yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
Thanks zhalx and MauroSZ

I can't seem to access the file?
[Defy General] zhalx:
sorry sir, reupload to attachment
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Motorola Device Manager - Link

I used the link below and I'm satisfied with results. It works well for Defy Mini and others Motorola Android Devices.

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88481
[Defy General] edis_mehmedali:
I installed the motorola device manager and then it worked. So I have a rooted defy mini now. But the main reason for rooting was deleting some of the apps that came with the phone. Facebook, twitter, quickoffice etc all came with the phone. I tried deleting them using titanium backup but i got "failed to locate apk". So I tried locating the files with es file explorer. I managed to delete quickoffice, but when I try deleting others like facebook it says read-only file. Any suggestions?
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Open ES file explorer - menu - tools - enable root explorer funcionality (give SU permission) - mount r/w - choose r/w to FLEX

Try again via Titanium.

Please, hit thanks on all posts were usefully for you mainly #41.

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[Defy General] edis_mehmedali:
I pressed thanks #41. I already have root explorer in es enabled. can you please clarify the mount/choose part? where do I do this?
[Defy General] edis_mehmedali:
so I finally made it. followed your advice and mounted r/w using total commander. worked like a charm. thank you
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
If your mini is very good now, do a nandroid to save this point. If you brick your phone in the future you can restore it via cwm-backup. In others words you will be free to try any mod.

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[Defy General] edis_mehmedali:
thanks for the tip, I will
[Defy General] Motomini:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1614700

and

https://www.xda-developers.com/android/get-link2sd-working-for-the-wildfire-s-and-others/

In Summary, From the menu filter internal Apps, then When "Create link" hane just the middle of the three options selected.

Also from the Menu settings select that all new Apps be linked as well.

So far nothing been deleted, but need not there just yet.
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
[MENTION=5647543]Motomini[/MENTION] , thanks, tuto links will be useful for all. I already have known. Yes, the middle is dalvik of Flex apps and in this case you can link only Dalvik. I did it a time ago for two XT321s. One has more than 90MB free internal storage so far. The other, i don't know why, dropped to 25MB. I am supposed Google Play updated and the new app version is downloaded on data/app and you cannot link it but dalvik only. I heared around i have to overwrite flax/app moving the new version from data/app releasinng internal space, mounting flex r/w of course.

Data/data is not linked. This is the problem too.

I am testing Mount2SD on my XT687 and it is working well so far.

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[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
Problem Compiling XT530 custom kernel

[MENTION=4944908]zhalx[/MENTION] I have problems with compiling a custom kernel for Fire XT, the sources are incomplete. I'm going to try and merge LG Optimus One 2.6.32.9 kernel source into the Moto Source and recompile it. Once that is completed, I will post all the sources on Github.
[Defy General] Aaahh:
How did you make the fastboot zip???
[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
It's basically a SBF with a downgraded bootloader. Older bootloaders have fastboot while newer ones no longer have fastboot. I dumped an old bootloader from the oldest SBF and repacked it using SBF-Recalc. This is for use with RSD-Lite so it flashes this downgraded bootloader so you can use fastboot to fastboot boot img files. The signature matches with the newer bootloaders.
[Defy General] Aaahh:
So i guess i cant add fastboot to droid x as they have efuse which stops you from flashing an older verison... Thanks anyways
[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
You can't turn your phone into engineering device by using a DX engineering bootloader otherwise it will blow the fuse. I tried to turn my cousin's MS2 into engineering and it hard-bricked itself.
[Defy General] rardy1243:
motorola defy mini

hi i am trying to root my defy mini but it doesnt have fastboot so i found your tutorial but when i try and flash the sbf it doesnt work because i have a 64 bit computer and its 32 bit so im asking if you could upload or tell me where to get a 64 bit sbf file to root my defy mini because i love the phone but really want to root, it anyway it would be awesome if you could help. thanks
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Maybe the problem is the software and not the SBF. Install Motorola Device Manage from Motorola official site and check the driver after connecting the device on computer via USB in flash mode. Open RSD Lite, it should detect the device.

There is no 64 bit SBF because it looks like data in this step. It will be software only into device after.

If you have followed post #41 tutorial, you should ignore the SBF flash error. You ve got fastboot.

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[Defy General] phmacedo:
please help me !! :(

Hey first of all want to thank you very for you work, the defy mini is very abandoned by developers and by the motorola :/ ... but I wanted to ask you.. is if you with your technical knowledge manages to come make a custom rom , or a port of CM9 , I know .......I can not understand much about custom roms...,but the xperia x8 has a very similar to the mini XT320 defy hadware is the same 600 MHz processor , and the xperia x8 have a rom CyanogenMod 9 , you can even see in this link : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1575094 , i do not really know how but if you can carry on and do make work in defy mini this cm9 room..but if you did it , make sure that you will have my eternal gratitude and probably all owners of mini defy the world ^ _ ^ , sorry for my bad english I had to use google translator kk kk :) I'm from Brazil and here do not pay much attention in English class ... but is it :/ ... :) please help me , thank you for your attention

Pedro Henrique Macedo
[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
Xperia X8 uses MSM7227 which is the same my X10 Mini Pro U20i while Defy Mini uses MSM7225A which uses totally different wifi, bluetooth drivers MSM7227 so it will not work vice-versa. If you want more performance, use my custom kernel instead: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2676423

[MENTION=5013979]MauroSZ[/MENTION] That is the explanation for his question.
[Defy General] s27moto:
any news from cm or other custom roms for xt320 ?
[Defy General] Kurajmo:
I think this develop projekt has been stoped for now. Any news , any bl unlock method, any cm dosent show up. Yesterday i sell my moto xt 320 because / this damnit bl iż still locked. And buy Acer Z3 . Acer is better smartphone i think...

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[Defy General] Haravikk:
Okay, so I finally got fed up with some of the bundled software on my XT320 (did anyone else get the MediaSer app that just suddenly eats all their internal memory for no reason?), and so I decided to finally root it.

First up, I want to say thanks for this fantastic guide; all the others I've found were incredibly complex and confusing, this is simple and easy to follow.

I've managed to successfully install fastboot, after realising I only had to hold the volume down button (not both, as for booting into recovery mode) and was able to flash my XT320 successfully. Restarting with the two volume buttons held down sends me to fast boot so that's a resounding success so far, though for some reason I had to do this manually as the .bat wasn't doing anything (I hope I've not missed anything by not using it?).

Unfortunately I can't seem to apply update.zip from recovery mode, as I get an error regarding an invalid signature or something to that effect; I've tried re-downloading a couple of times now to no-avail, so I've stopped for the time being. Can anyone provide an md5 or sha signature for a working update.zip, so I can be sure the file I'm using is the correct one? Alternatively, is there somewhere else that I can get an update.zip for the XT320?

[edit] Aha! I restarted my computer and tried reconnecting my phone and running the .bat script again, and it worked successfully! Now I see why it was needed, I just thought it was a convenient script for rebooting, didn't realise it ran a custom recovery tool.

Now to see about finally getting rid of that damned MediaSer app, and maybe installing link2sd while I'm at it!
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
[MENTION=5980660]Haravikk[/MENTION]

If your problem is low storage, root and Link2SD are indicated. The root access only allows some apps like Link2SD can be installed. Only root cannot improve your free internal storage. Link2SD also can freeze native apps, saving battery.

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[Defy General] Haravikk:
I got my phone rooted and link2SD installed, and it's been a huge improvement to usability!

What I'm wondering now is; what else can I do now that I've rooted my phone? Is it possible to update an XT320 to KitKat? The processor actually seems fairly recent, same with the GPU, plus KitKat is intended to run on devices with as little as 512mb of RAM, so at least from these specs it seems like the XT320 could run KitKat, does an installation method exist for this?
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
For now it seems [MENTION=4880538]rootdefyxt320[/MENTION] is porting to MIUI and maybe you can help him testing.

I can't cause all 2 XT321s of my house aren't exactly mine.

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[Defy General] rootdefyxt320:
I got build errors in services.jar :( This seems to occur in all Motoswitch based ROMs.
[Defy General] squinonx:
Hi Guys, I think I bricked my phone - I accidentally flashed a wrong recovery img permanently and now the phone is just booting in flash mode (power+camera+lower volume).

I cant be detected in command prompt (flashboot devices / adb devices).

RSD Lite can still detect the phone but no matter how many times I flash the fastboot sbf - It still wont run in fast boot.

Thanks
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Reflash your original firmware via RSD Lite first, try fastboot sbf after.

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[Defy General] mjraogr:
Extract SBF

[MENTION=4880538]rootdefyxt320[/MENTION]

Do you know what tools plataform or application may I use to extract SBF ROM to get system apks.

I would like the contacts by xt687 for mods in my AOSP Project

Thanks

MJ
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
May you paste your project link. I'd like to follow it up. I own a xt687. Thanks in advance.

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[Defy General] mjraogr:
Hello

So, my project is for I8552 device, working with AOSP features (DroidWin )

I trying port Dual dialer, cause its Dual sim.

Today it works on CM10 dialer portes togheter others google native

MJ
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
If you still need what you said before tell me that i will post here on sunday.

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[Defy General] mjraogr:
Hello [MENTION=5013979]MauroSZ[/MENTION]

Yes i need the deodexed goggle Dialer and contacts by XT687 for test this function.

I did the customization of Google dialer & Contacts 4.1.2 and i believe that using the same way be able to view the second SIM button

This link of my work on I8552

Thanks a lot

MJ
[Defy General] kpetrov:
Hi, i wanna try tis, but donT know where to find SBF file.

My phone is - soft v. - tnbst_4_0a.1f.3arps

and flex v. - We_retail_CCE_v5_0524_FLEXTNBST
[Defy General] kpetrov:
The methods from #1 and #41 dont work for me.

My Defy dont have fastboot mode.

When use method #41 at step 5 the phone got fastboot mode, but after that nothing happen, i tried few times. Maybe did something wrong.

And when i use #1 method when i flash with RSDlite with the final firmware.sbf the phone take the console actions and restart, but after that nothing happen, it start like after factory reset, and i cannot move or disable firmware apps.

But the tutorials isnt detailed for new users is hard to understanding.
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
[MENTION=6685271]kpetrov[/MENTION]

This method works for defy mini only.

This method doesn't work for defy.

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[Defy General] kpetrov:
Any advice or help? After step 5 fom #41 the phone and the PC dont detect each other. No notificaion on the Phone, neither can be discovarable with the PC. Recovery.bat dont check the phone too.
[Defy General] kpetrov:
I finally root the phone by ur method, but its going worst. U didnt say nothing about the situation after the root. After the root, the internal storage usage grown up and its worst than before. And as i said after the step 5, the pc and the phone dont detect each other, i over that with MOBILedit, and established the conection between the divices, did the following from ur tutorial, and i got root the phone, but like i sade above, internal storage just get worst. And after that i used apps like System App Remover, to remove some apss, not very important apps in first look, like fb and twiter apps, and the phone is tottaly broken atm and unusable.

And i dont talk for defy, i know the tread is about defy mini, omg.

So ur method can root the device, but u have zero words about what may happen after the root. If someone want just to root, ok can root with ur method.

---------- Post added at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:51 PM ----------

Anyway, i did full recovery for the phone, using the final sbf from the #1 and flash it.
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
This method isn't mine, but i know it works. The full internal storage is due google play updates. All methods are the same about this. First u need fastboot after u will be able to run CWM. This is sufficient to install some root files through update.zip file via CWM. The internal storage will be the same because update.zip is too small. Immediately you need to partition the SDCard ans install Link2SD to redirect news apps to Ext second partition and don't allow google play update bloatwares. The update files will be written on data storage spending internal storage. Theses principles are well know for a long time.

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[Defy General] kpetrov:
Probably i will try again, the phone is old and dont cost too much now (in case of irreversible damage). But anyway i want to root it succeful and the phone to continued to work properly...

But i told u and ask u again if u or someone can systematize and full and detailed tutorial, before, root, and after the root with full procedure and what is bad to do or good.

Yes, i see the tutorials are writen for ppl which have some expirience with that, but itsn clear and detailed for users which are totally novice like me.:

:)
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
The locked bootloader will protect your mini from a permanent damage. Once rooted u can damage your phone only making overclock burning the nand. U also should not try to flash another SBF rom via RSDLite from another model, e. g. normal Defy.

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[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Hi MJ

I'm sorry but to deodex is a task for you because I don't know how to deodex. I can provide to you:

1) The XT687 SBF ROM I use in my phone. U can download from the link below:

h t t p : / / w w w. 4 s h a r e d . c o m / a r c h i v e / E E 9 8 I r 2 G / I T D _ V 2 2 7 G _ A 0 3 _ s i g n e d _ w i t h b l s b f . h t m l

remove spaces - this site doesn't work under MSWindows (why ?). You need to access by linux or android app in your smartphone. Maybe you need to sign up to download.

2) You will need MotoAndroidDepacker1.2alpha-3.zip that [MENTION=4880538]rootdefyxt320[/MENTION], the owner of this thread, uploaded to post #1 as attachment, go there and download to your PC.

Follow the steps written in post #1 splitting twice: i) ITD_V2.27G_A03_signed_withbl.sbf; ii) CG2.smg

3) You will need yaffey-v0.2-win32.zip too attached in this post.

Go to CG2-extracted folder and open some file .mbn like systemsec.mbn. If you don't find the apk you want search for it in another .mbn.

=======EDIT ============== Credits ==================

- MotoAndroidDepacker - SKrilax_CZ

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2228410

- yaffey-v0.2-win32.zip - yaffey

https://code.google.com/p/yaffey/
[Defy General] kpetrov:
I tried few diferent root methods for the mini, for my rom, the working one is the #41 post method. The bad part for my rom is that if not working every time and u may get a lot of different problems. I did root at least 3 times by those method, root/recovery/root.

One major problem still persist, after all roots - the phone going resrart over and over again when it is plug on to USB PC. This may persist too long, and u will be lucky if did just one or two succefully conections to USB. If the author of this method can give a solution to fix this, the methods will be really fully working. But unless i didnt find out other succefull method for my rom, i talk especcialy for my rom, i use this method from #41.
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
The persistent restart may occur when the user forget the RSDLite opened on PC. If it is your case close it.

There are some ways to root defy mini, except Chinese method all methods downgrade the bootloader to get fastboot turning the phone up to boot into CWM and install some root files in update.zip.

Just after rooting your major problems aren't solved yet. It is only the first but very important step, because now u have license to modify your system and flex folders.

U should to search on others threads the next steps, like to partition SDCard, LInk2SD etc always making nandroid backup avoiding to restart from beginning repeatedly.

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[Defy General] mjraogr:
Thanks Bro

I will do this

MJ
[Defy General] kpetrov:
I root the phone by #41 method 3 times, like i said :) the same usb problem appear and persist after any of these roost. maybe i dont understant something, but i guess as this method is mentioned to be universal thats the reason to not work fine with some roms. I dont know. But, that i did i to make ext4 part on sd before the root, i linked googleplay and fb and few more aps to external. That i didint figure out yet is how to stop google play self updates and USB problem.

BTW i tried ur method of stealing fastboot. my rom is TNBST_4_0A.1F.3ARPS_flex_WE_Retail_CEE_v5_0524_NOAPR_sec_20120524 , it it the same or similar for those ur mentioned u use. But it not work to me and my phone dont obtain fastboot mode, and i guess i dont made it right. If u can explain more detailed, coz in ur tread is cut discribed :) or if u can give me a link of the final sbf to try flash it with it.

I did the root on orange_spain rom, by the shortest method, and it is very fast and work fine, so if someone have orange_spain rom he is lucky. But my rom is different. :)

The other major question which i have is about the system memory. It not available to view before the root. But after the root, except the internal memory and ram, in link2cd is viewable system memory, with is almost completely full. What is this, why that and it this is normal? :)
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Which is your PC OS ? Have you installed Motorola Device Manager software ?

Let do it step by step. Please, first answer what I'm asking and don't do anything else to bug the process.

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Edit

..... because I've realized a lot of concept mistakes in your text.
[Defy General] raymondadutwum:
Please can i have a link to download defy mini xt321 stock firmware

thank you
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Which country?

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[Defy General] raymondadutwum:
Ghana, Africa

thank you
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
I have the modified xt321 firmware from Brasil (retail no sim lock) that was repacked using this thread method then it has fastboot. I don't know if it will useful for you. But if you want anyway I can upload it and share the download link.

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[Defy General] raymondadutwum:
Please do, as long as there's no Sim lock
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
h t t p : / / w w w . 4 s h a r e d . c o m / z i p / z y H 1 1 w l y c e / T N B S T _ 4 _ 0 A 1 F 1 1 R P D _ R T L _ B R _ f a s t b . h t m l

copy the link above, past on notepad, remove spaces, copy the result and paste on your browse - this site doesn't work under MSWindows (why ?). You need to access by linux or android app in your smartphone. Maybe you will need to sign up first to download after.

Extract the SBF file. The password is

topsmarts

Use RSDLite that [MENTION=4880538]rootdefyxt320[/MENTION] attached at post #1 to flash the ROM, be sure you have the needed drivers insttaled, i recommend installing Motorola Device Manager software supplying all the drivers.

Wait RSDLite tell you that finished. Maybe after reboot in the end.

Go directly to root step after because this ROM already has fastboot .

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[Defy General] steve_zissou:
Hi,

Sorry to bother you guys ;)

I'm not the person you were talking to but as I'm trying to follow the famous post #41 and my phone can't be seen in RSD lite, some help step-by-step could be useful!

My OS is win8.1 and I've installed motorola device manager software...but I don't know how to check if it's properly installed (sorry, but I'm kind of a noob...;) ).

Thanks in advance
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
Do you have another PC with WinXP or Win7 installed that you can try ? If not it will be difficult to me because only my daughter has win8.1 in my house. I intend to perform each step before writing here.
[Defy General] steve_zissou:
In fact, I tried to operate from another PC with Vista and everything worked! (and I finally managed to perform the other task I had to do once the phone rooted)

I can't say if the problem was caused by the OS, the drivers installation (related to the OS) or the USB port (only usb3 ports on my PC with win8.1)...

Thanks a lot to this forum!
[Defy General] Crono88:
Hi, i need original firmware (italian language). Where I can download it? Thanks
[Defy General] MauroSZ:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=64545108

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[Defy General] Haravikk:
So I rooted my Defy Mini (XT320) a while ago, and been using it quite happily (thanks to this guide, huge appreciation for that!), until recently anyway when something seems to have caused it to become unstable, as a result I've done a factory reset (still rooted) and am in the process of restoring only what I really need to see if that sorts it out.

Anyway, it got me to wondering if anyone ever managed to release a newer version of Android for the Defy Mini? The web is riddled with bogus "guides" to upgrading to the latest Android version on an XT320, all of which require downloading a three-part ROM beyond "special offer" pay-wall download sites (and no doubt riddled with viruses or guaranteed to soft-brick your phone if you're lucky). But it's made it very hard to find if there are any legitimate OS upgrades out there, not helped by the fact that search engines don't seem to consider the mini part of "defy mini" important, argh.

It doesn't look like Cyanogenmod ever got support for the Defy Mini, which is a huge shame as that would probably have been my first choice. Does anything else exist that could get me to something newer than Gingerbread on my Defy Mini?
[Defy General] chuhui163:
Thank you very much! Appriciated indeed!

Thank you very much! Appriciated indeed!
[Defy General] tezzar:
I used TWRP fix file permissions and messed up my bootloader, I just need to get into TRWP and backup my data but I have only MBM Flash-Mode because phone is black screened. Is there a .sbf file for XT320 to fix boot to ADB or Recovery mode? I tried XT320_XT321_Fastboot.sbf but I get a flashing error.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] mr.fast:
Are you going to purchase the Note 10.1 2014 Edition to replace your Note 10.1? I'm still undecided.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] bikrame:
Nop.