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Bootloop 2013 Moto G Boost Mobile XT1031 8GB

Hey guys!
To start, I want to say what an amazing place XDA is and how much information and knowledge you can get from here and how awesome the moderators are. I don't think I could ever find another amazing and/or helpful community such as those found here! Thanks to all who have helped me out with my Android issues!
Now to my issue and I apologize ahead of time if there is another thread (or related thread) found in the forum.
As the title states, I have a 2013 Motorola Moto G XT1031 Boost Mobile device. I had upgraded it to Lollipop 5.0.2 or 5.1 when it came out (I can't remember which one it was) and I had then decided to root it. I can say that I believe I was successful in rooting the device because I was able to install Supersu and use RootChecker to verify the install. Everything was going okay until i decided to research and eventually install a custom recovery and attempt to install a custom ROM. Well, let's just say that the recovery install was a bust...
In doing my research for a custom recovery, I found that TWRP had a custom recovery for my phone and apparently for my firmware via TWRP's app on the Play Store. So, I searched for my device in their in-app search for a custom recovery, downloaded it and installed it from the app. Now, my gut told me that this probably wouldn't work and that I should probably be installing a custom recovery via CLI. Nope. I didn't do this. Instead, like I said, I installed a custom recovery from the app itself. That screwed things up for me. I have no idea if it was the install, but my phone began to act incredibly strange. When in the TWRP recovery, my screen had this line that would continuously scroll from top to bottom. It wasn't a completely solid line, but it was transparent, almost like an empty thermometer glass stick was going down the screen. It was weird and not normal. I figured the phone's software was partially broken. It only did this in the TWRP recovery. Nowhere else did this happen. It was slightly annoying.
Later on I decided to install a custom ROM. Again, I did the necessary research to find out if there were any ROMs available for my phone (using XDA of course and others) and found that there were a few out there. So, I downloaded one (wish I could remember which one) and attempted to install it...keyword there. After attempting the install, my phone would not boot. Like at all. Dead. So back to the drawing board I went to try and reverse the damage. Using XDA (ironically) and a plethora of other sites, I tried to resurrect my phone and bring it back to life. After countless hours of trying and trying and trying and more and more research, I just gave up. The phone is dead. Great. $170 spent on a phone to break it a year later.
It's been roughly 4-5 months since I have attempted to redo the process and after another minor attempt, somehow I was able to remove the root completely, including the custom recovery and ROM. I don't know what the heck I did, but it worked....sort of. The phone is now stuck in a bootloop on the logo and sometimes the "bootloader has been unlocked" screen when try and factory reset the phone from the default recovery. When trying to reinstall the stock firmware, I read everywhere that I need the phone to have USB-debugging set and to have this and that. I have this and that installed on my PC, but obviously cannot enable USB-debugging which is needed for ADB and fastboot to recognize my device.
So, my question for anyone who would like to help me out is this: what are my options? Is the phone recoverable? Is there any way I can get ADB/fastboot to see my device and finally install the stock firmware on the phone? I have the proper drivers installed and ADB/fastboot are on my PC. Any help would be amazing, even if you have to tell me to junk it.

blckdragn22 said:
When trying to reinstall the stock firmware, I read everywhere that I need the phone to have USB-debugging set
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This is incorrect, where did you read that? To reinstall the stock firmware using fastboot, you must be able to boot to the bootloader menu only.

I heard this from a few websites actually, although I could never find a situational fix for my phone. I am trying to restore back to Lollipop without a custom recovery, because within the past hour I found out TWRP was never fully removed when I tried booting into recovery from the AP Fastboot menu when doing to power+vol down option. The TWRP logo shows for about 10 seconds and then the phone tries booting normally, showing the unlocked bootloader warning.
So, yes I can boot into the bootloader menu all day long with no problems. It's just an selection I make doesn't get me anywhere. My question I guess now is: how do I go about reinstalling stock firmware via the bootloader menu. I have Minimal ADB and Fastboot installed on my PC. If I need the full ADB, I can download that. And of course I'd need the firmware, too.

You can find stock firmware images in this thread, there's also a link to an installation guide there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/general/index-moto-g-falcon-factory-firmware-t3110795

_that said:
You can find stock firmware images in this thread, there's also a link to an installation guide there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/general/index-moto-g-falcon-factory-firmware-t3110795
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This thread had the firmware I was looking for thank you. I believe I have the flashing stock firmware process down, I hope. I'l refer to the guide if I need help. Thank you so much!

_that said:
You can find stock firmware images in this thread, there's also a link to an installation guide there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/general/index-moto-g-falcon-factory-firmware-t3110795
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I am trying to follow the steps listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219&page=35 and for some reason I cannot run any of the commands pertaining to the sparsechunks. This is what I get:
Is there anything you could tell me about that?
Edit: I was able to figure what the issue was when trying to write the sparsechunks. I had to insert a "." after 'sparsechunk' because that is how the file is named in the folder. However, now I am getting a new error, but it takes place on the phone screen. Every time I attempt to write a sparsechunk, it will initiate the process of doing so, but on the phone I'll get what appears to be an error saying, "Image is too large" in pink lettering. Why does this happen? Each sparsechunk file is at least 4MB less than the max-sparse-size according to the ADB and my phone, which is set to 256MB. Is there any way to change that?

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However, now I am getting a new error, but it takes place on the phone screen. Every time I attempt to write a sparsechunk, it will initiate the process of doing so, but on the phone I'll get what appears to be an error saying, "Image is too large" in pink lettering. Why does this happen? Each sparsechunk file is at least 4MB less than the max-sparse-size according to the ADB and my phone, which is set to 256MB. Is there any way to change that?
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Check which sparsechunk files you have and make sure you flash all of them in ascending order. If it still fails, copy/paste the contents of your command prompt window (no screenshots please).

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Check which sparsechunk files you have and make sure you flash all of them in ascending order. If it still fails, copy/paste the contents of your command prompt window (no screenshots please).
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I will try that. There was a ...sparsechunks.0 as well apart from sparsechunks.1, sparsechunks.2 and sparsechunks.3. Shall I include that, too?
And adding the screenshot was an amateur mistake. My bad.

@_that this worked like a charm. Phone is 100% working ans usable now. Incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

I bought a Pixel 2 directly from Google, is it possible Verizon locked my phone?

I bought the original Pixel from Verizon and that was a complete waste. Then the Pixel2 was released, and I bought it online (directly from Google). I've had it for a long while.
The first thing I did was oem unlock and flash twrp, Magisk, and Elemental X. I was running the stock rom and just let all of the updates slip past (updating the kernel of course) and had a few issues so I thought I'd factory reset and update the phone.
But I didn't take the sim card out...
When the phone rebooted it behaved *exactly* like the original Pixel if you had the sim card in. It specifically sets up according to what Verizon wants on the phone.
Now, when I go into the developer settings, the oem unlock is greyed out!!!
Does Verizon lock Pixel phones regardless of its origin?
I'm not completely stupid, this just doesn't make sense... Anyone else have this issue?
Honestly, I didn't think something like that was possible. Can anyone here confirm the hardware is the exact same? Is it possible Verizon signing keys can overwrite default/official Google keys?
Or will the phone behave as normal if I reset without the sim in?
Gonna try it and report back after work (gotta wait another 8 hours or so as of writing this).

Exactly how did you update it, and I mean every step you took?

The steps, specifically as possible:
downloaded the original image from Google (https://developers.google.com/android/images)
I grabbed [8.1.0 (OPM1.171019.013, Jan 2018] as that was the version I was running
Extracted zip, extracted the zip inside the zip (to get boot.img)
flashed stock recovery to boot_a and boot_b (using instructions found at https://www.androidexplained.com/pixel-2-restore-stock-recovery/
Reboot
Checked phone to see if it worked fine
Rebooted to [stock] recovery to see if it would load
This is where things get a little sketchy, as I could only confirm the stock recovery was in place. I only saw dead Andy with "No Command"
Reboot to system- everything looks okay so far...
Let phone automagically download and install any/all updates through the System Settings.
Make sure I want to- and then actually, factory reset phone (I did *not* remove the sim card)
Went through the initial setup
wait for it...
At this point, all Verizon default apps were installed on phone during the initial setup (not at user request/Google Play Store):
MyVerizon, Messages+, etc.
Raised an eyebrow, went to settings, enabled Developer Options, checked OEM unlock...
As of this point I have not been able to check if I can [fastboot oem unlock]
Another thing is that the flash-all.sh script refused to work properly, even with a root shell. I made sure to double check usb debug was enabled, udev rules in place, and checked, double checked cables and ports.
I can, however, confirm that I am on OPM2.171026.006.C1
I haven't memorized the list at the Google Images (*.img type) link above, but I'm pretty sure this one is listed as the generic Pixel 2 and not the Verizon variant. I will still attempt to unlock using the fastboot method... let's hope it still works...
Anywho, I work nights so, I won't be able to test anything out until after work, waffle house, and a nap. But I will indeed be back to keep this updated.

allcaps33 said:
The steps, specifically as possible:
downloaded the original image from Google (https://developers.google.com/android/images)
I grabbed [8.1.0 (OPM1.171019.013, Jan 2018] as that was the version I was running
Extracted zip, extracted the zip inside the zip (to get boot.img)
flashed stock recovery to boot_a and boot_b (using instructions found at https://www.androidexplained.com/pixel-2-restore-stock-recovery/
Reboot
Checked phone to see if it worked fine
Rebooted to [stock] recovery to see if it would load
This is where things get a little sketchy, as I could only confirm the stock recovery was in place. I only saw dead Andy with "No Command"
Reboot to system- everything looks okay so far...
Let phone automagically download and install any/all updates through the System Settings.
Make sure I want to- and then actually, factory reset phone (I did *not* remove the sim card)
Went through the initial setup
wait for it...
At this point, all Verizon default apps were installed on phone during the initial setup (not at user request/Google Play Store):
MyVerizon, Messages+, etc.
Raised an eyebrow, went to settings, enabled Developer Options, checked OEM unlock...
As of this point I have not been able to check if I can [fastboot oem unlock]
Another thing is that the flash-all.sh script refused to work properly, even with a root shell. I made sure to double check usb debug was enabled, udev rules in place, and checked, double checked cables and ports.
I can, however, confirm that I am on OPM2.171026.006.C1
I haven't memorized the list at the Google Images (*.img type) link above, but I'm pretty sure this one is listed as the generic Pixel 2 and not the Verizon variant. I will still attempt to unlock using the fastboot method... let's hope it still works...
Anywho, I work nights so, I won't be able to test anything out until after work, waffle house, and a nap. But I will indeed be back to keep this updated.
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USB debugging is only for ADB, and has nothing to do with fastboot commands. When you attempted to run the flash-all script, were you in ADB or bootloader? In ADB it will fail, because it doesn't recognize fastboot commands. However, in the bootloader, if it's not recognizing fastboot commands, that's a whole different animal. OTAs, when it comes to VZW are dangerous, so it's always best to just sideload them via stock recovery. They should come straight from Google, but I'm afraid that something that you did in the entire process broke that.
In all honesty, all you really needed to do was unzip the latest factory image, run the flash-all script while you were still unlocked, and be done with it. The -w in the script would have taken care of the factory reset for you, as it's a full wipe.
Let us know if what you tried worked, and best of luck ?

I was in the bootloader, I realize adb and fastboot are 2 different entities.... thus far, I'm still locked out... working it now...

An update to this mess:
Still working with known exploits to try and get back to where I was. Looks like I'm gonna have to pull from CVE or ExDB.
Any suggestions from the pros?

allcaps33 said:
I was in the bootloader, I realize adb and fastboot are 2 different entities.... thus far, I'm still locked out... working it now...
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I do apologize for underestimating your knowledge. That being said, an OTA can't re-lock the bootloader without permission, as that would completely wipe userdata. And, neither can the presence of a SIM card. I fear that, with everything that you did, as far as getting your phone as clean as possible, you may have put the device in limbo, so to speak, and the OTAs, combined with vzw's penchant for locking bootloaders, may have made it susceptible to becoming a Verizon device. Just a thought.

I totally agree with you.
I'm just completely confused how this happened...
As you said, with an unlocked bootloader, it *might* have been possible that through some kind of bug it may have taken something VZW specific... But... The OTA packages don't actually contain the entire ROM do they?
From what I noticed, they're almost all under 80 MB, while the actual ROM packages are (on average) 1.5 GB.
At what point could this crossover happen?
(The reason I bring up package sizes is that would be the most likely reason for an overwrite... I think...)
Can I probe you for more theories? Out of the box solutions never work, perhaps you might trigger ideas within the community.
Thank you very much @DuckRuckus for your help!
Still to this point attempting anything within fastboot seems to just not work...
I can get "fastboot devices" and "fastboot reboot bootloader" to work. But that's about it. No other commands issued get so as a response.

Getting root on the BNTV460 is a pain....

Just picked this up for the significant other's bday. Bootloader unlocked it with the instructions from @ipdev, and can report that method works. Can't get root.
Does anyone have this device and have achieved root? I'm a bit perplexed, even flashing a patched boot img isn't getting Magisk on there the way that it should.
Thanks!
Important to Note that the 460 has the exact same EVERYTHING as the 450, including build #s. They just gave it double the internal space is the only difference I've seen.
UPDATE: Just bricked the lil' guy. Since the device is encrypted with every system file having a -sign behind it, I went and frolicked around trying to get Magisk on there via ADB. The only way to do that was to patch the boot-sign .img and since I got the new Magisk, I let it patch, flashed, and now voila, nothing but a bootloop. Off to DM Verity my way out of it lol.

Articul8Madness said:
Just picked this up for the significant other's bday. Bootloader unlocked it with the instructions from @ipdev, and can report that method works. Can't get root.
Does anyone have this device and have achieved root? I'm a bit perplexed, even flashing a patched boot img isn't getting Magisk on there the way that it should.
Thanks!
Important to Note that the 460 has the exact same EVERYTHING as the 450, including build #s. They just gave it double the internal space is the only difference I've seen.
UPDATE: Just bricked the lil' guy. Since the device is encrypted with every system file having a -sign behind it, I went and frolicked around trying to get Magisk on there via ADB. The only way to do that was to patch the boot-sign .img and since I got the new Magisk, I let it patch, flashed, and now voila, nothing but a bootloop. Off to DM Verity my way out of it lol.
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If it is close enough to 450, and you can get into fastboot, you can try and boot the linked boot.img
fastboot boot m19_ST16C7BNv205.img
Same modifications I had to use to get the first boot image I found to work with BNTV450.
avb, mtk type and signature removed.
Also patched with Magisk 19 (canary release)
For good measure.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LgtB2JKCKwLJ64mUlij5Cb_cJrBi8Av1
PS.
Tested above modified v2.0.5 boot.img on BNTV450 running v1.0.2, so it should work on BN v1.0.2 and up.
Good Luck.
Cheers.
PPS.
Just ordered one. (Should show up in 2-3 days.)

Hey @ipdev make sure you get the insurance for 2 years. Shouldn't be more than 6-8 bucks. You're going to need it.
I went ahead and tried all the versions that you posted on your OP for flashing; only one was successful - the rest softbricked on the flash. When I went back and flashed the 460 stock on it, it was a different stock and never did run back right - kept getting the blinking red border ring and unfortunately lost the serial #, flash, and every possible entry on the "About Nook" tab - essentially glitching it out. Since I''d only had it for 12 hours, I took it back and swapped it out for a fresh one
So the issues I'm seeing so far are:
1. It's encrypted and says as such - this is what is causing the probs later in flashing and you can't deactivate it from what I see so far without a custom recovery.
2. Patching the boo img via MagiskManager will softbrick it, and I tried with both 18 & 19 inase there were issues with one over another.
3. The device will try to auto update ASAP OTA so make sure you don't connect it to the internet before you disable that function.
4. There is no "official firmware" you can download - B&N will only let you direct download the firmware through notifications. Granted, if you want the only one I was able to find I can post it (it says its Oreo 8.1.0 but it looks different than what comes on the device and its running a crappy Android Go)
5. Its easy to unlock the bootloader per your instructions but after you get the Orange State it takes an awful long time for basic boot (which is more of a personal irritant than a problem, lol)
6. If you patch and flash the boot img with Magisk, you will completely lose the screen. Keep in mind though, if you plug it into the computer you will keep hearing the connect/disconnect chimes. It will keep doing that and neither adb or fastboot will function (even though you can fastboot devices command and it will show a Daemon output).
7. Booting into recovery becomes harder and harder from adb and fastboot once you unlock the bootloader - pressing volume rocker and power does not do it at all.
I'll try your new files and see what happens...I think the guy got a hell of a lot of potential and needs a nice streamlined rom or at the very least root to get the bloat off so its faster. But I think it says something on its crippled nature when the guys at B&N say it ain't worth it in the long run - apparently they aren't as great as even the nook HD line.

Articul8Madness said:
Hey @ipdev make sure you get the insurance for 2 years. Shouldn't be more than 6-8 bucks. You're going to need it.
I went ahead and tried all the versions that you posted on your OP for flashing; only one was successful - the rest softbricked on the flash. When I went back and flashed the 460 stock on it, it was a different stock and never did run back right - kept getting the blinking red border ring and unfortunately lost the serial #, flash, and every possible entry on the "About Nook" tab - essentially glitching it out. Since I''d only had it for 12 hours, I took it back and swapped it out for a fresh one
So the issues I'm seeing so far are:
1. It's encrypted and says as such - this is what is causing the probs later in flashing and you can't deactivate it from what I see so far without a custom recovery.
2. Patching the boo img via MagiskManager will softbrick it, and I tried with both 18 & 19 inase there were issues with one over another.
3. The device will try to auto update ASAP OTA so make sure you don't connect it to the internet before you disable that function.
4. There is no "official firmware" you can download - B&N will only let you direct download the firmware through notifications. Granted, if you want the only one I was able to find I can post it (it says its Oreo 8.1.0 but it looks different than what comes on the device and its running a crappy Android Go)
5. Its easy to unlock the bootloader per your instructions but after you get the Orange State it takes an awful long time for basic boot (which is more of a personal irritant than a problem, lol)
6. If you patch and flash the boot img with Magisk, you will completely lose the screen. Keep in mind though, if you plug it into the computer you will keep hearing the connect/disconnect chimes. It will keep doing that and neither adb or fastboot will function (even though you can fastboot devices command and it will show a Daemon output).
7. Booting into recovery becomes harder and harder from adb and fastboot once you unlock the bootloader - pressing volume rocker and power does not do it at all.
I'll try your new files and see what happens...I think the guy got a hell of a lot of potential and needs a nice streamlined rom or at the very least root to get the bloat off so its faster. But I think it says something on its crippled nature when the guys at B&N say it ain't worth it in the long run - apparently they aren't as great as even the nook HD line.
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If you just need a temporary root, I put up this guide a few minutes ago since there was no definite resource about rooting this device. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nook-7/how-to/how-to-temporary-root-bntv460-t3963304

turtleletortue said:
If you just need a temporary root, I put up this guide a few minutes ago since there was no definite resource about rooting this device. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nook-7/how-to/how-to-temporary-root-bntv460-t3963304
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I appreciate it, but I've since taken it back. Tell you what though, maybe I'll pick up a used one on ebay and try it

[CLOSED] Delete Thread.

Due to the disrespect of certain members I will no longer share the tutorials.

Wait does this mean you finally got my script to work?

lebigmac said:
Wait does this mean you finally got my script to work?
How about a little feedback in my project thread? Is that too much to ask for?
Did the latest fix work for you or not? Hello?
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I said you were working on it. LOL. If it worked I'd be writing a Guide for that!

Make sure boot.img matched with the phone build number, or the phone may get bootloop.
Moto One Ace is one of the easiest phone to root

mingkee said:
Make sure boot.img matched with the phone build number, or the phone may get bootloop.
Moto One Ace is one of the easiest phone to root
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Exactly. Definitely made a note of that in the guide since that is why the frozen touchscreen issue happens.

Articul8Madness said:
.This tutorial is for people like me than ran into problems rooting the Moto One 5G Ace XT2113 (MetroPCS Qualcomm Variant) running on stock Android 10. I got this phone literally last week brand new in the box. This is a hand holding guide for the Noobs that really are intimidated by rooting their device.
Follow the following at your own risk! I am not responsible for any mishaps with your devices.
I want to thank @mingkee and @sd_shadow for pointing me in the right direction. And for the rest of the contributors that I took bits and pieces from that helped me figure out rooting this; I did achieve root out the starting gate but initially lost touchscreen functionality. The issue was that you have to use the boot.img of your firmware to patch into Magisk; if you do this with your phone out the box you really don't know which firmware was used and that is where the bungle happens. This will clear up all those potential freakout moments.
Thanks to Android 10 being System As Root with all these new super partitions running amuck, you cannot get Write access in the actual system files. So even when you achieve root, you can't do much. @lebigmac is working on that as we speak. Drop by his thread on R/W access and beta test his script so he can get more knowledge about how our phone works.
Introduction/Preparation
First, go and prepare by READING EVERYTHING. Very important. This is the Qualcomm variant and NOT the Mediatek variant. Flashing does make a difference between the two. Last thing you want to do is brick the device because you flashed the wrong firmware to the wrong processor, or you flashed other software for the other similiar Moto One 5G and it bricked.
Second, unlock the bootloader. All T-Mobile and their subsidiary variants can be unlocked by Motorola as well as International and Motorola factory variants; go to their bootloader official unlock site and follow their instructions, it's easy peasy. If you do it in firefox it may not go to the third step page and hang on the page where you put the long code in (follow instructions on page to get the unlock code you'll see what I'm talking about). It is HIGHLY ADVISABLE to do this in Waterfox or Chrome (I used Waterfox). And yes, you may have to request the code 3x to get it to send to your email depending on their server traffic. When you get it, follow Motorola's instructions for unlocking the bootloader in fastboot. It will show you that the bootloader is unlocked.
Verizon and ATT Variants CANNOT BE BOOTLOADER UNLOADER UNLOCKED.
***NOTES SO YOU DON'T FREAK OUT***
1. I did NOT see the motorola post screen telling me it was unlocked. I had to find this in fastboot's menu.
2. The only way to restore the phone if something goes wrong is by flashing it via fastboot. The way to get to fastboot is turn the phone off and press Volume Down and Power. The Motorola tool will NOT work. That's normal.
3. You will see a cute message that you've unlocked the bootloader and that the phone software integrity is compromised when you boot the phone up every single time after the bootloader unlock. It will also say press the power button to pause. This is normal. Give it a minute, you havent broke it.
4. OEM Unlocking should already be activated and greyed out in the Developer Options once the bootloader is unlocked; you can't access it anymore.
Files
You will need an SD card for root. You will also need other apks to successfully help you pull off root ready to install. Pull ALL the necessary files you will need.
1. Get Minimal ADB and Fastboot (it's easier).
2. Download the Motorola Drivers from their site if yo don't already have them (if you run into problems you will have to uninstall and reinstall them through their utility which is found on PC here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Motorola Shared\Mobile Drivers
3. Cpu-Z.apk (Very important, its hard to know your hardware without this).
4. Magisk v22.0.apk (They no longer have a separate Magisk Manager)
5. Root Explorer.apk (This software helps navigation better but you can use any Explorer of your choice).
6. Root Checker.apk
7. Stock Firmware XT2113-3_KIEV_RETEU_10_QZK30.Q4-40-62_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-XT2113-3-EU-SAR_CFC.xml (This is important if you mess up the boot image trying to root). You can get the firmware of your choice at Motorola Official Firmware For Kiev.
8. Patience (and a good movie keeping you going).
As of now this device as no TWRP, so you have to do this the old fashioned way to root. And just so you know, I used Windows 7 for all of this.
Pre-Rooting
1. Make sure the phone is fully charged.
2. Make sure your sim card is REMOVED from the phone. Everytime you wipe the phone or do anything messing with the boot image the phone resets itself to factory settings, and tries to push an update. Just take the silver key thing and pop it out. You will have to push it back in and out in a second, but start with it out.
3. Make sure your wifi is OFF.
4. Make sure your SD is in and mountable and all files you need are on the card.
5. Make sure you Save boot.img to your SD Card from your firmware files. This is very important for root.
6. Make sure your developer options are activated.
7. Make sure your USB debugging is enabled AND you've given permissions for your computer to have administrative access with it enabled (more on this below).
8. Make sure to check CPU-Z for your hardware specs so you download the right files for the phone and avoid potential problems.
9. Make sure you manually set USB to Transfer files (no other option will work and by default its set to Charge this Device).
10. Make sure you have the STOCK CABLE that comes with the phone. Like most Motorolas this model is funky about using other cables.
11. Make sure you back up all your calls, texts, pics, etc. Flashing the firmware is the ultimate factory reset and you will lose all your files on the phone. SMS Restore is a good software to backup Calls and Text logs and it supports keeping MMS.
12. Make sure you have the internet. It is necessary for some steps.
Rooting
1. Make sure all the firmware files are extracted into your Minimal ADB and Fastboot folder (or whatever ADB folder you're using for this).
2. Open FlashFile.xml in Notepad. This is located among the firmware files you put in the Minimal ADB and Fastboot folder.
3. Cut, copy, and paste everything from the FlashFile that is shown and then paste it in an online Flash file Converter. I used Online Flash File Converter here.
4. Convert the text by pressing the bar below where you pasted the text. It may be in Spanish or Portuguese but is should say something like Cerar Commandos.
5. Copy the text by hitting the two pieces of paper icon in the corner after it's converted. Or just cut copy and paste manually.
6. Turn the phone completely OFF.
7. Plug your phone via USB cable into the computer.
8. Press Volume Down and Power to boot into fastboot mode. Do not use "adb reboot bootloader" as that command may or may not work and hang at "waiting for device" (it was iffy for me and it knocked off USB permissions BADLY).
9. Open up Minimal ADB and Fastboot (Make sure you don't have it set to open this as an administrator, it messes with permissions) Make sure your firmware files are in the Minimal ADB directory or it won't work.
10. Paste the contents of the flashfile converter into Minimal ADB and Fastboot. This should start the process of the flashing.
11. When the entire flash is complete, boot the phone and disconnect phone from the computer. Ignore the bootloader unlock error.
12. Wait. Sometimes this takes up to 3-5 minutes on a new flash. You should see the boot animation of Motorola.
13. Push your Sim Card back into the phone.
14. Start setting up your device on the screen. Sim Card must be in or it will give you a message your phone is Network Locked.
15. Once you make it to the Wifi Setup screen take the Sim back OUT the phone. Do not connect to Wifi.
16. Once you are done with setup, go to Settings>About phone.
17. Go all the way down to Build Number and press it until you unlock Developer Options.
18. Go to Settings>System>Advanced>Developer Options. Advanced is a pull down tab that will reveal Developer Options.
19. Disable Automatic System Updates. I know this is hard for some people, but a forced OTA update may cause problems and prohibit root.
20. Enable USB Debugging. Disable Verify bytecode of debuggable apps. Disable Verify apps over USB if it is highlighted. Exit.
21. Put your SD/Sim card back into the phone.
22. Go to the Files folder and install Magisk first, then Root Explorer and Root Checker.
23. Open Magisk. You will see Magisk and App. Hit Install by Magisk (a fingerprint looking icon is to its left).
24. Allow Magisk to access photos, media, and files if it asks.
25. Select option "Select and Patch A File."
26. It will take you to a screen where you can select your explorer to navigate to your SD card where you saved the boot.img. Go there and select it.
27. Magisk will save it as magisk_patched.img. Once you get it patched, find where it saved, make sure it's on your SD card and then turn off the phone.
28. Plug your phone via USB cable into the computer.
29. Press Volume Down and Power to boot into fastboot mode.
30. Open up a fresh Minimal ADB and Fastboot (Make sure you don't have it set to open this as an administrator, it messes with permissions) Make sure you transfer the magisk_patched.img that Magisk patched off your SD card into this folder.
31. Rename your original boot.img to "boot.img original" or whatever distinct name you want to give it in your Minimal ADB and Fastboot folder.
32. Rename your magisk_patched.img to boot.img.
33. In Minimal ADB and Fastboot type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" and hit enter.
34. If all goes well it should flash to the partition before it says done and in how many seconds.
35. When it is done, reboot phone by selecting START (keep pressing volume rockers until you see it, then press the power button).
36. Wait for the bootloader cannot be trusted screen to pass (may take a minute) and wait for the Hello Moto opening.
37. Open Root Checker and confirm root. You can uninstall it after confirmation if you like.
38. Open Root Explorer. A prompt asking you to grant permission should pop up.
Congrats. You should be rooted now.
***NOTES SO YOU DON'T FREAK OUT***
1. Do NOT flash someone else's patched boot image. It WILL NOT WORK. Do the work, find your firmware, and patch the boot image yourself. You're asking for bootloop hell if you do as your boot.img that Magisk patches needs to match that particular firmware you used.
2. While it hasn't happened to me, You may have followed everything perfect and it still bootlooped. Save yourself the frustration and just flash it over. See the next section on the proper way to flash so you don't lose your baseband, IMEI, or any other important stuff.
3. While you won't lose anything just flashing boot.img, you will lose everything having to flash ALL the firmware over. Keep backups of all your important stuff.
****Notes on Flashing The Stock Firmware if you have to****
In the event you bootloop and have to start from scratch, follow my guide on restoring the firmware on the phone. And don't worry - it won't relock the bootloader. You can find my guide here: The Complete Noob Guide to Flashing via Fastboot MetroPCS Moto One 5G Ace XT2113 [Qualcomm Version]
Hope this helps my fellow TMobile and subdiary acolytes and othoers. I have flashed and reflashed my phone with different variant roms trying to force Write status and beta testing scripts for @lebigmac on our device so it's pretty straightforward now.
I will try and answer questions if I can or point you in the right direction.
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Question I keep seeing you have to use adb to fix if messed up, sorry not a question yet but that's wrong. When I did it I think I mixed up my moto g stylus boot.img and got a boot loop. I flashed stock boot.img and it came up with a screen saying Android os was corrupted try to reboot if didn't work factory reset is needed. Rebooted popped up again hit factory reset and the phone did it for me. Not sure if you knew that, question tho lol sorry, can I patch boot img with magisk and flash to a phone that's not fresh from a factory reset

bobbyp1086 said:
Question I keep seeing you have to use adb to fix if messed up, sorry not a question yet but that's wrong. When I did it I think I mixed up my moto g stylus boot.img and got a boot loop. I flashed stock boot.img and it came up with a screen saying Android os was corrupted try to reboot if didn't work factory reset is needed. Rebooted popped up again hit factory reset and the phone did it for me. Not sure if you knew that, question tho lol sorry, can I patch boot img with magisk and flash to a phone that's not fresh from a factory reset
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Well, when I rooted the 1st time I got a frozen touchscreen as I didn't have the correct Firmware (as the phone's firmware out of the box auto updated and the firmware that was available did not match its peripherals). So my phone lost ALL TOUCH ability. The way I explain in this guide is what worked for me, as the LHSA tool doesn't help at that stage. And honestly, I think adb is better and more familiar to most Moto folks that have had several devices and got root on them.
If you mixed up your Moto G Stylus boot.img, all you have to do is try and reflash your firmware boot.img and flash it (or if you have root your patched boot.img). I've flashed this phone almost 70 times in 9 days and I normally do not reflash my boot.img as its already patched to the firmware and I'm just starting from scratch. However, I wouldn't advise that on recovery.img that went wrong, just saying. The phone will force a factory reset.
I don't recommend a factory reset for flashing if you're trying to get root. It's best to compile all the files in ADB to make sure they're taking together, and not going after the fact. There is no shutting off DM-Verity at this time, especially without TWRP and a patch for it, and this model is a bit funky about added flashing with this new Dynamic Partition crap.

Articul8Madness said:
Well, when I rooted the 1st time I got a frozen touchscreen as I didn't have the correct Firmware (as the phone's firmware out of the box auto updated and the firmware that was available did not match its peripherals). So my phone lost ALL TOUCH ability. The way I explain in this guide is what worked for me, as the LHSA tool doesn't help at that stage. And honestly, I think adb is better and more familiar to most Moto folks that have had several devices and got root on them.
If you mixed up your Moto G Stylus boot.img, all you have to do is try and reflash your firmware boot.img and flash it (or if you have root your patched boot.img). I've flashed this phone almost 70 times in 9 days and I normally do not reflash my boot.img as its already patched to the firmware and I'm just starting from scratch. However, I wouldn't advise that on recovery.img that went wrong, just saying. The phone will force a factory reset.
I don't recommend a factory reset for flashing if you're trying to get root. It's best to compile all the files in ADB to make sure they're taking together, and not going after the fact. There is no shutting off DM-Verity at this time, especially without TWRP and a patch for it, and this model is a bit funky about added flashing with this new Dynamic Partition crap.
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That's what mine did, I flashed stock boot, is corrupted my phone says and forced reset, I'm newish to moto, Samsung for many years, had to ditch them tho lol.
I appreciate the help and hope I didn't come across as arguing, more like clarifying. I too prefer adb over anything, only get the rom from tool. Again thanks for info.

bobbyp1086 said:
That's what mine did, I flashed stock boot, is corrupted my phone says and forced reset, I'm newish to moto, Samsung for many years, had to ditch them tho lol.
I appreciate the help and hope I didn't come across as arguing, more like clarifying. I too prefer adb over anything, only get the rom from tool. Again thanks for info.
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If your bootloader is unlocked the only way you should have gotten the corruption is if you flashed an incompatible firmware. Mine came with MetroPCS but I've flashed RETUS and RETEU well. I'd stray from any VZW or ATT software just because you can't trust their firmware won't lock down the bootloader.
Or maybe the software just didn't download well. Try re-downloading it . I've had a bad download mess up a flash before.

I think it's cause 1 magisk wasn't installed and 2i used a different phone to patch

bobbyp1086 said:
I think it's cause 1 magisk wasn't installed and 2i used a different phone to patch
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You have to install Magisk and patch on the phone in question since it's looking for that firmware and that phone's peripherals. You can't use another phone - that's a no no. This ain't Gingerbread, lol.

Articul8Madness said:
You have to install Magisk and patch on the phone in question since it's looking for that firmware and that phone's peripherals. You can't use another phone - that's a no no. This ain't Gingerbread, lol.
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I'm fairly new to magisk, just recently in past year or so stopped using supersu. Not by choice lol but upgraded my note 4 lmao. So as far as the script for read and write, never flashed and after I got magisk, no modules only su permissions, fx did mount /
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and fix file permissions, it's in settings

bobbyp1086 said:
I'm fairly new to magisk, just recently in past year or so stopped using supersu. Not by choice lol but upgraded my note 4 lmao. So as far as the script for read and write, never flashed and after I got magisk, no modules only su permissions, fx did mount /View attachment 5279427View attachment 5279429View attachment 5279431View attachment 5279433 and fix file permissions, it's in settings
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Having Root on this device is not going to magically fix the fact that Android 10 on ALL DEVICES is READ ONLY. You will have to go to @lebigmac or @munjeni and try their R/W mount scripts to get true root access. Munjeni's V2 worked for me. He's on V7 now. LeBigMac has been hard at work trying to get us up and running with his script, but we have Super partitions AND A/B. So it's taking some time.

Articul8Madness said:
Having Root on this device is not going to magically fix the fact that Android 10 on ALL DEVICES is READ ONLY. You will have to go to @lebigmac or @munjeni and try their R/W mount scripts to get true root access. Munjeni's V2 worked for me. He's on V7 now. LeBigMac has been hard at work trying to get us up and running with his script, but we have Super partitions AND A/B. So it's taking some time.
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I am not familiar with either but take it that's it's not an easy task. Should I run v2 or v7 then? Moto one g ace metro.
I was fooled by the trickery, I thought something seemed off with the root on modern phone's.

I just bought a new Moto One 5G ace and was wondering where I can find the stock T-Mobile Firmware variants to prevent bricking?

I successfully rooted it with Magisk patched and ready to go. Unfortunately for the time being the phone won't bypass safety net even with MagiskHide. It just won't work but I'm really happy this phone can be unlocked

bobbyp1086 said:
I am not familiar with either but take it that's it's not an easy task. Should I run v2 or v7 then? Moto one g ace metro.
I was fooled by the trickery, I thought something seemed off with the root on modern phone's.
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Android 10 is very challenging. It is easy to root but it is a trickable root with a false sense of root since Google locked all Android 10 and newer as Read Only on the System with this super partition crap trying to be Apple.

Skel40 said:
I just bought a new Moto One 5G ace and was wondering where I can find the stock T-Mobile Firmware variants to prevent bricking?
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Check my guide. I posted link to where the repository is.

Skel40 said:
I successfully rooted it with Magisk patched and ready to go. Unfortunately for the time being the phone won't bypass safety net even with MagiskHide. It just won't work but I'm really happy this phone can be unlocked
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You will not pass safety net because you've rooted it and Android 10 will block it. It isn't necessary, especially if you delete all Google stuff and their tracking Covid crap.

Articul8Madness said:
Having Root on this device is not going to magically fix the fact that Android 10 on ALL DEVICES is READ ONLY. You will have to go to @lebigmac or @munjeni and try their R/W mount scripts to get true root access. Munjeni's V2 worked for me. He's on V7 now. LeBigMac has been hard at work trying to get us up and running with his script, but we have Super partitions AND A/B. So it's taking some time.
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Hi @Articul8Madness. Thanks for mentioning me
There's a Motorola user who recently got my script to work using the troubleshooting repair script that I posted here
It turns out the lpmake arguments that are auto-generated by the original script were flawless and were not the root cause of the unidentified lpmake error that some Motorola users were experiencing at the end of the original script. According to @Xiaoleng the error was most likely caused by some kind of new Motorola security feature that prevents the terminal command from executing if the arguments are too long. Go figure.
And he was even able to fastboot flash the super_fixed.bin in one piece without having to first split it up into chunks. That's a huge surprise to me. I always thought Motorola users can only fastboot flash super sparsechunks?!
Please feel free to give it a try and report back your results. Thanks. Good luck!

Brick. Stuck at "Qualcomm Crashdump"

Hi all,
My op6 is stuck, unable to reboot normally with the famous Qualcomm Crashdump mode message.
The phone has the bootloader unlocked, with TWRP recovery.
1 day ago I could access the recovery even reboot with the power+volume buttons, but it got to a point where it crashes all the time, unable to do anything.
Currently is only able to enter fastboot mode.
I have heard about the MSMDownload Tool.
- Does this tool keep the files/data in the internal memory?
For me the most important thing is to be able to recover the data.
The qualcom dumpcrash mode returns several different messages like:
- stack-protector kernel stack is corrupted in:--schedule*0xB90/OXOd0 (not exact numbers)
- fatal exceptinforece_signalinject.isra.8
Is there any chance of trying something?
I am extremely anxious and worried about the situation
Please help.

Ganapatya said:
Hi all,
My op6 is stuck, unable to reboot normally with the famous Qualcomm Crashdump mode message.
The phone has the bootloader unlocked, with TWRP recovery.
1 day ago I could access the recovery even reboot with the power+volume buttons, but it got to a point where it crashes all the time, unable to do anything.
Currently is only able to enter fastboot mode.
I have heard about the MSMDownload Tool.
- Does this tool keep the files/data in the internal memory?
For me the most important thing is to be able to recover the data.
The qualcom dumpcrash mode returns several different messages like:
- stack-protector kernel stack is corrupted in:--schedule*0xB90/OXOd0 (not exact numbers)
- fatal exceptinforece_signalinject.isra.8
Is there any chance of trying something?
I am extremely anxious and worried about the situation
Please help.
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to start: it's good thing that you can get into fastboot mode. From there you should be able to do a complete re-install of your device, e.g. using the official LineageOS instructions.
Now to your situation: unfortunately you don't write too much about it like, is your phone running stock OOS or some custom ROM? If it's a custom ROM I'd say you open a topic in the according thread. Then: how much do you know about flashing recoveries, ROMs etc.
Regarding your data: in your current situation it may be extremely difficult if not impossible to secure any personal data now. How I understand it you cannot access the crucial partitions from the bootloader, at least I never heard of methods to get there. Although, people more knowledgeable than me may know of ways. So I do hope you are having recent backups at hand, on your PC or where-ever.
In that case I would start all over (and that's how I got out of a similar situation several months ago): flash recovery, flash latest OOS to both slots, factory reset / wipe everything (to remove any encrypted data you won't be able to access anyways), flash you ROM of choice incl. other part like GAPPS, if needed, do basic setup and then finally try to recover anything that is in you backups.
I wish you a lot of patience and good luck, you'll need it, I'm afraid.

lm089 said:
to start: it's good thing that you can get into fastboot mode. From there you should be able to do a complete re-install of your device, e.g. using the official LineageOS instructions.
Now to your situation: unfortunately you don't write too much about it like, is your phone running stock OOS or some custom ROM? If it's a custom ROM I'd say you open a topic in the according thread. Then: how much do you know about flashing recoveries, ROMs etc.
Regarding your data: in your current situation it may be extremely difficult if not impossible to secure any personal data now. How I understand it you cannot access the crucial partitions from the bootloader, at least I never heard of methods to get there. Although, people more knowledgeable than me may know of ways. So I do hope you are having recent backups at hand, on your PC or where-ever.
In that case I would start all over (and that's how I got out of a similar situation several months ago): flash recovery, flash latest OOS to both slots, factory reset / wipe everything (to remove any encrypted data you won't be able to access anyways), flash you ROM of choice incl. other part like GAPPS, if needed, do basic setup and then finally try to recover anything that is in you backups.
I wish you a lot of patience and good luck, you'll need it, I'm afraid.
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Thank you for your reply.
is your phone running stock OOS or some custom ROM?
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Stock OOS, android 10, last release.
Then: how much do you know about flashing recoveries, ROMs etc.
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I have basic experience installing customs roms, rooting, twrp, unlock fastboot...following tutorials, of course.
Regarding your data: in your current situation it may be extremely difficult if not impossible to secure any personal data now. How I understand it you cannot access the crucial partitions from the bootloader, at least I never heard of methods to get there. Although, people more knowledgeable than me may know of ways. So I do hope you are having recent backups at hand, on your PC or where-ever.
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here someone says that in theory it would be possible if you have the usb debugging enable, but silly me I had it open but I deactivated it I think, so I'm not sure if I have access or not.
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mkdir "C:\RECOVERED_DATA"
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and then finally try to recover anything that is in you backups.
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but if I do all that flashing process any backups that are in the internal memory will be erased, right?
I had photos, files, whatsapp chat history, documents...etc and they were all in the internal memory. It is not a great loss but it is important for me to be able to recover it.
in your current situation it may be extremely difficult if not impossible to secure any personal data now
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for me it is more important to recover the files than to recover the phone. your words are discouraging
I have read other posts and maybe being able to install on top (dirty install) the same rom I have, would leave the system as it, is being able to access my files. Not even installing the whole rom but extracting the boot image from the rom and then installing it. but I don't know if I can install a rom or boot image from fastboot, or if I need to have a working TWRP first.
It is said here:
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...over-without-data-loss.4080725/#post-82257413
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...over-without-data-loss.4080725/#post-82261087

Ganapatya said:
your words are discouraging
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of course that is not my intention. I just try to be realistic
As I wrote in my post, my knowledge is quite basic. I know what I read , and what I experienced with my different devices. So again: you may find instructions and real-life stories showing you ways out of there.
My experience is that you cannot connect your OP6 phone to your PC via ADB while in bootloader / fastboot mode.
a) It's either one or the other: bootloader <=> fastboot or recovery / system <=> adb. Other devices may have different options but we're not talking about Samsung but about OP.
b) I did some additional research last night but I couldn't find a single source talking about *read* access to user data from fastboot. All you can do there is flash i.e. overwrite partitions
c) keep in mind that most probably your personal data are encrypted. So even if you find a way to access your personal data from bootloader / fastboot you may not be able to read it
d) I never used MSMtool, never had to. But I did some more research about it. It looks as if you could re-flash stock ROM using that tool but to the cost of wiping everything. At least that is what the tutorials I found are saying
That said I'd say you don't have much to lose and can go trying out some things.
From my experience the qualcomm crashdump error can have it's source in a malfunctioning recovery solution; I had that when flashing a wrong TWRP version that would not be in harmony with the previously flashed OOS firmware.
From what I read our devices don't have a separate recovery partition, instead it somehow lives somewhere/somehow in the boot partition (experts: please don't crucify me if that is wrong ). So if that is the case one idea would be to extract the boot image from the stock ROM image then flash that to /boot/ from fastboot. Don't know whether that really works and helps, but in theory you would have a default boot partition and kernel *without* a conflicting recovery solution.
In case you're successful you may be able to boot into system and make backups of everything that's valuable to you.
Again: this is extremely wild guessing here, and you'll have to read in a bit on how to properly extract parts of the ROM image.
I also would *strongly* recommend that you continue asking for help in a more technical thread like the LOS19.1 one or Funk Wizard's thread about unlocking and flashing our OP6.
I wish you all luck you need!

I think your best bet it a HW solution, get someone to:
1. replace the modem IC, it's the possible cause of the qualcomm crash
2. solder a direct connection to the internal memory so you can recover your data