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Root Clever Me Managed to Brick my Phone...

ADB stands for "Android Device,eh, something".

You know command prompt? Well it essentially accesses your phone using that. It can be a pain to install on your computer though.

I have no idea where you'd get a recovery image - there's plenty of places to get a droid one, so if you look hard enough you might find a milestone one, or else find out whether the droid one can be used on the milestone.

Id also look into this
You might be able to access and boot your phone using that, though perhaps your phone needs to be on first, i dont know.


Also thinking about it - where did you put the update.zip on your phone? Because it seems like your phone is trying to boot but cant find the right files.


edit: probably a silly question, but you have tried booting the phone holding the camera button (with/without) the power button too??
 
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Ye i think you might need to have your phone on in order to install the android drivers. I dunno dude, im out of ideas. If you still havent solved it when my milestone arrives i'll look into it again.

Last thing is just to double check you can't get into the menu by pression camera button + power on in any sequence. Otherwise try the droid forum, or some other forums on the net. Sorry!
 
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I don't wanna be an ass, but almost every other link —except the first one— you have posted correspond to DROID rooting and not Milestone. Droid is not, NOT, compatible with Milestone. The roothelper may have trouble with the current Milestone fw.
In WinMobile sometimes helps removing the microSD from the device while operating, flashing or installing bootloaders, etc.
My two cents.
 
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It's why we said, Milestone and droid was different. You should ask first if the method works for Milestone or not.

Well, droid root helper DOESN'T WORK with Milestone. Seeing the error you have on Bootloader, i suppose you flashed SirPsychoS recovery.

I sum up your problems :

- As you flashed your recovery (for sure) you won't be able to switch to recovery mode ... We saw that Milestone recovery is signed and if it the wrong one, bootloader won't allow you to boot on recovery.

- People had this problem, but could load android correctly. Then, it's possible to flash back a good recovery (can find some on alldroid, just ask the question there)

- But you added something which prevents you from booting android too ...

The only solution (if it works), is connecting with adb to your Milestone while it's booting. As you didn't check the debugging option, won't think it works.

But if it works, i think you already have flash_image on your milestone. You should flash with a healthy recovery.

$su
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img (recovery.img you have to copy on your sdcard by removing it and reading/writting it from your PC)

And if it doesn't work : congratulation you bricked your phone :). You can send it back to Motorola and don't buy an android phone anymore as you don't read theses warnings !!!

You can (if adb works) check why android doesn't boot :

Code:
adb logcat

and try to see where is the error ....
 
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Actually, if you can get to the bootloader screen (and I think you said that you could), you can use RSD Lite to push a Milestone flash system image that doesn't have the recovery reloader (apparently). Go to Alldroid, in the Milestone Root thread.

AllDroid - View topic - Milestone Root

You will need to install the Motorola drivers on your PC, the RSD Lite software, and download the SPB image.

RSD will flash that for you, and then you'll have 2.0.1 on your 'stone. You can even root it then. Warning - the image is for Qwerty phones, apparently.
 
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Hi big_adventure. That is seeming to make some progress! All I need to know is what file to download (from where) and I will be on my way!

The links to everything you need are in that thread. You should definitely read through it to get a good understanding of what you are trying to do.

Basically - you need:

RSD Lite (most people are using the 4.5.3 it seems)

The Motorola usb drivers for your phone (you can find these in a ton of posts - just search)

The SPB image of the Hong Kong (HK) 2.0.1 (114) ROM for Milestone. You have to use this one. It is also in the root thread in several locations.

(Option) The milestone-root.zip file, which you will rename to update.zip. You need this if you want to root your phone after you flash to 2.0.1.

This method will ONLY apparantly work with the HK ROM, because it seems to have a vulnerability that stops the image from correcting itself from recovery. It just doesn't call the script.

I have no idea where the HK ROM really comes from. Motorola is still days away from a HK 2.0.1 update (planned for the 29th, I read). This ROM seems to have a couple of "funny" (not function-killing) bugs that wouldn't make it to production - for instance, it doesn't offer the option to disable automatic update checking, though I imagine that you would still have the option of refusing to install them.
 
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