Downgrade to 902 - No app or data loss

[IA10ECN]

Yikes! Well, I'm glad you're up and flashing. No idea why that happened to you. I've done this process a bunch of times and haven't had any issues so far.

Who knows what really happened. All computers and phones are setup different and there is always the Operator Error possibility. Not that I have ever bricked before. LOL. Thanks to Timmy10Shoes I learned moto-fastboot long ago and I am glad. In the end all is well and I learned new things. Still, thanks for your work on the script. I am sure we will get it down.

[SamuriHL]

Short version:
Start-to-finish, went from .2233 -> .902 -> .905 -> .230 and rooted in under 30 minutes.

Bravo!

Long version:
Nice script. It was very simple to run once everything was downloaded, extracted, fondled, and set up.

The only glitch that I ran into was that for some reason, if my Bionic is connected to my PC via USB, whenever I boot into the stock recovery screen, the down arrow key does not work. This means that I cannot select any choices other than the highlighted one which is to reboot. So I must disconnect the USB cable prior to booting into stock recovery.

Other than that (and that is certainly not an issue with the script) everything worked start-to-finish in under 30 minutes.

Question:
So that said, I assume that when the OTA is available, we can still run this script and just stop after installing the .905 update (and wiping the cache) and then let the OTA happen as it happens. Correct?

Odd about recovery. I didn't have that happen at all. Weird. As for your question, I wouldn't. The reason I wrote this script is basically to go from ICS leak to ICS leak without having to boot into a GB build (902 or 905). If you boot 905 with the data and apps from an ICS build there's a better than average chance of something getting screwed up/corrupted/bad evil gremlins. What I would recommend is when the OTA comes out, see if it matches what we already have (it very well may ) and if so, leave things alone. If it doesn't, we'll be sure to find the new OTA build and we'll just this process again to manually flash it like we've been doing all the leaks. That is far safer IMO.

[SamuriHL]

Sorry about that. The phone upgraded without a hitch and rebooted into ICS. Then the script asked if i wanted to root. The directories were in the correct place (it stopped me the first time when they were not) and the process ran but any action it tried to take failed because it was unable to write.

Uhhhhh, wow. I've not seen that happen at all. Were you able to run root manually after that?

[SamuriHL]

Who knows what really happened. All computers and phones are setup different and there is always the Operator Error possibility. Not that I have ever bricked before. LOL. Thanks to Timmy10Shoes I learned moto-fastboot long ago and I am glad. In the end all is well and I learned new things. Still, thanks for your work on the script. I am sure we will get it down.

timmy has been awesome. If it weren't for his work my bionic back in December would have been permanently bricked. I'm glad you were able to get it sorted out and get it working. The script is really there to make things easier so I don't like it when it screws up.

[lwhitit]

Uhhhhh, wow. I've not seen that happen at all. Were you able to run root manually after that?

Have not tried it yet. I will let you know what happens. Thank you again for the help.

[SamuriHL]

Have not tried it yet. I will let you know what happens. Thank you again for the help.

You're quite welcome. I'd be curious if it works when you run it manually or if you get the same issue. Maybe the phone just needed another reboot. Some of the odd things we've seen with ICS on the bionic are quickly cured by a reboot so it's not impossible to imagine.

[lwhitit]

You're quite welcome. I'd be curious if it works when you run it manually or if you get the same issue. Maybe the phone just needed another reboot. Some of the odd things we've seen with ICS on the bionic are quickly cured by a reboot so it's not impossible to imagine.

100% correct. It just rooted without a hitch after I ran it manually.

[SamuriHL]

Perfect. Very good!

[srmason6]

I also get the white window, that says it flashed everything, and i am now on 902....i also just re downloaded the FXZ from Sarge, but i do not have the line between ebr and grfs.img it is emstorage.img

[rduckwor]

I also get the white window, that says it flashed everything, and i am now on 902....i also just re downloaded the FXZ from Sarge, but i do not have the line between ebr and grfs.img it is emstorage.img

I had to go to the zip FXZ file and copy that (emstorage.img) over to the directory manually.

Should be 23 files in that directory by my count.

Good Luck,

RMD