Motorola Flashing Flexing OS X Page 2

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All right, this is page 2 of the Flashing and Flexing Tutorial for your Motorola P2K phone using Flasher in Mac OS X. You should have just installed Flasher and libusb, and we are now ready to perform an actual flash or flex.

This method is a little intense compared to what we've gotten used to with motomodding on the PC, but only for now. :) Soon we will have an actual GUI on this program, and it will be much easier. For now we're all command line. Enough of that, though, lets get into it.

Open up Terminal (HD > Applications> Utilities> Terminal.



Type in the following:

ls -la /dev > temp

Then, plug the phone in and wait about 6 seconds, and after you have plugged the phone in, type:

ls -la /dev > temp2

And hit Return, then follow it with:

diff temp temp2 | grep cu

You will get the USB device name of your phone. (The cu.usbmodem... part). Write it down or keep it there where you can see it.

Now ctrl+click on your .shx file and select Get Info. (In this example I am using mikekay10's new Arial font).



OK, now you have the Info pane for your file--the two parts we are insterested in are the General > Where> section, and the Name and Extension section. Together these two form the path your .shx file, which we need to know.

Awesome, we're FINALLY ready to flash your phone. Turn your phone off, and start it up in boot loader mode, by holding down * and # while you power on the phone. Your phone will display its Boot Loader version, and at the bottom say "OK to Program Connect USB Data Cable", and when the phone is connected to the USB cable, that last bit will change to "OK to Program USB Transfer Mode".

Type the following in Terminal:

flasher -d /dev/yourphoneUSBID /path/toyour/shxfile.shx

And hit Return.



Flasher will display something like the following in Terminal:



The numbers are how many percent the operation has completed.



And then... you will see the "Sending POWER_DOWN Command" message, and then
"-->Complete"!

Congratulations! You've flashed a Motorola P2K phone in Mac OS X.