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[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
Dam you smoke pot you beat me to it. Was just uploading the OTA update to mega and made a post Will now go and get that thread of mine closed.

Just updated myself will come back with any improvements BTW just to the gpt.bin and fsg.mbn being touch it makes the Stock firmware before it useless will there be a new version of the Full firmware for us that wish to return to stock.

Edit: This is a first the OTA didn't take out my root, although i did need to uninstall xposed before updating.
[Moto G General] Not_Technically_Minded!:
I'm a complete technical newbie, so I apologise for what might be stupid questions. I used to own a HTC Desire which had to be rooted to make it suit my requirements, and now I have a rooted Moto G LTE (4.4.4, 21.1.46 from Tesco) which I've had to root to suit most of my requirements.

I'd like to install this update to (maybe) fix the SD card issue. I have "CWM recovery" installed which seems to break the installation of this update. I get a 'install zip' question in the recovery, I swipe yes and then swipe to install root again. At this point the phone boots normally, and immediately after boot it reboots into the CWM recovery screen again (and over). I rebooted into CWM recovery and paniced when I realised that the SD Card isn't there with my backup and so I wiped the cache. This fixed the reboot problem, but I'd still like to update, but don't want to risk breaking my phone.

Can I use the zip 2 posts above me to update to the latest version? Will that be compatible with a Tesco version phone?

How do I create a backup that is located somewhere the phone can see in CWM recovery mode?

Apologies again if this is a silly question, stupid question or anything else. I'm not technically minded, but I'm forced into these corners to make my phone work how I'd like it to. :(

Thanks! :)
[Moto G General] hkotaku:
en_gb ota update for anyone who still needs it.
[Moto G General] vpnair:
If you want to see your backups, place them in your internal SD, as older recoverys cannot read the microSD. I have latest TWRP from 4G development thread and it reads microSD perfectly.

It appears like you have modified the system partition and the OTA will fail (not custom recovery's fault AFAIK). First, try to uninstall anything that has modified the system partition (xposed, busybox, hosts file). Unroot as well if everything else doesn't fix it. Then try checking for updates and installing OTA. You can always 'fastboot erase cache' which will erase OTA and prevent looping (just means you have to check for updates and download it again).

If nothing works. Go to this thread, and download the firmware for XT1039 (Great Britain). You can download either the Retail (if you want to be unbranded) or Tesco. Then inside the zip there will be system.img_sparsechunk files. Flash these using mfastboot (dont use fastboot) using the following codes in this order (they may be more or less system.img files, but just flash them in order starting from the lowest number).

mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3

This will refresh your system partition to how it was (you will lose root, and other modifications you made) - all your data remains untouched. Then reboot your phone and install OTA as per normal. Once complete, flash your custom recovery again and then flash the latest supersu.zip to get root. Done.
[Moto G General] Not_Technically_Minded!:
Thank you you so much for that. I've tried to 'unroot' my phone as best as I can using version tools but it still won't work so I'm moving onto flashing the device.

I'm just downloading the files now. I'm using Linux, so I think; after a quick search on this forum following post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54927266&postcount=10 ; I use the tool "linux_fastboot instead of mfastboot? The download is taking a while so I'll report back with results. :)

Might I just add how baffling this can be? :silly: Once the phone's updated, I'll try flash the recovery too! :)
[Moto G General] mici01:
Hey,

I also got this problem with my XT1039 on 21.1.46 en.DE.

Sadly the fix from vpnair hasn't worked. Maybe because I used en.EU instead of the German en.DE? (I couldn't find en.DE anywhere, but It now shows as en.EU)

CWM still aborts with Status 7 error message, but now reports that the recovery maybe replaced by stock. (But even when I say yes it aborts).

I searched a bit and it says when CWM gives back Status 7 you may have to make a factory reset.

Is there any other thing I could try without factory reset?
[Moto G General] Not_Technically_Minded!:
Hi there,

This seems to have put my system back to stock, exactly how you said, but the update still won't install. It states

"EMMC: boot: ##lotsofnumbers##" has unexpected contents.
E: Error in /cache/Blur_version.21.1.46.peregrine_retgb.retgball.en.GB.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted"

Should I try and flash the stock recovery? My phone has CMW-based Recovery V6.0.5.0. You didn't explicit say that I should, but it was suggested in your final paragraph. I've literally just flashed the recovery you said you had and it doesn't seem to have made any difference. Different error message regarding problem executing binary in zip. I'm sorry for somehow mucking this up. :/
[Moto G General] agusaon:
When the phone restarts in TWRP after you clicked install update, touch the middle button of the bottom of the screen, and post here what's the error message you're getting

EDIT: Post the TWRP error message, because it might be a CMW error
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
Unless the OTA has been modded for CWM/TWRP i.e removed the file hash checks etc, you need the stock 4.4.4 recovery flashed to your device and xposed framework uninstalled. If you have modded your kernel then you also need the stock boot.img flashed as well.

No need to flash system unless you have really modded that partition.
[Moto G General] vpnair:
Weird, not many people have modified boot since there is no custom kernel for the 4G variant (or is there?). As hacktrix has stated, take the boot.img and recovery.img out of the stock firmware you downloaded and flash those too. Like he said, keep Xposed uninstalled (under the Xposed Installer).

mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot erase cache

This should guarantee that boot and recovery is back to stock so OTA will work. I have had no problems flashing unmodified OTA on custom recovery, but no harm in flashing stock recovery anyway since you have to flash boot.img too. Good luck.

PS. I really shouldve said to flash boot.img too in the post. I never modify it (only the system partition), so i never do it.

---------- Post added at 12:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:25 PM ----------

You have same issue, but you are changing regions (which is okay since it will work with EU too). You can do what is stated above (just the recovery and boot), but I would recommend a complete flash of the firmware for you (like factory reset - but not wiping your data). Backup everything just in case (onto your external SD).

Here's the code (I've omitted the userdata flash so you keep your data):

mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1
mfastboot erase modemst2
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase cache
mfastboot reboot
[Moto G General] jdegreef:
Hello everybody,

I wanted to share my experience installing this new OTA (Blur_Version.21.1.46.peregrine_reteu.reteuall.en.EU for my XT1039 Peregrine).

I didn't do anything to get the OTA announcement on my phone, beside buying it :D

My phone has TWRP recovery installed and is rooted with SuperSu.

I used http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/4g-development/moto-g-4g-easyrecovery-toolkit-t2856710 to achieve this.

It has Xposed installed and a few modules too (Gravity Box,...).

First, (but should I say it ?) I made a Titanium Backup of all my apps + data, just in case and a nandroid backup with TWRP.

After googling and reading I knew my custom recovery (TWRP) would cause problems, as well as Xposed, to install the OTA.

So, I understood I had to revert my recovery to stock and disable Xposed.

Xposed was easily disabled by going to "Xposed installer" > Framework > Framework Uninstall.

To revert my recovery to stock I used http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-simple-recovery-switcher-t2857554 with the custom recovery being the one from "Easyrecovery toolkit" and the stock one coming from the stock image for my device.

This beeing done I rebooted the device and install the OTA.

The OTA installation went smoothly and after a reboot my phone was updated.

I didn't even loose root.

To revert it back to it's initial state (custom recovery, rooted) I just add to re-enable Xposed and re-flash my custom recovery with 'Simple Recovery Switcher".

Feel free to ask me questions if needed and forgive my bad English, I'm actually french speaking :eek:
[Moto G General] juliatan:
OTA gone

Perhaps anyone kwows solution, but my ota notifcation on my XT1039 is gone. And when checking for system updates via about phone it says for 5 days now (translation from dutch): 'cannot check for system update try later'. Last thing I did was a backup with Titanium as I always do before OTA on any device in case something goes wrong. Setting in Titanium is 'pause app while backup'. After that backup and a reboot OTA problem occured. Never happened before doing a Tita-Backup before system ota update. So might not have to do with that.

I prefer to fix this immidiately for future system updates over the air before sideloading the Ota. But if only sideloading possible, the in this thread (post 11 & 18) offered OTA-file says 21.1.46.en.EU. This is a mistake and the ota is indeed 21.11.56?

Thanks

(PS.First time in a while using xda-website instead of Tapatalk. Awfully disordered it has become).
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
The 21.1.46.en.EU is the 21.1.52 OTA the file name just states it a OTA for that firmware version. So sideload if you want mate its as simple as booting into stock recovery pressing Up and Power to get the menu and then hitting the ADB Update menu item, then typing into cmd adb sideload <OTA filename> it will then flash without issues so long as everything is stock i.e recovery and boot. If you have xposed installed just uninstall it then install OTA, after re-install xposed as root doesn't get removed or causes issues with OTA updates.
[Moto G General] BlueFlame4:
This is likely because you altered your Bootlogo. Did you remove the message saying your Bootloader was opened? ;)
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
No its because of the custom recovery. As stated before flash the stock recovery from the full images. Make sure the likes of xposed is uninstalled. If the boot(kernel) has been changed flash the stock boot.IMG once done boot into boot loader type fast boot erase cache boot boot in to recovery and providing you have adb and drivers, press up vol and power then select update adb. Then type adb sideload [name of ota zip] then press enter else pm me and I can do this via remote session.
[Moto G General] bananas33:
O2 update

How sluggish are O2 normally with updates like this? An EE handset updated about a week ago but I'm still stuck with effectively no SD card :(
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
If it a retail version on GB you can just OTA via the recovery using ABD and the OTA attached on this thread.

Just make sure ADB drivers are installed.

Then go into recovery hit VolUP+Power then select Update via ADB. Then use the adb sideload <OTA FILENAME> and it will update your device. Unless of course its a O2 branded firmware.
[Moto G General] bananas33:
Currently it's on the O2 branded firmware it came with, but I'm tempted to try flashing it to retail, especially if they take much longer getting the update out.
[Moto G General] kartongknuse:
please use punctuation man, it's hard enough for a newbie with all the terms.
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
[MENTION=6062449]kartongknuse[/MENTION] thanks for your little quotation there, I am open to criticism, how ever i am not PERFECT! so if some one gets lost in translation they can either ask me for help or rephase or you do a simple search on this site or even google for Android terminology. Better still head here : http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/help/rc-faq-frequently-questions-motorola-t2795336 that will bring any as you put it newbie upto speed. On another note welcome to the site!

now back to on topic issues [MENTION=5712134]bananas33[/MENTION] can you take a screen shot of the Settings -> About phone area only need the bottom area were it states about Baseband downwards.

Even after that and it is possible to flash a retail full image you'll still get the O2 Branding as that is in an area of the phone that doesn't get changed when crossflashing from one firmware to another. PM me if you want direct help and i will try my best to assist you the best i can.
[Moto G General] bananas33:
Seems to have an O2 baseband and system, I'll try attaching a snapshot.

The branding seems to be minimal, three apps is all I've noticed so not a big deal. I was planning on skipping the partition flash and userdata erase but doing the rest of the mfastboot steps from 21.1.46 GB retail then hoping for an OTA update to kick in.
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
You'll need to do full flash for it to work. Baseband and system version are different. Just make sure you have a xt1039 you can find that out by connecting to you PC then going to my computer.

---------- Post added at 01:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:00 PM ----------

Also you could ring O2 for a ETA on update.
[Moto G General] bananas33:
It's definitely an XT1039.

I've asked them three times now but they have no idea. I'll wait a bit longer but the urge to flash (or return the phone as not fit for purpose) grows ever stronger.
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
keeps us informed mate and good luck. If you need a hand give me a buzz via pm.
[Moto G General] Allan_Hun:
After updating to 21.11.56 I cant read files on my 32 GB. kingston sdcard. Before updating all was working just fine, so now I have to flash the original firmware to retrieve my sdcard.

But I think I will try cyanogen first. Crossing fingers ram bug won't affect me...

EDIT: Using the Moto G to reformat my sdcard seems to fix it. What a hassle this update gave me, troubleshooting, backup, reformat and restore backup :(
[Moto G General] bananas33:
O2 reflash

I finally gave up waiting for O2 to release the update, helped by my phone getting stuck in the "1 of 1 updating/systemui has crashed" loop: since I needed to clear user data I figured I might as well go for the retail f/w too. Almost immediately the OTA notification appeared and so far I've had no more problems with the SD dismounting, terrific.
[Moto G General] hacktrix2006:
Did you still have the O2 apps after retail install mate ? Glad it worked for you as well.
[Moto G General] bananas33:
Just My O2, there were two others before. There's a couple of mentions in the versions still but otherwise it seems as clean as possible.
[Moto G General] Not_Technically_Minded!:
I'm back and still here! Sorry I've not updated but I had some serious career problems, which are now resolved, so I can concentrate back on my phone. I've flashed the system. boot and recovery and I've upgraded with success! I'm now running 21.11.56! Thank you so much everyone who's help, this is a fantastic forum who is polite and helpful! Makes a change to some other forums!

I guess next will be to root this device again! :D

:)
[Moto G General] senzacionale:
Slovenian language

Can someone check if in EU region stock firmware Slovenian Language is available. I am in DE region and there is not included :(

Thanks
[Moto G General] mitja_i:
No slovenian in any Motorola's stock ROMs.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icanfly77:
HI all,

I have Telstra phone previously on the first Kit Kat Nordic Rom.. no issues with that.. But I got my phone back from SDS repair and it was flashed back to Telstra stock 4.3

So I would just proceed to load Nordic 4.4 back onto it but I see there are a bunch of new 4.4 stock roms out from heaps of different countries so I was wondering are any of these other ones any better than the Nordic one so I should flash one of those instead?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
Asking what is best rom etc on XDA is not allowed.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Mod Edit

"Best" or "Recommend" ROM/kernel threads are not allowed on XDA.

Please test these things for yourself.

This is the only way you will get an unbiased opinion,and then, you can decide for yourself if it meets YOUR needs.

Don't forget to make a nandroid before you start.

Thread Closed

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Special~k:
Hello all, new to the forum but a long time reader. You guys have helped me many times in the past, and I am very grateful. This time however, I'm pretty sure I'm SOL.

So, my last droid razr's LCD cracked about 2 weeks ago. The phone was old, as I had purchased it when they first came out. I was running Jelly Bean and wasn't rooted, but had some how kept my free hotspot from my previous ICS root. The battery was on its last leg, and the thing would go in and out of HDMI mode. I would give it a good smack (lol) and it would straighten out. Well.... I smacked it a little too hard one day. LCD cracked under glass, and I couldn't see anything.

I purchased another LCD and did the swap, but now its boot looped and wont come out. When I hold down all the keys and try to boot in recovery, I get the little icon with the droid guy laying down and an exclamation point.

Does this mean I'm totally screwed? I'm you've all heard it a million times... Ive got a ton of data on there (vids and pics) that were stored internally that mean a lot to me. I sure would like to be able to recover this data somehow. Ive read of doing factory resets and all of that, but wouldnt that wipe my pics/vids? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Kenny

***Update: Not sure if this helps, but my battery is done and wouldnt even hold enough charge to power the phone. Just to let you guys know I am running the phone off a variable power supply (3.8 volts) like the battery would. I just decided to plug the factory USB in to my PC and see if I could access the internal memory even though its looping... it installs moto-cast, but wont come up as a storage device so I can access those files. I'm screwed, aren't I...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Special~k:
Nothing? Anybody?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lalec:
Only seeing motocast probably means your drivers are not set up right. I helped my friend fix his xt912 last week and it took 30 minutes to fix his phone not counting the 2 hours+ it took to get the internal storage to show up as mtp or mass storage. Motocast was all I could see before I found the right driver. I can look for the link to the drivers when I get home later if you need it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Special~k:
THANK you so much for your reply. I'll take any advice I can get! I'd love to hear your procedures and will attempt to load any drivers you believe are necessary.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Special~k:
Didn't forget about me did you?

Can anyone else help? I've got to return this phone so I am not charged again for it :/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lalec:
Was away from forum for most of the past couple of days. This thread has a link to drivers and fastboot tools, etc.

CAUTION WARNING: user below reported that the link at this thread results in viruses: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1539192

I used Motorola Device Manager and it worked for me.

Good luck with it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Special~k:
Thanks for the info. I downloaded the stuff from the links and now I my company PC has a ton of viruses on it... the RSD lite program wont run, and has also installed a ton of crap on my PC. Do you have anymore links to a good RSD lite program?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Special~k:
Got the stuff downloaded (and still have a few viruses lol), but was able to flash my phone. Its still stuck in boot loop though. Man.... i just need to access the internal memory of this dang thing. my PC recognizes it because motocast comes up.. just cant get past the boot loop.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lalec:
Last time I needed to unbrick a Droid RAZR it was the XT912 and I used the MotorolaDeviceManager_2.4.5.exe for drivers and I downloaded that directly from Motorola. I also used mattlgroff's utility belt ("batman") tool set and it had RSD_lite included in it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] poccix:
Hello,

i'm from germany and i have a little question or problem.

I will play a swf game on my Nexus 7.

On my HTC One X it works fantasic with a swf player, on my Nexus 7 not.

I've installed hacked flash player for Android 4.4 and have succesfully checked with dolphin browser that i've installed it right.

The problem is, that all swf player apps (over 15 i've downloaded) say to me that i don't have installed adobe flash player...

It's a swf game and not a swf animation witch i can play on dolphin browser or something else.

Hope someone can help me.

Sorry for my bad english.

Good day !

poccix
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ev1lchris:
I have a N7 2014 which I have out CyanogenMod on. For some reason Orbot, HideninjaVPN, and PureVPN are not connecting to the proxy servers. Is there something I can try to get everything working?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eurominican:
no N7 "2014"

There is no suck this as a 2014 N7. orbot does not work for me on 5.0/lollipop. In for solution.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anonify:
Try the Orxy app, it should work on Android L/5.0.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cell128:
Had my second s5 for 10 days now and having same slow data issue/network disconnects. How is the m8 as far as can I buy one and root and unlock it even if it might be a newer firmware now? I see the development is a whole lot better here than the s5. Or I might just fix my broken s4 and go back to that. Thanks
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] lahegry:
Coming from an s5 myself, I gotta say I love the m8. No slow data or wonky disconnects. And it's easy as pie to root, if you're willing to pay for sunshine?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] camf3xu:
I came from a galaxy to the m8 and have no complaints. The m8 seems much sturdier than my galaxy. I love that the screeen doesn't go all the way to the corner, as I've had some fractures to my screen in the past from corner impacts with my galaxy. Got my phone about a month ago so I would assume it's the newest model still. I temp rooted with weaksauce, ran firewater with adb and achieved root and s-off. Some people are having problems with firewater though, in which case you have to buy sunshine for $25 and will achieve the same thing.

Hope this helps with your decision
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] bill3508:
I came from the S3. Was running CM11 and the phone still great. It was hard to give up really. I've had my M8 for a couple weeks now and I love it. Had it unlocked and s-off with Sunshine the second day. Running Sinless ROM now. Its a great phone, blazing fast and actually the camera is pretty decent. Being one a GPE ROM I thought that the Google camera was garbage but with fv5 camera is great. I would highly recommend it.

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