When holding down the power button (Bionic) and volume up/down buttons all at the same time for a few seconds, several boot options come up on the screen. Does anyone have a list of definitions of what each option does? I know that one of them is supposed to provide the same results of doing a battery pull but I have no clue as to what all of the listed options do. I can't provide a screen shot of it but if someone knows what I am talking about, can you post a screen shot?

 

This is EXACTLY what I was talking about. Thanks.

 

Thanks...but was still looking for a definition of them. However, I did find it elsewhere. Thanks for the clarification of two different operations of the buttons.

 

Nothing personal taken...but we can say that about everything and never learn anything. I just wanted know what the options do.... not necessarily try any of them. This is how we learn.

 

It was from the Motorola site. I had asked the same question over there but after not getting any initial responses, I asked here. Is it ethical to copy/post someone else's response? If so, I will post it here (I'll get his permission first of course).

 

I just got a message from the OP that I can repost his message to me:

cellzealot said:
This question is difficult to answer properly within the constraints of the forum rules because the modes of access available in the boot menu allow for operations that will void your warranty and discussion of them is forbidden. Given that limitation I will give a simple overview. Recovery is the stock Android partition that is where updates are loaded and has menu options for loading an uodate.zip from sdcard, factory reset/data wipe and wiping just the cache partition. You can only load official signed updates via recovery. Normal use does not void the warranty. AP Fastboot is the new bootloader menu for loading firmware via the command line fastboot interface. This is where the firmware is flashed as discreet image files and is not for end users because the files required are proprietary and intended for use by technicians only. SBF mode is akin to the old bootloader menu and loads firmware in a different format from a single file using a service software utility. This is again not intended for end users and requires proprietary firmware files and tools. The other modes are for various low level hardware and diagnostic access again requiring proprietary software tools designed for use by technicians and developers for testing and/or fixing problems with the device. Some of them also allow for access via adb shell in the Android SDK, the use of which does not strictly void the warranty but may depending on what is done. Basically, the only one that end users should be concerned with is the Recovery mode in cases of failure to boot or other issues that the limited menu provides. Under normal circumstances, most users should never need to deliberately access any of these menus and updates and factory resets are scripted to run from the phone while booted normally and reboot to recovery and run without user input. Short answer: You should never need to know anything about these menus and they would rather you didn't.