Ok, my friend gave me his Droid and I'm trying to reboot it to its original OS. Its bricked and my computer isn't reading the phone when I hook it up. I'm going in circles trying to find out what can it be. I don't know what else to do. Should I give it back or can I fix this bricked phone?
THe phone is probable not bricked. You just need to boot into recovery mode. Do a battery pull, then hold down the x button while you press hold down the power button. When the M logo shows let go of the power button. Do a factory restore from there
To be more precise, as long as your phone boots, it's not bricked. If your phone doesn't turn on, even with a fully charged battery (plug in to wall charger to be sure) then it's bricked. If you see the moto logo you can get into the bootloader (press Up on Dpad while rebooting) and then you can use rsdlite or sbf_flash to go back to stock.
Don't throw it thru a window yet - check out that link that papadroid posted.
I did the battery pull and pressed the X, and I also did the Dpad up and I only got to the part where the phone says "bootloader" on top and half way down the screen "battery Ok, Ok to program, Transfer mode: USB" its connected to the computer but when I do the RSD lite nothing is happening.
its not recognizing my device, I press start and nothing happens. what am I doing wrong?
Please help, I'm going to bodyslam this phone.
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I did the battery pull and pressed the X, and I also did the Dpad up and I only got to the part where the phone says "bootloader" on top and half way down the screen "battery Ok, Ok to program, Transfer mode: USB" its connected to the computer but when I do the RSD lite nothing is happening.
its not recognizing my device, I press start and nothing happens. what am I doing wrong?
Please help, I'm going to bodyslam this phone.
Sounds like you are not booting into recovery correctly.
Pull battery, then replace
Hold X
Press and release power
Wait for Moto logo
Let go of X
See anything?
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I did the battery pull and pressed the X, and I also did the Dpad up and I only got to the part where the phone says "bootloader" on top and half way down the screen "battery Ok, Ok to program, Transfer mode: USB" its connected to the computer but when I do the RSD lite nothing is happening.
its not recognizing my device, I press start and nothing happens. what am I doing wrong?
Please help, I'm going to bodyslam this phone.
How many times have you tried this. Did you close out RSDlite and then re-open it.
Sounds like you are not booting into recovery correctly.
Pull battery, then replace
Hold X
Press and release power
Wait for Moto logo
Let go of X
See anything?
Give me a few, trying all day drained the battery so I have to wait till its a little full. But I see the boot loader eye pop up and the droid symbol. But I have to wait till the battery is half way in order for me to try what you said.
I did the battery pull and pressed the X, and I also did the Dpad up and I only got to the part where the phone says "bootloader" on top and half way down the screen "battery Ok, Ok to program, Transfer mode: USB" its connected to the computer but when I do the RSD lite nothing is happening.
its not recognizing my device, I press start and nothing happens. what am I doing wrong?
Please help, I'm going to bodyslam this phone.
Make sure you have installed all of the drivers for RSD lite.
and of course the RSD Lite. is there anything else I may need.
Mine did the exact same thing. Make sure you have the Motorola drivers and that they are EXTRACTED or UNZIPPED onto your computer. RSD should recognize your phone after you do this. I believe that the post above has the correcct drivers.
This phone is driving me crazy. I left it to charge and it was turning on and off again on its own. I disconnect it to do the battery pull and so on..battery is dead. I plug it back in and it works.
these are the drivers? if I extract them I get some kind of text file
USB_Driver_3.4.6_patch_ for HG
USB_Drivers_64_bit_4.2.0
This phone is driving me crazy. I left it to charge and it was turning on and off again on its own. I disconnect it to do the battery pull and so on..battery is dead. I plug it back in and it works.
these are the drivers? if I extract them I get some kind of text file
USB_Driver_3.4.6_patch_ for HG
USB_Drivers_64_bit_4.2.0
Jeez louise man, get it together! You are using a Windows PC correct? I'll spell it out as plainly as I can.
2) Click link that says: Motorola 4.7.1 Driver with MotoConnect* and download the file.
3) Unzip and install above driver (I don't know where you got the ones quoted above. Those are not the right files).
4) Open RSD Lite (if you are on Vista or Windows 7 you should run as administrator), now with the right drivers in place you should see that it is connected to your phone.
5) Click the "..." button to the right of the "Filename:" box. Select the stock SBF file you wish to install.
6) Press start. Wait for process to finish.
7) Reboot. Phone is fixed.
Let us know if this isn't working, and for the love of god STOP barking up the wrong tree.
Last edited by publicanimal; September 13th, 2010 at 05:56 PM.
Dude, you don't understand, this phone is not charging at all. it turns on when I connect it to the outlet and the screen is saying "connect your charger" I connect it to my laptop and nothing "DEAD" I would do the steps you wrote but this phone is not charging. it keeps rebooting on its own.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm going insane but, this phone won't charge, and not allowing me to do the steps. I've downloaded the file you said.
Ouch, that sucks. You won't be able to complete the steps with a dead battery! All is not lost but you might not be able to restore the phone without borrowing a battery with a decent charge from another Droid owner. Once you install a battery with some juice the steps I listed above should work now that you have the right driver installed.
Why don't you just turn your phone off? It will still charge even if off. Turn your phone off and plug it into the wall. There is a known issue that it won't take a charge from USB when your battery is completely dead.
Do you have access to a linux machine? If so that is the easiest way to go. You can use sbf_flash which replaces RSDLite on linux machines. You won't have to worry about drivers or any of that other windoze junk.
All right guys, this is like a comedy show here. this phone is playing a number on me. I turned it off and then it turn itself back on. I can't win. I'm gonna have to get someone else battery and do it that way. You saw my last posting on when I started to charge my battery and nothing yet. So, I'm going to sleep and tomorrow see if I can get another battery from somebody. Cause this is ridiculous. I have all the file to do what you guys said but just gonna have to wait till tomorrow. Sorry all this is happening.
I'll let you know tomorro what happens. thanks for all your help and patience.
All right guys, this is like a comedy show here. this phone is playing a number on me. I turned it off and then it turn itself back on. I can't win. I'm gonna have to get someone else battery and do it that way. You saw my last posting on when I started to charge my battery and nothing yet. So, I'm going to sleep and tomorrow see if I can get another battery from somebody. Cause this is ridiculous. I have all the file to do what you guys said but just gonna have to wait till tomorrow. Sorry all this is happening.
I'll let you know tomorro what happens. thanks for all your help and patience.
I should be around my computer most of the day tomorrow to help point you in the right direction if you're still having issues. Your friend will really owe you one if you can fix his phone.
Still.... Well, any way I did a system shut down while its plugged in the wall and I got the "android system recovery" page. what should I do from here. while its plugged in the outlet?
I did the cache wipe and rebooted the phone. I disconnected the phone and connect it to the computer. It didn't get enough charge to stay on long enough to do anything. I think its the battery thing thats not allowing me to link to my computer. I may have to buy another battery I don't have any body that has an extra battery.
Does the phone function normally when it's plugged into the wall?
Because if all you need is a battery that is a really cheap fix, they are currently under $5 at Amazon (the price fluctuates constantly - I've seen them as low as $1.89)
Besides the constant rebooting while its plugged in. I think if I had the phone on long enough I can connect it to the laptop and do the steps. I can get to the beginning steps of the phone, where you can skip the google steps and language part. then it goes to the main screen with the google search bar on top, after a minute or two it'll reboot again. this is while plugged in the outlet. on the computer it'll be a couple of seconds then shuts off.
I'll buy a battery and see what I can do.
I'm doing a "install/sdcard/update.zip/ (deprecated)" it seems like its loading something. so we'll see in a couple of minutes. I'll let you know. I don't know whats its doing but its doing something.
I was able to get on bootloader screen when the battery was at least a bit charged before, now and then I can get on the bootloader and it'll says "battery low, cannot program" it keeps flashing that.
I was able to get on bootloader screen when the battery was at least a bit charged before, now and then I can get on the bootloader and it'll says "battery low, cannot program" it keeps flashing that.
OK, then it is the battery. That sucks that it won't charge when plugged into the wall.
It was able to connect for some reason and it was doing the image loading things and started to load other files but that darn battery.....phone died before it can finish doing all the loads.
Last edited by johnny quest; September 14th, 2010 at 07:02 PM.
It was able to connect for some reason and it was doing the image loading things and started to load other files but that darn battery.....phone died before it can finish doing all the loads.
Careful man... you really want to do be doing this on a full battery.
THe phone is probable not bricked. You just need to boot into recovery mode. Do a battery pull, then hold down the x button while you press hold down the power button. When the M logo shows let go of the power button. Do a factory restore from there
i just softbricked my phone as well it's a droid x and i see the instructions being posted but my only concern is i have no idea what the x button is
i just softbricked my phone as well it's a droid x and i see the instructions being posted but my only concern is i have no idea what the x button is
ajedrumz,
Just wanted to let you know that this is the original Droid forum. You probably want the Droid X forum (probably the root sub-forum is your first, best bet):
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