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[General Questions and Answers] KRandy21:
Can I make a Nandroid backup with TWRP? That sounds like it could be useful for any hiccups.
[General Questions and Answers] LS.xD:
Nandroid Backup and many other features are provided by TWRP

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Marshmallow is already fully supported and you will be able to get full control to anything you like. Usually you can trust roms you get at the XDA forum as its a pretty active community and harmfull users would be banned real quickly. The only point is that modded stock rom or custom roms like LineageOS and derivates may not be stable and cause functionality issues.
[General Questions and Answers] KRandy21:
So I've used this forum to find TWRP for my device https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s5-neo/development/unofficial-experimental-twrp-galaxy-s5-t3293379, I'm not sure how to 'Run flash-recovery.sh' because, as I mentioned, it won't let me flash from my SD card.. Any help would be appreciated! :)

UPDATE: Managed to get TWRP as my custom recovery. Thanks so much for your help! I genuinely had no idea you could flash TWRP onto your phone! I was using the app which is hopeless. Most forums I've found say 'boot in recovery' which is quite unclear if you're not familiar with that..
[General Questions and Answers] KRandy21:
Can I flash Nougat update onto my S5 Neo? It's originally not supported, that's the only reason I'm asking..

Can I still root with Magisk on that operating system as well and restore from Nandroid backup?
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] jnannetti:
Hello guys,

Yesterday i received an OTA Update to 7.1.1 and downloaded it and beggining the installation.

After that my phone doesnt boot anymore and keep appearing the message:

AP Fastboot Flash Mode (Secure)

failed to validate recovery image

ERROR: Failed to pass validation, backup to fastboot

I tried to install RSD Lite but my pc doesnt recognize my phone as "connected".

Please give me some help.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] sp4rt4n-i17:
Reflashing a factoty image via fastboot could help. There are already some threads here, which will help you.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] supacrazyguy42:
I followed this and got 7.1.1 by OTA right after installing. Using minimal ADB and fastboot to flash it worked fine.https://xdaforums.com/moto-z/how-to/how-to-update-to-official-7-1-1-moto-z-t3640298
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] jnannetti:
Thanks my friend, I'll try this.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] jnannetti:
Is there a way to unlock my bootloader without enable the oem unlock on the phone?

My phone is stucked on 'AP Fastboot Flash Mode (secure)'.

Please give me some light guys.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] boromat:
Maybe there's an issue with the ota for 7.1.1. I got it here in the UK last night. It was working fine on 7.1.1 from what I could tell until the phone died later on the phone now will only boot to the no command screen. Tried hard reset but it doesn't help. Motorola have requested it sent for repair. Is this the same issue?
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] bakerboy:
I have exactly the same darned problem!!! Motorola chat are worse than useless, simply following a flow chart with no knowledge.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] boromat:
Yes the chat is like any other companies non tech savvy person following a script in fact it could quite easily be a bot haha. Anyway I got through the process and received a prepaid DHL label and have sent the phone for repair. Luckily my phone is under warranty I feel sorry for anyone with this problem and out of warranty I'm not sure how that would work even though the problem has arisen through Motorola's update.

Anyway I'll keep you updated on the outcome.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
Any solution? just one hour ago after power off and power on my phone it does not boot any more, only the same no command screen. I just updated to 7.1.1 the last thursday and all worked very well until today. Ha ha ha O just jumped from LG for the infamous boot loop problem with my G4 and now this. RETMX moto z.

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This working for me, enter into recovery Mode: press power and volume down at the same time then select recovey and you will see the same no command screen, then press power and volume up Keys at the same time, you will be enter in recovery mode, select mount system wait until complete, then select clean cache and wait until complete, now select power off, then try to power up your phone. If it does not result at the first time, try again. With this steps my phone turn on again.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
the problem persist if I turn off the phone, unable to boot the phone.

Wtf with Lenovo / Motorola really is so dificult to they make something good? , this phone is crap.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] lollyjay:
Try this at the screen shown in your post :

1 press AND HOLD the power button

2 press the volume up button

You should see the recovery menu below

The volume buttons navigate the menu

3 First try Mount /system

4 Then try Wipe cache partition

5 Then Reboot

It worked for me once
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
I think that the problem is related to the micro sd card, just a few minutes ago I can reboot my phone but without the card. This problem begin after the ota update. I made a backup of the card and format it but the problem persist, trying to reboot with the card inserted im the phone but it enter into bootloop, I make some test to the card with my pc and other phone and the card is ok.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] lollyjay:
That's good to know. What is the exact information on the SD card? Maybe we should not use it.

I am aware of some 128GB cards causing problems with booting
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
I use a 128 gb Samsung evo select UHS-1, but I use this card with my Moto Z since october with Android 6.0 without problems.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] lollyjay:
Yes I think 7.1.1 has a problem with that one
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
Hi, only an update, after a little investigation a lot of Moto G4 plus had the same problem just after nougat update, all of them use Samsung evo 128gb cards and format the card using the phone does not make the things better. The last night I perform a format process to my sd card using my Windows 10 lap top , but I select long format (well uncheck the quick format box). I insert the card to the phone and the phone ask to format the card, I select as external storage after complete I turn off the phone and it boot without problems, I power off the phone a cuple of times and Works good.

Maybe this is the solution.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] amcq1010:
Hi all..

Same issue here.. Moto Z Droid.. updated to 7.1.1 via OTA yesterday... things were OK... saw some weird issues (not sure if they were related or just issues in general).... I decided to reboot my phone... and I can no longer boot.

Every boot results in the "No command" screen. Clicking "Volume Up + Power" for a few seconds (then releasing volume, then power) drops me into Android Recovery....

I've tried clearing cache .. "Mount /system" .. everything short of factory reset.

I don't currently have access to a SIM-eject tool to try booting up the phone without SD card. Will do this once I get home. Looking back into my order history, my SD card is: Samsung Evo Plus mc128d 128gb Uhs-i Class 10 Micro SD Card

I've tried scanning the logs from "View recovery logs", but didn't see anything that stood out.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] lollyjay:
Your SD card is almost certainly the problem. I think that after you remove the SD card you will be able to boot.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] amcq1010:
I'll attempt to read through this thread again.. but, after removing SD and booting successfully (in the process now)... can I expect to be able to put it back in and be ok? Or, does it seem that this specific type of card will "never" work with 7.1.1?

I really wish I could boot it up far enough to be able to decrypt that SD to see exactly what is on it.

And lastly, is there any evidence as to which 128GB cards work on 7.1.1 with the Moto Z's?

lollyjay.. thanks for your quick reply.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] lollyjay:
I can't say since I have my SD card as external storage :confused:

I don't like to use removable storage as extended internal
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
I read @ Lenovo forums similar issues with nougat updates, is not exclusive problem for moto z. After hours making test my phone goes on boot loop again.

Reading moto g4 plus forum I learned that the only way is changing the micro sd card, and it is so curious that only Samsung cards cause the bootloop, some users with SanDisk memories are ok without problems.

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I can not belive that Motorola did not test the updates before made it public.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] amcq1010:
I think I found that same forum thread (here). Seems they were able to obtain the interest of a Motorola employee (MotorolaTom), but he seemed to drop off the scene after mid-April with no further updates as to whether Motorola found anything from their investigation.

I feel sorry for the few folks on this thread that have already sent their phone back.

I can confirm that removal of the SD allowed my phone to boot successfully.

Once bootup was finished, and I logged into the phone, I went ahead and popped the SIM tray back out again to insert the SD card. Upon insert, the "missing SD" notification went away and everything (data/apps) on the phone seem to be working as expected.

I decided to reboot again while the SD card was inserted. Same issue as before. Phone attempts to boot.. takes a long time.. then the blue "moto" boot screen flashes (black) then comes back and waits another long time before showing the "No command" recovery screen.

Removal of the SD card once more, booting phone, and it quickly moves past the blue "moto" screen and proceeds onto the Lenovo/Droid/Verizon animated boot screen. The phone then finished bootup rather quickly, after which I once again inserted the SD card and it functions as expected with no issues.

Coincidentally, I was planning on switching to a new Moto Z2 Force this week. As such, I pre-purchased a Sandisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-1 128GB card for use in that phone. I'm going to go ahead and try to boot my Moto Z Droid with the Sandisk 128GB to see what the results are there.

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Update:

The Sandisk 128GB card booted just fine. Since I plan on using this card in the new phone, I didn't want to load it up with data/apps/etc. I'm not sure whether any amount of data is required for this issue to manifest itself.

For reference, if you plan on staying with the Samsung 128GB, here's the best procedure for rebooting your phone:

1. Power off the device.

2. Use the SIM card removal device to pop the tray out (You don't have to remove it entirely, just un-seat it a tad bit)

3. Power on the device.

4. As soon as the phone begins the animated Lenovo/Droid bootup sequence you can re-insert the SIM/SD card tray.

The phone should continue booting up successfully with no notifications or errors for the SIM/SD card, and the apps/data/media on the SD card should function as expected with no issues.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] bullfinch110:
I heard that one guy had "repaired" his 128GB samsung by

1 saving its data on pc

2 formatting it with pc (there must be two ways. A long and a quick one. He took the long one wich took about half an hour)

3 after formatting, insert the card back to phone and getting it formatted as removable storage.

After that procedure the phone booted fine without issues anymore.

Didn' try by myself, but worth a try for somebody, who wants to keep his samsung sdcard.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] pacherecords:
It worked for me... But just a few hours. After 3 reboots the bootloop back.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] aarick:
Having same issue. Using Samsung 256GB SD Card. 1st time it happened, clear cache in recovery allowed it to boot fine. 2nd time, boot fine after clear cache too. However, now clearing cache does not work. Removed sd card and boots fine. Hope there is a proper fix for this.
[Moto Z Questions & Answers] Da_scratchy:
Same problem, slightly different though.

I'm having the same problem, but I can't get into recover, I can't even shut my phone off.. so this forcing the phone off and what not isn't doing it for me.. when this all happened to me, I had Spotify playing music while driving my way home from work..
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] wahabisbest:
So first of i tried installing viper4android many times and all would be unable to install driver for it. Today i found a zip of supposedly viper4android for Android 7.0 so i flashed it and it worked it installed the drivers successfully it works with phone speakers with google play music. But as soon as i put headphones on it stops changing the audio help. Also sorry for bad English. ? Also i just signed up so don't know any rules sorry xd.
[Wing, P4350 General] bugsy714:
Hello to all,

Just found this site and I'm really impressed! This is definitely what the internet is all about; the free exchange of ideas and spreading the love worldwide =)

I have a request for the GURUS; I am visually impaired and hate using the clumsy & cumbersome magnification tools available for WM6 (even mobile speak/mobile magnifier are booty at $90/each!).

My plan is to install Touch-it (how cool is that!!!!) and the other assorted goodies available for my new wing but was wondering if anyone has designed a theme for low vision/easy viewing?

To be honest I would be happy with larger, bolder fonts and easy to read coloration (black on white background or similar) can anyone recommend a theme or possibly help making one for me?

All help & suggestions are welcome, and links are great because searching through threads with my vision can be frustrating or near impossible at times.

Thanks to all & keep up the good work :D
[Wing, P4350 General] simplicity05:
Please forgive the jumbo text. Looking to make life easier.

I wanted to post since you've gotten 20+ views and no replys. Annoying when people read what you have to say and offer no insight.

I cruise a lot of the different app sites and forums; I haven't seen anything other than the large start menu mod that ttran implemented on a version of his open touch rom so far. You should post this up in the Herald Mobile 6 forum so that perhaps a cook or two might see this and have some ideas for you.

In the mean time, if I come across anything worthwhile, I'll dig the thread up and let you know.

Peace out
[Wing, P4350 General] bugsy714:
Cool deal,

I'll try over there and I'll check out the TTran mod =)
[General Questions and Answers] wallyhenderson:
Can i "format" google drive?" have deleted everything and it says im using 33%

Sorry if this is not the correct place to post this

I been using google drive a lot of time, i had no more than 1gb and some pictures... all time it says it is using 84%... now i have deleted 3 days ago all files from my google drive folder on pc... all files on google drive website and all files from my phone.... and still says 33%.. and there is not files!any help? there are any way to "format" or start from zero? there are only 2 pictures nothing else... just this 2 files... recicle bin empty in my drive and 33% (5.51gb) is being used....look the screenshot http://i.imgur.com/oi1uK2B.png
[General Questions and Answers] godkingofcanada:
I don't like Google drive. I use mega. Never had any issues. But then again I'm firmly against Google having so much control over my device.
[General Questions and Answers] diretouch:
When you delete it goes to trash. Look carefully and locate it. Empty it ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Vankog:
Yep, it's probably in trash and needs to be emptied. But this will be done automatically after one or two months, nonetheless.

Also, if you deleted really many files, it can take quite some time till all of them show up in trash.
[General Questions and Answers] zxxrar:
maybe google drive's cache ，try to format cache
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] dasbiz:
Hi,

Before I start to flash things on my OnePlus 5 I was wondering what the method is to get it back to stock with my previous phone being a Samsung S6 not sure about the process used with phones outside of the Samsung ecosystem. Any help is appreciated.

Thank You
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] hariharansriram:
Try the same on YouTube
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] dasbiz:
Helpful. I would love to watch EpicPhonesHD with jumpcuts everywhere instead of textual instruction from someone who has been modding this specific phone and has experienced any problems specific to this phone for returning to stock that the youtubers don't mention (Think Samsung hidden.img failures) /s
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] hariharansriram:
https://youtu.be/SPwHxSZ281o

Watch this I've made this and if you have any problems just comment it
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] n0013z:
Download the latest oos software. Flash via whatever recovery you have installed. After flash, you could be back to stock rom with stock recovery. At this point you could also choose to relock bootloader.

I'm not sure if the same procedure works on multi-rom
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] robuser007:
I reflashed recovery, reinstalled all software and still get this error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem lock

...

FAILED (remote: Flashing Lock is not allowed

)

finished. total time: 0.016s
[LG G Flex 2] wolfaas12345:
Howdy fellas i have lg g flex 2 which is hard locked to vodafone uk seems like previous owner though he can guess the code :DD

Anyway need a way to reset the hardlock so i can order the code and unlock the phone so need to know how to do it

any help is appreciated
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CookieDude_2332:
So a couple weeks ago my Nexus 6P died.

I had just taken it off charge and it froze then just died. Became unresponsive and I can't boot it or boot it into recovery. So I have a paper weight at the moment.

Ever since, there has been a couple instances where I got the phone to boot into the Google logo and it will freeze there. Either that, or it will get into the loading animation and freeze on that. It will not turn off until I turn it off myself.

I've only been able to do this a couple times with it being on charge for an hour, unplugging it and plugging it back in whilst holding the power button. Trying to get into recovery with this method has proven unsuccessful.

When left until there is no charge on the phone, I am able to invoke the red blinking lights on the notification led by holding down the power button in any variation (e.g. vol down + power, vol up + power, etc)

The question is if anyone else has come across this issue before and if there is any fix?

I do not believe this is BLOD. Maybe fried mobo or maybe battery is bad.

I can't RMA the device back to Google as I bought the phone whilst I was working in Japan and I bought it from Google Japan and I am know back in the UK.

So they apparently follow local warranty. I've spoken to them about 3 times about this and refuse to budge. Huawei are also no help as I bought the device from overseas, they said they aren't allowed to send any devices from Asia to their UK service centre.

So I'm kinda stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DEVILOPS 007:
Some more information would be useful like do you have an unlocked bootloader and have debugging enabled?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CookieDude_2332:
Unfortunately I don't have the bootloader unlocked nor have I got debugging enabled (I don't think).

Its pretty much as it was outta the box. Only things I tinkered with was enabling dev options in the settings but that is as much as I've done really. But haven't messed around with any of those settings.

The device is all stock.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DEVILOPS 007:
Did you enable OEM unlocking if you enabled Dev options?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CookieDude_2332:
I don't think so. Sorry, I'm not super technical.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beejkitsune:
Not wanting to make a new thread when this seems to be relevant; I appear to be experiencing the same issues as the OP.

I was at work and I noticed that my phone had switched off. I assumed it had ran flat and I hadn't noticed so plugged it in when I got home to no avail. The following day I was playing with the power button; holding it down for a period and pressing thinking it might be a loose connection and eventually it did turn back on but only for a few hours and since then the only response I get is a red LED when pressing the power/volume button whilst on charge.

I have replaced both the battery and the charging port/daughter board but this does not appear to have resolved the issue. Is there something I am missing or is my phone now a very expensive paperweight? If that is the case this will be the second Nexus device I owned which died in similar circumstances not long out of it warranty; I had a Nexus 6 which died after a year which I replaced with the 6P and it may be that the same thing has happened.

Any help, advice or suggestions anyone can give would be much appreciated!

Edit: Answering a question asked previously with regards to more information my bootloader is unlocked however I can't remember if USB debugging was enabled. I have a feeling that it is disabled as a work around for Magisk Hide and passing SafetyNet.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
BLOD is a bad motherboard. If you can't access Recovery and are bootloader locked, you're at the end of the road.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kirishiro:
Have you tried to keep it plugged in then hold the volume down button and power button at the same time, and hold it hard for a while and see if it goes to the recovery partition.

Otherwise, why don't you bring to a hardware store and talk to someone?

GLHF!:crying:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beejkitsune:
So I've spoken to Huawei on a whim and found out that my phone is under warranty so I am waiting on a return delivery envelope to go to one of their Service Centres however I would like to at least try to restore back to stock and re-lock the boot loader as I have managed on a few occasions to get the phone to boot to the 'Google' logo before it would then shut down. I have since plugged the phone in to my laptop and "QHSUSB__BULK" appears in Device Manager.

I have Wugfresh's NRT 2.1.9 but this does not pick up fastboot or adb. Is there any other tool I should be aware of or a driver I haven't got installed? Is this something anyone has come across or managed to resolve before?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Leave it just the way it is. You're stuck in QC 9008 diagnostic mode. Perfect for sending the phone back. Don't worry about it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beejkitsune:
Thanks for the advice. I'm just waiting on them sending me the jiffy bag to send my device out to them.

I'm not holding my breath on them actually fixing or replacing it as I have done a DIY battery replacement a little while ago (though I did replace with an OEM battery) but I figure it's worth a shot and worst case scenario I'll hold out for Oct 4th and hope the Pixel 2 XL rumours are right and it will have a similar screen design to the Galaxy S8+.

I love the look of the Infinity Display but will not have a Samsung.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v12xke:
Totally agree.