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[dimitri407]

I'm not anything, but I think very logically. With that in mind, and considering the thread topic, have at this:

So, now that all the stuck ones can go up, and eventually leave GB for good and be solely on ICS, are we done? I kinda feel the need to keep working on an ICS2GB method.

Essentially, whatever version your boot.img is, you can install (by force) whatever build that the boot.img is from. If you are on .84, and you want to go to .85, you would have to patch .181GB-boot.img with .85ICSboot.img.p, flash new boot.img, proceed with recovery (by force) of .85. .84 cannot go to .85 and vice versa unless you issue a new boot.img.p patch off of original .181GB-boot.img and then proceed with that ota version recovery install correct?

Now, if u wanted to go backwards, is this where the CDT.bin file would prevent you from doing that? Because if we fastboot a .181 boot.img, it seems to take fine correct? The only issues are cdt.bin, devtree, cdrom, and recovery.

So since we successfully bypassed the CDT.bin preflash validation by copying (DD) a .181GB mmcblk1p18 to (whatever version of ICS leak you're on), rebooting in to fastboot, and flashing old cdt.bin, no issue arrises.

Now, once at that stage when we (by force) fastboot .181 GB files on after replacing cdt.bin, we receive customer ID error on boots, but cdt.bin is flashed, so customer id error keeps popping up because of the other 3 partitions being mismatched (devtree, cdrom, recovery?) I'm thinking out loud...

So, we if DD .181 cdt.bin (p18) along with recovery, devtree, and cdrom, reboot into fastboot, would the .181 fastboot files then be able to pass preflash validation? At that stage, force OTA update of .181GB over passed validated partitions, and then we would have a full 181 OTA install?

I understand the concept of having a locked bootloader, but when we DD these images out of .181GB, wouldn't these images retain their signature? Phew, that's a lot of typing, and then again, thinking out loud.

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That thing about being logical is an understatement!! This makes a tremendous amount of sense to me... and I think you're onto exactly what we're looking for.

Since, even with a locked bootloader, we're able to successfully copy the cdt.bin to bypass the preflash validation, then it would certainly stand to reason that dd-ing the other blocks similarly would have similar effects on bypassing preflash validation for those blocks as well.

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There is only one way to find out if it would work. And that is to keep working on it.

[trekie4ever]

You guys... are geniuses. Thanks...

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[tucstwo]

When was the last time you saw so many folks dying to get Gingerbread on their phones? LOL

[_base2]

When was the last time you saw so many folks dying to get Gingerbread on their phones? LOL

When the Nexus S came out w GB and all of the crackflashers on the OG Droid went nuts lol

I tried a ton of GB ROMs for the DROID but ultimately I stuck with Sourcery. It was unbeatable for the OG droid

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[tucstwo]

Ah, I never had an OG Droid, I did have an X and I remember being stoked when Froyo came through it was like the day Kennedy got shot, or 9/11 ... I can still remember where I was

[Aixelsyd]

^^^^ Oh how that brings back old memories when I had access to all the Froyo & GB files long before it was ever public for the D1, D2, D2g, Pro, and X. I still actually miss my X tho. Was lucky to get an unlocked bootloader version in silver with a carbon fiber back. Was badass looking

[_base2]

^^^^ Oh how that brings back old memories when I had access to all the Froyo & GB files long before it was ever public for the D1, D2, D2g, Pro, and X. I still actually miss my X tho. Was lucky to get an unlocked bootloader version in silver with a carbon fiber back. Was badass looking

Good times I remember froyo too... I was like WHAAAAAA you mean we get a new dockbar??? Haha oh how things have gotten complex... I was a total n00b when I started and now I feel like I've got a pretty decent grasp on Android

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[Aixelsyd]

Good times I remember froyo too... I was like WHAAAAAA you mean we get a new dockbar??? Haha oh how things have gotten complex... I was a total n00b when I started and now I feel like I've got a pretty decent grasp on Android

[ what path? ]

lol....... yeah life was easy back in those days. Even more so when I constantly was getting unsecured bootloader device so I could flash anything I wanted to the device. And getting the files i needed as well as stuff not public was pretty dam sweet as well. Heck I've had devices that never went public. One of which they were totally stupid not releasing but we won't go there.

[jerkwad]

lol....... yeah life was easy back in those days. Even more so when I constantly was getting unsecured bootloader device so I could flash anything I wanted to the device. And getting the files i needed as well as stuff not public was pretty dam sweet as well. Heck I've had devices that never went public. One of which they were totally stupid not releasing but we won't go there.

So what do you do now? Know anybody with the keys to the (bootloader) castle? Lol jk! Don't answer that.

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[Aixelsyd]

So what do you do now? Know anybody with the keys to the (bootloader) castle? Lol jk! Don't answer that. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2

LOL..... its best I don't answer that for sure. It would stir up trouble that is not needed. Fact is the odds of the bootlaoder ever being cracked the way we'd want it are slim to none. So no one should ever get there hopes up it will happen. and trust me it has been tried. I have a couple of devices on my desk at hope that are hard bricked with no returning to working status ever. Not even Moto can fix them at this point they are junk.

As for now i just wheel and deal to get devices on trade swap and stuff. Haven't bought direct from VZW in yrs, and I won't buy direct from Moto either.

[MkVsTheWorld]

Well, looks like Batman saved Gotham. From the looks of it, people are able to upgrade from .84/.85 to .206 now...

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[xiinator]

Doesn't put us back on the path though... Thread should probably be renamed to "Official Get .206 Razrs Back On Path Thread" now that most everyone is hopping off the 84/85 train. :-P

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[ralphie0108]

Matts new utility will help us once the official update comes out. So it's kind of a fix.

[theonlycosmic]

Doesn't put us back on the path though... Thread should probably be renamed to "Official Get .206 Razrs Back On Path Thread" now that most everyone is hopping off the 84/85 train. :-P

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This basically does get us back on path because if this isn't the official then we can use the same method to get to the official.

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[MkVsTheWorld]

This basically does get us back on path because if this isn't the official then we can use the same method to get to the official.

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I agree and you beat me to it. The significance of the ability to move from .84 to almost any subsequent build shows that when the official OTA does eventually come out, people will be able to get back on path. Hopefully, Motorola doesn't throw yet another curveball. However, I'd doubt such a change this late in the development.

Who knows, maybe .206 is the official OTA. I stayed on .75 so I don't know how well the build quality is. I hate to say it again, but I'm thinking that upgrading to an official ICS build is going to be the most feasible over trying to go back to GB. "Downwards is the only way forwards..."

Edited by MkVsTheWorld, 24 May 2012 - 10:14 AM.

[Aixelsyd]

This basically does get us back on path because if this isn't the official then we can use the same method to get to the official.

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I would not count on that being a for sure thing. Moto has tendency to throw curveballs at us all the time. And in a case like this and the way the leaks are gotten it would NOT surprise me one bit if they did do that to all you folks who are in theory off path right now.

[Hero_Indeed]

Anyone have a deodexed version of .206 so a % bat mod can be worked on?

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[EmericanX]

Its a work in progress... I'd expect DJ to have to done pretty soon.

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