yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Moto X Q&A] d14gvn:
Tried with this

http://unlimited.io/qhsusbdload.htm

Used ubuntu 12.04 (elementaryOS)

Waiting for QDL device..... nothing happens.
[Moto X Q&A] Dark9781:
That is for HTC devices. The Moto X is not compatible. Contact jcase. He may be able to help.
[Moto X Q&A] d14gvn:
I've sent a PM, I hope he read it.

EDIT: answered, no time to debug :'/
[Moto X Q&A] arcanexvi:
Hold volume down and power for an extended time (10s+ do it for 20 sec just to be safe. You may have to come do this twice as the first time will force it to shut down if it is still powered on). If there's any juice left in the battery when you release the power key (keep holding volume down) you'll be in the bootloader menu. Even if the wrong moto x bootloader is installed it'll still boot with several errors on screen notifying you that you've done something stupid. If your battery is fully run down you're pretty much toast without taking it apart to manually charge the battery. I know this to be true because I loaded the Moto X bootloader on my MAXX and partition file which had me to a point where I thought I was boned too. Once you get in the bootloader again you will need to flash the proper bootloader and gpt.bin... Easiest way is use RSD twice with the right file. It'll fail the first time but get the initial few files you need loaded. Just reboot back into the bootloader and run it again and it'll go all the way through.
[Moto X Q&A] jriverac1986:
Man i live in chile too!!! Try to send it to a mobile company, they will repair the phone... Try that!!!! :).... You have to say you use normally the phone and one day the phone just dead XD.... Say that and hope... Good luck :)

Enviado desde mi XT1053 mediante Tapatalk
[Moto X Q&A] d14gvn:
New moto X

Did that!

They changed my phone instantly!!!!!!

Now I have a new moto X with all functions normal :D :D

Hey jriverac, is there any "secure& medium easy" way to root 4.2.2 in this moto x? I'm happy only with root, no recovery, no flash, only root (with OTA patch installed)

Thank you guys!!!!! all of you!
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
I know you're being cautious but the easiest way is to unlock the boot loader , flash recovery and the flash superuser, the other method us with pawnmymoto but that also has its problems. Unlocking the boot loader voids your warranty but it will not effect accepting an ota, only recovery and root causes problems when trying to flash ota's.

Sent on my Moto X
[Moto X Q&A] 1ManWolfePack:
Unlocking your bootloader no longer voids your warranty. Unlock away....
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
If you have a DE version , your warranty is valid but if you have any other retail version with a unlockable boot loader , your warranty is void

Sent on my Moto X
[Moto X Q&A] natezire71:
DO NOT contact Jcase. He's not a personal tech service. If everyone contacted him when they had a problem, he'd be swamped. However, if you do contact him, you should really donate some money his way. He's a busy guy. I'm sure he has better things to do than to help some guy unbrick not Jcase's phone.

From reading what you did, it sounds like you bricked it. I don't know why you didn't flash the gpt.bin. You said you deleted those lines in the xml... There is no where that says to delete those lines. Sounds like you actually managed to brick a phone with an unlockable bootloader. I'm actually impressed, lol.
[Moto X Q&A] Dark9781:
Sorry if I upset you by telling him to contact jcase. Read a post by jcase with someone in the same situation telling him to contact him. Thought jcase could help in this situation as well.

Sent from my Moto X Rocking Kitkat
[Moto X Q&A] natezire71:
Not upset at all. I just feel bad for him. He's displayed how annoying it is when noobs bother him. No offense or anything, but he's done a lot of work for the MotoX already--I'm kinda worried about scaring him off, hahahaha. Don't worry about anything man. You're all good. :p
[Moto X Q&A] d14gvn:
Thanks for that, I've learned something good

And yes, it was my mistake because I am very newbie in Motorola (I've came from a long time of using xperia and Samsung phones)

So now I will study a lot of this phone and root process, about modding and all of that things before doing something.

Thank you guys, and I'm sorry for ask for support through pm. Problem solved, this thread can be closed I think.
[Moto X Q&A] jriverac1986:
Mmmmm i dont know how to root the phone.... Sincerely i have many phones.... I rooted only to unistall bloatware... This phone works so great i thin it doesnt need that....

Enviado desde mi XT1053 mediante Tapatalk
[Moto X Q&A] Jayrod1980:
I know the OP was able to exchange his phone but I have a similar problem. My phone froze downloading 4.4. I powered the phone off and now I can't restart. If I plug it into my computer it chimes like its on. If I press volume down and power, the computer will chime off and then on like the phone is on.

I don't know what to do. I literally got it from moto maker and haven't unlocked or anything. Somehow its stuck in a sleep of death since the computer thinks its on. I can't get it to the bootloader screen or anything. I really don't want to have to return this phone already. If I could reach the battery I would disconnect it.

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OK quick update... Device shows up on rsd as qhsusb_dload
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
Its a zombie phone, return it

Sent on my Moto X
[Moto X Q&A] Jayrod1980:
Actually somehow I got the device to turn on... but even after I reflash stock t-mobile image with RSD lite, I get constant launcher, etc, crashes. Did I do something wrong in RSD? It updated me to 4.4 and all that but it still wont wipe clean. I did a factory reset, etc. Maybe the flash memory is faulty?
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
Really it came back to life, try fastboot erase userdata , just realize you will lose all your data pics etc
[Moto X Q&A] Jayrod1980:
Well, I got the device to erase everything. The problem is, I get to the screen and gapps and some other things including launcher will crash. I'm wondering if the stock image I loaded is corrupt or something... the device doesn't seem to like me.
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
Still even after deleting userdata , erase cache and dalvik through recovery
[Moto X Q&A] omias:
Hi !

I downgraded 4.4 At&t to 4.2.2 (17-54) , then.... I installed 4.2 (telcel pre-camera ota) all is ok, BUT...... can I accept the camera ota on this 4.2? will I get hard brick ?? I'm confused :silly:

Note: I never installed root or twrp and.. before flashing I deleted the xml line <step operation="flash" partition="partition" filename="gpt.bin" />
[Moto X Q&A] Dark9781:
You may run into issues because you didn't flash the gpt.bin.
[Moto X Q&A] flashallthetime:
Under no circumstance remove the gpt.bin line in the XML file, you're dam lucky you didn't hard brick you're phone, someone else removed that line and ended up with a dead phone. That line is there for a safety, it checks the boot loader version

Sent on my Moto X
[Moto X Q&A] Jayrod1980:
Seems to be a zombie phone. I've erased all user data and everything else. Even after a full wipe it still has crashes. Replacement is on the way but I'm frustrated it happened.

Other than having bad flash memory I can't understand why it would continue to crash and have problems after a full image flash. It over wrote every partition.

Only thing I didn't do before hand is unlock the boot loader. I didn't want to void warranty on a faulty device.
[Moto X Q&A] LucasMatheusL:
I did the same process to downgrade to 4.2.2 erasing lines gbt.bin and motoboot.img.

After that, I received the update OTA and accepted. In that it was installing the update when the screen went out and never come back.

I tried to access the fastboot several times and nothing, also let on wall charger for hours and nothing.

Is there anything I can do? :(
[Moto X Q&A] d14gvn:
Nothing, you've erased the gbt.bin and motoboot.img, and thos files are necessary because inside them are the bootloader, no bootloader=no boot.

Sorry dude :/
[Moto X Q&A] Esto.Vir:
amigo que isiste para que te dieran uno nuevo? yo realice lo mismo que tu y logre un ladrillo :( el mio es claro pero no tengo boleta ni nada help pls
[Moto X Q&A] Gundabolu SC:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2629057

This should work!!!
[Moto X Q&A] djlucask:
So This: http://www.tested.com/tech/585-how-efuses-work-and-why-theyre-not-as-bad-as-you-think/ Doesn't apply?
[Moto X Q&A] leonardoafa:
I have a died Moto X also.

I was on verizon 4.4.4 firmware on my XT1058 (Retail Brazil).

So i decided to flash the correct firmware for my phone model.

So i flash back to stock 4.4.2 through RSD Lite, and boot up the phone.

Everything went fine, so i did copy the OTA file to my phone root dir (Blur_Version.212.44.22.ghost_row.Brasil.en.BR.zip)

Then reboot the phone, everything went fine, so i received an notification showing that a new version of sotware was ready to be installed, so i did it.

Phone reboot and started to apply the update, so after a few minutes phone simply turns off (BRICK) and never turn on again.

No matter what you do, it will not respond to anything

- Vol - Plus Power: Does nothing

- Vol + Plus Power: Does nothing

- Vol + Plus - Plus Power: Does nothing

- Plug into wall charger: Does nothing

- Plug in to a PC: Does nothing.

Cant believe!!

:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
[Moto X Q&A] samwathegreat:
Sorry that happened to you dude. Should have listened to all of the warnings to not downgrade. They are posted all over the forum.

Anyways, this is your only hope of recovery: http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/how-to-resurrecting-bricked-moto-x-t2629057

Good Luck :good: Hope you are able to de-brick it.
[Moto X Q&A] leonardoafa:
I did it many many times with no problems.

In my understanding we couldnt downgrade from kk BL to jb BL. Unfortunatelly i ended up on this stage.

Now im desperate seeking for any solution.

My device still "under warranty". If im unable to fix it i will try to send it to service center and hope for a replacement.

But thank you anyway for your time mate!!
[Moto X Q&A] Travisdroidx2:
I have a Dev edition and I thought the warranty was only for hardware if you unlock your bootloader?
[Moto X Q&A] samwathegreat:
Motorola is being VERY lenient on this matter. Technically, only the DEV editions retain warranty after unlocking. They are being extremely kind though and have honored warranty claims for numerous people who unlocked even though technically they did not have to.

Their official stance is that unlock = warranty void....but it is documented by many individuals in this forum that they have replaced devices that were unlocked anyways. That stance could change at any time though....so please nobody take this as me saying that they WILL honor your warranty - it is completely at their discretion. They could start telling people tomorrow that they will not honor your warranty if you unlocked...

I'm very happy with Moto's customer service. My friend's X had an issue where the front-facing camera stopped working. It is bone-stock, never unlocked. They over-nighted a replacement and a return shipping label and didn't charge him a dime. That's service....most companies would require the defective device to be returned FIRST. I'm impressed...

Anyways, [MENTION=2932079]leonardoafa[/MENTION] : Check the thread I linked you to earlier. That is the de-bricking thread, and it is probably your only hope of recovering your bricked device. Follow the instructions inside, and you may be able to recover.
[Moto X Q&A] leonardoafa:
But it seems that i didnt have bootloader anymore. Just a piece of hardware, a dead body!

:(

Theres nothing left to lose, so i will take it to service center!

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Already did!

But the problem is.... i cant get my PC to recognize the phone, i plug in the cable and nothing happens. I must find a way to kick it into QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, but no progress till now!!
[Moto X Q&A] samwathegreat:
Have you tried holding all 3 buttons (POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN) for 2 minutes or longer? I've seen reports that this can activate emergency download mode. Give it a shot.
[Moto X Q&A] leonardoafa:
I will do it now and report the result!

Hard task! Hold these buttons is such a pain in the ass!

Same thing, nothing happens. Phone refuses to show some kind of life!

One question, should i hold it while plugged on a pc, or wall charger?
[Moto X Q&A] :
This thread is full of misinformation and lots of hazardous activities.... And some terrible advice. ?

Luckily there's a few here that know the risks of downgrading and preach the risks regularly.... Too bad some won't listen.

Don't downgrade guys... Not if you are on 4.4.2 or higher.... Ever. Never. For every 1 success story you read.... There's 10 brick stories.
[Moto X Q&A] Dark9781:
You are hard bricked. Your only hope is at the following link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2629057

You may be able to resurrect your phone. This is a caution to everyone. Don't under any circumstances downgrade. I'm sure the only reason we were able to downgrade 4.4 back to 4.2.2 is because either Moto forgot to add the protection (unlikely) or they were not sure how 4.4 would work on the phone and wanted to make sure people can get back to 4.2.2. Don't expect a gift like that to happen again because it is very unlikely.
[Moto X Q&A] leonardoafa:
Already tried this solution, but will not work for me since my device is being detected as a modem.

The ONLY and LAST solution to try is this:

http://xdaforums.com/droid-ultra/general/droid-ultra-maxx-brick-recovery-t2830806

Im on exactly situation described on way 2 of brick.

I will try this as soon as i can, but first i will take device to warranty and see what motorola will do for me.

If they refuse to replace my device, i will try this solution for sure!!
[Moto X Q&A] andrei8181:
Moto X Hard brick

Exactly same situation Moto X XT1056. I received hard brick after this steps:

1. Unlock bootloader

2. Downgrade to 4.2.2

3. Ota Update

4. Hard Brick

It is any way to unbrick this phone? May be Riff box will help? Something unbrick this device?
[Moto X Q&A] winlin.droidrzr:
Is it true the AT&T Moto X xt1058 cant be downgraded from 4.4.4 to say 4.4.2?
[Moto X Q&A] KidJoe:
Short version. Once you are on 4.4.2, 4.4.3 or 4.4.4. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DOWNGRADE THE ROM ON YOUR X.

just read some of the posts in this very thread of those who tried downgrading and have bricked. So why would you ask??
[Moto X Q&A] winlin.droidrzr:
Battery life is terrible. lol
[Moto X Q&A] KidJoe:
Battery life when I first installed 4.4.4 was fine. It is more recently, after using it and several app updates, that I've noticed reduced battery. So could it be an APP causing the battery drain instead? (I would have to factory reset and run that way for a few days to find out, and I'm not in the mood to try it yet)
[Moto X Q&A] originalbryan:
Followed the same process as the OP. My Moto is as dead as winter.

Downgrade baaaad. Had no idea. It all started after the update. After much troubleshooting, figured out gmail was eating battery like crazy, blah blah disabled sync, disabled the app, battery life restored but the phone slooooowwwed down. Rebooting every few hours. Keyboard quit working. Finally decided a downgrade might help.

Boom :eek:

The part that's frustrating is that I can't find my ancient flip phone anywhere... just the charger. It must have ran away with some CDs and my old Walkman. Probably in Canada by now.
[Moto X Q&A] Wansanta:
Can you get into bootloader mode?

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What exactly is happening? Do you have a blank screen? Can you get into bootloader mode? What exactly do you mean that your Moto X is dead?

What exactly did you do to try to downgrade - what did you flash, what did you use to flash, etc.
[Moto X Q&A] originalbryan:
The confusing part of this journey was attempting to downgrade. There are no instructions that I could find on the topic that didn't involve also unrooting your Moto X. I had never rooted it. Anyways, I unlocked the bootloader with fastboot. Installed TeamWin (which I don't think was necessary), tried to flash the 4.4.3 rom from sbf.droid-developers, unzipped, nuked the max download line, and used RSDlite. It failed. Then tried flashing using TeamWin, it failed. Both failed before making any progress and I could still boot my phone. Finally manually updated using:

mfastboot flash logo logo.bin

mfastboot flash boot boot.img

mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img

mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk1

mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk2

mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk3

mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin

mfastboot erase modemst1

mfastboot erase modemst2

mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn

mfastboot erase cache

mfastboot erase userdata

mfastboot reboot

It complained about a gpt_version error, but worked. The phone booted, I ran through initial setup, it prompted for an update which I accepted, it rebooted, prompted about another update, accept, reboot, another update prompt, reboot, and this time it got halfway through the Applying update... screen before dying. And by dead I mean, it's like a small EMP fried it. No response of any kind. It's as if the battery is missing and the charger isn't actually powered.

So far, I've spent about an hour with Motorola tech support trying about 30 variations of holding buttons for minutes at a time. Nothing has worked.
[Moto X Q&A] :
You did a text book downgrade then brick taking an ota I'm afraid. A little research here on XDA first and you would have found tonnes of warnings to not ever try what you did.

Unfortunately now your in a bad spot. The procedure you did and the way you bricked has been irreversible for many here.

You can try this thread here, it might be your only hope....

http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/how-to-resurrecting-bricked-moto-x-t2629057

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And good luck, hopefully you get it going!
[Moto X Q&A] originalbryan:
Yeah... I never thought downgrading would be an issue. It's kinda cool to have finally bricked a phone though! :laugh::silly::rolleyes:

I've been using android since day one. This is my first brick! I should frame it or something :D
[Moto X Q&A] Wansanta:
So just a blank screen? Have you tried plugging it into a wall charger?

After connecting to the wall charger for about 30 minutes, try this:

1) Press and hold the power button until you see the screen flicker, about 10 seconds;

2) As soon as it does, quickly release the power button;

3) Then quickly press and hold volume down and then press and hold power; and

4) Hold both volume down and power for a few seconds, then release.

It might take a few tries but the goal is to get into bootloader mode. If you can get into bootloader mode, you don't have a brick.

You didn't flash motoboot or gpt did you?

Also, you need mfastboot to flash a Moto X system.img.
[Moto X Q&A] Lamarrotems:
So I literally wasted 12+ hours trying to fix this, and I think you just solved my problem. I swear I tried that over and over, but now I just got a 0% battery screen - you my friend have earned good karma for a year.
[Moto X Q&A] nicolasbenegas08:
I have this problem:

C:\Users\Bellota\Desktop\blank2>qflash.exe -com8 -ramload MPRG8960.hex -mbn 33 MSM8960_bootloader_singleimage.bin -v -o

Motorola qflash Utility version 1.3

COMPORT :COM8

RAMLOADER :MPRG8960.hex

type is 0x21

7 mbn file name MSM8960_bootloader_singleimage.bin type 33

verbose mode on

Motorola qflash dll version 1.6

No data read from USB. This may not be an error. Trying again...

No data read from USB. This may not be an error. Trying again...

No data read from USB. This may not be an error. Trying again...

No data read from USB. This may not be an error. Trying again...

No data read from USB. This may not be an error. Trying again...

Still no data, giving up!

dmss_software_version_req: received invalid or no response

Failed to send software version request

C:\Users\Bellota\Desktop\blank2>

What Can Be? .... Any solution?
[Moto X Q&A] Usman Khan923452584384:
Hi every one !!! my MOto X 1058 att also bricked

my MOto X 1058 att also bricked

:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying

i tried everything every procedure here on XDA, but nothing ,

i bricked my moto x because of this thread !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/howto-root-moto-x-ver-4-4-4-xt1060-t3118342

never try this......................

nothing happens..... im going to break my moto x with hammer......
[Moto X Q&A] zloopa:
Moto X 2013 At&t

Hi guys, yesterday i tried to install ROM "XT1058_GHOST_RETBR_5.1_LPA23.12-15_cid12_CFC.xml" to my moto X 1058 At&T (android 4.4.4) with RSD litle.

It failed and now i only can turn on the phone and it goes to bootloader menu and i cant do anything.

Some help please :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
[Moto X Q&A] Lamarrotems:
Read my post above. Follow the same advice. I would find a good set of instructions and follow them. Have you tried installing a different recovery using ADB/mfastboot. I'm by no means an expert and had a Sprint Moto X but that's what I had to do.

Are you unlocked?
[Moto X Q&A] zloopa:
It is not unlocked. Is locked bootloader and cant be unlocked by motorola webpage.

Sorry but i dont understand you what mean :/

im sad u.u
[Moto X Q&A] Bocskay:
Did you tried to use latest (as far as i know) RSD Lite 6.1.6 with proper Motorola driver?
[Moto X Q&A] HTC_Bravo:
I know, I know, we've seen numerous people come on and say they've bricked their phones only for it to be a soft brick not a hard brick. Well I'm one of those optimists that thinks he has a soft brick and wants to be sure he doesn't have a hard brick :)

So what did I do?

Let me start by saying a have a UK Retail version of the 2013 Moto X (XT1052)

I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP recovery and rooted the device - about 6 months ago - all was sweet. After all, the phone was over 18 months old so Motorola weren't going to issue a further update.

But in the last few weeks, I received a security update from Motorola :( I selected to install it, but it just came reboooting into TWRP and got no further. So, I might have tried this about three or four times then gave up.

I give you this background in case it was a determining factor.

Something was showing up as having wakelocks on my battery, so i uninstalled a few apps of what looked like nondescript. Anyway, the next time i shut down the phone, it would not start up - worse still, it would not allow me even into TWRP.

I get only as far as Fastboot.

Under the list of options (Normal Powerup, Recovery, Factory, Barcodes etc) it says

Fashboot Reason: Flash Failure

USB connected.

Even there it would not allow me to boot into Recovery!

So, I thought, right i will RSD lite. SO I install the Moto drivers etc, and power up RSD Lite.

Connecting my device, it appears under number 1 as Fastboot Ghost. But under IMEI is says N/A, while under status it says Connected. Under device properties, more worryingly it says

ESN: N/A

Technology: N/A

Software Version: N/A

Flex Version: N/A

Bootloader Version: N/A

DRM Version: N/A

Hoping I could still flash the xml file, I downloaded

XT1052_GHOST_RETEU_5.1_LPA23.12-15_CID7_CFC.xml, and deleted the "getvar line"

I then try to install that using RSD Lite, it failed giving me the message

"Flash flashing process: 2/16 flash partition "gpt.bin" -> Phone returned FAIL"

On the phone itself, it says (in red)

downgraded security version

update gpt_main version failed

preflash validation failed for GPT

What is my best course of action?

Is it necessary for me to go down this route?

http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/how-to-resurrecting-bricked-moto-x-t2629057

Appreciate it's a lot to read through, anyway, if you have any suggestions, please let me know.