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Hi all,
prior to any comment, yes, i know there are already posts on this issue, however looking through them didn't help at all unfortunately.
I have a Moto Milestone, origin is Israel.
somewhere along the way i've updated the bootloader to 90.78 and since then - the phone is stuck in the notorious loop and cannot restart the OS.
Tried already to reflash the phone without luck using RSD Lite (downloaded the SBF through http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone - the 'official' Cellcom IL SBF that was there...)
anyway - i can still access the bootloader which tells me the phone is not fully bricked, however i can't seem to find any proper SBF so it'll reflash itself back to an operative state.
One major problem here - the phone won't get into recovery mode (i've tried all the combinations i know and that have worked before)
i've also read about wiping the cache and user data however - as far as i know, this can only be done by entering the recovery mode, right?
one last resort i've tried - trying to split the SBF and reconstructing it - still no joy.
does anyone here have any advice or solution o this issue? what kind of SBF do i need? how to manually reconstruct the SBF with proper files? etc.
Thanks in advance,
Tomer
Have you tried loooking into fastboot?
Sometimes a phone wont respond to to adb commands and the recovery is corrupted, but you can still flash partitions using fastboot. I "saved" a Moto dext in this fashion once. Cant remember the exact commands, but it was similar to the adb flash commands. I reflashed the recovery partition and then used recovery to flash a ROM in update.zip format. For some reason RSD lite was failing on this phone.
Just something you may want to look into if you are desperate about saving your MS.
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Caz666 said:
Have you tried loooking into fastboot?
Sometimes a phone wont respond to to adb commands and the recovery is corrupted, but you can still flash partitions using fastboot. I "saved" a Moto dext in this fashion once. Cant remember the exact commands, but it was similar to the adb flash commands. I reflashed the recovery partition and then used recovery to flash a ROM in update.zip format. For some reason RSD lite was failing on this phone.
Just something you may want to look into if you are desperate about saving your MS.
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App
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Hi Caz666,
well, thought this might actually work, but had no luck.
when i try to flash my phone it does nothing other than showing me 'downloading boot.img' and thats it.
is there anything else to do in order to save my phone? i really like it
I'm also willing to donate through PayPal to anyone who can describe any working method or that can point me to any valid working process...
thanks again.
barvaz_t said:
Hi Caz666,
well, thought this might actually work, but had no luck.
when i try to flash my phone it does nothing other than showing me 'downloading boot.img' and thats it.
is there anything else to do in order to save my phone? i really like it
I'm also willing to donate through PayPal to anyone who can describe any working method or that can point me to any valid working process...
thanks again.
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are you sure your drivers for the phone are installed properly? what RSD lite version are you using? What system? windows 32 or 64 bits?
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are you sure your drivers for the phone are installed properly? what RSD lite version are you using? What system? windows 32 or 64 bits?
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I'm quite sure they're installed properly as i managed to upgrade my bootloader version using the RSDlite.
my system is 32 bits and the drivers are the ones i installed throught the Motorola website. I've first used RSDlite 4.6 but after reading a bit I understood there are some differences between versions hence upgraded to 4.9.
barvaz_t said:
I'm quite sure they're installed properly as i managed to upgrade my bootloader version using the RSDlite.
my system is 32 bits and the drivers are the ones i installed throught the Motorola website. I've first used RSDlite 4.6 but after reading a bit I understood there are some differences between versions hence upgraded to 4.9.
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Try the 90.78ch bootloader from http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone ...
"XT702 variant of the 90.78 bootloader (notes from 90.78 apply here too).
It's reported to work on the A853 too. "
You've got nothing to loose on trying this. Let me know!
vladstercr said:
Try the 90.78ch bootloader from http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone ...
"XT702 variant of the 90.78 bootloader (notes from 90.78 apply here too).
It's reported to work on the A853 too. "
You've got nothing to loose on trying this. Let me know!
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*** [update]
I'm now on 90.78ch and see no difference whatsoever.
I've now started investigating how to re-compile an older SBF file so it'll contain the new RAMDL
(I want to flash the Brazilian version however it contains only 90.74 RAMDL)
I've compiled a new file, however the checksum is incorrect.
How it is possible to recompile this properly?
Already tried the website, the mirror there is no leading to the bootloader itself but to a wiki site.
i've tried searching almost anywhere i know, but this bootloader is non available to download.
if there's another mirror site such as rapidshare or megaupload - i'd be happy to be pointed towards it..
Hi barvaz_t!
barvaz_t said:
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somewhere along the way i've updated the bootloader to 90.78 and since then - the phone is stuck in the notorious loop and cannot restart the OS.
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Why did you upgrade the bootloader
barvaz_t said:
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i've also read about wiping the cache and user data however - as far as i know, this can only be done by entering the recovery mode, right?
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Right, is it possible to boot into recovery on your device by holding 'X' button?
barvaz_t said:
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I'm now on 90.78ch and see no difference whatsoever.
I've now started investigating how to re-compile an older SBF file so it'll contain the new RAMDL
(I want to flash the Brazilian version however it contains only 90.74 RAMDL)
I've compiled a new file, however the checksum is incorrect.
How it is possible to recompile this properly?
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You locked yourself out by upgrading the bootloader to the latest one.
Neither downgrade of bootloader would be possible, nor flashing older firmware SBF's.
Apart from that the milestone uses signature check on certain parts of the firmware. I really doubt that it's possible to tweak/recompile a complete SBF.
Something worth to try, is to flash vulnerable recovery SBF from within bootloader mode using RSDlite.
Here's the link to gitorious: http://gitorious.org/droid/openrecovery/blobs/master/zips/SHOLS/vulnerable_recovery.sbf
If the link does not work for you, there are also some mirrors of this file floating around. Just search!
I guess this should work, because the recovery SBF is using RAMLDR 90.78 (do know about the sign check during flash, but i guess checksum should be O.K.).
With vulnerable recovery properly installed, you might then use OpenRecovery to check your system and restore to some working state.
Good luck!
scholbert
scholbert said:
Hi barvaz_t!
Why did you upgrade the bootloader
Right, is it possible to boot into recovery on your device by holding 'X' button?
You locked yourself out by upgrading the bootloader to the latest one.
Neither downgrade of bootloader would be possible, nor flashing older firmware SBF's.
Apart from that the milestone uses signature check on certain parts of the firmware. I really doubt that it's possible to tweak/recompile a complete SBF.
Something worth to try, is to flash vulnerable recovery SBF from within bootloader mode using RSDlite.
Here's the link to gitorious: http://gitorious.org/droid/openrecovery/blobs/master/zips/SHOLS/vulnerable_recovery.sbf
If the link does not work for you, there are also some mirrors of this file floating around. Just search!
I guess this should work, because the recovery SBF is using RAMLDR 90.78 (do know about the sign check during flash, but i guess checksum should be O.K.).
With vulnerable recovery properly installed, you might then use OpenRecovery to check your system and restore to some working state.
Good luck!
scholbert
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Thanks Scholbert for the detailed answer.
the link you gave directs to an image the RSDlite cannot flash (=error validating image).
If your interntion was that I'm supposed to flash the vulnerable recovery only, than bad news - It's already 'installed' on my device (and it shows no error whatsoever during this installation..)
Well, thanks again for trying to help, I think I'm officially out of suggestions or options here unless anyone can give further advice...
barvaz_t said:
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If your interntion was that I'm supposed to flash the vulnerable recovery only, than bad news - It's already 'installed' on my device (and it shows no error whatsoever during this installation..)
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So can you still enter recovery?
Regards,
scholbert
No, never did (since the upgrade)
If I had access to the recovery i would have at least managed to install OpenRecovery or something and manage to reflash the device
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Hi Caz666,
well, thought this might actually work, but had no luck.
when i try to flash my phone it does nothing other than showing me 'downloading boot.img' and thats it.
is there anything else to do in order to save my phone? i really like it
I'm also willing to donate through PayPal to anyone who can describe any working method or that can point me to any valid working process...
thanks again.
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Did you try to fastboot flash only the boot.img? What about recovery? I seem to remember flashing a recovery.img on the dext...but this was last year. I may be wrong but i believe i flashed only a recovery image and then was able to access the recovery (which would allow all sorts of additional goodies).
I find it strange that fastboot reports only downloading. I seem to remember some error messages and timeouts?
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Caz666 said:
Did you try to fastboot flash only the boot.img? What about recovery? I seem to remember flashing a recovery.img on the dext...but this was last year. I may be wrong but i believe i flashed only a recovery image and then was able to access the recovery (which would allow all sorts of additional goodies).
I find it strange that fastboot reports only downloading. I seem to remember some error messages and timeouts?
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Nope.
trying to flash the recovery / boot images only results in the message 'downloading...' and nothing (waited for like 3 hours..)
when I terminate the action by Ctrl+C and then trying again - the message is instantly 'FAILED..' along with specification that the action of sending the command has failed.
I'm literaly out of ideas, don't know what to do..
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I am starting to think that there is something wrong with your device (like broken hardware).
In all my experimenting with rsd/fastboot, i did not once get a "hang". I would get checksum/signature errors, size errors, etc...but i always got some type of error code or status.
This is on 3 different Mot devices that run Android.
Sorry
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Caz666 said:
I am starting to think that there is something wrong with your device (like broken hardware).
In all my experimenting with rsd/fastboot, i did not once get a "hang". I would get checksum/signature errors, size errors, etc...but i always got some type of error code or status.
This is on 3 different Mot devices that run Android.
Sorry
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The device was working fine before upgrading the bootloader, so it seems that this is not a hardware issue.
Either way - guess i'll be taking it to a lab and let them figure this out..
idea
is the milestone n droid from usa same sbf file used if so i have the right sbf file i found i had couple times i had to reinstall to stock if u want to try it i can email it it work for me saved me from bricks its rooted phone just fyi
streetracer89101 said:
is the milestone n droid from usa same sbf file used if so i have the right sbf file i found i had couple times i had to reinstall to stock if u want to try it i can email it it work for me saved me from bricks its rooted phone just fyi
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@streetracer89101 - no, as far as i know Droid and Milestone use different firmware so it won't help unfortunately. Not that it would matter if I did flash my device - it's not like I can use it anyway..
Thanks again for trying to help out
Tomer
90.78ch bootloader
Hello, I really need the bootloader 90.78ch maybe you can me it someone give Many Thanks
300zxtt said:
Hello, I really need the bootloader 90.78ch maybe you can me it someone give Many Thanks
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Attached. Enjoy
Source: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/list.php
Thank you very much to Pzyduck and his firmware team for finding and leaking these FXZ's for the Atrix HD to us to use!
DO NOT FLASH AT&T ON BELL AND VICE-VERSA!
AT&T FXZ-> http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/7.7.1Q-115_MB886_FFW-14_SIGNED_CFC.xml.zip
System Version: 77.10.16.MB886.ATT.en.US
Bell FXZ-> http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/7.7.1Q-115_MB886_BELL_FFW-12_SIGNED_CFC.xml.zip
System Version: ???
You can find the 32 bit Motorola USB Drivers here:
http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTE..._End_User_Driver_Installation_5.9.0_32bit.msi
And 64 bit here:
http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTE..._End_User_Driver_Installation_5.9.0_64bit.msi
RSD Lite 5.7 for flashing these can be found here:
http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTEM/DEVELOPMENT/UDPATES/-RSD-LITE/RSDLite57.zip
Happy flashing... make sure that you have plenty of battery life before attempting this or you are using a Motorola Factory-style cable.
mattlgroff said:
Source: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/list.php
Thank you very much to Pzyduck and his firmware team for finding and leaking these FXZ's for the Atrix HD to us to use!
AT&T FXZ-> http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/7.7.1Q-115_MB886_FFW-14_SIGNED_CFC.xml.zip
System Version: 77.10.16.MB886.ATT.en.US
Bell FXZ-> http://sbf.droid-developers.org/dinara/7.7.1Q-115_MB886_BELL_FFW-12_SIGNED_CFC.xml.zip
System Version: ???
You can find the 32 bit Motorola USB Drivers here:
http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTE..._End_User_Driver_Installation_5.9.0_32bit.msi
And 64 bit here:
http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTE..._End_User_Driver_Installation_5.9.0_64bit.msi
RSD Lite 5.7 for flashing these can be found here:
http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTEM/DEVELOPMENT/UDPATES/-RSD-LITE/RSDLite57.zip
Happy flashing... make sure that you have plenty of battery life before attempting this or you are using a Motorola Factory-style cable.
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I am new to motorola phones. Can someone explain what this is?
A leaked update? Is this version rootable? And on that note, is an unlocked bootloader required for root?
Sent from my phone.
Markyzz said:
I am new to motorola phones. Can someone explain what this is?
A leaked update? Is this version rootable? And on that note, is an unlocked bootloader required for root?
Sent from my phone.
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Firmware Stock/Official :good:
Thanks you matt
MIRROR: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30714649#post30714649
Markyzz said:
I am new to motorola phones. Can someone explain what this is?
A leaked update? Is this version rootable? And on that note, is an unlocked bootloader required for root?
Sent from my phone.
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These are files that can be used to truly factory restore your phone. If you had a custom rom installed, this would put you back to stock.
You use Motorola's RSD Lite program to flash to your phone while it is in AP Fastboot mode.
This will work on locked bootloaders because they are signed files from Motorola meant for flashing in this way.
EDIT: As Pzyduck says above, these are official firmware not leaks
Don't flash AT&T on Bell or vice versa, you may get trapped because of secure versions.
(btw. I know, it's codenamed qinara, and not dinara, but meh, too lazy to fix it )
Skrilax_CZ said:
Don't flash AT&T on Bell or vice versa, you may get trapped because of secure versions.
(btw. I know, it's codenamed qinara, and not dinara, but meh, too lazy to fix it )
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If you look inside the files themselves Motorola was too lazy to fix it too! They use both throughout lol.
Thanks to mattlgroff for posting here
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Pzyduck said:
Firmware Stock/Official :good:
Thanks you matt
MIRROR: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30714649#post30714649
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Can these files be modded to allow root before they are installed on the phone?
reddog said:
Thanks to mattlgroff for posting here
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Can these files be modded to allow root before they are installed on the phone?
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On 2 accounts we wouldn't be able to do this.
1) The phone will only take signed images for system in AP Fastboot. There are sig checks on flashing and on boot (we can assume this, we can test more obviously since we have FXZ backups).
I didn't want to test flashing a rooted system dd'd out before because we had no FXZ's to test. Now that we have them it might be worth it to try it out. Worst case use these FXZ.
Rooted system.img: you can get the entire partitions here which includes it: http://crackflasher.com/dev/mattlgroff/MB886.ATT.en.US/AtrixHdPartitions.zip
Be extra careful flashing things you do not have backups for...
2) The system.img.ext4 file inside of these are not only compressed, but appear to be encrypted as well.
mattlgroff said:
On 2 accounts we wouldn't be able to do this.
1) The phone will only take signed images for system in AP Fastboot. There are sig checks on flashing and on boot (we can assume this, we can test more obviously since we have FXZ backups).
I didn't want to test flashing a rooted system dd'd out before because we had no FXZ's to test. Now that we have them it might be worth it to try it out. Worst case use these FXZ.
Rooted system.img: you can get the entire partitions here which includes it: http://crackflasher.com/dev/mattlgroff/MB886.ATT.en.US/AtrixHdPartitions.zip
Be extra careful flashing things you do not have backups for...
2) The system.img.ext4 file inside of these are not only compressed, but appear to be encrypted as well.
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Any luck flashing this yet?
popfan said:
Any luck flashing this yet?
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No one's tried to my knowledge, also the system.img.ext4 is not encrypted, but its compression methods are unknown.
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No one's tried to my knowledge, also the system.img.ext4 is not encrypted, but its compression methods are unknown.
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i tried but nothing. only error when installing
There is a new firmware listed as MB886_att-user-4.1.1-9.8.0Q-97_MB886_FFW-20-27-release-keys-ATT-US_BuildA.xml.zip has anyone tried to to flash this yet? Is this 4.1.1 OTA that we have now? I need to know because like an idiot I tried to flash back to 4.0.4 from 4.1.1 and now it fastboots on every reboot. Super annoying. Anyway I need to flash to 4.1.1 to fix this apparently.
Tried it says unknown command flash failed unknown flash boot command so u can try but no good phone still OK so I got lucky
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I have a bricked Droid 4 which is stuck in fastboot mode due to me trying to flash the wrong SBF file (Gingerbread?) and the only solution I know of is to get the Jelly Bean SBF so I can load it via RSD Lite 5.7.
This is the file I need a copy of: cdma_maserati_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18_1ff.xml.zip
The only link I can find is from sbf.droid-developers.org which is broken or something, the site never loads.
Would someone with this file be able to host it? Thanks.
tedwash said:
I have a bricked Droid 4 which is stuck in fastboot mode due to me trying to flash the wrong SBF file (Gingerbread?) and the only solution I know of is to get the Jelly Bean SBF so I can load it via RSD Lite 5.7.
This is the file I need a copy of: cdma_maserati_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18_1ff.xml.zip
The only link I can find is from sbf.droid-developers.org which is broken or something, the site never loads.
Would someone with this file be able to host it? Thanks.
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Don't know of any mirrors offhand but I believe the JB Droid 4 Utility by mattlgroff includes the JB fastboot files. You can find it in the dev section here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207384. You can also use the utility to fastboot your phone. I find it easier than using rsdlite personally.
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_maserati/list.php
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Hello all,
I have my Motorola RazrI stuck again since yesterday. That happens for 3 or 4th time, and everytime I was able to fix the problem easily, by re-flashing the Firmware using RSD Lite.
However this time, stuck is on Intel Logo, and if I try to re-flash the firwamre with RSD, it is failing on step 1.
- error is validation gpt_main failed
I have spent some time to check for any similar topics here, but all the suggested for this moment is not helping me at all.
I am sure it is a software issue, as the device itself is absoltely perfect in condition
I will appreciate anyone who can help me to solve it, and to have my phone back and working
Thank you in advance!
a quick clarification:
I think problem is because before the stuck, phone was running with KitKat version, and now I am trying to flash some older ROM via RSDLite ?
Can someone share some experience and let me know if I can find RSD compatible rom to re-flash .
Thanks
xgalin said:
a quick clarification:
I think problem is because before the stuck, phone was running with KitKat version, and now I am trying to flash some older ROM via RSDLite ?
Can someone share some experience and let me know if I can find RSD compatible rom to re-flash .
Thanks
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It is going to fail, you are trying to flash a JB partition over the kitkat one. You need the kitkat firmware for that to work.
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AGISCI said:
It is going to fail, you are trying to flash a JB partition over the kitkat one. You need the kitkat firmware for that to work.
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Yes, i am assuming this is the "reason" and error message meaning.
However, can you point me where I can find such KitKat firmware?
Regards
Anyone, can someone help further with suggesting a link where I can download the KitKat version firmware, or any other possible workaround
Many Thanks
Hi I have a Moto X XT1096 that I have been trying to recover files off of. I was talking to someone and they suggested updating the phone via ADB to see if some corrupted GUI files are rewrote. I am wondering if anyone knows how to download the current update files and if they know of instructions to preform the update? Thanks
jmar896 said:
Hi I have a Moto X XT1096 that I have been trying to recover files off of. I was talking to someone and they suggested updating the phone via ADB to see if some corrupted GUI files are rewrote. I am wondering if anyone knows how to download the current update files and if they know of instructions to preform the update? Thanks
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You can find all instructions you need in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/general/guide-return-to-stock-official-status-t3274121
Happy Flashing