Flashing the V3

The easiest way to modify your phone is to use what is known as a monster pack. This file contains a language pack, flash file and a flex file and updates them all at once. You would follow these flashing instructions to install it. Otherwise you can perform a flash and a flex independently.
There are vari
ous types of flash files out there. There is a "flash" (the original factory default one), the "reflash" (which does not cause you to lose any personal data) and the "reflash mlp" (a reflash file minus the "LP" or language pack included). If you ever flash or flex your phone or perform some other mod and it gets away from you and your phone gets screwed up for whatever reason, flashing with a monster pack is a widely accepted cure all. Flashing with a monster pack will erase all your personal data from the phone like pictures, ring tones, etc. Head on over to MotoX to get the latest flash or monster pack.

There is usually a long list of files there so look for your carrier (like Cingular) first, then look for the most recent upload date second. If you wrote down earlier what you looked up on your phone, you want to make sure you download software that is newer than what is currently on your phone. The most recent monster pack file is the "S/W Version R374_G_0E.42.09R_MOTOX.shx". The most recent reflash file is "R374_G_0E.42.0ER_reflash_MOTOX.shx". How do you tell when something is newer than what you have on your phone already? Simple, you just have to know how to count in hex. Here's a little lesson: hex is short for hexadecimal. At its simplest, hex numbers are base 16 (decimal, what we use in every day counting, is base 10). Instead of counting from 0 to 9 and then going on to 10, we count from 0 to 9 and then A through F before going on to 10. For example: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 20, 21 and so on. Are you ready to go? Did you back up anything you don't want to lose first? A flash shouldn't delete anything, but if it stops unexpectedly part way through or your computer loses power or the phone loses power or the data cable becomes disconnected, anything could happen. Back up whatever you added to the phone that you don't want to lose. All right, let's go. I am going to cover how to flash and flex with RSD Lite and with MFF. Maybe you'll have better luck finding one program over the other. I'll start with RSD Lite first since it is a much easier program to work with. You will use the same steps for flashing your phone with a monster pack, flash (reflash) file, and a language pack. It takes about ten minutes to flash with the monster pack. It takes about two minutes to flash a reflash. It will take about one minute to flash the language pack. In the image below I used a reflash file. You can see by the file name that it is the "42.0ER" reflash. It can be used on any carrier's phone. This will only install a flash, it will not alter the flex. Launch RSD Lite. Then connect your phone (while it's turned on) to the data cable. The program should detect your phone shortly. If your phone is not detected (and you are certain you have everything installed), disconnect the data cable, then shut your phone off, and manually put it into bootloader mode.

You do this by pressing and holding down the "*" and "#" keys while pressing and holding down the on button until you see text display on your screen. Now connect the phone back to the data cable. When your phone is connected you will see a message like the one below in the first line of the program's status area. Click the button labeled "..." and find where the flash is on your computer that you want to use. Click the "Start" button. Now you should see what's displayed on the second line of text through the sixth line as the program processes each code group and does various other things. When it's finished you will see the line of text on the seventh line displayed. Click the "Close" button and you are done. Disconnect your phone from the cable and check it out.