safestrap
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Really? That's funny. Then how did I reset my stock JB rooted AHD twice yesterday and still manage to have root afterwards?
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RCon227 said:
Really? That's funny. Then how did I reset my stock JB rooted AHD twice yesterday and still manage to have root afterwards?
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My bad, I misread, I was thinking about RSD. Lost my root flashing the SBF after my phone got bricked by CF3D
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just safestrap and give slot1 all the free space on the inernal memory.. its like 1gb system 3gb data
that should give you plenty of space for apps and just use an sd card for storage..
that way you can reset, reflash, do pretty much anything you want to the system on slot1 and not mess up anything.

So to clarify...I can just factory reset and still retain root?
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MagicXB said:
So to clarify...I can just factory reset and still retain root?
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I reset mine and still had root after. I don't see why it would yield a different result for anyone else.
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Doing a factory reset shouldn't affect root at all. Most likely, all you have to do is download super user from market and update!
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Thanks guys, I did a factory reset and still have root.

Atrix HD soft bricked by audio beats driver
What do I do when I soft brick my atrix HD and only have a titanium backup?
I have the AT&T stock ICS phone but is soft brick and it can't pass the boot logo. Any ideas?

Pharawer said:
What do I do when I soft brick my atrix HD and only have a titanium backup?
I have the AT&T stock ICS phone but is soft brick and it can't pass the boot logo. Any ideas?
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If you have only encountered a soft brick, it is possible that you could recover by using RSD Lite.
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If anyone is worried, just install safestrap, and make sure you download the flashable zip from the superuser site. If you lose root, you won't, but if, just flash the superuser zip.
I had to do this after trying the MIUI version of superuser.
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MagicXB said:
If you have only encountered a soft brick, it is possible that you could recover by using RSD Lite.
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Ok so it is repairable, i have read a little about RSDlite and what i get is this (correct me if am wrong):
1. Get RSD Lite 6.14 (recommended version) for Windows only.
2. Get the stock firmware file, make sure you pick the latest ICS firmware file here (7.7.1Q-144_MB886_MR1-22_SIGNED_CFC.xml.zip) for AT&T.
3. After successfully downloaded, extract the zip file. And edit the 7.7.1Q-144_MB886_MR1-22_SIGNED_CFC.xml file using notepad, and then remove 2 lines with getvar.step operation=”getvar” var=”max-download-size”
4. Open RSD Lite, open the XML file that you have edited before.
5. Turn off your phone, and then enter the Boot Mode Selection Menu by press and hold the following keys together (Volume Up+Volume Down+Power). Using vol down, scroll to AP Fastboot menu, and then vol up to select it.
6. Connect Atrix HD to PC via USB, your phone will be recognized by RSD Lite as MB886.
7. Now it’s time to hit the Start button, and please wait for about 10-25 minutes.
8. Once the flash process done, your device will reboot. Your Motorola Atrix HD (MB886) should restore to stock and unroot now.
My phone is from AT&T and has firmware 77.10.16 ICS does this guide is the correct one for me? Or should I try using HD utility? im very noob here so please post noob-friendly answers.

Pharawer said:
Ok so it is repairable, i have read a little about RSDlite and what i get is this (correct me if am wrong):
1. Get RSD Lite 6.14 (recommended version) for Windows only.
2. Get the stock firmware file, make sure you pick the latest ICS firmware file here (7.7.1Q-144_MB886_MR1-22_SIGNED_CFC.xml.zip) for AT&T.
3. After successfully downloaded, extract the zip file. And edit the 7.7.1Q-144_MB886_MR1-22_SIGNED_CFC.xml file using notepad, and then remove 2 lines with getvar.step operation=”getvar” var=”max-download-size”
4. Open RSD Lite, open the XML file that you have edited before.
5. Turn off your phone, and then enter the Boot Mode Selection Menu by press and hold the following keys together (Volume Up+Volume Down+Power). Using vol down, scroll to AP Fastboot menu, and then vol up to select it.
6. Connect Atrix HD to PC via USB, your phone will be recognized by RSD Lite as MB886.
7. Now it’s time to hit the Start button, and please wait for about 10-25 minutes.
8. Once the flash process done, your device will reboot. Your Motorola Atrix HD (MB886) should restore to stock and unroot now.
My phone is from AT&T and has firmware 77.10.16 ICS does this guide is the correct one for me? Or should I try using HD utility? im very noob here so please post noob-friendly answers.
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This guide is correct, just flash the right ROM(FXZ), that's all.
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It fail
BreakShadow said:
This guide is correct, just flash the right ROM(FXZ), that's all.
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The flash failed at first but i tried again and it worked. Thanks you just saved my phone!