Hello. I looked over all the forums and other site's forums. (Android forums, droid x forums etc...) and finally had to post. Sorry for the trouble.
I have a droid x I got 9/2010, one of the first ones out. Recently on a friend's advice i rooted and uninstalled some of the "bloatware". (NFS demo, Blockbuster, etc...). Then I made the mistake of OTA-ing to GB. You guys probably know what happened. So then I decided to factory reset, which just dug the hole deeper. Now I can't get past the "m" logo unless I go into safe mode. I'm thinking about calling VZ as a last resort
I have purchased a full version of clockwork as well as the dx bootstrap, but i understand that without getting into a normal boot I cannot run those programs to try and change the rom/run recovery.
I tried SBF-ing, as well as reinstalling the bloat, both with no luck. Any other ideas?
Thanks a million,
Danny
Did you do a full sbf? If worst comes to worst, and you have insurance, call verizon and tell them you lost it
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Yeah, i'm trying the SBF again, using the Linux instructions in the sticky. (My laptop runs Ubuntu) I still can only boot into safe mode. I'm probably gonna leave it in safe mode for now so I can call Verizon. I may not say i've lost it, maybe that it's broken and I don't want to ship a bag of metal parts through the mail/take to store. I figured I was up a creek, but I thought to check. Thanks!
Whenever you SBF and the phone misbehaves, you should do a factory reset. Did you try that?
Edit: Just reread your post and saw you did try that. Try the SBF again followed immediately by factory reset. Also, try the Droid2 bootstrap instead.
Try the bootstrap? If it's a program I need to run then your advice is moot. I can only get into safe mode, which doesn't allow me to run anything. And now my phone displays no icons, just the top status bar. The screen is blank, i can't switch panels and i can't access any menus. I think it's a paperweight.
Can you get to the bootloader screen? If so you can sbf with 1kds linux cd
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I followed a thread explaining how to "sbf" using Ubuntu. (it's a sticky on this forum) I have Ubuntu Linux on my laptop so i did it. It still got stuck at the "m" logo. I "sbf"-ed again with a different sbf file supposed to be Gingerbread. Still stuck at the logo. I understand since my phone will boot it not considered a brick. (I work in the IT field and have dealt with bricked routers,etc...) But the last two sbf's failed.
I'm still open to suggestions. I may go to a VZ store tomorrow afternoon, but until then i'll try anything since it can't get much worse.
I'd try 1kds. One way or another you should be able to get back to froyo and start over. Just to be sure you are using d2 bootstrap?
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I'm under the impression that this "bootstrap" thing is a program you have to run while in the phone's OS. If so i'm out of luck since I can't. My phone won't boot into safe mode anymore. Now it looks like a normal boot, but there's no icons, just a black background and the upper status bar. (signal, clock etc). i can't get any menus except the sliding unlock screen. The buttons on the bottom do nothing. (Holding HOME displays a screen saying I have no recent programs, ironic since I can't run anything/go anywhere)
So if Bootstrap is something I can load/run without being in the OS, i'm good. But everything I read says otherwise. Thanks either way.
D2 bootstrap is an app. You could run your phone forever without it. It's primary function is allow you to get into cwm to flash things or make a nandroid backup.
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I just discovered that. So it's something I could have installed before it all went south. I'm trying this 1kds sbf thing, but i think it's gonna fail like the last time. I'll post the results later.
Well it lets me into the OS, and it's not safe mode, but I can't really do anything. The screens are still empty. I can get to the apps menu, but touching any of the icons does nothing. If it did i'd just run the z4root and then bootstrap from my SD card. But the icons won't do anything. I'll keep trying things until I can run stuff from my card. I'm determined to get this to work.
You successfully burned the 1kds discount, got your phone into bootloader mode, and ran the disc? What did your pc screen say the moment you ran the sbf?
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You should be able to SBF your phone and then immediately boot it into the recovery menu (hold the Home key while turning on the phone, then press the Search key to get the recovery menu). From there, do a reset, wipe, or whatever it's called. That should get rid of whatever remaining software turds is causing your phone problems. If that still doesn't work, then I'd chalk it up to a hardware problem.
I did burn and run the CD. It didn't say anything special after it ran but i wasn't looking for something special. Now I can't get to the recovery menu. It's still frozen at the logo. I can get into safe mode, sometimes. I'm gonna take it into VZ tonight just to see. But I recently found out I haven't been paying for insurance this whole 11 months i've had it. So my idea of a replacement got more expensive.
Was trying to find out if you got to the "boot baby boot" screen before it did it's thing. Bummer it didn't work.
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Yeah, i think it's a hardware issue so i'll see what Verizon says. Regardless thank you all for helping. I'll give you "thanks" after work today. Rock on!
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I was installing the 928Droid Black theme on my DX last night, and while the framework.apk file was loading through Metamorph, my phone froze...I let it sit for a couple minutes before I did the painful move and removed the battery, just as I feared, my phone is not booting up whatsoever anymore. It just stays on the silver Motorola M screen and does nothing else.
The part that really is starting to bother me is that my CPU won't do ANYTHING when I plug it in through USB. It doesn't even act like it exists. So at this point I have no way of even accessing the files in the phone to maybe try to drop a uncorrupted framework.apk in its correct home.
I've tried everything from different cables, going through device manager, DLing Moto drivers. I've even tried running system recovery and also going to the "Bootloader 29.01" screen. Nothings making this thing run.
Is my phone bricked?
Good news. Your phone can be restored using an sbf file. google droidx sbf. Im on my phone so don't have the links. You you will also need rsd lite with the patch file. There are posts if not here then maybe over at alldroid. Good luck
Go to webchat.freenode.net and join #adc. They will help u out
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I was adding a new custom ROM to my Droid 2 because I wasn't happy with the Epic ROM so I went with the VZW 2.4.5 Clean ROM, I wanted to add the kangerade blue theme to it but accidently installed the wrong version of it over my ROM and now my phone is in a constant boot loop. sometimes it stays at the droid eye for a while and then load into the lock screen but will go right back into the boot sequence.
When it does boot into the lock screen there is not enough time for me to get into the bootstrapper app to boot into recovery mode.
are there any other ways to get into recovery mode? I've searched high and low on this forum and others as well.
I want my droid back =[
Have you tried to pull the battery and then put it back in. Everytime I do that, I end up at recovery thing.
yup, i've pull the battery many times. i've got it into the android recovery screen but when I to the data/cache format it just brings me to the green android starting screen and goes back into the boot loop, what's weird is that the theme is still applied to the phone
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yup, i've pull the battery many times. i've got it into the android recovery screen but when I to the data/cache format it just brings me to the green android starting screen and goes back into the boot loop, what's weird is that the theme is still applied to the phone
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Hmmm. Kind of a roundabout process, but did you make a backup. I'd just restore it to a backup and then go from there.
i can't get into the clockwork recovery, just the stock android recovery. are there any backdoors that i could use with adb?
Try taking the battery out during the boot animation a few times, if that doesn't get you to clockwork recovery you've probably lost your recovery. I've noticed that I sometimes (or always?) Lose clockwork when installing a Rom. If that is the case you may have to sbf unless you can get adb to work from the lockscreen.
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Try taking the battery out during the boot animation a few times, if that doesn't get you to clockwork recovery you've probably lost your recovery. I've noticed that I sometimes (or always?) Lose clockwork when installing a Rom. If that is the case you may have to sbf unless you can get adb to work from the lockscreen.
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how would I go about doing an sbf? could you point me in the right direction?
On this forum three posts down is a guide. Follow the guide exactly, except you will have to put your phone in bootloader mode since it will not turn on and stay on. Do do this, hold the up button on the dpad when you turn it on.
It works, i just did it yesterday. First time ive ever had to flash SBF, and i did ALOT of roms and modding on my D1. The bootstrap is nice but not as nice as a full bootloader.
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cool. i think i found the guide. it says backup my sd card to my computer..this doesn't delete everything on the sd card does it?
(not a huge concern since having a working phone is better than losing all my stuff on my memory card)
okay. I tried doing what the tutorial said and I got an error on my bootloader that says
"Critical Error: DEA1"
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Well it looks like it was just a simple "I need to update my rsd lite program"
I was using the 4.5 and I read that 4.9 was out so I gave updating RSDLITE a shot and boom, the phone is reflashing as we speak
My sd card is intact... untouched from what I can tell. I had no apps2sd though (with 8 gigs on board why would I?)
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Where is the RSD Lite 4.9? All I come across is 4.7.
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Where is the RSD Lite 4.9? All I come across is 4.7.
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Google "RSDLite 4.9" it should be in one of the first results..I found mine in a forum
http://droid2files.com/tools/RSD Lite 4.9.zip
This is RSD Lite 4.9.
Ok, so I was playing around with the new Root Tools app and made a few, what I thought were safe, tweeks to the system and rebooted the phone. It gets past the M screen, runs the boot animation and then starts the boot animation again. No way out except to pull the battery.
How can I get it out of this endless bootloop? If I have to factory reset and start again from scratch, so be it. I would just like to know how.
I've tried holding down different button combinations on boot but haven't come up with the right sequence I guess.
I've also tried pulling the battery as the animation starts, then putting it back in and rebooting which is supposed to call up the recovery mode, but it doesn't. I'm not sure what to try next? I wish these things had a reset button
It's a Droid 2 Rooted with the stock rom running Froyo 2.2. I have the Bootstrap recovery loaded and did a backup with the clockwork recovery. I also have, and use, Titanium Backup Pro for Root.
After bootlooping pull the battery and put it back in. Then plug the droid 2 in with the cable either wall or USB will work. Then turn it on and it should get you recovery. The phone has to be completely off when you plug it in though.
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EDIT: I tested it and USB won't work (at least for me) better off just using the wall plug.
Thanks, but that not working either. When I plug in the cable after the battery pull it starts up automatically and goes to the battery charge screen. I then shut it off and start it back up with no battery but plugged in and it goes right back into the boot loop after the M screen.
The batter charge screen is what you want. Just press the power button after you get the charge screen and you'll be booted into clockwork.
But in order to factory reset from a bootloop you have to flash an .sbf theres a few different tutorials. One in Windows, Another in linux/mac, and another in linux but for windows machines through an Ubuntu livecd(that I made).
Oh, OK I thought it was going to go right into recovery mode. Good to know.
I finally figured out how to get into the stock recovery and bootloader, so I tried to run the stock restore but after it wiped the data, it couldn't find the recovery file! So then I read in another post about using RSDlight 4.9 to do an sdf restore so I used that method. Of course while it was flashing I did come across your Ubuntu method and that does look like it would be a simpler process. I'm going make one of those CD's to have for next time.
Anyway, I was able to get it back to stock. It looks like most of my stuff is still on the SD card, so that's a bonus! I'll have to re-root before I can restore everything via Titanium, but that's going to be tomorrow's project. As for now just happy to to have my phone back. Especially before the wife (who has been telling me for weeks to stop F'in with it) found out .
I really appreciate that you took the time to help, thanks again!
No problem.
Could you change your Thread title to include [SOLVED]. Thanks
Can you please explain to me how you fixed this problem? I am currently having this problem now.
Please do not open/post in multiple threads for the same issue. This is a waste of time as we can see you have an open thread. Please reply to my response in your original thread for further assistance. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824254)
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Ok, your wish is my command! ;-)
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Can I close this?
Yes. This issue has been resolved.
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Ok, thanks
My phone isn't working. My DROID 2 is running the stock ROM, and it's not doing anything. I can't get it into recovery, I've tried the PC recovery, it didn't work, because the "Droid 2 2.3.2 SBF.zip" file is corrupted. I boot it up, it goes through the boot animation, but when it boots up, nothing happens. The screen is black. I'm pretty sure everything is running under it, and the haptic feedback from both the lockscreen buttons and and soft buttons work. I'm at wits end, nothing it working at all. Help. Please, help. I use my phone all the time, I just got it 2 weeks ago, however it was a Certified Pre Owned device from Verizon. One little thing, I changed my SD card from the one I had in it before, and it booted up like normal, then after about 20 seconds, it goes to the black screen. I'm about ready to call Verizon and get them to send me a new one.
If it says the zip is corrupted, you might try re downloading the SBF file and trying it over again.
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I tried downloading it several times. None of them worked. I can't open the zip to get the .sbf.
your back light prob died
You probably removed Backup Assistant. Do as the earlier poster said and re download the SBF its a lot easier than trying to get Backup assistant back on your phone.
And to the earlier poster he wouldn't see the phone boot up if the back light was dead.
Where are you downloading the SBF from? Try downloading it form here:
hxxp://bit.ly/dir7fq (replace xx with tt)
what I did was somehow get Clockwork Recovery loaded. I promptly wiped it clean, and requested a new one from Verizon. I got it, and rooted it and such. Now I'm running Fission 2.5.7 with an FM Radio. It's epic!
You must have had a bad sbf file. If i were sending it back i would have used the sbf method rather than having them boot recovery to see clockwork there. Hope they don't bill you for that one...ouch...
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You must have had a bad sbf file. If i were sending it back i would have used the sbf method rather than having them boot recovery to see clockwork there. Hope they don't bill you for that one...ouch...
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Actually, the recovery is the default Android recovery. Clockwork was temporarily put in there, so it's not anymore. The reason I couldn't fix it was because I couldn't boot back into Clockwork. When they look, they'll find nothing
Can you put [SOLVED] in your thread title? Thanks!
I need to send my D2 back to Verizon for a replacement (Keyboard isn't registering presses, double letters, etc.)
I had rooted my D2 originally.
I have pushed the stock SFB to the Phone (Which did not wipe out my apps/settings?)
I then ran Root Checker which returned False, and indicated the folders + files did not exist.
I then did a System Reset, and went back to square one. I re-activated the phone (Did not add any accounts though).
Is there anything else I should do before sending it back to Verizon?
Thanks!
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On a similar note, What's the difference between an Oxidized and Deoxidzed SBF? Same with System-Only and Full.
(I pushed the Full SBF to the phone, but I'm curious what the other ones are)
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I need to send my D2 back to Verizon for a replacement (Keyboard isn't registering presses, double letters, etc.)
I had rooted my D2 originally.
I have pushed the stock SFB to the Phone (Which did not wipe out my apps/settings?)
I then ran Root Checker which returned False, and indicated the folders + files did not exist.
I then did a System Reset, and went back to square one. I re-activated the phone (Did not add any accounts though).
Is there anything else I should do before sending it back to Verizon?
Thanks!
Edit:
On a similar note, What's the difference between an Oxidized and Deoxidzed SBF? Same with System-Only and Full.
(I pushed the Full SBF to the phone, but I'm curious what the other ones are)
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It didn't delete your apps or data? Interesting. You should have gone into a bootloop after the SBF, requiring you to go into the stock recovery to format system/cache....
As far as odex and deodex'd. Stock ROM's have odex files for every system app installed on the phone. Supposedly they are supposed to help speed up the startup time of the phone.
Deodex'd is obviously when the odex files have been removed, usually to save room in /system and also to allow themeing.
Full SBF includes EVERYTHING the phone came with (ROM, Kernel, Bootloader, Radio, etc.)
System only SBF is only the operating system. You would use this if your not worried about going back to complete stock, and just need to reload the OS.
Hope this has helped!
That's what I thought @ Still had data.
(Unless this process requires an SD card to work, I don't have one in my phone because it's dead )
I flashed it twice, once with the phone on and connected via RSD Lite 4.8, I just selected the phone there, picked the SBF and hit start... It restarted the phone into some boot-loader like menu, said it was recieved a SW Update, restarted itself and... nothing change.
So then I did it again but started it in the boot-loader like menu to no difference, so I just did a factory reset.
Thanks @ Explanation though!
You should be good. Just make sure your system version is 2.3.20 (I think that's the latest version, haven't had a d2 for a while). Make sure your boot logo and boot animation are stock, and that you don't have superuser install.
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They are indeed stock.
I took my D2 into the store today to see what they had to say, I have no idea if this is truthful or if the guy was just making it up to sound smart (Never can be sure after listening to other people talk about your own field )
Said that the missed keypresses + double repeats I was getting was from the phone having overheated at some point, and the keyboard is coming away from the keys a bit (The rubber mat is 'bubbled' a bit in some spots) were indicators of overheating too.
No idea if this is true or not, but he said warrenty should cover it and I just have to call into Verizon so I'll do that.
I'd have to say the phone would have had to get pretty damned hot to do that, but who knows. As long as warrenty will cover it its all good.
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I agree... The previous owner might have left it in the sun or something... Did that with my DS, turned itself off but it was fine in the end.
Gonna call Verizon tomorrow, too late now. Thanks for the help!
I'm still curious as to why the full-sbf didn't factory reset it though.
is Root Checker an app?
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is Root Checker an app?
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Yes. It attempts to do something that requires Root to do. If it fails, it tells you. It then checks if the superuser app exists and if the folders for root exist.
I have the same problem with double entries on the physical keyboard. I've had my phone for a year and I'm pretty sure I have never had an overheat (and definitely have never left my phone out in the sun). I attributed this to CM7 nightlies, but now I doubt that.
Anyone else have this problem?
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