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Just saw this thread at droidforums: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-roms/208767-stock-motoblur-ics-droid4.html
Can anyone confirm if this is legit?
EDIT: Removed link to the update file for everyone's safety. This is not an update you want to install. It will take you off the update path and attempting to flash one of the currently available fastboot files will result in a brick.
I pulled the same thing by the cake method earlier today but was afraid to flash a unknown.
I tried, based on the instructions on the page, and as usual, cheesecake won't work for me. I get the "account needed" prompt. I'll try again tomorrow.
Thanks!
I'm downloading it now. I hope this works with Safestrap and I get to keep root. Or at least be able to re-root again. Have to be carefull. Need GSM to work
The day after I sold my T-Mo Sensation, and the day before I get my VZW Droid 4. Looks like the gods have decided not to smite me today.
Booted Safestrap. Flashed stock 215.
Can't update to 219 So no wonder I couldn't update to ICS... Here I go again...
It sounds like a couple of people over on DroidForums HAVE gotten this to load. To paraphrase what hashcode said over there, be very very careful with this guys. There are quite a few Razr owners now stuck outside of the upgrade path and unable to use fastboot to restore after flashing an ICS leak. I think I am going to hold off on this one personally. What I am REALLY hoping to see is some improvements to CM9, AOKP, and Gummy come out of this. Particularly the data issues.
Trying it the Cheesecake way and its downloading. Anyone tried it yet? Curious if Safestrap survived. As long as it works I'll be glad. Hope the different baseband fixed audio over UMTS/HSDPA.
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Trying it the Cheesecake way and its downloading. Anyone tried it yet? Curious if Safestrap survived. As long as it works I'll be glad. Hope the different baseband fixed audio over UMTS/HSDPA.
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You are a brave man Try using OTA RootKeeper. It worked with the last update. I would be very interested to see if it works with the ICS update as well.
Ok guys, I installed it. Voodoo OTA RootKeeper did NOT work for me, and attempting to flash the 6.13.219 fastboot file resulted in a brick.
I would strongly advise not installing this update.
SGMD1 said:
Ok guys, I installed it. Voodoo OTA RootKeeper did NOT work for me, and attempting to flash the 6.13.219 fastboot file resulted in a brick.
I would strongly advise not installing this update.
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Really sorry to hear that. Thanks so much for the information though. Did you try the .215 fastboot file? I'm guessing the result would be the same but might be worth a shot.
Can you tell us why you tried to install the fastboot file? You didn't like ICS or is it because of root priviliges? I've tried like 15 times. It just won't update. So now I temp unrooted, uninstalled Safestrap and hope for the best. Next step woul be to fastboot 219 and try on a fresh clean install. The only thing I can think of is that my build.prop gets in the way. Anyone mind posting a stock .219 build.prop?
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kwyrt said:
Really sorry to hear that. Thanks so much for the information though. Did you try the .215 fastboot file? I'm guessing the result would be the same but might be worth a shot.
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Downloading .215 as we speak, but I'm not getting my hopes up. No big deal though, VZW is overnighting me a warranty replacement and I've got an old phone I'm using for the day.
EDIT: .215 failed at 6/18 as well.
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Can you tell us why you tried to install the fastboot file? You didn't like ICS or is it because of root priviliges? I've tried like 15 times. It just won't update. So now I temp unrooted, uninstalled Safestrap and hope for the best. Next step woul be to fastboot 219 and try on a fresh clean install. The only thing I can think of is that my build.prop gets in the way. Anyone mind posting a stock .219 build.prop?
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There were a several things with this ICS build that were a bit disappointing (native ICS screenshot function didn't work, no "Charge only" mode when connected via USB to PC) but no root access was the dealbreaker. I knew flashing the .219 file was a risk based on what happened with the RAZR ICS leaks but I just figured I'd be the guinea pig
I had the same problem you did when attempting to install it, so I flashed the clean .219 fastboot file and then the ICS update was successful.
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Can you tell us why you tried to install the fastboot file? You didn't like ICS or is it because of root priviliges? I've tried like 15 times. It just won't update. So now I temp unrooted, uninstalled Safestrap and hope for the best. Next step woul be to fastboot 219 and try on a fresh clean install. The only thing I can think of is that my build.prop gets in the way. Anyone mind posting a stock .219 build.prop?
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Here is the build.prop file... it is compressed into a zip archive since .prop cannot be attached.
****EDIT: THIS IS THE .215 build.prop
build.prop 219
rumgool said:
Here is the build.prop file... it is compressed into a zip archive since .prop cannot be attached.
****EDIT: THIS IS THE .215 build.prop
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Okay... here is the 219 build.prop zipped
You gotta be kidding me pffffff. Those guys at Motorola check eeeeeeverything. Thnaks for the build.prop btw rumgool. But now it hangs on Motorola_XT894....3gp. Unbelievable...
Finally got it going. But like you said, had to flash SBF. That's some pretty scary **** . I'm used to Milestone / Droid 1 flashing and I've flashed a Razr before. This one takes twice as long. So for you wanting to flash SBF, don't be alarmed. It takes a while, a very loooong while.
Question: Why would the update prevent flashing via fastboot? I'm only familiar with SBFs, but the point of those were that no matter how bad things got, you could wipe everything out and start over. Is that no longer the case
GSM working!!!!!!
Yes!!!! audio over 3G GSM!!!!
Finally. Don't know what works and what doesn't. But audio works and you have GSM settings right from the get go. Now I'm gonna eat, then I'm gonna play and after that I'll tell you what I think of it.
Thanks guys!
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Question: Why would the update prevent flashing via fastboot? I'm only familiar with SBFs, but the point of those were that no matter how bad things got, you could wipe everything out and start over. Is that no longer the case
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The new fastboot files are nothing like the old sbf's. Wrong radio, different build number and many other things can cause it to fail. Then your stuck in fastboot mode with a soft brick.
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This is a really nice build! I am not at all sorry to have risked being stuck, to be honest.
Everything appears to work very well so far and I am posting from Chrome Beta.
Still looking for the downside...
Master qa1 and 2 got updated at 8:30. Same with master qa300 and sdc100. I don't wanna have to FXZ back to check and be let down.
Edit: spoke too soon. qa200 was updated today, the 12th. Please check! D:
Ugh, whatever. I'm gonna test out the shell script I just wrote to do a full restore, OTA to 905, then check cheesecake. I may do it tonight, but if I don't, I will tomorrow. Maybe someone who's already on 905 will beat me to it
Edit: damn thing won't boot. fml. Trying to FXZ to 902. Not working. Um uh er uh. Great.
bionic cheesecake
I've check those servers today and only have .232 showing up from a few servers. I also see a bunch of "simpsons" servers named after simpsons characters. So I'm about to check those but i've already checked the rest without seeing anything other than .232
.235?
I saw on droid hive that .235 is out. Can anyone here check?
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I saw on droid hive that .235 is out. Can anyone here check?
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Where did you see that? I'm not finding anything about it over there.
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Where did you see that? I'm not finding anything about it over there.
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I can't find anything there either. Can you post a link?
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I can't find anything there either. Can you post a link?
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Someone mentioned it in the Droidhive Shoutbox without any details, and never provided a link. Since then, they haven't been in the Shoutbox and never did create a thread. You might find it digging through the Shoutbox archive, but with no details provided, the only way to know for sure is if someone else checks cheesecake.
They're talking about it on droid hive in the shout box but no links for download. Several people are saying they are downloading.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo
There's a guy on Droid Hive uploading it right now.
Yes indeed. I'm going to check it once we have a link and see if they updated the security to disallow going back to 902 from it. So far it's unlikely but never hurts to check.
http://www.megashare.com/4392491
I was reading on DroidHive that if you flash .235 you can't go back to gingerbread.
WOA WOA WOA. A big word of caution guys. If you do 235 you will *NOT* be able to FXZ back to 902! The security has been updated. This is a one way trip forward if you do this one.
SamuriHL said:
WOA WOA WOA. A big word of caution guys. If you do 235 you will *NOT* be able to FXZ back to 902! The security has been updated. This is a one way trip forward if you do this one.
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So, over on the Droid 3 forums, there was a similar situation with the .906 update, you couldn't revert back to .890. They figured out that there were certain .img and .bin files that couldn't be written over, but someone managed to put together a modified fxz replacing the files that couldn't be changed with ones from the update, and a modified xml file. Once this was done, you could install the modified .890, and then update to the newer software. It turned out that the .906 leak was in fact what would become the OTA. Does anyone think that something like this is possible for the .235 leak? Thanks to these guys for originally figuring it out on the D3 Q9nap, Redsox985, Psouza4, and Ovelayer.
Here's a link to the D3 thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911
I'm aware. NOT going to happen in our unique situation. The reason is that the leaks require 905. The method they used on the D4 and RAZR require FXZ files from the version you're updating from. We only have one for 902. And there's no way to get back to 905 from that once you install 235+. Hence, if you install 235, you're stuck there for a long time. Unless an FXZ comes out for 905 or the OTA ICS build. IOW, stick to 232 until the OTA comes out.
Pretty sure I know the answer to this already... Is there any chance the .235 update can be reached from both .902 and .905? I'm aware the previous updates didn't allow that.
No chance at all. Updates well, um, update files on the system they were designed to update from. 902 != 905 so when patching files you'd be left with a mess. lol
No. You have to be on 905.
Fair enough. Noticed the new update was slightly larger than the previous ones, hoped it might have been designed to allow more than one upgrade path. Oh well.
Well hello, start right out. My bionic is stuck in ap fastboot. I was running .905 stock, and I had rooted it previously. Decided to try eclipse 3.0 last night. Installed bootstrap recovery, I did research beforehand, did everything the multiple threads told me to. Installed bionic bootstrap. Rebooted into recovery, wiped numerous times after nanbackup. Rom flashed fine, but rebooted and it would not go past the Motorola symbol and dual core screen. Let it sit at that screen for about 20 minutes, pulled the battery. Tried rebooting into recovery and found it doesn't work like previous phones I rooted. Did research, and found out about the recovery issue, and how to try to restore phone to stock. Downloaded rsd and tried .905 came back passed, just goes into ap fastboot and says can't find files (doesn't t say exactly that, I'm at work, ill put up what exactly it says after work). Tried going back to .902 rsd gives error that doesn't have enough resources (8gb ram, i7 processor and 1tb hdd, I should have enough space). Tried going all the way back to .893 fails on cdt.bin, got theoryroms released something (not sure what it's called, it has a brick fixer, rooter, and takes it back to stock) fails on infopreflash validation. Not sure where I need to go to from here. I any help would be great. Thanks in advance
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Well hello, start right out. My bionic is stuck in ap fastboot. I was running .905 stock, and I had rooted it previously. Decided to try eclipse 3.0 last night. Installed bootstrap recovery, I did research beforehand, did everything the multiple threads told me to. Installed bionic bootstrap. Rebooted into recovery, wiped numerous times after nanbackup. Rom flashed fine, but rebooted and it would not go past the Motorola symbol and dual core screen. Let it sit at that screen for about 20 minutes, pulled the battery. Tried rebooting into recovery and found it doesn't work like previous phones I rooted. Did research, and found out about the recovery issue, and how to try to restore phone to stock. Downloaded rsd and tried .905 came back passed, just goes into ap fastboot and says can't find files (doesn't t say exactly that, I'm at work, ill put up what exactly it says after work). Tried going back to .902 rsd gives error that doesn't have enough resources (8gb ram, i7 processor and 1tb hdd, I should have enough space). Tried going all the way back to .893 fails on cdt.bin, got theoryroms released something (not sure what it's called, it has a brick fixer, rooter, and takes it back to stock) fails on infopreflash validation. Not sure where I need to go to from here. I any help would be great. Thanks in advance
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Did you get this fixed? PM me, if you need help.
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eye__dea said:
Did you get this fixed? PM me, if you need help.
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Will do, thank you.
Thanks to Eye_Dea my phones boots and is updated once again,
For anyone who happens to come across this post needing to know how to fix your bionic, this is what he told me to do:
Go to this link:
h t t p://www .droidforums .net/forum/motorola-droid-bionic/197374-5-5-5-893-fxz-901-902-compatible-902-update.html
Download the 893 FXZ, flash it using RSD. My bionic booted after that and I OTA'd to 905. If your's does not boot he told me to then flash 902 (download from the same place) using RSD, and it should boot after that.
Big shoutout to Eye_Dea he pointed me in the right direction and got my phone working again. Thank you again man.
Glad to see you're back up. For anyone else in this situation, just FXZ to .905 directly.
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Glad to see you're back up. For anyone else in this situation, just FXZ to .905 directly.
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Well, this will be true for most people...it did not work in his situation. The OP had tried the 902 fxz and the 905 fxz using 2 different RSDlite versions and the moto-fastboot method. All of which failed for him and he was about to give up.
Luckily, I had seen this before and I knew if he used the 893 fxz it would work. He was able to boot 893 and take the OTA's to 905.
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Well, this will be true for most people...it did not work in his situation. The OP had tried the 902 fxz and the 905 fxz using 2 different RSDlite versions and the moto-fastboot method. All of which failed for him and he was about to give up.
Luckily, I had seen this before and I knew if he used the 893 fxz it would work. He was able to boot 893 and take the OTA's to 905.
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There's two or three bad .905 FXZ files floating around out there. My bet is he got a bad one. Even the one on DoirdHive's rombot is a corrupted upload right now. THIS one is the correct one (680 MB) and you should only use RSD Lite 5.7
You can FXZ any Bionic to .905, in any state running ICS .232 or less.
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There's two or three bad .905 FXZ files floating around out there. My bet is he got a bad one. Even the one on DoirdHive's rombot is a corrupted upload right now. THIS one is the correct one (680 MB) and you should only use RSD Lite 5.7
You can FXZ any Bionic to .905, in any state running ICS .232 or less.
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Not sure what 905 fxz he tried since i didnt give it to him. However, using the 902 fxz should of fixed him in theory as well. I think it was the fact that he was getting cdt.bin errors because he was trying to use old methods and the 893 fxz fixed that.
I have seen issues with RSDlite 5.7 too and when people went back to 5.6 everything flashed appropriately.
OK, I must be lucky then. FXZ'd to 905 about 10 times now on 32-bit WinXP and 64-bit Win7 and no probs. I'll count my blessings
I always put the FXZ file in the root of the C drive then 'Run as admin' on RSDLite.
worked like a charm
homicidalspoon said:
Thanks to Eye_Dea my phones boots and is updated once again,
For anyone who happens to come across this post needing to know how to fix your bionic, this is what he told me to do:
Go to this link:
h t t p://www .droidforums .net/forum/motorola-droid-bionic/197374-5-5-5-893-fxz-901-902-compatible-902-update.html
Download the 893 FXZ, flash it using RSD. My bionic booted after that and I OTA'd to 905. If your's does not boot he told me to then flash 902 (download from the same place) using RSD, and it should boot after that.
Big shoutout to Eye_Dea he pointed me in the right direction and got my phone working again. Thank you again man.
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this worked surprisingly well i wasn't sure anything was going to work. Thank you!
As the title says, I switched from HTC to the bionic, I am so lost on this thing and the guides don't help. All I have done is rooted, I'm on .905 and I don't have a single clue on how to get ICS to work on this thing. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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As the title says, I switched from HTC to the bionic, I am so lost on this thing and the guides don't help. All I have done is rooted, I'm on .905 and I don't have a single clue on how to get ICS to work on this thing. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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(1) Make sure you have RSD Lite 5.7 and an FXZ file of 5.9.905 handy as a failsafe backup in case you wreck your phone.
(2) There are numerous threads around the Bionic forums with links to download leaked builds of ICS. Build 6.7.232 is recommended, as you can still FXZ your phone back to factory state if something really goes wrong.
(3) The ICS Leaks only install under Stock Recovery. Power on the Bionic by holding VolDown while pressing Power. You can then go into Recovery from there.
You'll quickly find that Motorola phones have quite an extra degree of difficulty if you wish to run mods and hacks. If you're careful about following instructions though, you'll have a hard time truly bricking your phone.
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(1) Make sure you have RSD Lite 5.7 and an FXZ file of 5.9.905 handy as a failsafe backup in case you wreck your phone.
(2) There are numerous threads around the Bionic forums with links to download leaked builds of ICS. Build 6.7.232 is recommended, as you can still FXZ your phone back to factory state if something really goes wrong.
(3) The ICS Leaks only install under Stock Recovery. Power on the Bionic by holding VolDown while pressing Power. You can then go into Recovery from there.
You'll quickly find that Motorola phones have quite an extra degree of difficulty if you wish to run mods and hacks. If you're careful about following instructions though, you'll have a hard time truly bricking your phone.
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Thanks man, I'll give it a shot.
I've been running .232 and its truly amazing
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Finally got it working yesterday, the battery life is awesome, and I can actually use my phone now XD Thanks for the help, did have to FXZ it was just a pain in the ass on windows 8.
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Finally got it working yesterday, the battery life is awesome, and I can actually use my phone now XD Thanks for the help, did have to FXZ it was just a pain in the ass on windows 8.
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Which ICS ROM did you end up going with? I never seemed to be able to get good battery life on my Bionic...
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Which ICS ROM did you end up going with? I never seemed to be able to get good battery life on my Bionic...
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liquid 1.5 seems to do pretty well battery wise for me
Help I have spent several Hours looking for how-to un-root .235. I am trying to upgrade to .246 and I know that with .235 you cannot FXZ back to .905... so any ideas on what to do?
Search the web for House of Bionic. Read the directions and follow them to the letter!
This will hopefully teach you not to stray from the OTA path.
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Help I have spent several Hours looking for how-to un-root .235.
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Somehow i doubt that. However, there are boatloads of threads here discussing House of Bionic to accomplish just that. It's an easy fix once you get HoB set up. Make sure you use version 9 and the .246 files specific to HoB. Sam uses his own fxz files as discussed in his FAQ. Good luck amigo! :thumbup:
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Thank you both I was able to find it and it worked successfully.