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[Q] bricked phone using rom manager

with out wipe data and cache and without backing up old rom besides slapping my self with babypowder what do i do

its probably not bricked, bricked is getting thrown around everytime something goes wrong.

Bricked means dead, as it no screen and one red light dead to the world.
What is your device doing at this point? Depending on the state there are a few ways to get this fixed.

If all else fails, rsd lite and a droid sbf will likely restore it to a useable state.

Boot into recovery and wipe maybe? If not either rsdlite or if you know anyone who has a Droid have them put a backup on the SD and restore it on your did this same thing so I used my wife's Droid had to wipe to get rid of all her stuff but it came back to life hope it helps
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InGodWeTrust85 said:
with out wipe data and cache and without backing up old rom besides slapping my self with babypowder what do i do
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sorry to say but dig the phone a grave. The Original Droid is a third wheel now days.(over stayed its welcome)
Your best bet is to Sell it while it still has a little value. this phone is pretty much a legend. so it will sell if you can get it to boot up.

Mm I wouldn't go that far I was on a thread the other day where many many people said they wouldn't go from d1 to the x or d2 not enough upgrades to upgrade from d1. Gonna take dual processors and 4g to get devoted d1 fans to let go of a STILL awesome phone
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Cany you boot into recovery??
If so just find a rom online and put the zip file on your sdcard. Then when you boot just select the zip file.
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Your phone is not bricked there are 100s of solutions for your problem.
You go into recovery mount SD and just load a new nandroid on your SD card. You can find these everywhere.. And if your still having trouble I can give you a nandroid.

Bootloop after trying to restore w/ Bootstrap

So I was trying to restore back to my stock ROM backup using the boot strap recovery. There weren't any errors during the process of restoring the image but when it was time to boot the phone up it would stay in a bootloop.
I have tried factory reset with the power button and volume buttons but it'd go straight back to the loop.
I am trying really hard to understand this whole adb thing with the sdk program but I have no idea how to use it.
Can anyone please help this noob?

Return to stock - Windows.
FAQ sticky in the Bionic Development forum.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try this out when I come home from work.
Also, I reactivated my droid x until then. Will I need to go to Verizon for a new sim card for my bionic once I can start it up again?

I don't think so, but I am not sure. Have not bootlooped yet myself or had to FXZ.

I believe you may have to go for a new SIM card. The way the Verizon explained it to me when I returned my Charge was when you deactivate from a 4G to 3G only phone, that SIM is lost. However, 4G to 4G is fine.
Wouldn't hurt to try, but a good possibility you will have to.
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idefiler6 said:
I don't think so, but I am not sure. Have not bootlooped yet myself or had to FXZ.
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About 2 hours after I said this, I bootlooped. Good thing this FXZ method works!!

haha yeah with all the new roms u cant help but to explore.
btw after 5 FAILED flashes I tried one more time with rsdlite and it finally worked!
It took about 20-25 minutes for the whole process to fully boot up my phone but I am very happy and thankful for the people on this forum.
The weird thing is that when it booted up... it booted up to an old restore of UNL3ASH3D. confused but im happy its fully functioning.

You won't need a new SIM card. I did an FXZ restore after I rooted my phone, unrooted it (didn't need to have it rooted because there were no ROMs and no CWM yet) and it wouldn't let me root again so I flashed to stock and it rooted just fine. You will need to flash the radio again though (or at least I did after installing DroidTh3ory's ROM because it kept showing 3G in spots I know i had 4G, worked fine after I flashed).

Noob question

I come from an eris phone where you wipe and flash roms all day long. Well I got my bionic from android market wiped and flashed 2.2 eclipse using rom manager and laptop with no issues using rsdlite. From what I have read here I should not have been able to do this, no bootstrap or safestrap. Is it possible I have an unlocked bootloader?
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This makes me wonder if ROM Manager has actually managed to include some Bootstrap-like functionality to accommodate locked bootloader devices.
If you wanted to truly test if your bootloader were unlocked, you could go manually download CWM recovery for the Bionic and then, when booted into Fastboot mode, use fastboot.exe to see if you can invoke the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img. At worst case, you have a bricked Bionic and have to RSD Lite it back to normal. Otherwise you could get access denied. At best case it works out.
Also, Bionics aren't sold via the Android Market. Where did you actually get it from?
RSD Lite shouldn't ever be a problem on any Motorola device. All Moto devices are made to respond to RSD Lite assuming you have the correct SBF or FXZ fie.

Sorry got bionic from Android Central
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Good ol Droid Eris. I loved that thing, but the manufacturing sucked and I went through 6 of them before Verizon finally gave me a Droid 2 as a replacement. But the Roms, I haven't had an Android like it since. I got kind of spoiled on Roms and went through flash withdrawal after it. From my understanding, many former Eris owners also went through withdrawal since our newer ones had no where close to that much development. I may end up buying a used one just to flash around with. I swear I had my old one running better than most people's Droid 2s thanks to xda.
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[Q] Did I screw up?

So I got CM10 up and running and kept getting an error with .android.media so I powered off. When i reboot it doesn't go past the "Warning bootloader unlocked screen". I google it and find something that says to try to wipe \sdcard. I do that and now backups and rom files are gone from CWM...I think I really screwed up this time...
EDIT: I suppose my actual question is what I do now since all the files are gone

Yea wiping the sd card was a bar idea. All of your stuff is gone now. Your gonna have to flash stock with rsd. For future reference you generally only wipe data and factory reset. Also you might wanna go and read through all the information about what everything does and how it works. Because it seems like your kinda guessing and don't really know what your doing and your gonna end up bricking your phone.
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Ok, I've flashed stock before. I just get the file, remove the "getvar" lines then...transfer to phone? Last time I did this my phone was actually functioning.

.. No. Go into the android development section and get a stock rom then you put your phone in fastboot mod and flash the file through rsd lite.
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So I finally downloaded the file but now my computer wont install the device drivers -_- It says it failed and I'm guessing its because the phone won't boot. Since the drivers wont install it isn't picking up the device (i think). Is there anything else I can do?
EDIT: I just remembered why we have the Internet.

Yeah.. You can go to the Motorola site and get the drivers lol.
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I'm assuming I need the 4.1.1 files since you can't downgrade to ICS right?

What the heck its still not being listed as a storage option to transfer files to. Unless I'm (unsurprisingly) doing something wrong again...

Dude you don't transfer files to it. Like I said earlier put the phone in ap fastboot and flash the att firmware with rsd lite.
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I'm in fastboot but after that you lost me. This is the last time I mess with my phone like this.

Good man. You don't need to brick it lol. Google a program called rsd lite. Its for your computer. Plug your phone in in fastboot mode and make sure you have the drivers installed. Then rsd will find your phone and you just install the att firmware.
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The firmware thing is where I'm lost at. I don't exactly know where to get it. From a stock rom on the Development section like you said? So just download the rom onto computer and flash

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2209660
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Once its downloaded I select the file so it goes in the Filename box then click start and wait right? Do I need to click one of the numbers at the bottom? BTW I really appreciate your patience with these dumb questions.

Just click start and that'll do it.
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Do you have any idea why I got stuck at the "Bootloader Unlocked" screen in the first place? All i did was power the phone off.

How did you flash cm originally? And was it the one here for the Atrix?
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There was a thread somewhere on the Atrix HD section saying to use the Motorola Photon Q's clockworkmod and a bunch of people were saying it worked fine. I did it and you helped me flash the rom using clockwork. The cyanogen I flashed is the one in the Development section with the working camera. I restored my stuff with titanium and it said to reboot. I was going to bed so I just hit Power Off and when i tried to turn it back on it got stuck at the bootloader unlock screen,

Did you make sure to wipe data and system along with the cache? And mount the system before flashing?
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I don't know if I mounted the system...I just did exactly what the instructions on the post said: 0. Backup, then Format System
1. Install the ROM
2. Install my AHD Fix -- must disable zip file verification
3. Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4. Wipe Cache
5. Reboot and enjoy!
I did all of this.

[Q] Motorola Droid 4 (maserati) root from device?

So i recently semi-bricked my droid 4 and had to SBF back to stock. The thing about this is that i can't run RAZR blade from my computer, as i don't have one atm. i used my Nexus 7 and a USB-otg cable (it is rooted). ADB isn't possible using my Nexus. Is there a way i can manually root using RAZR Blade? i'm aware that it would probably be a difficult process, but i'm willing to work with it.

Also, can a mod move this to the Questions category? i just realized that this was in the wrong category.

It may be easier to just borrow a friend's computer for 10 mins.....or even try the library and see if you can get them to boot the USB first. It seems the root apps come and go so there may be one currently available but there wasn't when I rooted a couple months ago.