[Moto G5S Plus Questions & Answers] kooljim45:
Hi all,

So I have well and truly hardbricked my XT1803. Most probably arose as I foolishly flashed a Potter firmware to my Sanders phone. Teaches me for not reading everything carefully before going ahead to flash firmware.

Anyway, I'm now in the situation where I have hard bricked my device completely. No OS, no recovery, no bootloader. Strangely the device can be found if install the device on my PC as "Android ADB interface" and I can run fastboot commands in cmd (however nothing appears on the phones screen). I've detailed my getvar all details below if that helps!

I've tried re-flashing NPS26.116-61 on the device and this gives me an error at the first hurdle as per the below.

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: 0.096s

I've tried blank flash based on the G5 forums to see if this can boot some life into it, however the phone is not recognising as QUALCOMM HS-USB QDLoader 9008

If I force install of the QUALCOMM HS-USB QDLoader 9008 drivers, this just gives me the < waiting for device > if I run blank flash.

Fastboot getvar all as per the below - I've added some in bold as these have been purposely hidden.

(bootloader) slot-count: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: moto-msm8953-C1.07

(bootloader) product: sanders

(bootloader) board: sanders

(bootloader) secure: yes

(bootloader) hwrev: P4

(bootloader) radio: 1

(bootloader) storage-type: emmc

(bootloader) emmc: 32GB SAMSUNG GX6BMB RV=08 PV=03 FV=0000000000000003

(bootloader) ram: 3GB SAMSUNG LP3 DIE=8Gb M5=01 M6=06 M7=00 M8=5F

(bootloader) cpu: MSM8953

(bootloader) serialno: XXXXXXX

(bootloader) cid: 0x0032

(bootloader) channelid: 0x41

(bootloader) uid: XXXXXXXXX

(bootloader) securestate: flashing_unlocked

(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: yes

(bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912

(bootloader) reason: Volume down key pressed

(bootloader) imei: 3xxxxxxxxxxx

(bootloader) meid:

(bootloader) date: 01-08-2018

(bootloader) sku: XT1803

(bootloader) battid: SB18C15118

(bootloader) iccid:

(bootloader) cust_md5:

(bootloader) max-sparse-size: 268435456

(bootloader) current-time: "Thu Jan 1 0: 2:46 UTC 1970"

(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[0]: motorola/sanders_n/sanders_n:7.1.1

(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[1]: /NPS26.116-61/74:user/release-keys

(bootloader) poweroffalarm: 0

(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[0]: Blur_Version.26.231.74.sanders.re

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

(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom: LA.UM.5.6.r1-03800-89xx.0

(bootloader) version-baseband: <not found>

(bootloader) kernel.version[0]: Linux version 3.18.31-Resurrected-Kernel

(bootloader) kernel.version[1]: (jleeblanch@elite) (gcc version 4.9.x 2

(bootloader) kernel.version[2]: 0150123 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREE

(bootloader) kernel.version[3]: MPT Thu Jan 11 23:42:06 EST 2018

(bootloader) sbl1.git: git=MBM-NG-VC1.07-0-g3b15bb0

(bootloader) rpm.git: git=MBM-NG-VC0.C0-1-g202d600

(bootloader) tz.git: git=283f623

(bootloader) devcfg.git: git=283f623

(bootloader) keymaster.git: git=283f623

(bootloader) cmnlib.git: git=283f623

(bootloader) cmnlib64.git: git=283f623

(bootloader) prov.git: git=283f623

(bootloader) aboot.git: git=MBM-NG-VC1.07-0-g9d7f987

(bootloader) qe: qe 0/0

(bootloader) frp-state: no protection (0)

(bootloader) ro.carrier: retgb

all: listed above

finished. total time: 0.211s

If anyone has any thoughts on bringing this back to life I'd great appreciate it!