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Root Bricked Droid?

AlexR666

AlexR666

Newbie
Hi Everyone,

I have a rooted incredible but last night my friend wanted to me root his original droid. I got it rooted and it was on FRG83D. I gave it to him and he brought it to school this morning in recovery mode. It is on Android System Recovery, not clockwork mod. I have tried about 10 different ROM's to update from sdcard but it comes with the same error "E: signature verification failed". I tried what i thought was the stock ROM twice but nothing worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
All sorts of Stock ROMs here - Peter Alfonso

Also, you can install ROM manager to do this once you get back into the Android system itself.

As for your current problem, you may need to use an .SBF with RSD Lite and flash it back to a stock ROM that way, and then root it - and if he is on FRG33D then you might consider flashing him to FRD22D and then performing the updates and then rooting.

Also, I'm guessing that none of those (previous ones that you tried) will work b/c they re probably SPRecovery / ClockworkMod Recovery specific files. What you'll need is one of the files from the very first set (Stock System files) - pick the de-odexed one.

HTH
 
Thanks. I am trying the FRG22D De-odexed ROM from that site. I had tried the FRG83D build earlier but had the same error. I tried to flash an .SBF file without really knowing what it was but it had the same error. I dont believe i can install RSD Lite because i cannot get on to the OS at all but i will do some more research.

EDIT: The phone is not recognized by the computer. I have the Moto Drivers installed but i have to put stuff on the SD card through a card reader.
 
I tried the FRG22D-DEODEXED from the site but it said:
"E: failed to verify whole-file signature"
"E: signature verification failed"

Tried it as FRG22D-DEODEXED.zip and update.zip.

Wow. Turned the phone off, took out the battery, put it back in recovery and now just:
"E: signature verification failed"
 
What color is the recovery text (blue, green, or yellow)?

Also, the SBF's are installed from your computer/B] using the program RSD Lite which you install on your computer and then connect your phone to the USB cable.

It is a last resort as a small mistake can brick your phone, so let's hold off on that one for now.
 
The text at the top is blue, for options like reboot, apply update, wipe data. And the text is yellow when i tried to read from the sd card.
 
Blue is SPRecovery - so you'll need to find a ROM that still makes .ZIP files specifically for SPRecovery - and SPRecovery requires that the files be named
Code: 
update.zip
and be placed in the root of the SDCard - IOW< /SDCard/

I'm not sure if anyone still makes SPRecovery compliant ROMs anymore, but I think Liquid may - let me check.

Yup - Liquid's Frozen Yogurt allows for use of SPRecovery - http://androidforums.com/liquid0624...th-edition-source-rom-faster-then-frozen.html

Follow the instructions at http://android.markjohnston.us/DL/LFY/RNOTES/installation.txt
 
Nope ): same thing!

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Friends don't let friends root their friend's phones. Hope you learn this my friend.

And not only that, but I am too late. Your friend already replaced his phone. Kind of a bummer as sometimes this might hurt everyone else. The recovery system screenie you posted did NOT look like the SPRecovery screen. And the phone acted like it was not booted into any custom recovery. I _think_ that just doing a battery pull and then trying to see if the phone would boot normally would have been a road to the solution, with a subsequent rom manager or manual flash of a custom recovery to finish it off.

Anyways, it's all a moot point now as no more trouble shooting can be done, so I'll just shut my trap, lol.
 
I wonder if the 1 click Recovery uses a custom Recovery? I noticed that that was definitely not SPR also, hence my suggestion to go the .SBF router and start over.
 
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