Stock ROM for RAZR HD XT926?

[chuckh1958]

Anyone know where I can get the latest stock ROM for a RAZR HD XT926 from a trusted source? I'm a bit nervous about downloading just any old file that claims to be a stock ROM. Who knows what could be embedded in it.

The latest OTA update from Verizon contains a bug fix that I desperately need, but my phone refuses to apply the update. I've given up working with Verizon and Motorola on this. Motorola level 2 support says they won't help because the phone is rooted, even though it wasn't at the time I spoke to them on the phone.

I've decided to go the route of flashing the ROM myself. I'm now rooted, bootloader is unlocked, safestrap is installed, and I've backed up the my working system with it. I've also installed rootkeeper so I can temporarily unroot before flashing.

Also after doing this will I need to reinstall and reconfigure all my apps? If so is there an easy way to back that all up so all I need to do is restore the backup?

 

[raejr78]

Here you go!

Anyone know where I can get the latest stock ROM for a RAZR HD XT926 from a trusted source? I'm a bit nervous about downloading just any old file that claims to be a stock ROM. Who knows what could be embedded in it.

The latest OTA update from Verizon contains a bug fix that I desperately need, but my phone refuses to apply the update. I've given up working with Verizon and Motorola on this. Motorola level 2 support says they won't help because the phone is rooted, even though it wasn't at the time I spoke to them on the phone.

I've decided to go the route of flashing the ROM myself. I'm now rooted, bootloader is unlocked, safestrap is installed, and I've backed up the my working system with it. I've also installed rootkeeper so I can temporarily unroot before flashing.

Also after doing this will I need to reinstall and reconfigure all my apps? If so is there an easy way to back that all up so all I need to do is restore the backup?

Go to sbf dot droid-developers dot org That's where you'll find them!

 

[chuckh1958]

Thanks. Are you pretty confident that they are clean?

 

[raejr78]

Clean

Thanks. Are you pretty confident that they are clean?

Yes. I'm very confident they are. I've always used these to restore mine to stock when needed.

 

[chuckh1958]

Awesome! Thanks. Now I just need to figure out how to flash the one I want. This is my first time. I'm guessing I just put the zip file on my sdcard and tell SafeStrap to recover using it.

Will I need to reinstall all my apps? Is there a way to prevent that? Mostly I'm concerned about apps that I've spent a lot of time setting up custom configurations for.

 

[raejr78]

Back to Stock

Awesome! Thanks. Now I just need to figure out how to flash the one I want. This is my first time. I'm guessing I just put the zip file on my sdcard and tell SafeStrap to recover using it.

Will I need to reinstall all my apps? Is there a way to prevent that? Mostly I'm concerned about apps that I've spent a lot of time setting up custom configurations for.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176753

That post will walk you through how to flash back to stock.

 

[chuckh1958]

So I can't use safestrap to flash the stock ROMs downloaded from sbf dor droid-developers dot org?

 

[raejr78]

Safestrap

So I can't use safestrap to flash the stock ROMs downloaded from sbf dor droid-developers dot org?

No you cannot.

 

[chuckh1958]

I've got RSD Lite installed now and it successfully detects the device is fastboot mode. Next step is to unzip the XML file I downloaded and plug it into RSD Lite. Right?

How much risk do you think there is that I end up bricking the phone? Keep in mind that OTA updates always fail because the hash on the build.prop file doesnt match what its expecting even though I've never changed the build.prop file.

Will I be able to use SafeStrap recovery if the phone gets bricked?

Like I said this is the first time I've tried this and I'm trying to cover all the bases before I do anything dangerous.

 

[RikRong]

I've got RSD Lite installed now and it successfully detects the device is fastboot mode. Next step is to unzip the XML file I downloaded and plug it into RSD Lite. Right?

How much risk do you think there is that I end up bricking the phone? Keep in mind that OTA updates always fail because the hash on the build.prop file doesnt match what its expecting even though I've never changed the build.prop file.

Will I be able to use SafeStrap recovery if the phone gets bricked?

Like I said this is the first time I've tried this and I'm trying to cover all the bases before I do anything dangerous.

You don't unzip the .xml, you just flash it in RSD. When you use RSD, you will no longer have SafeStrap installed. SafeStrap is only an app, not a true recovery replacement, it works in conjunction with the stock recovery. You can't use a true recovery replacement since your bootloader is locked.

If you're not comfortable with RSD, try the House of Moto here:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-20/

 

[chuckh1958]

RSD Lite failed to flash the phone. Error message was "failed flashing process - unknown fastboot command, (getvar).I do have the latest Android SDK installed (32 bit version) and it's in the my PATH. I can run fastboot from the command line and it does show a getvar command.

Prior to running RSD Lite I did temporarily unroot the phone with rootkeeper. Could that be the problem?

 

[chuckh1958]

Ok I got to flash by ...

• manually extracting the zip file
• editing the xml file, and removing 2 lines that contained the text "getvar"
• pointed RSDlite to the XML file instead of the zip file

From what I can see everything looks good on the phone. Now I just have to let it finish reinstalling all the apps.

I just wanted to post the steps here in case anyone else stumbles onto this thread and has the same problem.

 

[chuckh1958]

I did lose root. Any way to get it back?

 

[aviwdoowks]

I did lose root. Any way to get it back?

We have root on the newest build now! In the general forum.