Okay, so I'm pretty much a noob and I'm not as comfortable modding my bionic as I am my kindle fire. I thought that I couldn't flash an ICS ROM to my bionic in Safestrap unless I am running one of the leaks or wait for ota ICS on my "unsafe" partition. But I recently read a thread that made it sound like I could flash an ICS ROM to my "safe" partition as long as I'm running .905 on my unsafe partition. Is this true or will I brick my bionic if I attempt. Currently running stock GB .905 on unsafe partition and eclipse 3.0 on safe partition. Could someone that understands these things please let me know and explain? Is it a kernel thing? I'm itching for some ICS but would rather not touch my "unsafe partition if I don't have to. Thanks
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G-diddy said:
Okay, so I'm pretty much a noob and I'm not as comfortable modding my bionic as I am my kindle fire. I thought that I couldn't flash an ICS ROM to my bionic in Safestrap unless I am running one of the leaks or wait for ota ICS on my "unsafe" partition. But I recently read a thread that made it sound like I could flash an ICS ROM to my "safe" partition as long as I'm running .905 on my unsafe partition. Is this true or will I brick my bionic if I attempt. Currently running stock GB .905 on unsafe partition and eclipse 3.0 on safe partition. Could someone that understands these things please let me know and explain? Is it a kernel thing? I'm itching for some ICS but would rather not touch my "unsafe partition if I don't have to. Thanks
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You can easily flash the leaks (.232, etc.) that are semi-official ICS releases without being rooted or anything else. To do safestrapping, just look through the dev section or google it. It's pretty easy. I safestrapped a rom on my bionic yesterday, no issues...
Thanks for the reply. Still not quite ready to flash one of the leaks to my stock partition yet. Probably going to wait for the elusive ota update unless I get impatient. Thanks again.
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I flashed my Droid Bionic with Android 4.0.4 and so far it is running well. No change in battery life and my phone is not rooted.
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I am currently running Eclipse 2.2m system 902. Do I have to flash back to stock rom to get the 905. Also so do I have to do that before going to one of the ICS leaks.
b_dax said:
I am currently running Eclipse 2.2m system 902. Do I have to flash back to stock rom to get the 905. Also so do I have to do that before going to one of the ICS leaks.
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FBZ to 902 then upgrade OTA to 905. Flash the ICS 232 leak and root.
b_dax said:
I am currently running Eclipse 2.2m system 902. Do I have to flash back to stock rom to get the 905. Also so do I have to do that before going to one of the ICS leaks.
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b_dax said:
I am currently running Eclipse 2.2m system 902. Do I have to flash back to stock rom to get the 905. Also so do I have to do that before going to one of the ICS leaks.
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I hope you knew there is a 3.0 version of Eclipse
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Is there a way to flash stock gingerbread deodexed onto the system partition using safestrap? I want to do some cheesecaking but it doesn't work on ICS.
I know this is a strange request.
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I don't believe this will work because safestrap ROMs still run on the stock kernel. If you have ICS running on your unsafe side then GB will not work on your safe side.
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kwyrt said:
I don't believe this will work because safestrap ROMs still run on the stock kernel. If you have ICS running on your unsafe side then GB will not work on your safe side.
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Yeah, I tried it. Any way to get kexec running an old kernel so I can boot the old GB stock ROM
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So I'm going to try to flash axiom annihilated to my brothers phone, he is currently running eclipse v 2.2 which is 2.3.4. But I'm not sure how to get safe side, he only has bootstrap. Any ideas or help? Do I have to be on a specific rom before I can flash it?
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So I'm going to try to flash axiom annihilated to my brothers phone, he is currently running eclipse v 2.2 which is 2.3.4. But I'm not sure how to get safe side, he only has bootstrap. Any ideas or help? Do I have to be on a specific rom before I can flash it?
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You are on gingerbread. Axiom is a ICS rom, your first step would be to go back to 905 stock. Step two is to install one of the ICS leaks after installing leak you will need to regain root access. Then download the safestrap apk 2.11 is the latest version. After installing safestrap you will have a safe and unsafe side. Once you have completed all the above steps. You will be able to flash the axiom rom.
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Sorry to bother you guys. I dont have the d4. My buddy does. Can't seem to flash a Rom. New to safe strap.
He is on an old moto update. 2.3 build. He put safe strap v1 on his phone and tried to flash a few roms. Can't get any to boot.
Is this due to the recovery? I told him try the ics recovery. Dont know if he should. He installed the gb version cuz he is on gb.
Any input is appreciated.
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havikx said:
Sorry to bother you guys. I dont have the d4. My buddy does. Can't seem to flash a Rom. New to safe strap.
He is on an old moto update. 2.3 build. He put safe strap v1 on his phone and tried to flash a few roms. Can't get any to boot.
Is this due to the recovery? I told him try the ics recovery. Dont know if he should. He installed the gb version cuz he is on gb.
Any input is appreciated.
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I am guessing this is because all of the newer ROM builds are built to run off of the stock ICS kernel. Since he is still on GB (and thus running a GB kernel) the current ROMs are not going to work. I would suggest he fastboot ICS so he is on the most current stock build, install safestrap 3.05 and go from there.
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how do i fastboot flast back to gingerbead so i can do something
You can not go back to ICS or GB...
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I think it's possible to boot into it via kexec.....
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I don't want to go back to 100% stock GB but is there a way to Rom it I mean I see kexec being mentioned. Thanks and hope you all have a great day. I'm a noob to this whole safestrap ordeal. I've ported to devices and all, once I get situated with this device look forward to ports.
megaghostgamer said:
I don't want to go back to 100% stock GB but is there a way to Rom it I mean I see kexec being mentioned. Thanks and hope you all have a great day. I'm a noob to this whole safestrap ordeal. I've ported to devices and all, once I get situated with this device look forward to ports.
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As mentioned before, unfortunately, you cannot flash older versions of Android to the D4 via RSDLite. As for kexec, I think this would work in theory, but the kexec kernel we have now is JB. So, you would have to create a GB kexec kernel first (maybe just clone the original D4 GB kernel?) and then insert that into a stock D4 GB ROM or an older D4 custom ROM like Eclipse GB.
Good luck!
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As mentioned before, unfortunately, you cannot flash older versions of Android to the D4 via RSDLite. As for kexec, I think this would work in theory, but the kexec kernel we have now is JB. So, you would have to create a GB kexec kernel first (maybe just clone the original D4 GB kernel?) and then insert that into a stock D4 GB ROM or an older D4 custom ROM like Eclipse GB.
Good luck!
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Oh ok, thanks for the post =) I'm starting to understand things a little better with the whole safestrap thing.
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Can I still use RSD Lite and the FXZ file for ICS if I'm currently on JB. I'm currently running the stock JB OTA and I'm having so many problems that I want to go back to ICS and just except the JB OTA again just to see if it fixes my issues. I don't think there is a FXZ file for JB yet?? If I'm wrong were can I get the file??
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You will brick your phone if you do that, as far as I know
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You will definitely brick your phone if you do that. As painful as it may sound, if you do an FDR you'll like your phone a lot more than you do now.