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[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] coolkingler1:
Hey guys, it takes an incredibly long time to download the stock ROM, anybody have a solution for this? It also just stops and says 'network error' at 0.3gb. So I can't unbrick my phone really.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
More firmware found here https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/addison/official/
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] coolkingler1:
I found a good mirror at the Rooting thread but thanks!
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] abhilash_s_j:
TWRP flashing file download link dead

3rd section file needed are not expanding when that button is clicked some kind of glitch I think can you share the link directly.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] mhp1995:
Nope works fine for me...anyways here is the direct link:

https://mega.nz/#%21yZ4lUCYB%21-nN0jj2Ws5Z7RNyBT7S8m4gsrdOxTlK3nTjn9zOtx6s
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sam_kaks:
Thank you for the effort
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cowboysgz:
Thanks for your work!
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
TWRP flashing file download link dead

3rd section file needed are not expanding when that button is clicked some kind of glitch I think can you share the link directly.

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After flashing the original firmware of my device, there is no network signal, i cannot make calls, cannot use data, in general the SIM does not work. Does anyone knows how to solve this?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Hitachy:
Check your IMEI, I think that you have lost It.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
Yes IMEI is showing 0. How to restore it back...?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Hitachy:
If you have a twrp backup, restore It. If you don't have, assistance.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
I don't have twrp backup.. any other way.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Hitachy:
Try another firmware reset.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
Tried firmware reset, still same problem :(
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Hitachy:
Assistance.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
What Assistance?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Hitachy:
Contact the site/office you have bought the phone.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Nek0x90:
If your phone lost its IMEI, you need to take it to a Motorola center.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
can anyone backup their "efs" and upload it here so that i can restore it and get back my imei.

plzzz. needed indian efs
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tag68:
No. The efs is the only partition which has a individual content that is containing your IMEI. It shall not be duplicated. Restoring an efs would restore the IMEI of the person who gave you the backup ... it will not work (if it would: is forbidden anyway, and makes no sense).
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] kkarora:
what if i rooted successfully and isntalled imei changer and set my original imei from there, will it work then?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tag68:
The IMEI changer xposed module only changes the response to some calls. It may work for some use cases, but not for all. It will not restore your IMEI on the efs partition. Only Lenovo can help if the contents of efs was really lost.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tag68:
Deleted.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
I was using the unofficial TWRP recovery: recovery-TWRP-3.0.2-20161010-MOTO_Z_PLAY-CN-wzsx150, which is the chinese version. Actually I followed this method: https://xdaforums.com/mot...-root-t3508547

I found a thread where another unofficial english version TWRP was found twrp-3.0.2-0-addison on this link https://xdaforums.com/mot...-play-t3495629.

After installing it, i ran into this problem where the network bars are not coming.

I tried flashing the stock ROM and removing the custom recovery entirely and even tried this method:

But still no luck. I read it somewhere that the baseband version should be M8953_10208.08.04.47R but mine says M8953_10208.08.04.49R. Any chance if that could be an issue?

I did not take the efs backup earlier, i have the imei. but from what i see, i ran into this issue after flashing the english recovery. Also i did notice the efs partition has 4mb while persist partition says 0mb. I took the efs nd persist backup now, but is there any chance the recovery must have made some changes to those partitions?

Also i tried to go through the stock firmware flashing guide, it gave me an error of remote failure for flashing gpt.bin as partition, however the other commands worked fine but still the bars didnt show up.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Baseband looks like it's not correct, which carrier are you with?

I would avoid flashing any file other than the sparsechunks,OEM,recovery and boot.img.

Flashing FSG, bootloader and any modem bin file could cause major issues which you may have already experienced.

The bootloader didn't flash which if it did, would have hard bricked your device.

I have a stock ROM flashable zip in the development threads and that's there specifically to prevent people from flashing firmware from another carrier on their devices.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
Its an indian dual sim variant. However i did not flash the modem files as it would have erased my imei from efs.

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At first i did only try sparsechunks, oem, recovery, and boot.img files. It didnt help though. So i went ahead and flashed with bootloader and other files, leaving the modem files flashes aside.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Do you have your specific firmware? I would say you flashed a modem file.

It would help if someone with a dual sim would post their baseband just to confirm which baseband you should be on.

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i believe the fsg.mbn is also a modem file
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
I think i might not have the specific firmware.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Which firmware did you flash?

Here's the firmware for asia and I believe this includes India https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/addison/official/RETASIA/

I had 3 moto devices and normally flashing the NON-HLOS bin files are fine.

You really need to find out for sure which firmware you need to flash, otherwise things can go down hill.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
I think i flashed the Europe firmware RETEU

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They have 4 zips with different mpn versions, how do i know which one to choose?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
These are the options
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
I don't really know but would assume asia, did you happen to flash the fsg.mbn file from the European firmware?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
Heres the list of commands I ran:
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
The only issue I see is flashing the adspso.bin file, which could be responsible for the baseband change.

If you flashing firmware it's better to just flash the sparsechunks, oem, boot and recovery imgs, everything else is problematic.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
Well i tried flashing only sparsechunks, oem, boot and recovery images to fix the signal issue, didnt work, so i moved ahead and selected adspso.bin file too... Anyway, Thanks for the info. Will keep in mind. I'm downloading the RETASIA firmware. will see if it fixes.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Sparsechunks, OEM will not fix signal issues or baseband issues.

The baseband or modem partition is in a hidden partition
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
What do you suggest i do? will the adspso.bin file in the RETASIA distribution fix it?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Did you flash that from the European firmware? It's normal the non-hlos that's responsible for baseband I believe
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
Yes i did flash adspso.bin from european firmware
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
try the Asian one but things can go wrong and you'll end up needing a new mob
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
in what sense things can go wrong? i was thinking of wiping the device entirely and flashing a fresh stock firmware.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Bad idea , if you flash the wrong file you could lose your imie which means it's a brick.

If you can find the correct firmware then it should be ok to flash .
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
can you suggest what should i do then?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Unfortunately I would wait or get a hold of moto and find out which firmware to flash.

You can try to flash the adspso from the Asian firmware but again I'm not sure.

I've done a lot of firmware flashing with my phone but I have my specific carriers firmware.

Now I only flash my stock roms which only flash to the system partition.

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Open up the European firmware there's a text file subsidy that tells you the baseband version
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
Well i kinda do remember having the build number to be 104-56, so i downloaded that firmware. Also i did flash it and the baseband still says 49R instead of 47R. Still no network.

I just checked... the baseband version for RETEU says 42R while the same for indian version says 49R, the one that i downloaded.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
You mean 42r cause that's the baseband for the European firmware, I just downloaded it. The APAC and Asia is 47 r.

So I would say flashing the adspso would be the thing to do to get back to the right baseband
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
It took some time, but now i got a bar...

The network is back, after switching the sim. Thanks a lot for your help. really, you're a life saver.. :)
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Glad it worked out, if you are rooted? flash my roms found in the development threads it's safer to update that way.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] cyberrspiritt:
Definitely...
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
I am updating the dual sim ROM right now, link is go up in 15 minutes and it will bring you up to Oct.

The single sim ROM I believe is also dual sim but no one wants to confirm it and that's a December update.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] n0m1s:
Hi everyone,

I don't know if it's the right place to tell my question, but I really need help :(

I flashed a zip file that changes the position of the back/recent/home buttons, but after I flashed it, when I boot up, it says : System UI has stopped. I've checked where I took the file, and unfortunately, it was from Moto X Play and not Moto Z Play... So I decided to wipe all my data and follow the instructions to reinstall stock firmware, but after the process, it says the same message, and unable to press anything... :/

If someone could help me, I will appreciate it so much! Thank you!!
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Fastboot erase userdata but you'll lose everything you'll have to start from scratch again
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] n0m1s:
What you mean by "start from scratch"? Unlocking the bootloader, root and TWRP installation?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
No you'll just have to set up your phone again, it wipes everything from data, pictures and the such from your sdcard.

So just put the phone in fastboot mode for up fastboot,

Type in fastboot erase userdata

Fastboot reboot and it will boot up .
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] n0m1s:
Great I will try this in the afternoon!

I've also searched this fastboot command on Google and some people adds also the "fastboot erase cache". Is this will be better of doing this command after the userdata? Thanks a lot!
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] n0m1s:
OMG thanks so much, it worked!!
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] shrisha:
Could someone point me to indian 6.0.1 retail dual sim download link? It should be "retin" right?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] jatinkhatri:
Get it from here[1] ( for indian MZP you can flash retail or retasia )

[1] https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/addison/official/RETAIL/
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
I am trying to restore my stock firmware, I somehow screwed up TWRP and in some recovery loop, I am able to get back to fastboot so I thought I start fresh but when I am getting the Failed shown below, what am I doing wrong.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) has-slot:partition: not found

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'partition' (45 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.016s]

writing 'partition'...

(bootloader) Validating 'gpt.default.xml'

(bootloader) Security version downgrade

(bootloader) Image primary_gpt failed validation

(bootloader) Preflash validation failed

(bootloader) Cancelling 'gpt.default.xml'

FAILED (remote failure)

finished. total time: 0.109s
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Don't flash the bootloader or modems bin files, all you need to flash is the 10 sparsechunks, OEM IMG , boot.img and recovery image,Then fastboot erase user data and finally fastboot reboot.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
I thank you but I think something is wrong. as I see not found and corrupt. Is this normal? Is it as long as teh screen flashes back to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot

It is ok to move onto the next entry.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash boot boot.img

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) has-slot:boot: not found

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'boot' (16384 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.391s]

writing 'boot'...

(bootloader) Image not signed or corrupt

OKAY [ 0.313s]

finished. total time: 0.703s
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Boot.img looks like it flashes, go ahead and flash the sparsechunks

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Boot.img looks like it flashes, go ahead and flash the sparsechunks
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Thank you, so do Boot, Recovery, Oem than the the 10 Sparsechucnks, then erase User Data then force a reboot? Skip everything else on the list in the OP.

I have messed with TWRP for many years now and have never had the issue I am having with this one. If I get this fixed, I am staying stock, I am too old to be dealing this crap any more... lol.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Our TWRP is not reliable​

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Flash the recovery IMG, and then all sparsechunks and then finally OEM img
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Sir, I thank you very much for your guidance. I have not manually had to to stock I think it has been something like 5 plus years.

Worked like a charm... staying on Stock till I grow a spine again... :)

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One more question if I may, I am back to stock but each time I power off an re-power on I get the Bootloader warning screen that the phone will boot in 5 seconds. Then instead of booting into the phone as normal, it boots into Fastboot at the "Start" I then have to hit the power button again for it to power up into the phone, why and how do I correct this.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
That's not normal for it to boot into fastboot mode. I wonder if you messed up by flashing the gpt.bin file.

IMO it's better to just leave it that way as I'm not aware of a way of repairing that issue.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
I remember some issue with the first flash of the gpt.bin,

then you infomed me flash just the recovery IMG, and then all sparsechunks and then finally OEM img. Should I start from scratch. Should I flash as shown below in this order?

fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img

fastboot flash logo logo.bin

fastboot flash boot.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash dsp adspso.bin

fastboot flash oem oem.img

fastboot Flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9

fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk. 10

fastboot erase cache

fastboot erase userdata

fastboot reboot
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
No ,I would never anyone to flash a bootloader on a moto device. You may end up ok but you may also end up hardbricked
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
So the only choice is to leave it alone and have it boot up every time into Fastboot, then boot into the actual stock rom?

Or would it be better to flash TWRP again?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
You can try flash trwp and see what happens
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
I feel like that is a "go a head flip the coin" statement. lol

What part of the flashing process sets it up so that the phone loads directly into the stock rom as opposed to fast boot?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
No you're ok to flash TWRP, you can always flash the stock recovery afterwards.

Just a note, after flashing TWRP do not reboot your phone , you need to reboot into TWRP first otherwise the stock recovery will over write twrp
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Should this solve the issue of it NOT powering down. When I chose to power it off it just boots into fast boot, if I chose power off in fast boot it just reboots it never actually powers off.

And by the way, thank you for all your help.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
I really can't tell you if it will help.

Just can't say why you're booting to fastboot and not to the system.

I had somewhat similar issue on my Nexus 6 but it always booted to TWRP , I just booted into fastboot and rebooted to system from there and it solved it.

You may also want to flash the kernel as well.

Glad to help when I can
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
which one is the kernel "boot.img" right. If so why not start all over again?

It is not that it is not booting up, it is not booting down. While in the system when I choose power off it boots into fast boot, and will not even power down from there.

It just reboots into fastboot or into the system. It never really powers off at all. That is what has be confused and scared.

I feel like throwing the damn thing out and ordering another one to be able to start from scratch.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Yes boot.img is the kernel.

So powering off it boots to fastboot? You can root and use an app like quick boot that will power down your device.

I know how you feel, I soft bricked the device in my first attempt to root and found out that nandroids didn't really work well on older versions of TWRP.

I also soft bricked it 10 times testing out my stock rom, I flashed only the sparsechunks, OEM.img and boot.img.

My past experience with moto devices taught me to avoid flashing bootloaders and modem files.

I would definitely flash the kernel again.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Flashed the kernel as you suggested... now it will power off and yes now when I go to power it up it goes directly into fast boot and not into the system.

I am laughing to hard to cry, it now has the reverse issue of what it had minutes ago. I am scratching my head on this one...
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Really, I'm scratching my head too.

So there's an issue maybe with bootloader , do you see the boot logo showing up?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
The boot logo will show up, after it stops at fast boot and I then click the power button with the "Start" tag in fast boot and it boots up as it should normally.

It seems that in the initial power up it needs to stop at fast boot and then needs to have a user click "start" for it to boot up into the stock rom. It is not directly booting into the system as it should.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Seems like the bootloader won't allow the kernel to boot correctly but I'm guessing or you've flashed the bootloader that isn't totally compatible with the kernel version you're using. Guessing here.

Whatever you do, don't reflash the bootloader
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
With your original directions you had me flash the Recovery, 10 Sparsechunks and then the OEM in that order. I never really installed the bootloader from the zip package, just those items. Could this be the issue, if so should I then flash everything so it is all from the same stock rom?
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
No , you did say you flashed the gpt.bin file originally?

You can try to flash in this order

Recovery.img

Boot.img

10 sparsechunks

OEM.img

Fastboot erase userdata

And see what happens .

Messing with the gpt.bin nlos.bin file,FSG file are all bad news. Things can go down hill real fast and your phone is working except for the booting issue to fastboot.

It's like a computer that boots to the bios instead of the system.

Except if you flash the wrong thing you're going to hard brick your device.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Yes, originally I flashed the gpt.bin before you had began to assist. Something about it was tagged failed in that flash.

I will try this tomorrow night and hope for the best. Once gain, thank you.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Followed your direction to the letter.

Now when I power off from the stock system it does power off.

But when I power on, it does go to Fatboot first, when I have to hit Start again for it to power into system.

Not trilled with it, if you have any suggestions on how to correct this please let me know.

I am not thrilled with this phone and thinking of reordering a Moto Pure again and tossing this one.

The volume of this for notifications is the worse I have ever exprerienced and I miss half of what I should hear.

At least with the Pure the notification, ringtones you were able to hear, no to mention the music on both the speaker and headphones were superior compared to this thing.

I just consider this thing a bad $400.00 experiment.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
No clue how to fix it. Flash arise and your notifications will be louder
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Jimi Mack:
Thanks, did not know Arise would work for us.
[Moto Z Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashallthetime:
Flash this :Arise

This app will change the kernel for enforced to permissive but you need to be rooted:https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-selinuxtoggler-t3574688