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Posted Today, 02:13 AM
Hi there....i recently purchased a Razr and had many problems gaining root and flashing ROMS. It took me over 3 days to figure out, and i just want to post my experiences and advise people who may be struggling. I have a XT 910 model GSM as i live in UK. I originally rooted using Doomlord V2 Zergrush and that worked fine while i was on GB 2.3.5. I had an OTA update to 2.3.6 and i lost root. Zergrush didn't work on my model again, so i had to use motofail which worked perfectly.
When installing recovery, i installed safestrap first. I could enter CWR on reboot, but ROMS would not install. I would get a black screen, and then i would have to do a hard reset to get my phone working again. I would still be in stock. The reason for this is because safestrap isnt working on GSM phones. (International models, well some of them!) Safestrap works on CDMA models such as in USA. The reason for this is because the system partition on EU GSM models(XT910) is smaller than the partition on CDMA USA models (XT912). So, we have no choice but to use bootstrap.
If you installed safestrap and experienced these problems, make sure you boot into CWR, advanced, mounts and storage, and format system. Then uninstall. If you install bootstrap without doing this, you wont be able to enter CWR in bootstrap. You will end up stuck at the motorola splash screen and will have to hard reset everytime. You will not get any further.
If you uninstalled safestrap without doing this, reinstall it, and do this, then uninstall recovery from the app and make sure you completely remove it from the device system. Then install bootstrap.
There will be an additional file you will need to save to your SD card named RAZR-CWMonboot-Global-J.Y.Daddy.zip. Select bootstrap recovery and "success" should appear. Then, select reboot recovery, and hopefully, you should enter CWR mode on reboot. Make sure you install RAZR-CWMonboot-Global-J.Y.Daddy.zip file from your SD card. Everytime you flash a file ALWAYS flash this file before rebooting. Everytime you flash a file you are writing over you system, so it is important you do this or you wont be able to enter CWR if you ever get a bootloop or stuck etc....
Once you have flashed the ROM of your choice, and rebooted ,go into your Superuser app and toggle bootstrap into denied. There's a face at the bottom of Superuser app....make sure bootstrap is denied. Thats it!
This is what worked for me...UK model XT910 on O2 network. I'm by no means an expert, but i have worked on a couple phones. Motorola Atrix was my last one, so i have a bit of an idea. If i can help...please message me and i'm more than willing if i can. I dont have links to these files but you can google them. I had so many problems, but hopefully my post will help someone. If so, please "like".
Nice write up to help. One suggestion dont take this wrong but maybe separate into paragraphs. I had a hard time reading line by line.
Thanks. I will write paragraphs next time! I will bear that in mind. Sorry if anyone is struggling to read this line by line.
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I'm new registered here in this forum, but i always read forums here, i own Droid Razr XT910, i rooted it following the instructions here, i install CMW, but i have a problem which is so annoying, everytime i power off my phone it always starts with CMW Recovery, it just will start normally after i reboot my phone i Recovery. Can you help me how to get rid of that..thanks a lot.
Sendoh28 said:
I'm new registered here in this forum, but i always read forums here, i own Droid Razr XT910, i rooted it following the instructions here, i install CMW, but i have a problem which is so annoying, everytime i power off my phone it always starts with CMW Recovery, it just will start normally after i reboot my phone i Recovery. Can you help me how to get rid of that..thanks a lot.
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It's not annoying thing, but it's a feature thing. It useful when your RAZR got problem & cant boot to home screen. You can flash sbf or wipe from CWM Recovery
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Posted Today, 02:13 AM
Hi there....i recently purchased a Razr and had many problems gaining root and flashing ROMS. It took me over 3 days to figure out, and i just want to post my experiences and advise people who may be struggling. I have a XT 910 model GSM as i live in UK. I originally rooted using Doomlord V2 Zergrush and that worked fine while i was on GB 2.3.5. I had an OTA update to 2.3.6 and i lost root. Zergrush didn't work on my model again, so i had to use motofail which worked perfectly. When installing recovery, i installed safestrap first. I could enter CWR on reboot, but ROMS would not install. I would get a black screen, and then i would have to do a hard reset to get my phone working again. I would still be in stock. The reason for this is because safestrap isnt working on GSM phones. (International models, well some of them!) Safestrap works on CDMA models such as in USA. The reason for this is because the system partition on EU GSM models(XT910) is smaller than the partition on CDMA USA models (XT912). So, we have no choice but to use bootstrap. If you installed safestrap and experienced these problems, make sure you boot into CWR, advanced, mounts and storage, and format system. Then uninstall. If you install bootstrap without doing this, you wont be able to enter CWR in bootstrap. You will end up stuck at the motorola splash screen and will have to hard reset everytime. You will not get any further. If you uninstalled safestrap without doing this, reinstall it, and do this, then uninstall recovery from the app and make sure you completely remove it from the device system. Then install bootstrap. There will be an additional file you will need to save to your SD card named RAZR-CWMonboot-Global-J.Y.Daddy.zip. Select bootstrap recovery and "success" should appear. Then, select reboot recovery, and hopefully, you should enter CWR mode on reboot. Make sure you install RAZR-CWMonboot-Global-J.Y.Daddy.zip file from your SD card. Everytime you flash a file ALWAYS flash this file before rebooting. Everytime you flash a file you are writing over you system, so it is important you do this or you wont be able to enter CWR if you ever get a bootloop or stuck etc.... Once you have flashed the ROM of your choice, and rebooted ,go into your Superuser app and toggle bootstrap into denied. There's a face at the bottom of Superuser app....make sure bootstrap is denied. Thats it! This is what worked for me...UK model XT910 on O2 network. I'm by no means an expert, but i have worked on a couple phones. Motorola Atrix was my last one, so i have a bit of an idea. If i can help...please message me and i'm more than willing if i can. I dont have links to these files but you can google them. I had so many problems, but hopefully my post will help someone. If so, please "like".
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thank u so much!
I've been struggling with this all day, many thanks for the advice! Can't believe it was that simple..
CWM and Stock Recovery
Please could some tell me if on my GSM Razr I update it with
Retail.en.EU ICS Leak 672.180.33 thru Stock Recovery, and afterwards I decide to flash J Y Daddy's CWM, would I now have access to both CWM as well as Stock Recovery? Or does it wipe Stock Recovery if CWM gets installed? thx
THANK YOU!
You are a Fuc*ing master man
No one could help me with my problem, but that solved it.
I'd installed safestrap when I bought the RAZR 7 Months ago and I didn't had a clue that the problem was there.
Did exactly what you wrote and now I can use CWM again with BootMenu Manager
THANKS
Great post mate, I like you, lost root and never got it back so stopped trying. There are so many versions of the phone out there, its really confusing which method, files etc to use for UK phone
I rooted my old htc desire and jumped between roms all the time and loved being able to do that, but the razr, I have tried a leak or a custom rom yet
Thanks Again
P.S. as for the comment on paragraphs that's been made, maybe you could edit your post to sort into these, this will then help everyone even more.
Sent from my XT910 using xda app-developers app
MylleZ said:
You are a Fuc*ing master man
No one could help me with my problem, but that solved it.
I'd installed safestrap when I bought the RAZR 7 Months ago and I didn't had a clue that the problem was there.
Did exactly what you wrote and now I can use CWM again with BootMenu Manager
THANKS
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Glad it worked!!!
geemacd said:
Great post mate, I like you, lost root and never got it back so stopped trying. There are so many versions of the phone out there, its really confusing which method, files etc to use for UK phone
I rooted my old htc desire and jumped between roms all the time and loved being able to do that, but the razr, I have tried a leak or a custom rom yet
Thanks Again
P.S. as for the comment on paragraphs that's been made, maybe you could edit your post to sort into these, this will then help everyone even more.
Sent from my XT910 using xda app-developers app
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i'll edit it in a few. Thanks for the feedback and glad it worked!
Hey all!
I've been struggling with this issue for almost 2 weeks now, I used the Droid Razr Utility by MattLGroff to upgrade from GB -> JB without realizing that there was supposed to be an intermediate step of going from GB -> ICS. So the result of the upgrade has left my display acting all crazy where about a 1/3 of the screen is all garbled, looks like it's displaying noise like an old TV (see attached picture).
I'm able to get root and I install Safestrap 3.11 but when I boot the phone I can't get SS to appear. There is a pause in the boot process as if SS is there waiting for input but nothing I do gets it to boot. I also tried BootMenueManager where I select reboot into recovery and all I get is a black screen where the recovery screen should appear. I've tried re-flashing with the utility about 5 times without any change
So my question is simple, does anyone have any ideas as to what i can do to fix this?
Why can't I flash back to GB or go to ICS? All i've read is that it's not possible and haven't really come across any real reason why it doesn't work.
I appreciate any help you can provide!
Thanks!
You can't go back from Ics to Gb same as from Jb to Ics.
And you can't have Bmm and Safestrap at the same time,just one.
Did you tried flashing the rom with Rsd Lite?
Sent from my RAZR XT910
welder73 said:
You can't go back from Ics to Gb same as from Jb to Ics.
And you can't have Bmm and Safestrap at the same time,just one.
Did you tried flashing the rom with Rsd Lite?
Sent from my RAZR XT910
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Just saying that you can't go back to a previous version doesn't tell me the why aspect though. It's missing from a lot of the information out there.
When you say installed on the phone can you clarify? I have SS app installed but the recovery is not installed, i went and used SS's uninstall function but is that enough or do I actually have to remove the entire app? I'm not sure if this makes sense so let me know if i need to clarify.
I haven't tried RSDlite let since there are several other backup steps the lead up to do that from what I've been reading, I just haven't had the time yet. I assume it shouldn't be to hard to find the fastboot files for an XT912 Verizon JB but if you happen to have a known source for the files let me know!
Thanks!
Hi friends! i have a razr maxx xt910 and i messed up a little trying to install a new rom. but let take you step by step and hopefully someone can help!
i had stock rom JB vodafone eu and yesterday a saw Jelly Bean 982.124.14.XT910.Retail.en.AU IMPROVED LIGHT wich caught my eye.
so i installed bmm(my phone was already rooted) and continued to install the rom on system 3. i had some trouble but i figured it out and everything was ok. the booted perfectly and i had a new rom ready!
but ive noticed that somehow lost my stock rom! (pressing all the buttons and selecting the recovery did nothing. it only showed me the android with the red triangle.)
so in order to fix this i had a (bad) idea to use rsd lite and flash back to a previous rom and work my way up again. the result was a failed flash and now my phone boots directly to fastboot!!! if i close it go to the stock boot menu(pressing all the buttons) and select normal mode the phone boots normally without an issue.
So does anyone have any idea on how to fix this!
every help is much appreciated.
Nick
Dissectioned said:
Hi friends! i have a razr maxx xt910 and i messed up a little trying to install a new rom. but let take you step by step and hopefully someone can help!
i had stock rom JB vodafone eu and yesterday a saw Jelly Bean 982.124.14.XT910.Retail.en.AU IMPROVED LIGHT wich caught my eye.
so i installed bmm(my phone was already rooted) and continued to install the rom on system 3. i had some trouble but i figured it out and everything was ok. the booted perfectly and i had a new rom ready!
but ive noticed that somehow lost my stock rom! (pressing all the buttons and selecting the recovery did nothing. it only showed me the android with the red triangle.)
so in order to fix this i had a (bad) idea to use rsd lite and flash back to a previous rom and work my way up again. the result was a failed flash and now my phone boots directly to fastboot!!! if i close it go to the stock boot menu(pressing all the buttons) and select normal mode the phone boots normally without an issue.
So does anyone have any idea on how to fix this!
every help is much appreciated.
Nick
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after a lot of search i found this(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219786) that solved all my problems. hopefully it will fix your problems too!
cheers!
Okay so I am a newbie to rooting and have safestrap and rom toolbox on my phone and a few other things. I backed up my data and system of my stock rom. I then booted back into my stock with no problem . I then proceeded to make boot back to safestrap and make a rom, because I realized that I needed a rom to fool around in. I made the rom and realized that I needed a an actual downloaded rom.zip to make it work. The video I watched was very misleading, and I didn't pay attention to well, so I feel very ****ty for possibly ending my phone. So I pressed on my stock rom to activate and resumed to press the reboot the system and saw NO OS! I thought easy fix and tried to restore from the back up I made when I started this. It did its thing and failed over and over saying unable to mount /data , /cache , /system. I now don't know what to do. Is there a way to get the OS back. What did I do wrong? I really need help, I know I'm so stupid for making these mistakes didnt know fully what I was doing. Please help me get this thing back up and runnin.
Btw The software is jellybean 4.1.2 if you need to ask me any questions feel free. Thank you
Indiofua said:
Btw The software is jellybean 4.1.2 if you need to ask me any questions feel free. Thank you
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If you have an XT912, use Matt's Utility from the dev section to flash your stock ROM back.
Read carefully before proceeding.
You'll need to install Moto drivers.
neo.ank said:
If you have an XT912, use Matt's Utility from the dev section to flash your stock ROM back.
Read carefully before proceeding.
You'll need to install Moto drivers.
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Would I just run the jellybean no wipe data official software? . And I'm still in safestrap menu. Can't leave that.
Ok so I seem to have fixed the problem by shutting my phone down holding power, and booting in to ap fastboot, i realized my phone wasnt recognized by the computer, had a heart attack and booted back into normal mode. i then loaded into safestrap again and saw that all the memory was showing for my stock rom, then i rebooted the system and didnt get the no OS message , idk what happened or why it did this, can anyone possible explain? thank you
Glad you fixed..
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Hey everybody,
I have problem with my X912 (duh!). I was running Safestrap with CM11 in slot 2, but I also had stock rom as backup. Yesterday I though that I didn't dedicate enough space to CM11, so I wanted to delete stock rom and run CM11 only. I read somewhere (big mistake) that in order to safe some trouble I can just make a SS backup of CM11 and recover it over the stock rom... which I sadly did. Now all I can do is boot into fastboot and recovery, but I can't figure out how to flash cm11 back on the device. I'm really lost and desperate here. I tried the Droid RAZR Utility 1.82 without success, so I'm open to any suggestions. Please help :crying:
Update: I tried to flash recovery.img, but now I thinks its over. I can't access the recovery menu anymore and whatever fastboot command I use it just says "waiting for device" and nothing happens. Is the phone dead now?
Try this? Saved my rear more then once
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814167
It's almost impossible to brick the xt912 permanently.
Sent from my XT912 using XDA Free mobile app