I recently downloaded and installed ICS 6.7.2231 from my SD on my Bionic and everything went flawlessly. Was wondering if there if there is a way to go back to stock .902 or .905 GB, and how can I put a newer version of ICS on my Bionic without screwing it up. I am fairly computer and phone knowledgable but am a little new to flashing and installing from SD, and not completely sure what FXZ is or how to do it.
Thanks for your help:fingers-crossed:
dawg799
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I recently downloaded and installed ICS 6.7.2231 from my SD on my Bionic and everything went flawlessly. Was wondering if there if there is a way to go back to stock .902 or .905 GB, and how can I put a newer version of ICS on my Bionic without screwing it up. I am fairly computer and phone knowledgable but am a little new to flashing and installing from SD, and not completely sure what FXZ is or how to do it.
Thanks for your help:fingers-crossed:
dawg799
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There are several good links all over this forum with detailed instruction is on how to fxz your Bionic back to 902. That is what you will need to do, then you Cancun update to 905 again and flash 232 in stock recovery if you would like.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729929
That link has all the files you need to FXZ back to 902 and update to 905. Then you can just follow the steps and replace that leak file and use which ever you like.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1507798
That link has step by step instructions on how to fxz your phone. Both of those link were found on these forums, just search a bit next time and you will find your answers.
Yesterday i flashed if i remember the 223 leak. I flashed from 905, rooted with razor ics root. I went in to sqlite and changed the setting to get the free hotspot and than rebooted. Now on my top banner the wifi icon and my signal icon stay gray! They never got to blue! I have data service but the are always gray. Also later my signal strength went noticeably lower than before i flashed! Any help would be great! ...... also i just noticed that my browser is talking! Had chrome installed, couldn't find anything in the settings so i uninstalled and went to reinstall. Play store says that NOW its not compatible with my device! And now my stock browser is talking to me! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
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One thing at a tine.
Browser talking - check you're accessibility settings, see if Talkback is enabled.
For the GNow, that does not come with the ICS leaks. Either you installed an unofficial leak, or you installed GNow before the leak, or you installed it after the leak. There is a thread in XDA that details how to get GNow working in ICS.
For the sqlite mod, change the string back. Foxfi is free, doesn't require root, and works.
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Thanks, I FXZed back and reloaded everything no sqlite no root and everything seems good! Still lost data for a while last night but l don't have great service at home! Might root later today, we'll see!
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I do have one more question! If i go from .233 can i just flash .235 or do i need to FXZ again?
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Each time you try to flash a new ics leak you HAVE TO FLASH BACK TO 902/905
if you flash to 235 YOU CAN NOT FLASH BACK TO 902/905 but you can only move foward
I recommend you stay on 232 unless you dont care about flashing back to gb
bhp117 said:
Each time you try to flash a new ics leak you HAVE TO FLASH BACK TO 902/905
if you flash to 235 YOU CAN NOT FLASH BACK TO 902/905 but you can only move foward
I recommend you stay on 232 unless you dont care about flashing back to gb
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If people are going to keep stating this, then they need to qualify it with the fact that you can still install GB roms on the safe side. You can even put .905 stock back on safe or unsafe using the backup restore within Safestrap (if you have the stock .905 backup file that is). There's a lot of scare about .235, but all you have to do is change how you flash and you don't "lose" anything. **Wonder if I will have to make another tutorial for people on .235...goodness**
What? We have a locked boot loader... can't run .235 on one side and .905 on the other lol
What he said was correct.. you cannot use RSD lite to fxz back to .902/.905 with .235 so unless you're a fool don't make the move... 232 is great
Finally Iced Out Legitimately... Bionic is back
You cannot go back to fully stock Gingerbread anything once you flash .235 so for the sake of newer users being thrown off the upgrade path and not being able to FXZ back to .905 we all should just leave it at that.
cnorman76 said:
I do have one more question! If i go from .233 can i just flash .235 or do i need to FXZ again?
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I think you've gotten the gist of the info, but I'll reiterate.
You have to be on .905 to flash any of the current ICS leaks (and there is a 99% chance of that being true with any future leaks / soak tests / final OTA b/c .905 is the current official OS version for the BIONIC.
You can flash .235 off of .905, but once you are in .235, you cannot restore your phone to .905 via FXZ, and you cannot try to fool the system with a simple Nandroid backup of .905 that you restore over .235. The reason is that the update script also looks to patch several things.
First of all, no update script ever includes the boot.img of the version that is being installed. It includes a patch file that requires you to have either the boot.img of the system that you are coming from, or the system that you are going to. Any other version and it throws up an error and does not allow the update to continue. IOW, if, say, leak .241 comes out, and you're on .235, you have no way to getting .241 without using a method to make the .241 kernel. You cannot flash the .905 kernel onto a .235 system - it trips eFuse and bricks the phone. You have no .241 kernel to install b/c, as I said, the update only includes a patch file, not the full kernel.
Second, even provide that you pass that (which in theory you might as you are on a .235 leak with only .905 /system restored from a Nandroid backup, and if the new leak uses the exact same kernel you'll pass), it also verifies every file in /system that it is going to patch, along with every file in /preinstall that you are going to patch. Restoring that Nandroid backup does wonders for having the .905 /system on your phone, but the current leak you are on has already patched several files in /preinstall, so those signatures will not match, and you'll fail the verification step, and ultimately the update will fail.
For the record, a typical FXZ flashes 17 different partitions on our phones. Nandroid backups on the BIONIC typically can only make backups of 3-4 of those partitions. We have figured out ways to grab a few more of them, but we are still stuck at grabbing a couple of them, and there are 4-5 that we cannot grab from our phones at all.
Since the folks with RAZRs went through something very similar in May and June, mattlgroff figured out a way to fool the update into thinking you have all the components correct in place that need to be there, and the update proceeds. Thus far, after bricking my phone trying to FXZ back to .905 / .902, I used a script to get back on .235, then verified that the move to reinstall the .235 leak works. If another leak is found, then I can test the second part of the script, that which allows new leaks to be installed. The script does not allow any older ICS leak to be installed, and currently there is no way to go back to a previous leak nor a previous GB stock FXZ at all. Even if we had a .223X ICS FXZ or a .22X ICS FXZ or a .230/.232 FXZ, they would not work on a phone that has been updated to .235.
That is why we're saying hold off unless you're 100% positive you're willing to accept the risk - this is way beyond the risk associated with rooting your phone. If Motorola makes the next leak force the phone to have components from .905 that we cannot flash into a .235 upgraded phone, I (and several others that have taken the plunge) might be permanently stuck on .235 until an FXZ for a version of ICS higher than or equal to .235 is released. And that typically takes 6-8 weeks.
HTH
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If people are going to keep stating this, then they need to qualify it with the fact that you can still install GB roms on the safe side. You can even put .905 stock back on safe or unsafe using the backup restore within Safestrap (if you have the stock .905 backup file that is). There's a lot of scare about .235, but all you have to do is change how you flash and you don't "lose" anything. **Wonder if I will have to make another tutorial for people on .235...goodness**
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Make a guide if you will and state the proper steps to do so
I had one issue with. 232. I noticed the lock screen is useless. My home button unlicked the screen plus the notification bar scrolled down to unlock also lol. Other that that it amazing
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I had one issue with. 232. I noticed the lock screen is useless. My home button unlicked the screen plus the notification bar scrolled down to unlock also lol. Other that that it amazing
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i noticed that the other day when I got a text while my screen was locked. I naturally pulled the notification bar down and noticed that I didn't unlock my phone at first. Tried it just now and it's unlocking without swiping to unlock. My home button doesn't do anything howerver.
so i shot my self on the foot here, i have a droid bionic with the latest software of gingerbread 905 available i decided to root my phone using motofail
then i installed and dowloaded bionic bootstrap.apk then downloaded this rom and installed it Steel Droid: 5.6 - Ice Cream Sandwich
worked fine but no browser connection and many bugs so i deleted from my sd card and installed MOTO ICS 5.7.235 rom, before doing so i did a factory reset and erased all cache, but the rom did not work either so now i am stuck at the bootstrap menu please help
i figure i can take out my memory card hook it up to my pc and download a new rom or something thanks for your time guys
You have to install the ics leaks from .905 using stock recovery. Your best bet will be to use House of Bionic utility which will basically return your phone too stock. I assume the .235 leak didn't install at all, so you should probably be safe to return to .905, from which you should install the .232 ics leak, not the.235, as you can't go back from it.
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You have to install the ics leaks from .905 using stock recovery. Your best bet will be to use House of Bionic utility which will basically return your phone too stock. I assume the .235 leak didn't install at all, so you should probably be safe to return to .905, from which you should install the .232 ics leak, not the.235, as you can't go back from it.
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thanks, you are a life saver went back to 905 and now will install 232 leak!
have a good weekend bro!
hey guys im on ics leak woke up this mornign phone passes motorola dual core boot and then goes to black screen.
phone can get into fastboot and even stock recovery but nothing else past that. any help? tried house of bionic with no
go. i was on .235 leak. olease help i really need a working phone
The .235 leak cannot be flashed back to .905 with RSD Lite or anything. In addition, you probably can't re-flash .235 in stock recovery. Your phone is bricked until an ICS FXZ is released, as far as I know.
Actually I fixed it today. Took SD card out loaded leaked rom direct to SD card and then loaded in stock recovery thank god I got out of that trouble.
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Hello Everyone!
First of all, please excuse the extreme noobness of this post. I do have a fair amount of knowledge about flashing roms and the like and even returning devices back to factory.... but only with samsung/nexus devices so the concept of a locked bootloader and dealing with that is a bit foreign.
Back in June I flashed/updated my boyfriend's Bionic to version 6.7.2233 (Android 4.0.4) because I didn't believe the device was ever going to actually get an ICS update legit from verizon. It has worked well but now that there is an official OTA update out there for it and the rumor from moto that it may one day be graced with Jelly Bean in some iteration, I would like to get it on a more legit path again.
I thought it would be as simple as using RSD to put it back on the right path but upon reading there seems to be a notion out there this will completely brick the phone. And upon more reading, I can't get a straight laced answer on what I'm suppose to do here to get from where I am to where I need to be.
I suppose my question is what steps do I need to take to get it to some form of official update so I can let OTA do its magic OR simply install the OTA version of 4.0.4.
tl;dr I need help getting from 6.7.2233 to the Official OTA update.
And to answer my own question...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1810373
Thank you for anyone who was looking for an answer to this.
I hope you didn't painstakingly go through the entire process in that thread. You could have just used RSD Lite to flash directly to 6.7.246.
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I hope you didn't painstakingly go through the entire process in that thread. You could have just used RSD Lite to flash directly to 6.7.246.
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I did. But thats a good thing actually. I wanted to see if it would put me back on the path to OTA updates and it did. Its downloading 6.7.246 OTA as I type this (Albeit at the speed of snail... yay Verizon servers -.-)
If Bionic begins getting CM 10.1 nightlies I might considering going down the path to figuring out how to get that on it. Really would like some 4.2 hotness on this phone but 4.1.x would make me happy in the pants.
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I did. But thats a good thing actually. I wanted to see if it would put me back on the path to OTA updates and it did. Its downloading 6.7.246 OTA as I type this (Albeit at the speed of snail... yay Verizon servers -.-)
If Bionic begins getting CM 10.1 nightlies I might considering going down the path to figuring out how to get that on it. Really would like some 4.2 hotness on this phone but 4.1.x would make me happy in the pants.
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You should really consider abandoning the updates and flashing .246 directly, either by using RSD Lite or else by using SamuriHL's Hose of Bionic (aka HoB ) utility.
Updates, in m experience, always leave some things messed up, and I and many others have been recommending a full Factory Data Reset when moving to ICS anyway. So, using RSD Lite will flash the fresh full .246 ICS build and it will be like your phone is brand new. RSD Lite will also unfortunately, wipe all of you internal memory, but you can edit the .XML file in the .246 archive to skip that one step so all you current settings, media, etc. are not erased.
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