Droid 2 hacking/rom install class

[Ronbo85]

Hi,

I have been getting some help from the guys over at xda and also been following this thread for help. I have a droid 2 that I bought and it boots to the boot loader only. It will go into recovery as well. This is how the phone was advertised when I bought it. I feel like I have a pretty good understanding how to reload the sbf from all the great info here and at the other forum. I have tried loading the 2.3.20 sbf on 2 different windows machines and also linux. In some cases it would appear to be successful at the end of the flash process but the phone boots back to the BL everytime. The guy helping me at xda says he is stumped now. So here I am seeking help here. I dont know if its OK to post links to the 2 threads over there to save repeating the efforts or not; its not too much to look over. One final note is this phone shows no ESN/MEID in RSD lite but has the decal in the batt compartment for it and valid with VZW.

Thank you in advance

Did you try clearing data/cache?

Hold the X key on the keyboard and turn the power back on, keep holding down the X key until you see a yellow triangle icon

Now close the slider and hold down the Volume Up button, then press the Camera button while still holding volume up

A menu will appear and one of the choices will be "wipe data/factory reset" -- use the direction pad on they keyboard to select this option

Scroll down using the direction pad to the "yes" option and select it with the d-pad select key

Yes I have tried this many times during the many flashes, thank you for the help anyway

 

[jasnmar]

Now that mine is "up" and running again, RSDLite identifies the phone correctly as an A955 and is correctly identifying the ESN, but it wasn't until I was running that the identification was correct.
jason

 

[jasnmar]

Ronbo -
Even with my now working phone, when I'm in the bootloader RSDLite doesn't identify my phone correctly as the A955 and it doesn't read my ESN.
I didn't dare trying an additional SBF yet to see if it actually works, but hopefully I've provided some information that might help.

jason

 

[Ronbo85]

Thank you for your reply and help.

I am going to post the links to the other forum and hope I dont cross the mods here.

This one is were I was using RSD lite...
Need help.. Bootloader Err:A5,70,70,00,1F - Page 2 - xda-developers

And here is were I was trying linux...
[TOOL] sbf Flashing in Linux for Windows with Ubuntu Live CD - Page 12 - xda-developers

 

[pc747]

jasnmar glad to see you got it fixed, can you write up what you did because someone else had the exact same issue and I think you getting through it can help.

 

[Ronbo85]

Yes jansmar that would be cool. until then I will try back tracking through the thread to see if this would apply to my situation. I have so many hours invested in this I had to take a break from it. thank you again for your help

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[pc747]

Robos, are you using rsdlite 4.8

 

[pc747]

you should have rsdlite 4.8, motorola's drivers, and full sbf 2.3.20. if you have a droid 2 if you have a droid x then you are in the wrong thread.

 

[pc747]

See this thread: How To SBF Droid X to 2.3.320/.340

for the droid x

 

[Ronbo85]

hi pc747

No we are working on a droid 2 here. I started out with rsd lite 4.7 now I am using 4.8. I have numerous copies of the sbf full and system only versions of 2.3.20.

Lol I know my profile says I have a droid x which is my personal phone which I am tweaking now that I've put liberty 1.5 on it. I am getting it setup before I reactivate it. I bought a droid incredible and put a screen in it which I am on right now for my wife. She dont like it so I bought the droid 2 for her which needed a touch screen which has been taken care of. I'm hoping the droid 2 will keep her happy and not wanting the VZW iphone because she likes slider phones & I am out of contract and want to stay that way.

I will take a look at the link you gave me thank you again. Edit I see that was for the DX

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[Ronbo85]

After following the instructions posted at Trouble flashing with RSD lite in Vista/Windows 7 - Mobile Modding.us the 3rd time, the flashing of the SBF seems to have succeeded. Looking at the "touch me" android screen.

Thanks all.

With regards to this problem check out this link (POST 32)... If you get "Failed Flashing process. (0x7100)" in RSD Lite - Android Forums

I had this problem too where RSD didnt recognize the sbf file, you might find it interesting for reference

 

[Ronbo85]

After following the instructions posted at Trouble flashing with RSD lite in Vista/Windows 7 - Mobile Modding.us the 3rd time, the flashing of the SBF seems to have succeeded. Looking at the "touch me" android screen.

Thanks all.

Ok I tried using the CMD prompt as per that thread. It does the same exact thing as when normally flashing in windows. I get...

"Failed flash process-phone(0000)error switching phone to BP passthrhough mode (0x70BE)-phone disconnected-executed 100% - Fail"

at this point the phone display still appears the flash is underway indefinately.

 

[furbearingmammal]

That's usually caused by the USB port or the USB Host Controller. You'll probably end up needing to use a different computer or boot a Linux live CD and run a program called SBF_Flash.

 

[Ronbo85]

Hi, thank you for your help,

I have tried linux even on a diff PC. Here is a screen grab of the process...

SBF FLASH 1.08 (mbm)

Index[0]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[1]: Unexpected chip 2b
Index[2]: Unexpected chip 2b
Index[3]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[4]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[5]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[6]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[7]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[8]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[9]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[10]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[11]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[12]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[13]: Unexpected chip 32
Index[14]: Unexpected chip 32
=== 23.sbf ===
00: RDL03 0x82000000-0x8204CFFF B717 AP
01: RDL01 0x00150000-0x001FFFFF 13EA BP
02: CG03 0x00000000-0x008F7367 1C3E BP
03: CG31 0xB0280000-0xB02847FF 3B80 AP
04: CG33 0xB1900000-0xB24C07FF 3B0A AP
05: CG34 0xB0700000-0xB07047FF 8464 AP
06: CG35 0xB1000000-0xB13FFFFF E51E AP
07: CG39 0xB2A00000-0xC41C07FF C81B AP
08: CG40 0xC4200000-0xC4200FFF FDFF AP
09: CG42 0xB0800000-0xB083FFFF 7479 AP
10: CG47 0xB1400000-0xB18FFFFF 4EFC AP
11: CG61 0xB0B00000-0xB0B7FFFF 7486 AP
12: CG64 0xB0000000-0xB00047FF A169 AP
13: CG65 0xB0180000-0xB01847FF D9A2 AP
14: CG66 0xD0000000-0xD7B327FF 47D7 AP

Droid X found.
>> uploading RDL03
Uploading: 100% OK
>> verifying ramloader
-- OK
>> executing ramloader
Droid X found.
>> sending erase
>> uploading CG31
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG33
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG34
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG35
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG39
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG40
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG42
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG47
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG61
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG64
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG65
Uploading: 100% OK
>> uploading CG66
Uploading: 100% OK
>> verifying CG31
-- OK
>> verifying CG33
-- OK
>> verifying CG34
-- OK
>> verifying CG35
-- OK
>> verifying CG39
-- OK
>> verifying CG40
-- OK
>> verifying CG42
-- OK
>> verifying CG47
-- OK
>> verifying CG61
-- OK
>> verifying CG64
-- OK
>> verifying CG65
-- OK
>> verifying CG66
-- OK
>> rebooting

After this its still stuck on the BL and I tried wipe in recovery. Note it identifies my D2 as a DX

I am re-running rsd lite on yet another PC to tell you what it does.

 

[Ronbo85]

Ok to be clear the 1st time I got this error...

"Failed flash process-phone(0000)error switching phone to BP passthrhough mode (0x70BE)-phone disconnected-executed 100% - Fail"

This was a Vista machine using RSD 4.7

I just ran it again on a different machine (Win 7) using RSD 4.8, same exact result

"Failed flash process-phone(0000)error switching phone to BP passthrhough mode (0x70BE)-phone disconnected-executed 100% - Fail"

By the way if I try flashing the 2.3.20(system only) sbf it completes successfully on the later machine running RSD 4.8 but still stuck on the BL screen and wipe all in recovery no work.