Razr Utility bricked my phone, please help ASAP

[x25064]

This just definitely bricked my phone.

Did option 1 to get a fresh install of ICS, and it says "failed unknown error" on everything from writing the system onward. Now I am stuck at the fastboot screen with no operating system.... Not pleased. No information on here or google about this particular issue. Phone was stock and rooted....

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[x25064]

went into recovery and rebooted the phone normally, seemed to work. But seriously, what the hell?

 

[Jungle King 76]

This just definitely bricked my phone.

Did option 1 to get a fresh install of ICS, and it says "failed unknown error" on everything from writing the system onward. Now I am stuck at the fastboot screen with no operating system.... Not pleased. No information on here or google about this particular issue. Phone was stock and rooted....

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Interesting. If you were already on ics i can't imagine what caused that. The utility is sound. But you can download rsd lite and then the ics xml file and flash that way.

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[x25064]

Yeah man, bone stock. Makes no sense.

 

[x25064]

Oh, now this is great..just finished setting up the phone from being wiped and now every time I reboot the device it boots into fastboot and says "flash failure". I have to go into the recovery again and boot up normally. Is there any way to stop this, or is sideloading .211 my only option?

 

[Jungle King 76]

That will continue to happen because the bootloader failed to flash i believe. The only fix is to flash the 211 fastboot files entirely. You can try the utility again or use rsd lite.

I tend to use rsd more for fresh installs even though the utility works fine.....usually.

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[Sydman]

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-razr-razr-maxx-ics-discussion/216737-ics-leak-215-a-8.html

Read post #75, FoxKat gives step by step instructions for using RSD lite. Read them a few times, then follow the steps to the letter.

 

[x25064]

Thanks that was going to be my next question. Ill keep this updated. Amy idea as to why razr utility messed up my phone?

 

[Sydman]

Thanks that was going to be my next question. Ill keep this updated. Amy idea as to why razr utility messed up my phone?

Not sure it is fair to say the Razr Utility messed up your phone, plenty other people have used it with no issue. There could be any number of environmental factors that caused whatever happened to happen.

Utility basically takes commonly practiced procedures and makes them easier for some that might not have experience doing it the long way. There isn't too much that could go wrong when steps are followed correctly.

 

[x25064]

Followed all the steps to the T. Not my first walk in the park..

 

[Sydman]

Followed all the steps to the T. Not my first walk in the park..

Was not meaning you did, was saying not sure what could have gone wrong because the list is pretty small. Fastboot with RSD should get you working though, make sure you are using the factory USB cable that came with your phone.

 

[x25064]

Ah my mistake. Going to give it a shot when I get home from work.

Also do you or anyone else notice a slight lag in ICS, especially during 3d gaming?

 

[FoxKat]

Followed all the steps to the T. Not my first walk in the park..

I don't think that Sydman was implying the "environmental factors" were you, IMHO. Sometimes, it's just a matter of timing. The entire process involves many steps that require the phone to be in a particular "state" in order for the next step to complete properly. Slight interruptions in the internal operation of the phone, time to reboot, glitches in the PC from which you are running the utility and short stalls of the OS or driver faults, in other words any number of issues I may not be familiar with can cause what is a perfect process in terms of steps and order to fail.

There are potentially [hundreds] of cars rolling off an assembly line at the GM factory every day, all coming from exactly the same process from step one to step 2,000+, and with tolerances that are as fine as .001 inches of precision, and yet - every once in a while cars will fail at the last step...testing. Was there a flaw in the assembly line process? Well if there was, then wouldn't ALL the cars fail?

 

[FoxKat]

I see I'm late to the reply...got sidetracked while composing...:blink:

 

[Sydman]

Ah my mistake. Going to give it a shot when I get home from work.

Also do you or anyone else notice a slight lag in ICS, especially during 3d gaming?

Sadly the extent of gaming on my phone comes to playing Draw Something, which does have lag but that is their problem since the last update killed it.