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[Defy General] ppero196:
So your Defy is bricked. It's really hard to brick a Defy or a Defy+ due to locked bootloader, so you can't really brick it but you can get it in state of not booting. In this simple guide i will show you how to unbrick Defy and fix some common errors!

Lets get started!

How to unbrick your Defy

What do you need!

You need the following:

Motorola Defy

RSD Lite (download here: http://goo.gl/KRSRp

SBF (i reccomend 2.2 CEE Froyo) (download here: http://goo.gl/Jhz84) (for other SBFs use this link: http://goo.gl/dYQTl )

USB Cable

Charged battery (at least 50%)

Motorola USB Drivers (download here: http://goo.gl/bWg1M )

Download and install USB Drivers

Download and install RSD Lite

Turn off your phone

Go into bootloader by pressing Power button and Vol+ button

Connect your phone to your PC via USB cable

Make sure everything is OK

Locate downloaded SBF. In popup dialog press Uncompress and start flashing

If you get " Please manually power up this phone " in RSD Lite pull battery out > put your battery back > reboot into stock recovery by holding Power button and Vol- button > Choose Wipe data/cache > Choose Reboot system now

That's it, you unbricked your Defy!

How to repair damaged Dalvik or cache

Use the same method for unbricking your Defy. If you still have problems...do the same procedure again.

How to fix empty battery

If your battery is so empty that you can't even charge it, there are 2 options

Option 1. (McGyver method)

Get a USB cable, cut the off the B plug (the one that plugs into the device) and strip away the shielding, revealing the 4 individual wires inside: White, Green, Red and Black. Red is +5V DC and Black is ground. strip a few (1-2) mm's off each and gently push them into the + and - slots on the battery. Apply some tape to keep them in place, but don't cover the other connectors. Now plug the battery back in, a tight fit, but possible if you've peeled back the shielding and the white and green wires so that only Black and Red are actually being crammed in there with the battery

It should look like this:

Red goes to the + terminal,Black goes to the - terminal

Plug the business end of the newly modded usb cable into your computer.

That's it, your Defy should be alive now

McGyver method found at this thread:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=892026

I was lazy to write the method by my words...so i just copied from that thread....because he wrote it so well :D

If original author has problems with copyrights, he can PM me and we will sort it out.

Option 2.

Connect Defy to PC via USB cable. Make sure that your PC is powered on. LED in the top left-hand corner should be white coloured. Leave the Defy overnight to charge. In the morning it should be charged a little bit to charge it via normal method

I have not tested McGyver method, but option 2 worked for me (happened to me once)

This is the end of this tutorial. I hope i helped!

Froyo nandroid backup here

Guys I created a prerooted and with cwm installed froyo nandroid backup. Make full restore

Link: http://d-h.st/RxH

IF YOU DO MAKE ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE DURING THE PROCESS I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!
[Defy General] prax31:
is cee froyo recommended for india defy with stock froyo 2.2.2 and green lens?

my stock was retail taiwanese JRDNEM_U3_3.4.3-36-1.7_CHINESE_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B50AA03A.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTINT15_P002_A014_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf.gz

reply please.
[Defy General] ppero196:
Well try it...you can always go back by flashing another SBF

IF YOU DO MAKE ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE , I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!
[Defy General] melowed:
bricked/not booting defy

basically downloaded & flashed a wrong sbf file after i rooted it from rsd lite. now its stuck at M screen, will not connect to rsd lite and i have searched relentlessly to figure out another way to flash to it, even in recovery mode will not unzip any files. is there a way to fix it? i have wiped cache and data and rebooted. nothing works...pls help :'(
[Defy General] ppero196:
Pull battery out and wait 5 minutes and reinsert it.

Sent from my house via interwebs to You!
[Defy General] melowed:
bricked/not booting defy

tried that, still not working :confused:
[Defy General] ppero196:
Go manually to bootmenu (stock) and then connect phone with RSD Lite and flash another SBF

Sent from my house via interwebs to You!
[Defy General] melowed:
bricked/not booting defy

i can get it to go to boot menu but it wont connect to rsd lite for me to flash another sbf. is there some other way im not aware of?
[Defy General] ppero196:
I can send you my froyo nandroid backup. You can restore it via CWM

No apps installed...it comes pre rooted. OK?

Sent from my house via interwebs to You!
[Defy General] melowed:
bricked/not booting defy

Awesome thx see if that works :o

FINALLY got it back to stock after upgrading to the the 5.9v of rsd lite and reinstalling the drivers but i had to flash the same sbf file about 4 times...lol i knew i had the right one but thanks for trying to help me anyway!
[Defy General] drakefrancis:
i need help asap

Can you send me also the froyo back up? this is what happened to me:

i cleared the cache in the bootloader menu

then i restore factory settings

then i had a zip file of a rom , i changed its name to update so that the bootloader can detect the update.. the update installed completely but when i started rebooting its just stuck at the "Motorola" logo.. what can i do to fix this sir?
[Defy General] ppero196:
OK..I'll send you...

It comes with 2ndinit and prerooted
[Defy General] ollief:
Hey ppero, Thanks for the guide.

Some random Chinese build finally worked for my phone, phone was bough used: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14762402&postcount=143
[Defy General] ppero196:
Froyo nandroid backup

Extract in the root of SD card and restore using cwm

Make full restore

http://d-h.st/RxH
[Defy General] butcherr:
bricked MB526 BL7 no recovery available

Hello, I try to give as much information as possible so please bear with me.

MB526 with BL7 was working perfectly with the quarx nightly 20121018+update v3 but of course I installed the v4 update. What a friend and I figured is that there is a problem when flashing the 2ndboot updates with your power plug still plugged in, this is what I totally forgot about on the v4 update. I wiped the cache and dalvik before AND after the update but was stuck the bootloop. Now I had just made a CWM backup two weeks ago but when restoring I got an error message concerning the system folder. :eek: Still in bootloop on the splah M logo. I remember there was something about an older custom ROM and the recovery I used that didnt work so I figured I should start from the SBF.

Using RSDlite 5.7 on a winXP machine, I tried to flash the way I am used to flash brand new MB526 with BL7: (did that for a few friends and the girl)

1. DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_GR_SIGN_UCADEFYEMARAB1B80AA004.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRRTCEE_P022_A022_Service1FF.sbf

2. DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_CEE_ROOTED_No_Signed.sbf

but the plan was overthrown by my phone. It flashed through the whole process but was stuck at the the "please manually power up this phone"-screen in RSDlite, the phone was connected but at the splash screen. Battery out, the PASS would only appear in RSD if I boot directly into bootloader again. Otherwise this splash screen makes my mad. It doesnt boot.

I tried to flash the alternative, chinese, root ROM for BL7; samesame, but different.

Downloaded RSDlite 6.14, Mdriver 5.9 on a win7 machine, used about all the BL7 ROMs I could find on the site: sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordanplus/ The last one being the [Retail British] sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordanplus/DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_BLUR_SIGN_USADEFYEMARAB1B8RTGB005.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRRTGB_P023_A025_M002_Service1FF.sbf.gz

samesame

:crying:

Now I cannot boot into the motorola recovery. Theres just the background picture but no menu. As far as I know, flashing an SBF is all that I can do. Anyone has got an idea, which ROM to try or what else to do ?

Thanks in advance
[Defy General] ppero196:
Flash the sbf again.

If you encounter please manually power up the phone unplug the device from PC, reboot into stock recovery and wipe data/factory reset. After that reboot

Trolls, trolls everywhere
[Defy General] butcherr:
thank you. stock recovery. there is no stock recovery. MB526. BL7. Just the droid and a triangle with the "!" inside the triangle if I try to boot into stock recovery. I remember having this problem with my hannspad and there was a flashable ROM with just the stock recovery. Is there something comparable for the defy? only the recovery or is the BL7 the problem here?
[Defy General] _ossie_:
That is Stock recovery (droid and yellow triangle) .Try pressing Vol Up and Vol Down simultaneously to get the menu. If that doesn't work TAP in the lower right hand corner of the screen to get the menu. Tap around a bit to get the right spot.

The newer stock recovery works off touch screen instead of the rocker buttons.
[Defy General] butcherr:
Thank you VERY much. I spent too much time with CWM it appears. I dont remember having used the stock recovery once. I thought BL7 was my enemy with that screen. My phone must feel like its been gangbangraped now with all the different ROMS I have flash upon it. Thanks again, quarx build 20121018+v4 running. Am creating a backup right now.
[Defy General] Bendary:
When I connect to pc (battery empty) it charges white led then boots up hangs on motorola logo for sometime then shutsdown to white led again, is that normal?
[Defy General] ppero196:
If charging via PC yes
[Defy General] ppero196:
10 post spammer you are.

Reported to mod
[Defy General] Bendary:
I did the mcgyver method, after flashing and working for almost an hour on charger, as soon as I unplug the charger it shuts off. then the battery has some weird stuff going on like it charges super fast and also loses power mega fast. Is this normal after mcgyver?
[Defy General] ppero196:
Frankly, IDK
[Defy General] ferib:
Mb 525 bricked

hello. Please help me with a big problem.

I have a motorola 525 mb and wrote another rom and now only want to get into recovery mode in bootloader only.

the problem is that I have no idea which version was before, or what country is .......... I tried a lot of ROMs (SBF) but without success screen is all black...

how can I find which version of software (SBF) do I need?

please help me
[Defy General] ppero196:
Where do you live?
[Defy General] ferib:
I'm from romania.

phone we have in Spain, vodafone
[Defy General] ppero196:
Flash CEE SBF (link in the OP)

Sent from my MB526
[Defy General] ferib:
hi,i flashed 2.2 CEE Froyo but nothing changed. in RSD LITE v.5.6 (RESULT = PASS),the phone rebooted automaticaly but not booting or starting....:(
[Defy General] ppero196:
Try with newer RSD lite.

Also make sure you wipe data/factory reset after installation

Sent from my MB526
[Defy General] ferib:
can not wipe data / factory reset.

not go into recovery.

i flashed defy+(MB526) SBF (DefyPlus_Gingerbread_2.3.6_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_CEE_CGv7) to my defy MB525 phone and starting ,I hope I already got from here to put back....thanks for help
[Defy General] ppero196:
What ROM do you plan to use?

Sent from my MB526
[Defy General] ferib:
I think I'll try the one from CyanogenMod,thanks again for help me........
[Defy General] ppero196:
Do you have greenlense or redlense?

Sent from my MB526
[Defy General] Moleman0:
Thank you, I really found your post useful, but I still encountered a problem.

Bootloader and stock recovery are working, so I installed a CEE, when the phone first started to get stuck at the M logo (under CM10). Now when I try to charge the battery, I get the question mark, when I plug it in a USB port, I get the white led correctly, but seconds later the M logo and bootanimation comes, the rom tries to start, and the phone doesn't return to the white led, as someone has mentioned before. What should I do? I guess it isn't charging now.

Would my battery charge if I put it into a healthy Defy?
[Defy General] ppero196:
You can try

Sent from my Balls of Steel
[Defy General] Moleman0:
Thank you, in the end I finally discovered that a data wipe in stock recovery restores the phone, it's charging now. :)
[Defy General] boonwuilow:
Defy bricked

Hi...

i come across with a friend, he bricked his defy while he is flashing stock rom with RSDLite, the battery run out halfway on the flashing...

according to him, when he plug it into the charger, there is a white LED...

Can a interupted flashing cause the device to hard brick?

Since i am also a defy user, i am thinking of buying the device and try to charge the battery with my defy... :D

If the device is hard bricked, the white LED won't light up right?

Let me know what your opinion on this...
[Defy General] ppero196:
White led means its charging.

Leave it to charge :D

Sent from my Balls of Steel
[Defy General] boonwuilow:
It can only be charged with PC, not the wall plug right?
[Defy General] ppero196:
Safest way now is with PC.

Later you can charge with charger

Sent from my Balls of Steel
[Defy General] boonwuilow:
Ok

it will work too if i swap the battery with fully charged battery from my own defy right?

so i doesn't need to waste my time while waiting it to charge...
[Defy General] ppero196:
Yep

Sent from my Balls of Steel
[Defy General] boonwuilow:
ok thanks... :good:

and what version of SBF is suitable for me to flash with?

my region is malaysia / singapore
[Defy General] ppero196:
Check in OP
[Defy General] boonwuilow:
On the list of firmware, i saw one of it for Singapore, but it is for StarHub carrier...

Should I flash Asian Retail or Taiwan/Hong Kong version? :confused:
[Defy General] k.manojraja:
I am unable to install CM10. I had bricked my phone a week ago, so I followed this post using the below steps:

1. Flashed with JORDN_U3_97.21.51.sbf.

2. Installed 1.4.2 Sndinit..

3. restored the nandroid backup 2011-06-11.14.14.27

I am able to restore Froyo...

Now I am trying to install CM10 using the following steps:

1. Install 2.3 Sndinit

2. do a full wipe

3. install CM10-20121205-NIGHTLY-mb526.zip

4. Install Defy-Gapps-CM10-20121109-without-Voice.zip

once rebooted moto logo appears.. the LED turns red and again tries to reboot.. again reboots to moto logo and the same thing happens!

Can somebody help me?
[Defy General] ppero196:
Pull out battery and wait 5 minutes.

Then insert battery again

Sent from my Balls of Steel
[Defy General] k.manojraja:
removing the battery and keeping it aside for a while didn't work!
[Defy General] _ossie_:
Start again and use 2ndInit version 1.4.2 NOT 2.3

This has been mentioned in many threads

If this doesn't work flash a different SBF, e.g the JDGC one (which is BL6)
[Defy General] yasirsa:
no led light appear

i connected my mobiel to pc but no led white light appered what to do
[Defy General] ppero196:
Reboot in the recovery
[Defy General] azeem.droid:
First thing check whether u have installed the usb divers, and the rsd lite. Now press the volume+ and power button to get into the bootloader mode. If it doesn't show up anything then most probably ur battery is not charged.

Charge it using the methods mentioned in the opening posts.

Optional: buy an external battery charger, it looks something like this. Quite handy in such situations.
[Defy General] techjohnny:
If my boot loader is LOCKED and my phone will not boot, what other options do I have? I've rooted the phone, but besides that it's stuck in a loop.
[Defy General] CodeVanya:
I did as you explained. RSD lite successfully flashed the sbf, but after that when the phone gets restarted, it shows PASS in RSD, but the phone is not restarting. I tried to switch on manually, but there is only black screen, like earlier. What to do??

(Mobile is recognizing in RSD after this, so no problem with the battery, I hope)
[Defy General] 费脑筋:
wipe data and cache
[Defy General] CodeVanya:
Was that reply for me??
[Defy General] Tungieee:
Does this guide also work for moto me525? I kinda bricked my phone when I tried to ''upgrade'' it to android 4.1. I only need an other sbf right?
[Defy General] MGM357:
Not being able to get in recovery mode :(

Well to make the long story short: two months ago I sent my Defy flying to a wall, need less to say, glass got cracked but the phone kept working as if nothing happened. A month ago, bought a new glass from ebay and got it installed without a hassle. Two weeks from now, my phone began to switch off randomly and self booting to working order, but last week as I was texting my phone froze and rebooted by itself but got stuck in the "M" logo...

Since then I found this guide and followed all the steps to no avail: yes I have installed different sbf (from 4 different countries) everything seems ok, rsd lite says pass, but when I try to get to the recovery screen, im not able to reach it!!! it keeps going to the "M" logo and only sits there and about every 45 seconds the screen flashes (a quick flash, just like if its going to change image, but dont) and goes back to the "M" logo. its really frustrating :crying: As I been reading several posts than say "as long as your cel turns on you can fix it" But Im begining to think than something got messed up with that big hit...

Anyways to make matters worse I flashed a Defy + official sbf to my non booting defy, So I guess I really got this one really messed up, but Im still trying to make it work again :confused:

Does anyone knows about another way to acces the recovery mode besides the power + vol - shortcut?

Any other way to clear cache and other stuff than may be preventing my phone from booting?

Any help would really be appreciated

Thanks
[Defy General] georgegpzx:
Black screen even after following "unbrick" instructions...

I've done all the steps in the "unbrick" post but no moto icon came ,no first reboot, just black screen even though the RSD Lite said "Pass" at the end...Now I cannot power up my phone ,no responce also in "power vol + or vol - "...any suggestions except Recycle actions ???:crying:
[Defy General] CodeVanya:
Since you already tried Defy+ sbf, have you tried this??

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1595013
[Defy General] MGM357:
Well chandujram, I will download the files and give it a try tonight and see what happens, the only problem is that I cant make that first "wipe"...
[Defy General] sagaopc:
the worst happened to me. I followed the tutorial completely ... arrived at the Please manually power up this phone, I removed the battery, held power and volume down and not appear the option stock recovery! already redid the procedure several times and the result is the same! I can not access the boot menu anymore!
[Defy General] MiC1337:
same here
[Defy General] zsjoska:
Hi,

I'm looking for ideas to unbrick my Defy+

I'we been running CM10 quarx ROM on it since few months without serious problem and today I wanted to give a try the 10.1

So I went to recovery mode from the turn off menu and I did a wipe data/cache/dalvik cache

Then I went to the Install zip rom SD Card to update the ROM. Here I gt an error that the sdcard can't be mounted. I know the problem, and the solution: I need to reformat the SD Card, so I turned off the phone.

I did the repartitioning and wanted to start over but I the phone does not start anymore. Just the red M logo.

(Basically no flashing, no new image, just did a 3x wipe)

Vol down + Power displays the red M logo for several seconds, then I get black screen without any led activity

Vol. up + Power goes to flash mode and I am able to upload any firmware but no one starts the phone.

Now I tried also the DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_GR_SIGN_UCADEFYEMARAB1B80AA004.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRRTCEE_P022_A022_Service1FF.sbf

Any idea?
[Defy General] zsjoska:
Found the problem. Wrong SD Card formatting/patitioning.

Removed the SD Card and the boot menu appeared. From there I got my defy booting.

Installed 10.1 and did a miracle. It worth to upgrade.
[Defy General] yzeroy:
This Guide saved my mind and my Phone of course too =D :laugh:

Thanks
[Defy General] gittygoat:
Hi , got a little problem and need help -

Been running cm7 then cm10 most recent nightlies all the way but phone stopped showing charging status or being able to connect to anything usb wise over a year ago after a car charger went up in smoke one day !

This wasn't a problem as cwm recovery could flash anything I needed along with wifi etc.

Unfortunately got a random reboot yesterday while opera mobile was updating and then boot looped on cm logo. removed battery and then boot to recovery but only stock recovery available so wiped data rebooted to cm10 (2nd boot 20130605 ) -

Seems internal storage has corrupted and reading 0 size so can't install any apps and factory resets after every boot .

Rsd lite can't see phone so only options I can think of is try something from terminal emulator or flash something from stock recovery .

can any one help or has my trusty old defy bitten the dust ?
[Defy General] dkv2222:
I had the same problem

But RSD lite did the work

Then I flashed the same cm10 ROM again it works now!
[Defy General] Kay Bee:
What am I doing wrong?

Dear All,

I had like 9 Defy phones over the past, 526 and 525 alike (I bought them all as not working - but fixed them all)

Recently I stumbled across a 525 that I simply cannot fix.

It has 2.2.2 rooted CEE on it, Bootloader 1.1.5 and CWM 5.0.3.9.

I cannot flash anything on it!

Not CM7, not Nandroids ... nothing.

The flash will seem to happen except that on reboot it is back to Froyo.

Might I add that every reboot = hard reset... not funny at all...

Any suggestions as to what this is?
[Defy General] Lord_Flaya:
Dunno the exact issue with your defys, but i never failed at fixing or repairing a defy, no matter what i've done to it to make it crash. It's a really tough phone and REALLY hard to break. :)

Edit: had a similar problem with mine and a restoration with sbf fixed it for me. Tried a few sbf:s before it worked but the 2 best imho to try is the nordic and chinese official.
[Defy General] b_ignatov:
Hi there.

I've been reading for 5 hours and I can't slove my problem.Yesterday I bough old Motorola Defy to my wife.The model is Bayer(red lens).It came with some MIUI 2.3.7 Custom ROM I think.The kernel ver was 2.6.32.9-gb08c3c8.Couple hours ago I tried to flash stock froyo and then Oficial Cm7.2....but I stuck on black screen after flashing and I can't do anything.I used RSD Lite with correct drivers installed but after every procedure the status is PASS but the phone not boot up.I tried almost all of SBF 3.4.2 (Froyo) (Defy) files but nothing happen.Then i tried and higer version SBF 4.5.0 / 4.5.1 (Gingerbread) (Defy) fiels but they even don't start to flash.Pls help me to unbrick my phone and get stable cm rom.

Thak you in advance.
[Defy General] Antiga Prime:
You're probably stuck on the Boot Animation loop. After flashing a SBF you need to go to stock recovery and do a Factory Reset. After that reboot and wait, the first boot takes a bit longer than usual.

---------- Post added at 12:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:22 PM ----------

Happened to me once; after rebooting it's like nothing happened. Turns out the /data partition was ruined and had to reflash a SBF stock rom. Try it and see if it works.
[Defy General] Kay Bee:
Hi! Thanks fo replying - actually I cannot flash any SBF, they all return CG checksum errors from CG33.

If that happens I have to short the battery on the mainboard and all is back to square one.

Seems as if /data and/or /system are corrupt or read-only or something.

I can install apps - but those are "forgotten" on next boot. Just as well as any modifications to icons, wallpaper etc.

CWM cannot be modified, 2nd boot doesn't work...
[Defy General] b_ignatov:
Never mind.I found out that my defy is with BL7 and that was the reason to not boot up.Now i flashed latest 2.3.6 then root and finaly Quarx CM10.Everything run good for the moment.:)
[Defy General] Lolu:
Hello, I have problem.

After flashing SBF I cant turn on my defy = no Motorola logo. Only thing that i can do is flashing various SBFs, but after flashing phone is dead. What should i do?