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[Q] Corrupt Recovery

Hi Guys
Originally unlocked and rooted my nexus 5. Then the OTA update seemed to remove the root. I havent really looked into re-rooting but i need to wipe the device and I thought I may as well do it now. Having issue though
- Device is still unlocked when I go into the bootloader I see its unlocked
- Try to flash a custom recovery and when I follow the steps it goes to red exclamation (Im assuming meaning corrupt custom recovery, probably the old CWM before the OTA)
- Read through forums and they say I need to remove reboot-from-recovery.p file from the /system
- however I cant remove it without root and I cant get root without removing it
Whats the options here?
Thanks
SORRY JUST REALISED THIS SHOULD BE IN Q&A

luppas said:
Hi Guys
Originally unlocked and rooted my nexus 5. Then the OTA update seemed to remove the root. I havent really looked into re-rooting but i need to wipe the device and I thought I may as well do it now. Having issue though
- Device is still unlocked when I go into the bootloader I see its unlocked
- Try to flash a bootloader and when I follow the steps it goes to red exclamation (Im assuming meaning corrupt bootloader, probably the old CWM before the OTA)
- Read through forums and they say I need to remove reboot-from-recovery.p file from the /system
- however I cant remove it without root and I cant get root without removing it
Whats the options here?
Than
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hi, you're asking in the general section. which is wrong.
Just flash custom recovery again via fastboot and SuperSu via custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905

luppas said:
Hi Guys
Originally unlocked and rooted my nexus 5. Then the OTA update seemed to remove the root. I havent really looked into re-rooting but i need to wipe the device and I thought I may as well do it now. Having issue though
- Device is still unlocked when I go into the bootloader I see its unlocked
- Try to flash a bootloader and when I follow the steps it goes to red exclamation (Im assuming meaning corrupt bootloader, probably the old CWM before the OTA)
- Read through forums and they say I need to remove reboot-from-recovery.p file from the /system
- however I cant remove it without root and I cant get root without removing it
Whats the options here?
Than
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the exclamation point is the stock recovery. once you take in an ota, it removes both root and your custom recovery. to get your custom recovery back so that you can flash a bootloader(and the supersu root binaries). you can flash a custom recovery while youre in your bootloader via fastboot on your desktop.

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
hi, you're asking in the general section. which is wrong.
Just flash custom recovery again via fastboot and SuperSu via custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
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Yeah just realised that. Sorry its my first post

luppas said:
Hi Guys
Originally unlocked and rooted my nexus 5. Then the OTA update seemed to remove the root. I havent really looked into re-rooting but i need to wipe the device and I thought I may as well do it now. Having issue though
- Device is still unlocked when I go into the bootloader I see its unlocked
- Try to flash a custom recovery and when I follow the steps it goes to red exclamation (Im assuming meaning corrupt custom recovery, probably the old CWM before the OTA)
- Read through forums and they say I need to remove reboot-from-recovery.p file from the /system
- however I cant remove it without root and I cant get root without removing it
Whats the options here?
Thanks
SORRY JUST REALISED THIS SHOULD BE IN Q&A
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why don't you try twrp maybe you can flash twrp then remove the file then go back to cwm
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luppas said:
Hi Guys
Originally unlocked and rooted my nexus 5. Then the OTA update seemed to remove the root. I havent really looked into re-rooting but i need to wipe the device and I thought I may as well do it now. Having issue though
- Device is still unlocked when I go into the bootloader I see its unlocked
- Try to flash a custom recovery and when I follow the steps it goes to red exclamation (Im assuming meaning corrupt custom recovery, probably the old CWM before the OTA)
- Read through forums and they say I need to remove reboot-from-recovery.p file from the /system
- however I cant remove it without root and I cant get root without removing it
Whats the options here?
Thanks
SORRY JUST REALISED THIS SHOULD BE IN Q&A
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just read this again..when you are flash a custom recovery, and it still goes to the exclamation point, it means that you arent flashing the custom recovery right. its.. fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
hi, you're asking in the general section. which is wrong.
Just flash custom recovery again via fastboot and SuperSu via custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
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Thats what I was trying to explain. I tried flashing custom recovery as per instructions but nothing happens. From what I am reading this is because of the reboot-from-recovery.p file which needs to be deleted BUT I cannot do this without root!

luppas said:
Thats what I was trying to explain. I tried flashing custom recovery as per instructions but nothing happens. From what I am reading this is because of the reboot-from-recovery.p file which needs to be deleted BUT I cannot do this without root!
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na, you dont need to delete that to flash a custom recovery(i never have, in my 6 years with android, and all my devices). is fastboot seeing your device? kkdo you see fastboot going through the process of flashing a recovery? if you are typing it right, and fastboot sees your device, you would have flashed a custom recovery. when you connect to fastboot, type.. fastboot devices. if it sees your device, its id number will be shown.

simms22 said:
just read this again..when you are flash a custom recovery, and it still goes to the exclamation point, it means that you arent flashing the custom recovery right. its.. fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img
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C:\Users\user\Downloads\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
I have it right mate. But nothing seems to be happening. Maybe drivers issue? When I do adb version I get the version so I assumed that means its working

luppas said:
C:\Users\user\Downloads\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
I have it right mate. But nothing seems to be happening. Maybe drivers issue? When I do adb version I get the version so I assumed that means its working
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adb version and fastboot devices is different. adb is not fastboot and you can not use adb as fastboot. fastboot is fastboot.

simms22 said:
na, you dont need to delete that to flash a custom recovery(i never have, in my 6 years with android, and all my devices). is fastboot seeing your device? kkdo you see fastboot going through the process of flashing a recovery? if you are typing it right, and fastboot sees your device, you would have flashed a custom recovery. when you connect to fastboot, type.. fastboot devices. if it sees your device, its id number will be shown.
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Yeah you were right. Driver issue. fastboot devices showed nothing. Reinstalled drivers and looks to be good now.
Thanks guys sorry for the post in wrong area

luppas said:
Yeah you were right. Driver issue. fastboot devices showed nothing. Reinstalled drivers and looks to be good now.
Thanks guys sorry for the post in wrong area
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glad you got it

[Q] OTA bootloader update when rooted?

Hi guys,
I run rooted unlocked Nexus 5 with CM11. I wanted to update the ROM but it failed - I read a bit and found out that it is due to old bootloader version. I would like to update it but I'm not a friend with ADB and stuff.... It would be great to use the most easiest way. I got OTA update notification but have no idea what it does - will it unroot the phone? will I lose CM11 ROM? Just trying to figure out what backups and steps shall I do to update my ROM. How shall I continue from here?
Thanks a bunch!

devcager said:
Hi guys,
I run rooted unlocked Nexus 5 with CM11. I wanted to update the ROM but it failed - I read a bit and found out that it is due to old bootloader version. I would like to update it but I'm not a friend with ADB and stuff.... It would be great to use the most easiest way. I got OTA update notification but have no idea what it does - will it unroot the phone? will I lose CM11 ROM? Just trying to figure out what backups and steps shall I do to update my ROM. How shall I continue from here?
Thanks a bunch!
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Attempting to take the OTA will fail.
Download the factory image and extract bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img
Boot your device into bootloader:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader

You have a custom recovery installed, right? Flash the bootloader zip via recovery. However, you need to get familiar with adb/fastboot as you're gonna need them if you ever find yourself in a tight situation to fix your device.
Open the "must read" thread linked in my signature and find the thread which has all the info about adb and fastboot.

vin4yak said:
You have a custom recovery installed, right? Flash the bootloader zip via recovery. However, you need to get familiar with adb/fastboot as you're gonna need them if you ever find yourself in a tight situation to fix your device.
Open the "must read" thread linked in my signature and find the thread which has all the info about adb and fastboot.
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Thank you! I get it about ADB, I had to solve one my problem in the past via ADB. Anyway, I just need to find the 4.4.4 bootloader in ZIP (or probalby .img will work too?) and flash it? That's it? Does it wipe my phone or something?

You just need to flash the IMG via fastboot, no wiping required!

EddyOS said:
You just need to flash the IMG via fastboot, no wiping required!
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Alright. One more thing. Is it possible to convert the IMG file I have into zip to be able to flash it in TWRP?
EDIT: I found that Nexus Toolbox for my 5 has the option to flash the bootloader image so I will try this variant.

devcager said:
Alright. One more thing. Is it possible to convert the IMG file I have into zip to be able to flash it in TWRP?
EDIT: I found that Nexus Toolbox for my 5 has the option to flash the bootloader image so I will try this variant.
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You don't need to. Just boot into fastboot, connect to PC, fastboot flash bootloader name_of_file.img, reboot, done

it's easy you must become familiar with fastboot and add the second you aren't it will come back to haunt you
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devcager said:
Alright. One more thing. Is it possible to convert the IMG file I have into zip to be able to flash it in TWRP?
EDIT: I found that Nexus Toolbox for my 5 has the option to flash the bootloader image so I will try this variant.
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so you learned nothing. awesome.

Zepius said:
so you learned nothing. awesome.
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Brick waiting to happen.
Add to ignore list
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rootSU said:
Brick waiting to happen.
Add to ignore list
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I'm still waiting for someone to make a thread saying their device is "bricked because flashed fastboot to adb using bootloader while in recovery with x toolkit"

[Q] HELP! NEXUS Not working anymore!

Hello guys,
I was stupid enough to try and flash stuff, without enough knowledge.
First of all:
I came from 4.4.4. stock rooted with Franco kernal
I did make a backup in TWRP, files are on my pc.
Process:
First of all, I did a factory reset in TWRP
I flashed the rom, radio, kernal for root and supersu.
First boot went fine, although WiFi couldn't be found.
I decided to boot into recovery again to wipe my SD Card
Upon rebooting, phone is looking all black without a real 'launcher', sd card not found etc.
Than:
I managed to push rom, radio, kernal and supersu to /sdcard by adb in rocovery mode
I reflashed all of these, but the same problems occur
What should I do now? I'm ****ting my pants..
Please help me!

Power it off... Hold down both volumes and power to boot into bootloader and fastboot a system and boot img or as you've already wiped sd. The whole lot from Google!
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Sent from my Android 5.0 Nexus 5

Ben36 said:
Power it off... Hold down both volumes and power to boot into bootloader and fastboot a system and boot img or as you've already wiped sd. The whole lot from Google!
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Sent from my Android 5.0 Nexus 5
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Thanks for your reply Ben. Could you explain the specific steps for me a little better, please? I know how to boot into bootloader.. but the rest of it.. Please, help me!

Super su doesn't work unless you flash a custom 5.0 kernel. I flashed hells kernel then su 2.19, zero issues.
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Read here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53951593
It's seems complicated, but is ridiculously easy when you do it and something everyone should know how to do
Sent from my Android 5.0 Nexus 5

Ben36 said:
Read here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53951593
It's seems complicated, but is ridiculously easy when you do it and something everyone should know how to do
Sent from my Android 5.0 Nexus 5
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I'm sorry Ben.. but should I do next? Download the factory image of the Nexus 5. What is the following step? Sorry if I'm asking stupid stuff..

Yea download it to your pc. Then read that thread thoroughly ☺
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Did you fix?
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Ben36 said:
Did you fix?
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No, I don't really have enough knowledge to just fix it haha. So, if you could assist a little further.. that'd be of great help!

factory images downloaded? then follow the instructions of this thread to flash it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/how-to-download-flash-android-5-0-t2937941
MAKE SURE FASTBOOT DRIVERS ARE INSTALLED! (warning). you can check if your device is recognized by running the command 'fastboot devices' (without the quotes). if you get a serial number as return, it means your device is recognized by fastboot.
then follow the instructions of the thread

thegtfusion said:
factory images downloaded? then follow the instructions of this thread to flash it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/how-to-download-flash-android-5-0-t2937941
MAKE SURE FASTBOOT DRIVERS ARE INSTALLED! (warning). you can check if your device is recognized by running the command 'fastboot devices' (without the quotes). if you get a serial number as return, it means your device is recognized by fastboot.
then follow the instructions of the thread
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That worked like a charm! Welcome back Nexus!

[Q] ota sideloading aborted

Hey group mates please help me
I'm currently using a nexus 5 and thought of sideloading the ota zip through nexus root toolkit so i first flashed stock recovery and then when i tried to sideload it, it started flashing till it reached 61% and which my phone said installation aborted for no reason.. Tried this more than 3-4 times but the result were all the same
I'm not sure what seems to be the issue here so it would be great if any one could help me solve this issue
Thanks in advance

drunken monkey said:
Hey group mates please help me
I'm currently using a nexus 5 and thought of sideloading the ota zip through nexus root toolkit so i first flashed stock recovery and then when i tried to sideload it, it started flashing till it reached 61% and which my phone said installation aborted for no reason.. Tried this more than 3-4 times but the result were all the same
I'm not sure what seems to be the issue here so it would be great if any one could help me solve this issue
Thanks in advance
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Are you rooted or having custom kernel?

kaushikd said:
Are you rooted or having custom kernel?
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I'm currently running stock recovery, stock os rooted and unlocked bootloader

I have the exact same problem. The sideload gets to 61%, then shows the following message:
"/system/bin/install-recovery.sh" has unexpected contents
E:Error in /sideload/package.zip
(Status 7)
I have a stock recovery, was rooted using Chainfire's first method for Lollipop (patched kernel) but flashed the stock kernel (fastboot flash boot boot.img) from the N5 5.0 image before the sideload.

drunken monkey said:
I'm currently running stock recovery, stock os rooted and unlocked bootloader
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You can't be rooted to use the OTA. Anything that is modified in the system will cause this.

I downloaded the full image and extracted just the radio, system and boot image files. Then just a few fastboot commands with bootloader reboots inbetween and 5.0.1 works.
For reference, I used the following:
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img

So while sideloading it should I unroot as well?

jsgraphicart said:
You can't be rooted to use the OTA. Anything that is modified in the system will cause this.
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So to sideload I have to be in complete stock without even SuperSU.. Is that correct?

drunken monkey said:
So to sideload I have to be in complete stock without even SuperSU.. Is that correct?
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That correct
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pauleyc said:
I downloaded the full image and extracted just the radio, system and boot image files. Then just a few fastboot commands with bootloader reboots inbetween and 5.0.1 works.
For reference, I used the following:
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I was thinking about doing this, too... but am I correct to assume that this would cause data loss? I have TWRP and SuperSU installed at the moment.
Or, if there's an easy way to ditch these and do the OTA, I'd be okay with that, too.

jrronimo said:
I was thinking about doing this, too... but am I correct to assume that this would cause data loss? I have TWRP and SuperSU installed at the moment.
Or, if there's an easy way to ditch these and do the OTA, I'd be okay with that, too.
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It won't cause any data loss. It's about the only way to get the ota to work. But in your case, since you have twrp you should also flash the stock recovery.img
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No data loss (well, apart from root) if you flash just the radio, system and boot images. Worked great for me.

Thanks for the tips, guys. After extracting the full 5.0.1 firmware from the Factory Images page, there are system and boot .img files, but no radio. Is this normal?

jrronimo said:
Thanks for the tips, guys. After extracting the full 5.0.1 firmware from the Factory Images page, there are system and boot .img files, but no radio. Is this normal?
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There's a radio. It's in the first file you extracted, not the zip you also had to extract
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jd1639 said:
There's a radio. It's in the first file you extracted, not the zip you also had to extract
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Good thing I didn't get past this step -- I had downloaded the wrong factory image. D: That'll explain things a bit...
---------- Post added at 02:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:54 PM ----------
Alrighty! New problem: After the phone boots, I get the battery and signal icons in the top right, but a black screen otherwise. If I hit the power button to put it in sleep mode and then hit the power button again, I get a quick flash of the "Welcome to Android, select your language" screen. Any pro-tips?
If I have to set up from scratch, it's no big deal. Most of the important stuff should be backed up; it'd just be annoying. All that Desert Golfing progress!!!
Finally managed to get around it. Ended up updating TWRP and re-flashing most of the .imgs a bunch, then using TWRP to first let me back up data to my computer and then wipe partitions. I'm on 5.0.1 again.
Welp, that was painful, haha. I'm sure I did something wrong leading into this, but I'm not sure what that was...

If i just flash the whole Firmware that i downloaded from Google, will i be able to flash it and loose root?
I am OK with loosing root and beeing back to stock.
At this moment i have Lolipop 5.0 that is rooted with Chainfire.

I was running rooted stock 5.0 with TWRP and had already flashed the 5.0.1 radio, so I just fastboot flashed the 5.0.1 system.img and rerooted. All is well so far.

jd1639 said:
That correct
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So if I unroot and then sideload it will I loose all my data ?
P.s I'll be rooting it back immediately after I get 5.1
So is there any way which can avoid a data loss?

I still have a doubt, I saw rootjunky's video in which he sideload 5.1 to his nexus 7 using nrt..
Even I followed the same method but it didn't succeed for me

pauleyc said:
I have the exact same problem. The sideload gets to 61%, then shows the following message:
"/system/bin/install-recovery.sh" has unexpected contents
E:Error in /sideload/package.zip
(Status 7)
I have a stock recovery, was rooted using Chainfire's first method for Lollipop (patched kernel) but flashed the stock kernel (fastboot flash boot boot.img) from the N5 5.0 image before the sideload.
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So after flashing your stock kernal and stock recovery did the sideload work.. I mean that it didn't get stuck at the 61% mark?

[Q] HELP moto g xt1032 stuck at fastboot

So i tried flashing the lollipop software to my moto g xt1032 (i am a noob at this) and i think i messed up my phone. It now wont go past the bootloader/fastboot screen. Before updating i was running android 4.4.2. When i initially boot up my phone it says version downgraded for boot, failed to validate boot image, fastboot reason: fall through from normal boot cycle i have tried to follow the many guides their are out there that work/i am too dumb to understand them. If anyone can please help me. If i did not give enough info please ask and i will try my best to give it to you.

austin66887 said:
So i tried flashing the lollipop software to my moto g xt1032 (i am a noob at this) and i think i messed up my phone. It now wont go past the bootloader/fastboot screen. Before updating i was running android 4.4.2. When i initially boot up my phone it says version downgraded for boot, failed to validate boot image, fastboot reason: fall through from normal boot cycle i have tried to follow the many guides their are out there that work/i am too dumb to understand them. If anyone can please help me. If i did not give enough info please ask and i will try my best to give it to you.
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You need to flash android 5.0 factory image for boot, and system. Follow the regular fastboot procedures to flash the 5.0 firmware. Makr sure you don't downgrade back to kitkat once you flash lolipop or else YOU WILL END UP IN A HARDBRICK!!!!!

skyguy126 said:
You need to flash android 5.0 factory image for boot, and system. Follow the regular fastboot procedures to flash the 5.0 firmware. Makr sure you don't downgrade back to kitkat once you flash lolipop or else YOU WILL END UP IN A HARDBRICK!!!!!
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as i said i am a noob i am not really sure how to do that

skyguy126 said:
You need to flash android 5.0 factory image for boot, and system. Follow the regular fastboot procedures to flash the 5.0 firmware. Makr sure you don't downgrade back to kitkat once you flash lolipop or else YOU WILL END UP IN A HARDBRICK!!!!!
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i have been trying to flash 5 and when i go in to recovery and load the file through adb it goes for like 5 minutes then says installation aborted

austin66887 said:
i have been trying to flash 5 and when i go in to recovery and load the file through adb it goes for like 5 minutes then says installation aborted
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You need to flash using fastboot not adb. Look around the forum there are some great tutorials for a beginner.

skyguy126 said:
You need to flash using fastboot not adb. Look around the forum there are some great tutorials for a beginner.
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So I tried to flashing using fastboot and my device still wont load up

Were you trying to install GPE 5.0.1? Or the soak test for X1033?

austin66887 said:
So I tried to flashing using fastboot and my device still wont load up
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You need to flash all the partitions.

motorola actually agreed send me a new one despite what i did so all is good