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Motorola Defy

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Motorola Defy
Defy
Motorola Defy.jpg
Specification
Manufacturer: Motorola Motorola-icon.png
Release Date: 10/2010
Operating System: Android Android-icon.jpg
Dimensions: 107 x 59 x 13.4 Millimeters
Weight: 118 gramms
Chipset: Texas Instruments OMAP3610
Display: 3.7 inch (9,40 cm), 854 x 480 Pixel, 265 ppi (pixel per inch),68Hz Refresh Rate
Networks: Quadband GSM
Wifi: TI wL1271 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth: 2.1 + EDR
NFC: Not Known
GPS: Yes
Video out: Not Known
Camera: 5.0 megapixel with LED Flash
Secondary Camera: no
Internal Memory: 512 MB RAM / 2 GB ROM (1.2GB available)
Memory Card: MicroSD upto 32GB
Battery: 1540 mAh
Additional Features: "Lifeproof" IP67, but not certified


Contents

Introduction

XDA-Developers Forums for the Phone

The sub-forums on XDA Dev are located here.

There are four sub-forums:

  1. Defy General
  2. Defy Android Development
  3. Defy Themes and Apps
  4. Defy Accessories

Guides

  • Unsimlock your Defy Make your Defy work with different providers for custom roms based on CM. (original SIM is needed)

Network issues:

Mod Stock Firmware

Old: (usable to a certain point)

Tutorials

How to unbrick your Defy

See Rooting DEFY+ Bootloader v7 (few lines under this text) and this guide How to unbrick your Defy and solve other bugs

How to root your Defy

Older versions of Android in Defy are easily rootable by simple application. See:

Rooting DEFY+ Bootloader v7

Rooting DEFY+ Bootloader v7 means that you have already updated your phone to Android version that closed big security vulnerability used for rooting in previous versions (or you got phone with that new version already installed). In this case low level flashing of modified original Motorola's Android is required by special utility RSD Lite (this is impossible to root phone by simple application with exploit like before/above).

  1. Charge fully your phone (or for at least 50%)!!!
    • If you don't, you'll brick your phone because in BootLoader mode, the phone is not able to recharge and runs only from its own battery!!!
    • If your battery drains in BootLoader mode, you'll be not able to recharge it again. See below how to fix this. You have been warned!
  2. Install Motorola USB Drivers on your Windows PC
  3. Install RSD Lite (RSD Lite 5.7)
  4. Get SBF's from step 2 and 4 at [How-To] Root für BL7 Stock ROMs (2.6.3, DFP-188 und höher) - Android-Hilfe.de
    • pick only first link from step 2 and then first link from step 4
    • if it does not work, use links after word Alternativ: in both steps (second file is in two parts so you need three files total and merge last two in one)
  5. Rename these two SBF files to a shorter name, mark it as first (1st) and second (2nd)
  6. Boot phone into BootLoader menu
    • turn off phone
    • press and hold volume up and power on button
    • when display comes on, but stays black, release keys and white text appears on display
    • connect phone to PC by USB cable
  7. Start RSD Lite
    • this program could be detected as malware because is used for rooting phones so you may want to go over this warning and disable your antivirus checking for a while
    • you have to see your phone in one line in lower part of RSD Lite window next to one port number (Port No.)
    • click button with three dots (...) to pick first SBF file (1st)
    • click Start button, decompress and flash, and be patient and let it finish (up to 10 minutes)
    • when you see Please manually power up this phone under Status in RSD Lite:
      • pull battery out, put your battery back
      • boot into Stock recovery (hold Volume down and Power button until Android robot appears
      • press both Volume buttons (up+down) simultaneously and recovery menu appears
      • choose Wipe data/Factory reset/Wipe cache (by Volume Up/Down)
      • choose Reboot system now
  8. Again boot phone into BootLoader menu
    • click button with three dots (...) to pick second SBF file (2nd)
    • click Start button
    • wait until finished and phone check in RSD Lite is marked as PASSED

When it's done your phone is rooted!

You then need install Custom recovery (if you plan to flash another ROM from ZIP file):

  1. Download SndInitDefy_2.3.apk from 2ndInit Recovery Installer and put it on your SD card (ie. version 2.3 or later if available)
  2. Enable install from unknown source (the menu is under: Settings - Security - Enable unknown source)
  3. Run Files and find APK file on your SD card, tap on it
    • If it says you have to enable unknown source, go ahead to enable it
  4. Install APK with SndInitDefy
  5. Run installed SndInitDefy application
  6. Click to Install bootloader
    • The system asks you to enable root access multiple times. You have to agree!
  7. Wait for successful installation of Custom bootloader which is signalized by greed led on the top of your phone
  8. You may now boot to custom recovery and install favourite Android ROM

For more info:

How to enter bootloader menu

Switch phone off, press and hold volume-up button then switch phone on. From here, you can flash Motorola's official rom's (check sbf sticky threat and All-in-one defy beginners guide)

How to start the 2ndinitdefy bootloader/recovery menu

Download 2ndInit Recovery Installer v2.0 and install, reboot and when the blue led lights hold volume-down (usb debugging has to be off).

How to enter recovery mode

There are two different recovery's for the Defy. The stock and the custom recovery.

To get in Stock recovery

Stock recovery is builtin recovery provided by Motorola. This recovery is always accessible even the phone is rooted and custom recovery is flashed into the phone. To enter stock recovery, switch phone off, press and hold volume-down button then switch phone on (by power on button on the top of the phone). When the android robot with the exclamation mark appears, you have to press both volume keys (for more info, check All-in-one Defy beginners guide)

To get in Custom recovery

To enter Custom recovery switch off the phone. Then power on, press vol-down when blue led is on (else you'll enter 2ntInit bootmenu). In Boootmenu tap on Recovery => Custom Recovery. Check 2ndInit and All-in-one Defy beginners guide.

Old custom recovery's:

How to backup your current ROM

Enter custom recovery in 2ntInit bootmenu (power on, press vol-down when blue led is on, else you'll enter 2ntInit bootmenu) and chose Recovery => Custom (or latest) recovery and chose Nand backup from there.

How to get RSD lite to recognise a phone that won't boot

You flashed, something happened, now screen is black, phone doesn't react, u are in a boot loop, rsdlite cant recognize the phone. you're right here.

To get RSDLIte to recognize your phone you have to enter boot loader mode. this means press VOL-UP + POWER If nothing helps, try pushing VOL UP before!' you put the battery in (RSDLIte should be running and awaiting a new connection at that time) If you are using Windows 7, try seting RSDLite to "compatibility mode: Windows XP SP3".

Fixing "Battery Low - Cannot program" on bootloader aka McGyver Hack

U ran out of battery during flashing or similar. In flash progress (boot loader mode) the phone isnt able to load the battery, u got stucked because u ran out of it. Indicators: 

 - just see white led, 
 - screen black, 
 - phone doesnt boot?
 - never ever see a motorola logo

may try this:[1] some pics how this should look like: [2]

ROMS & Recoveries

Android 2.1 (Eclair) Stock ROMs

A list of currently known stock ROMs can be found at http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy.

On XDA:

Android 2.1 (Eclair) Custom ROMs

Android 2.2 (Froyo) Stock ROMs

Android 2.2 (Froyo) Custom ROMs

Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) Stock ROMs

Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) Stock ROMs

Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) Custom ROMs

Android 4.0.x (ICS) Custom ROMs

Android 4.1.x (JB) Custom ROMs

Wiki page for Defy(+) JB CM 10 builds:

Threads on XDA:

Android 4.2.x (JB) Custom ROMs

NON-ANDROID ROMS ( HTML5 .. etc Based ROMS )

Google Applications

Google Applications (simply just Gapps) are needed to support linking to Google account (cloud service). This means that you have to provide username and password for (one or more) Google accounts (ie. account for Gmail.com service) and then your contacts are synced with Google contacts in Gmail.com service. This account is needed to use Google Play to online download applications (and possibly music and other multimedia), links to Google+, YouTube.com account etc. Without Google Applications this is still possible to use the phone, but there is no auto contact backup, no Google Play etc. Some of Google Apps are possible to install from another phone (by install APK files downloaded to SD card from Internet, from another phone etc.), some are not. To ease connection with Big Brother Google, you have to have just minimal Google Applications set ready in your phone, because there are some hidden essential applications that are not presented to the user. If you want to waste your internal flash space, have a lot of processes always running even you don't use all the gadgets, install full Google Application set. These packages should by installed by Custom Recovery menu (see above).

Custom ROM from XDA-Developers don't contain Gapps usually. But this may vary, so you have to read HOWTOs and threads about your favourite custom ROM before you are installing anything on your phone. It's OK to install pure ROM, test it and then install Gapps and then connect to your Google account. But don't mix various Gapps without replacing whole ROM if you don't want to go into the trouble. Remember that once Gapps are installed, they are updated online via Google Play store so you need to install Gapps just one time.

Other

Themes

Modifications

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