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[Moto X General] flipm00de:
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. ATTEMPTING TO DOWNGRADE GPT AND MOTOBOOT COULD POSSIBLY BRICK YOUR PHONE. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!

Surely, here you go.

IF YOU ARE ON THE BRASIL VERSION OF 5.0.2 LEAK, THIS IS WHAT I DID TO SUCCESSFULLY GET ON THE T-MOBILE VERSION OF 5.0.2 Leak.

1. Download the 4.4.4 T-Mobile Stock firmware ROM and put on root of SD Card; Also download the Blur leak version of T-Mobile 5.0.2 from the link quoted in this post, and put that on root of SDCard as well.

2. Boot into fastboot

3. Flash a custom recovery

4. Do the normal wipes as if going to install a new ROM: Wipe data, cache, davlik cache, system, etc.

5. Boot back into fastboot.

6. Do the following instructions to get 4.4.4 T-Mobile up and running on your phone:

fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash logo logo.bin

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot erase modemst1

fastboot erase modemst2

fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn

fastboot reboot

7. Boot into Android to make sure its working. Skip everything, don't setup phone.

8. Boot back into fastboot

9. Select Recovery from the fastboot menu

10. When the robot with the caution symbol shows up, press and hold the volume up button, and then press power, further options should appear.

11. Select "Apply update from SDCard", or "Install from SDCard". I'm not sure which it says, but it says one or the other.

12. Find the Blur T-Mobile leak 5.02 version on your SDCard.

13. Apply the update

14. Enjoy 5.0.2 US Retail

IF YOU DID NOT FLASH THE BRASIL LEAK LIKE I DID, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SKIP STEPS 3, 4, and 5

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Mine is showing up. Where do you live?
[Moto X General] cocoralladoo:
Sorry, I'm on 4.4.4 Retail, what I have to do so?
[Moto X General] flipm00de:
Follow all the steps I wrote out. Where do you live?
[Moto X General] cocoralladoo:
Argentina, but I have the XT1053 US Retail, stock 4.4.4.
[Moto X General] flipm00de:
Follow all the steps I wrote
[Moto X General] Razgriz:
In the US.
[Moto X General] flipm00de:
Read through all of my instructions, they are very clear
[Moto X General] Megatron007:
[MENTION=1165307]KidJoe[/MENTION] and Other Members i Have a Question if a Person is On 5.0.2 Lollipop soak test and he has twrp installed in it if he makes the backup of system and boot.img and upload on a site ...we can use that backup of that twrp in our 4.4.4 to update to 5.0.2 ?

and if we downgrade to 4.4.4 so i think so there will ne no hard brick also
[Moto X General] cocoralladoo:
Those? Have to rename the file?

7. Boot into Android to make sure its working. Skip everything, don't setup phone.

8. Boot back into fastboot

9. Select Recovery from the fastboot menu

10. When the robot with the caution symbol shows up, press and hold the volume up button, and then press power, further options should appear.

11. Select "Apply update from SDCard", or "Install from SDCard". I'm not sure which it says, but it says one or the other.

12. Find the Blur T-Mobile leak 5.02 version on your SDCard.

13. Apply the update

14. Enjoy 5.0.2 US Retail
[Moto X General] flipm00de:
I did not rename the file at all. This method does not require renaming the file
[Moto X General] KidJoe:
and beaware that being on the BR 5.02 leak, the bootloader gets updated to 30.BC, so attempting to flash GPT.BIN and MOTOBOOT.IMG from the 4.4.4 SBF does risk bricking the phone.

Failure to warn of this risk is DANGEROUS and irresponsible. Threads have been closed/deleted for advising this, without providing any warning!!
[Moto X General] cocoralladoo:
Flashing. Patching system files :D
[Moto X General] flipm00de:
Thanks for letting me know, I'll update
[Moto X General] Razgriz:
Wasn't complaining, wasn't having any issues, was just making an observation.
[Moto X General] KidJoe:
Help me out here, because how your posts/replies to me are written, it appears you're saying *I'm* spreading misinformation. That I'm advising people to dive in, when I don't, and often times I'm one of the few trying to bail people out.

I've read about the MFN, and it mention soaks. Based on my post that you originally quoted, I answered a question someone asked about "soaks" possibly sending info back to Moto, that any soak I took part in, the final copy matched what was eventually pushed to all. And that has been the truth all the way back to my VZW Xoom 3G/4G and with my other moto android phones.

Even the link you posted -> https://forums.motorola.com/posts/77d4221775?commentId=853796#853796 mentions the word "SOAK." As had every invite I had from MFN in the past mentioned SOAK...

The user asked using the term "SOAK" so I responded with the same term.

I have warned NOT to flash the rom meant for another carrier or model phone (despite others are suggesting that is fine). I have recommended not applying these leaks. I have warned that if you apply these leaks you could brick, set your self up to brick or be stuck where you are (despite others saying its fine) all based on experiences here in this forum in the past.

So please help me understand what *I'm* saying that is wrong or spreading misinformation that you chose to quote my post or reply to that user? Is this not a soak the initial people said they are receiving? or that SOAKs do in fact send info back to Moto? or that soaks never end up eventually being exactly what gets pushed to all users? or is it something else?

I want to know specifically so that if I am wrong, you can provide me corrected information in order for me to change what I am saying/typing.

And you're welcome to PM me about it, to do it privately if you wish.
[Moto X General] raiderep:
First off, let me just say that I am a very experienced android user for the past five years. I have a nexus 6 as my main phone but I saw this and wanted to check out lollipop on my moto x that has been sitting around. I completely understand the risks of doing this sort of thing and am very good at recovering soft-bricked devices when needed, and if this hadn't worked I wouldn't have been terribly upset over it.

So I did a factory reset on my stock moto x on 4.4.4 and flashed this zip in recovery(basically the instructions above) and it is now booting after a successful flash. All seems well and I will play with it some tomorrow.

For those not experienced with this stuff you should be very careful playing with files uploaded like this one has been. I scan everything I download with malware programs, everything!! Safety first guys, but that said, thanks for the upload.
[Moto X General] Bigluc:
I have a few questions, if I have an unlocked XT1053, and I've done no modding or unlocking of any sorts, can I follow flipm00de's steps to install lollipop? (minus 3,4, and 5 as he stated, since I didn't flash the Brazilian version.

Will I still get the OTA update when it comes out? Also do I need to wipe my phone/will flashing this ROM wipe my phone?
[Moto X General] rockmen1:
For others whose devices is not XT1058 but flashed the BR OTA, e.g. XT1053, I would like to make a few notes on these instructions after trying out myself.

fastboot flash partition gpt.bin //<--- not going to be successful, since BR OTA patched it, command would be rejected due to a downgrade attempt

fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img //Never try it, because it is in danger of bricking the phone, but if you try it anyway, probably get the same error as above

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash logo logo.bin

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin //I got unexpected contents error if not flash it when applying XT1053 OTA

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot erase modemst1

fastboot erase modemst2

fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn

fastboot reboot

So basically, you can revert to xt1053 4.4.4 with only boot, recovery, system, modem downgraded, the newly patched bootloader can boot up the old system software, flash the "XT1053 OTA" will succeed even if you have patched gtp.bin and bootloader.
[Moto X General] Razgriz:
^^ Thanks for posting that! Helped me a lot.
[Moto X General] tacophone:
If I'm running stock 4.4.4 with stock recovery I just have to flash the zip from fastboot, right? Should I do a factory reset first?
[Moto X General] BPinard:
What is your device and carrier?
[Moto X General] tacophone:
Xt1053 and T-Mobile.
[Moto X General] TouchPro.:
No just rename the ota zip to update.zip put the zip on the root of your sd and apply update from sdcard through stock recovery.
[Moto X General] KidJoe:
which, as history has shown us, alos puts you at great risk for bricking in the future, unless you can flash a FULL SBF with the same or newer GPT.BIN and motoboot.img.
[Moto X General] hbenz2008:
True, but if both 4.4.4 and 5.0.2 can run on same gpt and bootloader, shouldn't be a problem in this particular case.
[Moto X General] Bigluc:
I just did this with my XT1053 device, worked and up and running. Thanks!
[Moto X General] KidJoe:
BUT then gpt.bin (partition table) and the bootloader will be out of sync with the rom on the phone, which we've seen cause other issues like features not working (think going into App Drawer -> Settings -> Security and being kicked out).

What you are suggesting is not much different than those who tried to update from 4.4 to 4.4.2 by flashing the 4.4.2 SBF and skipping GPT.BIN and Motoboot.img. Or by using mfastboot to flash only system.img.

You'd also be missing any updates to the modem files, and other parts of the phone.
[Moto X General] rockmen1:
Yeah, correct.
[Moto X General] cammel:
I just don't understand one thing, this new ota floating around for the xt1053 is for the unlocked version of the T-Mobile moto x or for the gsm developer edition? I now both phones share the same firmware, but this 5.0.2 ota was taken from a Dev edition or just the unlocked xt1053 non Dev ? Thanks and sorry for the stupid question...
[Moto X General] KidJoe:
In the USA, the XT1053 was Sold as the GSM Developer Edition. In that configuration, you could only get it as 32gig, black face, woven white back and silver accents (buttons and ring around camera), and says Developer Edition on the back. Unlocking its bootloader doesn't void the warranty.

The XT1053 was also sold in the USA on the Moto Maker site as "GSM Unlocked (ships with T-Mobile sim)" and later "GSM Unlocked (ships with NET10 sim)". These two XT1053's were available with all Moto Maker options (for front, back, and accent colors, and different memory sizes). While you could bootloader unlock via the Moto web site, since they were NOT labeled "Developer Edition, it voided the warranty.

All of the XT1053 variants use the same ROM and/or firmware and updates.

So really All the XT1053's are the same. Dev Edition vs Moto Maker is really only about 1. Does unlocking the bootloader void the warranty (Dev=No, All others=Yes), and 2. can you customize it when you purchase it (MotoMaker=Yes, Dev Edition = No).
[Moto X General] cammel:
OK, now I understand...I have the gsm Dev edition for sure, it says "developer edition" on the back, has 32gb of internal memory and it's black on the front and white on the back, so a 100% sure its the Dev edition...so, this soak test applies for my phone or is it just for the moto maker edition of the unlocked T-Mobile xt1053?

P.S. I just wrote to you on the "going back to stock" thread...?
[Moto X General] telemike:
Amazed at how impatient people are for the OFFICIAL Lollipop release which is around the corner. No way, I am going to brick my phoneto have 5.02 a few weeks early.
[Moto X General] Travisdroidx2:
This ^^^^^^
[Moto X General] Emiliano55:
Gosh, all the people talking about how to upgrade the RC without haveing the test invite or how to unroot, or how to downgrade. NOBODY talking about how is 5.02 working on our Moto X.

WHATS WRONG PEOPLE ? If you were not invited, just be patient, wait 2 weeks and you will have it. Let the users who were ACTUALLY invited and are using 5.02 right now put their comments here so we all get to know how Lolli is actually working. Isnt' that what matter most right now ? Huh ?

I'm tired of accessing this forum hoping to find feedback and comments about how is 5.02 working with our Moto X and the only thing I find is what I mentioned above.

Chill out people.
[Moto X General] rodaven:
Maybe you guys can give us a good review about this lollipop release for our moto x, bugs, how are working the updated moto x features, etc.
[Moto X General] KidJoe:
Again, they use the SAME rom and same updates. An update meant for an XT1053 can be applied to ANY XT1053.

In your case (because of the error on your phone), I would be extra cautious. It could end up fixing your issue, but flashing it could also possibly brick your phone...

If you haven't been invited to the test by Moto, then I would not apply it. Any case, if that error was on my phone, I'd try waiting until a full SBF of 5.02 for the XT1053 leaks or is posted on Moto's Dev Recovery Image site, then flash that.
[Moto X General] cammel:
OK, thanks for explaining this to me.

I wasn't going to flash the soak test anyway, I just wanted to know if the update for the xt1053 was the same for the moto maker and the gsm Dev editions and now I understand the difference, so like you said I'll wait for the official ota update to come and hope it fixes the error on my phone and maybe when they upload the full sbf on their site I will try to flash it and check if the error is gone or not cause flashing the phone is actually the only way to tell if that error is still there or not...

Thanks again for all your help to me and this community!! ?
[Moto X General] proxuser:
i made installable zip for the rom but sadly there was error with data and wifi. no sense releasing it.

but if you still dont installed ota, you can use this in your updater-script for only patch system and boot . (before you need flash system.img and boot.img from brazil 4.4.4)

this script will skip patch your modem and bootloader files. if you use this script in ota, you no need flash modem file again.

META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script

https://mega.co.nz/#!iUZBDCJY!fdp2FqclaKC3EMHXeqBpy__tDlB_Gy0_TCjC7yLbBRM
[Moto X General] alresave:
The device works great after the update, it's as responsive as with KitKat, I didn't had any app FC or anything like that but I made a factory reset before and after the upgrade.

The Moto features work different, Assist it tied to the built-in quiet hours, so there's no real silent mode at night, driving mode works fine. Moto Voice's custom command works , as long as you set a strong phrase for it.

The battery life seems to be the same, I have been playing with the device more than usual and I'm getting 4 -6 hours SOT.

Other than that, the Lollipop usual stuff, the apps take more space and the installation takes longer, it is a little slower to boot because it optimizes apps and so on.

Xposed works fine, GravityBox don't have all the features it used to, but the main UI hacks are there and work fine, except the network activity indicators.

I hope this give you a little overview.
[Moto X General] Emiliano55:
Thanks man!

My girlfriend's Moto G 2014 with Lolli also takes more time to install apps since Lolli. Now I understand why lol.

What about Active Display ? Does it works perfect or buggy ? Someone told me that you can't no longer pass the hand over the phone to the time to appear. You have to leave the hand over the phone for 3-4 seconds for this to happen. Do you notice the same ? I find that really useful :(
[Moto X General] alresave:
Any action that uses the proximity sensor when the screen is not completely ON does not work: showing Moto Display, silence calls, snooze alarms, none of these are working. Leaving the hand does not work, unless you move the phone a little and activate the motion sensor.

I checked with AIDA64 and CPU-Z and the proximity sensor is working fine so I think the contextual CPU core is not working properly with the upgrade.
[Moto X General] Emiliano55:
Well, there we have a big important issue. I hope the ones who are allowed to report bugs really report this one.
[Moto X General] alresave:
They already know about it, even the entries for the motion are gone from Moto app.

Check the attachments from Moto X 2014 and 2013.
[Moto X General] adm1jtg:
Just doing a quick reality check here... Everyone is going nuts over this new "soak" that

1) Is 5.02 based and 5.02 has KNOWN memory issues

2) That if your phone doesn't match the soak could and most likely will brick it either now or later down the road do to incompatibilities

3) That once loaded you will NEVER be able to downgrade should you find #1 to be true

4) Its now been stated that the proximity sensor has issues in Active Display

5) I have not heard anyone say that battery life is vastly improved or performance for that matter vastly better

6) The themeing looking like it should be on spongebobs phone

7) XPOSED not really 100% ready for lp

Remind me again why this is the best thing since sliced bread and why everyone is going so ape **** over it
[Moto X General] Emiliano55:
Maybe those 2 features were left behind on purpose. I hope not. Hopefully Motorola will fix this and not release this RC for public :rolleyes:

Btw, how do you configure the battery to show its % inside a circle ?? Its great.
[Moto X General] alresave:
You need to install Xposed and GravityBox
[Moto X General] flipm00de:
Why is so much in this thread turning into opinions of whether people should wait or not wait. What does it matter that some are excited, and some are not? There are those who have flashed, and they are excited for the simple fact that they are running a Blur version of lollipop on their devices, or for some other reason(S). There are some who would rather wait until the official software is released for their device.

Just decide what you are going to do and stop with the little subtle criticisms of other people's choices about what they choose to do with the phone that each person has purchased respectively. If you are going to flash, understand the risk of doing so, which has been talked about in detail in this thread. If you are not going flash, that is fine as well; but if you are not going to flash, but offer subtle criticisms of those who decide to, that is uncalled for.
[Moto X General] alresave:
Overall I agree with you. There's nothing on the upgrade worth risking your device.

But let's face it, XDA members are not known for been extremely cautious or for not wanting to try the latest and greatest even if it's not 100% working (there won't be any custom ROM otherwise).

I know there will be newcomers that might try upgrading and they'll could end up bricking their devices, but it's an experience and it could result in some learning.

BTW the spongebob phone will reach you sooner or later, so get used to it!! ;)
[Moto X General] Emiliano55:
spongebob lol... yeah, I don't quite like Lolli's theme/vivid colors.
[Moto X General] maroof.saeed:
I can confirm that after installing sock test on 1053..... its still buggy and needs loats of improvements... I have tested it and then revert back to stock 4.4.4. For those peoples who didnt know after updating to 5.0.2 you can revert back to stock 4.4.4....
[Moto X General] vitoski:
I would rather appreciate people starting their opinions and experience with lollipop than moaning and whining whether one should wait or install soak or whatever this released version is.

Sent from my XT1052
[Moto X General] adm1jtg:
Thats what my post was... a summary or what has been stated in this thread though i admit it may have been slightly biased all the lie items were derived from things stated in this thread

Also as i have posted in another thread we have no guarantees from moto we will EVER see 5.1 and even 5.1 still has a known memory leak. With HTC deciding to NEVER update the m7 past 5.02 (except for playstore versions) I am afraid moto/lenovo will take a similar stance and then we will be screwed to stay on 5.02 forever.

Just my opinion and concern XDA helped me greatly when I was a noob so I am trying to return the favor and make sure the other noobs understand what they are getting into flashing this. KidJoe does a much better job of it then I am doing you should read his post as well.

http://xdaforums.com/moto...pacts-t3058202

Ok am off my soapbox and will go back to just skulking in the shadows of XDA.
[Moto X General] jimakos29:
About 1) moto has fixed those issues , it is the nexus devices that had those problems but every company that received the firmware from google knew this and fixed the fw before releasing for their handsets. Even moto g 1st gen does not suffer from the memory leak issues. Use common sense before posting whatever pops to mind.

2) No one forces u to flash fw not intended for your handset

3) Already answered via number 1)

4) Hopefully it gets fixed.

5) It is a fw update not a hardware update. Your battery remains the same you can expect minor changes in battery life but unless you replace it with a bigger one it is not going to run for 30+ years like the battery on voyager 1.

6) Personal opinion.

7) Some people dont care about xposed and for those that do, it will eventually work fully...
[Moto X General] adm1jtg:
Amazing that moto can fix an issue GOOGLE still has not, even with the 5.1 release. However, rather then start a flame war or pages and pages of garbage I will simply say upgrading to any version of lp and TRUSTING that moto will fix issues in a timely fashion is a leap of faith i am not willing to take as it is a known fact you cant downgrade, but your welcome to be ignorant for the rest of us.
[Moto X General] DarkWolffe:
This entire thread has gone to ****. Can we please focus on discussing the Lollipop update's features and issues instead of arguing semantics?
[Moto X General] zed011:
Anybody getting very high cell standby? I live in an area with good reception and I'm on 3G only and my cell standby drain is above 40% while my screen with 2 hours SOT is at 3%
[Moto X General] Razgriz:
Stop being a troll. Don't want to deal with it yet? That's fine. Don't be talking down to people who do, though.

I've been using the 5.0.2 soak all day and haven't noticed any issues. I haven't noticed a change in the battery life, but it's too early to tell.
[Moto X General] perfoliate:
I've seen the same high cell standby percentage on all the cm based 5.0 ROMs. It seems to only appear when WiFi is on. If I run with WiFi off it goes away, never seemed to impact battery as much as it shows but maybe this is an inherent lollipop bug for our device.
[Moto X General] jimakos29:
Many companies can fix many things that google messed up when released the fw. Many have implemented true silent mode for example and apart from the various nexus models (and even there, not all models and then not every device of a certain model) no other companies have had memory leak problems on their upgrades except for hurried versions like lg g3 lollipop which came out very fast and which lg eventually fixed.
[Moto X General] activitymonitor:
Decided to go ahead and try 5.0.2 on my XT1053. Everything is working great so far. Feels pretty polished and finished to me. I would expect the final release soon.

Thanks to everybody who has posted useful information in this thread :) Not sure what all the complaints are about.
[Moto X General] adity:
Because of improved handover lollipop keeps data open while using wifi too.

Just turn of data while on wifi.

Silly feature I know
[Moto X General] Travisdroidx2:
https://plus.google.com/+SalimAwad7/posts/8wvQWqoSc7a
[Moto X General] crazyxzer0:
at least quote it man.
[Moto X General] Travisdroidx2:
Too lazy to click on a link? Thanks for posting it. Lol
[Moto X General] crazyxzer0:
Messes with my reading flow lol.
[Moto X General] Javajohn:
any news about AT&T releasing lollipop updates or not .... feel stupid having a locked bootloader xt1058
[Moto X General] Jizzylax:
No...