Hi,
I am new to this, so I thank you for your patience and time.
I bought a Motorola Atrix 4g unlocked from Amazon. I believe it was orginally ATT.
When I got it, ithere was no "M" Motorola boot icon but a five second timer that booted from RSD. The other options on this screen were fastboot, Android Recovery and a few other options like BP RSD NvFlash etc.
The OS was Android 2.2 and there was no play store. I wanted to install Ice Cream Sandwich, so I install clockwordmod recovery app from the website (downloaded the apk), and tried to boot into it, didnt work and ended up going to Android Recovery and trying to update with the ICS zip file.
This is the ICS ROM I was trying to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1836674
Anyway, phone wouldnt boot now, it would stick at screen with options. So i connected to PC, downlaoded and installed RSD Lite v5.6. I then had an SBF named "1FF-olympus_emara-user-2.3.4-4.5.2A-74_OLE-31-release-keys-signed-MERetail-06" which I flashed. The battery ran out so the program didnt complete all the way.
When I booted now, I get M Motorola logo, and have to press the volume down key to get the boot options. I have cut the red and black wires from a USB cable so I am able to give the device power and so get into RSD or fastboot modes.
Now this is my problem, what do I do from here???
I want to end up with a phone that boots and works with ICS, preferably the rom above; but reading this forum, I am getting confused with SBFs, ROMS, images, Stock files, fastbooting, RSD etc.... everything is swirling around in my mind.... please help me!!!
Thanks a lot
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I followed this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500 and flashed CWM 5, and then copied the above ICS Rom and it now comes up to a boot screen with a blue android and a circling blue circle and it stands there. Is this progress?
Dude, you need to read up more before you do stuff. First of all, that ROM is not ICS, I don't know why you thought it is. It says so right in the thread title - "CM7". (A stable and fully working ICS/JB ROM for the Atrix does not exist, for reasons beyond this post. Read up on the controversy if you want to know more.) Second of all, every ROM takes significantly longer to boot the first time, this is perfectly normal. In some cases it can take up to 10 minutes. How long did you wait?
BTW, what you linked to is MROM-GB, a fine choice for a daily driver. I'm using it too.
ravilov said:
Dude, you need to read up more before you do stuff. First of all, that ROM is not ICS, I don't know why you thought it is. It says so right in the thread title - "CM7". (A stable and fully working ICS/JB ROM for the Atrix does not exist, for reasons beyond this post. Read up on the controversy if you want to know more.) Second of all, every ROM takes significantly longer to boot the first time, this is perfectly normal. In some cases it can take up to 10 minutes. How long did you wait?
BTW, what you linked to is MROM-GB, a fine choice for a daily driver. I'm using it too.
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
I do read up the threads and if it is long, at least the post and the last page; but I really was looking at several Roms and was interested in AtrICS, but it was late and I went for the other ROM instead; my bad :silly:
I left it for over thirty minutes and a copule of times, but the boot icon remained.
What I later did was to use RSD Lite and flash an ATT Rom onto it, which still hung at the boot screen, so I fastboot the CWM Recovery and then installed Android Breadcrumbs and it worked!!! I had to toggle between HW RSD option, then the SW RSD one, until finally selecting just RSD where the SBF file was flashed.
Thanks again.
Would you recommend AtrICS btw?
AtrICS? No, not really. It is based on the leaked kernel which is unfortunately plagued with all sorts of bugs and issues. Feel free to try it, it's working surprisingly well for some, but personally I would not recommend it.
ravilov said:
AtrICS? No, not really. It is based on the leaked kernel which is unfortunately plagued with all sorts of bugs and issues. Feel free to try it, it's working surprisingly well for some, but personally I would not recommend it.
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OK I'll follow your recommendation then!
Thank man, cheers :good:
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Which is the best rom to go with?
I've downloaded _n0p_'s DSC v0.7 and Tenorntex's Longhorn 2.1 v2, seeing as these 2 were the newest and latest and had Android 2.3.3
Are there any other better rom's or has anyone tried the 2 I listed, if so whats the difference?
Thanks
Better is very vague when it comes to ROM's it all depends on what you want in a Rom. I have old Simple Streak 1.2. Yes there is newer ROM's out but this one works perfect for what I need. In my Case Stability.
DSC is the most actively developed/supported. Plenty stable for me. I don't think any of the earlier Froyo based ROMs are being developed further.
I meant as far as Stability, Performance and up to date, I don't care about the Stage UI and was gunna theme it myself or use SPB Shell 3D.
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
n1nj4Lo said:
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Unfortunately I do not believe that anyone can change the way that the Streak works just so it is more convenient for you or so that you don't have to learn anything.
In the time you took to navigate to XDA and make your post you could have flashed a ROM onto your Streak - plugging it in and everything.
The only ROM you can install by just putting it on the SD Card is the same one that is currently on the Streak, if you don't mind holding down a couple of buttons and using recovery mode.
n1nj4Lo said:
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If anyone is wondering why developers leave and give the site a bad reputation look no further. Someone with over 600 posts under his username should not be making noob posts like this one. With so many posts he knows how to use the search engine and the wiki, but I guess when it comes to our device using the search engine and the wiki is an inconvenience, along with renaming a file "update.pkg".
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Unfortunately I do not believe that anyone can change the way that the Streak works just so it is more convenient for you or so that you don't have to learn anything.
In the time you took to navigate to XDA and make your post you could have flashed a ROM onto your Streak - plugging it in and everything.
The only ROM you can install by just putting it on the SD Card is the same one that is currently on the Streak, if you don't mind holding down a couple of buttons and using recovery mode.
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So would that be this: Streak_407_20707_14.pkg ? According to the first post above me do I rename it?
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
If anyone is wondering why developers leave and give the site a bad reputation look no further. Someone with over 600 posts under his username should not be making noob posts like this one. With so many posts he knows how to use the search engine and the wiki, but I guess when it comes to our device using the search engine and the wiki is an inconvenience, along with renaming a file "update.pkg".
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Some people learn better through interaction where they can actually ask questions... I don't have over 600 posts so who are you talking about? Furthermore if you are talking about first thing I'd do is learn how to read mr wise guy, secondly!! You tell me how one is supposed to learn which rom is the best based on user reviews and opinions, where do I go to find that out and wheres the wiki on that, unless you expect people to read 200 and 300 page threads also? I have barely 150 posts and rarely post at all unless it is to ask questions or make requests. It's not like I have 600 posts and every single one of them are questions.
This is only my second time dealing with android and second time flashing android first time it was simply moving a zip to the sdcard and booting up into safe mode and selecting update through sdcard, so certainly I'd be baffled and have questions when one time it was so easy and the second time I've gotta jump through hoops and everything.
Lastly since WHEN Is asking a Question SOOOO wrong in the Dell Streak 5 Q&A Category???? It's not like I posted it in the wrong area or something, but ohhh no'es how dare n00b be confused and need a lil help/guidance of some experienced users, ohh mercy me the drama in that!!
Last time I checked that is what XDA is here for, for people to learn, not to be attacked by asshat trolls like you.
If anyone is wondering why XDA has a multitude more lurkers than posters look no further than to the hardass that is Strephon Alkhalikoi View Postwho can't stand to see a n00b in need of help!
Like this
Flashing/Updating
Installing a recovery
Download appropriate recovery to flash from Stock Recoveries or Custom recoveries
Enter fastboot mode on your phone
Flash recovery with fastboot: fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>
After flashing is complete: fastboot reboot to reboot
Finished
If you are using a custom recovery see Disabling recovery overwrite in stock roms and follow the steps there to prevent the Streak from over writing the recovery. Re-install your custom recovery after following those steps.
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BUT THE VERY FIRST THING THE WIKI SAYS IS To Stay AWAY From Fastboot, but this tells you to use Fastboot... So what gives and which is it? LoL
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Like thisBUT THE VERY FIRST THING THE WIKI SAYS IS To Stay AWAY From Fastboot, but this tells you to use Fastboot... So what gives and which is it? LoL
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I hope that you can actually read better than that. The wiki does not say to stay away from fastboot. It clearly states two commands that should not be used on the Streak. It goes onto give a number of examples of using fastboot.
I hope that you other 157 posts (as I wtite this) on XDA were not as tiresome or ill-informed as the ones you have posted here.
The information you need is here in the forums, available at the links in my signature, and on other forums. Please exercise some patience and read the info.
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I hope that you can actually read better than that. The wiki does not say to stay away from fastboot. It clearly states two commands that should not be used on the Streak. It goes onto give a number of examples of using fastboot.
I hope that you other 157 posts (as I wtite this) on XDA were not as tiresome or ill-informed as the ones you have posted here.
The information you need is here in the forums, available at the links in my signature, and on other forums. Please exercise some patience and read the info.
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Uhh yea sory... I forgot about the 2 options to stay away from, just the dangerous part stayed with me. LoL
Do I need to be at a certain android version or can I make a semi-major update leap?
Also it says
Installing a stock rom
Reinstalling a stock rom will wipe all data!
1. Download stock rom pkg and recovery to install
2. Copy pkg to sdcard and rename to update.pkg
3. Install matching stock recovery
4. Enter recovery mode
5. After recovery loads press Camera to begin process
6. Finished
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Do I need the recovery.img as well? It said nothing about a img file or anything just said "matching stock recovery" so yea, is that the right thing?
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First I'm gunna try factory reset and see if that fixes the random reboot problem, hopefully it does the seller said he just installed the new screen and never did anything except for just trying to powering it up, use normally and it would reboot suddenly.
WELL NO DUH, you need to restore everything back to default settings with a factory/hard reset. Thats like trying to install a video card or webcam and expecting it to work right away without installing the dirvers. - Hopefully!
Well it's only getting as far as the dell logo screen/splash screen. I've tried the entering safe mode but nothing yet, once it's powered on it just sits at that screen.
dsc is great and very stable if you dont mind the few following quirks.
1. google maps will always run in the background unless you freeze it. This will drain your battery quite quickly
2. Wifi might or might not be broken, if it is broken use wifi analyzer if not profit
the benefits of dsc?
fast
running GB instead of froyo
dpi change is awesome.
screen default orientation is awesome
stable other than those few bugs
Battery life was decent.
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Im however just running 2.2 froyo on a stock rogers. The battery life is amazing on stock 2.2 (a whole day, and still have about 30% with heavy usage and constant 3g) and the wifi works fine. For me this is the most stable rom however it is a bit slow compared to DSC. This phone is used for work so it has to just.. work.
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Havent really tried the other roms yet, but depending on what you want out of the phone you can try the DSC and see if you can live with these little quirks.
Yea I was leaning more towards DSC than Longhorn, it looks like it's updated more frequently too.
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Turns out when the guy replaced the screen he fried the mobo... Me and a friend at a small local pc store tried everything from rooting with new rom to factory resets. Always had the same problem.
But the guy at the pc store sells phones also and said he'd give me $100.00 credit to a new factory refirbed, rooted and unlocked dell streak mini if I gave him the one we tried to repair.
There is probably some ridiculous, overwhelmingly simple reason for the answer to this question, but take into account that its coming from the guy who has been trying install a ROM for a week unsuccessfully, Anyway, enough personal degradation for the moment, and on to business. It seems to me that every time I have to .spf it gets easier and faster(imagine that). RSDlite is such a perfect format flashing, so why has no one thought of a way to flash ROMS via RSDlite? I understand that getting your proverbial elbows greasy is the fun of this, but for the helpless and hopeless, such as myself, there should be a super simple segue into cool techy stuff for us too!! I'm kidding, I'm not that buried.....I think.
Why would you sbf a rom when it only only takes a couple of minutes to flash a rom?
1, are you rooted?
2, do you have tenfar bar installed?
3, is the rom of choice on SD card?
Where are you having your trouble what rom? How are you trying it? It is pretty simple.
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There is probably some ridiculous, overwhelmingly simple reason for the answer to this question, but take into account that its coming from the guy who has been trying install a ROM for a week unsuccessfully, Anyway, enough personal degradation for the moment, and on to business. It seems to me that every time I have to .spf it gets easier and faster(imagine that). RSDlite is such a perfect format flashing, so why has no one thought of a way to flash ROMS via RSDlite? I understand that getting your proverbial elbows greasy is the fun of this, but for the helpless and hopeless, such as myself, there should be a super simple segue into cool techy stuff for us too!! I'm kidding, I'm not that buried.....I think.
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Okay, looks like you created a new thread about the same issue...but moving on.
RSD Lite is a Motorola tool, that was initially just supposed to be used by retailers (like VZW and Radioshack) so that they could reset people's phones rather than having to ship the to Moto and send them back to the customer, or for VZW and others to wipe devices and resell them as "refurbished" units. The reason we can't use RSD to create ROM's is the SBF files are signed by Motorola. So if we were to modify them in anyway or try to make our own, it would refuse the files and not flash the device.
Now, from your other thread you posted this:
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Sorry about that, I must have been excited. Unfortunately I spoke too soon. Either that or I'm not meant for this, which I hope is not the case seeing that I'm getting my degree in IT. I finally get bootloader, with ROM and GAPPS placed accordingly(I opted for Eclipse). When the zip is finished uploading and I see confirmation that all was installed correctly, I begin the reboot......and it takes new to an unactivated Droid X2. I've created nandroid after nandroid, with different methods and different ROMS, and I either land there or with a signature error, even in bootstrap. I'm gonna try one more time before I hang up my guns. Maybe.....
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Could you please outline everything you do, step by step? After you SBF you should have to activate your phone anyway, so that after you root, install bootstrap and then boot into that and apply the ROM and GAPPs the phone should already be activated.
Travisdroidx2 said:
Why would you sbf a rom when it only only takes a couple of minutes to flash a rom?
1, are you rooted?
2, do you have tenfar bar installed?
3, is the rom of choice on SD card?
Where are you having your trouble what rom? How are you trying it? It is pretty simple.
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The only time I have gotten any response that remotely resembled success was the first time I used System Recovery, but the status bar was incredibly slow, like not moving basically, so I figured after about 25 minutes something was amiss...again. Yes I'm rooted, don't know what a tenfar bar is yet but I'm on it now, and I've got a variety of .zip's that are supposed to be compatible with 2.3.4, and I'm sure they are. I was really kind of joking about the .sbf, but I still think it would be a viable alternative.
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The only time I have gotten any response that remotely resembled success was the first time I used System Recovery, but the status bar was incredibly slow, like not moving basically, so I figured after about 25 minutes something was amiss...again. Yes I'm rooted, don't know what a tenfar bar is yet but I'm on it now, and I've got a variety of .zip's that are supposed to be compatible with 2.3.4, and I'm sure they are. I was really kind of joking about the .sbf, but I still think it would be a viable alternative.
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Okay, so you've SBF'd to 2.3.4. Rooted using whatever method, and you have the BootStrap recovery installed yes? Then you boot into recovery, wiped data, wiped cache and wiped dalvik cache, then tried installing a zipped ROM from you sd card, and upon restarting you get stuck at the moto M screen?
A couple things. First, when you wipe the dalvik cache (for roms or any mods) the phone has to rebuild that before it can actually boot into Android. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to 5 minutes or upwards. If you've gone 10 minutes and still nothing, all you need to do is pull the battery (so the phone powers off), reinstall the battery, DONT TURN THE PHONE ON, and then plug your phone into your wallcharger. After you plug in your phone, it'll turn itself on, go to the M screen and then go back into the BootStrapRecovery. From there you can redo the steps, wipe everything and then reinstall. However, IF you boot into the stock Android Recovery and wipe cache and data from there, you mucked it up and you'll have to SBF and restart the process.
ALSO, from your previous thread you said you were trying to install Eclipse. What version are you trying? 1.xx eclipse will work on 2.3.4, but Eclipse 2.xx will only work on 2.3.5, which could be another reason you are having issues.
I was running CM10 experimental (supposedly stable) build and was having way too many issues: reboots 5+ times a day, random freezes requiring hard reboot, etc etc. I tried uninstalling latest apps...nope. Tried fixing permissions...nope. Finally decided to reinstall the ROM. Used CWM wiped all 3 times, went to istall from zip, couldn't find the ROM anywhere. I installed an older ICS ROM I found in there and it did it's thing until it was time to boot up...now it's stuck in boot loop. I tried removing battery, turning off with both buttons, connecting to usb...not recognized. It just keeps going thru the booting process until it says "Have a nice day!" and then starts over. How do I get in to fix this? I'm screwed....and of course use my phone all day for business......sheesh. Are there ANY JB ROMs out there that are actually stable...like in real life?
Love this site, love all of you helpful folks....pulling my hair out at this point...;-(
You're kinda asking a lot since jb has to be ported over at the moment which naturally leads to glitches such as the restarts. This is the price you pay to run jb months and months before the note is officially updated. at which time the source code will be come available and we will have rock solid jellybean builds. Until then we take what we get. Run the latest release candidate of cm9 until then if you want something super stable.
Also don't you have a backup you can restore? I'm not allowed to feel sorry for you if you never backed up your device.
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Thanks for the reply JR, your statement " jb has to be ported over at the moment which naturally leads to glitches such as the restarts" is Greek to me. Are you saying that since it is not an official JB update, there will always be glitches? um...ok.
Yes, I have a few backups in there...but as I said, it is stuck in opening boot loop and I don't know how to get in there to restore or flash another ROM. I may be missing a simple fix here but until I know what it is, I don't know what it is. I have used search under boot loop, for an hour and have not found one thread explaining how to get out of it.
Hopefully someone will excuse my ignorance and point me to a thread or explanation of how to get past the boot loop.
Cheers
do you know how to boot into recovery?
if you can, then do that, and restore one of your backups..
if you dont know how to boot into recovery, you shouldn't be flashing roms until you do
AFAIK that means pressing volume up, home, and power until recovery lights up. Done that many times and all I get is the intermittent vibe, no flash, no screen at all.
I've poured over threads and google all day...no love. Just people telling me to restore my backups...gee thanks.
I CAN get it into Odin....can I flash a ROM from there? I followed one tutorial but when selecting a ROM, it wanted a tar file and I either had the ROM zip or unzipped, a bunch of folders with no tar file in any of them.
I'm not a moron, just screwed myself somehow and am looking for some help fixing it. I thought that's what these forums were for.
hold volume up and down and power at the same time; after the first "samsung" on the screen, release the power button, and keep holding the volume up and down, until recovery appears...
XDA is a development forum, not a newbie forum, and there is an assumption that people who flash stuff to their phones will have the basic knowledge to know how to recover from some of the problems that arise when you do something to your phone that requires the knowledge on how to fix things
The fact that you dont know how to get into recovery properly tells me you didnt bother to read and study enough on how to recover from a problem if you have one, sort of like trying to replace your water pump without actually practicing on a car..
search the forums if you need to find .tar files to restore your phone via Odin back to stock; there are several posts and threads that will show you how, but, try to recover your back up first
This ^^^^^. You have jumped into the deep end without knowing how to swim. Watch videos, read how-to's and look up words if you don't understand them. A basic knowledge of computer hardware and how a computer works pre-boot will also go a long way
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Thanks for the reply JR, your statement " jb has to be ported over at the moment which naturally leads to glitches such as the restarts" is Greek to me. Are you saying that since it is not an official JB update, there will always be glitches? um...ok.
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It means there is no official jelly bean for the note at this time. Our devs have to take jelly bean code and modify it to work on the note which generally means a few hickups here and there.
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Well thank you all for the help you have given. I was not releasing the power button after the first Samsung flash and thus not finding recovery. I have a functioning phone now, at least. I do, dig deep trying to find answers, and only post when I am truly stuck.
glad you got it fixed!
so my gtab will only show the three birds, i took the cover of the back and held down the reset button and it turned off then back on to the same screen. I even tried to nv flash it and it says that it currently update. Im not even able to get into recovery mode. Am i screwed or did i miss something, im sorta new to this stuff....thanks
1. What rom were you using?
2. Which version of CWM are you using?
3. What were you doing to the tablet when it froze like that?
There's a lot of things that can go wrong and which NVflash you use (250m partition or 350m partition) is going to be determined by which rom you wish to run.
The Gtablet for dummies site really helped me out while I was starting off, but it appears its no longer online.
Going to need some more info and I'll try to help as best and as fast as possible, but real life keeps me pretty busy most of the time.
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1. What rom were you using?
2. Which version of CWM are you using?
3. What were you doing to the tablet when it froze like that?
There's a lot of things that can go wrong and which NVflash you use (250m partition or 350m partition) is going to be determined by which rom you wish to run.
The Gtablet for dummies site really helped me out while I was starting off, but it appears its no longer online.
Going to need some more info and I'll try to help as best and as fast as possible, but real life keeps me pretty busy most of the time.
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i had ics, not sure what version, clock i think was 5. something. i know that this dont help much. i was able to get it working,
what i was trying to do was get it back to the way it came new so i could start all over with a new rom. Now i found what i thought was the stock rom but all it will do is sit on the screen where it says gtablet, i even let it sit over night,while i was at work and still the same screen.
Nobe (has some kick ass roms) has already done the legwork in another thread, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070655
first download, should but you back at stock with a 1.2 branch ready to go.
I know it sucks, I've NVflashed dozens of times to work off of stock, I still get a little jittery every time I load another rom.
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Nobe (has some kick ass roms) has already done the legwork in another thread, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070655
first download, should but you back at stock with a 1.2 branch ready to go.
I know it sucks, I've NVflashed dozens of times to work off of stock, I still get a little jittery every time I load another rom.
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so i tried reloading ics 4 beta that i had, after it said everything was installed and went to reboot it and just sat on the screen with birds. im able to turn off, go into recovery, and apx. So my father in law installed the 350 zip and jellybean 5.3 on his with no issues. i followed the same video he did and it said that everything installed good until i went to reboot, there it got stuck on the bird screen but im still able to do nvflash, apx and power down....Am i screwed ??
racefan82 said:
Am i screwed ??
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We'll have to see.
See this thread, run the commands there and post the output.
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Am i screwed ??
You may also try the detailed instructions by Raywaldo (Google Raywaldo for his site) on installing new ROMs on GTablet. In my opinion Smoother Bean v 1.5 (by nobe1976) is the best/fast ROM for this device.
Ok, so I'm going to start by saying that I am the furthest thing away from being an android noob, but this is my first Moto android device. I can see right away in terms of rom and kernel flashing it's a bit different than all the other android devices I've owned. I Picked up a RAZR for a really good price and it came loaded with Safestrap and had a 4.2.2 AOKP nightly loaded already on it. KI'm completely unfamiliar with bootstrap and how it works (I plan on reading up and learning everything today), but the guy that gave it to me said he accidently deleted the stock rom. To me, coming from all htc devices, I didn't think that was a big deal because who wants stock anyways? So, I'm not sure if it's critical to get that stock rom loaded back on in one of the slots or not.
I guess the point of this post is to see if anyone would care to share a couple helpful pointers for a first time moto user and hopefully make this learning process a bit easier.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply with something other than "Read the stickies"
If you are happy with the AOKP, no need to install stock ROM. Stock ROM probably have less bugs, working 1080 camcoder, but lack options, that AOKP has.
localceleb said:
Ok, so I'm going to start by saying that I am the furthest thing away from being an android noob, but this is my first Moto android device. I can see right away in terms of rom and kernel flashing it's a bit different than all the other android devices I've owned. I Picked up a RAZR for a really good price and it came loaded with Safestrap and had a 4.2.2 AOKP nightly loaded already on it. KI'm completely unfamiliar with bootstrap and how it works (I plan on reading up and learning everything today), but the guy that gave it to me said he accidently deleted the stock rom. To me, coming from all htc devices, I didn't think that was a big deal because who wants stock anyways? So, I'm not sure if it's critical to get that stock rom loaded back on in one of the slots or not.
I guess the point of this post is to see if anyone would care to share a couple helpful pointers for a first time moto user and hopefully make this learning process a bit easier.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply with something other than "Read the stickies"
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Next time, make sure dont to delete the stock ROM, you can install other custom ROM on other ROM slots, make your stock rom as a backup if anything happens.
If you want to go back to stock ROM, or if your razr is bricked, i suggest you to download the fastboot file and flash the xml.zip you downloaded using RSD lite from the PC. Its just the same as 'Odin' if youre Samsung user. Download the fastboot file in the link given and also download rsd lite,you can google for it
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_spyder/list.php
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