How to Flash 5.9.905 GB, 6.7.246 ICS or 98.72.22 JB with Rsdlite
MAKE SURE YOUR BATTERY IS AT LEAST 50% BEFORE TRYING THIS.
This will wipe everything but your external sd-card.
If you are on GB or a ICS leak 6.7.232 or less you can flash any file in this thread. If you are on ICS 6.7.246 or any leak from 6.7.235 to 6.7.247 you can only flash 6.7.246, the modified 6.7.246, 98.72.22, or the modified 98.72.22. If you are on JB 98.72.22 you can only flash 98.72.22 or the modified 98.72.22 files
Modified 5.9.905 GB (md5 sum f7c66ab368f1be30a1b77ba157b96347) This will remove root but you will have to uninstall Super user app before flashing. This will keep your data
Modified 6.7.246 FXZ ICS(md5 sum 02CAC34F9FE419E4D5ED0C018A1B4741)This will remove root but you will have to uninstall Super user app before flashing. This will keep your data
Modified 98.72.22 FXZ JB(md5 sum BB6752FE7AB824D84D0E960AECE7179F) This will remove root but you will have to uninstall Super user app before flashing. This will keep your data.
If you tried the 98.72.22 fxz and received a OEM_fb_mode error use this file here it is the full 98.72.22 with the 2 fb_mode lines removed.
Use the back USB ports on a desktop. On a laptop it does not matter. Use usb 2.0 ports as there are issues with usb 3.0 and rsdlite.
Everything you download will be to your computer desktop.
1. Download one of the FXZ files. Use the md5 sum checker to make sure the sums match and the file is not corrupt.
2. Download Motorola drivers to your desktop or use Moto helper device manager.
3. When it is done downloading click on it and install
4. download RSDLite 5.7 to your desktop.
5. When it is done downloading click on it and install
6. start RSDLite 5.7 picture
7. turn phone off
8. press and hold the volume down and power button at the same time on the phone. The fastboot menu will appear.
9. plug your bionic into your computer with the cable that came with the phone.
10. Click on RSDLite, you should see your phone listed. picture
11. click on your phone to highlight.
12. click on "..." symbol. picture
13. navigate to the 5.9.905 or 6.7.246 file location and select that file. picture
14. on the next pop up select uncompress and start flashing. picture
15. let the program run until your phone reboots. rsdlite screen will say 22/22 complete.
16. when the green android is up you are done.
17. click on the green man and log in with your google account.
Some time RSDLite does not say complete but the android will show up on your phone. It is complete don't worry about the warnings.
Good Luck
Make sure your laptop battery is charged or you have a backup power supply for your desktop. Just to be safe.
If RSDLite is giving you issues there is a manual way to flash the files using fastboot.
unzip your 5.9.905, 6.7.246 or 98.72.22 fxz file (the one you downloaded from above) to the same location as moto-fastboot
Put your phone into fastboot mode by press and hold the volume down and power button at the same time on the phone. The fastboot menu will appear. plug your phone into your computer.
navigate in windows to the location you have everything unzipped to. click on the file symbol in the top left corner and when the bar becomes highlighted type cmd and enter if you have win 7. A comand prompt will come up. If not go to start and type cmd and hit enter. when the prompt comes up type cd c:\location of file with moto-fastboot and fxz file unziped
you should be on 5.9.905, 6.7.246 or 98.72.22
all your data except on your sd-ext will be erased. If you want to keep your data skip the step for erase userdata.
Can we have this thread stickied or added to the root guide?
I'll add it in.
The reasons the link is down is because the hosting was being paid for in full by johnlgalt.
So far, from all of the files he's hosted, he's accumulated 700GB of download in total. That's how much his links have been downloaded not only here, but everywhere else too. Pretty much every other guide out there is pulled from the links him and I used in the original guides.
followed the instructions, when it rebooted to go to the green droid setup, it went back into the flash recovery boot. I rebooted it and chose normal boot. It came back up with the Eclipse boot logo thing (the whole reason I tried this was to remove the ROM), and got stuck in a boot loop. Rebooted and did the recovery boot, formatted data/cache, formatted cache, rebooted and now i'm on the fastboot screen again.
figured it out, have to extract the files with RSD Lite then click the start button to run the flash, i'm a RSD Lite noob
Last edited by Neslot35; January 21st, 2012 at 12:50 AM.
These have not worked for me. I'm on 5.9.901. Phone bricked. RSD lite with the edit for 901 has not worked. I think I have to bite the bullet and get another bionic. I wonder what the selling price is on ebay for a bricked phone.....
These have not worked for me. I'm on 5.9.901. Phone bricked. RSD lite with the edit for 901 has not worked. I think I have to bite the bullet and get another bionic. I wonder what the selling price is on ebay for a bricked phone.....
DUDE!!!!! I was thisclose to buying another bionic! I tried the first option on rootzwiki. It worked! It helped that rsd lite started recognizing the phone in fastboot (it wasn't doing so for most of yesterday). I was skeptical throughout the process. With each step, I thought "okay that worked, but it will fail at the next step." Even as the phone rebooted, I thought "I froze here yesterday, it will today." Can you tell yesterday was a long day :-)?
Thanks so much. As for me. Lesson learnt. I won't be bricking this baby again. I will root again. But no custom roms for me...There 's nothing wrong with roms, I just think I screwed up trying to go back to the stock motoblur from eclipse.
Last edited by al23; January 22nd, 2012 at 09:00 AM.
Laptop. But problem solved. I had received a cdt error and the phone was in fastboot after I took the 5.5.893 update. But i downloaded a cdt fix and extracted. I was then able to boot up without a problem. all my aps were there and the 893 update took.
For the time being I will do nothing to the phone. No root. nothing. Let the phone settle for a bit after all I put it (and myself) through. The only thing I wonder is, am I going to have this problem each time I update the phone?
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The only thing I wonder is, am I going to have this problem each time I update the phone?
No you're not.
Everyone has their head handed to them and they learn something very important from it. Assume it is going to screw up before you do it and have the recovery worked out. If it then does screw up you're ready.
Everyone has their head handed to them and they learn something very important from it. Assume it is going to screw up before you do it and have the recovery worked out. If it then does screw up you're ready.
Great going ... you made it back.
... Thom
Thanks. I have had my head handed to me enough. That's a good tip: assume things will be screwed up and prepare for that.
... coming from the leaked .901 the fxd wiped my MEID/IMEI what do I do?
Got 'Failed Flashing process. 6/22 cdt.bin -> phone returned fail.
I am having the same issue and I am stuck too. Anyone???
EDIT: I have safestrap installed and was able to get back into Eclipse 2.1RC1.
1. Could safestrap have anything to do with this issue?
2. I am getting my phone exchanged (phone speaker is broke), so I need to get back to stock quickly.
3. Should I just unroot and leave the .901 radio?
Last edited by Jeffery; January 24th, 2012 at 07:14 PM.
Noob question: Can anybody point me to the 5.5.893 fxz linked above? Link is not live. I'm coming from 5.8.894 with KIN3TX 1.0 and looking to get to .901. Or should I be following this guide instead: [GUIDE] How To Receive OTAs Again If You Are On A Leak
Noob question: Can anybody point me to the 5.5.893 fxz linked above? Link is not live. I'm coming from 5.8.894 with KIN3TX 1.0 and looking to get to .901. Or should I be following this guide instead: [GUIDE] How To Receive OTAs Again If You Are On A Leak
sent you am pm with a link for 5.5.893
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dfib thanks for all your help. I'm having a problem after step 13, when I try to uncompress and flash, I get an RSD failure: Please check input file. Either XML format is wrong or image files associated with it are missing. It seems to get hung up on: C:\Users\derry\Desktop\Blur_Version.5.5.893.XT875. Verizon.en.US+(2)\webtop\etc\bonobo-activation\bonobo-activation-config.xml
I researched it in the forums a bit. Can't find anything. Maybe tomorrow I'll try another method unless anyone has input.
dfib thanks for all your help. I'm having a problem after step 13, when I try to uncompress and flash, I get an RSD failure: Please check input file. Either XML format is wrong or image files associated with it are missing. It seems to get hung up on: C:\Users\derry\Desktop\Blur_Version.5.5.893.XT875. Verizon.en.US+(2)\webtop\etc\bonobo-activation\bonobo-activation-config.xml
I researched it in the forums a bit. Can't find anything. Maybe tomorrow I'll try another method unless anyone has input.
Since there have been some problems with this I am going to go to .901 tonight and then try to get back to 5.5.893. I will let you know what I find.
dfib thanks for all your help. I'm having a problem after step 13, when I try to uncompress and flash, I get an RSD failure: Please check input file. Either XML format is wrong or image files associated with it are missing. It seems to get hung up on: C:\Users\derry\Desktop\Blur_Version.5.5.893.XT875. Verizon.en.US+(2)\webtop\etc\bonobo-activation\bonobo-activation-config.xml
I researched it in the forums a bit. Can't find anything. Maybe tomorrow I'll try another method unless anyone has input.
So far that download I gave you is a bad file, i will upload mine and send you a link.
I realized that once I wiped the data cache I needed to recover through the flashme.zip method ... but now I have a way crazy different problem now. Check my post here.
If only there was a .901 fxz ...
Last edited by envy5000; January 26th, 2012 at 10:56 PM.
Downloading the file now. Again. The first one gave me an error about wrong size or something.
Also noticed: I downloaded the drivers (64bit) installed RSD lite, rebooted, set the phone to recovery, plugged the phone in and windows 7 pops up to tell me its installing drivers. (Not this again! Although first time plugging the phone into the laptop). I load up RSD lite, phone don't show but says somethings connected. Then I uncompress and install thats when I get the error.
Time to just give up I guess. When the Bionic is connected and RSD it says connected, but when I click on that, the info window shows nothing. No ESN number, serial number nothing.
I really love windows 7. Install the moto drivers and windows installs its own. What a bunch of -
Time to just give up I guess. When the Bionic is connected and RSD it says connected, but when I click on that, the info window shows nothing. No ESN number, serial number nothing.
I really love windows 7. Install the moto drivers and windows installs its own. What a bunch of -
have you tried running rsdlite with out admin. I usually don't run it as admin.
Also when you plug your phone in with it on run it through every usb mode and let the drivers install for each one. Then boot into fastboot and let those drivers install, then start rsdlite.
Last edited by OutOfPhase; January 30th, 2012 at 11:27 PM.
Finally got my PC up and running again. Had to update RSD lite and download the image, but looks like I got my sisters phone flashed. Not sure why her laptop did not like the file. Perhaps a botched download or something
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How long is this process supposed to take? I have donet the steps and rslite is in progress but it is stuck on 1/22 for several minutes. I am not sure if this meter should progress, 2/22, 3/22 etc. or if it will just go until it is done. Also, if it just keeps going and going, I am curious when i should pull the plug, and the best method to do it.
One challenge I ran into was in my first attempt my firewall blocked the process and i restarted it, but not from the get go just from the uncompress and flash. my phone was already in fastboot and rs detected it. I hope this did not cause a challenge.
Anway, several minutes now and no change, other than the progress bar is moving back and forth
Not sure what happened, but after hours my phone battery died and rsdlite gave a failure at 1/22. I am not sure which happed first since I left it flashing when i went to bed.
I just now plugged my phone into the wall outlet. The screen came back up in the fastboot screen. The only things I see different are that the first line says Rom flash failed, and the a few lines below it says ...Battery: low
I will let it charge and then see if i can reset the phone. Not sure what happened there, but I think maybe I have a bad or different data cable. You would think the phone would get a charge from the computer while flashing. Then again I had a full battery (extended life) and I would think the flashing would be done before that drained.
hmm. odd. so if i plug it into the wall I can get a screen that says
AP fastboot flash mode (s) (flash failure)
0a.61
Battery low
Cannot program
Connect Usb
Data Cable
Now, sometimes this screen goes away (when I toggle the power, or volume etc) I cannot get any other screen or any other boot. I plug it back into a wall outlet and the screen comes back. I charged it for 5 hours and it is still the same screen. I have played with a few cables, a desktop and a laptop, both with the drivers but I cannot get a computer to recognize it, or get the phone to do anything else. I did pull the battery and reinstalled it, but no change.
I think I will try another desktop. I took a quick look at the "how to unbrick thread" but that assumes you can get it back into fastboot
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How to Flash 5.9.905 GB, 6.7.246 ICS or 98.72.22 JB with Rsdlite
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Although first time plugging the phone into the laptop). I load up RSD lite, phone don't show but says somethings connected. Then I uncompress and install thats when I get the error.
