Alright I just traded for a photon the guy told me it was stock and wasn't rooted. Well it was rooted and on 4.5.1A-1_SUN-198.6. The bootloader was locked though. I came tried to boot into recovery and there is no recovery there. I unlocked the bootloader and tried to install the bootstrap it worked at first but when I rebooted and tried to go back into recovery again there is none on the phone. So whats my best course of action? Use RSD go back to complete stock and start over or is there a fix for this?
i think you are mixing things up a bit, bootstrap is an app that launches a custom made recovery that is kinda like a livecd version of cwm. you have to unlock and then flash it in order for it to stick
I would double check to see if you still had root. if not, you have to re-root. then install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218417
[Unlocked Only][RECOVERY][2011-09-23] Custom CWM-based Recovery 5.0.2.3-photon2.
I remember having the same problem. I just had to repeat some steps.
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Thanks friends I appreciate the fast responses.
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Dammit no matter what I do I can't get any kind of recovery to take.
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Just rsd to the latest sbf once booted go into settings . Then privacy. Then factory data reset. OK now power off. Turn on holding volume down an power once screen says fastboot, let go and press volume down til u see android recovery. Press volume up to start it. When the icon comes up press volume down and volume up at same time. Now you are in recovery do what u need in there and soon you will back to 100% stock.
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Also can you clarify how you are trying to get into recovery? And what does happen when your perform the steps to get there?
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Alright i have it all figured out now, just wanted to say thanks again for the help. This phone is a powerhouse I must say. I'm very pleased so far.
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Hello i have an sgs2 from At&t and i was trying to root but was unsuccesful and now i have this message on my screen when i turn it on " Frimware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". I could use any advice or help. I have search and tried alot of things but no luck. Please thanks.
What method did u use to root?
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And importantly did you attempt the recovery through kies?
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i used the "how to easily root your sgs2" method using odin. I tried to use the recovery through kies but it asks for a code and it wont connect to my phone.
It sounds like your phone is still half functioning. Try booting into recovery,
With the phone off hold down both volume keys and power button until you see the first screen, then let go of the power button.
If it's stock recovery you'll be able to do a factory restore(wipe). If CWM choose wipe data factory reset.
After rebooting it might work.
Worst case you can put it back in download mode and try odin again.
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If you can't get it into download mode you may have serious issues.
Might need to build a usb jig or buy one.
Contemplate a return.
If you tried everything, and I mean everything to get it into download mode, i.e. jig, "adb reboot", then neither can they. Can't see anything you did.
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I just tried that but all i get is the firmware error screen. And i would try reflashing through odin but i dont know what to reflash the kernal that i was trying to root or something else??
and i have thought about returning it but i want to eventually root it so i would like to know what im doing wrong or how to fix it. thanks for all the help
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and i have thought about returning it but i want to eventually root it so i would like to know what im doing wrong or how to fix it. thanks for all the help
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You never did tell us what KIES has to do with ROOTING ?
I would definitely flash back to stock. Stock will never further mess it up. Not to mention there is the stock rom that's prerooted. By using that one you won't get a yellow triangle on boot. Nor will the counter go up from changing the kernel.
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Can you get into download mode?
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You never did tell us what KIES has to do with ROOTING ?
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It doesnt but i was trying to go back to stock and i tried to do it from kies.
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I would definitely flash back to stock. Stock will never further mess it up. Not to mention there is the stock rom that's prerooted. By using that one you won't get a yellow triangle on boot. Nor will the counter go up from changing the kernel.
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Can you point in the direction of that prerooted stock rom, cuz i couldnt find it. thanks, i will try that once i find the right rom
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Can you get into download mode?
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Yes!!! thanks for all the help, i hope i can get it up and running and rooted
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It sounds like your phone is still half functioning. Try booting into recovery,
With the phone off hold down both volume keys and power button until you see the first screen, then let go of the power button.
If it's stock recovery you'll be able to do a factory restore(wipe). If CWM choose wipe data factory reset.
After rebooting it might work.
Worst case you can put it back in download mode and try odin again.
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If he downloaded an international rom then he can't use the stock recovery as the power button on the international roms aren't the select key. They have an actual hardware button to select. I found that out the hard way.
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@stalked_r/t Good point, I forgot about that happening to some people.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
Here's the link you want.
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If he downloaded an international rom then he can't use the stock recovery as the power button on the international roms aren't the select key. They have an actual hardware button to select. I found that out the hard way.
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That is probably true cuz i downloaded a 1900 or something odin file to get back to stock but it was not the right one as i now know it should have been I777.
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At least you got download mode working. With that working there should be no issue about fixing your phone.
Just keep in mind depending on if "everything flashed from the international version you possibly will also need to flash the right modem.
I wouldn't worry about that until you got the phone up and working.
It's best to keep each step as simple as possible, especially for the first time you're trying it.
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ok so i downloaded the stock rooted rom and im using odin 1.85 but it stops at factoryfs.img, any ideas??? thanks again for all the help
Not good. I wish I could offer more help. At least it didn't stop at flashing the bootloaders.
There's not too much you can do at this point. You can try waiting seeing if it changes.
You can hope if you do unplug it that you can get it back into download mode. Then try odin again. Though I'd make sure the checksum of the download matches up to make sure it downloaded properly.
No one wants to be the one to say unplug it in the middle of an odin procedure, but if no progress is being made after a reasonable amount of time, there's not much left to do.
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I bought this phone a couple weeks ago, already rooted and on a stock rom , the radios and everything else is flashed for cricket.
My question is, how can I find out if I have an unlocked bootloader and a recovery installed?
May sound like a stupid question, but I'm still new for Motorola, so I'm not used to having a locked boot . My thinking is that it must be unlocked if the phone is fully flashed to cricket.
Turn the phone off and turn it back on. At the top it will say unlocked if it's unlocked. To find if it has a custom recovery turn the phone off and hold the volume down and power until you see fastboot. Then use the volume down button until you see android recovery then press volume up to enter recovery. If it goes to recovery you're good if not then it doesn't. But it will only have a custom recovery if it was unlocked before.
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If you have CWM recovery you shouldn't have to hit up. You should be able to just hold power and volume down and it'll boot straight into recovery. :]
I want your phone
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If you have CWM recovery you shouldn't have to hit up. You should be able to just hold power and volume down and it'll boot straight into recovery. :]
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Hah. Okay.
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If you have CWM recovery you shouldn't have to hit up. You should be able to just hold power and volume down and it'll boot straight into recovery. :]
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Yeah I want it to. I have cwm and I have to cycle to recovery and hit up.
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First off, I've done like 10 hours of researching today so please bare with me.
I thought I had unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone in the past. I'm able to tether so that was a sign I did it.
Today I attempted to install romracer cwm based recovery with rom manager. When i tried to install Rom from the sd. it restarted and said "failed to boot 2" after doing some research it said it was possible my bootloader was not unlocked. Now I think i did the right steps back when.
How do I find out for sure if my boot loader is unlocked.
I'm doing all this because Im attempting to get my phone back to stock as can be. I want to get it back to warranty for the following reasons
1) my video play back is all messed up on my recorder. (will a sbf fix this)?
2) when i insert a external sd card to my atrix, my screen sometimes turns black when it wants to).
So this is where i'm stuck. I read the newbie threads. Thanks for all the info. But man this "failed to boot 2" scared me. Luckily it didn't brick my phone. Took out battery and it started back up.
Help please
If your unlocked it will say unlocked in red letters at top of screen when turned on. If you aren't unlocked its possible you have just rooted your phone I think not positive that a factory reset would unroot your phone. Just go into recovery hold volume down when turning it on cycle down with volume down and choose with volume up in recovery both volume rockers are used to navigate and power is choose.
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.tried what you told me. Got a android guy and “!” next to him. My phone doesn't say unlocked. I took out battery to restart it cause it froze with android guy. Any more info
So i did a factory reset. I guess there was more steps i need to take when I saw the android logo and "!". is my phone unrooted thanks for anyone who can help. As mentioned before. I don't think my phone was ever unlocked because I didn't see it when I started up my phone.
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.tried what you told me. Got a android guy and “!” next to him. My phone doesn't say unlocked. I took out battery to restart it cause it froze with android guy. Any more info
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Use pudding thread to unlock your bootloader, install Rom Racers CWM via fastboot after you are unlocked. If you want to make sure you are rooted after that, use the Moto root, stuck at top of the General section.
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Actually man if yer trying to get back to stock for warranty stuff or whatever just flash the 2.3.4 sbf. And be done with it.
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Actually man if yer trying to get back to stock for warranty stuff or whatever just flash the 2.3.4 sbf. And be done with it.
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i doubt I can flash without being bootloader being unlocked. I did a hard reset. wiped everything out. So thats why I was asking if that unrooted my phone.
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i doubt I can flash without being bootloader being unlocked. I did a hard reset. wiped everything out. So thats why I was asking if that unrooted my phone.
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You can flash to stock if your bootloader is locked. I did it and worked like a charm.
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You can flash to stock if your bootloader is locked. I did it and worked like a charm.
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+10 char. This. .sbf are flashed with rsd on your computer. Not with the phones recovery. That's why I mentioned this option for ya.
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O yeah forgot haven't used that in awhile when u get to the Droid with the I push in volume up and down at same then it enters stock recovery
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i know there are many tpics similar but i cant find a straight answer or working link..
basically i flashed a rom and this rom ws working fine until it started to reboot everytime i chargd the phone then it would boot loop for like 30min and finaly go in to the rom.. ive tried to access the recovery to switch roms but it just bootloops.. onlything i can go is to bootloader.. i was looking for a stock rooted
P0g5?? file to flash in bootloader but all i can find is mr2 and its in multiupload which is not working for me.. can anyone please give me a working link or answer... and the last option i would hate to do is completely restore to stock and root allover again.. i want to restore to stock rooted/s-off.. not stock rooted/s-on.. please help anyone....
Can u download a new recovery, rename, then flash in hboot possibly?
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I had an issue kinda similar like this and ended up having to flash the RUU through the bootloader. It is the stock firmware 605.19, and I had to reroot. It's a pain I know but it works
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I had an issue kinda similar like this and ended up having to flash the RUU through the bootloader. It is the stock firmware 605.19, and I had to reroot. It's a pain I know but it works
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I to had to this at one point and it does work. I would first try to flash cwm in fastboot though. Sometimes that works.
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My friend's phone tried to pull an OTA while he had CWM recovery installed, and it started boot looping. Had to download the stock recovery, name is PG05IMG.zip in the root of the SDCard, and force the phone to boot to the bootloader and install it. Once it did, the phone started up, rebooted itself, and installed the OTA fine. Sounds like yours may be trying to do something similar?
If so rooted phones need caches cleared for the ota to work.
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From my understanding, Rooted can still take OTA, but you have to have stock recovery to do it (as I witnessed earlier). You will lose root, and will have to re-flash recovery to TWRP, CWMR, or whatever your normal choice is, and then re-apply the su.zip, but otherwise easy as pie.
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My friend's phone tried to pull an OTA while he had CWM recovery installed, and it started boot looping. Had to download the stock recovery, name is PG05IMG.zip in the root of the SDCard, and force the phone to boot to the bootloader and install it. Once it did, the phone started up, rebooted itself, and installed the OTA fine. Sounds like yours may be trying to do something similar?
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Do you by chance have a working link to the stock recovery? I have been trying to find one without success.
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I won't be home to later, I'll get it to you then, but I'm piety sure I found it through thunderboltforums.com
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I won't be home to later, I'll get it to you then, but I'm piety sure I found it through thunderboltforums.com
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I would appreciate that. Thank you
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I would appreciate that. Thank you
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Stock recovery PG05IMG.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/PG05IMG-Stock-Recovery.zip
Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone who has posted in this thread to try and help out. I just started having a very similar problem- I'm rooted and running stock, but apparently my phone accepted an OTA and I'm stuck in a bootloop as well.
I got into CWM recovery and downloaded the stock recovery PG05IMG.zip, but it won't install. It just aborts every time I try to install it. I'm a noob at this stuff and not very good at dealing with these sorts of things and I've been having a panic attack for the past hour, so if anyone could help me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.
I'm really scared of making things worse than they already are. I just want a working phone.
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Stock recovery PG05IMG.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/PG05IMG-Stock-Recovery.zip
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Much appreciated my friend.
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pull battery, wait a minute, turn on phone
when in bootloader screen,
volume down, select reboot
back to white screen, select recovery ( i had to do this twice)
hold volume up and power when black screen appears
choose the bottom option (wipe cache i believe)
choose reboot
phone should be good aftter this
( idont own a thunderbolt, but i had to fix this for a nother phone, called tech support and this worked)
hope this helps - hopefully saves someone from ruu'ing and wiping their phone
Thank you for posting the file, life got in the way yesterday. Hope that fixes your situation!
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Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone who has posted in this thread to try and help out. I just started having a very similar problem- I'm rooted and running stock, but apparently my phone accepted an OTA and I'm stuck in a bootloop as well.
I got into CWM recovery and downloaded the stock recovery PG05IMG.zip, but it won't install. It just aborts every time I try to install it. I'm a noob at this stuff and not very good at dealing with these sorts of things and I've been having a panic attack for the past hour, so if anyone could help me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.
I'm really scared of making things worse than they already are. I just want a working phone.
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The zip won't work in CWM because it's not designed for use with CWM. It's designed for use in Fastboot. Should be on the root of your sd card. From off, if I'm correct (like this with other HTC devices), hold volume down and power to boot into fastboot. This will allow it to flash the stock recovery.
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The zip won't work in CWM because it's not designed for use with CWM. It's designed for use in Fastboot. Should be on the root of your sd card. From off, if I'm correct (like this with other HTC devices), hold volume down and power to boot into fastboot. This will allow it to flash the stock recovery.
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Right. I also have a recovery zip that installs the stock recovery if anyone wants it?
It can be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/OTARestoreAndRecovery.zip
(warning: I have tested it and it works but it did cause me a bootloop, and im assuming this is becuase im on a different rom - - - so not responsible for any damages)
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My battery went tits up the other day so I had to purchase a new battery.....Ended up with HTC extended battery.(all verizon had in stock). When I put the battery in and powered on it just pops up with the HTC screen....couple secs go by the phone vibrates....HTC again......I can get the phone into bootloader.....but for the life of me can only get fastboot to work.....I have tried pushing cwm through that as well as the img above with no luck.....The Hboot only shows my device as android 1.0 and is unrecognized.I have reloaded drivers and everything I know how....Someone please help
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My battery went tits up the other day so I had to purchase a new battery.....Ended up with HTC extended battery.(all verizon had in stock). When I put the battery in and powered on it just pops up with the HTC screen....couple secs go by the phone vibrates....HTC again......I can get the phone into bootloader.....but for the life of me can only get fastboot to work.....I have tried pushing cwm through that as well as the img above with no luck.....The Hboot only shows my device as android 1.0 and is unrecognized.I have reloaded drivers and everything I know how....Someone please help
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Have you tried an ruu?
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Hey there guys
Well im having a problem with my photon right now...
I Had my photon unlocked and rooted , flashed the sprint leaked radio , and when i rebooted back no signal so i was like o alright i'll just sbf to stock and do the whole root , unlock process again
I powered down my phone , went into rsd mode , selected the 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf and clicked start , after a couple of minutes the rsd said , please manually reboot your phone , but my phone screen was on , so i left the phone sitting and then it started to boot , but it was stuck in a bootloop , going into the sprint white screen and then back to the dual core and so...
so what should I do to get my phone back ?
thanks in advance
Unlock your phone via derpunlock.sbf
Install custom recovery via fastboot
Wipe system data cache in recovery
Sbf 198_7
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Thanks for the reply , but I flashed a boot.img i had via fastboot from a nandroid backup after that i flashed the .sbf and everything went well
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Also for future reference you can go in to the stock android recovery and do a factory reset after sbf, that is what fixed my bootloop after hours of disappointment.
i tried to go into the stock recovery after i got the bootloop problem and it gave me a blackscreen with a big exclamation sign and the android guy , weird huh?
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i tried to go into the stock recovery after i got the bootloop problem and it gave me a blackscreen with a big exclamation sign and the android guy , weird huh?
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Not weird. That is the stock android recovery with the android guy and exclamation mark. To access the options, you need to press the Volume Up + Volume down buttons together and it should give you the options to do a factory reset.
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Not weird. That is the stock android recovery with the android guy and exclamation mark. To access the options, you need to press the Volume Up + Volume down buttons together and it should give you the options to do a factory reset.
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Ohh i see thanks for that info , it may be helpfull in the future with bootloops haha
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