[Q] Trying to backup an encrypted RAZR M

[kozzney]

Ok, I'm new at this, here's what I've got, hopefully someone can shed some light:

-My RAZR M is fully encrypted
-It is successfully rooted
-I have installed Rom Manager with CWM 6 as the custom recovery
-I want to make a NANDROID backup (to eventually install Carbon), but whenever I try to reboot into the backup/recovery mode, it won't, it goes to what I think is the ADB screen? Not sure tho, this screen says "Connect data USB." Then, when I do, it just changes state and says USB connected, nothing else happens. Then I just reboot the phone normally and everything still works.

So after googling and researching a lot, I'm assuming since my phone is encrypted it won't access the CWM because it never asks me for my password to decrypt the internal storage. Ok cool, but here's my question now tho; if I perform a Factory Reset from the settings menu, will it actually do the reset and reinstall itself since I have CWM installed??

Thanks for any help.

 

[kozzney]

Anyone got any ideas??

 

[ezknives]

Is your bootloader unlocked?

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[kozzney]

Hmm. Is this screen where it says "Device is LOCKED" mean that my bootloader is locked? Btw, this is the screen that I referred to in my first post. It comes up whenever I try to select "Recovery"

 

[ezknives]

Your bootloader is locked and on that version it can not be unlocked... So... unfortunately you can not install a custom recovery... Well you can use safestrap but the ROM selection is very limited...

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[kozzney]

So you say I cannot install a custom recovery, do you mean a different ROM that I would "recover" to install it? Or do you mean ClockworkMod (and its various counterparts)? Because in the ROM Manager app, it says I have CWM 6.0.4.4 as my "current recovery" (see attached screenshot)

Please forgive me if this is a dumb question lol but like I said, I'm new at this whole thing

 

[ezknives]

It does say that huh unsure as to why... i do have a locked M around here somewhere ill see if it does the same thing to it...When I say custom recovery I do refer to cmw n twrp... With a locked bootloader you can not install those... we have for safestrap as a recovery for locked bootloaders it's been a year since I used it but I believe you can make backups on it... I would just sit tight and.wait on kit kat it shouldn't be to much longer... till then just freeze all the bloat and use xpossed to your liking... When kk comes out I'm sure development will pick up for locked bootloaders again..anyone else with more experience care to provide more in depth assistance..

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[kozzney]

So any further advice on what I can or can't do?

I would like to perform a factory reset on my device to get rid of this stupid encryption (it slows everything down), but with CWM installed (supposedly?), can I still do a factory reset? I guess what I'm trying to get at is what does the factory reset option use to re-flash everything from? The recovery partition where CWM is now supposedly installed? Will that affect the factory reset?

I hope this makes sense, I don't want to brick my phone...

 

[kozzney]

Alrighty, for anyone interested:

I never tried the factory reset. What I did do is try the OTA KitKat update just like 2 hours ago. That was a mistake; upon downloading and automatically rebooting to start the upgrade, my phone would not reboot, it got stuck at the AP Fastboot screen with the error code 0x56 (see attached picture).

So, I powered off and powered on my phone, at which point it powered up normally, until after about 2 minutes on the home screen, it automatically rebooted itself (to presumably "continue" trying to install the OTA). Then it got stuck again on the AP Fastboot screen. This continued over and over and I soon realized I soft bricked my phone.

Did some further research, found the House of Moto program (http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-22/) which saved my life. If anyone is having any issues similar to the situation I was having, or just issues with the KitKat OTA, this House of Moto program will restore your phone to completely stock. Just follow the instructions on that web page exactly. Kudos to the dude who developed that.