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[Motorola Droid X2] anonomus01:
I have an X2 that I had the digitizer replaced. The phone is (was?) rooted to I believe 2.3.3 before I got it fixed. Now when i turn the phone on I get the "Starting RSD Protocol Support" message. I have tried both RSDLite 5.3.1 and 5.4.4 on two different computers with the 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 ROMS and the phone will still not get passed the RSD protocol screen no matter what combination of buttons I hit with the power button, which prevents me from doing a recovery on the phone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
In order to sbf, THAT IS the screen you need to be on ;)
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
right

is the screen you need

if RSD Lite doesn't work you can always try ezSBF DX2
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
Ok guys ever since I put eclipse on my MX2 I have noticed a few things.

1. my battery drain seems to still be bad, not sure what is going on there, might just be phone design.

2. I can't download anything from the Play Store. I don't get an error or anything it just hangs at downloading.

Any advice / suggestions?

Thanks guys!
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
If you have data saver turned on in settings, pay store downloads will look like they are starting but won't actually download until you are on wifi....maybe that?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
could try

wiping battery stats, in recovery

Gingerbread Battery Fix

Die-Hard Battery Calibrator

Troubleshooting Download Issues
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
That did the trick for that! Thank you very much.

I'll check out the battery calibrator on the other post.

Thanks guys,

Lee
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer

Best thing to do to find out why you have battery drain is to download bad ass battery monitor or better battery stats (i prefer bad ass Battery monitor, more user friendly)

And go through a full charge cycle, don't let it fully drain tho, when you get down to about 15% open bad ass battery monitor and press menu, then go to, app sucker. Then you can see, which app(s) woke your phone the most out if you have any processes that are running rogue and you can usually put an end to it.

if you wanna take a screen shot of the app sucker view and post it/send it to me i can help you figure out how to stop the drain, If it's at all possible, it may just be that you use your phone as much as i do and need to charge VERY often, my phone rarely leaves my hand, I kill full batteries inn less, than,5hrs most of the time lol
[Motorola Droid X2] blackangel104:
Step 17 and down I am confused about. Can someone explain that to me, I plan on sbf'in back so I can flash cm9 later on tonight. I'm currently on cm7

#ToonamiFaithful

Follow me on twitter @blackangel104 - Stay Gold ...Bang
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
step 17 is to prevent/ stop bootloop

by booting into android recovery (stock)

and wiping data, this is not done in the SBF flashing process, sometimes wiping data isn't necessary, but if you bootloop wiping needs to be done
[Motorola Droid X2] blackangel104:
Ok I got it

#ToonamiFaithful

Follow me on twitter @blackangel104 - Stay Gold ...Bang
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
:D You are becoming the new Ash... Thanks for monitoring my thread and answering questions.

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
Your Welcome, not sure about being the new Ash though I will answer questions, if I think my answer will help
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
lol That's a compliment. Ash jumps in here and answers questions, I appreciate both of you for helping out.
[Motorola Droid X2] Ryno77:
I had to sbf for the first time yesterday after deciding to go flash crazy....after having a "few" adult beverages :). Using this guide I had absolutely no problems even after the "few" beverages I had.....thank you for tutorial!
[Motorola Droid X2] Neymar9:
i did everything correc but when its "switching device..." it gets to 99% and then it says FAIL?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
try reinstalling drivers on pc
[Motorola Droid X2] Neymar9:
now i keep getting a fail flashing process and my phone is stuck in "failed to boot 1"
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
if you can't get to rsd support, not sure what you can do

if you can get to rsd support, try http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x2-hacks/41697-tool-ezsbf-dx2.html
[Motorola Droid X2] VALDEZ7273:
problem downloading

hello im sorry for the bother but when i downloaded the sbn file i was not able to open/ extact it... i used the 7zip software that was also included in the tutorial:confused: my apoligies for the bother what do you suggest i do
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
redownload sbf
[Motorola Droid X2] fambaus:
I am the guy - Froyo 2.2.2

I'm the dumb ass that did the SBF all the way back to 2.2.2. :o

I used the WugPacked X2 SBF tool.

I wanted to get to CM7 from 2.3.4.

I have a nano backup.

Should I root, re-intall System Recovery and then restore the nano backup?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
what is your nandroid backup stock or cm7

as long as your current kernel is same as your nandroid was

you should be good,
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
Just take two OTA updates to get to 2.3.4

Then root and install bsr and you, are good to go

if you Are on 2.2.2 taking one ota will get you on 2.3.3

Then reboot

Then take the next ota

That will put you on 2.3.4

Then root and install away! ;)

Just so I'm completely clear, if you are on 2.2.2 right now, and you root, install bsr, restore nandroid from when you were on 2.3.4 IT WILL NOT work, bsr will NOT restore you too the kernel you need to be on, ONLY system and data....if you notice it doesn't ever backup/restore boot.img(kernel)
[Motorola Droid X2] fambaus:
You guys rock.

Got it...

Took the tow OTA updates and ready to root.

This noob thanks you!!!!
[Motorola Droid X2] robertsneed:
Which one is better the CM7 or CM9?
[Motorola Droid X2] BarnDad:
Perfect instructions, I'm not a real techie guy. I can't thank you enough!
[Motorola Droid X2] stevenieie:
SBF

When you sbf if your x2 keeps rebooting you need to boot into android recovery by pulling the battery, pressing vol- and power untill you see FastBoot then hit vol- until you see Android Recovery then press vol+ untill you see Starting Android Recovery then press vol- and vol+ at the same then press vol- until it highlights wipe data and cache then press the power button and reboot and it should work fine.
[Motorola Droid X2] chasmanian:
Anyone ever have issues getting into RSD mode? I'm holding the Vol UP and then pressing and holding the Power button, but no white text ever appears. I get the Moto logo but nothing else. If I connect it to RSD lite, it sees the phone, but there's nothing in the device info about Daytona. It says the device is in engineering mode. I'm on 2.3.4 _612. Stock and never rooted afaik. Just bought it used.

Edit: Also, I have two batteries and both are fully charged.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
you sure you have a Droid X2? not sure what 2.3.4 _612 is

these are the system versions 2.2.2/ 1.2.148, 2.3.3/1.3.232, 2.3.4/1.3.380, 2.3.5/1.3.418
[Motorola Droid X2] chasmanian:
Got it sorted. Thanks shadow. You hit the nail on the head. It's a droid x that was sold as an x2. Luckily, I can return it. I work with the girl. Goes to show if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
thought that might be the case, but thought 601, was dx latest
[Motorola Droid X2] theesaga:
This was definitely very helpful the first couple of times I had to SBF, well done.
[Motorola Droid X2] TheJewban:
Hello-

I started a new thread in the Droid X2 Q&A forum, but now realize I should have posted here. My apologies.

I’m ignorant when it comes to these things so please be kind, thanks.:angel:

I bought 2 Droid X2’s, one for my son and me. I rooted the phones successfully using Pete’s One Click Method (I think). Then I installed Titanium Backup Pro.

A few months later we installed the Droid X2 latest version 2.3.5, not knowing it would unroot our phones. Titanium Backup Pro says it doesn't work now because the phones are unrooted.

I'm now attempting to sbf back to 2.3.4 so I can root my phones properly to 2.3.5. As per "HowTo: Perform a SBF" instructions, it states before even starting to "make sure you have a backup of your existing system, or at least your data", using Titanium Backup.

How can I do this when Titanium Backup doesn't work on an unrooted phone?

Also, does backing up "system" and "data" include all apps that have been downloaded?

Thanks to all for your help.:)
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
Can't back up with titanium, but you can back up texts and call log with SMS backup+

Contacts can be backed up to sd card, verizon or gmail

If you wipe data you will lose apps and app data

But you don't have to wipe data unless you boot loop, but wiping is recommended
[Motorola Droid X2] berfles:
My issue is the same, and I've had this happen before and MoonShadow helped me out. Problem is a lot of it was done in IRC and I can't find the logs I saved.

What I had to do was unroot my phone first, then re-root it running the updated OS but I don't know if 2.3.5 broke that method.

My issue is that I can't even unroot the phone using ADB, it tells me permission is denied. I can't remember how I got around that, and I don't remember having to unfreeze my stuff and undo all my tweaks the first time I did it, which all of those auto unrooters tell me to do.
[Motorola Droid X2] TheJewban:
Haha, too funny. I'm 51 years old, Alzheimer's runs in my family, and there's a definite interrelation between that, stress, and aging.:p

All hell just broke loose when I told my 12 year old son that sd recommended wiping all data and all his apps would be lost. Now 7zip is telling me it can't open the Gingerbread 2.3.3 SBF File. I started studying all this at 8:30am and have worked straight through nonstop until now...and I haven't even gotten to first base. Lovely. :cyclops:
[Motorola Droid X2] :
Hey kid, (I am 54) :D, you don't open the zip file, you flash it while leaving it as a zip.

Or perhaps you are doing something else that I didn't catch in my hit and run on this thread.

----Sent from my Higgs Boson fueled Campbell soup cans.----
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
no no

that's for installing a ROM

you can't flash a sbf file using rsdlite if it is still zipped.

right click on the sbf.zip file and do an "extract here" or extract all, forget exactly what it says

if what you downloaded wasn't a zip file then you don't need to do anything. the file should be just an sbf file for flashing through rsdlite :)
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
ash is correct, if it's .sbf

file is ready for rsd lite
[Motorola Droid X2] vbetts:
Hmm, funny thing is I just did an SBF from the latest ota(2.3.6 I believe or whatever the latest is) down to 2.3.4 and now I lost my data and can only roam for data...Weird...
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
dial *228 and do option 2

you might need to do option 1 as well

this should fix that

also check in you data settings make sure automatic is checked

but it's most likely you need to call *2 2 8
[Motorola Droid X2] Redfire77:
Works

Everything went smoothly following these instructions, Thank you for your time :)
[Motorola Droid X2] 1024jon:
So I have a Droid x2 that was running cyanogenmod 7, and I'm trying to sbf back to stock. The sbf seems to have gone OK but it boot loops, so I was going to factory reset but when I get into the android recovery menu, the text never shows up allowing me to select anything. Does anyone have thoughts or fixes?
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
When u get to that screen I believe u need to press both volume rockers for the text to come up. Either that or its the power button along with one or both of the volume buttons. I can't remember exact combination but just try those, one of them will work.(it might even just be u need to press volume up...but I think its both volume buttons)
[Motorola Droid X2] jakereeves31:
Yeah, it's both volume buttons at the same time
[Motorola Droid X2] 1024jon:
Wow I'm an idiot. I now see it in the tutorial. Thanks guys!
[Motorola Droid X2] jakereeves31:
Thank button?:P
[Motorola Droid X2] DROIDDUDE012:
Problem While performing an SBF

I did everything with RSDLite but i cannot get into the Android Recovery mode. It just Says, "Entering Android Recovery Mode". The triangle wont show up.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
may have to flash sbf again, rsd lite gave no errors?
[Motorola Droid X2] DROIDDUDE012:
No errors at all, when it said "Please manually reboot", i didnt know what to do, so i went into RSD Mode and it said complete or success or something like that. Was i not supposed to do that and do something else.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
did you try pulling battery, replace it and

boot phone phone normally?
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
Pretty Sure You Should Have Just Rebooted

The Initial Reboot IS When Is Rebuilds The System&Caches And Such

will It.not.Boot Right Now?

If It Wont Boot Try Flashing Sbf Again

And Do What It Says :)

I NoticeD Before That Sometimes It Would Reboot Automatically, Sometimes Would TEll Me To Do It Myself.
[Motorola Droid X2] DROIDDUDE012:
Yes all of that, Thats all i did..

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It rebooted a couple of time during the SBF. Then it told me to manually reboot, I pulled the battery then put it back in. tuned it on, Still stayed on the Entering Android Recovery.
[Motorola Droid X2] layvin1:
A Great Thread!

THANKS TOO ALL!!! for all the info and directions. I had recently decided to try and flash CM9 Alpha 5. I made an Android backup and proceeded with the flashing.......went well....except I forgot to install the "gapps.zip".....and thats when things went wrong. The phone would get to the boot screen and do nothing else! :crying: I could not get into any recovery to restore my backup and was about to pull my hair out! :mad:

Anyhow...I am now back on 2.3.4 and will proceed into re-rooting and flashing a new rom. Ill try not to leave out any steps this time! :laugh:
[Motorola Droid X2] Kittiesoncrack:
Help?

Does it matter what version I am on now? I want to sbf back 2.3.4.:cyclops:
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
you can flash back and forth, doesn't matter, where you are or where you are going
[Motorola Droid X2] solavirtus:
Fail at step 13

I'm trying to SBF back to 2.3.4 in order to flash CM7 for performance reasons.

When I open RSD Lite (i've tried both versions in the OP), locate the .sbf file that's been extracted, start the phone into "starting RSD protocol support", and plug it in with the factory cable, nothing happens! The DX2 does not show up in the bottom portion of the RSD Lite screen.Essentially, step 13 doesn't happen.

I've installed fresh Moto drivers, and tried both RSD Lite versions with no different results. I'm plugged directly into the computer, no USB hub. Anyone have any ideas?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
Use ezSBF for dx2

No drivers or rsd lite needed

In my list

sd_shadow's list of links for Droid FAQs, SBF, Rooting, ROMs.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Goawxdx_UBF4Y8lqzHYWf8Ha3yUcRK4faq0UWIlXLWA/edit

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Also other versions of rsd lite in my list
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
Make certain you do exactly as it says

TRY A DIFFERENT USB CORD

The factory issued x2 USB cord took a crap on me at one point so that might be the issue

ALSO

press and hold power and VOLUME UP on ur x2, and keep holding until u see it says "starting RSD protocol"

At that point, plug ONLY THE USB CORD itself into the computer.(also, check to see if there is a USB port on BACK of computer itself use that one) then after plugging cord into computer, plug the x2 into that cord.

Then wait a few minutes' I've heard it can take a while to show for some people depending on computer being used.

and keep in mind I don't recall it ever showing as an "droid x2" in rsdlite.... it always showed as a different device.

As long as a device is recognized and its ur x2 u have plugged in, hit start.

Or do as the guy above me said, I've never used ezsbf ,method but I've heard it works just fine
[Motorola Droid X2] solavirtus:
I tried using exSBF, and after a few attemps, it worked. i also chose to root and install bootstrap, so I'm hoping to pick up there in the DX2 CM7 thread... Thanks!
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
great, just remember, the root method on ezSBF is zergRush, so you can not update to 2.3.5

or at least update most likely fail, because zerg removes maps, to make room for root

if you want 2.3.5, you will need to sbf again, and root with pete's root tools

currently the only custom rom that requires 2.3.5 is eclipse

cm7 and other roms are flashed on 2.3.4
[Motorola Droid X2] dust.:
Don't know if anyone is still keeping up with this... but I'm trying to ezSBF but I can't get my computer to boot up the .iso file with the USB method... every time I try it just boots up normally. I can see the lights on my USB drive flash on and off to indicate that it is functioning but I keep getting the normal boot up Windows menu... Any advice?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
did you Verify that your download is complete with MD5/SHA-1 Hash Checksums

does usb have a iso file on it or

have a 'boot' folder with 2 files and one folder (see pic)

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did you follow
[Motorola Droid X2] canooten:
May have been answered, but I'm having no luck opening any of the SBF files using any zip program.

7zip GUI gives 'incorrect command line'

7zip File Manager gives 'cannot open file xxxxxxxxxxxx as archive'

Windows Explorer and Winzip choke on them too.

I've downloaded each one multiple times on different browsers. Have run zip programs as administrator.

Any ideas?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
if it ends in .sbf, its ready to flash, even if it ends in .zip

rsd lite likely can use it
[Motorola Droid X2] canooten:
OK, so if RSD can read it, it's good to go? I haven't tried that, just assumed it would be in a compressed format since the instructions specified that.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
the newer rsd lite versions, can

not sure if all versions can

if you see this it's compressed but rsd lite can unzip

if it does not show this you can select start, it will either run or show an error

that it can not use file

also can you post full file name?

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also if you download from here

https://sites.google.com/site/motosbf/droid-x2-sbf-files

the md5 check sums are posted

and you can Verify that your download is complete with MD5/SHA-1 Hash Checksums

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I think someone commented that they just renamed or removed .zip, so it was .sbf

and then rsd lite could read it

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or just skip rsd lite altogether and use the all in one

ezSBF for DX2
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
sd_shadow is right on the money.

you aren't opening the file if it's ALREADY in sbf. the download links may have been changed from when the original instructions were typed out, which means that the file you have could very likely already be ready to use.

only extract the sbf file if it has been compressed from wherever you downloaded from.

if you try to flash it, and it isn't in correct format, rsdlite won't be able to flash it, should be no harm done and it would just tell you aborted/failed install.

let us know how it goes for ya, if you hit any issues I'm ALMOST certain we can get ya up and running.

May I ask why exactly you WANT to sbf restore the device? just curious :D

EDIT::

@sd_shadow- I don't know why I even come in to confirm what you tell people anymore :D :D :D I don't think I've ever seen a single post from you that has "bad info" in it. awesome job stepping up to the plate EVERY time and hitting a grandslam lol. not only do you give good info, but ya ALSO give MULTIPLE ways to fix a problem. awesome stuff brotha!
[Motorola Droid X2] bad bone:
I remember having to unzip a sbf once for rsd to flash it kept getting some weird error because they had zipped the sbf.

But sd_shadows ez sbf is how you say?ez:D

don't be scared it's only a phone :)

ogd x d2g x2 gs3

old ladies :( ^
[Motorola Droid X2] alexjay93:
RSD Lite

I used it yesterday and it works great, just follow the instructions
[Motorola Droid X2] canooten:
Back at this again....re-downloading all the sbf files to try it again. When I first attempted this RSD would not read any of the files....will see what fresh downloads get me.

As for why I want to restore....phone just runs horribly slow at times now and I want to do a hard reset. My issue is that I rooted a while back so I could ditch some unneeded apps and I stupidly deleted a few of them instead of simply renaming. My understanding is if certain carrier supplied apps are not in place you can't simply unroot and do a factory reset...you have to go about it this way to restore all original apps.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.....

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Update -

I downloaded all 3 files again. All 3 have a file extension of .sbf, though Windows shows 2.3.4 as a zip file and the other 2 as GZ files. If I browse the directory with the files using RSD (5.4.4) the only one that shows up is 2.3.4, however if I attempt to open it I get "the file you selected is not a valid compressed file".

Windows can't open the file, nor can 7zip.

7zip will decompress the other 2 versions but I do get a 'broken file' message at 99%, even though it does unpack a legit SBF file that RSD will read and load. I will proceed with 2.3.3 and use OTA updates before rooting again.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
with troubles you are having

you should be verifing that your download is complete with MD5/SHA-1 Hash Checksums

sbf check sums can be found

https://sites.google.com/site/motosbf/droid-x2-sbf-files

or http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30760094&postcount=19
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
If u want to do a factory data wipe/reset you don't really NEED to sbf.

If you want all the apps back that u deleted then yes u either need to find those files and push them back into /system/app and set permissions rw-r--r-- OR sbf then choose to wipe data from recovery.

You dont HAVE to SBF to do a data wipe and get rid of all user data tho. If its something you downloaded or set at one point in settings thats slowing down the device, then a simple data wipe in recovery should suffice to solve that issue.

Ive got to SBF my X2 tonight or tomorrow.

If you want, ill go thru it all WITH you step by step via Gtalk on the PC so we both do exactly same thing which SHOULD lead to the same results.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
canooten-are you downloading from links from the first post in this thread

if so try

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1703640

or

https://sites.google.com/site/motosbf/droid-x2-sbf-files

true but if you don't remember the names or have links to download, that's not going to work
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
Oh

I've gotta ask as well, havent seen u mention this yet,

What OS on your PC are you using to do this?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
canooten- have you looked @

all-in-one ezSBF DX2 2.3.4 with zergrush root option
[Motorola Droid X2] canooten:
2.2.2 and 2.3.3 check out using this program. 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 are the ones that I can't open at all. Checksum utility verifies them but RSD will not open nor will windows explorer or 7zip.

Regardless I should be able to use 2.3.3 and OTA to whatever the current carrier VZW version is before rooting and *renaming* unneeded programs. No deleting this time.....