the Phone wont boot its not rooted or anything and i have no idea what to do i only root htc and samsung phones and ive never heard of RSD Protocol. Sprint is trying to tell me it needs to be replaced but i dont believe thats true. Is there any way to get the phone out of this mode? Any help is Appreciated
By not boot do you mean that when you try to turn it on nothing happens (no lights, no logo, nothing on the screen) or it boots but you see the motorola logo and "RSD" at the top of the screen? If you are seeing "RSD" at the top of the screen then you should be able to flash the phone.
Go to the "Software version release history" section of my Motorola Photon Compendium.Download and unzip 2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6
Go to the "Root/Unlock/Relock Method and Files" section. Download the "Root-Unlock-Relock Pack".
Move the SUN-198_6 sbf that you extracted to the "SBF's" subfolder located in the "rsd" folder.
In "rsd drivers" folder of the pack locate and install the appropriate drivers (32 or 64bit windows)
Turn on your phone and connect it to you computer. Your computer will in detect and install the needed drivers
Once your computer as finished install drivers launch RSD.exe located in the rsd folder.
From here it should be pretty self explanatory.
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By not boot do you mean that when you try to turn it on nothing happens (no lights, no logo, nothing on the screen) or it boots but you see the motorola logo and "RSD" at the top of the screen? If you are seeing "RSD" at the top of the screen then you should be able to flash the phone.
Go to the "Software version release history" section of my Motorola Photon Compendium.Download and unzip 2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6
Go to the "Root/Unlock/Relock Method and Files" section. Download the "Root-Unlock-Relock Pack".
Move the SUN-198_6 sbf that you extracted to the "SBF's" subfolder located in the "rsd" folder.
In "rsd drivers" folder of the pack locate and install the appropriate drivers (32 or 64bit windows)
Turn on your phone and connect it to you computer. Your computer will in detect and install the needed drivers
Once your computer as finished install drivers launch RSD.exe located in the rsd folder.
From here it should be pretty self explanatory.
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The phone boots but it stays at the Motorola dual core technology screen and it says RSD protocol and battery is to low to flash. But ivee had it connected to the charger for hours. But I will try out what you said if sprint still refuses to fix it. Thank you for your response.
Alex1123 said:
The phone boots but it stays at the Motorola dual core technology screen and it says RSD protocol and battery is to low to flash. But ivee had it connected to the charger for hours. But I will try out what you said if sprint still refuses to fix it. Thank you for your response.
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Do Not flash with that battery low warning. Do this. Pull the battery, plug phone into your charger (USB to PC doesn't count), insert battery. Leave the phone alone for at least 3 hours. Press, do not hold down, the power button. The phone will display a charge level status. Once you have at least 70% charge, then start the rsd flashing not before.
Thank you again for the help I will try this when i have the phone again right now its being checked out by sprint again.
Alex1123 said:
Thank you again for the help I will try this when i have the phone again right now its being checked out by sprint again.
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You are most likely wasting you time with a Sprint Service Center. I wrote the procedure for restoring/returning to stock via RSD and would receive tons of emails that were "I don't get it".
oh turns out i do have the photon on me right now but one thing i noticed after the first time it was serviced by sprint is the power button doesnt click or anything. at the sprint repair center they took it apart and even made a call with it but put it back to RSD Protocol mode?? But im not the owner of the photon but im sure the power buttton is supposed to have some kind of feed back correct?
so after i took the phone to the repair center he thought i rooted it and installed something wrong but said ill replace it this time. Now ive never rooted it but it randomly booted into safe mode? but when i turned it off it wouldn't boot again and went right into starting RSD protocol support? i got a feeling that one of the buttons is stuck and when i boot it goes into this mode anyone else have any ideas why it might be doing this?
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FWIW, I went through the same thing. Ended up sending mine to Motorola and they sent a replacement.
When I screwed up my I sent it too to motorola and they send me replacement
even I have insurance with sprint I didn't want to deal with.
When I had it I got it to boot but it would only boot into safe mode with a Motorola tool I found on the Droid 3 forums but anyways I just went in and got it replaced
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I found this thread by searching for my own issue, which is similar but a battery pull solves it. I'm simply attempting to do a factory reset on my non-rooted photon and going through the first step of factory reset procedure (power on while holding volume up), it shows the Motorola logo with "starting RSD protocol support" at the top and locks up. Again, pulling the battery fixes the lock up and it reboots normally.
But I'm at a loss how to get it to perform a factory reset.
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No longer need to do a factory reset. If you care, you can read my other post in the general Q&A titled "Amazon app store shenanigans". Turns out when I uninstalled the amazon app store, my phone was horribly lagging in every application including the home screen, notification bar, etc. After a couple hours troubleshooting (I didn't immediately recognize the lagging was related to the app store uninstall), I reinstalled the amazon app store for unrelated reasons and the lagging disappeared.
However, I still would like to know how to reset this phone if the need ever arises.
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I had the same RSD Protocol error...
How it happened:
I held the power and volume up button at the same time to power on my phone.
How I fixed it:
Took out the battery and turned my phone on regularly. (Sans the volume up button.)
I have a motorola electrify (rebadged motorola photon) and i was simply playing with the buttons to bring up that menu for fast boot, safe mode, etc... I haven't flashed mine either, trying to wait for official ICS to be released for it, and mine done the exact same thing one day! Want the fix?
1. I removed back, my case, and battery, put it back in after 30 seconds... actually a little longer cause I was doing Java homework
2. put it back battery back in but left back and Trident Aegis case off... DID SAME THING! so repeated step 1 and just played around mashing buttons kinda hard on sides and the power button(almost so hard it felt i could break something inside) but this phone is tough.
3. After putting back back on but not case, i tried again. SAME RESULTS ONCE AGAIN! looked at side buttons closely and noticed the up,down volume buttons are slightly more downward... more gap up top... so slide-pushed(sorry for lack of better word) the buttons upward, removed battery for a couple minutes and tried again.... and BOOM SHOCKA LOCKA!!!!! This was one grateful broke college kid that did not want to go back to his HTC touch pro2!
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[*]Turn on your phone and connect it to you computer. Your computer will in detect and install the needed drivers
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Mine doesn't appear to do anything at all. Is there some way to force the detection and installation?
Lokifish Marz said:
Do Not flash with that battery low warning. Do this. Pull the battery, plug phone into your charger (USB to PC doesn't count), insert battery. Leave the phone alone for at least 3 hours. Press, do not hold down, the power button. The phone will display a charge level status. Once you have at least 70% charge, then start the rsd flashing not before.
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As soon as I connect the battery-less phone to the charger it shows the RSD message. Once I insert the battery, it starts heating rapidly. Tapping the power button does nothing.
Wife's phone, 100% stock. This happened in Mexico, so going to a Sprint store is out of the question.
Any ideas?
I cant access the files. It says forbidden.
Lokifish Marz said:
By not boot do you mean that when you try to turn it on nothing happens (no lights, no logo, nothing on the screen) or it boots but you see the motorola logo and "RSD" at the top of the screen? If you are seeing "RSD" at the top of the screen then you should be able to flash the phone.
Go to the "Software version release history" section of my Motorola Photon Compendium.Download and unzip 2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6
Go to the "Root/Unlock/Relock Method and Files" section. Download the "Root-Unlock-Relock Pack".
Move the SUN-198_6 sbf that you extracted to the "SBF's" subfolder located in the "rsd" folder.
In "rsd drivers" folder of the pack locate and install the appropriate drivers (32 or 64bit windows)
Turn on your phone and connect it to you computer. Your computer will in detect and install the needed drivers
Once your computer as finished install drivers launch RSD.exe located in the rsd folder.
From here it should be pretty self explanatory.
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Are these downloads still around?
dug an old Moto us cell electrify mb853 out of the archives and wanted to do some flashing
Looking for the compendium of photon stuff.
Any chance this is still online somewhere. I have looked properly. I think.
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First of all, I'm not sure if my Vibrant is "hardware-locked" or not - the battery has a date of 8/25/10 printed on it, the sticker behind the battery says "10.09." Either way, I cannot get into download mode. The phone was purchased 1 week ago today. I was simply attempting to disable the voodoo lag fix (using bionix 1.3 rom). I have tried every combination of getting the phone into download mode that I can find - is it possible? I sometimes think it's close to working because during the process a window on my computer pops up that says "hardware not installed correctly" which to me means that I was close. Someone please tell me if it's even possible to get my phone into download mode - it will start up, do the samsung galaxy animation, then go to black screen with the bottom buttons lit up. Thank you for any help you can provide - it makes me ill that I spent $500 on this 1 week ago and am now faced with a complete brick.
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First of all, I'm not sure if my Vibrant is "hardware-locked" or not - the battery has a date of 8/25/10 printed on it, the sticker behind the battery says "10.09." Either way, I cannot get into download mode. The phone was purchased 1 week ago today. I was simply attempting to disable the voodoo lag fix (using bionix 1.3 rom). I have tried every combination of getting the phone into download mode that I can find - is it possible? I sometimes think it's close to working because during the process a window on my computer pops up that says "hardware not installed correctly" which to me means that I was close. Someone please tell me if it's even possible to get my phone into download mode - it will start up, do the samsung galaxy animation, then go to black screen with the bottom buttons lit up. Thank you for any help you can provide - it makes me ill that I spent $500 on this 1 week ago and am now faced with a complete brick.
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Were you using one click root?
nomadrider123 said:
Were you using one click root?
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yes, when i rooted it, i used 1-click
Try this:
Take battery out
Put battery back in
DO NOT TURN ON PHONE!
Plug in USB
Wait for the green battery screen
Hold vol+ and vol- at the same time
Hold power
When the battery screen goes black, let go power ONLY.
I had a HW locked phone and this method allowed me to get into DL mode--still couldn't get into recovery, but at least I could use ODIN. Was a null point as the phone is bricked and a new one is on its way...
When you say a new one is on its way, did T-Mobile exchange it under warranty even though it was rooted?
TheSneakerWhore said:
Try this:
Take battery out
Put battery back in
DO NOT TURN ON PHONE!
Plug in USB
Wait for the green battery screen
Hold vol+ and vol- at the same time
Hold power
When the battery screen goes black, let go power ONLY.
I had a HW locked phone and this method allowed me to get into DL mode--still couldn't get into recovery, but at least I could use ODIN. Was a null point as the phone is bricked and a new one is on its way...
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If the above doesn't work.
Plug in USB to PC only
Insure Phone is off
Hold in Vol + and -
Plug in USB to Phone Holding Vol + and -
Release Vol + and -
Walla you are in Download Mode
Neither of these methods worked. what are the chances of t-mobile performing an exchange for me if all else fails?
you could try this too, it worked for me.
remove battery and put it back in.
plug in usb
hold vol up, vol down and power button.
when you see the vibrant home screen, keep holding the three buttons until the screen turns dark.
let go the power button and vol up but keep vol down pressed, you should be in download mode.
hope this help.
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Since we all seem to have our own variations of this method, I can tell you the one that worked for me 99.99% of the time on the first try when I was stuck at the Phone ! Computer screen.
1) Remove battery
2) Hold Vol - and Power
3) Insert battery while holding these buttons
4) Plug in USB if it works.
Some have reported T-Mo swapping the device due to the inability to access download/recovery mode, but it doesn't seem to be something they will regularly do. Others have been successful by using the inaccurate GPS issue to get a replacement. Specifically by insisting it is not just inaccurate, but downright non-functional.
dsmithok said:
When you say a new one is on its way, did T-Mobile exchange it under warranty even though it was rooted?
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Yea...I tried relashing the stock rom using ODIN--for 4 hours over and over. It said "successful" in ODIN, but the phone was toast (would go past S boot screen then nothing. Just walked into TMO, said it "just would not do anything" with a feigned puzzled look and after a amateur cursory inspection the rep. just did his thing on the computer and a new phone is being sent to my house via UPS.
I just tried to update my phone to JI6.. I was rooted, with no lag fixes or GPS fixes ever applied. Update didn't work, just left me at the "Vibrant" screen for 30+ minutes. I tried to fix with Odin and JI6 file, but I unplugged the phone while in download mode before Odin started. Now I'm stuck at the "phone ! computer" icon. I've tried holding both volume keys and power while the phone is plugged in to the computer and then inserting the battery, but this doesn't work. I've also tried holding them all down after it goes to that screen, and it reboots, but always comes back to the same screen.
Did I brick my Vibrant completely?
This has been posted 2 billion and a half times already. You can still get into download mode. Just do what you would normally do to get into download mode but hold the buttons for a little longer until download mode comes up. Seriously, please use the search button people.
Your problem is you shouldnt be touching power to get into download mode.
First open odin.
Remove battery, put battery back in
Hold voth volume keys, do not touch power. Then plug in usb. Continue holding volume keys for a few seconds.
Or the way you were doing it. Remove battery, plug in usb, hold only the volume keys, then put the battery back in.
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i've tried this a million times, is there any other way to get passed the phone ! computer screen? i've tried every single combination of button holds, battery removes and usb plugging and nothing other that that screen will come up.
You are not bricked. Follow these steps EXACTLY:
1. remove battery, sim and sd
2. Open Odin
3. Connect usb to phone
4. Hold down both volume keys and power
5. but battery back in
6. once the screen blinks, let go of the power button
7. keep holding both volume keys until the downloading screen starts
8. Flash back to stock. I always go back to stock after something like this just to make sure that nothing got corrupted. Also check the re-partition option.
9. Point and laugh at your phone with an evil henchman kind of laugh. The bastard didn't defeat you yet!!!
no luck doing that, only ever shows the phone ! computer screen
c0wb0ycliche said:
no luck doing that, only ever shows the phone ! computer screen
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then it sounds like you have a hardware locked Vibrant. Time for a warranty replacement.
c0wb0ycliche said:
no luck doing that, only ever shows the phone ! computer screen
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maybe you have one of the defected ones which people have been calling "hardware locked" if thats the case call tmobile and exchange it. they're getting hundreds of calls on this with various errors, nobody will suspect one more.
c0wb0ycliche said:
i've tried this a million times, is there any other way to get passed the phone ! computer screen? i've tried every single combination of button holds, battery removes and usb plugging and nothing other that that screen will come up.
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please keep us updated as to what happens. I had the same problem with my first Vibrant but I had borked it with Voodoo. Even though I COULD get into download mode, ODIN would never work to fix it, even with repartition checked. It would just say "DO NOT UNPLUG TARGET!" and stayed there for hours. For this reason I am VERY leary of using ODIN again. Luckily, my local T-mo was nice enough to replace the phone for me, no questions asked.
I really want to find a ROM or something I can flash with clockwork to get me back on the JFD baseband because I have a stock kernel and a nandroid that is stock with root, then I can just use the 1-click unroot and do the OTA and not have to use ODIN. At least that's my theory
Just keep trying it
I had this problem yesterday I unplugged early while doing a odin flash and because Odin had stopped responding then when I pulled the battery and tried to start the phone I kept getting the phone ! Computer notification on my phone what I did was pulled the battery and connect the phone to the usb cable and hold the up and down volume keys at the same exact time I was plugging it in. the phone looked like it was going to showed a loading screen like the battery icon was about to pop up but it then went black and the download screen popped up... Ta Da... Don't give up so easy I didn't get it on my first time either took me about 45 minutes before I got it to work download mode is tricky even without a soft brick my friend so just keep swimming
Please Help me
I have the same problem, and hardware locked. i bougth from other guy in craiglist, T-mobile say cant do nothing for me, because the IMEI number is of the other account not me. and the guy dont respond my calls. the phone is 10/10 new. just try update with odin and this has bricked.
somebody can help me with ideas
Try this, it is slightly different from what the guy earlier said..
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have Odin OPEN with admin privileges!
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
Continue holding the volume keys & you should pop into DOWNLOAD mode within a few seconds
It worked for me when I did this.
Ps.. Put this in the Q&A section next time
Master™ said:
Ps.. Put this in the Q&A section next time
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NO! We don't flame him until AFTER we fix his problem.
rudeguy said:
NO! We don't flame him until AFTER we fix his problem.
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Did I flame? ahha get out
I wish the mods were faster on moving this stuff. how many "my phone has problems" threads have come up in development now?
jeez.
designerfx said:
I wish the mods were faster on moving this stuff. how many "my phone has problems" threads have come up in development now?
jeez.
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easy fix:
Don't click on them
designerfx said:
I wish the mods were faster on moving this stuff. how many "my phone has problems" threads have come up in development now?
jeez.
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Last i heard there is only one active mod for the vibrant forum, and he's a hardworking dev as well, they are taking apps for more mods, if you meet the criteria.
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Br1cK'd said:
Last i heard there is only one active mod for the vibrant forum, and he's a hardworking dev as well, they are taking apps for more mods, if you meet the criteria.
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funny part:
His first post was a "help me" post not in the Q&A forum
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4563336&postcount=7744
wildklymr said:
maybe you have one of the defected ones which people have been calling "hardware locked" if thats the case call tmobile and exchange it. they're getting hundreds of calls on this with various errors, nobody will suspect one more.
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Personally i don't believe the hardware locked issue, i got mine in late August, has the same manufacturing date as many others who claim to be locked, and I have never had an issue getting into recovery or dl mode. There is a ton of information out there on this, seek and ye shall find, just be ready to do a ton of reading, take your time and don't get frustrated. Its OK to walk away and take a break, do something else for a bit and recharge your mental.
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Try this, it is slightly different from what the guy earlier said..
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have Odin OPEN with admin privileges!
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
Continue holding the volume keys & you should pop into DOWNLOAD mode within a few seconds
It worked for me when I did this.
Ps.. Put this in the Q&A section next time
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This way works, i also have had success switching steps 4 and 5, usb first then battery, keep trying until you get it.
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I was getting the phone vs computer screen last night. I had flashed the J16 official tar using Odin. Everything went perfect. Phone restarted at 1st try with no issues. I then re-rooted phone again with no problems. Then I went to load the segmented battery icon. When the phone booted up, I got FC messages and it wouldn't actually get to the home screen. I decided to reflash J16 and Odin failed. The screen went from the download screen to a black screen. I had to pull the battery and try again. When I tried to put it in download mode again, I got the phone~pc screen. I just did a battery pull again and when I tried again, I got the phone~pc screen again but I just kept holding the volume and power buttons and it eventually went into download mode again. That time I was successful in loading J16. I re-rooted and left it at that.
--WHEW--
I tried to find the answer without posting a new thread. I honestly did. But I'm stuck and it's 6am and I thought I'd ask while I'm still semi-literate.
I soft bricked the **** out of my atrix. I was flashing an sbf to it using rsdlite. All was going smoothly BUT I am a jackass and my phone battery was like... 20% so it died halfway through and now, all I get is:
SVF: 105:1:2
Failed to boot 0x1000
NO OS Detected, Going to RSD mode,
a menu of options,
etc.
Now I made a factory dev cable by connecting the 5v to pin 4. So I can get this far without the stupid battery message. My problem is that I can't do anything else?! While before (when it was working) it came up in RSDlite when it was in RSD, now it doesn't
I reinstalled drivers and RSDlite, rebooted, tried different computers and tried differed USB ports...
I'm not sure what the problem is? I just cant get my computer to see it, even though it turns on and gives me the menu as soon as I plug it in. If I press the up volume key when I plug it in I get
SCF:105:1:2
Failed to boot 0x1000
PwrReason: Factory_Cable
PwrReason: Power_Cut
Starting Fastboot protocol support.
That's all I've got. Please guys, I really need my phone and I need to find a way to get that sbf on there!
Thanks
Edit: Just like to add that I'm running Windows 7, 32 bit with the latest drivers and rsd lite 5.3.1
Is there any chance the second time you are starting RSD you haven't opened the application using administrative privileges?
I'm assuming he knows you can't flash with a certain battery percentage. You've tried charging it and trying again right?
Thanks for the replies guys,
Admin privileges isn't the problem I'm sure of that.
I ran around the last few days trying to find somewhere to charge the battery (motorola phones are pretty much nonexistent in Australia) and try again, I just assumed the factory/dev cable would circumvent that problem. Anyway I had no luck so I bought a standalone charger off ebay which should come on monday.
I'll try when I get the battery charged and post the results in case anyone has a similar problem.
Fingers crossed!
Mine did that too cause I did the same thing and didn't fully charge my battery. Everything worked out when I let it charge for a little while.
Sent from my Atrix
Im curious my ATRIX came with gingerbread 4.5.91 if I messed something up how would I return it to stock what sbf should I use?
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How did you let it charge? Just plug it in and leave it at that bootup menu where it tries to go into RSD?
Nas939 said:
How did you let it charge? Just plug it in and leave it at that bootup menu where it tries to go into RSD?
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you can pull out the battery and plug it into a wall charger, and it should boot into a charging mode.
if that doesn't work, you could also rip apart an old USB cable and connect the positive and negative wires to the positive and negative contacts of the battery while it's plugged into the phone - this will force a current into the battery and charge it up. you can look for a video on youtube that shows you how to do it if you just search 'charge any phone without a charger'
Can't you just do a factory reset?
In any case this should help you without having to flash any sbfs
http://www.technipages.com/2-ways-to-factory-hard-reset-motorola-atrix.html
If not then the sbf should be here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
If you're on AT&T in the US I think you'd need the first one.
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.
Nickdroid86 said:
so which way should I charge it?
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I cant afford one unfortunately for a while
Nickdroid86 said:
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
Nickdroid86 said:
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
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I'm not screwing with the electric...especially in this house.
Hello, I've been using my old x2 as my PDA/MP3 player. I also have put custom ROM on it because... It's fun!!
What's not fun is my locked up phone, here's what occurred... I tried to sbf my phone and received an error flashing (had all correct Motorola drivers/rsd lite. So as it failed and never even cleared out my phone I decided to use my iso boot disk instead. The disk came up, ran normal, said flashing was complete..... nightmare began....
Now I cannot boot into recovery New/old. I can't boot the phone. I can't do anything. The phone starts, I get the Motorola dual core screen (can't hold volume keys to get to rsd/fastboot/etc. The phone will get to the point of booting but will come up with screen which says...
"Failed to boot number 4"
"Starting rsd....."
Then when I go into try anything rsd (iso disk or rsd lite) the phone will either shut off right away and loop sometimes to same screen. Or it will come back when plugged into pc saying battery (which is fully charged) is to low to flash....
I'm going crazy...
Are there any other restore tactics?
I can't erase battery stats because I have no recovery... I've always followed instructions and flash roms for nearly every manufacturer of phones over the years. I am stumped....
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Hello, I've been using my old x2 as my PDA/MP3 player. I also have put custom ROM on it because... It's fun!!
What's not fun is my locked up phone, here's what occurred... I tried to sbf my phone and received an error flashing (had all correct Motorola drivers/rsd lite. So as it failed and never even cleared out my phone I decided to use my iso boot disk instead. The disk came up, ran normal, said flashing was complete..... nightmare began....
Now I cannot boot into recovery New/old. I can't boot the phone. I can't do anything. The phone starts, I get the Motorola dual core screen (can't hold volume keys to get to rsd/fastboot/etc. The phone will get to the point of booting but will come up with screen which says...
"Failed to boot number 4"
"Starting rsd....."
Then when I go into try anything rsd (iso disk or rsd lite) the phone will either shut off right away and loop sometimes to same screen. Or it will come back when plugged into pc saying battery (which is fully charged) is to low to flash....
I'm going crazy...
Are there any other restore tactics?
I can't erase battery stats because I have no recovery... I've always followed instructions and flash roms for nearly every manufacturer of phones over the years. I am stumped....
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First, make sure the battery is charged up. You can't RSD without at least 20% battery. Simply plug it in and let it charge, then try again after about an hour.
Also, make sure you are using the correct SBF file. It could've been a bad download, or worse you flashed one for another phone.
I've had nothing but trouble RSDLite and personally only use sbf_flash. So using the iso boot disk is recommended by me.
Yes, I agree that rsd lite will never again be the way I go. The disk had been much handier. Only problem is that I was out of disks, I was also without my CD in the office. I have done plenty of rsd reboot/reflash. Didn't expect this which is why I then went, got my CD, tried again.
Strange thing is the disk is what brought the issue I have at hand to light. So...
I really appreciate the insight for future occurrence avoidance.
How would you suggest fixing problem at hand?
The battery is full charge... It's that 2.3.5 battery glitch still coming back to light. The battery should be full. Now I end up in that strange loop, I don't even know if my battery is now charging or not...
Ugh... I really wish I could figure out exactly where I went wrong as well.
Thanks again for the response!
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Yes, I agree that rsd lite will never again be the way I go. The disk had been much handier. Only problem is that I was out of disks, I was also without my CD in the office. I have done plenty of rsd reboot/reflash. Didn't expect this which is why I then went, got my CD, tried again.
Strange thing is the disk is what brought the issue I have at hand to light. So...
I really appreciate the insight for future occurrence avoidance.
How would you suggest fixing problem at hand?
The battery is full charge... It's that 2.3.5 battery glitch still coming back to light. The battery should be full. Now I end up in that strange loop, I don't even know if my battery is now charging or not...
Ugh... I really wish I could figure out exactly where I went wrong as well.
Thanks again for the response!
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So you still only have access to RSD on the phone? Or did it accept the SBF? I'm thinking that you flashed another phone's sbf file.
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Yes, if you could re-read my first post for sake of my key stroke would be great. The phone does not boot I'll try and snap a quick pic with other phone and show what happens. This is only thing which happens in a complete loop... can't get into new or old restore/bootstrap. Can't get it to load any of the basic rsd menu options. If I plug into pc it tells me battery is not charged enough. Or just shuts down with disk or boot CD. It's insane!
It's most definitely the RIGHT folder. All of my phone have their own nearly organized files. None of them flash the same way. Droid X2, HTC EVO 4G, Galaxy Nexus..... Yeah, I know the files ok but good thought!
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Have you tried to turn the phone off, put it directly into RSD mode then run RSD program with the correct SBF file?
That's the problem, I never can "put" it in to rsd mode. I start the phone simply by plugging it in it automatically boot into that loop. Nothing I've found will load such as restore, boot loader, etc.
When it says it's going into rsd, it either turns itself off when in that phase and I start rsd. Or it will give me an error stating battery is not charged enough (it's got a full charge, already tested with multimeter)
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If you got a spare charger around can jerry rig it. If you know what im talking about. If that don't work with the battery issue then if your under contract I'd go get a replacement. Do it by phone as they will not check your device once you send it back.
I've got plenty of spare charger...
What do you mean "Jerry rig" though?
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Cut the end off that plugs into your phone, then use the ground and hot wire inside the power cord. Put them on the correct ends of the battery without touching the others, can tape them to it then put the battery back in the phone making sure the wires don't move or touch anything else. Then have the one with wires on your battery plugged into the wall, the usb from your phone to your computer then turn RSD on your phone, then try to SBF it. If you still get that arrow do the other option and call and get a replacement. Ive saved a many of phones doing the jerry rigging of the charge. But if it works and you can SBF then when the steps are complete undo the wires and walla.
I like it!
Let me get some stuff together and put this to the test!
I'll post my results!
Thanks!
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This is the EXACT thing that happened to me about to weeks ago when trying to SBF back to 2.3.4, a task that I've done many times.
I got the "failed to boot" etc screen that you have. Basically I kept trying to SBF (it still wasn't working) and eventually I got the "battery too low to flash" screen.
Since the battery wasn't actually charging at all because of this weird boot screen, I had to drive down to my local RadioShack where they had some device that would charge ANY battery. It was sweet, AND they let me use it for free at their store. So they popped my X2 battery in and I went to the nearest bookstore to get some work done. Came back two hours later and my battery was charged.
But that's all besides the point. Basically what I did to fix it was I kept trying to SBF and eventually it worked. I downloaded another 2.3.4 sbf file to make sure (even though I've used the same file many times) and I even downloaded a 2.3.5 sbf file and began "alternating" between the three in rsd lite, hoping that one of them would "catch". Eventually I believe my original 2.3.4 file caught and my droid was back to normal.
Sorry for your troubles! This problem sucked and it freaked me out a lot when it happened. But I think you'll be fine. Don't worry too much about it like I did!
Disention said:
Then when I go into try anything rsd (iso disk or rsd lite) the phone will either shut off right away and loop sometimes to same screen. Or it will come back when plugged into pc saying battery (which is fully charged) is to low to flash.
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I have had problems with my DroidX2 not staying charged while being plugged-in to the a usb port on the computer ... I had to use a usb wall-wart for consistent chargeing.
So, if your battery is haveing trouble staying charged (or not) try connecting it to a usb wall-wart and let it charge for at least a couple (~2) hours.
Also, how old is the battery? (I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with you issue, but it could affect chargeing and battery-life)
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That's the problem, I never can "put" it in to rsd mode. I start the phone simply by plugging it in it automatically boot into that loop. Nothing I've found will load such as restore, boot loader, etc.
When it says it's going into rsd, it either turns itself off when in that phase and I start rsd. Or it will give me an error stating battery is not charged enough (it's got a full charge, already tested with multimeter)
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The following steps can also be seen here -or- see the original sbf/rsd instructions (note: the sbf files are not available at this time)
key instructions at step #10:
With the X2 in a completely POWERED DOWN state, press and hold the volume up button on the top right hand side of the phone. While still holding the volume up press and hold the power button until the screen turns on. At the top of the screen you should see "Starting RSD protocol support" once this text appears you may release the volume up button.
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