I recently upgraded to the leaked 5.9.904 system since I was having issues with my phone acting possessed and to try to improve my 4G connection. I first tried to roll my phone back to the stock 886, do the OTA updates, re-root and flash 904. I couldn't get my phone to go back to 886 only the stock 902. After flashing 902 my phone retained all the settings and was just unrooted, I hoped that this fixed any problem files. I went ahead and rerooted and flashed 5.9.904. All worked as advertized except my phone is still acting strange intermittently and now my WiFi occasionally stops working. My 4G is more solid than it has ever been which is great but I would like to fix the Wifi.
I guess my question is this, how can I get by phone back to a bone stock ROM? I was stupid and bought a refurb Bionic to save $50 and regret that decision, as such it came with 886 on it. I would like to flash an error free 886 so I can reroot and go from there.
Any ideas?
dburger66 said:
I guess my question is this, how can I get by phone back to a bone stock ROM?
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The full FXZ of .902 will set you straight. At least until a .904 FXZ is found.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip
Thank you. Should I flash it like a normal ROM? Will it wipe the old 904 ROM? I am trying to start fresh and don't want any old files/settings.
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So I rooted, using one click method, backed up stock .886 and installed blurry 2.0, based on .893. I know now that the kernal and radios are changed from .886. Does this render my stock back up of .886 useless? Also, what if the OTA update coming in November is actually different than .893, will I be able to update to what ever that may be?
stevessvt said:
So I rooted, backed up stock .886 and installed blurry 2.0, based on .893. I know now that the kernal and radios are changed from .886. Does this render my stock back up of .886 useless? Also, what if the OTA update coming in November is actually different than .893, will I be able to what ever that may be?
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I would take an educated guess and say yes your 886 backups are trash, but don't take my word on that.
If you made those backups through ROM Manager, you're in luck.
https://market.android.com/details?...wxLDEsImNvbS5oYW5keWFuZHkuYXBwZXh0cmFjdG9yIl0
That app can extract apps, contacts, and SMS/MMS from Nandroid backups done through ROM Manager.
Tivo7 said:
I would take an educated guess and say yes your 886 backups are trash, but don't take my word on that.
If you made those backups through ROM Manager, you're in luck.
https://market.android.com/details?...wxLDEsImNvbS5oYW5keWFuZHkuYXBwZXh0cmFjdG9yIl0
That app can extract apps, contacts, and SMS/MMS from Nandroid backups done through ROM Manager.
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Im loving blurry just fine and see no reason to go back, but I just hope I didnt cut off my nose to spite my face in regards to future updates.
So I did a data reset in bootstrap, and reinstalled my stock .886 back up, and it installed fine. Rebooted and everything worked as it should.
stevessvt said:
So I did a data reset in bootstrap, and reinstalled my stock .886 back up, and it installed fine. Rebooted and everything worked as it should.
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Awesome.
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If you just install 2.0 over stock, you do not get the .893 radio or kernal. You only get the system. To get the radio and kernal you need to to go back to stock, do the permanent root method, install the cheesecake app, then update to .893 through cheesecake, and then flash 2.0. If at that point you flash .886 again, you would have the .893 radio and kernal, and the .886 system. Because the bootloader is locked, you cannot flash a new kernal or radio via cwm.
Sooooo by flashing blurr3y 2.0 in cwm I never got .893 radio/kernel?
stevessvt said:
Sooooo by flashing blurr3y 2.0 in cwm I never got .893 radio/kernel?
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Correct.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium
lawtalking said:
If you just install 2.0 over stock, you do not get the .893 radio or kernal. You only get the system. To get the radio and kernal you need to to go back to stock, do the permanent root method, install the cheesecake app, then update to .893 through cheesecake, and then flash 2.0. If at that point you flash .886 again, you would have the .893 radio and kernal, and the .886 system. Because the bootloader is locked, you cannot flash a new kernal or radio via cwm.
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Following this will do the trick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320414
Tivo7 said:
Following this will do the trick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320414
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Thanks for putting that guide up Tivo. I figure when the next update comes out, you might have to be back with the .886 and I was wondering whether there was a way to downgrade the radio and kernal to stock after going to .893.
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Thanks for putting that guide up Tivo. I figure when the next update comes out, you might have to be back with the .886 and I was wondering whether there was a way to downgrade the radio and kernal to stock after going to .893.
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The next update IS 893, I've already gotten confirmation of that.
Rootable?
Tivo, will the new bionics being shipped with .893 be rootable? Will they need to be rolled back per the method you detailed here ?
anarchy4sale said:
Tivo, will the new bionics being shipped with .893 be rootable? Will they need to be rolled back per the method you detailed here ?
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We will have to wait and see what root methods work after the ota is released. Painfully to wait, I know.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium
It will revert you back to system 886, but your kernel/radio will stay with whatever update you installed. I currently have a hybrid going on. 5.5.893 system and 5.6.893 kernel.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium
Current phone information should be attached. Short form is, I'm using the Gummi 1.2.0 rom, put onto my phone after using safestrap (and following the instructions to make a backup before doing so). Safesystem is enabled.
Two backups: located on my external SD card
nonsafe-2012-05-26.07.52.54/
safe-2012-05-27.08.06.28/
Safestrap recovery v1.09 (afraid to update to 2.0 without breaking more stuff)
What I'm looking to do is return my phone to working stock, which I believe was Gingerbread 2.3.6. That said, every time I've touched this thing trying to go back, I've black screened it. I don't live in an area with 4g (screw the mountains, and their 1x service), so any attempts to connect to the 4g network for any part of the process will require me driving into Pennsylvania, 30 minutes away. I've heard before that you can't return from the ICS leak to the Stock for the Droid 4, for various reasons (but i believe the important one was it was a later firmware and it isn't a process designed to go backwards)
I'd like to know if thats still the case currently, or if something has changed. I'm getting shaky wifi/data/cell reception up here, and its flawless back on stock. Hell, I've got an old razor as an emergency phone that's flawless up here. Next time I'll do more research for this stuff I was a proud OG droid owner, and ran cyanogenmod on it before the vid card fried one evening. Thought the droid 4 would be a good deal, but I've had nothing but trouble with the roms on it.
All that said, I can simply smash and return this droid if its the only way to get a stock one back, but I don't like destroying useful and good technology when I can help it. Besides, I like fixing the problems I create.
Thanks for the help XDA, either way.
-- TheChaoticDoctor
Did you flash the leak ICS from Motorola or did you use Safestrap and flash Gummy ICS?
If you flashed the leaked ICS, there is no going back. You will need to find get the files to flash the partial .219 system back so you can run the .206 leak update again.
If you just used safestrap to flash Gummy 1.2.0 then you can use the .219 flash files to completely re-do your phone.
Currently there are no ROMs to flash if you are on the leak, Hashcode just released his Safestrap 2.0 to do so but still nothing to flash. All the current ICS ROM builds are for the stock phone running the Gingerbread Kernel.
Sorry about the delay, was off camping. I rooted the phone first on gingerbread, then eventually installed safestrap and flashed the gummi rom. Can you (or someone else) walk me through the steps for flashing the .219 files and then flashing the .206 files?
TheChaoticDoctor said:
Sorry about the delay, was off camping. I rooted the phone first on gingerbread, then eventually installed safestrap and flashed the gummi rom. Can you (or someone else) walk me through the steps for flashing the .219 files and then flashing the .206 files?
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You should probably go up to .208, that's the latest leak. Make sure to use rootkeeper, and follow all the instructions. So far I haven't lost root, but be aware I'm stuck on .206 because I don't want to lose root....
Look here for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26311439
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
First of all, it sounds to me like you've just flashed a ROM, not flashed the leak. If that is the case, you can just toggle the safe mode in safestrap to get back to stock. Safestrap lets you toggle between stock and the ROM. It is pretty awesome because you can play with the ROM and then go back to stock whenever you need to.
If you HAVE flashed the Motorola leak (as opposed to just a ROM) you are SOL.
If you haven't flashed the Motorola leak and just want to get back to factory conditions, you'll have to flash via RSDLite. That info you should be able to find here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622256
Honestly I WOULD NOT flash the leak at this time. IMHO, it doesn't really offer enough to risk getting off the upgrade path forever, and losing the ability to flash back via RSDLite.
I think I bricked my Bionic and need help :crying:
I was running 905 perfcectly and wanted to upgrade to ICS 230 leak so I did a nandroid with bootstrap.
I followed instructions and everything went perfectly, I had my ICS running very good (with full root and all) but I wanted to go back, since I wasm't productive enough with the new layouts and stuff so I installed Bootstrap and retored my old nandroid backup... BIG MISTAKE. The restore went ok, but when rebooting it stuck in a blank screen (for 30 minutes) until I decided to reboot it. and same thing. From there I can't go ahead. I've tried to glash back to 905 and even ICS (from stock recovery) with the Status 7 error, I started in fastboot and tryied RSDLite to go to stock 902 and failed (Failed flashing process. 1/22 flash mbm "allow-mbmloader-flashing-mbm.bin" Phone returned FAILED) and nothing seems to work.
Any helps or ideas are welcomed, I think I might have bricked it bad.....
Trying to restore a Gingerbread nandroid over ICS leak is a bad idea.
Did you get your phone fixed?
If not, PM me and I will get you back on track...I hope.
eye__dea said:
Trying to restore a Gingerbread nandroid over ICS leak is a bad idea.
Did you get your phone fixed?
If not, PM me and I will get you back on track...I hope.
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I know.. newbie mistake!!!
I did something like that my self. I have been flashing stuff since the original droid. I messed up and didnt do a backup in recovery. I ended up flashing back to stock .902 using rsd and doing the whole process again. Good luck hopefully you have it fixed by now.
Try RSDlite again with a fully-charged battery, low battery level has been the major cause of flash failures on the Bionic
Note that you won't be able to charge with a bricked Bionic, you either need a wall charger, ask someone to do it for you, or buy another battery from Verizon.
I'd say get to 100% with a wall charger, then FXZ to 902, then apply the 905 update (via OTA or from SD in stock recovery, root, backup with OTA root keeper, then apply the newest leak (232). You should have a fully working phone, but if you wanna go back to the gingerbread stuff, DO NOT flash the leak. Whatever ROMs you use must be made for whatever stock OS version you have. If it's made for 902 or 905 it won't work after you've updated to ICS. If the ROM is made for 2233 or 230 or 232 and so on, it won't work until you've updated the stock OS to one of those builds, or just an ICS build in general (most likely).
You can go back to 902 from any of the leaks.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2. Running 232 currently.
I have had only one time bricking my bionic.
I was on a cross country flight and ran my battery down to not be able to flash. I was also unable to charge my phone because I had just deleted everything from stock recovery (my first problem). RSD would not work because I had no charge on my phone, and Nothing I did would charge my phone. I know nobody else that owns a bionic so they could charge my battery.
I went to Verizon and explained some bull**** story of my phone just not turning on and they were willing to send me a refurbished phone. I asked if it was at all possible for them to trade me batteries for my Bionic. He allowed me to trade batteries from the store model and came home flashed .902 with RSD Lite and have had no problems since.
Well i got my wifes permission to use her upgrade, so i got the SGS3. It's an awesome phone but that's beside the point.
I'm trying to flash the revo back to stock because she is going to use it until my upgrade in February. The problem is that Verizon took the sim out because they're not transferable, or so they say. So i went to wipe data and cache, then booted the phone and all it would let me do is make an emergency call. So currently i'm restoring an old backup in hopes that it works so i can get it connected to lgnpst and flash zv7. If anyone's got advice it's appreciated.
something similar happened to me.
my gf's Revo got stuck in a boot loop. so in the meantime of trying to fix it, i activated an old Droid 1 in place of the phone. once i got the Revo running again, i had it upgraded to V8 from using LGNPST, but Verizon couldn't activate it no matter what they tried. i ended having to revert the phone back to V4, had them activate it, then upgrade it. unless i had super bad luck with this case. hope you don't have as much of a hassle as i did.
Well it worked, ahaha. It's flashing zv7 now. I thought it was kind of funny though.
And it got an error code and stopped... That sucks.
Got back into recovery and am restoring again. lol
See, told you it would be interesting.
powder007 said:
Got back into recovery and am restoring again. lol
See, told you it would be interesting.
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Why v7? Why not v8 so you can update to 9?
I guess i'm assuming it will do OTA's from v7 to v8 and v9?? It's not staying rooted for her, she has no need for it.
It's been trying to do an OTA for weeks and weeks, and hasn't been able to.
Regardless i'm getting multiple errors now, so i don't know what's going on. I restored and it won't communicate with the phone now.
I'm wondering if it has to have a sim to go through the full flash. Just had another failure but i can get back to recovery to restore.
Does anyone know if that's true???
It cannot update from v7 to v9. You have to flash it to v8 then update it to v9. They will not push you v8 then v9. You need to get the TOT for 8 or 9 and flash directly.
Well that's good to know, thanks. Wife got the phone activated and i data wiped it and it works fine for now. She wants it back to stock though so i'll flash v8.
I recently rooted my bionic, then, thanks to crobbs, flashed ics .232 onto it. during this whole process i safe-strapped a recovery to my sd-ext. i then heard that ics should come out no latter than Sept. 30th.(if Motorola and Verizon come through) so i decided id go back to the stock version so i could get the ota update whenever it came out. i went back to stock using the fxz tools and im back to .905 GB stock un rooted. (or so i hope, not to sure how to tell if im on the ota)
***My main question.....since i still have my very first original safestrap recovery saved....if i was to root right now and use that original safestrap recovery, would i get everything i had from my old phone back just the way i had it when i first safe-strapped?