[Moto Z Play Questions & Answers] Bobernator:
EDIT: THE DEVDB PROJECT HAS RISEN UP!

https://xdaforums.com/moto-z-play/development/project-real-unbrick-hard-bricked-moto-t3927107

This is so easy to do, and can be sooo helpful if one day You will end with hard-brick.

If you have any questions send me a private message. :good:

Hey! My name is Jacob and I must tell you that there is one common problem with Moto Z Play - OTA after downgroading results in hardbrick :silly:

I have also bricked my device some days ago, since then I have gathered interesting info, probably all old and not so old blankflash files (these were used in the past to unbrick, but don't work now) and two tools, that allowed me to make proper rawprogram0, patch0 and gpt_main0.bin needed for making files, that will allow everyone to unbrick.

But this can be worth nothing without your help. Problem with unbricking, is that last OTA, updated chip security making unable to flash older chip firmware rendering all flashfiles useless. To make new one, I must get some files that are not present in the internet, but are present in ALL working phones. All I need is full mmcblk0 backup. If you want to help follow these easy-peasy instructions:

INFO: Procedure bellow excludes EFS, MODEMST1, MODEMST2, FSG, BACKUP partitions from backup. These are your phone specific partitions, that contain sensitive information like IMEI, serial numbers etc, but this guide shows how to avoid them while backing up so you don't have to worry about it ;)

Prerequisites:

1. Your phone might be rooted (but doesn't have to be), definitelly should be working and not messed up too much.

2. You must have at least 32 GB micro sd card

3. Any ROM, even custom will be good, but if you have stock, you get +1 point :D

Steps:

1. If you have TWRP recovery, boot into it and go to step 2.

If you don't have, here is official one https://eu.dl.twrp.me/addison/ - rename it to "twrp.img" and boot to it with

fastboot boot twrp.img

2. Backup your /data partition and keep it in safe place

3. Format sdcard in ext4 (it is more robust and failsafe) or FAT32/exFAT (if you are on windows).[/URL]

4. Wipe /data on your phone and insert sdcard. Under "Mount" tab in TWRP, check box next to SD-CARD.

5. Open TWRP terminal emulator (It is in advamced tab), type "su" and run these command:

If you trust me that I won't do bad things with your IMEI:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/[U][I]"Ext sd location here"[/I][/U]/Loader.img bs=4096

This just makes full-backup of your all partitions from Qualcomm chip.

OR

If you don't trust me:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p[B][COLOR="Red"]X[/COLOR][/B] of=/[B][COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Y[/COLOR][/B]/mmcblk0p[COLOR="Red"]X[/COLOR] bs=4096

Where X is number of partition from 1 to 54

BUT NOT:

27 (modemst1), 28 (modemst2), 29 (fsg)

and Y is location of your SD-CARD. This will only back up partitions without IMEI, and other phone-specific info.

6 Generated files will be HUGE (~27GB). Copy them to pc and upload to cloud. Maby https://mega.nz/ - probably only they have enough space for that file for free.

7 Post link here or send it to me via Private Message.

8 That's all! If you managed to get here, all comunity is grateful, :highfive: you will be included as biggest contribuor to the new thread I will make in near future!