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Good evening everyone,
I own a Motorola Defy, and tried to put the ROM "For Adlxmod Froyo Defy, "but I had the UK firmware 2.51.1.
It was there that a lack of attention, my phone now does not care anymore.
He only gets a white LED lit in front of him and does not happen any more, nor even acknowledge again by RSD.
I read in several places that this is due to firmware 2:51 and I believe I have given a HARD BRICK on my device.
Has some way to fix my phone without having to take it to an authorized?
I thank everyone's help,
Felipe
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Thanks, I managed to settle with the tip given!
Hello Everyone,
My Defy run out of juce with a special 3400mAh battery from china in the night. When I came home I changed the battery (the stock battery) which was fully charged. After that the defy was stuck in a bootloop (cm7) but i did not recognize this for a couple of hours. Because of this bootloop I removed the battery and put it in again from that time on the defy was dead. Maybe I did not wait long enough - I mean I saw the bootloop and thought 'crap' took the battery out and stuffed it right in again (I was a bit frustrated). Maybe i should have waited at least 5-10 seconds before putting the battery in again?
I tried to get access to the defy by RSD lite. But the PC does not recognize it. I got a white LED by connecting it to the PC. The defy is recognized only for to seconds and than disconnects again.
I tried to flash via sbf_flash on ubuntu without any result. The defy is simply not recognized. Only white LED. No Bootloader, no recovery, no logo.
Has anyone a suggestion? Is there a possibility to get acess to the defy to reflassh everything. Since the white LED is active there has to be a way. What about JTAG and riffbox? could this be a solution and if yes - how ?
I bought a used iPhone4 last week. But honestly: I hate it!! I do not like iOS, I dont like the edges of the iPhone - it is so uncomfortable to hold it in the hands. Wifi connectivity and connection is catastrophic. I will sell it a.s.a.p. again.
I want just my beloved defy back - the only phone I ever loved !! I appreciate any suggestions - thanks in advance !!
Your "special" battery is not that special afterall
What happened to your stock battery? Just get it charged - ask a friend with a Defy to charge it for you or do the McGyver trick, in order to fire it up again and then flash your stock SBF via RSD Lite. Calm down - Defy is like a Terminator and is immortal (as long as you don't kill it by flashing wrong SBF )
Thank you for the reply. However I have a dockingstation for the defy with which I can charge the battery without the phone. The battery is full for sure!
Hope you are right that the defy is like the Terminator - I have not lost hope yet.
Any other suggestions ?!
If Defy doesn't even get into bootloader, this means there is no juice in the battery. No matter what crap one would flash, bootloader is ALWAYS accessable! That's the beauty of the locked bootloader - you can't kill it! So as long as there is charge in the battery, you can always get into bootloader (Vol up + Power) and flash a new sbf. Peace of advice: don't trust your cheap, no-name, chinese battery. Use the original one, charged in another Defy phone, so you can make sure it really IS charged. The fact you left it in an external charger, doesn't mean it is charged - battery might not be working, charger may not be working, or both at the same time might not be working. There is no reason not to get into bootloader if there is charge in the battery
Cheers!
Auris 1.6 vvt-i said:
If Defy doesn't even get into bootloader, this means there is no juice in the battery. No matter what crap one would flash, bootloader is ALWAYS accessable! That's the beauty of the locked bootloader - you can't kill it! So as long as there is charge in the battery, you can always get into bootloader (Vol up + Power) and flash a new sbf. Peace of advice: don't trust your cheap, no-name, chinese battery. Use the original one, charged in another Defy phone, so you can make sure it really IS charged. The fact you left it in an external charger, doesn't mean it is charged - battery might not be working, charger may not be working, or both at the same time might not be working. There is no reason not to get into bootloader if there is charge in the battery
Cheers!
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Spot on
Sent from my MB525 using xda premium
my defy have a hard brick too.. I had to flash via SBF, but it occurs when the input loop gmail account, each starting up the account, there was a restart .. and now the Defy could not turn on .. whether the factors that depleted battery??
Auris 1.6 vvt-i said:
If Defy doesn't even get into bootloader, this means there is no juice in the battery. No matter what crap one would flash, bootloader is ALWAYS accessable! That's the beauty of the locked bootloader - you can't kill it! So as long as there is charge in the battery, you can always get into bootloader (Vol up + Power) and flash a new sbf. Peace of advice: don't trust your cheap, no-name, chinese battery. Use the original one, charged in another Defy phone, so you can make sure it really IS charged. The fact you left it in an external charger, doesn't mean it is charged - battery might not be working, charger may not be working, or both at the same time might not be working. There is no reason not to get into bootloader if there is charge in the battery
Cheers!
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My Defy+ don't enter on bootloader anymore, just white light and RSD Lite is working. Had you saw this behavior before?
duduzerah said:
My Defy+ don't enter on bootloader anymore, just white light and RSD Lite is working. Had you saw this behavior before?
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It's blank screen problem, happens when you flashed an SBF older than your previous one.
You still can get into Bootloader, just nothing on screen but it's definitely in there. Then flash the right SBF, the same or higher build than your previous stock rom successfuly to fix it.
Which SBF are higher than other? It's about Bootloader(BL) version, read here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537
If not sure, try DFP-231 builds, it's highest BL version to ensure fixing this.
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It's blank screen problem, happens when you flashed an SBF older than your previous one.
You still can get into Bootloader, just nothing on screen but it's definitely in there. Then flash the right SBF, the same or higher build than your previous stock rom successfuly to fix it.
Which SBF are higher than other? It's about Bootloader(BL) version, read here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537
If not sure, try DFP-231 builds, it's highest BL version to ensure fixing this.
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I have the same problem as last post (blank screen) with my DEFY (not plus). I flashed DFP-231 but now the boot stops at M logo. I`ve tried power+volume down but cannot access stock recovery. Any suggestions?
Jeff
jhys06567 said:
I have the same problem as last post (blank screen) with my DEFY (not plus). I flashed DFP-231 but now the boot stops at M logo. I`ve tried power+volume down but cannot access stock recovery. Any suggestions?
Jeff
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Look, I've suggested to one who use Defy+, so I said he should try DFP-231.
But not for Defy mb525, you shouldn't flash DFP-231 or any 2.3.x SBF files to your mb525...
Now you've stuck to Bootloader V.7 and no way back.
What's done is done, stick to that DFP-231 SBF you've flashed for now.
Did your flash finish with "Finish/pass" or "Please manually power up phone"?
If it Finish/pass then try again on Stock recovery, you almost there.
But if "Please manually power up phone", means you're not yet flashed your phone completely...
So do this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38187413
Hi.
After I successfully installed the cyangen mod, i wanted to install swype and some google apps. that is when i flashed the nightly sbf...
Since then, I could not start my phone..., only the bootloader (no matter which volume key i pressed).
So I looked for a full sbf to flash and found one, with code 2.5... (jrdnem u3 2.51.1)
but now, I can not even enter the bootloader. the only surviving signal of my phone i get is the white led when i connect it to the pc...
the battery status was at. about 85 %...
I'm really sorry, but i would be very greatful to receive some help
ps. before i flashed the nightly sbf, i forgot to wipe this thing in the bootloader...
Well...in my desperate state I was not able to type in the right words into the search bar. I think I found the answer to my Problem... My only task now is to find a well working sbf 2.5...
I'm still confused. I thought I'm not, but- would it be a problem if i flash the nordic cynagenmod, sbf version 3.4.2?
I would not knwo why not, but after I have these problems, I dont want to do anything again without knowing the consequence...
If you could enter stock recovery. You can do full wipe and boot to bootloader to flash your previous working sbf. If only bootloader your get now, just flash the nordic sbf and boot it into stock recovery to perform the full wipe.
Sent from my awesome Moto Defy: Stock Rooted Gingerbread 2.3.3 - XDA Premium
Right now, I don't even see the Bootloader or any Motorola-Logo. It just nothing happening, when I press the power button.
Your battery may well have run out of juice (same happened to me once upon a time). Leave it off, stick it on charge. Go have a cup of tea or two, then try again.
Alright. Now I'v had the time to check again.
Even with charging, the phone is still not turning on.
But I've read somewhere :" Don't worry, as long as you "see" your device in RSD Lite you can still flash the firmware. My big question is: WHICH SBF will help me? I#m really afraid to flash anything, because I don't now the consequence...
About the Cyangenmod: It said, it is not downgradable... does this mean, that I must take the JRDNEM_U3_2.51.1 sbf?
Hope this tips shade some light in your quest of resurrection of your dying Defy.
1) Use RSDlite 4.9 or 5.0 as these program known to be stable on PC.
2) Use the latest Moto driver 5.0.0 ver. Google it and you find it easily.
3) Install both the above 1) and 2).
4) Take out your Defy's battery, plug in USB cable on both ends
5) launch the RSDlite and insert the battery. You'll get some drivers installing and have the connected status display on the RSDlite window.
6) Flash the phone to this file HERE.
7) After flashed completed (At this point you won't get a normal boot yet, screen still black or stuck in moto logo), reboot into stock recovery and do full wipe.
8) Reboot again and you should be seeing it alive again.
Note: If somehow your battery run flat. You must do the Mcguyver trick to flash your phone. Do it quickly to avoid your battery get fried and damaged. I would suggest you brigde the wire connection to a 100Kohm resistor to bring down the voltage/current, this will protect your battery from getting fried.
Wish best of luck this time around.
Wow. Thank you very much for this step-to step guide.
Now, before I get started I have one question left: Can I also use the 5.1 Moto Driver? Or should I downgrade it?
I have the RSDLite 5.0 now, (before it was the 5.33 or so).
Those drivers should work too..
Sent from my awesome Moto Defy: Stock Rooted Gingerbread 2.3.3 - XDA Premium
I tried what u said, it's just that RSD does not recognize my phone, so I cannot even flash. I want to believe this is because the battery has run flat (which I don't understand, it still had about 70 % 2 days ago, when the whole story started...)
Please tell me that this is just the symptom of a low battery?!
Is it possible that the flashing has wiped out all firmware and bootloader and chargin system availeble on the phone?
My defy has the same problem. I have changed battery and a universal charger but i dont to know as resolve
I used the Mac Giver trick to flash the sbf onto my defy. It worked, my Defy is working again. Thank you very much
Hello Mates,
tried to flash my friends defy yesterday(JOREM_U3_3.4.2_177-003 ). RSD said something like code(area) 32: Md5sum wrong(?) and now, when i switch the phone on, it says:
Bootloader 9.10
Code Corrupt
Ready to Program
connect USB
tried to flash different SBF´s without success. Meanwhile it says Battery low, unable to program...
Plugged in the AC, but it doesn´t load at all. when i plug the USB RSDLite (4.9) doesn´t recognize the Defy and also doesn´t load it...
I´m no beginner and flash smartphones since the p3700 without issues (except one bricked Touch HD, but was a HW-fault). Don´t know what i did wrong.
Hope so much that you can help me out , because she will kill me, if she doesn´t get her beloved DEFY back...
Greetings, Tom
Reinstall rsdlite of higher version and drivers might help. But you got to charge the phone first.
Sent from my awesome Moto Defy: Stock Rooted Gingerbread 2.3.3 - XDA Premium
You should also re-download the SBF as it might be corrupted as well.
hmm...redownloaded the sbf.gz and updated to rsd 5.31 and new drivers on a clean system-same result... anything else icould do?
the Error is at ALL groups(31-47?) I think i lost warranty from now on...
thx in advance, tom
Edit: i have to unpack the .gz-files--is this right? I fell like a NOOB :-(
I would try a completely different sbf. Also plugging in the phone will not charge it unless you have a functioning ROM installed. If you still haven't got it charged use the Mcgyver method to charge it. Also you will want to wipe data/cache from stock recovery before flashing a new sbf (if you can even get into stock recovery now that you failed to properly flash sbf. If not then you will want to flash sbf to re-gain stock recovery access and then wipe data/cache or else you will have nothing but FC's when ROM finally boots)
and YES you must unpack .gz file.
if you keep flashing new and different sbf's and keep getting md5 mismatch on CG verification then your hardware is not properly flashing and you have a hardware issue! hopefully that is not the case. ONLY download sbf from XDA or and-developers
Hmmm... All the sbf´s were from and-developers... charging is not the problem, my girlfriend has a working defy, so i charge the battery there.
When i switch it on with volume down and power, the screen keeps black(backlight switches on) until i release the button(s). After releasing them i am automatically back in Bootloader(you know: code corrupt, etc...)
I also did not find the original sbf (2.1-update one, branden with 3 Austria)
she just wanted me to flash it, because the phone resetted itsels partly(motoblur, google-account) at every restart, it also had lot of FCs and lags. The Defy of my GF has the same branded FW and no problems. Perhaps it is really a HW issue?? I hope not! Any tips, where i could find the original 3 Austria FW??
Thank you all!
EDIT: What do you use to unpack the .gz-files? I tried 7zip and WinRAR.
It doesn't matter which one of those two apps you are using to extract the SBF from the archive. An alternate source for the SBF you've mentioned might be found on this thread. If you don't manage to revive it with that SBF then you might give it a try with the nordic one.
PS: hope you are using the original Moto USB cable.
nepotu said:
might give it a try with the nordic one.
PS: hope you are using the original Moto USB cable.
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The last sbf i tried was the nordic one(from 2 different sources)...
I used the csble from my old nexus one... it´s plugged on the pc since i had thus device... i will give the original moto a try, but are there any differences??
greetings, tom
Noticed at work that Defy keeps disconnecting if I use a cheap USB cable, while with Motorola one everything is fine (it also works fine with a Nokia USB).
Mine is doing the same.. any fix?
I have experienced the same exact problem. My Defy was having an issue where it would reset all passwords, clear all user data (including Blur) and require a complete new setup, every time I pulled the battery or turned the phone off then on. It was so annoying. It also wouldn't take the 2.2.1 update OAT, so I decided to re-flash. I am now with a bricked phone that gives the same "Code is currupt" message and no known fix. Arhhh!
I have the same problem too.What should I do?
Try to give it to motorola for warranty and tell them that u were upgrading over the air and this happened
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i bought this Defy+ just a couple of days ago and i was trying to get CM7. I struggled to root it but i achieved it. I wiped and did all the procedure before installing it, but i didn't had enough space on my SD, so i rebooted and booted like a brand new defy, going through the Blur config and everything... So i went to Recovery again, but at this time i forgot to do the wiping - which, i guess, led to a brick.
So i managed to get a .sbf to flash it.. What i didn't realized is that the .sbf was a custom, so i guess this ****ed up my phone even more. And so i went on trying to rescue my phone but this time i couldn't complete the flashing process, i wasn't able to perform a downgrade - i guess. After this, i got a non-rootable .sbf and began the flashing. The process got stuck on some message at 0%, then i disconnected the phone.
When i was able to download a stock firmware, from the .sbf thread, the phone wouldn't reboot when RSD asked, it didn't turn on again. So i tried to re-flash it, same .sbf and now i'm stuck with this situation: the pc is not recognizing my phone, i have a black screen - not even the Bootloader error screen is appearing and i'm here, begging, for someone to help me. is it dead? can i get it back?
HELP, PLZ
Is there any juice in the battery left? Does the phone even turn on or did you just drain all of your battery? If so, you have a couple of options - do McGyver or find somebody with the same phone and ask him to charge your battery and then start over. I would strongly recommend you take the second option.
Auris 1.6 vvt-i said:
Is there any juice in the battery left? Does the phone even turn on or did you just drain all of your battery? If so, you have a couple of options - do McGyver or find somebody with the same phone and ask him to charge your battery and then start over. I would strongly recommend you take the second option.
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it doesn't turn on, but i guess it does have battery, i can see the led on when i connect it to the pc
Led is always on when connected to the PC - it means nothing. If it doesn't turn on, then your battery's dead. Find someone who has the same phone and can charge it for you.
I think there is no problem, but you flash older firmware, which is probably due to the 7 bootloader does not go up.
try to be flash with one of these (2.3.6 GB)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537
begins with the 139-ended, if it is not going to work with the 188-ended
Sorry for bad English
"As of today there is no a full SBF** for the Defy+ (found here).
This full SBF is a new CG Version**, with Android 2.3.6. You wont be able to go back to your Stock Defy+ Rom, but at least you wont kill it if something goes wrong."
i successfully flashed it but still it won't turn on, i'm almost giving up on this one
caiowatanabe said:
i successfully flashed it but still it won't turn on, i'm almost giving up on this one
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If it gets past the red m and just keeps playing the android animation then simply pull battery hold volume - put battery in and keep volume - held when you get the android and the triangle press volume + and - and wipe all, should boot, unfortunately you've just flashed the un root able sbf and are stuck on moto standard
teamwork makes the dream work
nevermind, i flashed other sbf version and it is now working; too bad this version isn't rootable
anyway, many many thanks for all the help
caiowatanabe said:
nevermind, i flashed other sbf version and it is now working; too bad this version isn't rootable
anyway, many many thanks for all the help
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Feel free to keep an eye on the dev section for the bl7 rooting thread you may get lucky
teamwork makes the dream work
I was flashing the Stock sbf using this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093352
(I have a Defy MB525, Green Lens, India)
Now, I can't boot-up the phone. Nothing happens on pressing the power button, can't get into recovery or boot-loader. Even RSD won't recognize it.
The phone has been charging for over an hour, so I don't think it's a battery issue.
when you put it on a charcher does it stucks at m logo and doent do nothing so you have no battery so buy a new one to just flash the rom or charge your battery with another defy or if doesnt boot nothing you need to go on a store and to a jtag to flash you again the motherboard drives and rom you cant do this by your self its a big machine it vost a loto of money to get your own
nikolas60 said:
when you put it on a charcher does it stucks at m logo and doent do nothing so you have no battery so buy a new one to just flash the rom or charge your battery with another defy or if doesnt boot nothing you need to go on a store and to a jtag to flash you again the motherboard drives and rom you cant do this by your self its a big machine it vost a loto of money to get your own
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I jump started the battery by directly plugging it into the USB port...RSD is flashing the sbf right now.
I'm using this to guide me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807899
I have tried the above mentioned steps 5-6 times now and each time I successfully get ICS flashed but when I flash JB on top of it, it gets stuck on the Moto Logo.
Tried clearing cache, factory rreset, dalvik, battery stats...everything. I'm using the quarx's CM9 and CM10 builds but not the one with his 2ndboot.
Can someone guide me through>\?