I just bought a used razr and it came rooted with ICS installed. It also had the arctic on the sd card, so i flashed that. I would like a 100% stock rooted rom for a Verizon razr (xt910 i think, correct me if i am wrong). I am new to motorola, so i would like to get used to stock before i start modding. I want to stay rooted with custom recovery if possible so i can flash other roms in the future. Could somebody post a link of what i am looking for, or at least guide me in the right direction? Coming from and Evo and Evo 3d things are way different on a moto. Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23453478
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Im coming over to the photon from E4GT, tired of Samsung.
Anyway, Im confused about the most optimal route for flashing. I see bootstrap, unlocked bootloader stuff. I see a couple kernals, a couple roms....but then there is the OTA thing that will probably occur when I power on the phone. How will affect my rom set up? Why does flashing an ext 4 kernal break the wifi functionality? Why would anyone use bootstrapped method when the bootloader is now unlocked?
Idk, Im just a little photon newb, and I will probably told to go do more reading. But honestly I have such a headache from researching these phones (new sprint customer), dealing with my E4GT probalems....so if anyone feels like typing and introducing me to photon best practices, I will "thank" them.
Thanks guys
Root, Unlock with Pudding, Flash CWM, flash away.
What about that latest OTA? Will my phone alrdy have it?
Root, unlock, flash cwm 5, flash homebase 2.1 with 4.2 update. My phone has been flawless.
Unlock = loose 4g
Even if you get the latest ota the pudding flash takes you back, then whatever the ROM you flash its based on
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And welcome to the photon btw!
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Why use pudding instead of bootstrap?
boolboo said:
Why use pudding instead of bootstrap?
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Bootstrap is a waste of time.
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Just wondering, what problems did you have with your epic touch?
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Flashing issues with bootstrap, possible bricking, only really good for backups... My path for flashing was pudding unlock, root with one click root from shabby, fastboot clockwork onto your phone, then place the ROM of your choice on your phone via cwm... I'm running homebase 2.1 Deblur with update 4.2, and so far not a single problem. Just make sure you know what you are doing and read read read before doing anything. Any questions feel free to pm me or one of the other members and we can help you through everything!
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Hi, I'm kinda new to this and could use some help. I'm using a Moto Electrify that's been rooted and was wanting to install a custom rom. I've been searching through the topics and there seems to be alot of different posts on how to do it. I'm not sure which to use and which rom is the most stable. If someone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. I think the work everyone does is nothing short of amazing.
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as for unlocking here is a great guide simple and easy. http://www.teamuscellular.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=1221
also after you unlock make sure to flash cwm.
Thank you very much for your help and quick reply.
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no problem I actually just did this procedure with no error. I'm also somewhat of a noob so if I can do it I know you can. I am interested though in seeing what people say about custom roms I know joker has one for the electrify and there is one for cm7 jokers people have been having problems with (electrify users).
I've unlocked my electrify and installed the custom recovery, but I didn't see in the post how to actually install a custom rom or kernel. Do I install from sd card with CWM in fastboot. I made a backup, and was wanting to try CM7 with Joker's 1.4 highpro for cm7 old-oc ver.3.
I dont get why we cant have custom roms for the droid razr because, the bionic, the droid 3, droid x, and droid 2 have custom rom even though the bootloader is still locked
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Okay its because there isnt a SBF yet for the device. Once that is leaked and ready to go there wont be much roms. Also the devs need a razr to play with and most devs dont have it yet. In time you will have roms.
What do u mean by sbf?
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tgeigel said:
What do u mean by sbf?
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SBF = System Binary File.
It is a binary image of the stock (unmodified) Droid Razr OS, that can be pushed to the phone through a program like RSDLite. The purpose of this SBF is to be able to restore a phone to factory condition, if something goes wrong.
So, devs need:
* The SBF file, as a baseline and recovery tool
* An unlocked bootloader, so that they can load ROMs onto the phone
* The source code for an Android OS, so they can modify it and actually create the ROM.
So far, I think they only have #3. Items #1 and #2 will come over time.
Misleading title. I thought OP already DEVELOP droid razr rom
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An unlocked bootloader is nice, but not absolutely necessary, there are plenty of phones with locked bootloaders and custom roms.
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An unlocked bootloader is nice, but not absolutely necessary, there are plenty of phones with locked bootloaders and custom roms.
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Agreed. you dont need a unlocked bootloader. Only if you want custom kernels.
hi thanks for your information
We're in a bit of a tough spot right now. We want to mod and play but without a SBF to save us were not going all out and just doing little things. However doing those little things may stop the OTA update if it's recognized that we are messing with our system files. Then we would need an SBF to go back to stock to get the OTA which we may or may not have. So then we will have to rely on a ROM that will work on our version of RAZR. At least with one official SBF for our own RAZR version we can always start at the beginning. I'm trying to keep my mods to a minimum so the OTA doesn't get broke but may be beyond that already, who knows.
Nitro said he had a ROM booting and that he'd post it on DroidRZR today, so.
I'm not new to the flashing ROM game but I am new to the Motorola Droid RAZR. I had a Eris and laetly i had a Droid X2 but now I have a Droid RAZR (CDMA) Starting on 4.0.4 i have tried to flash over two different ROMS ( Eternity Project v3 and Eclipse)
Eternity Project flashed over just right but I had no signal connection. I think that is due to it being a GSM ROM that i later found out. Eclipse didnt flash over the first time using BOOTmenu Manager. Had to use SafeStrap. Everything looked good after reboot but after looking into it, it was should on the stock ROM.
Im kinda stuck on what to do next - i have been reading about some kind of patch? IS this what i need to install / apply? I really like the Eternity Project so if theres a way to have that - it would be nice.
Thanks EhB
I've never heard of a patch to get GSM ROMs to work with CDMA phones I know of CDMA ones to GSM, but you can ask the developer of the ROM.
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Hey folks, a while back performance on the stock Motorola ROM on my Photon 4G got so horrible that I flashed peetr's excellent stock/CM7 hybrid ROM - which is usable with the locked bootloader. It works much better. However I've since switched from Sprint over to Ting, but they can't activate my Photon with peetr's ROM and (after trying - their customer service is pretty good) said I would need to reflash it to stock so they could activate it.
I'm sorry for posting this but I've searched and dug around through the guides and can't really find a good guide to simply flashing back to stock, nor an image of the Sprint stock ROM (after the OTA update that locked the boot loader). Can anyone help? I'm practically ready to buy a used Photon running stock and try to sell this one just to avoid the hassle but I figured I'd ask.
Edit: there is this list of stock ROMs but I don't know which to use since my Photon got the crippling OTA update. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20331570&postcount=3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30332325
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30332325
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Thanks very much - can I just flash the correct one by renaming it update.zip and using Bootstrap Recovery?
I do have to click 'Install Recovery' and then 'Recovery Mode' in the Bootstrap Recovery app each time to get a working recovery boot, if that makes any difference.