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[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
1. Pull the battery, remove from wall power.

2. Put the battery back in.

3. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button and power on the phone.

4. You should come up to one line menu on the top of the phone (I don't remember what it says).

5. Press the VOLUME DOWN button 7 times (or until Android Recovery is shown).

6. Press the VOLUME UP button.

7. At the screen with the yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it, press both volume buttons at once.

8. Press the VOLUME DOWN button to Wipe Data/Factory Reset.

9. WARNING! THIS WILL WIPE ALL DATA FROM YOUR PHONE! Press the power button.

10. Reboot your phone.

11. This will boot into CM7. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED THE CM7 MODIFIED BSR FROM THE CM7DX2 OP (Original Post) TO YOUR SDCARD!!!!

12. Using the File Manager app within CM7 (It's calls File and looks like a file folder) locate the CM7 BSR and install it by tapping it.

13. Once it is installed, open the CM7 BSR app.

14. Tap the top button labeled "Install Recovery".

15. Plug the phone into the WALL CHARGER, not a USB port on your computer, and plug the charger into the wall.

16. Tap "Recovery Mode".

17. Your phone should power off and power back on, booting into the BSR.

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] anonymous-x:
Have to sign in here & say "Thanks" & so does my DX2 ;)
[Motorola Droid X2] scotty1825:
Moon shadow, I just wanted to say thanks. I used your guides to root and backup my phone.

Scotty
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
Not a problem! Glad I can be of help!

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] Omega360:
Just wanted to say that these guides are amazing. Helped me put my DX2 to it's full potential.

Thanks Moon Shadow :D
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
Your welcome! I am glad I was able to help!

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
CM7BSR

Just a tidbit here in the hopes of saving someone some time. I just upgraded to CM7 and after the dust settled, I went to make a post-install backup. Unfortunately, I was unable to get it to launch BSR -- I would get the fancy new green battery. Tried a bunch of different things, then uninstalled/reinstalled it and all was well.

So not sure what the root cause there was, but the solution was simple enough, and now I have a backup.

And there was much rejoicing.

-Blu
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
Ummmm... The solution is to boot into CM7DX2-RC1 and install the CM7 BSR or, if you flashed CM7DX2-RC1 over CM7DX2-RC0, you would have to go into the CM7 System Recovery App and "Install Recovery" and the hit "Recovery Mode".

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] BluPhant:
Yes... I may look like a n00b.... :)

By my post count, you'd have to assume I'm a n00b, but I'm not quite that n00bish. :)... I had the correct BSR installed, it just didn't work until reinstalled.

To explain further, I got my phone from a buddy who updated to a Bionic about a month ago. At that time it was SBFed it back to stock 2.3.4, basically to remove all his crap and make it freshy-fresh for me. So, I used it for a month, and realized how much MotoBlur .... well.... lets just say "is less then optimal". I was spending more time researching issues than is reasonable.... looking @ task manager/logs/etc.

So after some research I switched over to CM7 RC1, following the install guide to the letter. So @ the end of the process (again per the guide) I installed the cm7 specific bsr. It no workie. Hit install recovery (success) and then tried to go to recovery mode and got the battery icon. Many, many times. Uninstalled the cm7 bsr and reinstalled it, re-did the "install recovery" and low and behold recovery mode worked.

So it may not be everyones experience, but it is mine.

The other bit was that I had superuser set to auto update prior to CM7RC1, so it auto updated (and failed) for me. Changing it to manual updates and removing the Google play version solved the automatic problem, however it does continue to prompt me for updates now and again. No big.

And many many thanks for putting together the guides and testing the builds for us. It is truly appreciated, my phone is now what it should have been in the first place.

Cheers-

-Blu
[Motorola Droid X2] diekrazy:
I never did a backup once I installed the CM7 BSR, but after I read his post I decided to see if I ran into any problems as well. It worked fine for me. I haven't tried it on my wife's phone, yet but will post an update later.

By the way thanks for all the great guides Moon Shadow.
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
No problem! I'm here to help.

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] Keeblet:
Cannot backup into External SD Card even after partitioning

Hello all,

This is my first time ever rooting and attempting to bootstrap my Droid x2 phone and am having trouble trying to get this bootstrap to backup onto my 4 GB external SD card (also known as MOT G: on my computer).

There is a folder called ".android_secure" when I connect my phone via USB mode in the external SD card. Nothing is on the Internal besides the LOST.DIR and eventually, clockworkmod's backup file since it can't find the external it was supposed to backup to.

".android_secure" is where the Droid x2 Recovery app is supposed to create the files to successfully bootstrap and backup/restore my phone.

However, even after reading on another forum (which I will link when I am allowed to...) about how this issue is solved once the external SD is partitioned, I cannot get the backup to go into my external as it keeps telling me that ".android_secure" is not found (I assume on the external).

Further in the thread, it goes onto mention about how the Internal card is reading like the "eemc" and external sd card or something which I am a little confused as to what that really means... I figured I should stop and ask about this instead of trying to pop the SD card out and do something else that might muck up something.

TL;DR: Is it okay for me to take the data of clockworkmod's backup folder and just move it to my External SD card's ".android_secure" folder so that the next time I need to restore my phone, the files will be safely on the external over the internal??
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
Woah there buddy :)

Relax:)

Bsr is just telling you that it cannot backup,.androidsecure

Which is just fine

That's what happens on the x2

It is NOT backup TO .androidsecure

if you choose backup then choose external, it makes a complete backup system, data, and cache (does not backup or restore kernel tho due to the locked nature of the device (x2)

It creates clockworkmod/backup/"time-time.date.date.date" of when you created that backup.

THAT file inside that clockworkmod/backup IS your nandroid file.

Don't move it, don't mess with it. Don't even change the name of it.

When you want to restore it just go in bsr and choose restore, then just choose the backup you would like to restore. If you move it to another folder then bsr won't recognize it as a file that it can restore :)

Are you running a ROM or something?

If you are on eclipse, it will seem as tho (when viewing within android) it is on the internal, but trust me, it's on your external card.(this is due to the "sdcard flip flop" tweak, it changes how the internal/external are viewed/mounted WHEN BOOTED INTO ANDROID only, BSR does NOT recognize this, so when you choose backup to external , it is going onto your TRUE REMOVABLE sdcard. Motorola really made tins confusing with the way they chose to name the internal memory vs external memory)

If you make a backup and choose external, after it completes, power down the phone, pop your sdcard into a computer,.that clockworkmod folder will be there with your backup file(s) in it.

Do not mess with the "partition sdcard" option in bsr, unless you wanna screw something up.

No need to partition anything.

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So,

Have i thoroughly and entirely confused you even more yet or what?

Lol

The x2 is pretty different than many other devices, so don't go looking at other devices forums (even the original x has a VERY different process) don't get any other devices procedures mixed up with the x2 s procedures.

Moon shadow has done an extremely good job on being completely thorough in this tutorial,.if you follow it exactly, then you shall have zero issues with creating and restoring different nandroid backups in you x2.
[Motorola Droid X2] Keeblet:
Thanks ashclepdia for the rather prompt response. No, I am not running a ROM but would love to get CM7 running so that I can use some themes (hopefully in conjunction with ADW Ex) to change that ugly stock notification bar along with some other aesthetics of the UI.

So after I bootstrap, I am assuming I am safe to install the CM7.zip which I placed on my external? I thought the point of having the bootstrap files elsewhere (aka sd card) was so that if something went wrong, you can restore your phone to a previous point since if you mess up the internal along with other files that may be in there, you have the bootstrap located safely in another card.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
I copy my backups to my pc, but renaming may cause problems

the sd card is unaffected from roms and SBF flashing, but SD cards can fail, or get erased

edit: I wouldn't bother saving backups to internal just external (sd card)
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
I always backup to external

Either way, the chances of that data getting corrupted during a flash, well, personally I've never seen it.

The thing with the x2 is tho, that you don't really have a custom recovery that you can easily boot to if something goes wrong.

For instance, if your phone won't boot after a flash, and you can't get into bsr via power down and plug in, then you will have to sbf, root, install bsr again, THEN restore your backup.

If you backed up and you chose external then your backup IS on the external sdcard.

BOTH of the sdcard(internal&external) will remain UNTOUCHED during a data wipe within bsr and a rom flash. All your data and files will still be there.

A data wipe only wipes user data like apps and settings, NOT user data on a sdcard.

And a rom flash usually only changes the /system partition as far as i have seen on the x2 which didn't include the /sdcard or /sdcard-ext

Have no fear your backups well remain intact on the sdcard after you flash your ROM.

As long as you don't do any format to sdcard directly using a computer or from within the settings menu you will have your backups available to restore at some point.
[Motorola Droid X2] Keeblet:
Stuck in BSR mode; cannot get back menu button enabled

Supposedly, pressing both volume rockers at once will bring the button back up but it hasn't worked for me.

I think pulling the battery out will brick my phone but I don't know what to do otherwise :|

I was trying to see where I would install CM7.zip (placed it on my external SD card) and was looking for it. The instructions on the CM7 thread tells me to go into BSR and then install CM7.zip. I went to Backup & Restore and saw that it only showed where I did the Bootstrap backup in the internal drive and I accidentally pushed select 3 times on DCIM, an empty folder. Now it's stuck here after telling me that the file was not found.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
for roms select install zip on sd card

edit: read this http://www.DroidXForums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41785

Common X2 Questions and Answers
[Motorola Droid X2] Kev13131:
Great Thread, Thanks to all

Hi guys, I just wanted to thank everyone for this thread, the tutorial at the beginning is basically idiot proof and one of the best I've seen. I just had a question whether or not anyone has tried it using a rooted X2 with 2.3.5 on it. I rooted it on 2.3.4, then used RootKeeper and brought my root with me when I updated to 2.3.5. I'm always wary of just trying it out on 2.3.5, so if anyone has some experience or info it would be very much appreciated. Thank you
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
only way to root 2.3.5/1.3.418 is voodoo root keeper

edit: or are you asking about system recovery and bootstrap

both work fine on 1.3.418
[Motorola Droid X2] gmull70:
Preparing for rom

So I Recently got root access Using moonshadows to tutorial on how to sbf to version 2.3.4 then I get root access using petes motorola root tools I've then used ota root keeper and went back to 2.3.5 I would also like to try to bootstrap using moonshadows to tutioral. Which I read over and over and states that the bootstrap works with 2.3.4 my ultimate goal is to have my phone running the eclipse rom. So my question is do I need to sbf back to 2.3.4 to do the bootstrap and then go back to 2.3.5 to install the eclipse rom. Sorry for being a noob.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
bootstrap recovery works fine with 2.3.5

same instructions
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
yup

What sd shadow said

I just wanted to add

Before you flash eclipse, go into.root keeper app and choose the option that deletes su backup, or else when you flash eclipse it will fail.

Good luck! :D
[Motorola Droid X2] gmull70:
step 9 of bootstrap

On step nine of moon shadows bootstrap recovery it says to power off phone and phone will reboot in recovery mode. Im not seeing how to power off phone I pressed the power button but nothing happened. So while I was already in the recovery mode i pressed the volume down button six times to get to backup and recovery pressed the power button and created the back up and was able to see it on sd card using the stock file explorer. So did i make a mistake not knowing how to power off the phone in step nine?
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
No

As long as you were in bsr you did it correctly

That is just the way you get into bsr

Do this now so you see what i mean:

When you have it powered on long press power button

Choose power off

Plug phone into wall

Wait

BSR should come up

(it hijacks the charge only mode)

This will always do this for you unless you do a data wipe or flash a ROM, in which case you will need to go into system recovery app again and press the install recovery button, then recovery mode button again before you can get into BSR again this way.

And a word of advice, if you are ever boot looping, just pull the battery and plug your phone in, then you can restore a nandroid, as long as you never press that charge mode button in sysrem recovery app you will be all good and won't need to sbf just cuz you boot looped.
[Motorola Droid X2] Redfire77:
Flawless

Your how to worked flawlessy, Thank You:highfive:
[Motorola Droid X2] GoClifGo05:
made a few backups now along the way but this time ive gotten:

"no /sdcard/.android_secure found, skipping backup of applications on external storage"

then "backing up cache... no sd-ext found. skipping backup of sd-ext"

Other than that is says backup complete... Anything to worry about here or am i all good if i ever need to restore?

edit: on eclipse 2.2.1, selected external storage as location.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
you should be good, unless you had apps running from sd card
[Motorola Droid X2] GoClifGo05:
Shouldnt of had anything running... I was sitting at the home screen, went into eclipse parts, opened recovery and clicked recovery mode. Phone shut off and booted up into recovery...
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
no i meant, no apps installed on sd card
[Motorola Droid X2] GoClifGo05:
so anything installed to my sd card is not backed up? I have to move everything to internal to get a complete backup? :-/
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
that will happen every time you make a backup.

and even if you had apps on your sdcard, as long as you don't manually uninstall that app data (delete it yourself) then that data.will always be there.

i have never made a backup where that didn't show at the end. it is completely normal and it created the backup perfectly fine.

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don't fret

don't need to move anything.

everything is backed up, trust me on this, just ignore that error. you may not have noticed it before, but it ALWAYS gives that "error". you have no issues

any apps you have installed are backed up trust me.
[Motorola Droid X2] GoClifGo05:
Now that you mention it that makes a lot of sense. Duh moment. Thank you.
[Motorola Droid X2] zapjb:
Just wanted to take the time to officially thank OP. I've come back to this thread time and again. :good::good::good:
[Motorola Droid X2] lfd1351:
i agree this is a great thread...very happy with it has helped me out a lot
[Motorola Droid X2] EMT52313:
Thanks

Thanks alot for this. Helped alot!
[Motorola Droid X2] tcx550:
Getting back to recovery

First thanks for the information in this thread. Very well explained, but I am having a problem.

Rooted, used bootstrap to back-up, followed the directions, except I saved bootstrap to internal memory rather than the SD card, flashed Eclipse...everything worked flawlessly....except...Lost all of my contacts and previously installed apps, (I read where they should still be in the recovery I created before flashing???)

How do I get back to the recovery?

The bootstrap app is no longer in apps and I can't find it in internal memory.

I have a file manager and can access internal memory but I don't know what to look for. I downloaded ROM manager, but the back-ups it shows don't coincide with the bootstrap recovery.

I just want to get back to where the phone was before flashing.

Help!

TC
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
before flashing a custom rom you should

backup apps with titanium backup, or rom toolbox

backup texts and call log with sms backup +

they are backed up in nandroid backup, but hard to reinstall to new rom that way

eclipse has bootstrap in menu/settings/ eclipse parts/ bootstrap recovery

I would use bootstrap (BSR), to restore nandroid backup

tap on bootstrap recovery in eclipse parts

choose install recovery

allow superuser access

tap ok in the success popup

tap on recovery mode, wait for phone to shut down

connect charger

phone will boot to Droid X2 Recovery

wipe data and cache

select back up & restore

internal sd card

restore

select your backup

confirm

*reboot

back up your data

contacts can be backed up to sd card

reflash eclipse

or stay on eclipse and use titanium backup, to restore apps from nandroid

you should have synced contacts with verizon and or gmail, just resync

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don't use rom manager

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folder is named clockworkmod
[Motorola Droid X2] tcx550:
THANKS!

thanks for the info...:good:

I'm gonna try to follow the instructions step by step
[Motorola Droid X2] alec242:
Okay so yes I am a noob. My issue is when trying to flash a rom (miui) or any rom for that matter. When I try to restart it in recovery nothing comes up. I've tried everything, looked in every forum, followed all the instructions both times I've rooted my x2. Even fast loader doesn't load up... Anyone with more knowledge on this subject that could further assist me would be appreciated as I am beyond frustrated :(.
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
:D ;)

Are you using the bootstrap app for the x2 linked in OP correct?

Then, make sure u hit Install recovery.

Then, MAKE SURE YOU ARE PLUGGED INTO A WALL OUTLET VIA original charging cable, (or one that when u plug into the wall and look in settings>battery it shows as "charging AC"(if it shows "charging USB" it WONT WORK) )

THEN you can presa the recovery mode button.

It is IMPERATIVE that you be plugged into a wall outlet charging. The BSR we use on the x2 hijacks charge mode and boots bsr

Also,don't take my use of CAPS as being a ****, I only use them for emphasis on the important parts.

If you still cannot get it to work, post again detailing EACH step you have taken so we can cross things off the list to make sure u aren't missing one :)

Edit:::

After reading your issue again, I might be confused on your issue,

Are you sayin that after you have flashed a rom you can't get recovery to come up again? If yes, did u wipe data? If yes, u must open the BSR app again an ensure that you "install recovery" again so as to reapply the "hijack" to enter BSR upon power off and plug in.
[Motorola Droid X2] Painfully Logical:
System image

Hello,

Im a bit new to rooting and roms and such. I was curious to know if you can make a system Image that you can restore from such as you would with a regular computer.

Thanks for all advice in advance

PL.

Device:

DroidX2

Eclipse 2.3
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
that is what a nandroid backup is for
[Motorola Droid X2] joelev:
BSR not working. SBF everytime?

I have followed the instructions on how to boot nandroids and it works everytime. Except the last part. CM10 alpha 3 worked for 4 days untill the was turned off or died. At that point the boot is stuck at Motorola M. Here is everything that I have done

1. SBF to 2.3.4

2. Root per Root thread

3. install from ZIP CM10 and gapps (correct gaps)

4. activate my phone. sync with google. everything works.

5. Install system recovery. Install recovery. Recovery mode. connect charger. follow steps and create backup. phone works untill it is powered off or dies. it then is stuck in boot at Motorola M.

I have SBFd several times and created new backups

Every crash I have had to SBF everytime. very inconvenient becuase it usually happens when I am away from home and can not get to RSD to SBF.

I have plugged the phone into the WALL CHARGER rebooted with the battery in, battery out, holding every button combination discribed in any other thread and have not been able to get to BSR from poweroff. Is there something else that I need to do or am I doomed to become an SBF expert?

The orginal fail happend after I tried Titanium Backup Pro and I also installed superuser elite to replace the regular superuser. I then tried not doing that again and same fail today with fresh loads. I even redownloaded CM10 Alpha 3 and gapps just in case.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
not really the right thread, should have started a new thread in Q & A

have you tried the

CM10 hijack-boot.zip instructions
[Motorola Droid X2] mjf55:
Just wanted to thank Moon Shadow for the excellent tutorials in this thread and the rooting thread.. I was on 2.3.5 (418) and rooted with the self extracting zip (DroidX2_Root_2012.exe) in a Virtual Box WinXP client ( hosted on my Fedora 16 system) and installed the BSR (MOTODX2_Bootstrap_signed.apk). Worked PERFECT.

On my whay to moving to the Eclipse ROM.

Thanks.........
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
in my op I have several options, for window users the DroidX2_Root_2012.exe, is easiest for most people, but you may want to look @ the

Droid2_D2G_DX_DX2-RootCD-2012.iso it can be run from a virtual box as a linux system, or burned to cd/usb drive, and boot as a live linux cd.
[Motorola Droid X2] mjf55:
SD, I did indeed download the ISO. I loaded it on my spare old laptop and explored it quite a bid, wanting to understand what the scripts are doing. Learned a bit, not enough YET to start tinkering.

I want to thank you also for always stepping in helping on these forums with answers, pointers, links etc. Very helpful to a phone noob like me.

About ready to put Eclipse 2.3 on, just have some questions as to what data gets flashed, what data gets wiped on a wipe, things like that. I'll look for an appropriate place to ask. With only 3 posts ( including this one ) I can't ask in the Eclipse forum yet.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
if you want to see the original files, check out the manual root method

well depends how in depth you want to go.

the rom writes over the system files, but you need to wipe user data, because some of it will not be compatible

more here Understanding Android

so backup following

before you install custom rom

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just start a new thread in Droid X2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting