Moto G Bricked? - Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello XDA!
So yesterday I decided to charge my Moto G (xt1033) after dying earlier today. After it charged to around 75% I unplugged it, I held the power button until I saw it showed the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" screen and I put the phone in my pocket. After dinner, I noticed that my phone was running hot in my pocket and when I pulled it out, it was still on the "warning Bootloader Unlocked" Screen. I tried rebooting and all I got was a quick vibrate.
I've tried searching this problem. I've tried sideloading CM12.1, wiping both caches and I tried to do a factory reset (which froze halfway through). I can still access fastboot and CWM, but that's as far as I can get.
I'm stuck. I have no idea what is wrong. I've tried everything I've seen around and my only guess is my phone is totally bricked.
If anyone has had this problem or they have any idea how to fix it, feel free to reply. I'm open to everything.

Soft brick.
Try flashing from fastboot your favorite version, maybe it's a partition-related issue.

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Moto G - all the processes are stopped on phone

Dear XDA mates,
I am facing this different kind of issue currently. None of the process on my phone are working. Here is what has happened and what is happening:
What happened:
1. I dropped my phone in water. It soaked in water literally.
2. I dried it off but saw that phone was starting and shutting down automatically. I kept it the way it is so that it can dry off further.
3. Couple of hours after I started the device and it was all working but I wanted to make sure it is working fine so switched it off and kept it to dry off till next morning.
4. Next morning phone was not switching on.
5. I put in on charge and after a while try to switch it on. The phone started but was giving me zero battery alert and switching off. I thought it is a usual battery going dead issue and left the phone the way it is.
6. After one day I kept it on charge again but nothing happened so I finally decided to take the device to service center.
7. Stupid service center technician told me, phone is dead completely and motherboard has to be changed. I decided to not do anything with the phone and brought it back home.
8. I kept it on charge and guess what, phone was full charged next morning and it started again.
What is happening:
1. The phone started but now as soon as I unlock the phone, I start seeing errors. (Unfortunately, Google Play Newsstand has stopped, Unfortunately, com.google.process.gapps has stopped, Unfortunately, Weather has stopped etc etc, the error never ends).
2. Now it thought of doing a factory reset, went to Fastboot mode, selected the Factory option, phone goes to Moto logo and I see the same old lockscreen. Phone is not resetting.
3. I thought of flashing the phone with stock firmware, went on fastboot mode again, tried to go on Recovery option. Phone returns to fastboot mode with error (in yellow font) "Boot up failed".
Now I am stuck, I see some serious problem has happened for sure.
I need some super expert help and need to understand what might have happened to my phone.
Sad for you, mine opinion is it might related to hardware issues. Hope some pros may come up and help you here.
Flash stock firmware from fastboot
ashu388866 said:
Dear XDA mates,
I am facing this different kind of issue currently. None of the process on my phone are working. Here is what has happened and what is happening:
What happened:
1. I dropped my phone in water. It soaked in water literally.
2. I dried it off but saw that phone was starting and shutting down automatically. I kept it the way it is so that it can dry off further.
3. Couple of hours after I started the device and it was all working but I wanted to make sure it is working fine so switched it off and kept it to dry off till next morning.
4. Next morning phone was not switching on.
5. I put in on charge and after a while try to switch it on. The phone started but was giving me zero battery alert and switching off. I thought it is a usual battery going dead issue and left the phone the way it is.
6. After one day I kept it on charge again but nothing happened so I finally decided to take the device to service center.
7. Stupid service center technician told me, phone is dead completely and motherboard has to be changed. I decided to not do anything with the phone and brought it back home.
8. I kept it on charge and guess what, phone was full charged next morning and it started again.
What is happening:
1. The phone started but now as soon as I unlock the phone, I start seeing errors. (Unfortunately, Google Play Newsstand has stopped, Unfortunately, com.google.process.gapps has stopped, Unfortunately, Weather has stopped etc etc, the error never ends).
2. Now it thought of doing a factory reset, went to Fastboot mode, selected the Factory option, phone goes to Moto logo and I see the same old lockscreen. Phone is not resetting.
3. I thought of flashing the phone with stock firmware, went on fastboot mode again, tried to go on Recovery option. Phone returns to fastboot mode with error (in yellow font) "Boot up failed".
Now I am stuck, I see some serious problem has happened for sure.
I need some super expert help and need to understand what might have happened to my phone.
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Follow this guide and everything will be good
Tried flashing but nothing happens
I have tried flashing it too. When it fastboot mode, I see that all the processes are running as intended and once the flash is complete and my phone starts with Moto G, guess what - I see the same old wallpaper and lock screen. It means phone is not flashed .
amolgosavi said:
Flash stock firmware from fastboot
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I suppose that either means you flashed incorrectly, the phone is still wet inside or the phone is damaged.
Try drying it on a warm, dry place for another day or two.
Good luck!
Will trying flashing after 2 weeks of phone phones processes has stopped
I will flash it today again.
Which is the best process to flash the Moto G phone. I have followed couple of methods and they haven't worked for me.
It could also because of the battery issue. I read it on another forum that Factory cable might help.
Can you or anyone else point me to Factoty cable. Searched all over ebay and all I could see is Factory cable for Moto Razr.
Let me know guys.
Thanks.
robm123 said:
I suppose that either means you flashed incorrectly, the phone is still wet inside or the phone is damaged.
Try drying it on a warm, dry place for another day or two.
Good luck!
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Tried flashing and nothing happens again.
This is crazy!
I do not rely service centers anymore and I can flash myself.
Techies - please help.
ashu388866 said:
I will flash it today again.
Which is the best process to flash the Moto G phone. I have followed couple of methods and they haven't worked for me.
It could also because of the battery issue. I read it on another forum that Factory cable might help.
Can you or anyone else point me to Factoty cable. Searched all over ebay and all I could see is Factory cable for Moto Razr.
Let me know guys.
Thanks.
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I'm similar situation. Only my daughter's Moto G (android 4.4.4) was not physically damaged.
After sreen unlocking the phone shows errors "Unfortanately [everything] has stopped working".
I flashed stock recovery many times but it does't help.
And one more thing: if the phone is connected to the PC it is possible to run fastboot commands, but the phone filesystem is not accesible.
Is this a hardware problem?
P.s. Sorry for my english
ashu388866 said:
Dear XDA mates,
I am facing this different kind of issue currently. None of the process on my phone are working. Here is what has happened and what is happening:
What happened:
1. I dropped my phone in water. It soaked in water literally.
2. I dried it off but saw that phone was starting and shutting down automatically. I kept it the way it is so that it can dry off further.
3. Couple of hours after I started the device and it was all working but I wanted to make sure it is working fine so switched it off and kept it to dry off till next morning.
4. Next morning phone was not switching on.
5. I put in on charge and after a while try to switch it on. The phone started but was giving me zero battery alert and switching off. I thought it is a usual battery going dead issue and left the phone the way it is.
6. After one day I kept it on charge again but nothing happened so I finally decided to take the device to service center.
7. Stupid service center technician told me, phone is dead completely and motherboard has to be changed. I decided to not do anything with the phone and brought it back home.
8. I kept it on charge and guess what, phone was full charged next morning and it started again.
What is happening:
1. The phone started but now as soon as I unlock the phone, I start seeing errors. (Unfortunately, Google Play Newsstand has stopped, Unfortunately, com.google.process.gapps has stopped, Unfortunately, Weather has stopped etc etc, the error never ends).
2. Now it thought of doing a factory reset, went to Fastboot mode, selected the Factory option, phone goes to Moto logo and I see the same old lockscreen. Phone is not resetting.
3. I thought of flashing the phone with stock firmware, went on fastboot mode again, tried to go on Recovery option. Phone returns to fastboot mode with error (in yellow font) "Boot up failed".
Now I am stuck, I see some serious problem has happened for sure.
I need some super expert help and need to understand what might have happened to my phone.
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Flash the stock rom via fastboot dat could fix the problem:good:

[Q] VZW Moto G (1st Gen) Boot Loop

Device Info:
VZW Moto G (1st Gen)
Android 4.4.4. KitKat (Stock)
No root, bootloader locked, never tampered with
Problem:
I set my phone down on the kitchen table and left it there a while. When I came back the notification light was blinking so I tried to turn on the screen, but nothing happened. Eventually I hard reset the device (held down the power button until the device started to reboot). The phone showed the white boot up screen with the planet Motorola logo, but rather than continuing with the boot animation, it hung there for a while before going to a black screen. I have left it for hours, it never progresses past this point. Sometimes it will reboot itself and try again to no avail. I was not installing any updates when this took place.
Attempted Solutions:
I held down the power and volume down buttons and went to bootloader. The battery was listed as low. I let the battery charge overnight and tried the bootloader again. The battery is now listed as OK, but the phone still won't boot. To be extra sure it isn't a battery issue I tried different chargers, outlets, and laptop USB ports for long periods of time. I am convinced this is not the usually "phone will not charge when turned off" problem. I also attempted to hold the power button down for long periods while on and off the charger. No results.
Resigned to take drastic measures, I tried first recovery and then factory reset from the bootloader screen. Each time I am returned to the white screen and then the black and nothing happens. I do not get the distressed android logo at all. I tried to unlock the bootloader to install a custom or factory image, but this is not allowed for the Verizon version of the Moto G.
I am out of ideas, having tried everything I've read on other posts with similar issues. What can I do?

[Q] RAZR MAXX HD boot loop

Hey all,
First of all, forgive me if this has already been covered, but I couldn't find any threads that had a solution to this specific problem that worked for me.
That said, I have a Droid RAZR MAXX HD that I rooted and flashed to page plus just about two years ago. I have since unrooted the phone. It was running on jellybean 4.1.2 if I recall correctly. The phone has been great and I've been very happy with it till today. I shut it down, nothing out of the ordinary, just decided to turn it all the way off. When I later went to turn it on, it got stuck in the middle of the little boot animation where the robotic iris opens to reveal the red eye. It froze there for 3-5 seconds and then rebooted only to do it again. Funny thing is, it freezes at a different point every time. Some times the red eye is completely visible and sometimes the iris hasn't even started to open. I tried booting without the sd card and when that didn't work I tried all the other typical stuff: simulated battery removal, cache wipe, factory reset-wipe-format. I also tried a stock system data wipe as well as a stock recovery, both with mattlgroff's Doid RAZR utility from AP Fastboot mode. Still nothing.
At this point I'm at a loss. I bought this phone for $300 back when it was the phone to have and it's been a great phone, I don't want to lose it if I don't have to. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just a quick update.
I decided to take my phone apart and see if there were any loose connections that might be causing issues with booting. I didn't find any loose connections so I put it back together, and decided to try booting it on a whim. To my surprise, it booted perfectly. A few weeks ago I installed ancleaner, and app that claims to clean your cache, yada yada. I'm guessing that somewhere along the line, it managed to corrupt a deep system file or the cache or something. Regardless of what really happened, my phone is alive again, and I think that it was probably due to physically disconnecting the battery. So moral of the story is, don't trust the simulated battery pull, and physically disconnect it for a time instead.

[Completed] A story about my freakishly hard bricked LG G2 F320L. Help needed!!

This is my story that happened with my LG G2
I recently purchased a LG G2 F320L, a refurbished one, from aliexpress(I think this was the biggest mistake of all)
I got the phone, I started using it, used it for 20 minutes and just installed antutu benchmark and ran the app and started the benchmark.
Firstly, I'd like to mention that the phone just got warm, just like other phones, during the test. While the multicore performance test was going on, the phone turned off, all of a sudden (Battery was as low as 9% when I started antutu benchmark). I thought that, it was because the battery was too low to run a benchmark app and turned on the phone back and waited, it just showed me the LG logo for 5 seconds, powered off, ended up with a bootloop. :crying:
I thought that the OS or the bootloader got corrupted and stuck and also thought that I could easily fix it by flashing boot.img or the original .kdz using LG flashtool.
I connected the phone to the PC, it was charging from 9% (That means, low battery isn't the reason for this problem). I waited until it charged till 25% and tried turning the phone on again, but, the same bootloop happened again. I downloaded the .kdz file for my exact model and prepared to flash it using LG flash tool. Unfortunately, the phone came out of download mode (Whilst the flashing was going on) and started with the bootloop again. I really got scared cause the flashing was interrupted indefinitely. I didn't know what to do and I just googled how to enter factory reset mode and I finally entered factory reset mode and chose to reset the phone completely. But, it has happened for a while and continued with the same kind of beat-up (But I was able to enter the factory reset mode later on, though) I was pretty much scared at this time and I gave the phone to one of my friends. I showed him the factory reset mode that was still working, but not useful, and I tried resetting 3 to 4 times but couldn't come out of the bootloop. But, suddenly I couldn't enter factory reset mode and the bootloop became pretty much faster that before (Just showed me the LG logo for 3 seconds and rebooted with the same bootloop). Now, no factory reset mode, download mode, and no charging either.
I got to know that it was a really serious hard brick that has ever happened to one's phone!
I handed over the phone to another one of my friends and he dismantled the phone and tried something, then connected to the computer and the computer detected the phone and QHUSB mode was saying 'Searching Windows update' with a loading symbol. He just stopped it there and told me to take it to a good service center (An expert, of course), and he also told me that I was supposed to ask him, to make the QHUSB mode work.
But, after he gave me the phone back, the bootloop was still happening, just like before, but, instead of LG logo, it was showing some bluish white lines on the 2/4 on the screen.
I haven't got time to go to a service center till date, as they might cost me more than I invested on my phone.
This is really serious problem and I need to enter the QHUSB mode and I need to flash the stock firmware cleanly. Please anyone give some time to read this thread and help me out in this situation. AGAIN, I have used the phone for like, just 20 minutes when it was in a working condition.
So, I request any experts to help me out, suggest me the solutions.
Sorry for my bad English, though.
Thanks in advance.
SumanthBv said:
This is my story that happened with my LG G2
I recently purchased a LG G2 F320L, a refurbished one, from aliexpress(I think this was the biggest mistake of all)
I got the phone, I started using it, used it for 20 minutes and just installed antutu benchmark and ran the app and started the benchmark.
Firstly, I'd like to mention that the phone just got warm, just like other phones, during the test. While the multicore performance test was going on, the phone turned off, all of a sudden (Battery was as low as 9% when I started antutu benchmark). I thought that, it was because the battery was too low to run a benchmark app and turned on the phone back and waited, it just showed me the LG logo for 5 seconds, powered off, ended up with a bootloop. :crying:
I thought that the OS or the bootloader got corrupted and stuck and also thought that I could easily fix it by flashing boot.img or the original .kdz using LG flashtool.
I connected the phone to the PC, it was charging from 9% (That means, low battery isn't the reason for this problem). I waited until it charged till 25% and tried turning the phone on again, but, the same bootloop happened again. I downloaded the .kdz file for my exact model and prepared to flash it using LG flash tool. Unfortunately, the phone came out of download mode (Whilst the flashing was going on) and started with the bootloop again. I really got scared cause the flashing was interrupted indefinitely. I didn't know what to do and I just googled how to enter factory reset mode and I finally entered factory reset mode and chose to reset the phone completely. But, it has happened for a while and continued with the same kind of beat-up (But I was able to enter the factory reset mode later on, though) I was pretty much scared at this time and I gave the phone to one of my friends. I showed him the factory reset mode that was still working, but not useful, and I tried resetting 3 to 4 times but couldn't come out of the bootloop. But, suddenly I couldn't enter factory reset mode and the bootloop became pretty much faster that before (Just showed me the LG logo for 3 seconds and rebooted with the same bootloop). Now, no factory reset mode, download mode, and no charging either.
I got to know that it was a really serious hard brick that has ever happened to one's phone!
I handed over the phone to another one of my friends and he dismantled the phone and tried something, then connected to the computer and the computer detected the phone and QHUSB mode was saying 'Searching Windows update' with a loading symbol. He just stopped it there and told me to take it to a good service center (An expert, of course), and he also told me that I was supposed to ask him, to make the QHUSB mode work.
But, after he gave me the phone back, the bootloop was still happening, just like before, but, instead of LG logo, it was showing some bluish white lines on the 2/4 on the screen.
I haven't got time to go to a service center till date, as they might cost me more than I invested on my phone.
This is really serious problem and I need to enter the QHUSB mode and I need to flash the stock firmware cleanly. Please anyone give some time to read this thread and help me out in this situation. AGAIN, I have used the phone for like, just 20 minutes when it was in a working condition.
So, I request any experts to help me out, suggest me the solutions.
Sorry for my bad English, though.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
Try looking here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475045
and maybe posting your question in there
Good luck!

Phone got stuck in a boot loop but is now powered off, not sure what to do now

I have only had it for about 16 months now. It is a MetroPCS GS7 so it's a T-Mobile variant if that matters. Never been rooted or modified in a similar way. The same thing happened with my previous phone, a GS4 which never got fixed. I was just using a video downloader app when it suddenly restarted. It only shows the first screen for about 5 seconds then restarts. I have some experience using ODIN and flashing ROMs but I don't know what I should try with a GS7.
After a few tries to get it into recovery, this is what happened. The blue recovery message in the top left showed up but I didn't let go of the buttons this time. Then this rotating white circle showed up and said something like "applying system update". After about 20 seconds then I got a screen with the dead android and it said "no command" below it. Then I don't know what happened but then suddenly the recovery menu showed up. So I picked to just power off so it is just turned off now and no longer in a boot loop. I don't know what to do from here. I won't turn it back on until I get advice on what to do next.
If you just want to fix it without worrying about losing data, see if you can get it onto download mode and full a full stock flash with all 4 firmware files in Odin.
If anything is corrupt, Odin should give you an error message which might be enough of a clue as to where to look next.
OK so I flashed it once and it didn't work, it was still stuck. After that I just gave up on keeping anything and wiped all data. I flashed it a second time and it still got stuck, but after about 10 restarts it finally worked. However it is now on the T-Mobile firmware instead of the Metro PCS one and also I am having weird problems now. I would like to go back to the Metro PCS however I cannot find any firmware for a G930T other than T-Mobile. The problems I have experienced so far is the auto brightness does not work anymore, I have to manually set brightness even when it is switched on, the screen turns on for a few seconds when it's done charging now, and also I restarted my phone to fix an app and then it got stuck in a loop again. It took 10 restarts then worked again, but that is still a problem. I don't even know if I should still be wasting my time trying to fix this. I really don't want to buy a new phone right now but I also feel hopeless in fixing this one.

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