[Q] Stuck at Unlocked Bootloader Screen - Motorola Atrix HD

I've been researching and trying to fix this problem all day and no luck so I need some help.
I unlocked my Atrix HD the other day and was back on stock and everything was working fine. I uninstalled SS3 because I planned on installing CWM soon. I was deleting some bloat, just the AT&T stuff, nothing important, via Titanium Backup when my phone froze and I couldn't do anything. The phone eventually restarted and it now has been stuck at the Unlocked Bootloader warning screen. It cannot go past that at all. I can get to stock recovery and fastboot. I tried to go into fastboot and flash stock per these http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226527 instructions and I am getting errors everywhere. I tried to flash stock via RSD and it failed and now it won't recognize the phone. I have all the drivers and everything obviously since I unlocked. Can anyone help me and let me know what I can do??
Can I flash anything from the stock recovery?
EDIT: I managed to install CWM. Now I just am getting an "Error mounting /sdcard" message that's preventing me from getting to my backup.

Ouch.... sorry to hear it mate. System apps shouldn't be messed with.
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I was deleting all the AT&T crap and made sure there wasn't anything important. I must have caught something bad by accident.

Manually flash the stock kernel and devtree -- any of them -- and that should fix the sdcard error. I suspect that a lot of the CM errors are from using the RAZR HD's CM kernel and the Atrix HD devtree.
This next idea might not work if you're having mount issues, but its easier if fastboot is giving you hell.
Since you have cwm working, you can sideload this zip with the Mex Retail kernel and devtree, or follow that posts instructions and swap with the stock kernel\devtree of your preference.
Once in CWM, select install from sideload then on the PCs Command Line type "adb sideload /path/to/zipfile"
I love sideload -- best feature ever.

skeevydude said:
Manually flash the stock kernel and devtree -- any of them -- and that should fix the sdcard error. I suspect that a lot of the CM errors are from using the RAZR HD's CM kernel and the Atrix HD devtree.
This next idea might not work if you're having mount issues, but its easier if fastboot is giving you hell.
Since you have cwm working, you can sideload this zip with the Mex Retail kernel and devtree, or follow that posts instructions and swap with the stock kernel\devtree of your preference.
Once in CWM, select install from sideload then on the PCs Command Line type "adb sideload /path/to/zipfile"
I love sideload -- best feature ever.
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I tried all that a few times but I was getting errors too, but probably my fault somewhere. Anyway, I ended up reinstalling drivers and got stock to install in RSD. I don't know why it didn't work the first time but after 7 hours of trying other methods, the RSD flash worked and everything is running fine now.
Thanks for the help!

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[HELP] Phone is stuck on boot screen due to stupidity

So I flashed the 720p update on Froyo...my dumb ass didnt read the big black bold letters that said NOT FOR FROYO.... and flashed it. Now my phone is stuck in boot loop with the solid google X. Nandroids aint working and i get the message - Error: run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via adb
i did that and still nothing.....
i was told to do this, but i dont understand this.
Reboot into fastboot and flashboot flash system system.img (from your nandroid)
rooted N1 on T-mo using the pre Froyo leak
Buck Shot said:
So I flashed the 720p update on Froyo...my dumb ass didnt read the big black bold letters that said NOT FOR FROYO.... and flashed it. Now my phone is stuck in boot loop with the solid google X. Nandroids aint working and i get the message - Error: run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via adb
i did that and still nothing.....
i was told to do this, but i dont understand this.
Reboot into fastboot and flashboot flash system system.img (from your nandroid)
rooted N1 on T-mo using the pre Froyo leak
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did you try wiping before restoring your nandroid.
if your bootloader is unlocked :
if all else fails you can flash the PASSIMG.zip and rerooting.
if your bootloader is unlocked, you can setup fastboot using the guide stickied here
ya i tried to wipe, no luck.
looks like my 2 nandroid backups on my phone were no good as i had several saved on my laptop. I popped my SD card in and copied them on there and im back in business
Buck Shot said:
ya i tried to wipe, no luck.
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pull the recovery log and post it here. we should be able to get the nandroid to work
do u have an unlocked bootloader?
Most likely the reason your nandroids aren't working is because your battery is too low to restore. Plug your phone in and try nandroid again.

[Recovery]Clockwork Mod 4.0.1.4 (3.2 compatable)

DJ Steve ported CWM 4.0.1.4 with the release of 507.
Requirements:
Stock 5xx based rom [Honeystreak is not supported!]
Ability to enter fastboot mode: Fastboot+ADB.zip
Battery with 60% or greater charge
Basic understanding of the command line
Install Instructions:
Download recovery.img
flash the recovery with "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
Finished
Credits:
DJ_Steve for porting it
Koush for creating clockwork mod
I take no credit beyond this basic guide
Notice:
The Streak 7 with HC might now detect the driver properly, if it doesnt you must force install it using the "Android ADB Interface" from the list of available drivers
Will not work on 2.2.x, you must use CWM 3.0 for that.
Do not attempt to wipe data from within CWM, it will likely case a boot loop afterwards.
Thank you!!
Can I just push this recovery to my recovery partition within 3.2?
Im having issues having my PC at work recognize the fastboot device, and installing the drivers.
I am on xp..
TIA!
'error: cannot load 'recovery.img'
I got fastboot going fine, commands like 'fastboot reboot' are working.
However just above when I use your line to flash recovery, any ideas on what it might be!?
Uploaded new version of fastboot+adb.zip hopefully it has the correct IDs so you dont have to force install it.
Are you sure you downloaded the image correctly, and did you name it correctly when using fastboot
Yeah I was making a repeated typo when pointing fastboot to the recovery but its all working now, thanks a lot.
Clockwork mod (cool blue writing) and rooted all within a few days, good work and thanks to all involved.
FWIW I tried this on the T-MO stock 2.2.2 ROM. The install went fine, I copied S7-4.0.1.4.img to recovery.img and ran the fastboot command with no problems.
I power up the Dell Streak 7 while holding power and the up volume key, and get the menu as expected. I Select "Software Upgrade via update.pkg on SD Card", and the message "Booting recovery kernel image" is displayed.
At this point the machine seems to be frozen. I can reset with a paper clip, and reboot the machine into 2.2.2 just fine, but if I cannot resolve why it does not show the clockwordmod menu, then I guess it is back to NVFLASH.
So what am I doing wrong? do I need an SD card in the device with an update.pkg on the card? Or is there something else?
Oh that was a strong possibility.
CWM 4.0 uses the 507 kernel as a base. 507 will not boot without updating the bootloaders.
So that means CWM 4.0 wouldnt be able to boot unless you had 50x installed.
TheManii said:
Oh that was a strong possibility.
CWM 4.0 uses the 507 kernel as a base. 507 will not boot without updating the bootloaders.
So that means CWM 4.0 wouldnt be able to boot unless you had 50x installed.
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Probably a good idea then to remove that "Assumed to work on 2.2.2" phrase then from your first append.
So I guess it is NVFLASH time ... Or could I somehow flash back only the original recovery.img using fastboot somehow?
Post updated, i needed someone to actually confirm that it didnt work as i dont have access to a s7
dblml320 said:
Probably a good idea then to remove that "Assumed to work on 2.2.2" phrase then from your first append.
So I guess it is NVFLASH time ... Or could I somehow flash back only the original recovery.img using fastboot somehow?
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I posted over at TabletRoms yesterday that the new recovery did not work with Froyo 2.2.2.
To answer your question, all you have to do is fastboot flash the old CWM recovery, version 3xx something I think it is.
"waiting for device " and nothing happen !!! what should i do? i can not install driver using files in : Fastboot+ADB\Win32\Streak 5+Streak 7+Venue\Win7 !
cdzo72 said:
I posted over at TabletRoms yesterday that the new recovery did not work with Froyo 2.2.2.
To answer your question, all you have to do is fastboot flash the old CWM recovery, version 3xx something I think it is.
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Like he said if you flashed it on a s7 that's still on 2.2.x just reflash with the CWM 3.0 one and that one will work fine on 2.2.x
Is there another way to root stock 3.2?
I am getting this error in fastboot...
"Flashing StorMgr partition recovery
Read after write verify partition recovery"
Not the stock one, as no other rooting tools work on it.
Ways to get around it include: using a pre-rooted rom or using a custom rom (which are normally pre-rooted)
Something may be wrong with your device/install if that is coming up. Or possibly your download was bad, try re-downloading it.
I tried re-downloading didn't work, I have stock rom, I don't think I can install a custom or pre-rooted rom without installing CWM?
You can with nvflash, as honeystreak is ment to be installed with nvflash then updated with the bundled CWM, which is prerooted
Whichever method you decide is up to you, as I cannot formally recommend that one method is better then the other.
thesmacker11 said:
Is there another way to root stock 3.2?
I am getting this error in fastboot...
"Flashing StorMgr partition recovery
Read after write verify partition recovery"
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Well just as an update I tried this on a windows xp, windows 7 32bit, windows 7 64bit computer, and redownloaded that file each time and it still does the same thing on my device.
It's likely your device itself that's the issue then, I cant be more specific as I dont own a S7
I'm not sure if I should be asking questions here or over in another forum. Figure I'll start here...
I was sorely missing app2sd in honeycomb so went to use and install Link2SD figuring I'd use that. But it doesn't seem to see the second partition I've made on my SDHC card. I can mount the card on Mac OS and Linux and both mount the two partitions on the card so I feel pretty sure I formatted the card correctly. I saw some comment about a change in the way CW mounts things and it causing troubles in the Link2SD thread but I don't understand enough about the magic of Android and how it mounts discs, although I know it had Linux roots, so the comments in that thread weren't clear to me what I can do to get Link2SD working or for that matter even start to gather info to try to figure out what's wrong. Can anyone help me out or point me to a thread that can get me started in figuring out what's going wrong?
Sent from my HTC Flyer P512 using Tapatalk
ok so i installed the drivers for fastboot and i can enter fast boot , but how can i push the file? soory im a newb with the streak.

[Q] How can I reinstall a good image after flashing my boot with CWM?

My question is similar to 'nikpmr's troubles but different enough I think they deserve a separate post.
The Problem as Understood​I was trying to root my device following the guide at this website. It's so simple it's a wonder I messed up. I think my failure was that I thought the drivers installed when I connected the phone were enough so I skipped that step. Then when running fastboot flash recovery.img the install failed. So I saw on some forum that it was supposed to be fastboot flash boot recovery.img of course now I know if anything it ought to have been "recovery" not "boot".
What I've Tried & Partial Solution​At first I was just stuck in a boot loop and selecting "sideload" from the CWM recovery failed to allow me to connect with ADB or fastboot. i.e. Running "fastboot devices" and "adb devices" both returned as having no devices connected to my computer. So I installed the HTC Sync and promptly uninstalled the non driver parts of the app. Then I installed USBdeview and used it to uninstall all the USB devices associated with my HTC First. After doing that I learned booting into HBOOT allowed me to connect to the computer using fastboot and after then booting to the CWM Recovery I was able to connect using ADB to do a sideload. So I guess I'm about halfway there. Unfortunately after looking up the newest RUU and attempting to sideload it using "adb sideload OTA_MYST_UL_1.08.502.1-1.08.502.4.zip" the sideload failed. After selecting "- install zip from sideload" I get a message twice of "failed to open driver control: No such file or directory". It also failed when I attempted it with a similar fastboot command. So from all that I surmise my ROM is ruined and just needs to be replaced.
Question​So how do I go about replacing this ROM and boot partition? And, which ROM should I use? Is the one I got from the RUU site suitable? And what about the radio? I just need my phone to work. I can worry about rooting later. At this point I think I know what's happened but I don't know where to begin reading to figure out how to fix it myself.
Thanks for reading,
Relevant HBOOT text:
Code:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
MYSTUL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0000
RADIO-1.15.40.00.13_2
OpenDSP-v9.2.0268.1214
eMMC-boot
Mar 22 2013,21:29:50:1682
1. you had to type in fastboot flash recovery recovery.img NOT fastboot flash boot recovery.img
Well there was an actual all in 1 tool to get cwm/twrp & root with a click for this specific device somewhere around these threads.
1) what exactly is the problem? (Sorry it was just so many words)
I don't think side loading the RUU would work bc I haven't heard its possible to flash it in the phone itself.
2) why don't you just sideload an existing pre-rooted ROM instead of the RUU file?
3) I see you're s-on, did you try flashing just the boot.IMG from the ROM you've got on it?
BTW I've only had luck with twrp on having it successfully detected when wanting to sideload
abrahammmmmmm_ said:
Well there was an actual all in 1 tool to get cwm/twrp & root with a click for this specific device somewhere around these threads.
1) what exactly is the problem? (Sorry it was just so many words)
I don't think side loading the RUU would work bc I haven't heard its possible to flash it in the phone itself.
2) why don't you just sideload an existing pre-rooted ROM instead of the RUU file?
3) I see you're s-on, did you try flashing just the boot.IMG from the ROM you've got on it?
BTW I've only had luck with twrp on having it successfully detected when wanting to sideload
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1) The issue is I did "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" rather than "fastboot flash recovery.img" now I don't seem to have a boot mount point.
2) That sounds best. I didn't realize the RUU want a flashable ROM. More I just have to find the updated stable stock ROM.
3) I didn't have a ROM on it. I was just trying to root stock. Seems like I'm pretty close once I find that ROM.
Thanks y'all! Between your answers I think I have enough to go on. Feel free to point me to your preferred stable ROM. I'm content with stock but it would be nice to have Tiranium BU.
bnjo said:
1) The issue is I did "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" rather than "fastboot flash recovery.img" now I don't seem to have a boot mount point.
2) That sounds best. I didn't realize the RUU want a flashable ROM. More I just have to find the updated stable stock ROM.
3) I didn't have a ROM on it. I was just trying to root stock. Seems like I'm pretty close once I find that ROM.
Thanks y'all! Between your answers I think I have enough to go on. Feel free to point me to your preferred stable ROM. I'm content with stock but it would be nice to have Tiranium BU.
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Right now our most stable stock ROM is our rooted stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2287811
We currently have 2 very able recognized devs working on CyanogenMod. You can expect something new in the near future but until then what I've showed you is the best.
Have any problems just come back to the thread
Success!
abrahammmmmmm_ said:
Right now our most stable stock ROM is our rooted stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2287811
We currently have 2 very able recognized devs working on CyanogenMod. You can expect something new in the near future but until then what I've showed you is the best.
Have any problems just come back to the thread
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Thanks guys I know I always like to know when something I said was successful in helping someone. I just wanted yall to know after sideloading the most recent Odexed ROM then pushing it to memory after it wouldn't boot I succeeded after taking abrahammmmmm's advice of flashing the boot.img from HBOOT. After a longer boot than I'm used to I was able to get into my phone again. I wasn't able to use my TitaniumBU to restore but that just meant I had to spend a few minutes selecting apps to install.. And restoring a data backup for the only important app that doesn't keep the primary data off the phone.
Thanks again!
tl;dr Flashing the Odexed ROM boot.img fixed my issues. Thx!
bnjo said:
Thanks guys I know I always like to know when something I said was successful in helping someone. I just wanted yall to know after sideloading the most recent Odexed ROM then pushing it to memory after it wouldn't boot I succeeded after taking abrahammmmmm's advice of flashing the boot.img from HBOOT. After a longer boot than I'm used to I was able to get into my phone again. I wasn't able to use my TitaniumBU to restore but that just meant I had to spend a few minutes selecting apps to install.. And restoring a data backup for the only important app that doesn't keep the primary data off the phone.
Thanks again!
tl;dr Flashing the Odexed ROM boot.img fixed my issues. Thx!
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Great! glad to hear I could help. Yes it's always nice knowing when something I've said has helped someone in any way
bnjo said:
Thanks guys I know I always like to know when something I said was successful in helping someone. I just wanted yall to know after sideloading the most recent Odexed ROM then pushing it to memory after it wouldn't boot I succeeded after taking abrahammmmmm's advice of flashing the boot.img from HBOOT. After a longer boot than I'm used to I was able to get into my phone again. I wasn't able to use my TitaniumBU to restore but that just meant I had to spend a few minutes selecting apps to install.. And restoring a data backup for the only important app that doesn't keep the primary data off the phone.
Thanks again!
tl;dr Flashing the Odexed ROM boot.img fixed my issues. Thx!
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i think what happened, when you typed in "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" is this
boot, is also known as kernel in aosp and rom building terms, because if you look inside a rom.zip, you will see that the kernel is the boot.img
so what happened is you flashed a recovery as kernel, and duh it wont boot cause if the kernel doesnt work, the os doesnt either
so what YOU did is you simply reflashed the stock kernel, usually after changing a kernel, it takes a while to boot cause...well you get it right?
the kernel is what android is based off of, kind of like ubuntu, its a linux os based on the original linux kernel.
russian392 said:
usually after changing a kernel, it takes a while to boot cause...well you get it right?
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Yes I get it.
russian392 said:
i think what happened, when you typed in "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" is this
boot, is also known as kernel in aosp and rom building terms, because if you look inside a rom.zip, you will see that the kernel is the boot.img
so what happened is you flashed a recovery as kernel, and duh it wont boot cause if the kernel doesnt work, the os doesnt either
so what YOU did is you simply reflashed the stock kernel, usually after changing a kernel, it takes a while to boot cause...well you get it right?
the kernel is what android is based off of, kind of like ubuntu, its a linux os based on the original linux kernel.
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That's what I thought happened. If I had stopped to read the help on fastboot before running "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" I wouldn't have made that mistake because I would have seen I wanted to flash recovery. One thing I *did not* know, which I'm glad to know, was that the boot.img contains the kernal. I was thinking Android was more similar to IBM style PCs than it is and therefore the boot.img was analogous to a bootloader like grub or lilo.
So the one thing I don't get is how is partitioning done? I take it Androids have some reserved partition for boot and the boot.img takes care of all system partitioning and mounts /sdcard/ for everything else. i.e. userland; appdata, media, and files. Am I guessing correctly?
bnjo said:
So the one thing I don't get is how is partitioning done? I take it Androids have some reserved partition for boot and the boot.img takes care of all system partitioning and mounts /sdcard/ for everything else. i.e. userland; appdata, media, and files. Am I guessing correctly?
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in a nutshell yes, the boot.img uses the fstab
btw 10 posts you'll be "verified"
So the one thing I don't get is how is partitioning done? I take it Androids have some reserved partition for boot and the boot.img takes care of all system partitioning and mounts /sdcard/ for everything else. i.e. userland; appdata, media, and files. Am I guessing correctly?
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Yep that's correct.
The name correlation is booting up requires kernel there for kernel is called beet.IMG
Thing about custom kernels, they aren't like that and simply contain modded files and pretty much an in packaged kernel.
Sent from my HTC first using xda app-developers app
stock recovery
please can anyone send me the stock recovery.img
when i try to get it from RUU it says archive is corrupted
astrit1995 said:
please can anyone send me the stock recovery.img
when i try to get it from RUU it says archive is corrupted
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here:
http://androidfiles.org/getdownload.php?file=MystUL/Stock_Roms/stockrecovery.img
if you help, press thanks!!
Serupo said:
here:
http://androidfiles.org/getdownload.php?file=MystUL/Stock_Roms/stockrecovery.img
if you help, press thanks!!
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Thank you for your help,i solved my problem yesterday but i think im gona need this sometime...

[Q] Bootloop, can't push recovery etc

Hey everyone,
so I have an issue, I hate taking care of other peoples devices, but my dad asked me to root his Optimus 4x for him, so I did.. or at least I gave it a try.
I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it and tried to instal a custom recovery, with no success.
the OS the device had is 4.1.2 JB, and I tried to flash the ICS recovery, which caused a permanent bootloop.
luckily (I guess?) I can access the recovery (which is STOCK for some odd reason) but the device never boots back up when I restart it. I tried to wipe everything that the stock recovery allows me to, no success either. I tried to use the LG tool, I put the IMEI and hoped for the best - nope, it didnt help either. it kept on saying the device has disconnected.
SO I figured the way to go would be an adb flash of the right recovery and then flashing a custom ROM, but I cant push the recovery image to the sdcard, it says there's no such directory. this is the command I used:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
I tried various combinations and at this point I'm kinda lost and confused. Perhaps some more-experienced people could give me a hand? I've spent 6 hours figuring this out
EDIT:
the only way of turning the device off is pulling the battery, I can use adb, and I tried to flash the wrong recovery accidently.
thanks
Pawelss said:
Hey everyone,
so I have an issue, I hate taking care of other peoples devices, but my dad asked me to root his Optimus 4x for him, so I did.. or at least I gave it a try.
I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it and tried to instal a custom recovery, with no success.
the OS the device had is 4.1.2 JB, and I tried to flash the ICS recovery, which caused a permanent bootloop.
luckily (I guess?) I can access the recovery (which is STOCK for some odd reason) but the device never boots back up when I restart it. I tried to wipe everything that the stock recovery allows me to, no success either. I tried to use the LG tool, I put the IMEI and hoped for the best - nope, it didnt help either. it kept on saying the device has disconnected.
SO I figured the way to go would be an adb flash of the right recovery and then flashing a custom ROM, but I cant push the recovery image to the sdcard, it says there's no such directory. this is the command I used:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
I tried various combinations and at this point I'm kinda lost and confused. Perhaps some more-experienced people could give me a hand? I've spent 6 hours figuring this out
EDIT:
the only way of turning the device off is pulling the battery, I can use adb, and I tried to flash the wrong recovery accidently.
thanks
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try to flash stock rom using KDZ method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069723), that lets your device like new, and then try to start again, I recommend you to use lg p880 toolkit look into download section (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230934), and you can download CWM 6.0.4.5 and replace the recovery in files folder of p880 toolkit and get the latest recovery that allows you to instal the most recent ROM
Le'mme guess, you didn't even think about unlocking bootloader, amaright?
Rudjgaard said:
Le'mme guess, you didn't even think about unlocking bootloader, amaright?
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Pawelss said:
I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it and tried to instal a custom recovery, with no success.
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I bloody hope he did or do you think he's just lying to us for the fun of it?
donkanmcklaus said:
try to flash stock rom using KDZ method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069723), that lets your device like new, and then try to start again, I recommend you to use lg p880 toolkit look into download section (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230934), and you can download CWM 6.0.4.5 and replace the recovery in files folder of p880 toolkit and get the latest recovery that allows you to instal the most recent ROM
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Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try it once I'm home.
Rudjgaard said:
Le'mme guess, you didn't even think about unlocking bootloader, amaright?
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No. As stated in the first post, I did in fact unlock the bootloader. I also confirmed it in the secret menu and it said "Unlock" which as I presume means the bootloader is unlocked.
SimonTS said:
I bloody hope he did or do you think he's just lying to us for the fun of it?
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No, there's no reason for me to laugh the secret menu confirmed it too.
Thanks for your replies, I hope it works
I'm sorry i missed the first line, what got me was when you said you flashed recovery but it was still the same
The adb command to flash recovery is
1) adb reboot oem-unlock
2) fastboot flash recovery /path/toyour/recovery.img (not adb because you must use fastboot when in bootloader)
Rudjgaard said:
I'm sorry i missed the first line, what got me was when you said you flashed recovery but it was still the same
The adb command to flash recovery is
1) adb reboot oem-unlock
2) fastboot flash recovery /path/toyour/recovery.img (not adb because you must use fastboot when in bootloader)
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hey, thanks for your reply.
I assume the /path/toyour/recovery.img is a path on the phone, the thing is I cant copy it to the internal storage with adb for some odd, unknown reason (well the reason is the directory doesnt exist). I'll try to return to stock first, and I'll post the result.
thank you again
EDIT:
SOOO I managed to fix it and get it all to work the device boots up normally again thank you VERY much for all your kind help. I love you guys!!

Seemingly endless string of issues while trying to root

Hey guys, I've decided I'm going to root my Moto X Unlocked Edition. I've been following this guide: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/2014-moto-x-2nd-gen-marshmallow-root-86348/ (as well as many others) and I'm running into issue after issue.
I've managed to unlock my bootloader. I'm on step 8: "fastboot flash boot boot.img" and have tried with so many techniques but keep getting this "mismatched partition size (boot)" error after each attempt. I've tried using .img files from CMod, from the guide that I'm following, etc. I've googled the error with no useful result coming up. I'm at a loss here and really hoping someone is able to help me out. Searching is turning up nothing and I'm about to start tugging at my hair. If anyone has a one click installer that would work, please pass it along!
Thank you all very much!
Edit 4/29/16 13:01 ET: I've switched from trying to use the 'fastboot flash boot' command and started trying to use 'fastboot update <romname.zip >' with various different ROMs. I'm getting this error.
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt
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I'm not sure what to do now. I feel like I'm getting reckless in trying an overwhelming amount of solutions to no avail. I'm going to wait, now. I'm starting to think that these phones can't be rooted or flashed with a new ROM.
What phone version do you have, XT1095? I just tried to root my device without reading carefully and ended up softbricked...had to use fastboot to wipe everything and flash stock to recover. Seems this devices is tricky to root on Marshmallow, much harder than ones I've had in the past.
Have you tried the method here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/root-root-moto-x-2014-android-t3249105
Or, if you install TWRP you could just flash a pre-rooted ROM instead of rooting stock.
Thank you for the help @viper74656!
I'm struggling to even get the TWRP installed. When I try to install TWRP-3.0.0-0-victara.img, I get
cmd: getvar: partition-type:recovery
cmd: getvar:max-download-size
cmd: download:0096c000
cmd: flash:recovery
Mismatched partition size (recovery)
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I was having this problem earlier too when I was trying to work around that. I'm going to try an alternate way of installing TWRP.
Really, all I want to do is get CMod. When I rooted my HTC Inspire 4G, it was a cakewalk... I didn't expect all this LOL
viper74656 said:
What phone version do you have, XT1095? I just tried to root my device without reading carefully and ended up softbricked...had to use fastboot to wipe everything and flash stock to recover. Seems this devices is tricky to root on Marshmallow, much harder than ones I've had in the past.
Have you tried the method here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/development/root-root-moto-x-2014-android-t3249105
Or, if you install TWRP you could just flash a pre-rooted ROM instead of rooting stock.
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Yeah, btw, I have an xXT1095
So I managed to get TWRP installed on my XT1095 using the "WinDroid" toolkit I found somewhere on XDA. It seems to push the right fastboot commands, but I had to manually download and select an older TWRP version. Read something about our recovery partition not working with the newer versions. I still got the mismatch error, but when I rebooted into recovery TWRP was there.
I haven't ventured back to try it again after having to wipe and start over...bleh.
Twrp manager (from the playstore) is what I had to use to install recovery. Windroid wouldn't push it for some reason.
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