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Bricked possibly?

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kicker7734

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My friend and i rooted yesterday, then installed busybox and he tried installing a theme he found online and ran it in metamorph and then the phone crashed and when it restarts it goes to the home screeen says no service and then when you slide to unlock sorry force closes come up for every application and stuff i have, and now we cannot use the phone at all, help please
 
try a hard reboot...
To perform a hard reset on your Motorola Droid, perform the following steps.


Turn off the Droid. If you are unable to turn off the Droid, remove the battery for 10 seconds, then replace it.
Open the physical keyboard and press the X key while pressing and holding the Power Button. The device will turn on, keep holding these two buttons until a yellow triangle appears.
Press the Volume Up and then the Camera button at the same time to get a menu to come up. You may have to press them more then once.
You have now entered Recovery Mode.
Use the Directional Pad on the Physical Keyboard to select the Format option.
This should perform a factory reset of your device. You will of course lose all data. Please exercise caution before doing this without a backup.

* Note: Contacts, etc. should be backed up to the cloud, so you should be safe with your address book.
 
Restore to your last nandroid backup. If you don't know what I'm talking about ... you're screwed.

Go back to the Verizon store. Look dumb and say, "It bwoke".
 
He needs someone with better unix-fu than I

Here's our IRC chat:

<kicker7734> ok we have spr recovery
<kicker7734> just dont have nandroid
<alostpacket> what you'll need to do is find someone who knows unix commands to tell you how to get update.zip from that link onto the SD card
<alostpacket> oh
<alostpacket> nandroid is just a format used BY SPRecovery
<alostpacket> so if you have SPRecovery, you're fine
<alostpacket> you still need someon to help you with the unix commands to get the nandroid backup to your phone, but you're not bricked
<kicker7734> ya we can change sd card all we need we know command prompt and unix commands
<kicker7734> ok, but we dont have a nandroid backup
<alostpacket> AllDroid - View topic - Info, Files, Guides, Etc.
<alostpacket> use that file either odexed or deodexed
<kicker7734> alright so just put that into the sd, then update it when in spr recovery?
<alostpacket> i dont know the unix commands well enough to tell you how to put it in the right spot on the droid, but that should get you your phone back when you put it in the rightspot and select "restore" from SPRecovery
<alostpacket> yep
<alostpacket> then makes yourself a backup very first thing :P
<alostpacket> and always backup before changing anything that requires root to work
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Edit: he has access to adb, and it recognizes his phone he said also, so he just need to push pete's "Clean OEM" nandroid backup to the phone through adb I think, then he can just restore from SPRecovery.


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thanks almost, and yea i know what nandroid is my friend and i just got ahead of ourselves with glee at what we could do and forgot to do a nandroid backup, but we have spr
 
If you have fastboot and it sounds like you do then it isn't bricked. Just flash it again but don't do the theme until you've verified the ROM.
 
we dont know what fastboot is, or flash..sorry im good with an itouch/phone but just got a droid and dont know much about it.
 
But if you have SPR, you're golden. No ADB needed. Download the file mentioned above to your PC/mac. Boot to SPR > mount options > Enable USB Mass Storage. Using your PC/Mac, put the file where it needs to go (either the root of the sdcard, or the nandroid folder). Disable USB > and follow the instruction to apply that backup file or update.zip file ... or whatever type of file it is.

I'll post a link to an update.zip file.
 
- Download file and rename it to update.zip
- Upload to sdcard
- Boot into SPR console
- Select to install
- Select Allow update.zip installation
- Install /sdcard/update.zip (deprecated)

Is that what you did?


OK ... COOL! I see ya got it! ;)
 
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