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Hello everybody,
I'm new, I hope someone can help me here ... I'm quite sure somewhere on these forums there must already be answers for my problem but I'm too dumb to find them.
I have the European? 2014 Moto X (not sure how to get the exact model now?!)
Unlocked bootloader, rooted.
Everything was fine, except today I got the 5.0.2 (?) OTA update ...
I didn't want to do it, but it kept asking. The moment I pressed "don't ask again" the phone rebooted
and now it's stuck at the white bootup screen (Motorola logo)
I somehow managed to get into the fastboot? mode once, by somehow pressing buttons at startup ... but, well
My two questions are:
1. Can I still backup my data, photos, textfiles, etc etc
2. How do I go back to a working system. (maybe without loosing my data)
Please tell me if it's possible, and how ... or please push me into the right directions.
But as I'm half panicking detailed instructions would be so fantastic.
Personally, how I would recover data, is boot to fastboot and flash TWRP again (since you indicated you were unlocked boot loader). In TWRP, plug in the device to a computer via USB and your files will be there. Then you can reflash the stock firmware and be good to go. If you are comfortable flashing the firmware through fastboot, you can choose to not wipe data and you should be all set.
It may be worth trying just clearing the cache and seeing if you can boot.
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xKroniK13x said:
Personally, how I would recover data, is boot to fastboot and flash TWRP again (since you indicated you were unlocked boot loader). In TWRP, plug in the device to a computer via USB and your files will be there. Then you can reflash the stock firmware and be good to go. If you are comfortable flashing the firmware through fastboot, you can choose to not wipe data and you should be all set.
It may be worth trying just clearing the cache and seeing if you can boot.
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Hey! Thanks a lot!
I did fastboot boot twrp, and managed to backup my data on the internat storage! Yeah! Thanks!! <3
Now to part 2, I tried to wipe the cache partition in TWRP, but it doesn't help; when I reboot it still only shows the white logo..
Should I wipe other partitions aswell? (davikcache?)
If there's a way without loosing the phone setup, it would be great.
(Installed apps ... open tabs in firefox etc ...)
I also have a "online nandroid" backup, I think from back then, right after I rooted.
Would I restore the system.img from there?
Will this remove installed apps?
Or should I restore all partitions made by online nandroid backup?!
(I thought this would be better than... or how would I find the right stock firmware online for my device?)
Sorry for being such a beginner!!!!
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Hey! Thanks a lot!
I did fastboot boot twrp, and managed to backup my data on the internat storage! Yeah! Thanks!! <3
Now to part 2, I tried to wipe the cache partition in TWRP, but it doesn't help; when I reboot it still only shows the white logo..
Should I wipe other partitions aswell? (davikcache?)
If there's a way without loosing the phone setup, it would be great.
(Installed apps ... open tabs in firefox etc ...)
I also have a "online nandroid" backup, I think from back then, right after I rooted.
Would I restore the system.img from there?
Will this remove installed apps?
Or should I restore all partitions made by online nandroid backup?!
(I thought this would be better than... or how would I find the right stock firmware online for my device?)
Sorry for being such a beginner!!!!
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Lollipop actually doesn't use dalvik, so that won't help. If you have a nandroid, you of course can restore to that but it would likely lose your apps/settings. You can try restoring just the system, it sort of depends on what went wrong. In my experience being stuck not booting, I generally just reflash everything. Not the most convenient but it is the most effective.
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xKroniK13x said:
Lollipop actually doesn't use dalvik, so that won't help. If you have a nandroid, you of course can restore to that but it would likely lose your apps/settings. You can try restoring just the system, it sort of depends on what went wrong. In my experience being stuck not booting, I generally just reflash everything. Not the most convenient but it is the most effective.
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Hey xKroniK13x,
thanks a lot for caring!
Of course, catastrophy happened:
I did fastboot boot twrp and tried to restore system from there, didn't work so I restored system _and boot from my nandroid backup there
guess this was very stupid because
Now my phone boots right into the fastboot mode, and I can't fastboot boot TWRP anymore,
it says "incomplete boot image for booting"
partition sizes wrong, etc etc ...
what I did now was flashing TWRP, at least this worked and I can boot it from the phone now.
So, please, one more time help (for a very stupid user ):
1. I guess keeping my apps and settings is out of discussion now, haha
But is there a way, with unlocked bootloader, TWRP installed to go back to stock?
2. Now ... given my phone is not completely broken, I just thought about installing CM?!
Would this be recommended? is it working fine?
I'm just thinking about it, because with Cyanogenmod I won't have problems like this in the future, right?
(OTA updates destroying my phone because of root....)
Whoa, I'm sorry for posting this here, but ... :angel:
psssss said:
Hey xKroniK13x,
thanks a lot for caring!
Of course, catastrophy happened:
I did fastboot boot twrp and tried to restore system from there, didn't work so I restored system _and boot from my nandroid backup there
guess this was very stupid because
Now my phone boots right into the fastboot mode, and I can't fastboot boot TWRP anymore,
it says "incomplete boot image for booting"
partition sizes wrong, etc etc ...
what I did now was flashing TWRP, at least this worked and I can boot it from the phone now.
So, please, one more time help (for a very stupid user ):
1. I guess keeping my apps and settings is out of discussion now, haha
But is there a way, with unlocked bootloader, TWRP installed to go back to stock?
2. Now ... given my phone is not completely broken, I just thought about installing CM?!
Would this be recommended? is it working fine?
I'm just thinking about it, because with Cyanogenmod I won't have problems like this in the future, right?
(OTA updates destroying my phone because of root....)
Whoa, I'm sorry for posting this here, but ... :angel:
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If you've been contemplating installing a ROM, now would be a good time to do so. Just remember to wipe the data on the phone even though it doesn't boot. And CM OTA shouldn't cause issues like this, it just flashes the zip file in your recovery. Doesn't care about root or anything of course. Otherwise, if you'd like to do stock, just use MDM to get the firmware and flash away. Hope this helped!
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Hi !
I have exactly the same problem.
Can you tell us how you did to fix the bootloop ?
Thank you
benjo22 said:
Hi !
I have exactly the same problem.
Can you tell us how you did to fix the bootloop ?
Thank you
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Try clearing your cache in a recovery/fastboot, or reflash the firmware! No guarantee the cache will fix it, but sometimes it will.
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Thank you for your help.
Clearing the cache doesn't work, so I'm searching for others ways...
Can you tell me how to flash the firmware with adb ?
Thanks
Edit : I have an European version
benjo22 said:
Thank you for your help.
Clearing the cache doesn't work, so I'm searching for others ways...
Can you tell me how to flash the firmware with adb ?
Thanks
Edit : I have an European version
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That is answered in the FAQ thread... It is a guide for Moto G but it is applicable for this device too. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2876769
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@xKroniK13x
Hey, thanks for somehow guiding me through this :victory:
MDM didn't work, so I just went for the CM 12.1 nightly.
I also had concerns because in my attempts to clear cache etc etc I had "wrong partition size" etc etc
But CM installed without problems!
(Just one more question- there can't be any problems in the future because of messed up partitions, right? Does CM fix this by installing? Or should I stop caring, if it works, it works, right?!)
In fact, CM runs great, fantastic on my phone.
I lost some app data, and most annoyingly my SMS, but ...
Other than that, I'm really happy with CM :laugh:
@benjo22
Hey, I tried to fix it by clearing cache partitions from a fastboot TWRP (I don't know how you call it, I just booted TWRP without installing it)
This didn't work, so I tried to restore a nandroid backup,
but this made it even worse. (partition errors, only fastboot mode, etc etc)
Just booting with TWRP without installing also didn't work anymore,
so I put TWRP on the phone, which luckily worked, downloaded CM 12.1, installed it via TWRP,
never did it before, but I was lucky, it seems like it worked great!
Even kept my "SD CARD" data, but lost apps and some data ...
So I didn't fix the bootloop, but I hope I made it better, futureproof...
Glad you got up and running. CM shouldn't cause any future issues as far as partitions and such.
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Hi All,
I see a lot of people asking for stock stuff for the HTC One Mini 2, please find them here:
Stock RUUs - https://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/general/htc-one-mini-2-official-ruu-t3425930
BOOT IMAGE
Signed Boot Image : boot_signed.img for booting problems (FOR INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN DEVICES ONLY)
PROCESS
Enter bootloader and then enter fastboot and type the command :
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img
fastboot reboot bootloader
Nandroid Backup for restoring to stock, I have used this, working fine (Can be restored through TWRP): https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347818782 (FOR INTERNAITIONAL/EUROPEAN DEVICES ONLY)
Stock Firmware: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001615234
Stock Recovery: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347822267 (Newer)
Stock Recovery: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001615233
Original Page (German): http://www.handy-faq.de/forum/htc-one-mini-2-firmwaresammlung-ruus-otas-backups-t309020/
LINKS WERE WORKING WHEN I POSTED THEM, DOWNLOAD AT THE EARLIEST AS MAY BE THEY WONT WORK WHEN YOU NEED THEM, SO JUST DOWNLOAD AND KEEP.
STEPS TO RESTORE NANDROID BACKUP THROUGH TWRP:
- REBOOT AND ENTER TWRP, PERFORM A BACKUP (THIS WILL CREATE A TWRP BACK UP FOLDER WITH DEVICE SERIAL NUMBER IN THE SD CARD)
- DOWNLOAD AND EXTRACT THE NANDROID BACK UP FILE
- PLACE THE EXTRACTED FILES IN TO THE TWRP>BACKUP<DEVICE SERIAL NUMBER> FOLDER IN THE SD CARD
- RESTART THE DEVICE AND ENTER TWRP, CHOOSE RESTORE
- LOCATE THE FOLDER COPIED IN THE ROOT OF THE SDCARD
- SWIPE TO RESTORE
- FOR SOME REASON THE NANDROID BACKUP DOES NOT CONTAIN CALCULATOR, FLASH LIGHT WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-corporation/
THANK YOU
I cant install
Bear Grylls said:
I cant install
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What is the exact problem you are facing when flashing the stock file. PLEASE EXPLAIN FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDNG.
ELSE YOU CAN TRY THE BELOW.
NB: I AM ASSUMING THINGS AND GIVING THIS INFORMATION, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENS AS I DONT KNOW THE EXACT PROBLEM YOU ARE FACING.
Make sure device is 100% battery.
1st try this:
1-Download this file: [ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_1zjuazXSqbQ0p6NWtvRk9OMzA/edit?pli=1 ] and install in Windows (Run as Administrator).
2-Open Command window and type:
Code:
cd c:\adb
3-now on your device use Vol keys to choose and power key to select, and choose FASTBOOT
4-now download the attached file boot_signed.rar (extract the file in C:\adb folder)
5-type in the command window:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img
5-type in the command window:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
6-type in command window:
Code:
fastboot reboot
IF THIS DID NOT WORK, THEN TRY THIS:
Download this [ https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934555508 ] file and rename it to 0P8BIMG.zip and place it into the SD card (MMC Card), restart the device and let it boot into the HBoot menu.
Reboot device from the boot mode, if the device automatically reboot into the boot menu then it will start flashing the file automatically.
Good Luck, let me know how it went.
Try and let me know.
this is excellent, all in one place...
However, please forgive my ignorance in recovery/backup terminology (I hope it is not just me) but I get confused by the use of 'Nandroid' backup, Stock Rom, and .zip and .img files for flashing.
I have successfully used TWRP to flash the NostromoPop ROM, but have not been successful with any other .zip file supposedly a Stock ROM.
I have been hoping that somebody could put a rooted Stock ROM so that I can try it as a way to get around the KitKat blocks on writing to the SD card for some of my autosync apps.
Am I making any sense?
Many thanks if you can help
soundrediscovery said:
this is excellent, all in one place...
However, please forgive my ignorance in recovery/backup terminology (I hope it is not just me) but I get confused by the use of 'Nandroid' backup, Stock Rom, and .zip and .img files for flashing.
I have successfully used TWRP to flash the NostromoPop ROM, but have not been successful with any other .zip file supposedly a Stock ROM.
I have been hoping that somebody could put a rooted Stock ROM so that I can try it as a way to get around the KitKat blocks on writing to the SD card for some of my autosync apps.
Am I making any sense?
Many thanks if you can help
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Hi,
As I understand you cannot flash a stock ROM with customer Recovery, as far as I know you need stock Recovery to flash a stock ROM, I remember trying stock ROM on TWRP but it failed, could be due to some other reason, I read somewhere it has something to do with file signatures.
As for SD write fix, you need to have root access other than that there is no fix for it, rooting with SuperUser Binary... I myself did want to try it now that I am back on stock but then I am greedy for Marshmallow (if they could fix that Loud Speaker issue) I am all in for Android M, I tried to get in touch with people on the Cyanogen Forums but no luck as I have not yet received verification email, tried so many times, no luck and as it seems there is no Marshmallow development on HTC One Mini 2....
I will wait and see how it goes...
If I am correct you can keep stock ROM and flash SU Binary and get root access and then install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix to get it done with, it ought to work, haven't tried myself...
The recovery image you gave seems a little broken, but the backup worked...thought I recommend a factory reset unless you want the system language to be weird...
hanro50 said:
The recovery image you gave seems a little broken, but the backup worked...thought I recommend a factory reset unless you want the system language to be weird...
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Which recovery image have you used, I have flashed the newer version successfully, yes the backup worked and has non-English language as default.
The command:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_name.img
fastboot erase cache
If you could elaborate a "little broken"
I maneged to reflash twrp from android, ok these is what happened, I flash it as a recovery image with twrp, when I reboot into recovery later then it just showed a picture of my phone with a red triangle icon in it, after a while my phone resets...and goes back to booting from the main installed os...
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The name of the file is M8_MINI_UL_Stock_Recovery_2.19.401.2.img
I don't remember if I taped New or old
hanro50 said:
I maneged to reflash twrp from android, ok these is what happened, I flash it as a recovery image with twrp, when I reboot into recovery later then it just showed a picture of my phone with a red triangle icon in it, after a while my phone resets...and goes back to booting from the main installed os...
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The name of the file is M8_MINI_UL_Stock_Recovery_2.19.401.2.img
I don't remember if I taped New or old
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Hi,
I believe you flashed a recovery with another recovery, which I think is not the right way, the right way is to use the command to overwrite TWRP with stock recovery.
hanro50 said:
I maneged to reflash twrp from android, ok these is what happened, I flash it as a recovery image with twrp, when I reboot into recovery later then it just showed a picture of my phone with a red triangle icon in it, after a while my phone resets...and goes back to booting from the main installed os...
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The name of the file is M8_MINI_UL_Stock_Recovery_2.19.401.2.img
I don't remember if I taped New or old
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HI,
Just wanted to know if you are having any issues with low audio after restoring Android backup from TWRP, I feel my audio is way too low and cant be heard just if I am outside my room..
I didn't have any audio problems, it could just be you being used to cm's 3rd party BoomSound replacement
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Well that would exsplain why some elements of the stock recovery remained after I reflashed twrp with a app on my phone, e.g. it fixed the image I get when I hook my device up to power when it is turned off...before that it would just boot me into a unusable twrp homepage
The stock RUU file is corrupt! (tried 5 times now)
Where can I get a A stock flash or a ROM that is NOT ROOTED please?
I tried the 0P8BIMG.zip on SD card method and that did not work either.
Also, I thought the RUU file is meant to be an executable not a zip file. I'm confused...
niblettr said:
The stock RUU file is corrupt! (tried 5 times now)
Where can I get a A stock flash or a ROM that is NOT ROOTED please?
I tried the 0P8BIMG.zip on SD card method and that did not work either.
Also, I thought the RUU file is meant to be an executable not a zip file. I'm confused...
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I doubt its corrupted, which OS are you running currently ?, when I tried it, it failed due to the installed stock ROM being newer than the one being installed and since I have S-ON I cant downgrade it...
You can Nandroid Restore the stock backup, I have personally tried and it works....
Another way to do it is to have the Nandroid Restore and then use Sunshine to S-OFF (as sunshine only works on stock or near-stock ROMs) and then flash with 0P8BIMG.zip, it should work then, just a thought...
Hi, thanks for these links & info. Just about to give this a go. But, what does boot_signed.img do?
pavsid said:
Hi, thanks for these links & info. Just about to give this a go. But, what does boot_signed.img do?
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Its a signed boot file, meaning it flashes successfully should the device fail to boot or stuck on boot or in other words if the device does not boot and remains on HTC, this flashing this should solve your problem.
Hi all I have been directed here from another thread as I am looking to place a stock rom on my htc one mini 2 without bloatware, I have unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP but the stock rom remains the same all I want is to install a rom via TWRP if at all possible. Is the 1gig one ok for that or will i need to completely put the stock recovery back on and the phone is unlocked to all networks if that makes any different
Thank in advance
The Watergod said:
Hi all I have been directed here from another thread as I am looking to place a stock rom on my htc one mini 2 without bloatware, I have unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP but the stock rom remains the same all I want is to install a rom via TWRP if at all possible. Is the 1gig one ok for that or will i need to completely put the stock recovery back on and the phone is unlocked to all networks if that makes any different
Thank in advance
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Hi,
Its not possible to flash stock rom via TWRP, plus you need to have S-Off.
The only way to go complete stock is to restore Nandroid Backup and then flash stock recovery.
TryllZ said:
Hi,
Its not possible to flash stock rom via TWRP, plus you need to have S-Off.
The only way to go complete stock is to restore Nandroid Backup and then flash stock recovery.
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so is this the nandroid back up of a stock rom that I can use with the latest update for use with twrp and when I mean stock rom I mean a rom that has not been majorly altered to class it as a custom rom. I.e still has sense and no additional apps added
Again Thanks in advance
The Watergod said:
so is this the nandroid back up of a stock rom that I can use with the latest update for use with twrp and when I mean stock rom I mean a rom that has not been majorly altered to class it as a custom rom. I.e still has sense and no additional apps added
Again Thanks in advance
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Hi,
Yes you will have to restore the Nandroid Backup, this backup is completely of a stock ROM, no edition, however it does not have some apps like the Calculator, Flash etc for some reason.
However I found the missing apps from here: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-corporation/
TryllZ said:
Hi,
Yes you will have to restore the Nandroid Backup, this backup is completely of a stock ROM, no edition, however it does not have some apps like the Calculator, Flash etc for some reason.
However I found the missing apps from here: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-corporation/
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Excellent much appreciated for this right, so I need to first copy the nandroid backup to my Phones root and run TWRP and restore using the downloaded nandroid yes?
if yes could I please have the steps to put the stock recovery on with ADB commands as I really don't want to brick my phone (Yes I know you take no resposibilty etc) just happier to have as least the correct file names and adb commands.
And last I just copy the new stock RUU to my phone and install?
You help is as always greatly appreciated as no one seems to be ddoing anything anymore for this phone
HI.
On my rooted 3t i had:
- TWRP 3.0.4-1
- firmware 4.0.3
- ROM RR-N-v5.8.1-20170211
Everything was working great.
I was going through my email when screen went black...
I was not able to turn it on since.
I tried boot to recovery - after few seconds on TWRP flash screen it's not going nowhere... Screen is black and only notification light is white.
Same result when when just starting it.. I see Oneplus logo (powered by Android) and that is it.
Tried to boot into recovery through fastboot with the same result.
Anyone has an idea?
Thank you.
From what you're saying I see that at least the device interacts somehow. Therefore I would suggest trying this --> https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/how-to/unbrick-unbrick-tutorial-oneplus-3t-t3515306
...no matter how weird and unlucky your situation is
If that won't work then it may be that the Internal memory corrupted
Seems like something went wrong with your internal hardware components. However, try to boot the phone into fastboot mode and try to flash new ROM zip from there with your laptop/pc.
motherninja said:
Seems like something went wrong with your internal hardware components. However, try to boot the phone into fastboot mode and try to flash new ROM zip from there with your laptop/pc.
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Thank you for responding...
My feeling is the same... Something wrong with hardware.
I did re flash TWRP. TWRP is not loading...
I did try to load TWRP through fastload - same result.
I can (and I think I will) try to flash new ROM but I do not think this would help when even TWRP is not working.
Anyone knows what is warranty situation in my case?
Thank you.
I had the same issue.
Use the unbrick tool. This will help you.
Your problem has nothing to do with hardware.
timobayl said:
I had the same issue.
Use the unbrick tool. This will help you.
Your problem has nothing to do with hardware.
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Just wondering..
In case of sucessfull unbrick... Does phone would need to be rooted again?
I mean the result is like phone is in original/new state...?
Yes, the phone is like new from the box.
Oos 3.5.4
timobayl said:
Yes, the phone is like new from the box.
Oos 3.5.4
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The other question is where to go from here... after it is alive again..
What caused that?
Should I go back to
- TWRP 3.0.4-1
- firmware 4.0.3
- latest ROM RR-N-v5.8.1
Thanks
Yes.
For me it works that way.
Maybe its a saver way ota oos Update to 4.0.3.
Than twrp...
TWRP 3.0.4-1 is not restoring internal storage
It is alive...
I ran unbrick tool... and it worked.
Oneplus 3t up and running..
One issue.. TWRP 3.0.4-1 is not restoring DATA completely.
It is showing "Data (excl. storage)" instead of "Data" and not not restoring internal storage (pictures, messages, files).
Anyone knows what to do?
It is the same as before. Nandroid never Backuped the internal storage.
The new twrp show this message to make it ckear for everyone.
What do you think how big is a Nandroid with internal storage?
I'm coming to the g6 from an older Samsung. I figured that rooting this one would be just as simple, but was I ever wrong. I've gone through the guides available here, as well as guides on other sites, but no joy. I've probably restored my phone to the original system now 5 or 6 times. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the correct direction here.
The last couple of times I tried, here's what I did and what went wrong. I found a guide over at https://www.androidinfotech.com/root-moto-g6-and-g6-plus-pie/ that was fairly straight forward.
The first time I followed the instructions, booting to twrp failed but I figured that was because it never included flashing twrp to the phone. So I flashed it and used fastboot to boot the phone to the image. I then wiped the phone, flashed magisk and then did the same thing with no-verity-opt and rebooted.
On the reboot, the phone cycled through a couple of attempts and then was successful on the third try. But some things were broken. The battery indicator said I had 0% charge, and the phone refused to connect to wi fi. It also didn't recognize my network. And best of all, I've never achieved root. When I boot back into the bootloader, it comes up with the standard motorola file; not twrp.
Just FYI, I'm running pie.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction here? any help will be very much appreciated.
jmalmberg said:
I'm coming to the g6 from an older Samsung. I figured that rooting this one would be just as simple, but was I ever wrong. I've gone through the guides available here, as well as guides on other sites, but no joy. I've probably restored my phone to the original system now 5 or 6 times. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the correct direction here.
The last couple of times I tried, here's what I did and what went wrong. I found a guide over at https://www.androidinfotech.com/root-moto-g6-and-g6-plus-pie/ that was fairly straight forward.
The first time I followed the instructions, booting to twrp failed but I figured that was because it never included flashing twrp to the phone. So I flashed it and used fastboot to boot the phone to the image. I then wiped the phone, flashed magisk and then did the same thing with no-verity-opt and rebooted.
On the reboot, the phone cycled through a couple of attempts and then was successful on the third try. But some things were broken. The battery indicator said I had 0% charge, and the phone refused to connect to wi fi. It also didn't recognize my network. And best of all, I've never achieved root. When I boot back into the bootloader, it comes up with the standard motorola file; not twrp.
Just FYI, I'm running pie.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction here? any help will be very much appreciated.
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Need a bit more info
What model G6 ? Software channel?
What build number of Pie are you trying to root?
You say "restored my phone to the original system now 5 or 6 times" what version and build number is that and how are you restoring it?
kc6wke said:
Need a bit more info
What model G6 ? Software channel?
What build number of Pie are you trying to root?
You say "restored my phone to the original system now 5 or 6 times" what version and build number is that and how are you restoring it?
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Model is xt1925-6
Android version is ALI_RETAIL_9.0_PPS29.118-11-1_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip.
I'm restoring it using Minimal ADB and Fastboot, and flashing the files over.
A couple of other things I should probably say too.
1. The phone was originally running Oreo. About two weeks ago, Motorola pushed out PIE to me and I installed it. That caused a tone of problems... the biggest one was that you couldn't hear the phone anymore. Couldn't hear callers, ringing, notifications, etc... It might has well have been a doorstop. I tried to roll the phone back to Oreo doing a factory reset, but that didn't work either. Wiped out my IMEI and carrier. So I did a little research and found out that some other people had the same issue. They couldn't roll back so I figured I was stuck with Pie.
2. At that point, I unlocked the bootloader and downloaded the version above from a link in one of the forums and flashed it to the phone. For whatever reason, that cured the IMEI, carrier and sound issues. Since I've come this far and the phone doesn't have anything on it, I'd like to root what I have and get some of the capability that I had on the Samsung.
Thanks for your assistance on this.
jmalmberg said:
Model is xt1925-6
Android version is ALI_RETAIL_9.0_PPS29.118-11-1_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip.
I'm restoring it using Minimal ADB and Fastboot, and flashing the files over.
A couple of other things I should probably say too.
1. The phone was originally running Oreo. About two weeks ago, Motorola pushed out PIE to me and I installed it. That caused a tone of problems... the biggest one was that you couldn't hear the phone anymore. Couldn't hear callers, ringing, notifications, etc... It might has well have been a doorstop. I tried to roll the phone back to Oreo doing a factory reset, but that didn't work either. Wiped out my IMEI and carrier. So I did a little research and found out that some other people had the same issue. They couldn't roll back so I figured I was stuck with Pie.
2. At that point, I unlocked the bootloader and downloaded the version above from a link in one of the forums and flashed it to the phone. For whatever reason, that cured the IMEI, carrier and sound issues. Since I've come this far and the phone doesn't have anything on it, I'd like to root what I have and get some of the capability that I had on the Samsung.
Thanks for your assistance on this.
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PPS29.118-11-1 has a lot of issues. downgrading doesn't seem possible. I thought we had it solved today but ran into the same issue with calls
Follow This thread for rooting
kc6wke said:
PPS29.118-11-1 has a lot of issues. downgrading doesn't seem possible. I thought we had it solved today but ran into the same issue with calls
Follow This thread for rooting
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Oh, interesting, That's the thread I started with but couldn't get to work for me. That's when I went out and found the guide that I linked to in my original posting. Let me walk through the steps I used here to see if you can tell me where I went wrong.
1. Unlocked my bootloader.
2. Installed Minimal ADB & Fastboot.
3. Placed TWRP, in the Minimal ADB director on my PC and loaded Magisk, DM Verity, Magisk Manager apk to the SD card on my phone. (NOTE: the SD card isn't installed in the phone yet. I'll do that after doing the wipe. Just putting the software on it.)
4. Flashed TWRP to the phone and used Fastboot to load it.
5. Wiped the phone. Used advanced wipe and deleted the cache and data then rebooted to TWRP and did it again. At this point, I installed the SD card.
6. Rebooted the phone into TWRP and then selected install for DM Verity and again for Magisk.
7. Reboot and check for root using Rootcheck. I'm being told that I don't have root access.
What am I missing here?
Again, thank you for the assistance.
jmalmberg said:
Oh, interesting, That's the thread I started with but couldn't get to work for me. That's when I went out and found the guide that I linked to in my original posting. Let me walk through the steps I used here to see if you can tell me where I went wrong.
1. Unlocked my bootloader.
2. Installed Minimal ADB & Fastboot.
3. Placed TWRP, in the Minimal ADB director on my PC and loaded Magisk, DM Verity, Magisk Manager apk to the SD card on my phone. (NOTE: the SD card isn't installed in the phone yet. I'll do that after doing the wipe. Just putting the software on it.)
4. Flashed TWRP to the phone and used Fastboot to load it.
5. Wiped the phone. Used advanced wipe and deleted the cache and data then rebooted to TWRP and did it again. At this point, I installed the SD card.
6. Rebooted the phone into TWRP and then selected install for DM Verity and again for Magisk.
7. Reboot and check for root using Rootcheck. I'm being told that I don't have root access.
What am I missing here?
Again, thank you for the assistance.
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You need to format data (type yes) In twrp
kc6wke said:
You need to format data (type yes) In twrp
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That worked! Thank you very much!!! I really appreciate it!!!!
jmalmberg said:
3. Placed TWRP, in the Minimal ADB director on my PC and loaded Magisk, DM Verity, Magisk Manager apk to the SD card on my phone. (NOTE: the SD card isn't installed in the phone yet. I'll do that after doing the wipe. Just putting the software on it.)
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What ver TWRP did you use?
Apparently there is an official version and a modified version to mount vendor-specific mount points?
Thanks,
Tigger31337 said:
What ver TWRP did you use?
Apparently there is an official version and a modified version to mount vendor-specific mount points?
Thanks,
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I renamed the TWRP file I flashed "recovery.img" and I don't remember the original file name. When I boot to recovery mode it says 3.3.0-0. Hope that helps
jmalmberg said:
I renamed the TWRP file I flashed "recovery.img" and I don't remember the original file name. When I boot to recovery mode it says 3.3.0-0. Hope that helps
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Yup, I solved it. Thanks. I ended up using 3.2.3.official.
Rooting; ending in bootloop help
Sorry if I am hijacking this thread; thought to discuss here as the title "Trouble rooting my g6" still applies.
I have:
XT1925-13 (Moto G6 ALI) running stock Android Pie with build ppss29.55-34.
I have issues when I tried to root. I followed these steps:
I downloaded the factory image “ALI_RETAIL_9.0_PPS29.55-34_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip” and flashed it first. The mobile restarted and went to the first screen to select a language.
I rebooted it into bootloader, ran the TWRP as a temp by command “fastboot boot twrp-3.3.0-0-Ali.img,” which asked for the password.
I pressed cancel, and then I wiped cache and data.
Via ADB I transferred “adb push Magisk-v20.0.zip /sdcard” and “adb push no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.1.zip /sdcard”.
Then from TWRP, I installed Magisk. Then when installing no-verity, it gave an error “updater process ended with an error: 1 error installing zip file ‘no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.1.zip’.
Rebooted the device with hope and ended in a boot loop.
I also tried to use Magisk-v19.4.zip in the above steps and also tried to skip no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.1.zip. All ended in boot loop.
Any idea why? Are there any guides for the combination XT1925-13 (Moto G6 ALI) running ppss29.55-34?
Many thanks for your time.
Here is a solution
Flash original boot in fastboot followed by TWRP and reboot in recovery.
Install Magisk 19.4 in TWRP (3.3.x Android 9 OK) and reboot
You can update to 20 in Magisk Manager later
So i followed a guide to unlock my boot loader and then proceeded to use TWRP to back up, Format, and put a new image over it. My error was that TWRP needed to format a drive to let the encryption work, after this i did the back up, formatted the image, put a new image on to it, i used arm64-ab-gapps-su.img, restarted the phone and it would boot into nothingness and cycle the boot process constantly
i feel like i messed around with formatting to much, i know not to format Internal Storage but i may have formatted everything else and now im stuck and in hopelessness about it all
can i just take someone else's Boot Image, Recovery image, System Image, and Vendor Image is that how this works?
I can load up twrp and install, format and back up, it connects to the PC to upload images.
The phone is Moto G6 i bought it from an Australian store unlocked and using it in Australia with Optus as my Service provider
The reason i was looking to change my image was the stock standard OS was crashing with the new update on everything from call's to browsing the web
Hope you guys can help a novice with this
Info from the back of the phone is
Model:XT1925-7 Type:M3751 Made in China
mickeythewant said:
So i followed a guide to unlock my boot loader and then proceeded to use TWRP to back up, Format, and put a new image over it. My error was that TWRP needed to format a drive to let the encryption work, after this i did the back up, formatted the image, put a new image on to it, i used arm64-ab-gapps-su.img, restarted the phone and it would boot into nothingness and cycle the boot process constantly
i feel like i messed around with formatting to much, i know not to format Internal Storage but i may have formatted everything else and now im stuck and in hopelessness about it all
can i just take someone else's Boot Image, Recovery image, System Image, and Vendor Image is that how this works?
I can load up twrp and install, format and back up, it connects to the PC to upload images.
The phone is Moto G6 i bought it from an Australian store unlocked and using it in Australia with Optus as my Service provider
The reason i was looking to change my image was the stock standard OS was crashing with the new update on everything from call's to browsing the web
Hope you guys can help a novice with this
Info from the back of the phone is
Model:XT1925-7 Type:M3751 Made in China
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Find your firmware here:
https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/ali/official/
mickeythewant said:
So i followed a guide to unlock my boot loader and then proceeded to use TWRP to back up, Format, and put a new image over it. My error was that TWRP needed to format a drive to let the encryption work, after this i did the back up, formatted the image, put a new image on to it, i used arm64-ab-gapps-su.img, restarted the phone and it would boot into nothingness and cycle the boot process constantly
i feel like i messed around with formatting to much, i know not to format Internal Storage but i may have formatted everything else and now im stuck and in hopelessness about it all
can i just take someone else's Boot Image, Recovery image, System Image, and Vendor Image is that how this works?
I can load up twrp and install, format and back up, it connects to the PC to upload images.
The phone is Moto G6 i bought it from an Australian store unlocked and using it in Australia with Optus as my Service provider
The reason i was looking to change my image was the stock standard OS was crashing with the new update on everything from call's to browsing the web
Hope you guys can help a novice with this
Info from the back of the phone is
Model:XT1925-7 Type:M3751 Made in China
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moto g6 is arm a only so arm64 and arm ab images won't work.
Thanks
Ragarianok said:
Find your firmware here:
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Im struggling to find a guide on how to make this work? i have twrp installed in recovery, and this isnt the right .img to just copy it over, Thank you for pointing me to the stock files tho! im still not giving up on this!
mickeythewant said:
Im struggling to find a guide on how to make this work? i have twrp installed in recovery, and this isnt the right .img to just copy it over, Thank you for pointing me to the stock files tho! im still not giving up on this!
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You'll need to flash the firmware while phone is in fastboot mode. You can either flash using ADB or RSDLite; I'd recommend RSDLite.