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[Q] How to start over?

I'm not sure whats going on with my D3. However, I have RSD and I have .890 and .959 downloaded as well as Fastboot.
What I want to do is just wipe the phone completely and just flash it like its a brand new phone.
Anyone know how to do so? Please post a link or instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.

atquick said:
I'm not sure whats going on with my D3. However, I have RSD and I have .890 and .959 downloaded as well as Fastboot.
What I want to do is just wipe the phone completely and just flash it like its a brand new phone.
Anyone know how to do so? Please post a link or instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.
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http://goo.gl/7NoAv

Androidsims said:
http://goo.gl/7NoAv
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Tried that. It keeps failing saying something about size was not as expected or something like that.

Redownload?

Avelnan said:
Redownload?
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I have. MD5 sums match up each time. Should I try removing the ext sd card?

I would redownload everything and try agian

littleneutrino said:
I would redownload everything and try agian
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Alright, attempt will be made again. Should I redownload RSD again or just the sbf's?

atquick said:
Alright, attempt will be made again. Should I redownload RSD again or just the sbf's?
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Downloading the sbf's again. Went over to check and see if the phone was still on, The charging led is on, however the screen is off..
Held power, nothing. Held M + Power. Still nothing... Any thoughts on whats going on now?

I didn't see if you have pulled the SD card but yeah it can't hurt.
Sent from my DROID3 using XDA App

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278056
Follow the first portion of the instructions on how to flash back to original 5.6.890. Note the making of a folder and it's name for the 890 flash.
Ignore the part about flashing the new ROM. These are the best instructions I've found so far for flashing back to stock via RSD lite.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Download and follow exactly and you'll be good to go.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my DROID3 using xda premium

wattnxt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278056
Follow the first portion of the instructions on how to flash back to original 5.6.890. Note the making of a folder and it's name for the 890 flash.
Ignore the part about flashing the new ROM. These are the best instructions I've found so far for flashing back to stock via RSD lite.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Download and follow exactly and you'll be good to go.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my DROID3 using xda premium
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It keeps failing.
Step 3 mbmloader.bin
Step 4 mbm.bin
Step 8 logo.bin
Step 9 'lbl'
I'm stuck.

Let me do some looking when I get home tonight. I remember there being a file for certain versions of XP that helped some people and they couldn't flash without it.
I never had it happen personally, but I know those that did were terribly frustrated.
I also hear the 959 version is easier to flash for some reason. Never flashed that version, so this is only hear-say. But I know it did flash easier according to posts.
I will try to dig up a link for you.

i am getting the same thing also getting the bad CG boot.. now this may be a fix but idk how this guy got it it.. i have been asking eveywhere maybe you guys could help me... here is the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248721

I found this by Psouza. He is likely the foremost expert on making things easy as far as unbricking your D3. Rumor has it he has a set of unbrick tools floating around this forum somewhere, though I haven't found it yet. Try in the Development thread, for sure it has to be there somewhere.
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psouza4 said:
For those of you having problems flashing this and/or are suspicious of flashing ebr, mbr, and parts of the bootloader, you can selectively just flash the rest of it.
See attachment.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=715510&d=1315657647
Hope this helps.
I also saw that flashing the pre-installs file alone first helped someone. That file borked on me once, but I was able to adb it over and then execute it via adb to get my phone unbricked.
Please let us know what works for you, as all of this is a work in progress right now.
Good luck!

i don't know to much about adb and are looking for help on pre-installed files. I don't understand what that means or how to go about it? i also cant get past the bootloader screen, "invalid CG version". i can not boot up at all.

How bricked are you? can you boot into CWM? Are you able to boot into tools, or how far can you get?
What version were you running? 5.959 (stock) or 6.890 OTA or Leaked OTA or Soak test (all the same as far as 6.890 goes).

i can get into boot tools and just tryed another flash got to step 6 till it failed instead of 3.. I'm running stock. Cannot get passed boot tools... scratch all that just tried to flash again just on the off chance it mnight work and i got it. Going to try and re-root and CWN recovery with sdteel froids rom... will keep you in the loop

Awesome!!
Here is the link about the adb commands for preinstall.sh
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17196391&postcount=88
It helped me when I borked my leaked update. I ran into the same problem as limaxray did with too many files in /system. So make sure you clean out any apps you made into system apps before trying the update via the standard update route, and that all stock system apps are in place and properly named.
I had to remove some that updated partially with the leaked update when mine borked. I used the posted system dump to push them to the phone and then the update ran properly and updated them anyhow.
If for some reason re-rooting doesn't work for you. Go to /system/bin and remove su, busybox. Do the same in /system/xbin. For some reason if you already have them in there when you run the process, it will say success but no root after reboot. My 2c as it happened to me. You do not need to remove superuser.apk, but you will have to update it in the market after you re-root.
Congrats!!
I see now too there is a fastboot and moto-fastboot. moto-fastboot has worked for some who had issues from what I've found.
Keep us posted, and smile knowing you've recovered from a bork; none of us got where we are without doing it at least once, so you're in good company.

re-rooted and installed bootstrap, just got steel droid all loaded up and all is good.... thanks for your speedy responses and detailed instructions and links. I realy think all that happened was i took everything aet it sone last time tried to flash and it went threw. All i used was RSD lite and flashed the 8.6.590 fast boot file and after a several retries it went threw. If anyone needs help on this i will post the file links if you need the ones i used

Did you install 5.5.893 before doing the forever root? (I can help!)

Tivo to the rescue! (edit: added numbers to make it easier to specify where to look for users caught in the middle somewhere)
1. You can do one of two things to get back to 5.5.886
You can use RSD Lite to sbf back to stock 886
http://briefmobile.com/droid-bionic-receives-fastboot-recovery-files
Or you can use this One click restore and root to get back to stock 886
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279825
Both of these will erase your data (but not your sd card). There's no way around that.
Because you already updated your radio files and theres no way to downgrade that, the one click root method will not work anymore. There's no stopping that, its already been done.
2. Because of P3droid, however, there is a manual method of rooting that still works.
Follow this link
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...-your-phone-back-upgrade-path.html#post106072
Look at the second post. I tested this method after I, myself, went to 893 and SBFed back to 886. It works.
3. After that you can follow this guide starting from step 5 to get keep root through any upgrade.
http://androidforums.com/bionic-all-things-root/434407-how-flash-893-update-maintain-root.html
4. Then download the 886>893 file from here and put it on your SD card
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...found-update-files-read-before-you-flash.html
5. Boot phone into STOCK RECOVERY (not clockwork mod recovery). When the triangle is up, press BOTH volume keys. Use Volume Down to navigate and Volume Up to select the install zip option. Select the 886>893 file you just downloaded and let it install. It will take a while.
Boot back up after that and you should be rooted and be running 5.5.893

Tivo7 said:
Tivo to the rescue!
You can do one of two things to get back to 5.5.886
You can use RSD Lite to sbf back to stock 886
http://briefmobile.com/droid-bionic-receives-fastboot-recovery-files
Or you can use this One click restore and root to get back to stock 886
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279825
Both of these will erase your data (but not your sd card). There's no way around that.
Because you already updated your radio files and theres no way to downgrade that, the one click root method will not work anymore. There's no stopping that, its already been done.
Because of P3droid, however, there is a manual method of rooting that still works.
Follow this link
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...-your-phone-back-upgrade-path.html#post106072
Look at the second post. I tested this method after I, myself, went to 893 and SBFed back to 886. It works.
After that you can follow this guide starting from step 5 to get keep root through any upgrade.
http://androidforums.com/bionic-all-things-root/434407-how-flash-893-update-maintain-root.html
Then download the 886>893 file from here and put it on your SD card
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...found-update-files-read-before-you-flash.html
Boot phone into STOCK RECOVERY (not clockwork mod recovery). When the triangle is up, press BOTH volume keys. Use Volume Down to navigate and Volume Up to select the install zip option. Select the 886>893 file you just downloaded and let it install. It will take a while.
Boot back up after that and you should be rooted and be running 5.5.893
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I will give this a try tonight... I hosed up one the Bionic's last night....
I was able to get it back to 866 but lost the root. I tired to re-root it and it failed. So I can not re-do cheesecake and get to [ROM] [R3]BLURR3D V2.0 PBX MOTO Kernel .
Crossing fingers....
~Socks

sockstobed said:
I will give this a try tonight... I hosed up one the Bionic's last night....
I was able to get it back to 866 but lost the root. I tired to re-root it and it failed. So I can not re-do cheesecake and get to [ROM] [R3]BLURR3D V2.0 PBX MOTO Kernel .
Crossing fingers....
~Socks
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Yeah you wont be able to use the current version of any one click root method anymore because you upgraded your kernel and radio and those cant be downgraded.
The only method I know that works after updating kernel/radio is p3droid's manual method.

What if you flash the original full FXZ file using RSD lite, will that put back the original kernal and radios?

No. It is currently impossible to downgrade kernels and radios.

OK, so question, pardon my newbness, coming from a Thunderbolt and bought the Bionic yesterday, I rooted, flashed bionic bootstrap, and made a backup of my stock rom. Then I flashed Blurred 2.0 which is based on .893. If for what ever reason I need to go back stock, can I do so, or am I hosed?

You can always go back to 886 by flashing the system.img file.
If you're talking about doing that while still running that ROM, I don't think you should. I don't kno what would happen.
You will never be able to downgrade your kernel or radio files though (these keep you from using the root method most people know). P3droid's manual method works though.

Wait, so when I want to sell this phone in a few weeks, can somebody post a method to return back to stock, etc?
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using XDA App on UNL3ASH3D R3BLURR3D V2.0 and will continue to be sent from here until I buy the Galaxy Nexus 32GB

Nvm, I thought I had read that one click restore wouldn't work, but it will
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using XDA App on UNL3ASH3D R3BLURR3D V2.0 and will continue to be sent from here until I buy the Galaxy Nexus 32GB

Tivo7,
i am back to .889 rooted and ready to brick my phone again wow Motorola really trying but thanks to everyone involve we could continue modding our phones with no worries.
thank you again.

I just bootstrapped my backup of my stock .886 back no problem, from blurry 2.0. Booted up fine, everything appeared to be working fine. Then I went back to my back up of blurry 2.0 and it went back fine.

droid3d said:
Tivo7,
i am back to .889 rooted and ready to brick my phone again wow Motorola really trying but thanks to everyone involve we could continue modding our phones with no worries.
thank you again.
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Just follow my guide and you can get to 893 rooted.
You're welcome.
stevessvt said:
I just bootstrapped my backup of my stock .886 back no problem, from blurry 2.0. Booted up fine, everything appeared to be working fine. Then I went back to my back up of blurry 2.0 and it went back fine.
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Nice. You can go to 893 with my guide.
Th3ory works on 893.

Thats what I was on,...went from th3ory R3 Blurr3d 2.0, based on .893, back to my stock .886 backup I made in bootstrap, worked fine, and back to the back up of Blurr3y I made in bootstrap again. No problems at all.

stevessvt said:
Thats what I was on,...went from th3ory R3 Blurr3d 2.0, based on .893, back to my stock .886 backup I made in bootstrap, worked fine, and back to the back up of Blurr3y I made in bootstrap again. No problems at all.
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Cool cool.

stevessvt said:
What if you flash the original full FXZ file using RSD lite, will that put back the original kernal and radios?
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I was unable to use the original full FXZ. When I tried to go back to stock 886, RAD would fail to flash. I had to use P3's method to get back to 886, and then used his method to root.
This is P3's post...
How to get your phone back on the upgrade path...
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-bionic-forum/9800-how-get-your-phone-back-upgrade-path.html

Thanks, but since asking that question Ive nandroided back to stock .886 with a backup ive made. I know the radios and kernals are still .893, but everything worked fine.

stevessvt said:
Thanks, but since asking that question Ive nandroided back to stock .886 with a backup ive made. I know the radios and kernals are still .893, but everything worked fine.
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Awesome. Good to know.

stevessvt said:
OK, so question, pardon my newbness, coming from a Thunderbolt and bought the Bionic yesterday, I rooted, flashed bionic bootstrap, and made a backup of my stock rom. Then I flashed Blurred 2.0 which is based on .893. If for what ever reason I need to go back stock, can I do so, or am I hosed?
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If that's all you did you don't have 893 radio or kernel you have to do forever root and cheesecake app to get OTA update blurred 2.0 is based on update but dose not flash kernel or radio
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium

This saved me. Forever root didn't take when I updated to .893 so I had to do it manually off of a nandroid restore. Thank you so much!

anuraj1 said:
This saved me. Forever root didn't take when I updated to .893 so I had to do it manually off of a nandroid restore. Thank you so much!
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You're welcome
I just didn't want others to feel all the pain I did on this, so I posted the steps I took to fix it.
This is basically just a guide putting everyone else's guides together in one place.

Bionic Left to Die!?

Can someone help my poor Bionic? All the links to restore a bionic are dead and its like a cemetery here nowadays... The Bionic was the most valued phone at one point, with its duo core and LTE together for the first time. gee... How said that the Bionic gets no love...
Anyway if someone can point me in the direction of a solid restore I would really appreciate it. I have rsd and a file but for some reason my bionic doesnt show up in rsd. Any links would be great thanks guys...

Are all the current drivers installed on your computer? What system are you using? What bit?
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk 2

I feel ya man! I soft bricked mine the other day after flashing a gummy rom and trying to use bootstrap instead of safestrap to nandroid back to eclipse. I had a super hard time finding the sbf files as well and none of the one click methods worked. I'll try and find the link for you when I get home.
Oh, did you put your phone into fastboot first?
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2

Thanks for the replies... I eventually found what i needed but I honestly think my phone is done. No matter what I do my phone is not recognized in ap fastboot. it says battery ok ok to program but no programs can read it. I can flash via platform-tools fastboot img by img but released root wont recognize it, 902 path wont see it and rsd wont see it. I am so confused...

brandonaspencer said:
Thanks for the replies... I eventually found what i needed but I honestly think my phone is done. No matter what I do my phone is not recognized in ap fastboot. it says battery ok ok to program but no programs can read it. I can flash via platform-tools fastboot img by img but released root wont recognize it, 902 path wont see it and rsd wont see it. I am so confused...
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What caused this mess to begin with?
What system version were you running? 902?
I might be able to help you get this phone up and running again. It is very hard to totally brick the bionic!

brandonaspencer said:
Thanks for the replies... I eventually found what i needed but I honestly think my phone is done. No matter what I do my phone is not recognized in ap fastboot. it says battery ok ok to program but no programs can read it. I can flash via platform-tools fastboot img by img but released root wont recognize it, 902 path wont see it and rsd wont see it. I am so confused...
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I had the same problem several times with windows7 64
You should try using the Ubuntu! It is bulletproof... One step and does not rely stupid drivers.
I use it at least 4 times a week

how do i use Ubuntu is there a link? Thanks

Here is RSD Lite 5.6
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/RSDLite5.6.msi
Here is the latest Motorola Driver
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/MotoHelper_2.1.40_Driver_5.5.0.exe
Here's the FXZ for Bionic system .902
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip
Now you have all the tools you need to fix your Bionic.

projektorboy said:
Here is RSD Lite 5.6
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/RSDLite5.6.msi
Here is the latest Motorola Driver
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/MotoHelper_2.1.40_Driver_5.5.0.exe
Here's the FXZ for Bionic system .902
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6725402/VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip
Now you have all the tools you need to fix your Bionic.
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Yea um.. Those files are not going to work. Please refer to every other post.

brandonaspencer said:
Yea um.. Those files are not going to work. Please refer to every other post.
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You never mentioned if you installed the newest drivers. Drivers will help RSD Lite see your phone when you plug it in.

projektorboy said:
You never mentioned if you installed the newest drivers. Drivers will help RSD Lite see your phone when you plug it in.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. I did install the latest drivers and my phone is not recognized by any fastboot program However I can command it manually. So I did so only thing is I hve restored to 886 and no radio. I tried mot-fastboot flash radio radio.img but i still dont have a radio. If I had a radio zip that would help maybe... Or if my stupid phone would just flash via rsd that would be great but doesnt look like that will happen. Thanks again
Edit: My new core i5 lenovo was the issue. My old Laptop fixed it like a charm. Thanks to all you faithful bionic owners lol. Seriously though why does the best network get such lack of development on its phones... Sad, Even the Droid Charge was left with no love...

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brandonaspencer said:
Yea um.. Those files are not going to work. Please refer to every other post.
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They worked for me and actually I'm back to running Eclipse latest 904 build updated a few days ago after running the 902 rebuilds referenced previously and also figuring out my main problem with Motorola's FastBoot Recovery was USB cable and port related. I simply had to use a new cable and USB port on the back on my computer to finally get FastBoot recovery to work.
Either way, it saved my Bionic and I'm now running Eclipse 904 (build 4 - 04/30/12) - h t t p://eclipserom.com/vforum/showthread.php?1612-ROM-Eclipse-Bionic-Test-Build-05-5-1-12 without problems. Sorli...

edit, already solved

I'm thinking I've burned up some usb ports with my phones over the years...I only plug it into a powered hub now

Official Motoblur ICS for the Droid 4 possibly leaked

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.

Die Bruine said:
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?
XDA app on XT894

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.
Die Bruine said:
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.

build.prop
Die Bruine said:
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?
XDA app on XT894
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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!

podspi said:
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...

Droid 3 ROOT problems?

Im trying to ROOT my Droid 3 but keep running into issues. I am bone stock 5.7.906. I tried running the One-Click-Root, it works til the last step then fails. I was told to try going down to 5.6.890. So I tried that using RSD Lite, and it fails on step 6/18. Now everytime I reboot it goes into fast boot. I can get it to boot normally but only after being brought to fastboot (its just annoying). But basically nothing I try works. I cant ROOT, I cant downgrade software. I cant even reset my phone cuz when it reboots it goes into fastboot, cancelling the reset. Any help would be great. Thanks =)
Please dont tell me to search because I have and I couldnt find anything that helped me. Links and how to's would be a great help :good:

Seaaarch!
Naw, jk. I'm looking into it right now, because I don't remember exactly how I did it, but if I remember correctly you can not return to previous versions once you have the .906 firmware. I'm sure someone'll correct me if I'm wrong. x3 So you'll probably have to find a way to SBF the .906 before you can proceed to rooting.
When you went to .890, did you use a modified version with .906 bits or did you use an actual .890 SBF?
Edit Edit: And now if I remember correctly, I used MotoFail to obtain Root and then threw Hash-Code's SafeStrap on before flashing a new ROM.

ZionCorps said:
Seaaarch!
Naw, jk. I'm looking into it right now, because I don't remember exactly how I did it, but if I remember correctly you can not return to previous versions once you have the .906 firmware. I'm sure someone'll correct me if I'm wrong. x3 So you'll probably have to find a way to SBF the .906 before you can proceed to rooting.
When you went to .890, did you use a modified version with .906 bits or did you use an actual .890 SBF?
Edit Edit: And now if I remember correctly, I used MotoFail to obtain Root and then threw Hash-Code's SafeStrap on before flashing a new ROM.
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I believe its the actual .890 BUT, I never got it to go back, so Im still on .906. It failed to go to .890 which is now why everytime I reboot it goes into fastboot saying Flash Failed. But i just hit normal boot and it boots up. Superuser is on it, and safestrap but safestrap force closes every time I try to open it. I downloaded ROOT Checker to see if Im actually rooted and it says that Im not.

Aah.. I would recommend you use the .906 to .890 one-click.
Just note at the bottom of the post it says you'll have to reinstall the .906 update either OTA or put the download on your external card. But I'm no pro. In your case, it would be my mindset to restart from the beginning.
Oh no, I assumed you're even using the XT862 version of the Droid 3, which that thread I linked states it is only for that model.

jburke90 said:
I believe its the actual .890 BUT, I never got it to go back, so Im still on .906. It failed to go to .890 which is now why everytime I reboot it goes into fastboot saying Flash Failed. But i just hit normal boot and it boots up. Superuser is on it, and safestrap but safestrap force closes every time I try to open it. I downloaded ROOT Checker to see if Im actually rooted and it says that Im not.
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There is a sticky that has a sbf that works to bring you back to .890 as it has parts of 906 in it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911
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ZionCorps said:
Aah.. I would recommend you use the .906 to .890 one-click.
Just note at the bottom of the post it says you'll have to reinstall the .906 update either OTA or put the download on your external card. But I'm no pro. In your case, it would be my mindset to restart from the beginning.
Oh no, I assumed you're even using the XT862 version of the Droid 3, which that thread I linked states it is only for that model.
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Im downloading this right now. ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911

Yep! Looks like they're all the same link. :] Should work well for you as long as you follow the instructions and use the MotoFail link provided down in that same thread.

ZionCorps said:
Yep! Looks like they're all the same link. :] Should work well for you as long as you follow the instructions and use the MotoFail link provided down in that same thread.
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Use motofail afterwords right?

Correct. After you've done the one-click SBF and you've got your phone all up and running you can use the MotoFail.

ZionCorps said:
Correct. After you've done the one-click SBF and you've got your phone all up and running you can use the MotoFail.
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Well, everything is good except one thing. Im running Steel Droid 4.8 smoothly. But, when I go into widgets to add Quick Contacts, it doesn't show on the home screen. Like it takes up space, i can remove it (if i hit the right spot), but it doesn't show up. Like its there but invisible. Why...?

jburke90 said:
Well, everything is good except one thing. Im running Steel Droid 4.8 smoothly. But, when I go into widgets to add Quick Contacts, it doesn't show on the home screen. Like it takes up space, i can remove it (if i hit the right spot), but it doesn't show up. Like its there but invisible. Why...?
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Most likely a bug in the rom or the widget.