Hello
I have a Razr MAXX. I rooted it before the ICS 4.0 over the air update. I am not totally sure what root method I used at the time. I think I used "DooMLoRD_v4_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su" at least that is the file that I still have hanging around on my computer. But I would like to unroot. I rooted before I recieved the OTA upgrade.
Can someone tell me what Unroot methods are available to me?
My current ROM is 6.16.211.XL912.Verizon.en.US
I'm starting to sound like a broken record. You need to find the Droid RAZR utility 1.8.1. If you use option 1 it will fastboot flash the OTA. It doesn't matter which root method you used since it writes all the system files. Make sure your battery is fully charged and be patient it takes about 10 minutes and is very easy.
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dave5777 said:
I'm starting to sound like a broken record. You need to find the Droid RAZR utility 1.8.1. If you use option 1 it will fastboot flash the OTA. It doesn't matter which root method you used since it writes all the system files. Make sure your battery is fully charged and be patient it takes about 10 minutes and is very easy.
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Please visit the droidforum.net select Droid Razr Forum and then Droid Razr Hacks. I can't post a link in here yet unfortunately.
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TSRV1
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Original SBF flash for Verizon MB870 - Droid X2
Android 2.2.2
Blur_Version.1.2.148.MB870.Verizon.en.US
VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8_1FF_01.sbf.gz
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1301697094/VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8_1FF_01.sbf.gz
Compression MD5 - 5A7DE1726546C7A2B1ACB94CA2022A42
SBF MD5 - 9F55114A88667C20CE1EC855B4D0C238
Thank you!! Step 1 is complete.
Very cool! Downloading now. Now if I'm not mistaken, I should be able to try most anything possible (bootstrapping, overclocking, etc.) and if anything goes wrong (short of permanent hardware damage) I will be able to recover back to square one with this SBF right?
you are amazing where did you get it? this is huge I can't wait to test.
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Holy sh*t! What a way to end the day! SBF for X2 is released and so is the kernel source for the Transformer! I freaking love today, all this excitement and my insomnia is going to keep me up all night!
Hoping CM and other devs are starting to get cracking on some roms I've been itching to flash something since I bought this..
Sweet!!!!!
Thanks my brother
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Original SBF flash for Verizon MB870 - Droid X2
Android 2.2.2
Blur_Version.1.2.148.MB870.Verizon.en.US
Compression MD5 - 5A7DE1726546C7A2B1ACB94CA2022A42
SBF MD5 - 9F55114A88667C20CE1EC855B4D0C238
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Is a flash driver for RSD Lite available yet? Looks like it's looking for a Daytona Flash driver. We have that yet or no?
This is awesome.....someone has to get this to P3Droid and 1KDS so we can get ISO
OH....and Cyanogen.....he needs this as we need CM7
This has made my day kind sir. Let's get frickin CWM ported.
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Oh god i hope good things come of this...i came from Nexus Devices on Tmobile, but was forced to switch because i got order to go to missouri where Verizon is the only provider
I need me some customness
What's the difference between an sbf and a ruu?
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Nothing other than the RUU is an executable where the sbf is a file you flash through RSD lite. On that note anyone have a RSD lite that supports our phone I keep getting a chipset un supported with the RSD lite I am using which is 4.6.
"I have now tried 4.8,4.9, and 5.0 they are all giving me couldn't get initialization values of .INI file any help on this would be great."
Oh hell yes!
Thank you so much!!!!!!
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I have verified this works to some extent. I now am not activated on the network and have to reprogram the phone. Found you can reprogram by dialing *228 option 1
wdenker said:
I have verified this works to some extent. I now am not activated on the network and have to reprogram the phone. Found you can reprogram by dialing *228 option 1
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Did you use RSD? If you did, what option in fast boot did you use? BP bypass RSD or just plain RSD?
plane rsd and RSD lite needs to be version 5.3.1 I will post a link shortly with that version. It says it is 5.0 on the download page but it is 5.3.1
http://www.multiupload.com/8RHCTWIEW1
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Did you update your moto drivers also? If so, where did you download them?
Just what was on Motorola's website.
Helo guys, I used to own a Samsung Galaxy S, and last week I got the Droid X2 from Verizon. So now I'm seeing new terms being used like sbf, debloat, freeze, etc...
My DX2 is root and I also have the V6 Supercharger, and I still can't get the GB update.
I believe many users on this forum have the same case as mine, so can anyone give us steps to follow in order to get the update.
Thank you so much
sbf back to stock using rsd.
download the gb update, flash in recovery
look under general in Droid x2 forums
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I came from a similar situation. I just got the x2 as a replacement for my fascinate due to repetitive missed call issues. I updated to Gingerbread today using the tips on this forum & the file posted to the mediafire link. The first thing you'll need to do for this update to work is undue all the non-stock modifications you've done.
Unsupercharge
Unfreeze or replace any stock apps you may have uninstalled. This is where the sbf comes in, it's the stock image that was loaded when it left the factory.
Unroot, might not be necessary but its better safe than sorry. Especially since this update is unrootable atm.
Rename the downloaded file update.zip & put it in the root of your sdcard-ext.
Flash from the stock recovery & you should be good.
Whatever other info you need, search these threads-its in there somewhere.
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So the sbf brings back the DX2 to its original settings and apps?
SamerBerjawi said:
So the sbf brings back the DX2 to its original settings and apps?
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That's my understanding. But I haven't done it so I can only go off what I've read here.
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garywojdan81 said:
That's my understanding. But I haven't done it so I can only go off what I've read here.
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The SBF does infact restore you to stock 2.2.2
It should also be the first thing you do when you get the phone (before rooting etc) It blows my mind that people would mess with their device without doing an SBF at least once.
The SBF will usually require you to battery pull at the end, go to stock Android recovery and wipe data and cache. (unless you did that before running the SBF)
On Vista and Windows 7 make sure you right click RSDlite and choose to "run as admin"
Everyone who did the OTA or the 2.3 update from here at XDA and wants p3droids rooted update is going to have to SBF momentarily. We should get rooted 2.3 this afternoon according to p3's twitter
I unrooted my phone and uninstalled the Supercharger, I sbf'd back to stock Froyo successfully, and still I can't get the update. What else should I do?
SamerBerjawi said:
I unrooted my phone and uninstalled the Supercharger, I sbf'd back to stock Froyo successfully, and still I can't get the update. What else should I do?
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Do you mean you can't get the update OTA?
SamerBerjawi said:
I unrooted my phone and uninstalled the Supercharger, I sbf'd back to stock Froyo successfully, and still I can't get the update. What else should I do?
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GREAT, you have completed step one. Do not load anything else on your phone. You will not be getting a over the air update.
You have more work to do to get 2.3.3 on your phone.
Just follow the direction at this link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193818
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GREAT, you have completed step one. Do not load anything else on your phone. You will not be getting a over the air update.
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Just to be clear.... He should eventually get an OTA update if he waits long enough. But he won't be able to root it. So follow the link above, and do those steps to install the rooted version of the update from 3Pdroid.
(Yeah I know that's obvious, but the title of this thead DOES include the words, "I'm Totally Lost". )
Thanks all, I'm on the pre-rooted GB now
Much appreciated
I'm pretty experienced with unlocking Winmo 6.5 phones and running android non natively on them. But I've only had a Droid since Christmas and am not too experienced with these. I had rooted my phone to enable Wifi tethering but the new 2.3.6 has disabled my ability to root the phone. I understand that I may need to install a previous version of Droid and then do something before installing 2.3.6 but I keep reading about Nexus and OTA and have no idea what these are. So can someone walk me through this?
Absolutely! You more than likely need to restore back to a prev version using a fastboot file if you can't root 2.3.6. You have 2 options:
1 - Root the fastboot, use Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper to preserve root
2 - Use the root for 2.3.6 that is available.
Either way, feel free to PM me if you need a step by step. I've fastbooted 3 times now to try out different methods of restoring root.
If you have an xt912, didn't say in OP, I know that this works without fastbooting back to 2.3.5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492708
And if for some reason you wanted to unroot then doomlords unroot method still works.
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The new motofail root method will root 2.3.6 directly with out having to use rootkeeper.
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The new motofail root method will root 2.3.6 directly with out having to use rootkeeper.
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aktrazer said:
Absolutely! You more than likely need to restore back to a prev version using a fastboot file if you can't root 2.3.6. You have 2 options:
1 - Root the fastboot, use Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper to preserve root
2 - Use the root for 2.3.6 that is available.
Either way, feel free to PM me if you need a step by step. I've fastbooted 3 times now to try out different methods of restoring root.
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Lot's of terms here that I don't understand. "Root the fastboot", "Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper", "PM", "Fastboot".
I would need a step by step, thanks.
Ronin3178 said:
If you have an xt912, didn't say in OP, I know that this works without fastbooting back to 2.3.5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492708
And if for some reason you wanted to unroot then doomlords unroot method still works.
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Lot's of crazy terms here. xt912? OP? Who is doomlord? Did he create the DroidRazrRoot program that I had used before?
When in doubt, google. Having come from a WinMo background as I did, you should be familiar with that.
XT910 & XT912 are the model numbers for the two RAZR variants, GSM & CDMA respectively. It doesn't matter which you have from a root perspective.
As above, there is a new root method called MotoFail, which will allow you to root 2.3.6 without downgrading. Use that. Problem solved.
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When in doubt, google. Having come from a WinMo background as I did, you should be familiar with that.
XT910 & XT912 are the model numbers for the two RAZR variants, GSM & CDMA respectively. It doesn't matter which you have from a root perspective.
As above, there is a new root method called MotoFail, which will allow you to root 2.3.6 without downgrading. Use that. Problem solved.
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I ran the Motofail and it seems to have worked. Sometimes though it would be nice to feel that you aren't going to brick the phone and would like information ahead of time before running a program that you've never heard of. That's why the questions.
Hi Forum. I need help. I rooted my phone before using motofail and the ICS is now available in my country.but the update failed/ and I verified that I need to unroot my phone first. I unrooted my xt910 via SuperSU/OTArootkeeper. looks like it works coz I no longer have the superuser on my phone. and ota rootkeeper/apps says that my phone is unrooted. but the ICS update still failed// I dont know what to do now. my current system version: 65.1.40.XT910.PSHAsiaRetail.en*.03
Microglia said:
Hi Forum. I need help. I rooted my phone before using motofail and the ICS is now available in my country.but the update failed/ and I verified that I need to unroot my phone first. I unrooted my xt910 via SuperSU/OTArootkeeper. looks like it works coz I no longer have the superuser on my phone. and ota rootkeeper/apps says that my phone is unrooted. but the ICS update still failed// I dont know what to do now. my current system version: 65.1.40.XT910.PSHAsiaRetail.en*.03
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don't know much about asia razrs but sounds like you need to rsd back to stock then take the update,then root,you will find all the info here on xda,i had the same problem a while back trying to update from 171 to 181,i used mattelgrofs droid razr utility to get back to bone stock,then took the ota,rooted ect.then when ics came out i hid root took ota ,went great.i'm not sure if droid razr utility will work on your phone but rsd will,good luck
djerk said:
don't know much about asia razrs but sounds like you need to rsd back to stock then take the update,then root,you will find all the info here on xda,i had the same problem a while back trying to update from 171 to 181,i used mattelgrofs droid razr utility to get back to bone stock,then took the ota,rooted ect.then when ics came out i hid root took ota ,went great.i'm not sure if droid razr utility will work on your phone but rsd will,good luck
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Yow.. Thx for the reply man. Will you please send a link of post or somethin related the compatible rsd file that I will use? I really have no idea. Should I root my phone before proceeding? Btw I didnt install/flash any ROM. My razr was just rooted
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Sorry,being kind of a noob myself i don't know how to post links just search the forums and look for videos on YouTube, that's what I did, because the razr has a locked bootloader it's very hard to really ruin it, seems the devs have a fix for everything ! Good luck
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It seems like you are already on PSHAsiaRetail stock.
So just read and follow the instructions given here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748944
**Root should not be a problem if you follow the above thread! cheers..
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Yow.. Thx for the reply man. Will you please send a link of post or somethin related
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I don't know if this will let me post a link yet, but the "Literally Fool Proof Guide To Installing .211 (ICS)" (Google that) was the guide that got the update installed for me. It involved wiping the phone, but it's worth it since I had the time to go through my Titanium backups, etc. Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692694
EDIT: BTW, I had to get Version 1.7 of Matt's DroidRAZRUtility to re-root after installing ICS 4.0.4 (i.e. the .211 update). Version 1.6 didn't root it. I did not need the "Modified" version 1.6, though; did the fastboot flashing with Matt's 1.6-final. I also had to install updated Motorola drivers (came with DroidRAZRUtility1.7forICS.zip) to reroot.
-Snags
I just got this phone today and would like to root it. I came from the (MyTouch 4g) thread and been using that phone over 1yr now. So if someone can point me in the right direction on where to go to do what I am asking I would greatly appreciate it.
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Oops! lol move to Q&A please.
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Get matts razr utility 1.82 and it is very easy to use
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Get matts razr utility 1.82 and it is very easy to use
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Where can I find that at?
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Hey Pix3l Viru5,
I just started using this phone as well. Here's the thread with the videos I followed to root my device. It also has links to the software you'll need to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342567
Before rooting, I also installed the Motorola Tools as drivers for the phone. You can find those at http://www.mymotocast.com/
After rooting, you'll want to install SafeStrap. It's a different recovery that will allow you to safely flash ROMs. There's a basic tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847599
And the newest version of SafeStrap is linked to in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391900
I think this is the video I watched that showed how to install SafeStrap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8KOcnHJjHM
The ROM you choose will depend on which version of the phone you have (GSM or CDMA, also referred to as XT910 and XT912 respectively). If you're in the US with Verizon Wireless or Cellcom, odds are that you're using a CDMA phone, otherwise it's probably GSM. If you're not sure, you should be able to find other resources that will help show you which phone you have. Just make sure that you install the proper ROM for your phone.
Enjoy the Razr MAXX! Also, feel free to use the search tool provided by xda. It's quite handy!
And if you manage to brick your device, you only have yourself to hold accountable. Be forewarned that rooting can invalidate your warranty.
Ligor said:
Hey Pix3l Viru5,
I just started using this phone as well. Here's the thread with the videos I followed to root my device. It also has links to the software you'll need to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342567
Before rooting, I also installed the Motorola Tools as drivers for the phone. You can find those at http://www.mymotocast.com/
After rooting, you'll want to install SafeStrap. It's a different recovery that will allow you to safely flash ROMs. There's a basic tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847599
And the newest version of SafeStrap is linked to in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391900
I think this is the video I watched that showed how to install SafeStrap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8KOcnHJjHM
The ROM you choose will depend on which version of the phone you have (GSM or CDMA, also referred to as XT910 and XT912 respectively). If you're in the US with Verizon Wireless or Cellcom, odds are that you're using a CDMA phone, otherwise it's probably GSM. If you're not sure, you should be able to find other resources that will help show you which phone you have. Just make sure that you install the proper ROM for your phone.
Enjoy the Razr MAXX! Also, feel free to use the search tool provided by xda. It's quite handy!
And if you manage to brick your device, you only have yourself to hold accountable. Be forewarned that rooting can invalidate your warranty.
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Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate all the help you provided me with.
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