[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Uh, "Not Installed", "Not Active", or any of that stuff means safe strap did not work and you cannot enter recovery anymore. Is the slot and ability to boot to installed rom gone with it, I am not sure. Uninstalling Safe Strap takes the recovery environment away so you cannot use that, but not the rom slots. Otherwise how could one uninstall one version of Safe Strap and then install another if it took out your rom with it?

Wow, you guys are really turning into "Engineers" over this phone. You can do that if you want. Look at it from every angle, try to anticipate any contingency that may arise, and dwell on it until your phone is simply outdated. In the amount you have spent talking about this phone, you actually could have gone clean from scratch over 3 times already. :(

When I got my phone and heard about rooting, I wanted it, BAD. I got with the boards, did some reading, asked a few questions and finally, I did it! I rooted my own phone! I was so happy with just that kept me going at least a year. But stupid things like taking an OTA update from Verizon ruined that and no apk could fix that version. I was bummed. :(

But, I learned how to root the phone with a USB cable and a PC. Scary at first, but nothing went wrong and it worked just fine. I was up and running again. When cm11 came out, we could actually OTA update again. Oh man, does it get any better than this? :laugh:

All the other guys on the board kept at me, "When are you going to start romming your phone, Ohmster?". Oh man, romming? Kidding me, right? No way! Too scary. And, actually, I did not like any of the roms out there. Make your phone look and act like an iPhone. Who would want that? Didn't care much for stock miui rom. But I later found out from screenshots you could customize these things really, really nice. And then came CM10. Now THAT, I liked. I had a Droid X at that time and with ClockworkMod ROM Manager installed, romming was no big deal at all. Just tap to go to recovery, flash the zip and gapps, reboot. Piece of cake! Once I got the Razr, then I had to use the USB cable again to root that puppy and then came Safe Strap, no more hassle! :laugh:

One thing you learn when romming in short order. Disaster can strike at any time. Being able to restore your phone from scratch is something you get used to and if you are lucky, do not have to do often. But EVERYBODY knows how and is ready for it, at any time.

Just about everyone here has heard the term and had to do it, SEVERAL TIMES, "Go clean". That means, "Wipe the phone and start all over". Yeah, lot of work putting all of your stuff back, not excruciating but you will not get done in a couple of hours. But, if you try, and worse comes to worse, you can do exactly that. I have done this MANY times. Twice in one week by bricking my phone with ClockworkMod ROM Manager twice in one week. I swear I could have killed myself. The second time it happened in one week (I actually put everything back in like two days.) I installed this "Black" version of CWM and it was "sure to work on a Razr". What I didn't do, in my excitement, was read the followup comments saying it won't work, it WILL brick the phone and even some that did brick their phones with it.

So yeah, AP Fastboot, USB cable, flash a rom, root the rom, and then start putting everything back, AGAIN. :(

If you do have to start over, at least now you build your castle on bedrock and not swamp or sand. Very good to get it right and solid. :D

It sucked but I got over it. Going clean if this fails will give you something really good in return. A rock solid system with the latest Safe Strap on it and a nice stock rom, plus you can install cm11 in slot 1 like everybody else, and never have to jump through hoops again. If you have to, it is not that bad, here is why:

Before you do anything, backup all personal stuff, pictures, videos, music, personal files or apk files to PC or a cloud drive.

You get a totally clean internal SDCard by formatting it.

You install a real stock rom in the stock slot.

You can now put cm11 on slot 1

Google will backup and restore all apps you got from Play Store.

Google will put back ALL of your contacts.

Titanium Backup will put back ALL apps, even those not from Google.

What is left? Setup your desktop, so what?

Then, make a nice, new, Safe Strap backup and you are up to date and done!

Hassle? Yeah. But done and over with? Oh man, very cool. :cool:

You have been on this for like a week already and could have been done with it. It would be "Pure Gold" to have that shiny new, rock solid system on your phone, wouldn't it?

Don't get me wrong, I am not being mean. But think about all the time you are putting into saving a "rocky install". Google and Titanium Backup will put most of your stuff back. And you have to do the Odin/RSDLite/Linux thing, your choice, to get that first rom installed and rooted but once done, you are well on you way and that USB method does not take more than an hour once you get ready and do it.

You have to keep things in perspective here fellows. If you were trying to save the last living female human on the planet, okay, whatever it takes. But this is just a phone, and it can be done from scratch in a day. The way you like it by day 2 or 3. Done. Your choice.

I would really like to see whemix get his phone working the way he wants and it is not too difficult, but if that is NOT an option, then do it right, get it over with, and be very happy with a phone that is done right, backed up, and never have to worry like this again. If you are not sure if safe strap is going to update, then what are you going to do, sit on this phone that you hate, forever? Backup everything you can, give it your best shot, if it fails, start fresh and do a great job. It does not take THAT long to start over. The phone will be working within an hour, two if you are learning, the same day if you are having problems. Then, you just have to set it back up the way you like it.

Good luck guys! :cool: