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[How To] Downgrade 2.2 To 2.1

Not sure if this has already been posted somewhere, but after my experience I figured it might be useful to someone. If it's been posted already ignore this and move on with your day/night
1. flash sbf
2. phone will go in the boot loop of death, thats fine lol.. when rsdlite says 100 percent pull the battery
3. put the battery back in, hold down the home button plus the power button till you see the moto logo followed by the triangle
4. hit search button, your now in recovery
5. do a factory restore
6. once complete reboot phone
7. thank god and swear you wont flash your phone ever again (ofcourse only to do it in a day or so after you have calmed down)
rsdlite and sbf can be found in this thread CLICK

If you made a nandroid backup of 2.1 couldn't you just restore that? I'm pretty sure you can. I remember doing it with the Moto Droid.

taypotts said:
If you made a nandroid backup of 2.1 couldn't you just restore that? I'm pretty sure you can. I remember doing it with the Moto Droid.
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not sure if you can use bootstrap in froyo, and besides if you ever need to go back to a unrooted state this is the way to go :: cough warranty ::

taypotts said:
If you made a nandroid backup of 2.1 couldn't you just restore that? I'm pretty sure you can. I remember doing it with the Moto Droid.
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Do not restore a 2. 1 nandroid in 2. 2. The update changes the bootloader and recovery versions which aren't part of the backup. The phone will just hang at the MOTO logo. I learned this the hard way. You have to use the sbf. You can then apply your nandroid to get everything back.
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iB4STiD said:
Not sure if this has already been posted somewhere, but after my experience I figured it might be useful to someone.
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Could you explain?
I am holding off on switching to 2.2, always do to let everyone else find the bugs.
What was your experience?

bad4u6669 said:
Could you explain?
I am holding off on switching to 2.2, always do to let everyone else find the bugs.
What was your experience?
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what i meant by my experience was downgrading 2.2 to 2.1, My g/f has the droid x, and i am the one to root or mod her phone for her. She wanted to try out froyo and liked the rom alot. there are little bugs i noticed
1. odd little animation hiccup when scrolling home screens
2. lag in gallery
3. what seemed like market delay (but the market has been slow lately, same thing on my vibrant and g1)
but this is a test build not a "final rom"
Like i said downgrading the phone is a little different than other android phones Ive used and i thought this post may help someone out. Im the type of person who wont mod something unless i know i can get back to where i started and with this sbf and "how to" you wont have to worry about that.

pjsockett said:
Do not restore a 2. 1 nandroid in 2. 2. The update changes the bootloader and recovery versions which aren't part of the backup. The phone will just hang at the MOTO logo. I learned this the hard way. You have to use the sbf. You can then apply your nandroid to get everything back.
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also i believe it updates the radio and kernel.. thanks pj for explaining that

If I wanted to go to 2.1 ,don't see why...at the moment.
Before I do a SBF would it be ok to to do a data wipe and a partition wipe in recovery mode then do the SBF bootrecovery deal???
Thank You

after you upgrade to 2.2 koush has a new DroidXBootstrap.apk out
go back to his website and DL it and reinstall then rerun bootstrap.
after that rom manager can do backups or recoveries.
sucks you all get bootloop with sbf, ive done it twice now and has worked fine
keeps all my apps and stuff
goodluck

pjsockett said:
Do not restore a 2. 1 nandroid in 2. 2. The update changes the bootloader and recovery versions which aren't part of the backup. The phone will just hang at the MOTO logo. I learned this the hard way. You have to use the sbf. You can then apply your nandroid to get everything back.
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I'm kinda confused what you mean? I did a nandroid backup of 2.1 with the latest bootstrap and clockworld.
I just remember using a nandroid on my girl's moto droid and I went from 2.2 all the way back to 2.0.1.

when trying to sbf on my Mac I get this -bash: ./sbf_flash: Permission denied? Any suggestions I have been asking for 2 days now hopefully someone can help. Thanks

taypotts said:
I'm kinda confused what you mean? I did a nandroid backup of 2.1 with the latest bootstrap and clockworld.
I just remember using a nandroid on my girl's moto droid and I went from 2.2 all the way back to 2.0.1.
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I also did the same from my Eris. The major difference is that the recovery on those devices were completely replaced not just patched. When you restore a 2.1 nandroid from a 2.2 droid x the android 3e recovery is not replaced. When the system tries to boot it sees that as an invalid recovery image and won't boot, it just hangs at the moto logo forever. When you upgarde to 2.2 on a Droid or an Eris your still using clockwork recovery or amon ra's recovery and not upgrading to the android 3e system recovery. Maybe it was just a fluke that it didn't work for me but it makes sense as to why it would fail, otherwise we would be able to have a full custom recovery.

dscottjr81 said:
when trying to sbf on my Mac I get this -bash: ./sbf_flash: Permission denied? Any suggestions I have been asking for 2 days now hopefully someone can help. Thanks
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From my understanding sbf_flash is for linux only. To flash on mac you need to use rsd lite with a virtual windows os.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/38671-flashing-sbf-mac.html

i cant get my phone to flash. i have done this 2 before with my droid x on 2.1 but now that i am on 2.2 every time i try to use RSDlite, i connect my phone and select my SBF but the START button will not light up so i cannot proceed. any thoughts.. im running windows 7 64 and i have all the drivers working for my phone.

failed sbf flash
Hey guys, i got an error in RSD that says "Failed flashing process. Failed flashing process. Phone[0000]: Phone is not compatible with muli-interface super-file. (0x703B); phone connected
Any ideas, i'm really new to android stuff, been using WM forever.
Thanks for the help

please ignore me as I can't read apparently
if anyone else sees this remeber to copy the pst_flash file to the Program Files/Motorola/RSDLite directory

tacticalmedicokc said:
please ignore me as I can't read apparently
if anyone else sees this remeber to copy the pst_flash file to the Program Files/Motorola/RSDLite directory
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thanks. i had the same problem.

[Q] Milestone a854 root, open recovery, custom roms help

Hello everyone I have read around and still cant find a answer 100 percent.. I even searched the web. I read lots of guides how to root a milestone a854 but I'm getting different types of errors.. First sites wants you to run the update.zip file which you cant do because you have to use the exploit if im correct. Now, I cant find any help on this problem trying to run a sbf file in rsd lite. I get the this error.
critical error
1337
510b
My boot loader is 2c.6c, my phone is through alltel. I dont want to brick it. I tried to do a Motorola update and it screwed up my phone. Which i almost didn't get it replaced because i void the warranty. It actually reload onto the Verizon service, i didn't have internet access at all, and Alltel support couldn't fix it. I originally traded a htc wildfire for a milestone. Which the guy already had modded. Which it had a nano backups. My phone got stolen and ended doing a insurance claim. So now it has android 2.1 with the update1. I want to root it and be able to run a custom rom, like fire and ice, or like Cynanon mod. I would like to run open recovery, but dont need it if i can run the nanoid backups also. When i run the update.zip i get this error.
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:EOCD marker occurs after start of EOCD
E:signature verification failed.
Installation Aborted.
So if I'm not wrong you have to downgrade the software to run a exploit? Now what spf file should i use and is there any guide or forum with my ? already answered if anyone can point me please. I want to be able to use my milestone with my new hp touchpad. I want to be able to load up a hotspot or use the WiFi tether. Thanks for any help. If anyone needs more info you can pm me or even just post here. Thanks again.
Kordris

Install rom manager from market. Buy the premium version, its worth it. Install cwm recovery and the app will allow you to do anything. Flash roms, backup.
Your phone is basically a droid1.
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Check out this guide here on xda-developers.
The only thing you need to understand is the sequence in which the steps have to be performed. Basically:
1. flash a vulnerable bootloader
2. install a custom recovery like OpenRecovery (update.zip)
3. through the use of OpenRecovery install Cyanogenmod/MIUI ROMs

Ok.. what version am i running?? Im in the usa and got the phone here. The only close place would be canada but i dont know if thats the one. Might be able to use the uk one. What one should i use.. Now if this gets me same results which i have a feeling it will. Will just using the Clockworld mod just work?? I want to be able to use other roms I want to actually use the fire and ice mod. Also would like to be able to use a wifi tether because i just got a Hp touchpad. I can root my phone through z4mod, but i want to be able to do nano backups and stuff like that. Im going to try the canada one and if i get the same error in the rsd lite. What else can i try to get open recovery working?
Thanks ahead for anyhelp.
Kordris

Ok tried to flash the sbf file again.. I still get this error...
critical error
1337
510b
Any more suggestions?? Man this is driving me crazy.

Have you tried another sbf? Here are some more.

I&F is for the milestone, not the Droid. Did you try ROM Manager?
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Kordris said:
Ok.. what version am i running?? Im in the usa and got the phone here. The only close place would be canada but i dont know if thats the one. Might be able to use the uk one. What one should i use.. Now if this gets me same results which i have a feeling it will. Will just using the Clockworld mod just work?? I want to be able to use other roms I want to actually use the fire and ice mod. Also would like to be able to use a wifi tether because i just got a Hp touchpad. I can root my phone through z4mod, but i want to be able to do nano backups and stuff like that. Im going to try the canada one and if i get the same error in the rsd lite. What else can i try to get open recovery working?
Thanks ahead for anyhelp.
Kordris
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As Sileshn said, your phone is basically a droid. You will only be able to flash ROMs from the Droid Development forum, meaning Ice&Fire is out of the question.
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Yeah, didnt read carefully enough. Ignore my post about the Milestone sbf's.

From what i understand all milestones are droids... Milestone is just a different software and different from the droid in some ways. I use alltel service and when they sell me the phone its the milestone because thats the only phone they offer. They dont offer a driod or anything. But the id number for the phone is supposed to be droid number is what Motorola says. So what kinda options do i have for roms then? Can someone link me the roms that can be used. I have the rom manager but it doenst list any roms in the download area. Its supposedly the paid version. I also wouldnt mind just getting updated to the newer andriod so i can use flash, but alltel doenst offer updates yet. Should i try to root the phone like a driod? because i dont want to mess up the phone because it will void warranties. I like to make sure im doing it right and not going to brick the phone. I figure theres got to people that have the same phone as me and same issues. Thanks again..
Im going to mess with the Rom manager and see if i can get a rom from it. But last time i tried i had no luck with one. I also have the clockwork mod running and can do nanoriod backups.. when i try to recover like one of the fire and ice nanriods it gives me a md5 error.
Thanks. looking for some more help..

Kordris said:
From what i understand all milestones are droids...
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No brother. You got it wrong. Milestones are not droids. Two basic differences.
Milestone is GSM, Droid is CDMA.
Milestone has locked bootloader, Droid has an unlocked one.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/motorola-milestone/121260-milestones-not-all-same-a853-a854.html
Alltel milestone A854 is a Droid. All Droid roms will work for it. Just be sure to make a backup of your phone before flashing anything becoz getting 3g to work has been very difficult if you get back to stock.
Cm6, cm7, miui for droid will work on your phone.
You will brick your phone if you try and nandroid restore I&F on your phone. You have been warned.
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Found this on Droidforums.net, at least my milestone doenst have a locked bootloader i guess. LOL Still having issues. But I did get rom manager working but when i loaded droid steel it would hang up on the boot screen and would only just replay the boot flash over and over and would not boot all the way up. Anyone else have the same problem?? What other custom rom out there that is good or popular?? Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks..
Milestones are not all the same (A853 / A854)
Something I have not seen mentioned much in this Milestone forum is that there are drastic differences in different models of Milestones. Motorola made things very confusing when they decided to make two phones which are very different have the same name. I started this thread to try and help clear it up a little. I wasted alot of time reading information that was totally irrelevant to my phone.
Milestone Model A853 is GSM and is the Milestone that is mentioned in most forums. Unlike the DROID, the A853 Milestone has a bootloader that only allows signed Firmware to load. There are other differences that I have not researched since this is not the model I have. Motorola is suppose to offer a 2.2 update for this phone at some point in the future.
Milestone Model A854 is CDMA and does not have a locked bootloader. The A854 is the same phone as the A855 Droid but branded with the Milestone name for licensing to small carriers. This model will not receive a official 2.2 update but most if not all the custom roms for the A855 Droid will work on the A854. I am currently running CyanogenMod-6.1.2-Droid which is Android Version 2.2.1 on a A854.
I am sure this is old news for some but like I mentioned before I wasted alot of time reading Milestone forums when I should have been reading Droid forums for information about the A854. I hope someone finds this information useful. If any of this information is incorrect please feel free to correct me.
Now for a question. This forum section is labeled "Verizon Android Phones > Motorola Milestone". Has Verizon ever carried a Milestone? I thought they were CDMA and have always sold the CDMA Motorola A855 Droid.
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Try miui. I am sure you will love it. Check miui android forums.
This should help in deciding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yY53Kcc0w
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sileshn said:
No brother. You got it wrong. Milestones are not droids. Two basic differences.
Milestone is GSM, Droid is CDMA.
Milestone has locked bootloader, Droid has an unlocked one.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/motorola-milestone/121260-milestones-not-all-same-a853-a854.html
Alltel milestone A854 is a Droid. All Droid roms will work for it. Just be sure to make a backup of your phone before flashing anything becoz getting 3g to work has been very difficult if you get back to stock.
Cm6, cm7, miui for droid will work on your phone.
You will brick your phone if you try and nandroid restore I&F on your phone. You have been warned.
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LOL Sorry did see this post when i type my last one sorry. But thats where i read it at. Also i used rom manager to load Droid Steel which is really nice, but might try some other ones also. Also made backups of orginal rom so i can always go back and like you said if something screws up. I see what your saying on the 3g thing.. Do you know if they have had issues with the 3g on the droid steel because looks like im only getting 1g but i could be wrong. I dont get the best receiption in the house. Thanks for the help, which actually helped me alot. Thanks again.
Kordris

I also have a A854 milestone and one person will tell ya the droid roms work on it the next person says they wont?!! one person says rom manager wont work for the milestone another says it will! one says CWM will work another says it it wont that need mini mod or andrianai recovery who knows Im afraid to do anything cuz i cant afford a brick!

It's simple:
There was a Droid A855 (cdma, bootloader unlocked)
Only one month later there was a Milestone A853 (gsm/umts, bootloader locked)
So far so good, there's a Droid and there's a Milestone. Two similar, but actually very different, not ROM compatible phones.
And then, more than half year later, there was suddenly a Milestone A854, which is actually a Droid A855, only named differently. (cdma, bootloader unlocked).
Now there's confusion.
So: If you read Milestone, it usually means the GSM variant A853. Droid means A855/A854, cdma.
If you have A854, don't look for Milestone stuff, because you have a Droid.

I recently upgraded from my HTC Hero to an A854, but I'm having a problem getting Rom Manager. It's not in the market, and I've tried downloading it from the site, but I get an error saying "There is a problem parsing the package." Unfortunately I only have my phone on me, and I don't see any other way to flash Clockwork on it. Even if I did have my computer though, I still haven't been able to find a guide without broken links. Any help would be appreciated!

Scratch all of that. Just decided to do it on a laptop a little while ago because I found all the links. Followed the Droid instructions on Cyanogenmod's wiki, but replace the Clockwork .sbf file with a different recovery I found (only because the Clockwork link was broken). Flashed it and everything went fine! Put the good ol' Cyan on it and even though I had it on my hero, it still amazes me. Remember guys, follow DROID instructions if you have the A854!

Any devs working on the XT860???

The title speaks for itself.
For the moment the Verizon XT862 is getting more and more ROMs. But the XT860 nothing is happening. Any news????

For real! Are there major hardware or firmware differences preventing this? There is a fair cross-section of us who can't use the traditional XT862's for whatever reason (service provider, geographic location, etc.), so any developments in the XT860 area would be highly appreciated in our pool.

+1 to this !

I doubt anything will change unless real XT860 SBF gets leaked so there is easy way to recover from screw ups. Until then I doubt we will see anything custom for XT860. Also given the very limited user base, situation doesn't look any better either...
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Why is there a need for SBF when you can do a nandroid backup? (yes im noob)

DoubleYouPee said:
Why is there a need for SBF when you can do a nandroid backup? (yes im noob)
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Afaik you can't do nandroid backups on XT860, yet.
And even when you will be able to have a functional recovery, it is not permanent like what happen on HTC phones (due to the unlocked bootloader) or in the milestone 1 (due to a security breach on the initial firmwares.
On D3/MS3 RSD and a sbf can be the only way to recover a bricked phone.

The Solutor said:
Afaik you can't do nandroid backups on XT860, yet.
And even when you will be able to have a functional recovery, it is not permanent like what happen on HTC phones (due to the unlocked bootloader) or in the milestone 1 (due to a security breach on the initial firmwares.
On D3/MS3 RSD and a sbf can be the only way to recover a bricked phone.
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But doesn't a nandroid backup the entire phone? Then why would you need a SBF?

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But doesn't a nandroid backup the entire phone? Then why would you need a SBF?
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Yes it does, but is the purpose of a backup if you don't have a way to do a restore ? (this can happen because the access to the custom recovery is based on an installable apk and not on a bootloader function)

The Solutor said:
Yes it does, but is the purpose of a backup if you don't have a way to do a restore ? (this can happen because the access to the custom recovery is based on an installable apk and not on a bootloader function)
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As I understood it a nandroid is a backup made from clockworkmod which runs just fine on the xt860. And could you not flash a nandroid through adb or rsd if you had the forethought to have a copy on your computer, thus achieving a similar result to a sbf(not fully stocked, but recovered from a brick)
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Simply no you can't. In order to flash a nandroid you would need to be able to get into recovery if you a truly bricked you wouldn't have access to recovery that is what the sbf is for.
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Endoroid said:
As I understood it a nandroid is a backup made from clockworkmod which runs just fine on the xt860.
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IF the custom recovery works you can use nandroid backup and restore.
BUT, as already said this is not the fully working solution seen in other phones, is a tricky solution, so you can get (easily) a situation when you can't boot in the custom recovery, and sbf is mandatory.

I keep hearing about Steel Droid; how difficult would it be to get it running effectively on an XT860? The XT860's hardware must be very similar to the XT862's (aside from the signal band/antenna hardware I'm guessing), correct? Would a dev have to completely re-engineer his entire ROM in order for it to work on the XT860?

Wonder that too. I am no expert so I can't really say. But I do understand Bell first needs to come with an update??

Endoroid said:
...clockworkmod which runs just fine on the xt860....
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How did you manage that? I installed ROM Manager Premium, then CWMod 5.0.2.6, confirmed motorola Droid 3 ... and nothing: "Backup current ROM" Makes my phone simply to restart...
Having read this (and other) topics I am confused - is there a way for XT860 user to have full backup (nand...) of the phone?

dvet said:
How did you manage that? I installed ROM Manager Premium, then CWMod 5.0.2.6, confirmed motorola Droid 3 ... and nothing: "Backup current ROM" Makes my phone simply to restart...
Having read this (and other) topics I am confused - is there a way for XT860 user to have full backup (nand...) of the phone?
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I just installed the apk for the tweaked bootstrap(Droid3CWbootstrap.apk), clicked bootstrap recovery and boot into it using m+power and going to BP tools. And the untweaked version worked for me as well, but you can't boot into that one using the m+power.
As I understand the safestrap doesn't work on xt860 although I haven't tries it myself
Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1

Sweet, this is awesome!
I just took your advice Endroid and loaded ClockworkMod Recovery on my device. I'm now making my first nandroid backup... (nothing has been disabled on my device) Have you tried doing anything more advanced on your device yet? I mean, we should just be able to restore at this point, right?

I've done a restore for testingnpurpose. Worked fine. I've also flashed some zips from the uot kitchen and the speedy script. It all works fine
Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1

Well that sounds great. Sadly no flashing anything else. Cause the firmware stays a little crappy. :-(

Ya the big problem is not much available to flash yet. If you're not already aware of it check out uot kitchen. Just Google it. Allows you to do some theming. Not every change will take, probably to do with MOTOBLUR. Lame. But you change that ugly blue status bar
Rooted xt860, debloated and overclocked to 1.1

Endoroid said:
...If you're not already aware of it check out uot kitchen. Just Google it. Allows you to do some theming. Not every change will take, ....
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Well, I was not aware, so thanks.
As you have already fiddled with it, could you please say what were you able to change?
Apart of that, I am especially interested in:
Changing the battery indicator to show 1%
Changing the dialog, where you set the time for an appointment (se the attachment) to something better, where I could select times from the pulldown, select "tomorrow" etc...
Do you know whether such things are available through kitchen?

RAZR recovery on Droid 4?

Anyone tried using the RAZR recovery on the Droid 4? Lookin to do up the Arctic rom, but would feel much better if I could get a nandroid.
EDIT: This is the link to the RAZR recovery I was mainly thinking of: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385283

jgardner said:
Anyone tried using the RAZR recovery on the Droid 4? Lookin to do up the Arctic rom, but would feel much better if I could get a nandroid.
EDIT: This is the link to the RAZR recovery I was mainly thinking of: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385283
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Why not do the nandroid with safestrap?

I didn't think safestrap was working with the D4?

jgardner said:
I didn't think safestrap was working with the D4?
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I dont know whats going on lol.....everyone is coming with all these different stories. I used the root exploit that was out and used the safestrap for recovery. I dont think I did anything different than anyone else. And then i took a chance flashing a Razr rom

Oh yeah, the original utility had the safestrap didn't it? The latest utility doesn't anymore (although I think it works).
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jgardner said:
Oh yeah, the original utility had the safestrap didn't it? The latest utility doesn't anymore (although I think it works).
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I took it out until Hashcode brings it out for Droid 4. I've been corresponding with him and if the maker of Safestrap tells you it isn't safe to use on Droid 4 yet then you usually should listen.
All up to your risk though.

I made a nandroid using safestrap, or thought i did. I made my backup so i figured i would try that arctic rom so i followed the directions step by step. After i wiped cache and factory reset i went install from sd and the arctic rom that i know i put on it was not there. So i figured i would flash back to the backup i just made and try the process of putting the arctic on my sd. Some how i ended up bricking my phone and am now stuck in bootloader and my device is looked. Have you or anyone else made an sbf, oneclick recovery or a way to unbrick my D4?

Briteyez83 said:
I made a nandroid using safestrap, or thought i did. I made my backup so i figured i would try that arctic rom so i followed the directions step by step. After i wiped cache and factory reset i went install from sd and the arctic rom that i know i put on it was not there. So i figured i would flash back to the backup i just made and try the process of putting the arctic on my sd. Some how i ended up bricking my phone and am now stuck in bootloader and my device is looked. Have you or anyone else made an sbf, oneclick recovery or a way to unbrick my D4?
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Not yet. There is a reason we have warnings on these...
I hope we get fastboot yet. You cannot just "make them" they have to be leaked.
FYI Motorola does Fastboot files, not SBF now.

mattlgroff said:
Not yet. There is a reason we have warnings on these...
I hope we get fastboot yet. You cannot just "make them" they have to be leaked.
FYI Motorola does Fastboot files, not SBF now.
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Im new to root even though i have learned pretty quick. Finally after much pain and suffering got my X's bootloader unlocked and rooted some time in Nov. What does leaked mean and what is the difference between fastboot files and sbf?
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As far as the warnings i didnt see the warning to not use safestrap till i got on here and it was to late. I figured since i was able to boot into recovery and make a backup i would be ok

Briteyez83 said:
Im new to root even though i have learned pretty quick. Finally after much pain and suffering got my X's bootloader unlocked and rooted some time in Nov. What does leaked mean and what is the difference between fastboot files and sbf?
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You would be Man of the Year if you did that. You mean you bootstrapped it, right?
Leaked means they have to trickle out from Motorola/Verizon somehow.. either on purpose or by "accident" somebody on the inside putting them out there for use by our wonderful devs.
As for SBF vs fasboot, i dont know exactly the difference but think of them as different types of "recovery" that can be used to fully restore your phone to factory condition.

Briteyez83 said:
I made a nandroid using safestrap, or thought i did. I made my backup so i figured i would try that arctic rom so i followed the directions step by step. After i wiped cache and factory reset i went install from sd and the arctic rom that i know i put on it was not there. So i figured i would flash back to the backup i just made and try the process of putting the arctic on my sd. Some how i ended up bricking my phone and am now stuck in bootloader and my device is looked. Have you or anyone else made an sbf, oneclick recovery or a way to unbrick my D4?
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Which FASTBOOT error are you seeing? It should be referencing one of the partitions.
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greekchampion04 said:
You would be Man of the Year if you did that. You mean you bootstrapped it, right?
Leaked means they have to trickle out from Motorola/Verizon somehow.. either on purpose or by "accident" somebody on the inside putting them out there for use by our wonderful devs.
As for SBF vs fasboot, i dont know exactly the difference but think of them as different types of "recovery" that can be used to fully restore your phone to factory condition.
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Yes, i mean bootstrapped and you mean woman of the year, right? My bf said the difference between the two is SBF your makinga mirror image of everything and doing a complete system dump and fastboot is just cutting the power for a split sec. It will clear your immediate cache but some memory is still there.

Briteyez83 said:
Yes, i mean bootstrapped and you mean woman of the year, right? My bf said the difference between the two is SBF your makinga mirror image of everything and doing a complete system dump and fastboot is just cutting the power for a split sec. It will clear your immediate cache but some memory is still there.
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I cant help unless I know what your error message says when you turn on the phone. :/
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Briteyez83 said:
Send me your email addy in a message and ill send you a pic of it
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Ok, so it's WEBTOP that is behaving badly.
Let me see if I can get an RSD Lite file for you to try. Do you know how to use that?

Hashcode said:
Ok, so it's WEBTOP that is behaving badly.
Let me see if I can get an RSD Lite file for you to try. Do you know how to use that?
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No, i dont. Im new to root, just rooted in nov. If you give me something thst would fix it that would be awesome.

Unfortunately, the fix isn't exactly a simple one.
It comes in 3 parts (assuming you're on Windows):
1. You'll need to download and install RSD Lite which is what is used to flash the fastboot restore files from Motorola:
http://dev-host.org/ug07spima1mq/RSDLite5.5.rar
2. Download and install the Motorola USB drivers to recognize your phone in fastboot mode:
http://www.mediafire.com/?z5qpc8v3xza25e6
3. I'm setting up a mini WEBTOP fastboot restore file based on the latest RAZR fastboot files (I say small.. but it's still quite a large download). The version is slightly off from the D4's but it might be close enough, and I think it's worth a shot:
[ Getting this file setup will take me about an hour, but you can get steps 1 and 2 ready for now ]
ALSO KEEP THE PHONE POWERED OFF FOR NOW TO SAVE BATTERY. FASTBOOT WILL NOT PROGRAM WITH A LOW BATTERY.

Hashcode said:
Unfortunately, the fix isn't exactly a simple one.
It comes in 3 parts (assuming you're on Windows):
1. You'll need to download and install RSD Lite which is what is used to flash the fastboot restore files from Motorola:
http://dev-host.org/ug07spima1mq/RSDLite5.5.rar
2. Download and install the Motorola USB drivers to recognize your phone in fastboot mode:
http://www.mediafire.com/?z5qpc8v3xza25e6
3. I'm setting up a mini WEBTOP fastboot restore file based on the latest RAZR fastboot files (I say small.. but it's still quite a large download). The version is slightly off from the D4's but it might be close enough, and I think it's worth a shot:
[ Getting this file setup will take me about an hour, but you can get steps 1 and 2 ready for now ]
ALSO KEEP THE PHONE POWERED OFF FOR NOW TO SAVE BATTERY. FASTBOOT WILL NOT PROGRAM WITH A LOW BATTERY.
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Thank you so much. My bf is leaving his laptop here so that i can do this since he is building the main cpu right now. Ill makev sure i let you know if this works or not after ive finished. I was going to have verizon send me a new one since i just bought my D4 on the 17th and i have 14 days. But i just dont want to risk my warrenty getting voided. Once again thank you.

Briteyez83 said:
Thank you so much. My bf is leaving his laptop here so that i can do this since he is building the main cpu right now. Ill makev sure i let you know if this works or not after ive finished. I was going to have verizon send me a new one since i just bought my D4 on the 17th and i have 14 days. But i just dont want to risk my warrenty getting voided. Once again thank you.
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If it works, I'll create a new thread with the instructions as I believe there are a few in your situation.

Yes there is quite a few. Ill let you know as soon as i can

[Q] Bell XT860 stock recovery

I would have posted this question in response to these instructions, however I'm still a noob on these forums, and haven't met my 10 post quota yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255198
My question is will this recovery method work for Bell Canada users, or will it only function for Verizon users?
I've installed AOKP a few months back, and while I enjoy it, I've lost support for some key features; namely HDMI, which is disappointing. When I tried recovering to the stock rom to hold me over until some new features and revisions show up on the mod scene, I found out my system backup was corrupt.
I have found a few downloads to system images, however every one I have found link to files that are now taken down. Can someone upload a current system dump?

I can set you up when I get home later
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try here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_solana/list.php

What would happen if I flashed the Bell firmware to a Verizon Droid3?
Will it change the radio.img
Will I have to unlock it again?
Will everything still work?
I am using 5.7.906.xt852

jazz53 said:
What would happen if I flashed the Bell firmware to a Verizon Droid3?
Will it change the radio.img
Will I have to unlock it again?
Will everything still work?
I am using 5.7.906.xt852
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Quite honestly no one knows. Wanna be the first?
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I'm really eager to find out. Worst case, you could always just flash the bell XT860 radio afterwards and see what happens!

I am way too new at this to try experimenting with untried solutions
I just barely figured out how to root my ph. Still working on how to flash.
Is it the same as installing a ROM?

jazz53 said:
I am way too new at this to try experimenting with untried solutions
I just barely figured out how to root my ph. Still working on how to flash.
Is it the same as installing a ROM?
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No, you have to completely reflash your device and will have to re-root it. I think you should give it a go though
You'll need to download RSD Lite and download the XT860 Bell SBF files (they are about 500mb to download). Also make sure you FULLY CHARGE your phone, just in case you run into any issues. I think you can find an SBF how-to doc in the development forums. Please keep us posted.
Are you on Verizon? Because if you and this works, you probably won't be able to use it with them anymore.

Nope, I am on PCMobile without a data plan, use wifi.
I think maybe I'll try a Rom first.