flashing sbf time estimate

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I've noticed people saying to make sure your battery is fully charged when flashing the stock sbf. How long does this process usually take. Going to flash it back and root the new ota and I was wondering how long ill be off the grid for.

Originally Posted by mudd_cat23

I've noticed people saying to make sure your battery is fully charged when flashing the stock sbf. How long does this process usually take. Going to flash it back and root the new ota and I was wondering how long ill be off the grid for.

This is not a development question, and should be in the Q&A section.

It takes about 5-10 minutes. Having done the process about 35-40 times now, I have the entire flash 1.26, root, update to 1.57, reroot process down to about 20 minutes.

Well, for me, I have a really fast core i5 Sony Vaio, but I can't flash any phones with it because I always get errors (something not working right on Win7) so I have to use my old 2006 Sony Vaio with first gen core 2 duo (Centrino Duo) on XP. And with that said, it takes about 45 minutes on that POS.

So the speed of it is really all in the power of your computer.

amd quad core with win7 takes about 10 min

Originally Posted by BravoMotorola

Well, for me, I have a really fast core i5 Sony Vaio, but I can't flash any phones with it because I always get errors (something not working right on Win7) so I have to use my old 2006 Sony Vaio with first gen core 2 duo (Centrino Duo) on XP. And with that said, it takes about 45 minutes on that POS.

So the speed of it is really all in the power of your computer.

You know that you may need to shorten the file name length; you call name it what ever you want, just don't have any space in the name or change the .sbf file extension. Also, a good idea to make sure the file path doesn't have spaces in it as well; just put the .sbf in the root c:\

Originally Posted by Swiftks

You know that you may need to shorten the file name length; you call name it what ever you want, just don't have any space in the name or change the .sbf file extension. Also, a good idea to make sure the file path doesn't have spaces in it as well; just put the .sbf in the root c:\

Do this.

I have an i7 with 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM running Windows 7...it's not your processor, it's RSD. Doing this worked for me.

I use my netbook with 2gb ram and its crappy little 1.nothing ghz processor atom processor and it only takes about 10 minutes

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the time it takes to flash the default spf has nothing to do with your computers speed. ie cpu ram blah blah.

the person that says it is taking 45 minutes has a pc with usb 1.1 not usb 2.0
that is why it is slow.

on any normal pc expect 5-15 mins.

It took me about 10-20 minutes on the atrix both times.

hey i am not sure where to post this but i kinda did in mutiple posts ..after using RSD lite and toke the .sbf file.. it says failed flashing process and giving me the (0x7100). i dont know how to get out of "starting RSD protocol support"
I am kinda PANICKING RIGHT NOW!! I AM SCARED WHETHER MY PHONE IS BRICKED!

please help me out!! much appreciated!