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[Q] How to start over?

I'm not sure whats going on with my D3. However, I have RSD and I have .890 and .959 downloaded as well as Fastboot.
What I want to do is just wipe the phone completely and just flash it like its a brand new phone.
Anyone know how to do so? Please post a link or instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.

atquick said:
I'm not sure whats going on with my D3. However, I have RSD and I have .890 and .959 downloaded as well as Fastboot.
What I want to do is just wipe the phone completely and just flash it like its a brand new phone.
Anyone know how to do so? Please post a link or instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.
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http://goo.gl/7NoAv

Androidsims said:
http://goo.gl/7NoAv
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Tried that. It keeps failing saying something about size was not as expected or something like that.

Redownload?

Avelnan said:
Redownload?
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I have. MD5 sums match up each time. Should I try removing the ext sd card?

I would redownload everything and try agian

littleneutrino said:
I would redownload everything and try agian
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Alright, attempt will be made again. Should I redownload RSD again or just the sbf's?

atquick said:
Alright, attempt will be made again. Should I redownload RSD again or just the sbf's?
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Downloading the sbf's again. Went over to check and see if the phone was still on, The charging led is on, however the screen is off..
Held power, nothing. Held M + Power. Still nothing... Any thoughts on whats going on now?

I didn't see if you have pulled the SD card but yeah it can't hurt.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278056
Follow the first portion of the instructions on how to flash back to original 5.6.890. Note the making of a folder and it's name for the 890 flash.
Ignore the part about flashing the new ROM. These are the best instructions I've found so far for flashing back to stock via RSD lite.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Download and follow exactly and you'll be good to go.
Hope that helps.
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wattnxt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278056
Follow the first portion of the instructions on how to flash back to original 5.6.890. Note the making of a folder and it's name for the 890 flash.
Ignore the part about flashing the new ROM. These are the best instructions I've found so far for flashing back to stock via RSD lite.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Download and follow exactly and you'll be good to go.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my DROID3 using xda premium
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It keeps failing.
Step 3 mbmloader.bin
Step 4 mbm.bin
Step 8 logo.bin
Step 9 'lbl'
I'm stuck.

Let me do some looking when I get home tonight. I remember there being a file for certain versions of XP that helped some people and they couldn't flash without it.
I never had it happen personally, but I know those that did were terribly frustrated.
I also hear the 959 version is easier to flash for some reason. Never flashed that version, so this is only hear-say. But I know it did flash easier according to posts.
I will try to dig up a link for you.

i am getting the same thing also getting the bad CG boot.. now this may be a fix but idk how this guy got it it.. i have been asking eveywhere maybe you guys could help me... here is the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248721

I found this by Psouza. He is likely the foremost expert on making things easy as far as unbricking your D3. Rumor has it he has a set of unbrick tools floating around this forum somewhere, though I haven't found it yet. Try in the Development thread, for sure it has to be there somewhere.
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For those of you having problems flashing this and/or are suspicious of flashing ebr, mbr, and parts of the bootloader, you can selectively just flash the rest of it.
See attachment.
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Hope this helps.
I also saw that flashing the pre-installs file alone first helped someone. That file borked on me once, but I was able to adb it over and then execute it via adb to get my phone unbricked.
Please let us know what works for you, as all of this is a work in progress right now.
Good luck!

i don't know to much about adb and are looking for help on pre-installed files. I don't understand what that means or how to go about it? i also cant get past the bootloader screen, "invalid CG version". i can not boot up at all.

How bricked are you? can you boot into CWM? Are you able to boot into tools, or how far can you get?
What version were you running? 5.959 (stock) or 6.890 OTA or Leaked OTA or Soak test (all the same as far as 6.890 goes).

i can get into boot tools and just tryed another flash got to step 6 till it failed instead of 3.. I'm running stock. Cannot get passed boot tools... scratch all that just tried to flash again just on the off chance it mnight work and i got it. Going to try and re-root and CWN recovery with sdteel froids rom... will keep you in the loop

Awesome!!
Here is the link about the adb commands for preinstall.sh
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17196391&postcount=88
It helped me when I borked my leaked update. I ran into the same problem as limaxray did with too many files in /system. So make sure you clean out any apps you made into system apps before trying the update via the standard update route, and that all stock system apps are in place and properly named.
I had to remove some that updated partially with the leaked update when mine borked. I used the posted system dump to push them to the phone and then the update ran properly and updated them anyhow.
If for some reason re-rooting doesn't work for you. Go to /system/bin and remove su, busybox. Do the same in /system/xbin. For some reason if you already have them in there when you run the process, it will say success but no root after reboot. My 2c as it happened to me. You do not need to remove superuser.apk, but you will have to update it in the market after you re-root.
Congrats!!
I see now too there is a fastboot and moto-fastboot. moto-fastboot has worked for some who had issues from what I've found.
Keep us posted, and smile knowing you've recovered from a bork; none of us got where we are without doing it at least once, so you're in good company.

re-rooted and installed bootstrap, just got steel droid all loaded up and all is good.... thanks for your speedy responses and detailed instructions and links. I realy think all that happened was i took everything aet it sone last time tried to flash and it went threw. All i used was RSD lite and flashed the 8.6.590 fast boot file and after a several retries it went threw. If anyone needs help on this i will post the file links if you need the ones i used

[Q] Question about restoring ROM

Hello All;
First of all THANK you for all the help I have received in reading this forum, coming from a Droid Charge which uses odin I was a little lost and had several false starts but after asking a couple noob questions and reading the information in the forums I was able to feel at least comfortable in working on my Bionic, I had a couple false starts but they helped me learn, (softbricked my phone after only having it for 2 hours) SO THANK YOU ALL!!!!!
Now to my question:
I am basically running a completely stock ROM .902 with V6 and some aps froze or deleted. I have one minor thing wrong with my contacts FC, sure that is my fault on freezing or removing something I shouldn't have. But no biggie as I use go contacts anyway. But as much trouble and false starts I had getting it set up I would rather build it up fresh from scratch now that I am more comfortable with it. Now that I kinda know what I am doing I want to start from scratch and build it back fresh, can I do the following.
1. Backup data & aps using TB?
2. completely restore .886 using RSD Lite (or can I just put 901 on and then update over the air)
3. Re-root after getting it back to .902
4. reinstall V6
5. restore my mail app and a few other aps and data using TB.
Will this work or am I asking for troubles.

1. Yes
2. Flash 902 with rsd. Much easier that way...
3. Use motofail
4. Yes
5. Yes
try eclipse 2.1. It's the best rom available for the bionic.

86shelby said:
1. Yes
2. Flash 902 with rsd. Much easier that way...
3. Use motofail
4. Yes
5. Yes
try eclipse 2.1. It's the best rom available for the bionic.
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Thanks for the quick answer, I will do that. I already have Eclipse 2.1 downloaded now just have to nose around and remember where I saw .902 and download it.
Rod

Rodhargis said:
Thanks for the quick answer, I will do that. I already have Eclipse 2.1 downloaded now just have to nose around and remember where I saw .902 and download it.
Rod
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here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506308

iNsAnEmOd said:
here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506308
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Thank You, I knew I had seen it somewhere but could not remember where...

Here's all the fxz's available for the bionic :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1417116

Droid 3 ROOT problems?

Im trying to ROOT my Droid 3 but keep running into issues. I am bone stock 5.7.906. I tried running the One-Click-Root, it works til the last step then fails. I was told to try going down to 5.6.890. So I tried that using RSD Lite, and it fails on step 6/18. Now everytime I reboot it goes into fast boot. I can get it to boot normally but only after being brought to fastboot (its just annoying). But basically nothing I try works. I cant ROOT, I cant downgrade software. I cant even reset my phone cuz when it reboots it goes into fastboot, cancelling the reset. Any help would be great. Thanks =)
Please dont tell me to search because I have and I couldnt find anything that helped me. Links and how to's would be a great help :good:

Seaaarch!
Naw, jk. I'm looking into it right now, because I don't remember exactly how I did it, but if I remember correctly you can not return to previous versions once you have the .906 firmware. I'm sure someone'll correct me if I'm wrong. x3 So you'll probably have to find a way to SBF the .906 before you can proceed to rooting.
When you went to .890, did you use a modified version with .906 bits or did you use an actual .890 SBF?
Edit Edit: And now if I remember correctly, I used MotoFail to obtain Root and then threw Hash-Code's SafeStrap on before flashing a new ROM.

ZionCorps said:
Seaaarch!
Naw, jk. I'm looking into it right now, because I don't remember exactly how I did it, but if I remember correctly you can not return to previous versions once you have the .906 firmware. I'm sure someone'll correct me if I'm wrong. x3 So you'll probably have to find a way to SBF the .906 before you can proceed to rooting.
When you went to .890, did you use a modified version with .906 bits or did you use an actual .890 SBF?
Edit Edit: And now if I remember correctly, I used MotoFail to obtain Root and then threw Hash-Code's SafeStrap on before flashing a new ROM.
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I believe its the actual .890 BUT, I never got it to go back, so Im still on .906. It failed to go to .890 which is now why everytime I reboot it goes into fastboot saying Flash Failed. But i just hit normal boot and it boots up. Superuser is on it, and safestrap but safestrap force closes every time I try to open it. I downloaded ROOT Checker to see if Im actually rooted and it says that Im not.

Aah.. I would recommend you use the .906 to .890 one-click.
Just note at the bottom of the post it says you'll have to reinstall the .906 update either OTA or put the download on your external card. But I'm no pro. In your case, it would be my mindset to restart from the beginning.
Oh no, I assumed you're even using the XT862 version of the Droid 3, which that thread I linked states it is only for that model.

jburke90 said:
I believe its the actual .890 BUT, I never got it to go back, so Im still on .906. It failed to go to .890 which is now why everytime I reboot it goes into fastboot saying Flash Failed. But i just hit normal boot and it boots up. Superuser is on it, and safestrap but safestrap force closes every time I try to open it. I downloaded ROOT Checker to see if Im actually rooted and it says that Im not.
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There is a sticky that has a sbf that works to bring you back to .890 as it has parts of 906 in it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911
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ZionCorps said:
Aah.. I would recommend you use the .906 to .890 one-click.
Just note at the bottom of the post it says you'll have to reinstall the .906 update either OTA or put the download on your external card. But I'm no pro. In your case, it would be my mindset to restart from the beginning.
Oh no, I assumed you're even using the XT862 version of the Droid 3, which that thread I linked states it is only for that model.
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Im downloading this right now. ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911

Yep! Looks like they're all the same link. :] Should work well for you as long as you follow the instructions and use the MotoFail link provided down in that same thread.

ZionCorps said:
Yep! Looks like they're all the same link. :] Should work well for you as long as you follow the instructions and use the MotoFail link provided down in that same thread.
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Use motofail afterwords right?

Correct. After you've done the one-click SBF and you've got your phone all up and running you can use the MotoFail.

ZionCorps said:
Correct. After you've done the one-click SBF and you've got your phone all up and running you can use the MotoFail.
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Well, everything is good except one thing. Im running Steel Droid 4.8 smoothly. But, when I go into widgets to add Quick Contacts, it doesn't show on the home screen. Like it takes up space, i can remove it (if i hit the right spot), but it doesn't show up. Like its there but invisible. Why...?

jburke90 said:
Well, everything is good except one thing. Im running Steel Droid 4.8 smoothly. But, when I go into widgets to add Quick Contacts, it doesn't show on the home screen. Like it takes up space, i can remove it (if i hit the right spot), but it doesn't show up. Like its there but invisible. Why...?
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Most likely a bug in the rom or the widget.

Safestrap won't open after install

I've been following the guide here to flash Jelly Bean onto my Atrix HD, so I could next flash the Batakang ROM as the guide recommends. I got Jelly Bean onto the device, but after I install Safestrap and try to open it, it immediately displays "Unforuntately, Safestrap has stopped working" and closes itself. I think I installed the right version (the one for Razr HD, tried both 3.04 and 3.05. I think it works with the Atrix HD as well). Voodoo OTA shows that all checkboxes under Status are checked, so I don't think it's a root issue.
I did a search for Safestrap and I didn't really see anything related to my problem. I'm kinda at a loss here. Maybe I got a bad flash and need to redo everything?

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I've been following the guide here to flash Jelly Bean onto my Atrix HD, so I could next flash the Batakang ROM as the guide recommends. I got Jelly Bean onto the device, but after I install Safestrap and try to open it, it immediately displays "Unforuntately, Safestrap has stopped working" and closes itself. I think I installed the right version (the one for Razr HD, tried both 3.04 and 3.05. I think it works with the Atrix HD as well). Voodoo OTA shows that all checkboxes under Status are checked, so I don't think it's a root issue.
I did a search for Safestrap and I didn't really see anything related to my problem. I'm kinda at a loss here. Maybe I got a bad flash and need to redo everything?
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Try downloading safe strap again maybe you had a bad download.
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Update superuser and binary
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Youngunn2008 said:
Try downloading safe strap again maybe you had a bad download.
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Update superuser and binary
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Updating Superuser and binary fixed it. I thought I had done that already, so I didn't think to try that. I feel kinda stupid now.
Thanks to both of you for your help.

Don't I did the same thing and got kinda mad for about 10 min till I checked that lol
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lost root
Had same problem and tried to up date Su Binary and lost root. Need Help. I am on ota 4.1.1 it said su has stopped and have not had root since. Any ideas?

fullpozzy said:
Had same problem and tried to up date Su Binary and lost root. Need Help. I am on ota 4.1.1 it said su has stopped and have not had root since. Any ideas?
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You have voodoo ota root keeper with a backup of su? I'd restore root with that then make sure superuser is updated and move it to system/apps then update binary
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Tried using voodoo and no success. Voodoo shows phone as rooted and have a back up of root, but doesn't have root access and no way of accessing back up of root. I can hit temp unroot but nothing happens. Any other suggestions?

I'm having this same issue with my Galaxy S4, build NC5. I rooted using Towelroot v3, then installed Safestrap (JFLTEVZW-3.71). Everything seemed to be working fine, I installed the recovery, rebooted, and now I can't open the app. This is frustrating because I decided I would rather use a different recovery, and want to remove Safestrap. I can get into recovery on boot, but no matter what I do the app won't open. SuperSU/binary seems to be up to date. Any ideas?

ahouse3733 said:
I'm having this same issue with my Galaxy S4, build NC5. I rooted using Towelroot v3, then installed Safestrap (JFLTEVZW-3.71). Everything seemed to be working fine, I installed the recovery, rebooted, and now I can't open the app. This is frustrating because I decided I would rather use a different recovery, and want to remove Safestrap. I can get into recovery on boot, but no matter what I do the app won't open. SuperSU/binary seems to be up to date. Any ideas?
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I doubt you're having the same issue, because you have a completely different phone than the one contained within this thread. You posted your question in the forum for the Motorola Atrix HD.
Seeing as this is your first post, I will simply refer you to here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon
Good luck over there.

quasihellfish said:
I doubt you're having the same issue, because you have a completely different phone than the one contained within this thread. You posted your question in the forum for the Motorola Atrix HD.
Seeing as this is your first post, I will simply refer you to here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon
Good luck over there.
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Sorry, I didn't think this sounded like a device-specific issue, and this was the only thread anywhere that seemed to address it. But anyway thanks for showing me the ropes . I ended up fixing it by changing SELinux from enforcing to permissive (I had done this to install Safestrap, but then it reverted back). Problem solved!

ahouse3733 said:
Sorry, I didn't think this sounded like a device-specific issue, and this was the only thread anywhere that seemed to address it.
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Right, but you also should have noticed that the last post was back in December 2012. That's because the Atrix HD later had its bootloader unlocked, thus negating the need for anything Safestrap related on this phone. So if you really needed help, it's unlikely that anyone here would be able to help you, because no one is using Safestrap anymore. Which is why I was trying to steer you towards someone that could actually help.
Just another reason to use the correct forum. Otherwise, glad you figured it out.

I know this may be the wrong section.. But do u by any chance still have the safestrap apk because all of the downloads are bad now and I can't find one anywhere on the internet . I really need it.. My computer quit working so I can't unlock the bootloader right now.. I just need an easy recovery because I want to use xposed but I need recovery in case anything goes wrong. Any help will be appreciated

[Q] Cant update to JB

Bought my bionic a while back and rooted it and used safestrap to use a JB rom.
Now that JB is out for the bionic ive been trying everything i can think of to update it. I've tried unrooting, uninstalling safestrap via the app itself and multiple factory resets. I try to update and it will get to about 25% after rebooting then of course the lil droid will die and i get a software update failed message.
Is there something i missed?

Gabraham said:
Bought my bionic a while back and rooted it and used safestrap to use a JB rom.
Now that JB is out for the bionic ive been trying everything i can think of to update it. I've tried unrooting, uninstalling safestrap via the app itself and multiple factory resets. I try to update and it will get to about 25% after rebooting then of course the lil droid will die and i get a software update failed message.
Is there something i missed?
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Follow this thread: "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2242075"
"mc_akiong" has the solution in the third post. Go and thank him for it.

pmrmx774 said:
Follow this thread: "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2242075"
"mc_akiong" has the solution in the third post. Go and thank him for it.
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i cant seem to locate the file he is referring to. What general area of the phones files should it be in?

Gabraham said:
i cant seem to locate the file he is referring to. What general area of the phones files should it be in?
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You need the FXZ file from Verizon. You unzip it and open the file suggested. edit out the two entries in notepad and save. Then, run RSD to apply to your phone. this hould be a US based phone.
You can get the file cdma_targa_9.8.2O-72_VZW-22_cfc.xml.zip at "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240725"

Been having trouble getting rsd lite to recognize my phone . could these issues be related ?
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downloaded the cdma, properly booted my phone into fastboot with RSD lite, flashed the modified cdma zip ( sans step operation lines) worked like a charm, if not a bit overly complex. thanks much