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Root [Help] My New Paperweight

I suggested the factory recovery because IF he can at least get to that point and boot up he can charge his battery before moving on.
 
Well if you don't know anyone else with a DX do as lazer suggested and get to a Verizon store with your battery. They can charge it for you.
 
If you have a friend with a DX borrow their battery making sure it's well charged. If not hit a VZW store and ask if you can borrow a battery or have yours charged.

How frustrating, but don't fret it's fixable.

nvm what he said above.

FWIW, when I had this problem, I had my phone immediately resume bootloop as soon as I put the battery in so I had to hold my keys down as I put the battery back in to get into bootloader mode.
 
gaucholax said:
So what can I do?
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I was going to stay out of it but.....

If you already applied any of the 3 .588 GB files, then you will have to sbf; I don't think going into stock recovery and factory resetting/wiping data will fix your problem.

Bottom line, you need to get that battery charged up somehow.
 
gaucholax said:
Looks like the phone is completely out of battery now. I'm off to search for someone with a droid x and try and trade them batteries for the day.
Gah!
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If there's a vzw store near you, they can do it for you, too. Just don't tell them you're rooted.
 
Steven58 said:
If there's a vzw store near you, they can do it for you, too. Just don't tell them you're rooted.
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It's all the way downtown. I'm at college without a car. But it's okay, ive got a buddy with one. Should I make sure he charges it to 80% before passing it over?
 
gaucholax said:
It's all the way downtown. I'm at college without a car. But it's okay, ive got a buddy with one. Should I make sure he charges it to 80% before passing it over?
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i would see if you could get him to hand it over with a full charge honestly...sometimes with phone batteries it will say "80%" but quickly will drop to 70% after unplugging....

partial charging is never very exact...
 
Dido. The reason I said 80% is because that is what's recommended by most of the posts I have read on flashing and battery life.

I can only repeat what I read.......lol....kinda makes me feel like a parrot. And I'm only trying to help here DAMMIT!.....Steven, this is all your fault.
 
So you get an error message when you - pull the battery, hold the power button + home button, while holding, place the battery back in, there should be an explanation point. Are you getting an error message there? I was always under the assumption that the DX would charge in this state, if not get it charged, like people have mentioned above, swap your battery with a charged DX owners, use another DX to charge, use an external charger, or go to a verizon store and ask it to be charged, early in the morning is your best bet - tell them you have 2 batteries, ones in your phone currently and you need it on.

I was also under the assumption that you could charge in clockwork but from the statements above apparently not - I cannot tell status when I reboot into recovery.
 
cougar214 said:
labeledbass what's an "explanation point"? I thought it was an Exclamation point? Damn, wrong again I was.
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I honestly don't know how to spell it, chromes doing the walking, I'm doing the talking - auto correct I assume. The punctuation mark on your keyboard in between ~ and # using SHIFT - that, is what I refer to, accompanied by a rectangle water mark if I remember correctly - I need my phone operational atm so I can't reboot

EDIT: I do dig clams though
EDIT:: I see, exclamation/explanation - imperial system > fail

OP - you get idea eh? is that where you see the batt lvl program error?
 
Why are people using that 3-part Gingerbread upgrade process? I used the leaked ota update.zip in Froyo's stock recovery and it was SUPER simple.
 
My partners in crime, I'm back.
I thought it couldnt hurt to leave the phone on the charger while I was gone and when I came back it was charged!
I am at the bootloader screen with "battery OK, Ok to program, Transfer mode USB."
I have it plugged into my computer, running RSD Lite v4.8 Multi-Flash /Muli-flex tool
The device is not showing up.

EDIT: pressing show device does not change anything

EDIT2: I forgot the drivers. Installing now
 
gaucholax said:
My partners in crime, I'm back.
I thought it couldnt hurt to leave the phone on the charger while I was gone and when I came back it was charged!
I am at the bootloader screen with "battery OK, Ok to program, Transfer mode USB."
I have it plugged into my computer, running RSD Lite v4.8 Multi-Flash /Muli-flex tool
The device is not showing up.
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32-bit Windows Drivers
Try installing these and if that doesn't work, go to Config->DeviceId and chose "First Come First Serve"
 
greenless said:
Why are people using that 3-part Gingerbread upgrade process? I used the leaked ota update.zip in Froyo's stock recovery and it was SUPER simple.
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Because it comes pre-rooted so we can continue with other stuff we want to do (like flash higher versions of gingerbread)
 
Drivers installed. Now its showing up, but the start button remains grayed out.
Device properties are as follows:

IMEI/ESN/MEID: N / A
Technology: N / A
Software Version: N / A
Flex Version: N / A
Bootloader Version: v0x003004
DRM Version: N / A
AP Die ID: 0370011779075f010000d8ff2200
BP Die ID: 0000000000000000b55432890485
AP Public ID: 4683857e6ff482a4d78a495a3677f3f2d34862a8
BP Public ID: 040000000500000002000000ffff00002d003289

Filename:C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Android\VRZ_MB810_2.3.34_1FF_01.sbf
 
out of curiosity did you reboot both devices before proceeding?
 
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