[Q] 2.3.5 Factory reset, RSD hangs - and is this even necessary?

cool old lady · 14th February 2013, 02:35 AM

[Q] 2.3.5 Factory reset, RSD hangs - and is this even necessary?

I am so, so exhausted from searching thread after thread and on Google, so I beg no one to bark at me if I missed finding my answer. I've read the Compendium several times and thanked Lokifish Marz - actually thanked him back during the summer when I first rooted my MoPho. And I have thanked several people for the support my moto campaign, which I've followed closely.

So, what I've done and what it's doing:

- Rooted it successfully this summer using photon torpedo and Lokifish Marz's help (first time rooting at all). I didn't fool with trying to unlock / flash / mod anything because I knew I wasn't ready yet. Shortly thereafter....

- Updated to 2.3.5 before we knew what a death sentence that was. Afterward, decided once again to just wait it out and see what happened with development, and keep learning what I could (and I'm a 38 year old woman with a Bachelor's in English, so we're talking slow learning curve here).

- Used it normally until my contract with Spint expired in November, dropped them and got a Galaxy S2 on T-Mobile prepaid. Decided "I'll just turn my Photon into a fancy little tablet for my boys to game on.."..

- So I pulled the Sprint sim, and did a soft, then hard, factory reset via Android Recovery.

- Boots up fine and I skip the google setup, I get to "Connection Failed..in order to complete setup you need a data connection." No problem, I hit "Setup a Wi-Fi connection" and select my network. Click in the password field...no keyboard pops up. Hold down in the field and "select Input method pops up", click it...it says "No keyboard" . So I clicked "skip for now" and get

Sorry! The application Accounts (process com.motorola.setup) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Have to click Force close.

...the it goes back to the "setup a wi-fi connection dialog".

- Retried above several times, pulling battery and whatnot, tried another hard reset, still...."no keyboard." So after MUCH searching, I installed Moto drivers on my new laptop, installed RSD Lite, downloaded SBF: 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US and unpacked it. In RSD Lite I browse to the file, select it - okay, file properties are there.

- Using instructions from here, I do it all right and get stuck at

RSD

Starting RSD Protocol Support

I plug in the usb and...nothing happens. And man I waited a loooooong time. But the phone never does anything else and RSD Lite never shows any device properties and nothing ever happens when I click Start. Again, I tried this step several more times, pulling battery, with and without the Sprint sim, etc...and nothing. So I'm stuck here.

Last important note:

While booted up and stuck at the "no keyboard" roadblock, I can connect the usb, select "usb mass storage" and my laptop DOES find the Photon and open up the drive. I see all these folders/files:

I ALSO tried copying the sbf file onto the mnt/sdcard folder, then rebooting to Android Recovery and "install update from sdcard"..but the directory looks empty on the phone.

So I can't reflash the stock sbf file....and I'm wondering if that's even necessary considering I can get as far as I do during setup. Seems the simplest thing would be to sideload a keyboard apk so I could proceed through setup...but I see no way to do that within my current restraints.

What to do, what to do? I thank you most kindly in advance if you can assist me. I apologize for the long-winded post but I wanted to provide as much info as may be necessary for an assist.

T3HG00GLEG33K · 16th March 2013, 07:03 AM

Re: [Q] 2.3.5 Factory reset, RSD hangs - and is this even necessary?

Quote:

Originally Posted by cool old lady

I am so, so exhausted from searching thread after thread and on Google, so I beg no one to bark at me if I missed finding my answer. I've read the Compendium several times and thanked Lokifish Marz - actually thanked him back during the summer when I first rooted my MoPho. And I have thanked several people for the support my moto campaign, which I've followed closely.

So, what I've done and what it's doing:

- Rooted it successfully this summer using photon torpedo and Lokifish Marz's help (first time rooting at all). I didn't fool with trying to unlock / flash / mod anything because I knew I wasn't ready yet. Shortly thereafter....

- Updated to 2.3.5 before we knew what a death sentence that was. Afterward, decided once again to just wait it out and see what happened with development, and keep learning what I could (and I'm a 38 year old woman with a Bachelor's in English, so we're talking slow learning curve here).

- Used it normally until my contract with Spint expired in November, dropped them and got a Galaxy S2 on T-Mobile prepaid. Decided "I'll just turn my Photon into a fancy little tablet for my boys to game on.."..

- So I pulled the Sprint sim, and did a soft, then hard, factory reset via Android Recovery.

- Boots up fine and I skip the google setup, I get to "Connection Failed..in order to complete setup you need a data connection." No problem, I hit "Setup a Wi-Fi connection" and select my network. Click in the password field...no keyboard pops up. Hold down in the field and "select Input method pops up", click it...it says "No keyboard" . So I clicked "skip for now" and get

Sorry! The application Accounts (process com.motorola.setup) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Have to click Force close.

...the it goes back to the "setup a wi-fi connection dialog".

- Retried above several times, pulling battery and whatnot, tried another hard reset, still...."no keyboard." So after MUCH searching, I installed Moto drivers on my new laptop, installed RSD Lite, downloaded SBF: 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US and unpacked it. In RSD Lite I browse to the file, select it - okay, file properties are there.

- Using instructions from here, I do it all right and get stuck at

RSD

Starting RSD Protocol Support

I plug in the usb and...nothing happens. And man I waited a loooooong time. But the phone never does anything else and RSD Lite never shows any device properties and nothing ever happens when I click Start. Again, I tried this step several more times, pulling battery, with and without the Sprint sim, etc...and nothing. So I'm stuck here.

Last important note:

While booted up and stuck at the "no keyboard" roadblock, I can connect the usb, select "usb mass storage" and my laptop DOES find the Photon and open up the drive. I see all these folders/files:

I ALSO tried copying the sbf file onto the mnt/sdcard folder, then rebooting to Android Recovery and "install update from sdcard"..but the directory looks empty on the phone.

So I can't reflash the stock sbf file....and I'm wondering if that's even necessary considering I can get as far as I do during setup. Seems the simplest thing would be to sideload a keyboard apk so I could proceed through setup...but I see no way to do that within my current restraints.

What to do, what to do? I thank you most kindly in advance if you can assist me. I apologize for the long-winded post but I wanted to provide as much info as may be necessary for an assist.

Wellp, sbfs will not do anything for you since your stuck on the 2.3.5 ota update(sorry to hear)

I have a few ideas, but bare with me, i dont know what all restraints come with the locked bootloader aside from the obvious.

Idea A) Take a look under the hybrid/cm7 rom thread, there is a zip file for the stock keyboard in there, if it is signed you can simply flash that(or if you have cwm by chance, which i dont know if you do with a locked bootloader, then just flash it normally) and i believe that would fix the keyboard issue.

Idea B)Assuming you are at least rooted, get yourself a file manager with root/system file exploration capabilities, simply paste the apk(and possibly .odex file) into the system/app directory, and set permissions accordingly.

Idea C) sideloading uses adb, which i think can still be used with a locked bootloader, if so, download yourself the adb/quickboot zip package, extract it to say your desktop, and open command prompt in the directory you extracted to. From there, simpley type in adb-fastboot.exe or whatever and it should show a list of commands, there should be a command to sideload an app, otherwise, just google it, or maybe download the apkmultitool (has a gui, very easy to use) and sideload from that. Should do the trick

If none of these help, or i just read your question completely wrong, forgive me, its been a long day, and ive been fixing my truck only to have to sell it for a saturn (RIP Bettie Lou, my beautiful bucket of crap, 85 chevy c20 6.2 liter diesel truck)

PM me if needed, i will respond sooner that way, or respond here and i will see it eventually. Best of luck

-T3HG00GLEG33K