I made a mistake while installing Cyanogenmod on my Droid 4 and now the device . Safestrap is gone (please don't reply with "try pressing menu" stuff, there is no safestrap), everything else is gone.
It hangs on the Motorola logo on boot-up. I can get into recovery mode. I should be able to simply install a factory ROM from the SD card or ADB. Problem is, I can't seem to find one. Everywhere I look I find crap for the bionic or droid x or I find modified roms but I can not seem to find the signed factory rom for the droid 4. The few I've tried fail on the "verifying update package" screen.
Where can I get a signed factory rom that can be installed from recovery mode?
If it matters, my phone had previously run Motorola's Jelly Bean build but I don't care if it ends up being downgraded after this since I'll just root and install cyanogenmod. I had been trying to install cyanogenmod 10.1 RC2.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
Monsuco said:
I made a mistake while installing Cyanogenmod on my Droid 4 and now the device . Safestrap is gone (please don't reply with "try pressing menu" stuff, there is no safestrap), everything else is gone.
It hangs on the Motorola logo on boot-up. I can get into recovery mode. I should be able to simply install a factory ROM from the SD card or ADB. Problem is, I can't seem to find one. Everywhere I look I find crap for the bionic or droid x or I find modified roms but I can not seem to find the signed factory rom for the droid 4. The few I've tried fail on the "verifying update package" screen.
Where can I get a signed factory rom that can be installed from recovery mode?
If it matters, my phone had previously run Motorola's Jelly Bean build but I don't care if it ends up being downgraded after this since I'll just root and install cyanogenmod. I had been trying to install cyanogenmod 10.1 RC2.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
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You will most likely need to SBF your phone. That will get you back to completely stock.
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You just need to use the Droid 4 Utility option 2.
Download and info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207384
Monsuco said:
I made a mistake while installing Cyanogenmod on my Droid 4 and now the device . Safestrap is gone (please don't reply with "try pressing menu" stuff, there is no safestrap), everything else is gone.
It hangs on the Motorola logo on boot-up. I can get into recovery mode. I should be able to simply install a factory ROM from the SD card or ADB. Problem is, I can't seem to find one. Everywhere I look I find crap for the bionic or droid x or I find modified roms but I can not seem to find the signed factory rom for the droid 4. The few I've tried fail on the "verifying update package" screen.
Where can I get a signed factory rom that can be installed from recovery mode?
If it matters, my phone had previously run Motorola's Jelly Bean build but I don't care if it ends up being downgraded after this since I'll just root and install cyanogenmod. I had been trying to install cyanogenmod 10.1 RC2.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
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http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_maserati/list.php
but remember... you CANNOT downgrade once you have upgraded!!!
you will [non-semi] brick your phone! you will blow your eFuse!
if you have ICS you MUST have ICS or higher!
make sure you had atleast 25% battery... if not get the OTG cable from TBH
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ok did the sprecover es81 install worked great now trying to install a rom and....Nothing i keep getting the bad error period and when i try to reboot back into android i get stuck at the moto M screen
ive tried about 4 different roms all named update and all say E:cant open /sdcard/update.zip (bad) installation aborted and im at a loss for what to do?
is there anything i can do. and yes i did wipe data and cache like 20 times and still nothing
so what is this considered a brick?
i am still able to access the recovery menu
still stuck at the M logo, can anyone help?
is there anyway to use RSDlite to flash the phone to stock again?
or is this a fancy new paperweight?
never mind, found the stock Droid SBF through hard search and flashed droid back to normal, unrooted 2.01 firmware
You didn't mention "allow deprecated". You have to do that in SPR before you load the .zip
hammergunner said:
never mind, found the stock Droid SBF through hard search and flashed droid back to normal, unrooted 2.01 firmware
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Rom Manager. Winz. Backup so you can go back to a working rom at any time.
Hello Folks,
I have a Droid Bionic Running 98.72.22XT875.Verizon.en.US (The stock JB update rooted)
I FXZ'd this onto the phone, so there are no files from the ICS install.
With SafeStrap 3.11 installed, including recovery I see the option to choose Menu to boot into the recovery, but when I press it the device just boots like normal.
I'm not sure if it is misreading my press, or if the recovery is not bootable.
IS there a new version, or is there a way I can boot into SS without using the button?
Can anyone help me out?
Thank You,
-Dacooter
Why haven't you removed & reinstalled Safestrap yet? Safestrap 3.11 works fine with JB on my phone, and I put JB on my phone with an FXZ.
I have tried re-installing SafeStrap.
I've even tried Differend APK downloads.. no luck.
Hey Folks,
I got this all figured out.
I flashed Via RSD one more time, then rooted without modifying the stock ROM at all. now it is working.
Thanks,
-Dakotah
Same problem as starter
So I'm having the same problem as the person who started this thread. I've tried SafeStrap 3.11 about 5 times and no luck. I've reflashed it using the RSD Lite tool about 5 times flashing it with http : // sbf. droid-developers. org/cdma_targa/list.php and still had no luck (of course i'm using the JB edition named "9.8.2O-72_VZW-22 Blur_Version.98.72.22.XT875.Verizon.en.US" )
Every time I press the Menu button when SafeStrap pops up it boots like normal. I can't seem to get this fixed. I tried CWR twice, made a backup, and both times the OS said "Encryption" was bad and I needed to factory reset. Only fix was using RSD Lite.
Any ideas? Should I try to manually flash recover.img?
Hey all,
I've been searching all over for the solution to this problem and I haven't been able to find any sort of solution and all my attempts to google have been in vain. I've been having problems installing any rom from clockworkmod. I have a droid bionic with the system version, 98.72.22.XT875 the android version is 4.1.2. So I was originally trying to get the pacman rom on my phone. I flashed a clean jellybean rom from RSD and then I used bootstrap and rom manager to flash clockworkmod recovery. However every time I tried to install the pacman rom I get an error that says something similar to E: system cant find *blank* file. When I reboot my system after this the phone says that I've lost encryption and it wont allow me to access the phone anymore. So I tried downloading the cryogen mod off of rom manager and I had the same problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
You cannot use bootstrap with the jellybean firmware on a bionic, you must use safestrap. It is the only currently working recovery.
Clockworkmod doesn't work either (as far as I know.. Is there even a build for the bionic?)
Clean again with an fxz, root, install safestrap app, install recovery through the app, reboot to safestrap, create a ROM slot, install your ROM to that slot, and all should be good.
(The reason your attempts were in vain is because the boot loader is locked, thus some boot-time patching and workarounds must be done)
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Safe strap works great. Boot manager is supposed to work also, haven't tried it yet.
Hi, device is rooted, and clockworkmod recovery 6.0.4.5 installed.
ROM is JB, the official update from LG. Today device reported there is an update to the installed firmware.
I rebooted in CM recovery, took a nandroid backup, booted, and accepted to download the official update to my official JB rom. After downloading I was asked to reboot (in order to install), and the phone reboots to the CM recovery.
From there I don't know what to do. I have tried rebooting, but again find myself to the CM recovery. I have tried "reboot to bootloader" and get stuck at the LG boot screen logo with the message "Now Ready!" in tiny white letters on the upper left corner.
I would try "install zip" but I don't know where the downloaded update is (if it even is in an acceptable zip format)
Phone isn't bricked, I guess I can always restore from the recently taken backup, but I really would like to know if there is a way to install this update.
Thank you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50645445
Could you please please please try to search the next time I've seen this question for probably 3-4 times
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you can't ota over unlocked bl/cwm, you must flash update manually
moneyvirus said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50645445
Could you please please please try to search the next time I've seen this question for probably 3-4 times
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You're right, but you know, sometimes you just can't nail the right keywords especially if its not your native language. I searched, but obviously not good enough.
Rudjgaard said:
you can't ota over unlocked bl/cwm, you must flash update manually
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Sadly, this seems to be the case.. bummer.
Thanks everyone
Not even my nandroid backup can help me get to where I was before? So much for nandroid being the ultimate backup, a "snapshot image" of the device...
So, what if, I use CM recovery to install a custom rom, and then restore from my nandroid backup (being the official JB) ?
Flash with kdz flasher original ROM then flash cwm you can put back your backup. I think the problem starts that the update pushes something in the boot section that is expecting an other (read original) recovery . when you installed cwm it boots up cwm so that's why an nandroid backup doesn't work I think ( to be honest I'm not 100% sure this is correct)
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I can't even flash cyanogenmod???
I downloaded latest stable build, copied it to sd card, selected it from the CM recovery ("install zip"), installed fine, reboot, still stuck at CM recovery!!!
What gives?
EPa said:
I can't even flash cyanogenmod???
I downloaded latest stable build, copied it to sd card, selected it from the CM recovery ("install zip"), installed fine, reboot, still stuck at CM recovery!!!
What gives?
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Have you yet followed the advice and installed the KDZ?
Trying to avoid that, as it seems too much work for a phone that was working fine, and stuck to recovery due to some silly boot flag or something.
Saw it as a chance to try cyanogenmod. But it seems having CM recovery and the cyanogenmod rom on the sd card won't cut it! Talk about failure..
EPa said:
Trying to avoid that, as it seems too much work for a phone that was working fine, and stuck to recovery due to some silly boot flag or something.
Saw it as a chance to try cyanogenmod. But it seems having CM recovery and the cyanogenmod rom on the sd card won't cut it! Talk about failure..
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I don't think you will have a choice. If you created the nandroid backup on your SD card then you aren't going to lose it, so just flash the KDZ, root again and install your backup, or accept the LG update and rebuild all your software again.
Yes, one thing is for sure. I had to install the KDZ to be able to proceed with anything..
It's just funny having a working CWM recovery and a cyanogen rom on the device and after flashing it, still not having a device that boots. A "recovery"/flash tool, should be able to "recover" from such a situation..
EPa said:
Yes, one thing is for sure. I had to install the KDZ to be able to proceed with anything..
It's just funny having a working CWM recovery and a cyanogen rom on the device and after flashing it, still not having a device that boots. A "recovery"/flash tool, should be able to "recover" from such a situation..
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You can't blame the recovery. It is clearly stated many, many times that you should never attempt an official OTA update with a non-standard (rooted or recovery installed) device. On other devices you could even hard-brick AFAIK, so consider yourself lucky that you only had to reflash a KDZ and start again.
For restoring stock rom use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682146 I can confirm it works and it is (very) easy.
Yes that's what I used and I also confirm it works and is very easy.
Hi guys, i just rooted my device using TWRP. As i am new to all this, i tried flashing CM11 ROM but i was getting "failed" message again and again. Then mistakenly i used option of "Advance Wipe" and wiped everything. Now while booting up the device i am going to recovery but there is no backup available and i am unable to install any ROM as the custom ROM is also deleted along with backup. Please help me out on this. Thanks...
Hemant17 said:
Hi guys, i just rooted my device using TWRP. As i am new to all this, i tried flashing CM11 ROM but i was getting "failed" message again and again. Then mistakenly i used option of "Advance Wipe" and wiped everything. Now while booting up the device i am going to recovery but there is no backup available and i am unable to install any ROM as the custom ROM is also deleted along with backup. Please help me out on this. Thanks...
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I have done that a few times by mistake I would download the rom on a thumb drive and use my otg cable to plug it in flash it from the thumb drive in recovery.
You can also side load it as well, yet I have never done it that way so you would have to search that.
I have also read some say download the rom to your pc and and plug in phone and drag the rom to your sdcard.
If all else fails you can always return to stock via rsd or mfastboot as long as you can get into download mode.
Thanks a lot for your prompt response. I am having Moto x 2013 edition and tried to flash CM11 ROM using thumb drive in recovery mode but the "failed" message was coming , is it a compatibility issue of ROM with My device? As i told that i am new to all these things can you please guide me or share with me a link for any good ROM which i could flash on my Moto x and make it functional again.
Also if i want to get back to my stock ROM i.e. Kitkat 4.4 then how to do it? will i be able to update to lollipop in future?
Sorry for asking so many questions and thanks again for your support.
It sounds more like you should flash your phone back to stock and leave it there until you understand what you're doing. With the number of guides available anymore, the entire flashing process should be dead simple and difficult to mess up. Add to the fact that wiping/formatting partitions always prompts for confirmation before actually deleting things, and it shows that you don't really have any knowledge about what is going on. Keeping your phone stock until you do know what you're doing is only going to save you from having a paperweight in the long run.
Thanks a lot!!!! with your support i am able to flash my phone on cyanogen12
Thanks agian...