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Anyone suggest to me the safest way to return to stock , wether it be sbf , fastboot , cwm zip , i really dont know i see people saying bricks and bricks everywhere and all the guides are either 2 months old or void because of something newer. information on this is just so damn scrambled , one guide will link you to another guide to do something else that links to another guide its pretty damn stupid... -_- can anyone just suggest a safe method to return to stock gingerbread? my current setup is OTA gingerbread updated yesterday , unlocked bootloader (done yesterday after OTA flash) and CWM through market and installed Alien, rooted , and webtop mods , anyone please suggest the safest way tor return to that stock gingerbread , i have an unloked bootloader , and i experienced that 0x1000 softbrick before unlocking. but back to the point the SAFESt way to return to stock gingerbread , i dont mind deleting or losing all info just get me my stock XD thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009 Check out this thread its an alternative to sbf's called fruit cakes. It's supposed to be the absolute safest way as far as I know or you could use fast boot to flash the system img and boot img.
Gutterball said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009 Check out this thread its an alternative to sbf's called fruit cakes. It's supposed to be the absolute safest way as far as I know or you could use fast boot to flash the system img and boot img.
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strange ive read fruit cake but ive never seen the thread even after following and searching the atrix android development thread , this is the latest right? and after flashing this i cannot OTA (like we even need it anymore ... was a great innovation tho) but thank you about to flash it to my atrix right now , standard procedure right? full charge , clear cashes , dalvic , wipe battery stats (?) thanks
well i flashed the thing but ALL my user information / apps / homescreen / EVERYTHING is still there , factory reset did no good either , any way to get all my stuff out?
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well i flashed the thing but ALL my user information / apps / homescreen / EVERYTHING is still there , factory reset did no good either , any way to get all my stuff out?
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Heres what I'd do I would grab the latest CWM by romracer then under (mounts and storage) I'd format every single thing except for your pds and your webtop(if you give a crap about it I dont cause I dont have a lapdock) Then reflash the fruitcakes again that should do it.
Depending on where your data is stored, it may not wipe it yes. You can umount internal SD card and format from within the android operating system, or do it through Advanced settings in CWM.
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using even the cwm from market it cant erase my internal sd and give me good clean settings , i dont think romracers wil make any diffrence , and if i have anything other than stock recovery installed if i go to privacy and factory reset that option rebbots but it doesnt even get anywhere and freezes on the recovery screen , and how do i bring up the recovery selection menu in stock recovery i tried tapping the bottom right nothing appeared
it is a known issue of official cwm that there are problems with wipes.You can use it to install the flashable zip of tenfars recovery.This recovery will then enable you to wipe properly from within cwm. I started with the official cwm and had to change as it wouldnt complete certain wipes.
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well i flashed the thing but ALL my user information / apps / homescreen / EVERYTHING is still there , factory reset did no good either , any way to get all my stuff out?
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...don't forget to format your internal sd after you've flashed the rom that you've wanted. once you do that, then you should try factory data reset it. also, disable any screen locks because that can interfere with the process. i hope this helps...
wait isnt tenfars only working if its plugged into the charger? can romracers do the same? what is the best most compatible recovery that works without the charger and why is the forum so god forsaken scrabled i cant even find a simple 1.8.7 radio ~_~ can anyone link this to me and link the suggested recovery if only they put android development into more subforums instead of one giant messy wad maybe then these Q&A forums wouldnt be so goddamn cluttered
EDIT: found 1.87 radio , stupidly these forums are now so scrambled you cannot find the radio by searching "atrix 1.87 radio" you have to put "atrix enable huspa" its stupid imo too scrambled
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wait isnt tenfars only working if its plugged into the charger? can romracers do the same? what is the best most compatible recovery that works without the charger and why is the forum so god forsaken scrabled i cant even find a simple 1.8.7 radio ~_~ can anyone link this to me and link the suggested recovery if only they put android development into more subforums instead of one giant messy wad maybe then these Q&A forums wouldnt be so goddamn cluttered
EDIT: found 1.87 radio , stupidly these forums are now so scrambled you cannot find the radio by searching "atrix 1.87 radio" you have to put "atrix enable huspa" its stupid imo too scrambled
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That is the Bootstrap CWM. You want to download the new version of CWM that requires unlocked bootloader, this version actually intergrates with the android recovery system itself.
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Ok so stock recovery is out of the question since it breaks wiping certain parts, then what would be the best recovery that actually works with factory reset and preferably Rom manager because I like to backup a stock rooted / webtop hemisphere hacked fresh stock before I start flashing rims, so I can just rom hop away like if I ever want to test alien 3 and cherry n I could just return to that starting point and flash. Stock Cwm does this but breaks on /data... so back to the main point tenfar vs romracers rom and which is compatible with what I just explained above thanks can you link your suggestion I find it nearly impossible to find stuff in android development...
If you have an unlocked bootloader then use Romracer's recovery. Use fastboot to get it on there, and while you have fastboot you can use "fastboot -w" to wipe the phone as well. Much of this information is readily available in their respective threads as well. Also, these people here are making good suggestions but you don't seem to want to follow their guidance. Anyways, Use Romracer recovery (just forget about Rom Manager for the time being, it doesn't work right now) and use the fruit cakes to get a stock image (just like others have mentioned). Go into your settings on your phone to "Storage" and unmount both internal and external storage and format. Do wipes of the data, cache, and dalvik prior and after flashing the fruit cake, then back it up. Last I read was the Romracer's recovery was working for backups.
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Ok so stock recovery is out of the question since it breaks wiping certain parts, then what would be the best recovery that actually works with factory reset and preferably Rom manager because I like to backup a stock rooted / webtop hemisphere hacked fresh stock before I start flashing rims, so I can just rom hop away like if I ever want to test alien 3 and cherry n I could just return to that starting point and flash. Stock Cwm does this but breaks on /data... so back to the main point tenfar vs romracers rom and which is compatible with what I just explained above thanks can you link your suggestion I find it nearly impossible to find stuff in android development...
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If you have an unlocked bootloader then use Romracer's recovery. Use fastboot to get it on there, and while you have fastboot you can use "fastboot -w" to wipe the phone as well. Much of this information is readily available in their respective threads as well. Also, these people here are making good suggestions but you don't seem to want to follow their guidance. Anyways, Use Romracer recovery (just forget about Rom Manager for the time being, it doesn't work right now) and use the fruit cakes to get a stock image (just like others have mentioned). Go into your settings on your phone to "Storage" and unmount both internal and external storage and format. Do wipes of the data, cache, and dalvik prior and after flashing the fruit cake, then back it up. Last I read was the Romracer's recovery was working for backups.
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Thank you, finally a comprehensive response that covers everything. In the replies one person suggested romracer and the other tenfar -_- but you clears things up thanks. Now to find out why my battery is so crap lol
I did a search and found nothing. It seems I installed a GSM rom that was said to be a CDMA (I am very careful when reading the detail of a ROM I am going to flash) but it seems that it was not a CDMA ROM. The thing is I have tried to restore my phone every way I know: Droid Razr Utility 1.42 and RSD lite. I have also tried to flash other 4 different "cdma" roms and they do nothing. All of them get stuck in the Welcome Screen (which I bypass with the four corners trick) and I get NO Service.
Does anyone know how to get back to the Stock Verizon CDMA / US version or however it is called that I cannot find it. I have been with 0 communication since yesterday.
Thanks for your help
Yeah but can you use safe strap or get into any other mode? If you can get into fastboot mode then you should be able to use rsd lite. Im using it now. Boy have I been through alot of crap flashing , back to stock etc.. Takes some time but usually works out.
Did you make a backup? I'm guessing no :/
Maybe try flashing this:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/879-rom-totally-stock-rooted-173-flashable-in-bootstrap/
As long as you can boot into safestrap/recovery then you should be ok. Just make sure you fully wipe everything (except your SD card!) before flashing a new ROM.
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Just make sure you fully wipe everything (except your SD card!) before flashing a new ROM.
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Including a format/SYSTEM?
Edit: I formatted "everything" except SDCARD as directed and now the phone doesn't boot in anything but Fastboot. :/ Now what?
Maybe from fastboot use rsd lite to restore to orignal rom. Use matts to help.
That's the thing; I don't find the original ROM for this. Have looked everywhere except where probably someone would direct me to download it.
Ok so I rooted and RoM'd my phone a long time ago with Cherryblur which apparently is no longer supported or updated. It has been so long that I forgot what I did and did not do to get cherry on it. Yesterday I spent most of the day researching how not to brick my phone. Today after doing everything I could find, I am stuck at the motorola screen. It is unlocked on the moto screen, has fastboot and adb installed, I can get into recovery and what seems to successfully recover the cherryblur install just results in a bootloop at the custom animation that is past the motorola screen.
I was trying to flash CM7 (tried neutrino as well) non nightly when this happened. After spending all day on here bouncing around while I was at work I found a fruitcake that seems to be the only thing that will allow my phone to boot which of course I cannot send the link to. Its titled [Fruit Cakes] XDA Re-Release [feb\18\2012] if you need to see it. What am I missing, I have clearly searched and searched these great forums (I do love to research, but find I'm at an impasse now) and am not sure what I need to do to proceed. That fruitcake updated my phone to 4.5.91 and I'm pretty sure I was 4.5.2 from the Cherryblur previously.
Thanks for any help!
Update: After getting fruitcake to work, I figured maybe this fixed my previous issues and tried to install CM7 again. Same story, not moving past the first Moto screen. So I tried recovery of the fruitcake and now the M screen comes up, waits a bit, then looks like it's going to load and starts to flash for about a second on, then off for 2-3, then on and so forth. I reflashed fruitcake after this and it is still working as a new install.
You are probably only softbricked. Do you know what "recovery" software you are using? If you are using romracers or one of the better respected recovery software packages, you should be able to use fastboot (if you have a windows machine) to wipe the relevant partitions on your phone and start again. Essentially, you will want to reinstall cherryblur (or install a new ROM - Neutrino, Nottachtrix, CM9s are all excellent) from your sd card. To do this, you will boot to fastboot and run "fastboot -w" from your pc. Then boot to recovery, and wipe cache, and dalvic for good measure, then install cherryblur or another package from the zip file. This will hopefully square you away and get rid of the boot loops.
My guess is that you did not wipe your partitions completely before attempting a new install, and may be having problems with ext3 vs. ext4 formatting between rom versions. Good luck to you.
Thank you for the reply!
Originally I'm pretty sure it was CWM, through the process of backing stuff up I installed Rom Toolbox from market and that seemed to have changed something? (Not sure here...) The text changed color from what I thought was white to blue and it looked a tiny bit different. The only thing I did not do was the fastboot -w, but I did download the link from [Batch] FFW - Fastboot Full Wipe and ran the fastboot from there, which was supposed to do a full wipe from what I read. Fastboot was previously installed on the phone.
I downloaded the 1.1 version which apparently may not be able to wipe the webtop, though when watching the text during the wipe it seemed to go through. Would you recommend me going to romracers, is it possible that my recovery software is borked somehow or just not compatible with the newer roms? If I got to RomRacer will the process of doing that just get rid of the current recovery software I have on the phone or will I run into issues? As far as the dalvik and cache I did run those, though the instructions for the CM7 said to do that after the install which felt backwards....
Oh yes, and I can't reinstall cherryblur, that rom is gone - you can't even download it anymore. I am doing this because I recently purchased a lapdock and the cherryblur was not doing so hot on it so looking to install a good clean rom (with a nice GUI) that works well on the lapdock as well. Yes, I will put an OC'd kernel on it as well, battery life has never been more than a day on my current rom and I am reading that the newer ones have over 1 day life on them so you could say I'd be used to the battery drain on the 1.3 kernels.
I see...that's frustrating. I think given your situation, I would probably not attempt to go from Blur to CM (at least while attempting to get the phone running again). If I were in your shoes, I would do the following...other more knowledgeable folks may steer you in varying directions, but I have been in your shoes before, and this should work. I am assuming you have use of a PC...if not, this won't be helpful.
1. Install ROMRacers recovery using these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
2. Download Nottachtrix 1.3.1 to your SD card using your PC if necessary, and you will probably want to download the webtop 2.3.6 at the same time. These can be found here: http://www.nottachtrix.com/forum/
3. Boot into fastboot (hold volume down on power up, until fastboot appears, then hit volume up, and use a DOS prompt to do the fastboot commands through the USB on your PC), and do a fastboot -w, then fastboot -reboot.
4. This time boot into recovery by holding volume down on powerup, and hitting volume down seven times (I think) until you see the word recovery, then hit volume up.
5. Use recovery to wipe cache partition, then go to advanced and wipe dalvic cache, and then select factory reset/wipe data. Some of these steps may be duplicative, but I am a belt and suspenders kind of guy.
6. Now go to "install from sd card" and select the Nottachtrix build that you put on your external SD, and make selections using the cool Aroma installer. Once this installs, you can install the newer 2.3.6 webtop (if you need it).
7. Reboot when complete, and you should have the latest stock build in working order, and then you can repeat the process to install Neutrino, CM9 or whatever. Feel free to fire back any questions.
Good luck to you, and if this helps, please hit the "thanks" button!
Ill give this a shot when I get home, darn work blocking the download links for mediafire..... The fruitcake is driving me nuts, no notification bar (my biggest complaint) unless I use ADW launcher, which has for some reason no way for me to get into my texts..... Broken apps, and a real stock feel that is just making me grit my teeth lol.
Can't wait to have a nice ROM on my phone again. Glad the fruitcake got me back up and functional though!
So far so good! Had the notification bar problem like others with the 2.3.6 issue and found that fix (disable email notifications....). When / if I can 'thank' I will! And will keep you updated when I get the time to flash another rom.
Good news that you are back rolling again. Let the ROM flashing addiction continue
So, CM7 is pure sexy - and an OC'd kernel to 1.3 makes me so happy in both CM7 and Nottachrix. Wish I would have done it sooner, I wouldn't have been spending so much time searching for a new phone because my atrix was annoyingly laggy. Lag? What is that? Also, undervolting is AMAZING for battery life, for the first time since owning the phone I did not plug it in last night and even though my usage was in the light to medium area, im still at 66% after 22 hours off charger ! Can't wait to play with CM9.
I know this has been discussed before, but there seems to be a lack of a clear answer.
I'd like to revert to some sort of stock firmware -- one where I could potentially get back on AT&T's update path. (Meaning going into settings > about phone > System updates and grab the OTA) Because of the SBF and OTA issues, I want to ask before I make any changes. I've flashed fruitcakes before and while they put you back on the stock firmware (sort-of), they don't allow you to OTA.
I'm currently on Jokersax's latest ICS build, my bootloader is unlocked and I'm running the most recent CM-Touch recovery.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
I believe the only way is to flash an sbf using rsd lite.
I understand that it is not recommended by some, but it will return you to complete stock. I have personally done three, so I have found it to be safe.
Good luck.
You can flash 4.5.91 sbf safely with RSD Lite to return to stock. I did this many times on numerous atrix's (bl unlocked, custom rom'd) . It is an error-proof method to get back to stock. You'll manually need to enter stock recovery and wipe data & cache after rsd lite finishes its job.
I've never had any issues with flashing sbf files with RSD, done so at least a couple dozen times to return to stock at various stages with multiple phones.
It flashes things that typically you can avoid flashing using other methods. So it has more potential to brick a device if something goes wrong (e.g. accidentally disconnecting the USB cable at the wrong time - oops!). Also, flashing the wrong sbf can brick your device as well. Fastboot flashing can keep other parts of the system intact to allow you to recover from a failed flash easily, RSD flashing is definitely more risky.
Be cautious and make sure you have proper versions of RSD and sbf file when flashing and you should be fine, but understand the risk of technology failing and causing a device to brick still exists, and is outside of your control.
Hi all,
I have a friend with an AT&T Atrix 4G. I've had a Droid X and current have a Galaxy Nexus & Nexus 7. I did everything you could do to the X and know my way around the Nexus very well; the atrix is a little confusing to me. moto-fastboot and the idea that SBFing is bad are new concepts to me. On the Droid X, if you were in trouble, you just SBF'd.
My friend had some trouble with his Atrix the other day, he was stuck at the splash screen, we got it half way fixed and he was in a bootloop, and eventually we got a version of CM9 on there: 9.0.0-rco-atrix-kang. The phone is running now but the ROM is unstable. I'd like to know how to safely downgrade to a CM7 ROM. Is it as simple as booting into recovery, wiping, and flashing the earlier rom? Something blur based would be ideal at this point as he's just looking to have a stable phone back. He got into rooting/ roming on his own so I'm not sure what updates, if any, were on there before he started. Is there an easy way to check and see which bootloader version he's on, find out which SBF we can safely use, etc? He does have it unlocked, so that should make things easier (or maybe harder, this Atrix really is a mystery to me...).
TL;DR - How do you safely downgrade an Atrix 4G from CM9 to CM7 and which recovery is the best to be using?
I used to switch between CM10 and CM7 all the time, if the phone is rooted and bootloader is unlocked, it's as simple as wiping data/cache, wiping dalvik, format system, install ROM, boot, reboot, install gapps.
Did your friend follow directions and make a nandroid of original before wiping? That would be the simplest way.
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He said he had a backup but that when he restored it it was bootlooping. I'm assuming it was some kind of issue with switching recoveries or something like that. With the Droid X there was a recovery for 2nd-init roms and a recovery for blur roms. With the Nexuses it's mostly TWRP or CWM but as long as you're on the latest you can flash anything. Is there any reason to downgrade recoveries on the Atrix? Is there one "up to date" recovery? I see a lot of posts that point to a 2011 thread with the "latest CWM based recovery" but that seems kind of old...
Alright so I think I have this sorted out for the most part, and my understanding is that RomRacer made a version of CWM that we should be using on the Atrix. I just can't find a link to download the thing, is there a thread in development? When I search all I find is a ton of threads telling me to use it and no one linking it.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500 Right?
Or is TWRP better?
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/72
Lot of people love TWRP, but I'm one of the few that still uses RomRacers CWM 5.0.2.7 (I think) and no issues flashing CM10.1 (android 4.2.1) Had it for over a year, and works great every time. If it's not broken, don't fix it.
As for the boot loop, those are usually fixed with a wipe. Try wiping everything and restoring.
Edit: Yeah, that seems like the proper thread. Sorry, haven't looked at it since I first rooted my phone. Try TWRP, most people swear by it. The touch does add a nice feature, but I'm too lazy to make the switch.
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Once you have an unlocked BL and a custom recovery, switching between pretty much all ROMs is safe so long as you stay away from SBFs.
You can flash to stock rom and then install CM7 :laugh:
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Once you have an unlocked BL and a custom recovery, switching between pretty much all ROMs is safe so long as you stay away from SBFs.
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Thanks for the help, I'm glad I checked in. On the Droid X whenever anything went wrong and someone posted a thread like this the first ten replies were "Just SBF" - that used to be safe, until they rolled out .621, but that was end-of-life anyway.
I digress; next time I see him we'll iron this out and he'll be off to the races. Thanks again.