Hi Guys and Girls, I hope this is the right place for my question. Sorry if I sound like a 12-year old - my english is not really the best...
I own the Motorola Defy+, and I tried to get rid of motoblur. I installed SndInit 2.0, did a reboot, did a backup, did factory reset, wiped dalvik cache and picked the miui-rom I had previously placed on my SD. The installation went pretty good, my phone told me that it finished the installation and I did another reboot.
After the reboot I get the red M (default Motorola-logo just like before I was meddling around with the phone) but just for a very short period of time and then I get a black screen with white letters (slightly out of proportion) saying:
Bootloader
09.10
Err:A5,70,00,00,23
Battery OK
OK to Program
Transfer Mode:
USB
When I remove the USB-cable the last two lines are replaced by:
Connect USB
Data Cable
Do you guys have any idea, how I could get MIUI, CM or anything else running on my phone again? I'd even be quite happy to have the stockrom running again, since a phone with ****ty motoblur is still better than no phone at all.
I'd be really grateful for any kind of help, thanks in advance.
The miui you installed was for defy or defy+? And , can you access to recovery?
Motorola Defy CM7 RC 1.5 OC 1GHz
You have forgot to do 2 things. this might be the problem .
Do:
1. Factory reset.
2. wipe data cache.
3. wipe dalvik cache.
4.install MIUI rom.
5. wipe once again data cache.
6. reboot.
If you can access recovery again . my guess you can..
Thank you guys for taking care of me!!
@LeonardoJegigzem
The MIUI is called miui-ger_DEFY_1.12.23_FULL_EN_DE.zip - it's for Defy but I've read in forums that it should run on Defy+ aswell.
@VoLtrex31
I can't access recovery (I'm assuming you're talking about the "push volume-down when blue LED turns on"-recovery?), the screen I described in OP appears right after the red-M shows up for the first time.
You are right, I didn't wipe data cache neither before, nor after the installation.
Thats not good.
Search in the forums for how to access the recovery via your computer..
This might be your only way.
Ask more forums for technical help since xda is not the best forum for asking for help.
because i am not an expert .
But don't worry i bet many people got that problem too so there is a solution .
at last you have stock recovery(i think)
to access it (on defy) ress and hold VOL DOWN and power button.
Than after(about 10 sec) you'll get an exclamation mark.
Now press VOL UP and DOWN at the same time and you can wipe data.
If phone boots up perfectly yo can reinstall 2ndinit.
If not.. i think that you have to flash the appropriate sbf via rsd lite.
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at last you have stock recovery(i think)
to access it (on defy) ress and hold VOL DOWN and power button.
Than after(about 10 sec) you'll get an exclamation mark.
Now press VOL UP and DOWN at the same time and you can wipe data.
If phone boots up perfectly yo can reinstall 2ndinit.
If not.. i think that you have to flash the appropriate sbf via rsd lite.
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Now that's great news - the folks at motorola seem to know that ppl want to avoid ****ty motoblur and **** up their phones so they built an easy way to rescue broken phones.
I will try that asap - right now I'm using an old sony ericsson Xperia X8 - want my Defy+ back!
Thanks buruss!
Hi guy,I know about what you talking.
1. everytime i stuck on "white letters" i recovered my defy+ with RSDLite and correct SBF file.
2. If you have 2.3.6 version of stock rom,miui or any common cm7 won't work - afaik. You must downgrade (somewhere is topic about it) or use cm7.2 or cm9
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mikrom.cz said:
Hi guy,I know about what you talking.
1. everytime i stuck on "white letters" i recovered my defy+ with RSDLite and correct SBF file.
2. If you have 2.3.6 version of stock rom,miui or any common cm7 won't work - afaik. You must downgrade (somewhere is topic about it) or use cm7.2 or cm9
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Yea, I 've been through the same today/yesterday, and after a lot of cursing I can tell you it is exactly like this T.T you have to re-flash the stock ROM 2.3.6 again, and then if you find a way to downgrade/install Miui-CM/basically anything than staying with the stock ROM, let me know! xD
Just relax, I'm telling you this because yesterday I could have killed a dragon with my bare hands, but a soft brick is NP, as long as RSDlite recognizes your phone you can always going back to safety, from what I've learnt hard bricking a Defy is veryveryvery hard, thanks/due to a locked boot loader
Hey Guys, first let me thank you! I'm feeling quite happy now knowing that I'm not the only one with this kinda problem and I'll try the RSDlite-rescue-mission in a few days.
Happy new year everybody!
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Hey Guys, first let me thank you! I'm feeling quite happy now knowing that I'm not the only one with this kinda problem and I'll try the RSDlite-rescue-mission in a few days.
Happy new year everybody!
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I guess it's inevitable, when you start trying this and that custom ROM, sooner or later you're going to screw it up xD but it's actually good when that happens, because you know 100% you can fix everything - you did it once, you'll do it again
Happy new year!
miui uses the 2.2 froyo as base, since all the defy plus have gingerbread miui wont boot, miui hve boot.img and davtree.img in the rom.zip, if you flashan old boot.img in to a newer defy plus with new bootloader(2.3.6) you get an error, ho to fix it, try deleting the boot.img and devtree.img from the zip and replace the 2.3.6 boot.img and devtree.img form 2.3.6 and add it to the zip( miui rom) and try to flash it again and see if it works
You guys are awesome! Phone is booting again
installed RSDlite 5.3.1
downloaded the latest .sbf for my phone and my provider
let RSDlite do its magic and now everything's working just fine.
Next thing to do - try again to get rid of motoblur!
It's not 100% true, I installed MIUI over my 2.3.4 Gingebread and it worked like a charm
Only problem is, I can't install it anymore now that I'm on 2.3.6, but 2.2 is not strictly needed, 2.3.4 worked as well
Hey, guys! I have the exact same problem. I tried to install a Galnet MIUI ROM over at galnetmiui.co.uk, and i messed it up. I didn't really know what i was doing. Perhaps i forgot to wipe cache after installation. Have the exact same error message as mikrokosmonaut.
I was running my mb 256 with android 2.3.6, as far as I know, i have to use RSD Lite to istall stock rom again. Where do I find the correct SBF? My phone was bought without a service provider subscribtion, so I have no clue where to find the right SBF. I have no objection against having blur on the phone.
Can anyone help?
hi guys!!
i've tried to install miui on my defy+ 2.3.6.. like i read on this thread i modified the .zip file changing the boot.img and devtree with the original one.
but mt defy can't boot.. stuck at motorola logo..
what can i do?? does anyone managed to install miui on a defy+ 2.3.6?
now i'm using cyanogen and it works fine, but i prefer miui
thanks!!
daede86 said:
hi guys!!
i've tried to install miui on my defy+ 2.3.6.. like i read on this thread i modified the .zip file changing the boot.img and devtree with the original one.
but mt defy can't boot.. stuck at motorola logo..
what can i do?? does anyone managed to install miui on a defy+ 2.3.6?
now i'm using cyanogen and it works fine, but i prefer miui
thanks!!
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I don't think MIUI work on 2.3.6. you need CM7.2, or maybe some latest nightly version of MIUI
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I don't think MIUI work on 2.3.6. you need CM7.2, or maybe some latest nightly version of MIUI
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thanks for your reply! indeed i'm using cm 7.2.. it works pretty well, except some delays! never heard about miui nightly! i did a research on google but i couldn't find anything.. any idea??
thanks again!
hi again!
i was thinking.. you said miui shouldn't work on 2.3.6 and i guess you are right! so if i do the same thing i did (change the boot and devtree file in the latest miui.zip that is 2.3.7 if i'm not wrong) but using files from android 2.3.7?
maybe i try to explain myself better..
i make a nandroid backup of my cm 7.s2 which is 2.3.7.
then i change the files boot and devtree from cm 7.2 to the latest miui.
should it work? what do you think?
thanks again
Hi, folks! *GREAT NEWS!*
Some guys over at the devs section on the thread below have found a froyo sbf with bootloader 6 (the same as the defy 2.3.6 sbf)!!! This means we can use it to downgrade to froyo and install MIUI over it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486731
I haven't tried it yet, but will flash later today or tomorrow. You should read through some of the posts and decide for yourselves if you want to try or not.
All the best!
-If I managed to help you in any way, please press the thanks button!
So far I think I´ve had like 50% of the avalible roms tried on my defy since I got it...
Now Im thinking to stop tinkering with it, begin giving my time to my milestone 2, and just settle with my favorite ROM
which is Quarx´s CM9.
Originally, my red lensed defy came with froyo, I've never flashed it via RSD, and now I just have a question...
What would be the procedure if I wanted like to wipe and have a kind of "stock" cm9.. what I mean is I'd like to wipe off my phone, flash a compatible/up-to-date(latest) SBF, and then go on ahead and flash the CM9 rom Ive built (just the lates't quarx with stock boot logos and animations and some patches )
My main regard is keeping app data and settings.. losing one's game data and having to start over is a PITA, not speaking of losing HOURS of hard work on my phone...
Would titanium do the trick????
I mean I am confused scheisse!!!!
what are the steps uh? and then what SBF may I flash? I´m located at Bogota, Colombia right now on Claro-Comcel Operator..
Sorry for the apparent ignorance, I used to be a motomodder back in the day rebuilding flexes was the only way to get a new icon but got my first android device (the defy) a little time ago so I am TRULY TRULY outdated....
Peace
Apologies for the state of this question, but it's been a while
I've been using CM7 on my unlocked Defy since I bought it (6-8 months). However, recently it's gotten a lot more unstable; it freezes up all the time, I can't wake it up, google maps will crash half the time, the camera too, and it involves me restarting it a fair bit. I need to sort it out and I thought I could take this opportunity to try out a new ROM
However I haven't done anything ROM related for a while, and the computer I originally rooted/installed a new ROM on my Defy with is no long gone...so I'm not even sure what programs I need to install.
I seem to remember, the way the Defy is set up, it isn't as simple as wiping the phone and installing any ROM on it?
Could anyone point me in the direction of a guide on here dedicated to moving from CM7 to another ROM? From scratch? Failing that, I may be tempted to just try and wipe and get CM7 on there from the beginning...not even sure where to start
Thanks
If you want to flash a stock ROM, you need to flash the SBF through RSDLite.
While to flash a custom ROM(CM7,CM9), boot into recovery, wipe all, flash the zip from sdcard.
neo.ank said:
If you want to flash a stock ROM, you need to flash the SBF through RSDLite.
While to flash a custom ROM(CM7,CM9), boot into recovery, wipe all, flash the zip from sdcard.
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nice one, thanks. It's just as simple as that when changing from one ROM to another? I thought something to do with how the Defy's memory worked meant some kind of 'backtracking; wasn't possible
insurgente said:
nice one, thanks. It's just as simple as that when changing from one ROM to another? I thought something to do with how the Defy's memory worked meant some kind of 'backtracking; wasn't possible
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Yep, that simple. You could try Pikachu Edition, for example, which is even easier (just get into Recovery, install zip, choose the zip file and then AROMA installer does almost everything that's needed). I'm just starting to try it, many people like it.
If you move between CM7 nightlies it isn't even necessary to wipe data, but given your condition, I would recommend you to wipe everything and start again (remember to backup apps and data).
Good luck!
great, always good to see a bit of pikachu
can I go straight from CM7 to pikachu via a wipe? isn't CM7 on kernel 2.3.7?
Hi all.
After been on oxygen for a time, i decided to install again a gingerbread rom and go to aurora again. But after install the B528 rom on top of oxygen, i cant get the phone to work.
After install, the first boot is always fine, but whetever i turn off fast boot and or restart the device with fast on on, the phone will never boot again. Infinitive boot loop at huawei boot animation. I've tried to downgrade again inclusive to B136 or B138 and upgrade again and no go. I've always ended with a boot loop.
This is kind weird, why? Because in the past i always returned to froyo and gingerbread wihout any issue, this just came when for the first time, i installed oxygen. Don't know if is anything related.
I'm just seeking someone that can help me, or someone that came across this problem, that can help me solve this.
Thanks in advance.
PS: i have my phone wihout the original partion layout, and i can't revert back no matter how many times i tried.
PS2: at the moment i don't have a SD card
Have you tried flashing Aurora ICS straight from Oxygen? Or whatever is there? It shouldn't be a problem to install Aurora ICS on top of Oxygen.
i think we can do it, because of different versions of kernel. aurora needs to be installed on top of .35kernel and oxygen its based on the old .32 kernel.
But thanks for your answer.
Im updating my linux machine, From last resort, i will try to full flash my phone with 2.2.2 from here.
It's a post from blefish i think. Gonna try that, and after i will post results.
Ty and bb
EDIT
like this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971266
Hi everyone!
I am having very strange problem with stock rom "JORDN _U3_6.36.0" from T-Mobile USA on standard Defy. Each time i power phone up, it starts booting up then restarts itself in to stock recovery and perform hard/factory reset. After that it boots normally, but all settings gone.
I am not using T-mobile sim or moto blur account , so i skip registration using "ebluroff" trick. Is that can be the cause of the problem?
Some backstory: when i bought the phone it had CyanogenMod 7 installed on it. I used it for 2-3 years,even updated it several times up to 7.2.
Then some time ago i started having issues with it, so i had to flash stock rom with 2.1 Android.
I decided not to do anything with the phone, until i got some advice, so i any help would be greatly appreciated.
What were the issues faced? Anyhow one of the things you can try is to upgrade to 2.2, via rsd lite
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thekguy said:
What were the issues faced? Anyhow one of the things you can try is to upgrade to 2.2, via rsd lite
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Well, thing is i want to keep my downgrade ability. I rooted the phone with superoneclick and install 2ndInit 1.4.2, but the problem is that it doesn't see SD card because it is Eclair. How people installed nandroid backups on 2.1? There has to be the way to move to 2.2 without flashing full SBF, because as i already mentioned it had CyanogenMod 7 when i bought it, so it is possible.
DEN383 said:
Well, thing is i want to keep my downgrade ability. I rooted the phone with superoneclick and install 2ndInit 1.4.2, but the problem is that it doesn't see SD card because it is Eclair. How people installed nandroid backups on 2.1? There has to be the way to move to 2.2 without flashing full SBF, because as i already mentioned it had CyanogenMod 7 when i bought it, so it is possible.
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Some update. After hours of digging i found out these thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899450
So, i first flashed defy 2.2_boot_only FIXED FSB, then after reboot custom recovery started working, so restored Droid22 rom from it.
Phew, i knew it was possible. So now i have rooted chines (?) android 2.2.1 on my phone and working custom recovery. I am gona stick on it for a while until i find best 2.3.3. nandroid ROM.
Just wanted to clarify was it right order - first flashing fixed SBF then restoring nandroid backup? I couldnt get custom recovery working without updating bootmenu first.
I also wanted to add that i did custom recovery data|cash wipe before flashing fixed SBF, before AND after restoring nandroid backup.
I saw that lots of people had problem like me , hope my message will help.
Here is link to another forum which has working download links http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...ed-rooted-android-2-2-froyo-on-motorola-defy/