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Quick stuck in boot loop

I downloaded squidly's new rom and then i downloaded a kangerade theme, now know they obviously don't mix. My phone will turn on and act normal and then restart and keep going through a boot loop. Is there anything I can do? Please let me know right away, I'm kind of new to droid 2 since i just switched from a D1 please help.

You will most likely have to SBF. did you do a nandroid before installing the theme?

I do, but I don't know how to sbf, I have nanadroid, but to be honest i probably messed my phone up even more because I did a factory reset (X and power button, search bar.) I get into the android set up screen and Kangerade is STILL on... It does the continuous loop again...

HerroMoto said:
I do, but I don't know how to sbf, I have nanadroid, but to be honest i probably messed my phone up even more because I did a factory reset (X and power button, search bar.) I get into the android set up screen and Kangerade is STILL on... It does the continuous loop again...
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Try these steps first.
Code:
1. Pull your Battery.
2. Replace battery and power on while holding down the X key.
3. Wait for the android triangle to load.
4. Press the Search key (the magnifying glass)
5. Use down arrow and navigate to wipe cache partition and press OK.
6. Use down arrow and navigate to wipe data and press OK.
7. Reboot phone.
If this does not get you out of the bootloop you will need to SBF. Please see this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804088

Thanks, it didn't work, I'll try that thread hopefully I can get it all figured out still a little confused though. Thanks for the help.

[Q]D2 Problem. Help would be nice!

Hello, I recently just flashed gingerbread on my droid 2, it was the droid 2 verison i know that much. But after flashing it I did a advanced restore of my data to restore my apps. But now I guess im in a boot loop becuase it doesnt go past that and, when I try to do a hard reset my phone stays at the yellow exclamtion mark and I don't get the menu to wipe/restore, And I do press the volume up and the camera key and that doesnt work to acess the menu either
Please help. And i'm sorry if I posted in the wrong section

c0olj said:
Hello, I recently just flashed gingerbread on my droid 2, it was the droid 2 verison i know that much. But after flashing it I did a advanced restore of my data to restore my apps. But now I guess im in a boot loop becuase it doesnt go past that and, when I try to do a hard reset my phone stays at the yellow exclamtion mark and I don't get the menu to wipe/restore, And I do press the volume up and the camera key and that doesnt work to acess the menu either
Please help. And i'm sorry if I posted in the wrong section
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To get to the stock recovery to wipe data and cache, hold the power button and x on your keyboard. When the triangle comes up, press the magnifine glass to get to the recovery menu.
If that doesn't work, you might have to sbf
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tried what you said, Still not letting me access the menu, I guess i'll have to sbf when I get home

c0olj said:
tried what you said, Still not letting me access the menu, I guess i'll have to sbf when I get home
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P3Droid said earlier that the first gingerbread release had a dev recovery, which wouldn't work on our phones, hence why you couldn't get in it. He has recently released another gingerbread with the regular recovery.

[Q] Dorid X stuck at 'M' on power on

I have a rooted Droid X and was running Rubix 1.9.7 - yesterday i went to GB but had an issue where the buttons (home, menu, back n search) stayed lit. I tried to revert back to my backup through the D2 bootstrap recovery. It showed me the the recovery is complete and on selecting the Reboot system it was stuck at the M logo. I tried battery pulls but it did not help.
i tried going into recovery using power+home button. the screen with triangle and exclamation mark shows up but pressing the search button does nothing.
I tried the power+volume down+Camera button.. it takes me to the Bootloader 30.04 screen and I am not sure what can be done from there.
also i tried connecting the device to my computer and opening adb when the phone was each of the screens (M logo, recovery logo, Bootloader) but on doing the adb devices command it does not list my device.
when i connect to power in a switched off state the battery 100% shows up.
I am noob so i am hoping someone more qualified can give me some guidance.

Mogli0903 said:
I have a rooted Droid X and was running Rubix 1.9.7 - yesterday i went to GB but had an issue where the buttons (home, menu, back n search) stayed lit. I tried to revert back to my backup through the D2 bootstrap recovery. It showed me the the recovery is complete and on selecting the Reboot system it was stuck at the M logo. I tried battery pulls but it did not help.
i tried going into recovery using power+home button. the screen with triangle and exclamation mark shows up but pressing the search button does nothing.
I tried the power+volume down+Camera button.. it takes me to the Bootloader 30.04 screen and I am not sure what can be done from there.
also i tried connecting the device to my computer and opening adb when the phone was each of the screens (M logo, recovery logo, Bootloader) but on doing the adb devices command it does not list my device.
when i connect to power in a switched off state the battery 100% shows up.
I am noob so i am hoping someone more qualified can give me some guidance.
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You going to have to SBF in rsd lite back to 2.2.340 and re-root then you can re-install bootstrap and get your backup that way because you can't flash back to an old rom once on gingerbread because the kernel has changed

Hanone - any idea of if there is a list of steps that I can follow to get to the SBF in Rsd lite ?

Youtube has a few videos with step by step directions that makes it really simple

Mogli0903 said:
Hanone - any idea of if there is a list of steps that I can follow to get to the SBF in Rsd lite ?
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Do a Google search for roooolers root guide. All things root for the x.
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or look at the stickied post in this general section from sysadmin, it also covers all things x.

help motorola bravo

My motorola bravo was being updated when it became a brick. The phone comes on and puts a red M and there does not advance. You can not do the recovery. I need an idea of how to revive it. And try to install but nothing happens sbf reposition the M and there does not happen.

comeranas said:
My motorola bravo was being updated when it became a brick. The phone comes on and puts a red M and there does not advance. You can not do the recovery. I need an idea of how to revive it. And try to install but nothing happens sbf reposition the M and there does not happen.
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did you boot into bootloader (by holding power + volume up) and then apply the sbf?

and remove your battery and reinstall it.

If I've done both and what comes out is only the red M

comeranas said:
If I've done both and what comes out is only the red M
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your not holding the vol up earlier enough do the following:
1) take out the battery
2) press and hold down the vol up button
3) w/o releasing rhe vol up button, put the battery in.
4) within 3 seconds a black screen will come up with white text.
5) do the sbf
i have bricked the bravo so hard during development and always been able to get to a bootloader screen. one time i bricked so hard it went directly to the bootloader, so you def. can get in to sbf, unless you vol rocker is broken, then you may be screwed. in that case plug int he phone, let it bootloop and try to start the sbf, it might reboto into bootloader for you, but probably not.

bandroidx said:
your not holding the vol up earlier enough do the following:
1) take out the battery
2) press and hold down the vol up button
3) w/o releasing rhe vol up button, put the battery in.
4) within 3 seconds a black screen will come up with white text.
5) do the sbf
i have bricked the bravo so hard during development and always been able to get to a bootloader screen. one time i bricked so hard it went directly to the bootloader, so you def. can get in to sbf, unless you vol rocker is broken, then you may be screwed. in that case plug int he phone, let it bootloop and try to start the sbf, it might reboto into bootloader for you, but probably not.
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I manage to load the bootloader and the sbf but when the phone is restarted only relocate the white with red M

comeranas said:
I manage to load the bootloader and the sbf but when the phone is restarted only relocate the white with red M
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so then you should reboot holding vol down and then the recovety will load.
hit vol up and vol down at the same time to load options.
then wipe cache and wipe data.
wiping data is prob only way u can fix it if you already successfully flashed the sbf.

bandroidx said:
so then you should reboot holding vol down and then the recovety will load.
hit vol up and vol down at the same time to load options.
then wipe cache and wipe data.
wiping data is prob only way u can fix it if you already successfully flashed the sbf.
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Thanks for the help.
perform the sbf file down twice again but the phone only puts the M, will not let me enter recovery, I think it is a complete brick and not know what else to do.
Too bad there is no sbf2.1 for testing.

hmmm, unless you are going straight to a bootloader screen you should still be able to enter recovery. my only guess is the update was in the middle of updating your recovery when something went wrong and the recovery image is corrupt.
sbf not working plus no access to recovery sounds like a real true brick possibly.
make sure you hold down the vol down and w/o letting go you put the battery in, when you are in this bootloop that is the only way to be sure you get in to recovery.
what happens when you hold down vol down and put the battery in? does it do anything different at all?

bandroidx said:
hmmm, unless you are going straight to a bootloader screen you should still be able to enter recovery. my only guess is the update was in the middle of updating your recovery when something went wrong and the recovery image is corrupt.
sbf not working plus no access to recovery sounds like a real true brick possibly.
make sure you hold down the vol down and w/o letting go you put the battery in, when you are in this bootloop that is the only way to be sure you get in to recovery.
what happens when you hold down vol down and put the battery in? does it do anything different at all?
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The phone was damaged because it was downloaded in the middle of an upgrade.
when I hold the power and volume down, I put the battery and three seconds later reappears M, does not load the recovery.
I think I'm going to give up.
May be taking it to a store at & t service, can do something?

Take it to the at&t store. Since it is so badly damaged due to the update "failing" they can replace it with warranty
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I'm a rep @ an AT&T corporate location. Yea, if that update failed, we take care of it. I assume you're referring to the OTA 2.2.

Reviving an old thread as where comeranas left off is where I am at.
Wife has a new phone already so I am just trying to revive this one. If not, it goes into garbage.
The screen has been powering up to the Motorola logo only. I can hold the volume up and power button to get to the bootloader/usb screen.
I cannot get to the recovery screen by holding the volume down and power button. No matter how many times I try and in what combination, it always powers up to the Motorola logo.
I ran the sbf file on it twice with RSD Lite and each time when it gets to the part of re-booting it says "Phone is being rebooted."
Then after the progress gets to a 100%, it says, "Please manually power up this phone."
The Motorola logo is on the screen and I have tried to simply push the power button, pull the battery and re-insert it and pull the battery, hold the volume button down and re-insert the battery all while still hooked up to the computer.
After a few minutes the Results box says Passed. But the phone still goes no further than the Motorola logo.
So as of now, the phone still only powers up to the Motorola logo and goes no further.
Naturally it had to start acting up 2 weeks out of warranty. Dang blang warranty timers installed in these phones. lol!

You can try sbf_flash on Linux and both the full and fixed sbf with it. I'm on phone now, so I can't give good instructions or links, but sbf_flash is around in one of the recovery threads here, and the fixed sbf is at quarx2k.ru and my rom mirror (see signature).
If you need it, I can make a Linux Live tutorial for sbf flash, only requirement would be 512mb usb stick or memory card.
I once had to flash sbf 3 times in a row to fix a brick from an accidental Defy kernel flash in cwm.

So the sbf files you are referring to are different than the 2.2.1 sbf file HERE?
I don't run Linux on my comp.
I'll look at the fixed sbf file in your sig. Maybe I just need to run it over and over again until the phone pops. lol! Thanks.

FirePro911 said:
So the sbf files you are referring to are different than the 2.2.1 sbf file HERE?
I don't run Linux on my comp.
I'll look at the fixed sbf file in your sig. Maybe I just need to run it over and over again until the phone pops. lol! Thanks.
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The fixed sbf contains the bootloader and kernel and it for when you write to either of them and need to reflash back to stock. Handy for when you accidentally flash a Defy from with a boot.img
You don't have to install linux, just use a Live CD and place sbf_flash and the sbf files on a memory stick. Once the Live CD boots, the memory stick should be on the desktop. Open the folder and right click "Open Terminal Here". In the terminal first type:
su
then
chmod 0777 ./sbf_flash
then
./sbf_flash ./fixed_bravo_sbf.sbf
or
./sbf_flash ./p4_kobe_umts_kobe_user_3.4.2-125_KOB_FFW-4_product-keys-ATT-US_ATT-signed.sbf
Just download one of these for your pc's architecture, if you're unsure, then any of the 32-bits will work.
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
The reason I suggest using sbf_flash and Linux is that its supposed to fix phones that sbf flashing with RDS Lite won't fix, and it'll flash files that RDS won't like modded root sbfs. Apparently it flashes differently. Don't ask me the difference cause I don't know.
Good Luck.
You said that you couldn't get to the Stock recovery menu, your volume button isn't broke is it? And have you tried up+power and down+power? Kicking it? JK, but throwing my old razr flip phone into the couch as hard as I could used to fix it....it would freeze on boot, but a good toss and it was good as new.

Thanks, gonna give it a try.
I am kinda wondering at this point if the down volume is broke. Though if it was, she would have said something about it before it went down.
I did smack it a few times to no avail. lol!

[Q] "please manually power up this phone" on RSD lite

hi. i tried to install a custom rom on my bravo..... and i occured an error....so i used rsd-lite with the stock sbf (p4_kobe_umts_kobe_user_3.4.2-125_KOB_FFW-4_product-keys-ATT-US_ATT-signed.sbf). after the "normal" procedure the program show the message "please manually power up this phone". i tried to remove battery, replace it, enter in bootloader mode but nothing.... the bravo loop to infinite with the red M and the white screen.... somebody can help me please?!
thanks e sorry for my english
somebody has another sbf, please? thks

Dont take out battery when its done it will run its course. If it bootloops after flash then hold volume down during boot and when rexovery menu starts then squeeze volume button in anf wipe data
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i tried wiht and without the cable and wiht RSD lite running... but nothing... again the bootloop

Wipe data in stock recovery
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how i enter in stock recovery? maybe with volume-down + power? if is this on my bravo not works! the screen freeze with triangle and android
ps: thks for the answers rdannar

Once on triangle screen you mush volume button...both up and down together w
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thanks rdannar! it's worked!
i used your instruction (STOCK RECOVERY):
1 - with bravo turn off hold volume-down + power button
2 - with triangle and android on the screen hold volume down + volume up
3 - scrolling the "voices" with volume buttons on the wipe data... and confirm with power button
4 - after 2-3 minutes the bravo restarts at factory conditions

Thanks danner on my next day off i'll try to post a SBF Issues thread or something to HOPEFULLY prevent you from having to explain how to view the menu on stock recovery yet again XD

rubbachicken, in my country we say "no one is born learned" (Naples to be exact) .... is 2 days that I try on the net without finding anything about it .... and tonight I decided to disturb you surely know more than me ... I hope this post serves as to who will be in this situation. rdannar thank you again for helping me.

He wasn't trying to be a jerk. It has been pointed out a lot of times how to fix this problem. On that I remember when I posted the fix myself the first time it took a lot of searching. So we understand that there is no one spot that says how to do this and making one topic on this would help a lot of people. So don't think he was calling you out our anything, just pointing out an obvious thread discussion ;-)
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i apologize for the misunderstanding.
you didn't disturb me and I didn't mean to sound bothered...

You always help.. People just dont see it right away. I see it though
Cheers
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Thanks a lot!!!! I got similar problem after I RSD with the original ROM. I would like to say hundrdeds of "Thank You"!

Recovery not working?
I know how to boot into recovery, but after I flashed the stock .sbf and tried to wipe data as previously said in this post, once I was on the screen with the triangle and Android, I couldn't go any further. I tried pressing both volume buttons as said.