[Q] Need help with my Droid Razr. (Bricked)

[Q] Need help with my Droid Razr. (Bricked) - Motorola Droid RAZR

Hey guys,
I had purchased this phone awhile back in 2012 and The model is: XT912. I had rooted it and installed a Custom Rom (Black Widow). The reason why I stopped using it was because I had a cracked screen so I upgraded to a different phone but having alot of issues with my new phone. So I decided to replace my screen for my Droid Razr, but its been awhile since i've used it and been experiencing issues of my phone not booting up and looked online for multiple solutions but no luck.
Issues are:
- Phone needs a USB Wall Charger to be able to be turned on, battery is charged fully but when I unplug my USB Charger, my phone turns off. When I try to attempt to do a fastboot session, I connect my Stock Motorola USB Cable to my PC and on my phone, it shows a white light. But when plugged in to a wall charger, my phone boots up but doesn't boot anywhere besides the motorola logo.
- My phone boots up, shows the motorola logo and goes straight to battery charge and it shows 0% then 5% then 100% sits there for about 3 minutes and then reboots.
- When trying to go into recovery, it stays on the motorola and i've left it there for 24 hours abd no luck.
I've tried multiple things, but its been very aggravating since I've been trying to look up solutions for the past week but still had no luck.
Please help =(

BLACKDETH32 said:
Hey guys,
I had purchased this phone awhile back in 2012 and The model is: XT912. I had rooted it and installed a Custom Rom (Black Widow). The reason why I stopped using it was because I had a cracked screen so I upgraded to a different phone but having alot of issues with my new phone. So I decided to replace my screen for my Droid Razr, but its been awhile since i've used it and been experiencing issues of my phone not booting up and looked online for multiple solutions but no luck.
Issues are:
- Phone needs a USB Wall Charger to be able to be turned on, battery is charged fully but when I unplug my USB Charger, my phone turns off. When I try to attempt to do a fastboot session, I connect my Stock Motorola USB Cable to my PC and on my phone, it shows a white light. But when plugged in to a wall charger, my phone boots up but doesn't boot anywhere besides the motorola logo.
- My phone boots up, shows the motorola logo and goes straight to battery charge and it shows 0% then 5% then 100% sits there for about 3 minutes and then reboots.
- When trying to go into recovery, it stays on the motorola and i've left it there for 24 hours abd no luck.
I've tried multiple things, but its been very aggravating since I've been trying to look up solutions for the past week but still had no luck.
Please help =(
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The white light means that your battery is empty,try this:
Booting from AP fastboot to charging mode
If the Device will only boot to AP Fastboot and it says Battery Low
Connect the phone/Device ato a Wall Charger (not PC)
-In AP Fastboot Mode hold Volume down& power buttons at the same time for +10 seconds
- When screen goes black...release power button
-Then IMMEDIATELY press and hold Vol - and Vol+ to boot to Boot Menu.
- In Boot Menu scroll down with volume down to BP Tools, press volume up to select
- Device should boot to Charging Mode with battery icon
- Once battery is charged, try flashing in AP Fastboot again
This will only work if battery charging Firmware is still present and not corrupted
If Motorola Device will not boot to Charging Mode, a Fastboot cable will be needed.
You can buy it or you can make one by yourself,look at the picture.
If you can boot to AP Fastboot mode use this utility to flash stock rom,here http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr/development/droid-razr-utility-xt913-jellybean-t2861798
If nothing works maybe your battery needs replacement...

welder73 said:
The white light means that your battery is empty,try this:
Booting from AP fastboot to charging mode
If the Device will only boot to AP Fastboot and it says Battery Low
Connect the phone/Device ato a Wall Charger (not PC)
-In AP Fastboot Mode hold Volume down& power buttons at the same time for +10 seconds
- When screen goes black...release power button
-Then IMMEDIATELY press and hold Vol - and Vol+ to boot to Boot Menu.
- In Boot Menu scroll down with volume down to BP Tools, press volume up to select
- Device should boot to Charging Mode with battery icon
- Once battery is charged, try flashing in AP Fastboot again
This will only work if battery charging Firmware is still present and not corrupted
If Motorola Device will not boot to Charging Mode, a Fastboot cable will be needed.
You can buy it or you can make one by yourself,look at the picture.
If you can boot to AP Fastboot mode use this utility to flash stock rom,here http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr/development/droid-razr-utility-xt913-jellybean-t2861798
If nothing works maybe your battery needs replacement...
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I've tried the troubleshooting steps mentioned above but no luck.
What I remember is that, back in the day when I installed the ROM, I wiped everything, incl. the Recovery partition and I believe android version it was on was ICS. When I installed Black Widow, everytime i would reboot it, i had to turn it on a certain way, sort of like safe mode. I've tried it though but no luck
Also, everytime I do plug in a charger, It does show a charge of 100% but once I unplug the USB, it turns off and the only way to turn it back on is plugging the USB back in.
I've also created the cable you've mentioned, but it still shows a white light when plugged into a PC. I've already replaced the battery and the battery is brand new. Just replaced it yesterday.
Any other suggestions? Is there a way to fastboot it so i can install a stock rom with the OTA?
Thanks.

BLACKDETH32 said:
I've tried the troubleshooting steps mentioned above but no luck.
What I remember is that, back in the day when I installed the ROM, I wiped everything, incl. the Recovery partition and I believe android version it was on was ICS. When I installed Black Widow, everytime i would reboot it, i had to turn it on a certain way, sort of like safe mode. I've tried it though but no luck
Also, everytime I do plug in a charger, It does show a charge of 100% but once I unplug the USB, it turns off and the only way to turn it back on is plugging the USB back in.
I've also created the cable you've mentioned, but it still shows a white light when plugged into a PC. I've already replaced the battery and the battery is brand new. Just replaced it yesterday.
Any other suggestions? Is there a way to fastboot it so i can install a stock rom with the OTA?
Thanks.
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You can't charge the phone with the fastboot cable,it is for flashing the stock rom with RSD Lite when your battery is low.
Here is everything you need
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3023837
Download Motorola drivers,RSD Lite,appropriate sbf file for your region and flash it.
Oh,use Windows 7,not Windows 8
Edit:
Use this utility because you have XT912
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2861798
Sent from my Razr XT910

I actually got it to boot up, but turns right back off. How do you boot it up into safe mode when the phone is off?

BLACKDETH32 said:
I actually got it to boot up, but turns right back off. How do you boot it up into safe mode when the phone is off?
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Ok, So I was able to get to the Boot Logo usuing HW Diag. and Boot AP and my screen would show safe mode activated, then it would boot up a logo and I believe its cyanogen mod. It has a Blue Droid with a ring circling around it, but then it restarts. Maybe if i'm able to boot it into safe mode from the beginning, i could start it up.
How do I boot it into safe mode when the phone is off?
Thanks.

BLACKDETH32 said:
Ok, So I was able to get to the Boot Logo usuing HW Diag. and Boot AP and my screen would show safe mode activated, then it would boot up a logo and I believe its cyanogen mod. It has a Blue Droid with a ring circling around it, but then it restarts. Maybe if i'm able to boot it into safe mode from the beginning, i could start it up.
How do I boot it into safe mode when the phone is off?
Thanks.
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Power the Device Up in Safe Mode - DROID RAZR / RAZR MAXX by MOTOROLA

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{Q} Invalid flash mode (s) boot failure

Hello my friends...A friend of mine owner of a european razr got stuck at this death screen where nothing can happen. The phone actually doesn't open at all.It gets to this screen only when inserting the usb cable after showing the motorola logo. Even leaving it in the charger for hours still doesn't let it boot without the charger or the usb pc cable plugged in.
The only thing that I found out is that if I plug in the charger and at the same time press the vol up and vol down buttons then it goes to Boot mode selection with 7 selections available. But which ever I press the phone returns to the Invalid flash mode screen...
Any ideas?
PS: The phone was previously rooted.

Use SBF files on developer section to try recover the phone. To install it, use RSD Lite.
Good Luck.

Low Battery charge in Ap Fastboot Fix

Hey guys, I recently found an alternative way to fix the low battery problem when your in AP Fastboot and able to get it to charge without the soldering of usb cable or the factory cable. So for those who do not want to open up their razrs or pay 40 bucks for a cable use my method.
-Make sure you have the charging cable connected to the phone and the cable to an outlet not an computer.
-While in the ap fastboot screen with the low battery problem, just push & hold Vol - and Vol+ and power buttons at the same time for 10 seconds
-Then IMMEDIATELY press and hold Vol - and Vol+ for 10 seconds to get back to the boot menu.
-Then once in the boot menu go down the the one option that has the word tools on it which is the last one.
-If it does not do anything just press volume up or down and go back to the tools and click power (enter) again.
-Then you should be boot to the M logo.
-Then after a bit you will be presented to an battery icon charging your phone!
-After a good charge up to 50% or so download the program called
New Link
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/2248-droid-razr-utility-16-contains-612181-fastboot-files/
-Download that program and make sure your phone is back in AP fastboot and your battery should say OK meaning you can now program again.
-From there run the Droid RAZR Utility you just download it and choose option 1 and let it do its thing.
-Once done you should have the original stock rom and if you had root you must re-root it.
-Please message back for any questions! I am happy to help because I know how frustrating this is!

vel0city said:
Hey guys, I recently found an alternative way to fix the low battery problem when your in AP Fastboot and able to get it to charge without the soldering of usb cable or the factory cable. So for those who do not want to open up their razrs or pay 40 bucks for a cable use my method.
-Make sure you have the charging cable connected to the phone and the cable to an outlet not an computer.
-While in the ap fastboot screen with the low battery problem, just push & hold Vol - and Vol+ and power buttons at the same time for 10 seconds
-Then IMMEDIATELY press and hold Vol - and Vol+ for 10 seconds to get back to the boot menu.
-Then once in the boot menu go down the the one option that has the word tools on it which is the last one.
-If it does not do anything just press volume up or down and go back to the tools and click power (enter) again.
-Then you should be boot to the M logo.
-Then after a bit you will be presented to an battery icon charging your phone!
-After a good charge up to 50% or so download the program called
Droid RAZR Utility I can't post the link but it is in our forums so just search for it. If pm and I will give you the Link.
-Download that program and make sure your phone is back in AP fastboot and your battery should say OK meaning you can now program again.
-From there run the Droid RAZR Utility you just download it and choose option 1 and let it do its thing.
-Once done you should have the original stock rom and if you had root you must re-root it.
-Please message back for any questions! I am happy to help because I know how frustrating this is!
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This really works for corrupted systems after a flash failure without a working fastboot?
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk

Great Job! Only wish that I knew about this 3 weeks ago! I took the back off and ended up glueing it back on and did a warranty exchange. I hope they don't say anything!!!
Again Great Job!!!!
Sent from my DROID RAZR using xda premium

pedrotorresfilho said:
This really works for corrupted systems after a flash failure without a working fastboot?
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk
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As long as once it is plugged in and the screen comes up in the AP Fastboot it will work. Just hold power plues volume up and down then once that turns off immediatley press the volume up and down and it will boot you right to the boot menu. But just wondering what shows up for you if it is not the fastboot?

I can't get it to work, after I select BP Tools, it flashes the Motorola Logo and goes back to the AP Fastboot screen again. I don't think it works if you formatted \System.

renx0 said:
I can't get it to work, after I select BP Tools, it flashes the Motorola Logo and goes back to the AP Fastboot screen again. I don't think it works if you formatted \System.
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exactly. for those that got cut off as the phone was in the process of flashing, i dont think it will boot to any phone charging icon because there's no software on the device. I've been trying for a week now

solution
I tried to do so but did not work I tried to boot straight to the battery also did not work had to own a cable faser

mestisso79 said:
I tried to do so but did not work I tried to boot straight to the battery also did not work had to own a cable faser
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did you try the above tutorial? worked fine for me a couple hours ago

jaredakelly said:
did you try the above tutorial? worked fine for me a couple hours ago
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Definitely didn't work. When that m logo comes up, it disappears and the screen goes off. The charging icon does not show.

Sorry for the late reply but it is good to hear this method to work for jaredakelly . For those who are having problems did you have the phone charging in the wall outlet and not on a computer usb? The best steps is to choose the the tools option then just let the phone boot to the m logo then just leave it there on the wall outlet. Make sure you are using the Motorola usb cable that came with your phone and its usb adaptor that might make a difference.

I just tried this tut and it works as far as I can tell I am at the screen for battery charging but there is a big "?" in the center, the phone doesnt know what level its at lol..
I suggest you space out and make your original steps in bigger and bolder text for the specific buttons because I almost missed the power + vol down + vol up and was just pressing the volume buttons
This thread should be stickied!

Yeah sorry if my instructions were not to clear this is my first time posting anything like this on this site, but I am glad to hear it is working for you too. I don't even have this phone lol , it was my friend's and he had it stuck on the fastboot so I messed around with it and in the end this was the result.

yep
i think my battery is too low to attempt this i got it on 3 times and tried to fastboot restore but battery kept dying before completion so i guess im just screwed

no you should be fine because as long as the power cable is still plugged in it should work regardless of the low battery level. I did this on my friend's phone with 0% battery.

renx0 said:
I can't get it to work, after I select BP Tools, it flashes the Motorola Logo and goes back to the AP Fastboot screen again. I don't think it works if you formatted \System.
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I have the same problem :/

This method worked for me! Your are the MAN OP!
Sent from my DROID RAZR using XDA

I think this should be stickied
Sent from my DROID RAZR using XDA

Well this got on xda front page
Sent from my DROID RAZR using XDA

Not a very good success rate for being on the front page. I'm going to try it later, though I think that I tried something like this before and it didn't work. I know that I have read this somewhere else.

[Q] Droid Razr stuck on M logo. Wont charge!

I tried downloading the new 4.0.4 leak and it didn't work :/
But anyway i set my phone back to original stock and my battery must have died.
So now my phone is doing something weird. I go to turn it on and it wont go past the M logo.
When I plug it into the charger it still wont go past the M logo, nor does it charge my battery. I can't plug it into the computer because the phone is so dead that it gives me "the white light"
I can't send my phone in because I rooted it and they won't do anything..
Please help!

Try following Steps:
Boot in AP Fastboot > Connect your Wall Charger > Press Power
If you're an lucky Guy, your RazR will pass the red M and jump into the Battery Screen.
If your system is broken, you have to order an Factory Cable. With this you can flash the correct system signed or use the modded Utility for CDMA Leaks, to get your Phone back to life.
Wish you luck dude.

HSD-Pilot said:
Try following Steps:
Boot in AP Fastboot > Connect your Wall Charger > Press Power
If you're an lucky Guy, your RazR will pass the red M and jump into the Battery Screen.
If your system is broken, you have to order an Factory Cable. With this you can flash the correct system signed or use the modded Utility for CDMA Leaks, to get your Phone back to life.
Wish you luck dude.
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I can't boot into AP Fastboot and THEN plug in my phone, becuase my phone is completely dead :/

Fallen_One said:
I can't boot into AP Fastboot and THEN plug in my phone, becuase my phone is completely dead :/
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i had the exact same situation as you. however mine went down to last resort as nothing would save me. i had to get a motorola factory cable and all back to normal now.
you can still try alternatives incase yours is slightly different situation
i think they meant well plug into wall charger
ur phone boots up automatically so have vol + & - held then pick AP Fastboot then press power button to turn off phone and then see outcome?

[Q] i9100G stuck at boot logo after CMRecovery install. Can't boot to recov/download

Hi there,
I followed the wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i9100g instructions to install CM10.1 on my i9100g (up from stock samsung 4.1.2).
It worked fine until step 6 of installing CM Recovery: A blue transfer bar will appear on the device showing the recovery being transferred.
Since the reboot follwing the install, my phone does nothing but displaying the samsung boot logo (showing the device number).
When the logo is shown, I have two options:
1. Long press power, or up+home+power, or down+home+power.
The phone will then reboot and start over showing the boot logo.
2. Take out the battery.
When I re-insert the battery, the display will first display an empty battery logo, and after a few seconds it will switch to the half-full battery logo, as if it was charging (even though no cable is attached).
I have tried the following:
1. Get into download or recovery mode.
Nope, that doesn't seem to work, it always starts the normal boot logo, when I press up/down+home+power.
Taking out the battery for minutes, or holding up/down+home+power veeerry long doesn't help either.
2. start adb reboot recovery
Nope, adb can't find the device.
Kies doesn't connect to the device either, even though windows shows the USB device when the phone hangs at boot logo.
3. Followed the un-soft-brick-my-SGS2 guide.
It doen't apply, since I can't get to download mode.
4. Reflash the kernel/ROM.
Nope, I can't get to download mode, remember?
Any Ideas?

How about just batt pull + normal power up? Did it go straight to boot logo still? Because last time I crapped a flash, it'll show the phone + PC logo instead and that's good thing because that still mean you can hook to Odin and fall back to stock fw.

Suo.Eno said:
How about just batt pull + normal power up? Did it go straight to boot logo still? Because last time I crapped a flash, it'll show the phone + PC logo instead and that's good thing because that still mean you can hook to Odin and fall back to stock fw.
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No, normal power up shows the same behavior, its showing the boot logo. But thank you anyway.
Yesterday I could borrow a USB jig get the phone right into download mode. Didn't work either. So I guess my only option is to send it in.

WTF? After having the Battery removed for two days the phone suddenly showed normal behavior and allowed to go into download mode.
Strange... Maybe the hardware is indeed defective, because it often says that a cable is attached even if its not the case.

3 Red Lights and Not Charging

my z5 Compact is taking forever to charge and even after I leave it in for hours, it still says it needs to be charged. When I unplug the phone from the charger and try to turn it on, I get 3 red lights. Holding volume up and turning it on only gives me 3 vibrations. Before this happened, I used the phone all the way till the battery shut down. After that, I can't get it to charge any more.

Sounds like you over-discharged the battery. You should always avoid using the phone to the point where it force shutdowns due to 0% remaining battery.
Try hard shutdown by pushing and holding the yellow OFF button in the flap for 10 seconds, then charge the phone for about an hour and try turning it on.
If that doesn't work, press and hold ALL physical buttons simultaneously (VOL UP, VOL DOWN, POWER, CAMERA) AND press and hold the yellow button for 10 seconds.
The phone should vibrate or something, I forgot, then charge the phone for about an hour and try turning it on.

Volume up + Power for hard shutdown.
Can you get into flash mode or fastboot mode?
Plugging the phone into your computer and entering fastboot mode helped me once:
So you disconnect your phone, do a hard shutdown to make sure it is off. Press and hold vol up and connect it to your computer. If a blue light shows up, at least the basic circuits and bootloader are ok
Keep your phone connected for 30 minutes and you should (well, might) have some charge again.
If you can get into fastboot or flash mode but still can't boot up, try reflashing your phone (if possible), esp. your boot partition.

try charge with QC2.0, adapter will charge device on 9v, its standar QC2.0, when your phone drain of battery until shut down, down turn it on. Your phone must connect to charger and wait untill 2%-4% of battery before turn on.
if charger fail, change your battery, dont force charge before IC power broken (dead)

Running on an imported 5823
IGNNE said:
Volume up + Power for hard shutdown.
Can you get into flash mode or fastboot mode?
Plugging the phone into your computer and entering fastboot mode helped me once:
So you disconnect your phone, do a hard shutdown to make sure it is off. Press and hold vol up and connect it to your computer. If a blue light shows up, at least the basic circuits and bootloader are ok
Keep your phone connected for 30 minutes and you should (well, might) have some charge again.
If you can get into fastboot or flash mode but still can't boot up, try reflashing your phone (if possible), esp. your boot partition.
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I am running on a 5823 imported from the UK (i think). Is it safe to flash boot.img prescribed for the 5803.
Also, where can I find a collection of boot.img for the 5823? I am not really sure I am doing this right.

Re-writing boot in fastboot mode will only work if your device is unlocked, and although unlocking should happen in the bootloader it is not something I would risk with an already bricked phone. Maybe as a last resort thing.
But IIRC just keeping the phone connected to your PC in fastboot or flash mode somehow bypasses some of the charging logic*, so just leaving your phone to idle might give you some basic battery charge to start with.
If you can enter those modes: You can re-flash your phone with stock firmware using the proprietary flash mode (Vol-Down when connecting to PC, green led should show up). Search for 'Xperia Flashtool' and/or 'XperiFirm', there should be lots of information, these tools help you download Sony firmware, too. I would not flash an image for a different phone type, I guess there is a reason why they made 2 firmwares
If you still only want to flash boot.img (= only the 'boot' partition on the flash as a raw image), you'll need an unlocked bootloader first. Also, if you already have an unlocked bootloader, you probably have installed a custom ROM (why else do you unlock your bl?). To avoid any more confusing error sources, I recommend flashing exactly the boot.img via fastboot that came with your custom ROM and that worked until now.
*Most likely bc there is no kernel to optimize (read: mess up) charging. I once had a Z5C with more-or-less blown charging 'stuff' and I was able to charge it in fastboot mode as a workaround.

Three red blinks is, afaik, a status message for a dead battery. It has been discharged below safety limits, and is no longer safe to charge.

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