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DROID 4 stock rom

I accidentially wiped stock rom from safestrap. Can anyone provide me stock rom so i can restore it.

jannox1 said:
I accidentially wiped stock rom from safestrap. Can anyone provide me stock rom so i can restore it.
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@sd_shadow has a stock nandroid backup you can use in his google docs folder located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKJ22e26gDD54YXYRWZE5IlL71MJa6pXDJ_EshpLDUU/edit
Big thanks to sd_shadow for his folder full of Droid 4 goodies

use the correct Stock Rom Nandroid ics or jellybean

Thanks a million. Got my phone restored in no time. Thanks again!

I have the same problem. By mistake I reflashed (deleted) stock rom with CM 10.2.1 (Android 4.3.1) in Safetrap.
What can I do now to recover the stock rom?
Can I use "Stock Nandroids" from google docs above (I cant post links, because Iam new member) ??? And if yes, which one?
Or I cant use it a must take this long procedure ? - "Restore your Motorola Droid 4 (XT894) to stock" from google docs above.
Thank you for your reply.

the jellybean nandroid should work fine
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The jellybean nandroid does not work. I placed unziped folder in internal sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS and try to restore in safestrap 3.60 but the safetrap didnt see the backup (

if safestrap can not see it, it is not placed correctly
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Moto Droid 4 Gingerbread
I am planning on Purchasing a droid 4 off of ebay soon to replace my annoyingly decrepid lucid by lg.....my question is this....is there a way to downgrade the droid 4 back to gingerbread because i had a bad expierence with my lucid on ICS which is what it came with but was an upgrade from gingerbread...is there a way to downgrade the droid 4 back to the stock moto gingerbread rom....if so please provide instructions as well as links please...i have searched for a few hours now and found nothing about how to go about doing this but i finally found this fourum so if there is a way to downgrade back to stock moto gingerbread....id very much apprecieate it ^_^

BattleMaster286 said:
I am planning on Purchasing a droid 4 off of ebay soon to replace my annoyingly decrepid lucid by lg.....my question is this....is there a way to downgrade the droid 4 back to gingerbread because i had a bad expierence with my lucid on ICS which is what it came with but was an upgrade from gingerbread...is there a way to downgrade the droid 4 back to the stock moto gingerbread rom....if so please provide instructions as well as links please...i have searched for a few hours now and found nothing about how to go about doing this but i finally found this fourum so if there is a way to downgrade back to stock moto gingerbread....id very much apprecieate it ^_^
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You can not downgrade stock firmware, because of the locked bootloader.
There maybe a modified stock GB rom that is compatible with Safestrap or Boot Manager Menu, but don't think so.
There are a few good modified Jellybean stock roms that work well.

Well that is interesting most other phones you can....cause I mainly love the interface and I think the performance would be far better than on JB or ICS hmmm.....well if you can downgrade the bionic back to gingerbread.....then I may go with that one cause its another viable option or are all the droid lines locked with their boot loader
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BattleMaster286 said:
Well that is interesting most other phones you can....cause I mainly love the interface and I think the performance would be far better than on JB or ICS hmmm.....well if you can downgrade the bionic back to gingerbread.....then I may go with that one cause its another viable option or are all the droid lines locked with their boot loader
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none of the Motorola Droids can be downgraded, unless there is an exception with the Bionic, I don't have one.
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the Bionic is the same as the Droid 4, without the slide out keyboard
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Flashing future official ROMs after unlock -

Hey guys! My apologies if this is a redundant question, but I just wanted to be sure:
If ASUS decides to actually put out an official KitKat update for this thing eventually, would I still be able to try it out / install it normally *after* I've unlocked?
If so, what exactly would be my procedure? Will I be blocked from getting or installing the OTA, or would the process be no different?
There's been some great progress it seems on custom ROMs for this thing. I'm a bit gun shy admittedly, as running custom ROMs on previous devices led to a lot of instability. I guess I want to ensure I'll still have the option to try out a future official build if I choose. Thanks in advance!
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Yes you will definitely be able to update to KitKat once released. However you won't be able to get the OTA update automatically sent to ur tab once u unlock it. But its pretty simple to get it. After Asus has pushed the ota to devices, the also upload the firmware to their website. U would simple download that and place it in the root of ur internal SD, and reboot. Tab will recognize the update, and give u notification for installing it. And u continue with that. Very simple.
And as for the Roms , the cromix ROM is by far very stable ROM. I have tried it for very long time, and has no issues at all, and the plus side is u can do a lot of customizations yet the ROM still runs faster than stock. I strongly recommend cromix ROM.
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zabih107 said:
Yes you will definitely be able to update to KitKat once released. However you won't be able to get the OTA update automatically sent to ur tab once u unlock it. But its pretty simple to get it. After Asus has pushed the ota to devices, the also upload the firmware to their website. U would simple download that and place it in the root of ur internal SD, and reboot. Tab will recognize the update, and give u notification for installing it. And u continue with that. Very simple.
And as for the Roms , the cromix ROM is by far very stable ROM. I have tried it for very long time, and has no issues at all, and the plus side is u can do a lot of customizations yet the ROM still runs faster than stock. I strongly recommend cromix ROM.
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Thank you! Answered my question perfectly. I think I'll pull the trigger on unlocking here soon. Cheers!
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Your welcome and have fun, which I'm sure you will
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This is not 100% true. The current official ROM will only flash with the stock recovery installed and not a custom one, so I would assume the same for any update.
It's not an issue to flash the stock recovery back but it will be an extra step.
Also if and when an official KitKat comes out you will more than likely have to wait until a new recovery is made that is compatible for a custom ROM after that.
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Sleeepy2 said:
This is not 100% true. The current official ROM will only flash with the stock recovery installed and not a custom one, so I would assume the same for any update.
It's not an issue to flash the stock recovery back but it will be an extra step.
Also if and when an official KitKat comes out you will more than likely have to wait until a new recovery is made that is compatible for a custom ROM after that.
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And this is very likely 100% true.
I never understand why people are pining for the stock rom - no matter which version or update....
I would feel helpless and lost with only the stock recovery! Lately I've been trying to help several people on stock firmware with corrupted data, no custom recovery, no root, locked bootloader.... You're toast!
All you can do is send it in to Asus and pay a bundle! Whereas unlocked you just fire up fastboot or custom recovery and start to fix it!
Besides - once Asus releases a KK version for this tablet you can bet your.... house that sbdags will have a custom version of it out in no time. And it's going to be better than Asus firmware, receive frequent updates, can be flashed with a custom recovery....
A no-brainer IMHO

berndblb said:
And this is very likely 100% true.
I never understand why people are pining for the stock rom - no matter which version or update....
I would feel helpless and lost with only the stock recovery! Lately I've been trying to help several people on stock firmware with corrupted data, no custom recovery, no root, locked bootloader.... You're toast!
All you can do is send it in to Asus and pay a bundle! Whereas unlocked you just fire up fastboot or custom recovery and start to fix it!
Besides - once Asus releases a KK version for this tablet you can bet your.... house that sbdags will have a custom version of it out in no time. And it's going to be better than Asus firmware, receive frequent updates, can be flashed with a custom recovery....
A no-brainer IMHO
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I'll agree with that 100%
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Flash S4 Custom ROM ML2

Alright, so I've enjoyed modding my Android devices since I got my first Android running on 2.2, especially because of the options to tweak CPU usage, and just (from what I have noticed) better general usage with all of my devices. I purchased this phone because of it's similar power usage to the S4 and it being water & dust resistant. However, most of the development that I have seen for this forum has been for the i9525, which is the international version. I have the i537, and have been going crazy with battery drainage issues, and I think only a custom kernel/new ROM can fix this. Could somebody point me in the right direction of where to go? I've heard talk that after MF2, installing Safestrap right now is essentially not possible, due to bootloader issues.
I'm running the Stock ROM v 4.2.2
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QuentinX5 said:
Alright, so I've enjoyed modding my Android devices since I got my first Android running on 2.2, especially because of the options to tweak CPU usage, and just (from what I have noticed) better general usage with all of my devices. I purchased this phone because of it's similar power usage to the S4 and it being water & dust resistant. However, most of the development that I have seen for this forum has been for the i9525, which is the international version. I have the i537, and have been going crazy with battery drainage issues, and I think only a custom kernel/new ROM can fix this. Could somebody point me in the right direction of where to go? I've heard talk that after MF2, installing Safestrap right now is essentially not possible, due to bootloader issues.
I'm running the Stock ROM v 4.2.2
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SafeStrap works for every version of firmware for the i537, you just need to use the proper version. If you're on ML2 I think you need 3.71, but please check to make sure because I could be wrong. As for a custom kernel or tweaking the CPU, it's not going to be possible on the i537 because the bootloader is locked and you are forced to use the stock kernel. You can try a custom ROM through SafeStrap, but I don't think it's going to help much. You might be better off upgrading the NE3 or NH3 and trying a custom ROM through SafeStrap there.

Devo7v said:
SafeStrap works for every version of firmware for the i537, you just need to use the proper version. If you're on ML2 I think you need 3.71, but please check to make sure because I could be wrong. As for a custom kernel or tweaking the CPU, it's not going to be possible on the i537 because the bootloader is locked and you are forced to use the stock kernel. You can try a custom ROM through SafeStrap, but I don't think it's going to help much. You might be better off upgrading the NE3 or NH3 and trying a custom ROM through SafeStrap there.
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So essentially until we get the bootloader unlocked and can install a custom recovery (Like CWM or TWRP, instead of using SafeStrap), no "real" custom ROMs? More just ROMs based off of the stock kernel/modem/etc.?

QuentinX5 said:
So essentially until we get the bootloader unlocked and can install a custom recovery (Like CWM or TWRP, instead of using SafeStrap), no "real" custom ROMs? More just ROMs based off of the stock kernel/modem/etc.?
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Correct, and most of the people who were leading the development and research of unlocking the bootloader have decided to move on to other things within the last week. At this point it looks like the bootloader will never be unlocked. There's always a slim chance but it's not looking good.

[i537] Internal SD card has disappeared

I seem to have a bit of an issue, recently i installed Pure Nexus on my Galaxy S4 Active.
The other day I rebooted my phone and it seemed to have gotten stuck in a bootloop. To fix this I wiped cache and dalvik but not factory reset. The phone booted up however all of my internal files were gone, but my apps remained. I also lost access to the hardware keys and camera. I have two theories
1.The phone somehow deleted all of my files for no reason
2. Safestrap booted my phone into a rom slot and refuses to boot to stock
I checked safestrap and it said that it was on stock, however I had installed pure nexus on one of the rom slots but never deleted it
The reason i believe my second theory to be true is because I am now missing a lot of total system memory which i should normally have.
any and all help is appreciated in finding out how to recover my files

Usually with a new ROM, it will format /Data and your internal SD. Try to format /Data with your recovery. *MAKE A BACKUP* and as far as the camera and keys go, re flash the ROM, and Google for the camera master patch for your phone model. Regarding the i537, we are stuck on a locked bootloader. Meaning, no custom kernels or recoveries. No custom kernels means only touchwiz based roms. I don't know how in the actual h*ll you got an aosp ROM on there. But a majority of your problems are due to the kernel.
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bjeastin said:
Regarding the i537, we are stuck on a locked bootloader. Meaning, no custom kernels or recoveries. No custom kernels means only touchwiz based roms. I don't know how in the actual h*ll you got an aosp ROM on there. But a majority of your problems are due to the kernel.
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Back on KitKat, there was a ROM called pure nexus (original s4 thread link and our i537 version link) that worked for our phone. It was based off the Google Play Edition S4 ROM, so even though it was technically touchwiz, it looked, felt, and acted like an AOSP ROM (i.e. it was way more than just an AOSP theme or skin). Unfortunately the dev moved on to the Nexus scene by the time we finally got 5.0.1 for the i537. But long story short, this ROM can, should, and does work for the i537, at least on KitKat.
I tried for a few months to port the 5.0.1 edition to our i537 with no luck, it seems I don't know enough about ROM development

thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
Back on KitKat, there was a ROM called pure nexus (original s4 thread link and our i537 version link) that worked for our phone. It was based off the Google Play Edition S4 ROM, so even though it was technically touchwiz, it looked, felt, and acted like an AOSP ROM. Unfortunately the dev moved on to the Nexus scene by the time we finally got 5.0.1 for the i537. But long story short, this ROM can, should, and does work for the i537, at least on KitKat.
I tried for a few months to port the 5.0.1 edition to our i537 with no luck, it seems I don't know enough about ROM development
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That explains a lot. I actually heard of someone porting the "pure" s4 to our phone, and then it seemed to fall off the face of the earth. That actually explains a lot.
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thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
Back on KitKat, there was a ROM called pure nexus (original s4 thread link and our i537 version link) that worked for our phone. It was based off the Google Play Edition S4 ROM, so even though it was technically touchwiz, it looked, felt, and acted like an AOSP ROM. Unfortunately the dev moved on to the Nexus scene by the time we finally got 5.0.1 for the i537. But long story short, this ROM can, should, and does work for the i537, at least on KitKat.
I tried for a few months to port the 5.0.1 edition to our i537 with no luck, it seems I don't know enough about ROM development
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That explains a lot. I actually heard of someone porting the "pure" s4 to our phone, and then it seemed to fall off the face of the earth.
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Note 4 rooted 5.1.1 stock TW ROM that i can flash

I've been looking but have't been successful, is there a stock 5.1.1 rom for 910T that's just rooted already? Something that I can just flash? If not are there any instructions on how to create my own rooted stock 5.1.1 rom?

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I've been looking but have't been successful, is there a stock 5.1.1 rom for 910T that's just rooted already? Something that I can just flash? If not are there any instructions on how to create my own rooted stock 5.1.1 rom?
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Have you tried Rickys Kitchen with the Odin image file to see if it can generate a stock ROM that you can TWRP install and then try flashing the SuperSU 2.65 Systemless Root right after?
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rolexconfuse said:
I've been looking but have't been successful, is there a stock 5.1.1 rom for 910T that's just rooted already? Something that I can just flash? If not are there any instructions on how to create my own rooted stock 5.1.1 rom?
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Actually here's a thread with TWRP flashable ROMs, you just have to download the SuperSU 2.65 for Systemless root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56370361
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I flashed this same one for my wife... she doesn't like custom ROMs so this is pure stock just a little bit be bloated from seeing Google trash. Other than that she loves it a smooth clean and runs great

This is what I have done first link is thread second is my set up. After I installed Adaway and got rid of t-mobile stuff that I couldnt disable (account,my interest, maybe a couple others) I deleted root as well so its stock and slim and clean. since you would like it real easy You can use the script mentioned on the stock rom you have chosen real quick and easy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/general/dok2-5-1-1-setup-t3272388
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64491659&postcount=29