I have a droid razr that I rooted back in october when I first came out. It has worked perfectly fine up until last night when out of no where is just powered down and restarted. Once it restarted I realized it wasn't making it past the splash screen(if that's what it is called) and then reboots. It does this over and over. I downloaded Gingerbread 2.3.5 CDMA Droid Razr XT912 Verizon USA [Fastboot Files] and RSDlite so I could get my phone back to stock. Well before I was able to get into the fastboot loader my phone's battery ended up dieing. I plug it in to charge and it shows an empty battery with a question mark in the middle of it. Some please help cause I don't know if my battery is even taking a charge or if there is a better method to getting this fixed.
How long have you let it sit on the charger? You need a factory cable from team black hat. Google it. Not sure if they have any left out of this batch though.
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You can also make a charging cable if your so inclined, instructions are around here somewhere.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
I was able to get a charge on it but when i get to the fastboot flash mode screen down below it says device is LOCKED. Not sure if that effects anything but when I tried to flash my phone using rsd lite it didn't work. It failed
Same thing happened to me when in RSDLite. I just restarted the computer and phone and it worked.
I tried rebooting and I still get the failed message in the rsdlite 5.6
dsmith093 said:
I was able to get a charge on it but when i get to the fastboot flash mode screen down below it says device is LOCKED. Not sure if that effects anything but when I tried to flash my phone using rsd lite it didn't work. It failed
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I think there are 2 fast boot menus. Get to that screen again and hit volume down until you see "AP Fast boot" or something like that. Then hit volume up. Try RSD again.
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mistawolfe said:
How long have you let it sit on the charger? You need a factory cable from team black hat. Google it. Not sure if they have any left out of this batch though.
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By factory cable do you mean the one that came with the phone or another?
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By factory cable do you mean the one that came with the phone or another?
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No, you can purchase the cable from "Team Black Hat". The factory cable allows you to flash on RSD Lite without requiring your phone to have battery charge.
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No, you can purchase the cable from "Team Black Hat". The factory cable allows you to flash on RSD Lite without requiring your phone to have battery charge.
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Thanks a million!! Searching for team black hats cable now!
other booloop power or charge battery option
i dont know if it really charges because i dont feel the battery gets hot but try this :
1 . conect the usb cable normaly to the pc and phone
2 press the power button and the vol - botton for a while till the phone restarts
2 right away press the 2 vol +and- toghether
3 the white battery light comes on and its suposingly charging
if it doesnt go on and the menue comes on, got to fastboot and then hit the power botton
5 when the phone is off disconect and conect the usb cable and the white light should be on now
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I installed a script onto the atrix rom that I was running and apparently the 2 did not play well together. After I installed the script with script manager and rebooted the phone would not get past the motorola boot screen. I proceeded to download the GB SBF and try to sbf back to original. during the course of this the sbf failed and i had to download a different copy. the phone was still in RSD Lite mode and I didnt know how to get out of it so I figured i'd just remove the battery. I know, not the best thing to do, but I did it.
now the phone will not even turn on when the power button is pushed. I have it plugged to a wall charger right now to see if the battery is dead. but it just sits at the motorola screen so I have to wait to see if the battery will charge and let me get back to rsd lite.
Any Idea what pulling the battery when the screen said RSD Lite caused to go wrong?
My phone did that when the battery completely died. Let it sit for a bit then pull the battery. Plug it into the wall without the battery and see what happens. Hopefully you boot into recovery.
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I installed a script onto the atrix rom that I was running and apparently the 2 did not play well together. After I installed the script with script manager and rebooted the phone would not get past the motorola boot screen. I proceeded to download the GB SBF and try to sbf back to original. during the course of this the sbf failed and i had to download a different copy. the phone was still in RSD Lite mode and I didnt know how to get out of it so I figured i'd just remove the battery. I know, not the best thing to do, but I did it.
now the phone will not even turn on when the power button is pushed. I have it plugged to a wall charger right now to see if the battery is dead. but it just sits at the motorola screen so I have to wait to see if the battery will charge and let me get back to rsd lite.
Any Idea what pulling the battery when the screen said RSD Lite caused to go wrong?
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i did the same thing. i am downloading sbf ginger bread now. if you pull the battery and plug into ac charger it should bring back rsd mode. per mistawolfes instructions. it did for me.
booked said:
I installed a script onto the atrix rom that I was running and apparently the 2 did not play well together. After I installed the script with script manager and rebooted the phone would not get past the motorola boot screen. I proceeded to download the GB SBF and try to sbf back to original. during the course of this the sbf failed and i had to download a different copy. the phone was still in RSD Lite mode and I didnt know how to get out of it so I figured i'd just remove the battery. I know, not the best thing to do, but I did it.
now the phone will not even turn on when the power button is pushed. I have it plugged to a wall charger right now to see if the battery is dead. but it just sits at the motorola screen so I have to wait to see if the battery will charge and let me get back to rsd lite.
Any Idea what pulling the battery when the screen said RSD Lite caused to go wrong?
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i've done that with droid x before and got code corrupt in the bootloader..
can't sbf no more.. i had to use the assurion inssurance and got a new phone..
might be differ for the x2..
Removed the battery, plugged it into the ac charger and it still bootloops. Any other ideas? I may have to just call Asurion in the morning and get another one on the way.
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Removed the battery, plugged it into the ac charger and it still bootloops. Any other ideas? I may have to just call Asurion in the morning and get another one on the way.
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if its bootlooping you should be able to pull batt and get into recovery.
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if its bootlooping you should be able to pull batt and get into recovery.
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it wont get into recovery. like it said it wouldnt get past the motorola boot screen. I did get into RSD lite mode again. I plugged the phone into the charger with the battery in so it would charge. before the screen automatically comes on i held down the volume key and the power button and it went into fastboot.
it also says that the battery is low, so that may be my whole problem.
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it wont get into recovery. like it said it wouldnt get past the motorola boot screen. I did get into RSD lite mode again. I plugged the phone into the charger with the battery in so it would charge. before the screen automatically comes on i held down the volume key and the power button and it went into fastboot.
it also says that the battery is low, so that may be my whole problem.
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I bet that is your problem. Let it sit plugged in for an hour, then try everything again.
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mistawolfe said:
I bet that is your problem. Let it sit plugged in for an hour, then try everything again.
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just playing the waiting game right now. i feel lost without my phone.
thanks for the help everyone.
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just playing the waiting game right now. i feel lost without my phone.
thanks for the help everyone.
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I had a similar issue and the battery will not charge when in that state. I took a $30 hit and bought a battery at VZW store... Went home, put in new battery, SBF'ed and was good to go.... If my dog hadnt chewed up the box while I wasnt looking, I would have taken the battery back.... But at least now I have a spare battery and anytime I am going to flash or try anything a little squirrelly I just charge one battery all the way, take it out and make sure I have atleast 50% on the one in the phone.... It gives me a kinda warm, fuzzy, sense of security....
They DO sell external battery chargers for this battery type. You can get one of those at walmart or grab a new battery like dag
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EvilTim said:
They DO sell external battery chargers for this battery type. You can get one of those at walmart or grab a new battery like dag
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I did actually try a friends generic/fit all external battery charger and it really didnt work to well and thats why I bought the extra battery... Now I am looking at getting a dock that has a external battery charger....
DAG425 said:
I had a similar issue and the battery will not charge when in that state. I took a $30 hit and bought a battery at VZW store... Went home, put in new battery, SBF'ed and was good to go.... If my dog hadnt chewed up the box while I wasnt looking, I would have taken the battery back.... But at least now I have a spare battery and anytime I am going to flash or try anything a little squirrelly I just charge one battery all the way, take it out and make sure I have atleast 50% on the one in the phone.... It gives me a kinda warm, fuzzy, sense of security....
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SON OF A *****! ur right, it didnt charge the entire night!!! I may have to make a stop at the verizon store and pick up a new battery with some charge.
So after loading the gingerbread sbf it gets to the droid red eye boot screen and just boot loops from there. im coming from a the atrix gb rom so i should be using the GB sbf, right?
error 4 PHONE ONLY BOOTS IN RSD
I was trying to sbf to 2.3.4 and it failed after reboot phone says error 4 and is in rsd mode any ideas how to get phone to boot I have tried sveral times to sbf 2.3.3 and it fails just like 2.3.4 ? Stumped PLEASE HELP
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So after loading the gingerbread sbf it gets to the droid red eye boot screen and just boot loops from there. im coming from a the atrix gb rom so i should be using the GB sbf, right?
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When it sits and spins @ the eye, pull the batt.. then hold vol down+pwr to start it back up , let go when ya see fastboot, press vdown till ya see recovery, press both v+v- when ya see the adroid press v+v- again. Do a factory reset. Then reboot youll be fine.
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I was trying to sbf to 2.3.4 and it failed after reboot phone says error 4 and is in rsd mode any ideas how to get phone to boot I have tried sveral times to sbf 2.3.3 and it fails just like 2.3.4 ? Stumped PLEASE HELP
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Make sure you have the latest version of RSDLite.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254879
Thanks I got it and reloaded drivers and it now seems to have worked twice
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When it sits and spins @ the eye, pull the batt.. then hold vol down+pwr to start it back up , let go when ya see fastboot, press vdown till ya see recovery, press both v+v- when ya see the adroid press v+v- again. Do a factory reset. Then reboot youll be fine.
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When unseen recovery u only need to press volume up to enter.
YES DO THIS IF U MADE IT TO DROID EYE!
No need for crazy stuff if u can factory reset from stock recovery u should be just fine.
I downloaded the latest RSD and the sbf I found for the photon, When clicking on the "..." it wont find the damn file anywhere. My phone wont even turn on it says restart 2 failed and all that... it seems like the sbf file is a .gz file(?)
Did you extract the sbf file from the zip. Do you have winrar to extract it.
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I just opened the zip and dropped it onto the desktop, its not showing that its zipped once i do that.
If you have winrar you need to extract it to desktop. Then to get phone into rsd mode it must be powered off. Hold vol up and power till you see rsd protocol on the phone.
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if i push vol up and power it says "failed to boot 2, starting fastboot protocol support" and If I just press power it says "failed to boot starting rsd mode" and neither go anywhere, the second quote is the only one recognized by RSDlite and even then it fails when I start it. Otherwise i found the sbf.
so i hooked my phone up and had to run i let it do its thing, made sure it started creating an image before I left and I got back and my phone was off and the RSD said process failed and executed 100% The battery is dead.... I put it on my charger and it doesnt go to the charge screen it goes to the red "M" and it says "failed to boot 2, starting fastboot protocol support, and battery too low to load" WTF do I do now...
Take apart an old usb cable put the red wire to positive and black to negative on the battery(out of the phone), plug the usb into the factory charger and let it charge for at least 30mins no more than an hour. Pop it in and flash away. Btw any usb will work
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so i hooked my phone up and had to run i let it do its thing, made sure it started creating an image before I left and I got back and my phone was off and the RSD said process failed and executed 100% The battery is dead.... I put it on my charger and it doesnt go to the charge screen it goes to the red "M" and it says "failed to boot 2, starting fastboot protocol support, and battery too low to load" WTF do I do now...
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Nah I dont trust doing that. I have two options. I can leave it plugged in my wall and the screen will automatically come on and say what I mentioned above. Or I have it plugged into my usb drive on my computer, the screen does not come on but a green LED comes on.
7zip for windows can also extract the contents of the rar file.
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Like I said, I already got all that part figured out. Now I'm trying to do it with a dead phone that wont seem to charge.
so which way should I charge it?
Unfortunately your only other choice to manually charging the battery is to buy a wall charger that charges the battery only(online only). I've been there and that's how I came up with manual battery charging.
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so which way should I charge it?
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I cant afford one unfortunately for a while
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I cant afford one unfortunately for a while
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Use scissors my friend, your photon demands a usb cord sacrifice
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i tried it.. hacked up a good usb cable, and they don't stay put... It WILL not charge this way.. I need to do it one of those two ways.. plugging it in to the computer it turns green notification on and then when the comp sleeps it turns on the red M circle and the same words pop up. So I set it so my computer doesn't sleep and tried again, the green LED came on for 10 minutes then went out. Pushed the power button on the phone and the LED came back on, but still the phone wont do anything else.. It wont charge enough to load the RSD.
Use tape
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i tried it.. hacked up a good usb cable, and they don't stay put... It WILL not charge this way.. I need to do it one of those two ways.. plugging it in to the computer it turns green notification on and then when the comp sleeps it turns on the red M circle and the same words pop up. So I set it so my computer doesn't sleep and tried again, the green LED came on for 10 minutes then went out. Pushed the power button on the phone and the LED came back on, but still the phone wont do anything else.. It wont charge enough to load the RSD.
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You realize this is ridiculous... I cant put exposed wires onto a battery and then use tape... especially not knowing whats going to happen or if its even working.
Come on guys nobody knows what to do?
Use electrical tape
Send from my Bad Ass MoPho.
I'm not screwing with the electric...especially in this house.
i tried to restore my phone back to factory default using the 173 fastboot files using the rsd lite method. It gets to step 18/18 and fails and phone wont turn on and white led luminates solid when connected to phone and i cannot return to rsd on phone or even recovery......whats going on here? what do i need to do to fix this? i just need to get this fixed and if anyone can help me get this going i will pay them via pay pal or xbox live microsoft points
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i tried to restore my phone back to factory default using the 173 fastboot files using the rsd lite method. It gets to step 18/18 and fails and phone wont turn on and white led luminates solid when connected to phone and i cannot return to rsd on phone or even recovery......whats going on here? what do i need to do to fix this? i just need to get this fixed and if anyone can help me get this going i will pay them via pay pal or xbox live microsoft points
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It's probably bricked. Did you charge it before flashing?
If you're with battery low message in ap fastboot the you'll need a factory cable wich you can build or buy it over the web
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Did you have full battery?
LOL guess Im slow at responding. Also did you think about using Matts utility? Works great for alot of what needs to be done.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526113
yep
yeah im getting low battery message but seems like i cannot charge....what can i do? im guessing i have to make a cable if that will work to charge....how is this done? FML
lol guess to many options.
Several different options to try.
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yeah im getting low battery message but seems like i cannot charge....what can i do? im guessing i have to make a cable if that will work to charge....how is this done? FML
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This is what you need. Accurate info. You should be fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
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Is there any better tutorials on how to make this factory cable? Those instructions are unclear
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Am I just installinga jumper from red to black or what
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phone bricked, battery won't charge, this fixed the problem:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=qs2t-7ALT7U
Phone so sharp, I sliced myself.
+1 on the cable, but this works too.
Press and hold power and volume down until the screen blinks. Release the buttons and quickly press all three buttons (power, vol up and vol down).
When the bootloader menu pops up, plug in the charger.
Use the volume down button to scroll to the SBF option and use volume up to select it.
Press and hold the power button for about 3 seconds and release it. This will put your phone in the "powered down/charging" mode.
Wait until the battery charges all the way then try again.
I had to try this three times before it worked, so don't give up on the first failure.
i made a factory cable to get my phone flashable....it worked well and flashed the fastboot files using rsd lite...that finished and phone booted up but i have no service or connectivity of any kind and i cannot charge my phone!! i get a white led that stays lit and thats all. i tried volume + - and power and it works for a few seconds then goes blank and white led comes back on can someone please help me
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i made a factory cable to get my phone flashable....it worked well and flashed the fastboot files using rsd lite...that finished and phone booted up but i have no service or connectivity of any kind and i cannot charge my phone!! i get a white led that stays lit and thats all. i tried volume + - and power and it works for a few seconds then goes blank and white led comes back on can someone please help me
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Do you backed up to defaul usb cable?
Turn it off, plug regular charger and go razr default boot menu.
Sekect BP Tools. It should show moto logo and start charging. Let it go 'till fully charged.
You're almost there.
There are alternate procedure to follow in case this don't work.
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no good
okay so i now have red led on and battery charge screen is up so i guess we are good to go.....when i got to my homescreen with factory cable i had no connectivity and all types of stuff force closing is this normal?
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i cannot scroll down to select that volume dowm does nothing
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It's a fastboot menu bug. Press once both volume keys it should start moving.
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hmmm
well its charging now its on 20% i hope when i boot it up i get connectivity back such as data,wifi,gps and so on.... a lot of important proccesses were dying as well but maybe this will all be corrected
r4zrm4xxx said:
well its charging now its on 20% i hope when i boot it up i get connectivity back such as data,wifi,gps and so on.... a lot of important proccesses were dying as well but maybe this will all be corrected
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Good to hear that! If connectivity doesn't work, update ur razr and u will be fine. Now u can do that
Good luck
Cheers
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Thaks so much phone is up and running going to root and pull ics after work today
2 thumbs up!!
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Hey guys, please help me!
I can't enter into boot menu. My phone shows motorola logo and power down(Black screen) every time I push vol- vol+ & power. When I click on power&vol- the phone does the same (shows motorola logo and then black screen). Any ideas? I want to flash the phone to a official motorola room because when i was installing a custom room (Slimkat) the phone bricked.
Thank you in advance.
Qetuo.:crying:
Battery dead? And try having the device plugged into a computer while booting to AP Mode
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vazersecurity said:
Battery dead? And try having the device plugged into a computer while booting to AP Mode
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Looks like you need a factory cable. Team blackhat sells them. I've bought the factory connector. It works just fine. Otherwise you could make a cable yourself. Or if you have a working RAZR around just swap a charged battery for the dead one.
qetuo18 said:
Hey guys, please help me!
I can't enter into boot menu. My phone shows motorola logo and power down(Black screen) every time I push vol- vol+ & power. When I click on power&vol- the phone does the same (shows motorola logo and then black screen). Any ideas? I want to flash the phone to a official motorola room because when i was installing a custom room (Slimkat) the phone bricked.
Thank you in advance.
Qetuo.:crying:
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Is the led showing a steady bright white light? If so then the battery has discharged too far. Do some searching on the web. Some people have recovered from this without a factory cable. As I recall you need to get the battery charged up to 5 or 10% before it will go into AP fastboot.
Try holding the vol down and power button for about 10-20 seconds while plugged into the original Motorola ac charger (some report that the Motorola car charger works too, so try both). Don't use USB or 3rd party chargers.
You may need to let the phone stay on the charger for a few hours and then try the vol down and power button sequence again while connected to charger (you may need to repeat this process several times).
Others have reported that removing sim and SD card and then replacing them allowed the phone to boot.
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