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Hi. I unlocked and rooted my M7 and I'd like to return to stock recovery/boot for the OTA. The problem is after searching for a while only method I could find is with RUU but there seems to be no RUU file for my 1.29.401.17 rom.
I havent changed CID and my boot displays: S-ON, TAMPERED, UNLOCKED.
My recovery is: Team Win Recovery 2.5.0.0.
Any ideas how I can go back to stock recovery/boot without RUU?
deastr said:
Hi. I unlocked and rooted my M7 and I'd like to return to stock recovery/boot for the OTA. The problem is after searching for a while only method I could find is with RUU but there seems to be no RUU file for my 1.29.401.17 rom.
I havent changed CID and my boot displays: S-ON, TAMPERED, UNLOCKED.
My recovery is: Team Win Recovery 2.5.0.0.
Any ideas how I can go back to stock recovery/boot without RUU?
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Find the recovery/boot for 1.29 and go into fastboot and type fastboot flash recovery file.img and fastboot flash boot file.img
daleski75 said:
Find the recovery/boot for 1.29 and go into fastboot and type fastboot flash recovery file.img and fastboot flash boot file.img
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Thank you. Is this the file I should use:
OTA_M7_UL_JB_50_HTC_Europe_1.29.401.12-1.28.401.7_release_315849_signedp7vl8dqsvls0h1t0.zip
It's the closest version to mine I could find. There is a boot.img in this file in the firmware.zip, I should use that file is that correct?
deastr said:
Thank you. Is this the file I should use:
OTA_M7_UL_JB_50_HTC_Europe_1.29.401.12-1.28.401.7_release_315849_signedp7vl8dqsvls0h1t0.zip
It's the closest version to mine I could find. There is a boot.img in this file in the firmware.zip, I should use that file is that correct?
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You can use the boot.img from that I reckon it should be fine.
Well I was flashing the latest firmware and tried to boot into recovery and flash ARHD 50.1 and I just got the HTC screen and then to a black screen and now I have the phone with a triangle and exclamation.
Can anyone give me some help with this?
The firmware.zip flashed stock recovery, which is what you see with the triangle. Just flash twrp with: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
cschmitt said:
The firmware.zip flashed stock recovery, which is what you see with the triangle. Just flash twrp with: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
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Thanks! :good:
I was a bit worried as I'm still new to all this stuff. I finally got into fastboot and flashed my older firmware back and I was fine. I flashed the new firmware and made it back into fastboot again and reflashed twrp and was able to enter recovery and flash the rom.
I thought I prevented my phone from downloading the OTA to 4.4.3 on my Dev Edition Unlocked bootloader running 4.4.2 and TWRP. I obviously did not and now my phone keeps rebooting into TWRP.
Is there a way to stop this and clear it out somehow?
reno55 said:
I thought I prevented my phone from downloading the OTA to 4.4.3 on my Dev Edition Unlocked bootloader running 4.4.2 and TWRP. I obviously did not and now my phone keeps rebooting into TWRP.
Is there a way to stop this and clear it out somehow?
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Try using Titanium Backup to freeze MotorolaOTA
samwathegreat said:
Try using Titanium Backup to freeze MotorolaOTA
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Actually I think I can fix by flashing stock recovery but where can I find the stock recovery image?
reno55 said:
Actually I think I can fix by flashing stock recovery but where can I find the stock recovery image?
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YES, you can fix by flashing stock recovery assuming you haven't heavily modified your system. Flashing the stock recovery will make the phone try to flash the OTA.
You'll need to download the SBF for your phone here: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=0
Unzip the file. I'm assuming you already have the fastboot and mfastboot binaries as well as the android SDK.
Place the file "recovery.img" in the same folder as mfastboot & fastboot. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled (or manually boot into bootloader).
Type mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Done.
Good Luck
samwathegreat said:
YES, you can fix by flashing stock recovery assuming you haven't heavily modified your system. Flashing the stock recovery will make the phone try to flash the OTA.
You'll need to download the SBF for your phone here: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=0
Unzip the file. I'm assuming you already have the fastboot and mfastboot binaries as well as the android SDK.
Place the file "recovery.img" in the same folder as mfastboot & fastboot. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled (or manually boot into bootloader).
Type mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Done.
Good Luck
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I think I just did this correctly.......it is on Android is upgrading now.....
I can just flash a custom recovery now right?
reno55 said:
I think I just did this correctly.......it is on Android is upgrading now.....
I can just flash a custom recovery now right?
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If the upgrade is successful, absolutely.
mfastboot flash recovery twrp-2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4.img
download twrp from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/recovery-unlocked-twrp-2-6-3-1-android-t2534850
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If the upgrade is successful, absolutely.
mfastboot flash recovery twrp-2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4.img
download twrp from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/recovery-unlocked-twrp-2-6-3-1-android-t2534850
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Can I flash philz?
reno55 said:
Can I flash philz?
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Don't see why not. Just substitute the filename for philz recovery instead.
Get Philz here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/xt10xx-philz-touch-t2612149
I have not used Philz personally...I prefer TWRP, but it looks like (unlike TWRP), that there is a different img for each variant of the Moto X. You will need to be careful to download the correct one.
I got the XT1053 T-Mobile version, rooted, unlocked with titanium backup, TWRP and Xposed. I just got the software update notice and I am currently trying to decide if I want to update or not. Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read, if I want to get the OTA, is the best way to flash the SBF and update to 4.4.3 and then configure the phone again? Is there no way to complete the OTA without flashing a stock recovery? Is it worth it? I love this phone, but there are no custom ROM's that are stock based for XT1053 which would be ideal since I don't want to lose all the extra goodies of the stock ROM.
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I got the XT1053 T-Mobile version, rooted, unlocked with titanium backup and Xposed. I just got the software update notice and I am currently trying to decide if I want to update or not. Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read, if I want to get the OTA, is the best way to flash the SBF and update to 4.4.3 and then configure the phone again? Is it worth it? I love this phone, but there are no custom ROM's that are stock based for XT1053 which would be ideal since I don't want to lose all the extra goodies of the stock ROM.
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Ugh! I am having all kinds of issues with 4.4.3. There is not a way to go back to 4.4.2 is there?
frankie_p said:
I got the XT1053 T-Mobile version, rooted, unlocked with titanium backup and Xposed. I just got the software update notice and I am currently trying to decide if I want to update or not. Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read, if I want to get the OTA, is the best way to flash the SBF and update to 4.4.3 and then configure the phone again? Is it worth it? I love this phone, but there are no custom ROM's that are stock based for XT1053 which would be ideal since I don't want to lose all the extra goodies of the stock ROM.
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YES, that is the best way to do it. You can -try- disabling xposed, and un-doing any major modifications you have done (like freezing or removing any system apps). You want it to be as close to stock as possible before you try to accept the OTA, which includes flashing back the stock recovery.
SBFing back to stock 4.4.2 FIRST, and accepting the update, THEN flashing TWRP and rooting, then re-configuring everything and installing your apps is MUCH safer and pretty much guarantees that your filesystem will be 100% intact.
If it were ME, I would SBF first -- for whatever that's worth...
Good Luck
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reno55 said:
Ugh! I am having all kinds of issues with 4.4.3. There is not a way to go back to 4.4.2 is there?
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Sure. It's just slightly more complicated. You'll need the entire 4.4.2 SBF for your carrier.
Do this: Reboot to bootloader
FIRST, JUST flash gpt.bin and motoboot.img:
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
Now you need to REBOOT back into bootloader (to prevent gpt.bin mis-match -- if you don't reboot here, you will get errors). Do this by typing:
mfastboot reboot-bootloader
Now flash the rest of the files:
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize
fastboot erase clogo
Reboot, and you should be back to stock 4.4.2
And finally the disclaimer: DO NOT TRY TO DOWNGRADE TO ANY VERSION PRIOR TO 4.4.2 .....if you don't want a brick.
It's ok to downgrade 4.4.3 to 4.4.2 because the bootloader version did not change. It is NOT safe to downgrade to anything prior (4.4 or 4.2.2).
I'm trying to convert my Moto X 1097 to 1095 pure. When I try flashing files with mfastboot I get hab check failed for boot and hab check failed for recovery. It's running 4.4.4 pure but I assume still has old recovery as it won't boot into recovery. I have abd all and downloaded mfastboot v2. Why am I getting these errors? Bootloader unlocked.
Are you trying to flash 4.4.4 or 5.0?
Motoboot and gpt can never be downgraded, some files will always show they failed the hab check even though they are ok as they aren't the original files.
If you flash the entire 4.4.4 or 5.0 Pure firmware package you will have no radio at all and will need to use the original NON-HLOS.bin from the matching Telus package to get it back.
If you want to try the Pure 5.1 soak/leak then flash the full Pure 5.0 package and then apply the soak update via stock recovery. At that point your radios will work as the 5.1 soak appears to include a modem/radio that works with the XT1097.
Ok thanks for info. So i flashed over my telus lollipop to 4.4.4 tmobile and then ota. So when I reboot into bootloader and choose recovery it just goes to a white screen with a ? in it. But if I use cmd adb reboot recovery it works and goes into recovery so I was able to ota to 5.0. Do you think I have the wrong bootloader or what? I've ota to 5.1 now and still can't get bootloader to launch recovery. Also once in recovery I chose wipe cache and it rebooted phone not sure if that's normal. I came from nexus phone so just learning this moto stuff. I'll post a couple pictures thanks in advance. Basically if I want to flash back to stock telus or if I brick my phone and need to get to recovery I won't be able too. Hopefully just something simple.
matt1515 said:
Ok thanks for info. So i flashed over my telus lollipop to 4.4.4 tmobile and then ota. So when I reboot into bootloader and choose recovery it just goes to a white screen with a ? in it. But if I use cmd adb reboot recovery it works and goes into recovery so I was able to ota to 5.0. Do you think I have the wrong bootloader or what? I've ota to 5.1 now and still can't get bootloader to launch recovery. Also once in recovery I chose wipe cache and it rebooted phone not sure if that's normal. I came from nexus phone so just learning this moto stuff. I'll post a couple pictures thanks in advance. Basically if I want to flash back to stock telus or if I brick my phone and need to get to recovery I won't be able too. Hopefully just something simple. Also so what do I have to do to make these commands work [fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img. Only flash these when it's the exact version? /QUOTE]
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matt1515 said:
matt1515 said:
Ok thanks for info. So i flashed over my telus lollipop to 4.4.4 tmobile and then ota. So when I reboot into bootloader and choose recovery it just goes to a white screen with a ? in it. But if I use cmd adb reboot recovery it works and goes into recovery so I was able to ota to 5.0. Do you think I have the wrong bootloader or what? I've ota to 5.1 now and still can't get bootloader to launch recovery. Also once in recovery I chose wipe cache and it rebooted phone not sure if that's normal. I came from nexus phone so just learning this moto stuff. I'll post a couple pictures thanks in advance. Basically if I want to flash back to stock telus or if I brick my phone and need to get to recovery I won't be able too. Hopefully just something simple. Also so what do I have to do to make these commands work [fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img. Only flash these when it's the exact version? /QUOTE]
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Stop using the power button to try to select recovery like you would on a Nexus device - use the volume up button and you'll be fine
Hahah dang I feel dumb
So just to conclude if I did want to go back to fresh stock Telus. Would these [fastboot flash partition gpt.bin and fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img still not work and not be needed? I understand motoboot is bootloader but what is got.bin?
If you go back to Telus firmware those two files likely won't update. I recommend you always go through the motions and if they fail it is fine to continue with the other files. When Telus 5.1 is released you will likely be able to update those two files again - it doesn't seem to really matter though with the 2014 Moto X.
Ok good information one question I have to ask. Does it really matter what fastboot I use and if so what is the best one to use for this phone?
Do you mean fastboot versus mfastboot(motorola specific version) ?
It only matters with the system image which is too large for regular fastboot and required the Motorola specific version which can handle the larger files and/or the sparse files.
Exactly the answer I was looking for. Thanks a lot!
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I want to have the img of the STOCK recovery so i can have the OTA update installed. Tried to flash the recovery.img in L78032_CN_ZUI_11.5.223_ST_200401_qpst.zip directly with fastboot but no help. Does anyone can help? Great thanks!