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[Q] Rollback from 340

History:
I bought a Motoroi X (the name for Droid X at Mexico) and the very same day the Gingerbread leak came out, so I installed it, sadly, it came with lot of bloadware so I wanted to delete it but I had no root to do it. Few hours later Gingerbread rooted came out and I wanted to install it but I needed root, so I loaded 340 SBF of Verizon, then updated to Gingerbread. The problem of this is that I can't program my phone anymore to work with the 3G (my carrier uses BP_C_02.02.00P baseband) and I got BP_C_01.09.07P.
The only SBF of my carrier available is quite old, so I can't load it on my phone since it becomes blicked after it (main't req'), I tried loading NANDroid backups, configure the phone manually with QPST to work with 3G but with no luck. I have a dataplan with a Blackberry but it ends next week and I need having internet for the work, help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Question:
Theres anyway to install an old SBF after installing 340 with bootloader 340?
Or there is a way to downgrade the baseband?

Updated to latest FW, phone still trying to download update?

Hi all,
I updated my phone using the Motorola update manager, but my phone still prompted to download the latest update - I clicked yes, and WIFI only, but it just fails and comes up with an error message and a notification I can't remove. Does anyone know of a way to 'cancel' the update? Or am I stuck with this annoying notification and pop ups?
Thanks for any help

I have the same exact problem...I did the update via sbf... weird..

X3, same problem lol. On wifi it says update not available then says its currently downloading an update but does nothing

Well, then you know exactly what the problem is already.... if you SBF update, you aren't OTA updating, and the phone probably asked you to update OTA and you went ahead and flashed over it. I did that on my phone on Sunday, and had to flash back to 4.1.26 in order to OTA all the way up to 4.1.83, via 4.1.57 first. Follow the steps in order like you should and you won't have any issues - my phone works just fine on 4.1.83 after OTA updating it twice, and rooting it with GingerBreak!

Thanks for the responses guys.
If anyone finds a way of removing this problem without having to flash back and then upgrade again, please share the info!
Cheers.

I've installed gingerblur so the OTA route doesn't work (it gives me this ! mark and did nothing), so I have to use sbf method....I guess I could sbf it to 1.2.6 and then OTA it, but I suspect many of the system changes I made will be gone.

[Q] Can't find the SBF of my region

I have a Defy that's from Movistar Chile (Froyo 2.2.2 "3.4.2-108_JDNL-2"), I was looking to root it and install another rom, because the phone randomly reboots when entering certain specific towers, and see if my problems were solved.
Since the only way to change the radio was flashing other Full SBFs, I wanted to try other, the thing is that the SBF for my region/carrier is nowhere to be found. And I kinda need some way to go back to stock in case I need to use the warranty.
Besides, I installed 2nd init, and I'm worried that because the uninstall is partial the tech support could reject the phone. Do I have a solution or am I screwed?
Best Regards,
Lugaidster

Here You have almost all roms to Defy. If You wont find yours 2.2 try to find 2.1 and then use MSU to upgrade to Froyo. 2nd Inint will be removed after full flash sbf.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is MSU?
Best Regards,
Lugaidster

Motorola Software Update which You can find on Motorola's site.

One last question, when you say 2.1 in your other post, do you mean 2.2.1? I'm under the impression that I can't downgrade to Ecclair or Froyo 2.2.1 if my phone came with Froyo 2.2.2 (because of the whole eFuse deal).
Best regards,
Lugaidster

Right, I forgot about unsigned kernels so if You have Defy with Froyo without any upgrade You can't downgrade it to Eclair and then upgrade to Froyo back.
I'm afraid that You wont find this rom. Only way is to find someone with it and ask for nand backup and then uninstall 2nd init. But as I remember in my region (CEE) before upgrade to Froyo people who had damaged phones with installed beta or chinese Froyo was sending their phones to Motorola on warranty and in few cases Motorola didn't asked about different software and they repaired hardware damages. If You wont find it u can flash it with some 3.4.2_107 and try to send it to Motorola if You need warranty repair.

Ok, thanks anyway. I think I'll take my chances and leave it as it is. I guess I'm stuck with a randomly-rebooting phone (Already took it to tech repair and they said that there was nothing wrong with the phone, and unless there's something wrong with it they won't change it).
Best Regards,
Lugaidster

BTW it's normal in Defy rebooting sometimes. I had Defy normal on stock Eclair and next Froyo and now I have Defy+ on stock 2.3.4 and now testing CM7 and on both phones and all firmware versions phones had 3-4 randomly reboots in week.

The thing is that more often than not, it reboots like 10 times in the span of an hour. It's incredibly annoying.

When it keeps rebooting turn on airplane mode and watch for results. If it stop rebooting it's problem with sim card. I heard that in few cases T-Mobile cards had problems in Defy and device keeps rebooting all the time and freezes. It can be problem with SetVsel if You have one, set defaults values. But if airplane mode helps just change sim card on new carrier or normal/micro sim (different that one You have now). Hope it should solve Your problem.

As you mentioned, airplane stops it from rebooting, the thing is that it doesn't matter which simcard it has, it reboots either way, I have it locked so I haven't tried with other carriers, but with the current carrier it reboots like hell. The most annoying thing is that it does so only on certain locations and I happen to live in one of those. I leave for work and it stops rebooting until I return.

Try to mix 2G/3G only and with/without data transfer and set network manually/auto.

I'll try that, but I won't keep my hopes up... I'll notify in case it fixes something, since I can't be the only one with this problem.
Best Regards

Nope You're not. Here You have similar problem. I didn't read whole thread but parts about sim card problem. Maybe it gonna help You somehow.

[Q] Motorola Defy XT535 Rooting, Recovery gone bad

Hi Folks
I bought a Motorloa Defy XT535 over the internet from a company in Sydney, who imported the phone from China (I live in Australia). When I received the phone, everything was in Chinese and changing the language to English, made little difference. Google Apps was not installed on the phone, and the only App Store software, had only Chinese applications. In this state, the phone was pretty useless to me. I attempted downloading the gapps APK, and installed it succesfully, however, I was still unable to connect to the Google Play store, since the phone did not allow me to create a Google account. The only account that I was able to create, was for and Exchange Server, no other options were available.
I came here and after much searching, found a few links that described how to root the phone, I found an Australian Telstra Firmware update for Gingerbread 2.3.7 one this site, http://www.droidevelopers.com/f437/...-xt535-gingerbread-2-3-7-firmware-update.html. I was able to root the phone successfully using the instructions in the All-in-one-guide on the forum - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982.
I then needed to install a Custom Recovery and found this link to install ClockworkMod - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827338. This is where things went wrong. After I followed the steps and successfully installed CWM (or so it seemed), the phone now does not boot up at all. When I switch it on, the Motorola Logo appears and then nothing further. By holding down both volume keys and switching on the phone, I can get into the stock recovery, but resetting the phone to factory default does not resolve the issue. I can also boot up into the bootloader by holding down the Up Volume key before I switch it on, but the White screen appears and four lines of text, then nothing. There are no options and the only action that does anything, is pressing the power button which then resets the phone.
The original firmware version was 2.3.6. and since I was unable to get past the custom recovery installation, I have not attempted flashing the rom with newly downloaded Telstra Ginderbread 2.3.7 firmware.
Please help if anyone has any ideas?
Thanks
JWinAus

XT535 rooting, and firmware replacement
JWinAus1969 said:
Hi Folks
I bought a Motorloa Defy XT535 over the internet from a company in Sydney, who imported the phone from China (I live in Australia). When I received the phone, everything was in Chinese and changing the language to English, made little difference. Google Apps was not installed on the phone, and the only App Store software, had only Chinese applications. In this state, the phone was pretty useless to me. I attempted downloading the gapps APK, and installed it succesfully, however, I was still unable to connect to the Google Play store, since the phone did not allow me to create a Google account. The only account that I was able to create, was for and Exchange Server, no other options were available.
I came here and after much searching, found a few links that described how to root the phone, I found an Australian Telstra Firmware update for Gingerbread 2.3.7 one this site, http://www.droidevelopers.com/f437/...-xt535-gingerbread-2-3-7-firmware-update.html. I was able to root the phone successfully using the instructions in the All-in-one-guide on the forum - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982.
I then needed to install a Custom Recovery and found this link to install ClockworkMod - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827338. This is where things went wrong. After I followed the steps and successfully installed CWM (or so it seemed), the phone now does not boot up at all. When I switch it on, the Motorola Logo appears and then nothing further. By holding down both volume keys and switching on the phone, I can get into the stock recovery, but resetting the phone to factory default does not resolve the issue. I can also boot up into the bootloader by holding down the Up Volume key before I switch it on, but the White screen appears and four lines of text, then nothing. There are no options and the only action that does anything, is pressing the power button which then resets the phone.
The original firmware version was 2.3.6. and since I was unable to get past the custom recovery installation, I have not attempted flashing the rom with newly downloaded Telstra Ginderbread 2.3.7 firmware.
Please help if anyone has any ideas?
Thanks
JWinAus
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Hi Folks
I just resolved this issue on my phone. Have a look at this post in another forum - http://simply-android.com/discussion/593/how-to-unbrick-or-flash-a-defy-firmware.sbf/p1. It worked, I used this version of RSD Lite http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348587. My phone is now up and running and all seems well.
I hope this helps someone ...
Cheers
JW

[Q] Phone issues after Argentinian SBF

Hello,
few days ago i made a shot and flashed Argentinian SBF to my German motorola. Now i have very bad signal and my phone loosing signal very often, even if it's full (yup sometimes it's full but it's rare to see it) so i have around 70% signal, and after few seconds its lost. I don't know how can i change it or flash something different. I tried a lot of sbf's after argentinian, none of them was succesful, even flashing different kernels with backups. Always something - very ofter bootloader errors.
Now i want to ask if there is ANY way to bring back my phone function to normal? i tried a lot of tricks, hacks and none of them was succesful - like modify .prop files. I saw that argentinian sbf updates bootmgr. But is there a chance to revert those changes? For example to flash from recovery boot.img from froyo backup or any other freak changes?
Well off the topic i can say that german XT610 is unbrickable. I saw a lot of posts that people bricked they devices (well maybe with verizon model is different) but i never experienced that. If bootloader launches - device is not bricked.

Up. Bootmgr can be reverted using JTAG or something like that?