Droid X Frozen at "Big M"

bfuerst · October 17th, 2010, 03:20 PM

Hi All,

I've been a long time lurker and have been loving my new droid x since August. I decided that I was going to install custom roms so I rooted and download the custom recovery. When i decided to flash the rom (for the record I have flash countless Touch Pro 2 roms so it wasnt my first time doing it) I must have messed something up because now I can not get passed the Big M loading screen ... I tried to go into recovery mode and reset my data/cache but that didnt fix it and also go into the bootloader and flash the sbf file. The only problem with flashing the sbf file is that I cannot get my computer to recognize motorolla's drivers (i am running 32bit windows 7) because whenever i plug in my droid x i get an error message saying failed to mount. What is my best option? Thanks guys

cashX3r0 · October 17th, 2010, 03:26 PM

The drivers can be found here in this forum if you search. Adb drivers might help you to. Check the sticky. It will lead you in the right direction. Many have had usb connection issues.

bfuerst · October 17th, 2010, 04:48 PM

thanks for your response but still no luck from what ive read most people need to to usb debugging to get it to work but since i cannot boot up my phone i cannot do anything with usb debugging

also i forgot to mention that this happened when i upgraded from Apex RC1 to RC2

tom108 · October 17th, 2010, 05:11 PM

can you get into the boot loader to flash the sbf?
plug usb into phone
start rsd lite
with phone off hit power button+volume down+camera button at the same time for 2-3 seconds then release them you should get into the boot loader to flash with rsd

bfuerst · October 18th, 2010, 10:55 AM

thanks for the help ...
i can get the phone into the bootloader after i charged the battery by wires but what i cannot get the phone to do is to be recognized by windows. whenever i plug it in phone i cannot get it to be recognized after installing just about every driver i could find ... i am running out of ideas so if any one knows a way to get my computer to recognize my phone it would be very helpful

tom108 · October 18th, 2010, 11:01 AM

are you trying to use rsd lite to flash the sbf?

bfuerst · October 18th, 2010, 11:09 AM

thanks tom108 ... yes but i cannot get my phone to be recognized by rsd lite thus i cannot flash

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 11:41 AM

same problem here, i just screwed my phone up installing apex and cant get past the "m" did a factory reset to no avail.....need the rsd link and any help available, PLEASE!!!!!

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 11:53 AM

make sure you guys are patching rsd lite when you install it. also I found installing motoconnect and uninstalling all other usb drivers works the best. Sounds like guys forgot to mount the system when you installed the rom. Just be sure to patch the ini file or rsd will not recognize your phone.

Airmaxx23 · October 18th, 2010, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jreed2560

make sure you guys are patching rsd lite when you install it. also I found installing motoconnect and uninstalling all other usb drivers works the best. Sounds like guys forgot to mount the system when you installed the rom. Just be sure to patch the ini file or rsd will not recognize your phone.

Does the 4.8 rsd require a patch? I used it Saturday without patching it and everything worked fine.

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 12:06 PM

probably not. I forgot that was even out as I haven't used it.

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 12:14 PM

now this will work even though i cant get past the "m" downloading the sbf now and just sitting here worrying

Airmaxx23 · October 18th, 2010, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by jxker

now this will work even though i cant get past the "m" downloading the sbf now and just sitting here worrying

Yes, that's the beauty of the sbf file, you can recover from about any situation with it.

cygnusloop · October 18th, 2010, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jxker

now this will work even though i cant get past the "m" downloading the sbf now and just sitting here worrying

Yes. It will work. Just follow the instructions. Many a bootlooped X has been resurrected with this file. Is it too early for a drink?

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 12:21 PM

6 more minutes to finish download, i remember when i borked my original droid, the stress is greater here because i can actually brick this one,

cygnusloop · October 18th, 2010, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jxker

6 more minutes to finish download, i remember when i borked my original droid, the stress is greater here because i can actually brick this one,

As was said, with the 2.2 SBF, you really can't brick it. It will all be fine. This process works.

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 12:29 PM

here i go

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 12:33 PM

good lock and ask someone else if you have any trouble

lol

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 12:34 PM

doesnt see device, i have the drivers and rsd lite 4.8 installed

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 12:36 PM

did you install motoconnect. I have never gotten the drivers to work that come with the rsd lite

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 12:38 PM

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/Experiences/Global_Drivers/USB_Drivers_bit_4.7.1.zip

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 12:43 PM

have those installed and no go

now all i do is plug phone into puter (xp) and phone goes right to "m" when i load rsd nothing shows, i try loading the sbf file but it has nowhere to install

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 12:56 PM

Oh you don't want the M. You want to boot into bootloader mode. you do this by powering the phone down. In this order press and hold the camera, volume down, and power button. The screen will flash and you will have a solid black screen with white lettering. Should say something like bootloader ver. 30.1 or something to that affect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r6q9Foom1o

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 01:03 PM

okay i got to the boot screen, shows usb when i plug it into phone but still doesnt show on computer though drivers were detected but rsd doesnt detect

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 01:06 PM

did you reboot your computer after you installed the drivers?

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 01:10 PM

yes i did and the moto driver thing shows up but rsd doesnt see it......in full panic mode now

bfuerst · October 18th, 2010, 01:49 PM

im in the same spot as jxker i cannot get rsd lite to recognize my phone even after re-installing the drivers and rsd lite i can get my x to show up

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 01:54 PM

I just got it, i uninstalled the moto drivers and rsd lite and reinstalled them and it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a big thanks to jreed2560 for sticking with me thru the process and all the others who helped, now to reroot and try it again!!! (later tonight)

jreed2560 · October 18th, 2010, 03:36 PM

No problem. Windows can be such a PITA sometimes. I'm really glad you got it going again. Just remember TO MOUNT THE SYSTEM (if done right the screen will say "unmount system")

bfuerst · October 18th, 2010, 07:36 PM

i still cannot get my phone to be recongized my windows ... do you think that trying it on mac osx or linux might help?

jxker · October 18th, 2010, 09:32 PM

this may be redundant but do you have win 7 32 bit drivers installed??? and are you right clicking and running as admin??

you know you have the right drivers if the moto logo shows up by the clock when you plug the phone in.....though they didn't work for me til i uninstalled and reinstalled on xp

i had the same issues as you did but it took eventually

bfuerst · October 19th, 2010, 07:21 PM

ok i finally got the phone to be recognized by windows (turns out is was a bad usb cable) but im still having trouble getting rsd lite to see it ... any tips or steps that i should follow to get it to show up on rsd lite?

bfuerst · October 19th, 2010, 11:48 PM

fixed it! thanks so much for all of your help