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[Droid X General] c-mack:
first off great site and lots of great info.. here is what i am trying to do... i'm giving my droid x to my son and i need to delete all info from the phone. i did a factory reset, but when he downloads something from the market i.e. a game it still has all my information with it.. is there a way to completely wipe the phone of all system data and user data?

i tried this method of what i think is what i need to do that was posted from the guide by the OP:

How to use RSDlite and an SBF file:

NOTES ABOUT USING SBF and RSDlite: Make sure your battery is fully charged. If your phone dies while applying an SBF file, you could be stuck...Be sure to create a backup before using SBF, this could be a nandroid backup, and I would also recommend backing up your SMS messages and applications and any application data (use Titanium backup).

I have found this to have the best results.... before applying an SBF, boot into bootstrap recovery and do a wipe data/factory reset.

1. Turn off your phone. Hold down the "Volume down" + camera button while holding the power button. Your screen should flash and say

Bootloader

30.03 (or 30.04 if you are on the latest update)

Battery OK

OK to program

Connect USB

Data Cable

2. Open up RSDlite and click the " ... " button to browse to the appropriate SBF that you need to use.

a. If on bootloader version 30.03 then you will want to use the VRZ_MB810_2.3.15_1FF_01.sbf file

b. If on bootloader 30.04, then you will more than likely want to flash the 2.3.34 system only sbf (SHADO_X6_2.3.34_SYSTEM-ONLY.sbf)

3. Once it recognizes the file, connect your droid X to the computer via the usb cable. You should see your phone listed in the bottom section of RSDlite.

4. Click the start button, and watch the magic at work =)

5. When your phone reboots, I generally try to do another wipe data/factory reset.

a. When turning phone on, hold down home button + power button. When the droid with the ! comes up, press the search button. You can use the volume up/down buttons to navigate, and the camera button to select.

but once i get to step 4 the start button is greyed out and i cant click it... i should have posted earlier, but now school is tomorrow and i have no phone for him to use..... any help is greatly appreciated..... TIA
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
My guess would be that the file name is not being matched or recognized (I believe that the name itself isn't important, but the file name length is). If you are on the 2.3.340 update (latest from Verizon) I would use the link from my first post:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RTGP7T4S (is this the file you used?)

Try this and make sure the phone is in bootloader (have found this mode works best).

Let me know if this works. =)
[Droid X General] c-mack:
yes that is the file i'm trying to use. does the phone have to be in debugging mode when i do this? i've tried it both ways, but was just curious. also does it mater if its rooted or not? mine is rooted, just wanted to know if i need to unroot before doing this?

so far all i've done to the phone is root with z4, did the droidx bootstrapper, and backed up apps with titanium backup....

i'm so lost and i just want to get this done for him, thanks for your help....
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Debugging should be enabled, but if you put the phone into bootloader, I'm not sure if that matters. Turn the phone off, then hold down "volume down+camera button+power button"

This will put the phone into bootloader (if you have already done this, my apologies, just giving explanation in the event you haven't). This is the best way to run SBF files for the X in my opinion. Then try flashing that file. If you cannot get it to work, then try this:

http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/dr...pdate-zip.html

This is the maderstcok file, it is basically the same as flashing the 2.3.340 SBF, and should wipe everything out. You will need to put this on the sdcard, and then flash it using bootstrap recovery. If you are having trouble getting into bootstrap at all, just turn the phone off. Then pull the battery out. Plug the phone into the wall charger, and then put the battery in. When you power the phone back on, it should boot to bootstrap recovery.

Hope this helps.
[Droid X General] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
I'm posting this here because I can't post in the devlopers forum. I first installed Libery 1.5 from stock, the music player and anything to do with video files don't work. Music player says it can not play the file type, camcorder youtube ect. all force close. I tryed Multiple different ROM links for liberty 1.5 and couldn't get them to work. I just tryed fission 2.6 and same thing.

These things did work with my stock phone so please help. Can't imagine all of these ROM's all have the same glitch..

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
If you are having media issues it sounds like you are not in the latest update from Verizon. Do you.have the 2.3.340 OTA?
[Droid X General] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Yeah totally. I think that was the issue. I'm not actually 100% sure but most likely that was the cause. It's not actually my phone, a friend had asked me to help him get root and flash a custom ROM. So I went over to his place and didnt even think to check to see if the device was up to date. ... anyway, I did a wipe data/factory reset, and clear some other caches and stuff, then flashed a different ROM, and everything was gravy. Phone seems to be working like it should. I spent a little time with it, opened some apps, tested the keyboard and phone/text messaging.. took a picture, recorded video, played music..

I had to leave, but it looked to be a good flash with no issues..(yet ;)). Thank you very much for the reply!
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Glad to hear things are working. Post back if you have issues/questions.
[Droid X General] Spank99:
Hello everyone, new to the forums here. Been lurking for months trying to figure all of this out by extensive reading and just had to say - WOW - this is the most informative post for a noob like myself and well written. I learned more in a half an hour of reading here as to what i've learned in 4 months of other reading. Thanks a million!
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Glad to hear it! Thank you, let me know if you have questions, will be more than happy to help! I still need to update some of this. Just haven't had as much time to pour into it.
[Droid X General] marculous:
I'm beginning to notice an almost daily reboot, I'm using liberty 1.5 and the reboot seems to happen when I push the power button on top briefly to turn the screen off and lock it. Any suggestions?

Liberated Droid X
[Droid X General] binary_jester:
Great info. I wished I had this information earlier. The only thing that stumps me now is modding widgetlocker...and that is a bitter subject. :D
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
What do you want to modify in widgetlocker? I can help u there too possibly =) I have done some modifications with the sliders if that is what you are interested in
[Droid X General] binary_jester:
I didn't want to hijack your thread. Actually I finally got it to with with a hybrid of the APK manager instructions. Then twice my phone froze when it went into sleep mode and I was trying to determine if it was my 300/300 cap for screen off in SetCPU or widgetlocker that was causing the problem...so i deleted both.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
No worries... Any question is valid in this thread as far as I'm concerned. The more I can include in my guide, the better... Feel free to ask if you haven't already gotten stuff taken care of. Or if you really dont want to post here, shoot me a PM
[Droid X General] marculous:
Rebooted twice today already. By itself. After a period of total unresponsiveness had to take the otter box off for a battery pull the first time, second time I waited a few minutes and it came back on. I like liberty but I'm starting to consider going back to stock if this keeps up.

Liberated Droid X
[Droid X General] Bosco Warden:
aOK, I ve been reading this for awhile now and for some reason I cant seem to get the adb to work at a c:\

I get a command not recognized, which makes sense but what do I need to do to finish this?

I am somewhat savvy with computers just havent had to work in this environment for some time..

Thanks
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Ok, if you can run me through your setup (just give steps you have gone through so far).

My guide is slightly out of date since the sdk is now version 9. One thing you may want to check is as of version 9 of the sdk, they moved the adb.exe out of the tools folder and into platform-tools. Make sure you put the correct path in your PATH environment variable
[Droid X General] Bosco Warden:
Thanks for the reply, after I got some more time to look into this I found this in the tools directory.

Let me look into this. Or if you have any advice that would be great.

Thanks again!

edit: I just read what you wrote again, and you already said as much....

Maybe I shouldnt be doing this....:o
[Droid X General] Bosco Warden:
OK, I got the path thing taken care of but when I run the adb it does not give me any attached devices. Its blank. I did get the

The steps I have taken are downloaded the attachments, and the SDK, changed paths to reflect the adb location, connected the phone, ran the adb and no devices have been found.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Make sure that you put the phone in "Charge only" usb mode. ALso make sure under Settings-->Applications--> Development--> usb debugging

that the box is checked =)

let me know if this helps
[Droid X General] shukero:
Ok, thats a great guide, and I have up through rooting done, but I dont see any step by step guide for installing and using boot strapper / installing any ROMS :(

I was definitely thinking about using fission for the authentic google experience, but if you could put up guide that would be great!
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Shukero, check your private messages (pretty sure you sent me one a few days ago). It has info to contact me through gchat (google talk) and I will get you going.
[Droid X General] shukero:
Fantastic! Thank you, stupid thing never sent me an email saying I had a private message!
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
No problem. Unfortunatle I dont think by default it sends you emails for PMs. May be able to configure that in settings...not sure though. Will wait to hear from you =)
[Droid X General] Gja88:
Regarding USB mounting

So I've been rooted with Liberty for about a month now, and everything seems to be ok. One thing that I've been wondering that seems to be an issue is regarding mounting the phone on my desktop. I can't windows media sync it, or pc mode only it, it only works as USB mass storage, which reboots my phone and then I'm able to transfer files to my phone. Is there anyway around this? I've tried installing the motorola drivers but it constantly fails, I've gone to their site and downloaded something that keeps tracks of the driver updates, and the latest version still fails. Is this a known issue on liberty or what?
[Droid X General] edwinr29:
Stupid Question. Root on Stock ROM and OTA updates

I'm sorry for the question, i realize this must be common knowledge at this point but everywhere i search i get conflicting information...

would i still be able to get OTA updates if i just root my stock DX rom with for example z4root???

i like the stock rom itself and i am only looking for the added posiblities of being able to use apps that require root access, nothing else..
[Droid X General] shukero:
Believe me thats common lol, But from what I've gathered, YES! BUT!!! You will loose root, so just re-download z4root :)
[Droid X General] shukero:
hmmm, I think you should go talk to the Liberty creators about that here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=939592 Although if that doesnt work, then what I'd do if I were you would be to try fission. I havent done it myself (yet) becasue my phone is on back order, but with the fission install manager, it'll make it easy to look for a solution to your problem / you might not even have that problem :) plus a LOT of addons
[Droid X General] Gja88:
Ok cool, ill check it out.
[Droid X General] edwinr29:
Thank a lot for the response
[Droid X General] marculous:
Okay so I have liberty 1.5 and an hdmi cable. Read about it, seems they are not compatible so I installed blur gallery hoping that would fix it. Still nothing. I read hdmi out only works with gallery player and mp4, which is what I'm trying but no success. Any ideas?

Liberated Droid X
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Hdmi out does not work with liberty. Hdmi is a part of the moto.blur features so hdmi.will only work with ROMs that still jmhabe blue components built in (not just a blur app)
[Droid X General] dsdonut:
noob here. Need serious help

While z4root was in the process of rooting my phone, it all locked up. It's been stuck for about 10 minutes now.

Should I try to power it off and back on?

halp!
[Droid X General] marculous:
Well crap. Any suggestions for the best rom that does support hdmi?

Liberated Droid X
[Droid X General] shukero:
I would try a reboot via: pull out battery, plug into wall and wait till it's restarted. If you have to you can reboot into recovery, and recover from there to defult.
[Droid X General] owenbeals:
Everyone says that apex works with hdmi, my hdmi cable is in the mail on its way I bought it to usd with tvshowsstream.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Apex seems to be very well rated by everyone I know that uses it. I would also give DarkSlide 4.2 (blurry) a try. I believe this may have working HDMI as well.
[Droid X General] marculous:
Thanks both of you. I went with apex 1.4.1 and real hdmi. So far so good, but I've only played around with it a little bit. Going to try rock player tomorrow, that's supposed to work with real hdmi but idk about apex. I guess I will find out.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
PS Rubix Blurry 2.0 also has support for hdmi if you want another ROM to check out. I wasn't sure, but just talked to drod2169 (the mind behind rubix) and he confirmed that HDMI works.
[Droid X General] marculous:
I may try that one next time. I had gone from stock to liberty, then today from liberty to apex. Still trying to get used to that. I may give that rubix a go if I decide I don't like apex. I really liked liberty, but finally got around to getting that hdmi cable. If the next liberty had hdmi, I would go back but I think it's a different kind of rom.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Yes, Rubix is "sorta" like Liberty in that they are both still built from a similar source (I believe...all based on Moto ROM without blur).
[Droid X General] excarnate:
Software (e.g. rooting) does not instantly void the hardware warranty

There is a mistake in the original post. Specifically, "I have seen many ask about the dangers of rooting. First off, yes it will void your warranty,...".

Per the Motorola Limited Warranty for the United States and Canada taken from Motorola's support site for the DROID X rooting your phone or even installing a new kernel does

not

void the warranty on your Droid X, at least in the US and Canada.

I see this mistake a lot, not just in these forums. The old "software voids your hardware warranty" is treated as a truism, but stated anyway to hammer it home to newbies.

The warranty is clear about what is covered, the phone is warranted "...to be free from defects in materials and workmanship...".

What isn't covered? Damage to the phone. Say, dropping it.

They explicity state: "Use of Non-Motorola Products and Accessories. Defects or damage that result from the use of Non-Motorola branded or certified Products, Accessories, Software or other peripheral equipment are excluded from coverage.".

This does not mean rooting the phone or even installing a different kernel voids the warranty. It means if doing that damages the hardware they won't cover it, which is a very different thing.

Yes you want to be careful, but if, for example, your camera is defective and you have rooted the phone, don't hesitate to get it covered if you are still in the warranty period.

What I don't like is their "the warranty is only good for the original purchaser", but that's neither here nor there :-)

Am I going to root my wife's phone using the excellent guides here? Yes! I don't want anyone to worry about rooting, just be careful and follow the instructions.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, you are correct, I know that it doesn't void it by Moto's definition, but through a carrier such as Verizon, they don't really care about Moto's rules... and make their own since technically the contract you signed is through Verizon (or any other respective carrier).

Not to make an argument, but have seen VZW turn down people for rooted devices.

Thanks for the info! Appreciate it!
[Droid X General] shukero:
Ok, so here's one I just thought up! If I activate my phone right after I get it, then ROM it afterwards, will I have to re-activate after the rom has been installed? I would think that it would HAVE TO BE, but then again I don't know that much about CDMA setup, etc.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Nope, shouldn't have to re-activate. I have never had to re-activate my phone unless I did an sbf to restore it.
[Droid X General] shukero:
Marvilous! Next "last" question lol, I just got a 16gb class 6 micro sd card for my coming droid x, is there anything I need to copy over to it from the SD card already in the phone that comes to me? or is all the OS junk on internal ram?
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Nope. If you swap them immediately before turning the phone on, shouldn't make any difference.
[Droid X General] shukero:
Thanks man!
[Droid X General] jperro79:
Great work!!!

Hello all,

This is my first ever post. I have spent a while reading through here and this thread is, by far, the best and most complete I have come across for noobs like me.

I did not want to do anything to my phone at first, but the more I read, the more intrigued I became. I rooted first and installed a wireless tether, which came in handy for work. Now I am running DarkSlide 4.2 installed through the bootstrapper (great program BTW). All data backed up with Titanium AND through the Stock back up on the phone (not sure if that works or not now. :-/).

I installed everything through the SD card Root file, which is by far the easiest and what seems to be the most fool proof way I have read about, and have not had a single issue with anything, until now (i think).

I installed the Black Themed Market (which is from the same devs as DarkSlide) and I have not noticed a single difference.

What exactly IS the difference (if any)?
[Droid X General] shukero:
well if you are talking about the black themed market, then really nothing is different in the source side of things, basically a theme is something put over top of the default settings to make your phone look prettier.

So in short the only difference could be your background changes colors, or a icon has been changed to a prettier looking one :P hard to tell unless someone installs it.
[Droid X General] shukero:
Ok, I know I said "last question" last time, but I just keep coming up with these questions for both me and unknowing android users, so here it is:

Regarding Micro SD card, If I put in a new one before even first turning on the phone, and it has the apps I need for rooting on it, will they still be there after it boots for the first time? Or will it be wiped and I'll need to reput back on the stuff?
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Your sdcard will be fine. The only thing the phone does to the sdcard when it boots up is check if it is present, check it for errors, then mount it.
[Droid X General] shukero:
sweet thanks! Getting reaaaallly anxious for friday night to come around so I can finally get my hands on my phone!
[Droid X General] jperro79:
Thank you foe the clarification. I hate installing something n not knowing if it was done correctly or not. :-)
[Droid X General] Brillntred06:
@SysAdmin-X: Thanks for taking the time to write all of this up. I came from a rooted HTC Magic which seemed a bit easier to work with before I found this page. One question though, when using the Maderstcock.zip and coming from a blur-less ROM, would I wipe data/cache through the clockwork recovery or through the standard android/motorola recovery? I'm looking to try Liberty 1.5 but I want to make sure that I know how to get back to stock in case I don't like it and I'd rather flash a .zip then having to go through SBF. TIA
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Thank you, and i'm glad the guide was of help. As for wiping cache, you can do either, I dont think there is a difference. I would say do it through clockwork just because you will flash maderstcok there already.
[Droid X General] Brillntred06:
That's what I figured and thanks again for the help!
[Droid X General] shukero:
Ok guys the hours are sllooowwwwwlllyyy ticking away and my droid x comes today, but I AGAIN have another question.

SInce I am ROMING to fission 2.5.7 and since it doesnt have tethering support for free, I was wondering what would be the easiest way to get free tethering (wireless or wired) for my phone?
[Droid X General] Brillntred06:
Just grab the wireless tether app and ut should work fine. I was using it with my other two phones after the usb tether option was left out of an updat and I didn't notice a difference in performance.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
As brllntred stated just grab wireless tether for root in the market. There is also a patch in fission ROM manager that allows you to use vzw hotspot for free I believe.
[Droid X General] shukero:
do you guys by any chance know what the name of the app is?
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
The app for root users is just called "wireless tether for root". The patch in the fission rom manager is under "extras" and is called "tether patch tbh tether patch 1.0"
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Sigma47:
Hey all, wondering if anyone knows what files I have to swap to change the shutdown animation on this Optimus T. I have been able to change the boot animation but the shutdown images aren't located in any place I am familiar with and aren't in directories noted in threads for other devices. Any help is a plus!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Sigma47:
Solved: Change files in PowerOff.apk

Thats it, no biggie, close this one!
[Nook Color General] rodalcaraz827:
I recently tried the Flashable Froyo ROM for the Nook Color from modembug on XDA. Now I don't have Clockwork Recovery and need help getting it back. Instead of any boot animation, I just get a "loading..." and then an "ANDROID_" and it doesn't come up at all. The only way to turn it off at this point is to press both and hold both power and n buttons. I am new to the Nook Color, but I am pretty experienced with my Moto Droid. Can anybody please help me, even if I need to restore my Nook to factory settings. I really don't think the 8 boot method is working at all.
[Nook Color General] FastCR:
There may be an easier solution, but one that will work is to dd the stock images back onto emmc.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919353
[Nook Color General] rodalcaraz827:
Thanks, I sure hope you're right. I can't do anything at the moment, I've tried an sd card image, but it won't even boot that.
[Nook Color General] FastCR:
Have you tried a nookie froyo card? How are you writing them? I've noticed cards i write with dd on my cr48 don't work, but cards I write in ubuntu and diskimager do.
[Nook Color General] rodalcaraz827:
I'm using Win32DiskImager, and it still doesn't seem to be working. I'm starting to think I really screwed it up. It doesn't do anything. I've tried a bootable CWR and no luck. I'm also having trouble with ADB, I keep getting error messahe, error: device not found.
[Nook Color General] njdevils28:
I'm in the same boat
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
You should read more before attempting such things on your NC...

First, don't panick..there's very very little chance you can't get it to work again..

Then read all the threads about froyo on emmc and supposedly bricked NCs. Its all out there..