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[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
Did you format it with your phone while running Pie, running Oreo, or did you use the card reader? If you last formatted it on Oreo, or with the card reader, then try reformatting it with the phone while running Pie. This is what my sdcard name looks like after doing that. 679E-937E
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] RodimusConvoy:
I don't have Pie or access to a phone with Pie. :confused: I'm actually coming from Nouget (my Huawei Elate). Plus my channel is Retus which I'm guessing means retail US? No carrier brand, unlocked. If carrier locked folks (Verizon and Boost I'm guessing) have Pie great, I don't and probably never will. Ah well.

I haven't formatted a card since I had a 32GB card. My last card was 64GB, popped in my S4 worked (KitKat) worked no problem. Took the same card put it in the Elate (Nougat) no problem. Same card in this phone though its acting the same way my 128gb card is. The 128 has only ever been in a card reader and the G6 Play.

I was prepared to format yesterday when I saw both card readers say it was exfat. So before I format this anyway (and to keep it on topic) I want to ask if this has anything to do with formatting data to f2fs during the root process?
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
I can't speak for the other devices in question. The G6 play should give it a normal name though, if it's formatted from within the phone while running Pie. I'm sure it has nothing to do with formatting f2fs. The root steps you're referring to only affect internal storage, not your external sdcard.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Your phone has Android 9 (pie) and because everyone doesn't wanna be rude I'll be the one to say it. Stop being hardhead/ stubborn and update/ flash pie to see if it works, like fr man your being quite hardhead about this when the resources for you are fully laid out in front of you to fix your potential issues, Since your phone has stock pie firmware uploaded it literally wont do you harm to just flash it and see then just reflash Oreo if your that persistent on not having Pie.... The root process has absolutely nothing to do with your external sd card it's solely for decrypting the phones internal storage. OR format it as internal shared storage to see if that fixes it then reformat it as external. My g6 play had never once displayed my external sd card with a long name of letters and numbers its always said "sdcard" look up on Google "format as card for Android phones Android 9" idk man there's options available your not wanting to use.... like What else you want from us? bless you phone with holy water from the pope himself? Sorry if this is rude but like fr there's options YOU aren't willing to try. This ain't Android 4-7 Android 8 completely changed the game of how root and everything is done which is why the go to root solution is magisk because it does it all systemlessly. Basically anything you knew about Android 4-7 does not apply to Android 8 and up and hell Android Q is changing stuff up again compared to pie so yea
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] RodimusConvoy:
ninjakara, I'm only going to say this once. Whatever you're going through? You don't get to take it out on me. Period. This is the second time you'd called me hard headed and I let it slide the first time out of gratitude for your frankly flawed guide but out of gratitude none the less. This won't be a habit with you toward me. As of the time of this writing it was NOT available and I had nowhere to get it. If context be damned with you and you need a punching bag I promise you I won't be it. Last time I'll say this to you. I like you but...no.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
It was uploaded on the 17th 2 days ago. if your not taking the time to look then that's on you. And flawed guide huh lmao if you read it it even says you must have some advanced understanding of Android and adb, your the one that didn't even swipe right to allow system modifications but that's my fault right lmao. This has nothing to do with what I'm going through which is kinda stupid you even want to think it does lmao Its the fact you wanna blame my guide for your user errors. Some stuff granted we have to figure out for ourselves like when Moto merged aljeter and Jeter kernel or when android file host randomly stops the servers so I have to fix that again that's also not my fault, thats the point of me asking to HELP edit the guide TO MAKE IT BETTER. you have literally ignored most options and help that have been offered because you wanna stay on Oreo. So try to format as Internal storage then try redoing it as portal storage and if that doesn't work flash pie firmware and try it then if you don't like pie just reflash Oreo plain and simple. Your making this whole ass process way more complicated than anyone has ever had with this guide or with quiksilvers old guide for that matter and your refusal to listen to the people trying to help you is not helping your situation at all. Hardhead is the best way to describe how your acting sorry not sorry. Spaceminer is the one the approves my guide so if you have wanna say it's flawed then tell me and spaceminer what should be done to fix these "flaws" you see
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] RodimusConvoy:
Exactly. Two days ago. Not when I first asked my question. Unless I had a DeLorean available, I had no way to get it. Which is why I said what I said to you in the past tense, and I reiterated before I was not comfortable doing the soak test version of Pie which was the only thing available at the time.

EDIT: Ah and I did check every single time Spaceminer mentioned Pie, just not the last time. I practically stayed on that page until I finally gave up.

Again, if context be damned with you and this to you is therapy I'll pass. Gonna ask you once to leave me alone now.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
If you don't have the proper means to be on and check and use this then maybe you shouldn't be making the attempts to root and use this guide then blame someone for your issues.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] RodimusConvoy:
And maybe you should get and then complete help before returning here since we're gonna go there.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Trying to re-flash completely stock everything because I've managed to **** something up when trying to flash a custom ROM from another thread. I get an error on step 2 of the final instructions for getting out of a bootloop

C:\Users\RenTec\Desktop\platform-tools>fastboot devices
ZL52258SHX fastboot

C:\Users\RenTec\Desktop\platform-tools>fastboot oem fb_mode_set
OKAY [ 0.003s]
Finished. Total time: 0.026s

C:\Users\RenTec\Desktop\platform-tools> fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
(bootloader) is-logical:partition: not found
Sending 'partition' (45 KB) OKAY [ 0.169s]
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: '')
fastboot: error: Command failed

C:\Users\RenTec\Desktop\platform-tools>

I do not have an SD card that's working
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Dont flash the gpt, and bootloader. Flash everything else.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] -fg:
I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I can't seem to download the twrp for pie? I've tried with all the mirrors but none of them work for me.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Stock OS is back on my phone and working yay! BUT I have a notification saying Invalid SIM Card now even though it was just working previously. (And working on Omni-Rom)

Everything is back to being a-ok except the SIM issue
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
It's probably because your not using a newer firmware. The gpt prevents downgrades. Flash the latest firmware for your phone
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
It might just be you idk I just checked the links and there working fine
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flash713:
Or you can grab from his original post here: https://xdaforums.com/g6-play/how-to/guide-t3929928/post79777960 page #11 third post down. :)
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] -fg:
Aw thanks man, you're a lifesaver :D
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Should be XT1922-7_JETER_SPRINT_8.0.0_OCPS27.91-150-2 looks like I might have flashed 150-4 woops, retrying.

https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/jeter/official/Sprint/
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
No your going in reverse man.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Yeah phone is downloading 150-4 right now in a security update but still no SIM

What I flashed originally was XT1922-7_JETER_SPRINT_8.0.0_OCP27.91-150_cid50 which is wrong so I'm restarting with the provided 150-2 from Sprint
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Since your on boost there are a few options. Try going into settings and go to update and do a prl and profile update. If that doesn't work try going into the phone dialer and doing a network reset doing ##72786# it would help if your not connected to WiFi while doing this
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
It's a Virgin Mobile device but isn't Boost/VM just Sprint? I downloaded the right firmware I hope
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Yes it's the same firmware. If it was different there would be a folder on mirrors for virgin. 150-2 is a downgrade from 150-4. The most recent firmware is 150-6
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Update PRL complains about an Invalid SIM and Update Profile say's it's unable to complete.

##72786# and ##72786## does nothing and trying to place a call give a no network error
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Are you making sure your flashing every fastboot command correctly? Are you using the recent firmware 150-6. Because the fastboot command erase modemst1 and 2 should have fixed any issues to
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
I'm going to download 150-6 and reset the file system again + flash new firmware. What's weird is the SIM works using the OMNIRom GSI but not with the stock firmware I'm trying.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
All you have to do is use the fastboot commands. There's no need to erase the file system after flashing stock. reflashing the stock firmware already does that
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Finished re flashing XT1922-7_JETER_SPRINT_8.0.0_OCPS27.91-150-6 but I still have the INVALID SIM error and no network connection other than WiFi

I downloaded 150-6 extracted to a fresh copy of the latest platform-tools and ran the following in order

fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash dsp adspso.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
fastboot flash oem oem.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot erase carrier
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase DDR
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
[MENTION=7718083]Spaceminer[/MENTION]
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
fastboot erase carrier ← This is not part of flashing the firmware. You should never be using this command.

Flash 150-6. Then open your settings and factory data reset. It should make you reactivate. If not, open the dialer and try entering ##72786# and select "yes" on the next menu.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AlahmadPR:
links are down on file host.

This site can’t be reached The webpage at https://va2.androidfilehost.com/dl/...961402/6006931924117906425/twrp+oreo/pie.zip? might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
I'm at work so I'll fix the twrp links within 2 hours of this post. And I guess I'm gonna remove the erase carrier fastboot command
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Links are fixed
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
I was just following instructions :( I'll reflash everything and omit the erase carrier command. [MENTION=7718083]Spaceminer[/MENTION] someone mentioned not doing the fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img commands either is this correct? Trying to run those produces errors anyway.

My console process should be as follows, correct me if I'm wrong.

fastboot -w
fastboot oem fb_mode_set

fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash dsp adspso.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
fastboot flash oem oem.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img

fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase DDR
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot

Boot ROM, click through initial set-up then settings -> about phone -> reset -> Factory Data Reset

Wish me luck
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
Flash this in fastboot, then reboot. Give your phone a min and LTE should start working. Use the command;

fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
idk what you did but that fixed it and I already had a file with the same name flashed before! Regardless the black magic worked and if you're ever near Portland I owe you a drink. :good:

Does the Android 9 OTA come back? My phones back on Android 8 for now
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AlahmadPR:
any custom Rom

any custom Rom available?
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flash713:
Liquid Remix, Los 16, Omni, RR, Aosp9, Aosp9 Micro G, Descendent, HavocOS

All those pie GSI roms boot on my Jeter. Try them out. In my opinion Descendent and Los have been the best. They seem to unlock quick using fingerprint and are rock solid stable minus the occasional slow down we experience on GSI builds which a reboot solves.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
The OTA should pop up eventually. Not sure when though. The file I gave you is not the same as what's found in our firmware. That one has all the LTE bands. It's the modem from the RETUS Pie release. I encountered the same problem as you did yesterday and that fixed it for me.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] madbat99:
Have you tried the whole pie retus firmware on a Sprint Jeter?

I was going to try that 2nd pie ota for Sprint, but looks like people been having trouble with it.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
No there is absolutely no custom rom for the g6 play. There are plenty of gsi (generic system image) you can try em but gsi is made for any phone that's is treble compatible which any Android phone shipped with android 8 or higher is treble compatible. A custom rom is made specifically for a phone and gsi is made or any phone which means you may or may not run into bugs that some people may or may not have. The best way to put it you have a literal 50-50 shot of a gsi working perfectly for you for your Moto g6 play but someone else using the same gsi and Moto g6 play might have bugs you don't have. Also some gsi don't have the proper apn files for mobile data like lte which is fixable but this I personally do not try to help or talk about gsi a whole lot because gsi has so many bugs and problems that to me it's jsut better to wait for a actual custom rom made specifically for the g6 play. Now if you do decide to want to use a gsi this guide does also help in returning to stock but now you know why I won't include gsi in my guide .there is so a gsi guide in this forum you can look at if you decide to. Gsi is nice Ina sense but it sucks at the same time lol. Also make sure if you do use one you choose ARM A ONLY
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Can I include that nonhlos bin in the guide. I'll make a section for stuff like "In case so and so doesnt work fastboot flash this"
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
From what I noticed after flashing the soak pie I lost adb functionality to use adb sideload from the stock recovery to apply an update file through adb. I put the ota that takes you from soak to official and put it on my external sd and applied the update through stock recovery like that. And Moto update services doesn't detect it after giving it storage permissions and putting in the root of either internet or external
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] madbat99:
Yeah, I've seen a few people have issues like that. [MENTION=9129863]Starkiller2[/MENTION] had to do a factory reset (in phone settings) to reset the default.prop first. I haven't gotten caught up enough lately to even see if that worked as it should.

That's why I was thinking of trying the RETUS firmware. Just to see if official pie was any smoother without jumping across OTA hoops.

Might just wait and see if the full Sprint firmware comes out soon.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Well the otas starkiller put up is the soak. Then the second ota takes you from soak pie to official pie which I did notice an immediate improvement on official compared to soak. If your not on soak pie you have to be on the Oreo firmware with the numbers 150-6 with the February 1st security updates to get the official pie update which should be coming to all devices by the end of August from what spaceminer said. But like I said even after turning on adb debugging and all that and trying to apply the ota from stock recovery that takes you from soak to official my adb functionality was lost so I couldn't adb sideload it but applying from SD card worked. And upon flahing twrp adb functionality works again. And it seems now for some they may have to flash the retus model nonhlos bin to get everything working so idk what that soak or official is not doing lol I feel like Moto has someone watching This forum and is like "yea well time to screw with you guys again" lmao
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
Go for it! It'd probably save some people a headache. I'd only recommend it if the invalid sim problem refuses to go away after flashing stock.

Yep, I tried it yesterday actually. It works, but it's laggy compared to the soak test. It might actually be smoother but I didn't take the time to debloat it. I saw that no prl or profile updates were possible and noped out of it. Once you flash that modem from RETUS you're stuck with it though. The official Pie release for Sprint will probably correct that once it drops.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Hmmm would flashing that retus nonhlos bin possibly unlock the Sim card since it's from the retail unlocked model? Would be interesting if it did lol. Btw my old g6 play basically is done. It can be booted up but the second the screen is locked it goes through a reboot so I got a new one but I still have the old one if anyone wants to take a crack at it to make device trees easier to be made.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
It might work for a few minutes. After I flashed it, maybe 10-15min after setting up, my sim card relocked, gave me a pop up notice and a reboot. Popping a new sim in it before that notice crops up might lock it to another network.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] madbat99:
Yeah I'm just going to wait it out. my g6 play isn't running too bad I'm pretty happy with it actually. Legs a bit here and there but does what I need it to. I use my phone a lot at work so I have to be able to retrieve messages go to Google maps and find addresses and all that kind of crap.

The life of an air conditioning repairman. It's hot as Hades here in Louisiana this time of year. New Orleans is like a big fish bowl, inside of an armpit. Hot and muggy this time of year.

I'm from Detroit so I'm having an extra special hard time with it. not to mention I just spent the last week in bed with bronchitis.

Best day of my life... (Most people in day to day life know this as my theme). Makes some people smile, makes some people frown.... Makes some people give you that sad desperate laugh that let you know that they think life is miserable. But..

Best day of my life, always my answer
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ninjakira:
Man I'm in Ohio so I feel you on his heat right now lol it switches from humid heat to dry heat so I'm glad someone can understand what I mean when I say that lol. See what you could do is flash the soak then the official. And only if you get an invalid sim card notification flash the retus nonhlos bin file which will fix the invalid sim card stuff. Still gonna be stuck with it but it seems the retus nonhlos bin is better than the one one Sprint provides. Idk if it's just me but I was having slow lte connection and flashed it and it seems to connect to the network better and my lte had improved. I still feel Sprint is purposely making the network worse to get this merger with T-Mobile quicker just without saying they are cause once it was announced about 3 months later I noticed a significant drop in connection. Prolly the conspiracy freak in me though to lmao
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] PieFace1024:
Hey [MENTION=7718083]Spaceminer[/MENTION] so a few follow-up questions. What went wrong that caused my SIM issue? Was it the issue of using fastboot erase carrier? Also I still see BAD KEY when I boot my device, what is this? Can it be removed or changed? Also I do want to try and flash Descendant to my device now that the SIM isn't messed up and give OpenGApps a try because I hate the Virgin Mobile and Google bloatware :puke:
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Spaceminer:
I'm honestly not sure what caused your sim issue. The way I ended up with the same problem, was from flashing the RETUS Pie firmware, then trying to flash back to Oreo.

Bad key or N/A is normal. Boot and recovery images have signature keys. When you unlock your phone, it tells the bootloader to ignore the key from your boot.img, and skip reading the recovery key altogether. That's why custom roms can boot on unlocked devices. To remove it, flash one of my boot logos from here in twrp. Any of them will hide it except the original logo. There's also a couple a few posts down.
[Moto G6 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] not-sure:
When I reverted back to Oreo *-150-6 I had the same "Invalid SIM" error, which was cleared up by flashing the RETUS Pie modem. However I was unable to hear anything in phone calls. Also flashing the RETUS Pie dsp fixed that problem.

I've been having a problem with my XT1922-7 (Virgin) where the data signal configuration appears to be correct and it will connect to LTE and work briefly for a minute or two, while extremely slow. Then, based on packet counts as displayed in #*#*4636*#*# it appears like I stop receiving packets from the tower even when I keep sending them. This problem does not occur when I switch back to my GS3 (SPH-L710) on Virgin, so I do not think it is the tower. I've tried everything I could think of including the RETUS Pie modem you just discussed, and that didn't help. I am starting to think this is a hardware fault.