[Motorola Droid 4] LuH:
Hey guys, it seems I screwed up royally this time :crying:

What preceded:

I got off SafeStrap and installed BMM to use [Patch] Patch to change Boot Manager Menu partitions layout for System_2. I wanted to have a nice and clean system layout, hate SafeStrap's keeping of the system images in /sdcard/.

I flashed the patch, but there were some problems, I don't remember what kind of problems though... I suspect it somehow messed up with partitioning, but I don't know much about Linux or Android partitions, Windows user here.

Then I removed BMM, because I decided I liked SafeStrap more, and put SS back in. Installed cm-11-20140926-NIGHTLY-maserati.zip into non-safe system not to have system in /sdcard/. It worked, but Google Play was acting up - probably due to problems while applying GApps. After some more stuff I don't exactly recall, I ended up with boot hung at CM boot animation with rotating arrow.

I backed the system up to maybe return to it later - I thought it might be caused by formatting the Internal Storage (/sdcard/) by the computer in TWRP's USB Mass Storage connection.

Here's the backup log (902 KB) - shortened version (204 KB). I think mounting has been problematic even in the GApps installation before, maybe that was the original culprit?

The output is data.ext3.win and system.ext3.win, plus md5s and recovery.log. Is there a way to extract logcat from the backup to see why it got stuck?

I decided to do a complete wipe. I completely wiped everything I could in SafeStrap's TWRP menu, including /system/, while working on non-safe sytem. Then switched phone off to continue work when I have some more free time.

Shortly: I completely wiped everything I could in SafeStrap's TWRP menu, including /system/, and powered the device off.

After I switched it back on, it wouldn't boot even into SS (surprise surprise), hung at the red Motorola's M logo. I was like whatever, let's sfb and start clean.

Now the main problem: sbf won't flash, it gets stuck flashing system.img.

RDS Lite (both 5.7 and 6.1.4) says Failed flashing process. 20/25 flash system "system.img" -> USB error occured while reading/writing.

[IMG="RSD Lite error"]http://xt894.lhalda.cz/xt894_brick.png[/IMG]

I tried both 182 (that was there already) and 188 sbfs.

When using a bit changed script from D4 Utility:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

c:\stock\stock_jb_182\cdma_maserati_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18-2_1ff.x
ml>flash.bat

...>moto-fastboot flash mbm allow-mbmloader-flashing-mbm.bin
sending 'mbm' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.055s]
writing 'mbm'... OKAY [ 0.470s]

...>moto-fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.245s]

...>ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1000 1>nul

...>moto-fastboot flash mbmloader mbmloader.bin
< waiting for device >
sending 'mbmloader' (42 KB)... OKAY [ 0.015s]
writing 'mbmloader'... OKAY [ 0.301s]

...>moto-fastboot flash mbm mbm.bin
sending 'mbm' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.306s]
writing 'mbm'... OKAY [ 0.460s]

...>moto-fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.235s]

...>ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1000 1>nul

...>moto-fastboot erase cache
< waiting for device >
erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.030s]

...>moto-fastboot flash logo.bin logo.bin
sending 'logo.bin' (854 KB)... OKAY [ 0.101s]
writing 'logo.bin'... OKAY [ 0.265s]

...>moto-fastboot flash devtree device_tree.bin
sending 'devtree' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.305s]
writing 'devtree'... OKAY [ 0.495s]

...>moto-fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.230s]

...>ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1000 1>nul

...>moto-fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (262144 KB)... OKAY [ 32.841s]
writing 'system'... OKAY [ 22.772s]
sending 'system' (262144 KB)... OKAY [ 28.117s]
writing 'system'... OKAY [ 22.493s]
sending 'system' (130816 KB)... FAILED (data transfer failure (Too many links)
)

...>moto-fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))

...>moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (9216 KB)... FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))

...>moto-fastboot flash preinstall preinstall.img
sending 'preinstall' (262144 KB)... FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error)
)

...>moto-fastboot -w
erasing 'userdata'... FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))

...>REM moto-fastboot flash radio radio.img

...>moto-fastboot reboot
rebooting...

...>

When I don't flash system nor radio, everything works fine:

jc:\stock\stock_jb_182\cdma_maserati_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18-2_1ff.x
ml>moto-fastboot flash mbm allow-mbmloader-flashing-mbm.bin
sending 'mbm' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.060s]
writing 'mbm'... OKAY [ 0.468s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.225s]

c:\...>ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1000 1>nul

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash mbmloader mbmloader.bin
< waiting for device >
sending 'mbmloader' (42 KB)... OKAY [ 0.010s]
writing 'mbmloader'... OKAY [ 0.296s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash mbm mbm.bin
sending 'mbm' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.321s]
writing 'mbm'... OKAY [ 0.475s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.005s]

c:\...>ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1000 1>nul

c:\...>moto-fastboot erase cache
< waiting for device >
erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.035s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash logo.bin logo.bin
sending 'logo.bin' (854 KB)... OKAY [ 0.100s]
writing 'logo.bin'... OKAY [ 0.260s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash devtree device_tree.bin
sending 'devtree' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.321s]
writing 'devtree'... OKAY [ 0.490s]

c:\...>REM moto-fastboot flash system system.img

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... OKAY [ 1.281s]
writing 'boot'... OKAY [ 1.039s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (9216 KB)... OKAY [ 1.396s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 1.430s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot flash preinstall preinstall.img
sending 'preinstall' (262144 KB)... OKAY [ 33.922s]
writing 'preinstall'... OKAY [ 22.595s]
sending 'preinstall' (262144 KB)... OKAY [ 34.226s]
writing 'preinstall'... OKAY [ 22.355s]
sending 'preinstall' (98304 KB)... OKAY [ 12.221s]
writing 'preinstall'... OKAY [ 8.340s]

c:\...>moto-fastboot -w
erasing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 0.695s]
erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.291s]

c:\...>REM moto-fastboot flash radio radio.img

c:\...>moto-fastboot reboot
rebooting...

I even soldered a factory cable, but the power's probably not an issue, and now I have it hard-wired from USB charger to the battery contacts holding T5 screws :) I depleted the battery though (down to 2,6 V), it's been two days without charge now, with many attempts to flash. The battery wouldn't charge this way (usb power on battery wires) btw, it worked on all my previous phones :confused:

I'm working on a Windows 8.1 64 bit machine, running RSD Lite & all the scripts as Administrator and flashing from a SSD drive.

Any sugestions on how to unbrick? My last hope is that the power actually was the issue and the factory cable was faulty - gonna solder another one now.

I'd love to recover the phone as I refuse to lose HW keyboard and don't want to be without phone for month or so until a replacement eBay D4 gets shipped from the USA :D