[GUIDE] How To Receive OTAs Again If You Are On A Leak ***Proven Working Method***
If followed correctly, this a bulletproof method (reposted from our work at Rootzwiki) of returning any image to a true 5.5.886 stock and then applying the OTA update.
Hold down the Volume Down + Volume Up buttons and press the Power button
When the choices appears, press Volume Down twice, till "AP Fastboot" is selected
Press Volume Up to select
Recovery Mode
Make sure the phone is off
Hold down the Volume Down + Volume Up buttons and press the Power button
When the choices appears, press Volume Down once, till "Recovery" is selected
Press Volume Up to select
When the icon with the android and exclamation appear press both Volume Up and Volume Down at the same time to enter the recovery
Step-by-step Process
Download the 3 files under "Necessary Resources"
Install the appropriate Motorola drivers for your operating system
Place the radio.zip file on the root of your SD card (not internal storage)
Unpack the full package of files to one folder on your computer
Turn off your phone completely
Start into Fastboot Mode (listed above)
Connect your phone to your PC with the USB cable and let it install the drivers for your device
After the drivers are done installing, open a command prompt in the folder where you unzipped the full package to
Using the Moto-Fastboot Commands screenshot from above follow each one step by step until you are done
When you have finished, disconnect your USB cable and press the Power button once to turn it off
Start into Recovery Mode (listed above)
Highlight "wipe cache partition" and press the Power button to select it
When it has completed, pull the battery out of your phone and then put it back in
Start into Recovery Mode again
Highlight "apply update from sdcard" and press the Power button to select it
Highlight the "radio.zip" file on your SD card and press the Power button to select it
When it has completed, highlight "reboot system now" and press the Power button to select it
When the device reboots into the OS waited 1 minute for it to load everything in the background
Follow the prompt but don't sign into anything, just get to the homescreen
When at the homescreen, connect your USB cable and then from the pull down menu select "USB connection", then select "Charge Only" and hit OK
Go into Settings -> Applications and enable Unknown Sources and hit OK
Go into Development and enable USB Debugging and hit OK
Back out to Settings -> Battery & data manager -> Battery mode and select Performance mode
Power off your phone and then power it back on normally
Open a command prompt in the folder where you unzipped the full package to
Using the Root Commands screenshot from above follow each one step by step until you are done
Power off your phone and then power it back on normally
Open a command prompt in the folder where you unzipped the full package to
Using the Boot Mod Commands screenshot from above follow each one step by step until you are done
***When a Superuser prompt appears on your phone after the last command, quickly select Allow and make sure you do NOT reboot your phone***
When it has finished, connect your phone to your 3G/4G or a WiFi connection
Go into Settings -> About phone and select System updates
When the prompt comes up, press Setup
Place a check in "I agree to the Motorola Terms of Service" and then press Next
When the update prompt comes up, press Download
Wait for the update to download
When the update prompt comes up, press Install Now
Let update reboot to recovery and install itself
***Your phone may appear as if it is completely off for a little while but leave it be it will turn itself on and continue***
Let the update finish and then it will reboot back into your system
Congratulations! You now have the official 5.5.893 update installed and are back on the official OTA path and forever rooted
Credit to all developers of the zergRush exploit, to realbbb (from Rootswiki) for discovering the Boot Mod, and anyone else who participated in making this all possible.
The radio flash is unnecessary and all that is required is moto-fastboot of the system.img, grfs.img and preinstall.img and then boot, root and DD the .886 boot.img and then the 5.5.893 will succeed.
You can keep data and avoid all those extra steps too!
Hey guys I got a little problem, unfortunatly you guys have generated so much traffic on my Dropbox account that they suspended it for 3 days. I'm going to ask if any of you guys have the full package file to please upload somewhere for a few days and post a link here until my account has been unfrozen. In the mean time you guys can use the optional files to recreate that package listed in the 4th screenshot. I greatly apologize for this inconvinience.
The radio flash is unnecessary and all that is required is moto-fastboot of the system.img, grfs.img and preinstall.img and then boot, root and DD the .886 boot.img and then the 5.5.893 will succeed.
You can keep data and avoid all those extra steps too!
Noob question ... what does "DD" mean?
I'm going to let the process (OP or the one quoted) shake out over the next few days before I even consider going forward. I definitely would love to maintain data.
I'm going to let the process (OP or the one quoted) shake out over the next few days before I even consider going forward. I definitely would love to maintain data.
dd=raw image
i think or at least it does to me being in computer forensics
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someone please share a working link for those files.
As soon as your account becomes unfrozen I'll download the "full files package" and try to upload to Megaupload or something like it to have them permanently downloadable.
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The steps can be made even simpler actually.
The radio flash is unnecessary and all that is required is moto-fastboot of the system.img, grfs.img and preinstall.img and then boot, root and DD the .886 boot.img and then the 5.5.893 will succeed.
You can keep data and avoid all those extra steps too!
Also, I too would like to keep my data and would like to do the simpler way. please clarify what DD means in the above post?
Ok, since nobody can download the full package from the OP, I won't feel so badly about hijacking his thread with different information.
This method is overly complicated and includes many redundant and unnecessary steps. A lot more info about this procedure has been developed since the OP made this guide and the process has been accomplished in several different ways at this point, including RSD lite using modified .xml files and a limited set of images.
dd is a command in Linux to make a direct digital copy of a file or partition, a raw image as stated above. One of the required steps which is part of the streamlined process, is to use a .bat file created by a user to dd the .886 boot.img to the phone after having flashed the system.img, preinstall.img and grfs.img from the FXZ and then rooting it again. This is the part that actually fixes the boot.img so that the update.zip will pass it's assert check for mtd/boot and flash the 5.5.893 update successfully.
This is despite the fact that manually copying the boot.img like this will fail to boot because it is not a signed image. The image is in fact an exact copy so the update.zip accepts it and patches it as per the updater-script.
That is the crux of the fix. All the rest is not needed. The radio does not need to be reverted because the update.zip does not assert the radio version at all.
All of the other pieces being flashed and reflashed is redundant and wiping data is not required at all and makes the rerooting and running the boot mod that much quicker and easier because you are already setup and have USB debugging checked etc. To say nothing of saving the time to resetup the device after a wipe.
I will also add that P3Droid has created a scripted method with all files included and options for loading 5.5.893 and then 5.9.901 if desired. This includes flashing the 3 images with moto=fastboot, the rooting and dd of the boot.img and then reboots into recovery where the only user input needed is to select the update.zip and run it and reboot.
This method will be released on MDW very soon.
I don't want to steal the thunder from the OP, as he was involved in the process much earlier than was I. I came in after success had been established and P3Droid and I saw the extraneous steps and both completed this simpler method with the reduced steps successfully last night.
We take no credit for the development of the method, which involved a large number of people contributing over several days of hashing out the details.
We just took the fat out and made sure it worked as we understood it should.
So I think that I will do this. Lets says I get to 5.893, install safestrap, and on my non safe 'strap' ie, my daily driver, I restore a nandroid backup of the ROM I am running now (eclipsev 2.0, 5.7.893), Will this work? And theoretically I will have the same system I do now, but with 5.5.893/new radio/kernal/on the update path... That all sound about right and doable?
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