This is probably going to sound like a dumb question... But now that I am unlocked and rooted on my GSM Unlocked Moto X, I'm going to do a reset and start setting it up for real. Is this better to do through settings or through the recovery? If recovery, what all options should I use?
Thanks.
Settings creates a command for recovery to run to do the factory reset (format /data). So, it doesn't matter which you use, recovery is doing to resetting in the end anyway.
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A little background info. I have a Verizon Moto X.
I installed Pwnmymoto, the xposed installer, and xposed.
when I reboot with the pwnmymoto it says that I am rooted, but I dont see the root directory. xposed also doesnt make any changes that I specify.
So I thought, hey its time to factory data reset and try again.
Factory data reset did not work. It just rebooted my phone and all my data was still there.
Then I uninstalled pwnmymoto and the two exposed apps via the phones app list and tried to factory data reset and I got the same error.
Help! I haven't attempted to factory data reset using adb because I'm too stupid to figure out how to do it with adb, no matter how many times I google it. (yes I do have adb already).
Where do I go from here? Back to the Verizon store and hope that they dont notice that I tried rooting the phone?
It looks like I need to reflash the stock recovery image. I believe I have that (as long as the stock recovery is the same for all moto x phones (verizon, sprint, tmo, att, etc).
The problem I am having now is that I don't know how to flash the stock recovery image. All the instructions that I find require the phone to be in fastboot mode, but I have a locked boot loader....so. ..wud am I supposed to do??
dzlvs8 said:
A little background info. I have a Verizon Moto X.
I installed Pwnmymoto, the xposed installer, and xposed.
when I reboot with the pwnmymoto it says that I am rooted, but I dont see the root directory. xposed also doesnt make any changes that I specify.
So I thought, hey its time to factory data reset and try again.
Factory data reset did not work. It just rebooted my phone and all my data was still there.
Then I uninstalled pwnmymoto and the two exposed apps via the phones app list and tried to factory data reset and I got the same error.
Help! I haven't attempted to factory data reset using adb because I'm too stupid to figure out how to do it with adb, no matter how many times I google it. (yes I do have adb already).
Where do I go from here? Back to the Verizon store and hope that they dont notice that I tried rooting the phone?
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You gotta read up next time before taking the plunge. The pwnmymoto root hijacks your phone's stock recovery to boot into a version of android that is writeable to /system. It leaves a copy of your recovery on /sdcard so in the event you want to return to stock, you can just flash it back through adb, which is what you need to do. Once you flash your recovery back, you will then be able to factory reset. Also, the reason why your mods aren't sticking is because you likely aren't booting into the "recovery mode" version of the OS with the write protection off.
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You gotta read up next time before taking the plunge. The pwnmymoto root hijacks your phone's stock recovery to boot into a version of android that is writeable to /system. It leaves a copy of your recovery on /sdcard so in the event you want to return to stock, you can just flash it back through adb, which is what you need to do. Once you flash your recovery back, you will then be able to factory reset. Also, the reason why your mods aren't sticking is because you likely aren't booting into the "recovery mode" version of the OS with the write protection off.
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Yeah, I got a little cocky when setting up pwnmymoto. I am actually in rooted mode when using xposed (according to the pwnmymoto app). Like I said, I have gone into the pwnmymoto app and rebooted the device with it and when i go back into pwnmymoto it says that I am rooted, then I try to use the xposed thingy and when I apply the settings my nav and notification bar reset, but nothing changes.
Soooo, dumb question. How do I reflash the stock recovery image? I see it on my storage card. All I know is to go into adb.exe via the command prompt, but I'm too stupid to know what to do after that. I have done a lot of searches online for how to do it, but everything I come up with involves fastboot.
_MetalHead_ said:
You gotta read up next time before taking the plunge. The pwnmymoto root hijacks your phone's stock recovery to boot into a version of android that is writeable to /system. It leaves a copy of your recovery on /sdcard so in the event you want to return to stock, you can just flash it back through adb, which is what you need to do. Once you flash your recovery back, you will then be able to factory reset. Also, the reason why your mods aren't sticking is because you likely aren't booting into the "recovery mode" version of the OS with the write protection off.
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Yeah, I got a little cocky when setting up pwnmymoto. I am actually in rooted mode when using xposed (according to the pwnmymoto app). Like I said, I have gone into the pwnmymoto app and rebooted the device with it and when i go back into pwnmymoto it says that I am rooted, then I try to use the xposed thingy and when I apply the settings my nav and notification bar reset, but nothing changes.
Soooo, dumb question. How do I reflash the stock recovery image? I see it on my storage card. All I know is to go into adb.exe via the command prompt, but I'm too stupid to know what to do after that. I have done a lot of searches online for how to do it, but everything I come up with involves fastboot.
Is it "adb restore recovery-stock.img"?
dzlvs8 said:
Yeah, I got a little cocky when setting up pwnmymoto. I am actually in rooted mode when using xposed (according to the pwnmymoto app). Like I said, I have gone into the pwnmymoto app and rebooted the device with it and when i go back into pwnmymoto it says that I am rooted, then I try to use the xposed thingy and when I apply the settings my nav and notification bar reset, but nothing changes.
Soooo, dumb question. How do I reflash the stock recovery image? I see it on my storage card. All I know is to go into adb.exe via the command prompt, but I'm too stupid to know what to do after that. I have done a lot of searches online for how to do it, but everything I come up with involves fastboot.
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Well your phone is technically rooted when you boot normally, but you don't have write capabilities to /system which is why nothing is sticking. You need to boot the phone into recovery mode to make those changes, and then reboot normally to use them. To boot into the recovery mode with write protection off you need to power your phone down, and power it back up while holding volume down. That gets you into the bootloader and from there you choose recovery and then your phone will reboot with write protection off. It's kind of annoying to have to do it this way but blame Motorola for locking the phone down as well as they did.
To flash the stock recovery back, you need to put the recovery file in your adb folder and then the command is "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" without the quotes, but if you are unfamiliar with adb I don't recommend doing it. You can just flash the whole stock image with RSDLite and start from square one. I've not personally used RSDLite but here is a video tutorial for you- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446515
dzlvs8 said:
Yeah, I got a little cocky when setting up pwnmymoto. I am actually in rooted mode when using xposed (according to the pwnmymoto app). Like I said, I have gone into the pwnmymoto app and rebooted the device with it and when i go back into pwnmymoto it says that I am rooted, then I try to use the xposed thingy and when I apply the settings my nav and notification bar reset, but nothing changes.
Soooo, dumb question. How do I reflash the stock recovery image? I see it on my storage card. All I know is to go into adb.exe via the command prompt, but I'm too stupid to know what to do after that. I have done a lot of searches online for how to do it, but everything I come up with involves fastboot.
Is it "adb restore recovery-stock.img"?
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also just a quick note:
"adb reboot recovery" will boot you into recovery/writeable system
"adb reboot bootloader" will boot you into fastboot for using rsdlite which is all described in the instructions given by metalhead
I wanted to perform a factory reset because I keep getting really high Android OS usage on my phone. However, when I went to settings -> backup and rest -> factory reset, it didn't reset my phone; it just rebooted again. Then I tried to reset it by booting into recovery, so I powered up the phone holding the volume down button, scrolled to the recovery section, pressed up to select it, and it just made my phone restart again. I don't know why my phone won't let me perform a factory reset, could someone help me out? It is rooted and has titanium backup and greenify installed, but that's about it.
PwnMyMoto hijacks stock recovery. You'll need to uninstall it to get the recovery back to factory reset.
fruitytoilet said:
I wanted to perform a factory reset because I keep getting really high Android OS usage on my phone. However, when I went to settings -> backup and rest -> factory reset, it didn't reset my phone; it just rebooted again. Then I tried to reset it by booting into recovery, so I powered up the phone holding the volume down button, scrolled to the recovery section, pressed up to select it, and it just made my phone restart again. I don't know why my phone won't let me perform a factory reset, could someone help me out? It is rooted and has titanium backup and greenify installed, but that's about it.
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don't think you can uninstall pwnmymoto because it already uninstalled itself after it rooted your phone. You will have to flash stock frimware on the device using RSDlite. tutorial found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446515
for high android os usage it might be because of the wifi router you are connected to fyi. try running on no wifi for a day or a night or whatever and see if that doesn't change. There seems to be an issue with some routers that cause the usage to be extremely high. I'm having the problem currently because of my wifi router.
Hello
I am from europe......
Search my Moto x (rooted) Stock rom.....i want recovery, i want factory reset..
I install Morelocale2 set hungarian languane, and useless controll not working(((( uninstall program, set English Us languane, ...........not work....
message : sorry there seem to be data issues..............
( telefon Claro Puerto Rico network....Stock Firmware: 2 choice..Claro Chile and Columbia,,??????? true?? false????
help pls........:crying:
jayboyyyy said:
don't think you can uninstall pwnmymoto because it already uninstalled itself after it rooted your phone. You will have to flash stock frimware on the device using RSDlite. tutorial found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446515
for high android os usage it might be because of the wifi router you are connected to fyi. try running on no wifi for a day or a night or whatever and see if that doesn't change. There seems to be an issue with some routers that cause the usage to be extremely high. I'm having the problem currently because of my wifi router.
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any update on this? I'm in a similar situation where I want to do a factory reset, but I can't flash any Rom because I am on republic wireless. is flashing the firmware the and as flashing a new Rom?
warrenis1234 said:
any update on this? I'm in a similar situation where I want to do a factory reset, but I can't flash any Rom because I am on republic wireless. is flashing the firmware the and as flashing a new Rom?
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you can always flash the fw for your device onto your phone. you may not be able to flash an older version of a fw for your phone but you can always flash a current version. if you use rsdlite to do a full factory reset it will work. you just can't do a factory reset through the recovery mode in your phone because pwnmymoto hikacked it so its no longer there.
if you have a locked bootloader and you want to do a factory reset or flash a rom you need to install Safestrap
here is a link to the thread all about it
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/104161-recovery-locked-safestrap-recovery-v365-2013-11-13/
It's my goal to wipe a second hand android device I received.
You used to be able to do this via the encryption option.
Though now that I am on Lollipop when I enable encryption the phone (2014 Moto x) restarts and doesn't do the full wipe like android used to. Though does come up with encryption enabled.
I assume this has to do with Lolipop having encryption enabled by default.
Before I get all answers telling me to do a factory reset. No a factory reset doesn't wipe a system it just repartitions it and gives new encryption keys.
Tried in safemode too. Nothing
Just getting a new encreyption key via a factory reset doesn't do what I want. That key could be recovered and the data still exists. That's why tools like truecrypt ot luks if you have experience take so long to encrypt.
At least for the pure edition I believe that you can get factory images from Motorola. By flashing a factory images it should format all the partitions and be like new fresh of the box.
I just rooted and installed a custom recovery on my moto x 2014. Up until the rooting, everything was fine. Then, somewhere when I decided to wipe to do a factory reset, after the setup steps and account info, my phone starts normally into the launcher, but without any navigation buttons or status bar... I cannot swipe down to bring them back... I have tried wiping cache and dalvik but no luck..
Please help,
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If you haven't done so already, download the factory image from Motorola or Google and utilize the proper fastboot steps to get back to stock. Make sure you back up your data if you can and then you should be good to go to restore back to stock, re-root, and have fun. Good luck!
Yeap, did that last night. I imagine it had something to do with the recovery flashing, but cannot be sure. Anyways, rooting and flashing was easier with the old moto x. I think I'll stick to stock for now. Is there any way to relock the bootloader without flashing stuff?
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I have General Mobile 4G Android One device.
Here's the steps that caused this scenario.
-Upgraded it to 7.1.1, but had to factory reset because of some issues.
-Booted into recovery, selected Factory Reset
-During factory reset, I dropped the phone and battery is displaced
Now, I'm not able to boot the phone, it shows an Android with exclamation mark for a second and turns off the screen.
Tried to boot into recovery but no luck.
I can boot into bootloader, but it is locked and I cannot unlock because I didn't toggle "Allow Oem Unlock" in developer settings.
I tried to format cache and userdata commands, not allowed.
Is there any chance of making phone boot again?
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halloga said:
I have General Mobile 4G Android One device.
Here's the steps that caused this scenario.
-Upgraded it to 7.1.1, but had to factory reset because of some issues.
-Booted into recovery, selected Factory Reset
-During factory reset, I dropped the phone and battery is displaced
Now, I'm not able to boot the phone, it shows an Android with exclamation mark for a second and turns off the screen.
Tried to boot into recovery but no luck.
I can boot into bootloader, but it is locked and I cannot unlock because I didn't toggle "Allow Oem Unlock" in developer settings.
I tried to format cache and userdata commands, not allowed.
Is there any chance of making phone boot again?
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Just flash the Stock Rom (6.0.1 or 7.0 or 7.1). Here you can find Stock Roms
http://forum.one-teams.com/Forum-Stock-Romlar-136
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=80931
Hi guys. I have a Android One G1 and the problem is that it can't detect by my PC, already tried different pc but still it cant be detected it charges only.