Droid 2 stuck on Motorola logo when powering on/hard reset not working

[holychicken]

I just rooted my droid 2 again today (I've been rooting and unrooting several times recently), and I used z4 root to get it rooted. Anyways, I backed my phone up with droid 2 bootstrap recovery from clockwork mod, and went into ROM manager premium, and chose one of the roms there (I honestly for the life of me can't remember the name, I know it had a navy blue status bar). Anyways, I went through several steps and it said the rom had to reboot and it would take like 30 seconds to 2 minutes, and then the "M" appeared and didn't go away for 10 minutes, when I pulled the battery, and started it up again, which I have now done several times although it never powers it past the logo, and it's not recognized by my Mac os x. After probably 4 hours of this whole dilemma, I tried the hard reset, and I held X down and turned it on and I got to the screen with the yellow exclamation mark, but then when I had to hold down the volume up button and press the camera button, nothing happened, and I've tried this many times and nothing seems to be working, and I really do not want to go buy a new phone or something like that. Any tips would be appreciated, Thanks.

 

[holychicken]

ok so I realized you have to press the search button on the hardware keyboard and I did that, and so far I've done all of the four options (rebooting, factory reset, deleting cache, and updating and none of them have done anything to help my phone.

 

[m1ghtysauc3]

Looks like you may have to sbf.

 

[DroidBurgundy]

ok if you tried doing a data/cache wipe from the stock recovery and still cant get it to work you need to sbf. If you've never done it before, follow this tutorial, it may help.

Tutorial/Walkthrough for flashing an .sbf to Droid 2 (unrooting/factory restore) - xda-developers

You will end up with your Droid 2 running stock froyo and will have to re-root the device.

Also, I can only speak from personal experience but I have found that rom manager is complete garbage for the Droid 2. I use to use it with other phones but I have had nothing but similar problems with it like you have mentioned. MY best advice to you is to get any custom rom you wish to flash from a reputable source like this forum.

SBF is really aonce you've done it, the first time may be hard for some. Good luck!

 

[tnygigles66]

did anything in the stock recovery actually do anything? If you push the camera button to far it goes back to the main screen.

 

[holychicken]

No nothing in the recovery helped as far as I can tell, ok I'll try to sbf now. And does anyone know why this happened? I'd like to prevent it in the future.

 

[jmpx55x]

No nothing in the recovery helped as far as I can tell, ok I'll try to sbf now. And does anyone know why this happened? I'd like to prevent it in the future.

Could have been the rom. Or you may have not flashed properly.

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[holychicken]

Ok so I started the sbf today and I got to the part where you run rsd lite 4.9 as an administrator and then your device should show up but it hasnt

 

[Palazuelosva]

Did you install the motorola drivers

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[holychicken]

yeah that might be it..I know I installed them but I remember there was an error while they were installing although it finished.

 

[holychicken]

No it's not the drivers, I installed them again and the same thing still happened. Also my computer won't recognize my phone.

 

[ldopa]

try it on a different computer. It works for me sometimes. Does the phone show up at all? Not even as s flash? You're in bootloader right? Rsd lite 4.9? Just trying to cover all bases

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[holychicken]

Ok that's the only PC we have in our house but I guess I could do it at my friends, and no the phone doesn't show up, yes it's 4.9 and yes my phone is in bootloader.

 

[jmpx55x]

did you make sure it was in the right mode? it should be in a black screen and have white writing before you sbf, not the recovery mode, if you havent done that hold the power and both the volume buttons and it should put you in that mode

 

[ldopa]

Bootloader = power and up
Stock recovery = power and x (search key magnifying glass when you see the triangle with the!)

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