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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
I have restored a RAZR XT912 from such a state using the Linux omap_flash binary and a boot loader repair kit that includes the pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin needed to make the TI OMAP device be recognized by adb and then fast boot can flash the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin.

These files are specific to the device and we have kits for the XT912, XT894, XT875 and XT862.

We do not have them for the XT910 unfortunately, and everything we know about them indicates they are hardware and boot loader revision specific files and not at all cross compatible. Given that you have no other choice and a completely bricked device, it may be worth considering trying the files anyway.

You seem very well versed in the techniques required and would have an excellent chance of success if it works at all.

You may want to use the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin from available XML.zip firmware files that are current for your device as those will definitely be the right files for the phone rather than the XT912 versions. If you are lucky, the pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin maybe compatible and flash successfully.

The procedure is like that which you have attempted and much easier than trying uboot from sdcard, which would not work from my understanding.

You must have a factory cable though, to power the device directly and that initializes a timed event during which the TI OMAP device is presented to the usb interface.

You run lsusb to be sure its there and then quickly run the first command with omap_flash and then the subsequent commands with fast boot.

If you are successful you will see the boot loader come up after brdl.bin is flashed and then fast boot the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin and reboot.

If you PM me I will send you links to the files.

Good luck! This should be very interesting, but I have my doubts that the RDL files will be compatible.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] p34c3m4k3r:
Thanks a lot for your reply and the technical insights! I appreciate your effort.

:D:good:

Can you tell me the difference between those 2 files? brdl and pbrdl? Are those OMAP model specific?

Yesterday I was able to make omapflash in Windows recognize the device but I need the address of the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin in the emmc. I think it's the only part missing in my puzzle. The omap4430, according to the specs, first looks for MLO and u-boot.bin when you turn it on. Is the cpu rom somehow modified to look for mbm and mbmloader, by motorola? Using a hex editor you can find the string "MLO" right in the beginning of "mbmloader_hs.bin" and "mbmloader_ns.bin". Does it mean anything related to this matter? I still don't know why motorola provides a secure and non-secure loaders with the firmware package of a phone that "theoretically" can't be unlocked.

I tried uart over the p2_stereo headphone port without success a couple minutes ago. :(

I will be looking for the service cable in case my battery drained bellow the specs for the flashing process.

Thanks for cellzealot and danifunker, for your replies and your time.

Peace.

PS: I searched for omap_flash binary for linux all over without success, let alone the source code, of course.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
I think the OP has some good news to announce and will be posting up how he successfully repaired the bootloader on his XT910 using the files I sent him from the XT912 repair kit. This is very good news and will be very useful for other users with corrupt bootloader devices. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Semseddin:
Thank you cellzealot, Once again a great contribution to the community from you !
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
Nice upload tutorial
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
As is often the case with these things, many people had a hand in this solution and the files and methods came from various sources.

I think the number of people who manage to corrupt the bootloader is actually quite small, but it is nice to have the right tools and files to fix it if and when the situation arises.

The bootloader repair kit files themselves are Level 4 access Motorola internal files and the Linux binary was posted by a user in a thread on the Bionic XDA forum.

We originally received the level 4 repair kits in bare form without any instructions whatsoever nor the proper binaries to use, and we were rather confused as to what they were.

Being unfamiliar with the two critical components pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin, we assumed they were to be flashed in fastboot and the kits also included the allow_mbmloader_flashing_mbm.bin (which is not actually required to complete the procedure).

In light of all this and rampant rumors about an engineering bootloader that was unlockable, we very unwisely gave in to the temptation after examining them to imagine these were those secret files, and I quickly hosed a friend's Razr that he had lent me for testing GSM stuff on by writing the pbrdl.bin to the mbmloader partition with fastboot ! :(

Fast forward months later after many attempts to recover the device with the Windows binaries and a set of instructions that we received after the fact, and finally the Linux binary surfaced in the Bionic thread and it all fell together.

The key is the Linux binary because the Win binaries and device interfaces are so glitchy. In 32bit Ubuntu everything just works and the timed event is just long enough to perform the required initial command with the omapflash-lnx binary that then allows adb and fastboot to do the rest.

So, as I said...many hands and many missteps later to arrive at success.

It's very gratifying that this can be applied to the XT910 as well and as I told the OP in PM, I would like to have him write up what he did in this case as it may differ somewhat from my experience.

I expect he will do that very shortly and we can post the files as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kent_lkc:
Good to know these files are applicable to RAZR XT910. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] p34c3m4k3r:
cellzealot, sorry for the delay and I didn`t forget the topic. Have been busy lately. I will update it later today.

Peace.

:good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] p34c3m4k3r:
I created a specific topic on the "Development Section". Go take a look and leave some feedback if you like it.

Peace.

:good:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] budding_developer:
cellzealot, I have a question here.

Would it be possible to use your repair kit for the XT912 to flash a new, freshly compiled mbmloader.bin in order to completely replace the locked Motorola bootloader with an unlocked version? I understand that the source for mbmloader.bin is available in the repo's -- I would think that it would be a simple matter to compile & package an unlocked version and use your low-level OMAP4 utility to flash it onto the phone, thereby replacing the locked bootloader with a new unlocked version.

Or is there an even lower-level bootloader embedded in the device that checks mbmloader.bin for security at boot time? If so, would it be possible to replace THAT lower-level bootloader with an unlocked version in similar fashion to what I described? I am pretty new to this, but to my way of thinking, there has to be a way to get around Motorola's cryptographic verification of succeeding bootloader stages.

I have an off-contract Verizon XT912, running 9.8.20-72_VZW_16, that I am using as a test-bed for a new ROM I want to develop that will contain native real-time RSA voice encryption built right into the image as a part of the kernel or using a kernel module; I need to get rid of Mororola's entire scheme of cascading locked bootloaders in order to have the freedom to do the development I want -- once I have it developed, I can later implement locking for security purposes in my own bootloader.

Do you see any way that what I described about replacing Motorola's locked bootloader(s) can be accomplished?

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sergiyberezin1:
xt862 (droid 3 Verizon) repair kit (pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin) pleeeeease

Hi dear Cellzealot,

You are my last hope to unbrick my xt862 which just repeatedly connects and disconnected via USB as OMAP4430 device. (what I can view via dmesg). Also it apparently responds on ./omapflash-lnx pbrdl.bin from razor repair kit by instantly stopping to connect-disconnect and leaving in disconnected state (i.e. no more usb device via dmesg or lsusb). Also above command returns "OK XXXX bytes sent" in command prompt (what is another indicator that hardware is alive and just waits for bootloader). But so far I have understood from your post - above files are specific for each device. I even contacted Motorolla US service centre but they refused me to provide above files saying they are not available publicly.

Thanks in advance,

With last hope,

Sergiy
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
PM sent with xt862 repair kit!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bigtoy44:
droid bionic bootloader repair kit

I tried repairing my bionic with the files I found on xda.. It boots to the AP fastboot screen but shows errors, cant flash with rsd lite. I would appreciate any help. thank you
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Teedub:
pbrdl.bin for Defy (MB525)?

Hi Cellzealot and all,

I have a properly bricked Motorola Defy (MB525), which has a locked bootloader. Do you know if there's a signed pbrdl.bin (ie. USB 1st stage bootloader) in existence for this device? (I've tried sending it the droid file - it uploads OK but doesn't run).

Please could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

(By the way, the Defy is an OMAP3630 device).
[Android Apps and Games] iper:
hey there,

i was searching for a program as a password protector and i found different programs, but suddenly! it came to my mind that why not just make an encrypted, password protected excel file and use it instead with office programs which can open and edit encrypted office files such as documents to go,

I would like to know if the latter method is safe or you recommend one of the programs especially designed as password keeper
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runningdap:
Is there a way to identify the version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 (the number of cores installed) via the settings? As far as I know, there are two (or three, not sure) different versions of the SGS3. An international one (Quad-core) and an American only (i think?) that is dual core.

Do they have different product names that I can check on the device?

I'm thinking of buying a second hand SGS3 and I don't want to be caught off guard :P
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dean-xXx:
International Model : GT-I9300 (quad core/1gb ram)

International Model LTE : GT-I9305 (quad core/2gb ram)

USA/Canada Models :

SGH-T999 (dual core/2gb ram)

SGH-I747 (dual core/2gb ram)

SCH-R530 (dual core/2gb ram)

SCH-I535 (dual core/2gb ram)

SPH-L710 (dual core/2gb ram)

China Model : GT-I9308 (quad core/1gb ram)

Japan Model : SGH-N064 (SC-06D) (dual core/2g ram)

South Korea : SHV-E210K/L/S (quad core/1gb ram)

Those are all the S3 Models.

Hit Thanks if helped you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runningdap:
Can you check this information from the phone Settings? Is it the "Model Number"?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dean-xXx:
Yes of course!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Acvice:
Hello all, I am a regular over at the Photon forums. I've just purchased a Sprint Galaxy Nexus and, naturally, went online to find the right extended batteries and cases. From what I have read, the OEM extended battery from Samsung that was released for Verizon works just fine. But, the extended backing apparently doesn't fit correctly on the Sprint version. I am aware that there are other third party extended batteries/covers but I've always been with the understanding that when it comes to batteries, stay with the original OEM. I've read through the forums for some information but am getting mixed reviews. Can someone shed some light onto this and perhaps point me in the right direction of a good extended battery with proper Sprint backplate? Thank you in advance.

::EDIT::

Btw, I would much like to stick with a 2100mAh ish sized battery. Not very interested in the huge bulky 3000mAh+'s.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JiminyCricket64:
call sprint. or you may be able to get it from their website. I got notice of it immediately in my Sprint "inbox." I got an extended battery for "free," just had to pay shipping...it's the samsung brand that comes with NFC embedded & the cover (associated with the larger battery).

Good Luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Acvice:
Calling worked. Theyre sending me one for free. Thanks for the heads up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sadkorean34:
will the OEM extended battery + cover for Sprint Galaxy Nexus fit on the Verizon version of Galaxy Nexus?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Acvice:
The actual battery probably does, but the door probably does not considering it doesnt work well the other way around.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] linuxas21:
Hello guys,

Greetings from Lithuania. I tried like 10 roms and I did not like any of them, they're just not stable enough, or if it's stable, something isn't working and etc. So I'm guessing if there is any stable roms, with queit everything working, don't care about that native wifi and usb tether or something like that. The rom should have a lot of tweaks, music mostly, I'd like to have good sound quality. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1972961 this appears to be perfect, but it's for samsung galaxy mini plus, I tried to install it without knowing it's for plus and almost bricked my honey. I don't know if I was doing something wrong or is it really for plus. So suggest me a good working rom.

I saw some topics like this, but these were old.

Thanks, Linas.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] scufy:
Very good rom

Try this:http://get.cm/get/jenkins/14855/cm-7-20121209-NIGHTLY-tass.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] kirakun:
I would say gingermod 4.0, for music player, install the stock one or android music player from playstore
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] gorull:
Try MORE v 1.4 final
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] MAD_psycho_Zz:
Use touchwiz cm7 by oj buddy it has the features of a cm7 but the ui of stock rom... And awesome number of tweaks for music quality.. Suggest you to give it a try
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] odin0706:
Hi, i use this rom too, it's a cool rom, must try. But wifi hotspot not working for me and when i turn on the radio, bluetooth turn on too, i can't tune the radio in my country (Viet Nam), please help me fix it if you can.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domobile:
Hi! I look for information on the Internet but did not find much about it.

It is possible to put ads in a theme for Go Launcher Ex?. For example AdMob?. Someone made the test?.

I don't know if this is the right place for the post!.

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ariadelvana:
if you want to see the theme GO Launcher EX you can go to his theme Play Google there are numerous and include sya've tried it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domobile:
No, I want to know is if I can put advertising in my themes for Go Launcher.
[Nook HD, HD+ General] RALIR:
While I have benefited from rooting the Nook HD+ and as a result, I like it as far as if goes, I am finding it difficult to choose it over Nexus 7 which I also have. The performance of the Nexus 7 Wi-Fi seems to be far superior. My WiFi router is in the basement and I have set up a repeater and a range extender up on the second floor. The Nexus 7WiFi receiver recognizes all the three signals though the signal from the basement is the weakest and I am able to connect with any one of the three. When I analyze the signals on the Nook HD+, it shows a really strong signal from the basement transmitter, very weak one from the repeater and a middling one from the extender. However I get no internet connection. I cannot tell if it is strictly WiFi receiver issue or because of my setup. But performance on the first floor is very good and not significantly different from Nexus 7.

I like the Nook for the screen size and the SD card storage, but in my opinion, WiFi is a weak or weaker feature.

Any other thoughts?

RaliR
[General Topics] RedNexus:
I'm new here and would like help on how to over clock my Nexus
[General Topics] mfsr98:
If you have international version of this phone (not verizon or sprint) go here and use thesearch button (which you should use already): http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1336
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cryptoboss:
Hi everybody,

I have a SG i9000 with a stock frimware

Id like to upgrade to this custom frimware http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1398223 but for the installation, the procedure says that I need to use CWM, thing that I do not know how to install it. so the question is that CWM is essential for the install or I can just une ODIN to install directly the custom firmware.

another question is the phone need to be rooted befor ??

thx a lot
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
You get Cwm by flashing a CF-root via Odin. There are so many tutorials that it's disappointing to see this question being asked.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zRaJx:
True.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigneshnallamad:
whats your stock kernel version?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XTwarrior:
This is the Task650 and Ktoonsez AOKP. VERSION: d2att(4.1.2 JZ054K) from December 2nd release.

My data network goes in and out at random. It actually started happening about 4 days ago on an older build by Task650 & Ktoonsez but I saw the new one so wiped dalvik and Partition cache and rom'ed. Even after flashing the new ROM, data is acting the same way. It is completely random, happens when the phone is in use or when it is locked. I can tell when data connects for short spurts because I hear the notices for new emails. All in all today, I've maybe had 5 minutes of HSPA/3G data and the rest all I have is cellular network for calls. reception strong, and I am in areas where I always have good connection and speed.

Any ideas? Kind of frustrating if I am out to lunch and want to catch up on things (stuff is blocked at work). Also I am paying for data I can't use :/
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wujiku:
fully wipe and reflash.. try a different modem
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DHTP:
Mine changes between HSPA/3G while on a call. After call ends it goes back to 4G
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XTwarrior:
I am admittedly new to flashing, I just assumed everything was in the package. I flash the ROM and Gapps, is there a source for different modems?

This is definite disconnect of data DHTP. Can't get anywhere, and there is no symbol where there usually is on the reception bar. When it comes back for brief moments, it has either HSPA, 3g, etc.... on the bar.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nexii:
are you able to send and receive calls? text?

I flashed that rom three days ago, and i had to replace it via warranty. it showed it had signal, but couldnt make any calls or text at all. then i Odin back to stock never worked again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kinjo1023:
Don't think it has to do with any rom. Noticed that my wife's sgs3 has had a problem sending and receiving texts and the network drops a lot as well. She is completely stock with the jelly Bean update. My network has been a little suspect over the last few days also. Might just be the service.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ngriffin360:
Im having same issue...not new to flashing ..probably modm issue. working on it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XTwarrior:
Hey Guys, I may have found the culprit...sort of.

The wife has an iP5 and she said to me while we are driving to a holiday party 'I finally have official 4G LTE on my phone'. To which I of course ask what she means. Apparently the same day I started not being able to connect to data networks, is actually the day that ATT fired up their 4G LTE tower(s) in the Lehigh Valley area. When I do get data on occasion, it's when I bump down to 3G and HSPA. Unfortunately, the ROM has a bug where I cannot force it to look for just 3G, I go to save the setting and it immediately jumps back to LTE.

I may just have to flash to a version that definitely supports 4G LTE data. This issue occurred before I flashed to newest ROM, so it has something to do with the core build or modem that both versions use.

Ngriffin, if you find any successful modems please let me know. I like the ROM but I can't go without a data connection much longer.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XTwarrior:
So, for those who care, I flashed Gapps and also Flashed a new modem (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831898) version UCLG1 and it's a no go. A few in my area said it worked great for them so now I am a bit discouraged. Northeast Pennsilvania Area.

Modem coverage map (submitted by XDA users) https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msi...ll=40.898982,-75.992002&spn=0.052809,0.111494

Versions tried:

LG1 -------------Did not work

LEM

LH9

LK3 -------------Works but only 3G data.

LH1

CLI5

More info, tested using the Wife's Ip5 and realized we don;t have LTE at our house, so I'll have to wait until we get withing range of the LTE tower(s) to see if it has an issue. However, I now have data reliably.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crazililazn:
That's normal. LTE is data only and isn't used for phone calls.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] guitarpunk8403:
I've been running Task's AOKP on my SGS II and III for a while with no data issues. Check your APN settings. If you're in an LTE area, you should be able to sit on the ATT LTE APN and have no problems, even away from LTE coverage.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XTwarrior:
To update further, LK3 modem worked for a short while, but once I left the area of my immediate cell tower and it had to connect to another tower, it couldn't. I flashed ALL modems in my list a post above and NONE work. I'm kind of pissed right now.

Any ideas? I'll probably to a full backup and then flash a completely different ROM and cross my fingers. Is there an official JB stock ROM sans the bloatware that is stable and can connect to LTE (or any data network reliably for that matter)?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XTwarrior:
It was my APN *facepalm* Thanks for the suggestion. It was sitting on wap.cingular instead of the LTE and it was causing the issue. I'm on modem CLH1 and it is working, I have the 4G (3G) symbol now and data is connecting. Well, I learned something thanks! :victory:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] guitarpunk8403:
Glad I could be of help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jroyjohnson:
I started having issues with mine about the same time. I haven't been able to figure it out yet. I had just gone to JB and flashed a new ROM. Then started noticing not just data being very spotty but also my calls (both incoming and outgoing) were very spotty too. Both seemed to only work about 50% of the time. I have since completely wiped and factory reset twice. I even Odin'ed back to a stock Rout66 jelly bean system but I still have issues

I have updated my APN to ATT PTA but that hasn't helped. What APN settings did you go with? Is ther some specific for LTE coverage? On the stock system now I can actually see the LTE icon when it actually chooses to connect.

Also, where did you find other modems. I was told in another forum not to flash any that weren't specific to Jelly Bean and all I have found is the stock I747UCDLK3 which is already on my phone. I did try flashing that seperately just to see if that would help but did not.

I need to get my phone working pronto as it is my main phone for both business and personal phone calls. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kirkgbr:
I thought they changed the APN to "ATT PHONE"? Trying to find those details now.

EDIT:

AT&T Changing Default APN's... no more pta???
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Grnfinger:
Im on stock rooted rom and have the same problem. Have to reboot to get data back and its slow a hell for a while after.

Frustrating and still can't find a solution.