yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crxlvr:
at least you get to the boot screen. I think the fail is coming from the battery not being 100%, thats what it seems like to me. unfortunatley since my phone will do nothing but go to the ap flash screen, it will not charge at all. Gladly i work at radio shack and have some universal battery charger and will use that and then flash at work to see if it works.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mikecheat04:
Yeah I think you're right because as soon as it gives the error there's a low battery warning on the screen. Unfortunately I do not work at RadioShack....how in the hell am I gonna charge my battery
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cellzealot:
If you have low battery then you have several choices.

First, buy a spare battery or an external charger.

Second, borrow someone's Bionic to charge your battery in.

Third, hotwire a charger to your battery buy cutting off the ends and physically connecting the wires to the battery contacts. This is NOT recommended for obvious reasons, but it does work and you can even find video tutorials on YouTube to help you with it.

Fourth, use a special USB cable known as a "factory cable" which has a different pin out than a normal USB cable that will power the device directly, bypassing the charging circuit, with the battery removed.

Where do you get one?

Well, you can make it yourself if you are very handy with a soldering iron and have a good workbench setup with a micro tip soldering iron and station setup with jigs etc. to hold everything in place, or you can buy one from TBH.

We got a few of these cables from our sources at Moto a while back and realized how valuable they were for users wh flash their phones often and are likely to end up in this situation.

So we went to the trouble of figuring out what the pin out arrangement was by dissecting the cable and had a small number produced for us by a local supplier.

As a result of this extremely limited production, they are very expensive, but we have them available on our site for $35 if you are interested. We are not in the business of selling cables to make a profit, we did this as a service for our users because we felt it was an opportunity to provide a unique tool that is very valuable that is not available to end users normally.

We are NOT trying to take advantage of users who are stuck with bricked devices and recommend to everyone to always charge your phone completely every time you start any operation which could leave the phone unbootable for any reason and to have spare batteries or external charger in order to avoid the problem, but we do have a permanent solution for you.

Anyone interested can check it out at http://shop.teamblackhat.info/main.SC

We recently ordered a new batch as we sold out and they should be ready to ship in a couple days.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TauntingBull:
Phuk! After reading this, I'm never letting my battery go down past 10 %
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nutpn:
flash failure

Last night I was gonna do fastboot and it started and then this popped up,I can still use my device,but I have to hold vol up and down and power and release power to get back in stock recovery,anyone experienced this ,I have no clue,also I cant get rsd lite to run the file I downloaded,its not showing as a tar.gz its showing tar.tar,thanks again

http://lockerz.com/s/140664621

also do you take sim card and memory card out to flash
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eighty1:
Have been trying to run this using a Mac but no dice. I keep getting permission denied when running ./fastboot flash system system.img.??
[Motorola Droid Bionic] knitpurlgurl:
This worked like a charm! Thanks so much!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TauntingBull:
Why did you have to flash it?

And how long did it take? from start to end?

Any scary moments?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cstrife999:
RSD Lite says my file is unsupported... Starting to panic... Gonna redownload the file and try again

---------- Post added at 04:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:10 PM ----------

It was a bad download fixed! :-)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] willbur73:
I just used the minimal one and my phone just started back up. I had had it stuck on the moto dual core logo after some clockworkmod experiments gone awry... lol thanks a bunch guys
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jessie02:
Still asking for a password, any ideas?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Senor Peligro:
I have the same thing going on. RSD start button stays grey even after the file is put in. I see nowhere to uncompress the file in rsd??? What am I missing?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ak110707:
I wanted to go back to stock. I am using the RSD lite version of the reflash. Ive been trying to work with the full .tar.gz but it keeps failing around step 9/15 (system.img). Beyond redownloading and trying again. What else is there to do. I would appreciate having a phone working by tonight. Luckily i have the extended battery and a second one on hand. The fastboot still has the (s) flag and not the weird one shown earlier. Any suggestions?

in short, the Problem:

Fail at step 9/15 system.img.

Ive tried:

Re-Downloading

Unzipping... then flashing
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Password?

Trying to extract the download and it's asking me for an encryption password. Anyone?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kipnukmals:
File not recognized in RSD 5.5

Sorry, Got it done using fast boot method. I removed all files i had downloade and started from scratch.

Bricked my phone and am trying to use the following process to go back to stock but RSD 5.5 does not recognize the ◦5.5.1_84_DBN-55 (tar.gz) [Complete FXZ] when i try to insert it in RSD 5.5 to begin the flash. It is on my desktop as a Winzip file,does that make a difference. I have downloaded Winrar and winrar has changed some of my zip files to its icon but does not effect the

◦5.5.1_84_DBN-55 (tar.gz) file. I have all Motorola drivers installed, am using 64 bit per instructions and have followed instructions to the "" T "", etc, etc, etc.

I have tried the one click flash as well but that isnt working either. Any suggestions??

[Complete FXZ]How To: Flash Droid Bionic FXZ File (with RSD Lite)

Prerequisites

•Windows PC

•RSD Lite 5.5

◦Download

•Motorola Mobile Drivers

◦v5.2.1 32-bit

◦v5.2.1 64-bit

•Charged phone

•Backed up device

◦/data should not be erased

•FXZ file

◦5.5.1_84_DBN-55 (tar.gz) [Complete FXZ]

– or –

◦5.5.1_84_DBN-55 (tar.gz) [System, Kernel, Recovery only; Erases /data]

Thanks to Berzerker7

Installation

1.Install the Motorola Mobile Drivers

2.Install RSD Lite 5.5

3.Make sure your Motorola Droid Bionic is powered on and backed up.

◦Alternatively, boot into AP Fastboot mode by powering down (or pulling battery), then press and hold the volume down button while powering on. From there, continue with Step 4.

4.Plug your Motorola Droid Bionic into a back USB port on your computer.

◦Front USB ports are often unreliable when it comes to power levels. They should not be used for flashing.

5.Run “RSD Lite” on your computer

6.Press the “. . .” button next to the box labeled “Filename”

7.Browse and open the FXZ file

8.Wait for the program to read the file, then choose “Uncompress And Start Flashing”

9.Now, the device will slowly flash the FXZ file.

10.When flashing completes, the device will reboot into recovery and install the two radio images.

11.Congratulations! You’ve restored your Motorola Droid Bionic
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bert336:
i need some help, i downloaded the full file from this link http://bandbinnovations.com/xda/bio....3.4-5.5.1_84_DBN-55-110814-Verizon-US.tar.gz

and it asks for a password when trying to decompress. any help plz?

the link on the OP for the full FXZ is wrong, for whatever reason it gives you an Atrix download. Here is the Right link for the Full FXZ....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Alright. So I did the full FXZ - all went well. Once it rebooted though, my camera is missing.

Any idea why this would happen? Seems very strange.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Rockwell22:
Same happened to me
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sidewind75:
why is the download labled Atrix?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Lolz
[Motorola Droid Bionic] itzjonjon69:
yeah same question here... is this safe? i noticed the other file is 650 mb where as this one is only 5XX mb
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
You're making your life difficult by doing it this way. dhacker29's one-click restore - located in development.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] itzjonjon69:
you sir are a good man!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
I have tried this 2 times now and the boot.img keeps failing in RSD and when i try fastboot. Any one have any thoughts on this?

when i try to use petes root method it doesn't allow root privileges so it stops. adb will not allow me to remount the file system either to push su, superuser, or busybox either. i even tried pushing to the sdcard-ext and cat to no avail.

I am thinking all my problems stem from not being able to get back to complete 100% stock due to boot.img failure in fastboot.

I also know about the one click thing but i want to be complete stock with the original image that came on the bionic.

p.s. i have downloaded it 2 different times from here and same results on everything.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] denpad2010:
i cant find this it please help... i need restore my phone and i download the fxz file but rdslite dont find it i unzipped and nothing i dont know exactly what file i need to flash thanks in advance...sorry my englisg sucks!!!

i think i found the error i have the rsdlite 5.3.1 i thinj is required the 5.5 lol
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
Here is a link to the most recent Motorola USB drivers as well in case you need them.

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/Experiences/Global_Drivers/MotoHelper_2.0.53_Driver_5.2.0.exe

I have put RSD Lite 5.5 here for a limited time for you to download.

http://www.adrive.com/public/2bc1455b7ce89dd5285289b95c140e41b8200b991c144d27f0a0b0e15fc390ea.html

Keep in mind you must be in fastboot mode (aka in bootloader) then with RSD running connect your phone through a usb cable to your computer. You can do this by having your phone off and holding down both volume buttons and then holding down the power button. now there should be a menu that comes up you need to highlight the fastboot option by hitting the down volume key and to select it you hit the up volume key.

If you can't get it to work by using RSD than give this a try.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1279825
[Motorola Droid Bionic] denpad2010:
Thanks for your help is very appreciated I made it everything is good now....im running eclipse I will try it for a while to see how is working thanks again...

Enviado desde mi DROID BIONIC usando Tapatalk
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
Your very welcome glad to help you out! :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Calla969:
So today, my data completely quit working. Called VZW Tech Support and they couldn't help because I didn't have access to another phone, this is my only one. So I just figured I'd try to get it working myself by restoring to stock and installing the latest updates. Well, I couldn't get the 5.7 to install using any of the methods I've seen here. I decided I'd wipe everything and use R3L3AS3D 2.1 to restore. In teh process of wiping data and such, I accidentally wiped the webtop partition. THat is the only thing I did that was out of the ordinary. I tried to use R3L3AS3D to restore adn it seemed to do its thing, but I can't get past the fastboot screen. I have also tried to use all of the FXZ files with RSD Lite, every tim eit says flash failed. On teh Fastboot screen it says

Invalid CG OTV (CG: webtop): Invalid SP Data

Invalid CG HAB (CG: webtop,status: 0x004E)

Invalid CG OTV (CG: webtop)

I hope I didn't screw up permanently. CAn anyone shed some light or have any suggestions?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cellzealot:
You need to use moto-fastboot to restore your webtop partition using the grfs.img from the full FXZ.

Moto-fastboot supports writing larger than 256 MB images.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Calla969:
Can you please tell me how to do that. It sounds like something I haven't tried yet.

Figured it out. May be working. It is flashing webtop now. I'll report back with results.

Webtop successful, flashing system.

System flashed, seemed successful.

BOOTING UP!!!!!!!

Cellzealot, thanks for your help. I actually had the files downloading when I read your post, but I thought that moto-fastboot was the same thing as fastboot on the phone. This was the most stressful mistake I've ever made with a phone by far. Thanks again.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ticrandall:
So um, if I was to update to 5.7, and it sucked, and use this method to get back to stock, if I returned it to vz for a replacement, would they have any idea that I had done this? I heard that once you update the radio, you can't go back... does this method make that statement false?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nerdslogic:
OP....I am curious...you list radio and kernal. Does that imply that should we be on 893 we could flash those to get back to 886 kernal and radio?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Calla969:
This won't replace the radio and kernel. VZW will be able to tell that you updated by looking at your baseband, assuming you get a tech that knows more than how to turn the phone on, which isn't very likely. My thought is that I will wait until the official update is released and then everyone should be on the same radio and kernel again and you could unroot and no one would know the difference.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ticrandall:
Thanks.

That's what I was afraid of.. Oh what to do what to do.. I really don't want to wait 60 additional days for an update.......

Imagine if you bought a new a car and it only ran some of the time.. Would you wait 60 days for the manufacture to fix it for you.. What a joke moto

Arrgghhg

So are you still stock 5.5? Or have you gone for 5.7?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ak110707:
RSD Lite failing, i posted earlier about getting it to work but it wont seem to reflash everything back to stock. I chose to use RSD because my GPS would not function after trying a custom rom. Can someone offer advice / suggestions? Thanks. It gets close but then gives me a "AP Fastboot Flash Mode (s) (Flash Failure)" error.

Ive tried the other methods of reflashing as well.

Update: Switched computers and my DBionic works again.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nerdslogic:
so I would just flash "5.5.1_84_DBN-55" to restore to stock right?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] addictedhacks:
I updated and cant get back to stock. It just fails and/or file is not supported.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
instead of just posting things how about everyone do a little reading through the other pages of this thread. You might find the answers your looking for.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] addictedhacks:
Okay well lets just take a second and imagine that i did read up and that im not sone panicky poster that doesnt research. Believe me i would rather read and find a method that works than sit here and ask someone that has no idea what state my phone is in. But if I have to because I cant find what I need than I will. And if I cant count on fellow member to give a hand then I suggest people dont post at all.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
i do think i posted this on page 9 and it has solved problems for others in your position. Maybe you did read and maybe you just missed one of the biggest posts on that page but because i am a nice guy i will post it again.

The last link will help you out trust me or it should at any rate.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nerdslogic:
If this was directed at me I feel I should say I read every post in this thread and was purely asking as I am on Liberty 3 over 893.....I have not one bloat app....need it ALL back. That is why I asked if I flashed that specific one as most are directing towards the "minimal" version.

But I am thinking I need the big boy
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
It was not directed at you really just a general comment towards people who keep asking and not reading back through the posts made by others.

Either one would take you back to stock the minimal just doesn't take as long cause it doesn't do everything back to stock. If you are looking for a nice easy way to return to stock and still have root use the last link in my previous comment. It flashes the whole system back to stock 55886 which includes bloat.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bxtzd3:
ok i did read in 2 different forums and 2 different answers appear. plain and simple. if i used the stated method will it take me to were vzw or moto will not know i updated. i need to return it for a warranty issue. thank you for your time
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
If you do use this link to get the download and use it you will have the option to go back to stock and either get or keep root or go back to stock without root. Using this method the normal/average person won't be able to tell.

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1279825

The only way to get back to complete stock where no one can tell a thing is to fastboot/rsd these files back to your phone.

http://bandbinnovations.com/xda/bionic/targa_cdma_targa-user-2.3.4-5.5.1_84_DBN-55-110814-Verizon-US.tar.gz
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
now i am having this issue. i am on 5.7.893 and using fastboot/moto-fastboot.

i am getting errors:

1. cdt.bin preflash validation failure

2. boot.img preflash validation failure

3. recovery.img preflash validation failure

not understading the issue. i have even tried moto-fastboot with no success.

fastboot is working better than RSD for this as RSD doesn't even complete any of the flashing at all.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mlapaglia:
it's a locked boot loader, you can't go flashing kernels and basebands willy nilly, you need signed updates from moto like the radio.zip file floating around that lets you downgrade your baseband.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mlapaglia:
Also, where did the radio.zip file come from? That's a moto-signed stock radio image! is there a kernel.zip to go along?? :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lawtalking:
When I try to flash the second link in RSD Lite, it comes back as a failed flash. Anyone able to successfully flash it back from 5.7.893 back to stock?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
Only way i was able to do it was to do it through moto-fastboot but it doesn't take your kernel back to stock.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] itzmeehtimmy:
i just got a new droid yesterday, and i f-ed up with titanium. i believe it was the newest batch and newest build.

I flashed to the stock w/e here and I am now having issues with market. itll freeze or lag really really really bad. If someone does get a brand new bionic, or lets say i return my biionic for another new one again, how can i make my own stock image to flash back to?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] justin94:
rsd keeps failing to flash, sometimes it fails at 3/15 sometimes at 9/15, and at 14/15. what is going on??? someone please help me get my phone running again,.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
Try doing it through moto-fastboot instead somethings fail but still will get your phone back to as close to stock as you can get right now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] justin94:
fastboot keeps freezing my comp at the first command line in terminal window. i just redownloaded this new fill and it came up as atrix.7z, and its passwrod locked so i cant even use it
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
Do you have the SDK Tools installed on your computer? Just asking as i have never had fastboot freeze my computer.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/tools-notes.html

Here are the newest version of the Motorola USB Drivers.

http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-EN/Support-Homepage/Software_and_Drivers/USB-and-PC-Charging-Drivers

Here is where you find the moto-fastboot.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138092

This link for 43V3R Root might help as well by running it choosing option #1 then using either fastboot or moto-fastboot afterwards to flash the stock radio and webtop from this op.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1279825

I took the radio and webtop (grfs.img) from this zip and flashed using moto-fastboot.

http://bandbinnovations.com/Atrix.7z

I can only hope something i have posted here helps you in some way to get to where you are wanting to be.

p.s. make sure before doing anything to your phone that when attached through the USB cable your phone is in charge only mode that may help if you haven't done that before.

I am just throwing out ideas trying to help you as i can't see exactly what is going on.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] justin94:
Solved it. Just needed to use a desktop. Thanks everyone for the help though, I broke ny laptop screen because it frustrated me so much. Lol
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
Twinky, I have the current 5.7.893 leaked update. I'd like to revert as much as possible (assuming that I cannot do the kernel) - Would the best way to do that manually be to fastboot and do the boot, system and webtop manually?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
I would say yes being RSD will fail and the 43v3r root only flashes the system back to stock.

Just remember if you wish to have root afterwards please run 43v3r root.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
Hmm. I tried to flash the stock FXZ and received an error - and now whenever I power on the phone I receive an error message about a failed flash, and I'm not sure how to go about resetting that error message. the phone will not boot normally unless I power off, then power into the bootloader and manually select Normal boot.

I was testing to see if there was a way to force myself back to stock using some odd methods, but nothing worked.

I am surprised that I am not able to flash a stock, signed kernel from the FXZ though....but this boot error is mildly annoying at worst and trivial at best, since I know to expect it, and since my phone does not randomly reboot.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
there is no stock signed kernel that is the problem every one else is having. if there was nothing would hold us being stuck at 5.7.893

the only thing stock you can get once being at 5.7.893 is webtop, system, and radio. that is as stock as you will get for right now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
So the kernel in the FXZ (full file) is not signed? Or is it that the updated boot / bootloader will simply not allow reverting to an older kernel?

I looked at the 5.7.893 that I updated to and it does not have a boot.img file, but a patch file called boot.img.p, which, unless I'm thinking incorrectly, is simply a patch for the existing kernel. Thus, the boot.img in the original FXZ should be a signed kernel, no?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] twinkyz1979:
no it is not signed that is why it fails when you try to flash it. now if the bootloader was not locked it would work fine is why i am hearing but since it is locked it must be fined.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
Oh. I had not idea that the kernel in that FXZ was not signed. That does, though, explain a lot lol..
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cold711:
the fxz download points to a file called Atrix? is something wrong here?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sk8tingusmc:
I noticed that too. Very weird but easy to fix. Copy the link and paste in the address bar instead of clicking it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] craigw79:
Can someone please post an alternate link to the fastboot-images file? The server is acting really strange. Thanks!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
Download failed on every link. Are there any alternative links

Edit: never mind. The problem was the crappy android browser. The links worked fine with the dolphin browser. Funny how many issues that can be solved by not using the stock browser.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cellzealot:
With the release of the 5.5.893 full xml.zip by daywalker04 there is really no need for this file anymore.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bignem:
I found another place with very similar directions but working download links. Take a look here: droidforums {DOT} net/forum/motorola-droid-bionic/197374-5-5-5-893-fxz-901-902-compatible-902-update.html
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Kiboe:
The mother ****ing links are dead
[Motorola Droid Bionic] soho_bel:
here is new link. Looks like the same file but i didnt check it yet, just going to.

filesresidence.com/File/afilljdfo09pg#