Photon can't boot after flashing pudding, it goes to RSD mode automatically
and rsd flashes fail. I recharged batt with wires and to external charger do not know what else I can do.
I tried different sbf files, different RSDlite ver and different ports but every time
it fail, it goes to 100%, phone is recognized in the app.
My other question is how to retrieve the information in internal memory since I can get another photon is within 30 days from bestbuy.
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Hey folks,
I'm having some issues with my ATT Atrix. The phone keeps rebooting at the "Rethink Possible" screen. I bought this phone off of somebody on CL. I actually had the phone make it past the att screen a couple times. It made it to the setup up Motoblur screen but when I clicked start it just skipped it and takes me to the "Emergency Calls Only" screen. However the phone would just restart eventually at this screen as well. When the screen timed out I could not get the screen to turn back on at this point unless I unplugged the USB cord and plugged it back in. When the phone was on the Emergency Calls screen, my computer did recognize the phone and it did launch the motorola website. While I had the phone at this screen it did say that it had to force close android.process.com. I am coming from a captivate with rooting and flashing roms so I am familiar with Android. I am just trying to figure out where the problem could be with my Atrix. I am hoping somebody can point me in the right direction. Thanks for your time!
Your best bet will be to SBF that back to stock. Have you tried that yet? If not search for RSD Lite and SBF in the forums. There are several links and guides.
Is it unlocked?
I am not sure if it is unlocked as I cannot get past the emergency call screen. However, I will search SBF and research that option of setting it back to stock. I know when I flashed roms on the Captivate I would enter into recovery mode. I see in the Atrix that I would have to use Fastboot? The only reason I am worried about flashing a rom is that the phone reboots on its own so I would not want to hard brick it if it rebooted during a flash.
If it's unlocked you should see the word "unlocked" in the upper left corner of the boot logo screen, unless it was unlocked then flashed back or fruitcake in which case it will not say unlocked.
You should not have issues flashing from recovery if you have enough juice in your battery, which you maybe don't if you have been letting it sit rebooting. The rebooting is more than likely caused by an issue with a kernel, ROM, etc. Think of recovery as being similar to the BIOS on a PC. You enter into BIOS before the OS boots, etc., and this is before all the hardware has initialized and drivers have loaded, so the problem causing the reboots should not exist at that time. I would definitely try flashing a different ROM, and also a stock kernel.
It never said unlocked when I got the phone to turn on. I am having trouble getting the phone to turn on this time. I have downloaded RSD Lite and the 4.5.91 .sbf file to flash. I am just having trouble getting the phone started. Are there any ways to force the phone on. When I press the power button the green LED stays lit but nothing comes on the screen. When I plug into the charger it shows the moto symbol then goes to the Battery charging screen. Im not sure if the battery is correct because it says BHX5 1500mAh on the battery. Thanks for your help guys!
Update: I can get the phone into Fastboot and then Android Recovery Mode when the phone is plugged into the wall charger. However when I connect the phone to the computer via USB it just shows the green led when the phone is powered on. Anyway I can get the phone to boot into Fastboot while connected to the computer via USB?
Bump. Any way to get the phone to turn on when plugged into the computer or anyone know why there would be an issue of the phone turning on when plugged into the wall charger but only showing the green led when plugged into the computer? The battery shows 100% charged. Thanks
Update: I got the phone into RSD mode and flashed the 4.5.91 sbf but the phone only goes to the Emergency Call Screen. Is there anything else that can be done?
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Update: I got the phone into RSD mode and flashed the 4.5.91 sbf but the phone only goes to the Emergency Call Screen. Is there anything else that can be done?
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Did you fastboot -w before flashing the sbf? (Guess you don't really need to when flashing a sbf)
What may also help is flashing the boot.img file from whatever ROM you are using via fastboot.
Don't know if this will help, but it solves an issue when flashing to a different ROM from CM7, so maybe will help for you.
I know this might sound dumb, but do you have a sim card installed? Also, try to boot into recovery and just do a factory reset. @CaelanT already pointed out that this should be unnecessary since you flashed an sbf but it wouldn't hurt to try.
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Update: I got the phone into RSD mode and flashed the 4.5.91 sbf but the phone only goes to the Emergency Call Screen. Is there anything else that can be done?
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EDIT: I reread the OP and realized he had already tried to bypass the start screen.
That is not the correct battery. That is actually a battery used for the Droid X/X2. It seems they have pulled a switch-a-roo on you. (Probably because the Atrix battery could be used as an "Extended" battery in the DX/DX2) Anyways, it should still work but you can find the correct battery online, it should be a BH6X and should have a capacity of 1880/1930mAH.
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...Im not sure if the battery is correct because it says BHX5 1500mAh on the battery. Thanks for your help guys!
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Thanks for the reply. I tried to get the phone into recovery mode. I get to the Exclamation Point screen but it gives me no options for a factory reset. I saw that you have to touch the lower right hand side of the screen, but this doesn't do anything for me.
As far as flashing the boot.img file for the rom that I used. I flashed the stock 4.5.91 motorola rom. How can I find boot.img and would I flash it using RSD?
Also would it help if I flashed a custom rom instead of the stock Motorola 2.3.4 rom?
Could the battery not being the BH6X rom be the issue for it not getting enough power to stay on by itself?
Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it!
No, the sim card was not installed during the flash. However, I did install the sim card afterwards but the phone boots up and goes to the big green battery charging screen and does not go any further. However when the sim card is not plugged in I can get the phone to go to the Emergency Call screen.
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As far as flashing the boot.img file for the rom that I used. I flashed the stock 4.5.91 motorola rom. How can I find boot.img and would I flash it using RSD?
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The following are the instructions for flashing the boot.img. this was the solution to bootloops when trying to restore to a different ROM after CM7, but as I said previously, you never know if it will help or not:
1.Open up the Zip file of your current Blur ROM (Ninja, CherryBlur, Alien, etc.)
2.extract the boot.img file and copy to the directory where your fastboot is.
3.Pull phone battery & reinsert
4.Power on phone and go straight to Fastboot mode (Power + Vol Down)
5.Type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" (exclude quotation marks)
6.Once flashed, reboot phone using "fastboot reboot"
Sorry, don't know how to extract the boot.img from a sbf. Did a quick search and couldn't find instructions. Not something I have done before. Maybe someone else can help with this. I don't even know if this will work, but anything is worth a shot when you are stuck.
<edit> Which CWM are you using?
You can flash Romracers via fastboot if you are not using it. This may help you get into recovery.
Update: I got the phone to recognize the sim card and make phone calls and get wifi active. But the phone still reboots by itself. I can use all the functions of the phone except it just reboots by itself. I got into the About phone section and it says
Android: 2.3.4
Kernel: [email protected] # 2
I can get into the Android Market as well as everything else. Could this be a hardware issue that causes the phone to reboot by itself within a minute or so?
Edit: I can get the vol up and down buttons to work while the phone is working but the power button is not responsive to let me power the phone off. Could a hardware issue with the power button be causing the constant reboot loop?
Update: I got the phone to function with the OS working just fine (phone calls, texts, emails, etc..) but it keeps restarting on its own. The power button still does not work however, could this be a hardware issue? Thanks
Hey guys, I just got a Motorola Photon that I was trying to install the Photon Laser P.ROM
I think I messed up trying to install the SBF file with RSD Lite. (Was following these intructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666 but I forgot to restart the phone into RSD mode the first time I did it).
I proceeded to install the CWM Boostrap loader and boot into recovery and try to install the Photon Laster P.ROM. The ROM had appeared to install fine, but when waiting for it to boot for the first time it got stuck in a boot loop where it hung at the Motorola Logo (After the Dual Processor screen).
I went back and re-read instructions and realized I didn't boot into the RSD mode when installing that part, but when I went to try it again I get a "USB device not recognized error" when RSD Lite tries to re-enumerate. The screen on my Photon also gets glitchy... it's a black screen with a bunch of still noise (kinda like a bunch of polluted snow).
Can anyone point me in the direction of how to fix it?
I've tried pulling the battery and trying again. I've booted into Android recovery and whiped Data and tried again, but I'm still stuck.
When I boot the device into RSD mode and I try to run RSDLite with the SBF file from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666) it creates the image then just keeps giving me that glitched screen look. I've tried other USB ports, other cords, other laptops.
edit: I can't seem to boot into CWM either, if I have my phone plugged into the wall and turn it on it either stalls at the Dual Core screen, or the screen after that with the pulsing logo.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250697 and watch the video about un-bricking your device. you just have to flash the stock sbf file.
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Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250697 and watch the video about un-bricking your device. you just have to flash the stock sbf file.
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Video points to this thread -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666 I had already tried this sbf file yesterday. When I try to flash to it, the phone reboots after creating the image and just goes to a glitched looking screen. RSDLite then failed to re-enumerate.
The video suggests trying different cables or usb ports. I did both of those and even tried a different computer.
edit: Also, the XDA thread linked above has a broken link to its sbf file.
Getting the same issue. Tehxno where u able to fix?
edit: error fixed by downgrading to 154 and then updating from there.
I'm having the same issue although my phone has now been hard reset (with some unfortunate signs of root/rom) and is trying to go thru intitial setup (touch the android) AND IT WILL NOT GO PAST THAT POINT. Just keeps force closing every app in the book.....an fix? other than rsd and sbf
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I'm having the same issue although my phone has now been hard reset (with some unfortunate signs of root/rom) and is trying to go thru intitial setup (touch the android) AND IT WILL NOT GO PAST THAT POINT. Just keeps force closing every app in the book.....an fix? other than rsd and sbf
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go to recovery and wipe. reboot.
Best advice for that issue
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Re-enumerate Failed
I have tried EVERYTHING using all the versions with the RSD lite and I cannot get past the re-enumerate step... HELPPPPPPP please. My photon keep shutting off and I lost my WiFi.
I have a photon with ALIEN ROM+rooted Using AIO method with CWM installed.
I tried to update my photon running using RSD lite with "1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf".
.After completing 75% it failed with the message "failed flashing process.Phone".
After wards I tried "1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf". Still the flashing process fails at nearly 75 %.
I am using RSDLite 5.5 version on windows XP.
What should be done next???How can I check the SBF I downloaded is not corrupt?
Is there any method I can recover my device from this soft brick state???
thanks in advance
I was able to flash 154 successfully
I had a problem last night it would stop at creating image... I later reallized its because I had no space left on my C:. Image file is pretty big when uncompressed.
were you able to flash stock 154???
The failed to boot RSD 2 is generally cause you messed up some place along the line, I've done it a couple times. And I was able to flash the 198 update afterwords and the 154 as well with no issues.
Try going to Yay's thread and download the 198_7 build and flash that. It worked on my phone, so the files shouldn't be corrupt.
I had this happen a couple times..
1) Make sure your phone is charged all the way up
2) Plug your phone into the back of the computer
3) If you used titanium backup to delete something and can't get it back, I'd factory reset/wipe and let the phone update itself,
4) or when you get to stock, flash the latest SBF through RSD again and it SHOULD work
Thank you All. The problem was USB port of my laptop.Changed to another port and it went smoothly
Good deal. Glad that helpes out.
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well i was wondering if you guys can help me out... my phone reboot all of a sudden and now says "fail to boot 4 starting rsd mode battery to low to flash"... but i have it connect on power socket ... when i connect to usb only white led shows up... if any body can help me thanks!!!
Try plugging it in to the wall socket and leaving it to charge. I had my phone in moto logo loop and it powers on when you plug it in, but after a few hours it was able to flash, even though there is no sign it is charging
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ok i will try dat... but when i leave plug in it starts up and it says faill to boot.... starting... battery to low to lfash... ill try dat thanks broe!!
I got working just had to charge my battery on a separate photon so battery could be full and it could flash
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Anymore when I try to flash with RSD, I get a PASS at the end, while I used to get the REBOOT MANUALLY. And when I try to boot the phone afterwards, it only says FAILED TO BOOT 4, STARTING RSD NODE. Sometimes it let's me plug into RSD Lite from there, sometimes it doesn't. Can't use the power button + vol down (or up either), it just goes straight to trying to boot, which fails. After several attempts and battery pulls, I eventually get it back into RSD mode, but it's a little scary that I'm kinda soft bricked for so long. Over the past couple of months it's been happening pretty much every time, no mater if I grab fresh downloads of the SBF files or different versions of RSD Lite. A few times I've had the best luck by flashing into 2.3.3 first, then updating. Anyone else seeing this?
edit: Aha! Just tried the 2.3.4 SBF file from a 3rd source, and it ran fine. <shrug> Luck of the draw?
Okay so awhile back I rooted my XT912 and had safestrap 3.11 installed. I do not recall if I had clockwork mod or not.I had Eclipse ICS installed and was happy with it. At one point I was once again meddling where I shouldn't and wiped my stock rom slot via safestrap. I just booted into the Eclipse on rom slot 1 and forgot about it. I decided to try a cyanogen rom and had it downloaded to my external sd. I went into safestrap and began deleting rom slot 1. Everything was fine until, MY BATTERY DIED... After some more work I had eventually ended up being able to use recovery and flash the internal drive so I could use RSD to boot into a stock bootloader. I keep getting errors there. I do have a backup on my computer. I just really don't know where to go from here as I cant even access safestrap anymore. Please help. I have no idea where to go from here and couldn't find anyone with the same issue and believe me I have spent the better part of two days looking.
Try using this: http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...-verizon-droid-razr-and-droid-razr-maxx-only/
Remember to have a full battery though, or you might hard-brick,
how do i charge? when its plugged in via usb it has a white led and with the wall charger, it stays on the dual core screen for a while or just goes black
Go into fastboot mode does it say? Battery OK? If it does go on and try the Utility.
AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)
0A.74
eMMC Info: Size 16G
To return to normal mode- first press power key to power down
Device is LOCKED. Status Code: 0
Battery Low
Cannot Program
(USB)
Transfer Mode:
USB Connected
(WHEN PLUGED INTO WALL)
Connect USB
Data Cable
You need a factory programming cable(eBay... Hong Kong clone works fine) or a USB factory adapter(team blackhat, Google them). Your phone is bricked and no matter what you do you won't be able to charge it. Once you get the cable or adapter then you'll be able to connect you phone to the computer with it and boot into fastboot mode it will say battery is fine to program because the cable/adapter powers the phone, doesn't charge it. All you have to do from there is use rsd lite and flash the fast boot files. Your phone will be back to stock and you can re-root and install safestrap again.
Good luck
Krooked All Day...
Try to get into the boot loader and select BP Tools and plug in the charger into the wall and see if it charges.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842053
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842053