[openyoureyes]

If followed correctly, this a bulletproof method (reposted from our work at ) of returning any image to a true 5.5.886 stock and then applying the OTA update.

Commands/Screenshots

Necessary Resources

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• Full Package of All Other Files You Will Need: or or

Optional Resources

Fastboot Mode

• Make sure the phone is off
• Hold down the Volume Down + Volume Up buttons and press the Power button
• When the choices appears, press Volume Down twice, till "AP Fastboot" is selected
• Press Volume Up to select

Recovery Mode

• Make sure the phone is off
• Hold down the Volume Down + Volume Up buttons and press the Power button
• When the choices appears, press Volume Down once, till "Recovery" is selected
• Press Volume Up to select
• When the icon with the android and exclamation appear press both Volume Up and Volume Down at the same time to enter the recovery

Step-by-step Process

• Download the 3 files under "Necessary Resources"
• Install the appropriate Motorola drivers for your operating system
• Place the radio.zip file on the root of your SD card (not internal storage)
• Unpack the full package of files to one folder on your computer
• Turn off your phone completely
• Start into Fastboot Mode (listed above)
• Connect your phone to your PC with the USB cable and let it install the drivers for your device
• After the drivers are done installing, open a command prompt in the folder where you unzipped the full package to
• Using the Moto-Fastboot Commands screenshot from above follow each one step by step until you are done
• When you have finished, disconnect your USB cable and press the Power button once to turn it off
• Start into Recovery Mode (listed above)
• Highlight "wipe cache partition" and press the Power button to select it
• When it has completed, pull the battery out of your phone and then put it back in
• Start into Recovery Mode again
• Highlight "apply update from sdcard" and press the Power button to select it
• Highlight the "radio.zip" file on your SD card and press the Power button to select it
• When it has completed, highlight "reboot system now" and press the Power button to select it
• When the device reboots into the OS waited 1 minute for it to load everything in the background
• Follow the prompt but don't sign into anything, just get to the homescreen
• When at the homescreen, connect your USB cable and then from the pull down menu select "USB connection", then select "Charge Only" and hit OK
• Go into Settings -> Applications and enable Unknown Sources and hit OK
• Go into Development and enable USB Debugging and hit OK
• Back out to Settings -> Battery & data manager -> Battery mode and select Performance mode
• Power off your phone and then power it back on normally
• Open a command prompt in the folder where you unzipped the full package to
• Using the Root Commands screenshot from above follow each one step by step until you are done
• Power off your phone and then power it back on normally
• Open a command prompt in the folder where you unzipped the full package to
• Using the Boot Mod Commands screenshot from above follow each one step by step until you are done
• ***When a Superuser prompt appears on your phone after the last command, quickly select Allow and make sure you do NOT reboot your phone***
• When it has finished, connect your phone to your 3G/4G or a WiFi connection
• Go into Settings -> About phone and select System updates
• When the prompt comes up, press Setup
• Place a check in "I agree to the Motorola Terms of Service" and then press Next
• When the update prompt comes up, press Download
• Wait for the update to download
• When the update prompt comes up, press Install Now
• Let update reboot to recovery and install itself
• ***Your phone may appear as if it is completely off for a little while but leave it be it will turn itself on and continue***
• Let the update finish and then it will reboot back into your system
• Congratulations! You now have the official 5.5.893 update installed and are back on the official OTA path and forever rooted

Credit to all developers of the zergRush exploit, to realbbb (from Rootswiki) for discovering the Boot Mod, and anyone else who participated in making this all possible.

[openyoureyes]

Hey guys I got a little problem, unfortunatly you guys have generated so much traffic on my Dropbox account that they suspended it for 3 days. I'm going to ask if any of you guys have the full package file to please upload somewhere for a few days and post a link here until my account has been unfrozen. In the mean time you guys can use the optional files to recreate that package listed in the 4th screenshot. I greatly apologize for this inconvinience.

[openyoureyes]

Hey guys,

So I'm finally home and now had a chance to access my files. I'm choosing to forget about Dropbox because I cannot wait for them any longer since I've been getting a lot of PM's requesting this file. I have edited the OP and all file links are updated and working. The full package has been moved to MegaUpload instead. Anyone who was waiting before the method is now fully working and ready for use. As always please feel free to comment if you need any help or have any questions. Thank you for your patience and once again I apologize for the delay.

Thank you,
Open1Your1Eyes0

[2defmouze]

Thanks for all this, excellent write up and instructions. Glad I can get mine back on the upgrade path before I sell it... will feel much less guilty

Edit: worked flawlessly... got the old girl to 5.9.901 and kept root. Very nice.

[LDubs]

Does this work better than the script that p3droid posted on mdw?? Looks like with that there were some folks that lost root...also how do you get to 901 afterwards?

What's up mouze, miss you over here

Sent from my Ic3d Kin3txed Bionic with Hon3y

[SamuriHL]

Thanks for all this, excellent write up and instructions. Glad I can get mine back on the upgrade path before I sell it... will feel much less guilty

Edit: worked flawlessly... got the old girl to 5.9.901 and kept root. Very nice.

Now you just feel guilty for abandoning the bionic for that gnex.

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[2defmouze]

Does this work better than the script that p3droid posted on mdw?? Looks like with that there were some folks that lost root...also how do you get to 901 afterwards?

What's up mouze, miss you over here

I took a look at P3's script but this sounded better to me, I kind of like doing things myself a bit now that I've gotten more comfortable with adb and fastboot commands, etc... If it sounds like nobody's having trouble with P3's and its simpler then by all means. I followed the instructions here word for word and it worked flawlessly though.
Oh and then I went to droid-life and grabbed their link to the 5.9.901 update and installed from there.

Lol miss you cats too..wish we could all be playin with gnex's :/

Now you just feel guilty for abandoning the bionic for that gnex.

I don't beat myself up over it

[SamuriHL]

LOL! Well, I'm glad you're having fun with your new toy, but, I'm incredibly happy to have mine back on the upgrade path and fully upgraded.

[LDubs]

I took a look at P3's script but this sounded better to me, I kind of like doing things myself a bit now that I've gotten more comfortable with adb and fastboot commands, etc... If it sounds like nobody's having trouble with P3's and its simpler then by all means. I followed the instructions here word for word and it worked flawlessly though.
Oh and then I went to droid-life and grabbed their link to the 5.9.901 update and installed from there.

Lol miss you cats too..wish we could all be playin with gnex's :/



I don't beat myself up over it

So this method pushes root as well?

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[2defmouze]

So this method pushes root as well?

Sent from my Ic3d Kin3txed Bionic with Hon3y

Yessir... worked for me at least.

[SamuriHL]

Yessir... worked for me at least.

Did it also do the forever root patch?

[2defmouze]

Did it also do the forever root patch?

Yes, had to.. See the Root Commands under the Screenshots/Commands section up in the first post. You should be able to recognize where foreverroot is getting applied.

I went through every step of the 1st post in order to get to the "official" 5.5.893 rooted, then simply downloaded the 5.9.901 file from droid-life and installed that in stock recovery. Bam.. root kept

[SamuriHL]

Very nice. I kept root, as well, but, I had a far more convoluted path to take. I ended up using my 5.5.886 stock root image I made in November when I first rooted which had forever root already. Kept root all through 901. I am LOVING where we are with this phone now. What a night and day change from a few days ago!

[openyoureyes]

With thanks to a member at XDA, I now have 3 hosts up for the full package. The first Link should always work with the 2nd and 3rd as backups. Thanks again to everyone for helping out. As always please feel free to ask questions.

[spskeldon]

So newbie question. I've brought my Bionic back onto the upgrade path (thanks OP!), and am wondering if I can take it back to a custom rom and restore my settings, etc., without having to come all the way back through these steps every time Verizon releases an update. Thoughts? Thanks!

[LDubs]

What I've seen other people suggest is to uninstall Bionic Bootstrapper, and install Safestrap. Allows you to toggle between 2 different systems (called safe and non-safe). Haven't tried it so could use some step by steps here, but what I want to eventually do is keep a stock (rooted) version of .901 on my non-safe system, and put Kin3tx (901 patched version) on my safe system. This way when another OTA (or.. god forbid they actually release ICS) comes along, toggle to non-safe, stock system and install from there.

You can only flash zips in safe system...

Trying to figure out exactly how to go about doing that though...

[2defmouze]

What I've seen other people suggest is to uninstall Bionic Bootstrapper, and install Safestrap. Allows you to toggle between 2 different systems (called safe and non-safe). Haven't tried it so could use some step by steps here, but what I want to eventually do is keep a stock (rooted) version of .901 on my non-safe system, and put Kin3tx (901 patched version) on my safe system. This way when another OTA (or.. god forbid they actually release ICS) comes along, toggle to non-safe, stock system and install from there.

You can only flash zips in safe system...

Trying to figure out exactly how to go about doing that though...

I wouldn't recommend that LDubs... unless things have changed drastically, safestrap was designed to give you the safe system to use for experimental builds, but it was advised against using it to install a daily driver.

I would personally recommend using bootstrap to make a backup of your full system. As long as you have that, you can restore it whenever you need for getting OTA's or whatever, but in the meantime flash a ROM for regular use.

Just my 2 cents

[Troops2990]

Sorry if this question has been answered but does this method flash any custom recoveries or are you still left with the stock?? If not, where does one get a custom recovery??

[LDubs]

I wouldn't recommend that LDubs... unless things have changed drastically, safestrap was designed to give you the safe system to use for experimental builds, but it was advised against using it to install a daily driver.

I would personally recommend using bootstrap to make a backup of your full system. As long as you have that, you can restore it whenever you need for getting OTA's or whatever, but in the meantime flash a ROM for regular use.

Just my 2 cents

Oh lol didn't know that. Just stating what some folks over on rootzwiki were saying. Soooo you can get to stock rooted 901, make a nandroid backup and move on to installing a rom...?

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[LDubs]

Sorry if this question has been answered but does this method flash any custom recoveries or are you still left with the stock?? If not, where does one get a custom recovery??

Custom recovery? You mean a backup? You can do this in clockworkmod...

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[2defmouze]

Oh lol didn't know that. Just stating what some folks over on rootzwiki were saying. Soooo you can get to stock rooted 901, make a nandroid backup and move on to installing a rom...?

Sent from my Ic3d Kin3txed Bionic with Hon3y

Yep that's exactly what I would recommend.

Sorry if this question has been answered but does this method flash any custom recoveries or are you still left with the stock?? If not, where does one get a custom recovery??

This method followed correctly leaves you at stock 5.9.901 rooted, so then you can use bionic bootstrap to get into clockwork recovery

[Troops2990]

Yep that's exactly what I would recommend.



This method followed correctly leaves you at stock 5.9.901 rooted, so then you can use bionic bootstrap to get into clockwork recovery

Ok, so is bootstrap and CWR something that will be on it at the end of this process or do i have to get them both from somewhere??
sorry i'm coming from an OG droid and am used to SPRecovery..

[SamuriHL]

Ok, so is bootstrap and CWR something that will be on it at the end of this process or do i have to get them both from somewhere??
sorry i'm coming from an OG droid and am used to SPRecovery..

Bootstrap recovery installs CWR and allows you to boot into it. You will have to install it. You can do that one of two ways....Bootstrap recovery in the market or Rom Manager in the market. Either will install CWR for you and allow you to boot into it. Root is required for both.

[Troops2990]

Bootstrap recovery installs CWR and allows you to boot into it. You will have to install it. You can do that one of two ways....Bootstrap recovery in the market or Rom Manager in the market. Either will install CWR for you and allow you to boot into it. Root is required for both.

Thanks is bootstrap better enough to pay for it vs rom manager which is free?

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[SamuriHL]

Thanks is bootstrap better enough to pay for it vs rom manager which is free?

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I don't think there's any difference. I own both Bootstrap recovery and Rom Manager Premium so I couldn't really tell you. Seems to install the same version of CWR regardless of which you use.