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[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] psychopac:
To add to this post, backup EFS AND Persist and keep it safe somewhere.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
retus/retapac/reteu OTA file

For those hanging out for the OTA to go from Nougat NPNS25.137-93-14 to Oreo OPS28.85-13, I've captured the OTA:

G5Plus - Blur_Version.25.341.16.potter.retail.en.US.zip

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=1322778262904025852

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qv33wlb3oznxd91/Blur_Version.25.341.16.potter.retail.en.US.zip?dl=0

This is suitable for retus, retapac, reteu, maybe others :)
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Sardus87:
So this OTA is not the same of BR and India release? PAC, US and EU are on the "same channel"?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
The starting point is different, but the end point is the same. This requires you to be on 93-14, the India/Brazil release requires you to be on 92-14. They both end up at the same point, after which there shouldn't be any differences (hopefully ever again).

Edit - and yes, APAC, US, and EU are on the "same channel/build" in Nougat.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Smeagal192:
Updated retgb with latest release, great work
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Njit:
** can be deleted **
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] rodri_mdz:
Update ok on Retus
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Sardus87:
Update reteu ok.
[MENTION=6431980]chaithanya0207[/MENTION] please add to OP
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Smeagal192:
Ok a bit of feedback, not a power user, but used custom roms a lot previous to G5 Plus.

Never felt the need to use custom with this phone, it just did what I wanted, localcast solved the big screen problem,

Nova launcher did the rest for me.

Thanks to NZedPred who supplied the update for NPNS25-137-93-14, which covers Great Britain, United States of America, Europe and Pacific Area which worked without any issue by putting downloaded blur file in root of internal memory, no special file explorer needed, just stop moto updater and change permission for storage, again nothing special required.

Tap manual update and it finds update file, as stated takes 20-25 minutes to install.

This update does not change your life, make you better looking or richer, but as a visual improvement its nice and of course more current coding.

With updates not sure I need Nova launcher, I'll wait and see.

Regards

Ray

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[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Rocketfin:
Works great on retus and I'm loving the new Substratum Andromeda support
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
So glad Andromeda works! I haven't updated it yet, because I saw andromeda on the play store is saying it's incompatible, but that might just be because I'm still on 7.0.

If Moto US gives us no new news on updates by October 20th, I'm just going to use this zip. I already have it downloaded, because I know they're not going to do anything.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Rocketfin:
The zip is the official update so no harm in updating to it
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
True, I just feel like giving Moto one last chance to officially push an update. (Even though I know I shouldn't bother.)
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] ytyabc:
Works perfect on Retus

GDrive Mirror Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gKCCpKWcGDSQTiHIj5Lu_xm69kcq7lOb
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] MezzaLuna:
Did it on a MOTO G5 plus RETEU.

Followed the steps with no troubles, let's see how this Oreo 8.1 works.

Hope it will improve battery time.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] rl_2015:
Is it really safe to use this update on retus (XT1687)? A couple of weeks back it was noted that in the U.S. they are still running soak tests. The latest build for the soak test is different than this one (OPS28.85-13 for this one vs. OPS28.85-17 for the latest soak test in the U.S.).

By applying this build to a retus device I fear that future updates may be impossible as the update server may detect that the device has a build that was never released for retus. So it would not be able to apply the patches to update to future builds for retus.

I may be wrong on this, and this may not apply to other regions. I just wanted to bring up this point. I'm desperate to update to Oreo because of issues with UI crashes that I'm having with Nougat, but to be safe, I will wait a little longer.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
You have a good point there. It does appear though (in so far as we can tell by the update OTAs and their required version) that they are unifying the builds for all channels. It may be that the US gets a different OTA at some point, but one would hope that all other regions would end up on the same build as well. If that's the case, there will be OTAs that would take you from OPS28.85-13 to whatever the future update is.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
Again, I'm still on 7.0 right now, but the notification I get for the update (I have the .zip) it says it will update me to 28.51.16, not 28.85-13
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Rocketfin:
I don't see why it would stop OTAs but worse case scenario, the updates will just have to be sideloaded
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] rl_2015:
It would stop OTA's because each OTA update patches only the differences between the build on your device and the build for the update. That's the reason why most minor OTA updates are only anywhere between a few dozen megabytes to a few hundred. The Oreo update is around 1GB whereas a full Oreo build is several gigabytes.

If you are on a build not released for your region, I doubt that the update server and / or Moto update app will guess that a previous OTA was used for a different region and update you to the next build for that different region. From the screenshots that I've seen those who updated retus using the OTA from another region still showed the software channel as retus.

So the question is not "if" OTA's would stop, it is what build retus ends up on after the soak tests. If it is different than the build of the manually applied OTA, OTA's will most likely stop (though as I said I can't state this with 100% certainty). It is logical to think that if retus is on a different build than the other region, and a retus patch is applied to that build, the patch would fail. It most likely checks for the build on the device and only updates to the next build if it can do so properly. Not doing so would put your device in an inconsistent state.

But as you said, future updates could be sideloaded. Just keep your fingers crossed that someone captures each future update.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] MezzaLuna:
Since the Kernel it's named "prerelease", are you sure we will receive OTA stock and stable updates?

Thank you.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Wolfcity:
Can someone confirm, that substratum (with or without Andromeda) is fully working on stock Oreo (Settings and notifications)?

I´m rooted on 7.0 and substratum (Swift Black) is working with all apps but not for settings and notifications. I would like to have full substratum support, on the other hand good sound is very important for me. On 7.0 I have Viper4android and Dolby_Atmos®_Classic_Lenovo_A7000 (plus AML) running and the sound is perfect.

I´m testing soundmods on my other devices, Viper is no problem and depending on the Magisk version DolbyAtmos_Axon7_Oreo is working too but the sound is not as good as on stock 7.0 on my potter.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] prnv1312:
will it work for previous BRICKED devices that need to use Moto Z bootloader?

now i'm on sandy-stock-debloat-v2 build number.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] krumthesaint:
Official or SOAK

Official or SOAK is this version?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
I received this as a standard OTA, my region is retapac. It is compatible with other regions that were on 93-14.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Rocketfin:
Substratum/Andromeda is working perfectly for me, have had Swift Dark and substweaks up and running for the past day with no issues

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mLMUpDpvNwQus5oD6
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] krumthesaint:
Thanks! Im on retgb/reteu channel. Will try this OTA :)
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Wolfcity:
Nice to hear. I'm using substweaks and Swift Black.

Unfortunately the photo album is empty.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Rocketfin:
Photos decided to remove the pictures from the album for some reason, but they should be there now
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] seriousia:
Any one having wifi hotspot not working issue ??

EDIT : GOT IT WORKING

Connect the device using adb and type

- adb shell

Once in the shell, type this:

- settings put global tether_dun_required 0

Press return.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] nsb32:
Not working for me. Downloaded the us zip folder into root, force stopped moto updater, turned on storage permission, but it still says I am up to date. Running 93-14. Does it need to be renamed?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Smeagal192:
Restart phone, powering off lets storage permissions too correctly find update.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] nsb32:
So does it make a difference if my channel says amz, being an Amazon Amazon phone? Thinking this is my problem.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Wolfcity:
The main thing is if you were on NPNS25-137-93-14 or on NPNS25-137-92-14. Only one OTA will fit for you.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] MezzaLuna:
Hotspot working fine.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
Anybody figure out for sure if this is still a prerelease or not?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] echo92:
If you're referring to the pre release tag in the kernel version, this looks likely to be referring to the software compiler (a pre release GCC compiler) used to build the kernel. It does not necessarily mean the software is pre release. Also, the fact that these Oreo builds are flashing to retail devices not on the soak test further suggests this is the intended build. If you're on a US device, up to you if you wish to flash this leaked OTA as there appears to be another build for US ( but that might be the Sept 2018 security build patch?)

---------- Post added at 08:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 PM ----------

It's entirely possible, AMZ firmwares are slightly different to the retail firmwares and as such retail OTA updates may not flash onto your device. You'd likely have to wait for Amazon to roll out the update.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] nsb32:
Okay, did a factory reset, downloaded zip to root folder. I think I can confirm that this does not work on Amazon amz channel phones. Bummer.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
When I try to update it says it will update me to 28.51.16 not 28.85-13. Anyone else experience this, even if it updates to the correct version, not 51.16?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] echo92:
Hmm, can you upload screenshots of the version mentioned and the accompanying update notes please? Also, are you still on NPNS25.137-93-14 with the June 2018 security patch and can you confirm if you're receiving this via OTA or are you using the captured OTA in the opening page (the OTA with Blur_Version.28.51.16)?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
I got the update notification by downloading the zip by [MENTION=7346927]NZedPred[/MENTION].
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] echo92:
Thanks for that - that's odd. I've downloaded the OTA from NZedPred's Dropbox link and I see nothing unusual. From the OTA updater script, this OTA is clearly for NPNS25.137-93-14 (the fact that your updater is recognising the OTA update is also evidence of this):

Package expects build thumbprint of [B]8.1.0/OPS28.85-13[/B]/b8ea:user/release-keys or 7.0/[B]NPNS25.137-93-14[/B]/16:user/release-keys

I'm not sure where the updater is pulling that build number from, given it doesn't match the OTA Blur_version number either. From the included script, this is an applicable update, though might be worth seeing if anyone experiences this, or perhaps wait for the US OTA to roll out if you can afford to wait any longer. Perhaps try re-downloading the update, verify the file size and md5 and try again?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
Originally, I used the androidfilehost link, and I tried the Dropbox link, and got the same result
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
Check for any other zip files that may be sitting in the internal storage root folder. That's all I can think of...
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
My fault, because I forgot to mention it, but I'm not rooted. The zip was just placed in the normal internal storage.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Smeagal192:
I saw that wrong number in update notification, looks like they used the blur reference number as the build number, anyway have not had a single issue, Bluetooth, nfc, 4G and wireless which some users reportedly seem to be interferring with each other have had no problems and are permanently left on.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Wolfcity:
You don't have to be rooted to check your internal storage. On the contrary, if you are rooted the ota will fail. The root folder is storage/emulated/0, just the main internal memory.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
Oh. In that case I put it in the right place. I suppose I expected to be looking for a folder named 'root'. My bad.....
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] VldGrdv:
This version number (28.51.16) you will see only on start, after update it will be 28.85.13.

Tested on 25.137-93-14 RETEU version in Russia.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] MezzaLuna:
Almost the same on Moto G5 plus reteu in Italy.

:good:
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
Phew, I thought I was just screwed for a bit.

---------- Post added at 01:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:05 PM ----------

Good, only difference is I am retus, but that shouldn't make any difference.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] VldGrdv:
No, it shouldn't as I remember.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] krumthesaint:
Just update to 8.1.

My phone is xt1684 on retgb channel

Update was smooth and everithing is fine ... ?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] ikkaro26:
Xt1680 mexico

Hi, im from mexico, my moto g5 plus XT1680 is on attmx channel, its take a while they push the ota, what its the correct file that i can put on my moto, tnks
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Greblos:
I've successfully updated my RETUS XT1687 from NPNS25.137-93-14 to OPS28.85-13 using the OTA zip posted by NZedPred. Everything seems to be working fine so far. The update process took about 40 minutes. So far, Oreo seems very smooth on this hardware. All of my carrier services seem to be functioning as they did before the update. The G5 Plus wasn't officially available in the Canadian market, so there are a couple small quirks, but nothing new. Thanks!
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] 1LastHope:
Hi, I'm new to the forums and looking for some direction on the 8.1 G5plus update.

I d/l'ed the US zip file and followed the steps. I also restref my phone but it still doesn't seem to recognize the file? I keep getting the "Your device's software is up to date" message.

Software channel is retus.

Build NPNS25. 137-93-14

Any help or suggestions would be great.

Thanks.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] echo92:
Just to confirm:

1) you've downloaded the OTA from NZedPred's post https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77856408&postcount=45 (either the Dropbox link or the Android file host link) and not the OTA file from the first post in this thread? Despite the en.us suffix, this does not necessarily mean this update is for US devices. You'd need the appropriate OTA as listed in post 45 for US devices.

2) the OTA file (as a zip) had been copied to the top folder of your internal storage (along side the download, music, alarms folders)?

3) you've given the Motorola update services storage permissions?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] 1LastHope:
Thank you for the quick reply, I missed the copying into the internal storage ?.

Just finished the update and everything seems to be stable and running fine.

Thanks again ?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] kajinzer:
For RETUS user i still got this update but no oreo 8.1 just yet

Idk what will happen with the ones manually updated their g5 plus.

It's 137-93-18
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] rl_2015:
I just received this notification, also. I checked earlier this morning, and it said that my system was up to date, so this must have been released in the last few hours. This can probably mean only one of two things:

They are putting retus on this build in order begin rolling out the update to Oreo (if the Oreo update was previously built coming from this build number).

-or-

They know that it will be a while before Oreo will be ready for retus, and they are going ahead and releasing the August security patches.

I hope that it is not the second case. For this reason I will not apply this update. If Motorola takes too long to release Oreo for retus, I will manually install the Oreo update from NPNS25.137-93-14 that was previously posted. I know that it will probably mean not getting future updates (if retus ends up on a different Oreo build), but I'm really getting tired of waiting. I have an issue with frequent system UI crashes that seems to have started after the update to NPNS25.137-93-14 (at least that's when I began to notice it). It happens even when running in safe mode, so it is not because of any third-party apps. So I will not be waiting for them to push Oreo much longer.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] ezas:
XT 1687 Retus retail US

Today i took the update hoping that I would get the Oreo update. There was an update but it was just a security update, and I didn't make much notice of the version number.

How can I check the full firmware version? I looked all through about phone and security. Checking for updates just tells me it's up to date.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
I got the notification just now, and I agree with all of what you said. At first I said I would wait until the 20th to install this if there was no new news, but after this, I'm gonna wait until November. However, (just in case) 93-18 is going to be completely skipped for now.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] UCFJake:
I also took the update on 'retus' and now I am on NPNS25.137-93-18. It may be wierd and I don't expect Oreo until December (latest update on Lenovo US forum site was September 28th for G5plus Oreo, and October 10th for October security update), but I wanted to make sure I got the final post-soak build. The August security patch notes were published on their site on August 21 so 8 week delay from notes posting to update push to my IMEI. If the 9/28 Oreo update note is non-soak test, then that would be November 23, but who knows aside from Lenovo at this point.

EDIT: there was also a note on 8/10 for the August 1 security update so the dates may be even farther out (9 weeks plus).
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] c0080900v:
I can't get it to work on my XT1687 4GB/64GB retus

So far I've tried

Google Play Services > Clear All Data

Enabled / Granted storage permission for Update Services

Force Stopped Motorola Update Services

Rebooted

I repeated these steps several times already yet still no dice...

Blur_Version.25.341.16.potter.retail.en.US.zip is on the internal storage

Someone please help me out here...

PS - I installed the August security patch update first before any of my prior steps...
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
You're on 93-18, and the OTA expects 93-14
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] c0080900v:
So from the sound of it... SCREWED? Because I installed the August security patch update? I take it affects it, right...?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
Yes, so you'll have to wait for the US official Oreo if you want to do it through OTA.

Other alternative is to use Fastboot. There's another thread around that shows how to do that.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
A bit off topic, and not the end of the world, but does anyone know how to stop this STUPID update notification (93-18) from popping up every 2 seconds WITHOUT a 'not right now' button?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Wolfcity:
If you are rooted freeze the Motorola update service.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
I'm not.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] rl_2015:
Go into Settings -> Developer options. There is an option for "Automatic system updates". Turn it off.

You also may need to go into Settings -> Apps and select "Show system" from the menu. Find "Motorola Update Services" and force stop it if it is running.

This worked for me.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] kslackoff:
When I follow the instructions in the opening post, the only update I am presented with is the August security patch update. Does anyone know how to get it to ignore that security update and instead install the Oreo update?
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] TargetedNuke:
If you are on the June security update, download the zip from https://xdaforums.com/g5-plus/how-to/download-official-moto-g5-g5-plus-t3848246/post77856408

Credit: NZedPred
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] nvrpayretail:
I made the mistake of taking the US August security update which put me at NPNS25-137-93-18. Then I found this downloadable update to oreo. I downloaded it to root directory, set storage permission for Motorola update and tried manual update - says I'm up to date :( Tried power off/on and manual update again - still no good, says I'm up to date. Any thoughts on why it's not finding the update file? Is it because I'm at 93-18?

Edit: OK, it was a dumb user error. When it downloaded it went to Internal Storage, not root. However, tried moving it to root but there is not enough space - only shows .8 gig available. But it shows internal storage with 48.2 GB free. Is it possible to shrink internal storage allocation without having root?

Edit 2: So it seems that I've gone completely brain dead and, reading the beginning of this post again, realized that I was right in the first place with it in Internal Storage. (Been away from this for too long.) So I'm back to my original question - why isn't it finding the update? Is it doing a pre-req check before even trying to install and failing to find an update since I'm at 93-18? Thoughts anyone???
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] rl_2015:
You're now on build number NPNS25-137-93-18 after taking the OTA for the August security patches. You needed to still be on build number NPNS25-137-93-14 in order to be able to use the OTA zip file provided by NZedPred in post #45.

---------- Post added at 03:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:14 AM ----------

Unfortunately it appears that the information for this update is cached somewhere on the device after it is retrieved from Lenovo's servers . I have not taken the update, but I tried turning off WiFi and cellular data and force stopping and clearing the cache for "Motorola Update Services". Even with no network connection, checking for system updates still gives me information about this update. And it ignores the zip file if it is present (the update from the servers seems to take priority).

Probably the only way to get around this is to perform a factory reset and immediately apply the zip before connecting to the Internet. Hopefully this would work. Unless someone else knows where this update information is stored on the device and how to delete it.