DROID BIONIC Jelly Bean Update

[SamuriHL]

I have stayed unrooted (glad for the exploit for the future however). JB seems to have settled in and the early high battery drain has gone away and battery usage seems normal. How's the new phone Sam?

I love it. I used the House of RAZR_HD (don't bother looking...I'm never releasing it) to FXZ to stock 4.1.2, root with motochopper, unlock with motoapocalypse, and then flashed TWRP 2.5.0.0 recovery. Done. Thing is AMAZING.

 

[jimlc]

I love it. I used the House of RAZR_HD (don't bother looking...I'm never releasing it) to FXZ to stock 4.1.2, root with motochopper, unlock with motoapocalypse, and then flashed TWRP 2.5.0.0 recovery. Done. Thing is AMAZING.

Glad you like it. My daughter has one, just stock, and it seems to be a nice phone, quite durable.

 

[viper8315]

Just wanted to report on another succesful, rooted, JB Bionic. Big thanks to the man, the one, the only...Mr. Samuri...and Dan too of course for figuring out the exploit...woohoo!

 

[SamuriHL]

Glad you like it. My daughter has one, just stock, and it seems to be a nice phone, quite durable.

This one was sent to me by a DroidRZR member and is in excellent condition. So far I really like it. Just trying to get all my stuff restored to it. I threw my 32 gig sdcard from the bionic in it with all my tibu backup stuff. Worked great.

 

[jimlc]

This one was sent to me by a DroidRZR member and is in excellent condition. So far I really like it. Just trying to get all my stuff restored to it. I threw my 32 gig sdcard from the bionic in it with all my tibu backup stuff. Worked great.

That should also give you some time to decide on your next phone, sounds great!

 

[SamuriHL]

That should also give you some time to decide on your next phone, sounds great!

Exactly. Next phone will be unlockable and will ship with KLP.

 

[MikeSaya]

When the message that "your system is running in low-graphics mode" appears press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to enter the terminal. Then login with your credentials, and then run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install fglrx    
sudo reboot

Thank you for the info. Got out of work. Trying it now. I had settings set differently so I'm praying this works. But I can tell you know your ****, so I'm more confident now that I will get through this. Thanks!!!!!

Your base install should have the settings of the first image, 2d, 3d acceleration on, 128mb memory (max). The network should be a bridged adapter so that it reads directly from the NIC installed. I would also suggest that the base memory of the system be at minimum 2gb (if you have more than 4gb of ram). If you're sitting on 4gb of ram only, then I would only use 1024mb of memory. Hard drive should be a dynamic set, so it can grow in size as needed by the OS. The type of image is not important.

Should look like these:
[url]http://s5.postimg.org/w6fl9vev7/screen1.png[/url][url]http://s5.postimg.org/ob51v258j/screen2.png[/url][url]http://s5.postimg.org/udcoljtoj/screen3.png[/url]

 

[johnejo]

Exactly. Next phone will be unlockable and will ship with KLP.

Sam, do you have a twitter account so we can follow what you're up to as the Android world continues to evolve?

Thanks again for all your help.

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2

 

[SamuriHL]

Sam, do you have a twitter account so we can follow what you're up to as the Android world continues to evolve?

Thanks again for all your help.

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2

I don't use my twitter account...like ever. Don't worry, I'm around. I frequent several android forums and I'm never more than a PM away.

 

[MikeSaya]

When the message that "your system is running in low-graphics mode" appears press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to enter the terminal. Then login with your credentials, and then run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install fglrx    
sudo reboot

Now what? I get errors, saying something wicked happened and failed to fetch. Nothing but a bunch of errors. I should also mention that I notice some bios error, failing to load a file before I get to the screen that says, try Ubuntu or install. I'm frustrated.

Your base install should have the settings of the first image, 2d, 3d acceleration on, 128mb memory (max). The network should be a bridged adapter so that it reads directly from the NIC installed. I would also suggest that the base memory of the system be at minimum 2gb (if you have more than 4gb of ram). If you're sitting on 4gb of ram only, then I would only use 1024mb of memory. Hard drive should be a dynamic set, so it can grow in size as needed by the OS. The type of image is not important.

Should look like these:
[url]http://s5.postimg.org/w6fl9vev7/screen1.png[/url][url]http://s5.postimg.org/ob51v258j/screen2.png[/url][url]http://s5.postimg.org/udcoljtoj/screen3.png[/url]

 

[SamuriHL]

Mike if you get too frustrated, you could look at this page. I've not tried the images they host, but, in theory they did all the leg work of setting up the VM's. You'd just need to install VMWare player (free), grab one of their images, boot it, set the networking to bridged, reboot it, and you should then be able to do the root exploit. In theory.

Helps to post the page before hitting save...

VMware images and tools

 

[MikeSaya]

Mike if you get too frustrated, you could look at this page. I've not tried the images they host, but, in theory they did all the leg work of setting up the VM's. You'd just need to install VMWare player (free), grab one of their images, boot it, set the networking to bridged, reboot it, and you should then be able to do the root exploit. In theory.

Helps to post the page before hitting save...

Ok, I will try this. I'm going nowhere with Oracle. I'm about to follow you and get a unlocked phone. Not necessarily a RZR HD but anything is better than this complicated crap, its not even my phone. If my wife wouldn't have tried fxz'ing back to 246 ics and bricked and lost root, i wouldn't even be in this predicament.

VMware images and tools

 

[SamuriHL]

I hear ya. Hopefully you can get it up and running soon.

 

[MikeSaya]

I hear ya. Hopefully you can get it up and running soon.

I will give that a try later, I needed to take a break from the madness.

 

[MikeSaya]

Mike if you get too frustrated, you could look at this page. I've not tried the images they host, but, in theory they did all the leg work of setting up the VM's. You'd just need to install VMWare player (free), grab one of their images, boot it, set the networking to bridged, reboot it, and you should then be able to do the root exploit. In theory.

Helps to post the page before hitting save...

VMware images and tools

Ok, I'm missing something and I can't seem to figure it out. I downloaded VMware player and the images and tools but I can't figure out how to create the virtual drive and mount files to it. I searched and found the VMware Mount tool but I couldn't get it to install on my machine.

 

[SamuriHL]

You are indeed missing something. You extract the image you downloaded to a folder and then open it with VMware player.

 

[MikeSaya]

You are indeed missing something. You extract the image you downloaded to a folder and then open it with VMware player.

Sorry, should have been more specific. I did that, its the Ubuntu machine config file,I loaded it but I'm at a black screen and its doing nothing, so I'm missing something else. It loads up with the words vmware then screen is black and does nothing.

 

[SamuriHL]

Hmm. Not sure. Like I said I didn't download them myself as I was able to create one. If I think of anything I'll let you know but I don't know what to tell you offhand.

Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk HD

 

[MikeSaya]

Guess it wasn't meant to be.

 

[MikeSaya]

Well, I got it to start, I had to run as administrator. Makes sense. But it says login failed and disconnects and didn't even let me type anything. What a struggle.

Nevermind, its still loading. Thought it froze.

It stopped with unbuntu login: mountall: Plymouth command failed. (I never typed any commands) mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth.

I give up, time for a new phone. This whole process is driving me crazy now.

I got it working. Call me an *****. I downloaded a outdated version of vmware. I'm logged in!! Now to try to root this thing!!!!