[Q] I just can't root my D4. Help - Motorola Droid 4

Okay so I am on my 3rd Droid 4, on 4.1.2 JB . All of my previous 4's were rooted. I used the Droid 4 JB Utility & I took all necessary preparations. I factory reset my phone, have USB Debugging enabled, have updated drivers, and i keep getting the same message. I get to Phase 2 of the process, otherwise known as the Smart Actions step. Once I turn on battery saver and I press Enter to continue, nothing happens. I have even left my PC for a little bit to see if anything would happen, but to my dismay, nothing. Do you guys know what the problem may be? any help is appreciated. thanks in advance. My SmartActions app is version 4.2.2.4.2

Acrety said:
Okay so I am on my 3rd Droid 4, on 4.1.2 JB . All of my previous 4's were rooted. I used the Droid 4 ICS Utility & I took all necessary preparations. I factory reset my phone, have USB Debugging enabled, have updated drivers, and i keep getting the same message. I get to Phase 2 of the process, otherwise known as the Smart Actions step. Once I turn on battery saver and I press Enter to continue, nothing happens. I have even left my PC for a little bit to see if anything would happen, but to my dismay, nothing. Do you guys know what the problem may be? any help is appreciated. thanks in advance.
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You need to use the Jelly Bean utility by mattlgroff. It's in the dev section.
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kwyrt said:
You need to use the Jelly Bean utility by mattlgroff. It's in the dev section.
Sent from my Droid 4 - Eclipse JB
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Im so sorry, I meant to put JB utility. that is the one that i am currently using. still no luck

also, my SmartActions app version is 4.2.2.4.2

you updated drivers, but did you check, windows device manager
for driver errors
more in my list
sd_shadow's [Collection] of Links for Droid 4
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Related

Bionic ICS Leak v 6.7.2233 (Android 4.0.4) [download link]

This is a leak for the 6.7.2233 update (Android 4.0.4) for the Bionic.
You must be on stock .905 to use this.
You must flash from STOCK RECOVERY.
Use of Safestrap is NOT recommended.
You may need to FXZ to .902, take the OTA update to .905 and then flash from STOCK RECOVERY.
File link : http://droidrepo.info/the-repository/viewdownload/9-bionic/74-bionic-905-to-404--672233-ics-leak
md5: d4f9bc75285681a8c9b6e637f7dba98e
I was on 905 i sbf to 902 then ota back to 905, rerooted used voodoo rootkeeper to temp unroot then reroot. Flashed the new leak. Works like a charm and kept root good luck everyone
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Reason i went from 905 to 902 was i was rommed with eclipse on 905
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installed ICS
Installed 6.7.2233 and it was pretty flawless. I flashed back to .902 and did an OTA update to .905. I haven't rooted yet but I hear there is a way to do it.
Couple of things I noticed
On stock launcher, when plugging in webtop it doesn't work. I got ADW and it works fine now.
Bluetooth seems to work better, wifi is WAY faster (I know this by doing speed tests a lot before and after). I can't speak for 4G yet but will report back when I know for sure how it's doing.
CPU is now running at 1200MHz vice 1000 and it doesn't seem that it auto adjusts to lower speeds like previous versions did so we will see how battery life does. Battery life seems fine so far though.
Any pics or video? Please post!
can someone please tell me how to update to this ? i have already unrooted with voodoo and when i go into recovery to install update it tells me it cant verify signature. i am on 905
jorge7993 said:
can someone please tell me how to update to this ? i have already unrooted with voodoo and when i go into recovery to install update it tells me it cant verify signature. i am on 905
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27832332
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I have been running this for 24 hours. In that past 24 hours, the data connection works worlds better than the cm9 of gummy roms I have tried in the pas 2 weeks. In those pas 2 weeks, whenever I hit a 4g zone, no data at all. Today I drove through different zones and was switching between the 2 without issue! Hopefully this update will help solve problems some of us have been having with a data connection.
are we supposed to used rsd to install this ics file?
How to Flash ICS on bionic
can some one help me flash this leaked version of ics i never mod or flash before so i am newbie to this any step by step help is appreciated
thanks
danny11542 said:
can some one help me flash this leaked version of ics i never mod or flash before so i am newbie to this any step by step help is appreciated
thanks
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jorge7993 said:
are we supposed to used rsd to install this ics file?
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No have to flash using the stock recovery
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I have tried several times but it keeps saying it can't verify signature. Do I rename it to update.zip?
Has anyone found a way to root after applying the update? My attempt at keeping root didn't work.
genei.09 said:
Has anyone found a way to root after applying the update? My attempt at keeping root didn't work.
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You can use the razr one click root method by djrbliss.
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danny11542 said:
can some one help me flash this leaked version of ics i never mod or flash before so i am newbie to this any step by step help is appreciated
thanks
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It's surprisingly easy, but I can understand the daunting task if you've never done any playing with the guts
Download the link at the front page to your computer.
Connect your phone to your computer and click on the "Mass Storage" Setting when the USB options come up.
Copy the downloaded .zip file to your external SD card. Don't worry about unzipping it or anything.
Once it's down, turn your phone off, then turn the phone back on while holding both the up and down arrows. This will boot your phone into what's called "Stock Recovery". To navigate Stock, you click down to move through the options, then up to select a choice.
Click down once (iirc) until your highlight Recovery, then click up to select
This will place you in Recovery mode, if there is nothing on your phone but an icon of android and an exclamation point, hold both of the volume buttons again.
From here, you will use the volume buttons to navigate, and the power button to select items.
Go to, Install update from external storage.
Highlight the .zip file you put there earlier
Wait 5-10 minutes.
Enjoy your ice creamy goodness 2-3 weeks before everyone else. Once you start it up it will "optimize the apps" for a bit, this is natural ICS behavior.
Now that you've flashed your own rom in custom mode, you can start looking at rooting and flashing custom roms. Personally I'd hold out until the developers have time to parse out ICS and update their roms. I believe even the current unofficial "ICS" roms are based on Gingerbread kernels that has been heavily modified.
Here you go folks. I put it up on my server which is much faster.
http://playeraffinity.com/files/Blur_Version.5.9.905.XT875.Verizon.en.US.zip
I was going to put it on a download page and all that jazz, but I know you all want to get right to downloading it so all i ask is if you have any free time, check out the site my server is for, Player Affinity. There's a lot of interesting articles on there and you might find something worth sharing.
Once ICS is official on the bionic, I'll get cracking at an Affinity ROM for it.
Saint Isaiah said:
Here you go folks. I put it up on my server which is much faster.
http://playeraffinity.com/files/Blur_Version.5.9.905.XT875.Verizon.en.US.zip
I was going to put it on a download page and all that jazz, but I know you all want to get right to downloading it so all i ask is if you have any free time, check out the site my server is for, Player Affinity. There's a lot of interesting articles on there and you might find something worth sharing.
Once ICS is official on the bionic, I'll get cracking at an Affinity ROM for it.
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Why does it say 905 on the download instead of .233
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TheGman125 said:
Why does it say 905 on the download instead of .233
Sent From NS4G, E4GT, and Mopho all running CM9
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It indicates where you have to start from, just to prevent problems.
silversonic1 said:
It indicates where you have to start from, just to prevent problems.
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So is this the ics leak tho?
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[Q] ics 4.0.4 build 6.7.246 root

has anyone found a way to root the latest offical ICS 4.0.4 build 6.7.246? i lost root after installing it. thanks.
Motofail for ICS
I was able 2 using razors edge jus make sure debuggin and custom apps are checked
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it worked!
hey thanks, it worked!!!
Sir_Eagle said:
Motofail for ICS
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Phone not showing ICS
I can't get my son's phone to show the update as available. Has anyone posted the zip file out there for other users to install the ICS update?
shduong said:
hey thanks, it worked!!!
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Mind sharing where you found it? I'm finding links but not sure which is right. I'd rather just use whatever you used since I know it will work.
uggghhhh. I was just going to use OTA Rootkeeper but ever since I updated to .905 my adb does not work. My phone will not mount to the computer at all, it won't read my SD Card, only charge the phone. So I tried to fix it by flashing a FXZ through RSDLite, because that fixed it last time it happened 6 months ago, and it didn't work. So I'm just going to install the update, and hopefully it will fix my adb. If not, I have no clue how I'm going to root this ******* phone!!! its so frustrating! If anyone knows of a way that I could edit some rooting script to connect through adb wireless, please let me know. I would even be willing to pay someone like ten or fifteen bucks if they could give me a working script to root through adb wireless, or some other way, which I've never heard of.
shduong said:
hey thanks, it worked!!!
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Please let us know where you found the motofail-ics download that you used. Also, did you just have usb debugging checked or did you need to check other options as well?
Motofail-ics is included in the thread at the top of the page titled 905 to ICS update... worked for me
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It is included in the guide in the sticky section..
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bonzai276 said:
Motofail-ics is included in the thread at the top of the page titled 905 to ICS update... worked for me
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It is included in the guide in the sticky section..
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I also used the motofail-ics posted in the guide and had no issues.
sytech55 said:
I can't get my son's phone to show the update as available. Has anyone posted the zip file out there for other users to install the ICS update?
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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7z9xJrt55a6bFM0YUV1amhLZVU/edit?pli=1 enjoy
Instructions Links
Mobifail-ics
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771993&highlight=motofail - Original post
In addition to that post you will be able to get everything you need to download and install the latest ICS version and root your device.
- Cheers
motofail ics failed for me
Just hot a replacement bionic in the mail and am about to send back my rooted 2.3.4 running eclipse 3.0. I updated the replacement w 4.0.4 and tried the wonderfully simplified motofail ics, usb debugged (not in mtp mode) it recognized device, started daemon, then stalled out for 20 min....? I unplugged read up some more switched to mtp mode and now it claims its waiting for device to be ready..... i am a unlimited data grandfather who relies on my unlocked wifi tether.... any guidance?!
tonamaste said:
Just hot a replacement bionic in the mail and am about to send back my rooted 2.3.4 running eclipse 3.0. I updated the replacement w 4.0.4 and tried the wonderfully simplified motofail ics, usb debugged (not in mtp mode) it recognized device, started daemon, then stalled out for 20 min....? I unplugged read up some more switched to mtp mode and now it claims its waiting for device to be ready..... i am a unlimited data grandfather who relies on my unlocked wifi tether.... any guidance?!
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How did you update to ICS? Over the air update? I ask because if you updated it via FXZ and Fastboot mode with RSD Lite, then what I'm about to suggest is moot. But if you took the OTA update, then it makes more sense.
I'm betting that either your computer doesn't have the right Moto drivers on them, or that you're plugging it into a bad port. They can be finicky.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771993
Grab the USB drivers mentioned in step (4).
Then make sure that you're plugging your phone into a USB port on the back of your computer, not an external USB hub. Also don't plug it into USB 3.0. This may not actually be the issue but I accidentally used my USB 3.0 port once to Motofail and it didn't work at all. If you already tried one of the back ports, or are on a laptop, just try another port.
MrChupon is spot on. I had the exact same problem until i went Motorola and grabbed the very latest drivers. Worked like a champ after that.
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It was over the air, from a fresh stock VZW replacement. For what ever unknown reason it stalled out once it started daemon..... I pre maturely ejected it, and I think it left the device in a partial state, and when reattempting in my 2.o port it was confused and left me hanging.... so in my sleep i decided to try a factory reset to flush the cache so to say and motofail proved to be a fantastic success! (Using my wifi right now thanks to some sqlite value adjustments! Thanks for the wisdom and words regardless!
tonamaste said:
It was over the air, from a fresh stock VZW replacement. For what ever unknown reason it stalled out once it started daemon..... I pre maturely ejected it, and I think it left the device in a partial state, and when reattempting in my 2.o port it was confused and left me hanging.... so in my sleep i decided to try a factory reset to flush the cache so to say and motofail proved to be a fantastic success! (Using my wifi right now thanks to some sqlite value adjustments! Thanks for the wisdom and words regardless!
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Premature ejection will get you every time!
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Motorola drivers

Dunno if this forum is still alive but...
OTA updated to. 246 been trying to root w motofail but it's stuck on daemon successful or waiting for device...
I've installed the motohelper 5.2? But still nothing. Does anyone know how to uninstall old drivers? I had the OG Droid before and I've read that older drivers might be the cause but dunno how to go about fixing it. Any help would be appreciated. I also don't have another computer to try on and my usb is stock original from box.
Is there another method to rooting? Thanks peeps
Kensai said:
Dunno if this forum is still alive but...
OTA updated to. 246 been trying to root w motofail but it's stuck on daemon successful or waiting for device...
I've installed the motohelper 5.2? But still nothing. Does anyone know how to uninstall old drivers? I had the OG Droid before and I've read that older drivers might be the cause but dunno how to go about fixing it. Any help would be appreciated. I also don't have another computer to try on and my usb is stock original from box.
Is there another method to rooting? Thanks peeps
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You can use razors edge or I would suggest that you factory reset your phone. Then try the Motofail.
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I've tried motofail n razors edge but to no avail. When you say reset, do you mean through rom or recovery? N does it wipe sd? I just want to make sure I back up. Thanks for the help
It's USB debugging enabled?
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Thanks for the help guys, got my Bionic finally rooted. I did do a factory reset w internal sd erase option checked. What's odd was I couldn't use motofail for some reason but I was able to find a razor's edge copy from Droidforum and ran perfectly.
Running Safestrap w icarus only problem is my Google calender isn't synching any inputs?

[Q] Help with Rooting

let me start off with this is my first attempt at rooting a Droid. I have had a droid since the launch the droid1. Now, I have tried rooting my Droid 4 and I can not get it exactly to work. First I rooted it without the drivers. So I went through the process of getting them.. then I tried again. Nothing. It seems like it is doing the same thing each time, but when I download the RootChecker it consistently says that my phone is not rooted properly... I'm hoping I can get it done right so that I may move on to rooting my Samsung Tab2. Then after that I look forward to using su and safestrap, but i cant without a good root. help please
***Used jsnweitzel's method and D4 is updating binary as we speak. Thanks to all that helped! now it's time to get cm10 and root the Tab2
LuckeyNo7 said:
let me start off with this is my first attempt at rooting a Droid. I have had a droid since the launch the droid1. Now, I have tried rooting my Droid 4 and I can not get it exactly to work. First I rooted it without the drivers. So I went through the process of getting them.. then I tried again. Nothing. It seems like it is doing the same thing each time, but when I download the RootChecker it consistently says that my phone is not rooted properly... I'm hoping I can get it done right so that I may move on to rooting my Samsung Tab2. Then after that I look forward to using su and safestrap, but i cant without a good root. help please
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What are you using to root your phone? Are you getting any kind of errors when the root process is running?
kwyrt said:
What are you using to root your phone? Are you getting any kind of errors when the root process is running?
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pc running windows 7. and I originally got error messages before I had the drivers correctly installed. then after that I didn't get any error messages. however root checker nevertheless says my root is not valid.
Do u have the super user app after u try to root?
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
adizzle23 said:
Do u have the super user app after u try to root?
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
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No, I have to always end up going to the market and downloading it :/
puzzling hm?
So what method did u try to root with?
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
adizzle23 said:
So what method did u try to root with?
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
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I used Rick#2's method (big thanks to him it was quiet simple) I ran it initially, without the drivers and it did not work. Then again with the drivers properly installed.
this is the info my phone has now if it is any help
System Version:
6.16.217.XT894.Verizon.en.us
Model:
Droid 4
Android Version:
4.0.4
Baseband Version:
CDMA_N_05.11.01P LTEDC_U_09.11.00
Webtop Version:
wt- 3.0.0
Kernal Version:
3.0.8-gddeo5fe
[email protected] #1
SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 26 22:22:04 CDT 2012
Build Number:
6.72-180_DR4-16_M2-37
Build Date:
Thu Jul 26 22:03:56 CDT 2012
Again sorry for the noob post. this was probably too much info haha. but whatever can help figure this little problem out.
Yea that's the method I used also, I'm sorry but I just don't know what your problem would b, I guess the best thing to do would b to just start all over and make sure u have the latest moto drivers from there site and just give it another try. Good luck and let us know if u do any good.
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
You might also want to try a different method. I used the Droid 4 Utility ICS Only by jsnweitzel. It probably does the same thing but might be worth a shot. Using the same utility you could also try using the restore function to start fresh (one of the restore options allows you to not wipe data).
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Did u ever get your problem solved? Hopefully u did because cm10 runs beautifully on the droid 4, well imo anyway. Let us know if u had any luck.
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
The ICS root tool and Jsnweitzel's are the same thing just packaged in an app so both would work. I also noticed that sometimes you have to download superuser from the market. After doing that open a program that requires root and then the prompt will appear asking if you want to give su permission. Grant it. Then go to superuser and update the binary.
kwyrt said:
You might also want to try a different method. I used the Droid 4 Utility ICS Only by jsnweitzel. It probably does the same thing but might be worth a shot. Using the same utility you could also try using the restore function to start fresh (one of the restore options allows you to not wipe data).
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I am going to try jsnweitzel's method now. I am just waiting for the download. i will let you guys now how it goes. but once that is done I will be looking to get cm10 (with the tip from adizzle23, thank you), however knowing myself I will run into problems with that as well but yes I will let you all know how this goes after it is all done.
adizzle23 said:
Did u ever get your problem solved? Hopefully u did because cm10 runs beautifully on the droid 4, well imo anyway. Let us know if u had any luck.
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
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Yeah it is updating in su right now.
Next step, like you were mentioning, is to get cm10.. hope that runs a little smoother. haha.
Well good luck and glad its workin out, but I do have to say that cm10 isn't perfect but its close, there are a few things that don't work. The camera flash doesn't work and mms has to be tweeked to get it to work, all u have to do is go into your message settings and turn auto retrieve off and it works fine, or u can use go sms pro app, and you lose webtop and I'm pretty sure hdmi doesn't work, I still use cm10 as my daily driver with no problems except the ones mentioned above and everything else works great, but that's the good thing about using safestrap because u can flash several roms and just flash back and forth from rom to rom until you find the one u like the most. So hope it all works out and just make sure u watch a how to video on youtube or something when learning how to use safestrap and flashing custom roms.
sent from my droid 4/ cm10.
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[Q] Anyone succesfully reverted back to 4.2.2?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644083
according to that, you can revert to stock. im assuming 4.2.2? i want to go back to use the app that gives you recovery. (which is not yet available for kitkat) to use cm11
so question is, can i use that method to go back to 4.2.2? or would it take me to 4.4.4? my phone is not bricked. just stock 4.4.2
helppp. thankssss.
As long as you download the correct TOT file, that is the correct procedure that I have used on my at&t d950.
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Remember to do a full wipe, because the applications from 4.4.2 to 4.2.2 they will not be worked and the phone will have a bootloop
Will this work if I'm on stock 4.4.2 and want to downgrade to 4.2.2?
Forgot to add I'm not rooted sorry
Cant get into Download Mode
I rooted my G-Flex and then took the update by unintentionally, the phone started freezing so i did a factory reset. Now i have no mobile data. So im trying to downgrade but i cant get into Download mode using the Volume up plug in method, any help?
I've used the d959 kdz and this method. Its a *****. Too me whole weekend to get it to work.
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I've used the d959 kdz and this method. Its a *****. Too me whole weekend to get it to work.
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Damn I wanted to try the MIUI Rom but don't want the hassle. I'm guess this is the only way?
I don't think he has a d959 version of the miui yet. They are so close to getting cm11 ready for a beta. Radio is now working just gotta get the kernel to run stable. But as fast as they are coming along I wouldn't be surprised if its ready by the weekend.
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I don't think he has a d959 version of the miui yet. They are so close to getting cm11 ready for a beta. Radio is now working just gotta get the kernel to run stable. But as fast as they are coming along I wouldn't be surprised if its ready by the weekend.
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Gerett needs the 4.2 files and MIUI should work for the d959. I'm following the two Rom threads by the min. lol
sweets55 said:
Gerett needs the 4.2 files and MIUI should work for the d959. I'm following the two Rom threads by the min. lol
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That's my fault. He asked for them a couple weeks ago and I got sidetracked with my son and work has been hell. But thanks for reminding me. I just sent him what he needed.
Tested the first d959 miui. No go as of right now. Boots but no screen. Just black screen. Still a little more work but I'm sure soon.
haven't had MIUI on any phone since I had my Note 2, and kinda miss it!
Gerret had a sweet miui rom on that phone, so I know how great it would be if it works out the Flex..
I was having the same issue and i read a post in another forum here on xda (can't remember which one or i would link you to it) that used QPST force the phone into download mode. I also was unable to get it into download mode using adb. At any rate, it was fairly simple to do and i have done it multiple times since then. Just Google a working download of QPST, install it, and then follow the instructions below.
1) make sure that you're port settings I the hidden menu on your phone are set too diag mode. Data can be enabled for them as well, but diag is a must.
2) set the dmapp usage setting to ON in the hidden menu as well. The hidden menu is accessed by dialing 3845#*XXX# in the dialer where XXX is replaced by the three digits of your model number e.g. for a T-Mobile G Flex (D959) it would be 3845#*959#.
3) connect the phone to the computer you installed QPST on and wait for the proper drives to install.
4) open QPST configuration and click "add new port". Select the lg diagnostics port and then click the start services menu tab.
5) start the Software Download service and then make sure that you're phone was properly recognized by the service.
6) click the multi-image tab and set your window to look as the photo below.
7) once the window looks like the photo, click the start button and then hit the abort button as soon as possible so as to not actually do anything other than just reset the phone.
8) if all goes as it's supposed to, your phone should have been reset into download mode. I hope this helped.
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