Hey guys,
I was looking forward to trying out the new JB Roms for my razr maxx and needed to update safestrap, so I went into safestrap and disabled safe system and went to restore and lo and behold, it can't find my backup. I checked the SD card and it's sitting there under "clockworkmod/backup" but safestrap just keeps telling me it can't find it. I copied over that folder to sd-ext and still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas?
Finalchrono said:
Hey guys,
I was looking forward to trying out the new JB Roms for my razr maxx and needed to update safestrap, so I went into safestrap and disabled safe system and went to restore and lo and behold, it can't find my backup. I checked the SD card and it's sitting there under "clockworkmod/backup" but safestrap just keeps telling me it can't find it. I copied over that folder to sd-ext and still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas?
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I take it you are coming from SS 2? It is possible that the backups arent compatible. Also its possible that the safestrap folders on your sdcard and sdcard-ext are messing with the new version of SS3.
If it were me I would just remove it all and start from scratch. If something happens and you mess SS up, I would use matts droidrzr utility and fastboot back to 211, then install the newest safestrap from hashcode's website. (How to safestrap)
If you need help with the utility I can help you
That's the problem though. I haven't been able to upgrade to SS 3.x because I can't access my stock rom from SS 2 because it won't find the backup. It's the same backup I made when I installed SS 2 so it really makes no sense. If I try and access my stock rom without doing a restore, it obviously just sits at the boot animation forever.
So I guess no one has a clue? If no one can offer any sort of idea, does anyone know where I can find a SS 2.11 backup of the razr maxx ICS rom?
Finalchrono said:
So I guess no one has a clue? If no one can offer any sort of idea, does anyone know where I can find a SS 2.11 backup of the razr maxx ICS rom?
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Someone correct me if I am wrong, but SS started using TWRP for backup at some point in place of CWM.
I would suggest using the utility to go to .211 stock. Then root and upgrade to jb.
doing so lowers the risk of loosing root when you upgrade.
And yes since he moved to 3.0 the recovery is based on TWRP since mid-October
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klabit87 said:
I would suggest using the utility to go to .211 stock. Then root, then protect root with Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper, and upgrade to jb.
doing so lowers the risk of loosing root when you upgrade.
And yes since he moved to 3.0 the recovery is based on TWRP since mid-October
Sent from my JellyBeaned Droid RAZR Maxx
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FTFY
85gallon said:
FTFY
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Thanks. I guess I assumed he would read the instructions thoroughly when he downloaded the JB update.zip.
I guess I didn't explain clear enough. I am still on an ICS rom. I have NOT upgraded to JB at all. I have NOT upgraded to SS v3 at all. I am still on SS v2.11 and my backup was from when I first installed SS v2.11. I am trying to get back to my stock rom by disabling safe system and restoring the backup that I made. I can't do this because it keeps telling me that it can't find the backup when it is clearly in clockworkmod/backup.
Anyway, so using the utility to go back should be able to fix this issue?
Finalchrono said:
I guess I didn't explain clear enough. I am still on an ICS rom. I have NOT upgraded to JB at all. I have NOT upgraded to SS v3 at all. I am still on SS v2.11 and my backup was from when I first installed SS v2.11. I am trying to get back to my stock rom by disabling safe system and restoring the backup that I made. I can't do this because it keeps telling me that it can't find the backup when it is clearly in clockworkmod/backup.
Anyway, so using the utility to go back should be able to fix this issue?
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yes the utility will fix it for you.
when i wanted to go back to the nonsafe side(stock side) I would only have to disable safe system and then reboot.
does that not work for you? ss2 doesnt support flashing to the nonsafe side, therefor no restoring cwm backups to the nonsafe side i believe.
Unfortunately no, it just sits at the boot animation screen. I figured it might have been taking a long time, but I let it sit for 30 minutes and nothing changed.
Finalchrono said:
Unfortunately no, it just sits at the boot animation screen. I figured it might have been taking a long time, but I let it sit for 30 minutes and nothing changed.
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Looks like you don't have a choice.
Use the utility to fastboot to.211.
Root, then use the utility to install voodoo root keeper so you can have root when you update to jb.
Read spc hicks guide in the development section.
Sorry can't post link right now.
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Hrm, just a heads up. Apparently 75% battery is not enough to use option 1 on the Razr Utility. Phone is now stuck in invalid flash mode. Ah well, working towards fixing this now.
Finalchrono said:
Hrm, just a heads up. Apparently 75% battery is not enough to use option 1 on the Razr Utility. Phone is now stuck in invalid flash mode. Ah well, working towards fixing this now.
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75% is plenty. You have something else going on. How long did it take?
Ah, I think it was just a faulty cord. I got it back to regular fastboot and ran option 1 again and it's working fine now.
Related
This is an unofficial bootstrap recovery for the Droid Razr. It is based off of Koush/CVPCS bootstrap for the Droid Bionic and modified for the Razr.
Flash zips at your own risk! Enjoy! Updated on 2/8/12 to fix backup and restore features as well as adding support for internal and external sd cards.
Download: Razr Bootstrap v2.0
Steps to use bootstrap:
1. Install the RazrBootstrap.apk
2. Select "Bootstrap Recovery"
3. Superuser will prompt for permissions
4. Select "Reboot Recovery"
When the phone reboots it will boot up into Clockworkmod Recovery.
dead linkin (park)
correct link: http://www.mediafire.com/?3b8ka26kk2zpw5l
SBF Available?
Is there an SBF available? I'm "renting" this phone till Nexus Drops....
qw3r7yju4n said:
Is there an SBF available? I'm "renting" this phone till Nexus Drops....
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How exactly are you "renting" it until the Nexus? Just curious, thanks!
I presume he's gonna return the within the allowable timeframe. I'm kinda doing the same......
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I think thats what we are all doing, though I am seriously considering staying with the Razr.
Great work Nitro!
LegionTHEFecalExcretion said:
I think thats what we are all doing, though I am seriously considering staying with the Razr.
Great work Nitro!
*shifty eyes* I MIGHT be able to procure an sbf file for us. NO PROMISES.
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If possible not only droid razr but also european razr (FR version)
Hit the Nexus forums, and you may just want to keep your Razr. I was planning on returning my Razr for the Nexus, but I'm not swayed by initial first impressions.
And keep in mind that if you pick up the Verizon model it's a thick beast!
CharlesBeebe said:
How exactly are you "renting" it until the Nexus? Just curious, thanks!
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Verizon extended it's return policy till Jan 15th(as of today). So I am basically renting the device and returning it and paying $35 to "restock" it.
their own damn fault really. It was them that pushed it back... and back.. and wait for it....
and back
Getting back to topic, anyone play with this. Is the nandroid backup option available?
Yes, and it also works like a charm. However, I have not yet tried to actually RESTORE a backup.
I saw the message
"No /sdcard/.android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage."
does anyone has seen this message while doing the backup in CWM recovery mode?
what it means?
It means you don't have any apps installed to the SD
i checked my razr file system...
i saw /sdcard and /sdcard-ext and i have some apps installed in media.
I've seen that on all of my phones. Its normal.
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SD card is internal media storage - SD card-ext is the removable one you control by pc or some old apps install to it. I keep my backups on it, eg.
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So, this is a modified CWM for our Razr and will be able to flash items, except for ROMs right now?
MrFrankfromCM said:
So, this is a modified CWM for our Razr and will be able to flash items, except for ROMs right now?
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Yes it works for roms. It is fully functional.
What we dont have.....is ROMs.
Yet.
Come on already Moto, VZW needs some SBF loving too!
nitroglycerine33 said:
Yes it works for roms. It is fully functional.
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Woo hoo! Guess I'll just have to flash this then, thanks!
stevessvt said:
What we dont have.....is ROMs.
Yet.
Come on already Moto, VZW needs some SBF loving too!
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At least we can do NAND backups...and stuff. LOL
When I had my Samsung Infuse, I used the "UNBRICK" method to unroot and completely restore the phone back to its original "out of the box" condition.
Is there such a thing for my Razr? I have the stock rom on the phone. It was rooted. When I tried to unroot, using superSu, then do the OTA update, the update fails while trying to install.
What can I do to fix this? I just want ICS and no root.
Thanks in advance!
And.... sorry if this info already exists. I just can't seem to find it.
Dcar777 said:
When I had my Samsung Infuse, I used the "UNBRICK" method to unroot and completely restore the phone back to its original "out of the box" condition.
Is there such a thing for my Razr? I have the stock rom on the phone. It was rooted. When I tried to unroot, using superSu, then do the OTA update, the update fails while trying to install.
What can I do to fix this? I just want ICS and no root.
Thanks in advance!
And.... sorry if this info already exists. I just can't seem to find it.
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Fastboot .181 using Droid RAZR Utility 1.6. Then take the OTA to ICS. #
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Try using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper&hl=en
fr0w said:
Try using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper&hl=en
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He doesn't want a way to keep root, he's asking why the OTA fails. Besides, keeping root doesn't matter, there are root exploits for 4.0.4.
SafeStrap Recovery installed?
Do you have SafeStrap installed? I had a similar problem with the OTA update failing, but I didn't bother to unroot. When I uninstalled SafeStrap recovery, the updated worked perfectly. (Still broke my root, though.) Then all you need to do is re-root (this method should work from pedrotorresfilho), and you should be good to go. Let me know if this was helpful at all.
Leviathan26 said:
Fastboot .181 using Droid RAZR Utility 1.6. Then take the OTA to ICS. #
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This worked! When I tried it the first time it failed. I had to wipe cache and then it worked. Thanks!
One last question, Now, when I power phone down and turn back on,it ALWAYS goes into AP Fastboot mode.
I have to holf vol+ and vol- and press power to turn off, do it again to turn on and then select normal boot in order to turn the phone back on. Why? Why does it not just boot up normally when I turn it back on? Is this droid utility lingering in my hpone now? Will this effect later OTA updates? IF i decide to root this new ICS I downloaded, will I have issues?
Well I downloaded the new jellybean zip that just came out for the razr. I loaded it into sd card and then rebooted into clockword recovery. I wiped, data/cache and then tried to install the jellybean zip from the sd card. It gave me an error '"assert failed: file_getprop("/system/build.prop". "ro.build.fingerprint")... (much longer). I rebooted my machine, and since I had wiped data/cache it booted right into a fresh install of ICS.
I decided to try to reboot back into clockwork recovery and try to redo the jellybean install from the sd card in case the previous try was a fluke. I ended up getting the same error. So I just said **** it, I'll restore back to a nandroid backup I had made two days ago. During the restore it said that it was unable to restore the "/system" partition. Since this didn't work I thought I'd just wipe data/cache again and just go back to a fresh install of ICS again.
Except this time it just boots into a black screen. All the lights on the bottom of the keyboard are lit up, but nothing is displayed on the screen at all. I believe the phone is on but I do not see any display on the screen at all. Just black. When I hook it up to a computer I am able to access both the internal storage as well as the sd card.
Anybody have any ideas? Maybe I can try loading ICS on the sd card and try flashing that?
My guess would be your backup might be corrupted, system partition is where all the important stuff is, so if it wasnt flashed, your phone cant boot up. Your computer recognizing it is a good sign. Use RSD Lite to reflash a stock ROM from motorola. Some of the stuff i have read about flashing the jb zip are suggesting that anyways after (I haven't done it yet myself) In regards to your backup, you can try it again, but you may have to start from scratch..... You do have your apps backed up with titanium right?
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Draxin said:
My guess would be your backup might be corrupted, system partition is where all the important stuff is, so if it wasnt flashed, your phone cant boot up. Your computer recognizing it is a good sign. Use RSD Lite to reflash a stock ROM from motorola. Some of the stuff i have read about flashing the jb zip are suggesting that anyways after (I haven't done it yet myself) In regards to your backup, you can try it again, but you may have to start from scratch..... You do have your apps backed up with titanium right?
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All of my apps are backed up with titanium but at this point I really just want a working phone lol. My backup got stuck on the /system partition and that is exactly where the jb rom got stuck on. So for whatever reason I can't write to it.
You only flash this in stock recovery. You must be on stock ICS .211
Luke
lukesdiesel said:
You only flash this in stock recovery. You must be on stock ICS .211
Luke
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Damn, I was running .173 from a while ago. Never even bothered to update to .211 since .173 was running so good. RSDlite isn't even seeing my phone at all even though it is technically turned on with no display.
Edit: Nevermind. I was able to use a utility to restore back to stock ICS.
Okay so awhile back I rooted my XT912 and had safestrap 3.11 installed. I do not recall if I had clockwork mod or not.I had Eclipse ICS installed and was happy with it. At one point I was once again meddling where I shouldn't and wiped my stock rom slot via safestrap. I just booted into the Eclipse on rom slot 1 and forgot about it. I decided to try a cyanogen rom and had it downloaded to my external sd. I went into safestrap and began deleting rom slot 1. Everything was fine until, MY BATTERY DIED... After some more work I had eventually ended up being able to use recovery and flash the internal drive so I could use RSD to boot into a stock bootloader. I keep getting errors there. I do have a backup on my computer. I just really don't know where to go from here as I cant even access safestrap anymore. Please help. I have no idea where to go from here and couldn't find anyone with the same issue and believe me I have spent the better part of two days looking.
Wow. Droidrzr. Com they have excellent support for xt 912 and live chat as well. Good. Luck
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If you can get into the bootloader, you should be able to fast boot back to the stock ROM. Did you have the OTA JB update on your phone?
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herrm said:
Okay so awhile back I rooted my XT912 and had safestrap 3.11 installed. I do not recall if I had clockwork mod or not.I had Eclipse ICS installed and was happy with it. At one point I was once again meddling where I shouldn't and wiped my stock rom slot via safestrap. I just booted into the Eclipse on rom slot 1 and forgot about it. I decided to try a cyanogen rom and had it downloaded to my external sd. I went into safestrap and began deleting rom slot 1. Everything was fine until, MY BATTERY DIED... After some more work I had eventually ended up being able to use recovery and flash the internal drive so I could use RSD to boot into a stock bootloader. I keep getting errors there. I do have a backup on my computer. I just really don't know where to go from here as I cant even access safestrap anymore. Please help. I have no idea where to go from here and couldn't find anyone with the same issue and believe me I have spent the better part of two days looking.
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I believe ya have not looked up into the threads properly .. Aite just kidding
As long as ya can go into the bootloader ya just soft bricked ya phone . Its not an issue just flash fasboot files again using rsd lite . It will definitely fix ya phone .
Thanks!!
Please hit the thanks button if i helped ya in anyways !!!
I tried searching for this, but couldn't find anything.
Timeline:
Rooted, and installed safestrap via razr blade utility... perfect
installed cm 10.1 & gapps on boot sector #1 as instructed.... perfect
tested phone, everything is working great...
Performed a factory reset via android settings menu (phone belongs to a co-worker). on reboot phone is just black.
paid closer attention, and realized that after safestrap timed out, phone wasn't booting to anything.
Now I have no OS installed, and when I try to partition slot 1 to reinstall, I get an error that it is "unable to partition"
Is there anything I can do short of a SBF, and starting over from scratch?
Thanks in advance
mstrpeter said:
I tried searching for this, but couldn't find anything.
Timeline:
Rooted, and installed safestrap via razr blade utility... perfect
installed cm 10.1 & gapps on boot sector #1 as instructed.... perfect
tested phone, everything is working great...
Performed a factory reset via android settings menu (phone belongs to a co-worker). on reboot phone is just black.
paid closer attention, and realized that after safestrap timed out, phone wasn't booting to anything.
Now I have no OS installed, and when I try to partition slot 1 to reinstall, I get an error that it is "unable to partition"
Is there anything I can do short of a SBF, and starting over from scratch?
Thanks in advance
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mORE ROM ARE NOT FUNCTIONALLY WHIT SAFESTRAP(DIRTY OR CATALYST V2 OR JELLY WIZ OR FTS 3.0 OR RAGE ROM AND D-WIZ)
mstrpeter said:
I tried searching for this, but couldn't find anything.
Timeline:
Rooted, and installed safestrap via razr blade utility... perfect
installed cm 10.1 & gapps on boot sector #1 as instructed.... perfect
tested phone, everything is working great...
Performed a factory reset via android settings menu (phone belongs to a co-worker). on reboot phone is just black.
paid closer attention, and realized that after safestrap timed out, phone wasn't booting to anything.
Now I have no OS installed, and when I try to partition slot 1 to reinstall, I get an error that it is "unable to partition"
Is there anything I can do short of a SBF, and starting over from scratch?
Thanks in advance
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Maybe if you post in the correct section could find some adequate answers!
NOT HERE !
monkteo said:
Maybe if you post in the correct section could find some adequate answers!
NOT HERE !
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Well, until a mod can move the thread, he still needs help, right?
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mstrpeter said:
I tried searching for this, but couldn't find anything.
Timeline:
Rooted, and installed safestrap via razr blade utility... perfect
installed cm 10.1 & gapps on boot sector #1 as instructed.... perfect
tested phone, everything is working great...
Performed a factory reset via android settings menu (phone belongs to a co-worker). on reboot phone is just black.
paid closer attention, and realized that after safestrap timed out, phone wasn't booting to anything.
Now I have no OS installed, and when I try to partition slot 1 to reinstall, I get an error that it is "unable to partition"
Is there anything I can do short of a SBF, and starting over from scratch?
Thanks in advance
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Seems to be a big gap between your first & second statements. Can you be more specific about why you did an FDR if everything was running right?
And where did you do it from, the stock, unsafe side or from the ROM in slot 1?
Sounds like you accidentally formatted internal storage where your ROM slots live, in which case, the least you'll have to do is to boot back to your stock side, uninstall recovery from the safestrap app & uninstall the app itself. Then use a file explorer to remove anything that says safestrap or twrp from your internal storage & reboot. Once it comes up, reinstall the safestrap 3.11 apk & install the recovery again & start over.
Your worst case, if you can't boot up into your stock ROM at all, is to use Matt's 1.82 utility to restore your stock image.
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mstrpeter said:
I tried searching for this, but couldn't find anything.
Timeline:
Rooted, and installed safestrap via razr blade utility... perfect
installed cm 10.1 & gapps on boot sector #1 as instructed.... perfect
tested phone, everything is working great...
Performed a factory reset via android settings menu (phone belongs to a co-worker). on reboot phone is just black.
paid closer attention, and realized that after safestrap timed out, phone wasn't booting to anything.
Now I have no OS installed, and when I try to partition slot 1 to reinstall, I get an error that it is "unable to partition"
Is there anything I can do short of a SBF, and starting over from scratch?
Thanks in advance
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Did you make a backup of the stock system? Does the safestrap revovery screen still come up on reboot? Have you tried to delete slot 1 and re-create it? Or do the three wipes on slot1 (data/dalvik/cache) and re-install the ROM? Have you tried to hit the menu button (left side) and go back in to safestrap and enable the stock system? If the stock system will come back up you can go in and disable the recovery and remove safestrap and try to re-install it. If not I am afraid you will probably have to fastboot back to stock.
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Maybe if you post in the correct section could find some adequate answers!
NOT HERE !
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sorry, the development forums are the only ones I ever read... didn't even think about it. my bad
garywojdan81 said:
Well, until a mod can move the thread, he still needs help, right?
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Seems to be a big gap between your first & second statements. Can you be more specific about why you did an FDR if everything was running right?
And where did you do it from, the stock, unsafe side or from the ROM in slot 1?
Sounds like you accidentally formatted internal storage where your ROM slots live, in which case, the least you'll have to do is to boot back to your stock side, uninstall recovery from the safestrap app & uninstall the app itself. Then use a file explorer to remove anything that says safestrap or twrp from your internal storage & reboot. Once it comes up, reinstall the safestrap 3.11 apk & install the recovery again & start over.
Your worst case, if you can't boot up into your stock ROM at all, is to use Matt's 1.82 utility to restore your stock image.
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twith70 said:
Did you make a backup of the stock system? Does the safestrap revovery screen still come up on reboot? Have you tried to delete slot 1 and re-create it? Or do the three wipes on slot1 (data/dalvik/cache) and re-install the ROM? Have you tried to hit the menu button (left side) and go back in to safestrap and enable the stock system? If the stock system will come back up you can go in and disable the recovery and remove safestrap and try to re-install it. If not I am afraid you will probably have to fastboot back to stock.
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I did a factory reset, because the phone is not mine... I checked that everything was working and then reset so he'd start off the the setup wizard.
I think gary is right, I made a backup, which is gone, and I can't partition any of the rom slots? how did a fdr format everything except safe strap... is there no way to fix it without running the unbrick utiity and starting from scratch?
mstrpeter said:
sorry, the development forums are the only ones I ever read... didn't even think about it. my bad
I did a factory reset, because the phone is not mine... I checked that everything was working and then reset so he'd start off the the setup wizard.
I think gary is right, I made a backup, which is gone, and I can't partition any of the rom slots? how did a fdr format everything except safe strap... is there no way to fix it without running the unbrick utiity and starting from scratch?
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An FDR should not have removed your stock ROM, just the user data. Shouldn't touch the system partition at all. Can you boot into the stock side? If you can't, your only option is to use the 1.82 utility to start fresh with the stock .16 image. Can you boot up the stock ROM?
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garywojdan81 said:
An FDR should not have removed your stock ROM, just the user data. Shouldn't touch the system partition at all. Can you boot into the stock side? If you can't, your only option is to use the 1.82 utility to start fresh with the stock .16 image. Can you boot up the stock ROM?
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that's what I thought but here I am... I can't do anything but get to safestrap, if I exit safe strap it says No rom install and the screen goes black until I do a simulated battery pull
mstrpeter said:
that's what I thought but here I am... I can't do anything but get to safestrap, if I exit safe strap it says No rom install and the screen goes black until I do a simulated battery pull
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instead of running the unbrick utility, cause it wasn't bricked... I just ran the razr blade utility again from scratch... flashed the stock rom from there and had to go through all the steps again... good to go now though.
Thanks for the help everybody
mstrpeter said:
that's what I thought but here I am... I can't do anything but get to safestrap, if I exit safe strap it says No rom install and the screen goes black until I do a simulated battery pull
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Cant you just take stock based zips for safestrap and flash it