[General Questions and Answers] Niko696:
Hey Everyone ! I have an interesting issue. My girlfriend's old Razr M took a nasty hit a long time ago. Screen shattered, and even split on the upper left corner. After that we couldn't tell if it would power up or any thing. Since than she had gotten a new one and it works great except it was after the OTA update where you can't unlock the bootloader. I kept the old one for "possible parts" as I told her but deep down it was the hate to fully throw out any kind of amazing device and admit it had been defeated entirely, plus I had been researching and learning alot about rooting, flashing unlocking, etc. since then and I also enjoy fixing things. Also me and her both remembered that it took that nasty hit before the OTA update and wanted to see not only if I could get it working again but also see how far we could get with it ! I'm somewhat noobish but have alot of research and trial and error hours under belt. The Dev's threads helped me completely and they are right when they say Research and FOLLOW DIRECTIONS step by step !

Here's how far we got ...

It would power up but freeze halfway through boot animation and bootloop.

Factory Reset, Wiped everything countless times still same.

Charged it to 100% powered it up and it did the same.

Left the house longer than expected while it was plugged in and still bootlooping and came home to it actually to the welcome screen.

Set it up and rooted successfully using Matt's Utility but it did the same after restart.

( Matt's the **** and does awesome work ! Girlfriend rolled her eyes and laughed that the utility I was using was made by a fellow "obsessed" fan of the one and only Dark Knight ! )

Again left it bootloop for at least an hour til it eventually worked again.

Quickly got OTA rootkeeper just in case i couldn't prevent the OTA update.

( just playing it safe ya know )

Unlocked the Bootloader with Motopocalypse and that also worked great.

( Dan Rosenberg's Great time and effort to do the impossible on this one ! )

Then I figured ok ... Now I can jump to any version I want thinking it might be just the one it was on.

I flashed back to Stock ICS 4.0 using House of Moto

( Amazing work by Samurhi ! Another great Developer I owe a huge thanx to ! )

Rebooted after flashing back to Stock ICS flawlessly and no issues at all doing so after that.

After that I tried every firmware from Stock to JB remaking every House of Moto folder for each one the exact same as before and the boot animation would freeze halfway through like before.

Flashed back to Stock ICS 4.0 again and it continued to have no problems at all ! I even rooted using Matt's Utility 1.20 putting it at 4.1 and still same boot animation freeze.

Then I tried custom roms like Cyanogenmod, Validus, MoKee and Liquid Smooth following all instructions and using correct GApps when needed and with those the boot animation goes all the way to where it seems like it would switch to the welcome screen or lock screen but freezes on the animation just before that, than after about 10 secs reboots ....

What could it be ? I've looked every where for any kind of possibility imaginable and would hate to believe after resurrecting this phone from the dead, rooting it and even unlocking the bootloader that it can only live on as a Stock ICS 4.0 version for ever after beating the odds and going so far !!!

Any insight, ideas or help of any kind is greatly appreciated !!!