I rooted my Atrix Friday night and all worked well. I rooted after Gingerbread. Now, I was goofing around with Blade Buddy and also froze a few apps through Titanium Backup and after I rebooted my text is all small and almost every app crashes, including multi touch keyboard and phone. So, I can't do basically anything. I don't know if I froze an app I shouldn't have (I didn't freeze anything system just like motorola services like the social networking stuff and some downloaded apps).
I think I need to reflash my phone, but I'm not sure how to do this. Can anyone please give me guidance?
Luckily I have a blackberry as an old phone so I put my sim card in there for backup. I have a backup of the flash with ROM manager, but ROM manager is crashing as well as TI Backup.
I have a Mac, but I had to use a friend's pc to root so I might have to use the pc to re-flash, but I wasn't sure.
Thanks in advance for the help!
As long as you didn't unlock a simple sbf flash will fix everything. You can also try blade buddy to set the density back to normal. This can fix some apps crashing.
If you are unlocked make sure the sbf has pudding.
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Can you tell me how to do a SBF flash? I didn't unlock the phone, just root. It has an unlocked bootloader now because I had Gingerbread, but that isn't what you mean is it?
Thanks! I'm going to try Blade Buddy one more time to see if it won't crash on me. So, the lcd density is probably what crashed it?
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Okay, I can get into Blade Buddy and change the density back to default (230) but I can't save it. Everytime I hit the menu button to save it crashes. Is there anything I can do to get around that?
Okay, I uninstalled Blade Buddy because it wouldn't save anything. I have Root Tools so I changed the LCD Density to 230 with it and rebooted however nothing changed. Am I going to have to do that SBF flash or is there something else I can try?
Can you get into Titanium back up and defrost everything you have frozen? Or maybe get into Rom Manager and do a "Fix Permissions" I take it you don't have CWM installed to do a Fix Permissions
No I can't, but I did a SBF flash because I was researching and it seemed like the only way. The build.prop file got messed up somehow. But it is in warranty so I'm sending it back to Motorola. It'll be free or might be alittle bit, but either way cheaper than new phone. Thanks!
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Although I only had the phone for a day now, I've been reading the forum for a month trying to get the info I needed so that when it arrived, I'd be able to load up froyo, wifi calling and be done quickly. I set it all up and downloaded ryan's OCLF, ran it, rooted, installed the ext files, then the v2 lag fix it said to. Everything was great.
Later I downloaded a few apps and titanium backup, but didn't back up yet. I ran the battery down low. Went into the clockwork app that I downloaded and did a backup restore.
About an hour later the battery finally died. I read that you should turn it on until it won't anymore before finally plugging in to charge and wiping the battery settings. Problem is it wouldn't boot up again. Hung on the Galaxy S screen with the shining S.
I could still reboot into recovery and into download. Was going to ODIN back, but my PC was giving me trouble. I pulled the micro sim and thre the ASOP 2.2 rom on it from another laptop dragged it to card removed and popped it back in. I tried to reboot to recovery which worked, then reinstall, nothing. Tried to get to the SD card, but it doesn't find it.
Finally gave up and went back into recovery and did a factory data wipe reset or whatever it is called. When the phone rebooted it all booted fine, no problems at all however I lost every setting account etc..
So here's where I'm at now, i mounted it as USB and looked at the phone from the PC, in the clockwork folder is my backup I just can't get it to load.
I went back to the market and redownloaded the ryan OCLF and removed the lag, ext and root and I'm back to stock. Phone will turn off and back on.
What now? Where did I go wrong, it doesn't make any sense, I followed every instruction exactly as it was written.
I'm a little concerned to root again, but I want to backup settings, accounts etc.. in case this happens again.
first...welcome to XDA...the baddest forum on the planet...
second....this is the wrong section for this topic....should be in Q & A section...but a Mod will take care of that....
third....read this.....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
the author worked hard on this to become a sticky so noobs will see it first...if u need more info....there is another sticky in the general section...good luck!!
Thanks, I'll read through it now. I thought I had a good idea to drag the new rom to the sd card and fire it up from there, but it failed. Happy I didn't brick the phone. I saw a lot of posts saying ODIN was the only way back, guess I got lucky with the data wipe.
I've had iphones for 2 years and when this happened it would be a conflict with programs, is there a list like that for android like there was for cydia in the iphone info?
I don't know.... but make sure you read carefully before you flash... in a nutshell the steps for ROM flashing is.
1. Root
2. Download and install ROM Manager from market
3. Flask clockwordmod recovery
4. Nandroid (backup)
5. Backup SD card to pc(just in case)
6. Flash your ROM from clockworkmod recovery.
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Here's a question I don't think is answered after reading the post. So rooting via OCLF without installing the lag fix v2 is exactly the same as rooting by dragging and dropping.
Rooting in itself can't cause the phone to not reboot, but if you flash incorrectly or apply lag fix and flash over them you could run into trouble. I just can't seem to figure out where the error was. I didn't delete the update zip after rooting, thats the only error I see.
Other issue I noticed is that on mounting to USB after booted I can see the backups, but I can't locate the ROM zip I put on the SD card or the SD card at all.
So let me get this straight... you rooted via OCLF.. but did not apply the lagfix?
Edit: oh I see... u tried to flash a froyo Rom then go back to stock?...
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No I rooted then applied the lag fix it had available which was version two I believe
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Ok... try ODIN back to stock...make sure you have the correct drivers
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Let me correct what I'm saying, the phone went into the stuck glowing S screen when trying to turn it back on after I ran the battery down to nothing. It wouldn't boot past that point. I tried reinstall, reboot, etc..from the menu in clockwork recov in recov screen as that was all i could get to. When that failed I tried just loading a 2.2 ROM to the sd card direct from my laptop, thought I could just flash from that screen right over everything, didn't work either. Thats when I tried delete all info as a last effort, but then it magically booted back 100% stock, but still rooted. So i reloaded OCLF and unrooted because I don't know what caused the phone to be stuck in the S screen, I didn't flash anything, just did the root and oclf all from ryan's OCLF app
I tried to reroot manual, didn't work, lots of issues, wouldnt root. Went back for OCLF gone. Went for the z4 gone. Found links for both, tried the z4 didnt' work, superuser continiously popping up for permissions, went back removed that and reloaded oclf from web, ran and fixed boot and rerooted, all good. Went back and downloaded and flashed Vibrant AOSP ish JK2 1.1 Official FROYO. Absolutely love it so far. I've been waiting for wifi calling for a long time, it actually works. Problem is I'm not really sure if I rebackup everything now or leave the backups I have from clockwork for stock. I keep reading everything and feel like I'm missing something. I have Vibrant AOSP ish JK2 1.1 Official FROYO saved so I guess if it crashes I just reflash that and don't need a backup, but should titanium backup the whole thing instead now? Sorry if no one replies i get it. Two years of iphone jailbreaking is a waste, nothing like this at all! I will say I never bricked an iphone, feel like i'm gonna brick this thing.
I want to run the OCLF v2, but concerned it's going to cause issues as it's running so smooth right now.
It works fine
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version 2 isn't an option, i'm running lag fix one, seems ok I'm having some other issues, but its running
If your still having problems odin back to stock and start over it always safer and will cause less problems
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All my issues were because busy box was messed up, all good now
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Just to throw it in there... you should always backup your current ROM and all apps using both ROM Manager AND Titanium Backup. It makes it THAT much easier if you do, by chance, have to use ODIN or run a recover, to get your settings, apps, saved data, etc. back without much hassle.
I run a Titanium backup on all of my apps I have loaded (NOT SYSTEM APPS as they are backed up by ROM manager I believe) once a month or so, just to keep fairly recent. It makes it to where, if it does need to be restored, the apps all get re-installed at once including saved data within the app (saved game progress, etc.). This is handy because you don't have to remember what all you had installed and you don't have to go searching through marketplace to get those apps back.
If you are running a custom homescreen (Launcher Pro, etc.), you should also use their backup option to save your homescreen settings.
In short, backup everything you can... it makes 3 hours worth of reloading things condense into a nice little 10-15min "install", "ok" button pressing fiesta!
And, to let you know, I've (as just about 100% of XDA users) flashed, and ODIN'd nearly a thousand times and have yet to brick a phone. These things are crazy indestructible. There's 3 or 4 different ways to get into Download Mode if you get the computer!phone screen... so don't worry about it. The only thing you really lose is time spent getting things back to normal if you screw up. But read up on everything, which it sounds like you already do, before you even attempt anything that could kill the phone. I don't post much on here because just about everything is already answered... you just have to search a little bit.
Ok, so first off, I was interested in the prospect of using the Droid3 camera because I heard it was better and supported high speed video recording (something that I really want on the Atrix) but I heard that you had to be Deodexed. Well, I knew that if I unlocked my bootloader and installed a custom ROM such as Alien or CherryPie, it would work, but I didn't want to unlock my bootloader. I was rooted though.
So then I decided to google how to manually deodex, and I came across the program xUltimate whatever, followed the directions (although it seemed to be intended for the Droid and not the Atrix, I don't think I should've done that) and part of the process through running xUltimate, I got a message saying that I was out of space on my Atrix relating to the process it was in the middle of doing, and was like, oh crap.
My phone didn't start, but I had made a recovery a couple of days earlier in Tenfar's CMW, so I went to restore that. Then when that was restoring, it froze on some process when it was restoring, and I let it try and try for hours, but to no avail, because it had been hours and it was still stuck on the same spot. So I restarted my phone.
Well, then upon my phone starting, everything was gone in terms of my apps, and the stock gingerbread background was there. I thought, well, maybe it's fine and I'll just restore my apps with TiBu, and everything will be fine. That wasn't the case at all because any app that I downloaded from the market with the exception of a few would automatically force close. So I couldn't get TiBu to work, or Superuser, or anything.
So at that point I knew that I had seriously messed up some files on my phone, and I decided I was gonna flash .sbf. So I got the stock 2.3.4 .sbf and flashed it with RSD Lite 5.3.1.
It flashed gingerbread, and when it rebooted, everything looked fine and dandy, but it was exactly the same problem, where apps would force close.
Then as a last hope of solving the problem I tried to use fastboot to recover my phone with the nandroid backup that I had made, but it said that the image file was too large. And that also probably has something to do with the fact that I can't actually use fastboot to do that unless I have an unlocked bootloader, right?
So my question is, how can I fix it? How can I start over fresh (since flashing .sbf didn't wipe everything) so that those system files that I messed with when I was running the deodexing utility are returned to their proper state?
I mean, at the moment, it works as a phone, it receives and makes calls, and I can send texts and take pictures, and use the stock browser, but no other app will open.
And secondly, has anyone gotten the 120fps video recording working with the d3 camera apk?
But of course, more importantly, how do I get out of this rut?
Thank you so much and I'm really sorry for writing so much, I just wanted to give you as much info as possible so that you could come up with the best answer. And I apologize for my stupidity,
Thanks again,
did you try a factory restore after the sbf flash? you have to do that to restore the phone to the orignal state. flashing the.sbf doesn't do it...
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thank you so much, after doing the factory reset, it works fine now. Now to go mess with it again hehehe.
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Glad your sorted as to your fastboot problem. Use moto fastboot as it splits large files for you.
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So, I thought I had fixed the problem, but after unlocking the bootloader, I installed Alien, and the radio is all wonky...I'm not getting service 99% of the time, and that's kinda really bad, and, yes I checked the APNs, and there were no problems there (at least I think, I restored default) and I even tried flashing a radio, which made no difference. And I know that flashing using RSD is bad but I didn't know better at the time so I reflashed stock Gingerbread 4.5.91, but the radio problem is still there.
And could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong because I've tried flashing two different roms (Alien and the Star Wars one) and it seems as if its not actually doing everything that it should, for example the star wars one, there is no camera app, or rather it force closes, and the bootanimation and boot image are stock at&t, and the lockscreen is default....and I even checked the build.prop which should have been modified for the d3 camera and it wasn't modified, which led me to think that anything that involved root access didn't work when flashing the rom. Further proof for that idea is that after I flashed either rom, I lost root access and had to re-root my phone.
This is really weird, and it's starting to bug me because now my phone can't even be used as a phone
Thank you for your help.
So i rooted my phone using HTC amaze All in one tool kit by hasoon and everything was going smooth until i tried to change fonts using font installer, nothing happened so i got on aptoide and downloaded ROM toolbox pro and used its font changer, which i think use the same font changing program , and changed my fonts, again nothing happened. i started messing(by messing around i mean typing and looking for new keys on the keyboard) around trying to figure out what went wrong and my phone froze. i shut down my phone and when i rebooted i couldn't get past the android 4g t-mobile screen. can anyone help?
EDIT-i can still get to bootloader or that menu you get when you hold power and down volume. in my panic to fix my phone i restored to factory setting but that, i believe, only made it worse as now i couldn't mount my sdcard. when i saw i couldnt do that i looked it up and found a post that said to format my sdcard and so in a desperate attempt to save my phone i did, not stopping to think that it would erase everything on it. i do have a back up of everything that was on my phone prior to this.
Just restore a nandroid, like most people would do, and you'll be good. If all else fails then you'll need to flash a Rom and if that doesn't work for you then you'll need to flash an RUU. Read the Amaze Bible if you're stuck.
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Just restore a nandroid, like most people would do, and you'll be good. If all else fails then you'll need to flash a Rom and if that doesn't work for you then you'll need to flash an RUU. Read the Amaze Bible if you're stuck.
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i cant figure this out to save my life. if you could point me to a video, or add me on skype to walk me through it, you have no idea how much id appreciat it
Double0EK said:
Just restore a nandroid, like most people would do, and you'll be good. If all else fails then you'll need to flash a Rom and if that doesn't work for you then you'll need to flash an RUU. Read the Amaze Bible if you're stuck.
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He formatted his SD card. Isn't that were the backup is placed?
if you can get to your bootloader check to see if you can get to your recovery, if you cannot get to ur recover go back to the bootloader to FASTBOOT and use the toolkit to flash 4EXT recovery then proceed to try and factory reset your phone, or check your system file settings or repartition your sd card, you can use 4EXT's mount usb feature to connect your phone to the PC while your phone is in recovery to place a ROM on your SD card
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So i rooted my phone using HTC amaze All in one tool kit by hasoon and everything was going smooth until i tried to change fonts using font installer, nothing happened so i got on aptoide and downloaded ROM toolbox pro and used its font changer, which i think use the same font changing program , and changed my fonts, again nothing happened. i started messing(by messing around i mean typing and looking for new keys on the keyboard) around trying to figure out what went wrong and my phone froze. i shut down my phone and when i rebooted i couldn't get past the android 4g t-mobile screen. can anyone help?
EDIT-i can still get to bootloader or that menu you get when you hold power and down volume. in my panic to fix my phone i restored to factory setting but that, i believe, only made it worse as now i couldn't mount my sdcard. when i saw i couldnt do that i looked it up and found a post that said to format my sdcard and so in a desperate attempt to save my phone i did, not stopping to think that it would erase everything on it. i do have a back up of everything that was on my phone prior to this.
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try my guide if u have a custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024800
Flashed a new rom yesterday. Actually, I just updated it on top of the previous version. Anyway, after flashing this, I 'lost' root. I thought it had somehow actually unrooted my phone after going into settings and turning superuser back on and it didn't work, so I decided just to root again. Went to do that, said it was already rooted, but I went ahead and rerooted. Did not work. ROM Manager and Titanium Backup will not work. However, I can shut the phone off and manually boot into cwm with no problem. I assumed when I flashed another rom, the issue would be taken care of, but today after not getting any signal, I reflashed a rom I had previously used with no problem, but when the phone is on, it acts as if it is not rooted. Any idea how to get my root back? Also, before you say it, I have never been able to restore any backup I've ever made. They all would say md5 mismatch, and I read the solution to this was to delete that file and just make another with the same name. I did that, but now when I try to restore it says error while restoring /system! Obviously, I do not know much about these things so please go easy on me. Thank you in advance for any help and suggestions!
EDIT: Flashed back to cm 10.1 and root seems to be back, but I would still like some insight into why none of my backups will ever restore. I obviously have to be or have done something wrong.
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Flashed a new rom yesterday. Actually, I just updated it on top of the previous version. Anyway, after flashing this, I 'lost' root. I thought it had somehow actually unrooted my phone after going into settings and turning superuser back on and it didn't work, so I decided just to root again. Went to do that, said it was already rooted, but I went ahead and rerooted. Did not work. ROM Manager and Titanium Backup will not work. However, I can shut the phone off and manually boot into cwm with no problem. I assumed when I flashed another rom, the issue would be taken care of, but today after not getting any signal, I reflashed a rom I had previously used with no problem, but when the phone is on, it acts as if it is not rooted. Any idea how to get my root back? Also, before you say it, I have never been able to restore any backup I've ever made. They all would say md5 mismatch, and I read the solution to this was to delete that file and just make another with the same name. I did that, but now when I try to restore it says error while restoring /system! Obviously, I do not know much about these things so please go easy on me. Thank you in advance for any help and suggestions!
EDIT: Flashed back to cm 10.1 and root seems to be back, but I would still like some insight into why none of my backups will ever restore. I obviously have to be or have done something wrong.
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Couple of things come to mind...
1) Did you open an app called SuperUser and make sure that TiBu was set to "Okay" or "Allow" whichever the option is
2) When you open terminal and type su does the $ change to a # --- if Yes then you are Rooted
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Also what ROM did you flash that seemingly caused you to loose ROOT access?
Hey Guys not sure if this is the right place to post this. I have an issue actually my Razr xt910 suddenly freezes or crashes and it's screen goes black and never get back to.it's normal state. I will have to reboot it every 5,10 minutes because of this problem. Also some of my apps are not working properly. I used Lagfix to fix these issue but Lagfix is also not working with my /system partition. It says that there is a problem with my Kernel or Hardware. Please help... Any help would be really appreciated.
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Hey Guys not sure if this is the right place to post this. I have an issue actually my Razr xt910 suddenly freezes or crashes and it's screen goes black and never get back to.it's normal state. I will have to reboot it every 5,10 minutes because of this problem. Also some of my apps are not working properly. I used Lagfix to fix these issue but Lagfix is also not working with my /system partition. It says that there is a problem with my Kernel or Hardware. Please help... Any help would be really appreciated.
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Have you tried SBFing or using the Droid Razr Utility to flash it to stock and start over again?
Is your device rooted?
What carrier are you on?
Have you tried to do a factory reset?
There is Greenify too for dealing with unruly apps. But it really depends on if you are rooted and the extent of what you are willing to try.
Personally when my ROMS go south. I use what you can find at this link to restore it back to default. You dont need to root or install SS if you dont like that. It uses FASTBOOT to start over.
I would try going to factory first. Then doing an SBF or using the Droid utility from the link above. But dont hate me if something goes wrong. Just trying to help.
I have problems all the time with my device and Im just holding on till I can afford to buy a developer edition phone or something.
If you havent ROM'd your phone the utility in the link above is a quick easy start.