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[Droid 2 Global General] asterix4:
Bricked my Droid2 Global

I followed the instructions on this thread (Post#1 from Hypnotic2010) and tried to flash the .sbf file and I now have a bricked phone. Can someone help please?

Details:

RSDlite 4.9

SBF file: DROID2WE_X6_2.4.29_FULL.sbf

Phone: Droid2 Global

Carrier: Verizon

Tried several times, everytime RSDlite fails with a different error. Please please help. Phone down . Please give me a valid SBF file for the Motorola Droid2 Global phone.
[Droid 2 Global General] hardmack:
Same thing happened to me... make sure your wifi is off.... I ended up just getting a new phone shipped to me... the VZW tech guys are tired of dealing with it apparently. Which works for me as I get a new D2G in White for free.
[Droid 2 Global General] paulF3:
Make sure you have the newest Motorola drivers installed on your computer as they are needed for the flashing process.
[Droid 2 Global General] hack.causality:
So, ah, how do you cancel the update midway through download? I'm on the leaked gingerbread and have some of the bloatware permanently removed. It started downloading by itself but I turned on droidwall and airplane mode before it finished. I went into titanium backup and froze a couple of things I thought might be the updater, including "Updater 2.3.3" and "Upgrader 1.0.0" I also booted into recovery and cleared the cache.

The phone boots fine and no downloading icon appears, but tapping System Updates says "and update is downloading in the background" when droidwall is deactivated, despite being in airplane mode. When droidwall is active it just freezes on the cycling spinny thing.

Is the phone still trying to install the update? Did I successfully disable the system updating program? I'm afraid to go off of airplane mode until I'm sure there's no chance of that update trying to install.
[Droid 2 Global General] scott_lim:
finally got the update officially OTA yesterday.

i am now on 4.5.608.A956.Verizon.en.US

Android Version is 2.3.3

Issue after 24 hours of usage

Dont

1) Battery life seems to be worst then before

2) trying to call back from recent call list will always automatic add +1 in front of the number.. which causes unable to call. So i have 2 press the number again using dialer

3) GSM issue still not solve

Like

1) Speed

2) Speed

3) speed
[Droid 2 Global General] drumster:
Even my battery life seems to suck after the update - gets drained really quickly
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
The battery life was subpar compared to 4.5.607 after I updated .607 to .608.

Yesterday, I backed my .608 up with CWM, flashed 2.4.29 SBF, updated to 2.4.330 and then to 4.5.608 (and restored stuff from my backup, but /data partition only), and today, the battery life seems to be the same as with .607.

14h 6m 45s on battery; 49% remaining.

I must point out, though, that on 4.5.x I have never had any WiFi issues with my D-Link router. On 2.4.330, it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting when downloading anything over WiFi.
[Droid 2 Global General] chaseback:
Tried both the file lwags67 posted and the one on rootzwiki, received "Update aborted" message both times. I'm on the leaked 606 version. Any advice on how to remedy this? Should I just wait for OTA?
[Droid 2 Global General] sd_shadow:
I don't think you will get the update running 4.5.606, I reinstalled 2.4.33 And got update notice almost right a way downloaded, and installed no problem
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
4.5.606 was never released officially. Thus Motorola had no need to make an update for it. As such, there is no update that can be used to upgrade it to 4.5.607 or 4.5.608.
[Droid 2 Global General] chaseback:
Did this and got the update applied. Used nandroid to reinstall my data and everything is great. On the plus side, it appears that a small glitch that manifested a couple days ago has been resolved too. Every time I'd be typing a text message, the on-screen keyboard would disappear every time I hit the space bar. Worked fine for everything else on the phone, however. That was my main reason for wanting to update so thanks.

Edit: never mind, the glitch still exists. Any advice on a slution for that? Feel free to pm me so that this doesn't become a huge threadjack.

Edit 2: seems to be an up and coming problem for d2g's as shown by other forums. Current working fix was clearing the data and cache for the multi-touch keyboard process. Works like a charm, but it also went back to the initial defaults for the keyboard (vibrate on keystroke, etc), so had to go back in a change to my personal preferences.
[Droid 2 Global General] duckhawk:
Vexorg

You already have sbf ?
[Droid 2 Global General] Irish Loop:
Nah, I think he means using the old SBF to get back to stock and then using OTA updates to get to 2.3. Or rather, that's what I meant, anyway.
[Droid 2 Global General] duckhawk:
Heh :(

Checking OTA every 5 minutes - nothing :(
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
duckhawk, did you mean: “participating in a small-scale Denial of Service attack with everyone else every 5 minutes”?

I doubt your life really depends on this update. How about you lessen the load on Verizon's servers, so they can roll out the update for your phone faster?
[Droid 2 Global General] inplabth:
Chill out. Pinging the servers every 5 minutes won't do anything. Many people (including me) like to have whatever is the latest and greatest, and this is no exception. It's been hyped up and discussed for a long time so people are eagerly awaiting it, and the article made it sound like it would be available right away.
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
According to VZW support, the full roll-out might take up to 2-3 weeks to reach all devices.
[Droid 2 Global General] sk0t:
Way to cover their ass for a launch that apparently hasn't happened yet.
[Droid 2 Global General] slowhatch:
I wonder how long before fission will be available with the 2.3 base, seeing as how we wont get the OTA and I don't feel like resorting to stock.
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
Ah yes this is what i meant
[Droid 2 Global General] Vexorg:
probably not going to happen seeing as the last time an updated version of fission came out was forever ago
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
Blur_Version.4.5.600.A956.Verizon.en.US.zip (and .crc) I presume to be the name, but Its not on the server my phone communicates too. If any of you happen to get it OTA it will be located in /cache/Blur_Version.4.5.600.A956.Verizon.en.US.zip. When the download is complete, select "Install Later" browse to it and copy it over to your SD card or pull it with ADB to share. Im still searching around on the OTA servers.

ws-cloud224-blur.svcmot.com:2682...

Its just not there!
[Droid 2 Global General] :
I've been checking every few hours. Nothing here yet, either. I'll bet they'll start pushing it late tonight when server loads start to dip a bit.
[Droid 2 Global General] ben7337:
They have 3.5 hours to push the update to someone. Otherwise a lot of people will think verizon lied to them and be even more upset than they already are.
[Droid 2 Global General] rtlarson3:
yea they announced it and are still talking about it on their own twitter page, its not like someone just stumbled on those pdf's. I'm pretty pissed considering how excited I was this morning.
[Droid 2 Global General] IronFists:
WTF nothing all day not a word not a peep from any where in the US ... Such a disappointment
[Droid 2 Global General] esmith747:
Meh. Keeping waiting.
[Droid 2 Global General] chefyocum:
Just got off the phone with tech support they said it was released yesterday and its going in batches by servers. So keep checking over the next couple of days.
[Droid 2 Global General] joy_rostie:
Poor guys from support might be freaking out about everybody calling to complain where's update.
[Droid 2 Global General] chefyocum:
The guy actually said he hasn't got any calls about it yet.
[Droid 2 Global General] avoider03:
I just updated OTA in Philly area
[Droid 2 Global General] joy_rostie:
Congratulations;)

Please, can u go to /cache/Blur_Version.4.5.600.A956.Verizon.en.US.zip and post it.

Or upload to http://www.multiupload.com/. Thanks!
[Droid 2 Global General] sycophantic:
This is the HTTP traffic I logged when requesting the update and it replying that there is no update.

POST /blur-services-1.0/ws/upgrade/2/check_for_upgrade/00004F00D06F/4503600952823919?k=android&l=1000004f00d06f&f=pb&p=41&h=4OOJOAwDdVBScwiOAx65jsl0iH.&of=0&ssl=0 HTTP/1.1

Connection: close

Authorization: OAuth realm="", oauth_timestamp="1308228753", oauth_token="FAF074BB", oauth_consumer_key="00004F00D06F", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_nonce="38099712881963", oauth_version="1.0", oauth_signature="01CDsI5KtiCiTn8gfi9ID8dMDr4%3D%0A"

Content-Length: 41

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Host: ws-cloud111-blur.svcmot.com:80

'Blur_Version.2.4.330.A956.Verizon.en.US

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:52:33 GMT

x-authorization-response: OAuth realm="", oauth_timestamp="1308228753", oauth_token="FAF074BB", oauth_consumer_key="00004F00D06F", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_nonce="38099712881963", oauth_version="1.0", oauth_signature="01CDsI5KtiCiTn8gfi9ID8dMDr4%3D"

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Cache-Control: no-cache

Connection: close

Server: Jetty(7.0.2.v20100331)

.....~..^.......!h#...~.AK.6W....3h.#a-.B:h...3T...h3.."-.kR;.].'.....V..e......M.......hL..Q.E..:'...%....x....V.U..!..rs...b..+.Z...Ggy

...;..K...b..>d.......^.......!h#...~.AK.6W....3h.#a-.B:h...3T...h3.."-.kR;.].'.....V..e......M.......hL..Q.E..:'...%....x....V.U..!..rs...b..+.Z.j......W..a(..C...=.ky.
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
also you can change all the instancenes of 2.4.330 down to 2.4.29 in the build.prop; reboot and check for update. It will tell you there is an update, but only 2.4.330. I even tried changing instances to 2.5.111 to see if it would. nope.

Ive logged this traffic. It seems the phone "POST"s its status to the server and the server pushes packets of data to it. I could'nt find anywhere where the file itself was stored. So there Is a redirect of sorts on the server itself. (no GET method)
[Droid 2 Global General] msgreenf:
I think we are just going to have to wait..either for someone to get it and post it or for Moto to push it you :(
[Droid 2 Global General] sk0t:
I've only seen one report (user above) of receiving the update. Not holding my breath.
[Droid 2 Global General] avoider03:
Sorry, I seem to have spoken too soon.

After my download and installation completed, I got a message that everything was successful. (I had previously SBFed in anticipation of the update) However, my android version still says 2.2. Even worse, without reading the posts above, I hard-reset in an attempt to retrigger the OTA.

Now, there are no files in /cache/

Sorry, everyone, I could have been a hero, but I blew it.
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
You prolly SBFed to 2.4.29 and got the update to 2.4.330

what system version are you on?

oh and the update clears out of cache anyway when u reboot.
[Droid 2 Global General] avoider03:
Yes, the current system is 2.4.330

The message that the phone gave actually mentioned "Gingerbread", so I thought it was the greatly anticipated update.
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
"Check for update was not avalable at this time. Try again later" Either they are overrun with requests or they brought the server down to upload it.

Edit: NVM it was my school's wifi proxy.
[Droid 2 Global General] :
Still nothing here. Me thinks maybe they meant 7/15 instead of 6/15... :confused:
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
@VZWSupport

VZW Support

@htomborr Hi..The update will rolled out in phases to D2G users. ^SP

6 minutes ago via Radian6
[Droid 2 Global General] wigout:
FlyingPoo,

How do you browse the OTA servers? By what means, ftp? On a pc or on your phone? I've tried using filezilla on ubuntu to no avail.

thanks,

wigout
[Droid 2 Global General] sycophantic:
VZWSupport VZW Support

Great News!! Gingerbread has been released for the Droid 2 Global Device. Please click the link to view details support.vzw.com/system_update/…

5 minutes ago

hmm........
[Droid 2 Global General] :
I saw that too, so I excitedly checked for an update.

"Your device is up to date".
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
Used Shark for android to capture packets of an actual OTA update. Then I opened the packet file in Wireshark on my PC, analyzed and modified some of the packets and resent them(attempting to get a request back to ok the download of 2.5.600). BUT since it seems OTA dosent use the same token each time you send a request I couldn't get it that way. So i peered deeper into the first few frames of the actual data packets to see if there was an Embeded GET commands used by the blur_update.apk, nothing. Im not familiar with URL token passing so I sorta gave up and im just waiting.
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
Their support site isn't even working at the moment.

At least http://support.vzw.com/system_update/droid_2_global.html doesn't open for me, along with http://support.vzw.com.
[Droid 2 Global General] FlyingPoo:
Works fine for me.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
[Droid 2 Global General] chrjs:
Keep waiting ;)
[Droid 2 Global General] joy_rostie:
And me too.
[Droid 2 Global General] CornholioGSM:
...I was upgraded too in Czech Republic! !!

...to version 4.6.900

.........and this is android 3.0 !!!

...JOKE...
[Droid 2 Global General] :
I just upgraded OTA.

And by "upgraded OTA" I really mean "played Team Fortess 2 for several hours".

Still no signs of *anyone* getting it.
[Droid 2 Global General] lurchk:
I just checked to. Nothing for the Portland, OR area....:-(
[Droid 2 Global General] sk0t:
According to someone over on the Motorola Owners Forums, they're saying they spoke with VZW who spoke with someone over at Motorola L2 support, and they're saying 7/15. Makes sense if Motorola is still planning on doing a soak test, which from what I've read, hasn't occurred yet. Not holding my breath any which way I look at it right now.
[Droid 2 Global General] esmith747:
I think it may be safe to say it isn't happening.
[Droid 2 Global General] sk0t:
Verizon and Motorola need to learn to communicate better.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/407649#407649
[Droid 2 Global General] CornholioGSM:
Super... So Verizon support = idiots.

Why is on thier support site manual for updating and the update is not?!

INCREDIBLY !!!
[Droid 2 Global General] :
This is a bit outrageous. I've been with Verizon for almost six months now, and I have gone through two D2G's (my third I eventually settled with -- it has flaws too), and now this.

It's safe to say that I will not be with Verizon Wireless when our contract is up.
[Droid 2 Global General] CornholioGSM:
I think, that this is not only Verizon problem...this is motorola problem too.

I have before Motorola Milestone and 2.2 update for it motorola made 1 month ago!!!

Motoroola is too lazy with updating thier devices.

This was 8 months after Desire!!!
[Droid 2 Global General] :
Oh I know. I won't be buying a Motorola device either. I should've gotten an HTC phone instead. :(
[Droid 2 Global General] sk0t:
I paid full price for my Incredible 2 for a very good reason. The time it has taken so far to fix some very significant bugs in unacceptable.

That said, I still love my D2G, which is why I haven't sold it, but I can't trust it for business use.
[Droid 2 Global General] boomertwo:
I have no problem with using the D2G for business use. In fact it feels like the changes Motorola made to the phone was specifically for business folks. When we do finally get the OTA that additional encryption of the SD card will be very useful.

I also own a Incredible but sadly I have come to prefer the D2G over the incredible just because of build quality and that the one has a hardware keyboard vs software.
[Droid 2 Global General] sk0t:
I'd love to rely on it for business, but the multiple times it drops all connections on me (data, voice, can't even get text), and I don't know about it, that's an issue. I've had it reboot during calls, as well as just completely at random.

I do love the D2G, keyboard was a major reason, but until it's more stable, I can't use it for business. But I am in overall agreement with ya, boomertwo.
[Droid 2 Global General] chefyocum:
I have both also. This is my everyday phone that I trust and rely on. My dinc I rooted along time ago and that's my toy for flashing and trying new things. Maybe ill try and port a d2g rom to it.
[Droid 2 Global General] wigout:
Gingerbread for the Droid 2 Global not quite ready, Motorola says

Source:

https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/407649#407649

*sigh*
[Droid 2 Global General] :
There's not any ROMs to port...
[Droid 2 Global General] foreverinpanama:
Droid 2 Global update-fail

So my question is why isn't there the option to download and install yourself through a PC. I wanna say I remember back in the day updates were done by downloading the right file much like we did the roms for winmo6.5 and that was the official update.

Android should have three release options, OTA pushed, OTA announced I guess when you get the message, or you can go to the right ftp site and download the thing yourself. Don't see why this is much of an issue.
[Droid 2 Global General] wigout:
Yep, that'd be nice if they had those options for downloading updates.

"Android," or rather Motorola in combination with Verizon, instead come up with a release and push it out to phones selectively at first. They do this to test the waters, find out if it craps up lots of phones, and whatever other issues.

Some enterprising users, such as some in this thread, will copy the cached update file to a filesharing site and let the world know where the file is. Then everybody and their mom downloads the file and forces an upgrade, whether or not they've been "selected" by verizon.

So those other update methods you mention are possible, but they're not the controlled process Motorola and Verizon want nor encourage.

Still hoping beyond hope for a share link with the ota,

-wigout
[Droid 2 Global General] foreverinpanama:
I got tired of hitting the check for updates on the about phone section lol. At this point I'm trying not to think about it so i don't drive myself crazy.
[Droid 2 Global General] Smokehavel:
Check out the post from wigout!!!

I guess we are just screwed!

I love my D2G, my first smart phone. Wanted the R2D2, but my wife got a great deal through VZW directly and so I wound up with the D2G. Now to find a decent 3g network here in SA.
[Droid 2 Global General] chefyocum:
http://www.wirelessandmobilenews.co...l-android-23-gingerbread-update-released.html

Just read this one too.
[Droid 2 Global General] foreverinpanama:
Well looks like we shouldn't hold our breath. I also read somewhere that it will have better exchange support, which for being a business phone it better be top notch in that department. I have had to use touchdown exchange to get by and love it but you figure that is something I shouldn't have had to do.
[Droid 2 Global General] Asphyx:
Well one of the reasons they don't just allow the PC method is due to the fact some who should not use it will try and risk bricking themselves.

Even if it were available via download it wouldn't happen untill well after the soak test goes well and I for one wouldn't flash that anyway, I would wait until it was rooted and released.

Or better yet never and wait until the OTA helps solve the porting issues for Cyanogen mod.
[Droid 2 Global General] Jed Dignazio:
**update 6/29/11**

"It’s been almost 2 weeks since we first reported that the DROID2 Global‘s Gingerbread (Android 2.3) soak test was about to begin, yet here we sit today without a mass rollout or announcement from Verizon/Moto that the file is available. Let’s also not forget that the DROID Pro was primed and ready at one point, but has seemingly disappeared from sight. After the original DROIDX received GB all the way back in May, we were expecting each additional Moto device including the DROID2, DROIDX2, Pro, and Global to start seeing updates right away – except that isn’t happening.

What we’ve been told is that Verizon has now rejected all Gingerbread builds from Moto until they have worked out a number of bugs that came with the DROIDX’s 2.3, a list which seems to be growing by the day. There is no telling when these will all be ready, but we’re our sources say that Motorola is reassembling teams to get this taken care of. It could be weeks or months before we start seeing GB on other devices – we really have no idea at this point.

Stay tuned…"

Source: Droidlife
[Droid 2 Global General] amerikanskare:
SBF File for 4.5.600? I use mine as a wifi phone and no longer is connected to verizon so last time I flashed it to 2.4 something. But I want a natural gngerbread so when b unroot i can update manually without goetting verizon. anyone link me to 4.5.600 sbf>
[Droid 2 Global General] drkcobra:
There is no 4.5.600 sbf file released. The Motorola Level 3 and 4 service centers are still getting 2.4.33 as the latest version available when updating (as of yesterday) and the latest release spreadsheet (6-21) makes no reference to it at all. The only officially release gingerbread version in it is for the Droid X. Im not sure if the Droid X2 is gingerbread or not but that finally got released too.
[Droid 2 Global General] haroldz123:
moto d2g will get GB after moto milestone 3 launched on 7th or 14th july
[Droid 2 Global General] Jed Dignazio:
According to recent VW leaked document the Droid 2 Global will get Gingerbread shortly after the release of the Droid 3 which will release on July 14.

If you look at the bottom of the document, the first footnote says "Android 2.3 expected to be available after Droid 3 launch". So, it looks like you'll have to wait for the Droid 3 to hit shelves before you get some 2.3 love.
[Droid 2 Global General] Asphyx:
I would like to believe that time frame but I would have thought a leak would have happened by now if it really was going to be released that soon.
[Droid 2 Global General] Uncultured:
pfff no ota upd yet :(
[Droid 2 Global General] The Robot Cow:
So now the droid 3 is out, I asked vzw support but all I could get was that the update should be here soon, but eta
[Droid 2 Global General] MikeSpears:
I'll call when they open at 6am est. Everybody needs to start calling them at *611 on their VZW phone and maybe if enough ppl call, they will push motorola.
[Droid 2 Global General] Gasai Yuno:
It doesn't really make much sense.

Did VZW or Motorola officially state the new release date for D2G's Gingerbread? I don't think so.

A leaked training document means nothing.
[Droid 2 Global General] The Robot Cow:
All we can do is play the waiting game
[Droid 2 Global General] adamkingkong:
I would rather have a PC download. Then transfer it to the microSD card to install from there. I never liked the ota download setup. Granted not everyone with the phones has a PC but that is few and far between. If it was made as simple as installing a .apk file. There would be no issue with anyone screwing it up.
[Droid 2 Global General] Jordo de Owens:
Yeah, I feel much more comfortable going the PC route myself. I think it is more of just a habit. Either way, the best of both worlds would be to just make it available both ways.
[Droid 2 Global General] haroldz123:
"after d release of droid 3"

it could be next week, next month, next year..
[Droid 2 Global General] ben7337:
If they don't want to go back on their word to release the updates by the end of the 3rd quarter, they had better release them by the end of September. Not that they couldn't go back on it, but I think they would deserve to be seriously berated for all of the claims of an update followed by a failure to even get it out by a promised period end.
[Droid 2 Global General] esmith747:
I've given up waitig on a stable useable version of Android. I'm trading this thing and activating my wife's old Palm.

Phones shouldn't overheat.

Phones shouldn't eat batteries.

Phones shouldn't be impossible to unlock.

Phones shouldn't bog down.

Phones shouldn't need a factory reset every other month.

Phones shouldn't have bloatware.