[Droid RAZR M Android Development] kolya123:
Hi,

Firstly, many thanks to Pzyduck and the Firmware Team for releasing these original RAZR M images! :good:

I've successfully flashed the Telstra full image to my RAZR M (xt905). I'd like to make a couple of comments about how I did it, in case it helps someone out there.

I extracted the zip file 9.8.2Q_SMUIRD-7_SEMEAUnlk_USAXT90501TLSTRAE1019.0R_SMJBLTEAUTEL_P008_A014_1FF_fb.xml.zip then ran flash_fastboot.bat. It gave me several errors and did not work.

This error occurred many times:

(bootloader) Variable not supported!

Then the modem failed to flash:

fastboot flash modem modem_signed
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target reported max download size of 31457280 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magi
sending sparse 'modem' (28088 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.168s]
writing 'modem'...
(bootloader) Unknown chunk type
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 3.260s

I then saw this article talking about using RSD Lite 6.1.4: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2022118

It contains a dead link to RSD Lite 6.1.4, but here's another copy: http://www.4shared.com/rar/mvyan3Kh/RSDLite_614.htm

I installed it and in the RSD Lite window, pointed Filename to 9.8.2Q_SMUIRD-7_SEMEAUnlk_USAXT90501TLSTRAE1019.0R_SMJBLTEAUTEL_P008_A014_1FF_fb.xml.zip. When I clicked Decompress And Start Flashing, RSD Lite gave this error:

Error!!!!!
Failed to create 9.8.2Q_SMUIRD-7_SEMEAUnlk_USAXT90501TLSTRAE1019.0R_SMJBLTEAUTEL_P008_A014_1FF_f
Please check if the file path is too long to create or if there is enough free disk

Guessing that the filename was indeed too long, I manually extracted the zip file to a folder called tel, then re-zipped the tel folder to a file called tel.zip. Then in RSD Lite, I pointed Filename to tel.zip. This time when I clicked Decompress And Start Flashing, RSD Lite was able to decompress the file but gave this error:

Failed flashing process. Unknown fastboot command. (getvar)

To get around the getvar error, I found this article: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1943884

I extracted my tel.zip file I created above, edited the file 9.8.2Q_SMUIRD-7_SEMEAUnlk_USAXT90501TLSTRAE1019.0R_SMJBLTEAUTEL_P008_A014_1FF_fb.xml and removed the 2 lines containing getvar:

line 11:

<step operation="getvar" var="max-download-size" />

line 20:

<step operation="getvar" var="max-download-size" />

I then re-zipped tel.zip containing the edited xml file, and tried again... and the damn thing finally worked!!! RSD Lite flashed all the image files, then rebooted the phone (it actually rebooted twice: just before flashin the modem image, then after erasing the cache). The phone then went through a first-time setup asking questions about language settings, whether you use gmail or not, etc.

I've never been a fan of Apple, but I can't say that I'm a fan of Android either. Everything I tried had a failure and I had to research almost every single step. I'm starting to think that life's too short to mess around with Android. I shudder to think what a mess I'd be in with my bricked phone if I wasn't technically inclined. :eek:

But I guess it served me right for playing around with flashing my phone in the first place... :cowboy: