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Motorola Milestone busted part way through 2.1 update?

Hi.....
I've just attempted to do the update via the moto tools update manager program and during installation my phone shown 'critical error' followed by 'coff' & 'CABE' on screen... the installation then failed and advised me to try again... Have tried three times now, does anyone have any ideas?
I'm back at work now and have left the phone at home so I cant supply many details right now..
I've been advised to try a master reset which I will try as soon as i'm home.
When I attempt to turn the phone on, it shows the boot loader menu and says 'something Failure'
Any help is much appreciated!

Well, you might try finding a 2.1 Milestone .sbf for your device and flash it with RSD Lite. Can you even boot into the recovery?
Hold camera button and power on. When you see the triangle screen hold volume up and then tap camera. (Just in case you didn't know)

Hey,
The device wont even boot into recovery mode so I don't think that idea would work

I would still try with RSD Lite. I had a problem similar to what you have, but luckily RSD Lite would still see phone and let me flash a .sbf of the Telus 2.1 I had.

When I plug the device into my machine though, it just flashes with low battery ect... its been on charge all night.

Broken said:
Well, you might try finding a 2.1 Milestone .sbf for your device and flash it with RSD Lite. Can you even boot into the recovery?
Hold camera button and power on. When you see the triangle screen hold volume up and then tap camera. (Just in case you didn't know)
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I thought it was "D-Pad Up" to get to the Boot loader screen? From there, RSD should see it no prob. Then, you can either push a recovery image, or the fill 2.1 swf

Volume up works for me. D-pad also probably does the same...

Broken said:
Volume up works for me. D-pad also probably does the same...
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as long as you can get into flash mode you should be ok,flash the sbf file like Broken said. Im not sure how to get into flash mode on the Milestone,but on the Cliq its the Menu Button+the Power Button. Do a google search for how to get into flash mode or maybe someone here will be able to tell you,the more difficult part is finding the original .SBF file for the Milestone. You have to use RSD Lite 4.5.7 or higher,dont use the Flash&BackUp program. once you get into flash mode RSD Lite should see your phone,and you shouldnt have any problems from there.

f he is lucky, just booting up to the error will allow RSD Lite to see the phone and allow flashing. As for the right .sbf should be easy. I can probably find it for him and point him to it if I new the locale of the phone, ie where it originated: Thai, Canada UK, Brazil, etc.

[Q] Has My xoom bit the bullet ?

Yesterday I went to go on my Motorola xoom wifi and boot logo was displayed and the back was very warm. Reset the device and it stayed on boot logo. Tablet was running fine the day before. I tried fastboot, RSD and recovery and the pc only discovers Xoom in RSD mode, Recovery does not even load. I grabbed RSD lite and tried to flash a sbf file. program detects tablets flashes rom and reboots tablet when finished. then the program sits there counting up to 100% then says "please manually power up this phone". If I reboot tablet stays at logo screen. Is there any way to sort, bear in mind I cant only connect to tablet in RSD mode. tried 2 computers and four cables and still fastboot is waiting for device.
Thank you for reading this post.
Current device Properties in RSD Lite.
IMEI/ESN/MEID: N / A
Technology: N / A
Software Version: N / A
Flex Version: N / A
Boot Version: N / A
DRM Version: N / A

Your battery might be bad but try these with your xoom plugged into a power source.
Can you get into recovery? with power off press the power button 3 seconds after moto logo press volume down you will see recovery across top press vol up. If you can do a factory wipe
Have you tried getting into fastboot mode? with power off press press power while holding vol down. if you can we can try and fastboot the files.

If I select recovery I get
-->Android Recovery
Entering Android Recovery Mode
and the Motorola Logo in center of screen. Nothing else Happens.
In Fastboot mode Nothing shows in Device Manager and all I get at cmd is Waiting for device after "fastboot devices" command
I managed to flash "HUBWF_W5.H.6.4-20_SIGNED_UCAHUBLWFRTCOREEU_P010_A010_M004_HWwifi_hubble_AP1FF" in RSD Lite but same prob loads boot logo and nothing else. Is it possible this could be a cpu error ? as rom was running at 1.5ghz and if stuck in boot at 1.5ghz for a few hours more likely damage would occur.

I don't think it is the cpu overclock because when you flash a new rom it would wipe your settings.
Do you have adb install on your pc?

I have adb installed on pc yes but no way to talk to the tablet.
Thank you for your response.

Do you have another device such as your phone you can plug in to your pc and see if adb is working by typing adb devices.

dfib1 said:
Do you have another device such as your phone you can plug in to your pc and see if adb is working by typing adb devices.
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If I plug my HTC one X into the computer both fastboot and adb list it.
Thank you for your response.

The only thing I can think of is that the battery is going bad and causing issues. Since you flash new software, can't get out of the bootloop and the back is hot I would see about replacing it. You can try a soft reset but I don't think it will help. hold down both vol buttons and the power button until your xoom restarts.
I am not 100% sure if it is your battery but I am out of suggestions. I know when the batteries go bad in our devices it can cause issues.
http://www.portatronics.com/product_info.php?info=p9278_Motorola-Xoom-Battery-Original.html

[Q] Bricked motorola xt910? Need help please!!!

Hi there, thanks in advance for your kind support on the overall aspects of android development.
here is what i have done.
i wanted to update my motorola xt910 with 4.0.4 ics to CM10 (CYANOGENMOD)10
So i get the cm10 rom and google apps on my sd card
And installed the clockworkmod recovery 5.8.4.5 black edition
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751826
then i made the procedures after install the apk
after that i reboot in cwm and make a backup of the existing rom
and reboot the phone.
then i dowload the rom manager from the app store, install it and select the right recovery 3.+++ for the razr reboot the phone .
then i went on rom manager and enter in clockword mod and install the rom cm 10 (after i installed it i remember i should wipe data and cache) so i after installed cm10, i wiped data and cache, and right after i installed again the cm10 rom and google aps, without even reboot or leave rom manager app, after that i rebooted the phone and the only thing it shows me its the M logo on start.
I cant go to fastboot either, doesnt recognise the rsd lite.
And it only "boots" if its called that way if i hit power + vol up + vol down. but then it only appears the M logo for a few seconds and then the cell it turns off (i guess). it was with a fully 100% battery when i did the procedure.
Any way to solve this?
it detects when i conect it to the pc, but it doesnt show anything, only the sound that some usb thing is conected and then disconected, no card showing nothing, just the sound.
ANY HELP WILL BE GLADLY WELCOME!!!
THANKS

nuno cravo said:
Hi there, thanks in advance for your kind support on the overall aspects of android development.
here is what i have done.
i wanted to update my motorola xt910 with 4.0.4 ics to CM10 (CYANOGENMOD)10
So i get the cm10 rom and google apps on my sd card
And installed the clockworkmod recovery 5.8.4.5 black edition
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751826
then i made the procedures after install the apk
after that i reboot in cwm and make a backup of the existing rom
and reboot the phone.
then i dowload the rom manager from the app store, install it and select the right recovery 3.+++ for the razr reboot the phone .
then i went on rom manager and enter in clockword mod and install the rom cm 10 (after i installed it i remember i should wipe data and cache) so i after installed cm10, i wiped data and cache, and right after i installed again the cm10 rom and google aps, without even reboot or leave rom manager app, after that i rebooted the phone and the only thing it shows me its the M logo on start.
I cant go to fastboot either, doesnt recognise the rsd lite.
And it only "boots" if its called that way if i hit power + vol up + vol down. but then it only appears the M logo for a few seconds and then the cell it turns off (i guess). it was with a fully 100% battery when i did the procedure.
Any way to solve this?
it detects when i conect it to the pc, but it doesnt show anything, only the sound that some usb thing is conected and then disconected, no card showing nothing, just the sound.
ANY HELP WILL BE GLADLY WELCOME!!!
THANKS
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I have successfully manage to UNBRICK IT.
here is the procedure i have done:
1-plug it in motorola cable and put the rsdlite on
2-plug the usb on the computer (you will hear the sound of some usb beeing conected but nothing else)
3- hit the power buton + vol up + vol down several times until it appears fast boot
ex: you click it now see the M logo, and then you hit it again on power + vol up + vol down, all of this with the cable conected to the pc and the rsd lite on.
4-after it entered on fastboot mode, you will see a black screen with some white writing on it
5-get a fastboot xml of your rom (in my case brasilian one) and flash it true the rsd, wait wait wait until the process finishes and dont disconect or touch anything. In my case it took about 15 minutes with several stops and bootloops on the same procedure, but i successfully manage to bring it to life.
Note this method will only work if you have enough battery on your phone, if not try to buy a factory cable to charge the battery via USB port and then try it on.
Remember to charge 5% you will nedd to get it on the usb about 15 minuts or so, if you plan to do this procedure i will hardly advice you to leave it about 5hours to fully charge your battery and you get the job done without any other issues.
Thanks to all and i hope this thread will be helpfull to others too.
Chears
Nuno

THANKS!
Thanks ma,, you saved my device!!!!

Need help with xoom, possible brick

First,
I really want to thank everyone for their support in this forum. Everyone has been amazing.
I was trying to bring my MZ601 back to stock yesterday. Something bad happened during fastboot and asked me if I wanted to unlock my device. Then the screen locked up and didnt do anything. I rebooted the device and now it gets stuck in a boot loop with the EOS symbol (last rom I installed). When I enter recovery there is nothing there, all of my data is gone.
Worse the device is not recognized on my computer nor can it be found in adb fastboot. I have updated motorola drivers, but I think the device never gets past a certain point in order to be found.
Can somebody please help me.
Thanks,

Pretty impossible to brick XOOM's but i'll ask the basics. Can you get into recovery from a cold boot? Can you get into fastboot from a cold boot?
By the sounds of it you've just corrupted your rom or tried to re-unlock the device which would cause the entire sdcard partition to be erased.
Boot XOOM into Recovery, Fastboot, or RSD mode
So you need to get into Recovery to backup your XOOM (you do nandroid don't you?). Or perhaps you were working on creating new levels of awesome and something happend and you find yourself staring at the Motorola Dual Core boot screen with your XOOM refusing to boot any further. Fear not, you are only a few clicks away from finding your way back into recovery or fastboot goodness.
Turn your XOOM off
Press Power to turn your XOOM back on
When the Motorola Dual Core boot screen appears tap Volume Down repeatedly until "Android Recovery" is displayed
Press Volume Up to enter Recovery
You can also choose from Fastboot protocol support and RSD mode by using the same method but instead selecting their respective menu prompts.
Note:
If your XOOM is caught in bootloops or you find yourself stuck in RSD mode or Fastboot Protocol support you can hardware reboot your XOOM by pressing and holding Volume Up + Power until the tablet reboots (usually a few seconds but could be longer).

demunted said:
Pretty impossible to brick XOOM's but i'll ask the basics. Can you get into recovery from a cold boot? Can you get into fastboot from a cold boot?
By the sounds of it you've just corrupted your rom or tried to re-unlock the device which would cause the entire sdcard partition to be erased.
Boot XOOM into Recovery, Fastboot, or RSD mode
So you need to get into Recovery to backup your XOOM (you do nandroid don't you?). Or perhaps you were working on creating new levels of awesome and something happend and you find yourself staring at the Motorola Dual Core boot screen with your XOOM refusing to boot any further. Fear not, you are only a few clicks away from finding your way back into recovery or fastboot goodness.
Turn your XOOM off
Press Power to turn your XOOM back on
When the Motorola Dual Core boot screen appears tap Volume Down repeatedly until "Android Recovery" is displayed
Press Volume Up to enter Recovery
You can also choose from Fastboot protocol support and RSD mode by using the same method but instead selecting their respective menu prompts.
Note:
If your XOOM is caught in bootloops or you find yourself stuck in RSD mode or Fastboot Protocol support you can hardware reboot your XOOM by pressing and holding Volume Up + Power until the tablet reboots (usually a few seconds but could be longer).
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Hi,
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, it seems that I have caused the entire sd card partition to be erased. That mean when I trry to fastboot my device is not recognized. Also, i cannot add anything to my xoom through usb. I have tried to flash through the external sd card, but to no avail. What do I have to do?

What does your xoom show up as when plugged into your pc APX? Can you boot into fastboot mode. with power off press power and volume down until you see fastboot.

dfib1 said:
What does your xoom show up as when plugged into your pc APX? Can you boot into fastboot mode. with power off press power and volume down until you see fastboot.
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Hi thanks for the reply to my message.
Unfortunately I cannot find my device when it is plugged into my computer (PC). It does not show up on my computer nor in the device manager. I can start the fastboot protocol on my device by rebooting, but I also cannot find my device in ADB.
Thanks for the reply, but I am still very stuck.

are you sure your device is in fastboot ? did you reinstall the drivers, try with another usb cable, adb shoud see the device after the drivers were installed correctly ...
Sent from my MZ601 using xda app-developers app

ndanl said:
are you sure your device is in fastboot ? did you reinstall the drivers, try with another usb cable, adb shoud see the device after the drivers were installed correctly ...
Sent from my MZ601 using xda app-developers app
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I did everything I have done before. I have setup android sdk, java, and motorola drivers on two different PCs. Both fail to find my device when i type ADB devices nor does ADB reboot bootloader work. I tried the different cable, but that also did not work.

Hi,
I see that your problem is quite hard, try doing this:
1 - Force your tablet to shut down (vol+ + Power)
2 - Turn on while holding the vol- button
3 - Keep pressing vol-
4 - Plug on your PC and try fastboot devices, adb won't work!
5 - If 4 didn't work, keep trying until it does
6 - Install a Stock ROM (so you will solve your problems)
If the above don't work, contact me via PM, so we can talk easily (maybe GTalk or something like this). Good Luck
~XxLordxX
"This Story Ends Where It Began" - Octavarium (Dream Theater)

XxLordxX thank you!!!
I took your advice and just used fastboot. Then I flashed the stock rom I wanted to use. My xoom is back up and running. I really appreciate the tip.
Also thank you to everyone that responded in the post, again, that is why I love coming here.

demunted said:
Pretty impossible to brick XOOM's but i'll ask the basics. Can you get into recovery from a cold boot? Can you get into fastboot from a cold boot?
By the sounds of it you've just corrupted your rom or tried to re-unlock the device which would cause the entire sdcard partition to be erased.
Boot XOOM into Recovery, Fastboot, or RSD mode
So you need to get into Recovery to backup your XOOM (you do nandroid don't you?). Or perhaps you were working on creating new levels of awesome and something happend and you find yourself staring at the Motorola Dual Core boot screen with your XOOM refusing to boot any further. Fear not, you are only a few clicks away from finding your way back into recovery or fastboot goodness.
Turn your XOOM off
Press Power to turn your XOOM back on
When the Motorola Dual Core boot screen appears tap Volume Down repeatedly until "Android Recovery" is displayed
Press Volume Up to enter Recovery
You can also choose from Fastboot protocol support and RSD mode by using the same method but instead selecting their respective menu prompts.
Note:
If your XOOM is caught in bootloops or you find yourself stuck in RSD mode or Fastboot Protocol support you can hardware reboot your XOOM by pressing and holding Volume Up + Power until the tablet reboots (usually a few seconds but could be longer).
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I have this problem now but I don't know what to do. Please help me out

[Xperia M2][D2305] How to recover from bootloop after unlock bootloader

[Xperia M2][D2305][4.3] 18.0.A.1.30
XPERIA M2 Recovery from Brick and more...etc
u can only use this 2 item
Flash tool
http://www.flashtool.net/index.php
[Drivers] FlashTool Xperia Driver Pack (v1.5) [20140318]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2635830
D2305_18.0.A.1.30_Global Generic by Sai Arkar
https://mega.co.nz/#!tc4G0Ahb!5MQuH17IY5OwBE50Mlb5SzHBE1G04UOyGz6q9YipoYI
1.Download and install Flashtool on your PC.
2.Download the firmware you need (from the list below) and move it into the directory C:/Flashtool/firmwares
3.Open Flashtool, click on the lightning symbol ("flash device"), select "Flashmode" and click on "OK"
4.Just select the name of what you downloaded and click on "Flash"
5.Wait for a window to pop up (it may take a few minutes, be patient)
6.Now everything is ready: turn off your phone
7.Push the volume-down button, keep pushing and connect to your PC
8.Once the flashing process has started, release the volume rocker as soon as possible
9.NEVER disconnect the USB cable until it's finished!!!
10.Turn on and enjoy!
IMPORTANT:
if you are using Windows 8 you will need to enable few things to allow driver installation
If you are a Windows 8.1 user, you must see this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1MN8QZhnk
Please contact us if there is anything we can do.
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Phone will not switch on ...
Tried unlocking the boootloader following instructions from the Sony website,
after "sucessfully" unlocking the bootloader in flashboot mode the phone got stuck in a boot loop.
Eventually stopped the phone boot looping by pressing all the buttons at the same time, have now found out it is the two volume buttons and the power button, then the phone did not switch on at all, tried connecting and holding volume button etc, to USB but all that comes up in device manager is "unknown device" and the flash tool does not recognise it in any mode, found out that holding the power button down for five minutes reboots the phone. Then flashed with above firmware and ended up in another bootloop, holding the up volume and power button makes the phone vibrate once then three times, let go after one and then you can get into flashmode, this time I flashed the latest firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2762296 and it worked.

fonephreak said:
Tried unlocking the boootloader following instructions from the Sony website,
after "sucessfully" unlocking the bootloader in flashboot mode the phone got stuck in a boot loop.
Eventually stopped the phone boot looping by pressing all the buttons at the same time, have now found out it is the two volume buttons and the power button, then the phone did not switch on at all, tried connecting and holding volume button etc, to USB but all that comes up in device manager is "unknown device" and the flash tool does not recognise it in any mode, found out that holding the power button down for five minutes reboots the phone. Then flashed with above firmware and ended up in another bootloop, holding the up volume and power button makes the phone vibrate once then three times, let go after one and then you can get into flashmode, this time I flashed the latest firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2762296 and it worked.
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tried connecting and holding volume button etc, to USB but all that comes up in device manager is "unknown device" and the flash tool does not recognise it in any mode, found out that holding the power button down for five minutes reboots the phone.
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Did you read this? and tried it?
IMPORTANT:
if you are using Windows 8 you will need to enable few things to allow driver installation
If you are a Windows 8.1 user, you must see this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1MN8QZhnk
Then flashed with above firmware and ended up in another bootloop, holding the up volume and power button makes the phone vibrate once then three times, let go after one and then you can get into flashmode, this time I flashed the latest firmware from
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u can only use this listed item
Flash tool
[Drivers] FlashTool Xperia Driver Pack (v1.5) [20140318]
D2305_18.0.A.1.30_Global Generic by Sai Arkar←This FTF file is most important

Help please?
Hi man, I need your help urgently... I tried flashing kernel image to my Xperia M2 D2303, but I got impatient as recovery mode wasn't coming on and I did in in fastboot mode instead. Now it's stuck on boot loop and the screen only flashes. I can't get it to connect to my computer either, my computer just doesn't recognize it anymore. So, I can't flash anything on to it to recover it now either, and I tried putting files into my SD card to restore from but those files won't show when I try to download from zip using Clockwork Mod. What should I do?
Update
I tried to flash a custom rom into it, but even though I remember turning USB debugging on, it seems it's off. And plus, the drivers link you gave don't include the Xperia m2 drivers.

It would not connect to Flash modehttp://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.com/2/9/8/5/4/7/8/NewPicture002.jpg?key=xzdzp41r6BQtbbijWRPtQA&ts=1414307092

Could You please update link for :
"D2305_18.0.A.1.30_Global Generic by Sai Arkar"
can't download file, please help
Thank You