[Motorola Droid 4] joefuf:
Yeah, that's me in a nutshell - basically anything I do with technology for someone else is seamless and I look great; do something for myself and I have the most obscure issues.

I will get a newer version of RSDLite and see if that can flash it in a manner that solves the issue. I still have RSDLite 5.7 on my laptop from the first (and only) time I flashed this phone, so I know it did work last time for this very phone.

I am using Windows 7 64bit and it is USB 2.0 (I have a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop. Sorry I didn't specify that earlier.

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So I looked for a copy of RSDLite 6.6, but all I found were guides where you mentioned it. The link to a http://motofirmware.center page were all broken, so I went with v6.1.5 and selected the options that you said above. I installed the firmware named "cdma_maserati_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18_1ff" which is what I see the Utility uses, and I had a copy of that too. It finished with a (Recipe Failure) still, so I'm not sure if that means nothing will work from this point forward in the process, but I'll try until I see a reply from you.

I also want to make note of two other quirks I've seen:

At the end of the flashing, my phone will not reboot to a regular phone state, it just stays on the AP Fastboot screen.

My phone will not shutdown on its own. I noticed this before I completely wiped it. The thing would not reboot on its own and it wouldn't shutdown without me holding down the power button. This only started yesterday. All it does is show the "Shutting Down..." page on screen, buzzes, the cell service goes to nil and just stays that way in perpetuity.

Building on that, if I am to turn my phone off now, even to Force Shutdown, if I click the Power Button, it comes back up at the Fastboot screen. THIS is the weirdest part of things that I have come across... I have to click the Power button to get off of that and then hold hte Power button while holding the Volume rocker to get to Normal boot in order to get the thing to turn on. This only started on the train home after I flashed the firmware you suggested.

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Sorry for the triple post. I did use the utility to root and install Safestrap 3.11

I opened Safestrap and tried installing Recovery and it hung at 60/100 again.

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This is what I got when I tried to use the fastboot with the erase command

I typed in just fastboot.exe and got a list of commands, and erase was not one of them

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@sd_shadow (just tagging because I don't know if you get notifications for my continued posts)

I am trying a reflash following the exact steps of the guy who you mentioned that had a Recipe problem which I found here. I found the same firmware, the same drivers, and the same RSDLite version.

Is there any way to tell if there is in face a flash memory failure like you mentioned? If I can determine that it is a hardware failure, then I know any more attempts are in vain and my only option is to get Verizon/Asurion involved.