[Motorola Droid RAZR] dmdroid:
I think its amazing that the support for this phone is still available. I have been an exclusive MOTO Android user since the first Droid XT855 came out. I quickly learned how to root and test the new roms , Ireally enjoyed the tweaks, and little improvements that the people of higher intellect figured out for the rest of us.

I have been using a RAZR since it first came out I believe in 2011, and then later in 2012 picked up the RAZR MAXX because of the battery issues on the RAZR. I had no idea at the time that I would still be using these phones 4 years later.

I had a lot of fun playing around and tweaking these things but with the advent of the locked bootloader I kind of got weary of the countless hours of study required to customize the phone without bricking it. Well I finally bricked my RAZR MAXX one night, and had to go through pure hell tyring to get setup to use RSD Lite and then to join two seperate downloads together with a file compiler. This required 13-15 hours of study for my limited intelect, but I finally got the phone back up and running.

Well I bricked my RAZR MAXX again last night, and paid the price for doing so, because after being out of the tinker phase for a couple of years I had to study and search and study and search for a recovery. I found a newer copy of RSD Light, downloaded and even tried using and old original RAZR firmware file to no avail. I am a member at Android Forums and have been for a very long time, and what I discovered in the last 24 hours is that factory Software on this old phone is getting harder to find. Well I remembered that I had some success with finding and learning about reliable info from the members at XDA-Developers in the past. So here I am, and I am quite pleased that Matts, and Dans reflash tool has saved the day for me, I honestly thought that I had really bricked the crap out of my phone to the point of not being able to recover.

So some of you are probably wondering, "how did I brick my phone"? Well I really wanted to try and upgrade to Loli Pop 4.4.4 or higher as my banking app no longer allows me to make OTA Deposits. The message I got said that the security was insufficient on Jelly Bean 4.2.1.

Without going into all the lengthy details, I'll cut right to the chase and confess that I was to damn lazy to to do sufficient research to find one of the many available methods that are out there to achieve this task, and I regretfully had a determination not to do things over the computer. Which could have insured safety and allowed me to have good back ups.

The main screw up on my end was that I had rooted OTA through an app at the market, and downloaded safe strap, and it wasn't working properly. For example when I would reboot the phone it didn't boot through safe strap as it should. So I tried to delete safe strap and some remnants of the old 3.11 version that was still showing up in some files, In the process of doing that I thought I was wiping the dalvik cache, and the ram cache. I actually totally wiped the system and data on my phone and like a dumb ass rebooted it, without booting into recovery. Then I found that the two back ups I had put on my EXT-SD card couldn't be used. I could see the file but when I went to select it the recovery would jump up a level each time. I think that I will put a couple of back ups in the internal SD card next time, as well as some working back ups on my computer. The bottom line on tinkering with these phones is you must do things exactly the way successful people have done their mods in order to expect the same results that they get.

Well I'm sure that you guys are tired of hearing me jabber on. But I do want to give a big shout out to Matt,Dan, others who make the Android Community a great group of people. And to tell you that I'm really grateful that you still have the downloads for the older phones available. Matt I saw your website and that is my next stop. I'm out of work at the moment but have every intention of making a donation as soon as I can. Thank you very much for providing a reliable work around for re-flashing and modding bricked phones.