[Motorola Droid 3] saadow:
Hi, newb here, I'm having some trouble.

So I'm not positive what device I have, it claims to be a Droid 3 when I look up the IMEI, it tells me it's a Motorola Milestone 3, it seems to have a similar kind of Radio Lock to the Droid 2 Global, and it's carrier information is PCTI.

I'm trying to flash Solana 2.3.6-5.5.1.1 and, whenever I go through the normal XML and try to flash, it gets done with MBM and the other stuff, but when it starts to try and flash Image files (anything .img) it hangs, and fails. Then the Bootloader has the title AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S) (Flash Failure)

Now, from another post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2174433) I got the awesome idea to remove any references to .img in the XML, and just do the beginning part, it looks like this:

<steps interface="AP">
<step operation="flash" partition="mbm" filename="allow-mbmloader-flashing-mbm.bin" MD5="072e86d6f0bf608d36d68e8a6a167a88" />
<step operation="reboot-bootloader" />
<step operation="flash" partition="mbmloader" filename="mbmloader.bin" MD5="f402e5e66e6267a2e416decc1b827268" />
<step operation="flash" partition="mbm" filename="mbm.bin" MD5="97706c215fce01e8ac9f7d9428a035fd" />
<step operation="flash" partition="cdt.bin" filename="cdt.bin" MD5="c2ebfc5cd02bf87b372f818a871712d5" />
<step operation="reboot-bootloader" />
<step operation="erase" partition="cache" />
<step operation="erase" partition="userdata" />
<step operation="flash" partition="lbl" filename="lbl" MD5="b7714d7ed32ae556201405e239d43447" />
<step operation="flash" partition="logo.bin" filename="logo.bin" MD5="06c07c2970460a4e656a3206859a3617" />
<step operation="flash" partition="ebr" filename="ebr" MD5="820ca594391b56282485bbf1af20da99" />
<step operation="flash" partition="mbr" filename="mbr" MD5="ad0d2e66dd6770bd9fb77fc2f0c8d154" />
<step operation="flash" partition="devtree" filename="device_tree.bin" MD5="40435eaf876d217734cbab91c234f9d1" />
<step operation="reboot-bootloader" />

Now I know this is not the whole thing, it's just to show you part of it and what "actually works."

This removes the (flash failure) tag and allows me to reboot the phone without it hanging on the bootloader, this might help other people too, so, hopefully it does!

Now, I try to flash in the individual image files (See, I tried to do that with the chinese radio.img to try and unlock my radio) but every time I try to use an image file in fastboot (I'm using the moto-fastboot.exe) it always hangs, and fails to flash the file. It'll just sit there for hours doing nothing.

To explain above better, the program output for the cmd moto-fastboot flash radio radio.img is:

sending 'radio' (14406 KB)...

And it just sits there, I eventually use ctrl-c to break the program out and get back to the command line. Quickly tapping the button to shut the phone off then back on puts it back at the bootloader with (Flash Failure) like written above.

This is all on an old Windows XP Professional machine using maybe usb2.0? Maybe? I doubt it, lets assume its not. Unless the phone wouldn't connect and interface at all with something prior to usb2.0, then I must have it because it connects and works with the moto drivers.

Can anybody help me out? I just would like to get this phone working on my cheep walmart gsm plan. Expensive phones make me cry because I'm poor :crying: