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(Edited 8/1/11)
Gingerbread update for the droid x2 is now available to soak testers (2.3.3) !
Non-Rooted (stock) Gingerbread update file
Pre-Rooted Gingerbread Update file
(Links are from p3Droid's website, you'll need to create an account there, which you should do anyway- he's the one that did all the work pre-rooting!)
Thanks to P3Droid for his work on pre-rooting the gingerbread update!
Instructions:
Download Either one of the aforementioned links (the prerooted if you want root, the stock if you don't)
Rename whichever file you choose to "update.zip" and place it in the ROOT of your external SDCard.
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If you downloaded the pre-rooted:
Your phone needs to be in complete stock for the update to work. SBF it if you debloated or rooted.
After SBFing, do a factory reset. Reactivate your phone, and reroot it using Gingerbreak. (Credits go to their respective developers)
Install Tenfar Lin's recovery. (Credits go to their respective developers)
Boot into system recovery and install update from sdcard. Select update.zip and install! It should automatically perform another factory reset, but if it doesn't, perform another manually.
Start up, reactivate, and you're done!
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If you downloaded the non-rooted:
Your phone needs to be in complete stock for the update to work. SBF it if you debloated or rooted.
Power off your phone, and enter stock recovery. Select "Install from SDcard:update.zip" or whatever the command is called.
Once finished, reboot and you should be set!
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If you are unsure on how to SBF your phone:
Download daywalker04's SBF leak file and extract it.
Download and install the latest moto drivers from Motorola's website itself.
Download and install RSDLite 5.3 here. Reboot your computer.
Start RSDLite and select the downloaded SBF file.
Power your phone off. Turn it back on, and as soon as you see the "DualCore" screen, hold the power button and the volume down button.
Once you see text at the top, use the volume down button until you see "RSD" and hit the up-volume button.
Plug your phone into your computer.
RSDLite should detect a Daytona device - select it and hit start. Once completed, your phone should reboot and be at complete stock.
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Are you rooted? I'm wondering if I need to unroot.
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Its rolling now. Just updated! Good luck kids.... I couldn't grab the update, so hopefully someone else does.
Off to play now!
I am indeed rooted- but the update is only downloading, not installing. So I don't know if it'll install on rooted and debloated phones. I'll post back when I find out.
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Powered off my phone, turned it back on, tried a manual pull and voila! Off to the races.
Rooted, debloated, and running custom rom- failed
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Got nothing here but I'm on the west coast. Are you guys on eastern time? Hope I don't have to wait 3 more hours. Anyone tried gingerbreak yet? What version is it?
3UR0TR45H said:
Got nothing here but I'm on the west coast. Are you guys on eastern time? Hope I don't have to wait 3 more hours. Anyone tried gingerbreak yet? What version is it?
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Yep, I'm in NC
I also have no notice and it says my device is up to date in About phone > System updates, even after a phone reboot.
Somebody post the file!
Post The File(s)!
I got it too! I am downloading on wifi now, 10% done!
P3Droid should have the zip soon. I am still wondering how this is going to work out since there is a new GB kernel. Will a pre-rooted rom with a signed kernel be able to be flashed with the bootstrap?
No time for any review per say, but its fast, and feels solid compared to Froyo on this thing. A lot of new icons too. Anyhow, off to bed.
70%, going MUCH faster on WIFI then 3G.. (Obviously).
Now i did not SBF, i just unfroze everything with BloatFreezer.. I am rooted too.
I'd love to post the file if icould find it, but I can't..
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Download done, Installing.. (Phone just rebooted).. Just incase i have 100% battery but I'm on the AC Adapter.. Its on the package installer screen now
Hmm dunno if it didn't go, cause about 1/2 way they the package screen it stopped with a Yellow Exclamation mark, rebooted and it and I'm back to froyo i think.. Looks like i am gonna have to sbf it just to make sure and repudiate it.
Never mind this post
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did you guys sbf to stock? If so, I may ggo do that now even tho its 1am
Hey guys,
I need some help with this CWM. It is my first time using this phone.
Ok, I will go through all the things I have down so far.
I got the phone yesterday from AT&T (America) and immediately updated OTA to official firmware 4.5.91.
I then downloaded pudding for AT&T/android 2.3.4, downloaded the latest windows 7 drivers, and the latest RSD lite 5.3.1.
I used RSD to flash pudding onto the phone, but did not enable USB debugging, or the other option to allow non-android/certified installations (located at setting, applications...I think)
That resulted in a no OS found, error 1x000 on the phone, and an error in RSD. RSD said something around the likes of: error - could not switch...something the phone then gave me a list of options and went into fastboot protocol mode.
I thought to myself: "darn, I bricked my phone", but I saw that it went into fastboot mode. I did the fastboot cmd's from my computer to unlock the phone, which seemed successful (unlock on the top left corner), but after I did fastboot reboot, the phone was stuck in the dual core screen, with unlock on top left still.
I had to pull out the battery, but the phone then booted up normally.
Thinking that everything is now fine, and still forgetting to enable those setting in the phone, I booted the phone in fastboot protocol mode and installed ROMracers CWM.
However, I didn't use the second command to delete CWM before installing romracers. It installed fine though, from what I saw.
So I then try to go into the CWM by holding the power button and volume down, then scrolling down to recovery and hitting volume up.
Then the android guy and the triangle warning sign shows up. Great.
What did I do wrong? Everything seems to have worked so far. I am using the latest versions of everything.
I am following a tutorial video on youtube (two weeks old), and I am at work right now so I have not gotten to the part where he gets the same error on his demonstration phone; however, i saw that the guy downloaded a file explorer that can do a specific thing that other programs cannot, but it costs money. I didn't see any more.
What should I do?
Download and install a root file manager, and delete recovery-sh from /system/etc, then try again
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If you tap the bottom right corner of the screen you will get stock android recovery options.
If you flash the cwm of your choice and immediately boot into recovery after you flash it you should be able to get into ur custom recovery until you fully try to reboot again. I think..... its been a while since I was in that boat.
You soft bricked it, that happens if you unlock the bl after 2.3.4 is on the phone. Its common
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Thanks guys.
What program should I use to delete that file? Preferably a free one...why doesn't everyone else have to get an app to successfully install CWM?????
Also can I just install this even though my phone is already unlocked with pudding on it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204
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Thanks guys.
What program should I use to delete that file? Preferably a free one...why doesn't everyone else have to get an app to successfully install CWM?????
Also can I just install this even though my phone is already unlocked with pudding on it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204
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You can use es file explorer and use the root option in the preferences,
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I went through the same thing you did up until the ROM choice. Even the pulling of the battery. So I would say that is normal and you should not think the problem is there.
My Atrix came with the 2.3.4 update already installed and I did the pudding bit with RDS (which didn't give me root, I had to use the adb method). I flashed the Ninja Speed ROM (very happy with it) and I didn't have any problems.
Did you check with known issues of your ROM? Some require specific recovery apps.
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Javi97100 said:
You can use es file explorer and use the root option in the preferences,
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I downloaded the app, but the root feature only works on rooted ROMS/firmwares.
Seeing that I can not put any ROM's on my phone because CWM doesn't work, I am stuck...
Does this help at all...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1138204
dragon_76 said:
I went through the same thing you did up until the ROM choice. Even the pulling of the battery. So I would say that is normal and you should not think the problem is there.
My Atrix came with the 2.3.4 update already installed and I did the pudding bit with RDS (which didn't give me root, I had to use the adb method). I flashed the Ninja Speed ROM (very happy with it) and I didn't have any problems.
Did you check with known issues of your ROM? Some require specific recovery apps.
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Do you mean my CWM choice?
Most of the guides say that you should install CWM before installing ROMs.
They also say that the Rom's themselves root the device.
I do not know what to do...
Someone help me out
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Did you successfully root your device? If you did just download a terminal app and delete it through the command line. If you don't know how to do that we can help.
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Here's a link to help understand CWM: http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&drKey=1359&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1214513&v=1&libid=1313371129935&out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.addictivetips.com%2Fmobile%2Fwhat-is-clockworkmod-recovery-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide%2F&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fforumdisplay.php%3Ff%3D995&title=CM7%20PreBeta%232%20-%20xda-developers&txt=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.addictivetips.com%2Fmobile%2F...omplete-guide%2F&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13133710923571
As far as your recovery...sounds like you do not have the latest tenfar recovery or romracer recovery.
Tenfars : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=641508&d=1309404399
Link to Romracers thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
Use RomRacers CWM.... much better... install via fastboot
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Sorry I saw you didn't root it. Do you have the Motorola RSD lite program for your computer? I would go into the firmware super thread and use RSD lite to get your phone back to square 1.
I used plain old CWM and I am more than happy sticking with mainstream recovery options.
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Sorry I saw you didn't root it. Do you have the Motorola RSD lite program for your computer? I would go into the firmware super thread and use RSD lite to get your phone back to square 1.
I used plain old CWM and I am more than happy sticking with mainstream recovery options.
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Do not use rsd to go back to square one!!!!
Your atrix has the retail ota on it, you WILL HARDBRICK if you flash using rsd. All you can do on 2.3.4 with rsd is flash pudding. Ifyour unlocked already, delete rsd!
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This should help you get back to romracer's recovery.
1) Download romracer's recovery for your AT&T phone from his recovery thread in the development section. Make sure you download the fastboot version, not the .zip version.
2) Connect your phone to your computer, and put it into fastboot
3) Open up a command prompt on your windows computer, and issue the following commmand:
fastboot erase recovery
moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img***
***you should replace recovery.img with whatever the recovery file you downloaded is called
4) Then boot into recovery and it should be the recovery that you chose in the first step. Hope this helps. If it does, make sure to thank joeavery2, as it is part of his complete wipe guide!
I rooted my razr using doomlords method and now i cant re-root it. Everything was fine until my gmail wasnt able to reply to messages so i unrooted and now it works again. So when i tried to re-root it, it didnt complete. I originally did i from another computer and that computer broke down on me. The cpu i have now doesnt have internet access. Could that be the reason why it wont root? Do i have to do a system reset? I dont get what im doing wrong. Please help
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I think it has something to do with the motorola USB drivers you need to install.
you can check it also with ADB. I think you computer doesn't see your phone.
I had the the same problem when trying to re-root my razr. I went through the batch file lineby line typing it in manually. Here is what I found. It was not installing superuser the 2nd time around. It looked like I was rooted as I could use astro to access the / folder. I installed superuser and it started working.
Give this a try. Hope it helps.
ok so i tried to root my phone again with my work cpu and it still wont root. it reads cannot find the specified file. when i plug the phone to the computer it reads the device because it says all drivers are installed and ready to use. i also installed super user again and still the same thing. my phone still acts like its rooted but it really is not. i un-rooted using ginger un-root. now what? im thinking about just backing up my fone again, doing a reset and then root and then put everything back the way it was. but i dont wanna get rid of my free wifi tether. thanks for you suggestions so far, any other ideas?....
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Could you paste the errors message you occured when you try to root please?
Got it! I forgot what post i saw it in but i had the runme file in the same folder with the other programs that were un-zipped. Once i removed it, zoom....... back in business. THANK YOU FELLAS!!!!
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Hi, i have a Motorola Photon i Already Root the cellphone Works good then i download RomManager and then download miui rom and using rommanager I flash the cellphone by the option the rommanager have and try to boot into Recovery to install another Rom(miui) and every time i reboot into recovery it gave me and error or reboot into the normal Recovery the System Recovery 3e
is there is anyway i could install the Rom without the SDK.
Thank you
Google "root Motorola photon without a computer". You'll need to find photon-torpedo in the travels, but it's not hard. The files needed for computer root and Shabby's AIO root did nothing for me. I can look up the info if you need. It's pretty easy, just takes a few minutes.
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Google "root Motorola photon without a computer". You'll need to find photon-torpedo in the travels, but it's not hard. The files needed for computer root and Shabby's AIO root did nothing for me. I can look up the info if you need. It's pretty easy, just takes a few minutes.
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Actually the phone is already rooted problem is when I'm trying to reset into recovery the options are pretty small to choose... So I'm thinking I need to unlock the bootloader because I can't work with the option listed in the recovery mod o3 something that came with the mot–photon, I'll try to upload a pic so you could have an idea
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Can you post a pic so when actually see it
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it is rare that I ever ask for help around these parts. But I just recently got my droid x2 back and wanted to try cm10 alpha 3. The problem is it doesn't seem to want to root. I have SBF'd numerous times and tried both Motorola one click root tool and Pete's Motorola root tool (which actually has worked every time when I used the DX2 as my daily driver with no problems). No matter how many times I run the programs, it seems to stay stock, unrooted gingerbread. Now remember, I have been around these forums for a long time and know what I'm doing. The only difference is that the phone has no number attached to it. Meaning its a WiFi only device. I have tried to bypass the activation which was successful. But I have not been able to root it and install the bootstrap recovery. It just goes through the process and stays the same. I have USB debugging on and checked the unknown sources box. It's been a while since I've done this so I may be missing something. All these tools are the same ones that I've always used with no problems. The only difference is that its a WiFi only device now. So is there any reason why the normal process wouldn't work now?
Have you tried zerg rush?
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Have you tried zerg rush?
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Just tried it with no luck. Its saying it failed to copy over the files because its a read only file system.
its on 2.3.4?
try the ezSBF root option or magic md5
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sd_shadow said:
its on 2.3.4?
try the ezSBF root option or magic md5
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Yep, I never had this phone on 2.3.5. And these same tools always worked in the past. But I will try this other method.
you check windows device manager, for missing drivers?
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Just to double check, after an SBF, you get the activation screen. To bypass that, you have to turn off the phone, hold volume down and power then select "boot android (no bp)"? Thats what I'm doing and I'm just wondering if thats what is causing the phone to not be able to root. Thats the only difference there is from when I had this phone as a daily driver.
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you check windows device manager, for missing drivers?
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I'll double check the next time I do it. But I have attempted this on two different computers. Both of which I have successfully rooted on in the past.
Finally got it rooted and cm flashed on it. Don't know how. Just kept trying until it took. Lol
jsgraphicart said:
Finally got it rooted and cm flashed on it. Don't know how. Just kept trying until it took. Lol
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sounds alot like the patch and pray method. in a way its the flash and pray.