Rooted and Deodexed Gingerbread

**.46caliber** · 04-02-2011, 10:54 AM

P3Droid put up a deodex patch that you are to flash over the rooted gingerbread rom.

I did this, but have run into problems. First boot was long but normal. Once in the OS, nothing but repeated FC's, particularly Voice Search. Phone was inoperable.

I booted into OEM recovery and wiped data/reset multiple times.

Now it will go through a long boot and at the end of the boot, it begins a repeated bootloop cycle.

Anyone seen this and if so, what was the fix. I'm guessing it's time to grab RSD and the SBF while and start from scratch.

**.46caliber** · 04-02-2011, 11:04 AM

I tried re-flashing the Gingerbread rooted zip, in OE recovery, and signature verification failed. Same when I tried to reflash the deodex zip.

Still bootlooping on reboots.

**.46caliber** · 04-02-2011, 11:30 AM

I'm guessing nothing will work from the OE recovery so I'll have to SBF using RSD.

**droidxixis** · 04-02-2011, 12:16 PM

I kept getting a continuous bootloop also. The way I fixed it was to pull the battery and leave it out for several minutes. Put it back in, entered recovery, wiped a few times, then I was good to go.

**Johnly** · 04-02-2011, 12:55 PM

Never use factory recovery on deodexed ROMs. I am running it fine. The factory recovery is great on the non rooted/rooted non deodexed GB.

**Johnly** · 04-02-2011, 12:58 PM

I highly recommend anyone flashing GB make an immediate nandroid.

**xliderider** · 04-02-2011, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by .46caliber

I'm guessing nothing will work from the OE recovery so I'll have to SBF using RSD.

Yes, only Verizon signed update.zip files will work in the OEM recovery, so no renaming custom roms, maderstcok.zip files to update.zip etc.

**wildman** · 04-02-2011, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by .46caliber

P3Droid put up a deodex patch that you are to flash over the rooted gingerbread rom.

I did this, but have run into problems. First boot was long but normal. Once in the OS, nothing but repeated FC's, particularly Voice Search. Phone was inoperable.

I booted into OEM recovery and wiped data/reset multiple times.

Now it will go through a long boot and at the end of the boot, it begins a repeated bootloop cycle.

Anyone seen this and if so, what was the fix. I'm guessing it's time to grab RSD and the SBF while and start from scratch.

I have found a deodex patch at droidmodderx post here: REMOVED LINK, is this the same file you are speaking of?

Never mind found ir at ....

**Bushido Brown** · 04-02-2011, 07:47 PM

I flashed the deodexed version and it installed just fine. I did have some issues with the speed of execution from my apps, though.

**jerseyboy357** · 04-02-2011, 10:16 PM

I had some bumps in the road but everything now is running deodexingly smooth

**.46caliber** · 04-03-2011, 09:23 AM

I used RSD 4.8 last night on my Windows XP machine. The SBF pushed fine, and I got bootloops yet again. Factory reset, then I was finally able to boot into the OS.

I'm still at a loss as to why the deodexing patch caused such great problems. I really want Gingerbread with a Gingerbread theme, but I'm a little leary now. Maybe I'll just restore my Liberty backup and sit tight with that until they come out with a GBread ROM.

**ultravisitor** · 04-03-2011, 09:44 AM

There is a Gingerbread ROM: rubiX BlurryBread. It's the Motorola Blur theme, though.

**.46caliber** · 04-03-2011, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by ultravisitor

There is a Gingerbread ROM: rubiX BlurryBread. It's the Motorola Blur theme, though.

That was the whole goal of downloading the deodex patch, to get away from the look of blur.

**en28so** · 04-03-2011, 11:48 PM

I installed this patch with only one boot loop.Everything is working fine except one thing : my LED notification light. It wont work with handcent or bat monx. It only turns on when the battery is low.

**jerseyboy357** · 04-04-2011, 12:01 AM

how do you get into clockwork mod recovery from powered off? Im desperate,lol

**.46caliber** · 04-04-2011, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by jerseyboy357

how do you get into clockwork mod recovery from powered off? Im desperate,lol

You can only get into clockword mod from the OS because you have to use the bootstrapper application.

**jerseyboy357** · 04-04-2011, 06:57 AM

damn...well Im gona try a different download of a dxgbrooteddeodexed.zip and see if it gets the E:bad signature file thing too. On day 3 of no phone.

**.46caliber** · 04-04-2011, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by jerseyboy357

damn...well Im gona try a different download of a dxgbrooteddeodexed.zip and see if it gets the E:bad signature file thing too. On day 3 of no phone.

The factory recovery will not flash it.

**jerseyboy357** · 04-04-2011, 07:04 AM

ok well im currently downloading the full sbf. Now since I cannot get my pc to read my phone(cuz of the bootloop) can I jsut put the sbf on my card and use stock recovery to flash it? I hear RSD lite is needed but so is a phone that your pc can read. And ofc I forgot my microsd to sd adapter at home. gota go buy another one

**davidnc** · 04-04-2011, 07:18 AM

To flash a sbf this is what you need to do this way is with phone off this is another way with phone on but I couldnt find it I just copied and pasted the info below :

How to Get Your Droid X Into the Bootloader
The “Bootloader” is THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN SUCCESSFULLY FLASH AN .SBF FILE ONTO YOUR PHONE FROM.

•Power down phone completely (battery pull, Power Button –> Power off, etc.)
•Hold down Camera Button and Volume Down Button (lower right button and upper right button, respectively).
•Hold the power button down until the bootloader pops up (you may need to let go of the power button and then tap it again to get it to show up).

link I read it from :

**TVCMI** · 04-04-2011, 07:52 AM

I agree, I will stay with Liberty until more GB ROM/Theme choices appear. I flashed the deodexer on GB last weekend and got serious bootloops (yes I waited 5 min. and did factory resets) that wouldn't go away. Lead to a series of retrys that lead to having to SBF 4 times before giving up.

**.46caliber** · 04-04-2011, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by davidnc

To flash a sbf this is what you need to do this way is with phone off this is another way with phone on but I couldnt find it I just copied and pasted the info below :

How to Get Your Droid X Into the Bootloader
The “Bootloader” is THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN SUCCESSFULLY FLASH AN .SBF FILE ONTO YOUR PHONE FROM.

•Power down phone completely (battery pull, Power Button –> Power off, etc.)
•Hold down Camera Button and Volume Down Button (lower right button and upper right button, respectively).
•Hold the power button down until the bootloader pops up (you may need to let go of the power button and then tap it again to get it to show up).

link I read it from :

I believe you now have to hold both volume keys, not volume down and camera.

**.46caliber** · 04-04-2011, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by TVC430

I agree, I will stay with Liberty until more GB ROM/Theme choices appear. I flashed the deodexer on GB last weekend and got serious bootloops (yes I waited 5 min. and did factory resets) that wouldn't go away. Lead to a series of retrys that lead to having to SBF 4 times before giving up.

I had the same problem. I believe there is a problem with the deodexing zip. For some it works fine, for others it causes a need for SBF.

**davidnc** · 04-04-2011, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by .46caliber

I believe you now have to hold both volume keys, not volume down and camera.

just tested , yup they changed it

**jerseyboy357** · 04-04-2011, 08:18 AM

Ok ran the .sbf and RSD failed saying "Failed Flashing process(twice) Unable to retrieve intialization values from IINI file(0x7029); phone connected. Im not moving til I hear further instruction,lol