I have a spring Moto x with an unlocked bootloader. I want to take the 4.4 update once available so I flashed the stock recovery. Do I have to flash a stock image and relock to take the update? The only mod I have is exposed and gravity box which I could just uninstall first.
Thanks
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Yes you should flash stock System. No, you don't have to relock
I had to rsd lite my phone back to factory default and then was able to take the ota with no problems. I tried to do it on a rooted stock rom but the update just kept taking me to TWRP and then stop. So I had to just reboot and do the whole rsd lite deal. Some people have gone back to factory default from using the tool kit but I never went that route.
Bill Idol said:
I had to rsd lite my phone back to factory default and then was able to take the ota with no problems. I tried to do it on a rooted stock rom but the update just kept taking me to TWRP and then stop. So I had to just reboot and do the whole rsd lite deal. Some people have gone back to factory default from using the tool kit but I never went that route.
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When you RSD does it erase everything on your phone? I'm asking because I tried to go back to stock recovery (I also have TWRP now) but I keep on getting the droid with the triangle and exclamation mark...
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shaya4207 said:
When you RSD does it erase everything on your phone? I'm asking because I tried to go back to stock recovery (I also have TWRP now) but I keep on getting the droid with the triangle and exclamation mark...
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The droid with the triangle is stock recovery. If you want to rsd you can delete the delete user data line to keep your data but you should just have to flash stock recovery and system and should be good to update.
shane1 said:
The droid with the triangle is stock recovery. If you want to rsd you can delete the delete user data line to keep your data but you should just have to flash stock recovery and system and should be good to update.
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So what you're saying is that if see that droid then I'm good? Also, do I have flash both system.img and recovery.img?
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As long as you have no other mods, deleted or frozen apps yes you should be.
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I flashed it back to stock 902 a few weeks ago. For some reason, it comes up to the "Bad Flash" screen every time I turn it on. I have to turn it of, hold down both volume buttons, turn it back on, and then choose "normal boot". It's fine after that. Is there an easy way to clear this? I'm currently running SafeStrap as my recovery.
flash failure?
I've been having this same issue. Flash failure is what mine says
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Flashing any .img sucessfully should clear the error.
That's what I thought too
Yeah, for some reason, the area does not clear. I updated to Spearmint Gummy ICS thinking it would clear the error, but no such luck.
Did you have any errors when flashing to 902?
download the 902 FXZ file, adb Motorola drivers and rsd lite 5.6. Google for links.
flash the 902 free in rsd lite, will restore you back to stock 902
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I has a space error, but I cleaned some stuff off and was able to flash no problem. I first ran into the issue when trying to go from Liberty Rom 2.0 back to stock 901
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download the 902 FXZ file, adb Motorola drivers and rsd lite 5.6. Google for links.
flash the 902 free in rsd lite, will restore you back to stock 902
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I did that originally which got me back to stock 902. This screen persists at boot.
Hey OP, Go into the factory recovery and wipe data.
You know how to get to stock recovery?
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Hey OP, Go into the factory recovery and wipe data.
You know how to get to stock recovery?
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Just did that, but it didn't work. I did a full data wipe/factory reset in stock recovery. I still get the "bad flash" screen on every boot up.
And you for sure Flashed with the most current 902 FXZ file right? Not with 901?
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Hey OP, Go into the factory recovery and wipe data.
You know how to get to stock recovery?
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I went into stock recovery and did a full data/factory wipe. The "bad flash" screen persists at each boot.
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And you for sure Flashed with the most current 902 FXZ file right? Not with 901?
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I did. At the time, my storage was pretty full. That's when I got the error to begin with. I cleaned some space up and then did it again and it succeeded. I still get the "bad flash" screen with each boot though.
I would try flashing again. Your using rsd lite 5.6 with it right?
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The data wipe and factory reset is not going to change the flash failure error you are receiving. You need to successfully flash an image before it will go away. You can do this with RSDlite 5.6 or moto-fastboot the specific images.
I can help you in more detail, if needed.
Here is a good place to download the full 902 fxz...http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-bionic-hacks/202176-detailed-safestrap-instructions.html
Send me a PM if you need more help.
eye_dea is correct. Just flash any image with moto-fastboot will clear the flash failure and let you boot normally.
I had the same issue on my bionic. It said flash failure and nothing I could do would fix it. Finally I found a thread that said to try "FixCDT". I put the FixCDT file in my ADB folder and ran it. Instantly it rebooted my phone normal. I am not sure where the thread was, but just google FixCDT and I am sure you can find it. If that doesn't work sorry.
With the new boot loader unlock it comes time to use a recovery other than safe strap. The easiest way to flash a custom recovery, in this case, clockwordmod recovery, is to simply download ROM Manager and use it to flash the Motorola Photon Q version of CWM Recovery. I flashed it and booted into it and haven't experienced any problems as of yet so for those looking for a custom recovery straight out of the gate, this is for you.
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Nice i don't know if i should try it or wait for an official one for our device. In the mean time back to my nexus 4
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If you really want to give it a spin you can always flash the Photon Q version otherwise I'm sure there will be an official version ported soon
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Dumb question...... if I uninstall ss and install cwm will I lose the current ROM im using?
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You'll have to reinstall yes.
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Dumb question part 2..... uninstall ss first and then install cwm? Also erase all ROM slots before uninstalling? Thanks!
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Yea make sure to erase the rom slots. I forgot to and uninstalled then was missing quite a bit of space lol.
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I was thinking it might be a good idea lol. Thanks!
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it actually works. lol
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With the new boot loader unlock it comes time to use a recovery other than safe strap. The easiest way to flash a custom recovery, in this case, clockwordmod recovery, is to simply download ROM Manager and use it to flash the Motorola Photon Q version of CWM Recovery. I flashed it and booted into it and haven't experienced any problems as of yet so for those looking for a custom recovery straight out of the gate, this is for you.
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Have you flashed anything with it?
I haven't actually tried yet flashing a ROM but since I'm on stock and don't want to flash white yet I haven't had the opportunity, as long as its flashing to the device it should work with no problems
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I haven't actually tried yet flashing a ROM but since I'm on stock and don't want to flash white yet I haven't had the opportunity, as long as its flashing to the device it should work with no problems
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So far, i have installed the cwm for the photon q like you, and made a back up through it. Im going to see if it will restore from it as well. ill keep everyone updated.:good:
:edit: I sucessfully backed up my stock JB rom, wiped everything, and restored everything back and everythings perfect... I dont know what else to try before attempting to flash using the photon CWM. any ideas?
I uses the photon q recovery to backup & restore, and haven't had any issues yet. No ROM flashing for the time being, just haven't tried it yet.
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I Flashes AOSPizza and was getting a bootloop, had to start the phone in DB Mode from the Fastboot menu to get it to start up, charging my battery and will be restoring original at&t firmware as soon as possible....Dont need a brick just bought this!
I'm on aosp pizza but I reverted to the stock jelly bean system. Mounted system installed the aosp ROM the Mexico firmware was giving me hell except with cm 10
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DaveNavy said:
I Flashes AOSPizza and was getting a bootloop, had to start the phone in DB Mode from the Fastboot menu to get it to start up, charging my battery and will be restoring original at&t firmware as soon as possible....Dont need a brick just bought this!
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Did you try to go back into CWM and wipe everything again after the boot loops? That sometimes helps when it is boot looping after an install.
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Did you try to go back into CWM and wipe everything again after the boot loops? That sometimes helps when it is boot looping after an install.
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I tried the same thing with cm10, i tried 3 times and got bootloops on each, in the end, at least we know the back up and restore function works well.:good:
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I tried the same thing with cm10, i tried 3 times and got bootloops on each, in the end, at least we know the back up and restore function works well.:good:
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I'm Stock Again, Restart always sent me to fastboot with a failed flash error, I could back out of it to the pizza ROM each time however I don't want to depend on my phone booting incorrectly so I used RSD and I'm stock again, I'm going to give it another try tonight.
UPDATE...Reflashed everything started over and everything works PERFECT Yippie!!! I'm very pleased!!!!
Running AOSPizza and Loving it!
DaveNavy said:
I'm Stock Again, Restart always sent me to fastboot with a failed flash error, I could back out of it to the pizza ROM each time however I don't want to depend on my phone booting incorrectly so I used RSD and I'm stock again, I'm going to give it another try tonight.
UPDATE...Reflashed everything started over and everything works PERFECT Yippie!!! I'm very pleased!!!!
Running AOSPizza and Loving it!
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So what was your full procedure? I want to try this and try to install CM10 later.
From what I read, you installed the Photon Q CWM, installed Pizza through that, got boot loops, flashed back to stock, then installed Pizza again?
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So what was your full procedure? I want to try this and try to install CM10 later.
From what I read, you installed the Photon Q CWM, installed Pizza through that, got boot loops, flashed back to stock, then installed Pizza again?
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Fastboot was kicking errors and was boot looping into fastboot with firmware flash fail, I found however I could start into AOSPizza in DB mode (Safe Mode) , so I did that, charged up the phone 100% then used RSDLite and Reflashed Stock current firmware, it however does not re-lock the bootloader as some have mentioned might be the case in other post's, from there I started up the phone,turned on usb debug, used "motochopper" to root it, then installed Rom Manager from the market, flashed clockwork to device with the Photo Q CWM , copied AOSPixxaV1.zip ( The ROM ) and GappizzaV1.zip to the Phones internal storage not on the external SD memory card, from there went to clockwork mod on my atrix opened up the program and selected to reboot into recovery, went to the mounts and storage then select Mount System then go back then install zip from sd card then choose zip from sd card, then scroll to your rom and select it and it will flash when its complete you will go back and go to reboot system now, it will ask you if you want to bypass stock recovery on boot select it and your phone will reboot into AOSPizza......Have Fun!
I JUST got my Droid Bionic in the mail, rooted it using the Virtualbox method, and now when I boot, I get an encryption error, and I can't reset my phone. What in the world is happening?
jrk190 said:
I JUST got my Droid Bionic in the mail, rooted it using the Virtualbox method, and now when I boot, I get an encryption error, and I can't reset my phone. What in the world is happening?
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Put it back into stock with FXZ / RSD Lite?
After you restore the stock JB image, you'll probably need this to root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256439
Ok guys bought a droid bionic to replace my s4 that i am selling for note 3 and having an issue getting recovery working. I rooted it with no issues and then go for the bootstrap/safestrap recovery and boot into clockwork then i reboot and boom encryption unsucessful. After awhile of finding the right sbf file i flashed it in rsdlite and got phone back on and still have sdcard and stuff that i heard can sometimes be rendered unusable. So now im wondering how i can root, recovery and flash some roms successfully. Any suggestions?
So noobish of me
I'm having the same problem being a scrub and all wit linix and cwm in general. I manage to get myself to the same spot encryption unsuccessful - which gives me the option to do a factory reset which obviously doesn't not work.. So i tried to do a reset in the cw recovery which i managed to do but still stuck. I'm running jellybean on my Droid Bionic - i read that you can't flash it with RSDlite if your running jb you'll end up with a hard brick. So i'm stuck in sum kind of boot loop which i'm assuming i need to find the right sbf file and push it through sum how? Or flash it wit my recovery i made on my sd but don't kno how.. Help Anyone?
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I'm having the same problem being a scrub and all wit linix and cwm in general. I manage to get myself to the same spot encryption unsuccessful - which gives me the option to do a factory reset which obviously doesn't not work.. So i tried to do a reset in the cw recovery which i managed to do but still stuck. I'm running jellybean on my Droid Bionic - i read that you can't flash it with RSDlite if your running jb you'll end up with a hard brick. So i'm stuck in sum kind of boot loop which i'm assuming i need to find the right sbf file and push it through sum how? Or flash it wit my recovery i made on my sd but don't kno how.. Help Anyone?
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I sbfed back no problem. I found some sbf file that works for jelly bean. I now have stock with root and safe strap recovery but wont let me flash a rom. Pm me if you need help getting yours working again
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Can you install safestrap without it being fully functioning? - Encrytion Unsucessfull
oneandroidnut said:
I sbfed back no problem. I found some sbf file that works for jelly bean. I now have stock with root and safe strap recovery but wont let me flash a rom. Pm me if you need help getting yours working again
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Can you install safestrap without it being fully functioning? - Encrytion Unsucessfull
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I finally used the newest update from 8/31 & got it working!!!
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Finally ffs
ENCRYPTION UNSUCESSFUL
After days of research I came to a conclusion of what my complication come to be. I kept getting an error with
RSD LITE on 5/22 OEM failure
So in the sbf file i had to alter the fxz - xml document
Deleting two lines from the scripted
consisting of OEM .
Once i removed these two lines RSD functioned correctly finally
onnsight said:
ENCRYPTION UNSUCESSFUL
After days of research I came to a conclusion of what my complication come to be. I kept getting an error with
RSD LITE on 5/22 OEM failure
So in the sbf file i had to alter the fxz - xml document
Deleting two lines from the scripted
consisting of OEM .
Once i removed these two lines RSD functioned correctly finally
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awesome! so you rooted now and safe strapped yet?
Hey guys,
I have been using lollipop for a while and it is good but still not that good (stable and stock) now I want to go back to Kitkat again ,what should I do ?
Just flashing new ROM from kryptonite didn't work as it gave error in recovery.
My device is xt1052 , boot loader is 4.4.2 .
Thanks in advance .
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vasili_defy said:
Hey guys,
I have been using lollipop for a while and it is good but still not that good (stable and stock) now I want to go back to Kitkat again ,what should I do ?
Just flashing new ROM from kryptonite didn't work as it gave error in recovery.
My device is xt1052 , boot loader is 4.4.2 .
Thanks in advance .
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You should be able to run a factory reset an then flash kryptonite just fine. If youre still having issues, I'd restore a nandroid if you have one, if not rsd to stock. What error did it give you?
StATicxTW0T said:
You should be able to run a factory reset an then flash kryptonite just fine. If youre still having issues, I'd restore a nandroid if you have one, if not rsd to stock. What error did it give you?
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Factory reset is the one which we do , from recovery ..right ?
I was also thinking on doing nandroid backup but sadly don't have one !
I didn't tried rsd to stock ..how can I do it ?
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vasili_defy said:
Factory reset is the one which we do , from recovery ..right ?
I was also thinking on doing nandroid backup but sadly don't have one !
I didn't tried rsd to stock ..how can I do it ?
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Yes, if you're using TWRP then to perform a factory reset you'd go to wipe and then slide the factory reset slider. Make sure to make a nandroid next time! To restore to complete stock youll need to either need to do it manually through fastboot, or use motorola's flashing utility called RSD Lite (I use version 6.1.5, use google to find this). The site I usually use appears to be unavailable at the moment, so you're on your own finding the sbf file as well. Keep in mind this will update your bootloader and erase all data on your phone (edit the xml file in the zip to avoid this if you want)
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Yes, if you're using TWRP then to perform a factory reset you'd go to wipe and then slide the factory reset slider. Make sure to make a nandroid next time! To restore to complete stock youll need to either need to do it manually through fastboot, or use motorola's flashing utility called RSD Lite (I use version 6.1.5, use google to find this). The site I usually use appears to be unavailable at the moment, so you're on your own finding the sbf file as well. Keep in mind this will update your bootloader and erase all data on your phone (edit the xml file in the zip to avoid this if you want)
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Thanks but I don't want to go stock completely ,but just want to use the KK ROM for the time being,otherwise AOSP is the way to go for me.
Just one more question, since you said by flashboot I can flash, can I use this ROM ?..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/fxz-xt1053-xt1060-google-play-edition-4-t2715488
I have flashed it earlier but just that my internal storage was accidentally wiped out by me.:banghead
UPDATE: Changing TWRP did the trick..
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