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[Q] Problems with recovery and updating to 5.0.2

Hey,
I'm new to all of this so I really don't know what I'm doing wrong.
I got the normal Moto G running on 4.4.4, unlocked bootloader and rooted.
I've read that if no system files are changed I can just normally update the phone. So I flashed stock recovery (I had CWM before) using MotoTool AiO. But when I want to enter recovery it just gives me the "No Command." screen.
Only other thing I have different is, that I deleted some preinstalled Google and Motorola apps.
When I try to update the phone it just reboots after about 10 seconds telling me the update failed. (I always have to download the update again.)
I hope you guys can help me get to 5.0.2.
Thanks

You need certain Motorola Apps on your phone before the OTA update will work. Also, it's best to be unrooted.

Is there a way to restore the Motorola Apps? With the app i deleted them I can't, because I deleted them completely. (I didn't thought I would need them again.)

I'm not sure if you can find the proper APKs.
It may be easier to just flash back to stock and take the OTA update.

Okay, so I tried to get back a custom recovery so I can flash 4.4.4, but the problem is I still only get the no command screen when entering the recovery.
First I tried flashing CWM with the MotoTool AiO, but I still couldn't enter recovery, so I tried Philz Recovery, but I got the same problem there.
How the hell can I get a recovery, so I can flash 4.4.4?

You need to flash a completely stock ROM, including recovery.
You should download the stock 4.4.4 ROM for your phone and manually flash each partition using fastboot or mfasboot commands.

I tried it with help of this thread.
But it always says i can't find the command mfastboot and with the command fastboot it tells me it can't find the files and when I'm entering the folder it says it can't find the command. And even if I move the extracted files to the same folder (Where the fastboot.exe is) it tells me the files can't be found...
Like I said I'm new to all of this and little more detailed help would be appreciated
PS:
I still got the same .zip with the stock 4.4.4 I used to flash the first time (After that I deleted the system apps)
And in this .zip is an app folder with all the apks, so is there a fast way to just reinstall all of them?

Enable USB debugging and use the Moto AIO tool's Utilities tab to flash APKs to your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2635706

In MotoTool when I'm in fastboot it tells me device not found (Minimal ADB and Fastboot can find my device, and yestery MotoTool could find it, too. USB-Debugging is active.) and when the phone is normally stared in the cmd window it tells me [failed] ... (Can't read the rest, because the window closes instantly), but MotoTool says the installation worked

You need to be booted into ROM in order to use the APK installer.
When installing an APK, you may be prompted on the phone screen to allow your computer to have access to the phone.

Okay I managed to flash 4.4.4 and then I could update to 5.0.2, thanks for the help.

That's great. Glad I could be of some help.

[Q] cm11 -> cm12 flashing issues

so, i recently updated my oneplus one from cm11 to cm12.1 and when cm12 loaded in, i got a repeated message that com.android.phone has stopped and the quick settings bar displayed that i had no sim card in. so i tried reflashing, and the same problem. i redownloaded and reflashed... same problem.
so, i went into twrp and performed a full wipe, thinking that i'd push a new zip using twrp's mount function. the problem is, when i went to mount, no drive appeared on my computer. and when i went to fastboot to flash it manually, fastboot said that 'Image is not a boot image' . the same thing happens whenever i try to re-flash recovery as well. so how can i get an os back on the system if fastboot won't cooperate and twrp is essentially useless?
tldr; no os on oneplus one, fastboot wont flash boot image, twrp mount and twrp adb wont do anything. What do?

ItsDeadEnd said:
so, i recently updated my oneplus one from cm11 to cm12.1 and when cm12 loaded in, i got a repeated message that com.android.phone has stopped and the quick settings bar displayed that i had no sim card in. so i tried reflashing, and the same problem. i redownloaded and reflashed... same problem.
so, i went into twrp and performed a full wipe, thinking that i'd push a new zip using twrp's mount function. the problem is, when i went to mount, no drive appeared on my computer. and when i went to fastboot to flash it manually, fastboot said that 'Image is not a boot image' . the same thing happens whenever i try to re-flash recovery as well. so how can i get an os back on the system if fastboot won't cooperate and twrp is essentially useless?
tldr; no os on oneplus one, fastboot wont flash boot image, twrp mount and twrp adb wont do anything. What do?
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What's the exact command you're using with fastboot? Are you only attempting to flash the boot.img? If so, why only that?

Heisenberg said:
What's the exact command you're using with fastboot? Are you only attempting to flash the boot.img? If so, why only that?
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I am using "fastboot flash boot [zip]" i also tried "fastboot update [zip]", neither of which worked

ItsDeadEnd said:
I am using "fastboot flash boot [zip]" i also tried "fastboot update [zip]", neither of which worked
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You didn't answer my question, why are you giving that command? There are a dozen or so commands that you're meant to give when flashing with fastboot. The only time you use that command is when you're just trying to flash a kernel.

Heisenberg said:
You didn't answer my question, why are you giving that command? There are a dozen or so commands that you're meant to give when flashing with fastboot. The only time you use that command is when you're just trying to flash a kernel.
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what commands would you suggest i do then? because those are the only things i used other than the wipe command

ItsDeadEnd said:
what commands would you suggest i do then? because those are the only things i used other than the wipe command
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Well it depends on what you're trying to do. As I said, the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" command will only flash a kernel. You really shouldn't be messing around with fastboot if you don't actually know what you're doing, that's how phones get bricked. Go to my guide and follow the instructions in section 8:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2839471

[SOLVED]
apparently sometime between me instlling cm11 and installing cm12, my oem got re-locked. which prevented me from flashing anything new.
i ran:
fastboot oem unlock
and fastboot flash boot boot.img
and voila
help thread for those with the same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2839471
thank you for the help!

Mi mix 3 Global ROM bootloop

I'll start by apologizing if this has been solved elsewhere I have searched but found no answers.
I have the global variant and was rooted with twrp. I wanted the ota update so I unrooted and updated. Today I had some time so I flashed twrp wiped and entered bootloop. I attempted a full factory reset through twrp but still bootlooped. I have fastboot rom and have attempted to use miflash to fix it but get the "cannot found lock.bat" error though when first starting miflash I get the "can't find flash script" error. The drivers are properly installed yet the error persists. I cannot get adb to sideload which is, I'm guessing because of the wipe removing debugging mode? Is there any way to get the ROM image to the phone(I tried adb push command but says no device. Yet flashing recovery works so I know it's connected and recognized) so I can flash it via TWRP or the stock recovery img to flash and work from there? I'm kind of at a loss here. Am I now the proud owner of a very neat paper weight? I seriously hope not as I'm not exactly made of money and I've only owned the phone for a couple months.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Update
I have managed to get adb push to start sending global v10.2.2.0 to the root folder. I'm hoping this will allow me to flash from twrp.
Mota420 said:
I'll start by apologizing if this has been solved elsewhere I have searched but found no answers.
I have the global variant and was rooted with twrp. I wanted the ota update so I unrooted and updated. Today I had some time so I flashed twrp wiped and entered bootloop. I attempted a full factory reset through twrp but still bootlooped. I have fastboot rom and have attempted to use miflash to fix it but get the "cannot found lock.bat" error though when first starting miflash I get the "can't find flash script" error. The drivers are properly installed yet the error persists. I cannot get adb to sideload which is, I'm guessing because of the wipe removing debugging mode? Is there any way to get the ROM image to the phone(I tried adb push command but says no device. Yet flashing recovery works so I know it's connected and recognized) so I can flash it via TWRP or the stock recovery img to flash and work from there? I'm kind of at a loss here. Am I now the proud owner of a very neat paper weight? I seriously hope not as I'm not exactly made of money and I've only owned the phone for a couple months.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
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Update 2 phone working but still confused.
Pushing the ROM via ADB did indeed allow me to flash from twrp and restore the phone. My question now is why did it happen? Is the new OTA MIUI 10.3... update incompatible with twrp or did something anomalous happen with the flash? I flashed exactly the same method I used with the 10.2.2 ROM a few weeks ago....

OTA's should only be used when completely stock! Even though you uninstalled root, there were still system modifications that more than likely caused your issues. The fastboot version of the firmware is different than the TWRP image. You can not flash a TWRP image via fastboot, hence the missing scripts and bat files. If you had actually downloaded the fastboot image, you would have had a flash_all.bat file that would have returned your device completely to stock with a single run of that file.

Thanks for the reply and information. I actually expected my issues to begin upon installing the ota update and was quite surprised that it updated without error. What confuses me is how flashing twrp after the update caused the issues. I went through the normal process when flashing twrp and still ended up bootlooped. I made the mistake of thinking boot.img was the old stock recovery i renamed when i first rooted and flashing that as recovery. Obviously this was not the recovery file but fastboot. It was then that panic mode kicked in and things went from bad to worse. I formatted planning to flash the stock rom via adb which didn't work. Given that I never touched the fastboot image on the phone I'm confused on how the bat files and scripts weren't found.
I'll admit I'm not extremely well versed in this area.
Is it possible that the ota update contained different bat files and scripts than the previous rom had? Which would cause miflash to not recognize them when attempting to flash an older rom? I'm sorry if my questions are ignorant lol. I'm a process guy and a troubleshooter by nature which means even though I've resolved the issue, I need to figure out what caused it.
Would flashing fastboot to the phone as the recovery image have screwed up the bat and scripts? Having two instances of boot.img on the partition messed it up maybe? Was it the formatting even though I was still able to boot into fastboot after? Or was it something that happened during the unrooting and updating that messed it up and it didn't manifest until I flashed twrp? Like I said the update worked fine and the phone was fully functional until I tried to reroot.
Thanks again for taking the time to help. It's definitely appreciated.

Mota420 said:
Thanks for the reply and information. I actually expected my issues to begin upon installing the ota update and was quite surprised that it updated without error. What confuses me is how flashing twrp after the update caused the issues. I went through the normal process when flashing twrp and still ended up bootlooped. I made the mistake of thinking boot.img was the old stock recovery i renamed when i first rooted and flashing that as recovery. Obviously this was not the recovery file but fastboot. It was then that panic mode kicked in and things went from bad to worse. I formatted planning to flash the stock rom via adb which didn't work. Given that I never touched the fastboot image on the phone I'm confused on how the bat files and scripts weren't found.
I'll admit I'm not extremely well versed in this area.
Is it possible that the ota update contained different bat files and scripts than the previous rom had? Which would cause miflash to not recognize them when attempting to flash an older rom? I'm sorry if my questions are ignorant lol. I'm a process guy and a troubleshooter by nature which means even though I've resolved the issue, I need to figure out what caused it.
Would flashing fastboot to the phone as the recovery image have screwed up the bat and scripts? Having two instances of boot.img on the partition messed it up maybe? Was it the formatting even though I was still able to boot into fastboot after? Or was it something that happened during the unrooting and updating that messed it up and it didn't manifest until I flashed twrp? Like I said the update worked fine and the phone was fully functional until I tried to reroot.
Thanks again for taking the time to help. It's definitely appreciated.
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OTA's are not a complete image. It is a partial update that only replaces what it has to replace. If MiFlash dis not recognize the image, it was either the wrong image or a corrupt image.
Sometimes updates to the system and recovery partitions fix exploits that things like root and TWRP take advantage of.
Fastboot isn't something you flash to the phone. It is a command line used to flash a dull factory image to the device properly. You do not need MiFlash to flash a fastboot factory image. All you do is extract the full image to your ADB folder unless it is system wide, boot your device into the bootloader, connect ir to your PC, and run the flash_all.bat command contained in the folder you extracted. A command prompt window will open, everything will complete after about a few minutes the window will close, and your phone will reboot.

So the "fastboot" rom is a rom designed to be flashed using fastboot? The miflash error was given because the rom I was trying to flash was corrupted. That makes sense as I'd never known of a fastboot rom before. But it has been a few years since I rooted and romd my phone. I always did the typical flash from the rom image from twrp. I'm still not sure how I got myself in a boot loop unless when I wiped after flashing twrp I accidentally selected another option that erased more than I wanted.. Which makes perfect sense. I knew it had to be an ID10T error lol.
Thanks for the explanation.

Oneplus 6 and magisk (stuck in fastboot )

hi guys,
my op6 is running stock oos with magisk as root. My phone worked fine for several months. Today I tried switching magisk from the stable version to canary by first upgrading the manager app and then hitting the direct install option. This failed several times and I got an error saying:
! Unable to unpack boot image
I thought this could be fixed by a reboot, but well... it wasn't. Now the phone only boots into the bootloader. I booted into twrp and tried to uninstall magisk via the uninstall.zip. This fails with error
-Unpacking boot image
! Unsupported/Unknown image format
- Unmounting partitions
cd /tmp/repackorig/ && /sbin/magiskboot unpack -h '/tmp/repackorig/boot.img' process ended with ERROR: 1
Error unpacking image
I don't really know what this means. I'm guessing my boot.img is corrupted?
Is there any way I can solve this problem without a factory reset? Can I just flash the stock boot.img via fastboot?
Do you have any idea what went wrong here, so that I can avoid the error next time?

Yesterday I broke op5 during the magisk update. The repair was simple, flash stock boot.img as boot partition.
I flashed it from TWRP.

Try dirty flashing your ROM without flashing magisk.

I'm also facing the same issues. Tried updating from the Magisk App. Didn't receive any error messages. After reboot I'm stuck in fastboot mode and I cannot access recovery. I do not have a backup of the data on this phone.
Is there any way I can still (temporarily) access the data? I'm panicking a little bit. My OOS is stock and rooted and hasn't been updated in about a year. I'm not sure if I can still figure out the specific OOS version that is installed.
EDIT:
Have been trying to flash the stock boot.img with fastboot. I've tried both 10.0.1 and 10.3.0 so far. Both resulted in the "BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED" warning and got stuck there. 10.3.1 is my last option, because I don't think I've updated this device since. Would it make a difference if I tried to do it from twrp?
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I do however have access to the recovery mode now. If I'm not mistaken this means I might be able to extract the data.
EDIT3:
The recovery mode is not asking me for my unlock pattern (which I think it should be doing) and is not showing up under 'adb devices'. I've tried flashing the boot.img of all OOS versions I can think of with fastboot, nothing will let me boot back in or let me access adb through the recovery. Am I ****ed?

MoresM said:
I'm also facing the same issues. Tried updating from the Magisk App. Didn't receive any error messages. After reboot I'm stuck in fastboot mode and I cannot access recovery. I do not have a backup of the data on this phone.
Is there any way I can still (temporarily) access the data? I'm panicking a little bit. My OOS is stock and rooted and hasn't been updated in about a year. I'm not sure if I can still figure out the specific OOS version that is installed.
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Have been trying to flash the stock boot.img with fastboot. I've tried both 10.0.1 and 10.3.0 so far. Both resulted in the "BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED" warning and got stuck there. 10.3.1 is my last option, because I don't think I've updated this device since. Would it make a difference if I tried to do it from twrp?
EDIT2:
I do however have access to the recovery mode now. If I'm not mistaken this means I might be able to extract the data.
EDIT3:
The recovery mode is not asking me for my unlock pattern (which I think it should be doing) and is not showing up under 'adb devices'. I've tried flashing the boot.img of all OOS versions I can think of with fastboot, nothing will let me boot back in or let me access adb through the recovery. Am I ****ed?
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Maybe it's worth trying change the slot and see if it will start? Of course from the fastboot level.

MoresM said:
I'm also facing the same issues. Tried updating from the Magisk App. Didn't receive any error messages. After reboot I'm stuck in fastboot mode and I cannot access recovery. I do not have a backup of the data on this phone.
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I managed to fix it as well by flashing the stock boot.img for my software version to both slot_a and slot_b using fastboot. I left the active slot setting alone otherwise.
Afterwards I booted into twrp through fastboot and installed blu spark twrp and magisk 21.4 from there as a user suggested on the Magisk github: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/issues/3924
Note that github link also has a solution to flawlessly upgrade to latest Magisk without data loss but I haven't had the time to look at it.

Phone boots into fastboot, system files corrupted

Hi! My old phone is booting into fastboot mode, when I try to boot normally I get a black screen, the "Power off" button appears when I hold the power button. The bootloader is not unlocked and the phone was never rooted. Wiping the user partition does not help. It is visible in fastboot mode and I can enter stock recovery, though trying to adb sideload a stock rom returns an error (footer is wrong; signature verification failed). Trying to fastboot boot twrp or recovery.img doesn't work either. I've ran out of ideas, what should I do to get this phone to work?

Try flashing the stock ROM with fastboot. I'm pretty sure ADB doesn't let you flash onto your phone because using your phone with ADB means that it's still powered on - which can cause some issues. You can also try and unlock your bootloader through fastboot, and then flash a recovery and custom ROM.

Both failed. I attached the errors I recieved.

crepper4454 said:
Both failed. I attached the errors I recieved.
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Try "fastboot bootloader unlock", maybe. Also: Is there a flashall.bat in the stock ROM folder? If there is: Connect your device while in fastboot, and double-click it.

crepper4454 said:
Both failed. I attached the errors I recieved.
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Try this maybe. I know you can't wipe through the stock ROM, so, try the command: "fastboot -w". That'll wipe everything off the device.
[INDEX][Osprey][Merlin] Moto G Factory Firmware Images
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything that happens as a result of flashing these files. Your destiny is your own. Moto G (3rd Gen) Factory Firmware Images - Provided by Firmware TEAM - Please report broken links. New Mirrors welcome...
forum.xda-developers.com

I can wipe through stock recovery. I did fastboot -w and it cleared the cache and userdata partitions, they were already clean afaik. Typing fastboot bootloader unlock returns unknown command. There are no .bat files in my firmware. I can try downloading one from the site you linked, but I don't know what to do with it if fastboot flash does not work.

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I can wipe through stock recovery. I did fastboot -w and it cleared the cache and userdata partitions, they were already clean afaik. Typing fastboot bootloader unlock returns unknown command. There are no .bat files in my firmware. I can try downloading one from the site you linked, but I don't know what to do with it if fastboot flash does not work.
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Try this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-osprey-fastboot-flashing-factory-firmware-images.3187750/

It says there that the "preflash validation failed" error occurs when the firmware being flashed is older than the one already installed. I will try downloading a newer version and flashing it. Will update here.

Update: I have dowloaded a newer rom and tried to flash it. This time got different errors (picture attached, this went for every sparsechunk). I think I know the reason but I do not know how to solve it. This might not be the exact stock rom of this phone so I cannot flash it with a locked bootloader. Could someone help me finding the correct rom or suggest a different solution?

Yooooo. I have the Moto e5 Cruise and so does my wife. We bought them in 2018 from Cricket and last night hers went to emmc failure, also known scientifically as 'no worky' mode.
The phone would only load in fastboot and had tried to use my Moto RSD tool to reflash but the phone would not detect in anything but fastboot mode.. Here's where it gets interesting....
There is a piece of software called the Lenovo (which now owns Moto) Rescue and Smart Assistant that can reflash your phone back to factory, no matter your sub-variant (cricket, metro, etc). Without having a fresh backup on hand, you're going to be beholden to the last cloud sync or manual backup you have because all data will be wiped in the below process.
BTW: Just run the assistant as it seems to be the easiest 'back-to-stock/working' tool I can find. Going to fastboot alone yielded weird errors since i didn't have the unlock code for the 'fastboot oem unlock [code goes here]' command.
**RESTORATION PROCESS**
This will apply to multiple Lenovo/Moto Mobility devices. Unknown at this time how many have been impacted by this seemingly pre-planned failure on Lenovo's part.
If your phone is stuck in fastboot mode where MTK download mode does not load, nor does adb, follow these simple steps:
(NOTE: BACKUP YOUR FILES IF POSSIBLE)
1. Click the link above to be directed to the Lenovo software download page and run the installer on your PC (Sorry Mac users :'().
2. The software, once installed, will require you to sign up for OR link a google, fb, g+, etc account to it for purposes of creating a Lenovo ID. Once signed in, click on 'Rescue Now'.
3. With your phone in fastboot mode, allow the software to download the firmware for your phone.
4. Once the firmware has finished downloading and validating, click on 'Rescue Now' once again. Your phone will begin the reflashing process.

That... actually worked. The program found the required ROM and flashing went without problems. Thank you very much @kmt5150 .

crepper4454 said:
That... actually worked. The program found the required ROM and flashing went without problems. Thank you very much @kmt5150 .
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No problemo! Glad it worked!