Hey everyone.
A bit of background.
The phone is an xt910, Rogers (Canada) originally. Had been rooted, unlocked etc.
I got my hands on it to see if I could get it back to stock and give it to my dad to have smartphone, start getting used to it.
I have been through just about all the information here and many other places for resources/instructions on how to restore and I cannot get past a certain point. I likely spent near 10 hours reading all the information and there are gaps where fastboot is concerned.
As it stands, the phone has BMM 0.3.4, running a CM 10.1.3, but Google apps crash out all the time.
CM is in System_1, which as I understand is not where it should be, hence the need to restore to stock.
I can also get into stock recovery, but not much else.
There simply is no fastboot option available, RSD will not detect (correct drivers are installed in Windows).
Also tried via Linux.
ADB from stock recovery does connect.
I have tried every set of instructions with no success.
How do I reinstall fastboot?
All the directions keep saying fastboot plus RSD lite 6.0, but no info on what to do if the AP fastboot option is no longer working.
Also, attempts to find the official stock JB 4.1.2 for Rogers Canada RAZR have come up with dead links, including the firmware links in these forums.
Can anyone please help, provide resources on what to do here?
RSD is the only tool that can restore or flash the phone to stock state. If it ain't working, you're out of options.
Or you can just stick to CM. If BMM is there, just try reflashing CM with correct gapps.
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I did a search and found nothing. It seems I installed a GSM rom that was said to be a CDMA (I am very careful when reading the detail of a ROM I am going to flash) but it seems that it was not a CDMA ROM. The thing is I have tried to restore my phone every way I know: Droid Razr Utility 1.42 and RSD lite. I have also tried to flash other 4 different "cdma" roms and they do nothing. All of them get stuck in the Welcome Screen (which I bypass with the four corners trick) and I get NO Service.
Does anyone know how to get back to the Stock Verizon CDMA / US version or however it is called that I cannot find it. I have been with 0 communication since yesterday.
Thanks for your help
Yeah but can you use safe strap or get into any other mode? If you can get into fastboot mode then you should be able to use rsd lite. Im using it now. Boy have I been through alot of crap flashing , back to stock etc.. Takes some time but usually works out.
Did you make a backup? I'm guessing no :/
Maybe try flashing this:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/879-rom-totally-stock-rooted-173-flashable-in-bootstrap/
As long as you can boot into safestrap/recovery then you should be ok. Just make sure you fully wipe everything (except your SD card!) before flashing a new ROM.
POQbum said:
Just make sure you fully wipe everything (except your SD card!) before flashing a new ROM.
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Including a format/SYSTEM?
Edit: I formatted "everything" except SDCARD as directed and now the phone doesn't boot in anything but Fastboot. :/ Now what?
Maybe from fastboot use rsd lite to restore to orignal rom. Use matts to help.
That's the thing; I don't find the original ROM for this. Have looked everywhere except where probably someone would direct me to download it.
Hey y'all, here is the situation I need help with....
While I have years of experience flashing, rooting and the rest, I made the noob mistake of not actually paying attention to everything and now I have problems. I have the OG Droid Razr MAXX running the JB Kernel with Safestrap 3.11 installed. While checking out some of the other ROMs out there in various slots I somehow wiped the system on my stock ROM slot, and now cannot get anything to install properly there, and cannot boot from there.
I can run ROMs from the other slots, but have also somehow now horked Slot 1 trying to recover, and have only Slot 2 working. Biggest problem is space available, since the other partitions are still there.
What can I do to just completely start over, with a fully wiped phone since I am now on JB? Not sure if I can go ahead and use Matt's utility or not, I would like to get it as close to factory as possible and then go from there.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
Peter
I have done the exact same thing. Have you found a solution yet?
I have no clue how exactly you managed to erase your stock ROM, however, try using Droid Utility 1.82 and restore your phone completely. Then you can re-root your phone and go on from there.
However, this is to be only used with the ICS kernel otherwise you'll brick but you wiped your entire stock ROM which makes me wonder if this would actually work since the stock ROM is now gone and you're running a non-official kernel.
I got the same problem here, i followed (at least I think I did) the tutorial and got myself in the same situation ....
I can't paste links but if someone wants to post this information feel free: h t t p : / / pastebin . com / F8sr8SBm
Essentially you need to flash the stock firmware back on to the device then re-root, I don't believe you can use the stock rom slot for anything but the stock firmware.
Also note that the flash took 10 minutes, but it took about 16 minutes total for the phone to reboot. So once flashed it takes about 6 minutes for Android to boot up.
Now that I think of it, did any of you try to wait for Android to boot up for 10 minutes or more on the stock rom? Anyways I'm back to Square 1 now, at least the phone works.
Hello everyone. First post here, although from time to time I take a look here to see what's going on.
Is now a week without phone. I searched many forums, and Googled a lot, but no luck.
The phone is a Motorola Razr GSM (umts_spyder), XT910. It had installed Safestrap, I don't remember the version.
I tried some roms from time to time, installing them through the Safestrap.
The last one was SlimKat (4.4). I wanted to go back to MIUI V5, which was the one that I liked most of which I had proved, but the Safestrap tell me that the rom can't be installed due to space issues. Then I thought that I should delete some files.
Okey, that's when I make the mistake. Using the Safestrap built in File Manager, I deleted some folders that I thought are not essential. I thought they were remnants of application installations folders and stuff.
And after that, I rebooted the phone, and never woke.
I read guides on installation through fastboot. I can boot the phone in recovery, using -it seems- a factory recovery.
I have already the drivers for my phone from Motorola.
I tried RSD, Odin, and another script and stuff that I found on the web.
All the metods fails at the cdt.bin copy.
According to what I was reading after that, one cannot install an older version of Android from which it was last installed using fastboot.
Is this true?
If so, that means that I need to install a 4.4 fastboot rom on my phone? I can't find any.
Okey, that is the story.
Any advice will be appreciated. Due to my negligence and inexperience, my phone is now a cute ornament.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Best regards,
Francisco.
Edit: I was trying again, with other fastboots. No luck.
Is there a way to create a fastboot from a "common" rom?
I'm without phone for about two weeks.
running 2.3.6 completely stock. Got it new in the box. I used to have the xt912 when it first came out. Switched around a few different phones since then and I wanted my razr back. My plan was to update it to the latest android and I spent the whole day trying to update it to ics with hardly any progress. Amidst the countless tutorials and sites and download links that just don't exist. Even this forum has alot of info that points that it's suposed to be easy but I didn't find any one tutorial that had everything I needed and step by step instructions. I'll try to run down what I've done so far.
rooted pretty easily at first. This is basically the only thing I got right.
Installed the cwm installer app on the play store. It has an option for the razr but it says it doesn't support it. After searching for hours on how to install it manually I came across rsd and bootstrap. Rsd just doesn't want to see my device for some reason. No idea why. I'm running a windows 8 PC. Tried various cables I have still nothing. Tried reinstalling adk and setting that up. Still nothing.
Bootstrap seemed to work ok until I actually tried to flash a rom using the 5.05 cwm recovery that it would boot the phone to. No idea how that even got there btw. But it wouldn't even try flashing the ics rom. Just fail. I decided to go back into the stock recovery and format everything. Phone booted fine into its stock OS.
found another tutorial for use with safestrap. Installed it. Then rebooted into recovery with it.
Phone is now stuck in a bootloop.... I tried reformatting the phone again and now when it boots up it goes into(I think) safestrap. BUT everything on the screen is completely distorted and twisted. I can select stuff but I have no idea what it does.
right now the phone is sitting in its stock AP fastboot mode. I have no idea what to do to fix this. And I'm pretty annoyed that something that was supposed to be an easy upgrade now leaves me with no phone at all.
So I decided to root my phone and then flash it with Cyanogenmod 12.1 Nightly Build following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr/development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-0-t2950906. Unfortunately I could not install google apps on my phone because the partition created by safestrap was too small, I am used to installing roms that completely replace the old one so I was not expecting this to happen.
So I attempted to install the nightly build on my stock rom in order to get the space that I needed. I made a back up to my SD before formatting the stock rom and attempting to flash nightly to it. However when I turned my phone back on it would boot and then display the android lying on its back with a exclamation mark inside of a triangle. I worked out how to get to the recovery menu from here and attempted to restore the safestrap back up from there but it did not work. I then attempted to update using the cyanogenmod 12.1 zip, at which point I was presented with "installation aborted", I trawled these forums looking for the retail rom, which I found and they gave me the same result. I have tried using the RSD Lite to flash it back to stock and the result is an immediate fail.
In the AP Fastboot menu it was displaying that the battery was ok but that it could not programme. Now, because the amount of time that I have spent trying to fix it, it is displaying that the battery is low and therefore I can no longer flash it.
Can anyone help?
First of all, you need to charge it.
There's a thread, here somewhere that might help you to do so.
Either get a factory cable or you might need to work with your usb cable.
Once you have power, get the right ROM and flash it using RSD.
Its been really long since I had a Razr, but one thing is for sure, you need enough juice in battery.
Tapped from my Moto X
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So I decided to root my phone and then flash it with Cyanogenmod 12.1 Nightly Build following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr/development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-0-t2950906. Unfortunately I could not install google apps on my phone because the partition created by safestrap was too small, I am used to installing roms that completely replace the old one so I was not expecting this to happen.
So I attempted to install the nightly build on my stock rom in order to get the space that I needed. I made a back up to my SD before formatting the stock rom and attempting to flash nightly to it. However when I turned my phone back on it would boot and then display the android lying on its back with a exclamation mark inside of a triangle. I worked out how to get to the recovery menu from here and attempted to restore the safestrap back up from there but it did not work. I then attempted to update using the cyanogenmod 12.1 zip, at which point I was presented with "installation aborted", I trawled these forums looking for the retail rom, which I found and they gave me the same result. I have tried using the RSD Lite to flash it back to stock and the result is an immediate fail.
In the AP Fastboot menu it was displaying that the battery was ok but that it could not programme. Now, because the amount of time that I have spent trying to fix it, it is displaying that the battery is low and therefore I can no longer flash it.
Can anyone help?
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Here are some usefull answers and links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3069077
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Thank you very much for your help got my cable today and I fixed it.
Now I just need to install CyanogenMod again :fingers-crossed: