Hi, just bought myself a new Motorola Atrix phone and i'd like to know what are my backup options?
Tried stock recovery but it shows only wipe+reboot options. There are no backup/restore features i'd expect from recovery system.
If i flash CWM, how can i uninstall it and get back to stock one if i happen to have return it to service shop someday (god forbid)?
Thanks
purpler said:
Hi, just bought myself a new Motorola Atrix phone and i'd like to know what are my backup options?
Tried stock recovery but it shows only wipe+reboot options. There are no backup/restore features i'd expect from recovery system.
If i flash CWM, how can i uninstall it and get back to stock one if i happen to have return it to service shop someday (god forbid)?
Thanks
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please read the noob thread at the top of the forum, it will explain everything you need to know about unlocking your bootloader, installing a custom recovery, and then flashing new ROMs.
im very familiar with unlocking bootloader, rooting, flashing recovery and such. That topic doesn't say anything about going back to stock recovery if i remember correctly. Correct me if im wrong.
purpler said:
im very familiar with unlocking bootloader, rooting, flashing recovery and such. That topic doesn't say anything about going back to stock recovery if i remember correctly. Correct me if im wrong.
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if you've already done all your research, then you would know that you can reflash a stock 2.3.4 sbf file with RSDlite to turn your phone back into completely stock.
that is, if you've already done all your research.. i mean, it's not like you can google these questions or anything
heh, so flashing SBF will erase CWM recovery right?
purpler said:
heh, so flashing SBF will erase CWM recovery right?
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There is no stock recovery.... CWM does not come with your phone, you installed it. And who cares if you have a recovery on the phone and have to take it back?? You think the jack holes at AT&T even know what recovery is, let alone how to enter recovery mode... they all have iPhones.
Just flash a fruitcake if you have to take it back, and be done with it.
OBTW, since you unlocked your bootloader, you're unlocked forever... how you going to hide that?
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heh, so flashing SBF will erase CWM recovery right?
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it will turn your phone completely stock again. it will even 'relock' your bootloader for you. just be careful, and only use it as a last resort since RSDlite always has a chance to brick your device permanently.
Alcapone263 said:
it will turn your phone completely stock again. it will even 'relock' your bootloader for you. just be careful, and only use it as a last resort since RSDlite always has a chance to brick your device permanently.
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Can not re-lock bootloader... only can make the Unlocked word dissappear from boot screen.
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It doesnt show "Unlocked" message at least so im pretty much safe. Where i bought it they barelly knew specs of my phone god forbid to find out if its unlocked.
Lemme rephrase my question: If i flash CWM, can i erase it with flashing stock SBF?
purpler said:
It doesnt show "Unlocked" message at least so im pretty much safe. Where i bought it they barelly knew specs of my phone god forbid to find out if its unlocked.
Lemme rephrase my question: If i flash CWM, can i erase it with flashing stock SBF?
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Yes... maybe... I don't know...
If they didn't know anything about your phone, why are you even worried.
You're safe??? safe from what? The unlocked bootloader police??
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Can not re-lock bootloader... only can make the Unlocked word dissappear from boot screen.
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which is why relock was surrounded by apostrophes. although, technically if you reflash the stock .sbf it takes away the pudding files in the bootloader, which is what allows us to flash custom recovery and stuff. have you ever reflashed a stock 2.3.4 sbf and then tried to install CWM through fastboot? it just doesn't work. the fuse in your device may be blown, but without those pudding files injected into the bootloader, you might as well have a locked device.
@Swiftks
you totally trolled my topic dude. and you aren't helping at all :\
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you totally trolled my topic dude. and you aren't helping at all :\
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your questions aren't making any sense. you can't install CWM without unlocking the bootl.oader, so if there's no unlocked text when you start the phone up, you're not gonna be able to do anything with CWM.
and it's already been established that if you flash a .sbf file, it will give you a stock recovery again.
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which is why relock was surrounded by apostrophes. although, technically if you reflash the stock .sbf it takes away the pudding files in the bootloader, which is what allows us to flash custom recovery and stuff. have you ever reflashed a stock 2.3.4 sbf and then tried to install CWM through fastboot? it just doesn't work. the fuse in your device may be blown, but without those pudding files injected into the bootloader, you might as well have a locked device.
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Ill agree with this.... so we agree, it's netural... an unlocked device that you can't do any of the cool unlocked features with.
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@Swiftks
you totally trolled my topic dude. and you aren't helping at all :\
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Dude... are you done crying. Man up, grab your sack and stop worrying about what may happen if you have to return your phone.
Why do you want to install CWM Recovery... I'm assuming to flash a ROM... well guess what genius, you have to unlock your bootloader first... which means if these super scientists who work only at your local phone store, want to know if you've tampered with your phone, they're gonna know.
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i just wanted to know if flashing SBF erases already installed CWM. If i have CWM, its quite obvious bootloader's unlocked, at least to me it would.
My question was inspired by situation where i might need to return phone under warranty to service shop and hide that it has been unlocked and screwed with custom ROM's as much as i can.
There are some strange reboots/shutdowns which wasnt paid so phone is going back with hidden traces of being total geek.
Clearer?
purpler said:
i just wanted to know if flashing SBF erases already installed CWM. If i have CWM, its quite obvious bootloader's unlocked, at least to me it would.
My question was inspired by situation where i might need to return phone under warranty to service shop and hide that it has been unlocked and screwed with custom ROM's as much as i can.
There are some strange reboots/shutdowns which wasnt paid so phone is going back with hidden traces of being total geek.
Clearer?
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Let me more precise with you.... Since you have unlocked your bootloader, you have burnt a fuse that can not replaced, short of cracking open the phone, finding the fuse, and fixing it (if that's even possible). So, if they are paying that close of antention to notice that you have CWM Recovery installed, they most likely would also notice that the bootloader fuse is gone, therefore who have tampered with your phone.... whether you flash a sbf file it not.
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Wow. This thread is epic. Btw, chuck Norris can relock his bootloader.
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Phalanx7621 said:
Wow. This thread is epic. Btw, chuck Norris can relock his bootloader.
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Damn right he can!
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I had a new phone on 2.3.4. The first thing I tried to do was to unlock it by RSD flashing the unlock sbf from the main pudding thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261).
The initial process seemed to go okay, but I think when the phone was supposed to reboot, it ended up giving me a boot failure message (0x1000, if I remember correctly).
So, I tried the "fastboot oem unlock" command anyway, and it worked.
I tried to RSD flash the full 2.3.4 sbf from brandon15811's thread, but RSD gave an error, something about not being able to find the handle or something.
So, the next thing I did was to see if I could flash RomRacer's CWM via fastboot, and that seemed to work, too.
After that, if I tried to reboot, I would get the motorola startup screen and the word "unlocked", but it just seems to stay there.
I'm about to see if I can use the recovery to flash the full 2.3.4 sbf from here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204).
Is that the right way to try to fix this, or is there something else I should try?
Haphim said:
I had a new phone on 2.3.4. The first thing I tried to do was to unlock it by RSD flashing the unlock sbf from the main pudding thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261).
The initial process seemed to go okay, but I think when the phone was supposed to reboot, it ended up giving me a boot failure message (0x1000, if I remember correctly).
So, I tried the "fastboot oem unlock" command anyway, and it worked.
I tried to RSD flash the full 2.3.4 sbf from brandon15811's thread, but RSD gave an error, something about not being able to find the handle or something.
So, the next thing I did was to see if I could flash RomRacer's CWM via fastboot, and that seemed to work, too.
After that, if I tried to reboot, I would get the motorola startup screen and the word "unlocked", but it just seems to stay there.
I'm about to see if I can use the recovery to flash the full 2.3.4 sbf from here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204).
Is that the right way to try to fix this, or is there something else I should try?
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If you have cwm just use samcripp's fruitcakes and see if that works.
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msd24200 said:
If you have cwm just use samcripp's fruitcakes and see if that works.
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I haven't confirmed it works yet, but if it does, why those builds instead of brandon15811's?
Haphim said:
I haven't confirmed it works yet, but if it does, why those builds instead of brandon15811's?
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Sbf flashing is dangerous and not recommended
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Unlocking an atrix already on 2.3.4 will give you a soft brick, its been confirmed many times. No way around it. Find the fruit cakes thread as msd24200 stated. Any recovery will work. If you do the full 2.3.4 sbf you can't rds back to an older build our even if you try the 2.3.4, that would give you a hard brick. If your unlocked just go for one of the great roms available.
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Dirtburgler said:
Unlocking an atrix already on 2.3.4 will give you a soft brick, its been confirmed many times. No way around it. Find the fruit cakes thread as msd24200 stated. Any recovery will work. If you do the full 2.3.4 sbf you can't rds back to an older build our even if you try the 2.3.4, that would give you a hard brick. If your unlocked just go for one of the great roms available.
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I did a lot of reading before doing this, and somehow, I never came across that particular fact. Ai! Well, thank you for pointing that out!
So, here's a question then... I have another phone that has 1.83 on it. What's the best way to upgrade that to 2.3.4, unlocked and rooted? Should I follow the same path I did here, do the OTA update, unlock and brick via the unlock sbf, flash a recovery, then apply a fruitcake?
Or is there a better way? I've heard that the 2.3.4 update resizes the partitions, and that seems like a good thing, so I'm not sure I want a path that avoids that.
What do you think?
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I did a lot of reading before doing this, and somehow, I never came across that particular fact. Ai! Well, thank you for pointing that out!
So, here's a question then... I have another phone that has 1.83 on it. What's the best way to upgrade that to 2.3.4, unlocked and rooted? Should I follow the same path I did here, do the OTA update, unlock and brick via the unlock sbf, flash a recovery, then apply a fruitcake?
Or is there a better way? I've heard that the 2.3.4 update resizes the partitions, and that seems like a good thing, so I'm not sure I want a path that avoids that.
What do you think?
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why bother to update if you're going to downgrade it again?
the unlocker SBF if 1.8.3, and the phone is on 1.8.3, so flash that. then install 2.3.4 via CWM with a fruitcake. done.
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why bother to update if you're going to downgrade it again?
the unlocker SBF if 1.8.3, and the phone is on 1.8.3, so flash that. then install 2.3.4 via CWM with a fruitcake. done.
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Unce I've unlocked the phone on 1.8.3, would it be better to do the OTA update for 2.3.4, and then root? Is this even possible?
One important question, if I apply the CWM fruitcake over 1.83. will it resize the partitions the way the OTA update would?
Haphim said:
Unce I've unlocked the phone on 1.8.3, would it be better to do the OTA update for 2.3.4, and then root? Is this even possible?
One important question, if I apply the CWM fruitcake over 1.83. will it resize the partitions the way the OTA update would?
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I don't believe so, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but in all honesty there is no reason to use fruitcakes if you don't plan on going back to an older build. Even if you mess something up flashing roms you can go into recovery and restore a backup and your good to go. The only way I've seen a hardbrick is from going back with rsd.
I would unlock then ota to 2.3.4 then install romracers cwm and then your free to flash pre rooted stock roms or cherry (3.14) or alien rom.
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Nevermind 10char
I could see flashing back to an older build beneficial to a developer but not your everyday user and rom flasher. Both methods will get you to the same place, fruitcake or ota. I know there are benefita doing the ota like partition size and some other tweaks but I'm not 100% what those benefits are.
I jumped in early and got the leaked ota before we knew of the hard brick issue and like I said I'm still rocking the same atrix I bought back in march.
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Dirtburgler said:
I don't believe so, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but in all honesty there is no reason to use fruitcakes if you don't plan on going back to an older build. Even if you mess something up flashing roms you can go into recovery and restore a backup and your good to go. The only way I've seen a hardbrick is from going back with rsd.
I would unlock then ota to 2.3.4 then install romracers cwm and then your free to flash pre rooted stock roms or cherry (3.14) or alien rom.
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Thanks! If that's an okay route to take, then that's what I'll do.
First off, let me explain what's happening. Just by my post title you are probably thinking, use the search button. I have and will, but my situation might be a little different.
I had unlocked my phone, rooted it and installed cwm in the past. A friend of mine came over this past weekend and offered to install a custom rom on my Atrix as he did with his and he would show me what to do to update it, restore, or try different roms later. Well I had to leave for a hour and while I was gone he messed something up. He had then essentially returned my phone to stock. It's no longer rooted and when I start my phone it no longer says unlocked. Do I need to go through the unlock process again or can I just root and install cwm? Can anyone tell me where I should start?
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JohnnyDanger said:
First off, let me explain what's happening. Just by my post title you are probably thinking, use the search button. I have and will, but my situation might be a little different.
I had unlocked my phone, rooted it and installed cwm in the past. A friend of mine came over this past weekend and offered to install a custom rom on my Atrix as he did with his and he would show me what to do to update it, restore, or try different roms later. Well I had to leave for a hour and while I was gone he messed something up. He had then essentially returned my phone to stock. It's no longer rooted and when I start my phone it no longer says unlocked. Do I need to go through the unlock process again or can I just root and install cwm? Can anyone tell me where I should start?
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Have to flash pudding again. Then install cwm and play from there. Most ROMs here are pre-rooted, so no need to root anything.
Thank you. That's what I will do.
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A little background info:
ATT GS4, rooted and on stock firmware
Had TWRP 2.6.0.0 on my phone
Tried to flash Illusion 7|15 or 7|16?
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In the past, I've tried to flash illusion, with some success. I was able to get to the homescreen, but when I flashed my data backup. The phone wouldn't boot, so I reverted to stock. A few weeks later, I decide to take another spin at the rom and get it working. I wiped the data/cache/dalvik, and flashed the rom with gapps, rebooted the phone, and nothing happens. The phone keeps vibrating, but there is nothing happening past that.
After a significant amount of research, I've found a few tools/advice. I've downloaded ODIN and the (disgustingly large) tar file, but it doesn't have any use if the phone cannot be recognized by the computer since I am unable to enter download mode or recovery mode.
I found another tool that is supposed to "resurrect" the phone provided by legija. The only unfortunate part is there are no instructions provided, and once again, my computer isn't recognizing the phone as a device, as if it wasn't plugged in to the usb port at all. The application asks for a port number, but I have no clue what relevance a port number has, or at least that a usb port has a numerical value.
Anyway, is there anything left for me to do or is this a fancy new paperweight?
Excuse me for any poor grammar, I'm a little antsy about this
Gfrt94yn said:
A little background info:
ATT GS4, rooted and on stock firmware
Had TWRP 2.6.0.0 on my phone
Tried to flash Illusion 7|15 or 7|16?
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In the past, I've tried to flash illusion, with some success. I was able to get to the homescreen, but when I flashed my data backup. The phone wouldn't boot, so I reverted to stock. A few weeks later, I decide to take another spin at the rom and get it working. I wiped the data/cache/dalvik, and flashed the rom with gapps, rebooted the phone, and nothing happens. The phone keeps vibrating, but there is nothing happening past that.
After a significant amount of research, I've found a few tools/advice. I've downloaded ODIN and the (disgustingly large) tar file, but it doesn't have any use if the phone cannot be recognized by the computer since I am unable to enter download mode or recovery mode.
I found another tool that is supposed to "resurrect" the phone provided by legija. The only unfortunate part is there are no instructions provided, and once again, my computer isn't recognizing the phone as a device, as if it wasn't plugged in to the usb port at all. The application asks for a port number, but I have no clue what relevance a port number has, or at least that a usb port has a numerical value.
Anyway, is there anything left for me to do or is this a fancy new paperweight?
Excuse me for any poor grammar, I'm a little antsy about this
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Do you have AT&T insurance? Maybe the phone can have an accident? I would know of no other way to fix it if Odin isn't recognizing it. ):
Gfrt94yn said:
A little background info:
ATT GS4, rooted and on stock firmware
Had TWRP 2.6.0.0 on my phone
Tried to flash Illusion 7|15 or 7|16?
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In the past, I've tried to flash illusion, with some success. I was able to get to the homescreen, but when I flashed my data backup. The phone wouldn't boot, so I reverted to stock. A few weeks later, I decide to take another spin at the rom and get it working. I wiped the data/cache/dalvik, and flashed the rom with gapps, rebooted the phone, and nothing happens. The phone keeps vibrating, but there is nothing happening past that.
After a significant amount of research, I've found a few tools/advice. I've downloaded ODIN and the (disgustingly large) tar file, but it doesn't have any use if the phone cannot be recognized by the computer since I am unable to enter download mode or recovery mode.
I found another tool that is supposed to "resurrect" the phone provided by legija. The only unfortunate part is there are no instructions provided, and once again, my computer isn't recognizing the phone as a device, as if it wasn't plugged in to the usb port at all. The application asks for a port number, but I have no clue what relevance a port number has, or at least that a usb port has a numerical value.
Anyway, is there anything left for me to do or is this a fancy new paperweight?
Excuse me for any poor grammar, I'm a little antsy about this
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I've seen the repeated vibrating issue before from flashing the wrong file. Download mode was still accessible. Try again by hooking up the phone to the USB slot without the battery in it. Hold Vol Down + Home while inserting the battery. See if download mode will come up. If it does, Odin may not fix it, and you may end up using KIES, and that's if it does go into Download mode.
Phone is toast, fortunately the phone is still under warranty and they couldn't even get it to turn on so they replaced it
Still lost data, but it's not the end of the world. Thanks for the help though!
Gfrt94yn said:
Phone is toast, fortunately the phone is still under warranty and they couldn't even get it to turn on so they replaced it
Still lost data, but it's not the end of the world. Thanks for the help though!
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Good deal man, glad you got a new one.
I have another question for somebody knowledgeable in rooting/rom flashing:
I think this was because the s4 bootloader is locked (through an update), would this cause the phone to hard brick? I've had nasty experiences in the past with locked bootloaders!
If it is locked, is there a way to unlock it? Or does it even need to be unlocked to flash a rom?
Thanks!
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Gfrt94yn said:
I have another question for somebody knowledgeable in rooting/rom flashing:
I think this was because the s4 bootloader is locked (through an update), would this cause the phone to hard brick? I've had nasty experiences in the past with locked bootloaders!
If it is locked, is there a way to unlock it? Or does it even need to be unlocked to flash a rom?
Thanks!
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The bootloader is locked yes, but Loki is there to workaround that. What is the build version on your replacement?
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Is Loki on xda? I haven't found anything like that yet, although I've heard many references to that
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Update:
Maybe I should open my eyes lol, found it in about 30 seconds
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One more update:
I ran the casual root and now have my root and recovery. A couple of questions:
Does this also unlock the bootloader?
Somebody said that twrp flashes roms as if the bootloader is unlocked, so it wouldn't matter if it was or not. Is this true?
I guess really my question is, once I run casual root, is my phone ready to flash?
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Gfrt94yn said:
One more update:
I ran the casual root and now have my root and recovery. A couple of questions:
Does this also unlock the bootloader?
Somebody said that twrp flashes roms as if the bootloader is unlocked, so it wouldn't matter if it was or not. Is this true?
I guess really my question is, once I run casual root, is my phone ready to flash?
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Your phone is ready to flash, just make sure the ROM you flash has been Lokied or you'd have to flash a Loki kernel/LokiDoki after flashing the ROM (but before rebooting).
Gfrt94yn said:
One more update:
I ran the casual root and now have my root and recovery. A couple of questions:
Does this also unlock the bootloader?
Somebody said that twrp flashes roms as if the bootloader is unlocked, so it wouldn't matter if it was or not. Is this true?
I guess really my question is, once I run casual root, is my phone ready to flash?
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If you are going to use TWRP, make sure the ROM has LOKI applied, and if it doesn't, flash the Loki_Doki patch last before rebooting.
If you use OUDHS recovery, it will Auto-Loki whatever you flash.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to announce that I've successfully flashed a rom without bricking my phone! *applause*
I thank(ed) you all for the help!
GS4 running slimbean and kanged key lime pie theme.
GiantBallSack said:
If you are going to use TWRP, make sure the ROM has LOKI applied, and if it doesn't, flash the Loki_Doki patch last before rebooting.
If you use OUDHS recovery, it will Auto-Loki whatever you flash.
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What happens if one accidentally reboots before flashing Loki? Just need to reboot back into recovery and flash it?
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What happens if one accidentally reboots before flashing Loki? Just need to reboot back into recovery and flash it?
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Yes
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Basically what the title says.
I just want to preface this by saying I'm a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing.
I tried to use safestrap and it did delete all my data but I accidently deleted my backup and my ROM I wanted to install.
Safestrap doesn't seem to want to work anymore. It gives me the screen saying that so and so is disabled and it will boot in 10 seconds, but I can't interact with this screen.
What can I do? Safestrap just doesn't work so I can't flash a ROM from SDcard, and the only thing that seems to work is Fastboot, and that's locked, so what are my options?
boobaboobler said:
Basically what the title says.
I just want to preface this by saying I'm a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing.
I tried to use safestrap and it did delete all my data but I accidently deleted my backup and my ROM I wanted to install.
Safestrap doesn't seem to want to work anymore. It gives me the screen saying that so and so is disabled and it will boot in 10 seconds, but I can't interact with this screen.
What can I do? Safestrap just doesn't work so I can't flash a ROM from SDcard, and the only thing that seems to work is Fastboot, and that's locked, so what are my options?
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You can use RSD to flash the firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ , you can use House of Moto http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-23/ , or you can update to stock KK (keep in mind you'll lose root on KK) http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/45495-how-to-xt907-upgrade-to-kitkat-ota/
Sorry but what file am I supposed to be using to flash? The entire folder?
Again, I don't know much about this, I'm just a beginner. I probably should have heeded people's warnings about possibly bricking your phone.
boobaboobler said:
Sorry but what file am I supposed to be using to flash? The entire folder?
Again, I don't know much about this, I'm just a beginner. I probably should have heeded people's warnings about possibly bricking your phone.
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The house of moto tutorial tells you exactly what to do with the files and folders and where to put them
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poppers162 said:
The house of moto tutorial tells you exactly what to do with the files and folders and where to put them
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For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
boobaboobler said:
For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
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Alright, good to hear that it worked.
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boobaboobler said:
For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
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Yeah, you can't downgrade if your bootloader is locked, but it is good to hear you got it working.
So I see plenty of ROMs posted that say you need such and such firmware to run it, but never instructions on flashing firmware. I used Sunshine, so I am s-off/rooted but bootloader is still locked, running stock ROM. My phone tries to do the OTA firmware update from last week, but fails because the system partition has unexpected data. I thought if I flashed stock recovery back that I could get OTA's, I guess not.
My question is, what is the best way to manually flash the 1.82.605.6 firmware? Do I just rename the .zip I have, put it in the root of the sd and boot into download mode? All I'm worried about is not losing s-off and of course not bricking my device. I really don't care if data gets wiped, but I'd like to avoid it if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated it, I've been looking for a solid answer to this for a couple of days because I didn't want to post this question and get chewed out for not looking first, but I can't seem to find a clear 100% answer to this. Thank you in advance.
jkhtx said:
So I see plenty of ROMs posted that say you need such and such firmware to run it, but never instructions on flashing firmware. I used Sunshine, so I am s-off/rooted but bootloader is still locked, running stock ROM. My phone tries to do the OTA firmware update from last week, but fails because the system partition has unexpected data. I thought if I flashed stock recovery back that I could get OTA's, I guess not.
My question is, what is the best way to manually flash the 1.82.605.6 firmware? Do I just rename the .zip I have, put it in the root of the sd and boot into download mode? All I'm worried about is not losing s-off and of course not bricking my device. I really don't care if data gets wiped, but I'd like to avoid it if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated it, I've been looking for a solid answer to this for a couple of days because I didn't want to post this question and get chewed out for not looking first, but I can't seem to find a clear 100% answer to this. Thank you in advance.
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Custom rom or not?
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dottat said:
Custom rom or not?
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No, I'm still on the stock rom. All I've done is s-off and root. I was running twrp but I flashed back to stock.
I have 1.82.605.6_NoBoot_NoRecovery_firmware.zip which I'd like to flash, I'm just unclear on the best method, and I don't want to do anything to my $700 phone unless I'm 100% sure about what I'm doing.
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No, I'm still on the stock rom. All I've done is s-off and root. I was running twrp but I flashed back to stock.
I have 1.82.605.6_NoBoot_NoRecovery_firmware.zip which I'd like to flash, I'm just unclear on the best method, and I don't want to do anything to my $700 phone unless I'm 100% sure about what I'm doing.
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Just flash my ruu. Then twrp and your supersu zip. Won't wipe won't change s-off status.
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Just flash my ruu. Then twrp and your supersu zip. Won't wipe won't change s-off status.
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See that's what everyone is saying, just flash the ruu, and it's assumed that everyone knows what that means, but I don't. By that do you mean rename my .zip, place in the root of sd and reboot to download mode?
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Just flash my ruu. Then twrp and your supersu zip. Won't wipe won't change s-off status.
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I found your thread, thanks for your help. Hope I didn't come off as having attitude, looking back it seems kinda like I was. Thank you for your help.