Droid RAZR HD @ No Valid PIV block in Sp for system

Dagroth

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Hi guys. First, trust me that I have looked at every post I could find regarding this issue and the reason I am starting a new thread it because the fixes are not working for me. First, my phone:

Droid Razr HD Dev Edition, I believe it's the T926, though it doesn't boot now so.....

I had rooted this phone with the Droid Razr HD Utility 1.1. I had it running on T-Mobile fine for quite some time (only HSA speed or whatever they call it, but that's fine I'm out of range for anything better anyway). I had Superuser installed and something like root keeper I think it was called. Anyway my point is everything worked great.

I started getting this popup that seemed to say Motorola wanted to do an update. Now I had ignored the update on my phone for a while as I didn't want to go through the process just yet. Finally I gave in and I let the Motorola from my Windows PC try to push an update. That was the last my phone has booted.

So now all I get is Fastboot. Now if I do the buttons and manually go to fastboot it looks normal and I connect USB and it looks fine. But if I try to run the HD Utility 1.10, 1.20 both fail, RSDLite 5.6 and 6.0 both fail. All I can come up with is No valid PIV block in sp for system. The phone does seem to respond when I try the utility but all I get is failures and it clearly says the phone is locked. RSDLite has no such luck and immediately fails.

I still have the original XT926 xml I used and I also downloaded a VZW_XT926. I'm really SOL here guys and I would so appreciate any help.
I guess the last bit of info I can think to add is that when I plug USB in fresh what looks like Motorola software (what messed me up to begin with) pops up and tells me it wants to repair the phone. Of course like an idiot I've tried that as well.
 

coolloser

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My guesses are; you are using an outdated utility, outdated fastboot files, outdated RSD lite (there is 6.1 and higher out) and/or your system is corrupted. So make sure all of your tools and files are up to date and report back if you get any further.

Were you on ICS or JB before the update nag? Pretty sure if you were on Jellybean you will have to wait for an xml to be released, I remember reading something like this on DroidRzr.com
 

Dagroth

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My guesses are; you are using an outdated utility, outdated fastboot files, outdated RSD lite (there is 6.1 and higher out) and/or your system is corrupted. So make sure all of your tools and files are up to date and report back if you get any further.

Were you on ICS or JB before the update nag? Pretty sure if you were on Jellybean you will have to wait for an xml to be released, I remember reading something like this on DroidRzr.com
I was on JB so I'll do some more research on that. I saw a 6.1 for RSD but skipped it due to reg req. I'll hunt it down. How do you update Fastboot? I was just updating Razr HD Utility and letting it do it's thing. I have 1.2 now and it has Fastboot inside. Is that what you mean or am I missing a step?

Thanks for your help.
 

coolloser

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I was on JB so I'll do some more research on that. I saw a 6.1 for RSD but skipped it due to reg req. I'll hunt it down. How do you update Fastboot? I was just updating Razr HD Utility and letting it do it's thing. I have 1.2 now and it has Fastboot inside. Is that what you mean or am I missing a step?

Thanks for your help.
After Jellybean there needed to be new Fastboot files because of some security change in Android, the newest utility most likely has it. I found this file
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/vanquish/VZW_XT926_4.1.2_9.8.1Q_62_VQW_MR-2_VQW_CFC.xml.zip

in this thread:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/15828-rsd-lite-stock-412-firmware-restore-not-working/

If you are still stuck after that I suggest signing up on DroidRzr.com and joining the chatroom, those guys know far more than I!
 

Dagroth

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Just an update that nothing I have tried has worked and I remain bricked. I've updated the DroidRAZR Utility, RSDLite, tried numerous images... still bricked. No valid PIV block in SP for system.
 

Dagroth

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Just an update that nothing I have tried has worked and I remain bricked. I've updated the DroidRAZR Utility, RSDLite, tried numerous images... still bricked. No valid PIV block in SP for system.
Well I finally got it working. I tried as much as I could find, RSD 6.1.4, Droid RAZR Utility 1.2, many many many images since my original wasn't working. Anyway I'll skip all that didn't work.

My problems got compounded when my battery died. The internet goes on about how bad this is. True to form when I found and tried to manually push an image with fastboot I kept getting errors about the batter. Now this phone is the developers edition and I read somewhere about how you can buy this special cable. Like most of you I have dozens of USB cables and at one point my original was misplaced. Ah, your catching on now aren't you? I went hunting and dug up my original cable and the blasted thing just booted right up. No re-imaging, nothing, just booted right up.

Now I "had" successfully (today) sent a fastboot of a new system.img from the Droid RAZR Utility 1.2 and checking my system I do see that indeed that is the img I am on. So this may have been a two fold rescue.

So in the hopes it helps any other poor sap out there. Here is how I fixed my bricked Droid RAZR HD xt926 that had a near dead battery.

Boot into AP Fastboot
On windows computer, navigated to folder where I had extracted Droid_RAZR_HD_Utility_1.20
fastboot flash system system.img >>This worked
fastboot flash boot boot.img >> this failed
I then dug up my original cable, plugged directly into wall adapter and voila - it booted up!

Unfortunately I think I'm on JB now, but hell at least my phone is working again!

Thanks for the replies, thanks for your hard work tearing these phones down and giving us tools to work with and thanks to the *** *** internet for being so awesome and giving us so much at our finger tips!
 

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Well I finally got it working. I tried as much as I could find, RSD 6.1.4, Droid RAZR Utility 1.2, many many many images since my original wasn't working. Anyway I'll skip all that didn't work.

My problems got compounded when my battery died. The internet goes on about how bad this is. True to form when I found and tried to manually push an image with fastboot I kept getting errors about the batter. Now this phone is the developers edition and I read somewhere about how you can buy this special cable. Like most of you I have dozens of USB cables and at one point my original was misplaced. Ah, your catching on now aren't you? I went hunting and dug up my original cable and the blasted thing just booted right up. No re-imaging, nothing, just booted right up.

Now I "had" successfully (today) sent a fastboot of a new system.img from the Droid RAZR Utility 1.2 and checking my system I do see that indeed that is the img I am on. So this may have been a two fold rescue.

So in the hopes it helps any other poor sap out there. Here is how I fixed my bricked Droid RAZR HD xt926 that had a near dead battery.

Boot into AP Fastboot
On windows computer, navigated to folder where I had extracted Droid_RAZR_HD_Utility_1.20
fastboot flash system system.img >>This worked
fastboot flash boot boot.img >> this failed
I then dug up my original cable, plugged directly into wall adapter and voila - it booted up!

Unfortunately I think I'm on JB now, but hell at least my phone is working again!

Thanks for the replies, thanks for your hard work tearing these phones down and giving us tools to work with and thanks to the *** *** internet for being so awesome and giving us so much at our finger tips!
I was trying to load a different ROM (running 4.4.2) so I could unlock the bootloader and root and hard bricked my phone with the same error message as a result of a failed flash. Using the fastboot command (fastboot flash system system.img) I was able to load the system.img from VZW_XT907_4.4.2-KDA20.62-15.1_CFC_1FF_SVC.xml and now am booting successfully once again.

Dagroth, you pulled my fat outta the fire! Many thanks. I hope this message helps others.