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[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Hey there, I've tried almost every method to boot up the new Quarx builds, but for me it's impossible to boot this ROM's on my Defy red lens.

I have pull out the battery, installed the fix for dead screens, flashed 2409 and then the 0610 kernel, but no result. :confused:

Also, I wasn't able to boot the last non 2nd-boot built, the 2409 CM10 Nightly so I'm using 1209.

The only thing that I haven't is flashing another .sbf, but RSDLite doesn't recognize my Defy and Windows also not, with the latest drivers of Motorola installed.

Please, if anyone knows how to help me, reply me as soon as you can.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1818520 try it with this zip, it worked for me. just erase all and flash latest build.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Thank you for replying so fast, but I have already tried that a couple of times before. Anyway, I'll try again.

More info about my problem: when I flash any of the 2nd-boot ROM's and boot into bootmenu and after that select again 2nd boot, the screen goes black, BUT the backlight of the buttons turns on. Does it mean anything ?

Thanks in advance
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
normal the buttons flash and after few seconds u see the boot animation.

tell me more about ur phone.

what bl? and what model mb525 or 526.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
It's an MB525 Red lenses(Bayer). I don't know what kind of BL has, it comes from the official Froyo ROM of Vodafone Spain, and after that CM7,

So close..but I waited when the buttons were on for about an hour or something and nothing happened, should I be more patient?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
if u wait longer ur battery run out of power! don't do this or u have to mcgyver it.

do the following

load the CM10 2nd boot new

load the new version 4 update

wipe ur device

install ROM + update

install Gapps ur want

restart phone, if u get red led longer than a minute, pull battery out for 5-10min and press power button when battery is removed.

put back the battery, and wait for the CM10 bootanimation.

if that not work ur bl is not compatible and u had to flash a higher one, it's known that some bl5 not work, u just had to flash a bl6 ROM. for the ROM just look at the thread were all roms in, there u can found ur bl version.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Ok, I'm gonna try it, but first, to ensure that I'm doing the steps right, I'm gonna ask you two things: With "wipe" you mean wipe data+cache+dalvik or with the defy_full_wipe.zip?

And till now, I have flashed the updates as a normal ROM, should I flash them as an update.zip ?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
yes, it's an update.zip! just enter custom recovery and go to install zip.

and wiping with recovery is enought, i use the ultimate zip only if i get problems.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
I have just tried and it hasn't worked. Thanks anyways for you efforts. I think that my only possible solution is flashing a new .sbf, but Rsdlite doesn't recognize my Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
have u tried a different USB slot?

if u flash an sbf, try the custom ones, they are great.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Yes, I have tried in four different USB ports in my laptop and even Windows doesn't recognize it, it shows my Defy as a unknown device
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
hmmm... what OS u had on PC? had u tried reinstall Motorola drivers with reboot?

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulbouscorm:
same problem, green lense

I have the same issues.

I have a green lens defy, was able to flash every nightly version until the 0924 version. So in other words, the last ROM that I was able to get booted was the 0912 quarx CM10 nightly.

I have looked in all the threads I could find, searched as much as I could, tried every technique, and still can't get past the black screen with the red LED.

I absolutely cannot get it to work no matter what I try. I've seriously read at least half a dozen people's instructions and nothing works. NOTHING! I have not tried starting from a stock sbf because I'm satisfied just barely enough using the 0912 nightly.

HELP!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nastys:
Try to restore your Nandroid backup. If it does not work use RSDLite on a clean OS and reinstall root access,2ndinit and CM10.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
I have Windows 7 Home Premium, and I have run RSDLite in administrator rights and even in compatibility mode. I didn't tried to reinstall drivers because I don't have much time right now, so I'll tell you.

Are you replying to bulbouscorm or to me?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
it happens to me with win 7 ultimate that the driver I installed half year before was corrupt, pleas try reinstall.

it's really not often that a defy will not recognized on PC.

u can also try a Linux Live-CD to flash it from there. but I not know the tool for Linux, search on forum and u will find it

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulbouscorm:
I restored my backup from a ICS version, but then I kind-of bricked my phone so I had to flash the stock Eclair .sbf.

I was playing with my very dumb phone at work, now I'm home I'll try to update to the latest CM10. Fingers crossed!

EDIT: I flashed the 1018 nightly - this time the boot logo was a silver M instead of the google logo I've been used to. AAAAAND it's still giving me a black screen + red LED. I flashed the sbf, rooted, installed 2nd init, and then flashed the 1018 nightly, the update, gapps with some cache/dalvik wiping before and after the nightly-update-gapps flash

I'm trying again using the custom zip files to wipe everything instead of using the recovery menu. Also this time I'm using the minimal gapps instead of the 1011 version

AAAAND it didn't work. black screen + red LED. I'm really looking for help here. Should I have not flashed straight from the froyo-updated stock sbf to the latest jb nightly?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thiagoelg:
I was getting the black screen + red LED too, but manage to get it to work.

1: I flashed 0924

2: Then wiped everything

3: Flashed the 1018 build.

4: Tried botting - red LED + black screen

5: Booted to recovery

6: In boot options, reselected 2nd boot.

7: Tried to boot - red LED + black screen

8: Removed the battery

9: Waited 5 mins (could be more)

10: Placed the battery back

11: Tried to boot - Success.

Most of this steps are not needed, but it is what made my Defy boot with the 2ndboot builds.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
the silver m is eclair bootanimation

something defiantly goes wrong with ur phone. u should upgrade to a froyo ROM with bootloader version 6, there are a few user had problem with older bootloader to run second boot builds

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nastys:
Yes, use BL6, latest CM10 2nd init rom and wipe data,cache,dalvik before installing, then use Stable Recovery to install zip from sdcard->18.10 ROM then install zip from sdcard->update v4 then install zip from sdcard->Gapps, reboot twice and it will work.

EDIT: And remember to wipe everything before restoring a Nandroid backup.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulbouscorm:
thanks for that info, I'm going to try flashing a popular sbf that has bl6 or something. I've never been aware of different bootloaders or how to change them so I suppose that's my problem. I've been rocking out on ICS in the meantime, it's kinda nice.

EDIT: I started over and flashed a deblur central european sbf and went through the whole process. It worked. The first boot on the 1018 CM10 nightly started out frighteningly - a black screen and a red LED. I waited though and after a moment it displayed the cyanogenmod boot animation. Thanks so much!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Luckily, I finally managed to have some spare tima and try to reinstall drivers, but neither Windows nor RSDLite recognize the phone, so I'm gonna try flashing with Linux. I'll post results.

C ya
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
No results...I followed step by step all the instructions posted on this tutorial (it's in spanish). The point is that it starts up, and instead of start flashing like described in the tutorial, it keeps showing "waiting for device: ".

Seriously, this is driving me crazy, it's not only that I cannot install a 2nd-boot build, it's that I cannot even connect my Defy to my computer if I don't use AirDroid, so If someone can help me, I'll be very pleased to know his possible answer to this problem.

Thanks in advance
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Larkin24:
What .sbf did you uses? Can i get a link?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JayMeeee:
Fixed bootloop

Thank you, AnTerNoZ, for your Tipps.

The new bootloader fixed my problems.

I've chosen to select BL7 because its the newest one, which was not one of my best ideas,

because BL7 images are hard to root and it is impossible to downgrade again.

Nevertheless I got it. And now lets move forward, not back.

To Larkin24:

SBF files and bootloader can be found here.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poondog:
Hi all. My defy is stuck kind of flashing the motorola red logo and the red LED. They both go on and off. I had the old CM9 build from a few months ago

This is what I did;

1. factory reset/wipe dalvik

2. flash CM10 2nd November by quarx

3. Flash update_for_02.11.zip

4. reboot

5. Wouldn't boot up, so I went into the screen with the voldown button when the blue light came on, and went to boot-> 2nd boot.

6. rebooted, still flashing the motorola screen and the red light.

Could someone please tell me what I have done wrong? Thanks in advance guys :) Sorry if this is a stupid question.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesultanofswing:
Try checking if the governor is interactive? I had the same problem in the previous build.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poondog:
Yes, it must have automatically done that. I checked it and it was set to interactive, and boot was set to 2nd boot. Is it supposed to be on 2nd boot uart? Thanks for the reply :)

Sent from my Nexus 7 using the xda app :)
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
2nd boot uart isn't needed you can try, but last time I give it a try my defy won't charge at uart mode ;)

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Finally I managed to flash the CEE.sbf via RSDLite on my old WXP computer, but the point now is, the phone still not being recognized by neither the laptop nor the WXP computer, so, someone knows a different way to root my Defy now, or I shall fix first the USB issues, and how, because I'm pretty lost right now.

Thanks in advance.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
is the defy booting correct? see u any device info if u plug in the defy? have u a different USB cannel to try?

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Yes, it's booting correctly. The only weird thing is that the boot animation still looping when the status bar pops up and/or the unlock slider appears, but suddenly stops and the background appears.

I tried in the USB 2.0 ports on my laptop and my desktop computer, the frist running W7 64bits an the second WXP 32 bits. And both show the DEFY as an unknown device, as shown in the image below. On the other hand, if I plug the DEFY on a USB 3.0 port, my laptop doesn't show anything at all.

Another possible helpful thing, when I plug the phone correctly it doesn't even charge, but when I pull out a bit, it starts charging and the unknown device dissapears from the Windows Device Administrator (I'ts called like this in english?).

So I hope this info it's helpful for you to imagine what kind of problem is having my DEFY.

Thank you very much for the interes shown.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
I think it was luck that u full flash ur defy, have u torx screwdriver? or is ur defy in warranty?

maybe ur USB port is brick. it's not normal that the device will be recognized by windows if u put the plug a bit out. (think it's not device administrator must be device manager)

or its really the cable, I hope for u it's the cable.

is the plug tight hold in the port or can u move it a bit up and down (with the port) if u look on the screen of the defy? forward and backward a bit is normal .. if it's just a liddell bit.

do this with care, it's sensible piece on the defy.

friend of me had this problem and get a new one in warranty.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
Hummm, I think that it still in warranty (I got it about a year and a half ago). Yes it moves a liiittle bit, but unfortunately I have already tried with another cable and it didn't worked...

Soo, what do you recommend me, flash the original .sbf and cross my fingers, or use it until I change the phone?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
two years warranty is normal in EU, I don't think that ur got problems with cee version if u use the blur one, it's official Motorola software, just take it to ur reseller and tell him that u can't connect defy to USB port and u read about other users with this problem, and irreparable damage of the port. I don't think that he look at which ROM of Motorola had been flashed. here in Germany they not do. and it's not a fault of flashing roms that the port blows up.

if they test the port and it worked correct they also flash ur stock ROM back it's first they do to be sure it's not a software problem. note ur defys identifying number and imei so u can check if it's new or they just change the board.

by problems in warranty it's the best to go to the reseller, u can life a few days without phone better than that the phone had a heavy damage for ever.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TinoSP:
OK, thanks for the advise.

It's the CEE DeBLur version, so I'll search for the Vodafone Spain w/Blur and flash it, also I'll post the results.

Again, thanks for your interest and efforts.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtk217:
I still suffer from the same problem did a full wipe from cutom and stock recovery, set the vsel and freq to stock.

installed sbf kernel from quarx.ru and installed the quarx 9.11 release -> red led lit and black screen (also boot loops after a couple of seconds)

tryed to change to 2nd-init instead of 2nd-boot-> only red moto logo and bootloops.

tryed the 2.11 release still no go same issues as before. so for now i went back to whiterabbit which works pretty well.

the phone is a red lense (bayer module) motorola defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
had u removed the battery and let it out for some minutes? it's recommend to work right for the most Ppl. only for the first start.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtk217:
yep, tried that, also read all this thread, otherwise i wouldn't have asked...

any other options?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
u can try the custom sbf's http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1691901

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] realityrat:
I had the same problem with an old red lense defy that I have. Red LED and black screen. For me the problem was somehow the phone got BL7and anything else I tried to flash resulted in the red LED and black screen. I search XDA and found a thread about rooting BL7 here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1595013

RSD Lite connected with my phone even though vloumn up and power button only got me a black screen.

My only real problem now is I can only flash ROM's with a GB kernel and dont think I can downgrade. So i flashed last CM9 nightly Defy+ version and it works fine now. Got what I wanted, ICS on a Defy. Not sure if its the same issue anybody else has just thought I'd mention how I fixed it. I couldnt get any CM10 nightly's to work. I think the custom kernel doesnt agree with BL7. Atleast not for me anyway. Hope this is helpful.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtk217:
As far as i can remember i'm on BL5
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
have u try the second boot build from epsy with custom CM9 kernel? if that work than the CM10 with custom kernel work also.

bl5 is bad for CM10 second boot, no one documents why but u had to upgrade ur bl version to 6 to get the build work right. but in custom sbf builds thread is a tool with that u can check what bl u had.

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtk217:
I'm having some troubles getting my pc to recognize my device in adb/bootmenu /etc

lets just assume that i do have the bl5, how do i upgrade to bl6?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtk217:
SBF's just bricked me

So i unbricked and reflashed whiterabbit.

everything works except for camera, apps keep on crashing ill check that.

so there is no cm10 for me i guess...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandresimon:
Same situation

Hello guys,

As the OP, after flashing the latest CM10 Quark build (26/03/2013 2ndBoot) I'm stuck with a red led + black screen.

My situation before flashing : MB525 red lens, CM7.1 installed over 3.4.2 149 French Froyo (BL4) SBF, 2nd Init installed.

What I did : Wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik, Flashed CM10, Flash Gapp, Wipe Data/Cache, Reboot

Now, when I boot my phone, I have t

he old CM7.1 boot screen

:confused: then red led + black screen. Even more puzzling, when I go into recovery, the

JB

recovery is installed and has replaced the previous one... :confused: Any attempts at reflashing CM7.1 + reapply my nandroid backup fails...

Any ideas on what I could have done wrong? I guess now I have to reflash a clean BL4 SBF (3.4.2 149 CEE I guess), root, 2ndinit and try again, but with the latest 2nd init version this time.

Thanks for your help.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turffe:
I thing you'll need to start from 2.2.2 & NOT CM7. Install 2.2.2 sbf ,root it with Superoneclick ,install 2ndinit, copy CM10, gapps jb & also don't forget to copy Defy full wipe ext4 zip to ensure that system is clean. After that I think you shoul able to get pass black screen & you'll see CM10 bootanimation.. How install : 1)backup your data (optional) ,2)install defyfullwipeex4.zip ,3)install CM10 & gapps , 4)Reboot.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandresimon:
Thanks for your answer, I did what you suggested and now CM10 boots but I still have a problem : I still have the red led during the CM logo (don't know if it is normal), but more annoying, everything is reset (accounts, etc...) at each reboot.
[HTC Wildfire S] baluuu:
Slightly edited the updater-zip to have this flashing on our phone. DOES NOT WORK WITH ICS AND JB BASED ROMS.

Edit: Reuploaded w/o DSP manager cuz it was giving me some hard times. Also might conflict with CMs DSP player some brave tester might wanna confirm or denie that :P

All credit for the MOD goes to Yash98
[HTC Wildfire S] edu_stoicescu:
This is compatible with:

-sense 2.1?

-sense 3.5?

-cm7?

-cm9?

-miui?

-cm10?
[HTC Wildfire S] baluuu:
Only tested it on sense 2.1. But I pretty sure its compitable with all gb based roms and assuming ics and jb too.
[HTC Wildfire S] the.h.t.c.king:
tested it for you on CM10...

its a no go there... It got stuck on the android is updating window...

never started the application...

try this after backing up or else u have a long day ahead of you...:p...

but I am ok with the equilizer it comes with anyway....
[HTC Wildfire S] baluuu:
Thanks for the input.
[HTC Wildfire S] the.h.t.c.king:
anytime....

:D
[HTC Wildfire S] Jayson Woodham:
I'll test it on sense 3.5 and let you know if it works.

Success.. big difference in sound quality.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] kpb321:
My wife and I have both had t-mobile g2's for almost 2 years now. I had wanted to get addition batteries or replacement higher capacity batteries for a while. There were plenty of cheap batteries on ebay that claimed 1500 or 1600 mAh that would theoretically be an upgrade over a stock battery but it would be a relatively small upgrade and might not even really be an upgrade if they didn't actually live up to their advertised capacity so I had been procrastinating doing anything. Two things changed and I finally stopped procrastinating. First we decided we were going to keep our g2's for about another year. Second I noticed a number of Gold Business Batteries showing up on ebay at a relatively cheap price. They claimed a really high 2450mAh which I figured was not realistic but even if it fell well short of that it should still be a good upgrade. You can find them on ebay with a search for Desire Z gold battery. Can't post a link yet =)

Ordering and shipping was pretty much what you'd expect for cheap ebay purchases from china. The description was poor and communication with the seller was in broken English but I had no major issues. I just selected the cheapest seller at the time and I'm not even sure if that seller is still selling the batteries now. Shipping was predictably slow and packaging was minimal but everything arrived undamaged and is working fine.

The batteries seem to be a little tighter fit than the OEM batteries which seems to be a common complaint about these replacement batteries. I suspect that they would fit better if you removed the "gold" label as it seems to be somewhat stiff and thick for a label but I haven't tried that yet.

No surprise but the batteries don't seem to live up to their claimed capacity. I installed a battery monitor app and ran several full cycles on my battery and it came up with a measured capacity of ~1850mAh. I haven't tried to do the same on my wife's battery but it is enough of an improvement over our original OEM batteries that it is easily noticeable and she has commented on it and prefers the new battery. We got a charger with one of the batteries so she could easily swap batteries rather than charging the battery in the phone but she prefers to charge the gold battery and not swap back to the OEM battery unless she has to. My impression is the same. The new battery definitely lasts longer and was a nice improvement.

I no longer have the battery monitor installed (flashed to a CM9 Mod now) but after a couple months of use I subjectively haven't noticed a large drop in performance for the batteries.

Short review-

Good capacity cheap battery that doesn't require a replacement battery cover and I'd recommend them or by another in the future.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] winny54:
THX for your return man :)
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Authorita:
I agree with OP's assessment. Definitely better than stock. I also notice that they get a lot less HOT than stock battery, which often felt like it would burn a hole in my pants. This battery produces no significant heat. Key word is "significant" since it is obviously impossible to produce NO heat. I suspect that the increased capacity compared to stock is due to much less energy lost as heat.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] MarkyG82:
Just ordered a 2680mah one. Will report back when tested. With any luck it'll come before the weekend as my trip to London will be a good test.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] das_webos_transformer:
Wondering if anyone knew anything about an Adb backup of user apps+ app data through Adb. I might be tempted to male a script to automatically do it if someone knew something :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kwibis:
There is a program somewhere on xda that does that. It backups and restores apk, data or both. I think it's called apk batch installer xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1531880

Sent from my Nexus S
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] shaun111:
Someone please respond,,, i have posted several comments and asked for help all over this site and cannot get a response,,, am i doing thing wrong...someone please... i finally got my phone rooted and installed all recommended apps. but now i cannot install a rom...it locks up when i hit the reboot key...then i have to r/r by battery to get it back on
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] caxiem:
Doesn't work for me and I've been with Sprint for 15 years.