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Hi, I am running Liberty rom and cant get into recovery using Bootstrap recovery. I have the apk installed and when I click it, it restarts the phone but just stays on the Motorola boot screen does not go into recovery. I am plugged into the wall charger with USB debugging on. I might add that I was able to get into recovery before installing Liberty Rom, although I doubt that the Rom is the issue. Any suggestions? TIA
when i was running liberty the only way i could get into system recovery was to go into recovery app and select recovery mode. the phone would re-boot into recovery. If i tried to simply power off the phone and plug it in, as i have always done to get into recovery once it is setup, it would just hang at the moto screen. not sure what caused this to start happening, hope it helps.
Hi, thanks for the reply, I used apk, and it rebooted the phone but only to the Motorola initial boot screen. If I try it the way you sugested it does the same thing just hangs at the Motorola screen wont go into recovery. Don't understand what happened.
I can boot into the Motorola recovery but, that would only allow me to restore the phone to factory.
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have you tried reinstalling recovery apk all together, how long are you giving it at the moto screen?
**side note, just noticed the similarity in usernames...
I had the same issue after liberty install i just went into sys recovery app and clicked install recovery.....works fine
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Yes, tried reinstall the recovery apk and have waited 10 minutes on the the boot screen. Weird, It worked fine before. Funny with the name similarity.
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That's my problem, it won't go into recovery.
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You cant even get into the system recovery application in the app drawer?
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I can get to the app and once I click on it it reboots the phone, then stops at the Motorola boot logo and nothing happens after that.
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Click on install recovery first...not recovery mode
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Dude, you’re a genius. I cant believe I was doing it wrong, works now without a problem. Thanks again to you and Mr_GreenJeans.
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Click on install recovery first...not recovery mode
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Not a problem man, glad it helped
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Good deal
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"Genius" lol
Sorry...I had done this b4 also...I think many of us have...its a mistake u wont.make again tho lol
Hahaha exactly why i knew what i was sayin lol def no genious haha
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Still not seeing the green X2 recovery menu
Hi All:
Been following this thread but I'm still not getting the "green" X2 system recovery menu option (vs the blue Android recovery menu).
So, I redownloaded MOTODX2_Bootstrap_signed.rar, unzipped it again, reinstalled the program & rebooted once again just for good measure.
I also confirmed I'm rooted via the superuser app and I can get into the system recovery app thru the app drawer.
sys recovery apps comes up, I click "install recovery" and I get the "install success" message. I wait a few mins before pressing OK. Then, I press the "recovery mode" menu option and, after a few secs, the phone auto reboots. So far so good...
Then, like everyone else, I get the Motorola logo...but NOT the green X2 recovery menu options I'm expecting (like in the Youtube video I checked out). Instead, it goes straight to that greaI then pull the battery, wait a few secs (just because it feels good), re-install the battery and power up the phone.
Again, all I get is the Motorola startup logo, then it presents me with the infamous "D-R-O-I-D" voice in grey letters followe that cyborg-looking red eye, before completely booting to the home screen again.
I'm new to the Droid X2, but I have successfully rooted/flashed Ice Cream Sandwich on my EVO 4G, so I know I'm doing something stupid on my X2, despite the two phones being from totally different mfrs.
Any ideas? I can handle getting laughed at if I'm forgetting something dumb; for me, the most important thing is coming away from this w/ a little more knowledge and experience than before.
Thanks in advance for everyone's expertise, patience, & willingness to help!
-Matt
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Sorry about all the typos & confusion it might have generated...
Just wanted to add some more info to my previous post...
Yes, usb debugging is checked
Yes, allow unknown sources is also checked
Yes, I'm following the 4 step in the X2 recovery menu to the letter (including connecting my phone to the AC charger, even though batt is fully charged, before I press the 3rd button - Recovery Mode)
Thank you...
Have you tried to turn your phone off and then plug the a/c charger into the phone and see if the battery symbol comes up or tenfar bootstrap? If bootstrap is installed it should go straight to that. Do not hit the power button just see which mode it goes to first. If it does not go to bootstrap I would try and get a fresh download of app and try again. If still not working sbf and start fresh.
If nothing else works, try a different charger. The Moto charger should work but other brands may or may not. I've got several other chargers for other devices. One of them won't boot the phone to recovery even though I can use it to charge the battery. Output too low perhaps? I don't know. Only know it doesn't work for recovery. If that's not the problem, try another cable. I also have one of those that for some reason won't boot it to recovery. It boots and stops at the red M. It's probably not the problem but it can't hurt to give these things a try.
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Like others said.
BEFORE PRESSING RECOVERY MODE BUTTON make sure you are plugged into a charger and plugged INTO WALL OUTLET....(plugging into computer WILL NOT work)
Our bootstrap hijacks charge only.mode.
So once u have hit install recovery and it says success and u press recovery mode(while plugged in,) it will shut phone down and the.hijack will install and completely and take you to BSR recovery menu.
This had me at first also. didn't think wall charger or plugged into computer made a difference but was wrong. Had to be plugged into wall charger.
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After I install recovery from the CM7 bootstrap apk and hit run recovery it just powers off my phone. I can boot it back up without any problems just no recovery. It says "connect to nothing" in the instructions so I'm not connected to power, this happened to anyone else? A nice ROM like this without recovery doesn't do much good. Also I'm new to dx2 so it may be a simple solution, I'm hoping so anyway.
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Um have u plugged in? Its bootstrap recovery so it only works if u plug it in to your wallcharger. USB will not work either... also u dnt have to launch the app. It will kick off anytime u plug up while powered off. Must be off.
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Oh the CM7 bootstrap says plug into nothing so that's what I did, I'll try plugged up. How do you run bootstrap without the app, I thought that was the only way? My old phone was hold both volume buttons and power on but I didn't think that worked on dx2.
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While power off plug it to the wall. Easy as pie. Lemmie know if it works.
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Oh okay nice. Got it going though, reflashed CM7 and downloaded the apk again and it's booting from the app like the normal bootstrap does. Have to try the other method when I get home.
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I'm running .181 rooted, and when I hit the home button, all I get is my wallpaper for 5 seconds, then my beautiful Widgets clock pops up, then after maybe 7 seconds all my apps reappear. For a phone of this magnitude I think this is unacceptable. Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
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Factory reset? I don't think I've ever had it happen on this phone.
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Factory reset? I don't think I've ever had it happen on this phone.
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Its been done multiple times to get me here.
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I've noticed the same thing after upgrading to 181. Honestly I would go back if I could as my phone isn't nearly as stable as it was.
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Yea,I've never had it happen on stock nor any of the ics leaks except for the most recent one (.210) kinda really sucks:-/
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Perhaps try forcing launcher to stay in memory? Or maybe its related to 2d hw acceleration option?
Could there be any way to run tge webtop 3.0 ui on the actual phone screen itself? That would make the dpi problems go away
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Theres an app called nebtop but i havent tried it yet. So tempting, let me know if that works for you.
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Nebtop is for webtop 2.0 and it just allows you to use webtop on non lapdocks with an hdmi cord. Im talking about running the actual webtop 3.0 on the phone screen itself, not mirroring it to an external display. Doing so would give the effect of a tablet ui on your phone.
Thank you for the response though
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Theres an app called nebtop but i havent tried it yet. So tempting, let me know if that works for you.
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For Webtop 3.0 you don't need anything, just plug into HDMI and select Webtop.
@pyroemaniac: isn't DPI have to do with the screen itself and not the UI? and wouldn't running the tablet UI on the phone itself be kinda hard to use
If you lower your dpi in the build.prop you can force ics to go into "tablet" mode but it distorts ui elements and causes instability. With webtop at the right resolution on the phone screen i think could be usable and would eliminate the problems mentioned above with changing the dpi.
Plus i just think it would be cool to use the tablet netflix and other apps on my phone
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you actually have the best idea I've seen in months! I wish I had the time to write an app to do this!
Yeah i thought it was a pretty good idea, i just don't know if its possible.
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You could try installing safestrap, back up everything, then flash the Web top to the safe system then booting into it. I'm not totally sure about it, but I believe safestrap uses the Web top partition to load a custom ram disk on top of our existing kernel as a way to boot custom roms with a locked boot loader. Though, I would believe that the Web top would need some small tweaking to run correctly, for input, not sure the touch screen drivers would be included... Etc. But if it could be done i wonder with some additional tweaks if we could build a fully functional ubuntu rom...
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Here's something I found for the Atrix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980193
My think is that it should be able to run as an application almost. I unhooked my phone from my hdmi cord one and my phone kept kept the webtop ui on my screen for about 10 seconds and i was able to control it.. though it was laggy
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jahciple said:
Here's something I found for the Atrix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980193
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Isn't this essentially our nebtop?
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He is basiclly talking a rom or a launcher with the looks of tablet mode, but on the cellphone screen without connecting anything, something like paranoid android rom we have on samsung galaxy note, i personally tried it on a note and its pretty good, would be cool for Razr.
In a way yes, but what i am talking about is we actually use the webtop software thats already installed on our device. If there was a way to open it like an application that would switch us over to tablet mode "webtop" and when you want to go back to phone mode you just use the same app to switch back.
I think that makes sense haha
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pyroemaniac said:
In a way yes, but what i am talking about is we actually use the webtop software thats already installed on our device. If there was a way to open it like an application that would switch us over to tablet mode "webtop" and when you want to go back to phone mode you just use the same app to switch back.
I think that makes sense haha
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All we need is a toggle button to flip one bit. The question though is which bit. Perhaps this thread would garner more serious response if posted in the dev section?
I was going to post the idea in the dev section, but people have a tendency to ***** at you if its not an actual product that your posting.
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I was going to post the idea in the dev section, but people have a tendency to ***** at you if its not an actual product that your posting.
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I totally understand that, and you probably WILL get *****ed at, but maybe one dev will think "great idea & i think i know how to do that." Go ahead and clearly post there exactly what you are talking about. Who knows, we could have that toggle by tomorrow &i bet it would get a LOT of press as it would be a whole new interface for Android phones!
This thread is a little old, but I recently acquired a Razr with a bad ESN and cracked but still working screen to use as a HDMI attached media device. Webtop was giving me a few issues, refusing to switch to tablet mode sometimes, so I decided to see if the dpi could be changed to force it into an always tablet mode.
Using a backup of the stock 4.1.2 ROM in Safestrap slot 1, I changed the DPI to 120 and it seems to be working well, apps still show as compatible in Google Play. I'm using Holo Launcher HD and had to switch some settings to get icons looking right.
Here is what 120DPI looks like if anyone is interested.
RAZR Maxx - Verizon Wireless CDMA
I have my settings to vibrate on touch but for some reason it randomly stops vibrating and comes back randomly.
For instance, right now as I write this there is no vibration when I press the keys on the keyboard.
I noticed it after the first time I rooted the phone. After rooting everything was fine. Decided to go back to stock 211 and unroot for the time being. I was using Matts utility and it froze for some reason. It got stuck on writing the webtop part for over an hour so I knew something was not right.
I turned the phone off, closed the utility and started all over again and it went through fine. From since then I've been able to root, flash roms, revert back to stock 211 all using the utility but my vibrations act funny.
I never had the vibrations on touch turned on when I was on gingerbread so I don't know if it's just my phone or if it was the unrooting freeze or what? I never really complained about it but I would like to know if anybody else's phone does this?
try slapping the bottom of your phone against your palm (kevlar against palm) a friends razr did this and that seemed to work, it went awway after a few days
I might sell this phone and roll with something else.
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I'm experiencing the same issue as well....if didn't start until I Began using motomizer which could just be coincidence
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I have the same issue but I have not rooted it. Also, to get a temporarily fix which lasts for a minute or so, I have to shake the phone. I think the vibration motor is failing.
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It's good to know others have the problem too. I thought my phone may have been defected or else I messed it up trying to unroot it the first time round. I might try to get the Maxx HD. But then again it's better off to wait lol, this phone game is moving too fast.
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Thank Me Later said:
It's good to know others have the problem too. I thought my phone may have been defected or else I messed it up trying to unroot it the first time round. I might try to get the Maxx HD. But then again it's better off to wait lol, this phone game is moving too fast.
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I know. By the way can u use a headset with your phone without disconnecting or getting stuttering sounds if you move the headset connection?
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I know. By the way can u use a headset with your phone without disconnecting or getting stuttering sounds if you move the headset connection?
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I never attempted to use a headset with my phone. I've used headphones for music and movie listening and they were all fine. I don't lose data at all when using headphones.
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I had this problem too. I reloaded Arctic from scratch making sure to format cache and Dalvik and that still didnt help.
What fixed mine was booting into Safestrap Recovery, going into Advanced, and selecting Fix Permissions.
I realize this won't help the non-rooted folks.
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I'll keep that in mind if I root again.
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FReQ Z said:
I had this problem too. I reloaded Arctic from scratch making sure to format cache and Dalvik and that still didnt help.
What fixed mine was booting into Safestrap Recovery, going into Advanced, and selecting Fix Permissions.
I realize this won't help the non-rooted folks.
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I tried this and it didn't help. The suggestion above (slapping the back of the phone) seems to be working, though. I wonder if my telephone (Razr i) is defective, this started after rooting and unlocking the bootloader. I tried with the GB and EU JellyBean stock ROMS, and I'm currently using this one, all with the same results, does anyone have a similar issue?
I've dealt with two buddies' RAZR phones (Original, and MAXX) and they both have failing vibrator motors. Seems like a hardware design issue. Good thing I went with the Note 2
same issue
motorola razr max
rooted
boot menu manager
tested on all my custom rom (CM10.1 , AOKP , JB 4.2.1) and same issue
anybody have this issue in OTA update and updated bootloader (JB 4.1.2) ?