[Moto G4 Questions & Answers] Makettle:
Thank you both for help here.

Quick question, do you see the unlocked boot loader message when you boot your phone ? (this phone cannot be trusted blah blah)

No, the phone will not boot in any mode, factory,recovery,etc, and comes back with

Start Up Failed:

AP Fastboot Flash Mode (secure)

Fastboot reason : UTAG "bootmode" configured as fastboot

ERROR: Failed to pass validation, backup to fastboot

Boot up failed

As to the pre-failure status, the phone was fine after the last upgrade, I believe in late December or early January. I also noticed that the internal storage was running thin so I uninstalled some unused apps as well as using the storage/apps/ clear cache method to get the unused space back to about 3GB unused. No problems after that either. The problem started with the phone doing one of two things, it either shut down such that I had to hold the power button down for 30 sec to start/reboot the phone, or would it simply do a full reboot on its own. The period between these events varied, sometimes a matter of minutes, other times a day or two. It did this for about a week until it booted into the mode I described earlier.

The following is the requested data from the phone,

Thanks again for your help

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: moto-msm8952-B1.07

(bootloader) product: athene_13mp

(bootloader) board: athene_13mp

(bootloader) secure: yes

(bootloader) hwrev: P2A

(bootloader) radio: 1

(bootloader) storage-type: emmc

(bootloader) emmc: 16GB SAMSUNG QE13MB RV=08 PV=07 FV=0000000000000007

(bootloader) ram: 2GB SAMSUNG LP3 DIE=8Gb M5=01 M6=05 M7=00 M8=1F

(bootloader) cpu: MSM8952

(bootloader) serialno: ********

(bootloader) cid: 0x0032

(bootloader) channelid: 0x8d

(bootloader) uid: ***********

(bootloader) securestate: oem_locked

(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: no

(bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912

(bootloader) reason: UTAG "bootmode" configured as fastboot

(bootloader) imei: ***********

(bootloader) meid:

(bootloader) date: 01-11-2017

(bootloader) sku: XT1625

(bootloader) battid: SNN5970A

(bootloader) iccid:

(bootloader) cust_md5:

(bootloader) max-sparse-size: 268435456

(bootloader) current-time: "Tue May 24 17:32:45 UTC 2016"

(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[0]: motorola/athene/athene:7.0/NPJS25.

(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[1]: 93-14.7-3/3:user/release-keys

(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[0]: Blur_Version.25.246.3.athene.reta

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

(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom: LA.BR.1.3.6-01710-8976.0

(bootloader) version-baseband: M8952_70030.25.03.64R ATHENE_RETUSA_CUST

(bootloader) kernel.version[0]: Linux version 3.10.84-gcb2b19d (hudsoncm

(bootloader) kernel.version[1]: [MENTION=387459]ilc[/MENTION]lbld30) (gcc version 4.8 (GCC) ) #1

(bootloader) kernel.version[2]: SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 23 16:36:43 CST 2017

(bootloader) sbl1.git: git=MBM-NG-VB1.07-0-g57d1343

(bootloader) rpm.git: git=a970ead

(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-VB1.07-0-gf9b89ba

(bootloader) qe: qe 0/0

(bootloader) frp-state: protected (77)

(bootloader) ro.carrier: retus

all: listed above

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