Safeguarding Question

[Skelly022782]

I'm currently running Rubix 1.0 and been doing alot of things I don't normally do with my phone. (First Time Root)

In the event that I can't get past the M Boot screen or the phone won't start up properly I keep hearing talk of "SBF" ing. Can anyone give me a procedure to get my phone back in an operational state if something bad happens. I've made backups via ROM Manager but is that enough?

 

[Daali]

I'm currently running Rubix 1.0 and been doing alot of things I don't normally do with my phone. (First Time Root)

In the event that I can't get past the M Boot screen or the phone won't start up properly I keep hearing talk of "SBF" ing. Can anyone give me a procedure to get my phone back in an operational state if something bad happens. I've made backups via ROM Manager but is that enough?

mygamjaishot over at Android Forums put together a nice walkthru:

C. UnBRICKING INSTRUCTIONS:
HELP ME. Ima noob! I BRICKED MY PHONE!

1. go to Home and DL the leaked full OTA FROYO 2.2 .SBF file.
2. Download and install RSDLite v4.8 (it should be on Home if not, go Google it.)
3. If your phone is stuck on the load screen, pull the battery, wait a minute, push the battery back in and restart with the phone’s Boot Loader Mode (do this by pressing the red camera button + volume down + power button  hold all of them in the order that I stated until your phone flashes briefly). Your phone should flash white and a Boot Loader menu will come up. Make sure there is at least 20 to 25 percent battery life remaining in order for the reformat of you phone to complete. If your phone dies in the middle of this process GOD HELP YOU.
4. Run the RSDLite File and connect your Droid X to your computer via USB.
5. Browse for the .SBF file you downloaded in step 1 and click “Start”, at which point the program should run and your phone will proceed to unbrick
6. EASY RIGHT?
7. Once unbricking you will have to go through reactivation of your phone. This is normal so just go through the steps you did when you first started.
8. GUESS WHAT? You made a backup of your previous customizations REMEMBER? If you don’t want to deal with the hassle of re-downloading your entire life onto your phone again follow the “ROOTING” instructions in Part A and redownload Bootstrap and reboot into recovery mode to RESTORE the backup you made by following steps 2-11 in Part B….except you won’t be going to “install from sdcard” you will going to “Backup and Restore” and “Restore from sdcard”.