Root complete newb with rooted razr maxx on ICS

[barry bierstedt]

Ok I have this phone (razr maxx) because I broke my Droid Maxx a few weeks ago. My Razr Maxx was rooted when I previously had it but I broke the screen on it along time ago. Since the parts are way cheaper to fix the Razr I decided to fix it instead of the Droid Maxx. Now me being a stupid idiot I booted up the Razr Maxx and decided I should do a hard reset and factory reboot to get all the old crap off of my phone. I forgot it was rooted and now I have a phone that is stuck on ICS and I have no apps on my phone to do anything. It looks like it has been factory reset but something is wrong. I can only sometimes make phone calls, text, use the play store, or anything else with the phone. There are no apps on this phone besides the factory ones. I am lost and really need this phone to get running as it is basically my life line. What can I do?

 

[funkylogik]

Can you explain things a bit more? I don't really understand what you've done/have sorry

 

[barry bierstedt]

I had a Razr Maxx in the past that was rooted. I upgraded to a Droid Maxx but it broke 2 weeks ago.

I now have started to use the same Razr Maxx that I had before as a replacement til I can upgrade in June. I forgot it was rooted and when I first started it back up decided to do a hard reset and factory recovery. Now my phone is stuck on ICS OS and I can not upgrade to Jellybean because it was rooted. During the Reset/Recovery I have lost all apps that were on the phone to control it and I am stuck now with a rooted phone with no way to do anything now.

The phone sometimes lets me text, make calls, use internet but most of the time it wont let me type on the keyboard. I can received calls but not multimedia text and regular text show up minutes to hours after they were really sent. I can not download any apps from the Play Store because of this.

 

[funkylogik]

What rom do you have on it. Try flashing something simple like Cyanogenmod 11 and be sure to flash the gapps package (containing play store and more)

 

[funkylogik]

Make sure the time is set correctly

 

[barry bierstedt]

Ok I have no clue on how to flash anything to my phone. This phone was rooted by a friend and I never did anything to it besides overclocking the CPU.

 

[barry bierstedt]

I am in the process of trying the site you suggested.

 

[barry bierstedt]

Ok I tried that site and it says this is not a supported device.

 

[barry bierstedt]

I tried the manual instructions but it is way over my head. it tells me to put the apk file alongside the adb. I have no clue what this means. I also downloaded about 20 different programs that it said was necessary to root my phone or to install this system on it. I am stuck and I guess I am done with this whole process. It should not be this complicated.

 

[barry bierstedt]

If anyone else is having a similar problem go to droidrazrroot.com and they have an easy walk through guide on how to update to jellybean using a file. finally got my phone fixed after hours of trying