[Q] well it seems like i might have to sbf - Motorola Photon 4G

i flashed the wrong thing and wasnt paying attention anyway when i reboot its stuck on the daul core screen is there no way to get into my recovery? also i have a locked bootloader can someone help me please o and i wont let me use adb

affliction said:
i flashed the wrong thing and wasnt paying attention anyway when i reboot its stuck on the daul core screen is there no way to get into my recovery? also i have a locked bootloader can someone help me please o and i wont let me use adb
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1) What does pull battery do?
2) Can you get into fastboot and scroll (vol down) to Android recovery? Sort of last resort but you could wipe and start over from there...

no i cant get into fast boot when i pull the battery it boots up and says failed to boot 2
starting rsd mode

affliction said:
no i cant get into fast boot when i pull the battery it boots up and says failed to boot 2
starting rsd mode
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Then you should be able to plug in your phone and SBF...that will atleast get you to a stock rom.

KTT16 said:
Then you should be able to plug in your phone and SBF...that will atleast get you to a stock rom.
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the problem im having is my phone says battery is to low to flash and i have no idea how i can charge my battery

Damn dude....
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im guessing it wont charge while it shows that screen?

affliction said:
i flashed the wrong thing and wasnt paying attention anyway when i reboot its stuck on the daul core screen is there no way to get into my recovery? also i have a locked bootloader can someone help me please o and i wont let me use adb
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Always pay attention. Tisk Tisk
You may have to take it to sprint and play the idiot card saying it rebooted on its on and been stuck so you can get a refurb.

There was a trick to do it by taking the red and black cables out of the connector and charging the battery.
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i cant really do that because my 3dvo messed up though not my fault to get the photon
also can u give me instructions on pulling wires out to charge the battery?

Cut old usb cord, pull your battery out attach the red to positive and black to negative. Charge using factory charger for 30 mins. Btw the battery on the photon makes it easy to do this.
affliction said:
i cant really do that because my 3dvo messed up though not my fault to get the photon
also can u give me instructions on pulling wires out to charge the battery?
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yeah i did that amd it seems to be charging when i get enough juice i just need to figure out what to do next with my phone saying that failed to boot 2 and says it in
rsd lite. i am assuming i need to spf i just need to make sure i grabbed the right file

Kool
Good
Luck

Correct, download 154 and 198-7. sometimes you need to flash 154 before you flash 198
affliction said:
yeah i did that amd it seems to be charging when i get enough juice i just need to figure out what to do next with my phone saying that failed to boot 2 and says it in
rsd lite. i am assuming i need to spf i just need to make sure i grabbed the right file
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takota6 said:
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thanks bro i will get it work it will just take some patience which i dont have alot of because im tired lol

jokersax11 said:
Correct, download 154 and 198-7. sometimes you need to flash 154 before you flash 198
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so i should flash both i have the 198 but that was hard to find i never seen 154 anywhere because all the links seemed to be dead

Try it
affliction said:
so i should flash both i have the 198 but that was hard to find i never seen 154 anywhere because all the links seemed to be dead
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well i tried the 198 sbf and my phone is in a bootloop
i cant finf a good link to 154 do u know of one?

well i got my phone bacl after going through hell with sbf. when i sbf afterward it would bootloop i found a way to get it back if it does this which i dont believe i seen anything in the forums so i will post a little guide on what to do.i would like to thank everyone for the help i forgot how much i hate rsdlite and sbf things are just alot easier on htc phones

affliction said:
well i got my phone bacl after going through hell with sbf. when i sbf afterward it would bootloop i found a way to get it back if it does this which i dont believe i seen anything in the forums so i will post a little guide on what to do.i would like to thank everyone for the help i forgot how much i hate rsdlite and sbf things are just alot easier on htc phones
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I would love to see your guide for your fix because I think I am having the same issues as you've described here. I miss the ease of flashing on my old Epic 4G...

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[Q] Phone freezes during boot, stuck on rethink possible

My phone started the day by not booting after a reboot. It stops at rethink possible and the screen will stay on forever and do nothing. If I swipe the fingerprint I get a double vibe like it didn't accept the scan. The only thing I have done to the phone is rooting it.
I did notice one thing this morning. I took it out of the laptop dock and the icon for the dock stayed there even after I then put it in the car dock. I then rebooted it because it had frozen and never came back up. Help!
At me too, my atrix was freeze on loading screen "rethink possible". That I wanted to make all before, to reboot it.
I tried to pull out a battery but unsuccessfully, always freeze on boot screen.
Please help me, i really don't know what i need to do.
And i can't call to motorola support because I live in Russia.
Help
Can either of you boot to RSD to flash a sbf?
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how we can do that?
and i don't know what is sbf
leonlw said:
how we can do that?
and i don't know what is sbf
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I am not home at the moment, so I will post links to flashing sbf guides after I get home tonight.
You get to RSD by holding down the volume UP button while rebooting until it days RSD Protocol at the top of the screen.
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leonlw said:
how we can do that?
and i don't know what is sbf
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Instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
SBFs located here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
thx for links, i will try to recover my phone.
jruweaver said:
Instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
SBFs located here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
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Thanks for posting that. Will be a while before I am home.
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CaelanT said:
Thanks for posting that. Will be a while before I am home.
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Your advice is sound. Many such bootloops can also be eliminated with a "fastboot -w"
Not really sure what specific changes in /data (some .db setting somewhere prolly) can cause it to barf on boot but it happens a lot, especially when switching builds (froyo->GB, etc)

bootlooping after fail full ruu rom flash question?

so i tried to flash the full rooted ruu rom via hboot, i had it sitting on my table with the batt door off and knocked it on the floor ( accident ofcourse ) and the batt came out halfway during the process so now it goes into the htc screen then blank htc screen then blank and i cant get into cwr so my question is can i salvage it or am i f**ked?
Have you tried hbooting to recovery? Volume up and power down when the phone boots up.
cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
snowbdr89 said:
cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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eh im done with the tbolt, i took it to a wireless repair place here in slc and the tech guy gave me 100 for it for parts so im goin back to my dx and im much happier!! but thanks for the advice and help!!
Wow glad everyone doesn't give up that easy or we would never get any roms or root =P
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Feel good thread of the year! Or it could be the beer I just had.
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i wouldnt say i gave up way easy, i know i could have fixed it but im just not into the tbolt anymore!!
miketoasty said:
Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
For some it's a good idea to have insurance too.
You can get a replacement minus the deductible if you "lose" your phone.
Just make certain you call VZW as soon as you lose it.
I don't suggest selling the phone for parts and saying it's lost, but I'm sure others have done this to cover their deductible.
Those without insurance...I have heard people have had great success with warranty replacement when using over the phone support when the phone doesn't boot or bootloops.
Since you send the phone back to VZW by mail, their replacement standards are much lower than dealing with their retail and face to face support.
raider3bravo said:
+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
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I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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jaymccoubrey said:
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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Your the reason Verizon hates rooters you are wasting there money on a device that is out of warranty because you would rather send it back than fix it yourself.
Thanks, jerk.
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F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Nonetheless YOU damaged ur phone so it really doesn't matter how long you spent trying to repair it...
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hjborder said:
I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
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I believe you could start with os kitchen or another UI for extracting certain parts of a rom. I think in large part its knowing java script.
jaymccoubrey said:
F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Hey Chevy I crashed my car into a tree and now it doesn't work. Oh dont worry I spent hours trying to fix it with no luck. So yea go ahead and give me a new one don't worry its still under warranty.
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[Q] stupid mistake?

I was trying to flash shabbys kernel and I installed the CWM Bootstrap. It went well untill It came With a message saying "fail to boot 2 starting RSD mood". I was rooted stock with Bootloader lock. Any help please?
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Flash the mr5 sbf.
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Just for others info, I believe you need a full cwm with unlocked bootloader in order to be able to flash kernels.
Yes you do. The bootstrap will only work with the P-Rom's like Laser, once you unlock bootloader you do need the custom CWM. Which is what I ended up having to install. Works good though. :]
What is the best way to flash mr5? Is there a guide? Thanks In advance
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Im glad that all the devs put up indepth guides for all of us noobs to follow along with, especially the ones where they skip steps that we all should know by this point!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666
Follow those steps......Then when RSD asks to manually power up the phone do a battery pull and when powering back up HOLD THE VOLUME DOWN KEY till it boots into recovery. Then scroll down with the volume down key to "boot Android (no BP)" hit the volume up key. Let it do its thing. You should be up and working again.
These are the steps I used last night to solve the EXACT SAME problem you have....My device is now working again I just have to reactivate it when I take the loaner phone back later.
enoch42 said:
Im glad that all the devs put up indepth guides for all of us noobs to follow along with, especially the ones where they skip steps that we all should know by this point!
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Most of it is cuz us noobs want to try stupid **** to see what we can get away with. That is why I did what I did yesterday, I was about 95% sure it would cause a problem but I chose to do it anyway.
So I have a new problem after restoring my device. Now I can't install any new apps from the market.every time I get the message "can't install ____ due to insufficient space on phone" of am at work now but I an gonna try to figure this out tonight.
Every time i plugin my phone It rellano me that battery is too low to flash. How do i charge It? It turns on every time to the fail to boot message
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And I am all fixed!!
To the OP try plugging it in with the phone off for a while and see if that works for ya.
Took it to Sprint and they gave me a new phone thank you for the info.
BoostL33k said:
And I am all fixed!!
To the OP try plugging it in with the phone off for a while and see if that works for ya.
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I think I bricked it

So my phone doesn't light up at all, no orange light, no boot, no sound when i plug it into the computer...
I've done the unplug and plug back in without battery, pull the battery, leave it out for a while, try to boot into hboot, nothing seems to bring any light or life to the phone...
I'm S-On right now and was following the instructions on Nil's thread on updating to the newest firmware in post 3 of his thread... It finished the first stage of flashing and then went dark, nothing from that point on... Any ideas?
Charfahl said:
So my phone doesn't light up at all, no orange light, no boot, no sound when i plug it into the computer...
I've done the unplug and plug back in without battery, pull the battery, leave it out for a while, try to boot into hboot, nothing seems to bring any light or life to the phone...
I'm S-On right now and was following the instructions on Nil's thread on updating to the newest firmware in post 3 of his thread... It finished the first stage of flashing and then went dark, nothing from that point on... Any ideas?
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I think you're the first person to post an "I think I bricked my device" thread that actually bricked his device. I think it's done for sorry bro. Did you check the md5's before flashing?
AshtonTS said:
I think you're the first person to post an "I think I bricked my device" thread that actually bricked his device. I think it's done for sorry bro. Did you check the md5's before flashing?
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Yeah, oh well, go figure... guess I'm back to my droid till I can buy a new phone
Charfahl said:
Yeah, oh well, go figure... guess I'm back to my droid till I can buy a new phone
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Dang man I feel ya, that really stinks
Charfahl said:
Yeah, oh well, go figure... guess I'm back to my droid till I can buy a new phone
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well, send it back to VZW. they take back bricked phones. just say "my phone wont boot" they will tell you things to do and then you can send it back when none of that works.
BTW, dont mention ANYTHING about rooting, hacking, etc
antp121 said:
well, send it back to VZW. they take back bricked phones. just say "my phone wont boot" they will tell you things to do and then you can send it back when none of that works.
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True that ^
Charfahl said:
So my phone doesn't light up at all, no orange light, no boot, no sound when i plug it into the computer...
I've done the unplug and plug back in without battery, pull the battery, leave it out for a while, try to boot into hboot, nothing seems to bring any light or life to the phone...
I'm S-On right now and was following the instructions on Nil's thread on updating to the newest firmware in post 3 of his thread... It finished the first stage of flashing and then went dark, nothing from that point on... Any ideas?
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warranty replacement....."i woke up and my phone wouldnt boot" usually does it or did for me at least lol
By chance do you have access to a external battery charger or a friend with a thunderbolt or rezound to test if the battery died?
I've had this happen during a ruu flash where the battery died and I had to charge the battery in my thunderbolt to bring it back
So all hope is not lost
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JoelZ9614 said:
warranty replacement....."i woke up and my phone wouldnt boot" usually does it or did for me at least lol
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playing dumb is the best. it also works well, if the ota drops, to say the ota messed up your phone. has happened in the past
Try leaving the battery out for like 10 hours. Then try it.
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con247 said:
Try leaving the battery out for like 10 hours. Then try it.
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ok holy **** on the amount of responses...
I might contact V later tonight at work and see if I can get the warrenty replacement, Yes, the wife has a rezound, tried her battery, no dice... I will leave the battery out all night and check when I get home and see what the verdict is... but I do need to charge up the OG and get my service transferred...
Ironically I JUST got a new battery back cause mine fell out of my pocket and tweaked one of the antenna pins good...
Wow i just bricked mine too lol
I was doing something stupid though
Mines done for!
who_mike_d said:
Wow i just bricked mine too lol
I was doing something stupid though
Mines done for!
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What did you do? I'm curious
AshtonTS said:
What did you do? I'm curious
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I was flashing something i shouldn't have tried to flash
I'm just concerned that they will be able to check on the... Rooting etc, or do they even care?
Charfahl said:
I'm just concerned that they will be able to check on the... Rooting etc, or do they even care?
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If it's really bricked then they won't be able to check it. Once I sent back a Rezound on ICS with an unlocked bootloader and they didn't care and when I sent my bad nexus back, I completely forgot to unroot it and sent it back with CWM, CM9 and all my personal data and they didn't care. They don't check it they just flash it back to stock
AshtonTS said:
If it's really bricked then they won't be able to check it. Once I sent back a Rezound on ICS with an unlocked bootloader and they didn't care and when I sent my bad nexus back, I completely forgot to unroot it and sent it back with CWM, CM9 and all my personal data and they didn't care. They don't check it they just flash it back to stock
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Good to know, thanks for the tip :>
Charfahl said:
Good to know, thanks for the tip :>
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No prob :good:
Charfahl said:
I'm just concerned that they will be able to check on the... Rooting etc, or do they even care?
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Exactly what ashton said, if you can't boot it, they can't either lol
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I know this may sound stupid, but what percentage was the battery at?

[Q] Failed to Boot 1 - Can't reset/restore/reboot

I have really messed up. I cannot get into my phone at all. button reset starts after being plugged in for a few minutes then green light comes on when plugged in followed by, "Failed to Boot 1". Motorola of course shows but phone goes no further. We have tried everything we can think of including, all Verizon sbf's & intelos sbf's. Not sure what to do. My phone is a Motorola Droid X2 MB867.
e.penrose1 said:
I have really messed up. I cannot get into my phone at all. button reset starts after being plugged in for a few minutes then green light comes on when plugged in followed by, "Failed to Boot 1". Motorola of course shows but phone goes no further. We have tried everything we can think of including, all Verizon sbf's & intelos sbf's. Not sure what to do. My phone is a Motorola Droid X2 MB867.
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Reinstall ddrivers, use latest rsd lite or sbf flash, reflash with Verizon android 2.3.4. Failed to boot 1 is a bootloader failure if I remember right. Keep trying till it boots.
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Lrs121 said:
Reinstall ddrivers, use latest rsd lite or sbf flash, reflash with Verizon android 2.3.4. Failed to boot 1 is a bootloader failure if I remember right. Keep trying till it boots.
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I think I may be missing something; if I cannot get the phone to come on at all except for a couple of minutes when it states Failed to Boot 1, then how do I go about proceeding?
Beth
e.penrose1 said:
I think I may be missing something; if I cannot get the phone to come on at all except for a couple of minutes when it states Failed to Boot 1, then how do I go about proceeding?
Beth
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make sure its completely off then start the phone holding up on the volume rocker. that should bring it into rsd mode. if it wont stay on that usually means the battery is low and it needs to be charged before flashing. however it will not charge the battery in the state its in now.
Added Note....
e.penrose1 said:
I think I may be missing something; if I cannot get the phone to come on at all except for a couple of minutes when it states Failed to Boot 1, then how do I go about proceeding?
Beth
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I really appreciate everything you are doing to help me. I do have one more detail to add. I have been running eclipse with only one problem, the data never worked. My wifi worked fine but never any data. Any ideas would be wonderful.
Thank you Again,
Beth
Got Battery (x3) Same Story
Lrs121 said:
make sure its completely off then start the phone holding up on the volume rocker. that should bring it into rsd mode. if it wont stay on that usually means the battery is low and it needs to be charged before flashing. however it will not charge the battery in the state its in now.
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Well, one exception, I am no longer getting "Battery to Low to Flash"....
I have RSD Lite, Daytona & nTelos SBF via your files (Thank you). Help Please
E
e.penrose1 said:
Well, one exception, I am no longer getting "Battery to Low to Flash"....
I have RSD Lite, Daytona & nTelos SBF via your files (Thank you). Help Please
E
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If I had known you had the milestone x2 I would never have recommend red lite. It erases your carrier files which removes your ability to have a 3g data connection the only way to fix it is to go to your carrier and have them rewrite their files to it. However you need a fully functional stock ROM for that to work. Check out this thread I has everything you need to know about messing with the mx2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2101633
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Tried & Tested
Lrs121 said:
If I had known you had the milestone x2 I would never have recommend red lite. It erases your carrier files which removes your ability to have a 3g data connection the only way to fix it is to go to your carrier and have them rewrite their files to it. However you need a fully functional stock ROM for that to work. Check out this thread I has everything you need to know about messing with the mx2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2101633
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I thank you but, I have been looking at that thread and to say the least my brain is fried. Should anyone want to trade a working touchscreen android for Verizon for an experiment I am game lol. Being without a phone is almost calming and peaceful but, NOT.
E.
e.penrose1 said:
I thank you but, I have been looking at that thread and to say the least my brain is fried. Should anyone want to trade a working touchscreen android for Verizon for an experiment I am game lol. Being without a phone is almost calming and peaceful but, NOT.
E.
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He did a lot of experiments I was more referring to the start of the thread which explains how to root, flash and also restore to stock
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I have tried them all with no result thank you though.
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e.penrose1 said:
I have tried them all with no result thank you though.
E
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Then I'd have to say its time to talk to the carrier
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Success!!!!
Lrs121 said:
If I had known you had the milestone x2 I would never have recommend red lite. It erases your carrier files which removes your ability to have a 3g data connection the only way to fix it is to go to your carrier and have them rewrite their files to it. However you need a fully functional stock ROM for that to work. Check out this thread I has everything you need to know about messing with the mx2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2101633
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Got it although I am not sure how, a combination of RSD Lite, Experia Flasher, Easy SBF among others.
E.
e.penrose1 said:
Got it although I am not sure how, a combination of RSD Lite, Experia Flasher, Easy SBF among others.
E.
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What ever works for you
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