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Root Back to stock, Forever root, .893, LOST ROOT, not good!

messenger13

messenger13

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As the title says, I read several threads and understood the process as well as just about anyone. I followed the directions to a 'T', and now I'm screwed. Or, should I say my Bionic is. I have tried every manual method or RE-rooting that I could find, and it just ain't happenin'. It appears the .893 update locked my phone out of all of the current root exploits.

Now I have a stock, fully-bloated Bionic that I can't flash custom ROMs to ... nor can I restore any or my apps/data. LAME SAUCE!!!

Even trying to flash the FXZ File fails ... which I refer to in my signature. :(
 
Thanks for posting ... but, BTDT. Didn't work. NOTHING has worked. Time to just take the phone back to Costco and get another.


Update, it finally worked!
 
Joe - have you tried reverting to complete pure stock using the FXZ in my sig and / or the first post? If I'm not mistaken, even if you have the new radio and kernel, you should be able to root if the rest of your system files are the old .886....
 
UPDATE: After several attempts, it FINALLY worked! I put a 'pause' statement between every line in the .bat file (of this method), and it worked. Whew! That was annoying.


johnlgalt said:
Joe - have you tried reverting to complete pure stock using the FXZ in my sig and / or the first post? If I'm not mistaken, even if you have the new radio and kernel, you should be able to root if the rest of your system files are the old .886....
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Yep, did that. But the method from RootzWiki was still failing. Everything was failing. I was about to just replace the phone.
 
Might want to mention that to dhacker on rootzwiki so he can update his script. may help some people who are unable to root after ota.
 
Lol - Hmm. Interesting. Perhaps you should mention that in the thread, and have the Author update the batch file for just that purpose....

It shouldn't be too hard to either write a call function to select which way to do it (with or without pauses) or else to somehow include both batch files, and a third batch file that calls one or the other based upon the user selection....
 
amageus said:
Might want to mention that to dhacker on rootzwiki so he can update his script. may help some people who are unable to root after ota.
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I'll let him know what worked for me. Even though it makes no sense to me. I was just wanting to see what stepped was failing first and take a screenshot. I couldn't believe nothing failed. :confused:


johnlgalt said:
Lol - Hmm. Interesting. Perhaps you should mention that in the thread, and have the Author update the batch file for just that purpose....

It shouldn't be too hard to either write a call function to select which way to do it (with or without pauses) or else to somehow include both batch files, and a third batch file that calls one or the other based upon the user selection....
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No, that would be simple. But it may confuse some ... I dunno.
 
At the very least you could post that with the Windows version, inserting a Pause command between each batch command allowed it to progress correctly. It may have something to do with the fact that the batch program will work fine on older computers, but newer computers will try to process commands without waiting for the results of the previous command, since it is not written into the batch, and that is why it is failing....
 
he just updated it.


dhacker29 David Hacker
R3L3AS3D Root/restore for the #Bionic has been updated and works on .886 and .893 @xdadevelopers @DroidForums @RootzWiki @DroidModderX
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