Hello everyone,
(Sorry for the upcoming wall of text)
Today I started the process to get CM11 on my phone. I was following all the instructions and somwhere along the way, during the install phase, the phone got soft bricked. Later, watching a video tutorial I realized that I should've installed CM11 in ROM slot 1 for the Razr xt910.
So I've spent all day trying to get out of this state without success. I have tried using RSD Lite with a couple of stock roms, including the one that was previously installed when bought. But I get "Failed to flash" almost instantly. Only when I previously clear the cache and the data, from the stock recovery menu, it gets to "step" 3 before failing.
I have also tried making it fastboot a recovery.img of ClockworkMod but it fails instantly.
EDIT: Just tried with mfastboot and same result.
The last thing tried was a "Xt910 Unbrick Utility". It's a .bat file that tries to replace the boot or refresh, not quite sure. The instructions are to wait till the process is done and then enter the recovery menu to install "update from external source".
Also read that getting into "Bp tools" should change something, tried it and still the same.
I couldn't find any other method and I have followed tutorials for the last 4 hours at least.
So please, if anyone could lend me a hand I'll love you forever.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
I just got my new phone, and are desperately trying to install a MIUI ROM (which i've used for about a year on my old HD2).
I own a XT910 GSM (UMTS) version, loaded with SPDREM_U_01.6.7.2-180_SPU-19-TA-11.6_SIGNEuropeAustraliaEMEA_USASPDRICSRTFR_HWp2b_Service1FF_fastboot firmware (french)
Now my problem is that i cannot get Bootstrap nor RazrTouchBlack CWM recovery to work.
I always end up with a black screen after the first boot logo.
After having tried mattlgroeff's Droid Utility 1.82 for rooting, i tried RazrTouchBlack 5.8.4.5. After initial boot logo, i endup with a black screen. I've tried getting into recovery a couple of times without success.
After a while, i decided to fully reinstalled my phone with RSDLite 6.1.4 (version stated above).
I then tried rooting my phone with EPRJ_EasyRootICS_MultiOS_v1.5, and installed RazrBootStrap.apk. After initial boot logo, i endup with a black screen. I've also tried RazrBootStrap a couple of times, and RazrTouchBlack... without succes.
I read about Boot Manager but it seems it's really buggy with MIUI as for know.
Well, i don't really know what i'm doing wrong, i'm used to flash HTC / samsung devices... This is my first MOTOROLA but i don't think get the error.
Can anyone bring light on my problem ?
Thanks
EDIT: I also tried RazrICSBootStrap.apk... Same results.
Well... found the problem:
I've also played with boot menu manager 0.27. Told me " you don't have enough free space on /preinstall "
So i looked into /preinstall with "super manager" file manager, with root access, and show hidden files option.
I've deleted everything in that folder and tried boot menu again. Works !
After this, i've fully reinstalled my phone with RDS lite, then emptied the /preinstall folder again, installed ClockWorkMod Recovery 5.8.4.5... With SUCCESS !
Yeah. /preinstall folder seemed to make trouble, and doesn't get emptied even after a full wipe and RDS lite stock firmware reinstall...
Hopefully this might help out people in the same case.
Well i have been looking all over for help with my phone. I have figured out that i tried to flash a rom without unlocking my bootloader. Well im running windows 8.1 and for some reason i couldnt get my computer to recognize the phone at all. After using 3 or 4 different guides i gave up for a few days so not to get too aggrivated. I mean its my own fault but my back up phone sucks lol. So i borrowed my wifes laptop running win 7. I Followed this guide androidforums.com/optimus-l9-all-things-root/807569-guide-security-error-fix.html. For the first time since i started trying to solve my issue everything seemed to work got the s/w screen to appear in reverse and using the cmd prompt that says wiating for device then starting the .bat file from the download it says on the bat cmd prompt that everything worked. well at the bottom its says done then comes up with C:\fastboot\yours. i have been browsing google but i havent been able to find what i am supossed to do with the yours file. i tried putting a kdz file into the file location and running it from that but no luck. after a few min the phone auto reboots and comes back with the security error screen and not the backwards one. i have tried doing the hard reset at the point but no luck. if someone could please help with what i need to do with the fastboot/yours area that would be awesome. Or at least point me in the right direction cuz google isnt wanting to be my friend with the searches.
Android noob in training:
Sobih
help
Well i have tried several times now with using my wifes windows 7 laptop. i can get everything to work with the screen coming up backwards and in the command prompts it says that the fastboot is done then loads the command fastboot/yours which with the file i downloaded that file was empty. really unsure on what i need to do at this point. from the guides i have read it seems that im at like a step or 2 from getting the phone to work but after 30 seconds while still plugged in it reboots and loads the secruity error screen. from what i have read i should be able to do a factory reset by holding the volume and home button and then pressing the power for 3 seconds but it just reboots into the error. any help would be much appreciated i really dont want to have to buy a new phone.
Seems like that guide is more for when flashing a recovery on the locked bootloader and things go wrong. It was suggested a few posts down on the first page of that guide that if your problem happened when you were trying to flash a rom you might want to follow this : http://androidforums.com/optimus-l9-all-things-root/792689-guide-unbrick-manual-update-updated.html or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2085344 (the xda one seems more complete) .
sigh
Well im still stuck on the security error screen. i got the phone to boot into the backwards fastboot screen 1 time and cant remember how to do it again. i can boot into the s/w upgrade mode. if i go to use the lg support tool being that im in the united stats my options is upgrade recovery or help. well if i go to upgrade recovery im told that my phone has the latest upgrade already. if i try and use the moduptest that come in a lot of the unbricking guides it makes me turn the internet back on even with having hte shttps and everything else that is listed in the various folders. i only have the omap44 on my device manager 1 time but there is also 2 lg mobile modems. im thinking my issue lies with the fact thta i dont have the adb file for the device manager. i have donwloaded and uninstalled various times but still no luck. i dont remeber how i got the phone to the backwards fastboot but i remember i was following a guide and the op had to open one file and while that one was stuck on "waiting for device" he opened another one becasue that was the only way he could get it to connect. Any help would be awesome. not trying to rely on everyone else but after several weeks trial and error im at my wits end with it.
thanks
sobih
Hi
I am really hoping someone can help me. I have been trying for weeks now to fix my phone: Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-i9100G. In July I stupidly updated from Gingerbread, which was working perfectly, to 4.1.2. Now my phone is practically useless. It switches itself off all the time, unless I just use it as a clock. Essentially I can only use it when it is plugged in. So I decided to try rooting it to do a battery calibration. With my mac I used heimdall to flash a rooted kernel and didn't get the full messages I expected: the final line about reattaching drivers was missing. Then when I used a terminal simulator or superuser on the phone I got an error: no su binary installed etc. So I decided to try using my linux machine last night. This time I got the full feed in terminal, so it looked like the installation was successful, but the same thing: the phone was not actually rooted.
I had also tried unsuccessfully to go back to gingerbread using the mac, no luck. Last night I was so frustrated that I decided to try installing cyanogenmod. At this point I have very little to lose: the alternative is to pay to unlock my old nokia and use that as an actual phone. I tried using the cyanogenmod wiki instructions (which I am not allowed to link to) but pushing to the sdcard didn't work. I got some error: is a directory. Note that when doing the factory reset through CWM recovery it said there was an error formatting the sdcard (something like android_secure. I should have written all of this down). Then I tried sideloading but I just got stuck on the sideload screen on the phone and had to restart the phone. I also found a guide about rooting through CWM recovery but it involves the same push method which just doesn't work. I guess that the problem is the sdcard formatting (note that after last night's factory reset I still have photos on my phone which shouldn't have survived) but I don't know what to do about it. I did try "format sdcard" from recovery mode but that failed.
I am comfortable with command line stuff but will need step by step instructions. I am not an expert at all, have just been reading a lot over the last few weeks trying to fix this. My flash counter now shows 14 or something (some resulted in soft bricking). I don';t know what I am doing wrong. Please help!
Try to flash it with Odin.
spider1029 said:
Try to flash it with Odin.
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I'd have to get hold of a windows machine (none at home or work). Why do you think that would work better?
Hi. I have spent the past 10 hours trying to root my phone and install an XtraLite type of ROM because I am so sick of have 75% of my RAM used up when I haven't even started using the phone. I softbricked my phone, and after hours of trying to solve every minor issue that came up I finally found a solution and managed to flash a stock ROM. I have a lot of questions that I would love to get answers to because I am a little bit confused right now.
My history.
Bootloader
I spent so much time googling this and I decided to trust one site that said, if you can't find the "OEM Unlocked" option in "Developer Options" then your bootloader is probably already unlocked. This was the closest I got to an answer, along with many people with SM-G925F saying the root was successful for them without doing something to their bootloader. Can someone please clarify what I need to do with the bootloader with my EU SM-G925F?
Flashmode/Download Mode
Prior to this I spent very long trying the "adb-windows reboot bootloader/flashboot-windows oem unlock" without any results. However I somehow came to the conclusion that "Download" mode for my Samsung was no different. Any clarification on this subject please?
Rooting
The first rooting guide I trusted was the CF-Auto-Root page. This is where the bootloader question was raised but as I came to the conclusion that the bootloader already was unlocked, I decided to give it a shot. I downloaded SM-G925F file, added it to AP on Odin, and flashed my phone. Now my phone was locked in a bootloop. According to CF-Root page "A modified recovery and cache partition will be flashed, which will install (only) SuperSU, then clean-up the cache partition and re-flash the stock recovery. For the root to work, the device must reboot into recovery. Most devices will do this automatically after flashing these files, but in case that does not happen, please boot into recovery manually.". As you probably guessed, my phone never booted into recovery mode, and I was never able to manually do it either since the phone was in a unstoppable bootloop. Did I do something wrong here or misunderstand anything?
ROM Instructions
My first choice was: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...xtrestolite-deodexed-mod-edition-1-3-t3119968
I failed the first step, never even managed to root with CF-Root. And regarding TWRP, I did download the correct version "twrp-3.0.0-0-zerolteeu" I assume. However, many descriptions say my phone needs to be rooted before I can install TWRP so I never tried to install it. Even if, I couldn't find a detailed enough description of how to install TWRP. All it says is "flash it". Problem is, I am not sure if I am supposed to be in "Download mode" and use Odin loading TWRP into "AP" or how does this work?
Never got to the ROM installing, but it would be nice to have something more detailed than "Put it on your phone, install it". Like, do I enter recovery mode and navigate to the rar file and chose to install it? Not sure how this works.
My solution to bootloop
This part took me the longest. For those stuck in a bootloop. Holding DownVolume + Power button for at least 15 sec will simulate disconnection of the battery. This helps you turn you device off. Also, if you nothing happens, make sure you unplug the USB cable as it keeps trying charge and show the status it tries to boot and keeps looping as a result. I could always manage to get into "download mode" through DownVolume + Home Button + Power Button no matter what, and I am grateful for that. I managed to find the exact build I was using on my phone "G925FXXU3COJ1_G925FOJV3COJ1_G925FXXU3COI9_HOME". But everytime I tried to flash, it always failed in the end. I spent hours on google. Someone mentioned something about it failing on a certain point of the writing, involving hidden.img. I googled for info on how to resolve this, and someone suggested to rename hidden.img to hidden.tar but it did not help. I also read some threads regarding using a matching PIT file and there were about 7 different ones to chose from. I tried them all without success. Finally I read something about removing hidden.img from the ROM. I renamed the ROM from .tar.md5 to .tar. Unpacked it, and then repacked it without hidden.img using tar-Tool from these forums. The following flash of the new created tar.md5 (without hidden.img in it) was successful.
Slave for stubborness
Unfortunately since I spent so long getting through this horrible experience, I would feel bad have wasted an entire day just to get a phone that is now reset. I could have done that in 30 seconds. However I am persistent to get this working and I am truly grateful for any help you people can supply my with. I did manage to root and ROM my old S3 but that was a while ago and I only remember a few small things about Odin and so forth. However things seem much more complicated now than before.
Thank you in advance,
Alex
Hi all, attempted to root my phone today following this guide.
I got right up to step 9 but upon trying to reboot and launch from TWRP I began to have trouble. I've been able to access TWRP once, but after confirming install of SuperSU (step 11 here, my phone booted to the LG splash and I got the boot loop saying 'Your phone is unsecure, bootloader is unlocked' or words to that effect. Orange ! triangle.
I can launch to fastboot, or download mode. Turning on to a factory reset sends me back to a boot loop after confirming I would like to reset (leading me to believe I've not got a stock ROM in there at all).
Now when I try to flash any version of TWRP from command prompt in my ADB folder, I'm told my phone is corrupt and it won't allow me to flash.
Alternatively, trying to flash a stock ROM doesn't work either. LGUP does not recognise my model, it only shows COM Ports: [COM4, H85020s]. I've also tried using UPPERCUT but I get the following error: "Error reading from file: C:\Users\...\Roaming\Temp\F9FB5BD\TempFolder\UPPERCUT.exe. Verify the file exists and that you can access it." I've attempted running UPPERCUT from various locations, extracted.
I'm on Windows 10 and I've been trying desperately for the last 12 hours crawling through this site/ other articles for some kind of solution to give my phone SOME kind of functionality. Ultimate goal was LineageOS but now I'd be more than happy getting back to stock. I'd really appreciate any help, hope I've given enough information.