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[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
The people that I have seen that are having problems are doing the data wipe after they install the ROM instead of before, and then also not doing a format of the 'system' under 'mounts and storage' before installing the new ROM. You will also have problems if you use Clockwork Mod Recovery instead of Safestrap

-EDIT-

FYI - I have finally settled on the AOKP rom. The only thing I miss from the stock 2233 rom is the SMS app, better lock screen, and smooth rotation.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nullness:
Working fine with BT and the built in buttons in my 2011 Fusion with Sync. No noticeable differences from GB in regard to controls.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] merlin3:
I Cant find anywhere in settings to make notification volume the same as ringer volume like there was in gingerbread
[Motorola Droid Bionic] woebtz:
Thanks for the response.

I havent done much with ROMs and such since my OG Droid, so forgive my ignorance here, just want to be sure I dont screw anything up.

I have installed 2233 already. I did not do a data wipe before hand. I am having issues with flash video and webtop and I am thinking a wipe might solve some of the issues. Is this a bad idea?

I have safestrap installed, but I am new to the whole thing as I said. So if anyone would be willing to let me know whether or not wiping will cause me a problem, or if I need to go back to GB and start over...I would appreciate any information.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
It's not a setting, it just does it. Ring volume = notification volume
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
Here's what you need to do:

1. Make a nandroid backup in Safestrap

2. Manually move over any personal files that you have on your phone to your SD card (if you want to keep them)

3. FXZ to .902 using RSDLite 5.7 (or follow .902 upgrade guide in my signature)

4. Update to .905 (via OTA or Stock Recovery)

5. Update to 6.7.2233 leak (via OTA or Stock Recovery)

Optional steps:

6. Root using Motofail for ICS (Link:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...gh-releases-ics-leak-root-exploit-bionic.html)

7. Install Safestrap 2.0
[Motorola Droid Bionic] woebtz:
Exactly the info I needed, that was my current plan, but all of thsi is new to me...back on old droid with unlocked bootloader things seemed a lot simpler...ha

Thank you so much for your help...I really appreciate it
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
No prob, just be sure that EVERYTHING is backed up that you want. The FXZ will wipe everything internally (will leave SD card untouched)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sfly510:
Interesting since I also drive a 2011 Fusion. I wiped everything before installing CM9 and it happened on both stock and CM9, so I think I might have to do a factory reset on the car's system.

Thanks for your help
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Mig1234:
Absolutely, great people here. Makes life a bit easier and a lot of fun.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
You got that right. Just think how "fun" it would be if the methods to recover our phones and return to the ota path hadn't been created. I love this community.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
If yu manually edit the .xml file inside the .zip and DELETE the lines referring to "emmc", it will NOT wipe your internal SDCard. (Emmc is the partition referring to Internal SD)

I personally made a copy of the .xml in the same directory to test it out, and now I can FXZ with or without losing Internal SD
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
I recommend against doing this. Let the FXZ do its default behavior. It's already a delicate enough process w/o modifying zip files meant to be used 'as is'.

To each their own though!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
It's not really a delicate process. It's essentially a script with a list of partitions to wipe and then dump an image to with a common place FS tool like dd. Just telling it to leave the emmc alone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
It's silly to format the internal sd. That would be like having to format your external hard drive when you install windows on an entirely different drive. Which, now that I think about it, sounds like something Microsoft would recommend.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] merlin3:
Mine does not do that, if i turn ringer down the notification volume stays where it was.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bolt_of_thunder:
Yes this is very annoying. Big downgrade from gingerbread for sure. Is there an app out there that fixes this problem?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] LucasMN:
Haven't found anything to link them together. You could use a sound widget.

I use Smarter Profiles to configure my sound options. Set by time/day and/or wifi.

So when I get to work - on their wifi - All sounds are silent.

Leave work - no wifi - Default profile all sounds are loud.

Get to my apartment - Apartment Profile on my wifi - sounds are moderate

Sleep - set by time/day of the week - sounds are silent.

Tasker could be configured to do the same thing.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] merlin3:
Profiles are fine for somethings but i work outside so i usually have volume all the way up. Then when i go to lunch i like to turn volume down with volume buttons but then text and email notifications are still loud. Same with smart actions, if i have it set to turn volume down it only does ringer.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] silversonic1:
Might I suggest that you go to the sound settings and control them from there for now?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bolt_of_thunder:
That defeats the ease of use we have come to expect. Updates are supposed to improve our phones. Hopefully it's just a bug in the leak. Otherwise ics is a pretty damn big improvement overall for the bionic
[Motorola Droid Bionic] neo1738:
Only thing I realllly miss is the charge only option, what's up with that? Anyone know of a work around?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Saint Isaiah:
Here is the MD5 for this file: d73fd487fe232cb77b8c6ea95b77baac
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
Doesn't happen on the AOKP version of 2233
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TheSurgeon:
902 to OTA 905 and flash ICS leak "no problems"

I went from 902 stock to 905 OTA update then flashed the ICS leak 2233 no problems everything works great!

Then I used moto rs lite flash tool and went back to 902 then OTA 905 then flashed ICS 2233 leak

Then I rooted ISC with RAZR one click

I did this 3 times and every thing worked fine!

I've been using my bionic with rooted ICS 2233 leak for 2 days now works great!

New camera features big improvement
[Motorola Droid Bionic] haupman:
I can't get Adobe Flash working with either Chrome or the Stock Browser. Has anyone else has this problem?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SonicJoe:
Flash works fine for me in the stock browser. It won't work in chrome, because chrome doesn't support flash yet.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] waffleb051:
Do we have a way to downgrade from 2233 yet or no?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ChaosBlades:
Yes fxz to 902 been confirmed to work forever ago.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Drunkula:
Try the AudioManager widget. Works for me...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bolt_of_thunder:
Thanks, I'll have to give that a try
[Motorola Droid Bionic] monkeypunch35:
Watch ESPN

The Watch ESPN app crashes when I try to load a channel. Anyone else have this? Assuming it will work in the final build.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Drunkula:
Never used it before. Just downloaded it and gave it a shot. Does the same for me, too..
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jameslee20:
Webtop 3.0

I upgraded to the new cheesecake file

but I get UI error when i plug my phone into the lapdock.

How do i fix this
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RoboJoe:
Don't use the default home application. Switch to something like Apex or Nova or something.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jameslee20:
not sure what you mean?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] collindv:
Mine just shows a black screen when I try and load something.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TacoRosado:
I bricked!!!

I didn't have luck FXZing back to .902 from 2233 rooted with razr one click. Bricked it and had to a replacement sent overnight from VZW. Gave me Fastboot flash failure 0A.61. Don't think it was user error and I have used the .902 fxz file in the past so I know it wasn't that. Wondering if anyone else has experienced same thing coming back from 2233.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Did you use the most recent RSD lite, and most recent drivers for the bionic? I've seen reports that you need to be fully up to date with both of those to FXZ out of the leak. Which is counter intuitive, since older versions work fine when doing it from GB
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TacoRosado:
I used RSDlite 5.7 and Motorola driver 5.5. I might wait for ota update for ics now just to be safe. This is my third bionic in 5 months, don't know when luck will run out with vzw for replacements.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
The launcher application in android is like the Explorer on a Windows PC. Or if you use a Mac, it is like the Finder. It is sort of the 'skeleton' of the Android user interface.

Go to the Play Market and download Apex Launcher. After it is installed, press the home button and select to always use the Apex Launcher. You will have to re-set up your home screens, but this is much better than the native Launcher.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
You need to stop, reevaluate your processes, and relearn how to flash your device. Going through 3 of these phones in that amount of time is not a hardware problem, but user error.

I am not saying this to sound mean, but it is evident that your frustrations come from using incorrect procedures. This phone is solid - On average, in the year I have owned my phone, I typically flash a new rom every 2 weeks and FXZ about once a month.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Samus4145:
Wow. I bricked the Bionic going back to .902 when my battery died during the flash. Once I got a hold of an external charger and tried in on PC instead of mac it worked the first time using the same tools.

Had major issues with the leak of ICS. HUGE delay when clicking on anything. Surprised no one has reported this.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Well, basic rule is to charge the phone to a minimum of 50 percent. Now you know
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
Worst case scenario: You can charge the battery outside of your phone. I once had to do this by cutting the small end off an old USB cable (micro, mini, doesn't matter what kind) then strip the black and red wires (ignore any other wires), attach the red to positive and black to negative on the battery (it is labeled on the battery). Plug other end into wall charger now. Leave it like that for at least 45 min and you'll have at least a 50% or more charged battery.

I've even FXZ'd phones that died halfway through the process by doing this. This knowledge makes you 99.9% brick-proof.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bolt_of_thunder:
Sounds like a fun way to electrocute yourself lol. Will have to keep this tip in my back pocket. I'm sure it will come in handy one day. One question though, is it easy to ruin the battery this way?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Samus4145:
I was actually working off a full battery. But since I only had a MAC with me at the time, and FXZ doesn't always work on OSX I had to do it multiple times, hence why the battery died.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TacoRosado:
That is what I don't understand. I have flashed tons of roms too and I had to FXZ back to. 902 to take the. 905 ota update. My battery didn't die during flashing. I tried everything I could find online to fix the phone. Nothing worked so I thought it was an issue with not beimg able to come back from .2233.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] collindv:
Is anyone else having problems with random buzzing when using headphones?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Man, that sucks. My mistake about assuming you started with a low charge

Should be no risk of electrocution, as you're working with 5 volts or so at low amperage
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Underwater Mike:
Actually, it was reported several places. I personally posted on a couple sites. ;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Hesedguy:
Has anyone found a fix for this? I thought I'd read through the whole thread but I don't remember seeing anything on the lag issue.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bolt_of_thunder:
My wifes bionic doesn't have any lag whatsoever. I wish my rezound was this smooth on htc stock ics
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jason1175:
I noticed that you said you used the 5.5 drivers...

I know for a fact that I d/l'd 5.7 Motorola drivers and RSDLite 5.7. Are you sure you are using 5.5 drivers? That could be the issue ;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Saint Isaiah:
Disregard the previous posts I made about my mirror. The MD5 I posted differed from the original mirror I downloaded the file from, even though it flashed fine. Whether you download from my server or the original link in this thread, verify the MD5 is d4f9bc75285681a8c9b6e637f7dba98e before flashing.

http://playeraffinity.com/files/Blur_Version.5.9.905.XT875.Verizon.en.US.zip

MD5: d4f9bc75285681a8c9b6e637f7dba98e
[Motorola Droid Bionic] CaptShoe:
Yes! Thank you for posting this. I've only had my Bionic for a little over a month but I don't recall hearing this buzzing noise in GB. In fact, this sounds just like the issue that the Bionic had at launch, but was fixed via one of the software updates.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
Not at all :) It's a completely legitimate charge, and uses the same wires and powerflow that are used when charging in the phone. You could technically charge any phone batter this way without damaging the battery. As far as electrocution goes...If you plug in the cable before wiring the battery...well, I can't teach common sense ;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
This is called 'hot' audio or brick-walling and is not a bug in ICS. This can be fixed with a small user behavior change.

The audio input (in the OS) on ICS is higher than GB is. This means you have to turn the media volume down to 3/4 or 1/2 to avoid brick-walling. If you are outputting to speakers that have their own volume control then you can turn the volume up there to compensate if needed.

If you aren't satisfied with your headphone volume anymore then buy new ones, or ones with their own volume controller.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
The lag issue is caused by the Launcher. Just download Apex Launcher and select as the default launcher. I have zero lag on the AOKP 2233 build.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] CaptShoe:
Hi crobs808,

Thank you for the response. I took your suggestion and downloaded a few volume apps from the market. I played with all the audio sliders, including "media", and the hissing/buzzing does not modulate with any of them; it is at a constant volume. It is present no matter what application or headphones I am using (< 32 ohms).

Your theory does make sense, but I'm not sure if it is the case in my situation. Is this something you experienced yourself and were able to fix via this method?

Thanks, again.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] qwerty.yp:
Anyone else had bt issues?

The audio on my phone doesn't turn off when I'm using my bt headset.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
Yes, I found that the overall volume on these ICS leaks are higher, and I use my Bionic with a tape adapter in my car. It did this until I made those behavior modifications but you must be having a different issue. I don't have any of the buzzing at all I guess.

Have you tried multiple different apps, not just 2 or 3? Google Music vs Amazon MP3 vs Pandora vs Slacker Radio vs YouTube, etc. That may help you identify if it is the ROM/OS or specific apps.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rook75:
I went a googling... with no success, can you point me to the correct location for this?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nobreak1970:
Thats nuts.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nobreak1970:
No lag for me.....in fact I've had absolutely no issues at all with stock .2233.

Installed with no issues.

Runs with no issues except I haven't a lap dock nor a blue tooth device either.

Honestly I believe that everyone having issues besides the major ones need to wipe because that will fix 99% of the minor issues.

I'd you totally brick your device trying this it's user error all the way. This isn't rocket science. There are plenty of resources even for the average greenhorn.

Trying to short cut the proven procedure is nuts. Just read the instructions...then follow them.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
That's common to motorola, I believe. It did the same thing for me in GB and ICS on the bionic, stock or custom both.

DX had the same issue. Between another dev and myself, we got it to work on CM7 for the X, at the cost of hdmi audio output being broken. I don't use hdmi out, so it didn't bother me a bit
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
nobreak1970 - I've never had lag issues either, but replacing the launcher is the fix for those that do.

I'm in the same boat as you, no issues. I'm only using the AOKP release of 2233 so I can get better ROM tweak options.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mtcrew:
Well that sounds fun and all.. But you could just head here and charge your battery the easy way.

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/batter...rola-droid-bionic-4g-xt875-ac-100-240v-131768

Cheap and free shipping, just will take a month to get it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nite001:
ics leak

ok can some one put and actual complete download ow the leak i have hit everyone that was listed and so far using RSDlite it comes up with wrong xml or no image file so i dont see how everyone is getting past this.Please help if you know how to get past the error or a link to a complete download
[Motorola Droid Bionic] fastpakr:
This leak isn't flashed in RSD. As mentioned ad-nauseum around the forums, you'll need to be on .905. Once there, as long as you don't have safestrap you should be able to boot into stock recovery and install.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] milski65:
New to Bionic, but not flashing. Understand doing it via stock recovery, but what about the stuff I'm reading about backing up (tibu?) formatting internal versus external sd, ect. I don't have safestrap nor bootstrap currently loaded. Googling my butt off for answers before updating.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nite001:
ics leak

ya sorry just seen that after i posted.what was messing me up was alot of the leaks were 324mb and the 2 that i just got were 331mb so i dont know wat the diff was but i went to recovery and used the 331mb file.so thanks for the reply i did how ever had to use rsdlite to flash back to 902 and it worked fin i was on ota 905 but i saved that after i got the 905 update so i am heading back to the ics leak now
[Motorola Droid Bionic] finanandroid:
NEW ICS Leak 6.7.229

http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1250-ics-404-leak-67229/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nite001:
ics leak

ok i got the first ics leak to work fxz back to 905 then went to check the ics leak because first one was just someones modified rom and the second one in the list from droid hive crashed my phone now stuck in flash mode and battery is too low and now cant charge having friend bring one over but beware if file is only 324mb just saying and yes i did the same steps that i did to flash the first leak worked fine fxz back to 905 worked fine ran thru it to make sure then tested the second and boom now a great paper weight. hope fully charged batery gets me out of the flash mode and back to were i started just a word of caution:crying:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] crobs808:
Exactly...wanna pay for a month or service when you can't use your phone?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Just an FYI, I'm working on modifying this idea slightly to automate some of this a bit more and hopefully avoid a battery pull. :D I'll let you know how I make out. My first attempt really blew it big time and made my phone highly disfunctional. I'll keep at it. :D Thanks for this post though.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mtcrew:
Not I want to use my brain and buy it in case it happens. Then I won't waste even an day of service :-)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nite001:
ics

Well back to 905 whew had a friend bring a battery over daisied chain together with my extended battery to push my paperweights a$$$back on track didnt see that meltdown coming.

Is there an actual ics leak that is actually ics? The 2 i tried were someones ics rom it didnt have the features that were reported by a friend that soak tested but dunmb a$$ for got to pull it before he installed it thanks BATO any way back to checking with my new frankenstein bionic lol
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Battery pull? I haven't had to do that. Automating is nice, but I'm a bigger fan of manual. The long way is long (go figure), but you can catch a mistake far more easily.

You can FXZ from 223.3 leak just fine. I just did yesterday to go to 229. No idea if you can do it from 229 or not.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
You didn't read what I quoted and was responding to. ;) The post was about keeping your ICS data through the downgrade/upgrade to newer leak process. Without the data being touched by 902 or 905 in the process. What that entails is using a modified FXZ xml that doesn't wipe your internal mem or user data, and at the end of the process, he pulled his battery and booted into recovery *without letting 902 boot first*. Then he updated to 905 and the latest ICS in recovery before finally rebooting. This allows your system data (that's been updated by a previous leak to ICS) and app data (which may be updated to ICS versions) not get corrupted by booting into GB before doing the latest ICS update. I hope that makes sense. It's a way for those of us who are lazy and hate setting up our phones to maintain our data across the ICS leaks without having to redo everything every time. I do it all the time with Team EOS on my Xoom....works great. We just need a process (I prefer automated so I don't mess it up) for the Bionic so we can do it across the new leaks each time. It'd be nice if we could just update to each new leak, but, we can't so this is the best we got available to us. I have to back up my existing settings and apps before I start trying out the process on my phone. I may not get to it today, but, I want to see what can be done.

I hope that makes more sense as to what I'm trying to do.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Funny enough, I sure did. My point was more about shortcuts being bad karma and funky battery pull voodoo in mid boot isn't really worth it. Why not make a nandroid of your install and then just restore /data only? It's a lot simpler than setting fire to a bunch of hoops and jumping through them blindfolded while juggling rabid poodles.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
K.I.S.S.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Bahhhhhhhhh. Where's the fun in that?! :D Once the process is figured out and automated, it's repeatable. I'm a software engineer....this is what we do. :) Sure I could just wipe the phone and restore the apps and settings with TiBU, as well, but, I'd prefer it if we could just keep everything as is and hop on up to the next leak. Once it works, there's no jumping through hoops or doing funky battery nonsense. That was my point. I'm going to see if I can get it to boot into recovery after the last flash command in RSD Lite for the 902 FXZ. If so, we're golden and it's very easy after that.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RandomPooka:
Different story entirely! I've seen way too many people who have no idea what they're doing completely screw up their phone trying crazy methods. Good luck finding a new AIO process
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
Yea I've been around the block a few times. ;) The community helped me unbrick my Bionic back when I was on 5.7.893. 36 hours of extreme agony. So believe me, I know the risk. But I think I have a process that should work now. I just don't have time to test it. It requires a few manual steps, but, it's really not bad at all and lets you keep your ICS data untouched through the downgrade/upgrade process. I consider that pretty slick. Will test later.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SamuriHL:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/mo...-ics-leak-bionic-post2171933.html#post2171933

I've posted the script I wrote to do this. Read my warning if you decide to use it. But it does seem to work.