[HOW TO] Recover from a soft brick caused by freezing needed apps or services.

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I recently soft bricked my phone due to freezing a /system/app in Titanium Backup that was needed by the system. Here is how I fixed it.

Run shell root from superoneclick in Early USB Enumeration

Once it says you have shell root, run the following commands:

adb shell


mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system


cd /system/app


busybox chmod -R 755 *

Make sure you put the space then the star character (*) after 755, that tells the system to set the permissions of all the files/apps, in the /system/app directory.

Lastly, run the command:
adb reboot

Your phone should reboot and be back up and running.

what did you freeze so we don't make the same mistake?

Hey, amwbt, could I post a link to this thread in mine (the TiBU Freeze thread)?

I'm sure it would make things a lot easier for people if things go wrong when they're freezing stuff.

Oh, and I'd of course give you due credit.

Originally Posted by xyrovice

Hey, amwbt, could I post a link to this thread in mine (the TiBU Freeze thread)?

I'm sure it would make things a lot easier for people if things go wrong when they're freezing stuff.

Oh, and I'd of course give you due credit.

Of course!

Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Originally Posted by franciscojavierleon

what did you freeze so we don't make the same mistake?

Unfortunately, I don't remember which ones they were. Once I got my phone back up I immediately unfroze everything that was not in the recommended apps to freeze list in the OP [HOW TO] Deal with Boat Safely & Properly {Freeze Method/ROOT} | BIGGER LIST(S)! 3/1


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Hello, thanks for posting this info! I asked a question in the atrix q&a area but perhaps it's best answered here.

My phone also got screwed up because of freezing something I shouldn't have.

How do I run super one click in early USB enumeration? I'm unfamiliar with super one click - on past phones I used other rooting methods, and I used aRoot and root v2 for the atrix.

My phone crashes during bootup when the moto logo begins the red dot animation - I don't know how to get super one click to recognize it at all, presumably because it's frozen.

Please note that this will NOT work on 1.57.