yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Ultra General] lkevinl:
OK, I'm rooted with this method:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2442585

Currently on 4.2.2. If I uninstall the app, I should be back to stock, correct? If so, I should be able to directly take the OTA to 4.4 I'd think.

Has the OTA been pulled? I haven't got notified yet.

There is a lot of info flying around for the different scenarios... I'm having trouble following. Can someone make a flow chart? :silly:
[Droid Ultra General] luisdev:
seems he did not go out well, fastboot preflash validation failed. There are hopes.
[Droid Ultra General] papercut19:
This is the same issue im running into when trying to flash recovery.img inside the update.zip file
[Droid Ultra General] xiRevenant:
Used this method to update. The update failed the first time and now the root counter on my Maxx is saying that I rooted. Any specific reason?
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
Sigh. Was at work all day. Hoped to come home to an SBF. Alas, none. So its likely no luck till earliest Friday. :(
[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
If you work for moto why dont you tell us the secret to unlocking the bootloader so we can just load what we want on the device we own?
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
Has anyone got this working yet without the SBF and not having the update on their phone?
[Droid Ultra General] luisdev:
No one to tell me if my problem can be solved and how? I should flash the recovery of my droid maxx or flash the stock rom 4.2.2 or later but I could not. this problem occurred I wanted to update Android 4.4 without waiting for the OTA. I knew I would have avoided the risk. I am very disappointed if you do not solve I will have to send in the warranty.

the mistakes that I have received are:

1) partion(boot) security version downgraded

2) fastboot preflash validation failed

why even bother with rslite you can flash the stock rom? but how to build them these smarttphone ...
[Droid Ultra General] Gtech145:
I just came back to let you guys know I got my issue sorted out after the failed KitKat update. I too had the preflash security errors. What turned out to be the issue was minimal adb. I guess it doesn't like some .IMG files. I found moto fast boot on the net somewhere and was able to side load KitKat.
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
Awesome. Can you be a little more specific on what you did. The problem seems to be adb sideload
[Droid Ultra General] Gtech145:
Originally I had the preflash security error and the downgraded security message. The update installed the new KitKat recovery but seemed to fail during the system write. I attempted to sideload with the ota zip posted here but kept getting an error for a system app called vznavigator. I did some searching and saw someone had an issue with certain moto files and the minimal adb fast boot tool. I used the moto fast boot tool instead and somehow it worked. I did have to wipe my data and cache a few in recovery though to get it to work.
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
I just get installation aborted as soon as it sideloads. Can't wait for SBF,
[Droid Ultra General] wallace342:
Same here. Would be a good Christmas present!
[Droid Ultra General] Gtech145:
I got that too. Did you flash the recovery.img from the ota zip? Try reflashing it if you did already.
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
Yeah I did that. Same result.
[Droid Ultra General] Gtech145:
Sounds like you need the system.img file to fix your issue. There's talk of the fxz coming out soon. I think moto is working with folks who bricked during the soak first before releasing
[Droid Ultra General] wallace342:
Do you have that information on good authority, or just speculating?
[Droid Ultra General] Gtech145:
From a very good source!
[Droid Ultra General] chewybang:
I SO hope you're right and this thing gets released ASAP
[Droid Ultra General] beelow319:
Mine had originally only half updated. I couldn't fxz or anything like that. To fix it i booted to fastboot and used the fastboot exe in houseofmoto to flash the system.img file from the fxz currently available. Then rebooted and it took the whole update. Hope that helps some of you.
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
Merry Christmas!

I know there are several folks without the use of their phones. Motorola has seemingly dragged their feet on this. I received this a couple of days ago.

1. Download the “Droid MAXX dev edition” image from this site.

2. Unzip the image

3. Put your device in fastboot mode

4. fastboot erase recovery

5. Reflash the original recovery partition image with

$ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

$ fastboot reboot

If this does not work, we recommend you need to reflash your device to original factory software

fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash logo logo.bin

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin

fastboot erase modemst1

fastboot erase modemst2

fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn

fastboot reboot

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/om9j3iys8em3ccf/2r5u7m-h4d

Make sure you use the fastboot included in the Windows subdirectory in the .zip. The one I was trying to use when I first flashed this would not work. And despite what the zip is titled, this WILL WORK with non-Developer edition phones.
[Droid Ultra General] mrwest45:
THANK YOU!

You are SANTA!!!!!

damman7 is the man

Thanks Again

Had to do all the steps but it worked flawlessly
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
Had to do the long way, but it is booting up as we speak. Thank you so much.
[Droid Ultra General] Jaocagomez:
Omg thank you very much downloading as we speaking

Edit:

**** can't download from my phone I hope doesn't get taken down before I reach my house.
[Droid Ultra General] pj1980:
Thank you soooo much I have my phone working again, goodbye prepaid POS phone back to class.
[Droid Ultra General] fenixjr:
Just to confirm, this fixed a previously unrooted completely stock DROID MINI as well. Thanks a bunch for the files.
[Droid Ultra General] papercut19:
FRIGGING AMAZING! Thank you for the fix danman7 and also thank you to wallace342 for helping with all my other snags along the way.
[Droid Ultra General] trichotomous:
509

Dang! "Error (509)

This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!" Mirror anyone? :confused:
[Droid Ultra General] sp47:
Please make mirror. Dropbox is over capacity.
[Droid Ultra General] mr_const:
It worked! :)

Unbricked my xt1080m, write-protect is still off, but no more kitkat root.
[Droid Ultra General] SystemOAD:
A mirror:

drive. google. com/file/d/0B11ENX3qyVwyV1NuaE42SUpCcE0/edit?usp=sharing
[Droid Ultra General] kaos2569:
Another mirror I just uploaded to help. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ke0SM7SzACWnZZb0xnU1NhV0k/edit?usp=sharing
[Droid Ultra General] luisdev:
great work the steps now I kitkat on my droid maxx thanks and good wishes for Christmas

ps

used in the image fastboot zip droid maxx dev edition
[Droid Ultra General] chewybang:
mirror please!!!!

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Oh you are a savior! Thank you!
[Droid Ultra General] Jaocagomez:
now on 4.4 worked pretty good, but i thought it was a full sbf, felt more lika a upgrade, didnt erase any of my data. im happy anyways!
[Droid Ultra General] jphillips.hd88:
Hi cant see where this may have been answered but when flashing system i get a error

Data exceeds download buffer

any ideas?
[Droid Ultra General] chewybang:
I don't have this error but I think mine is worse.

Whenever I try to do ANY of the commands in the instructions, I get "Variable not supported!". Target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes. error: cannot load "<filename>": No error.

Any ideas?
[Droid Ultra General] chevyrado14:
You gotta use moto fastboot for it to work
[Droid Ultra General] chewybang:
That's what I'm using :(

EDIT: I think my bootloader is hosed. Any way of flashing that? Even when I try to try to use "fastboot erase recovery", I get (bootloader) Permission denied. FAILED (remote failure)
[Droid Ultra General] SystemOAD:
try to run flashall.bat

It helps to me :victory:
[Droid Ultra General] chewybang:
Dude... DUDE! THAT WAS IT! I owe you BIG TIME! Thank you for making my Christmas bright :)
[Droid Ultra General] jphillips.hd88:
Nevermind...still waiting to see if it works....fingers crossed!

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Everything flashed but it reboot into bootloader with a "Fastboot Reason: Sticky bit factory_fastboot"

Any Ideas.

BTW: I do appreciate all the help.

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I couldn't get it into recovery so I decided to flash it via fastboot. and was able to boot!!!!

Thanks so much for the help!
[Droid Ultra General] PILLMUZIK3600:
SINCE YHIS FILE IS FROM THE DEV EDITION SHOULDNT SOMEONE BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT A BOOTLOADER UNLOCK FOR US?
[Droid Ultra General] sp47:
danman7 - THANK YOU!

:good:
[Droid Ultra General] arcanexvi:
Bootloader unlock still requires a key that you will not be able to obtain with a non dev device. Non dev devices are blacklisted from the unlock process.
[Droid Ultra General] Yachter99:
Good sir, I believe I love you, you saved my christmas
[Droid Ultra General] phositadc:
So you followed the instructions and flashed all of the files, including recovery and bootloader? And it worked fine on your Mini?

Just curious, does the notification LED still work after flashing these files?
[Droid Ultra General] Jaocagomez:
More mirrors to download the sbf

http://bitshare.com/files/l79kxct0/...U2-3-15-release-keys-cid2-Verizon-US.zip.html

http://depositfiles.org/files/xmo8wjwwp

http://uptobox.com/57mo1tmos382

http://filerio.in/1hphp2x7xc2i

http://www.crocko.com/6DA3C38445174...4.4-SU2-3-15-release-keys-cid2-Verizon-US.zip

All links in one: http://www.multiupload.nl/WU0KSVDK15

Clicking the 'thanks' button is enough for me.
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
So I have a question for the future. Will this version take an OTA update for non-dev version in the future to 4.4.2? And since this is a dev version, is there a way to root it?
[Droid Ultra General] an21281:
I

Yes this will let you take ota's, but there is no root method yet once your on 4.4. I used the dev MAXX fxz to un brick my Ultra after receiving the soak test and failing. Someone figuring out a root method for kit kat is slim, but I'm hopeful... The only thing I'm really missing right now Is wireless tether since I have unlimited data.
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
You hear the same thing every time a new update rolls out. "I doubt there will be root this time", and yet root is always achieved.
[Droid Ultra General] coronanlime:
I hope so. Like xposed. But hope jcase can make a simpler method. I've been rooting since og DROID, but this was the first time I soft bricked. But glad we got it up and running again.
[Droid Ultra General] an21281:
Very true, will have to wait and see.
[Droid Ultra General] luminous00:
IT WORKED!

I'd quote the post on page 37 but i'm not sure how to. The fastboot commands worked! I've unbricked my phone! Guess i can cancel that replacement, hah.
[Droid Ultra General] danny425usa:
Fastboot Reason: Sticky bit factory_fastboot

This is my first time posting...I used the .bat file to try to unbrick and the phone on cycles to Fastboot Reason: Sticky bit factory_fastboot. Any ides? I appreciate it!
[Droid Ultra General] Ghxoxst:
when i try to run the fastboot from windows it tells me "the program cant strat becaus adbwindapi.dll is misssing ffrom your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fis this problem

but i see that file directly above the fastboot?

Please help

EDIT

I have downloaded the droid maxx dev edition file. But where do i get the moto fastboot program from or is that the fastboot file in the windows folder? Still trying to figure this all out.

Please help my unbrick this thing
[Droid Ultra General] chevyrado14:
Should be the one in the windows folder
[Droid Ultra General] Ghxoxst:
I click on the fastboot program but it quickly opens up then closes. Also i have set up adb. So when i run commant prompt i try plugging in the commands given but it tells me "variable not supported" . I have also tried typing in "flashall.bat" but it says "the system cannot find the path specified and is asking if by any chance i have a jtag flex attached. If so detach the jtag flex and try again...?

if i type fastboot it brings me to a menu like directory telling me commands and if i type devices it pops up....so i know i am doing something partially right but when i go to type any of the commands given to try to get my device back on track it says VARIABLE NOT SUPPORTED ....

also if i type fastboot flashall.bat it brings me to that command screen again... but from this point everything else it tells me variable not found

please help
[Droid Ultra General] BladeRunner:
just double click the flashall.bat

let me clarify that, put your phone in fastboot mode, connect to your pc via usb cable then double click the flashall.bat It will do its thing automatically, it will take quite some time to flash the system.img and even though your phone says "done" let it finish until it reboots your phone and says "press any key to continue" or something like that.
[Droid Ultra General] Ghxoxst:
I have done that but it says "the system cannot find the specified path" and it says that over and over and over as its trying to find it i guess...but nothing

SOLVED

UNZIPPING THE DROID MAXX DEV ZIP ONTO MY DESKTOP (TURNING ALL THE FILES GREEN) THEN HITTING THE BAT FILE WORKED!!!!!!!!!

NOW I CAN SLEEP THANK YOU SO MUCH FAWWK!
[Droid Ultra General] BladeRunner:
Really? Where? I think you sign up for MFN and then they send out a limited number of invitations for the soak test. At least I believe that is the way it has worked in the past.
[Droid Ultra General] PyreoPhillic:
Just got an email saying the update is coming early tomorrow morning :D
[Droid Ultra General] temtemking:
I believe I have received the email confirming that I am selected for the soak test. It the email it does say Kit Kat....here we go folks!
[Droid Ultra General] VandyCWG:
Your email says KitKat?? Awesome, first I have heard of this! People are hoping for it....

COngrats to all the Soak Testers!
[Droid Ultra General] temtemking:
I would hope it's Kit Kat. It references the Kit Kat Moto X update.
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
Since when did they start sending emails after the original soak test email got sent?
[Droid Ultra General] ApriliaM3:
Some people here seem to think it's ok to swear as much as they want... I can assure you it's not. Knock it off.

Whether the filter edits your post or not, the intent is there and it's unacceptable.

If this continues, you will find yourself with warnings, infractions or worse.

Thanks
[Droid Ultra General] Brenardo:
Kinda like posting questions in the development thread right? That kind of unacceptable?
[Droid Ultra General] destes37:
You receive the invite email and then on the day they push the soak you receive another explaining how to give feedback. The email I may or may not received this morning confirms KitKat.
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
Did you get KitKat?
[Droid Ultra General] destes37:
Still waiting for soak to start. Email said push would be morning.
[Droid Ultra General] DeerSteak:
Yup I did or didn't get the same email for the Mini
[Droid Ultra General] custer32:
It may or may not have said "early tomorrow". Hopefully that means morning.
[Droid Ultra General] tecsironman:
Early morning their time..
[Droid Ultra General] chevyrado14:
Its not a secret anymore vzw just tweeted this

https://twitter.com/VZWnews/status/413679991449059329
[Droid Ultra General] rlmesq:
Interesting... The tweet says all 3 phones, but the PDF on the linked page only says Ultra & Maxx.

http://support.verizonwireless.com/support/system_update/droid-maxx.html
[Droid Ultra General] orcsbane13:
More than anything I hope this update fixes the capacitive buttons to how they were before 12.15.15. Now they are unresponsive and I hate that you can swipe up on any of them for Google now.
[Droid Ultra General] xxspark89xx:
Update is downloading now on my Maxx :)

I did a clear on Google Framework and restarted... Download started shortly after
[Droid Ultra General] commando122:
Can you please post the OTA?
[Droid Ultra General] PyreoPhillic:
Restarted my phone 45% done :D
[Droid Ultra General] csstamatin:
To use the moto fastboot its mfastboot then whatever ur trying to do.
[Droid Ultra General] Jdalton1111:
Kitkat DROID Maxx

Does anyone know if they pulled the kitkat release for DROID Maxx , what's going on? This is driving me crazy!
[Droid Ultra General] commando122:
Curious - who supplied the 4.4 image files? Motorola Customer Support? Or a leak from inside Motorola?
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
I'd rather not be specific, but it was someone within Motorola.
[Droid Ultra General] Brenardo:
Hopefully they come to understand that if the bootloader was unlockable across all devices this wouldn't be major epidemic like it is. I am sure VZW is paying huge shipping costs for replacement devices for those who bricked and didn't want to figure out how to fastboot
[Droid Ultra General] goxxy:
Some particular OTA update wouldn't take on my phone. Running this with the 12.15.15 files really saved my bacon.

I would never let anything happen to your bacon, I love you Santa Claus.
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
glad I was able to help.

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glad I was able to help.
[Droid Ultra General] Tomell:
Does anyone have the OTA Update.Zip? Seems like I can't find it anywhere. Where is that DEV addition from? Is it like a stock version or something?

(Reason the this is because I have some weird rooted but not rooted version of 4.4 and need the stock 4.4 update.zip. HELP!!!:eek:)
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
The Dev version is from Motorola and will work with a non DE version of the phone. It's from the first soak test and has rescued several people.
[Droid Ultra General] Tomell:
Will it give me the OTA if I update off of it from 4.4?
[Droid Ultra General] spiral777:
could this be used to root the non DE edition?
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
No. Not to my knowledge. You can see further explanation here
[Droid Ultra General] DeerSteak:
It's coming down on my Mini but it's a totally stock device. No way that I know of to pull it out of cache before installing - if I'm wrong say so and I'll come up with something.
[Droid Ultra General] phositadc:
Is it 4.4.0 or 4.4.2?
[Droid Ultra General] efdisastet:
let's just say, theoretically, that it's downloading now on my mini, but I'm all rooted and xposed and etc. Where would I find the file to save it for later?
[Droid Ultra General] commando122:
Open up a root browser and poke around in the cache or data folders. The file name will be obvious.

You might want to freeze the MotoOTA apk as it will constantly bother you until you update.
[Droid Ultra General] custer32:
Yeah id freeze that. If something happens and you accidentally update that then you will most likely (definitely) soft brick. And we all know thats no fun :p
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
This is the second time in a row where they announced soak and are pushing ota when the soak is supposed to happen.
[Droid Ultra General] reggie14:
Well, this is good for me. I was accepted into the soak, but then my phone's microphone died. They're sending me a new phone that, of course, won't be included. So, this ought to be a sign that the new phone will still get the OTA pretty quicky.

One thing I've been a bit unclear on is if it's possible to install the OTA before it's pushed out to your phone if you're locked and unrooted (once someone posts it, of course).
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
Yes you can with stock recovery
[Droid Ultra General] sabbotage:
Anyone know if this will download over WiFi only? I have a Moto X developer edition too so my Maxx isn't active at the moment. I was hoping I could still download and upgrade my Maxx without cellular data.
[Droid Ultra General] PyreoPhillic:
Well this is interesting. I updated with the OTA no problem but I'm still not write protected. This might be a very good thing :D
[Droid Ultra General] DeerSteak:
Mine does or does not say 4.4, and I can definitely say it does not say 4.4.1 or 4.4.2.
[Droid Ultra General] orcsbane13:
Does yours still have the blue theme and dark status bar? I'd of thought ours would have changed like the moto x did
[Droid Ultra General] Franzie3:
i would use house of moto and save data and go to stock, then accept the update. I think the Moto x root method for 4.4 will still work. not sure yet
[Droid Ultra General] Metfanant:
pics ive seen are still black/blue themed...was hoping for the stock kitkat theme...
[Droid Ultra General] phositadc:
Looks like the Moto X 4.4 root method requires you to go back to 4.2.2 and tweak a few things before accepting the OTA. Also, didn't jcase have to slightly edit the files for the various different motorolas? If so, I imagine some minor change would have to be made to the 4.4 moto X root files for them to work on the Droid variants.
[Droid Ultra General] Franzie3:
yea this is disappointing. i was hoping for it. I mentioned it already in the soak
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
Arg!!! Need help. I thought I had prepared well. I was rooted, so I unrooted, and flashed the stock recovery.img. However, the update failed and now it won't go past Fastboot.

If I attempt to manually fastboot flash anything from the 4.2.2 release, it fails. For example, if I fastboot flash boot boot.img I get Partition (boot) Security Version Downgraded preflash validation failed for boot.

I have a feeling that it partially updated and now won't take a flash of an older version. However, I don't have the newer .zip file to flash manually.

Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated!
[Droid Ultra General] w0rdie:
Follow the guide linked below -- be sure to SBF back to the 4.2.2 Maxx update.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2538896
[Droid Ultra General] chevyrado14:
im stuck in the same spot. RSD and House of Moto both fail trying to flash back to the camera update.
[Droid Ultra General] w0rdie:
When I have had flash failures with this device its been drivers -- Tried reinstalling?
[Droid Ultra General] chevyrado14:
drivers are fine. i think the bootloader updated when it tried to install the ota and it wont let me flash back to the old one. thats where its gets hung up. tried to do it manually and it failed on the gpt flash the motoboot and logo flashed fine
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
Exactly my situation. Both motoboot and logo will flash, nothing else seems to.
[Droid Ultra General] arcanexvi:
Can one of you grab your install.recovery.sh please? Root modifies this file and causes the update to fail system verification.
[Droid Ultra General] beelow319:
mine failed the first time, it started to update, rebooted, attempted updating again then failed. It booted back up all the way with no issue though. I am downloading the update again and will try again.

before the update:

did away with changes done by motoxposed/gravity box

unrooted

flash stock recovery

-update- failed the second time....trying houseofmoto now to go stock and keep data
[Droid Ultra General] bendrum30:
I still haven't gotten the update. I received all of the emails and did the survey. Got the email last night saying they would release the update this morning. Bummer. I'm impatient. Guess it is rolling out in phases...
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
How do I do this?
[Droid Ultra General] arcanexvi:
Use your favorite file managment app (I use root explorer) and navigate to system/etc and zip and upload that file here
[Droid Ultra General] danman7:
Oh, gotcha. Sorry, I can't, since I can't get past fastboot.
[Droid Ultra General] Caseyk621:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wnu0s55h2rhky3n/install-recovery.sh.zip