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[Q] Use ClockworkMod Recovery to get back to stock and out of boot loop??

I have a HKT75D xoom that I was trying to re-lock and unroot. Something along the way obviously went wrong. I think I may have used the wrong stock files to return it to stock and then locked it, but I am unsure. I do know that I am stuck in a boot loop now. If I turn the Xoom off...it just turns itself back on and sits and the M. I can get to fastboot, clockworkmod recovery, and rdp? (i forget the name, but its the other option under Android Recovery at startup.)
Is there any way I can use clockworkmod recovery or another method to restore my xoom to stock or have I bricked it? I have a 3G/Wifi xoom that is currently nothing more than an expensive paperweight so any help would be appreciated!

Its really really really hard to brick these things. With motorola devices, you just need to get RSD Lite running (a PC program), get into RSD mode on the device and then connect to the computer. You can then flash a stock sbf file and that will bring you back to stock firmware.
I can't provide links right now but if you look around/wait for someone, you'll be just fine. The fact that you can get into CWM, fastboot and **** is a good sign. The key is to not panic and do plenty of reading on how to troubleshoot this.

Thanks for the reply. I have done a ton of reading and became a bit overwhelmed so I knew posting would be the good thing to do. I just need some guidance here. I went and snagged RSDLite 5.6 from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348587
I believe that is the latest version. My question is where do I find a stock sbf file for my 3G/WiFi motorola xoom?
Edit: I got my xoom connected to RSD Lite and get the following in device properties if it helps any:
IMEI/ESN/MEID: N / A
Technology: N / A
Software Version: N / A
Flex Version: N / A
Bootloader Version: v0x001050
DRM Version: N / A
Phone Type: Engineering (0288504140C00557000000000000)
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What region is your device from?

My Xoom is US.

Ok, in order to have your xoom seen in RSD you need to be in RSD mode on the Xoom. In order to get there, turn it off. Then hold power and volume up and it'll get you into rsd mode. Once it says something like "starting RSD support protocol" you can plug it in and RSD lite should recognize it.
Now you need the sbf file. I'll have a look around but I swear the file was posted on these boards somewhere before.
Edit: Found a thread with a ton of different SBF files for various regions. There is a VZW 3.2.2 sbf file toward the bottom of the OP. Make sure to charge up before you flash and as per usual, I am not responsible for anything that happens from flashing. Best of luck to you!

Thanks again for the help...unfortunately the filesharing sites linked no longer allow downloads.
I will keep an eye out for the file but if anyone knows a place then please let me know !

oh damn
I'm sorry
I found this. I don't know about legitimacy but perhaps its worth testing.

Hacktually said:
I have a HKT75D xoom that I was trying to re-lock and unroot. Something along the way obviously went wrong. I think I may have used the wrong stock files to return it to stock and then locked it, but I am unsure. I do know that I am stuck in a boot loop now. If I turn the Xoom off...it just turns itself back on and sits and the M. I can get to fastboot, clockworkmod recovery, and rdp? (i forget the name, but its the other option under Android Recovery at startup.)
Is there any way I can use clockworkmod recovery or another method to restore my xoom to stock or have I bricked it? I have a 3G/Wifi xoom that is currently nothing more than an expensive paperweight so any help would be appreciated!
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Are you locked or not? I don't know if your stock restoration project was successful since you say you can boot into CWM recovery (stock would overwrite the recovery). Just make sure that you have a flashable rom zip file on your sdcard and then boot into CWM recovery and flash it. You're rooted so you know how to do that. FYI, you should probably do a complete data wipe/factory reset, cache wipe and dalvik cache wipe.
Why did you want to revert to stock/re-lock? Are you selling your Xoom or sending it to be fixed? If you wanted to upgrade to ICS, there a CWM flashable stock ICS rom available in the Development section.

I figured out that I was using the wrong stock img's from motorola dev. Used the right ones and now running Ice Cream!!!!!
ty for all the answers and help

[Q] Failed to boot 2, Starting RSD mode

Hi All,
My Bell Atrix was rooted but not BL unlocked when I finally got tired of the pop up message wanting to update to the latest firmware and decided to let it update. I had checked a while back and I thought people were having no problem updating even though rooted.
If I remove and replace the battery the phone will boot up completely but then immediately re-boots before I can do anything and on the reboot it goes to the Failed to boot 2, Starting RSD mode screen and stays there.
Because this phone was not unlocked I'm not sure how to proceed. Can I use RSD lite to recover and if so, what files should I be looking to write.
I don't mind ending up with a BL unlocked phone as I had been intending to do that eventually, but just hadn't gotten around to it yet.
As far as what version I was at, the phone took a big update a month or two ago, and after a while wanted to do another update (teh latest I assume). I had downloaded it (wasn't very big) and was only getting around to letting it install now when this happened.
Please, need some help quick here!

Regarding what rev I was at, I believe I was at 4.5.91 updating to 4.5.141...if this make sense for Bell.

Hi Again,
From further reading, I believe I was trying to update to this:
System Version
45.21.MB860.BellMobility.en.ca
(previous: 45.2.17.MB860.BellMobility.en.ca)
Android version
2.3.6
(previous: 2.3.4)
Webtop Version
WT-1.2.0-167-BELL
(previous: WT-1.2.0-135_BELL)
Kernel version
2.6.32.9
[email protected] #2
(previous: 2.6.32.9-00002-gd5bf03a
[email protected] #2)
Build number
4.5.2A-51_OLL-17.8
(previous:4.5.2A-51_OLL-17)
Sorry for the confusion, but I obviously can't use phone to see where I was at and where I was going. Basically, it was the latest Bell update excluding ICS, supposively that is available now?

Surely someone can toss me a bone on this one?

Got the same issue but used rsd lite and working now ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1490283

This link is for AT&T is it not? I think I need a specific file to load with RSD or fastboot to fix the softbrick created when OTA ing from Bell 234 to 236.
I assume you were AT&T bobby2nag?

Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302423
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I am on the same boat, i am on AT&T i was rooted, and i hit the update button =(
Got it to work thank to you ! =)
Followed this up until proper recovery section which i did not have to do.

This worked for me also. Seemed just the process of unlocking the bootloader fixed things. I needed to unlock anyway, so that was good, however I believe the more appropriate fix would have been this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501454
All good in the end! Thanks much!

Telcel MEXICO
Hi i was so stupid i didnt make a backup, i rooted my phone then from ROM Manager i tried to install ClockWor*#*$$# and then when it was finished the phone restarted and FAILED TO BOOT 2 and now i dunno what to do, like i said im from mexico telcel

Quinton99 said:
This link is for AT&T is it not? I think I need a specific file to load with RSD or fastboot to fix the softbrick created when OTA ing from Bell 234 to 236.
I assume you were AT&T bobby2nag?
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Yes mine is at&t .
Finally yours Atrix is back .

Telco Mexico - clearing the caches might help, up to you to decide
Have a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501454
You never said if you were in a boot loop or not, upon battery pull/insert does it boot up and then reboot immediately and bring you to Failed to boot 2? If so, I would try the caches myselp, JMHO!

Need bootloader .sbf so I can clear cache

I think I flashed the wrong bootloader and messed everything up.
Phone has been bricked for about a week now.
Been doing research and tried a lot of .sbf's.
Nothing is working.
I think I need to clear my cache and/or wipe data, factory reset.
However I cannot get into stock recovery, just goes straight into bootloader.
This is the bootloader error code.
Bootloader
D2.35
Err:A5,70,00,1F
MEM_MAP Blank
Service Req'd
Battery OK
OK to program
Tranfer Mode: USB
I was on Gingerbread.
Flashing
sbf 1FF-p2a_droid2_cdma_droid2-user-2.3.3-4.5.1_57_DR2-31-110719-release-keys-signed-Verizon-US.sbf.gz
doesn't work.
The only links that were good and I can use for reference are these, which are down.
http://and-developers.com/sbf:droid2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9445568&postcount=2
Can someone help me out?
Also this should be included in the Recover Droid 2 sticky
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried using a newer version of rsdlite? I used to get all kinds of ****ty errors using the older version of rsdlite 4.8 then i tried the newer 5.6 and everything worked perfectly every time.

[1up] said:
Have you tried using a newer version of rsdlite? I used to get all kinds of ****ty errors using the older version of rsdlite 4.8 then i tried the newer 5.6 and everything worked perfectly every time.
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I'm using 5.6
Even tried running RSD with admin rights.
No go. =/
Like I said, I think I need to clear my cache and factory erase
and perhaps try another .sbf

or go ezSBF iso file burn to disc or usb drive
boots to linux, http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-2-hacks/161849-tool-ezsbf.html

sd_shadow said:
or go ezSBF iso file burn to disc or usb drive
boots to linux, http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-2-hacks/161849-tool-ezsbf.html
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I tried one linux disk and it didn't work.
I forgot what version.
I'll give this link a shot later today.
Thank you

I didn't realize you had a thread going in the general section.
I managed to find a copy of the 2.37 bootloader sbf.
It was a pain. Google translate got it's workout, thank goodness I didn't have to register on a forum in a language I can't read/understand.
Here it is:
BL_D237_cdma_droid2_Consumer_replacer_HSPart.zip
Hope this works.

newk8600 said:
I didn't realize you had a thread going in the general section.
I managed to find a copy of the 2.37 bootloader sbf.
It was a pain. Google translate got it's workout, thank goodness I didn't have to register on a forum in a language I can't read/understand.
Here it is:
BL_D237_cdma_droid2_Consumer_replacer_HSPart.zip
Hope this works.
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I just tried this and i'm still left with the same error.
I cannot get into the stock recovery.
I think I need to get into the recovery so I can wipe the cache and clear data.
Then hopefully a .sbf will stick.

the stubborn 2.3.4
I was on 2.3.4 and got the same error when I tried flashing to 2.3.3
2.3.4 is currently still locked up tight and wont allow backwards flashing. I ended up flashing back to 2.3.4 and everything worked out fine, except the fact that i can't even root, of course.

[Q] Bricked? RSDLite won't work

I was flashing ROMs and had DLed a bunch from a site exclusively for RAZR M phones and some guy had put a bunch of stuff for the XT910 and I accidentally flashed a AOKP GSM zip and now I can't flash anything or RSDLite back to stock, which was always my failsafe out of a soft brick. I still have TWRP and I was able to restore my backup but boot and system files only, data wouldn't restore. Now my phone will boot to the custom splash screen but it just loops. And I first get the red Moto M circle and do NOT get the unlocked boot loader warning. So any help? I will post the RSDLite results when I get home.
ok heres the site I got the file from, this guy should be hung...surdu_petru...http://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=developers&did=70

noone? help is needed please! OK well I restored to a TWRP recovery i had and it worked partially, as long as i unchecked the data partition, the boot and system partitions stuck, so now my unlocked bootloader warning is back as is my custom ROM splash screen, but in a bootloop. I tried RSDLite flashing it again and the 4.1.1 firmware seemed to work but still loops. 4.1.2 and 4.0.4 wont flash because of the "get var, OEM" issue. I had this happen once before aswhile back but was using CWM recovery and juyst switched to TWRP, which fixed it, but not so lucky this time around. So I am wondering if i flash some other partitions like the persist forthe radio, esp since i flashed a xt910 GSM file which is why my phone now thinks its a xt910. Any ideas? please!!!

ok PROBLEM SOLVED. aFTER LOSING THE CUSTOM RECOVERY BY TRYING TO FASTBOOT WITH RSDLITE I DID THE "delete the Getvar and OEM LINES FROM THE FACTORY FIRMWARE OF 4.1.2 (THE .78 VERSION) AND SINCE THE xt910 ROM WAS 4.2.2 AND MY RADIO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN UPDATED TO .78, I FIGURED THE .78 4.1.2 WOULD BE MY BEST SHOT, AND SO IT WAS. THAT "GETVAR" ISSUE IS DEFINATE PROBLEM THAT SHOULD BE RESOLVED ANYWAY. wELL ANOTHER TRAGEDY AVERTED, AND IM GETTING PRETTY GOOD AT THIS, LOL, AVOIDING MISTAKES WOULD BE BEST THO. sO BEWARE OF THE "ANDROIDFILEHOST" SITE, THEY HAVE A GUY POSTING XT910 ROMS UNDER XT907 FOLDER! almost cost me a phone Close this thread

Edit does not work on either of my razr m phones
one last note, I thought i was unable to get the radio/modem working again as a resullt of flashing a GSM ROM for the XT910, but that issue was fixed with a Firmware flash, or FXZ file, through RSDLite. The issue is actually the RAZR Ms US GSM unlock (NV edit using RadioComm) that is still not working. As with my other RAZR M (LOCKED, rooted, and SS installed) I can not seem to get it working by using RC or DFS, and I am really starting to think the .78 or .94 update killed this edit just as it did the bootloader unlock, even though everyone says it doesnt and that this edit can be performed on locked, unrooted and completely updated devices. If so then....
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY BOTH MY LOCKED AND UNLOCKED RAZR M DEVICES WILL NOT ACCEPT THE US GSM EDIT???? PLEASE?

Here is my Feedback for you...
rocketrazr99 said:
one last note, I thought i was unable to get the radio/modem working again as a resullt of flashing a GSM ROM for the XT910, but that issue was fixed with a Firmware flash, or FXZ file, through RSDLite. The issue is actually the RAZR Ms US GSM unlock (NV edit using RadioComm) that is still not working. As with my other RAZR M (LOCKED, rooted, and SS installed) I can not seem to get it working by using RC or DFS, and I am really starting to think the .78 or .94 update killed this edit just as it did the bootloader unlock, even though everyone says it doesnt and that this edit can be performed on locked, unrooted and completely updated devices. If so then....
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY BOTH MY LOCKED AND UNLOCKED RAZR M DEVICES WILL NOT ACCEPT THE US GSM EDIT???? PLEASE?
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The Reason why it doesn't accept the Us GSM edit Is because the Motorola Droid Razr M is not a gsm phone it is a CDMA phone with LTE. Thus it will not work on any GSM providers unless that provider is like straight talk with multiple networks supported otherwise the phone is stuck on verizon wireless or any other carrier you bought it from. Have A Good Day. By the way my two old accounts got banned for no reason. if you want to know what experience i have look at my devices on the accounts Droidxpert and Droidxpert1. Thanks

rocketrazr99 said:
one last note, I thought i was unable to get the radio/modem working again as a resullt of flashing a GSM ROM for the XT910, but that issue was fixed with a Firmware flash, or FXZ file, through RSDLite. The issue is actually the RAZR Ms US GSM unlock (NV edit using RadioComm) that is still not working. As with my other RAZR M (LOCKED, rooted, and SS installed) I can not seem to get it working by using RC or DFS, and I am really starting to think the .78 or .94 update killed this edit just as it did the bootloader unlock, even though everyone says it doesnt and that this edit can be performed on locked, unrooted and completely updated devices. If so then....
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY BOTH MY LOCKED AND UNLOCKED RAZR M DEVICES WILL NOT ACCEPT THE US GSM EDIT???? PLEASE?
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The phones will accept the edit and will work on GSM if you unlock with RadioComm. He ran into issues because he didn't unlock with RadioComm.
Sent from my Droid RAZR MAXX HD using xda app-developers app

ImDroidxpert said:
The Reason why it doesn't accept the Us GSM edit Is because the Motorola Droid Razr M is not a gsm phone it is a CDMA phone with LTE. Thus it will not work on any GSM providers unless that provider is like straight talk with multiple networks supported otherwise the phone is stuck on verizon wireless or any other carrier you bought it from. Have A Good Day. By the way my two old accounts got banned for no reason. if you want to know what experience i have look at my devices on the accounts Droidxpert and Droidxpert1. Thanks
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Sorry but they both unlocked. The issue was (I think) that I was typing "01" but only needed to actually type "1" and then the window shows "01". It was something like that anyway.

soft bricked now
Now my problem is I wiped the whole phone by mistake and cant restore since i lost CWM and cant RSDLite any firmware since the latest was already on it and some error message showed that i had flashed an earlier version or somthing, IDK. But I read that to fix it i need a newer firmware to run on RSDLite, of which none exists. So my phone is soft bricked until Kitkat gets released for the M, which is never, lol

rocketrazr99 said:
Now my problem is I wiped the whole phone by mistake and cant restore since i lost CWM and cant RSDLite any firmware since the latest was already on it and some error message showed that i had flashed an earlier version or somthing, IDK. But I read that to fix it i need a newer firmware to run on RSDLite, of which none exists. So my phone is soft bricked until Kitkat gets released for the M, which is never, lol
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You don't need to run a newer firmware, you just need to run one that's equivalent to what you have now. You got the TZ fail because you tried to flash an older FW.

RikRong said:
You don't need to run a newer firmware, you just need to run one that's equivalent to what you have now. You got the TZ fail because you tried to flash an older FW.
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It was actually more than just that. I cant remember but saw a thread about it saying that it had an old firmware and a present firmware and it needs a newer firmware, but I am onm the newest one already so I have to wait for one to get pushed out, idk. Now i can get as far as flashing process 17/21, which is the system flash, when te phone returns a fail. i will try a few tricks i learned from prior luck

rocketrazr99 said:
It was actually more than just that. I cant remember but saw a thread about it saying that it had an old firmware and a present firmware and it needs a newer firmware, but I am onm the newest one already so I have to wait for one to get pushed out, idk. Now i can get as far as flashing process 17/21, which is the system flash, when te phone returns a fail. i will try a few tricks i learned from prior luck
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OK, Rik was right, I didnt have to wait for a new firmware release. I kept trying to flash the most recent version of 4.1.2 and kept hitting a wall at 17/21, which is the flashing of the system image. Occasionally it would fail before that at 16/21, which is CDROM files. That always happened the first attempt after I unhooked the phone and restarted everything, so I started thinking, what is causing the flash to fail for no apparent reason. Then it finally hit me....it was as if my phone was running out of storage space. But that just isnt possible when you are flashing with RSDLite since it wipes out everything first. So I then remembered that my PC has very little room left on its hard drive. Could it be that RSDLite needed more space to work? Hmmmmm, so I deleted a few videos and moved the firmware file to that area (it may or may not help) of the drive and tried again. After the initial fail at 16/21 I was met with a successful flash, although it took a very long time to flash the system image, which I attribute to low disk space. So there you have it.... of course I had to modify the XML file and remove the "getvar" line, and realized I had forgot a golden rule.... all programs and apps need a certain amount of disk drive space in order to operate, and RSDLite is no exception! So now my locked phone will get the carrier unlock edit and Safestrap installed with an extra ROM in slot 1, then it goes on eBay, lol. I have my other RAZR M in semi retirement, it has the BL unlocked as well as the carrier, but I couldnt pass up a new Nexus 5 for $250, but I will surely be swapping the SIM card back and forth because I really miss my RAZR M already. Wish they would make a RAZR M with the processing power of the Nexus 5. Anyhow, PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD, TY.

Use this I used it when I bricked mine
Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249773
Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk

I'm having a similar problem with my xt907. The phone will boot and loop on the boot loader. I have tried to restore with rsd lite bit haven't had any luck. Any suggestions, I know it may not be enough information. If you ask I might be able to give you more details.
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Also I can't get into recovery.

ImDroidxpert said:
The Reason why it doesn't accept the Us GSM edit Is because the Motorola Droid Razr M is not a gsm phone it is a CDMA phone with LTE. Thus it will not work on any GSM providers unless that provider is like straight talk with multiple networks supported otherwise the phone is stuck on verizon wireless or any other carrier you bought it from. Have A Good Day. By the way my two old accounts got banned for no reason. if you want to know what experience i have look at my devices on the accounts Droidxpert and Droidxpert1. Thanks
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I am sorry to say that you are uninformed and the XT907 CAN have van NV edit which allows it to be used on GSM networks. The phone is already setup to be comparable with GSN since Verizon made it a "global" handset, but....they also blocked any GSM capabilities in the U.S., until of course you do the NV edit. So please remove your post.

Just a warning

I have had my Maxx HD since launch and unlocked very soon after it became available,
Recently I downgraded from the last OTA with matgroffs 1.21 utility and enjoyed a wonderful clean slate experience but after a while (today) I went for the OTA to get prepared for KK coming soon hopefully, the install failed entirely and my bootloader is now back in a locked state the phone is stuck in fastboot and will not take a flash from any utility on here, 1.21, 1.3x 2.0 ext including rsd lite.(RSD will not even detect the phone)
Ive tried the utilities on Mac and Windows 7, nothing has worked so I broke down and called verizon and ordered a recertified razr HD for a discounted price.
So just a warning there is a way the bootloader can get relocked. will take a picture and load soon to show the screen of the phone incase someone can help. Just a side note my vibrate motor failed and I have been having 4g radio problems before I went back on matgroffs utility.

You tried house of moto to fastboot flash 98.30.1? Sux they found a way to relock them...
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This only shows up when you get the GPT error. It will still be unlocked once you get this restored. This came up when the OTA was released. A few people with unlocked BL had this GPT error. There's a fix somewhere around here, just search for the error.

RikRong said:
This only shows up when you get the GPT error. It will still be unlocked once you get this restored. This came up when the OTA was released. A few people with unlocked BL had this GPT error. There's a fix somewhere around here, just search for the error.
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@AndroidGreg
There's a line in the fastboot xml file with gpt_main0.bin (somithing really similar to that, been a while since I flashed it...) and all that's necessary is removing that line and flashing the fastboot with rsd, or just manually flash the fastboot skipping that partition, either or will work and fix the problem. Even though the bootloader is unlocked, that particular partition IS still controlled by securtiy and is blocked from downgrading -- luckily for us the partition table never changed between rom versions so it's perfectly safe to flash or not to flash it.
I've never flashed with RSD, but IIRC, there's also two more lines in the fastboot's xml that need to be removed for it to properly flash. I've only flashed my phone with moto-fastboot from linux and used MythTools from windows -- MythTools is an interactive script for the Atrix HD to flash stock fastboots, root, unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery, boot logos, and soon different radios -- Similar to Mattlgroff's tool.
The Atrix HD has the exact same issue with that partition.

download the sbf file from http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=5
install these drivers https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88481/action/auth
connect the phone in fastboot mode.
now extract the "fastboot_rsd.zip " to a folder.
extract the contents of the downloaded sbf/xml file into the fastboot_rsd.zip folder
execute "flash_fastboot_erase_userdata"
worth a shot.
always works for me..
good luck.

RSD does not detect the phone at all, only the quick utilities did and they failed. Verizon overnighted my new phone and its here already, not unlockable im just gona root and keep it for a while till I switch to strait talk with the nexus 5, I cant afford $100 a month anymore anyway.

First off, thanks to the OP for posting this. This was exactly my thought on getting the KK update when it arrived then building phone back up with the mods and apps I have currently - flash back using 1.21, update, use TiBu to reinstall everything. Sux to see that didn't work, but thank you for posting the warning to others.
Not that I'm hoping to see others attempt this and fail or somewhat ruin their phone, but has anyone else had this experience? Anyone verify this method isn't possible to keep unlocked bootloader and a fully working device?
If not possible, hopefully someone will build a flashable version of the OTA KK update when it FINALLY arrives. I'm way too unstock for the update to work OTA, that's a fact.

LifeAsADroid said:
First off, thanks to the OP for posting this. This was exactly my thought on getting the KK update when it arrived then building phone back up with the mods and apps I have currently - flash back using 1.21, update, use TiBu to reinstall everything. Sux to see that didn't work, but thank you for posting the warning to others.
Not that I'm hoping to see others attempt this and fail or somewhat ruin their phone, but has anyone else had this experience? Anyone verify this method isn't possible to keep unlocked bootloader and a fully working device?
If not possible, hopefully someone will build a flashable version of the OTA KK update when it FINALLY arrives. I'm way too unstock for the update to work OTA, that's a fact.
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It only shows that his BL is locked because of the GPT error. I can assure you it is still unlocked. Many, many people updated and we still have unlocked BLs. Heck, I've flashed the latest OTA on my M and HD with RSD and am still good. He just needs to fix the error, but he have up and got another phone.

RikRong said:
It only shows that his BL is locked because of the GPT error. I can assure you it is still unlocked. Many, many people updated and we still have unlocked BLs. Heck, I've flashed the latest OTA on my M and HD with RSD and am still good. He just needs to fix the error, but he have up and got another phone.
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Exactly. The Atrix HD gives us this error if we flashed the stock Mexican firmware (our latest) and try to flash anything below it, or the Bell firmware (2nd newest) and anything below that, and so on and so forth. All that's necessary is to remove the gpt flashing line and go again....just like we have to remove the oem lines from the fastboot xml.
First time I had that error, I went WTF (the first flash after unlocking my bootloader if ya'll's curious), knew that GPT is a partition table from grub experience, figured that the partition table has never changed since stock ICS roms, removed the GPT line, flashed ICS, and I was happy.
I'd love to be able to combine all the data, system, cache, and any other partition that don't need a fixed place (like modem, etc) and be able to use ZFS or BTRFS volumes to maximize the amount of storage we can have -- I've always wondered why they don't do something like that already...

Ok 3 computers 1 xp and 2 windows 7, nothing, mac nothing, even made a factory cable because the battery just got to low, nothing, no computer will detect it, using any of the 3 motorola branded usb cables plugged directly into the laptops. Now the utilities from matgroff and the other guy (cant think of his name but he made the 2.0 utility) will not even try to flash the phone they say please plug a phone in that is in fastboot mode, I

Serious question, but have you tried Linux? My old Bravo wasn't detected by Windows (XP or 7, been 2 years now) after a bad RSD flash, but I was able to manually flash it from Linux (either Manjaro or Debian Testing). After that, to this day it'll flash with RSD, but it isn't detected properly. I still flash it, and almost everything else, from Linux because I don't trust flashing from Windows anymore. I made an exception recently to help with a tool and because my Linux partition was down for a month.

LifeAsADroid said:
First off, thanks to the OP for posting this. This was exactly my thought on getting the KK update when it arrived then building phone back up with the mods and apps I have currently - flash back using 1.21, update, use TiBu to reinstall everything. Sux to see that didn't work, but thank you for posting the warning to others.
Not that I'm hoping to see others attempt this and fail or somewhat ruin their phone, but has anyone else had this experience? Anyone verify this method isn't possible to keep unlocked bootloader and a fully working device?
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I tried doing the exact same thing as the OP - factory reset to "stock" and then flash back up in preparation for KK, after using TiBu to save everything and using SafeStrap to make a Nandroid (very thankful I did). I ended up with the identical screen that the OP had, even stating that my previously unlocked BL had been apparently "relocked." For me, RSD Lite did recognize my phone (I updated RSD to the latest version beforehand), however it would not flash anything for me (the flashing process would start and then immediately say "failed").
See my post for the details and the solution I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2674431.
I was completely freaked out for a couple of hours until I stumbled upon bweN diorD's GPT partition fix. And then everything was fine for me.
Hope this helps anyone who falls into the same trap.

AndroidGreg said:
I have had my Maxx HD since launch and unlocked very soon after it became available,
Recently I downgraded from the last OTA with matgroffs 1.21 utility and enjoyed a wonderful clean slate experience but after a while (today) I went for the OTA to get prepared for KK coming soon hopefully, the install failed entirely and my bootloader is now back in a locked state the phone is stuck in fastboot and will not take a flash from any utility on here, 1.21, 1.3x 2.0 ext including rsd lite.(RSD will not even detect the phone)
Ive tried the utilities on Mac and Windows 7, nothing has worked so I broke down and called verizon and ordered a recertified razr HD for a discounted price.
So just a warning there is a way the bootloader can get relocked. will take a picture and load soon to show the screen of the phone incase someone can help. Just a side note my vibrate motor failed and I have been having 4g radio problems before I went back on matgroffs utility.
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I had this same problem when i tried to go back to stock a while back. You need to flash the gpt_main0.bin file to fix it. Here are the steps I used to fix the problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47716278&postcount=57
Another user took my steps and edited a script so give this a shot if you want to run something thats automatic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48587194&postcount=89

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I had this same problem when i tried to go back to stock a while back. You need to flash the gpt_main0.bin file to fix it. Here are the steps I used to fix the problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47716278&postcount=57
Another user took my steps and edited a script so give this a shot if you want to run something thats automatic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48587194&postcount=89
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@AndroidGreg, do you still have the phone?
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