[Q] Need help rooting Droid 4 - Motorola Droid 4

My wife gave me her old droid 4. She had a problem with the sim card, and after a few trips to the verizon store they just said ok get a new phone. So i have this droid 4 just sitting here. When i turn it on its been wiped and wants to setup the phone. My question is from this state can it be rooted and loaded with a custom rom to just be more like a tablet for the kids or is it just a paperweight at this point?
Everything i read so far says in order to root the phone i have to do at least make sure the phone is in debugging mode, well since you cant even get to that from a normal boot up im wondering what the other options are. I tried using recovery to load things, but that just fails, and i got the droid dev kit to use adb, and that only will sideload an image, which also fails upon verification.
Any help would be awesome

You need to by pass activation screen use 4 corners method
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Bypassing the JB Activation Screen of any Motorol…: http://youtu.be/ujLVKXmLGBE
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You sir are a saint and genius rolled into one! was about to goto sleep but now i gotta run upstairs and try this!!!
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Unrooted Bionic, but Liberty ROM still on phone

Hey guys,
unrooted the bionic, but Liberty rom is still very present. super user is gone, and it looks like it was unrooted successfully. Any ideas how to get rid of the boot loader and other Liberty artifacts?
thanks
yungwunn911 said:
Hey guys,
unrooted the bionic, but Liberty rom is still very present. super user is gone, and it looks like it was unrooted successfully. Any ideas how to get rid of the boot loader and other Liberty artifacts?
thanks
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run the fxz file
ran it twice on RSD lite and keep getting a cycling boot screen...
hmm...any tips?
yungwunn911 said:
ran it twice on RSD lite and keep getting a cycling boot screen...
hmm...any tips?
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Do you have usb debugging on? If not it needs to be on. Also are you in fastboot mode? Volume down then power at the same time
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If all else fails, hopefully you made a nandroid backup of your phone when it was stock right after you rooted it and you can always reboot and restore your nandroid then un root.
Use dhacker's one-click restore. It's stickied in development. I guarantee it'll fix you right up.
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Similar experience here...but i know why. I did the one click root using the smaller file that preserves data.
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Go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279825
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Upgrading by SBF

I have a Droid 4 provided through work that I can't root, but would like to upgrade to ICS. If I upgrade using the RSDLite, will I keep my data? I don't have anything I can't replace except for the login for my Google Apps account.
I'm pretty sure you will be good to go. I tried doing sbf from .217 and didn't lose anything. Let us know how it goes!
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you could also download the leak .217 and apply it from an external sdcard
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I don't have an SD card, unfortunately.
@danifunker I'm still on GB's 6.13.219, so I'm not sure if going from that to ICS' 6.16.217 will break things if I don't wipe data. I'm kinda hoping someone else goes first. Others may be able to root and make a backup while I'm not allowed.

[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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htc one giving us problems at every step

so my buddy and i were trying to root his htc one, ive rooted various phones before and most recently my gs3, he just got an htc one from at&t and wanted to root it.
so we are follow the tut that is in the sticky, and right away his pc was not liking the phone, having issues reading it etc etc, eventually have all the necessary drivers and such and unlocking the bootloader was a pain, but we did it, got twrp on there, installed supersu, and he does have root
so now the problem is he cannot drop any files onto his phone at all, usb debug on and off, nothing, the htc sync manager thing, tried on another computer nothing, he tried airdroid, that kinda worked but made the files smaller which of course made it unflashable
i have never had these problems before with my phone and all my searching as shone nothing about not being able to transfer files as apparently it should be able too...
he also cant get adb to work
any ideas?
edit: and now he went ahead and downloaded goo manager, installed a rom from its compatible list, xenon, and it just boot loops the splash screens, and now he cant even restore his original backups, but he can still get into twrp, and he can see the backups, just not in restore
Get into twrp and do side load download ...also download hasoons2000 toolkit
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U can sideload a Rom into twrp with the toolkit from hasoon
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alright, got one of his back ups running now thanks, ok2nvnexus
and what is that toolkit? the phones already rooted so would he need that?

[Q] Lost signal in Verizon.

I have a play store nexus 6 that had been working fine until some days ago. Long story short I flashed resurrection remix and couldn't get signal so i dialed *#*4636#*#* as suggested and tried switching settings to get a signal and haven't been able to get a signal since. In no way am I saying the ROM is the cause just stating how I got here. I must have changed something there that needs to switch back but no idea.
I used the toolkit for Mac to unroot and go back to stock and still I get no signal. I popped my wife's att sim and her signal sticks. With my Verizon sim in it connects for a few and loses signal again and occasionally tries to connect again but never comes back. I know its trying to connect when I see the exclamation by the data signal.
I went to Verizon and got a new sim card and still no dice. So is there a way to get back to pure stock out of the box? I believe I downloaded a factory image on to Mac but can't flash that until I get home Tuesday from holiday vacation and use my PC to flash it. Again, I'm not sure if that will get me back to being able to get a signal. Suggestions? Thanks!
Try formatting everything and flashing stock images. I've seen them floating around in update.zip format. Don't try to do a *228, that will result in needing a new Sim again.
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Why can't you use your Mac to update?
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poitee said:
Try formatting everything and flashing stock images. I've seen them floating around in update.zip format. Don't try to do a *228, that will result in needing a new Sim again.
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Why can't you use your Mac to update?
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The factory file that I have on my Mac is .tgz file which I believe would need to be flashed on thru a program on windows. Or is that incorrect? Can it be flashed in adb?
Edit: Did a search and going to flash the system files in adb and see if that works.
Use unarchivr or however you spell it. There is a guide in the general forum on how to flash along with setting up adb fastboot and how to use them.
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Flashed all the images manually and got it working again.
Good deal!
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