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[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Thank you very much. Like I said, the informations regarding this particular device are pretty limited and confusing, on how to flash/upgrade it, been reading everything I could find, but still not sure what proper way is to do it.

Anyway, is there a possibility to flash ANY custom rom on this device (custom ICS rom e.g.) at the moment? I pretty tired of this stock bloated rom and I would like a change, especially cause I suffer from chronic f l a s h i t i s :D Been flashing roms on my previous devices once a week or even more often, tweaking the roms and customizing it. Now, I managed to root this device and that's where I stopped since couldn't find any proper tutorials or guides on flashing process. If you have one of custom ICS roms compiled/made by you, I'll be more than happy to try it, until we manage how to upgrade it to JB.

Here is device info:

System version: 67.42.46.XT910K.KT.en.KR

Model number: XT910K

Android version: 4.0.4

Firmware configuration version: GAS_ASIA_SPYDERICSKT_P009

Baseband version: U_KR_04.04.00R

Webtop version: wt-3.0.0

Kernel version: 3.0.8-g88d12bd

w21529@zkr30Inxdroid18#1

SMP PREEMPTSat Sep1 13:04:17 KST 2012

AP flex version: GAS_ASIA_SPYDERICSKT_P009

GAS_ASIA_SPYDERICSKT_A002

Buil number: 6.7.4-27_SA-46

Hope that's it. If you need anything else, please let me know.

Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Nx Biotic:
Dtrail is working on it
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
Lincoln, the way it should work is you root your device. Then in Play install Boot Menu Manager. Use that to install recovery, which is a special boot mode. Now, BMM allows you to install up to five firmwares, depending on how much internal flash you have. On boot you can then choose which to boot, or set a default. You'll want to leave stock in slot 1. I have Carbon in slot 2, Catalyst in slot 3, and MIUI in slot 4. Catalyst is my daily driver.

To flash a rom, reboot and touch the android to go into Recovery. Set the slot you want to program, create the virtual disk, wipe, and choose 'install flash from sd card', wipe again and reboot into that slot. For more detail, you'll have to do a little study of BMM.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
I've already studied BMM, since I'm pretty familiar with all kinds of recoveries so far. My question indeed was can I flash ANY rom in other slots, leaving stock intact. I didn't want to wipe stock rom and reflash custom, if someone got me wrong. Since this is a 910K device coming from South Korea (and got here in Serbia via Australia, omg), info about it is pretty limited. It's running on stock 4.0.4, and device is unlocked. I also rooted it. So, you say that I can flash ANY custom rom in other slot(s), including JB roms (4.1, 4.2, 4.3...) if I'm right. That would be great if possible, since official updates are stopped for this device, leaving it on 4.0.4, and it becomes pretty laggy and slow. Thank you very much for your answer.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mroneeyedboh:
What do I do when I open sqleditor? I can't figure it out...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] archie1988:
Scroll down. And find setting. Just read what I wrote.

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Found this now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6nCcbJkngY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mroneeyedboh:
I had to enable root lol well under super user. Thanks!

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Damn got an error when I clicked on settings.db it was error 3850
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
You can flash -any- rom to other slots, including kk, and still have stock in slot 1. BMM is a virtualization system, which can boot multiple virtual machines so they all think they are the owner of the device. Much gratitude to whirleyes. Send him new devices if you can afford it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Thanks man. I'm a veteran in flashing roms, recoveries and other custom stuff, since HTC Trinity, but I'm new to Motorola, never had any of their smartphones before, and the entire process of flashing is indeed trickier and more complicated than anything before (HTC, Samsung, LG, ZTE, Huawei etc). What I was worried about is this (taken from OP) : Your system must be up-to-date on the Kernel or another words...If your a CDMA user, you must have the .16 verizon kernel installed or the latest Jellybean update has gone through; If your a GSM user, you would also need the official JB update installed at some point. If all else fails, RSD Lite with latest release.

Also, I red something about deleting the device CID in order to flash some custom roms. Can you shed some light on that? Like I said, this is

XT910K, running on stock ICS 4.0.4, kernel 3.0.8-g88d12bd, webtop wt-3.0.0, system version 67.42.46.XT910K.KT.en.KR, rooted, unlocked.

Anyway, I'm gonna get in to it and will let you know how it goes. Thanks again. As far as new devices go, do you think I would buy an used smartphone all the way from Korea if I could afford a new one? :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
I am running the Fido stock JB on slot 1. (Canadian phone being used in US) Flashed that first, which wipes your BMM recovery. Reflash recovery and proceed.

Top tip: TWRP is easier to use and works fine.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Unfortunately, I screwed something up...in BMM reformated rom zip file like suggested, created virtual drive, booted into recovery, selected custom one/2nd system, wiped and flashed the rom. In recovery everything went fine without errors, wiped, rebooted and...snap! Motorola logo appeared, stood there for ~5 mins and after that only black screen (discretely illuminated) shows. Tried recovery again only to find out that I have stock recovery only. Searched almost all night but still confused what to do. I can enter fastboot and stock recovery and that's all. Red about Rsd lite but cannot install it due to some kind of error, tried several versions. Cannot even find stock firmware anywhere (south Korean device). If anyone can help, please do, I'm lost.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
Oh man, you deleted your recovery partition.

Try to find a stock firmware, hopefully JB. Probably be an Asian version. You can flash it piecemeal with fastboot. Need to get fastboot running on your system (I only know Linux), then unzip your fastboot firmware (whether stock or not) and follow instructions out there to flash the various partitions.

You don't have to start with a stock firmware, but it would be good form to have it there, where it will end up in slot 1.

It will take some research, like the rest of us have had to do.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
I already set up fastboot on my pc, phone is visible (showing serial number) and I tried some basic commands and they work. Stock firmware is pretty hard to find since almost all sites hosting it are down. I just worry not to make it even worse, since I have no experience in this whatsoever. Is there a way to flash custom recovery via fastboot or even via stock recovery? Been reading about this entire night, and still not sure about the entire thing. Will try to make it work as soon as I'm sure what to do.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
Going from memory, a while back I did something like this:

- Download twrp.img and some rom that you might like to have, which is suited to your phone. (ideally stock)

- Unarchive the rom and copy boot.img to the same directory as fastboot, as well as twrp.img.

- Reboot the phone into fastboot mode.

- cd to your fastboot directory on the PeeCee.

- # fastboot flash boot boot.img

- # fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

So you're flashing the boot skeleton to the boot partition, and the recovery image to the recovery partition. Apparently you'd formatted one or both.

(Nobody anywhere will explain any of this to you)

- # fastboot reboot

- Then it should boot. Reboot to recovery and install the whole rom.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] shavo21:
What is the difference between bionx catalyst LTS and official release1 09/0513?

Enviado desde mi XT910 mediante Tapatalk
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Thanks man,you are really helpful. Yesterday I left my phone at the service shop explaining them what happened, but from their response I'm not really sure that they will do something about it. Problem is my chronic lack of free time atm. I'm gonna pick it up today and try your procedure. Will let you know how it goes. So, I copy these commands you wrote to the letter?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
shavo, many of us weren't able to get LTS to boot.

Lincoln sure, copy them to the letter, but you might brick it even worse. You need to research this. I've given the framework, but the details are probably not precise. No one else will give you the framework. But I can't remember the details.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Oh man, and I was getting ready to do this tonight, thinking "this guy is awesome, he helped me with a single post". So you are not sure that this is the way to fix this? I picked up the phone from service shop today, I plugged it in to charge, and it's even showing big battery icon on screen, with percentage. So, it's not really bricked, since I can access stock recovery and fastboot? I'm really out of ideas here, since info on this matter is pretty limited.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] KC69:
razor brick

research house of motorola. by samurai hl. it has ALL the answers. droidrzrcom
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
I've given you the way to fix it. It's just the details I'm not sure about, like command syntax and filenames. You'll have to do a little research yourself.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Of course...but like I said, info on this matter is pretty limited and some things are hard to obtain, like stock firmware. Also, there are no files named boot.img inside several roms that I unpacked. There are some guides on how to unbrick RAZR, with possibility to brick it permanently. I don't think further research would gain me any benefit cause they're mostly copy/paste kind. I would like if there's someone who did this recently, one way or another, to help me go thru this. I recharged the phone to 100%, red and red tonight, but nothing looked promising to sort this. I will research some more asap.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anticor248:
Can I install on 4.1.2 en.EU JB? slot 2?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
Just search on ixquick for:

fastboot "boot.img" "recovery.img"
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
You gave him generic instructions for a phone which can boot off a custom recovery. Sadly, Motorolas can not.

Notes for the guy with a borked Korean RAZR:

Get a fastboot image for your type of phone.

Flash your phone using that file and your tool of choice. Beware, you can't flash to previous version of firmware (usually), so be sure to flash at least the version which was on the phone prior to flashing.

Don't try to flash any custom / foreign firmware unless you know your way around flashing Motorolas.

I'm sorry, but you can't flash this particular firmware without a number of tricks which have all been described previously in this forum. I'd suggest to get your phone to a usable state, root, install SafeStrap and play with kexec-based firmwares.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
So, Vatazhka:

- Why haven't you lifted a finger all this time?

- You're sayng that your instructions are not, generic?

- Am I going to go to the trouble of researching a solution, for a person who is not willing to research it themself like the rest of us have had to?

The nature of this site is that info is chaotic, scattered, often out of date, and difficult to find. Why it has to be this way, is beyond me. Forums didn't used to be a disorganized mess like this in the Olden Days.

I think I've gone above and beyond trying to help this guy when no one else would. So STFU if you don't have -specific- instructions for him.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Thanks man, I did my share of reading about Motorolas...downloading British Retail 4.1.2, prepared RSD Lite 6.x.x, Root bat files, deleted CID already...This method is proven that works on same model with exactly same issues. I tried Korean stock already via Rsd and Nandroid restore of the same too, but it won't work cause fastboot says my value is 5 somehow (Korean is 4). So that leaves me only this method, transforming this model into international one. Main thing is deleting line 15 from XML file in order to succeed flashing like this. I will let you know how it goes.

[MENTION=2341657]Quantumstate[/MENTION] hey man, I really appreciate your help, and no one bothered to help except you. You really pointed me in the right direction, what to read and try. On the other hand, it's really no rush to solve this issue, cause as you can see from my (automated) signatures lack of devices isn't my problem (thanks to the company) :D Much bigger problem is the lack of rest and free time where its possible not to be able to touch the phone for a week. So, there's really no need for harsh words and actions from neither of us over a thing like a cell phone. I will try to solve this issue and will ask for help if needed.

EDIT:

Flashed JB Retail British (9.8.2O-124_SPUEM-14_S7_USASPDRICS01RUKE1007.0R_USASPDRJBRTGB_P011_b 57374ab5a_p2b_S1FF_fb_CFC.xml.zip using RSD Lite 6.1.5 and it said FAILED. Also tried to flash boot, recovery and system img files via Fastboot, also failed. I can enter Fastboot and stock recovery and that's about it. Also tried to flash Nandroid backup via stock recovery but it said "signature verification problem, installation aborted".

I'm out if ideas what to do. If someone can help, please do.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Quantumstate:
'Failed' how? Emitted a screeching noise? Went down the pub? Rolled over and played dead?

The basic problem is that your custom recovery is gone, so you can only get into stock recovery. Until you can install that custom recovery (BMM or TWRP), you can't do anything. It should be something like

# fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Vatazhka:
You obviously don't have a clue how a custom recovery works on an OMAP4-based Motorola... I kindly ask you again to stop giving wrong advice.

Lincoln357, please tell us (or search the forum for) what is the exact message on the screen when you power on your device? Please also try to save power by disabling it as you may not be able to charge it in a non-bootable state.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
He he funny...actually, I only looked at the end of the log and there said FAILED (fastboot), and flashing via RSD Lite failed at step 10 out of 16, even after several attempts. I'm guessing that both boot and recovery is gone and what drives me insane is that I cannot find flashable IMG/ZIP file for XT910. I don't mind any of custom recoveries, CWM, TWRP, 4EXT etc, it only matters that it can be flashed somehow, fastboot or RSD Lite. Anyway, if any of RAZR users/devs can point out the way how to do it, please help asap.

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Well, the message goes like this:

"AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S) (Failure)

0A.77

eMMC Info: size 16G

To return to normal mode - first press power key to power down

Device is LOCKED. Status Code: 0

Battery OK

OK to program

Connect USB

Data Cable"

When I power up the device, red Motorola logo pops up, hanging there for like 3-4 mins, and then, instead of operator logo showing up while booting, black screen shows up, mildly illuminated thou, and it stays that way.

I can reboot the phone by power + vol-, and I can enter boot options with power + vol+/vol- , from where I can enter stock recovery and other choices presented. Now, what I noticed after some testing is, if I enter the boot menu and plug in the charger, and then select BP Tools, phone will reboot, showing red M again followed by a black screen but, if I press vol-, big battery icon shows up, and phone recharges fully up to 100%. Tried it several times since it cannot boot, and it worked every time.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Have you tried the "Factory reset" option from the boot menu?Ofcourse after flashing the rom with RSD Lite...

I had a similar situation a few times and that fix it.

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Haven't seen that option in boot menu...I have these:

Normal powerup

Recovery

AP Fastboot

BP SBF Flash

BP Only

BP HW DIAG & Boot AP

BP Tools

And that's it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
After flashing with rsd, boot into stock recovery and perform factory reset and wipe cache, then it should boot

Tapped from my RazR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
Sorry,my bad.

Select "Recovery"

Then,android lying down with the red triangle will show up

Press vol- and vol+ at the same time

Then you will get more options,one of them is "wipe data/factory reset"

Sent from my Razr XT910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Oh that one...did it like 30 times since it was bricked...no avail.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Thanks man, but the problem is that it cannot be flashed with RSD, process fails at step 10 out of 16, signature verification issue.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
Mhm, hadn't had this problem before, are u trying to flash files from another region?

Tapped from my RazR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lincoln357:
Yes I am, this is Korean version XT910K with stock ICS 4.0.4, and I tried to flash CM 10.3 via BMM in second slot and after that cannot boot, can get to boot menu, fastboot and stock recovery, and can charge the battery but cannot flash via Rsd although I deleted the needed line in this firmware. Tried everything, flashing nandroid backups, flashing custom recovery, other roms, always installation aborted cause of signature verification failed. Help me please, don't know what to do anymore.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
Backup your cid, I have 4 backups in different places, then delete cid and try again flashing via rsd. Don't know what to do else

There should be a workaround for backing up cid and deleting via cmd fastboot commands, but dunno where they are

Tapped from my RazR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] motopuk:
That message is normal. Just hit ok. Its related with verizon stuff that is not present on regular gsm users. For those with data issues, have you tried to edit apn manually?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Nx Biotic:
Looks like GSM users are getting more errors than anything. Well, A note to future GSM users, dont flash untill further notice unless you have nandroid backups and have the ability to RSD Lite right away if worse comes to worse and dont flash if you dont have experience with flashing roms.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] motopuk:
Im gsm user and im using Arthurs approach for converting kernel from cdma to gsm. No kexec involved.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2383513

Gsm/Cdma Stock Based Rom Kernel Patches (29/07/2013)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kascro:
[MENTION=5072366]biotic[/MENTION]

can you please make a flashable patch for your setting to work after using this arturs patch (please read the OP for more info)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] motopuk:
Here's what i did:

1. download Catalyst

2. Apply this Patch

3. Profit

Not a single reboot 24 hrs ago (beta tester)

Used BMM 0.3.4

Had to setup APNs manually.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kascro:
Hmmm

It states pretty clearly:

"Some stock based ROMS have build.prop tweaks and init.d tweaks. After patch GSM XT910 users lost this tweaks"

I doubt this rom does not have any build and init tweaks, therefore doesne have all mods after patch!

What do you say Bionic?

ps i restored my phone and will give it a shot using arturs method.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Nx Biotic:
All the Init.d Scripts in this rom are built in the rom and toggleable via the Bionx Dashboard, if the Patch wipes the Init.d folder for GSM users, this will make this feature useless to them however it will not the harm the system in any way, it will just remove one feature that took some time for me to port -.- but a stable environment is more important =)

As far as the build.prop, The only tweaks I merged were Xperia props to enable features in the Walkman Player/Audio framewok, CM props, and just props I added to be toggleable. If it wipes any of the Xperia props, you may encounter FCs in the Walkman Player and if thats the case, let me know so I can make a Flashable zip to wipe out the Xperia Audio Framework to cure it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Nx Biotic:
Bionx Dashboard 3.5 update was pushed to google play tonight. Bebsure to accept that update when it becomes available. Or check it out if your running another rom.

This update mainly fixes all rendering issues in 3.4 which is included in this build of Catalyst3. 3.5 will be included in future rom update. Bionx Webs has been integrated into the toolbox to allow easy access to my feed at the Bionx Home and shows off a new Grid UI im trying out for navigation.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
Any plans to equip this for safestrap eventually? Really wanted to try this ROM but not enough to switch recoveries.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] n1c00_:
Hi just to report booted up fine on .14 EU with Arthur's patch in post #2. Set up apn manually, all systems nominal :good:

Thanks nx!

Edit: missing kernel modules through... :(
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kascro:
Yep, booted fine and running clear and fast so far using arturs method.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pastorbennett:
I've been testing the rom since 4pm yesterday. Overall, the rom seems to be quite stable and performs very nicely. There are only 2 peculiarities that I've noticed, and perhaps it's an issue with my phone as opposed to the rom. I'm only getting battery level indications in 10% increments, and the screen automatically stays on when the phone is plugged in, even though Stay Awake is unticked in dev options. Also, wifi tethering wasn't enabled by default. I don't know if this is rom related, or my phone is just buggy. This phone has given be problems almost since day 1, so I'm not sure what the culprit is thus far.

Overall though, I like this rom. It might become my dd. I was running CM 10.2, but not with 100% satisfaction.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] welder73:
It´s working on System 2 with BMM and Artur´s patch.

I like the center clock and theme support,the launcher is ok...

But there isn´t 1% battery mod,just default schedulers and governors and after installing all apps that I use,there is just a little more than 300mb of RAM left.

Waiting for something more...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] archie1988:
Thanks a lot!!!! Keep on good work! :) installed it on slot2 via bmm, and then patched with gsm patch. Working well and fast!

There is some way to change battery icon? I haven't found it at the settings. And about 1% battery, is it possible in this rom?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Nx Biotic:
Nice feedback guys

-1 percent battery increments will be added, right now I believe its a 10 percent which is what I perfer.

-Kernel Modules are not included because I had prepped the rom for Kexec kernel integration when we stabilize it fully. You can always flash Whirleys Kernel Modules

-A Safestrap version will be looked into but It will not be Kexec Capadible unless Safestrap was recently optimized? In my opinion, Safestrap runs roms very effeciently and seem faster overall after running Safestrap for months. Making the switch isnt that hard and Bootmenu has so many more options available to the user but, Yes, I will look into a Safestrap version in the future.

-Somebody had mentioned, they wanted to add language support? Go for it.

-If you want to repost this firmware at another site, feel free todo so but reference it to the XDA Thread and the Bionx.Webs Thread

-I will be doing more work to the Framework later to try and update the SDK capadibiltiy. I had an idea of how todo so but I may fail in a miserable hole. So, anything like charging issues, screen issues, ect...Let me know so I can go in and take a look.

-The System UI will be eventually getting a make over to the 4.2 Statusbar since I found that Spacecakers Mod works but with some reinforcement and alot of modifying...

-Previous System UI mods that were done to Catalyst2 are capadible, Someone had posted some but I lost the link...

Dont forget to update the Bionx Dashboard to 3.5 and rate it!