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Help with going back to stock

My wife has a Droid 3. She's had it for a year and just recently had some problems. Long story short, we ended up getting a warranty like new replacement phone. I need to put the old phone back to stock. I'm not too familiar with Motorola phones (I mainly own and work with Samsung Androids). I've been looking through threads but am having a tough time making heads or tails of how to put this thing back to stock. Some of the threads I've found are a little older with outdated links. Can someone please point me in the right direction here with some good directions? Thanks much!

SOTK said:
My wife has a Droid 3. She's had it for a year and just recently had some problems. Long story short, we ended up getting a warranty like new replacement phone. I need to put the old phone back to stock. I'm not too familiar with Motorola phones (I mainly own and work with Samsung Androids). I've been looking through threads but am having a tough time making heads or tails of how to put this thing back to stock. Some of the threads I've found are a little older with outdated links. Can someone please point me in the right direction here with some good directions? Thanks much!
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quickest and easyest is to sbf..
first go to settings/about phone and see what the system version is... .890 or .906
the clcick the link in my sig..
if your on. 890 download the. zip at the top of the thread and install that using rsdlite
if your on. 906 download the 1click .exe file and follow the directions..

ovelayer said:
quickest and easyest is to sbf..
first go to settings/about phone and see what the system version is... .890 or .906
the clcick the link in my sig..
if your on. 890 download the. zip at the top of the thread and install that using rsdlite
if your on. 906 download the 1click .exe file and follow the directions..
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Thanks, much! That worked like a champ and was exactly what I was looking for!

I may have spoke too soon; it just stays at the Motorola Dual Core boot image. Maybe I am not waiting long enough? I waited for like 9 minutes and no booting. I used the one click after checking the version. In the script, I got "okays" for everything. The phone rebooted. Everything seemed to go fine. So, not sure what's up. As I said, maybe I didn't give it enough time?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

SOTK said:
I may have spoke too soon; it just stays at the Motorola Dual Core boot image. Maybe I am not waiting long enough? I waited for like 9 minutes and no booting. I used the one click after checking the version. In the script, I got "okays" for everything. The phone rebooted. Everything seemed to go fine. So, not sure what's up. As I said, maybe I didn't give it enough time?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Seems like it soft bricked ( which is fixable ).
Im just a lurker so im not sure how to fix lol

Need to send my Nexus in

I just got my Nexus 6 about a week ago, (on verizon), and I got the right screen freeze issue. Which by the way, I got only when I was using chroma. I haven't gotten it yet on stock. But I already started the return process with verizon.
Now, I want to make sure I get everything stock before I send it in, so I was wondering a few things. I have Android 5.1, and I know the issue with it bootlooping, so what exact steps should I take between these 2 guides? I think during STEP 5 of the first guide, I install the factory image which is detailed in the 2nd guide correct?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-safely-lock-bootloader-android-5-1-t3067302
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-flash-factory-images-nexus-6shamu-t2954008
Also, if I make a nandroid backup using twm from my original phone, can I restore it on my other phone? Will I have any issues with that?
Thanks a lot guys.

codersanchez said:
I just got my Nexus 6 about a week ago, (on verizon), and I got the right screen freeze issue. Which by the way, I got only when I was using chroma. I haven't gotten it yet on stock. But I already started the return process with verizon.
Now, I want to make sure I get everything stock before I send it in, so I was wondering a few things. I have Android 5.1, and I know the issue with it bootlooping, so what exact steps should I take between these 2 guides? I think during STEP 5 of the first guide, I install the factory image which is detailed in the 2nd guide correct?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-safely-lock-bootloader-android-5-1-t3067302
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-flash-factory-images-nexus-6shamu-t2954008
Also, if I make a nandroid backup using twm from my original phone, can I restore it on my other phone? Will I have any issues with that?
Thanks a lot guys.
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Yes, sounds like you've got it straight. Also, yes you can restore to your new device but don't restore the EFS backup or you'll be borked.

Evolution_Freak said:
Yes, sounds like you've got it straight. Also, yes you can restore to your new device but don't restore the EFS backup or you'll be borked.
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Alright, thanks a lot man.

codersanchez said:
Alright, thanks a lot man.
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No problem at all. If you get stuck, just ask for help. Good luck!

Evolution_Freak said:
No problem at all. If you get stuck, just ask for help. Good luck!
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I got everything done
I couldn't use flash-all because for some reason it didn't flash my recovery, so I had to manually flash basically everything. Other than that it was pretty easy.

[Question] S6 Flat SM-G920T 6.0.1 Rooting

Hello Everyone!
Quick (stupid) question. How would one root the Samsung Galaxy S6 (Flat, T-Mobile Variant) running Android 6.0.1 (Stock)? Last night (As of this post) I've tried installing TWRP but ended in a bootloop at the Samsung logo, and (Thankfully) Smart Switch saved my ass. At this point, tripping KNOX isn't of my concern, as my phone's warranty has expired. Attached is my phone's Model, Build, etc.
Any help is appreciated.
-Matt

Use CF-Auto-Root.

EncryptedCurse said:
Use CF-Auto-Root.
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Looking through all the builds, I don't see my build number. The closest one to mine (which is MMB29K.G920TUVU4EPF1), is MMB29K.G920TUVU3EPD1. Now, I would use this, but I don't want a 600$ brick, so unless it's compatible with my build, I'm gonna have to wait.

msoza1 said:
Looking through all the builds, I don't see my build number. The closest one to mine (which is MMB29K.G920TUVU4EPF1), is MMB29K.G920TUVU3EPD1. Now, I would use this, but I don't want a 600$ brick, so unless it's compatible with my build, I'm gonna have to wait.
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Ah, yeah, looks like you're running the latest update and it seems to early to tell if CF-Auto-Root will even work on it (I don't think anyone has tried yet).
Anyways, here's all the information you'll need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67623487&postcount=7
Rest assured that you can't brick anything as long as you have access to download mode to reflash stock firmware.

EncryptedCurse said:
Ah, yeah, looks like you're running the latest update and it seems to early to tell if CF-Auto-Root will even work on it (I don't think anyone has tried yet).
Anyways, here's all the information you'll need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67623487&postcount=7
Rest assured that you can't brick anything as long as you have access to download mode to reflash stock firmware.
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Thanks for the reply. Hmm...last time I flashed TWRP on my phone, It got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy" logo, stayed there no matter what, thankfully I was able to use "Emergency Firmware Reset." I've been snooping around forms, and some people state to, "UNCHECK AUTO REBOOT, when finished installing, reboot manually." Of course, I'm hesitant to try that, after all Smart Switch only backs up photos, videos, apps, etc, but not the actual Android operating system.

I'm gonna do a back up of what I can and try EncryptedCurse's suggestion. Wish me luck!

EncryptedCurse said:
Ah, yeah, looks like you're running the latest update and it seems to early to tell if CF-Auto-Root will even work on it (I don't think anyone has tried yet).
Anyways, here's all the information you'll need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67623487&postcount=7
Rest assured that you can't brick anything as long as you have access to download mode to reflash stock firmware.
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Did as instructed, still didn't work, freezes and shuts down at the Samsung Logo. Doing a Emergency Device Initialization now, and then restoring my stuff. Thanks anyway, I knew I shouldn't have updated to 6.0... :sigh:

So im guessing theres no way to root it yet huh?

faratl said:
So im guessing theres no way to root it yet huh?
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From what I've tried, no. I had a feeling this would happen as soon as I upgraded.

On a side note, is anyone developing a kernel for build MMB29K.G920TUVU4EPF1? Twisted Six's kernel only goes up to EPD1...

What if you just downgrade back to lolipop ??

faratl said:
What if you just downgrade back to lolipop ??
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The latest update expressly prevents downgrading.

Idea to try restoring system after update.

Okay, so before I found anything about custom ROM or anything, I'd already updated the system to 6.6. So, common knowledge seems to indicate that I can't do much to restore stock.. But what I was wondering, would it be possible to fastboot into twrp and flash one of the pre-update roms, them follow normal conventions to flash twrp? I've seen similar questions asked, but the threads are stale, and no suggestions how. So, is there anyone who can test if such a process can work? Otherwise, is there a stock ROM that I could zip, sign, if it's possible to sign a zip, and install through stock recovery as update.zip? When I've tried to hard boot into recovery, it just says no command found, but there should have to be a way to interact with the stock recovery. I'm just throwing out ideas, but if anyone knows anything, please let me know.

What about dirtycow?

cyanix-tech said:
What about dirtycow?
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Once I get another phone, I'll give dirtycow a shot. If it does indeed work, I'll post back and let you know. I should have a new phone coming sometime next week.

magus7091 said:
Once I get another phone, I'll give dirtycow a shot. If it does indeed work, I'll post back and let you know. I should have a new phone coming sometime next week.
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This has been done already v6.6 has been cracked. Over 2 months ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/r1-hd/how-to/blu-r1-hd-v6-6-dirtycowed-f-amazon-root-t3490882

mrmazak said:
This has been done already v6.6 has been cracked. Over 2 months ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/r1-hd/how-to/blu-r1-hd-v6-6-dirtycowed-f-amazon-root-t3490882
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Thanks! I didn't have a backup to even try dirtycow before. Can't wait to get this thing rooted and ROMed. :good::good:

AT&T Razer Phone 2 stock recovery?

Hi,
Would anybody be willing to upload the stock recovery from the At&t Razer Phone 2 please.
I would really appreciate it. I'm trying to work on some more for this phone.
Thank you

I know another att variant guy captured the newest pie zip URL and I downloaded it. The recovery lives in the boot.img right?
Were AT&T the ones that sent you the THX model? Or did you buy it straight from Razer?
I'll find that URL and past it here. I've extracted the previous Oreo update from the att build prior to moving to the global version. I had to capture the URL from a log, then downloaded it, then extracted it then I had to use python to fully extract pieces of the payload. Which included the boot.img.
Not a developer but I think I can help here.
Here's the URL for pie July security for att:
https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../2965f0fadb65852413dba10a4fed1029ecce838f.zip
This will help you extract the payload.bin in the zip:
https://shorturl.at/ABEMW

jonchance_84 said:
I know another att variant guy captured the newest pie zip URL and I downloaded it. The recovery lives in the boot.img right?
Were AT&T the ones that sent you the THX model? Or did you buy it straight from Razer?
I'll find that URL and past it here. I've extracted the previous Oreo update from the att build prior to moving to the global version. I had to capture the URL from a log, then downloaded it, then extracted it then I had to use python to fully extract pieces of the payload. Which included the boot.img.
Not a developer but I think I can help here.
Here's the URL for pie July security for att:
https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../2965f0fadb65852413dba10a4fed1029ecce838f.zip
This will help you extract the payload.bin in the zip:
https://shorturl.at/ABEMW
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I received it from Razer for development/testing. Yes the recovery is in the boot.img. My computer is down right now do to kid damage lol. Got to repair it. I've downloaded the payload.bin but I need help extracting it.
Thank you

kountry83 said:
I received it from Razer for development/testing. Yes the recovery is in the boot.img. My computer is down right now do to kid damage lol. Got to repair it. I've downloaded the payload.bin but I need help extracting it.
Thank you
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I'll pull out my old dumpy laptop. Good one is at work. I'll see if I can extract the boot.img.
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Try that.
https://mega.nz/#!d0MSGIIQ!imc6jZyK0wyJrzFvDt9WhgSqwLZTdV9oexaYBP9gfeQ

Hey bud,
Thank you for the extracted image. I really appreciate it. I fixed my laptop this morning and extracted the whole payload.bin with python. I'm currently doing research on the partitions. I'm also trying to figure out why the arter97 r10 kernel won't boot with at&t latest update. Just hangs at boot. It installs nicely with global. Again thank you very much for your time and effort.
Kountry

kountry83 said:
Hey bud,
Thank you for the extracted image. I really appreciate it. I fixed my laptop this morning and extracted the whole payload.bin with python. I'm currently doing research on the partitions. I'm also trying to figure out why the arter97 r10 kernel won't boot with at&t latest update. Just hangs at boot. It installs nicely with global. Again thank you very much for your time and effort.
Kountry
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R10 works just fine on my device updated to AT&T's latest.

JDBarlow said:
R10 works just fine on my device updated to AT&T's latest.
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Hmm I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I followed the exact steps I did on the global firmware. Is their something I'm missing. Mine just sits at boot animation. What's your steps if you don't mind me asking bud.
Thank you

kountry83 said:
Hmm I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I followed the exact steps I did on the global firmware. Is their something I'm missing. Mine just sits at boot animation. What's your steps if you don't mind me asking bud.
Thank you
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Not at all. Of course I unlocked both bootloader and critical.
Then I've extracted the AT&T Oreo file on Razers website into my adb folder and run the flash all .bat file. After first boot I allow it to update to latest Pie update. Are you on AT&T?? I'm the one that posted the captured OTA link.

@JDBarlow Yes I'm on latest At&T. I've had it working a few days ago but switched to global for a minute to do a vendor/system comparison. Now I can't get it to work again. Thank you for the it's captured link bud. I've done the same thing you did but my phone came development unlocked with different recovery setup. I backed up all of my development firmware.

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@JDBarlow Yes I'm on latest At&T. I've had it working a few days ago but switched to global for a minute to do a vendor/system comparison. Now I can't get it to work again. Thank you for the it's captured link bud. I've done the same thing you did but my phone came development unlocked with different recovery setup. I backed up all of my development firmware.
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@kountry83 I know bro I'm patiently waiting on someone (dev) to step up and take this device on..I love it man has so much potential if we had more development :good:

Nice to see someone taking a swing at it. So tired of people trash talking this phone, when it's capable of so much. I'm not a dev but seems to me that this phone would be easy to tinker with since Razer pretty much begs you to. Welp I guess JD and I will be here to test anything or help any way we can. I've really only seen him and one other dude using this phone on att. Openly that is. I ended up on global cause I hated waiting on att to release pie update.
JD, how's your cell connection quality? I can literally stare at my signal and it drops out completely from 3 bars or so. Maybe I could flash the modem.img to see if the basebands are different? I might just flash the Oreo att firmware them let it update, then flash arter kernel, then flash magisk zip within arter twrp to get root.

jonchance_84 said:
Nice to see someone taking a swing at it. So tired of people trash talking this phone, when it's capable of so much. I'm not a dev but seems to me that this phone would be easy to tinker with since Razer pretty much begs you to. Welp I guess JD and I will be here to test anything or help any way we can. I've really only seen him and one other dude using this phone on att. Openly that is. I ended up on global cause I hated waiting on att to release pie update.
JD, how's your cell connection quality? I can literally stare at my signal and it drops out completely from 3 bars or so. Maybe I could flash the modem.img to see if the basebands are different? I might just flash the Oreo att firmware them let it update, then flash arter kernel, then flash magisk zip within arter twrp to get root.
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@jonchance_84 Honestly I've gotten such great reception in my area I haven't even diagnosed that. I can pay more attention to it and see what happens. We actually get the 5G Evo in our area..
The flashing sequence you stated above is the exact order I've done mine twice now and everything works very well!!
Edit: I don't get the 5Ge on the Razer 2.. didn't want you to think that ?

JDBarlow said:
@jonchance_84 Honestly I've gotten such great reception in my area I haven't even diagnosed that. I can pay more attention to it and see what happens. We actually get the 5G Evo in our area..
The flashing sequence you stated above is the exact order I've done mine twice now and everything works very well!!
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I'm not even a mile from i-20 in East Texas. This is all I get on lte, but the weird thing is that never settles in.

@jonchance_84 I live in East Texas too! I got a little land, log cabin, man cave, and guest house that use to be a bed and breakfast lol. Love this country living. I'm on T-Mobile.

kountry83 said:
@jonchance_84 I live in East Texas too! I got a little land, log cabin, man cave, and guest house that use to be a bed and breakfast lol. Love this country living. I'm on T-Mobile.
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Nice! Other than the heat right now, love it here. I work in IT for an oil and gas company. Starting to tinker more with Android as a hobby. Last phone was a Nexus 6. Always been able to flash, follow directions with no problem, but the dev side seems a bit tricky.

@JDBarlow
I just did the same thing you did with the at&t update and booted up to setup. Then booted to bootloader then flashed arter boot.img to both a and b. Tried to boot back to setup and hangs on boot animation. Don't get why I'm having a hard time getting this to boot off this kernel. Ugh

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@JDBarlow
I just did the same thing you did with the at&t update and booted up to setup. Then booted to bootloader then flashed arter boot.img to both a and b. Tried to boot back to setup and hangs on boot animation. Don't get why I'm having a hard time getting this to boot off this kernel. Ugh
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Any errors when flashing arter boot.img via fastboot?

jonchance_84 said:
Nice! Other than the heat right now, love it here. I work in IT for an oil and gas company. Starting to tinker more with Android as a hobby. Last phone was a Nexus 6. Always been able to flash, follow directions with no problem, but the dev side seems a bit tricky.
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kountry83 said:
@JDBarlow
I just did the same thing you did with the at&t update and booted up to setup. Then booted to bootloader then flashed arter boot.img to both a and b. Tried to boot back to setup and hangs on boot animation. Don't get why I'm having a hard time getting this to boot off this kernel. Ugh
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@kountry83 @jonchance_84
That's just freaking crazy lol I'm in East Texas too
Instead of flashing the kernel to both slots try ONLY <fastboot flash boot arter97.img> then reboot before installing magisk
Edit: the last time did this flashing sequence I actually booted to recovery right after installing arter97 installed magisk then booted to system

@jonchance_84 no errors. @JDBarlow just tried that also. Don't know what's going on here. I think it might be a little different hardware and software wise.

JDBarlow said:
@[email protected]_84
That's just freaking crazy lol I'm in East Texas too
Instead of flashing the kernel to both slots try ONLY <fastboot flash boot arter97.img> then reboot before installing magisk
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Maybe he isn't setup with the a/b scheme?
Edit: Maybe the arter kernel isn't compatible with some hardware that's different? Causing kernel panic which results in bootloop? It's gotta be something simple though. Otherwise the att firmware wouldn't even boot at all.