After trying to root my Moto G (xt1068) and getting stuck in a boot loop, I tried to restore a functioning version of Android and I got stuck in the middle with a re-locked bootloader because I followed an instruction online that seemed to work for some people (...).
So, now the bootloader is locked, the device only boots into fastboot, and has no proper system image installed right now. I have tried flashing various Marshmallow builds for the Moto G (Brazilian ones mostly because I did not find a German one until recently). Now, I have found a German version of the Moto G (2014) Marshmallow stock ROM, but it still does not solve the problem. The version is
titan_retde-user 6.0 MPB24.65-34 31 release-keysMSM8626BP_1032.3116.99.00R
Upon trying to flash boot or recovery, the phone itself says "version downgraded for recovery" and the terminal gives me the following result:
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'recovery' (10280 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.349s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.772s
Does that mean that the version I tried was also not the current one? I was not aware that there was anything newer than Android 6.0 for the Moto G, but I will look for more possible ROMs to try.
I am using a Mac but I have access to a Windows 7 PC if necessary. Any advice or help would be highly appreciated, thanks in advance!
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I have tried everything I have read on here and I cant seem to flash recovery. I used pwnmymoto to gain root when I first received my moto x. When the camera update came I thought I unrooted and flashed back to stock becasue I was able to get the OTA. Yesterday I could not install the OTA 4.4 because it gave me a error sign. I tried to flash recovery using fastboot but everytime now matter what I do this shows up:
colins-air:Android Tools colinj22$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
sending 'recovery' (10240 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.798s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 1.848s
colins-air:Android Tools colinj22$
Can someone please help me. I am fairly new to fastboot and I am on a Mac and I have read everything in these threads and nothing seems to help. Can I erase everything and somehow start from scratch?
Thank you all!
colinj22 said:
I have tried everything I have read on here and I cant seem to flash recovery. I used pwnmymoto to gain root when I first received my moto x. When the camera update came I thought I unrooted and flashed back to stock becasue I was able to get the OTA. Yesterday I could not install the OTA 4.4 because it gave me a error sign. I tried to flash recovery using fastboot but everytime now matter what I do this shows up:
colins-air:Android Tools colinj22$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
sending 'recovery' (10240 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.798s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 1.848s
colins-air:Android Tools colinj22$
Can someone please help me. I am fairly new to fastboot and I am on a Mac and I have read everything in these threads and nothing seems to help. Can I erase everything and somehow start from scratch?
Thank you all!
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try using a different fastboot besides the one you are using. also make sure you are trying to flash the right FW version. you can't downgrade FW so it needs to be the FW version that is currently on the device.
try the second link in the OP of this thread for a different fastboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2489249
Flashing recovery requires a unlocked boot loader, you're obviously on Verizon and unless you have a DE moto you can't flash recovery due to your boot loader being locked
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I have a motorola X 2014 Pure Edition that a while ago i side loaded the Lollipop Soak test image, however since it wasn't the final, it appears that I was instructed to downgrade back to 4.4.4 and then I would be able to upgrade to 5.0-11. I downloaded the Factory image from Motorola and re-flashed the images onto my phone. However when I attempted to refresh the motoboot.img it failed with the error below. However all the other parts flashed alright without issues. I then booted my phone and it booted into Kit Kat. I then attempted to do the OTA upgrade for Lollipop but it fails and puts the phone into a endless reboot phase. When I try to go into Recovery Mode it doesn't work, i get to the broken android screen however I cannot get to the Recovery Menu at all.
I reached out to Motorola support and they said: "We can not help you with this issue. I recommend you post this on forums dedicated to this (aka XDA), it should be fairly easy to find someone to help you there. here is not issue with the Moto X 444 BL. it seems to me it is related to the "stock Android 4.4.4" you flashed on your phone. It looks like you have a mismatch somewhere between TZ, GPT and the version of the BL on this device; it might have been cause by what you flashed on the device before having to return to stock.. .. "
I'm at a loss right now other than trying to send my phone back to Motorola to see if they can fix it. Hoping someone might have an idea of what i can do to fix my issue??
% ./fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
14-12-04 - 14:25:59
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'motoboot' (2022 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.073s]
writing 'motoboot'...
(bootloader) Motoboot: Preflash validation for tz
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.143s
Any help would be appreciated.
hey bro seems like the image might be corrupted. Try finding another motoboot.img. Or Lock and Unlock your bootloader again. And best of all try to get in fastboot and go back kitkat and keep it that way. Because i don't think you want to be in a brick again. Consult a person here on XDA that knows more about it. Thats my advice.
Sending it back won't work, your warranty is gone. Clearly stated in the page where you unlocked the bootloader. Sorry bro.
And btw next time please post this in the Moto X section.
Thank you! Greetz ErixGamer
Hi guys!
I was running Cyanogemod on my Moto G 2 (XT1078 LTE) but since Pokemon Go doesnt run on rooted devices anymore, I'm trying to go back to my stock Rom.
So I downloaded the 6.0 stock rom, runned the commands via ADB and I'm having this error:
C:\Users\Colombo\Desktop\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'system' (256812 KB)...
OKAY [ 8.079s]
writing 'system'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 8.192s
My stock rom have 4 sparsechunk and every single one of then have the same error.
My bootloader is unlocked, I have wiped everything via TWRP but the error continues
So, any suggestions?
really need your help guys, I dont know where else to look for a solution
lordcolombo said:
Hi guys!
I was running Cyanogemod on my Moto G 2 (XT1078 LTE) but since Pokemon Go doesnt run on rooted devices anymore, I'm trying to go back to my stock Rom.
So I downloaded the 6.0 stock rom, runned the commands via ADB and I'm having this error:
C:\Users\Colombo\Desktop\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'system' (256812 KB)...
OKAY [ 8.079s]
writing 'system'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 8.192s
My stock rom have 4 sparsechunk and every single one of then have the same error.
My bootloader is unlocked, I have wiped everything via TWRP but the error continues
So, any suggestions?
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Come on friend, dont be shy!
lordcolombo said:
Come on friend, dont be shy!
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Check this link on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRo...y_have_found_a_workaround_for_the_pokémon_go/
Hope it works for you
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-SyncSoft- said:
Check this link on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRo...y_have_found_a_workaround_for_the_pokémon_go/
Hope it works for you
Sent from my Moto G 2014 LTE using Tapatalk
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Hello friend!
Thank you very much! I was hoping to go back to the stock version just to minimize any ban chances from pokemon go but I'll take a look.
Still I was planing to sell this phone, so if anybody can help me to go back to the stock rom, I'll be very gratefull!
Good evening guys...
I have a Moto X 2nd gen (XT1097) with Stock Retail BR Rom and it was working like a charm till this morning.
I received a notification of an OTA Update (security patch) and I wanted to patch the phone...
I know a rooted phone (like mine) could not receive OTA Updates, so I flashed stock rom again with RDSLite like I always do.
The problem occured when I try to root it... I picked a wrong file to flash with the TWRP and cel got stucked in the boot logo.
When I try to flash the Firmware stock 6.0 in the RDSLite, It returns a error like that:
Code:
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'partition' (32 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.004s]
writing 'partition'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.083s
I asked a friend of mine that have the same device and the version of his bootloader is 60.18 (sha-3b3b501 ... )
my bootloader, after I fuc*ed the device is 60.00 (sha-130760b ... )...
I can still turn on device, can flash the firmware if I erase gpt and motoboot lines from flashfile.xml but I cannot OTA and root, got some errors!
Anyone knows something about that? Can I try to downgrade to solve? Anyone knows this bootloader version???
Sorry about english...
I tried every ROM (4.4.4, 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0) and all of them returns the message "version downgraded for primary_gpt"... FU*K this SH*T!!!!
My bootloader is at 60.00 version and I really need to put the 60.18 version... How to do that?
Hi,
My friend's Moto G 2nd Gen (XT1068) stopped working all of a sudden couple of days back. When she tried to boot it, it went to bootloader screen (AP Fastboot Flash Mode) and none of the options work in the menu there. The phone had locked bootloader with stock firmware, so no customizations there. I thought may be something got corrupt in the firmware so I tried flashing stock firmware today, followed the instructions from 2 different posts -
1) https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/official-stock-firmware-t3018682
2) https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/official-stock-firmware-5-0-2-lxb22-46-t3019612
However, both of them gave me errors like below for all steps:
Code:
>fastboot devices
ZX1D63BLC6 fastboot
>mfastboot.exe flash partition gpt.bin
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'partition' (32 KB)...
OKAY [ 5.007s]
writing 'partition'...
(bootloader) Failed to write primary GPT.
(bootloader) Failed to program partition table
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 10.277s
Irrespective of what and how I try, I get failed error every time. Can someone please help me here?
Thanks.
https://youtu.be/hDSpYALP_80 try this
If it doesn't work unlock bootloader https://youtu.be/isVFgZmfirg
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What is the status code ??
Just unlock bootloader, and try restarting to system
crypticlight said:
Hi,
My friend's Moto G 2nd Gen (XT1068) stopped working all of a sudden couple of days back. When she tried to boot it, it went to bootloader screen (AP Fastboot Flash Mode) and none of the options work in the menu there. The phone had locked bootloader with stock firmware, so no customizations there. I thought may be something got corrupt in the firmware so I tried flashing stock firmware today, followed the instructions from 2 different posts -
1) https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/official-stock-firmware-t3018682
2) https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/official-stock-firmware-5-0-2-lxb22-46-t3019612
However, both of them gave me errors like below for all steps:
Code:
>fastboot devices
ZX1D63BLC6 fastboot
>mfastboot.exe flash partition gpt.bin
target max-sparse-size: 256MB
sending 'partition' (32 KB)...
OKAY [ 5.007s]
writing 'partition'...
(bootloader) Failed to write primary GPT.
(bootloader) Failed to program partition table
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 10.277s
Irrespective of what and how I try, I get failed error every time. Can someone please help me here?
Thanks.
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Hey bro i had a similar error when trying to relock my phone after trying some customs roms.
I think it's same problem, it's the firmware version.
Recently Moto G 2014 had an update and if you use old firmware you had these errors, i suggest not to continue.
Some days ago new firmware has been published here: http://www.filefactory.com/folder/c6cdedc45a775d27/
XT1068_TITAN_RETAILDSDS_6.0_MPB24.65-34-3_cid7_CFC.xml.zip
http://www.filefactory.com/file/3lc...RETAILDSDS_6.0_MPB24.65-34-3_cid7_CFC.xml.zip
If you look, firmware is 24.65-34-3 and it's that "-3" that makes the difference!
Try to reflash with this firmware.