[Moto E3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develop] h4x0rm1k3:
Hey all. I thought i'd upload my files that I created using various tools for our XT1700 Moto E3 for the Tesco UK market seeing as none of the TWRP's, roots or anything else seems to work for our little device! I spent 3 days trying to get TWRP recovery working at 1st which failed miserably due to having 0Mb on all partitions and internal and external flash once flashed so you couldn't do anything, not even flash root and after restarting ended up in a boot loop and having to use SP tools to re-flash stock rom! So, I finally found that Magisk could patch the boot.img once I managed to get the right one (had to use a combo of tools to dump the original firmware from the moto E3 and grab the proper boot & recovery.img as the stock roms versions seem to be smaller for some reason!). I then flashed the boot.img which allowed the moto E3 to finally boot properly without boot looping and then tried to make a TWRP image for it which again failed showing 0Mb! So, I thought i'd try a different recovery and what do you know, it now works as it should do and I could complete the rooting stage (although xposed is still a no go as it just won't boot with it!) using phil's recovery.

So, I thought that because of all that I had to go through it'd be the right thing to do for other moto E3 Tesco UK users.

All you need to do is the following -

1 - You HAVE to be on firmware build S124 and flashed using SP flash tool, the firmware can be found here (select/double click on Motorola then Moto E3 (XT1700) and finally download the Stock file (The Reseurection remix version in that folder is for Taidos and not our Moto E3 unfortunately, same with the TWRP in there also) - https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0Bw_NsGJYGFyVV0hrT0xWM2JXTWM . The info on flashing with SP flash tool can be found here (Thanks yuimhc) - https://xdaforums.com/moto-e3/how-to/guide-how-to-unlock-locked-xt1700-t3693247

2 - Unlock bootloader in fastboot by typing ' fastboot oem unlock ' in fastboot and accepting on your moto E3 when prompted (you get into fastboot mode by holding vol up + power button and when you feel the phone vibrate release your finger from the power button only until you see the selection screen and then you can release the vol up button and use vol up to select fastboot.

3 - Flash my patched boot.img using fastboot and typing ' fastboot flash boot boot.img in fastboot ' with the moto E3 in fastboot mode.

4 - Flash my version of Phil's recovery using fastboot and typing ' fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ' in fastboot.

5 - Now take the battery out of the phone, put it back in and start your moto E3 up (it may look like it's boot looping or going in to recovery, just wait it out as it'll loop and it should start booting properly after a couple of attempts)

6 - Set up your moto E3 again from scratch as unlocking bootloader will have wiped our userdata etc.

7 - Take out battery again and put back in and get back in to the fastboot/recovery selection screen and select recovery (enter recovery the same as in part 1 but select recovery instead.

8 - You should now be able to install Magisk.zip to gain root in recovery (and/or any other zips you may have!), once flashed start your moto E3 up again normally and once booted install the latest Magisk manager and download a root checker app and check for root (might take 2 attempts at checking as root checker usually need to gain root access so Magisk will ask to grant SU access to the checker).

8- You should now be rooted with Phil's recovery installed along with a patched boot.img and if you got this far then well done, you're now good to go!

One thing I wouldn't advise trying at the moment is any of the custom roms on this site as it looks like they won't work as they're designed for either Taido or Taido_row and not out Moto E3 which is called Taidos_row so for the time being at least we're stuck with stock rom and our own tweaks until some nice developer comes along and creates a custom rom for us which I highly doubt! If any of you try and get a custom rom working on our version of moto E3 though then please do let us all know so we can try also! I'd also avoid Xposed as it hung my moto E3 and I had to jump back in recovery and uninstall it!

I hope this info helps at least some of us Tesco UK moto E3 owners as it has me as it took me 3 days of hunting and testing all sorts of things to sort all this out and work out what to do and how to get root etc and has been my hardest mobile to root etc so far!