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[TBacker]

I've gotten comfortable with flashing... a bit too comfortable.

My original Razr had 6.14.75 on it and I was happy with it. I had it tuned up pretty good and had a clockworkmod backup when it died from a high fall.

I bought a Maxx that was on 6.12.173, rooted it, and flashed up to 6.14.75. All went well. It booted. I restored root. All was off to a good start until...

I decided to accelerate the process by restoring the clockwork mod recovery from my old device. Bad idea....

It booted to the moto symbol, then the screen goes black and I hear the boot sound (screen still black). A quick vibrate, then silent and unresponsive without a forced reboot.

Got into Moto recovery, cleared cache, factory reset... Same result.

What's next for me? Can I flash back to 6.12.173 with Matts utility and start all over? I'm just newb enough not to be sure if I can go back to a Gingerbread kernel with the available utilities...

Or did I just blow $500 and have to go back on my X for a year?

[spollock]

If you can get into Fastboot, try matt's utility back to stock 744 and then OTA up from there. When I went to .75 and decided to flash back to 173 all I had was 3g coverage. I had to go back to 744 and come up (could be due to a radio change). You may be able to flash direct to 173 with out issue. Just relaying my experience.

[Nanniepoo]

I used Matt's utility to get to .173 from .75 without a problem. If you had an issue, you should have no issue going to .744 with RSD. All is not lost, never fear.

[(TSON)]

You're on .75, you're fine on restoring to GB.

[TBacker]

Thanks guys. Went straight back to .173 and now back to ICS .75.

This time around I'll just restore my user apps from Titanium and re-de-bloat manually.

Makes me wonder what good clockworkmod backups are...

[BobC43]

Thanks guys. Went straight back to .173 and now back to ICS .75.

This time around I'll just restore my user apps from Titanium and re-de-bloat manually.

Makes me wonder what good clockworkmod backups are...

Not sure if you use it, but in my case, I had to delete my Voodoo Su-Backup, then nandroid recover worked great. I too had soft briked when I tried to use the backup without first deleting my su-backup.

[TBacker]

Not sure if you use it, but in my case, I had to delete my Voodoo Su-Backup, then nandroid recover worked great. I too had soft briked when I tried to use the backup without first deleting my su-backup.

Yeah - I used it both times, per the current instructions for flashing this. Interesting, I didn't even think that it may have been root keeper causing issues.

I haven't had time to look around to see if there is a direct root for 75. With the 84/85 hubub and the OTA not too far away, ol' 75 isn't in a lot of demand.

I did follow what I saw in another thread, and it was true - before flashing when your saving root in voodoo, if you temp unsave-root and resave-root a couple of times in Voodoo, it doesn't require the work in terminal to re-root once you've reflashed.