[X Play General] sohosynergy:
Post Motorola X Play lux XT1563 Recovery

So, after a fair amount of research, it was concluded that the Motorola X Play lux XT1563 16GB P2C from Wind service provider in Ottawa, Canada can be flashed to Marshmallow (Android 6 os), that and the fact that it is using a stock Android OS image with some basic Motorola add on applications (freely available in the Google Play Store).

The information gathered from Motorola and many reputable sites (which could fill this forum) states that the OTA will be available this month.

Sounds great, right?

Well I called Wind and they currently have no release date for OTA, so, as I did with my old Nexus 5 it seemed safe enough to flash the Motorola using stock android OS from the Google stock images located here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en.

Following their flashing instructions, I fisrt set up my windows installation with jdk-8u66-windows-x64, adb-setup-1.4.2 on Windows 10 x64 and updated my PATH statement to point to the Fastboot executable used to flash the files to the phone.

So far so good.

I then downloaded the "shamu" for Nexus 6, 6.0.0 (MRA58K) image and using 7zip (Official site http://www.7-zip.org/) extracted it to a specified folder to prep for flashing.

My phone was locked so I had to go to https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a and read the warning that it would void my warranty before continuing.

Yes, why not it only cost me $150 for the phone as a hardware upgrade and would only cost me $449.00 Canadian if I had to buy it outright were I to brick the phone **sarcasm here**.

So I proceeded with Motorola official unlock (free btw) and then had a non warrantied, but unlocked phone...yaay me time to get Marshmallow 6 flashed.

I then downloaded the TWRP files and flashed the TWRP recovery and SuperSU rooted the phone...whoop "GOD MODE" on my Motorola X Play.

One thing here folks, excited as I was I forgot the cardinal rule, yes people I forgot to backup the phone **faceplant**.

Not the backup we all have on in the running OS, but the backup of the OS itself prior to flashing and sadly the recovery mode options in TWRP has a nice large button that says BACKUP.

So here's what happened.

Once I extracted the Nexus 6 shamu (Android OS 6) file shamu-mra58k-factory-5b07088c.tar the folder looked like this "\shamu-mra58k-factory-5b07088c\shamu-mra58k" with the compressed file shamu-mra58k-factory-5b07088c which I then had to extract. The folder it creates is this "\shamu-mra58k-factory-5b07088c~\shamu-mra58k" with these files "flash-all.bat, flash-all.sh, flash-base.sh,image-shamu-mra58k.zip, radio-shamu-d4.01-9625-05.27+fsg-9625-02.104.img"

Now according to the https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en instructions, I should **only** have to put my phone in fastboot mode, unlock the bootloader and run the flash-all.bat batch file from the command prompt. So I did, and it puked fierecely....so much so that my lil android icon was laying there with it's virtual door open and the flash-all.bat file lising a slew of missing files it could not find to flash to my phone.

yes, people I semi-bricked my phone, no longer able to boot to the launcher and as I mentioned I forgot to back up before flashing <NEVER EVER EVER forget to back up.

So after a few good hours (4) of reading solutions and workarounds, none of which worked. I stumbled upon this forum http://xdaforums.com/moto-x-play/general/official-stock-firmwares-added-xt1562-t3195364 and XMoDuLeSx solution literally brought back to life my phone in less than 20 minutes!!!

I still would like to know what the manual process is for flashing the shamu file I downloaded if that is in fact the right stock Android 6 file for the Motorola X Play (unofficially that is)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH XMoDuLeSx. You saved me $449.00 and also provided the quickest most direct solution I have found to date.