Hi all,
Backstory/Details (skip to bottom for a tl;dr and my questions)
I tried updating my Bionic to the Jelly Bean OTA update (using the file from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235946). I had the ICS OTA update with root (orignally rooted GB, took it over to ICS). I tried the update on my system and got a hash fail. I've dealt with this on previous updates, so I booted into my phone and tried to unfreeze my apps. My root was not working and hadn't been for a while (su was there and had the right permissions, but no apps could access root even after updating all of the related apps), so I used Razrs Edge to get it working again. I then tried to use Titanium Backup to unfreeze my apps, but it wasn't working. Thus, I just went into /system/apps and renamed the frozen APKs back to the originals. After that, I booted into recovery (without going back to my system) and "successfully" updated to JB using the OTA update on my SD card.
After the update my phone would never boot. It just got stuck at the boot screen (the one with this logo, after the startup sound http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image611.png). I tried wiping the cache, doing a factory reset, re-applying the update. Nothing would get it past the startup screen.
After reading around, it sounded like no one else had issues. Therefore, I was stuck with a useless phone. I read into using RSD Lite to flash a full partition image, and thought it sounded like it would work. Unfortunately, I could not find a JB .fxz image. I read warnings about how you can't go from ICS to GB and hoped that that was not the case with JB/ICS. I decided to roll the dice and try to flash an ICS image.
Needless to say, trying to flash the ICS image using RSD Lite bricked my phone. It is now stuck at the Fastboot screen, and won't do anything. From what I can gather, doing an RSD Lite load using a JB .fxz would probably fix my phone, but I can't find it anywhere.
tl;dr: My JB OTA update semi-bricked my phone, tried to flash an ICS build using RSD Lite, bricked my phone
Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Anyone have (or know where to get, or know how to make) a Jelly Bean image that I can flash?
I'm currently using my OG Droid as my temporary for a month before I can upgrade to a new phone. Thus, I'm willing to be pretty risky with my Bionic if need be.
HalfBrian said:
Hi all,
Backstory/Details (skip to bottom for a tl;dr and my questions)
I tried updating my Bionic to the Jelly Bean OTA update (using the file from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235946). I had the ICS OTA update with root (orignally rooted GB, took it over to ICS). I tried the update on my system and got a hash fail. I've dealt with this on previous updates, so I booted into my phone and tried to unfreeze my apps. My root was not working and hadn't been for a while (su was there and had the right permissions, but no apps could access root even after updating all of the related apps), so I used Razrs Edge to get it working again. I then tried to use Titanium Backup to unfreeze my apps, but it wasn't working. Thus, I just went into /system/apps and renamed the frozen APKs back to the originals. After that, I booted into recovery (without going back to my system) and "successfully" updated to JB using the OTA update on my SD card.
After the update my phone would never boot. It just got stuck at the boot screen (the one with this logo, after the startup sound http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image611.png). I tried wiping the cache, doing a factory reset, re-applying the update. Nothing would get it past the startup screen.
After reading around, it sounded like no one else had issues. Therefore, I was stuck with a useless phone. I read into using RSD Lite to flash a full partition image, and thought it sounded like it would work. Unfortunately, I could not find a JB .fxz image. I read warnings about how you can't go from ICS to GB and hoped that that was not the case with JB/ICS. I decided to roll the dice and try to flash an ICS image.
Needless to say, trying to flash the ICS image using RSD Lite bricked my phone. It is now stuck at the Fastboot screen, and won't do anything. From what I can gather, doing an RSD Lite load using a JB .fxz would probably fix my phone, but I can't find it anywhere.
tl;dr: My JB OTA update semi-bricked my phone, tried to flash an ICS build using RSD Lite, bricked my phone
Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Anyone have (or know where to get, or know how to make) a Jelly Bean image that I can flash?
I'm currently using my OG Droid as my temporary for a month before I can upgrade to a new phone. Thus, I'm willing to be pretty risky with my Bionic if need be.
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Did RSD give you an error message when you attempted to flash back to ICS?
Back when the first GB update came out, a bunch of people (myself included) had issues with the new update and the trick to flashing back was to use the new cdt.bin (since you couldn't go back from that one). The new cdt.bin file is in the root of the update zip file. Once you have the file, you either need to tweak the XML file that you pushed into RSD or use moto-fastboot.exe instead of RSD and push all of the partition images to the phone manually. That might work here.
matthimrod said:
Did RSD give you an error message when you attempted to flash back to ICS?
Back when the first GB update came out, a bunch of people (myself included) had issues with the new update and the trick to flashing back was to use the new cdt.bin (since you couldn't go back from that one). The new cdt.bin file is in the root of the update zip file. Once you have the file, you either need to tweak the XML file that you pushed into RSD or use moto-fastboot.exe instead of RSD and push all of the partition images to the phone manually. That might work here.
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Being in the same situation here -> Updated to JB without OTA Rootkeeper made me loose root. Out of haste, I tried FXZ'ing back to ICS. So I followed this thread, and this "almost" worked. I failed at step 6, so then I replaced the cdt.bin file from the JB update into the extracted ICS fxz folder, and it got passed that but failed on a couple of other steps. I edited the XML file to skip those, and when it finished it would never boot up past the M logo.
Thankfully, I was able to still boot into recovery and I just applied the JB update on my SD card. I'm now 100% stock JB, and waiting for a JB root exploit so I can (hopefully) restore my apps through TB.
Thanks for the suggestion matthimrod, my RSD Lite flash failed on cdt.bin the first time.
As you suggested, I edited the XML and used the cdt.bin from the JB update. However, I'm currently failing on the 15th step, boot.img. (error text for searches: "Failed flashing process. 15/21 flash boot "boot.img" -> Phone returned FAIL"). I looked at the JB update and it looks like they patched the boot partition.
Sounds like it worked for Bizmania to just skip it, so I'll try that right now and post back.
Edit: the updated cdt.bin and commented-out boot.img followed by re-updating to JB worked perfectly. Thanks for you help.
I did the same thing, This worked for me -
Download and extract this
6.7.246 FXZ File
Download and extract this to the previous location
moto-fastboot-win32.zip
Boot into fastboot mode
Connect to PC with USB
On PC, open command window and navigate to folder created above. I renamed the folders and made them easy to navigate to.
Use commands
Code:
moto-fastboot.exe flash preinstall preinstall.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash system system.img
Once finished reboot to stock recovery (This system WILL NOT BOOT) and install the Jelly Bean zip from SD Card
Reboot
Won't get root back but you'll have a working device.
Spent the past several hours trying to figure this out and just now got my phone to boot into JB.
If your battery is dead, tear apart an old WALL charger, cut the cord and attach pos to pos and neg to neg put a piece of tape over your battery terminals (don't think this would be good for the battery) and put battery in to hold it in place. Not sure how to tell which wire is pos, guessing always works for me lol.
NOTE: A stock wall charger does not seem to put out enough power to fully boot the phone, so remove the wires and tape and charge the battery normally to at least 10% then boot, this made my phone loop while trying to first boot and I thought something was wrong with the system
Edit: Seems at some point I corrupted my internal sd card, the OS was able to reformat. Not sure if it is related or not.
help stuck in fastboot mode
Earic3938
Can you please explain about getting the files to the command prompt. In a more step by step not sure how to open them up in command.
DroidForLife33 said:
Earic3938
Can you please explain about getting the files to the command prompt. In a more step by step not sure how to open them up in command.
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The files are on your computer, command prompt is just a different way to look at them.
Use the "dir" command to view files in current directory/folder, "cd" to change folders ex.. cd [folder name], cd followed by two periods(cd..) would move up a folder. You're just looking at the files in a different way (other than windows), all the same files are there.
I renamed my folder to V246 just to make it easy to find and put it on the root of C: to change directory to C you can type cd C:\
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Thanks
I'm re-flashing the Jb update now thanks for the help Ill just wait till a root method comes out.
DroidForLife33 said:
I'm re-flashing the Jb update now thanks for the help Ill just wait till a root method comes out.
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Yeah, think that's kinda what all of us in here are waiting on, lol
Glad I could help!!
Thank you so much!
After I botched the Jelly Bean update (made a huge mistake and tried to restore data through TWRP; it's apparently not like CWM) which overwrote some of the Jelly Bean system files, this thread helped me pull my Bionic back from the dead.
It took many hours and a lot of breath holding, but I am now running Jelly Bean unrooted and somehow managed to have my data stay pretty much in tact.
I wish I could tell you exactly what worked, but I tried so many things I really can't. I do know that using moto-fastboot.exe was the key. I also know I needed to have the recovery.img rewritten to the phone, but I honestly don't know which one worked. LOL
Once that recovery.img copied over everything else fell into place.
Thanks again this community ROCKS!
matthimrod said:
Did RSD give you an error message when you attempted to flash back to ICS?
Back when the first GB update came out, a bunch of people (myself included) had issues with the new update and the trick to flashing back was to use the new cdt.bin (since you couldn't go back from that one). The new cdt.bin file is in the root of the update zip file. Once you have the file, you either need to tweak the XML file that you pushed into RSD or use moto-fastboot.exe instead of RSD and push all of the partition images to the phone manually. That might work here.
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This worked for me. Thanks for the help. I thought that I had finally bricked my phone and was ready to go to Verizon and take my lumps!
Thank you so much!
eric3938 said:
The files are on your computer, command prompt is just a different way to look at them.
Use the "dir" command to view files in current directory/folder, "cd" to change folders ex.. cd [folder name], cd followed by two periods(cd..) would move up a folder. You're just looking at the files in a different way (other than windows), all the same files are there.
I renamed my folder to V246 just to make it easy to find and put it on the root of C: to change directory to C you can type cd C:\
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I FREAKING LOVE YOU! Thanks a bunch dude! You helped me so much, it boots! And works, sure, i couldn't get it to install JB, ill figure it out later, but i did manage to bring it back to my old ICS rooted! Your awesome dude, my dad would have been pissed if it weren't for you!:victory:
Had over to the HoB (House of Bionic) at droidrzr.com if you ever get in trouble again. I have the JB update and fxz posted on my threads as well.
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Eric, i'm 99% sure that i'm following your instructions as closely as possible. I think, however, that perhaps given my particular bricking that my bionic isn't actually communication with my laptop while running the commands that you list. While the command runs I don't see any kind of feedback or acknowledgement from the phone that it's getting data.
When I try to run the .zip while in recovery it aborts at a signature error.
Looking like i'll be firing up the old OG droid as well!
Anybody?
Thanks!
BobZ
@ eric...
hit the thanks button, but had to post.
Thanks for your help, saved my bacon with this fix.
Droid Bionic Soft-brick Fixed After Jelly Bean Update Attempt Failed
Thought I'd share my experience in case others might find it helpful. Also wanted to thank eric3938 for his post on 16 April 2013 -- it's what saved my Droid Bionic!
I had started with a Droid Bionic with Gingerbread. Updated to ICS when it came out, then rooted it sometime afterwards. I took the OTA Jelly Bean update, but it failed. Then I remembered that I had installed Bionic Bootstrap to get Nandroid backup ability. A bit of research confirmed this was likely the cause of the upgrade failure. I then attempted to follow a set of instructions on how to get a rooted, ICS droid bionic ready for the OTA, lost my place due to an interruption, and decided I needed to restore from one of the nandroid backups, but they kept failing!
I then figured a factory reset was in order, and since I wasn't sure if the phone would boot out of the nandroid backup menu, decided to use the bionic bootstrap factory reset option. BIG mistake! After that reset, the phone would only end up with an image of an android on its back with an exclamation mark inside a red triangle over its open belly.
I spent a lot of time searching for fixes and trying a lot of different things:
1. Downloaded the 4.0.4 image from sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_targa/list.php, and copied it to the external sd card from the phone with my laptop. Put the sd card back in the phone, booted into recovery and tried to install the update from the external sd card. Update would start, authenticate, and then fail with an error 7, with a message indicating that a file could not be found in the /system/bin folder.
2. Downloaded the 4.1.2 update from sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_targa/list.php, put it on the external sd card and tried applying it. The update process would not authenticate the update.
3. Tried using RSD Lite 5.7, but could not get it to apply either the 4.0.4 or 4.1.2 images. I would always get a failure at some point.
4. Found the House of Bionic site (droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/5764-samurihls-house-of-bionic/). After reading through the information there, downloaded hob 10.1 and, following instructions, proceeded to attempt to flash 4.0.4 back to the phone. The hob (HouseOfBionic) program would successfully drive the flash with RSD, and the phone would appear to take the flash, but would either remain at the fastboot menu when hob said it would reboot, or would boot and end with the android on its back underneath the read triangle.
The battery of the phone ran down at this point and I could no longer flash anything. I read about the USB Factory Cable Adaptor on the HouseOfBionic site, so I ordered one. It arrived in about 3 days! When it arrived, I tried additional variations with hob, but no joy.
I was about to concede failure when I stumbled across the post by eric3938. From a high-level perspective, his experience seemed very similar to mine, so I decided it was the best option I had. However, after reading about the security issues that prevent regressing from Jelly Bean, I decided that instead of using files from the 4.0.4 release, I would use the files from 4.1.2 release. I then proceeded to do the following:
1. Downloaded and un-zipped the moto-fastboot-win32.zip file from the link in the post by eric3938.
2. Copied the preinstall.img and system.img files out of the 4.1.2 zip into the folder where I had placed the moto-fastboot exe.
3. Booted the phone into fastboot mode.
4. Opened a command window and pasted the following commands, one at a time, into the window and executed them:
moto-fastboot.exe flash preinstall preinstall.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash system system.img
Un-plugged the phone from the USB cable and then plugged it back in (to reboot it). The phone booted, but then just appeared to hang at a black screen with the four hard buttons at the bottom lighted up. Every time I would remove power and re-apply power, I would get the same results.
I finally pulled the USB cable out, then, while depressing the volume down button and holding down the power button, I inserted the USB cable and then released the power button (while continuing to depress the volume down button). This brought me to the boot option menu. I chose the recovery option. When the recovery menu appeared, I chose the 'apply update from external source' option and selected the Jelly Bean update zip file. IT WORKED!!!
The update authenticated and then began to install. When the update completed it rebooted a couple of times and the crashing sound of the android eye was music to my ears!
A couple of additional notes:
1. At one time during the process, I lost the ability to communicate with the phone from my laptop. I was afraid I had rendered the phone useless, but, after uninstalling the Motorola Driver Manager, rebooting, reinstalling the Motorola Driver Manager, rebooting, and trying again, found I had restored communication with the phone.
2. I discovered that with the factory cable adapter, I could leave the battery out of the phone and not have to pull it at times get to the fastboot menu -- this saved a lot of wear and tear on my fingers!
3. After going through the Jelly Bean setup process, I noticed I did not have 4G network access -- only 3G. I did some more searching and found a suggestion to pull the battery and SIM card, wait a few minutes, reassemble the phone and try again. That did it. I now have 4G network access.
I hope no one has to go through this with their phone; but, if they do, I hope this is helpful.
okay so I"m STUCK. literally, more stuck than I've ever been. i've always been able to fix a softbrick on any device, whether mine or not but I'm stuck and I'm thinking this might work for me considering the failure reports I'm getting (won't go into detail). But I have a couple questions. you just extracted the files from the verizon file (JB or ICS?) and flashed those right? and then got some hardware button reaction, and then flashed the update through stock recovery, correct? and idk if you know this, but there is no difference in moto-fastboot.exe and the regular fastboot used for linux correct? thank you so much for your help, you may save my phone. luckily i have a factory cable so don't have to worry about battery issues. ....btw I got sideload error 7 and none of the recommended issues applied to me, nor was I able to boot my phone to double check those were the problems. THen also, I got an error every time during RSD's FXZ'ing of ICS and JB. SO we're kind of in the same situation. although i know for a fact my error was during the installation of the bootloader, so the preinstall & system img flashes may help me.
lemonoid said:
okay so I"m STUCK. literally, more stuck than I've ever been. i've always been able to fix a softbrick on any device, whether mine or not but I'm stuck and I'm thinking this might work for me considering the failure reports I'm getting (won't go into detail). But I have a couple questions. you just extracted the files from the verizon file (JB or ICS?) and flashed those right? and then got some hardware button reaction, and then flashed the update through stock recovery, correct? and idk if you know this, but there is no difference in moto-fastboot.exe and the regular fastboot used for linux correct? thank you so much for your help, you may save my phone. luckily i have a factory cable so don't have to worry about battery issues. ....btw I got sideload error 7 and none of the recommended issues applied to me, nor was I able to boot my phone to double check those were the problems. THen also, I got an error every time during RSD's FXZ'ing of ICS and JB. SO we're kind of in the same situation. although i know for a fact my error was during the installation of the bootloader, so the preinstall & system img flashes may help me.
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I extracted the files i mentioned from the verizon Jelly Bean file and flashed those (from Windows 7).
Before you start the flashing process, take the sd card out of your phone and copy the Jelly Bean zip file to it. Then reassemble your phone.
After flashing the two files, you'll then have to manually manipulate the phone to get back into stock recovery. Then install the Jelly Bean zip file update from recovery.
Best of luck!
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wburchard said:
I extracted the files i mentioned from the verizon Jelly Bean file and flashed those (from Windows 7).
Before you start the flashing process, take the sd card out of your phone and copy the Jelly Bean zip file to it. Then reassemble your phone.
After flashing the two files, you'll then have to manually manipulate the phone to get back into stock recovery. Then install the Jelly Bean zip file update from recovery.
Best of luck!
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By the way, once you go to Jelly Bean on Droid Bionic, do not EVER install Bionic Bootstrap (or ClockWorkMod) -- I just had to reflash my preboot and system image partitions. Research I've done indicates SafeStrap is the replacement for CWM and Bootstrap.
lemonoid said:
<snip> and idk if you know this, but there is no difference in moto-fastboot.exe and the regular fastboot used for linux correct? <snip>.
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Moto-fastboot.exe for Windows is able to handle large files > 2GB (particularly important with flashing webtop). The regular fastboot.exe for Windows cannot.
The fastboot for Linux has no such problems, IIRC.
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wburchard said:
<snip>
By the way, once you go to Jelly Bean on Droid Bionic, do not EVER install Bionic Bootstrap (or ClockWorkMod) -- I just had to reflash my preboot and system image partitions. Research I've done indicates SafeStrap is the replacement for CWM and Bootstrap.
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More correctly - Safe Strap is the only bootstrapping method to replace your stock recovery and install alternate ROMs that is currently working on the JB build on the BIOINIC.
SafeStrap and bootstrap have coexisted for quite a while, for many devices - it was personal preference before as to which one you could use, or else you were limited by the ROM developer, who would only make a ROM compatible with one or the other (usually not a problem, but there were a few ROMs that were finicky).
However, as of JB, Bootstrap (currently, and AFAICT, for the foreseeable future) no longer works, but SS still does.
You forgot to mention the factory cable
These instructions should be etched in stone. Because they are so damn helpful to anyone who's bricked this phone. One thing you forgot to mention. BTW nice with the hack, but if it's a borked / bricked phone this hack may not work at all. The best solution for everyone out there (and it only costs about $10 - $20) is a factory cable or adapter to use in the USB port. This is kind of equipment they use at Motorola when they first unlock the phone, and it limits the need for any battery to be in the phone. From what I understand it works on almost all of the Motorola droid phones. So for anyone who wants to unbrick their phone my first recommendation is a Factory Cable or Factory Adapter. It will save you alot and I really mean alot of heartache. Which is a good thing, because the one thing you don't want is the phone going dead during a flash procedure.
eric3938 said:
I did the same thing, This worked for me -
Download and extract this
Download and extract this to the previous location
Boot into fastboot mode
Connect to PC with USB
On PC, open command window and navigate to folder created above. I renamed the folders and made them easy to navigate to.
Use commands
Code:
moto-fastboot.exe flash preinstall preinstall.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash system system.img
Once finished reboot to stock recovery (This system WILL NOT BOOT) and install the Jelly Bean zip from SD Card
Reboot
Won't get root back but you'll have a working device.
Spent the past several hours trying to figure this out and just now got my phone to boot into JB.
If your battery is dead, tear apart an old WALL charger, cut the cord and attach pos to pos and neg to neg put a piece of tape over your battery terminals (don't think this would be good for the battery) and put battery in to hold it in place. Not sure how to tell which wire is pos, guessing always works for me lol.
NOTE: A stock wall charger does not seem to put out enough power to fully boot the phone, so remove the wires and tape and charge the battery normally to at least 10% then boot, this made my phone loop while trying to first boot and I thought something was wrong with the system
Edit: Seems at some point I corrupted my internal sd card, the OS was able to reformat. Not sure if it is related or not.
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Hi everyone. I have a problem I can't seem to resolve. I tried updating to the OTA jellybean update a couple weeks ago, it seemed to go ok. I then tried to go back to an earlier version of eclipse rom I was using. Now when I power on the phone I get AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S) (Flash Failure). I can select normal boot and it will go into my ICS Rom that I have loaded in slot 1 after going thru my safestrap recovery program. So the phone is not unusable, just very annoying to use. My question is, how can I get the fastboot flash mode flash failure warning to not show up every time I reboot the phone? I've tried loading the Stock JB Rom from verizon, Blur_Version.6.7.246.xt875.verizon.en.us with RSD Lite, but when I try to extract the files with RSD, I get the error "Please check input file. Either XML format is wrong or image files associated with it are missing." I just want to be able to get a stock rom back on my phone, without any errors when I boot it, I don't care if I have root, safestrap, or anything else, I just want a properly working phone. Any suggestions how to get rid of the boot flash failure warning? Thanks!!!! Richard
Update.... Looks like I really screwed it up now. Tried to rsd lite a JB rom, got about 1/2 way, to copying system image, then hung up. Now when I reboot, it won't even go into recovery or normal mode... Stoopid operator malfunction..... Any suggestions on which rom I can try to install via RSD Lite to help get it back going? It will still go into AP fastboot mode.
He's dead, Jim. Nothing is working, no rom will load, they either fail or hang up. Now both of my batteries are dead, and it won't even try to do anything. Any suggestions?? Guess I'm in the market for another phone. Maybe some of the gurus on here have some advice. Thx.
He's alive, Jim!!!!!
rlg999 said:
He's dead, Jim. Nothing is working, no rom will load, they either fail or hang up. Now both of my batteries are dead, and it won't even try to do anything. Any suggestions?? Guess I'm in the market for another phone. Maybe some of the gurus on here have some advice. Thx.
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Thanks to some other posts on here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236980 I tried installing the system and preinstall img files manually thru moto fastboot. They seemed to hang up after a few minutes, but I tried to install the files anyway. Afterwards, I was able to get into recovery mode and do a system wipe and reinstall the JB rom that I had on my SD card. Now a couple hours later, I got the pageplus 4g issue fixed again, and just finished rooting it with the tutorial on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256439.
You guys are awesome! Thanks for all your hard work.
I've got an Atrix HD and I've been trying to flash HoloBlur since a while now.
I'm presently on 4.1.1 (98.4.20.MB886.ATT.en.US).
I used the Motochopper tool to gain root access. Success.
I used the Motoapocalypse tool to unlock bootloader. Success.
I've used the Myth Tools to flash the inbuilt CWM as well as other versions of it. I've also tried installing CWM through fastboot. All of the methods which I use tell me that the recovery was flashed successfully. However I cannot enter recovery mode at all. I've used to Myth Tools to enter recovery. Failure. I've powered down and tried the Vol-Up and Power button combination. Failure. I just get the image of the dead Android.
Also, in the fastboot mode, pressing the Vol-Up or Vol-Down buttons does not do anything.
I know for sure that I'm rooted. The Super User app is fully active. I've removed AT&T bloatware to confirm this. The app is fully functional.
I also am certain that the bootloader is unlocked. I've verified this through the fastboot mode.
I don't have a clue about what am I doing wrong. I just cannot enter recovery mode at all.
Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated!
Reinstall cwm through adb? Is the phone still working?
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The phones working perfectly fine. The only problem is that I can't enter recovery mode no matter what. I've tried flashing recoveries through fastboot, adb, toolkits, everything. The phone merely shows the dead Android when it enters recovery.
Rabie Haider said:
The phones working perfectly fine. The only problem is that I can't enter recovery mode no matter what. I've tried flashing recoveries through fastboot, adb, toolkits, everything. The phone merely shows the dead Android when it enters recovery.
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Try starting from scratch using RSD Lite to flash yourself back to stock. Then begin the process again, minus unlocking the bootloader, since you already did that.
I really don't want to do that. Since I dont have access to any recovery at this time, I cant make a Nandroid backup. Which means in case things go bad with the flashing, Ill be stuck with a bricked phone.
did u rename the file install_recovery.sh?
devilsking said:
did u rename the file install_recovery.sh?
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No. However I just tried doing this.
I downloaded CWM Touch 6.0.3.6 from m0ndul's thread.
I extracted the package. Copied the recovery image to moto-fastboot folder as well as recovery folder for Myth Tools.
I entered fastboot and used 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img'. Fastboot gave me success notification.
I restarted the phone and entered recovery. The phone shows the dead Android image.
So then I renamed the file to 'install-recovery.sh' in both fastboot and Myth folders.
Both fastboot and Myth Tools give me success notification.
However on entering recovery the same dead Android image comes up. :crying:
You should definitely RSD or MythTools back to complete stock and do the process over again, as mentioned above. It is the only conceivable fix to this strange problem at the time. As long you don't unplug the chord during RSD flashing then nothing will go wrong, I've had to do it about 3 times. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if an RSD flash was unsuccessful you wouldn't be able to use that nandroid backup in the first place, fastboot would be pretty much the only place you can go.
Even if it didn't work (very highly unlikely), this is another way to do it that will definitely work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40929335
Here's all you need: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/list.php The third ATTUS and the Mexico Retail are the only two that will work.
I have the AT&T model as well and I have used the Mexico Retail zip every time without fail.
Replace the XML file inside of the zip with this one so that it flashes properly: https://www.box.com/s/num1eshkf0c2or2h4160
It is completely safe, just don't do it during shceduled power outages, storms, don't touch the data cable, and let it do its thing until it boots back up.
Can you boot your phone? If you can, install Root Explorer and change the recovery file name by adding .bak to the end, then try to install cwm.
Neighbor808 said:
You should definitely RSD or MythTools back to complete stock and do the process over again, as mentioned above. It is the only conceivable fix to this strange problem at the time. As long you don't unplug the chord during RSD flashing then nothing will go wrong, I've had to do it about 3 times. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if an RSD flash was unsuccessful you wouldn't be able to use that nandroid backup in the first place, fastboot would be pretty much the only place you can go.
Even if it didn't work (very highly unlikely), this is another way to do it that will definitely work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40929335
Here's all you need: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/list.php The third ATTUS and the Mexico Retail are the only two that will work.
I have the AT&T model as well and I have used the Mexico Retail zip every time without fail.
Replace the XML file inside of the zip with this one so that it flashes properly: https://www.box.com/s/num1eshkf0c2or2h4160
It is completely safe, just don't do it during shceduled power outages, storms, don't touch the data cable, and let it do its thing until it boots back up.
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SOLVED!
I followed instructions from the CWP thread by some other members.
I've had dozens of Androids and I've flashed things hundreds of times but nothing got as messy as AHD did.
In short, bootloops, nuclear warfare and whatnot later, I'm running HoloBlur.
Thanks a million for your assistance.
Rabie Haider said:
SOLVED!
I followed instructions from the CWP thread by some other members.
I've had dozens of Androids and I've flashed things hundreds of times but nothing got as messy as AHD did.
In short, bootloops, nuclear warfare and whatnot later, I'm running HoloBlur.
Thanks a million for your assistance.
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How did you fix it?
UPDATE:
Nevermind... JUST Remove ~/system/etc/install-recovery.sh it keeps on overwriting the recovery when you boot.
Just That?
MGA2009 said:
How did you fix it?
UPDATE:
Nevermind... JUST Remove ~/system/etc/install-recovery.sh it keeps on overwriting the recovery when you boot.
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Just that?
you did the whole thing to replace files on the rsd thing? or this is the noobsafe method to get into the recovery?
BTW i'm noob...
clopezloud said:
Just that?
you did the whole thing to replace files on the rsd thing? or this is the noobsafe method to get into the recovery?
BTW i'm noob...
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That's way to install custom recovery since renaming that file is the necessary step before flashing custom recovery.
I have a droid bionic that I acquired used that had some major stability issues when I got it. It appeared to be on stock ICS when I got it, so I tried to reflash through rsdlite. The flash just stuck on step 1 of the flash. I've tried HOB method, and every other method I've come across, but all writes to the phone just hang indefinitely. All of the erase steps complete though, and when I've unplugged the USB cable after hanging and plug back in, it will move on to the next erase, copy, write step and hang on the write. So now I have a phone that appears to have every thin wiped during the deletes, and no system of any kind. From day one, when entering recovery I would get several lines about not being able to mount cache etc. The only thing that flashed successfully was a radio flash.
I appreciate any help, but please don't direct me to any more guides unless it is relevant to the can't mount... errors I'm getting. I need to find the reason why no write operations complete and just hang. That's where my problem really lies.
Genaugmen said:
I have a droid bionic that I acquired used that had some major stability issues when I got it. It appeared to be on stock ICS when I got it, so I tried to reflash through rsdlite. The flash just stuck on step 1 of the flash. I've tried HOB method, and every other method I've come across, but all writes to the phone just hang indefinitely. All of the erase steps complete though, and when I've unplugged the USB cable after hanging and plug back in, it will move on to the next erase, copy, write step and hang on the write. So now I have a phone that appears to have every thin wiped during the deletes, and no system of any kind. From day one, when entering recovery I would get several lines about not being able to mount cache etc. The only thing that flashed successfully was a radio flash.
I appreciate any help, but please don't direct me to any more guides unless it is relevant to the can't mount... errors I'm getting. I need to find the reason why no write operations complete and just hang. That's where my problem really lies.
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i recently had issues with rsdlite but eventually got it working with jb4.1.2.
i am using 5.7 and erased a couple things from the xml file to get it working. if you dont care of root install 4.1.2
podagee said:
i recently had issues with rsdlite but eventually got it working with jb4.1.2.
i am using 5.7 and erased a couple things from the xml file to get it working. if you dont care of root install 4.1.2
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I've tried to flash individual parts of the the fxz but it still hangs on every write operation no matter what method I try. I'm becoming convinced it's a hardware fault. I've tried several versions of rsdlite. I can't get one package to complete a write operation. I've seen others with similar problems, but none that couldn't get make at least some progress with a flash, even if they had trouble getting it fully flashed. Unfortunately, the erase commands for the different methods I tried did complete without issue, so now I have no system at all it seems.
I'm tring to use RSDlite from a virtualbox vm, but its going really, really slow. I'm some 40 minutes in and its only on step 6 - I don't think it will complete before the battery goes dead.
If I cancel it now and do all the fastboot flashing by hand through my host os, will I screw anything up?
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I'm tring to use RSDlite from a virtualbox vm, but its going really, really slow. I'm some 40 minutes in and its only on step 6 - I don't think it will complete before the battery goes dead.
If I cancel it now and do all the fastboot flashing by hand through my host os, will I screw anything up?
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its never safe to stop a flashing process. Depending on when you stop it you could royally screw your phone up. Certain files can get corrupted that won't allow you to enter fastboot mode anymore (im not aware of exactly which those are but i think there are many). It shouldn't take that long to flash your phone so im not sure what the problem is. If it has been stuck on the same step forever then maybe it has failed or something. You def don't want your phone battery to go dead because there may be no way to charge it again if there is no bootable rom on there. I believe fastboot may still allow your phone to charge but Im not sure if thats true. I know it didn't used to be able to but i think it may now. Personally, i would stop the rsdlite process before i let the phone battery drain. Then hopefully your phone will fully boot from there and i would charge it to 100% before trying to flash it again.
If my memory is correct then step 6 is the system.img file - the main OS of the phone. It is the big file that will not only take the longest but it is also the one that will fail the easiest as it is so big. On an older XP machine it takes 5 minutes or so to transfer/flash that file.
I have had the process hang during the transfer of the system.img file before. One time I had to reboot my computer and I rebooted the phone. This will leave the phone unable to boot but with enough key presses you can get into fastboot still - I don't recommend this!
When it happened a second time I only rebooted the computer, and not the phone. You can start the flashing process again without restarting the phone unless it has crashed. You should be able to manually flash with fastboot starting with the step that that failed.
I did some googling - it looks like VirtualBox has some problems with USB speed in Windows XP as a guest.
I ended up killing the RSD flash, and doing it by hand, which went way, way faster. I was able to flash the whole thing in the time it took to send the first 2 files, which only adds up to 1.7 meg.
For what its worth, I killed the flash during step 6, which is system, you are correct. I think this may have actually saved me since it had the boot and recovery images already.
edit: and it appears the phones do charge in fastboot. I had more charge when it rebooted after the successful flash than I started with.
Good to hear you got it working. And yes, the phone should (slowly) charge when in fastboot.