[Q] Unable to access recovery from bootloader. Everything else works. - Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Phone (xt1033) is rooted (status code 3). I had installed some custom rom, but later went back to stock with lolipop.
I now want to install CM12.1
I flashed the latest twrp using adb (twrp-2.8.6.0-xt1032). However, if I try to access recovery from the bootloader, phone just gives me a black screen.
So, I flashed a slightly older twrp. Again, same result.
Phone is booting up, but none of the options given with the bootloader seem to be working, and I have no recovery, custom or otherwise. What should I do?

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Problem installing custom recovery, please help!

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.

[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.

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Nevermind, I just tried flashing TWRP 2.8.7.1 and it worked. 2.8.7.3 apparently does not anymore.
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I am trying to get Xtrestolite 3.1 on my phone and I cannot get through the TWRP process. I installed the custom bootloader and modem for my phone but when I installed TWRP, and try to go to recovery, I get a no command error and the normal recovery shows up. Everything on odin says that it is fine when flashing but i still do not have TWRP.
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XZP Wont Boot after Flashing Standard Rom

Hi All,
I've been trying to install TWRP, Root etc on my XZP since yesterday. I've done something wrong at some point, and now my phone will not boot at all.
I had no troubles unlocking bootloader, installing TWRP etc initially. I then tried to install a custom rom from these forums and that's where things spiraled downwards for me.
As part of that procedure, I needed to flash the latest sony firmware first. That went fine.
However, now TWRP is not able to decrypt storage, so I'm not able to flash anything else. Perhaps this is because I booted into the new sony firmware and forgot change the pattern/fingerprint to pin/fingerprint.
So I'm not able to unlock the storage via TWRP by entering a password.
I tried to reflash the same firmware again using newflasher. But the phone won't boot at all. It turns off immediately after the Unlocked bootloader warning. It's not going into a boot loop. Just turns off.
I then tried to flash the TWRP recovery image using adb fastboot command, and the flash seemed to execute properly, but I still can not boot into recovery.
Is it possible the main storage is still encrypted, so nothing can flash to it? Bricked? If so, how do I proceed?
I read something about reformatting partitions? But I'm not able to get into TWRP recovery menu to do this.
*EDIT: I reflashed trwp recovery image, and am not able to boot into recovery. I still can not unlock (unencrypt) the main storage though.
*2nd EDIT: I followed the instructions here:https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/how-to-fix-unable-to-mount-data-t3830897
I was then able to flash the stock ROM back onto my device, and I'm able to boot my phone up. I'll look at installing a custom ROM at a later date.
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