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When the ota hit my droid 2, I couldn't update because I deleted all those stupid apps like vznav, blockbuster, amazon mp3, etc and couldn't upgrade without reverting my cell to stock. I hear that if you have a rooted droid 2 with just some rooted apps and haven't deleted anything, you can use the ota or skip reinstalling 2.2.20.
I understand this is a common issue right now so here is how I did it successfully.
First Download these files as they are ABSOLUTELY necessary.
Motorola drivers for omap 3630
RSD lite 4.7 & patch (4.8 and 4.9 didnt detect the device on my pc)
2.2.20 firmware (stock at launch)
2.3.20 firmware (latest)
2. Install RSDLite by double clicking the RSD Lite.msi file you just downloaded.
3. Once RSD Lite is installed, copy the pst_flash.ini file you downloaded with the RSD Lite install file and paste it into C:\Program Files (x86)\Motorola\RSD Lite OR C:\Program Files\Motorola\RSD Lite depending on where your computer put it when installing. Allow it to overwrite the existing pst_flash.ini file.
3. Unzip the drivers folder you downloaded (32 bit OR 64 bit), then double click the Motorola Consumer Driver Installer application and install the drivers.
4. Plug in your phone to the computer via USB cable and pull down the notification bar and choose USB connection as PC Mode.
5. Open the RSDLite program by right clicking it and selecting Run As Administrator.
6. Click on the “…” button next to the filename box and select the DROID2_X6_2.2.20_SHADOW_BP_C_01.09.05P_P2_USERBLD_SECURE.sbf file you downloaded earlier.
7. Once it is selected, hit Start and wait for it to finish flashing the phone.
8. Once it is done, click on the “…” button next to the filename box again and this time select the BL_D235_cdma_droid2_Consumer_replacer_HSPart.sbf file you downloaded earlier.
9. Once it is selected, hit Start and wait for it to finish flashing the phone.
10. Once both have been flashed, your are back to the stock Android 2.2 firmware.
11. Load in recovery mode and reset to factory default.
You can either upgrade now over the air or you can load the sbf for 2.3.20.
1. Plug in your phone to the computer via USB cable and pull down the notification bar and choose USB connection as PC Mode.
2. Open the RSDLite program by right clicking it and selecting Run As Administrator.
3. Click on the “…” button next to the filename box and select the VRZ_A955_2.3.20_1FF_01.sbf file you downloaded earlier.
4. Once it is selected, hit Start and wait for it to finish flashing the phone.
5. Bam you have 2.3.20, now you can do a recovery factory reset and do your thing.
From what I have seen on the web, you can't use this sbf if you installed the OTA cause it will brick your phone but you can reflash this sbf if you upgraded using this sbf.
I do not know if you can just take your rooted phone with deleted apps and flash the 2.3.20 over your current 2.2.20. I do know the process I used worked without a hitch.
Edit: Hey guys, after the patch I noticed bad battery life and my battery monitor wouldn't open. Apparently you will need to boot into recovery and wipe the cache partition. All the links work.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up ! Much appreciated =)
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so does this mean if i'm on 2.3.20 and want to go back to stock( and reflash to 2.3.20 is impossible??.... I'm doing this because i went directly from fission 1.2.1(stock band) to 2.3.20 and just want to make sure whether i have the latest kernels
This isn't entirely correct. If you use the 2.3.20 FULL FLASH SBF, you do not need to restore back to 2.2.20, or reinstall any missing applications. The full flash is the entire stock sytem, as well as the bootloader and the kernel. So you can start from any D2 on any previous firmware with any modifications (removing apps, installing custom ROMs, etc) and if you hook it up to RSD and use the most recent full flash it will restore you back to stock on the newest kernel/baseband and restore all missing applications, everything. The full stock flash will take you back to stock regardless of the state of your D2, including if it is bricked and stuck at bootloader. The extra steps are not needed
Also, RSD 4.8 and 4.9 do work, provided you have the latest motorola moto connect drivers installed. If you are having connection issues with RSD put the phone in bootloader mode (not recovery) before you connect it to the PC.
You were correct in stating that you can not receive or apply the OTA by itself without having the original system with all pre-installed apps intact.
is there a way to go from 2.3 to 2.2, like the original kernel and radio, baseband that most people were running like a month ago. im trying to sbf form 2.3 to the older one and i keep getting errors is there any way i can go back?
Not currently. The bootloader has been updated and will no longer accept the old kernel.
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zibrah3ed said:
Not currently. The bootloader has been updated and will no longer accept the old kernel.
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Thanks for the reply. now i can stop trying lol, it was driving me crazy.
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This isn't entirely correct. If you use the 2.3.20 FULL FLASH SBF, you do not need to restore back to 2.2.20, or reinstall any missing applications. The full flash is the entire stock sytem, as well as the bootloader and the kernel. So you can start from any D2 on any previous firmware with any modifications (removing apps, installing custom ROMs, etc) and if you hook it up to RSD and use the most recent full flash it will restore you back to stock on the newest kernel/baseband and restore all missing applications, everything. The full stock flash will take you back to stock regardless of the state of your D2, including if it is bricked and stuck at bootloader. The extra steps are not needed
Also, RSD 4.8 and 4.9 do work, provided you have the latest motorola moto connect drivers installed. If you are having connection issues with RSD put the phone in bootloader mode (not recovery) before you connect it to the PC.
You were correct in stating that you can not receive or apply the OTA by itself without having the original system with all pre-installed apps intact.
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I gotcha, well it works exactly as stated so it was safe and is safe to do it the way I flashed. I will edit the sticky though to remove irrelevant info. Also reflashing the 2.3.20 sbf after flashing once yielded no errors. I'll edit the op.
Well I ran into big problems. I had 2.2.20 and wanted to sbf to 2.3.2 and it worked all the way up to downloading ram to bootloader and froze and got stuck and I sbfd back to 2.2.20 with no errors. Now my phone says the system is 2.3.2 but the baseband is still .05 and I tired to flash sbf to 2.2.0 today and I got the same downloading ram to bootloader and now I can't get even 2.2.20 to run on the phone. With this being said I got stuck on the bootloader screen(told me there were some errors and battery okay and plug in usb) so I figured id try to sbf to 2.3.2 and it came up with the same error of "downloading ram to bootloader and froze" and the phone restarted but now the M showed back up and is running normal now with the system 2.3.2 but still old baseband so idk what went wrong and why it wont let me get past downloading ram to bootloader. What's wrong because I've tried several times now and I just want the new baseband and bootloader. Please help me
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you cant downgrade from 2.3.20 to 2.2.20 because of the updated bootloader. What OS are you using? What rds are you using? did you copy over the fix into the rds directory? You may have bricked your phone by tryin to downgrade =(. Have you tried loading your phone into recovery?
JonandRoid said:
Well I ran into big problems. I had 2.2.20 and wanted to sbf to 2.3.2 and it worked all the way up to downloading ram to bootloader and froze and got stuck and I sbfd back to 2.2.20 with no errors. Now my phone says the system is 2.3.2 but the baseband is still .05 and I tired to flash sbf to 2.2.0 today and I got the same downloading ram to bootloader and now I can't get even 2.2.20 to run on the phone. With this being said I got stuck on the bootloader screen(told me there were some errors and battery okay and plug in usb) so I figured id try to sbf to 2.3.2 and it came up with the same error of "downloading ram to bootloader and froze" and the phone restarted but now the M showed back up and is running normal now with the system 2.3.2 but still old baseband so idk what went wrong and why it wont let me get past downloading ram to bootloader. What's wrong because I've tried several times now and I just want the new baseband and bootloader. Please help me
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Make sure you use the FULL FLASH and not the system only file
Renegade8100 said:
you cant downgrade from 2.3.20 to 2.2.20 because of the updated bootloader. What OS are you using? What rds are you using? did you copy over the fix into the rds directory? You may have bricked your phone by tryin to downgrade =(. Have you tried loading your phone into recovery?
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Im using RDS 4.9 there was no inf files that came with .9 so idk what you're talking about. I know 4.7 required a patch but idk if the new ones require it. I have fission 2.0.1 and my phone didn't brick because I have it up and running right now but I still don't have the new baseband mine is still .05...
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I still don't have the new baseband mine is still .05.
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There's a tutorial on my "[TOOL] Ubuntu livecd" thread on how to update the baseband only, after flashing 2.3.2. Just go to the bottom of the OP and it will all be there. (I'd quote it but I'm on my D2 not my computer)
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No files
Hey thanks for the Tutorail. Looks like the 2.3 Update is no longer being hosted. Can you point me in another safe location.
ameggs said:
Hey thanks for the Tutorail. Looks like the 2.3 Update is no longer being hosted. Can you point me in another safe location.
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This should help you out.
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...rld-present-droid-2-2-3-20-triple-threat.html
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Hey thanks for the Tutorail. Looks like the 2.3 Update is no longer being hosted. Can you point me in another safe location.
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The update file in my tut still works for me. Update.zip
All the links should work. I just uploaded the 2.2.20 to include the drivers and rsdlite
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Make sure you use the FULL FLASH and not the system only file
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FYI, I did the full flash for 2.3.20 because the automatic update kept failing. Not sure why it didn't work - I had rooted the Droid2, "removed" a few annoying apps by renaming the adk and odec files to .bak. I unrooted it and tried the auto update again but it failed. Not sure what was making it fail, but rather than put all the apps back and try letting the phone do its thing, I used the method above - just using RDS Lite to flash to 2.3.20 without doing the previous steps.
It worked fine, but I had to dial *22899 to re-activate the phone afterward.
So far so good, but I'm not sure that rooting the phone and messing around with it, to the tune of a few good hours of my life, was worth a little bit of battery life, especially considering the 2.3.20 is supposed to fix the two problems I had with the Droid, namely poor battery life and email sync problems after inactivity.
thanks for the how-to! i flashed straight over from a rooted 2.2 phone to the new version as well.
i did experience force closes on the battery monitor as well, and clearing the cache did not fix that. i cleared, rebooted, and when it still didnt work, i flashed the phone once more and all is well. did not need to clear cache a second time. im a rookie still at all this, so bear with me if my reply seems obvious- or doesnt make sense.
i also had to reactivate the phone with the *# referenced above.
thanks again!
Had no problems updating from 2.2 to 2.3 using only the 2.3 SBF. Worked great and kept all other settings intact.
To fix the battery monitor force closing issue; just plug your phone into the charger while it's on! Fixed the issue right up for me!
Hello,
I want to get root on my current stock android 4.1.1 on my Nexus S without data loss to backup the wifi settings.
I could only find this exploit for 4.1.1, which doesn't work for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
Can anybody help me by pointing out a current exploit for stock 4.1.1 on Nexus S?
I've unlocked the bootloader now and stored the wifi settings on google servers, which worked, but it also restored some other things I wanted to get rid off. Now I would like to become root on my device with the current stock system to save only the wifi settings (e.g. with titanium backup) and install cm 10 later.
Now I've flashed clockworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.0 on my device as described in cyanogen wiki. I've found this guide for rooting the stock system with a custom recovery. Is this a good idea or is there something better?
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Now I've flashed clockworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.0 on my device as described in cyanogen wiki. I've found this guide for rooting the stock system with a custom recovery. Is this a good idea or is there something better?
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No it's a good idea, this guide was created not long ago so things haven't really changed since then.
Thank you. I rooted the device according to these instructions, installed a wifi backup tool from market and did a backup of only the wifi settings. Now I'm running CM 10.0 and I will reapply the wifi settings with this app.
Thank you
(I think this thread can be closed now, but I don't know how)
white-gecko said:
Thank you. I rooted the device according to these instructions, installed a wifi backup tool from market and did a backup of only the wifi settings. Now I'm running CM 10.0 and I will reapply the wifi settings with this app.
Thank you
(I think this thread can be closed now, but I don't know how)
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Leave it to die a peaceful death, and good job rooting your Nexus S. Enjoy it!
Hello,
I have rooted my Xoom 2 ME and installed Safestrap 3.12 as explained here.
Apparently something went wrong after I tried to restore a backup to the Stock ROM Slot. I now have the Blue (instead of Red) Motorola Logo when I boot, followed by error messages telling me the "UI System" and "Configure" Applications have stopped.
Trying to solve the problem, I did a factory reset from the Stock Recovery Boot and now I see that I have lost all my Safestrap Backups and Slots.
So I have no backups to restore and no other Slots than the Stock ROM, which I cannot boot.
What are my options ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
A quick update on this
I'm having help form runandhide05 who is amazingly kind with me, answering all my questions in PM.
I have a Wi-Fi only 8.2 Xoom 2 bought in France so I have flashed this ROM : 0.268.4.MZ607.Retail.en.FR.
I could boot but when I tried to update OTA it failed. It downloads, start updating and fails so I am stuck in 3.2.2.
Also whenever I reach the page of an application in the Android Market, the Android Market quits.
Finally adb doesn't see my device.
I've tried flashing another ROM with the same result : 0.281.8.MZ607.NonEFIGSRetail.en.EU
All this is very new to me, I feel like I have learned a lot in 24 ours but I really have no idea were to go to solve this and feel like I am asking a lot to runandhide05 at the moment so if anyone as "qualified" as him had any idea to help it would be amazing.
… again runandhide05, thank you so much for all your help so far.
Problem solved !
The update succeeded when done via the "Motorola Device Manager" on PC.
After that I could use Google Play without it to quit and adb saw my device again.
I re-rooted and re-installed Safestrap with no troubles.
Hello Everybody,
I'll make this short and sweet. I've tried to flash cyanogen mod using the installer, it says it was successful but it wasn't. All it did was reset my touchwhiz (Using Samsung Galaxy S3 i747M Rogers version) back to it's original state. I also think root was removed. I tried to use my CWM recovery file, but it didn't work. It actually messed with my radios and I had no service. My screen was also spammed with "gapps has stopped working" messsages. I've fixed that part of the issue by flashing the stock touchwhiz. My apps/pictures are still there, but app data has been deleted. CWM did not restore properly. Is this due to root being removed? If I re-root my phone, will I be able to get it back to the state is was in before trying to flash cyanogen?
So I noticed there's no official thread for this tablet. I went ahead a decided to try and get a thread going for this tablet only. I am strongly considering porting a Rom and possibly a recovery pending requests from users on xda for the device.
To ROOT the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7 p310a
1. Make sure Unknown sources is checked in Settings > Security > Device administration > Unknown Sources
2. You head over to alephzain's ROOT thread and download the framaroot 1.9.3 apk
LINK To Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276
3. Follow the directions on alephzain's thread. Move the apk to the SD card and install the apk.
4. The apk will then run after clicking "install"
If successful, your OneTouch Pop 7 p310a will now be rooted after a reboot.
To test, after reboot you should see superuser in the list of installed applications.
Also you can download 'root checker' from Google play to verify.
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Clock Work Mod Recovery for Alcatel P310a.
DO NOT FLASH THIS RECOVERY ON ANY OTHER DEVICE OTHER THAN A P310A. THIS MAY BRICK YOUR DEVICE.
WORKING RECOVERY PORTED/TESTED BY Shawnj0
DOWNLOAD LINK ==> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Bp38aW17GiOXpKNEdXQXBSbjA/view?usp=sharing
Any questions, comments, suggestions all should be directed to this thread.
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UPDATE 1/24/2015: CWM NON-Touch Now Available as a flashable img. You can use Flashify or Rashr (both can be downloaded through Google Play once you are ROOT.
Thank you for this. How many tablets has this been tested on ?
It works !!!! Now we need some lollipop on it !
memory swap mod
shawnj0 said:
UPDATE 1/24/2015: CWM NON-Touch Now Available as a flashable img. You can use Flashify or Rashr (both can be downloaded through Google Play once you are ROOT.
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Hi, thanks for this.
Will a memory swap mod, to make the tablet see the external SD Memory as the internal storage, work with the P310A?
Searched and found this for another Alcatel device:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284347&page=39
Is something like this already available for the tablet?
Will be a big improvement if this can be ported to the P310A, and then have a 32Gb or even a 64 Gb memory card be seen as the internal storage.
Thanks.
I have one of these little tablets from T-Mobile (gotta love free) and love it. Last night I got an update warning but have not installed it yet. Unfortunately there is very little information for them like custom ROMs or custom recovery. I would even like to find the software and files needed to return the device back to stock if there was ever a problem and it needed to be reflashed back to out of the box state. Let me know if I can help as I would love to see more for this awesome little device.
Btw, interesting fact about T-Mobile 4G on these tablets. The base is 10 USD for 1gb of 4G a month. All T-Mobile tablets also come with free 200mb 4G a month one top of that. If you have the highest plan at T-Mobile (80 USD a month, unlimited everything including 4g, no drop back to 3g at all) then the tablet actually gets 5gb a month of 4G for the 10 USD instead of 1gb.
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Just installed the latest update from T-Mobile for the p310a and framaroot 1.93 no longer roots it. Damn.
Try this :wwwDOTmgyunDOTcom/m/en
It rooted my tablet and 2 others. It will install a "kinguser" superuser app. Download clockworks superuser from the play store.
Then disable kinguser and allow clockworks superuser to do its job.
TheEditor said:
Just installed the latest update from T-Mobile for the p310a and framaroot 1.93 no longer roots it. Damn.
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Can you please share what is on the update?
Find out the update is still on 4.2.
According to the Tmo support site is to improve battery, camera flicker and freezing.
That is about all I see in the update. The version is still the same and I have not seen any real difference personally. Kind of wish I hadn't updated.
Btw, thanks for the recommendation. I am rooted again, woohoo.
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Well, I am rooted but the only SU that will work is the installed KingUser, no others will work for me.
I have the same tablet, but the P310X, not the P310A variant. Is it safe to flash the CWM recovery? I tried booting into this recovery without flashing by the fastboot flash command, but nothing happens after the transfer, the device won't boot into the new recovery.
After a little searching, it seems to me the two varians only differ in the supported cellular networks and frequencies.
Ok so I rooted this device with kingo at first. I kept have su binary issues. I installed cwm and tried to update su binary through there. I tried booting into recovery using quick boot. My tablet is stuck on tmo screen. Hard reseting takes me back to cwm but I have no backup yet , had no time to even make one. Does anyone have one by chance or a way for me to boot back up through cwm?
Recovery flashed successfully and looks great but, no partitions will mount and I cannot flash any .zips. Anyone else having issues?
I flashed the recovery but when I backed up my data and started getting "unfortunately settings has stopped" error
I did all alternatives and was forced to wipe it clean. But when I tried to restore it kept saying MS5 is not found.
So I am screwed now cause although it did clean it, the settings issue is still there and it will not let me open the wifi /buletooth settings/
keeps crashing and sometimes reboots. So I just want to revert back to the original factory firmware.
Does anyone have the original firmware??
Possible lollipop rom?
shawnj0 said:
So I noticed there's no official thread for this tablet. I went ahead a decided to try and get a thread going for this tablet only. I am strongly considering porting a Rom and possibly a recovery pending requests from users on xda for the device.
To ROOT the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7 p310a
1. Make sure Unknown sources is checked in Settings > Security > Device administration > Unknown Sources
2. You head over to alephzain's ROOT thread and download the framaroot 1.9.3 apk
LINK To Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276
3. Follow the directions on alephzain's thread. Move the apk to the SD card and install the apk.
4. The apk will then run after clicking "install"
If successful, your OneTouch Pop 7 p310a will now be rooted after a reboot.
To test, after reboot you should see superuser in the list of installed applications.
Also you can download 'root checker' from Google play to verify.
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Clock Work Mod Recovery for Alcatel P310a.
DO NOT FLASH THIS RECOVERY ON ANY OTHER DEVICE OTHER THAN A P310A. THIS MAY BRICK YOUR DEVICE.
WORKING RECOVERY PORTED/TESTED BY Shawnj0
DOWNLOAD LINK ==> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Bp38aW17GiOXpKNEdXQXBSbjA/view?usp=sharing
Any questions, comments, suggestions all should be directed to this thread.
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i have this device and i have searched pretty much everywhere for a mod. can you show me how i could get a lollipop mod ( if there is one available). its a pretty nifty device and it i'm hoping to get the lollipop experience on it. Thanks.
Crying on the inside
SO, i did the absolute unthinkable of unthinkable actions. i attempted to flash what was purported to be a POP 7 MIUI port, and the damn thing crashed on me. To make matters worse, the backup with CWM failed when attempting to back up /system. Anyone manage to get it to work?
Sir Webb said:
I flashed the recovery but when I backed up my data and started getting "unfortunately settings has stopped" error
I did all alternatives and was forced to wipe it clean. But when I tried to restore it kept saying MS5 is not found.
So I am screwed now cause although it did clean it, the settings issue is still there and it will not let me open the wifi /buletooth settings/
keeps crashing and sometimes reboots. So I just want to revert back to the original factory firmware.
Does anyone have the original firmware??
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I have it
SuperUser666 said:
SO, i did the absolute unthinkable of unthinkable actions. i attempted to flash what was purported to be a POP 7 MIUI port, and the damn thing crashed on me. To make matters worse, the backup with CWM failed when attempting to back up /system. Anyone manage to get it to work?
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Did you ever get this working? I have this tablet rooted, but no recovery...
I don't mind giving either of you my backups from titanium