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Hi,
Not long ago I upgraded my phone over the air for the first time and installed android 2.3 and it was taking for ever and the phone died and the battery was taken a few times during the process. A few days after my started acting weird. Now its stuck on a reboot cycle. It will load, and it will be normal for a few seconds (max 20s) then it reboots again and it keeps going into that cycle.
I tried to go into recovery and perform a factory reset but the volume controls are not working. Please help because at the moment I don't have a phone.
Thanks!
Go to the forum specific to your phone model. You'd be helped quicker there. If there isn't one post your phones model here and you may need to flash to stock firmware with a tool made for your phone.
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Ohok. Thanks.
ITs BRIcked
how do i unbrick it?
try sending it in service.. although I guess you've already lost you warranty..
Yea. I bought my phone used off ebay. Please help because I really need a phone.
Its an HTC G2 slide if that helps.
please someone help!
yeah try sending it HTC service..but in my best guess they wont give warranty to an Ebay piece..
flash
Flash your filmware again.
here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107911
Isn't there some type of software I can use. Its an HTC G2/Desire Z.
robertberma said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107911
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Thanks, but I tried this process but when i type "adb devices" no devices are listed. And when I continue to try to run the adb command, it says devices not found.
robertberma said:
Flash your filmware again.
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That's right. Flash it again. Lately I tried to upgrade my friend's phone to gingerbread, but failed. It was bricked. But I flashed it again using newer odin 4.38, and now it's normal and upgraded to gingerbread.
sph21 said:
That's right. Flash it again. Lately I tried to upgrade my friend's phone to gingerbread, but failed. It was bricked. But I flashed it again using newer odin 4.38, and now it's normal and upgraded to gingerbread.
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i cant get into recovery mode. its frozen.
I don't know much about the g2 but can you boot into the bootloader? if so just flash a new recovery with fastboot. Then reflash your firmware in recovery.
I'm having the same problem with my LG Apex. Seems like there's no forums that help with "unbricking" my phone. I suppose it's a less popular model and doesn't have as much support. Last had Froyo 2.2.2 on it. Just using it to play around with/ learn about android and use the 802.11n @ the house. Didn't even have it a week before I started to have issues; then THIS happens. Anyway, hope someone can help me.
Hi all,
I am asking this question for a friend who is oversea. She have Motorola Droid 2 Global. Initially, she was using SBF 4.5.608 then she upgraded her phone to SBF 4.5.629. Everything works fine and dandy until she decided to downgrade it to 2.330 in order to wipe her phone and reset it. For some reason, the phone is bricked. She can't downgrade to any lower SBF version. She's getting error message upon boot. Charging doesn't seem to work either.
The error message that showed up is:
Bootloader
D2.35
err A50,70,70,00,1F
MEM_MAP Blank
Service Req'd
Battery OK
OK to program
Tranfer Mode: USB.
I am seeking tips and advices from the hive mind and hoping someone can help.
Thank you in advance.
-leapfrog
This is a known problem, threads all over various forums. Basically, until/unless the 4.5.629 SBF gets leaked, nothing can be done. Some people have been able to convince Verizon that the problem was caused by a bad update and get the phone replaced, and Motorola has reflashed it for some as well, but this seems to be on a case by case basis.
are you sure it says
Bootloader
D2.35
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D2G should say
Bootloader
D0.11
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looks like she has R2D2 or Droid 2 not D2G
same problem though, maybe, if she upgraded to 4.5.622.A957 not good
find out for sure what model number A957, A956, A955, or A953
I wrote some differences, it's not real precise or finishedThe Difference Between:
The Droid 2, Milestone2, R2D2,and the Droid 2 Global
I think she flashed wrong SBF, if so just flash correct one, should be fine
silver6054 said:
This is a known problem, threads all over various forums. Basically, until/unless the 4.5.629 SBF gets leaked, nothing can be done. Some people have been able to convince Verizon that the problem was caused by a bad update and get the phone replaced, and Motorola has reflashed it for some as well, but this seems to be on a case by case basis.
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Thanks, I guess it seemed many people have bricked their phone because Verizon decided to stop people from reversing back to older sbf.
sd_shadow said:
are you sure it says
D2G should say
looks like she has R2D2 or Droid 2 not D2G
same problem though, maybe, if she upgraded to 4.5.622.A957 not good
find out for sure what model number A957, A956, A955, or A953
I wrote some differences, it's not real precise or finishedThe Difference Between:
The Droid 2, Milestone2, R2D2,and the Droid 2 Global
I think she flashed wrong SBF, if so just flash correct one, should be fine
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I sent her the question. I think she tried different SBF and no luck so far.
Thanks!!!
i was gonna try the "bad update and send it into verizon" idea and get my phone replaced, since it doesnt come stock .629 . Thus problem solved??
yourdroidsir said:
i was gonna try the "bad update and send it into verizon" idea and get my phone replaced, since it doesnt come stock .629 . Thus problem solved??
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if you get a different phone, it should be on 2.4.33 if new, they may try to give you a refurbished
you are going to send it?
they can just flash 4.5.629 and send back to you
they have the SBF, just won't share
I successfully flashed to att ICS using Jim's method. Then I decided to roll back to 2.3.6 and used Jim's ICS back to 2.3.5 fxz fix zip file. The RSD stopped at 5/19 reboot bootloader for a long time and the screen was off. I hit the power button trying to turn on the screen without thinking. Then I realized that I was flashing! It was too late and I saw FAILED on RSD. My A2 cant turn on anymore. I did not unplug or pull the battery. Any help would be appreciate!
qtqt710 said:
I successfully flashed to att ICS using Jim's method. Then I decided to roll back to 2.3.6 and used Jim's ICS back to 2.3.5 fxz fix zip file. The RSD stopped at 5/19 reboot bootloader for a long time and the screen was off. I hit the power button trying to turn on the screen without thinking. Then I realized that I was flashing! It was too late and I saw FAILED on RSD. My A2 cant turn on anymore. I did not unplug or pull the battery. Any help would be appreciate!
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DId you replace ALL of the files and then point the RSD to the xml?
Can you boot into fastboot by holding power button and vol down.If can you just reflash it using rsd lite.Tell me more detail about your atrix 2 current rom and which version of rom you are flash with rsdlite.
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Exact same problem has occurred to me as well.
I did replaced the files Jim created to FXZ back to 2.3.6 from ICS
My Battery was fully charged at the time of flashing. Flashing stopped at 5/19 reboot bootloader for 15 mins then tried rebooting it manually but it didn't started.
Now I've tried everything but it is not even starting in Fastboot
Please help me with this, I don't want to start any new thread so posted my problem here.
EDIT: I think this is a common problem as the OP here also have the same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1781045
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1700775
I only flashed ICS when Jim confirmed that it was possible to revert back to 2..3.5
I think there is a problem in reverting back to 2.3.5 once applied ICS update and people should be aware of that.
Everyone should stop flashing ICS leaks otherwise they might end up bricking their phone forever.
100% same to me.
Up to ICS ok, back to Fxz with RSD and stuck at 5/19 reboot-bootloader step, I disconnected cable and phone black forever.
A lot of people they failed when flash with RSD but no problem, just take battery out and return, boot again to fastboot to re-flash. I think wrong file in Fxz not makes this problem, main cause I still don't know ! Maybe we are unlucky man ?
FXZ is not wrong one as I did used it when I had to flash back to stock from lithium Rom last week. I think phone is dead because it is not even booting into fastboot.. I've tried even booting to our stock recovery by pressing 3 buttons but no luck so far.
Its just very bad few hours back I was running ICS and now my phone is not even booting up.
OMG man!! I should have make a thread about this yesterday, but maybe nobody would of paid attention. I didn't really want this to happen to anyone, when flashing from 4.0.4 back to 2.3.5 it will get stuck at 5/20, something like that saying "rebooting loader". Now my phone with a blackscreen is getting hot when I insert the battery and when I plug it without a battery into my laptop or wallcharger and I dont have warranty. I call it white LED of death, when I plug it in to my laptop without a battery hehe , so I guess i'll be paying maybe 200$ dollar for it to be repaired, well if they repair it though, they charge so much here.. But i'm still trying to look what I can do, before I take it to a repair shop.
I heard about this problem when leak ICS for China/HK market 1 month ago, from xda man, and Jim he warned everybody here take care when coming back GB from ICS leak should make your phone bricked.
Now ATT ICS leak was released and all trusted Devs here confirmed that we can turn back to GB without problem, so I thought that it was safe to do with. Next day Jim posted new thread with new patch file. So sad ... I'm too late, we're too late ...
vinamilk said:
I heard about this problem when leak ICS for China/HK market 1 month ago, from xda man, and Jim he warned everybody here take care when coming back GB from ICS leak should make your phone bricked.
Now ATT ICS leak was released and all trusted Devs here confirmed that we can turn back to GB without problem, so I thought that it was safe to do with. Next day Jim posted new thread with new patch file. So sad ... I'm too late, we're too late ...
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I didn't even flashed ICS leak first day, I did it second day when Jim confirmed and uploaded a link for new replace files.
prasannapmv said:
I didn't even flashed ICS leak first day, I did it second day when Jim confirmed and uploaded a link for new replace files.
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So this is the point that I'm very confused, I think that even failed flashing phone still powered on normally : wrong boot.img --> just jamed at boot logo, wrong bootloader --> screen turn on and shows errors; need to be flashed again by RSD or script. Some man here even not flashed anything, just root then reboot and phone dead without any reason.
vinamilk said:
So this is the point that I'm very confused, I think that even failed flashing phone still powered on normally : wrong boot.img --> just jamed at boot logo, wrong bootloader --> screen turn on and shows errors; need to be flashed again by RSD or script. Some man here even not flashed anything, just root then reboot and phone dead without any reason.
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I guess it has something to do with our bootloader, maybe it's stuck or not even working.
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I guess it has something to do with our bootloader, maybe it's stuck or not even working.
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I just talked to a Motorola service person he was saying in some rare cases a inbuilt ROM(read only memory) chip which stores bootloader files gets corrupted and in that case it might not even be possible to boot into fastboot.
I don't know how far he is right but one ting we are sure that our hardware was perfectly ok before flashing FXZ.
For me I even made sure that my battery was fully charged before starting FXZ.
prasannapmv said:
I just talked to a Motorola service person he was saying in some rare cases a inbuilt ROM(read only memory) chip which stores bootloader files gets corrupted and in that case it might not even be possible to boot into fastboot.
I don't know how far he is right but one ting we are sure that our hardware was perfectly ok before flashing FXZ.
For me I even made sure that my battery was fully charged before starting FXZ.
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Same here I had like 90% battery or more, is you're phone becoming hot? When you plug it in or insert the battery?
darkmixta said:
Same here I had like 90% battery or more, is you're phone becoming hot? When you plug it in or insert the battery?
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yes its getting heated when connected to a wall socket or on a battery.
Did anyone upgrade RSDlite to 5.7 before trying this by any chace?
That might be an issue.
Also, this could be something that was introduced to later model phones. My a2 was able to fxz back, but it ws made in SEPT 2011. Just another thought.
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yes its getting heated when connected to a wall socket or on a battery.
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Hahaha, what should we do? Yesterday I felt like throwing my phone into the wall man and just %$#@ Motorola, this is like the biggest failure ever!! Hard bricked without doing something wrong.. Wish I could go back in time sometimes and I don't even have warranty which sucks, what are you gonna do?
Really hard to hard brick? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28324515&postcount=10
We hard bricked so easy..
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Did anyone upgrade RSDlite to 5.7 before trying this by any chace?
That might be an issue.
Also, this could be something that was introduced to later model phones. My a2 was able to fxz back, but it ws made in SEPT 2011. Just another thought.
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I was already using RSD 5.7
jimbridgman said:
Did anyone upgrade RSDlite to 5.7 before trying this by any chace?
That might be an issue.
Also, this could be something that was introduced to later model phones. My a2 was able to fxz back, but it ws made in SEPT 2011. Just another thought.
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I did not. It is 5.6. That may be the reason. I got my A2 from att in Nov 2011, so I guess it is the same earlier version, right?
To those with the issue, can you not get back into ap fast boot? Either hold both volume buttons down with power, then select it from the menu, or i have found that holding up with power will boot you right into fastboot.
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Fall of Enosis said:
To those with the issue, can you not get back into ap fast boot? Either hold both volume buttons down with power, then select it from the menu, or i have found that holding up with power will boot you right into fastboot.
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Nope they can not even power on anymore. This is what we all feared. The hk leak had this same thing in it...
Looks like moto will be warrantying a bunch of phones.
I am just not sure why I can still do it...
We have had way too many of these now for it to be user error or an accident.
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i just got my atrix 2 to replace my atrix 1 from bay...
the phone come with a ATT stock 2.3.5 rom but it wont update OTA...
my question...
can i rsd send the stock 2.3.5 flash to the phone and then try to update OTA?
i dont know what people before me has done to the phone so how safe i should go which rom?
thanx
htchd2fix said:
i just got my atrix 2 to replace my atrix 1 from bay...
the phone come with a ATT stock 2.3.5 rom but it wont update OTA...
my question...
can i rsd send the stock 2.3.5 flash to the phone and then try to update OTA?
i dont know what people before me has done to the phone so how safe i should go which rom?
thanx
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Yes you can use rsd lite to return to 100% stock and then try the ota..i recommend upgrading to leak 1 since you cant go back to gb if you update to ics ota
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devilhunter47 said:
Yes you can use rsd lite to return to 100% stock and then try the ota..i recommend upgrading to leak 1 since you cant go back to gb if you update to ics ota
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leak1 trough rsd flashing? after 2.3.5 stock?
ics leak as good support for webtop? or gb 2.3.6 better? thanx again
htchd2fix said:
leak1 trough rsd flashing? after 2.3.5 stock?
ics leak as good support for webtop? or gb 2.3.6 better? thanx again
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Just use the 2.3.6 FXZ through RSD lite. If you want good webtop then stay at 2.3.6, because webtop 3.0 is more like tablet mode and not ubuntu anymore.
Here is a link to get the 2.3.6 fxz:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/InlineFlashing_edison_5.5.175.25_cfc_p3_APBP.xml.zip
All of the FXZ files are here:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/list.php
If you really want to try ICS, then I would go for leak one from 2.3.6 just do not root or install anything while in 2.3.6.
Here are the instructions for that. Again though ICS does not have ubuntu for webtop, it is just android in tablet mode:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779968
If you like the ubuntu webtop and want to stay on 2.3.6, my hack works really well for unlocking the full potential of ubuntu webtop, that is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375042
jimbridgman said:
Just use the 2.3.6 FXZ through RSD lite. If you want good webtop then stay at 2.3.6, because webtop 3.0 is more like tablet mode and not ubuntu anymore.
Here is a link to get the 2.3.6 fxz:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/InlineFlashing_edison_5.5.175.25_cfc_p3_APBP.xml.zip
All of the FXZ files are here:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/list.php
If you really want to try ICS, then I would go for leak one from 2.3.6 just do not root or install anything while in 2.3.6.
Here are the instructions for that. Again though ICS does not have ubuntu for webtop, it is just android in tablet mode:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779968
If you like the ubuntu webtop and want to stay on 2.3.6, my hack works really well for unlocking the full potential of ubuntu webtop, that is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375042
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f..k
my phone it wont boot now...
boot failure..
what s the option/
thanx
htchd2fix said:
f..k
my phone it wont boot now...
boot failure..
what s the option/
thanx
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Are you sure you have an att branded phone? where did it fail in RSD lite, like which step?
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Are you sure you have an att branded phone? where did it fail in RSD lite, like which step?
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i'm not sure how to check that..it has the att logo on the glass bottom part and boots with att logo
.thanx for helping bytheway..
managed to recovery replacing the boot img as suggested in other post and rebbot fine ...
now im scare to touch it untill know what im doing ....
can i rsd 2.3.6 file that you posted now?
htchd2fix said:
i'm not sure how to check that..it has the att logo on the glass bottom part and boots with att logo
.thanx for helping bytheway..
managed to recovery replacing the boot img as suggested in other post and rebbot fine ...
now im scare to touch it untill know what im doing ....
can i rsd 2.3.6 file that you posted now?
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What do you mean you replaced the boot image? please give me a link to the thread you go that from... that is quite disturbing.
What I need you to do is to flash the 2.3.6 fxz file with RSD lite, and watch each step and make sure you get a PASS at the end, if not you might be failing in one of the steps, I think there are like 18 steps or something in the AT&T FXZ. I really need to know which step it is failing on, it should be something like step 3/18 or something like that... I really need to know that or if it goes all the way to the end and say PASS.
If you can grab a screen shot of the error or PASS that might also help as well.
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What do you mean you replaced the boot image? please give me a link to the thread you go that from... that is quite disturbing.
What I need you to do is to flash the 2.3.6 fxz file with RSD lite, and watch each step and make sure you get a PASS at the end, if not you might be failing in one of the steps, I think there are like 18 steps or something in the AT&T FXZ. I really need to know which step it is failing on, it should be something like step 3/18 or something like that... I really need to know that or if it goes all the way to the end and say PASS.
If you can grab a screen shot of the error or PASS that might also help as well.
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the replace of the boot img i did trough fastboot cmd and was able to recover and boot fine
then i replaced the recovery that was also corrupted same in fastboot
now the only thing i miss is the webtop
and still i want to go and update to 2.3.6
this is the tread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493386
htchd2fix said:
the replace of the boot img i did trough fastboot cmd and was able to recover and boot fine
then i replaced the recovery that was also corrupted same in fastboot
now the only thing i miss is the webtop
and still i want to go and update to 2.3.6
this is the tread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493386
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Yeah not the best idea. That ONLY should apply to NON-ATT phones, all you just did was put the 2.3.5 boot image on the 2.3.6 bad flash, you are still not whole. You may not be able to get this all right, after doing that, not easily at least... those instructions were out WAY before we had an official 2.3.6 FXZ, which is what you should be using.
I still need to know where RSD is failing, that is crucial to know what is happening.
From here on, if you want my help, DO NOT do anything unless I ask you to please!!! I am one the devs on this phone and our resident expert here. I am very meticulous, but I will get you back but you need to take this one step at a time, and do only what I ask and report back.
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Yeah not the best idea. That ONLY should apply to NON-ATT phones, all you just did was put the 2.3.5 boot image on the 2.3.6 bad flash, you are still not whole. You may not be able to get this all right, after doing that, not easily at least... those instructions were out WAY before we had an official 2.3.6 FXZ, which is what you should be using.
I still need to know where RSD is failing, that is crucial to know what is happening.
From here on, if you want my help, DO NOT do anything unless I ask you to please!!! I am one the devs on this phone and our resident expert here. I am very meticulous, but I will get you back but you need to take this one step at a time, and do only what I ask and report back.
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to late...white led...dead....
shiut i can after i recovered the phone the first time......now is gone.
i was applying the 2.3.6 from your link via rsd and fail to reboot bootloader and phone did not go on after that
thank you anyway
do as jim says, he knows his s••t
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htchd2fix said:
to late...white led...dead....
shiut i can after i recovered the phone the first time......now is gone.
i was applying the 2.3.6 from your link via rsd and fail to reboot bootloader and phone did not go on after that
thank you anyway
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Yeah unfortunately you are screwed, sorry to say. The white LED means it is dead, no bringing it back. That is why I was trying to figure where things were going wrong, rather than having you risk further issues.
You might be able to find an atrix2 with a broken screen cheap on ebay and just put the good motherboard from that in your phone, and get yourself back up and running, I have seen them for 50-100 USD on ebay. There are instructions on how to replace the screen in the general section.
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Yeah unfortunately you are screwed, sorry to say. The white LED means it is dead, no bringing it back. That is why I was trying to figure where things were going wrong, rather than having you risk further issues.
You might be able to find an atrix2 with a broken screen cheap on ebay and just put the good motherboard from that in your phone, and get yourself back up and running, I have seen them for 50-100 USD on ebay. There are instructions on how to replace the screen in the general section.
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motorolla is sending the phone repared or a new? i dont know i think a new one if this is cooked...
when they send back the other one i will be veeeeerrrry carefull.
thanx friend for all your help
htchd2fix said:
motorolla is sending the phone repared or a new? i dont know i think a new one if this is cooked...
when they send back the other one i will be veeeeerrrry carefull.
thanx friend for all your help
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Well, they will most likely send it back to you with a referb, and it WILL have the stock ICS on it, and you will NOT be able to get back on GB and use the ubuntu webtop.
jimbridgman said:
Well, they will most likely send it back to you with a referb, and it WILL have the stock ICS on it, and you will NOT be able to get back on GB and use the ubuntu webtop.
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well i know ...
i hate ics....the design is so poor.... GB much better style
may be as softaware some improvements but the style sucks....
not to talk about the webtop feature thats the only reason that push me to buy an atrix instead of a galaxy...
i only hope you guys will find a way to crack the bootloader....
thanx
Hello, I am sorry if I am hijacking this thread but that is not my intention. I have a similar situation here that I need help with. I just bought a used Atrix 2 yesterday and I am unable to use that.
It is running the following:
Android Version: 2.3.5
System Version: 55.11.11.MB865.ATT.en.US
Build Number: 5.5.1-175_EDFFW1-11
It was in factory reset after mode so i followed the instruction to register with google and my gmail added. But when go to contacts, it keep rotating to open AT&T address book and never comes out of it. So I cannot use my google contacts and has to dial the numbers every time (sucks). Secondly, I called AT&T about the address book problem and was told that is not their problem and asked me to update the Android. I tried updating endlessly but the phone always says 'The software is upto date and no update is necessary!" really?
I called at&t again w/o much success. Then I called Motorola and was told that the phone is running a strange unofficial (really, again?) android version that they cannot help either.
I did confirm the phone is not rooted.
Now, I have a beautiful looking phone that i cannot use. I am not familiar with rooting and all sorta things and can you please help me so i can use this phone?
Thanks a ton.
jsknair said:
Hello, I am sorry if I am hijacking this thread but that is not my intention. I have a similar situation here that I need help with. I just bought a used Atrix 2 yesterday and I am unable to use that.
It is running the following:
Android Version: 2.3.5
System Version: 55.11.11.MB865.ATT.en.US
Build Number: 5.5.1-175_EDFFW1-11
It was in factory reset after mode so i followed the instruction to register with google and my gmail added. But when go to contacts, it keep rotating to open AT&T address book and never comes out of it. So I cannot use my google contacts and has to dial the numbers every time (sucks). Secondly, I called AT&T about the address book problem and was told that is not their problem and asked me to update the Android. I tried updating endlessly but the phone always says 'The software is upto date and no update is necessary!" really?
I called at&t again w/o much success. Then I called Motorola and was told that the phone is running a strange unofficial (really, again?) android version that they cannot help either.
I did confirm the phone is not rooted.
Now, I have a beautiful looking phone that i cannot use. I am not familiar with rooting and all sorta things and can you please help me so i can use this phone?
Thanks a ton.
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root the phone and remove all the att blotware...
doing this will remove att address book serch.....
Hello, I'm new to these forums and I have tried to find a helpful answer to my issue but cannot, so here it goes. I have an Atrix 2 thats running Android 2.3.6, the phone was rooted with SuperOneClick last year. I updated to 2.3.6 OTA and had no problems at all. The ICS update is out I cannot get it OTA. I can download the update then the phone restarts, it appears to start installing but then stops and a triangle with "!" appears and the phone restarts. Once the phone restarts it says "Update Failed".
I have seen several others with the same issue but I do not understand how to fix it. And I am not sure if my stock ROM has been modified either.
I would greatly appreciate some help, I don't understand what I've done wrong here, Motorola says its because the phone is rooted, I've un-rooted it with no luck...
godfella691981 said:
Hello, I'm new to these forums and I have tried to find a helpful answer to my issue but cannot, so here it goes. I have an Atrix 2 thats running Android 2.3.6, the phone was rooted with SuperOneClick last year. I updated to 2.3.6 OTA and had no problems at all. The ICS update is out I cannot get it OTA. I can download the update then the phone restarts, it appears to start installing but then stops and a triangle with "!" appears and the phone restarts. Once the phone restarts it says "Update Failed".
I have seen several others with the same issue but I do not understand how to fix it. And I am not sure if my stock ROM has been modified either.
I would greatly appreciate some help, I don't understand what I've done wrong here, Motorola says its because the phone is rooted, I've un-rooted it with no luck...
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usually updates fail when bloatware or some other stock apps are removed. I believe the best way to get ICS on your phone is by flashing FXZ. But first we need more info about your Atrix 2. Is it an AT&T branded one?
Waiting4MyAndroid said:
usually updates fail when bloatware or some other stock apps are removed. I believe the best way to get ICS on your phone is by flashing FXZ. But first we need more info about your Atrix 2. Is it an AT&T branded one?
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Ya im in the same boat, im running on at&t. I heard u need to flash back to 2.1.1 or someghing like that. If thats the case where could I get the stock rom to do so? Also could I use odin to achieve this?
Thanks in advance.
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JLloydMedia said:
Ya im in the same boat, im running on at&t. I heard u need to flash back to 2.1.1 or someghing like that. If thats the case where could I get the stock rom to do so? Also could I use odin to achieve this?
Thanks in advance.
"Jebus save me!" - H.S
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You do NOT use odin on moto phones.
Please take a look here, it will explain all of the ins and outs that you need to know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
Updating to ICS on an AT&T phone even without the bloatware is very easy, just flash the ICS FXZ for AT&T, using the latest version of RSD lite.
AT&T ICS FXZ:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/InlineFlashing_Edison_67.21.125_CFC_P3_APBP.xml.zip
You will need to find RSD lite from moto on your own though, as it has been posted in the dev section a few times, and we do not usually link to the moto site since they are like nazi's over there about XDA.
jimbridgman said:
You do NOT use odin on moto phones.
Please take a look here, it will explain all of the ins and outs that you need to know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
Updating to ICS on an AT&T phone even without the bloatware is very easy, just flash the ICS FXZ for AT&T, using the latest version of RSD lite.
AT&T ICS FXZ:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/edison/InlineFlashing_Edison_67.21.125_CFC_P3_APBP.xml.zip
You will need to find RSD lite from moto on your own though, as it has been posted in the dev section a few times, and we do not usually link to the moto site since they are like nazi's over there about XDA.
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Agreed on the Mot-azi. Im banning them after my next upgrade. A bunch of pigs they are.
On a much more positive note, thank you for making it easy. Ive been away from the android community for the last few years, but man has it grown! Im lovin it. Now only if we could get some better suport from the big app companies.
Has ubuntu ever been attempted in the atrix 2? Now that would be marvelous!
"Jebus save me!" - H.S
JLloydMedia said:
Agreed on the Mot-azi. Im banning them after my next upgrade. A bunch of pigs they are.
On a much more positive note, thank you for making it easy. Ive been away from the android community for the last few years, but man has it grown! Im lovin it. Now only if we could get some better suport from the big app companies.
Has ubuntu ever been attempted in the atrix 2? Now that would be marvelous!
"Jebus save me!" - H.S
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I have it running on my "dev phone" (Galaxy Nexus) right now, and it is nice, but a ton of things are not working yet, so I would not advise trying out just yet. I will try and get it working for the A2 in time, but a few things need be addressed first, mainly that it takes 500+MB of /system space, and the A2 is limited to 475MB in /system, so.... in getting it working, it is a meld between CM10.1 and the ubuntu UI on top of the CM 10.1 device files and drivers, but... to get the 100% real thing ported, will probably not be possible since the a2 has a locked bootloader, and the boot.img is very important to the ubuntu phone os, so.... we will see as time goes on, if I and others in here can get working on the a2 in at least the hybrid with cm10.1 format.
Also you do know that the webtop included with the A2 in 2.3 is ubuntu, right? I have a hack to get all the ubuntu stuff running in webtop, if that is something you might be interested in, but it does not work in ICS. That is why I stayed on leak 1 and never went to the official ICS version, so I could go back to GB for webtop when needed.
My webtop ubuntu hack for 2.3.5/6:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375042
godfella691981 said:
Hello, I'm new to these forums and I have tried to find a helpful answer to my issue but cannot, so here it goes. I have an Atrix 2 thats running Android 2.3.6, the phone was rooted with SuperOneClick last year. I updated to 2.3.6 OTA and had no problems at all. The ICS update is out I cannot get it OTA. I can download the update then the phone restarts, it appears to start installing but then stops and a triangle with "!" appears and the phone restarts. Once the phone restarts it says "Update Failed".
I have seen several others with the same issue but I do not understand how to fix it. And I am not sure if my stock ROM has been modified either.
I would greatly appreciate some help, I don't understand what I've done wrong here, Motorola says its because the phone is rooted, I've un-rooted it with no luck...
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I updated mine the day it came out and I had a terrible time with it. The FXZ was not available at the time so I had ATT give me replacement phone. I used 2.3.6 for a little while, then I updated it again. This time though I did a factory reset before updating and everything went great. So I'd recommend doing a factory reset before updating and maybe you will have better luck. Or do as Jim suggested and flash the update yourself with RSDLite.
Waiting4MyAndroid said:
usually updates fail when bloatware or some other stock apps are removed. I believe the best way to get ICS on your phone is by flashing FXZ. But first we need more info about your Atrix 2. Is it an AT&T branded one?
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Yes mine is ATT branded and yes I have removed all the att bloatware with Root Uninstaller once I rooted it.
I honestly don't care what pigs motorola are, I just asked about getting my phone to ICS because I keep getting the update failed message.
jimbridgman> I got RSD lite already and I clicked on the link you provided for the ICS FXZ so how do I apply this?
dmroeder said:
I updated mine the day it came out and I had a terrible time with it. The FXZ was not available at the time so I had ATT give me replacement phone. I used 2.3.6 for a little while, then I updated it again. This time though I did a factory reset before updating and everything went great. So I'd recommend doing a factory reset before updating and maybe you will have better luck. Or do as Jim suggested and flash the update yourself with RSDLite.
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Yeah, I have already done a factory reset. Still can't get the OTA update to work. So my only option looks like I need to flash it myself.
One other thing that's completely off subject, One thing I don't like about this forum there are too many restrictions regarding spam...although I understand it needs to be completely filtered and not allowed the admins have too many restrictions on this forum. Why should there be a restriction were a new user has to wait 5 minutes between posts? That makes absolutely no since. (BTW thanks to the admins for the 5 minutes between posts I had to kill, I got to mention this)
godfella691981 said:
I got RSD lite already and I clicked on the link you provided for the ICS FXZ so how do I apply this?
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Here's some good tutorials on flashing an fxz as well as other useful information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1909319
And here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
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1BadWolf said:
Here's some good tutorials on flashing an fxz as well as other useful information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1909319
And here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
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So when I run RSDlite and apply the fxz the phone will have ICS on it afterwords?
godfella691981 said:
So when I run RSDlite and apply the fxz the phone will have ICS on it afterwords?
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As long as it's an ICS FXZ, then yes.
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I guess you did some tweaks with it like installing CWM. You remove it and files associated with it, you can take update OTA with no probs (i was through it and finally could take the update like a noob ). An fxz would be a much easier choice.
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As long as it's an ICS FXZ, then yes.
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Yea, so I finally got around to trying to flash my phone, well when I put the phone in boot loader mode and connect it to my computer it tries to install a driver called "Edison S" it says installation failed everytime, I've updated my motorola drivers reset my computer and everything I do not understand whats going wrong.
godfella691981 said:
Yea, so I finally got around to trying to flash my phone, well when I put the phone in boot loader mode and connect it to my computer it tries to install a driver called "Edison S" it says installation failed everytime, I've updated my motorola drivers reset my computer and everything I do not understand whats going wrong.
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Is RSD lite showing your phone as connected?
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1BadWolf said:
Is RSD lite showing your phone as connected?
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No, RSD is not showing its connected. This error occurs before I even open RSD lite, I have tried opening RSD and then connecting the phone still windows keeps looking for drivers that it never finds.
jimbridgman said:
I have it running on my "dev phone" (Galaxy Nexus) right now, and it is nice, but a ton of things are not working yet, so I would not advise trying out just yet. I will try and get it working for the A2 in time, but a few things need be addressed first, mainly that it takes 500+MB of /system space, and the A2 is limited to 475MB in /system, so.... in getting it working, it is a meld between CM10.1 and the ubuntu UI on top of the CM 10.1 device files and drivers, but... to get the 100% real thing ported, will probably not be possible since the a2 has a locked bootloader, and the boot.img is very important to the ubuntu phone os, so.... we will see as time goes on, if I and others in here can get working on the a2 in at least the hybrid with cm10.1 format.
Also you do know that the webtop included with the A2 in 2.3 is ubuntu, right? I have a hack to get all the ubuntu stuff running in webtop, if that is something you might be interested in, but it does not work in ICS. That is why I stayed on leak 1 and never went to the official ICS version, so I could go back to GB for webtop when needed.
My webtop ubuntu hack for 2.3.5/6:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375042
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Hallelujah..will wait earnestly for it!!
godfella691981 said:
No, RSD is not showing its connected. This error occurs before I even open RSD lite, I have tried opening RSD and then connecting the phone still windows keeps looking for drivers that it never finds.
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Maybe uninstall/reinstall the Moto drivers. Also, which version of RSD lite are you using? I think 6 or greater is recommended.
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