yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dmullen1373:
I think you should be ok. So long as you're prepared to deal with possible app loss when the final version is released (there is a modified .fxz though that doesn't wipe the user partitions for taking the final ics release. I jiat did the update and it's great. After reading what you've done, you seem ready too. Just make sure nothing's frozen and should be good. Drop the .232 ics file (about 350mb) on external sd and bam. Hold down both vol +/- while powering on and selext recovery. Press both vol again and select install zip from sd. Watch your **** get the biggest and baddest upgrade yet. I'll see if I can post a link to the ics file for ya. Good luck!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Or you could install my House of Bionic script and let it deal with it for you. :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BioThunder:
Can't Connect Panasonic Link-to-Cell,KX-TH1212 after ICS Upgrade

I am having the same trouble with my Motorola Bionic after the legal ICS Upgrade. I can't figure out what could have changed from Ginger Bread (which connected and worked) to the Ice Cream Sandwich OS. It just doesn't make sense. All my other Blue Tooth devices seem to work (Ford Sync, Motorola Finity, Motorola Universal Controller) OK. I am not finding much Blue Tooth expertise here in the USA. I tried Panasonic and Motorola technical with no help.

I have tried everything. I would appreciate any ideas.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
FWIW, most people have been recommending to perform a FDR (Factory Data Reset) after taking the ICS update.

Did you update normally, or use the 6.7.246 FXZ via RSD Lite to get to ICS?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BioThunder:
Bionic won't connect to Panasonic Link-to-Cell home phone system , KX-TH1212

About 30 days ago, I called Verizon for help with this and they had me do FDR on my Bionic.Unfortunately, there was no change in this condition. My Bionic is completely Stock with 6.7.246 XT875 Verizon.en US. This thing is paired up and recognizes the Panasonic as Base TH12.

When I tap on the Base TH12 Icon to connect, It acts like there is not enough Hand Shake Time to adequately connect and hence, does not state as text, connected. In the old days we had ,,,, (comas) we used in modem strings to slow down dialer time out functions, to connect to external modems for data transmission. I don.t know enough about these Btuetooth devices to make a judgement. I have three of these Panasonic Link-to-Cell home phone systems ( KX-TH1212 ) and have tried the other units, just in case I had a bad unit but I get the same problem. If I could solve this issue, I would be very happy. I called Motorola two days ago to see if an APP could be devolved or merged into the Smart Actions App to allow for a Bluetooth Trim adjustment. They though it was a good idea, but they did not really know.

Thanks for your response.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
Yeah, I'm an old modem BBS user myself, I know all about ,,, and such. Have you gotten anyone else's BIONIC to pair with those devices?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BioThunder:
Bionic won't connect to Panasonic Link-to-Cell home phone system , KX-TH1212

No. I am the lone wolf here with the Bionic. Sooner or later, some one will trip over the problem and fix, maybe by accident. I hope they will see my dilemma and let me know.

The other issue I used to run into (with modems) is every time we went to a faster processor speed on the PCs, it would also effect the operation of the modems and in a lot of cases it would not allow a proper hand shake. I know on Ginger Bread, we really weren't able to take advantage of the duel core (1ghz) processors and now with ICS, this thing is blazing fast.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
I decided to do some research, and I've found what may be a very relevant Google Code bug report. See http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=29039

I'm not sure if you would be able to accomplish this non-programmatically, but try anyway:

try connecting, and as the error is trying to time out on you try and see if you can connect again (it seems that you were almost spot on in your observations in that it is timing out b/ of a mishandled handshake due to some sort of security (or lack thereof) in the connection type). IIRC, this is probably infeasible, as the connect / pair button is grayed out until you have either received the "connected" message or until it fully times out....

However, I feel it is a step in the right direction, and more importantly, it makes it seem as if this is a problem affecting all 4.0.x android code, as opposed to a Motorola coding issue.

A much longer bug report (that is mostly Samsung specific) shows the answer as being the clearing of data for a particular file which is not present on our BIONICs at all, but I was wondering if there might be similar file that we could try messing with in order to 'fix' this issue. However, after looking at the previous thread, I doubt it. For the longer thread, see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=31585

HTH
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BioThunder:
Can't Connect Panasonic Link-to-Cell,KX-TH1212 after ICS Upgrade

Thank You: This causes me to raise my eye brows.

I tried to re-boot and then the instant the screen comes back up, I go to setting and then into Bluetooth to connect. I get the same thing, how ever, if I start over and De-register the Panasonic Base Station and Un-pair the Bionic to start over (Pair it up) and hit the Connect Icon, the Bionic tries a lot longer to connect but with no success. Every time there after, I hit the connect icon, it times out instantly.

My question is, should I send this up the ladder through Verizon to get to Google or go direct to Google?

Thanks again for your time and I wish You and Your family a happy New Year.

PS: I could not reply to you with out deleting the two links. I am to new to this forum.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
No worries on the links. As for escalation, my guess is that it will not do much good as it seems to be an Android issue. But, go ahead try, through VZW first, I suppose.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] KidJoe:
How old is the KX-TH1212? I've seen posts and online reviews about it dating back to 2008. Does Panasonic have any firmware updates for it?

While I've not used the KX-TH1212, I have used other products like the Phonelabs Dock-n-Talk, XLink BTTN Gateway, Uniden BT capable cordless phone, etc. to connect my cell phone to my home phone system.

I know my D-N-T and Xlink require constant upgrades to properly work with newer cell phones and newer phone firmware/OS, including iPhone, Android, etc. One of the reasons I stopped using the D-N-T was because they charged $25 per update and you had to MAIL IT back!! (so $25 + shipping), where as the Xlink you update via USB for free. I still use the Xlink today, and update it when I get a new phone, and find something isn't working properly.

I guess what I'm saying is, If after the update the bionic is working properly for other users with bluetooth in car kits, head sets, XLink BTTN Gateway (for me at least), then looking to Verizon, Motorola, or Google to fix the issue with the Panasonic KX-TH1212 might be looking in the wrong direction.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BioThunder:
Can't Connect Panasonic Link-to-Cell,KX-TH1212 after ICS Upgrade

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The KX-TH1212B is about 3 years old and has worked great and is still in use with my wife's older Motorola Z6C. I have looked for firmware upgrades at Panasonic but no luck. I would buy a new system but they can not guarantee the newer design will work with the ICS Bionic. If I knew a way to Mod the Panasonic, to make it work, I would do it. It's been that good a system.

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The Panasonic has a Land Line Connection Input. So it looks like I could buy and Pair the X-link to the Bionic, hook the X-link to the input Land Line and then the Panasonic Base Station will send out to it's handsets. I wonder how much delay there would be in such a transition?

The only reason I would like to keep all the existing units are, I have 6 handset in the house and Speaker Phone + Battery Talk time is outstanding + it does not take special batteries (AAA Rechargeable). It's really cost effective to keep it going.

I believe you have provided me a solution to my problem. I am going to check into this X-link. Thank You Very Very much.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] KidJoe:
Correct. In essence you would be replacing the Bluetooth portion of your Panasonic setup with the external Xlink.

That is similar to what I do with my setup.

In the new house, I use Panasonic KX-TG6700B 2Line 5Ghz cordless and Xlink BTTN but they are not in the same room, and I haven't wired up the Line2 pairs for the jacks yet. So, up in the master bedroom, the Comcast Digital voice modem is plugged into the back of the BTTN and I pair my cell phones to it. Then run the line1 pairs from the BTTN up stairs to Line1 on the Panasonic's base in the Kitchen. We can call out over the comcast digital voice line, or any of the 3 cell phones as needed using the Panasonic handsets (we have 4). And while on the phone, can "call waiting" between any in coming calls across any of the phones.

However, before moving, the Xlink BTTN was connected to Line 2, and Comcast Digital Voice to Line 1 on the KX-TG6700, giving us a "2 line" setup.

Either way, when a call comes in on the cell, and I answer using the Panasonic, there is about a 2 or 3 second delay from when I hit the "talk" button, to when I can hear the other person.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BioThunder:
I ordered the X-Link, it came in, puled it out of the box, paired it up, it connected and works great! Thanks for the tip. I can't figure out why I did not know about this long ago. I don't know, it must be because I lost all my hair. Thanks again, I am a happy camper.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
Glad you got it working.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lemonoid:
Gotta make sure that you don't accidentally wipe the voodoo file. I did that long time ago but on this last update it didn't work for me for some reason. I moved the subackup back to storage after update and for some reason voodoo wouldn't locate it
[Motorola Droid Bionic] johnlgalt:
Yeah, learned that the hard way on my BIONIC when I FXZd back to full stock - it wiped out everything, and I thought everything was OK b/c I had a backup of the backup - no go.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
And I tried changing the location of the backup to some place on the data partition. No go. Doth not work. :(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RoboJoe:
This is probably the wrong time and place to ask, but if I can fxz from 905 to something further back, why can't I fxz from this ICS to 905, or whatever? I'm not asking because I think it should work, I just want to understand why it doesn't.

Thanks.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
That is my understanding. I'm quite sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but, these updates being released are created to install over 905. However, once an update is installed, you can install the update on top of itself again, so, if they can patch the boot image of the next version, you should be able to install it. I believe that's how it works.

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I don't know, and now someone's claiming they have indeed fxz'd back to 902 from ICS. So, I really don't know. This is beyond my level of knowledge. :(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kizzed:
It looks like going back to 902 is an option. I just did it. At least we know we wont have the same issues you did Sam, I could not imagine if that happened to me, I would not be a happy camper!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
So you can confirm you went to 902 from an ICS build and then updated to 905 from that?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nobreak1970:
Different kernel no going back.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jetknife:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7374932

Seeding 2233 leak.

Now I'm not saying my connection is fast, so seed if you can!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nullness:
From what I understand FXZing does NOT work because the signatures have changed between GB and ICS, just like the RAZRs. Anyone claiming otherwise doesn't seem credible.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kizzed:
I could very well be mistaken, I do not know my way around these phones and software nearly as much as some of the people in this great forum. I think I did it. I know it was running ICS and now it is on 902. I may or may not know for sure but I believe I did. And like I said in the beginning I could very well be wrong. It would take someone far better at it than me to confirm or deny that it could work.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nullness:
I'm downloading now, going to finish in 25 minutes as opposed to 2 hours so yeah thanks a bunch, I'll leave mine seeding when its done for about an hour or two.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ThePodofi:
a little confused

So how exactly do I update from 905? sorry if its a dumb question...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Could we not just extract the apk files from 2231 and 2233, compare them, then just push them with adb or copy with root explorer?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
That's why I asked if the 905 update worked once you went to 902.

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No, that definitely won't work.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nullness:
There is a method to binary patch the files which allows a path moving forward, just not back.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] barrmulio:
fxz using pathsaver method from 2231 confirmed over at droidhive

there seem to be a lot of changes (based on the md5) in the two zips
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
I understand, but, there's quite a few people now saying that using pathsaver or fxz going back to 902 is working for them. I don't think we can fully discount it just yet.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] fenixjr:
I have FXZ'd to .902 from .2231. Currently updating to 905.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Ah damnit. Status 7. Guess I need to undo the forever root change. :(

(Yes, that means I'm pulling the trigger :))
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ztkryan:
Nope compared the two files with winmerge bionic is my second phone so I am going to leave it on 905 that I can cheesecake troll for the community :p
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nullness:
Wow apparently this is true! great news!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Yup. P3Droid confirmed it a few minutes ago. I'm pulling the trigger now and installing 2233. Assuming I fixed my issues. I'm SO excited!

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DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT. :( It keeps failing the system check. I unmodified the mount script. I'm not pleased. :(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RoboJoe:
What does it say is failing, specifically?

Edited: PS- It's "Dammit". :-P :-P
[Motorola Droid Bionic] danielson2047:
So FXZ will work on both or just 2231?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Verifying current system...

assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/bin/logwrapper", "no, just no am I typing all that :D", "again, NO")

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

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] seraph_harim:
I think I read that this actually has webtop. Can anyone confirm that it works? I jumped on the $50 lapdock firesale ^_^;;
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Oh this is a mess. I'm working on these problems. Long story short, it does't like CWR being installed. Now that I've removed that, it's complaining about the mount_ext3.sh that I modified. Guess I didn't fully unmodify it well enough. This is a real pain.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bobdrakken:
Yes it does have webtop 3.0 which basically puts the phone into tablet mode instead of that horrible old laggy version :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] seraph_harim:
Woo hoo! ^_^ Aside from ICS itself, that's probably the one feature i'd been looking forward too.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Finally. God I SO love modifying files by hand on my system to get things to work! :D It's updating now. WOO HOO!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cellzealot:
So much for special methods...woot! ;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Yes indeed! :) Look, it makes me sleep better at night knowing I can go back to 902. :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SonicJoe:
Ok, so I am eating crow and the .902 FXZ works. I am now on 2233. You cannot move directly from 2231 to 2233. Please make sure you have a charged battery (or a motorola factory cable), the 902 FXZ file and RSD Lite on your PC, and both the 905 update and the 2233 update on the root of your external SD Card. Also, I have attached a modified XML file (must rename from VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.txt to VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml) for the FXZ that does not wipe Data or your internal storage.

Disclaimer: I am not a dev and am unlikely to be able to help you if this doesn't work for you. I am only posting that which has worked for me in the hopes that it may help others. Proceed at your own risk.

Steps I took:

1) Reboot phone and go into AP Fastboot mode.

2) Use modified XML doc to FXZ back to 902 without data loss.

3) On last reboot, immediately pulled battery at Motorola screen and rebooted and entered recovery. (Note: at this point a last update piece ran from the FXZ. Probably radio, but it didn't identify itself.)

4) Immediately ran .905 update.

5) Rebooted phone and went directly into Recovery again.

6) Ran 2233 update.

7) Root using Android 4.0.4 Root method (Voodoo OTA can not help you through an FXZ, sorry.)

Anyone wishing to refine these steps are more than welcome to.

Also - Some of the messages during the install of 2233 are different. cdt.bin is definitely updated. 2231 may allow an FXZ, but 2233 may not. Keep your heads up.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] d9n30:
Ok i downloaded the zip, uninstalled safestrap, temp disabled root eith voodoo and done a factory reset. It still fails when verifying current system. Is there something else i need to do? Thanks in advamce for the help
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
ICS on Bionic is PRETTY! I'm really appreciate the link and am really glad I flashed it. This rocks!!!!!!!!

P.S. "Super SU has restored root" <== NICE! :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] woebtz:
Hey everyone.

Used to do this stuff a lot with my OG Droid but have been on stock the whole time with my bionic. I downloaded the file and placed on the root of my SD, but when I try to boot into recovery it freezes at the logo of the android and the exclamation point.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this.

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere, I looked around but didnt see it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jpen:
think you can link me to android 4.0.4 root method? and is it only a windows thing?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Xtra Big Kahuna:
So now that it has been discovered that you can FXZ back from 2231 has anyone tried it with 2233? Or should it still work since there is so little different between the two?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RoboJoe:
Press power and both up and down volume.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Dougau:
1 Download the update onto your external sd-card.

2 Power down your phone.

3 Hold down both volume buttons, then press power button.

4 Select recovery by pressing volume down then volume up.

5 At the Android logo press both volume buttons.

6 Select "apply update from sdcard" and then select the file downloaded in step 1 (Use vol up/down to navigate and power to select).

7 Reboot.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sotch_pr35mac:
Seeding

I am seeding w/ my Seedbox. 1Gbit connection :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] reitman1:
Sam, what lines did you have to edit? I removed all of the permaroot stuff from my mount3 file, but I'm still erroring out there when I try installing ICS.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Check the exact error you're getting. Does it mention mount_ext3.sh? I removed all the chmod lines at the end. And I found that after the last fi line, you do need a carriage return so that the cursor is on the beginning of the next line. I also had to manually remove CWR which was a royal pain. So check the message and see what it's failing on.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] reitman1:
Thanks, got that fixed. Now its asking for Zumocast. Going to restore that from Titanium and try this again.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
A heck of a lot of fun ain't it??? :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] LRGDNA:
How do you manually remove CWR. I'm getting ready to try ICS and I'm worried I'm going to run into that same issue since I have CWR on my phone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] reitman1:
Haha, I've never rebooted my phone so many times in such a short time span.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ssgtob1:
Seeding this with a pretty fast upload speed......around 2Mbps
[Motorola Droid Bionic] UVJeanius:
Can I assume if you can fxz 902 from 2231, you can do the same from 2233? I am all stock and wondering after installing 2233, if I need to get back to 902 to get back on the OTA path can I?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Why? It stands to reason that if it's only the app that changed, and not the underlying framework, you could pull the updated apk and install it on a different Blur ROM. Used to do that all the time on the DX
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/105684-taking-clockworkmod-off.html

I did it in root explorer and just deleted/renamed as needed. Be very careful here.

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These updates are patches so it's not quite that simple.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] reitman1:
Well here's where I'm at. I have Zumocast installed, but it wants the com.motorola.zumocast apk placed in the preinstall/app folder. I have no idea how this was deleted or moved, but I don't have this file there anymore. Would somebody be willing to post the apk for this file?

Edit: decided to FXZ instead.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Unrest333:
I'm just putting a girly scream out because I'm so excited over ICS. How long do you think it'll be before OTA? I know it would only be speculation...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
A month to 6 weeks minimum.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SonicJoe:
Its on another forum, and I'm not 100% on the rules around here. Google is your friend. Try Bionic 4.0.4 root. You should see a few promising links there.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] biyobe:
Yep definitely works to go from the first ICS leak back to 902. Just jumped into Fastboot, fired up RSD Lite, loaded newvrz_xt875_5.9.902.xt875.verizon.en.us_cfc_01.xml.zip and then once fully installed and back up and running I'm on .902... searched for new software and .905 is downloading now.... now to just find the 2nd ICS leak!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] woebtz:
So I updated to this build, but whenever I plug into my lapdock I get a message that says "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped."

Anyone know a solution?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] teknotronik:
I was running Dhackers ICS for Bionic previously. I upgraded to my Galaxy Nexus, (until my Galaxy S3 comes) and when I saw this I have to try it. So I FXZ'ed to 902 to remove the safestrap and all. Than I updated to 905 OTA. Is it safe to just use the new FXZ to flash?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TheGman125:
How do you install this?

Sent From NS4G, E4GT, and Mopho all running CM9
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Have you rebooted since you installed it?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] woebtz:
Yeah, I have rebooted several times...I did not do a wipe when I upgraded, thinking it wasnt necessary, like a OTA update...could this be the problem?

And if so, if I do a wipe now I would still have this ICS build when it was complete right?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] vanillanesquik:
Hey,

I fxz'd back to .902 and updated to .905 via stock recovery. I rebooted and tried installing the ics leak, it completed in stock recovery successfully, but I got an immediate AP boot failure. Is there anything I may have missed in preparation for the ICS leak?

Edit: I'm installing the official .905 OTA since there may have been a version mismatch with the leaked .905 file.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ssgtob1:
Same thing happened to me. Please let me know if you get it fixed....