[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgiAlexis:
Edit: All happy now, a change of pc solved the problem of not detecting the device!

Hi all! I have another challenge for you!

Right, I've got myself in a tizz with my Defy +. While updating between CM10.1 versions I found myself in a situation where I couldn't get past the boot animation. So I loaded the TWRP restore I had made prior to updating...

Except it wouldn't, instead it came up with 'Failed' each time I tried any of the TWRP backups I had created. So the next step was to wipe partitions and start flashing various ROMs until I found one what worked. Except they didn't work either. Eventually I thought the best idea would be to just turn the phone off and see where I was with booting.

So power on, boot logo, blue light, red light then... nothing. Just the boot logo static. Went into the custom bootloader to go into recovery again, nothing. Pressing Custom recovery simply loops back to the top bootloader screen.

Ok next step, flash .sbf and start from scratch. So into the Moto bootloader it is to plug in and flash except... it's no longer detected by my computer.

"Ok" I think, "We'll just flash files from the SD card after I use an external SD card reader.

Except now when I enter Moto recovery to flash the TWRP recovery I get:

-- Install /sdcard ...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verifiaion failed

Installation aborted

So to recap:

1) Tried to flash and update, failed

2) Tried to recover, recoveries wouldn't write (I think this is becaue I'd changed to EXT4 on /data and /cache and had forgotten to go back to EXT3 before trying to recover)

3) Tried to boot, epicly failed

4) Tried to flash .sbf, Defy+ won't appear in RSDLite 5.7 with latest driver

5) Tried to flash from SD card, sig verification failed

6) Googletastic for the last four days

Notes:

a) I CAN charge the Defy+ using the wall charger but I get '?' for the battery level indicator but...

b) In Cmod bootloader 2.1 (Which I can use a little) it shows the correct battery level

c) I /was/ getting some errors with not being able to mount /cache from the moto recovery but I've since used the cmod bootmenu 2.1 to set it back to ext3 and it's all happy now, those errors aren't appearing

d) Plugging in my Defy red lens I get W8 x64 detecting the correct portal drivers and such but when I go to moto bootloader this device also doesn't appear in RSDLite

e) Both devices prompt windows to install a Motorola Flash Interface driver in Device Manager when plugged in in moto bootloader mode and neither device appears in RSDLite despite the fact the program is running in Admin mode

f) Looking at the logs in bootloader, it appears that I might not have formatted anything from ext4 to 3, everything I select in the cmod bootmenu returns .E:Error in /system/... , (Result: Invalid arguement) , Done..

So at the moment I think I need to acheive one of the following:

1) Find a file that allows me to write any useful data to /system like a recovery or some of those bootmenu files that passes the signature verification

2) Find a way to troubleshoot RSDLite so I can actually flash .sbf and get out of this hellhole ;)

Many regards!

Alexis