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[Q] {Q} DX Always Enters Recovery Whenever Turned On or Rebooted

My DroidX always enters bootstrap recovery mode everytime i turn it on or reboot. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I ever had the same issue and then flashing the SBF cleared the problem. But that's the time when I haven't injected the RUIM. Since I'm not on Verizon, i'm afraid that if I do that again my injected number will lost. Is there any solution for it?

superbay said:
My DroidX always enters bootstrap recovery mode everytime i turn it on or reboot. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I ever had the same issue and then flashing the SBF cleared the problem. But that's the time when I haven't injected the RUIM. Since I'm not on Verizon, i'm afraid that if I do that again my injected number will lost. Is there any solution for it?
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This is the benefit of.bootstrap, it hijacks the boot process. Consider it a blessing that may be a slight inconvenience until the one time.something happens and your.phone doesnt.boot, then it will.be your.saving grace.
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SysAdmin-X said:
This is the benefit of.bootstrap, it hijacks the boot process. Consider it a blessing that may be a slight inconvenience until the one time.something happens and your.phone doesnt.boot, then it will.be your.saving grace.
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Dude, are you kidding me? I don't want grace. I want the bootstrap recovery to appear only when i need it to appear.
So is this what happens when I flash the ROM that already has bootstrap recovery feature inside? Coz i'm using Liberty 1.5 right now. So you're telling all people using Liberty experience this?

superbay said:
Dude, are you kidding me? I don't want grace. I want the bootstrap recovery to appear only when i need it to appear.
So is this what happens when I flash the ROM that already has bootstrap recovery feature inside? Coz i'm using Liberty 1.5 right now. So you're telling all people using Liberty experience this?
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I can't remember where but there's a checkbox that might be checked that starts your phone in bootstrap. Go through the liberty settings or it might even be in the toolbox...
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bigshotrob22 said:
I can't remember where but there's a checkbox that might be checked that starts your phone in bootstrap. Go through the liberty settings or it might even be in the toolbox...
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I think there's no any checkboxes in the toolbox. I'll try looking for it in the Liberty setting

From the home screen hit menu, settings, Liberty settings. Then unchecked the one that says to go into recovery everytime.
With the nature of the bootstrap it is better that it is booting to it. And you will think the same when something goes wrong and you can't load a recovery. Remember there is no way to boot into recovery by holding a key like other phones.

Got it, dude, and it still goes into recovery even though I have unchecked the option.
I wonder if the ROM got bugs because i got some FC in the Liberty setting even after I reflash the ROM and got the fresh Liberty toolbox from the Market. Damn this thing just start p#@*%g me off.

Easy fix. Someone helped me when mine was doing it. Get or go into an app called root explore. Open it up and go all the way to the bottom and click on system then bin then at the top of the screen click where it shows RW it then should show RO then scroll down and find "hijack" long press and delete then scroll down and find "bootloger" delete that then the next one is bootloger.bin long press it and rename it to just bootloger just get rid of .bin and your done. Just remember to use bootstrap to get back into recovery when you need to.
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spacecasespiff said:
Easy fix. Someone helped me when mine was doing it. Get or go into an app called root explore. Open it up and go all the way to the bottom and click on system then bin then at the top of the screen click where it shows RW it then should show RO then scroll down and find "hijack" long press and delete then scroll down and find "bootloger" delete that then the next one is bootloger.bin long press it and rename it to just bootloger just get rid of .bin and your done. Just remember to use bootstrap to get back into recovery when you need to.
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Dont follow this, this makes bootstrap not work ever..... Careful with ur recommendations spiff, he doesnt want to completely remove bootstrap
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Why are you even rebooting your phone enough for this to bug you? I reboot my once probobly once every three days just for fun, i dont experience any slowdowns or anything its just me deciding why not.. You make it sound like you reboot your phone voluntarily every hour or something for no reason
Secondly yes, bootstrap on reboot is a blessing not a curse... What happens if you start liberty up and you get a CONSTANT force close that does not go away and keeps coming up no matter how many times you click close?? Your phone will be INOP and you wont be able to do ANYTHING or even get to the manual bootstrap menu.. therefore having to SBF.. WAY better to have an available bootstrap whenever you need it automatically

I've done this about three times and never had a problem I got this information from someone that I trust and knows more about this stuff then I will ever know. Its not hurting anything. I can still get back into recovery through bootstrapper every time with no problems. I wouldn't post this if it would mess up anyones phone. After you do this you need to use bootstrapper to get back into recovery but you can
Someone helped me with a problem and im just trying to pass on what I've learned. Just to make sure it doesn't hurt anything I just did it to my phone and used bootstraper to flash apex on my phone with no issue.
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spacecasespiff said:
I've done this about three times and never had a problem I got this information from someone that I trust and knows more about this stuff then I will ever know. Its not hurting anything. I can still get back into recovery through bootstrapper every time with no problems. I wouldn't post this if it would mess up anyones phone. After you do this you need to use bootstrapper to get back into recovery but you can
Someone helped me with a problem and im just trying to pass on what I've learned. Just to make sure it doesn't hurt anything I just did it to my phone and used bootstraper to flash apex on my phone with no issue.
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So what happens when you screw something up and get bootloops? Difficult to access bootstrapper when you can't get past the boot animation or even boot logo.
The point of it starting first is in the event of said bootloops you can get into clockwork and restore. From what I understand if you turn off your phone you wait about 30 or so seconds and when you turn on your phone it will skip clockwork, it only pops up when you do a battery pull or if you shut down and power back on right away.
Why are you turning your phone on so much for it to be a pain? I reboot my phone every 2 or 3 days and it doesn't bother me one bit. If you're complaining against measures that are there for your benefit then I don't know what to say... Deal with it.

It works for me. I've had boot loops and have always been able to get in recovery. So is he just supposed live with it. I do turn my phone off ever night I like to give my phone some time off and by doing that I've never had to replace a battery. We all do things differently. He can do what I've showed him or not its up to him.
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SysAdmin-X said:
Dont follow this, this makes bootstrap not work ever..... Careful with ur recommendations spiff, he doesnt want to completely remove bootstrap
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Really? You mean never ever? Even though i already have Bootstrapper app?
Joe92T said:
Why are you even rebooting your phone enough for this to bug you? I reboot my once probobly once every three days just for fun, i dont experience any slowdowns or anything its just me deciding why not.. You make it sound like you reboot your phone voluntarily every hour or something for no reason
Secondly yes, bootstrap on reboot is a blessing not a curse... What happens if you start liberty up and you get a CONSTANT force close that does not go away and keeps coming up no matter how many times you click close?? Your phone will be INOP and you wont be able to do ANYTHING or even get to the manual bootstrap menu.. therefore having to SBF.. WAY better to have an available bootstrap whenever you need it automatically
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spacecasespiff said:
It works for me. I've had boot loops and have always been able to get in recovery. So is he just supposed live with it. I do turn my phone off ever night I like to give my phone some time off and by doing that I've never had to replace a battery. We all do things differently. He can do what I've showed him or not its up to him.
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Easy, boys. I appreciate the replies. The reason is I just dont like having to meet bootstrap option everytime i turn on the phone or reboot it. I never have bootloop even until now with this DX, even if I do, it's me who have to deal with it. So you see? The why-question is all about me. No offense but lets just stick to the how-question.
@spacecasespiff
So how do you go to bootstrap if you have bootloop?

I've had two bootloops the first was when my phone was doing what yours is doing do I did a batt pull and the recovery screen came up so all was good. The second tine was with liberty and that one a batt pull did nothing so I went to the forums and found out about holding the power button and the home button down and it put you on a different screen sorry I can't remember what was on that screen. You then use the search button to navigate the screen. I can't remember what I had to choose but I think it brought me back to the recovery screen. Its been awhile since that happend so I could be wrong. Just search the forums for it. Obviouse if you have a bootloop you can't get into bootstrapper. But if you can use what I learned about the power and home button you can get things back.
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spacecasespiff said:
I've had two bootloops the first was when my phone was doing what yours is doing do I did a batt pull and the recovery screen came up so all was good. The second tine was with liberty and that one a batt pull did nothing so I went to the forums and found out about holding the power button and the home button down and it put you on a different screen sorry I can't remember what was on that screen. You then use the search button to navigate the screen. I can't remember what I had to choose but I think it brought me back to the recovery screen. Its been awhile since that happend so I could be wrong. Just search the forums for it. Obviouse if you have a bootloop you can't get into bootstrapper. But if you can use what I learned about the power and home button you can get things back.
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Booting up the phone while holding the home and power button boots you into moto's stock recovery. Did u wind up doing a wipe data/factory reset perhaps?
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Oh i see. I bet you just got to the DroidX original recovery then wipe it.
Well that's not so bad if you have bootloop eh?
So i guess have two choices here, using some ROM that doesn't have built in bootstrap recovery inside or applying the tutorial above to avoid the problem i have.
Problem solved then. Thanks everybody

ClockworkMod Recovery Problem in GB leak.

I am assuming this may be something simple to most but I can't figure it out.
In the rooted version of GB I just flat out can't get into CWR.
I have tried all different button combos at startup as well as the Reboot into recovery option in Rom Manager and just can't get there.
Suggestions?

Use the droid 2 bootstrap,i was having problems with the rom manager one too, the droid 2 bootstrap works fine
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D2 bootstrap worked for me as well
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irishyamaha said:
D2 bootstrap worked for me as well
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Gotta mirror? Site link is down.

Just get it from the market, you have to party but at least it's going to a great dev
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I wholeheartedly agree he is a great dev! And for that I have already donated a considerable amount of cash to his beer fund.

Poppareilly said:
Just get it from the market, you have to party but at least it's going to a great dev
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I'm sorry...I just had to comment because this made me laugh. I'm assuming you meant 'pay' but just the mere thought of having to party for an app made me chuckle. I'll party for apps all day lol.

See my signature for free apps.

Problem solved. Thanks everyone

I found out that if you turn off debugging on the phone the DX Bootstrap will work fine.

Phone Hangs on Motorola Logo
Hi folks,
I flashed a ROM through ROM Manager and told it to back up, wipe, etc... it went through all the steps... backed up the old ROM... installed the new one..
Now it hangs on Boot at the Motorola Logo. Won't go any further and the phone will not boot back into Clockwork Recovery. All that happens is the default Blue recovery panel comes up and only lets me select to flash update.zip.
This of course does not work and installation aborts.
Any ideas here?
Thanks,
Chris

maly01801 said:
Hi folks,
I flashed a ROM through ROM Manager and told it to back up, wipe, etc... it went through all the steps... backed up the old ROM... installed the new one..
Now it hangs on Boot at the Motorola Logo. Won't go any further and the phone will not boot back into Clockwork Recovery. All that happens is the default Blue recovery panel comes up and only lets me select to flash update.zip.
This of course does not work and installation aborts.
Any ideas here?
Thanks,
Chris
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When you get into stock recovery, perform a factory reset/wipe multiple times. It works the same as Clockwork on this aspect.

I have the same problem. Ron manager never got me into cwm. I can use bootstrap to get into cwm but it will only allow me to use the volume buttons. When I use the power button it will appear to work but all that happens is the screen flashes. I have Uninstalled Rom manager but I think I have to delete the cwm file for it to actually function. Anyone have some ideas.

Bought Evo on eBay... has s-off but recovery goes to red triangle

Ok bought an evo on eBay, after getting rid of my evo for a blackberry and realizing I made a huge mistake. It's used but like new.
I go to the boot screen and it says s-off. Then I select recovery but it goes to an evo with a red triangle.
What can I do?
Thanks
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If you can acess the bootloader, I would recommend searching in the rooting wiki and look for a PCIMG file place that in the root of the sd card(hopefully your comp has a media reader) and insert the sd card with that file and the bootloader should detect when you select recovery.
What that file does is resets everything on the phone to stock. if you could find a RUU that might work but if your comp cant see the phone its useless i hope this helps
oh hey just stole this from a post from mattykins(thanks for the link) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060

josh995 said:
Ok bought an evo on eBay, after getting rid of my evo for a blackberry and realizing I made a huge mistake. It's used but like new.
I go to the boot screen and it says s-off. Then I select recovery but it goes to an evo with a red triangle.
What can I do?
Thanks
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If you're s off, your rooted. The triangle means you have no recovery. All you need to do is flash a PC36IMG of recovery, using the bootloader. Once you do that, you'll have recovery, and can flash a rom of your choice. That's it. No need to re root or ruu or anything like that. Just recovery, that's it.
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k2buckley said:
If you're s off, your rooted. The triangle means you have no recovery. All you need to do is flash a PC36IMG of recovery, using the bootloader. Once you do that, you'll have recovery, and can flash a rom of your choice. That's it. No need to re root or ruu or anything like that. Just recovery, that's it.
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or you could install clockwork mod and make it even easier on yourself by installing recovery through there

k2buckley said:
If you're s off, your rooted. The triangle means you have no recovery. All you need to do is flash a PC36IMG of recovery, using the bootloader. Once you do that, you'll have recovery, and can flash a rom of your choice. That's it. No need to re root or ruu or anything like that. Just recovery, that's it.
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Could you do a huuuuge favor for a newbie and link me to the file I need to flash?
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iitreatedii said:
or you could install clockwork mod and make it even easier on yourself by installing recovery through there
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This would probably be the easiest thing. DL clockwork from the market and install the recovery I prefer amon_ra it will be at the bottom under alternate recoveries. Also do a nand backup as soon as you have a recovery.

I agree with above, just get rom manager from the market and flash a recovery...simple
We're comin from a pure power source.

josh995 said:
Could you do a huuuuge favor for a newbie and link me to the file I need to flash?
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SUre, give me one sec to upload a file for you. And as the other guys suggested, flashing a recovery using ROM manager would be your easiest bet. HOWEVER, if you dont have the SUPER USER app, (which i bet you do not), rom manager wont work. t herefore you cant flash anything with it.
So give me one sec, and i'll upload what you need to flash, with instructions for ya
EDIT: I attatched a recovery for you. It's Amon Ra V2.3. Download the PC36IMG, and leave it named exactly as it is. Place the file on the main directory (root) of your sd card. Power your phone off completely. Then boot to the bootloader by holding the power and volume down buttons simultaneously. When it gets to the bootloader, after a sec it will scan for files, and find the PC36IMG. It will then ask you if you want to update, so select yes (volume UP). Once it's done flashing, it'll ask you to reboot. Select no. Then choose the 'recovery' option from the bootloader menu. You should now successfully boot into Amon Ra V2.3 recovery. From that point, you can create a backup of your current setup. Then you can perform a full wipe, and then flash the rom of your choice.

And what ever you do DON'T restore a nandroid from your old phone. You will wipe out your 4g if the wimax partition is included in the nandroid.
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k2buckley said:
SUre, give me one sec to ........
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Thanks man, a lot!

josh995 said:
Thanks man, a lot!
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You're welcome. Never a problem at all. Let us know if you need any more assistance getting things up and running.

Ok that worked. I now have Amon ra recovery
But, lol, one more question. Amon ra has changed since I've had an evo.. now when I select backup, it has a list of things I want to back up with "[x]" next to them. Which items should I select? It didn't have that feature in the past so I'm a little lost.
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josh995 said:
Ok that worked. I now have Amon ra recovery
But, lol, one more question. Amon ra has changed since I've had an evo.. now when I select backup, it has a list of things I want to back up with "[x]" next to them. Which items should I select? It didn't have that feature in the past so I'm a little lost.
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Right, that feature was added after version 1.8.0 (which I still use). I believe you want to check all of the boxes, for your first backup. (I'm not sure if you need to have everything checked after that, but I'm sure it couldn't hurt). I've seen people say that you only need to back up your wimax one time, then keep the file in a safe place (it's your RSA keys), however I just can't see what the problem is with backing it up each time. I kind of like the simplicity of 1.8.0, just hit backup and let it do it's thing. Whatever the heck 1.8.0 automatically backs up on its own, works perfectly fine for me, lol.
So I would just check everything off, and then let it perform the backup.
EDIT: and sorry I don't have more info on that for ya. I'm sure someone else who regulrarly uses ar 2.3 will chime in, and give you a more solid answer. I just simply don't use that recovery, as I never saw a need to 'upgrade' from 1.8.0, because it has always worked flawlessly for me. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'd say you could use 1.8.0 if you wanted to, but I believe it won't work on the 004 hardware phones with the 0040000 size erase block.

Ok cool.
Thanks again
And yes i remember the simple way, things are supposed to get easier as time goes on, not more complicated, haha!
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Downloading .596 rooted from TBH now...

Downloading .596 rooted from TBH now...

Thanks for letting us know

Where is Team Black Hat's Website/host?
Do you have a link?

They've done it already? Please provide link. Can it be done on x not activated, just using on wifi?
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You have to buy their app for $1.99 @
http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Software_c3.htm
Well worth it. Otherwise, it will be on this and other websites by the end of the day. P3droid rocks. I've been messing around with it, and everything seems super smooth.

jideay, I got it from their website. Did you do method 2 (part 1 and 2)? If so I'm confused if I have to hit both downloads at the same time or do part one, then part 2. Do we need bootstrap or bootstrap2. I have both. Want this on my phone but a little confused.

milski65 said:
jideay, I got it from their website. Did you do method 2 (part 1 and 2)? If so I'm confused if I have to hit both downloads at the same time or do part one, then part 2. Do we need bootstrap or bootstrap2. I have both. Want this on my phone but a little confused.
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This is what I did.... Download part 1 and part 2 then use droid2 bootstrap then install part 1 AND part 2 before you exit bootstrap and it should work fine

Did you have to do a "wipe" of any kind in recovery before installing? Also did you do a nandroid backup first before even downloading 596?

milski65 said:
Did you have to do a "wipe" of any kind in recovery before installing? Also did you do a nandroid backup first before even downloading 596?
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nope no wipe or nandroid.... all I did was install the who files, very easy install :-D

Okay, so I go into tbh app, find 2 part download, hit download 1 first or do I have tohit both at the same time.; It says "these need to be loaded at same time". Not sure what they mean by that. Then droid2 bootstrap, hit bootstrap recovery, then reboot recovery and then install zip from sd. Is that correct. Will tbh app download automatically to zip od sd? Reason i ask is I tried a coustom rom about 2 months ago, thought I did evewrything correctly, but coulsn't find darkslide rom on sd. Wound up having to sbf. Prefer not to go through that again.

milski65 said:
Okay, so I go into tbh app, find 2 part download, hit download 1 first or do I have tohit both at the same time.; It says "these need to be loaded at same time". Not sure what they mean by that. Then droid2 bootstrap, hit bootstrap recovery, then reboot recovery and then install zip from sd. Is that correct. Will tbh app download automatically to zip od sd? Reason i ask is I tried a coustom rom about 2 months ago, thought I did evewrything correctly, but coulsn't find darkslide rom on sd. Wound up having to sbf. Prefer not to go through that again.
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2 things.
1. Someone told you what he did and it worked. Do that.
2. Why didn't you download the rom you couldn't find onto your pc and move to SD in recovery to where you could find it?
I'm in the process of downloading these files (1 THEN 2 because you can't download two at the same time) and we'll see how this goes.

Thejron, I was waiting for clarification on the tbh apparently, which you just provided. Thank you. I did load roms from computer, as I did the tbh 596 root. Why I couldn't find it on bootstrap recovery I have no idea. My screw up. It was there in astro. Sorry about offtraking on post.
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http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...-5-596-release-thread-something-everyone.html
This is what people are looking for...
Running .596 rooted, did method 2.

eyepopper said:
This is what people are looking for...
Running .596 rooted, did method 2.
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That is exactly what I was looking for, I also did method 2. Everything seems to be running great.
In case anyone was wondering I'm using an unactivated droid X (rooted, stock .340), with wifi. I used my computer to download the files and copied them to my sdcard. I did a factory wipe, cache wipe and delvik (I think thats how you spell it.)wipe from clockwork using the droid2 bootstrap(not the droidx bootstrap). Installed the two .zip files in order and rebooted it came up fine.

Thanks - had it running now a couple of hours, may be psychosomatic, but it seems faster than .595.

yeah, i like it - transition was easy, i did had to re install a few things but over all very easy coming from .595 using the tbh app. very nice.

what was the Easter egg p3 mentioned something about a dx2 lwp? i downloaded and flashed patch but still dont see the wallpaper... anyone else see it? and yes I flashed the rooted version from tbh
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taterDX said:
what was the Easter egg p3 mentioned something about a dx2 lwp? i downloaded and flashed patch but still dont see the wallpaper... anyone else see it? and yes I flashed the rooted version from tbh
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Rapidly tap the android version in settings > about phone. That is an Easter egg from google :3

Go into settings, about phone, and multiple tap on android version.

Install worked great on wifi only x. No issues with Netflix or anything else. Does anyone know if I have to sbf my other x that's froyo with clockwork mod backup done?
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Can someone point me in right direction for root and cwm install?

First off, let me explain what's happening. Just by my post title you are probably thinking, use the search button. I have and will, but my situation might be a little different.
I had unlocked my phone, rooted it and installed cwm in the past. A friend of mine came over this past weekend and offered to install a custom rom on my Atrix as he did with his and he would show me what to do to update it, restore, or try different roms later. Well I had to leave for a hour and while I was gone he messed something up. He had then essentially returned my phone to stock. It's no longer rooted and when I start my phone it no longer says unlocked. Do I need to go through the unlock process again or can I just root and install cwm? Can anyone tell me where I should start?
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JohnnyDanger said:
First off, let me explain what's happening. Just by my post title you are probably thinking, use the search button. I have and will, but my situation might be a little different.
I had unlocked my phone, rooted it and installed cwm in the past. A friend of mine came over this past weekend and offered to install a custom rom on my Atrix as he did with his and he would show me what to do to update it, restore, or try different roms later. Well I had to leave for a hour and while I was gone he messed something up. He had then essentially returned my phone to stock. It's no longer rooted and when I start my phone it no longer says unlocked. Do I need to go through the unlock process again or can I just root and install cwm? Can anyone tell me where I should start?
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Have to flash pudding again. Then install cwm and play from there. Most ROMs here are pre-rooted, so no need to root anything.

Thank you. That's what I will do.
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