[Moto G4 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] erica butson:
Hard bricked phone becomes soft bricked but the bootloader is corrupted,

Thank you for the flash file i was waiting for 4 months for this flash file.

My phone was hard bricked dead and successfully recovered using this flash file, But I think the boot loader is corrupted.

it only enters to fast boot nothing works recovery doesn't work. Tried to flash stock recovery using this command

fastboot.exe flash recovery recovery.img <--- Didn't work tried TWRP when my phone got bricked it was running TWRP so

fastboot.exe flash recovery twrp.img <--- Didn't work too.

The main problem is phone can enter only to fast boot but recovery mode doesn't work entering to recovery mode is also not possible.

Tried flashing stock rom of september ATHENE_NPJS25.93-14-10_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml the phone didn't boot or the recovery worked.

Tried flashing latest rom of December ATHENE_NPJS25.93-14-10_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml didn't work too.

Tried flashing stock rom which had come with phone Moto_G4_Plus_XT1643_ATHENE_MPJ24.139-63_Stock_Img didn't work too.

I used NPJS25_93_14_10_Sept2017_GPT_bootloader GPT and Bootloader to save my phone from hard brick.

Log of fastboot getvar all

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: moto-msm8952-B1.06

(bootloader) product: athene_16mp

(bootloader) board: athene_16mp

(bootloader) secure: yes

(bootloader) hwrev: P2A

(bootloader) radio: 4

(bootloader) storage-type: emmc

(bootloader) emmc: 32GB SAMSUNG RX1BMB RV=08 PV=07 FV=0000000000000007

(bootloader) ram: 3GB SAMSUNG LP3 DIE=6Gb M5=01 M6=05 M7=00 M8=7B

(bootloader) cpu: MSM8952

(bootloader) serialno: ZY2238L75Q

(bootloader) cid: 0x0032

(bootloader) channelid: 0xc0

(bootloader) uid: 9CEB7F0000000000000000000000

(bootloader) securestate: flashing_unlocked

(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: yes

(bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912

(bootloader) reason: Volume down key pressed

(bootloader) imei: 358187070533255

(bootloader) meid:

(bootloader) date: 06-02-2016

(bootloader) sku: XT1643

(bootloader) battid: SNN5970A

(bootloader) iccid:

(bootloader) cust_md5:

(bootloader) max-sparse-size: 268435456

(bootloader) current-time: "Thu Apr 21 3:26:31 UTC 2016"

(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[0]: motorola/athene_f/athene_f:6.0.1/M

(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[1]: PJ24.139-63/64:user/release-keys

(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[0]: Blur_Version.24.31.64.athene.reta

(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[1]: il.en.US

(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom: LA.BR.1.3.3-02720-8976.0

(bootloader) version-baseband[0]: M8952_70009.08.03.48R ATHENE_INDIA_DSD

(bootloader) version-baseband[1]: S_CUST

(bootloader) kernel.version[0]: Linux version 3.10.84-g061c37c (hudsoncm

(bootloader) kernel.version[1]: [MENTION=387459]ilc[/MENTION]lbld87) (gcc version 4.9.x-google 20

(bootloader) kernel.version[2]: 140827 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEM

(bootloader) kernel.version[3]: PT Thu Aug 4 19:33:05 CDT 2016

(bootloader) sbl1.git: git=MBM-NG-VB1.06-0-g57d1343

(bootloader) rpm.git: git=MBM-NG-VB1.06-0-ga970ead

(bootloader) tz.git: git=69dd24b-dirty

(bootloader) hyp.git: git=69dd24b-dirty

(bootloader) keymaster.git: git=69dd24b-dirty

(bootloader) cmnlib.git: git=69dd24b-dirty

(bootloader) aboot.git: git=MBM-NG-VB1.06-0-g0edfb0d

(bootloader) qe: qe 0/0

(bootloader) frp-state: no protection (142)

(bootloader) ro.carrier: retin

all: listed above

finished. total time: 0.476s

Log of erasing system

fastboot erase system -w

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) has-slot:system: not found

wiping userdata...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

File system type raw not supported.

wiping cache...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

File system type raw not supported.

erasing 'system'...

(bootloader) Permission denied

FAILED (remote failure)

finished. total time: 0.016s

I can flash the rom but only one error which i have read on other posts suggests it can be ignored.

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'recovery' (16484 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.604s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.399s]

finished. total time: 1.007s

Any help is appreciated. The phone was useless for months now somehow i managed to get it to soft brick. I just want to make this phone work somehow.