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Hello All,
I'm starting a new thread, because I am in a situation where I want to get my girlfriends phone back to stock so I can warranty it, and hopefully someone here will have the answer and people will have one place to look for putting their Roger's Samsung Captivate back to stock.
I'm hoping someone can tell everyone why we can't seem to get back to stock on these ROM's, here are the things I've tried:
Originally cleared everything rooted the phone through an update.zip, then put on the Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed Cognition v2.3b8, Trying to fix, battery life and lagging issues on her phone, (had a couple of random restarts the day before I flashed, so I was hoping it would fix that).
Then she started noticing the random restarts more often, so I tried:
clearing everything again through the recovery and tried restore from my backup to put things back, it looks like it extracted (or Installed) successfully then when it boots, it gets to the black, "Swipe" screen, then it freezes.
I tried to flash the Rogers_Stock.zip, same thing. Then I extracted the zip, and put it into the backup folder, hoping it will restore it like a normal restore, same thing.
So right now I'm stuck with a phone that says AT&T when it boots (I read one post on how to remove that) and cognition boot up.
Basically, I want to get this to look enough like stock to return.
I was thinking I can try to get rid of that AT&T popup, then flash the stock ROM, and say it just stopped booting for some reason. But then I still need to get rid of the Clockworkmod Recovery.
Wow that was a mouthful.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide for use Roger's users (or their significant others).
AZ
try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867617
There are others like it too. Just don't try flashing the bootloader or sbl !
AbsoluteZero said:
Hello All,
I'm starting a new thread, because I am in a situation where I want to get my girlfriends phone back to stock so I can warranty it, and hopefully someone here will have the answer and people will have one place to look for putting their Roger's Samsung Captivate back to stock.
I'm hoping someone can tell everyone why we can't seem to get back to stock on these ROM's, here are the things I've tried:
Originally cleared everything rooted the phone through an update.zip, then put on the Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed Cognition v2.3b8, Trying to fix, battery life and lagging issues on her phone, (had a couple of random restarts the day before I flashed, so I was hoping it would fix that).
Then she started noticing the random restarts more often, so I tried:
clearing everything again through the recovery and tried restore from my backup to put things back, it looks like it extracted (or Installed) successfully then when it boots, it gets to the black, "Swipe" screen, then it freezes.
I tried to flash the Rogers_Stock.zip, same thing. Then I extracted the zip, and put it into the backup folder, hoping it will restore it like a normal restore, same thing.
So right now I'm stuck with a phone that says AT&T when it boots (I read one post on how to remove that) and cognition boot up.
Basically, I want to get this to look enough like stock to return.
I was thinking I can try to get rid of that AT&T popup, then flash the stock ROM, and say it just stopped booting for some reason. But then I still need to get rid of the Clockworkmod Recovery.
Wow that was a mouthful.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide for use Roger's users (or their significant others).
AZ
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Gin's got you on the right path for sure. A couple more items for you:
This post should help with removing the AT&T bootup logo: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849789
If you use Heimdall to flash the Rogers stock firmware that is in the post the Gin linked to then you will absolutely need to follow the instructions to use the Heimdall drivers for your captivate when it's connected or it won't see the device when you tell it to start. Like gin said, don't touch primary or secondary bootloader, leave those out and don't try to repartition it.
Restoring the stock firmware will remove the custom kernel that is installed with Cognition (at least it should) and so the Clockwork recovery should no longer be installed once the restore to stock is done. You can double-check once you are back to stock by powering off the phone and then hold both up and down volume + power, let the power button go after it restarts once and you see the I896 for the 2nd time. It should take you to the stock 2e recovery screen. If it does, you should be golden.
HTH
Wow, thanks all,
I used that method without the PIT file,
I just want to say thanks to everyone that offered help,
Goina try to send it for warranty now.
thanks again,
Joe / AZ
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?
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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.
So I got a Droid 4 and seem to be having problems with Safestrap enabling the safe side, is there a way I can RSD back to complete stock so I can go back and do everything myself? I know when I had a Razr I had the same issue but when I RSD backed to stock I was able to root and go back to everything myself and didn't have any problems after that.
I've looked and couldn't find anything to do it...anyone?
**I had it disabled running the stock rom, installed Safestrap went into recovery and was going to switch to the safe side and it gave me a error. So I went to reboot my phone and now everything is wiped and I lost everything
collins521 said:
So I got a Droid 4 and seem to be having problems with Safestrap enabling the safe side, is there a way I can RSD back to complete stock so I can go back and do everything myself? I know when I had a Razr I had the same issue but when I RSD backed to stock I was able to root and go back to everything myself and didn't have any problems after that.
I've looked and couldn't find anything to do it...anyone?
**I had it disabled running the stock rom, installed Safestrap went into recovery and was going to switch to the safe side and it gave me a error. So I went to reboot my phone and now everything is wiped and I lost everything
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You are not the first one to have this problem. I had this happen to me a few weeks ago and have seen a few others posting of similar issues since. Not sure what is happening that is causing this. Did you make a backup of you non-safe system? If you did you can try restoring it although that did not work for me. Kept getting stuck restoring system.orig. Reboot just brings you back to a completely wiped stock ROM. Really strange. What I did to fix safestrap was uninstall safestrap recovery, delete the safestrap folder on /sdcard, then re-install safestrap recovery. I think somehow something is getting corrupted when switching between the safe and non-safe system.
I haven't seen a good guide on XDA for using the fastboot files to restore your phone to stock but here is a good guide from DroidForums courtesy of SGMD1.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...otorola-droid-4-xt894-stock-windows-only.html
I would also highly recommend using Titanium Backup or something similar to backup all you apps and data. That way, if something like this happens again, you can restore all you stuff.
Thanks that's what I was looking for, as far as having a back up...no I don't have one since it came with Safestrap and running eclipse I don't have a backup of the stock that's why I was wanting to start from scratch and get my ducks in a row with everything
There's a Droid 4 SBF out there. I've been able to get it to work with RSD Lite 5.7
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.
how can i fix this and its frustrating phone was working fine and when i update it does nothing but reboot...when i am in safestrap, the "install" tab is not lit to be able to select, so i can not even install a different rom on there....is there a way to fix this
If you are stuck in a bootloop, probably going to have to flash the .246 fxz to get you to stock OTA untouched and then roll from there. I went through this back in ancient days of yore with the DroidX and Froyo, had to fxz(sbf) the phone.
scottyd035ntknow said:
If you are stuck in a bootloop, probably going to have to flash the .246 fxz to get you to stock OTA untouched and then roll from there. I went through this back in ancient days of yore with the DroidX and Froyo, had to fxz(sbf) the phone.
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It would boot up to the normally then a minute later it will automatically reboot I had flashed .246fxz and still the same issue...I did noticed that the baseband build was "unknown"......so makes me think that something was not flashed or updated right...the reception bar has a red circle with a line thru the center....so I hope somebody understands this and can help me out...
vk4559 said:
It would boot up to the normally then a minute later it will automatically reboot I had flashed .246fxz and still the same issue...I did noticed that the baseband build was "unknown"......so makes me think that something was not flashed or updated right...the reception bar has a red circle with a line thru the center....so I hope somebody understands this and can help me out...
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Redownload the file from another source and flash it. You also might want to boot into the stock recovery and do a complete factory reset if you haven't already. I also have had to do this on previous phones I've owned when updating.