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[Motorola Droid Bionic] :
I too, lost my Root after downloading this update. I followed the steps for forever root, and I can't get any root access whatsoever. Superuser shows up still after the update, but I cant get bionic Bootstrap to get root access. Actually, NO apps can get root access...

Anyone have an idea how to re-root?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ddemlong:
Well, successfully did this today, was debating on it... we'll see how everything turns out. Running d3blurr3d 2.0 which has the ota updates as well but I wanted the kernel and radio.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] quentin0:
An update to my findings:

The new radio firmware seems to delay the handover to 3G a bit longer than the stock firmware, which is good if you in an area that has "so-so" 4G coverage so you won't have to constantly hit airplane mode. I also found that you don't have to hit airplane mode so much if you leave, and then reenter a 4G area. Several times throughout the day I went into really thick buildings and down into basement forcing my phone to only connect to 3G. Within minutes of bring the phone back to a 4g area did I notice that it automatically switch to 4G.

However, when I was streaming music over 3G...it refused to reconnect to 4G on its own. I had to airplane mode it to get it to connect.

I don't really notice any speed or signal improvements, and I haven't used it enough to determine if battery life has improved.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ROB281:
decided to go for it, downloading .893 now
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Remember to think it over please. This is not for the feignt of heart.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ROB281:
already done, and on the other side with root

if I was feint of heart I would have gotten an iphone
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DroidTh3ory:
Lol. Post of the day.

:)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Dukeuni:
UPDATE: Not sure what happened, but after about a hour or so a notification came up saying I had a update available to .893. Not sure why it took so long, but I downloaded it.

Everything seems to be working just fine. Installed the Blur3D 2.0, appear to still have full root access, and no other issues to report.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dplakosh:
When I was trying to do the forever root I felt the need to hit the delete button on the mount_ext3.sh file. What can I do to get it back?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
I would restore back for saftey sake but what I did was made a copy and saved it as mount_ext3.sh.bak and saved the new edited version as mount_ext3.sh just in case so I was safe just a recommendation.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cutoonie:
OP,

This whole thing worked flawlessly for me. I was actually able to just restore a

"rooted stock" nandroid (one thing I always do before customizing) to make the process a little quicker..

Anywhoozle.. thanks for trying and then sharing success.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] :
If I may please get some help..

I did (at least I thought) Everything I was supposed to do to keep root. I updated to the new OTA 893 and i Lost root. So I tried to reflash the original using fastboot... And now im back at the original 886 and I STILL can't get root... I go through Petes root helper and at the last reboot it comes with an error

Running exploit step 3 of 3 (adding su, busybox, and superuser.apk)... FAIL!

ERROR: adb could not be granted root access via local.prop method

thanks in advance
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jess086:
you need to do one of two things, first try to use the full fzx and rds light, there is a thread on it if you need help with that part. this will either fail or take you back to stock unrooted on 886. try that first. if it fails and you have used the usb on the back of your computer as it tells you to then the boot.img is still on 893. if this is the case you need to go here and follow the steps--http://rootzwiki.com/topic/7801-root-r3l3as3d-wfor3v3r-root-v10-linuxwindows-get-root-after-893-ota-oops/

i hope this helps and gets you going again
[Motorola Droid Bionic] :
Im trying out the second one first, because I got a PM for that link. I think its starting to work. One part during the flash that kept sying FAILED in the first place is now working on this method. Im going to finish this and hope it works.

Thank you SOO much

EDIT - OK, So i followed the steps, but the Root never went through, It didnt give me a chance to put my phone in development before it kept saying cant find phone...

DOUBLE EDIT - It works! thanks so much!! Just needed to read the second page and used the updated file. Boom and Boom. Done and flashing Theorys 2.0 as we speak. Thanks again!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Zei:
Happy to report in

fastboot restored

performed factory reset to make sure it was fully and completely back to stock

Rooted and strapped up just in case

applied the forever root[I hit enter twice to make sure of space]

Installed the cheescake app and followed the instructions

Downloaded .893 and the install went perfectly

when i rebooted I saw superuser asking for permissions for bootstrap so i knew i was rooted

booted into CWM...wiped EVERYTHING 3 times lol

Flashed 2.0 and still on .893
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Glad to see the update went smooth for you.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 0mie:
Wish there was a stock deodexed version without any tweaks, I've only found the one from P3 and I prefer not having the stuff he added...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] das7771:
installed .893 using the stock recovery and the update flashed first try. This is running very well. Cell standy time has been greatly reduced, giving my battery a nice break. Usually by the time I get to work my phone is already at 90 percent with the extended battery, so far I am still at 100% which is nice. Camera definitely takes pictures faster, and it is now a very useable camera. Overall system speed has been increased as well. Looking forward to using this over the next few days to see what other differences I noticed. Thanks to every one scanning the servers and giving us someting extra to do with our device.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Baked-Potato:
+1

Anyone know if there is an unmodded deodexed version yet??
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dubsx:
took the plunge yesterday and I gotta say...I never had battery issues before, but the battery life on this new build is bananas
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BFirebird101:
^^^ battery life was terrible for a few days, but now it's suddenly ballin. Sweet!

Sent from my Droid Bionic using UNL3ASH3D R3BLURR3D V2.0 and will continue to be sent from here until I buy the Galaxy Nexus 32GB
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crupp:
there is a deodexed (moddded) on mydroidworld. You can use that then add back the apk's you want from the Liberty deodexed ROM on Rootzwiki
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Tivo7:
In case this hasn't been posted before....

If you don't want to use Root Explorer to add the 3 lines, heres an ADB Method

Code:

adb pull /system/bin/mount_ext3.sh

open the file in your favorite text editor (I use Notepad++)

add the following lines to the very bottom

Code:

chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su

chmod 4755 /system/app/Superuser.apk

Save file

Code:

adb push mount_ext3.sh /data/local

adb shell

mount -o rw,remount /dev/null /system

cat /data/local/mount_ext3.sh > /system/bin/mount_ext3.sh

chmod 777 /system/bin/mount_ext3.sh

Reboot and make sure it stuck using Root Explorer

And here is the mod to Deodex 5.5.893

http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-bionic-mods/9811-droid-5-5-893-deodexed-modified.html
[Motorola Droid Bionic] coreywilner:
Build Number?

Just curious, does the build number for this .893 show up as DBN-62? I have it on some high authority that the final release will be DBN-62.

It's supposed to change the audio whine by changing a charge pump frequency. It's also supposed to block the ability to root...but we all know you can't stop progress!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Baked-Potato:
Yep, build number shows up as 5.5.1_84_DBN-62
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Averix:
I haven't seen any issues yet with the 893 update. Camera is better, battery lasts longer, no network drop outs that I've noticed (and they used to happen quite often), reliably mounts both internal and SD card when connecting to my Mac. I can't say if the phone is more responsive since I didn't have any issues before.

This update will make a lot of people happier.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BFirebird101:
I'm getting constant data drops on the .893 update. Anybody else?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Baked-Potato:
I was and I tried this -- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18782662#post18782662

No data drops since for me
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dan46n2:
I was getting the bad data drops very often before 893, and have had it happen again a few times after 893/TR2.0 so I just did the sim card remove/reboot/install/reboot thing to see if it helps any.

Will have to wait a day or 2 to decide if it's helped any.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Haha there isn't supposed to be root permissions on any of these phones except the developer handsets. So eff that noise. Someones gonna obtain such regaurdless of time and effort.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
And to anyone returning phones due to bricks you are not only committing fraud YOU ARE GIVING MORE OF A REASON TO KEEP BOOTLOADERS LOCKED. MAN UP. YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE GETTING INTO. PAY FOR YOUR MISTAKES OR LEARN TO FIX THEM. . . I mean c'mon now. U don't want an entire community placing your name on a "reasons we can't have an unlocked bootloader" post now do ya?

This is not for the feignt of heart light pocketed anybody.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RoboJoe:
*sigh*

This is a half truth at best. If you turn it in as defective for a manufacturers warranty, then yes, you're a liar. If you turn it in under your insurance, then, as far as I'm concerned, you're fine. They say it covers anything, even accidents.

Either way, to say this is why bootloaders are locked is a guess at best. Not to mention, half of these bricked phones are *because* we have to make work arounds, if they just unlocked it, the devs would have a far easier (and more stable) flashing method, which, in turn, would mean less bricks. Your average Joe isn't going to mess around with roms whether or not the bootloader is locked, it only makes life harder on the devs. (and by extension, us)

My opinion, anyway.

Swyped from my Droid Bionic, unless I was in landscape, in which case I Swiftkeyed the hell out of it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Personal feelings mixed with my son in the trauma unit currently not intended to offend and yes insurance is intended for all instances. Sorry if that came out wrong but being in a hospital for 3 days going to be 4 has lead to trolling on my end. And angry trolls make hurtful comments :-( so I apologize.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] haupman:
Would anyone be able to quantify the improvement in battery life? Could it be as high as 50%? I am very curious.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Oozura:
So I've been running .893 for 2 days now. And I guess I must have screwed something up or I just don't have the those colored glasses like everyone else.

I was using Droid theory roms including 2.0 before updating and have been using 2.0 since updating.

I've noticed little difference in data connection, although I can happily report I never really had problems in that department.

Battery improvement is imperceptible. Slightly worse but will improve most likely as stats file updates.

Blur does seem snappier, specifically the app drawer but that might beer attributable to the ROM.

Camera seems to have not changed much for me. Still slow to focus, but once focused its fine.

Don't get me wrong I appreciate the build being out there. Just sharing my experience. And I'm looking forward to more updates.

Cheers,
[Motorola Droid Bionic] haupman:
I have not performed the update but I have tested my phone's battery life on just wifi with both the cell radio and data connection switched off by apps that specifically kill those connections. I noticed very little, if any, difference in battery life with these switched off. I tend to think the Bionic is giving us the best battery it can, out of the box.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strunker:
When I try and do the download OTA it reboots properly and starts the flash but then about 33% through it just reboots back into .886 and says the software update failed.

I am running stock, unfroze all my bloatware. I really do not want to do the 1 click reset because I will lose my apps and their placement and I have quite a bit.

I also tried booting into the phones recovery.. not cwm. And installing the update titled

“Blur_Version.5.5.893.XT875.Verizon.en.US_2_.zip”

right from the sd card.

It mounts the sd card, opens the update package, verified the update package, and begins the install.

But then it says verifying the current system...and I get an error.

assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/bin/dnsmasq", 322312ba73b... bunch of other numbers that make no sense.

E:error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip

status 7

install aborted

any ideas?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ddemlong:
I dunno if Verizon's network is still undergoing issues here in Phx, AZ but after the .893 flash and running reblurred 2.0, my data connection seemed worse. Then again, its been crap since the outage, only averaging about 6mbps even before the flash... just the connectivity seemed worse. More random data loss, not even 3G.

Although I get a second change at things, 2 days ago my bionic was stolen from me at a walmart (first mistake) I tried to hit the where's my droid app but it was turned off at the second ping. They prob turned it off cuz initially I thought I left it in the car and was trying to find it by making it ring. So I am guessing thats why they turned it off.

Pretty much my fault. I was distracted and set it down, asset protection watched the vid which shows a woman walk up and pocket it with my back turned as I am talking to an associate. They said it appeared to be a older middle aged woman who looked at her kid with body language signally, "well go get it" and had her 10-13 yo daughter walk up and get it and shove it in her front left pocket. Been calling for 2 days, nothing is turned in, Verizon said its been off, no pings, data, or any usage at all.

Pretty pissed, must have been 30 sec total. Thank god for insurance. Still 100bux out my ass tho.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TeufelTexan:
I had the same issue, identically, when trying the process using the direct download links for the update...

When using the cheesecake app, the update pushed and installed flawlessly on the first try... Might try cheesecake if you've not already...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strunker:
I actually tried cheese cake first, downloaded the update through the staging server, then let them phone reboot and attempt to install it on its own. If this is going to be an issue for me when the official release comes out, then I am not even going to bother updating until ICS which we should be getting early 2012.

I am really not in the mood to re add all my contacts (because i dont link with gmail), set up all my email accounts, and tweak all my settings, plus move all my apps over and rearrange all of them. Thats like a good days worth of work, and I dont live in an area with 4g so for me those radio fixes are a non issue. And by battery life has been satisfactory so..

I actually made a nand back up yesterday did the 1 click factory flash from p3, then rooted, and was able to load .893 on then. But, me being in a rush and being stupid, forgot to titanium back up all my apps from 886, so when I went to restore them there was nothing there.

So, I ultimately flashed the nand back up back of my 886 rom via cwm, and after 4 hours was 100% back at square 1 so I decided to just call it a day at that point.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PhilDX:
it looks like P3 removed the last "4" in his original post, anyone else notice that?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crpeck:
Actually, only one line is really needed for this and based on installing Superuser.apk & running the update su from it, the line should be:

chmod 6755 /system/bin/su

(setting it to 4755 is ok, that gives it the suid root piece that you need, 6755 gives it setuid for user root and group as well (not really needed, but, I was following what Superuser.apk set's it to).

Take a peek at these from adb or terminal on your phone:

Doing the chmod 4755 on /system/xbin/su doesn't do anything - you can't set a softlink to setuid - it's not a real file.

As for the chmod on Superuser.apk, Apps need to be set to 644, and, setting setuid on those doesn't do anything either. Just do a ls -l /system/app and you'll see. They are all:

-rw-r--r-- root root 754980 2011-10-28 16:40 Superuser.apk

which is 644

Spaces between lines doesn't matter either, each command just needs to be on it's own line.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] outlaw410:
I had the exact problems..the reboot AFTER modifying mount_ext3.sh BEFORE downloading the new update was the trick.. Thanks!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jimmydafish:
You would be correct if every person installed su to bin, but as some install in bin and other in xbin, I am not attempting to change the permission of the softlink or hardlink but to set permission in all the places that su may be found.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Anyone mess with the 5.6.893 update yet? Not a typo btw. Its showing up under staging for me like 5.5.893 did but this keeps giving me "update failed".
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 0mie:
I tried all servers on staging and says I'm up to date using 5.5.893.....can you tell me which you found it on?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Staging1

Are you stock

I am stock no bloat frozen and update fails everytime. The first post i saw had bloat feozen and update took just going to pm the gentlman who dis it first.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
I did it and installed it. Then went back to unleashed 2.0. So my system is 5.5.893, but my radio is 5.6.893.

Found it on either staging 1 or 2, not sure...

Btw, haven't had a single data loss today using this radio. Not one.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Were u stock? Bloat frozen? Etc.

Did u flash via factory recovery, cwmr, or ota update fashion?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
I flashed back to my stock, bloated, rooted 893. Accepted an OTA. Made a backup. Then restored unleashed v2.0. New radio intact.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Thats odd. Same situation but ota will not take. Bummer.

Edit it says error in /cache/5.5.893-blahblah
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bgs_piece:
After the first time I used the cheesecake method and checked the individual servers, now I just have to go into settings-->about phone-->system updates and apparently it is checking the same thing as cheesecake because that's how I got the OTA 5.6.893 update.

Is this normal or should I still be checking via cheesecake?

BTW, the 5.6.893 downloaded and installed fine. I was stock with bloat frozen and build.prop edits so I had to install original build.prop and unfreeze the bloat and it worked just fine.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Really? Very interesting.

So that makes me think that 5.6.893 is official. Testers must have found a few 4g issues and made some last minute tweaks.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dch921:
Whatever the last server you used in cheesecake will be the one that's used if you check for updates under about phone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
Got it. I had to

flash back to 5.5.886 (not restore)

Reroot

Flash 5.5.893 from stock recovery

Then still in recovery flashed 5.6.893

But after a mess of flashing im finally at 5.6.893

Thanks for everybodys help/advice
[Motorola Droid Bionic] forsaken82:
just forever rooted and installed cheesecake, i tried to pull the updated but all i get is the 5.6.893 is it ok to install that without the 5.5?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] wanderfowl:
I'm curious, those of you who have upgraded, are you still experiencing the high-frequency hissing through headphones?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Alxoom33:
I had same experience, see posts yesterday in cheeskake string. Update still shows up in Staging sites. BTW mw, how can you tell that you have the 5.6 radio?Is it different from the 5.5.893 version.:D

---------- Post added at 03:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:59 PM ----------

Yes, it works well. At least that's what worked for me and mistawolfe. :cool:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Alxoom33:
Never had that problem in the first place.:confused:

---------- Post added at 04:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:16 PM ----------

Glad to see that you got it working. Any idea what the problem was in updating? And how did u first the problem? I am curious since u started the thread in the first place.:D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Check the baseband. It says 57 LTE blah blah blah. I just remember what my other baseband said from 5.5, and it's different.

Still not a single data drop :) very pleased.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jphillips.hd88:
Hey wolf...I see you updated to 6.893...I tried it this morning, but the update fails....which method did you use to get back to stock....I used dhacker one click...wondering if I need to use p3 s...fastboot files
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crupp:
I keep getting an update failed to download popup. If i try to download i get a download in progress message...any help? Im on. 893 right now and did have an unsuccessful dl of 6.893.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
I always use one-click to go back to stock. Probably one of my favorite programs ever.

When I first took the 5.5.893 update, I immediately made a backup. I went back to that backup the other day, searched using cheesecake, and found 5.6.893. Installed and made another backup.

Then I restored my theory 2.0, and I kept the new radio from 5.6.893.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] abuttino:
Is there a flash to stock of .893? I would like to see if the radio is any better.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Alxoom33:
Yes, my baseband says CDMA_N_03.1C.57RLTEDC_U_05.15.02 so what does that mean?:confused:

Really, not being difficult, but it would be nice to know more definitively. :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jphillips.hd88:
hmmm....i wonder why my fails update...

I was on 5.5.893 kernal and radio...running 2.0...

i one click back to stock. root and forever root....cheesecake...download update 6.893...install....

about a 1/4 in it comes up with andy and the yellow triangle....reboots and says update failed....

so I downloaded it this time, and didn't install....could anyone tell me where to find the file and where to move it to flash in stock recovery? as it turns out, the couple of months i have never had the opportunity to need to flash update files in stock recovery....looking foward to it....thanks in advanced.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sjflowerhorn:
I had to try 10-15 times from my phone via cheesecake and i kept getting an 11-12 mb file. i downloaded the file from the internet just searched "bionic 5.6.893 download" and found the file "Blur_Version.5.5.893.XT875.Verizon.en.US_2_.zip" which is 45.4 mbs it flashed right away. No thats not a typo either and yes it updated me to 5.6.893 hope that helps.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
I'm not sure what the exact characters all mean. But from what I've heard, the 4g radio was causing all sorts of issues. So apparently they figured it out, and it so happened to fix the 3g radio issues as well. That's my understanding.

I also had a VRL (or VLR ) (spell?) refresh from a tier 2 tech, and got a new SIM card. Best signal I've had on any phone now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jphillips.hd88:
For the life of me, I can't find the download...googled every variation....any possible way you could post the link you used! thanks...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jphillips.hd88:
The 02 at the end indicates you have 5.6.893 ...it would end in 01 if you were at 5.5.893.....I have trying to get there, for some damn reason my updates are failing...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] abuttino:
I am more inclined to stay with the 5.6.893 ROM and just get all my programs/settings back with Titanium or AppExtractor. There must be a reason that they updated the ROM, not just the radio.

What are your opinions?