Help please! yet another potential brick - Droid X General

Ok so up until yesterday, I was running Liberty 1.5 and things were peachy. Yesterday morning I got bit by the gingerbread bug and decided to install Gingerale 2.0. Installed, fine, done.
After I was running it for a while I decided I wanted to go back to liberty to do a titanium backup to move my old stuff over. Stupid move I guess. To get into recovery I installed bootstrap. Rebooted my phone, Droid eye bootloops ensued from then on.
So I tried SBF'ing and the first first time I did it I got an error on misallocation of RAM. So I did a battery pull, did it again, and everything appeared to be alright. It did the flash, rebooted the phone, and the droid eye logo appeared. However it was still bootlooping at the droid eye. I've tried several different SBF files, making sure all of them were 30.04 bootloader like I have. Boot loops regardless.
I'm kinda at an end point I'm not sure where to go from here. Can anyone plllllease chime in?

After a sbf it is normal to have to do a clear data/factory reset. With phone off, press and hold home and power buttons until the M shows up then ONLY RELEASE THE POWER BUTTON, when the little andy and exclamation pop up you can release home button and press search use volume buttons to move down to clear data then camera button to select.
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Help please

hello everyone i am in big trouble,
I was making a custom rom for my home use and i changed some icons. I also accidentally deleted my launcher2.apk file so i have no way of getting to any apps from the homescreen and it just shows a black screen with a status bar on my homescreen. There is nothing i can do and since i wiped by defealt it dosen't have USB debugging on and no service so i can't get a txt and go to the messaging app and then somewhere from there. So i am freaking stuck on a black screen. the lock screen is fine but i also can't get to the bootstrap recovery. I am thinking of doing a a wipe using RSD lite but i tried that a while ago on my dell and it didn't work (a few weeks ago). it would get to 99% and then just stop and say failed. If i get it bricked I would be fine because I could go into verizon and say that my phone just stopped booting on after using it for a while and the battery ran out or something like that but right now it still boots up. What can i do?!!?!?!?!? i desperatley need my phone or my parents are going to murder me (but i guess a new phone would be a good christmass present even though it would be a huge bummer not to have a smartphone and just have a little normal slider phone or something like that). I am supposed to be pretty good with tech stuff since i made roms before except right now i'm stumped since rsd lite usually dosen't work.
thanks,
ljbaumer
If you do SBF then follow these instructions to the letter (I just SBF'd my Droid2 last night):
Get the 2.3.20 SBF file
Get RSDLite 4.8 or 4.9
Install the latest Motorola drivers
Start RSDLite and select the SBF file
Turn on your phone while holding the up key on the keyboard. This should boot up into a screen with just some text
Connect your phone to your computer
Start the SBF
Eventually RSDLite will tell you to manually power up your phone. Your phone should be in a boot loop at the Droid eye logo at this point
Disconnect your phone and pull the battery
Wait 30 seconds or so and put the battery back in. Turn on the phone while holding up on the keyboard
Connect the phone to your computer. RSDLite should say 'SUCCESS' at this point
Disconnect your phone and turn it off
Turn your phone back on while holding the 'X' key on the keyboard
When you get the Android dude with an exclamation point in a triangle push the search key (magnifying glass) on the keyboard
Select both 'Clear cache' and 'Clear data' on from the list. Clearing the data might take a minute or two so just sit tight
Reboot the phone. It might take a few minutes to boot back into stock Blur. You'll get the account setup screen when it's done
thanks for the fast reply. downloading the stuff right now and going to try in 30 minutes once the download is done. the sbf is VRZ_A955_2.3.20.zip right?
Yup. It should contain a file named VRZ_A955_2.3.20_1FF_01.sbf that's 434MB.
Just wondering, how would I sbf my Droid 2 on a MacBook. I just ditched Windows and got a new MacBook Pro and I am trying to figure it out.
I was trying to figure out the same thing but I just gave up so I am moving the files over to my 7 year old dell inspiron 6000 and hoping it will work!
flashing right now..... scared out of my wits.... plzzzz work.....
status: interface Ap-OS: flashing code group 39 executed: 27%
doing some crazy stuff.... this is pretty cool.
Spitemare said:
If you do SBF then follow these instructions to the letter (I just SBF'd my Droid2 last night):
Get the 2.3.20 SBF file
Get RSDLite 4.8 or 4.9
Install the latest Motorola drivers
Start RSDLite and select the SBF file
Turn on your phone while holding the up key on the keyboard. This should boot up into a screen with just some text
Connect your phone to your computer
Start the SBF
Eventually RSDLite will tell you to manually power up your phone. Your phone should be in a boot loop at the Droid eye logo at this point
Disconnect your phone and pull the battery
Wait 30 seconds or so and put the battery back in. Turn on the phone while holding up on the keyboard
Connect the phone to your computer. RSDLite should say 'SUCCESS' at this point
Disconnect your phone and turn it off
Turn your phone back on while holding the 'X' key on the keyboard
When you get the Android dude with an exclamation point in a triangle push the search key (magnifying glass) on the keyboard
Select both 'Clear cache' and 'Clear data' on from the list. Clearing the data might take a minute or two so just sit tight
Reboot the phone. It might take a few minutes to boot back into stock Blur. You'll get the account setup screen when it's done
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OMG dude your freaking awesome!!!! you just saved my phone!!!
thank you so much!
ljbaumer
No problem.
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[Resolved] HELP My droid x wont boot

So i have been having issues with my Droid X since i rooted it. It has a locked bootloader so idk if that effects it. In the last few weeks ive have to go into my bootstrap and factory reset my phone about a week ago, yesterday and now again tonight. The thing is i cant even get my Droid X to boot past the red M. Im stumped on what to do and i need help.
Wrong place to post
Ask a mod to move this to Droid x general/q n a, I'm sure you'll get some help there
From my fingers to your eyez
Well, your applications and data are done-for, unfortunately.
Pull the battery...and from a dead state:
Hold HOME+POWER.
Continue to hold home until a green android pops up.
I always forget what comes next on gingerbread...
but I think it's both volume keys at the same time.
Navigate and select to do a factory reset.
Try booting.
If it still won't boot...
You'll have to SBF
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/331-guide-flashing-droid-x-sbf/
Use the 602 sbf.
If you ever want to flash a custom rom, I've made a quick guide that'll make the process easier on a new user.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374281

[Q] ERR:A5,69,35,00,27 after SBF

This is wife's phone. I was doing regular App Market updates for her installed apps. After they were complete got an error message, don't remember exactly what, but rebooted... Phone then went into a boot loop... It would boot all the way up to the lock screen then reboot again. I went in and wiped both cache's with no success. Went back into recovery and did a set factory defaults and now I am dead in the water...
I get to the Bootloader screen and it tells me Err:A5,69,35,00,27 and I have done everything but stand on my head to fix. I have re-SBF'd from multiple computers, using different SBF versions, driver versions, and RSD Lite versions including multiple bootable Linux CD's with embedded SBF. All resulted in getting the darn ERR:A5,69,35,00,27.
The only way I ever got anything different was to flash 1.13.604 and then I got an error message Err:A5,70,70,00,1F.
After that, if I SBF the newer version, I go right back to original error.
I tried a suggestion from another thread to download the system and full sbf files for 340. I flashed the full, got error... Then flashed system, still get error.
I am using RSD Lite 5.4 on Vista 32 with UAC disabled (full admin mode), latest Moto drivers as of this post. Again, I have tried all of the versions of bootable linux SBF's as well. All yield the same result.
Wife's phone, she is very unhappy with me, and if I don't get her back up and running, I guess I will be dropping $500 on a new phone, as she is still under contract. If Mama ain't happy, I sure ain't getting any! LOL!
It seems to me that you've tried everything possible.
Your best bet now would be to take it to Verizon, if it's still under warranty.
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Out of warranty by 2 months.
I actually have two of these phones, and I was able to figure some information out here. I wanted to see if I could get my working Droid X into Stock Recovery, and low and behold it wouldn't go in either. I did some searching around and found that some ROM's were wiping out the stock recovery. I found this file dxgb_recovery_patch.zip and downloaded it and flashed it in Clockwork Recovery and that fixed the Stock Recovery on my working phone.
However, since my wife's Droid X is bootlooping, I can't access Stock Recovery or Clockwork Recovery. I feel like I am chasing my tail here. I need to wipe the data/factory reset, but I can't get there because I don't have Stock Recovery. I can reinstall Stock Recovery if I have Clockwork Recovery, but I don't have Stock Recovery to install Clockwork Recovery... Round and round I go...
There absolutely must be a way to get the Stock Recovery reinstalled from the state I am in.
what rom was the phone running when you had the original issue?
Apex 2.0 RC4
Good ROM, but it appears to torch stock recovery. I ended up having wife call and plead stupidity with Motorola. They are exchanging phone.
Still don't feel bad. Would have been able to fixed If they would unlock the damn billiard.
I have the same Problem with my Defy+ what can i do?
I have the exact same issue. Have tried all the sbf methods, still getting the error :A5,69,---, I was on MIUI prior to this. When I boot the phone back up I get the motorola M but then it brings me right back to bootloader and the error. I'm guessing stock recovery is gone.
Anybody find a fix to this yet. I am about to go back to Verizon, but wanted to fix it myself if at all possible, cause I have had my phone for a year and a half so I doubt they will help me out and don't have the money for a new phone right now.
Are you holding down Home and both volume buttons with power at boot to get to stock recovery?
*I have had several phones and don't remember exactly so you may have to hold Home and vol- only.
Jiggity Janx said:
Are you holding down Home and both volume buttons with power at boot to get to stock recovery?
*I have had several phones and don't remember exactly so you may have to hold Home and vol- only.
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Yes, on the droid x its just home and the power button release the power button when you see the m and then you hit search once the droid pops up. Instead of seeing the droid it takes me to the bootloader screen with the above error message. The way to bootloader is volume button camera button and power. Which that still works and I have tried several sbf methods with none working. I didn't know if it was an issue that may have been mentioned above about the stock recovery being missing now since I was on MIUI 2.1 wizards verison. I didn't know if there was a way to get stock recovery back on the phone cause sbf doesn't seem to work. I really have no clue at this point. But full disclosure I have done quite a few sbf's and this is the first time I've ran into such an issue. Thanks again for any help.
Apologize ahead this is so long. I just wanted to update anyone just in case they ran into the same error that I did earlier. The Err:A5,69,35,00,27 on the bootloader 30.04 screen. I finally got an sbf to stick. About 30 sbf's later (no exaggeration) and 3 different nights of working on it. Honestly persistence just ended up paying off. Anyone else can chime in here if they know why it worked so its not so grueling for the next guy/gal and major props to 1kds who gave me a couple different suggestions and for making this awesome way to sbf. The linux disc didn't end up working for me in the end but it may have if I kept at it, because that is the way to go if you can (way easy to run), Also may have worked if I did the linux disc on a different computer. I started on MIUI 2.1 (Wizards vers) but previous to that the latest android vers I was on was 602, friday night my phone died and for some reason wouldn't charge in the morning or boot up. I had a spare battery with about 50% charge on it, so I used that to try and turn on the phone and I got the red M then the error message on the bootloader screen mentioned above. I ran the linux disc on my windows 7 (64bit) machine for all the currently downloadable files (froyo, 596, 602, 602root). Kept getting the err:a5,69...
Ran RSDLite on the Windows 7 machine (my current vers was 4.8, but then upgraded to 4.9) then 5.4.4 and also 5.6.4 (latest on the rsdlite motosbf site). I tried both froyo .340 and gingerbread 602 files on all these versions and even the .596 gingerbread which I had never been on. Nothing worked and I had gone through my second battery at this point. Then I figured I would try my Windows Vista 32 bit Laptop that never had rsd lite on it or the drivers. So Downloaded 5.4.4 (found this to be the one favorable for the 602 flash per the forums) and the motorola driver and sbf'd again both the froyo .340 and the gingerbread 602 file. Still getting the same error. Every third sbf or so I would even start getting a code corrupt error. The flashes actually failed every now and then and then sometimes they would show finished and the phone would still show the s/w update screen (I just did a battery pull and would sbf again at this point). After each sbf tried getting into stock recovery Volume down, home, and power button and each time I would get an error and/or go back to the bootloader screen. I also tried just home and the power button.
What worked!!! - Not sure why but my last sbf I did was the 602 still on the laptop running Windows Vista 32 bit since I thought that would work on the rsd lite 5.4.4 (credit here to droidmodderx and 1kds). It still showed the Err:A5,69,35,00,27 after the sbf finished and it tried to boot (i did get the red m, but then went to that error page again). Battery pull, turned back on and then error page on bootloader 30.04 again. I held the home, volume down, and power button for about 1-2 minutes = same result. Held Home and Power button = same result with error. Tried the home, volume down, and power one more time (still same result). Battery pull again, waited a few minutes and just tried to turn on and it got past the red m to the droid eye!!!! It did bootloop, but I battery pulled and tried to reboot since stock recovery hadn't been working. Same thing, bootloop, so I tried the stock recovery again (home, volume down, and the power button) and stock recovery came up. Hit the search button then did the factory reset. I couldn't believe it and like I said not sure why/how it worked (maybe the multiple attempts to get into stock recovery). All I know is 4 days later it works now and I thought all was lost!!! Of course again wouldn't have been able to do this without 1kds or these awesome forums! Thanks again and sorry so long, but hopefully this helps someone else!
Back on the X!

[Q] Unable to get into CWM and no service/WiFi

Hi, I have a really strange problem.
I had this build of MIUI on my phone for a few months, no problems
droidforums[.net]/forum/dro...-6-stable[.html]
but a few days ago, my phone started giving whacky battery readings (would drop from 40% to 5% in a few seconds) and i wanted to go into CWM to reset the battery stats.
So I had my phone plugged into my car charger, and when I booted into recovery, it didnt do anything, and the screen stayed black for a few minutes (I assumed it was out of power)
When it booted again, ALL OF MY DATA had been cleared and MIUI WAS NOT EVEN THE SAME AS THE ONE I HAD FLASHED. Same version number, sure, but completely different theme and boot animation. (I believe its currently the stock theme)
Well whats even wierder is that I have no data or wifi. Wifi gets stuck on "Obtaining IP address"
And whats even wierderer than than is that every time i boot my phone up, I am greeted with the android activation screen, no matter how many times I hit skip the set up
I obviously cant activate my phone without a connection
it also resets itself every time i turn it on. Any app that I install from my SD card will be gone.
It gets worse. Droid 2 bootstrap does nothing, even though it reports success. I cant use ROM manager as it has to install CWM from the server.
The reboot recovery option from the boot menu just reboots the phone, and there is no blue LED on boot that I can see to press volume down.
(Holding volume down gives me the android with the box and arrow, and nothing else, I know this has to do with recovery but not much else)
So can anyone tell me how to get CWM working again???
THANKS!
Does your MIUI have a boot menu? If it does you should see a light right before it goes to the boot animation.
Albinoman said:
Does your MIUI have a boot menu? If it does you should see a light right before it goes to the boot animation.
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Nope. nothing. not even su cat.jpg works
I would suggest you sbf back to gingerbread then re-flash your rom.
Albinoman said:
I would suggest you sbf back to gingerbread then re-flash your rom.
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Is there any way I can avoid this? last time I sbfed it didnt work out so well
You could try a data wipe in stock recovery.
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Actually, i cant even get into stock recovery. I see the android and the box after I press x, but pressing the search key does nothing and the search key works.
You have to press both volume buttons at the same time.
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Albinoman said:
You have to press both volume buttons at the same time.
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I did this, reset to factory deafualts, and absolutely no difference. I cannot find a single sbf file that is still up (megaupload and multiupload are the only ones I can find)
Can somebody please give me a mirror or give me a way to fix this?
Full GB sbf. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1505035

**SOLVED** [Q] My Droid Razr M won't get past the droid eye on boot up

I apologize already if this has already been posted before, I couldn't see one that had my issues so I'm making this thread.
OK, so here is my problem and everything that I can think of that I've done to my phone.
Today I tried to restart my phone as it was getting a bit sluggish. When I did it started booting fine then the animation sound stopped while the droid eye was being put together. Now my phone will not pass the droid eye during the boot phase. I press the power and both volume buttons and after a few seconds it starts itself back up again. I do the power button and down volume buttons and it still does the same thing. I've even performed the factory reset twice and it still won't help.... And no matter what I do it keeps booting itself back up on its own.
What I've done to my phone:
I am rooted but never got the boot loader unlocked since i waited too long and the last update wouldn't allow the boot loader unlock methods anymore. I have used titanium backup app to delete some system apps for example the Verizon football one, slacker radio, and any of those useless apps that I never use. I haven't deleted anything lately and have restarted my phone many times since. I have been delaying the recent update hitting no or not now, whatever it says. I thought that I said no today on the system update as well. Even then my phone was working before I restarted it.
PLEASE I hope that there is something that I can do to fix my phone because I'm forced to use my LG Vortex again and my upgrade isn't for another year..... I don't want to buy a new one since this phone has been great and I'm almost certain that if there was a way to reinstal or flash the droid razr m OS that that would fix my issues.
Thanks in advance for your input and please know that I'm a novice with this kind of thing so you will have to explain the process to me. If i have instructions I can definitely follow them.
THANKS!
You Factory Reset a couple of times, so that tells me you know how to get into recovery. See if you can get back into recovery and try clearing cache/dalvik too. I think you can still do that from stock recovery.
If that doesn't work and your battery is good, you can fastboot to recover it. If your battery was low when you started this, charge it prior to fastbooting. Just hold down the power button until the phone shuts off and plug into a WALL charger until it's charged. If the battery is good, you can grab the firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=8 (use the second one from the bottom, .3, if you flash the last one you will not be able to gain root) and flash in RSD. Another choice is to use House of Moto to recover: http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-20/ .
OK, so I deleted the cashe and still a no go. For the second step of getting the .3 to regain root. would it be possible to get an even earlier version so I can unlock the boot loader? Also when you say flash in RSD, what is that? I know of the AP flash from the first menu, is that something inside of Recovery menu options?
Thanks for your help!
**UPDATE**
THANKS! I was able to eventually figure it out and used the last option that you said and my phone works! Now working on getting root back. Thanks again!! But I really would like to know if I could do the same thing but with an earlier version to unlock the bootloader.
Droid Razr starting up issue
Hi guys, I am facing a weird issue with my Droid Razr and hoping pros to help me sort this out and get my phone running.
I am using Droid Razr but since last one week it is not starting up. Let me elaborate, currently it is switched off and not getting up. While starting it pass through M logo but can't go ahead for startup animation (droid eye animation). Even after leaving on that animation for entire day, it is not going ahead of that.
However, if I connect it to a wall charger (while it is off) it shows battery getting charged. It is taking a usual timing of 90 minutes for full charge.
I have important pictures and data into phone memory is there any way to recover it.
I would appreciate if you can guide me to get my phone up and running as usual.
RikRong said:
You Factory Reset a couple of times, so that tells me you know how to get into recovery. See if you can get back into recovery and try clearing cache/dalvik too. I think you can still do that from stock recovery.
If that doesn't work and your battery is good, you can fastboot to recover it. If your battery was low when you started this, charge it prior to fastbooting. Just hold down the power button until the phone shuts off and plug into a WALL charger until it's charged. If the battery is good, you can grab the firmware from here (use the second one from the bottom, .3, if you flash the last one you will not be able to gain root) and flash in RSD. Another choice is to use House of Moto to recover: .
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