Hi all
I'm new to the Razr HD, XT925 and this is my first Motorola device, so I have some questions:
First: How exactly works rooting and unlocking the phone? Is it possible without loosing warranty?
Second: after update from 4.0.4 to 4.1.2 is Android OS draining the battery and is preventing my phone from sleep. Can a format data fix this?
Thanks for your help
MrToastbrot
Sent from my XT925
You can root and run Safestrap without voiding warranty, as long as you are able to revert to stock if you ever need to send in for repair. Unlocking the bootloader will void the warranty because you have to do it through Motorola.
If I were you, I would do a factory reset because a clean wipe is always a good way to start a new version of Android. The built in battery stats does not really reveal much in what is actaully draining the battery. Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Read the first three pages fully so you can understand how Better Battery Stats works. If you are still having drain after a wipe, chances are you have battery-hoggin apps. You can do a dump of a log there and people will help you narrow down the cause(s).
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just use the one click root tool by kennethpenn, work perfectly thanks. use titanium back to do a backup of all the app and system then took out all the att bloatware. i have few questions at this point.
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will i be able to get OTA updates from att? what will happen to all the bloatware that i deleted? would they appear again?
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what happens if i do a factory reset on the phone? would i brick the phone? under normal condition that will erase all apps i installed and return it to factory setting, that means all the att bloatware will be back? will i lost root?
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what other things i can do after i root the phone at this point?
thank you for your help
no one can help me with those questions??? anyone???
i am sure a lot of people have the same question.
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will i be able to get OTA updates from att? what will happen to all the bloatware that i deleted? would they appear again?
I'm not 100% sure on this, but as long as you're running an actual AT&T ROM (not an Asian or Rogers ROM), you'll be notified of the OTA's. Now, if you're not using the stock Recovery image (that is, if you've installed CWM Recovery), you won't be able to apply the update. OTA updates get applied via the stock Recovery image.
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what happens if i do a factory reset on the phone? would i brick the phone? under normal condition that will erase all apps i installed and return it to factory setting, that means all the att bloatware will be back? will i lost root?
If you do a factory reset from CWM or within the phone's UI, you're fine. Root will remain in place, and you won't brick it. It just clears the user data from the phone, and should leave "sdcard" intact. However, I'm not 100% sure what happens if you do a factory reset from the bootloader. So just don't do it that way, unless someone else can confirm that it's okay.
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what other things i can do after i root the phone at this point?
You ca use apps like AutoKiller to change your memory management, for one. That's about all I'm doing with root right now. If we ever get custom kernels, you'll be able to overclock your CPU. If you search the Play Store for "root," you'd doubtlessly find some other root apps that you may be interested in.
Hope this helps!
Don't ever ever ever install an OTA on any rooted Android device. At the least, it won't work anyway, or you will lose root. At the worst, you will be stuck in a bootloop. Updated ROMs (based on the OTA's, but rooted, and safe to flash) usually get posted in Development soon after the OTA's go out. That is what you want to install.
craig0r said:
However, I'm not 100% sure what happens if you do a factory reset from the bootloader. So just don't do it that way, unless someone else can confirm that it's okay.
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I can confirm that it's OK. My phone was rooted and stuck in a boot loop. I did a factory reset. It was reset and still rooted after the fact. So you can do it.
thank you all
redpoint73 said:
Don't ever ever ever install an OTA on any rooted Android device. At the least, it won't work anyway, or you will lose root. At the worst, you will be stuck in a bootloop. Updated ROMs (based on the OTA's, but rooted, and safe to flash) usually get posted in Development soon after the OTA's go out. That is what you want to install.
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Just to clarify, pre-rooted versions of the official ROMs (which often get posted on XDA, as I mentioned) may need unlocked bootloader to install, so this will possibly not be an option for a while. Although there may be alternate safe ways to update (but not OTA). For instance, a leaked 1.83 firmware version is already available as an RUU in the Development subforum. Apparently, its okay to install via RUU, then re-root.
In general, the safe thing to do is to read up on here when updates are released, and see if there is a safe way to update on a rooted phone.
Hi All,
My Xoom had worked normally but since few days ago, it could not hold charging anymore.
Xoom will be on as long as it's connected to power charger (battery indicator always showed 82% but not increase or decrease) and will switch off immediately if i unplug the charger. By the way the Xoom date and time was also changed back to 1970s.
I have tried to delete the batterystats.bin and refreshed it. Also try to use "Battery calibration" software but not thing change.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
A bit more information would be nice...
That's unfortunate.
It might be worth putting up some more information about your device, it might help other people help you...
It might be worth mentioning if your xoom is rooted. if it's bootloader is unlocked or not, the rom/kernel you are running, and of course, the model of your xoom.
Have you tried factory resetting the tablet? Back up your data if you do that..
If your device is rooted with an unlocked bootloader, you could also try flashing or re-flashing a rom. Perhaps something went wrong and a fresh start might be required. Switching to a different rom though might require a full data wipe. Luckily, if you were using TitaniumBackup, that wouldn't be too much of an issue.
I am not responsible for what happens because of my advice..
EDIT: If all else fails you could also go to http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/ and download the images for your xoom, and flash them through fastboot, if your xoom's bootloader is unlocked. I have never tried it with a locked bootloader, so I cant guarantee it working in that case. Anyways, following all the steps should completely return your xoom back to factory condition.
As mentioned. Root it. Get custom rom, EOS nightlies recommended.
Factory reset.
Thru recovery, Wipe cache. Wipe dalvik. Wipe battery stats. Flash rom, and gapps. Then reboot. Set date and time and google account and then try.
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Recently I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp and succesfully rooted my device, but while I was tinkering with my device I accidentally wipe all data, partition, etc in TWRP now I guess I wiped out everything including OS !!!
How can I restore ? Do I need to flash new hammerhead image ?
Right now I'm following this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
It'll be great if anyone of you can point me right way.
You can just flash any custom rom using this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575150
Or
Follow the thread you posted to restore a factory image..
But restoring a factory image will unroot your device..
You have twrp so the first thing you did was make a nandroid, right? Live and learn.
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
Huh? You're doing an RMA why?
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albertpaulp said:
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
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Why are you rma'ing it. Was wifi messed up before you erased everything?
jd1639 said:
Why are you rma'ing it. Was wifi messed up before you erased everything?
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Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586410
jd1639 said:
You have twrp so the first thing you did was make a nandroid, right? Live and learn.
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Awesome advice. I made a nandroid of my N5 first thing after getting all my apps straight. Playing with flashing a rom in TWRP I did a manual "wipe data" which proceded to wipe out the entire SDCARD in the process including my nandroid. Sooooo.... Yes, make a nandroid but also back it up to your computer or dropbox right away.
albertpaulp said:
Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586410
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Don't RMA it, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. All you have to do is reflash the factory image. If you didn't know what you were doing, you shouldn't have been messing around with your phone in the first place. Reflash your phone back to its factory state and next time do your homework before you start tinkering. People like you are going to cause Google to change their return policy so that returns are much more heavily scrutinized.
BirchBarlow said:
Don't RMA it, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. All you have to do is reflash the factory image. If you didn't know what you were doing, you shouldn't have been messing around with your phone in the first place. Reflash your phone back to its factory state and next time do your homework before you start tinkering. People like you are going to cause Google to change their return policy so that returns are much more heavily scrutinized.
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Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
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You know how to read right ? also I did reflashed to stock image and unrooted + locked bootloader but problem persists, what do you propose I do now ? I started loving my phone now I'm getting new one, it's hard for me too, it's like adopting a son.
My rooted 4.4 Droid Maxx is acting up - Huge Android OS battery drain.
If I factory restore the phone, does it maintain root?
What happens to the wifi tether tweak from this forum - would I have to reapply it?
Thanks
HOM ( House of Moto ) Save data. Tread carefully though ! Sam expects you to read the instructions at least 3x and if you bork your phone and he feels you haven't he's going to drag it out and make an example of you. Other than that its the tool your looking for
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/forum/138-samurihls-house-of-moto/
People say wiping cache partition fixes this issue, so go ahead and do it.
LeoBloom. said:
My rooted 4.4 Droid Maxx is acting up - Huge Android OS battery drain.
If I factory restore the phone, does it maintain root?
What happens to the wifi tether tweak from this forum - would I have to reapply it?
Thanks
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To answer your question a restore will wipe root and the tether mod.
I am facing issues ranging from, dark text on dark search bar to random app slowdown. System slowdown, random app freezes, and really poor gaming performance. I have no idea how to fix them, and I could use some help in doing so. The battery backup has also taken a huge hit.
Thanks in advance.
ach4825 said:
I am facing issues ranging from, dark text on dark search bar to random app slowdown. System slowdown, random app freezes, and really poor gaming performance. I have no idea how to fix them, and I could use some help in doing so. The battery backup has also taken a huge hit.
Thanks in advance.
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Are you bootloader unlocked? If so, do a full factory install leaving the -w in place to factory reset the phone. Use the newest "c3" build. If you have a locked bootloader, then do a factory reset in recovery. If you are on a locked BL, I will assume you already have the c3 update. If for some reason you don't, you can sideload the OTA.
No my bootloader is not unlocked
My bootloader is not unlocked, and I am not very well versed with all the steps to unlock bootlader, So don't really want to take a risk, is there any way to fix the issues without having to tamper with the bootlaoder and factory settings?
ach4825 said:
My bootloader is not unlocked, and I am not very well versed with all the steps to unlock bootlader, So don't really want to take a risk, is there any way to fix the issues without having to tamper with the bootlaoder and factory settings?
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Without very detailed listing of issues, not really. I assume you got an OTA which left user space in place. I think your best bet is to factory reset your phone and start clean. That will leave you on your current version but with a clean space to monitor issues as they arise (if they do).