Un-bricking a Bionic

Yesterday my wife's Motorola Droid Bionic locked up. The whole thing started when I paired the Bionic to a new Motorola TK30 car kit.  It would connect, disconnect, reconnect, etc.  I paired my Bionic and it had no problems but hers did the connect disconnect thing and then locked up.  I tried rebooting but it would not power up.  Appeared to do nothing at all.  Tried removing the battery and reinstalling but nothing.  Made no sound, screen did not even flicker.  Tried several batteries, nothing.  Removed the SD card, still nothing.  Removed the SIM card, still nothing.  I gave up and presumed the device was a toast.  Luckily I have a spare so I put her cards in the spare and got her set up on that.  Later, I took the dead one down to my man cave.  Thought for kicks I would see what happened when I connected USB to the PC.  The PC went nuts connecting, disconnecting, reconnecting, trying to install drivers, failing.  It was like something was caught in an infinite loop.  After a few gyrations of this, the device booted.  I quickly backed up the files from the internal SD card.  It seemed to be working OK as I was testing it.  Then I connected to a Bluetooth device and it locked up again.  I was able to recover it again using the USB to PC connection like before.  This time I rebooted into recovery and formatted the cache.

1) Power down
2) Power up by holding Power and Vol Up/Down simultaneously
3) Vol Down to Recovery, then press Vol Up
4) Press Vol Up/Down simultaneously
5) Press Vol Down to last option (wipe cache partition), then press Power
6) When cache is cleared, press Power again to reboot 

After I wiped the cache, and removed a few unused Bluetooth devices I was able to get it connected to the TK30 and working fine.  Just wanted to pass this along if someone else has a device lock up in this way.  Try connecting it to a PC and see what happens.  You may be able to recover it like I did.

Motorola TK30 Bluetooth Car Kit Installed in 2007 Jaguar XJ8L

I finally completed the TK30 Bluetooth car kit install in the 2007 XJ8L.  I mounted the unit where the ash tray used to go.  The install was easy since I bought that adapter harness.  I also added some Infinity tweeters in in the dash in the factory locations while I was at at.  Sound and functionality is OK.  Nice unit on first look.

Update
After having this in the car over a year I now hate it.  The software is terrible.  "music" disappeared from the menu.  The unit locks up and must be disconnected.  I finally just wired both ignition sense and battery power to ignition so every time the car is shut off the until will restart and clear the lock up.  Called Motorola but they just brand this device and no longer support it.  Tried software updates and device resets several times.  Got various results but problems still exist.

One of the most worthless features is the contacts download.  I really wish I could turn that OFF.  I did reject the request to download on the phones at least.  It would be dangerous to scroll through the contacts with the TK30 while driving.  Stupid!  Voice commands are really the only way to go while driving and the phone does a great job at that.  Unfortunately you can't get to the phone commands without scrolling through menus on this stupid TK30.  Very frustrating.  Dangerous in fact.

I will never use a TK30 again.  Don't buy this device! Tell your friends not to as well.  I have had many Motorola T605 car kits and those work great.  Use that instead.