Problem installing custom recovery, please help! - Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have been trying for hours to install both TWRP and CWM recoveries, and my phone will not accept them.
It goes through the process, yet upon the reboot into recovery, it just starts normally.
the message on the phone is: Mismathched partition size (recovery)
I have a Canadian version of 4.4.2 stock rom on my Moto G.
It is boolader unlocked and rooted.
Any ideas how to install the recovery?
My ultimate goal is to install a rom that supports russian language.

retfeg said:
I have been trying for hours to install both TWRP and CWM recoveries, and my phone will not accept them.
It goes through the process, yet upon the reboot into recovery, it just starts normally.
the message on the phone is: Mismathched partition size (recovery)
I have a Canadian version of 4.4.2 stock rom on my Moto G.
It is boolader unlocked and rooted.
Any ideas how to install the recovery?
My ultimate goal is to install a rom that supports russian language.
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same problem here! brand new phone, 4.4.2 o2 UK.
the mismatched partition size error is not important i know that.
have tried Philz (got it to work once, but after rebooting, had gone again. ever after letting it fix the rom rewrite on exit!). also tried stock CWM 6046 and 6047.
have tried entering recover immediately after flashing.
have tried flashing multiple times.
have tried different usb ports.
ideas please?
i've never had this much trouble with any phone (have experience over 3 years with Blade, G300, Xperia range etc.)
edit: tried using fastboot -S 0 parameter also, seems to make no difference. phone won't boot into recovery. this is slightly different to the problem i had with old phone, that one would boot Philz but not boot any ROMs. this one is booting stock ROM. if i can get Philz to "take" again i could try flashing CM, but i wanted to stay on stock, and just root it..
edit2: just started working! bizarre.. hope this doesn't jinx it. i wrote two recovery images with -S 0 and it works, not sure if because of that or something else. btw Philz won't backup the stock rom, odd - it just errors out, CWM standard works though.
hurrah! i rebooted normally, went back to fastboot and recovery still there. this is with recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.7-falcon.img
now i can hopefully root it..
wonder if my 3rd moto g will get any easier! this is a huge PITA of random non-workiness so far.

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Nuke the G? Deep wipe/format?

Hi,
is it possible somehow to cleare the partitions "deeper" then it's possible with the build in format command inside CWM?
I tried the fastboot erase (system, data, boot) with the result "permission denied" also.
The problem is the Moto G got messed up during the update to 4.4.
Since that moment the Moto G won't boot up with any stock Rom i flashed and i checked up many, many different stock roms (4.3 and 4.4.2).
It is possible to access recovery. (only CWM-swipe is working, CWM-touch, TWRP or the stock recovery won't boot) (Somehow TWRP booted once, but never again...) Sometimes i even can't access CWM-swipe, than I have to erase userdata and cache inside bootloader.
The other thing is it was possible to boot up the G with the Lego Rom, but it rebooted very often (30secs, 1min, 10secs....)
At this moment even that doesn't work it's getting stuck inside the bootlogo like every other custom rom i tried (Slim, CM11).
This behaviour makes me belief that things must be messed up depper inside.
I like to wipe everything!
Try this to restore your system
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644703
I dont know what happened woth your g , but this delets everything except of the bootloader and then flashes the normal stock Rom, so that your moto g is like new.
It could be that sth. is wrong with your recovery as you cant wipe or flash anything, maybe flashing another recovery via fastboot would make you able to flash roms again and you wont need to restore stock.
Hopefully this works but remember that it doesnt metter what you do, you are responsible for everything and noone else. I dont guarentee that this works.
Hi,
this is what i had done about 40 times with almost 20 different stock roms. They all doesn't boot up
The Lego-Rom is the onlyone which had booted up completly but rebooted automaticly. Now Lego is hanging in bootlogo.
Like i wrote in the first post. CWM-swipe is the only recovery that still works most of the time. And I tried the stock recovery, CWM-touch (philz-touch) and TWRP.
I need to go deeper with the wipe/format if it is possible.
Otherwise i need to dump the G.
Thats really weird. If this all doesnt work then i dont know.
Yep, this is why I'm asking for help! Maybe someone know more.
ikarugaski said:
Yep, this is why I'm asking for help! Maybe someone know more.
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I WAS IN A SIMilar situation a few days back
i couldnt boot up nor boot to recovery so to make a slong story short, i simply took a system img and a boot img and a cwm recovery img and fasboot flashed all 4 one at a time and somehow it worked fully stock but at least i could reset up all my stuff from there.
kep i mind before this method i i tried the guide "restore stock moto g rom" for 2 days straight with fastboot failing to flash it each time. if ur ok with starting anew apps wise try to flash a stock rom.

[Q] No Rom, failure when flashing

Hi all. I own a Moto G xt1032 UK version. (GSM right?)
I was on 4.4.4 Epsilon ROM but I wanted to flash stock 4.4.4, so I used a tutorial I found on youtube that set me up to stock 4.4.2, then I upgraded to 4.4.4 and THEN there was another update to 5.0.1. So as you can guess, I upgraded to lollipop and that was it - bootloop. I have tried flashing other roms through fastboot and nothing worked, I get an error when I flash ''system'' that says ''image is too large'' once all is done, phone restarts and its stuck on bootloop once again. The bootlogo changes when I flash different rom etc. But I don't know what to do, any ideas? :/ I have also tried to flash a custom recovery and sideload the Epsilon ROM but I only get an error in my command line that says no device connected after I hit the command. Any suggestions guys? I appreciate any sort of help, thanks guys.
I'll also add that I think I have the 41.18 bootloader if it helps (it says so in the bootloader settings)
When flashing a ROM in fastboot, are you also flashing the gpt file?
Yeah. I flash everything there's to flash as all tutorials instruct.
To try and get your phone up and running, flash a custom recovery from fastboot. Once the recovery image has been flashed, use the phone's volume buttons to boot into recovery. If you can get into recovery, try and flash a custom ROM.
Ah, I forgot to add. When I attempt to flash anything from my storage it says some sort of error coun't mount /sdcard and others when the recovery opens up. I tried flashing other recoveries, TWRP, CWM both show the exact same errors..Can't mount SDcard etc. :/ That is why I tried the sideload method which didn't work for me either.
You're flashing recovery for the falcon?
Yes..for falcon. I've done it a bunch of times before, however I never had the unable to mount error in the recovery..
I don't have my moto g on me but I found Philz Touch (based on CWM) worked besr for me after i switched back from GPE to CM12. I was getting weird error messages in TWRP.

Majorly screwed up my Moto G [URGENT HELP NEEDED]

Alright so I have a Moto G original version, currently running 4.4.4. I previously rooted it and stuck TWRP on it, but then when it became available to update to Lollipop on the Moto G I tried to get stock recovery on it. I used "MotoToolAIOV3" to put "Kitkat Stock Recovery" on it. This seemed to work fine, until it came to update, which then it errored every time I tried. I then realised the stock recovery that "MotoToolAIOV3" must be faulty or something, so I tried reputting TWRP on my Moto G by flashing it from an app called "Rashr". This seemed to be successful, HOWEVER I went to reboot my phone to check if it had worked, put it into bootloader, then went into recovery and it still came up with the stock recovery "MotoToolAIOV3" had given me. I was confused, so I tried "normal powerup", which THEN sent me into TWRP, however this time, when the bootloader unlocked warning came up, a weird blurry line went through my screen every so often, and then it went into TWRP, with the line going across the screen in TWRP as well. I've tried to boot into normal powerup through TWRP, Bootloader, normal powerup, holding down power button but every time I try, it goes into TWRP with a dodgy line going across my screen. I'm currently doing exams and I really need my phone as I have revision notes on apps that I can only access on that phone, and things such as exam timetable saved in the actual phone.
Please, somebody help ):
Again my phone is a Moto G Original Gen running 4.4.4 stock android, on a tesco thing (cant remember what its called might be kernel).
Thank you.
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Seems like you have flashed TWRP into the kernel partition. Seem like the "Rashr" app or whatever flashed it there by mistake. I recommend that you install TWRP via a more standard procedure, such as using fastboot(if bootloader unlocked) or using the instructions given where ever you downloaded TWRP. Your situation is not serious as long as you are careful....
1. Install recovery to correct partition
2. Boot to that recovery and wipe/factory reset etc...
3. Install an new ROM.

No recovery found on my device (Xperia z3 dual)

I have a Z3 dual, and I seem to have no recovery (or even a partition). The phone has no data saved so it is safe to reinstall firmware and start over. But I am trying to get the phone going for use. I currently have 5.0.2 (rooted)installed, and want to boot to recovery to flash a zip file. I have tried a million times to do this in kitkat as well as the current upgrade. In all cases there is no recovery. TWRP cannot create a custom one and there is no recovery to boot into. I installed goomanager and tried to create a custom recovery and got the message "No recovery can be found on your device". Now, I have read that some xperia models actually did not come with any stock recovery (but I cannot verify this). I believe this might the problem from the very start. So, how do I create a custom recovery, where there seems to never have been a stock recovery to begin with. It seems like an endless loop of trying to create a custom recovery, only to be told by TWRP or goomanager that you cannot boot into recovery because there isn't any. I hope this makes sense what I am describing. I have tried many times to create a custom recovery, did re-installs of the firmware (downgraded, upgraded -- ALWAYS ROOTED), tried with bootloader locked and unlocked -- no luck in all permutations and combinations. In the end I cannot boot into the TWRP recovery screen (or any recovery screen for that matter). It simply just hangs for a bit then simply boots normally. Sometimes it gives a message telling me there is no recovery to be found. I know I am missing something, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Moto G 2013 (X1031) Will Only Boot Into Recovery

Weirdest problem, and not one that I've ever encountered after playing around with Android since the G1 days!
My Boost Moto G 2013 will only boot into the recovery, no matter what I do. I've searched and searched through Google and on XDA and found nothing that matches my problems exactly.
I can get into the bootloader (am running version 41.1A) and flash a new recovery. I've got TWRP on there right now, but I've tried CWM as well -- same problem. I've actually installed Android 5.1 from the stock flashable zip, and it says it flashes fine, but still won't boot into it. No matter how I restart the phone, it just goes straight into recovery.
Any ideas?
I'm assuming that you've tried different ROMs? I had a weird problem where I could no longer flash any ROM's without getting an error. Only after I did a complete wipe of everything (including internal storage which was the key) was I able to properly boot up. Not quite the issue you're having but worth a shot, make sure you can access the phone on your PC so that you can copy over the ROM after the wipe.
I have had this problem recently. I believe I had to fastboot flash stock recovery, then an older, smaller CWM to avoid partition mismatch problems. Then flash the TWRP you want with a zip with CWM.
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