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Stuck rebooting to TWRP after OTA Download?

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

samwathegreat said:
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.

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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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).

Flash LMY47E and Preserve Data

I just recently started fresh by unlocking and flashing LMY47D image. I'd like to upgrade to LMY47E and preserve data. I know I can backup/restore via TIBU, but I'd rather avoid that if possible. Am I overlooking anything by performing only the following commands? Also worth noting is that I'd like to retain TWRP and franco.Kernel.
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
At this point I'd use the hardware buttons to reboot into TWRP, flash su.zip, and then boot system.
I'm definitely going to perform a nandroid prior to doing this. However, just curious if this is the best way to do this or is there a better method. Or if there are any risks involved that I'm overlooking.
EDIT: Success... everything went just as planned. Thanks for everyone's help.

Its exactly correct. alternative is flashing a rooted stock ROM. Zip from recovery

From what I've read you may need to flash twrp again even though you didn't flash the stock recovery. Just a heads up

y2whisper said:
From what I've read you may need to flash twrp again even though you didn't flash the stock recovery. Just a heads up
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Only if you boot android before rooting. Install-recovery.sh is suppled with the ROM that upon boot will install stock recovery. However flashing SuperSU hijacks this script for its own purposes, removing its ability to flash recovery. So trick is flash the ROM, boot straight to recovery and flash SuperSU

Ah. Good to know

rootSU said:
Its exactly correct. alternative is flashing a rooted stock ROM. Zip from recovery
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Yeah, thought about going the rooted stock ROM route. Just feel more comfortable with the factory image. Any truth to @y2whisper comments? Doesn't make sense to me how TWRP would get overwritten by stock recovery if it's not flashed.
EDIT: See your post above (I took too long typing). Thanks for clarifying.

ManHands said:
Yeah, thought about going the rooted stock ROM route. Just feel more comfortable with the factory image. Any truth to @y2whisper comments? Doesn't make sense to me how TWRP would get overwritten by stock recovery if it's not flashed.
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Have a look above.

I use this without losing data, but perhaps this is overkill? I assume you can skip the recovery to avoid losing TWRP, but I don't know about the kernel.
{replace with actual file name}
Enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlock
Reboot into bootloader (vol-down + power) or adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader {bootloader-shamu-xxx.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio {radio-shamu-xxx.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot

Sorry my fault...I didn't notice it didn't say boot.img in OP. Yes kernel should be flashed

moporoco said:
I use this without losing data, but perhaps this is overkill? I assume you can skip the recovery to avoid losing TWRP, but I don't know about the kernel.
{replace with actual file name}
Enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlock
Reboot into bootloader (vol-down + power) or adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader {bootloader-shamu-xxx.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio {radio-shamu-xxx.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
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rootSU said:
Sorry my fault...I didn't notice it didn't say boot.img in OP. Yes kernel should be flashed
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Interesting... do I need to flash boot.img from LMY47E factory image if I'm using latest franco.Kernel? Seems silly to flash factory boot.img if I'm going to use franco boot.img instead. Thanks for the help fellas.

ManHands said:
Interesting... do I need to flash boot.img from LMY47E factory image if I'm using latest franco.Kernel? Seems silly to flash factory boot.img if I'm going to use franco boot.img instead. Thanks for the help fellas.
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You're best off using a kernel that fully supports 5.1. I have no idea about Franco.

Look at the op on Franco's thread and you'll have your answer

holeindalip said:
Look at the op on Franco's thread and you'll have your answer
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If he looks in the Franco thread, it will answer his question about having to flash a stock boot.img?

moporoco said:
I use this without losing data, but perhaps this is overkill? I assume you can skip the recovery to avoid losing TWRP, but I don't know about the kernel.
{replace with actual file name}
Enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlock
Reboot into bootloader (vol-down + power) or adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader {bootloader-shamu-xxx.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio {radio-shamu-xxx.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
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Why do you prefer to erase the cache then flash the new one? Does this really matter as long as userdata.img does not get flashed?

rootSU said:
You're best off using a kernel that fully supports 5.1. I have no idea about Franco.
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Brain fart, for future reference Franco r1-r19 is 5.0,5.0.1,5.0.2 and r20+ is for 5.1

Thanks for the input everyone. To follow-up, I took the steps just as I planned in OP. No need to flash boot.img as frano-r20 is what I'm running and is compatible with 5.1 (despite the build # difference). I also didn't want to encrypt as the factory boot.img will force encrypt.
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
And just as @rootSU pointed out, prior to booting system, go into TWRP from bootloader to install su.zip first (otherwise factory recovery will overwrite TWRP). Then boot system, and you're back in business. Just had to re-do a couple build.prop edits, but everything else was as it was before.

If I'm stock 5.1 rooted LMY47D with the modified boot.img without forced encryption (from here), can I just..
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
then reboot into TWRP, flash SuperSU, reboot and go about my day?

lamenting said:
If I'm stock 5.1 rooted LMY47D with the modified boot.img without forced encryption (from here), can I just..
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
then reboot into TWRP, flash SuperSU, reboot and go about my day?
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That, or you can wait for 47E factory boot.img that's non-enforcable. But, from the sounds of it people are still able to use the 47D boot.img linked in the post you provided. I'd imagine there's not much difference between the two.

Forerunner326 said:
Why do you prefer to erase the cache then flash the new one? Does this really matter as long as userdata.img does not get flashed?
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I have no idea honestly, I saw someone else post it that way. It is probably not necessary.

ManHands said:
I just recently started fresh by unlocking and flashing LMY47D image. I'd like to upgrade to LMY47E and preserve data. I know I can backup/restore via TIBU, but I'd rather avoid that if possible. Am I overlooking anything by performing only the following commands? Also worth noting is that I'd like to retain TWRP and franco.Kernel.
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
At this point I'd use the hardware buttons to reboot into TWRP, flash su.zip, and then boot system.
I'm definitely going to perform a nandroid prior to doing this. However, just curious if this is the best way to do this or is there a better method. Or if there are any risks involved that I'm overlooking.
EDIT: Success... everything went just as planned. Thanks for everyone's help.
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After flashing the files in fastboot you said to use the hardware buttons to boot into TWRP. How exactly did you go from fastboot to TWRP? Did you just power off while in fastboot or something else?

[Q] Unable to upgrade rooted Nexus 6 to 5.1.1

I have a rooted Nexus 6. When I look into the Settings>Aobout Phone I can see that the Build version is LMY47D. When I'm trying to udpate to LMY47Z I'm getting a notification in recovery that my current system version is 5.0.2. Did anybody had a simillar problem? Is there any way to fix this except for flashing factory image?
Thanks for any help!
Martin

rambo8wtv said:
I have a rooted Nexus 6. When I look into the Settings>Aobout Phone I can see that the Build version is LMY47D. When I'm trying to udpate to LMY47Z I'm getting a notification in recovery that my current system version is 5.0.2. Did anybody had a simillar problem? Is there any way to fix this except for flashing factory image?
Thanks for any help!
Martin
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no matter how many times you try, you will never ever be able to update your rooted n6 via ota. if any system files changed from stock, an ota will download but will always error out. you can update several ways.. a. you can flash a 5.1.1 ROM via twrp. or b. you can fastboot flash 5.1.1.

2 things.
1. You must be 100% stock, no root, no custom recovery to OTA
2. The 5.0.2 message if you look probably.mentions deestroy..this is.because TWRP is using 5.0.2 sources - butnits irrelevant anyway give point 1

I know I can't do OTA. I have tried to install the file in TRWP and got the same error message. When I try to sideload with adb I'm getting device not connected error. Does this mean that I have to install the factory image?

rambo8wtv said:
I know I can't do OTA. I have tried to install the file in TRWP and got the same error message. When I try to sideload with adb I'm getting device not connected error. Does this mean that I have to install the factory image?
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twrp can not flash the ota or system img. you flash the system img via fastboot(not adb) and while you're in your bootloader.

rambo8wtv said:
I know I can't do OTA. I have tried to install the file in TRWP and got the same error message. When I try to sideload with adb I'm getting device not connected error. Does this mean that I have to install the factory image?
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You cannot use the OTA file no matter what vehicle you use.

danarama said:
You cannot use the OTA file no matter what vehicle you use.
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I did this for 5.1.1 -people seem to be using 5.1.1 (For Sprint, USC ONLY) (LMY47Z)
take factory image - Unzip everything and keep the following images: bootloader, radio, boot, recovery and system.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot
fully stock 5.1.1 without losing your data

starfish_001 said:
I did this for 5.1.1 -people seem to be using 5.1.1 (For Sprint, USC ONLY) (LMY47Z)
take factory image - Unzip everything and keep the following images: bootloader, radio, boot, recovery and system.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot
fully stock 5.1.1 without losing your data
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He'll probably want to not flash recovery. And if he has a custom kernel, may not want to flash boot either.

Thanks for all the answers! Some sites clearly don't know anything about this as there's a lot of recommendation to use adb for all this. I'll have a go tomorrow! Thanks again.

rambo8wtv said:
Thanks for all the answers! Some sites clearly don't know anything about this as there's a lot of recommendation to use adb for all this. I'll have a go tomorrow! Thanks again.
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here too, many people try it with adb then claim it doesn't work. but its fastboot that you need, and while you are in the bootloader. adb will never work in the bootloader, only fastboot.

Please help..Cannot flash system.img manually OR with script.

i have been trying to flash the system.img manually and with the script. all i get is cant find the system.img and i get the wrong size reported back when trying to flash it. i am at a loss.. and my system has been erased so all i can do is boot into the bootloader....any help would be GREATLY appreciated...im so pissed i did this and have no phone right now..
thank you
FYI, Verizon N6 on 5.1 , unlocked, and rooted

dvigue said:
i have been trying to flash the system.img manually and with the script. all i get is cant find the system.img and i get the wrong size reported back when trying to flash it. i am at a loss.. and my system has been erased so all i can do is boot into the bootloader....any help would be GREATLY appreciated...im so pissed i did this and have no phone right now..
thank you
FYI, Verizon N6 on 5.1 , unlocked, and rooted
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Flash all bat doesn't work. Did you unzip the second folder and find actual system.img. Then fastboot flash system system.img.

dvigue said:
i have been trying to flash the system.img manually and with the script. all i get is cant find the system.img and i get the wrong size reported back when trying to flash it. i am at a loss.. and my system has been erased so all i can do is boot into the bootloader....any help would be GREATLY appreciated...im so pissed i did this and have no phone right now..
thank you
FYI, Verizon N6 on 5.1 , unlocked, and rooted
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dont use the flash-all script. flash each partition separately.

yes...i have tried it manaully..i keep getting "cannot find system.img" and my fastboot, adb and the .img files are all in the same folder... what the heck am i doing wrong...it also shows and i always get an "target allowed MAX download size of 536870912 when ever i try to flash system.img

dvigue said:
yes...i have tried it manaully..i keep getting "cannot find system.img" and my fastboot, adb and the .img files are all in the same folder... what the heck am i doing wrong...it also shows and i always get an "target allowed MAX download size of 536870912 when ever i try to flash system.img
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Open command prompt. type fastboot flash system (drag and drop system img here)

I had this happen on my n5 with the first preview, honestly what worked for me(and really hate even recommending using toolkits) but NRT with force flash enable fixed it a flashed all files.
Again don't even know if n6 can use NRT but if it helps it helps lol
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todorcim said:
I had this happen on my n5 with the first preview, honestly what worked for me(and really hate even recommending using toolkits) but NRT with force flash enable fixed it a flashed all files.
Again don't even know if n6 can use NRT but if it helps it helps lol
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Shouldn't use toolkit till understand how it should work manually. Can get into trouble and not know how to fix.

ok..NRT worked!!!! yes...thank god...thanks for all your help

Here are all the manual commands.
Drag and Drop or Copy/Paste Images to {}
STEP #1
fastboot flash bootloader {bootloader.img}
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio {radio.img}
Step #2
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase boot
fastboot format vendor {don't need for phone}
fastboot format cache
fastboot format userdata {optional}
Step#3
fastboot flash recovery {recovery.img}
fastboot flash system {system.img}
fastboot flash boot {boot.img}
fastboot flash vendor {vendor.img}
fastboot flash cache {cache.img}
fastboot flash userdata {userdata.img}
fastboot reboot

prdog1 said:
Shouldn't use toolkit till understand how it should work manually. Can get into trouble and not know how to fix.
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Yep totally agree, notice my brackets?
Good I'm glad it worked!!
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dvigue said:
ok..NRT worked!!!! yes...thank god...thanks for all your help
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Don't rely on the toolkits tho, I personally think you need to know and understand the manual flash and Woking with adb/fastboot, I only used it because I spent a good hour trying every other possible fix to flash system (on both windows & Ubuntu).
But again I'm glad it work
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Turbo firmware?

Hello need help tracking down stock turbo firmware. The Motofirmware website (http://motofirmware.center/files/category/23-droid-turbo/downloads) are corrupted. The links in this thread are all dead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-maxx/general/quark-stock-firmware-moto-maxx-droid-t3063470. Does anyone know of another source for stock 5.1?

http://motofirmware.center/

Stanleywinthrop said:
Hello need help tracking down stock turbo firmware. Does anyone know of another source for stock 5.1?
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Here is the file download link for the latest xt1254 droid turbo 5.1 lollipop firmware:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347843637

Thanks, jala, but if you had bothered to fully read you'd see that the files on that website are corrupted.

jalal-jap said:
http://motofirmware.center/
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Thanks, classic, i'll give this a try.
classic757 said:
Here is the file download link for the latest xt1254 droid turbo 5.1 lollipop firmware:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347843637
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Stanleywinthrop said:
Thanks, classic, i'll give this a try.
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No problem. Please let me know how it turns out.

Stanleywinthrop said:
Thanks, jala, but if you had bothered to fully read you'd see that the files on that website are corrupted.
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i have same problem. extract it whit "7ZIP" and no corrupted for me.

http://www.rootjunkysdl.com/getdown...o/Firmware/VRZ_XT1254_SU4TL-44_44_CFC.xml.zip -> Full firmware (not OTA) of the most recent version of 5.1

TheSt33v said:
http://www.rootjunkysdl.com/getdown...o/Firmware/VRZ_XT1254_SU4TL-44_44_CFC.xml.zip -> Full firmware (not OTA) of the most recent version of 5.1
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I get this error:
http://i.imgur.com/EOPsxnB.png

dmginc said:
I get this error:
http://i.imgur.com/EOPsxnB.png
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Are you using RSDlite? If so, you're getting this error (I think) because the PRODUCT_CONFIGURATION.xml file has instructions for other phone models besides the Turbo in it. If I remember correctly, I got around this by deleting the info for everything not labeled QUARK_VERIZON in this file. However, since RSDlite basically just automates fastboot, a better option is to use fastboot to flash this firmware, in my opinion.
If you decide to flash the firmware this way, place all of the files from the full firmware into the directory that you installed fastboot, and enter the following commands after your phone is plugged into your computer in bootloader mode:
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk3
<repeat until all sparsechunks are flashed>
fastboot erase ddr
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata (NOTE: this command effectively performs a factory reset, and will erase all of your data)
Then boot, and you will have done everything that RSDlite would have done.

Oh thanks. Good info. Is there a write up on using fastboot anywhere? These forums are pretty poorly maintained and no good stickies anywhere
Edit: Oh, you edited your post. Awesome. Thanks.

The root junky fxz is that for rsd lite when I look at the contents the system image is in several sections and says system.img sparsechunk and has 10 sections. I have never seen this in an fxz. Is this a new way of flashing the system image.

TheSt33v said:
Are you using RSDlite? If so, you're getting this error (I think) because the PRODUCT_CONFIGURATION.xml file has instructions for other phone models besides the Turbo in it. If I remember correctly, I got around this by deleting the info for everything not labeled QUARK_VERIZON in this file. However, since RSDlite basically just automates fastboot, a better option is to use fastboot to flash this firmware, in my opinion.
If you decide to flash the firmware this way, place all of the files from the full firmware into the directory that you installed fastboot, and enter the following commands after your phone is plugged into your computer in bootloader mode:
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk3
<repeat until all sparsechunks are flashed>
fastboot erase ddr
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata (NOTE: this command effectively performs a factory reset, and will erase all of your data)
Then boot, and you will have done everything that RSDlite would have done.
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Is it possible for me to relock my bootloader using adb fastboot? I don't want to do it accidentally while messing around with different roms and wiping my way back to stock.

When in fastboot, type "fastboot oem lock" (without the quotations"

Btrusa said:
When in fastboot, type "fastboot oem lock" (without the quotations"
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Wouldn't that lock the bootloader?
Is it even possible to re-lock?
From what I understand he wants to avoid locking the bootloader...
Edit: nevermind I looked it up... Should have just done that the first time... ("I have seen quite of few people screw up their devices by not knowing what they are doing. So I am making this thread to simply tell people not familiar with fastboot what they should and should not do.
Fastboot oem unlock will unlock your bootloader and do a complete wipe of your device. As far as I know the only way for something to go wrong here is if you're device is low on battery and shuts off during the process. Either plug it in or have a "good" amount of juice left in your battery. To be 100 percent sure plug it in.
Before I get into oem lock IMHO you should only use this command for one thing only. Getting the device ready to send into motorola for the LGT upgrade or a another warranty repair or some sort. When done properly it is completely safe but there is no reason to do to go back to "stock".
Fastboot oem lock. Do not issue this command unless you are absolutely sure you have the correct software on your device. The correct software is what you get from the motodev site for your device. You need the official sofware images for your specific device AND REGION. If it is not released then DO NOT re-lock the device. If you have a OTA installed you will need to flash back to the motodev images first.")

dmginc said:
Is it possible for me to relock my bootloader using adb fastboot? I don't want to do it accidentally while messing around with different roms and wiping my way back to stock.
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Nope

So is the fastboot flash motoboot bootloader.img just the Motorola "M" splash screen?
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dmginc said:
So is the fastboot flash motoboot bootloader.img just the Motorola "M" splash screen?
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No, that is the actual bootloader. The code that manages device startup, takes fastboot commands, and prohibits unsigned images from booting (when locked).
The splash screen is flashed with:
fastboot flash logo logo.bin

unhappybirthday said:
No, that is the actual bootloader. The code that manages device startup, takes fastboot commands, and prohibits unsigned images from booting (when locked).
The splash screen is flashed with:
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
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So, back to my original question. When flashing back to stock with adb, but wanting to keep my bootloader unlocked, what should I do?

dmginc said:
So, back to my original question. When flashing back to stock with adb, but wanting to keep my bootloader unlocked, what should I do?
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I can only speak from my experience. I was on the KitKat bootloader and used mofo to flash lollipop. I unlocked with sunshine and installed twrp. Then I flashed the lollipop bootloader with the fastboot command . Still unlocked.
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