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Signal dropping several times after KitKat update

As you can see here: https://forums.motorola.com/posts/48fb0b8150
And here: https://forums.motorola.com/posts/c23d71e3d8
Guys, I'm getting desperate with this situation...
After upgrading my phone to Android 4.4, the carrier signal repeatedly drops 2 or 3 times on every 15 minutes! Even when I'm in a call! Sometimes the No Sim Card icon appears as well.
Before Kitkat, everything was ok.
> Tried to revert back to Stock 4.3 ROM, but I did not succeed, the problem persists.
> I installed the correct modem file (NON-HLOS.bin) several times and no solution.
> Motorola only guides me to change the SIM Card, make a factory reset or consult the provider.
> But I've switched to SIMs from multiple carriers and the same thing happens.
> The problem seems also to not be linked with the carrier signal because I live and work in different cities and the signal keeps dropping here and there.
So, I reached in a point where I do not know more what I can do.
Does anyone have a light for me? Someone also had this problem?

Outline the flashing history of the device from when you bought it. What do you mean when you say reverting back to 4.3 ROM did not succeed? Did the flash fail?

lost101 said:
Outline the flashing history of the device from when you bought it. What do you mean when you say reverting back to 4.3 ROM did not succeed? Did the flash fail?
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No, the flashing process was fine.
I'm on Stock 4.3 ROM right now, but signal keeps dropping.

What fastboot commands have you used? Did you include:
flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
erase modemst1
erase modemst2
flash fsg fsg.mbn​

lost101 said:
What fastboot commands have you used? Did you include:
flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
erase modemst1
erase modemst2
flash fsg fsg.mbn​
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Yes, exactly it. I also used a flashable 4.3 Modem zip by @dhacker29 , no solution on two ways

What model do you have? What is your stock firmware? It sounds like you are not properly flashing the stock firmware. Please post the list of commands you are using.

lots of problems in the uk with signal dropping after upgrading too kitkat but if you have flashed it back too 4,3 it cant be the same issue,i have flashed back too 4.3 and everything is fine again.
https://forums.motorola.com/posts/48fb0b8150?page=1 ,thats the problem page on motorola forum for the issue.

Kit Kat made changes to the APN and not all carriers updated the APN file in a timely manor. Suggest you check what you have and make sure it agrees with The carriers latest info.

lost101 said:
What model do you have? What is your stock firmware? It sounds like you are not properly flashing the stock firmware. Please post the list of commands you are using.
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I have a XT1033 (dual sim variant).
My stock firmware is 'fastboot_falcon_retbr_ds_user_4.3_14.10.0Q3.X-76-LCG-9_61_release-keys-cid12-Brasil_BR.tar.gz'.
As you raised suspicions about firmware mismatch, I have to say:
> I bought the device with 4.3 from factory.
> Unlocked bootloader.
> I installed 4.3 from UK (only one SIM worked, ok, I was excited to taste kitkat).
> I updated to 4.4 via OTA (here the signal problem appeared).
> I installed root.
> Out of curiosity I spent a day with the CM11.
> I went back to 4.4 via backup.
> I installed the 4.3 from Brazil.
> Reinstalled 'NON-HLOS.bin' from my ROM again.
> I installed the 'NON-HLOS.bin' from @dhacker29.
> I went back to 'NON-HLOS.bin' from my ROM again (here I am now).

Did you run the flashall.bat included with that firmware?

lost101 said:
Did you run the flashall.bat included with that firmware?
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Yep, two ways, flashall.bat and manual commands as well.

There is another stock firmware image you could try.
fastboot_falcon_retbr_user_4.3_14.10.0Q3.X-76-LCG-8_41_release-keys-cid12-Brasil_BR.tar.gz​

Unable to flash any ROM on XT1031

I have XT1031 with unlocked boot loader and twrp. I tried flashing cm11 M5, C-Rom and AOSPA but the phone went to a bootloop always. I have rooted my phone. I also tried flashing with cwm philz.
Also a month ago I flashed CM11 but after that I switched to stock and on flashing now bootloop occurs
I did factory reset every time and wiped cache.
Please help

The same thing happens to me, can you send the safety copy?, I need It urgently, my telephone has remained unusable and the last option is to restore a backup with the original rom.
Please

Falcon G said:
I have XT1031 with unlocked boot loader and twrp. I tried flashing cm11 M5, C-Rom and AOSPA but the phone went to a bootloop always. I have rooted my phone. I also tried flashing with cwm philz.
Also a month ago I flashed CM11 but after that I switched to stock and on flashing now bootloop occurs
I did factory reset every time and wiped cache.
Please help
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I do not know if my guide will work with XT1031, but you can try converting to GPE and after flashing those roms. For XT1033 this is the procedure. As XT1031 is CDMA, it is better having a backup of your stock rom and skipping the fastboot flash fsg fsg.img and modem parts.

thelegendofzeth said:
I do not know if my guide will work with XT1031, but you can try converting to GPE and after flashing those roms. For XT1033 this is the procedure. As XT1031 is CDMA, it is better having a backup of your stock rom and skipping the fastboot flash fsg fsg.img and modem parts.
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Thanks For the reply. I tried but the GPE image does not work on CDMA version

This is usually caused by having the wrong or corrupt boot.img Try installing the stock image using one of the guides in this forum. Cheers.

thelegendofzeth said:
I do not know if my guide will work with XT1031, but you can try converting to GPE and after flashing those roms. For XT1033 this is the procedure. As XT1031 is CDMA, it is better having a backup of your stock rom and skipping the fastboot flash fsg fsg.img and modem parts.
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Hi I was able to make GPE flash in my phone with the help of a nandroid backup. However it shows encryption when I start it. Can you tell me how to just change the partition to ex4 and then use the nandroid backup

Falcon G said:
Hi I was able to make GPE flash in my phone with the help of a nandroid backup. However it shows encryption when I start it. Can you tell me how to just change the partition to ex4 and then use the nandroid backup
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PhilZ Touch Recovery has a f2fs to ext4 option.
Wipe and Format Options > Custom Format Options​
I've attached the gpt.bin from the 4.4.4 GPE firmware image, flashing it via fastboot should also make the userdata partition ext4, allowing you to boot. Also make sure you flash the GPE kernel here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649763
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

lost101 said:
PhilZ Touch Recovery has a f2fs to ext4 option.
Wipe and Format Options > Custom Format Options​
I've attached the gpt.bin from the 4.4.4 GPE firmware image, flashing it via fastboot should also make the userdata partition ext4, allowing you to boot. Also make sure you flash the GPE kernel here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649763
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
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I think this messed up my device now I cannot flash my original partition as it says downgrade faliure. Please suggest something
The error on bootloader while flashing the gpt is version downgrade for primary_gpt

Here are some 4.4.2 XT1031 firmware images. Try flashing them in fastboot - guide if needed.
XT1031 4.4.2 Boost US
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2krak4mqeqpp/ACG_XT1031_4.4.2_KXB20.9-1.10-1.43_CFC_1FF.xml.zip
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2clysykpzh85/USC_XT1031_4.4.2_KXB20.9-1.10-1.9_CFC_1FF.xml.zip​

lost101 said:
Here are some 4.4.2 XT1031 firmware images. Try flashing them in fastboot - guide if needed.
XT1031 4.4.2 Boost US
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2krak4mqeqpp/ACG_XT1031_4.4.2_KXB20.9-1.10-1.43_CFC_1FF.xml.zip
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2clysykpzh85/USC_XT1031_4.4.2_KXB20.9-1.10-1.9_CFC_1FF.xml.zip​
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Hey it didn't work but can you give me the gpt file from 4.4.4 UK firmware. I'm sorry but I cannot download the whole firmware as my speed is really slow

Here is the one from the Retail EU firmware which is the same.

[Q][HELP] Getting Moto G back to stock

So here I am worrying about bricking my device if I go back to stock.
Here is some insight-
I have an unlocked XT1032 US retail moto g running Cyanogenmod 11 m4 snapshot. I am also running clockworkmod recovery and everything is working fine. I have heard of many people bricking their devices when they try and flash stock because the version doesnt match up with the bootloader version or something like that. My bootloader version is reported to be 4111.5 (The bootloader menu version is 41.11) from the "fastboot getvar all". So if I want to flash stock firmware what version do I need to choose. (can someone give me a link to the download?) Also is there any easier way to do this, perhaps can someone give me a clockworkmod backup of stock firmware and i can flash it via restore in the recovery. Also is there a way to get .img files of my whole phone via the dd command on the superuser shell. (Someone please give me a list of those commands to make a full image of my phone) so I can restore incase something goes wrong.
So pretty much all in all can someone please give me a link to the correct stock firmware for my phone that I can flash with NO issues and a list of commands that I can use to flash.
And just wondering what is mfastboot and how is it different from fastboot.
I should have made a backup with cwm recovery before I installed cm11 but I forgot which is why I made this thread. ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED! THANKS!

hey try downloading stock firmware from this link http://sbf.droid-developers.org/download.php?device=14&file=786
then follow instruction from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
if you failed once don't panic... just try another firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=14
just make sure you choose firmware which is for retail US and also choose right version of android... but first try the firmware i have mentioned above...

skyguy126 said:
So here I am worrying about bricking my device if I go back to stock.
Here is some insight-
I have an unlocked XT1032 US retail moto g running Cyanogenmod 11 m4 snapshot. I am also running clockworkmod recovery and everything is working fine. I have heard of many people bricking their devices when they try and flash stock because the version doesnt match up with the bootloader version or something like that. My bootloader version is reported to be 4111.5 (The bootloader menu version is 41.11) from the "fastboot getvar all". So if I want to flash stock firmware what version do I need to choose. (can someone give me a link to the download?) Also is there any easier way to do this, perhaps can someone give me a clockworkmod backup of stock firmware and i can flash it via restore in the recovery. Also is there a way to get .img files of my whole phone via the dd command on the superuser shell. (Someone please give me a list of those commands to make a full image of my phone) so I can restore incase something goes wrong.
So pretty much all in all can someone please give me a link to the correct stock firmware for my phone that I can flash with NO issues and a list of commands that I can use to flash.
And just wondering what is mfastboot and how is it different from fastboot.
I should have made a backup with cwm recovery before I installed cm11 but I forgot which is why I made this thread. ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED! THANKS!
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XdroidBD said:
hey try downloading stock firmware from this link http://sbf.droid-developers.org/download.php?device=14&file=786
then follow instruction from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
if you failed once don't panic... just try another firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=14
just make sure you choose firmware which is for retail US and also choose right version of android... but first try the firmware i have mentioned above...
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Yes what this guy says will work

Almost hard bricked my phone
Tomsgt said:
Yes what this guy says will work
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during flash gpt.bin it said preflash valadition failed and on the bootloader screen it said partition table downgraded. Used CWM backup to restore and my phone is functioning again but I am still not stock. Please tell me what I am doing wrong? I have attached a screenshot of the command prompt screen.

Q30: i encounter '(bootloader) Preflash validation failed' error message when flashing Firmware Image
You may have updated to Android 4.4.4 via firmware image or OTA update. In this case you now also have the latest version of the Bootloader. That is why you get the above output when attempting to flash a 4.4.2 firmware image. ==> simply flash 4.4.4 images instead.
If the error still occurs, even with a 4.4.4 firmware image, then unlocking bootloader will be necessary.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537119​
There is no 4.4.4 Retail US yet. You can flash 4.4.4 Retail EU just fine. Recovery flashable zip here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/development/rom-stock-motorola-rom-collection-t2854688​

I have the retail us version though. She. Will the retail us 4.4.4 be available? And one important question when I do go back to stock 4.4.4 with the link you gave me via recovery, will my custom recovery get overwritten with the stock one?

XT1032 is a Global GSM model. you can flash an XT1032 ROM from anywhere in the world and it will work.
It's currently unknown when 4.4.4 US Retail will be available, but I do not think it will take too much longer.
Those zip files only include ROM and Kernel. Recovery will not be changed.

I'll be trying that tomorrow and I'll let you know if it works or not asap. But for now thanks!

You might also need to flash the 4.4.4 EU Retail radio zip available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649763​

I read somewhere that when you flash stock ROM even though the recovery is not being changed, the stock ROM will overwrite the custom recovery in start up.
Is this true?

skyguy126 said:
I read somewhere that when you flash stock ROM even though the recovery is not being changed, the stock ROM will overwrite the custom recovery in start up.
Is this true?
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Please help my phone is stuck in CWM recovery during the flash and I think the recovery is frozen. Can I hard reboot back to recovery or is my phone totaled? :crying:

This worked for me - http://forum.xda-developers.com/mot...-gpe-4-4-4-t2824377/post55768571#post55768571. Once back to 'base' you can update to 4.4.4 OTA or flash another ROM. And if you get stuck again, re-run this process. Three downloads, a few scripts to run; double-click easy.
Good luck.

Back at stock, just had to give CWM 10mins! Thanks everyone!

No baseband IMEI after flashing 5.0

The issue I have been having is that the phone reports unknown baseband version and there is no IMEI. Wifi was still working originally. The issues came after I flashed the latest lollipop alpha modem needed for the latest CM12 build/kernel.
After I experienced the issue, I flashed back the 44s modem. Then Wifi was also gone.
As of right now, the best I can do is:
1. Install ColorOS 2.0.0
2. OTA to ColorOS 2.0.4
ColorOS gave me Wifi back.
At this point, I tried to fastboot install TWRP per @NikoZBK suggested. The fastboot command reported successful but it still got the ColorOS recovery. So I have to...
3. Fastboot flash 30o with flash-all.bat
However, by doing so, my Wifi is gone and I still have unknown baseband version and IMEI. Therefore, I went back to (1) and (2), took out this line: fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin in flash-all.bat and run flash-all.bat again.
At this point, Wifi is still working but I still have unknown baseband version and IMEI.
4. Flash pre-rooted 44s in TWRP. The issues are still there.
I also tried doing "make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p15" in TWRP and it actually killed Wifi. I am running out of ideas. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

No radio or service what so ever....

Hello everyone. So here's my problem, i was flashing the android marshmallow rom that was just ported over to our lovely phone. I got it to work, it booted, ran smooth the only problem was i had no service at all. i still have my baseloader and imei but my service state says radio off. i did do a backup of my efs before i flashed marshmallow but it didnt work. i just reflashed it to Oxygen os and it still says radio off. ive tired flashing modems but i dont exactly know which one to flash. ive tried flashing other roms but to no avail. i really need my phone so any help would be greatly appreciated

Did you try moving to older versions of the OS.
Try doing following
1. Install any Android 5.1.1 firmware. This should restore the Radio
2. Install any suitable radio/modem explicitly
Let us know if it helps. Best of luck dude

vermabhanu said:
Did you try moving to older versions of the OS.
Try doing following
1. Install any Android 5.1.1 firmware. This should restore the Radio
2. Install any suitable radio/modem explicitly
Let us know if it helps. Best of luck dude
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I have to fresh install the ROM on my OPO because I got it bricked so I followed this guide now my radio still doesn't work and the phone is constantly rebooting. The issues came out just like @agentxur did

Considering that you still have your baseband and IMEI (You're Lucky ), you can just flash 44S Modem via Fastboot or full CM12.1 Firmware. I will leave out a link for 44S Modem down.
44S Modem: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001607675
PS: Flash it through FASTBOOT only!!! Else won't work

I hope the method pointed out by Sanjiv Kumar helped you. Whatever your feedback let the members know.

Sanjiv Kumar said:
Considering that you still have your baseband and IMEI (You're Lucky ), you can just flash 44S Modem via Fastboot or full CM12.1 Firmware. I will leave out a link for 44S Modem down.
PS: Flash it through FASTBOOT only!!! Else won't work
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I just recently installed Linux on my laptop so I don't have fastboot right now but I actually read somewhere that twrp 2.8.7.0 (which I was using with multirom) won't flash modems or radios correctly so I reflashed 2.8.6.0 with rasher app and it worked. Thanks tho