Reserved!

 

Extremely fascinating! As I adapted SlapMyMoto to my Maxx, and had it rooted (did my share of reading as well, but perhaps not as much as you), there is a feasibility this may work for the Ultra line as well. Not that there is a whole lot of room for it, but does safestrap work for flashing a simple ROM? Not a deal breaker in my book, as safestrap is a great alternative recovery in and of itself.

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.

 

Extremely fascinating! As I adapted SlapMyMoto to my Maxx, and had it rooted with WP off on 4.4 (did my share of reading as well, but perhaps not as much as you), there is a feasibility this may work for the Ultra line as well. Not that there is a whole lot of room for it, but does safestrap work for flashing a simple ROM? Not a deal breaker in my book, as safestrap is a great alternative recovery in and of itself.

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Extremely fascinating! As I adapted SlapMyMoto to my Maxx, and had it rooted (did my share of reading as well, but perhaps not as much as you), there is a feasibility this may work for the Ultra line as well. Not that there is a whole lot of room for it, but does safestrap work for flashing a simple ROM? Not a deal breaker in my book, as safestrap is a great alternative recovery in and of itself.

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.

Ah very nice getting SlapMyMoto to work on the Maxx, I put the part about reading in the OP because I can't stand people that ask questions in threads on XDA that where clearly mentioned in the OP or in one of the reply's to the thread. Also I have no sympathy for people that don't know what their doing then brick their phone and expect Devs or the other members to fix their phone for them.

Now the question of will this Rom work on the Maxx. Since both phones are basically identical internally it theoretically should. It depends if the Maxx has gotten the 4.4.2 update and if it's Kernel and Baseband will work with this Rom, because you won't be able to flash the Moto X Kernel to it. I tested the Moto X's 4.4 Kernel and it wouldn't run 4.4.2 and last I heard the Maxx had just gotten 4.4. I don't know what you mean by simple Rom but Safestrap can flash anything to the /system partition it doesn't touch anything else hope that helps.

 

Ah very nice getting SlapMyMoto to work on the Maxx, I put the part about reading in the OP because I can't stand people that ask questions in threads on XDA that where clearly mentioned in the OP or in one of the reply's to the thread. Also have no sympathy for people that don't know what their doing then brick their phone and expect Devs or the other members to fix their phone for them.

Now the question of will this Rom work on the Maxx. Since both phones are basically identical internally it theoretically should. It depends if the Maxx has gotten the 4.4.2 update and if it's Kernel and Baseband will work with this Rom, because you want be able to flash the Moto X Kernel to it. I tested the Moto X's 4.4 Kernel and it wouldn't run 4.4.2 and last I heard the Maxx had just gotten 4.4. I don't know what you mean by simple Rom but Safestrap can flash anything to the /system partition it doesn't touch anything else hope that helps.

I would, of course, wait and see if the MAXX gets the same baseband and kernal before starting anything. Yeah, Seeing the same questions over and over and over again were even rubbing me the wrong way! Download has been done for future use! ;-)

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.

 

I would, of course, wait and see if the MAXX gets the same baseband and kernal before starting anything. Yeah, Seeing the same questions over and over and over again were even rubbing me the wrong way! Download has been done for future use! ;-)

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Awesome let me know if your able to get it working when 4.4.2 comes out for the Maxx!

 

Sweet! Thanks for the new ROM! I'll load it up later today and report back with any issues.

Sent from my Moto X

 

Sweet! Thanks for the new ROM! I'll load it up later today and report back with any issues.

Sent from my Moto X

Your welcome, awesome please do if any come up

 

Looking forward to trying this out tonight. Thanks!

Sent from my Motonovo X

 

Looking forward to trying this out tonight. Thanks!

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Your welcome!

 

thank you so much!

 

Thanks for this. Rom and kernel flashed fine. The radios not so much. I have none now, cannot use WiFi or cell connection. Don't know what else to do now. Tried several times to reflash radio without any luck

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Thanks for this. Rom and kernel flashed fine. The radios not so much. I have none now, cannot use WiFi or cell connection. Don't know what else to do now. Tried several times to reflash radio without any luck

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This happened to me when I came from my 4.4 rom, I had to RSD back to 4.2.2 then re-root and re-install and everything worked fine then!

I actually bricked my phone really bad last night to the point I couldn't boot up except in bp-tools mode, because I found out fastboot doesn't work on my new front usb 3.0 ports had to use my usb 2.0 ports. My 3.0 apparently corrupted my boot, recovery, and radio partition it took me close to 3 hours last night to get back to 4.2.2.

 

Awesome let me know if your able to get it working when 4.4.2 comes out for the Maxx!

Will do! What is the ROM zip? Something picked out of the OTA, or picked out of the .xml/.sbf file?

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.

 

Will do! What is the ROM zip? Something picked out of the OTA, or picked out of the .xml/.sbf file?

fat-fingered and Maxx-ed out.

It's the extracted system.img from the sbf file with root and the safestrap files added in.

 

Can this be done on Linux without any issues? I'm going to assume you did this on Windows.

 

This happened to me when I came from my 4.4 rom, I had to RSD back to 4.2.2 then re-root and re-install and everything worked fine then!

I actually bricked my phone really bad last night to the point I couldn't boot up except in bp-tools mode, because I found out fastboot doesn't work on my new front usb 3.0 ports had to use my usb 2.0 ports. My 3.0 apparently corrupted my boot, recovery, and radio partition it took me close to 3 hours last night to get back to 4.2.2.

I ran into the same radio issue when flashing from 4.4. Maybe the original post should be updated to indicate possible problems with flashing from 4.4?

If we need to root 4.2.2, do you have a recommended root method? The SlapMyMoto 1.0 root method ends with updating to 4.4, so presumably that root method isn't applicable here. Would using RockMyMoto to root 4.2.2 be okay?

 

Krypt, what do you use to extract the system.img file? Also, when you say root/safestrap is added in, do you just mean the APK?

 

I ran into the same radio issue when flashing from 4.4. Maybe the original post should be updated to indicate possible problems with flashing from 4.4?

If we need to root 4.2.2, do you have a recommended root method? The SlapMyMoto 1.0 root method ends with updating to 4.4, so presumably that root method isn't applicable here. Would using RockMyMoto to root 4.2.2 be okay?

You got it mixed up, SlapMyMoto is the method for rooting 4.4...So yea...use RockMyMoto for rooting 4.2.2

 

Can this be done on Linux without any issues? I'm going to assume you did this on Windows.

Yes it can but I'm not familiar with converting batch files to sh files, you also need the linux fastboot.

I ran into the same radio issue when flashing from 4.4. Maybe the original post should be updated to indicate possible problems with flashing from 4.4?

If we need to root 4.2.2, do you have a recommended root method? The SlapMyMoto 1.0 root method ends with updating to 4.4, so presumably that root method isn't applicable here. Would using RockMyMoto to root 4.2.2 be okay?

Okay thanks for the heads up, I actually bricked the boot, recovery, and radio partition because fastboot doesn't work right with my usb 3.0 ports. Yes RockMyMoto should work at rooting 4.2.2 if you haven't used MotoWpNoMo, if you have then SlapMyMoto will have to be used. I haven't had to use either so I don't know for sure.

Krypt, what do you use to extract the system.img file? Also, when you say root/safestrap is added in, do you just mean the APK?

When you are booted into Android Safestrap actually saves the recovery.img and some other files in the /system partition. Then when you reboot to safestrap recovery it moves the files from the /system partition and loads them to the /sbin partition if I remember correctly then once you flash a rom it is supposed to copies the files back to the /system partition. Well when I was working on my 4.4 Rom I ran into issues where Safestrap wasn't copying the files back to the /system partition. So to avoid this problem I just included them in Rom then everything worked with no issues. As for the extracting the system.img go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2501219

 

Just thought I'd post an update. As you suggested, updating to this ROM from Stock 4.4 or Eclipse 2.2 (4.4-based), or even Eclipse 3.2.1 (4.4.2-based) resulted in errors. It wasn't able to activate or enable radios. Very odd.

Equally frustrating was that I reverted to stock 4.2.2 (camera update) and then couldn't for the life of me figure out how to root again. I tried RockMyMoto, but it somehow saw that I'd already used MotoWPNoMo and would kick me out. So, I tried SlapMyMoto, but the steps you follow include updating to 4.4 which I knew I didn't want to do. And I couldn't install Safestrap without root either so...

In the end, I'm not sure exactly what I did to get it working. I used the Toolkit and let it walk me through the steps to root via SlapMyMoto. During the process, it asks if this is the first time you're rooting 4.4 (or maybe using MotoWPNoMo). I answered "No" and it seemed to walk me through a slightly different root process. Then when it said I should take the 4.4 OTA, I ignored it and hit continue. After rebooting, there was root.

Not so fun, but I'm glad to be back on stock rooted 4.4.2, just hope that the process can get streamlined a bit more for others coming to this thread cause I, for one, am still confused. It's late though, so that's my excuse!

Thanks again!

 

Just thought I'd post an update. As you suggested, updating to this ROM from Stock 4.4 or Eclipse 2.2 (4.4-based), or even Eclipse 3.2.1 (4.4.2-based) resulted in errors. It wasn't able to activate or enable radios. Very odd.

Equally frustrating was that I reverted to stock 4.2.2 (camera update) and then couldn't for the life of me figure out how to root again. I tried RockMyMoto, but it somehow saw that I'd already used MotoWPNoMo and would kick me out. So, I tried SlapMyMoto, but the steps you follow include updating to 4.4 which I knew I didn't want to do. And I couldn't install Safestrap without root either so...

In the end, I'm not sure exactly what I did to get it working. I used the Toolkit and let it walk me through the steps to root via SlapMyMoto. During the process, it asks if this is the first time you're rooting 4.4 (or maybe using MotoWPNoMo). I answered "No" and it seemed to walk me through a slightly different root process. Then when it said I should take the 4.4 OTA, I ignored it and hit continue. After rebooting, there was root.

Not so fun, but I'm glad to be back on stock rooted 4.4.2, just hope that the process can get streamlined a bit more for others coming to this thread cause I, for one, am still confused. It's late though, so that's my excuse!

Thanks again!

Thanks for the feedback I updated the OP saying to start on 4.2.2 not 4.4 to prevent this from happening. I looked over SlapMyMoto really quick last night and I'm pretty sure it will root 4.2.2 if you skip the install OTA step. Unfortunately I don't think the process will ever get anymore streamlined, because we are installing a OS, Kernel, and Radio's on old Bootloaders.

 

Guys I have a way to successfully install this ROM with working radios. Doesn't involve having to go back to 4.2.2 I can confirm it working coming from Eclipse 3.2 but am pretty certain it will also work coming from 4.4 Kryptonite it seems there is something in your updater script that is boring the radios. All I did was unzip your ROM and switch out your updater with his and rezip. So all you have to do after that guys is follow the rest of his instructions with your edited zip file. Flash the ROM in safestrap and flash radio and kernel then enjoy! Hope this helps pinpoint where the problem is too

 

Guys I have a way to successfully install this ROM with working radios. Doesn't involve having to go back to 4.2.2 I can confirm it working coming from Eclipse 3.2 but am pretty certain it will also work coming from 4.4 Kryptonite it seems there is something in your updater script that is boring the radios. All I did was unzip your ROM and switch out your updater with his and rezip. So all you have to do after that guys is follow the rest of his instructions with your edited zip file. Flash the ROM in safestrap and flash radio and kernel then enjoy! Hope this helps pinpoint where the problem is too

Hmm thanks for the heads up I will take a look at it tonight after work, are you replacing just the updater-script or are you also replacing the update-binary?

 

Hmm thanks for the heads up I will take a look at it tonight after work, are you replacing just the updater-script or are you also replacing the update-binary?

I replaced both