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[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Easy Flash to Nougat Tutorial (Unlocked Retail Devices)

Prerequisites:

Download RSD lite XML to Batch Script from https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24651430732235266

Download ROGERS_MPL24.246-45 from https://mega.nz/#!nssGEDiT!hhLkcTM106hmqbH_fiWfAytEV-fgdlYOhUwpcd_sGJY

Download Nougat firmware from https://mega.nz/#!608HGYqB!kKTc1196PhimDtVte6OdCWF6aXSWGSNLToEkvUePymE

Steps:

Unpack RSDLite XML to Batch Script to a folder on your computer

Unpack Rogers 24.246-45 firmware to the SAME folder

Run 2-rsd-flash-flashfile-windows.bat

Batch File #2 will convert the flashfile.xml file (included in Rogers zip) to a Batch file

Run flashfile.bat which will flash the Rogers firmware to your device (WILL WIPE EVERYTHING EXCEPT MICRO SD CARD)

Wait till its done!

Your device should now have Rogers 24.246-45 Firmware.

From the Bootloader, select Recovery Mode.

If you see No Command don't panic! That's normal. Press the power button for a couple seconds and press volume up or down (not sure if you need volume buttons but I always do anyway)

Once it displays on screen, Select ADB Sideload

From an adb capable command prompt, enter ADB Sideload <name and location of Nougat.zip> (minus the <> obviously)

This will take time. Leave it alone!

Once complete, simply reboot from recovery and let the device start like normal.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

If ADB Sideload gives you a Can't Read error, try these steps:

1. Download Large Address Awareness from here https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/

2. Download ADB from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

3. Start Task Manager and kill adb.exe if its running

4. Load the adb.exe file from Large Address Awareness and check the flag button

5. Continue on with adb sideload

I've tested this process multiple times today and it should work well. Let me know if you have any trouble!

I want to mention I have had NO success backing up with TWRP and restoring after this. Something changed with Nougat and any modification to System causes a soft brick (it did for me anyway). Do not attempt to flash system mode TWRP or flash the TurboZ kernel. They don't work and they will cause a boot loop.

UPDATE:

This method might not be for everyone, and if you're not interested in sticking with stock 7.0 and potentially want to roll around to other ROMs you should follow this guide instead; http://xdaforums.com/moto-z/development/android-nougat-moto-z-versions-t3506342
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] dallas90733:
Great thank you! Question:

Will all the radio bands (T-MOBILE) still work as normal?

Have you try this out with Google Day Dream VR yet?

I had the note 7 and the Galaxy VR., Kinda of miss that.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Daydream works from what I can tell. Also I'm on att so I haven't checked T-Mobile bands but im assuming they work fine. I know there's an app to check which bands your device supports. I'll try downloading it and let you know
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] pieman13:
So I get to the point to sideload the nougat update and it always says "can't read..." I've done factory resets and everything else I could think of, still no go for me.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] enetec:
So... are you of the opinion that recovering a Nougat boot+system TWRP backup on a MM phone would cause a soft brick too? :confused:

What type of soft brick do you faced exactly? :confused:
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanwv24:
I did up until this

From the Bootloader, select Recovery Mode.

If you see No Command don't panic! That's normal. Press the power button for a couple seconds and press volume up or down (not sure if you need volume buttons but I always do anyway)

Once it displays on screen, Select ADB Sideload

From an adb capable command prompt, enter ADB Sideload <name and location of Nougat.zip> (minus the <> obviously)

But when I boot up i have no wifi and I am unable to get the no command to go away to select sideload any ideas?
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] pixelens:
Same here, did you find a fix? Tried re-downloading Blur_Version.24.21.46.griffin.retail.en.US.zip and got the same error...
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
This happened to me as well. I think it came down to being an ADB Driver issue for me. I reinstalled a different set of ADB drivers and it had no issue after that.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Didn't work for me. As soon as the system partition was mounted R/W My device would boot loop. Could be a symptom of something else but im not sure.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] pixelens:
Interesting... I'm using the adb drivers from Android Studio.

---------- Post added at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:16 PM ----------

Tried using the ADB drivers from Minimal ADB and Fastboot, same result. Oh well.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Yeah i struggled for about 3 hours trying to get sideload to work. I dunno why but after i completely deleted the driver, rebooted, reinstalled from ADB it finally worked. Its definitely not your device or the image its just ADB being a pain in the ass. I even tried multiple versions of ADB. One guy just tried on a different computer and it worked. I dunno why
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] pixelens:
Yah, I've had similar experiences in the past - been ages since I've done this though (Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket days) so just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Quick question though, title says "unlocked retail devices" - does that mean the bootloader has to be unlocked? Or will this work with a locked bootloader? Cheers.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
I specifically meant network unlocked. Really just any device purchased directly from Motorola.

But yeah i think you might need to have an unlocked bootloader as well.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] pieman13:
Fix was I went back to my pixel and sold the Z.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] i23u8:
Mine has unlocked bootloader. Unlocked thru Motorola's website since the first hour I got it
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] pixelens:
Got the Nougat update to sideload (yay!) - tried a different computer that had no adb drivers installed, used the ones from Minimal ADB and Fastboot and they worked no problem.

Is it possible to lock the bootloader after the Nougat update? I tried and received "(bootloader) still require signed boot.img" message.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Dunno. I get the same error.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Repairtech123:
Thank you for this guide!
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Porcelainfog:
Hello

I flashed the rogers 45 firmware, but when I go to recovery mode I can't get the ADB menu to appear. I've held power and down, power and up, nothing, etc. Am I missing something? I did the rogers install, then went to homescreen, then powered off.

EDIT

after restarting my phone like 10 times in 5 minutes (rest in peace...) I finally figured it out. Now my issue is that I can't seem to get the sideload to work. I am going to try uninstalling android studio and start again. Did you guys figure out why it says * cannot read ' blur.....' * ?
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Out Of Code:
I found how to fix the adb problem about being unable to read from another thread on XDA

1. Download Large Address Awareness from here https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/

2. Download ADB from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

3. Start Task Manager and kill adb.exe if its running

4. Load the adb.exe file from Large Address Awareess and check the flag button

5. Continue on with adb sideload

---------- Post added at 09:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 AM ----------

Do you see the "No command" picture after choosing Recover Mode? Once you get to that, I hold down power and tap volume up and down again and again
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Thanks ill add the large address awareness to this guide!
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] 41LY45:
Getting failed signature verification about 50% sideloading in.

Hmmm

(XT 1650-3, retus, bootloader locked, unrooted)
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
I would:

1. Redownload both packages start the process over again

or

2. Use a different version of ADB and try again.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] 41LY45:
Stock recovery says the Rogers firmware flashed fine.

My build number in settings says otherwise however.

Got it working with RSD lol, I'm too used to manually flashing via fastboot.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] erfanoabdi:
Guys I know it's too late but I updated this thread : http://xdaforums.com/moto-z/development/android-nougat-moto-z-versions-t3506342

Here you can find safe update method

I recommend to not update your devices with OTA zips, this OTAs limits bootloader and partition abilities to write and system root and other things

Thanks
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Prfndhatrdofman:
Good call. Plus theres a TWRP backup now that can be used and also a flashable zip version. I'll get this thread closed.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] erfanoabdi:
Yes you're right

but please keep this thread open I can't answer all questions around this discussion

here is good place for junior members can't post in development threads

;)
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] enetec:
Please pay attention using full TWRP backups... there is still a risk of bricking it...

The above method is the best in my opinion... (OTAs are the Evil... :p)
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] GibMcFragger:
FYI: For anyone on a carrier locked version in Canada (Telus, Bell, Koodo, Rogers, etc) who hasn't received the update yet (which is 90% of us), you can simply sideload the Nougat update in this thread. It works fine. I just updated my stock, BL locked Telus version this way.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] tizzie:
The can't read sideloading issue was fixed by following this https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38001753&postcount=5
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Donkan694:
Works for me in they second intance... Thanks a Lot

I have locked bl and everything stock

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[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] wilder_mason:
Alright, so I downloaded everything necessary, and got all the way to this step

But when I run flashfile.bat it just gets stuck at "waiting for device". Can't figure out how to fix this. Any help? My device is detected by adb and fast boot when on normally, but when I boot into bootloader mode it isn't? Tried everything to get it to work but it doesn't.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] Jaimesco12:
Anyone know how to flash without a USB cable? Just withing recovery. I'm completely stock. Retus.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] leoshyt:
You need a tf card, because the encryption of the internal storage, you can't touch any file in it although you use the stock rec.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jasons1004:
http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/samsun...dge-cm13-cyanogenmod-13-t3514128#post69962101

Will this work for us with flash fire or nah??

Posted question in that thread but no answer yet so I figured I would ask here.......

I just got the phone a couple days ago and dont wanna brick it already....hahah
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Binary100100:
You're welcome to try but I'm pretty sure you need to flash the kernel too. Which you can't do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jasons1004:
Indeed. Just wondering if it has been tried yet...that kind of thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] justda:
No you can not flash CM13 on the S7 with a locked bootloader.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] travis82:
As the dev, ask samsung to unlock your bootloader. Than sure you can install it :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Bettadbest:
Lololol ask Samsung to unlock the bootloader
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] anonymoustl:
Don't worry... I will try it and let you know.... Like everything else :P Downloading now...need a break from the Engineer/BL hack I am doing

Actually... This might go hand in hand with what I am alredy working on.. I will hold on the blind flash right now because just thinking of the simple surface mechanisms, it won't work. BUT IF... I can get done what I am doing,then it might just work... And hell if I can get it to where we can flash roms with Flashfire and saying f-it to a custom recovery which would be possible without encryption and verity and all of that crap.. then that is a score in my book.. Just dev off of the CHN stuffs and flash through FF
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] dkb218:
We look forward to your offerings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jpcdeux:
No.

Why is this a poll now?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jasons1004:
BC I thought it was funny. Does the poll bother you? Lol

BTW I guess this thread can be closed or stay open for reference....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jpcdeux:
No, I have real things to be bothered by. This is not one of them.

I guess this could serve as a reference to someone. Not everybody takes 2 seconds to read about their phones before jumping on a forum asking silly questions ... Hahah
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiaph:
I have searched for the last 2 days a couple hours a day, but nothing seems to be working.

The issue is that when I go to usb-fastboot mode the computer can not recongize the device so I have no way to "re lock it" to use RUU

The next issue is that HTCDEV hasn't updated their RUU for windows 10 and I cant even run the installer, not that it matters, I know it would fail because of the first issue.

The third issue is that when I go into TWRP recovery mode I have the option to mount, when I click it my phone simple restarts, and if I am not quick enough it tries to normal boot and I have to wait for it to drain the battery to zelch to restart the process. (Because I can't power off from the white (w/ green logo) HTC screen )

I was trying to factory reset my phone, I actually clicked factory reset from the bootloader menu and it opened up TWRP recover mode, I clicked "full whipe" and it gave me some warning, and I decided it was best to use advance whipe, my phone is S-on and I had tried to root it many times all failures due to s-on prevent system files from changing... so I figured I could just check everything and S-on would prevent anything from being deleted that I needed..

Welp, I was wrong, and to top it off I didn't get a warning saying "This WILL wipe the OS spite the fact that your phone doesn't allow editing of system files" Honestly I didn't even know it was possible, and I don't have a back up saved on my computer as I never really needed to back anything up, I just wanted to factory reset my phone, because it was "unlocked" and I coudlnt play pokemon go.

I also didn't know it was because that it was unlocked I couldn't play pokemon go, I thought it was because if SuperSu ( that I refused to pay for, and spite following many guides, could not uninstall ( due to S-on))

So my experience with the stubborn s-on left me feeling as if my phone was invincible, to only find out that the safety net really didnt work that way.

So now I can't mount my phone else it restarts, and I can't fastboot-usb mode because my computer can not detect the device

I can not find any roms that are not RUU files are zip/rar for other companies, nor do I know if they are even compatible.

I found many threads like this but none with a resolution, but I seen a comment on a samsung page from 2 years ago of somsone saying they had done exactly what I described and had it fixed in a few hours, but I have had no luck , I figure there must be something I don't know or not doing that is really obvious.

Finally I tried to use Hasoons AIO kits but none of the download links work, and currently I am running at 100% cpu from all the fake download buttons I clicked, so I imagine I have virus hunting to do later, so I am a little tired and not sure where to go to resolve this issue or if Hasoons AIO even would help at this point.

What I do have is TWRP recovery mode, and a USB.

Starting from there can some help me out?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
There are so much false statements/misinformation here that I don't know where to start... I'll just write in red in the below quote:

You'll need to find a way to communicate with your phone in fastboot usb mode. Make sure you have the latest HTC drivers installed and that no other drivers/app is interfering (i.e HTC sync). What is yout bootloader version? If your phone is running 1.44 you'll need a win7 pc (or linux/mac). Once you can communicate with your phone in fastboot mode, post the output of "fastboot getvar all" so we can know what we are dealing with exactly. You should also post every info from the bootloader screen.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiaph:
Reply to helpful guy above

*** TAMPERED ***

*** UNLOCKED ***

M7_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RH

HBOOT-1.61.0000

RADIO-4M.32.3218.06

OpenDSP-v35.120.274.0718

OS-7.23.502.9

eMMC-boot 2048MB

Apr 14 2016,23:32:50.0

C:\Android\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot getvar all

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.61.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 4M.32.3218.06

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 7.23.502.9

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON

(bootloader) serialno: HT391W901875

(bootloader) imei: 354439057007348

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m7_ul

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064

(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000

(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4307mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-0e2a13e5

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.054s

Thank you for long response, sorry I was so miss informed, I gathered a lot of data from personal experience, and from many post ranging anywhere from 1y to 4y old so it all just became a coherrent mess, thanks again for your time emphasizing keyfacts for me
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
Sorry for late reply, I see you've posted in the RUU thread, is your phone working now?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiaph:
Yes it is, thanks to you once I could communicate with it the rest came down to searching this forums :D

Though its battery life has some how taken a mega hit :/
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NDR_man:
Say someone made a CM 14.1 rom with the new update. Do I just flash it normally like I would any marshmallow rom or do I need to do anything else?
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Soneliem:
- Download and Copy ROM and Gapps to your internal storage

- Reboot to recovery

- Wipe System, Data and Factory reset

- Install the ROM zip

- Wipe Dalvik and Cache (Recommended)

- Install Gapps (OpenGapps - (ARM/ARM64x86/x86_64) / 7.1 / Pico(Recommended))

- Wipe Dalvik and Cache (Recommended)

- Reboot

(This process might differ from phone to phone)
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NDR_man:
So you flash it just like a normal ROM lol, I'm not that much of a noob, I know how to flash ROMs, I was just asking if you need to anything special for roms that are on a different android version. Thanks for telling me.
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flippy498:
No one can answer that question until the rom is developed. You may need the new 4.x firmware.

If I remember correctly CM13 didn't work on the 3.x firmware at the beginning and people were asked to use the older 2.x one. However, one day parts of CM13's code got changed and the newer firmware was needed.

Just sit back and wait until there is a thread for CM14. There you'll find all information you might need. All answers you can get now are nothing more than speculations.
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NDR_man:
Thanks for answering, my impatience got the better of me
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] labpedro:
Hi guys,

Ive had my G5 for a few months now, and its been great (with the exception of some apps crashing from time to time) however I have recently bought a newer car, Audi A5 and when I try to setup the phone with the multimedia system in the car, the car finds the phone, starts to make the bluetooth connection and then fails. I have tried 2 different phones (an S3 mini and an s4 active) and these connect fine (not my phones, just borrowed to test). I am wondering if this is a marshmallow issue with the phone. I did try a Huawei which is also on marshmallow and that was the same, no connection.

Has anyone had this and found a workaround? Cheers
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] MarcoGT:
Damn,

I installed Opera Mobile trial and after that I get a error on repllog.exe (on the device) everytime i try to sync with my vista pc.

plus no more contacts in the tytn

can you help me ?

will a hard reset fix the problem (how do you hard reset)

ciao

Marco
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] nic2mit:
Everytime I have sync issue, i rename pim.vol to pim.old and let active sync re-create pim.vol file.

it works everytime for me.

I hope it helps.
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] djekan:
Hi,

I bought a Xiaomi mi5 recently, it arrived with a vendor version of miui 7.3.x.x. Since didn't want to install any custom rom, I didn't unlock the bootloader. I tried to install the global miui 8, directly from updater app, as I have done with other xiaomi phones, but didn't work, (Can´t verify update)

So, for locked BL just entry in EDL Mode by adb it works, I´ve flashed the last MIUI8 6.11.10 and all ok, nesxt day , first day of use,

thee device freeze the screen and i did a force power off, after that ... dead :confused:

At the moment, the phone doesn't boot normal and doesn't boot into recovery mode either, doesn't turn on at all. The led only blinks red when battery is too low, after charging it a bit, it stops.

But is recognized as Qualcomm qdloader 9008 by the pc, I try flash again through miflash with different official fastboot rooms versions and different miflash versions, it flash with sucess (after 2 long hours :eek:) but the phone is still dead.

I already read really a lot of sites and forums and tried the recommend solution, but the phone is still dead. Only solution that I didn't test yet is with qpst, a tool for Qualcomm SOCs unbrick.

Any ideas?

Thank You!
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] djekan:
Hi, any solution? Or is dead for ever? after searching day by day can't find a solution!

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[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] riky.syaily:
Try to flash with new mi pc suite chinese version, new pc suite chinese version can automatic detect and auto flash, you just plug your device and mi pc suite give option to flash, edl mode or fastboot, select your type your device and browse whre you put rom, fastboot rom with *tgz extension, wait till success, i'm success with this way..good luck
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] djekan:
Hi, but from what I know PC Suite only works in fastboot mode does not work in EDL mode, I already tried this option it does not recognize the MI5 in EDL mode.

Can anyone please check that your mi5 is recognized by the PC suite in EDL mode? Thank you.

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[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] djekan:
But was your Mi5 in the same condition as mine? That is, Bootloader blocked, no fastboot, no download mode, just even EDL all the time?

Thank you

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[Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers] djekan:
My God, it isn't possible, can't bring to life my new Mi5...

Trayed again flash many ROMs, global, development., Chinese, MIUI V7, V8... Nothing can recover..

I did not want to give up, but it's desperate..

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