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[Q] Droid 2 GB Install Mishap Help

Alright....so I messed up trying to install the GB ROM. Here's my problem:
The only thing I have access to at the moment is stock recovery. I am perfectly content with going back to stock and re-rooting, etc., if that's the only option. My most urgent concern is getting operational at this point. Do any signed ROMs exist that I can flash from stock recovery, even a stock D2 ROM? I have searched for two hours and can find nothing.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Edited for more info: I was originally running Liberty. Downloaded the GB ROM to my phone, but the download apparently didn't go through all the way. The ~240MB file was only around 100MB, but I didn't realize this until after I wiped everything to prepare for the new ROM. I thought, worst case scenario, I can get back to Clockwork and do a recovery image. But now I can't even get to CWR. When I try to boot, all I get is "LIBERTY" splash screen, and no booting

SBF to stock 2.2, reroot, redownload GB, flash, all fixed up
I don't believe there are any ROMs that can be flashed through the stock recovery because they must have a certain signature

Alright...so I figured it out. But now my battery is dead, and I can't figure out how to charge it enough to SBF. It doesn't appear to be charging on the splash screen (no LED), and USB charges until it goes to splash. NO LED when off
Edited to add: Right now i have it sitting on the splash screen (Liberty) with no charge LED, hoping that it's charging and doesn't want to tell me. Is there a better way?

Hmmm hard to tell. Usually in cases where the battery won't chargr, you'll have to find either someone who has a d1 or d2 and borrow their battery, or find an external phone charger
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[Q] DEFY wont power up, only a white led shows

I flashed my Defy with froyo, then installed CM7, i charged it to 20% battery and turned it on. All worked fine for a couple of minutes, but afterwards it started restarting every 30 secs, So i tried flashing it again with the Chinese froyo (I'm from Israel, if it matters), but without charging the battery back to full, Which means I started flashing with about 15% battery.
I finished flashing rsdlite wrote "pass" and everything but the defy wouldn't power up, it just shows white led whenever i plug it to my PC. rsdlite recognized it in the first couple of hours and i tried flashing froyo again and again, but after a while even rsdlite didn't recognize it anymore.
I read a thread here that said that the phone doesn't charge in boot mode, and i thought that might be the problem, so i took out the battery and charged it at a phone store for about 15 minutes, then tried to turn it on but still no powering up. So now I have a defy that doesn't power up and isn't even recognized by rsdlite.
I'm hopeless, I loved my defy very much, and I really need an clue.
I'll do anything!
Thanks for reading this far, I hope you can help me

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892026 maybe this will help

Tried it, didn't work, I also tried to charge the battery already so I think its not just a dead battery problem, its probably more than that.

Hi there and welcome to the forums. You didn't mentioned which was the base OS you've had on your Defy before installing CM7, but I'll assume you have had a Froyo version, maybe the stock one (please provide more details).
If you flashed nordic SBF before installing CM7 or if you had official Froyo on your phone then you won't be able to Flash the leaked Chinese Froyo. It has some partitions with version code -2- like Eclair, whereas the nordic ROM has the code -4- and therefore it's not possible to directly downgrade by applying the Chinese SBF.
To revive your Defy you must charge your battery (at least 50% to be sure it will have enough juice and will last the whole process), then start it in stock recovery (Vold Down+ Power and then by pressing both volume buttons when the android with exclamation mark appears) and wipe data+cache. After this step you can start your phone in bootloader mode (Vol Up + Power) and flash again the initial ROM you had right before installing CM7.

you are from israel right?
why you choose chinese froyo for god sake?
some chinese froyo sbf is intended only for different DEFY (ME525) / Chinese Defy, and normal Defy is MB525.
it could damage your flashlight and phone.
use sbf from central europe froyo for best result installing CM7.

thanks guys, I charged the battery, got rsdlite to recognize the phone, and flashed a UK sbf, now its back on, working, and showing that motoblur animation.
I guess now all that's left is to install a 2.1 OS and everything should work.
(Please correct if I got this wrong, since I AM a noob and i really don't want to make another mistake)
THANKS ALOT!

If you flashed a full Froyo SBF then you cannot install Eclair SBF. It's not possible to directly downgrade after you have flashed Froyo using a full SBF. However you can easily flash a Froyo official ROM or... why not CM7 or MIUI.

Thing is... I already flashed 2.1, and got it to the point where it shows me the M logo. but it didn't go any further than that. i tried flashing a 2.3.3 ROM, same thing happens, M logo but nothing more. right now im back to this version of 2.2:
p3_jordan_umts_jordan-user-2.2.1-3.4.2-107_JDN-4-000000-release-keys-signed-T-Mobile-US.sbf
and I'm getting an animation of Motoblur with nothing else.

flaah nordic sbf then go to cm7. Follow the guide read first cm7 faq before proceeding
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All you do is flashing.. Have you actually do total wipe in recovery? Since you're having the motoblur animation splash screen, it is obviously your previous data is conflicting while the phone is trying to boot normally..
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farsight73 said:
All you do is flashing.. Have you actually do total wipe in recovery? Since you're having the motoblur animation splash screen, it is obviously your previous data is conflicting while the phone is trying to boot normally..
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I believe you are right about wiping, I've bricked my phone to the point i couldn't turn the phone on. So all you usually have to do is flash the full sbf, when it tries to boot it gets stuck on the m logo, just pull the battery, power it up holding volume down wait for the the triangle and press the middle of the volume rocker and it will take you to the stock recovery. Wipe and factory rest, flash the sbf again.

wipe/factory reset didn't fix it, though I noticed nordic sbf got it to show the android animation.
is it possible that I need to install a rom after I flash an sbf? and if so, how can I install a rom (custom recovery doesn't give me an option to install a zip, only "update.zip").
do I install some sort of 2ndinit?
do I install a rom through "update.zip"?
sorry once again for another (hopefully last ) noobish questions.

The SBF is a full ROM so atfer flashing a SBF there is no need to put another ROM via recovery, unless you want to do so (let's say you'd like to install CM7 or MIUI). If you haven't flashed a 2.3.4 full SBF you should be able to revive your Defy using the nordic SBF. Try to download it again or try a different one (one of those official SBF's released this summer).

I did install a 2.3.4 full sbf, but it too didnt work, tried a factory reset + cache wipe, and reflashing the 2.3.4 and it's still stuck on the M logo

Ive done something stupidly wrong.. Help me please..
Ok Ive a me525 and I tried to flash my phone with JRDNEM_U3_2.51.0_CHN_P3_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA030.0R_USAJORDANRTINT_P029_A018_HWp3_Service1FF
Was not sure what I was doing at that moment(just following a guide/tutorial on YouTube)After the whole progress with RSD lite, my device turned black as the title says with only showing a white led light. Was getting pretty deperate thinking about I had broken the phone.. :crying:
I have searched for a solution on the forums saw some people did get their device repeared, but everything they had done didnt worked for me..
So please help this boy in need.. We dont have lots of money to spare so buying a new phone isnt really a fast option..
p.s. Not sure though but would a chinese sbf work and where would I find one?

[Q] Defy bricked - any hope?

Hi guys
Before I explain I'd like to say that yes, I have read other threads on similar topics, although none seem to have the same symptoms as me...
This week I bought a software-bricked Defy on eBay with the hopes of fixing it and giving it to a friend. I first tried flashing an old Eclair SBF to no avail (only switched on to bootloader) and thought that it could be failing due to it being on a newer firmware. So then I tried Froyo, and when that didn't work either (bootloops like when I received the phone) I thought my last resort was a CG 5 SBF, so I went for the JORDN_U3_97.21.51 build. This seems to get further into the booting process, with the MotoBLUR animation appearing but I get a BP Panic - 0x00080010 above the animation before the phone switches off. Thinking I had nothing to lose I tried a Gingerbread ROM, but that just bootlooped too so I went back to 97.21.51. I realise I've probably painted myself into a corner by flashing these
I'm all out of ideas with how to get the phone any further and have searched for the BP panic to no avail. I can get into stock recovery and bootloader, although the recovery seems to have issues with accessing the cache sometimes.
Thanks for reading

The same panic have y for the last 2 weeks, after flashing hangs in bootloader (red logo and no animation), after other flash hangs on a animated red logo and thats where you must give it time 3 or 4 min. wating, when its dont works you can try to pul out battery and do it in again while you hold the start and vol. down button, then in recovery menu wipe Dalvik cache and wipe cahe. Maby it works then, when not you can try like me to go again tho recovery and there restore stockrom, thats the way ym getting my defy work again. There are many ways to get it back to work again and it cost me 2 weeks after flashing maby 15 diverend roms to get it works and even than when it works, 2 days work whit rooting it and get 3G alive. So when you think its dead, maby RSDlite can bring it back to live, just like here.
Now my Defy MB525 working like a Defy 526 on Gingerbread.
So don't give up, when you can see whit RSDlite the phoon, it must be possible to get it work, only problem here was on a moment when the battery was empty, but here on XDA you can find the megayver method (charging on a ohter cell like a duo) or what y have don, get my old nokia loader (5V) and whit 2 wires hangs on the battery power it up to 4.1 V, succes.

Thanks, although I was just getting repeated boot loops rather than it hanging on the logo... And that wasn't animated either. How did you manage to restore the stock ROM through the recovery? Did you have a flashable zip? Please bear in mind that I did not get a custom recovery installed
I'll look out for the low battery problem. Thanks for your advice

ben_duder said:
Thanks, although I was just getting repeated boot loops rather than it hanging on the logo... And that wasn't animated either. How did you manage to restore the stock ROM through the recovery? Did you have a flashable zip? Please bear in mind that I did not get a custom recovery installed
I'll look out for the low battery problem. Thanks for your advice
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U should have wiped cache and data after flashing Froyo!!!!!!
It would have booted!!!!
Now u flashed GB!! Ur stuck there!!!
Flash gb again and Go to stock recovery and wipe data!!!! If know how to do it!!!
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nogoodusername said:
U should have wiped cache and data after flashing Froyo!!!!!!
It would have booted!!!!
Now u flashed GB!! Ur stuck there!!!
Flash gb again and Go to stock recovery and wipe data!!!! If know how to do it!!!
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Thanks, although I'm pretty sure I did wipe cache and data... and I definitely did (several times ) after flashing Gingerbread. I feel like whatever is preventing Froyo and Gingerbread from booting is the same thing as what is giving me the BP panic on the CG 5 Eclair ROM.

I would suspect a hardware issue here.w
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I think it might be too It's a shame because I can enter recovery and bootloader okay, and the seller said it broke during a failed software update so I thought it would be a simple matter of reflashing an SBF.

what is bp panic?
what happens when it is booting?
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When I try to boot the CG 5 Eclair I get past the static Motorola logo (hence further than any other build) but the MotoBLUR animation is stuttery, with a BP panic at the top (see picture). This goes on for quite a while, then the phone switches off and this loops.

Ok if occurred during a software update, find out which he was installing and try that one. May also be worth trying motoupdate.
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I might try that, but won't it be useless now that I've flashed CG 5? I'll look into MotoUpdate

Is the general consensus that this is an unfixable hardware issue, then?

Apolgoies if you've already tried this, but I had a Defy which would do the same, either stuck on M logo or error in bootloader.
Each time I just plugged it into PC / USB at bootloader screen, and used RSD Lite to try another ROM. Eventually I found one which worked. I think I tried 5 before finding one which didn't cause any problems.
My defy was a ME525+ and the ROM which finally worked was "DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-132_BLUR"
So, if you haven't already, I'd just suggest try a few more ROMS, flashed from Bootloader / RSD Lite.
Hope it helps somehow

Problem with Motorola Defy

Hello there, i recently got a Motorola defy and the first thing i did was install cm7. A few day later i noticed an issue with the charging port (the phone froze up and became unusable when i was using a wall charger) so i decided to return it to stock for warranty issues since i flashed to miui and the problem persisted. My phone company is Claro Dominican Republic so after doing some research i tried to put the Claro Argentina SBF using RDS lite, in paper that should have left the phone stock.
After installing that SBF the defy got stock in a boot loob, i got the motorola logo then some data usage warnings in spanish (just like the first time u boot the phone) but i kept restarting. I tried reflashing that same SBF but the problem persisted. I tried other things like installing a nordic sbf and whatnot and every time the same thing happened. Later i stubled upon a chinese sbf that did boot. I rooted the phone installed 2ndinit poped into recovery used the full wipe zip and tried to install cm7, there it got stuck at the google logo and i couldn't enter recovery.
I reflashed with the Chinese sbf re rooted and re did everything and i tried installing miui and i got the same issue. I also tried using an nandroid backup from Claro Argentina but nothing happened the phone stayed the same with the Chinese SBF.
Im fresh out of ideas and ive tried alot of things ive read arround but nothing has worked. Id love to hear your opinions on this issue, thanks in advanced

First what chinese sbf you flashed?? And second, before flashing stock again wipe data and cache on stock recovery.
Motorola Defy CM7 RC 1.5 OC 1GHz

JORDN_U3_97.21.51, thats the rom name its the only one thats working for me atm. Ive tried many things but i cant get any other rom to work.

Bad news, you cant downgrade that, now you are stuck on eclair or gb 2.3.4, cause jrdn_u3_97.21.51 has cg version 5, and froyo version 4, try this, flashing eclair again and then fixed froyo, whatever, i think motorola can see wich cg you are, wonder they not!!
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14762402&postcount=143
Good luck!
Motorola Defy CM7 RC 1.5 OC 1GHz

LeonardoJegigzem said:
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That link worked perfectly!, i had a problem with my phone internal memory (only had 128mb available) But i reinstalled the nandroid backup in the link did a factory reset there then i installed cm7 without any issues.
Now i still have the charging problem (my phone becomes unusable when its charging, gets super laggy). I want to return the phone to stock settings so that i can claim my warranty on it. Any ideas on how to put the sbf without getting the problem i had or should i just live with the issue?

You can only flash that fixed froyo of the link, because each sbf has a version, the chinese you flashed is version 5, and once you flash a new version you cannot then flash a lower one, here the problem, froyo is version 4, a fixed is a sbf without, cg31 and cg39 files
Motorola Defy CM7 RC 1.5 OC 1GHz

Cant i modify the sbf i want to install like the guy in the link did? and what about my charging problem, ever heard of it?

Yep, you can, but i never did it, i know you must use the SBF Depacker or something like that, and for the laggy try wiping cache and dalvik cache and see what happens!, did you wipe data when flashed CM9 over CM7??

yeah, and im using cm7. i wiped dalvik already and nothing.. it only happens when im charging the phone via the wall charger adapter

[Q] Defy plus - erased all partitions

Hi
I tried searching the forum but couldn't find anything similar.
I did something really stupid. I was going to install the CM10.2 ROM by quarx for my defy+ and i just wanted to wipe my mobile to make it clean slate before flashing the new ROM. Turns out, i did an extremely good job at it. I earlier had CM10.1 by quarx on my rooted phone. I went to TWRP recovery and selected advanced wipe and checked all options. When i tried to exit, it actually warned me that my phone is unrooted. I didn't understand why it said that and ignored it.
Big Mistake.
Now my phone is stuck at the Motorola logo, which i expected. But there's no custom recovery, which i did not expect. There is no blue led flashing when i reboot the phone anymore. The stock recovery is still accessible, but it won't install the CM10.2 ROM coz the signature is unverified or something.
What should i do now? Really need some advice.
P.S. my battery was around 20-25% before this happened. So i don't wan't to waste it by trying out something on my own and get caught mid-way while flashing something and brick my phone.

maddy.wolvie said:
Hi
I tried searching the forum but couldn't find anything similar.
I did something really stupid. I was going to install the CM10.2 ROM by quarx for my defy+ and i just wanted to wipe my mobile to make it clean slate before flashing the new ROM. Turns out, i did an extremely good job at it. I earlier had CM10.1 by quarx on my rooted phone. I went to TWRP recovery and selected advanced wipe and checked all options. When i tried to exit, it actually warned me that my phone is unrooted. I didn't understand why it said that and ignored it.
Big Mistake.
Now my phone is stuck at the Motorola logo, which i expected. But there's no custom recovery, which i did not expect. There is no blue led flashing when i reboot the phone anymore. The stock recovery is still accessible, but it won't install the CM10.2 ROM coz the signature is unverified or something.
What should i do now? Really need some advice.
P.S. my battery was around 20-25% before this happened. So i don't wan't to waste it by trying out something on my own and get caught mid-way while flashing something and brick my phone.
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Flash the respective SBF using RSDLite. If your battery dies, then charge using mcgyver method or a universal battery charger.
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