Hey guys, my dad bought a CDMA unlocked Moto X off ebay. It works great and is going to be my daily driver for a couple of weeks till my Z2 gets back from the service center. Now my issue is that the phone is stuck on 4.2.2, and when i check for a software update via phone or PC, it says firmware is up to date. Any idea what may be causing this? I dont mind installing a custom rom to get KK as this has no warranty anyway, but I dont want to lose the CDMA unlock that it has.
Thanks, sid!
See the complete guide to moto X thread in general. And go to returning to stock section. You can then manually flash a higher version.
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I have Rogers Moto X. I officially unlocked the bootloader and the rooted it on day 1.
I've read through two forum topics related to the update, but I'm still not sure what my options are.
Is there a way I get get the update installed now? Or, do I need to wait for Rogers to release to update and unroot and then update and then (hopefully, if it can be done right away) reroot?
FligMupple said:
I have Rogers Moto X. I officially unlocked the bootloader and the rooted it on day 1.
I've read through two forum topics related to the update, but I'm still not sure what my options are.
Is there a way I get get the update installed now? Or, do I need to wait for Rogers to release to update and unroot and then update and then (hopefully, if it can be done right away) reroot?
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I also have a Rogers Moto X with an unlocked Bootloader. I've flashed the T-Mobile Update that's floating around and it froze my phone, I had to factory reset using the stock images for my phone.
I'd just sit tight and wait.
Hi all,
I was just wondering about following:
I own a Canadian Version (Rogers) of Moto X. Rogers did not start rolling out KitKat upgrade to Moto X yet. However, there should be OTA upgrade roll-out some time soon. My Moto X is unlocked and I'm using it now on non Rogers network. Question is if my Moto X will receive KitKat OTA if I'm not on the Rogers network? If not how can I upgrade OS without losing all my apps and settings. P.S. phone is not rooted and would like to avoid that if possible.
Thank you all.
So nobody on this forum has any idea about my question?.....
vukc said:
Hi all,
I was just wondering about following:
I own a Canadian Version (Rogers) of Moto X. Rogers did not start rolling out KitKat upgrade to Moto X yet. However, there should be OTA upgrade roll-out some time soon. My Moto X is unlocked and I'm using it now on non Rogers network. Question is if my Moto X will receive KitKat OTA if I'm not on the Rogers network? If not how can I upgrade OS without losing all my apps and settings. P.S. phone is not rooted and would like to avoid that if possible.
Thank you all.
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I am rather newbish myself with the MotoX, but I have played around with a few ROMS on my old H0X and I assume the principals are usually the same.
When the stock Rogers OTA becomes available you will be prompted to download the OTA. If you choose to install this, it will most likely lock the bootloader.
Your best bet would be to root your phone, and get a custom recovery program on the phone (personally, I like twrp), and do a backup of the entire phone. This way, you can always revert back to that state afterwards.
V.
It shouldn't matter that you aren't physically on the Rogers network. The Moto X should check back to Moto for the update, not a Rogers server. I also have an unlocked Rogers Moto X that I gave to my wife that is on TELUS.
The said thing is, the clueless Rogers reps who man the customer support Twitter don't even think they have an update. They are blaming Moto on not having sent it to them. Hopefully this is just the standard case of clueless CS...
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If you do receive the ota and you are running any sort of custom recovery, do not install it, why? It will result in bootloops and it will not install. You must have an untouched system and running the stock recovery for the ota to flash correctly.
As for your boot loader, that will remain unlocked. Now what i suggest is neglect the ota and install the rogers KitKat sbf firmware zip instead.
I did accept the rogers camera ota and I could not flash twrp recovery afterwards, it some how prevents you from over riding the stock recovery. To get around this I flash the sbf firmware and I have no issue flashing twrp recovery. Yes my boot loader is unlocked
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Hi Folks,
I am using Moto X Gen 2 edition from India.
I want to update the device to Android Lollipop without rooting it.
I dont want to wait till it reaches India & wish to have the update now.
Any tips or suggestions on this?
Thanks.
Have a look at my following link. Confirmed working by several others including me. Just follow the guide from bottom to top.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56715152&postcount=12
If you won't get familiar with that guide DON'T try to upgrade your phone if you don't want a 499$ paperweight.
Couple of things you might want to check, is the boot loader unlocked and what model number you have. Coming from Samsung phones, if you flash the wrong file on the same phone with a different model number you can brick it. Not sure how this applies to Motorola....
Like the title says i've got an XT 1053 ( Developer Edition ) T-Mo variant. A while back I gave this phone to my kid, before I did I flashed the stock rom off of the Moto website. the bootloader is unlocked but I didn't root the phone figuring the kid didn't really need root and in the future he could take ota's, well for some reason the 5.1 ota won't install.
4.4.4
The current build # is KXA21.12-L1.29.1
Sys Version is 213.44.1.ghost_row.retail.en.us
Baseband is MSM8960PRO_BP_2323.038.123.OOR
I'm not sure what to do here, does Moto still list their firmwares online? If so I can't find them. i've seen some files here on XDA but i'm not really sure whats appropriate for this phone.
If anyone can help me get up to date on this I would really appreciate it. I just flashed my Nexus 9, Nexus 7, and Nexus 6, and didn't run into any problems, but i'm kinda stumped on this one.
Thanks
i had same issue, dont know if yours is same but i also had an xt1053 that i had returned to stock and after some time wouldnt take 5.1 ota, i had to use rsd again for it to take ota,
here is a link to motorola firmware i use, http://motofirmware.center/files/
Does it have stock recovery? It has to be on stock to take ota's. You can flash the xt1053 5.1 rom on here that doesn't update the bootloader, so you can go back if you wish because lots if people hate lollipop
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Hi everyone, I recently got a moto x and the reason I bought it was because motorola announced that it was going to recieve lollipop 5.1 so, specs/value was great for me and unfortunatly without an extensive research I bought the version from the title xt1050, as you may know it can't unlock the bl via motorola web site and it didn't recieve the OTA from 5.1 yet. So after recieving one OTA (4.4.2) I checked with sunshine and it's compatible. Before spending another $25 I wanted to be sure.. I've been reading a lot of this forum and I couldn't find the answer to this questions.
Which ROMs can I flash without harming my device? I mean, can I flash roms from the xt1058 or xt1060? The last one has the same FCC id so, what does that mean?
Considerations to avoid a hard brick? I've read a lot about not downgrading the bootloader so I was thinking to follow this thread to get 5.1:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/general/how-to-install-5-1-lollipop-moto-x-t3089594
Another thing it's bugging me is that I only get about an hour and a half or two with luck of screen time through a day running stock, batery life it's really that bad or 4.4.2 has some nasty bug that I'm not aware?
Thats all for now guys, I'm sure I will ask some more questions later, I really don't wanna mess up this phone.
English it's not my first language so I apologise for any mistake.
I was able to unlock the bootloader on my Moto X XT1050 using the Motorola website. I have flashed my phone with the XT1060 4.4.4 rom and currently use it on Verizon.
It turns out you where right I must messed something up the first time I tried because I couldn't get my code to unlock the bootloader, you sir just saved me 25 bucks. So, thank you for that.
Now that I've my bootloader unlocked I have another questions, I've read that I can flash any rom if I flash the radios before and it should work the problem is that I found a post about how to get this files but is from a sbf file, and that is a problem because it seems that all links with the 4.4.2 xt1050 sbf are down. You flashed the xt1060 rom without flashing the xt1050 radios, didn't you? Are both lte and cmda working ok?