Dear Sir/Madam,
Before Spring Break, I rooted my droid bionic using motofail for windows. I do not know what the software version is, but I will include the software (motofail) in this email. On Thursday March 28, 2012 I decided to try installing ROMs to my Droid Bionic. I saw that Liberty Rom, Blurr3d Rom, and Eclipse Rom were cool roms. so first, I got Bootstrap (I will include it in this email) Bootstrap is a .apk file. I also got ROM manager, titanium backup, and one more, but i do not recall what it was. I made a backup of the stock ROM with ROM manager. and i installed bootstrap. little did i know that if something bad happens to the phone during a ROM install, you cannot restore a previous backup. So i cannot get my stock ROM back on. later on, before i had a problem with bootsrap i installed liberty ROM. then i got board with it then got blurr3d. then i got eclipse ROM. that's when i started to have problems. After i installed the eclipse ROM, noticed that i could not get any cell service or data service. I could get data from wifi though. So i freaked out and got liberty ROM. i read up on it and someone said i should get safestrap. Safestrap is like bootstrap but it is safer because you can access the recovery menu from boot and not have to access it through an application on the phone like with bootstrap. So after i got safestrap i installed it, rebooted it and made a back up. Before i made the backup i put plurr3d back on becasue i thought that the radio files from eclipse were not compatible with the radios on the bionic for some reason. This was all on Thursday. well, this time, it took 3-4 hours for blurr3d to get passed the welcome to andorid please touch the android to continue screen. on the screen it said, "please wait... this may take a few mins" after about 20 mins i got worried so I pulled the battery and rebooted the phone. and got back to the same screen. After i got back to the welcome to android screen, i had to go to football practice and dinner afterwards. when i got home, which was 3-4 hours later, I checked on the phone and it was past that screen and i was able to add my gmail account to it. For some reason or another, the cell and data services were not working. so i left it at that for a day or so and on Friday, I tried using what a lot of people are saying on the Internet which is, RSD lite. you can use RDS lite to flash a stock ROM onto the droid bionic. at that point, i thought that if i got the stock ROM back on, the radios would start working again. well, when I put the phone into fastboot mode it said,
AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)
0A.61
Battery OK
OK to Program
Connect USB
DATA Cable
It also said the same thing when i connected the USB cable to the phone and the computer. RSD lite did not recognize the phone so i tried for a couple hours with the same result. Later on, I read that restarting the computer with the phone in AP Fastboot while the phone was plugged in would get the phone to say,
AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)
0A.61
Battery OK
OK to Program
Transfer Mode:
USB Connected
This worked, but RSD lite still would not recognize the phone. So then i remembered that i had a stock ROM backup with bootstrap and i did. so i un-installed safestrap (one of the worst mistakes i made so far) and installed bootstrap. so i booted into recovery via bootstrap to restore to stock ROM. things did not go as planned... for some reason or another, it booted up normally. without going to recovery. then it wont to the dual core screen then the bionic eye screen with someone's ROM underneath it (it didn't say someones ROM but it said some one's name then the word ROM) then blurr3d ROM booted up and it kept crashing. so i ended up staying up to around 2-4 AM trying to fix that. i ended up saying forget this and going to sleep.
When i woke up in the morning, i looked at the phone and i had my data and my cell service back so i was confused so i started texting my friends and when i tried to go tot he home screen, nothing happens. but what i learned earlier is that when i reboot the phone, my data and cell service goes away for a couple of hours. So here i am now with my droid bionic, and cant do anything but text and call. i can only call when i get a text from someone, open up the text, and click on the phone number and click call when it brings me to the contact page for the number. I am also not able to access the home screen, the settings folder, or anything besides the notification bar. i really need my phone to use email, games, software (learning how to write java code), and for school in some instances. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
NH85
Seems to me...you lost data along the way.
A possible reason rsdlite is not recognizing your phone might be because you dont have the proper moto drivers installed.
Try this rsdlite and install the correct drivers for your pc...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63864500/rsd_drivers.zip
Make sure your battery does not die!
Boot into AP fasboot (power and down volume)
Use the cable that came with your phone.
See if rsdlite recognizes the phone.
If it does, you can flash the full 902 xml file (make sure your pc has 4g of RAM tho)
Do you have the full 902 xml file...if not, let me know.
Drivers
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have the correct drivers installed. When i connect the phone regulry once it is all booted up, i am able to access the sd card and the internal storage via windows explorer.The problem is that the phone refuses to connect to the computer in fastboot mode. i do not want to risk rebooting unless it is guaranteed to work 100% because I can still text and call on it for some reason. Every time the phone is restarted, the radios stop working for a while and i need to be able to text my parents where and when to pick me up from school.
Thank you for your time,
NH85
i notice that you didn't once mention a wipe data or otherwise cleaning of previous ROM before flashing another (correct me if im wrong). also DO NOT have bootstrap and safestrap installed at the same time, this could be what caused all your problems. in order to switch between the two (which i've had to do for webtop issue), you have to return to STOCK +root, uninstall the currently used strapper, reboot, then install the other. things start getting even hairier if you forget that safestrap has both a safe/non-safe system. you need to be doing the switch on the non-safe system if necessary.
the purpose of safe-strap isn't that it can boot to recovery, it's that it *creates a an isolated ROM installation while preserving your "safe" system in case things like everything your experiencing occur. from what i can tell, you did not change to safe system before flashing new ROMs, again correct me if im wrong. at any rate, a bit of advice for the future is follow directions to the dot, but before even attempting the install read through AT LEAST 3 or 4 pages of user feedback to see what the common issues or install goofs are!
that being said...
having your computer recognize the phone as storage device does not necessarily mean you have the right drivers installed, however it does mean that you probably have the right cable (this is important, bionic is finicky without the proper moto cable). you will know if you have the right drivers if you see in device manager Motorola ADB. when you plug your USB cable in, there should be an option for "PC Mode" which will force the computer to search for the drivers you claim to have installed correctly. if not found, here is your chance to install them properly and test RSD to make sure device is detected.
nh85 said:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have the correct drivers installed. When i connect the phone regulry once it is all booted up, i am able to access the sd card and the internal storage via windows explorer.The problem is that the phone refuses to connect to the computer in fastboot mode. i do not want to risk rebooting unless it is guaranteed to work 100% because I can still text and call on it for some reason. Every time the phone is restarted, the radios stop working for a while and i need to be able to text my parents where and when to pick me up from school.
Thank you for your time,
NH85
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Obviously you don't.
Mass storage and ADB are not the same drivers.
If you are in fastboot mode and your device doesn't connect, it's most likely your missing or don't have the fastboot drivers installed on your computer properly.
Once you get the ADB driver from motorola you can use fastboot start flashing.
The information you need is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22758211 .
I had trouble using RSD to flash the .902 FXZ.
What I had to do is extract the .img files from the ZIP, and use fastboot through CMD to get everything up and running.
Just open up the XML file inside the zip, it will show you the commands you need to type to flash each section and when to reboot the bootloader
Related
Hi,
Full version as a note. Droid 1
Flashed clockworkmod recovery (2.5.0.1), went fine. Made a backup of stock rooted ROM, worked fine. Next flashed bugless beast .6, while clearing data & cache, no problem.
Now i want to flash to cm - trying out different ROMs - trying to reboot into recovery or flash another ROM both fail to get me to a bootloader. Instead i see the motorola boot logo for 30-45 seconds, followed by what looks like a regular boot (motorola M, then Droid eye, & booted.). I have also tried fixing permissions.
If anyone has any idea why this is happening or can direct me to a forum link it would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if this is in the wrong section, and yea I've tried looking through the forums for a while.
Thanks
just a little baby sized pump...
This happened to me too after working perfectly for several months. All of the sudden I just couldn't get to clockwork. I am running CM7 Nightlies. After not being able to fix the issue for several days I decided that a full wipe via the .sbf method was in order. I've got everything up and running again but it was an annoying process. Can anyone out there help us to understand why this happened so we don't have to deal with this again?
Do you have a link for the method you described about? That would be really helpful!
An ever so slightly larger bump
I really am not trying to be lazy, but all the .sbf methods I've read so far seem require you getting to a boot loader. If I could get to a boot loader this wouldn't be a problem, as I made a back up of my stock ROM. I have a functioning bugless beast ROM, just no recovery / boot loader, and no way to flash back to my recovery.
And possibly solved..
One: Please pardon my ignorance, doing these things on my Eris was far easier, or at least what I got used to.
Two: Please also ignore the word boot loader in my previous posts, as it was the recovery console that I could not get to load. Sorry Again.
Three: Its magically working. My methods were unscientific to say the least, but the Droid is now in "ClockworkMod's Recovery v2.5.0.1".
Things I finally did:
NOTE - I DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OF THIS TO BE THE PROPER ORDER OF THINGS. PLEASE VERIFY WITH SOMEONE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ME. THE FOLLOWING REFLECTS THE PROCESS I DID, AND SHOULD PROBABLY NOT BE FOLLOWED UNLESS A MOD ACTUALLY SAYS THIS WAS CORRECT
1. Pulled Battery, hold power button down for a few seconds, and then put back in
2. Hold Up on D-pad while holding the Power Button
3. You see the following
Code:
bootloader 2c.7c
battery ok
ok to program
connect usb
data cable
4. Connect USB data cable to PC running RSD Lite. You will also want a .sbf recovery file from a trusted source.
5. Select the .sbf in RSD Lite. Tell it to start. I used the clockwork recovery only .sbf
*** Where things got officially weird for me ***
6. The .sbf file I told it to load seemed to work, as the progress bar moved. The phone almost instantly rebooted, back to the ROM I was running minutes earlier. Clockwork had not been working previously trying to reboot into recovery, but almost instantly upon trying this time, I was in recovery mode.
NOTE - The USB cable was still plugged in as well. I don't know which combination of things actually got this to work, but it did.
Hope this helps someone else out.
Hello,
I was previously using LG True version 0.6 ROM but wanted to go back to stock.
So I used it via the NVFlash way, half way through it putting it back to Stock, I accidentally unplugged my device thinking it was finished, now my phone won't boot up. Whenever I try to re-flash it with NVFlash the CMD auto shuts off with a message I can't read since it's that quick at shutting off when trying.
I have tried restoring via Smart Flash but that doesn't work (Tried holding vol down & plugging in but doesn't populate anything).
My phone won't boot.
I've tried re-installing the NVidia drivers, same issues.
The NVFlash gets the different stages before failing (Usually it gets to the point where my phone goes into S/W Upgrade mode, then fails)
I cannot get into S/W Upgrade mode to restore via Smart Flash as nothing happens.
Device manager picks up the phone as an NVidia USB Recovery device.
I appreciate any help as I'm lost without my phone.
Step-by-step guides are preferable since I'm new to flashing etc.
The phone is in download mode.
You need to find a way to send the rom to the phone, so the phones downloads the rom again and starts working.
Try pm'ing Paul over Twitter.
This is fixed now.
Unsure why, but trying a different USB port enabled me to use NV Flash and now booted up fine.
Thanks anyway guys and sorry for wasting your time.
I just installed safestrap, and planned to install the darkdroid rom. it was all going according to plan, until it wasn't
Booted into safestrap. made my initial back up. wiped data/cache. Installed rom from zip. Bootloop. I can't get past the safestrap menu. screen just goes black. sometime it will start over again sometimes not.
I tried using safestrap to recover. same issue.
I was going to use RSDlite to try to recover, but it won't let me select AP fastboot. nothing happens when I hit the up volume-up key to select ap fastboot. RSDlite does not need to see my phone.
I just need to get my phone back. at this point i do not care what i have to flash, i just need it to work! Thoughts? any help? I need it
well.... not so dead in teh water i guess.... just disabled teh safe system, and booted back to original.
but still do not know what happene with the install of darkdroid. Any thoughts on what i may have done wrong? does it matter if i download the zip to my pc and then transfer to sdcard, or shoudl i dl it right to the phone?
heart attack averted, but still need help updating my POS
There shouldn't have been a problem, although i usually just download via my phone. try downloading something stable like liberty or mavrom or an earlier steel droid. If it still messes up then you know the problems on your end. Sounds like just a bad flash though try downloading it again from your phone with a good constant wifi connection and try again.
I tested a few roms that only worked with bootstrap and not safestrap. Try installing it in bootstrap
Hey guys, I'm having an annoying problem here.
When I try to connect my phone to a computer, it just goes straight to charging, it doesn't even recognize on either end that a USB is connected to a computer. Now, sometimes I can force it to work, but that is like around 200 tries and it finally connects. I suspect it might be in test mode (but I'm not sure, I tried pressing # on the dialer to see if it pops up but nothing shows), so I've tried to follow the instructions to flash a .tot file by pressing power + volume up, unfortunately, the computer still doesn't recognize anything is connected, and neither does LGNPST. I have all the drivers properly installed (I was able to successfully downgrade to zv7/install gingervolt last week), and am out of ideas on how to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.
So far I've tried about 6 different cables in four different USB ports to no success.
pow + vol down (hard reset) should work, phone has to be completely off. not even the charging animation. unplug from pc, pull and replace batt, put batt in then plug into usb then hard reset (hold until factory reset pops up) 10 secs or so
this has allways worked for me no matter how badly i messed up the phone.
Well, I tried your method of a hard reset and it still didn't work. Any other ideas? Is there any way to make the computer force to recognize the phone when its in emergency download mode?
I'm having a similar issue on a friend's phone
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1564941 I think this is the solution
I followed the instructions exactly, and LGNPST still isn't noticing anything and won't go into emergency mode......this is frustrating me....if I can just get this thing back to stock and lose cwm i can just take it to the store and get a new one.....
*EDIT* Well it randomly decided to connect to my computer again. The problem now is as soon as it goes into download mode(LGNPST is at around 11% complete and about to start on the Masterbin), it loses the connection to the computer and can't finish flashing the tot file....ugh..
Anyone have any ideas? I'm going crazy over here trying to figure out whats wrong. Every like 100th try, it will connect to the computer still, but if I try and run mt's revoallinone package it fails to unroot (says access is denied or folder not found), or try lgnpst it loses the usb connection the second it goes to that download screen.
Depending on what version your on or where your at as far as root stock etc this may or may not work i am at a loss, try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626198
Yeah I've tried that. On the occassion that the COM port reveals which port is the phone(usually on the 100th time of reconnecting the usb cord and successfully able to go into usb debug) I run that program, only for it to state that this is not a lg revo and auto close before I can get all the log data. Its frustrating...I only started to have this problem when I installed GingerVolt.....
Will adb recognize your device, because i had the same issue on a newer revo, you say your on gingervolt then you should be able to set up root acces and push cwm through adb then boot to cwm and flash sonething anything a recovery or do a wipe from there and i believe i saw a method in the forums for installing a stock os fron a zip. All depending on usb connection though
I have cwm already on there. I want it and the root off and back to stock, but I can never flash a tot and unfortunately I have no experience with adb, but I guess I'll google instructions to unroot via that and see if I can go back to stock via it as well.
Hiya!
Been on the forums for years modding my Nexus One and would like to thank everyone for their humongous contribution! 3 years of constant upgrading and improving of what turned out to be the best phone ever!
Now, I've come to an end where my self-confidence took over caution and preparation and i think i've made a boo-boo.
Long story short, i have a unlocked Nexus One that has been running a CM10 ROM with Blackrose for a good 6 months. Most of the functions were working fine, except for a few glitches, but last night i decided to go back to the roots, and install a stock Gingerbread ROM. I found a unrooted GB ROM, and went straight on to renaming it to PASSIMG, throwing it on card and rebooting. Now that's where the funny things started:
First, all goes well, click Volume Up, get it started, and than a screen with all OKs except for [7] BOOTLOADER - Fail-PU and a message saying 'Only Blackrose can be flashed'
Next, I get 7 OKs, except for BOOTLOADER, and the following: Partition update fail! Update fail! Do you want to reboot? Y/N
Figuring i forgot to uninstall Blackrose and need to do so, i let it restart, it comes up with a clean un-rooted GB ROM, and here's where my troubles start.
1. USB Connection: Plug it in, laptop doesn't recognize it at all. Classifies it as 'Unknown Device' and that's it. Tried fresh drivers, Universal Naked Drivers, SDK drivers, ASUS tablet drivers, nothing. Tried 3 cables, the HTC one, a Blackberry one and a Samsung one. Nothing. Uninstalled all USB hubs/devices, restarted the laptop multiple times. Debugging ON/OFF, no difference. I'm at a loss here, no clue what else to try!
2. Fine, i thought, let's flash a rooted rom! PASSIMG on the card, phone finds it, gets to the line 'Parsing... Passimg.zip' and goes back to the neutral screen. Tried it multiple times, different ROMs, nothing.
3. At this point, figured maybe an earlier ROM will cause an OTA update and fix things up. FROYO PASSIMG on the card, flashed 'succesfully', just like in #1, reboot to clean un-rooted FROYO. Checked USB connection, same again. OTA Update - constantly failed.
Been reading through Wikis and Q&A's here all day today, everything seems to be so easy to fix as long as you get a live ADB connection, and i know i could fix it, but i just can't get the laptop to recognize the bloody phone! Do not have access to another computer just now, so can't check whether it's just my Vaio.
So now, the questions:
1. Any other ideas on the USB issue? The phone does not display the usual 'choose your option/mass storage...' when connected, and nowhere in the menu is there an option for that.
2. When booting into recovery, i get the green droid with the white triangle and the !, and then get into the 3e recovery that has an 'update.zip' option. can i install a custom recovery without the phone being rooted? just of the sdcard? is there an update.zip that can re-stock my HBOOT?
any other ideas will be greatly appreciated, as of right now i am stuck with a FROYO handset that is perfectly capable of running JB, and it's really frustrating!
thanks in advance for all your help, cheers!