[Moto Z3 Play Guides, News, & Discussion] gwalborn:
I have also "hard bricked" my Moto Z3 Play while trying to install TWRP recovery. The phone is is "Qualcomm" mode and I am trying to use blankflash from Linux. It seems that it's TRYING to flash the bootloader, but it fails with the following log entries:

**** Log buffer [000001] 2020-07-22_19:10:53 ****

[ 0.000] Opening device: /dev/ttyUSB1

[ 0.000] Detecting device

[ 5.710] ...cpu.id = 204 (0xcc)

[ 5.710] ...cpu.sn = 1760558744 (0x68effe98)

[ 5.710] Opening singleimage

[ 5.710] Loading package

[ 5.715] ...filename = pkg.xml

[ 5.717] Loading programmer

[ 5.718] ...filename = programmer.elf

[ 5.718] Sending programmer

[ 5.891] Handling things over to programmer

[ 5.891] Identifying CPU version

[ 5.891] Waiting for firehose to get ready

[ 8.910] ...SDM636 1.0

[ 8.910] Determining target secure state

[ 8.913] ...secure = yes

[ 8.966] Configuring device...

[ 8.975] Flashing GPT...

[ 8.975] Flashing partition with gpt.bin

[ 8.983] Initializing storage

[ 9.065] ...blksz = 512

[ 11.341] Target NAK!

[ 11.341] ...INFO: Device Total Logical Blocks: 0x2000

[ 11.342] ...INFO: Device Total Physical Partitions: 0x4

[ 11.342] ...INFO: Device Manufacturer ID: 0x15

[ 11.342] ...INFO: Device Serial Number: 0xdc246a2b

[ 11.342] ...INFO: {"storage_info": {"total_blocks":8192, "block_size":512, "page_size":512, "num_physical":4, "manufacturer_id":21, "serial_num":3693373995, "fw_version":"5","mem_type":"eMMC","prod_name":"DH6DMB"}}

[ 11.342] ...eMMC Extended CSD Revision: 0x8

[ 11.342] ...eMMC Firmware Version: 0x5

[ 11.342] ...e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

[ 11.342] ...eMMC_RAW_DATA [266:531]00010101000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000F0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000081C70000030307050002013F3F0101010000000000000044000115320127D0FF03590FEFFFDBF60040408E

[ 11.342] ...ERROR: XML not formed correctly. Expected a < character at loc 0

[ 11.342] ERROR: do_package()->do_recipe()->do_flash()->flash_simg()->do_package()->do_recipe()->do_flash()->gpt_flash()->get_storage()->init_storage()->firehose_do_fmt()->do_recipe()->NAK

[ 11.342] Check qboot_log.txt for more details

[ 11.342] Total time: 11.342s

[ 11.342]

[ 11.342] qboot version 3.86

[ 11.342]

[ 11.342] DEVICE {

[ 11.342] name = "/dev/ttyUSB0",

[ 11.342] flags = "0x140",

[ 11.342] addr = "0xFAABBFF0",

[ 11.342] serial_nix.device_pathname = "/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.1.2/1-1.1.2:1.0/ttyUSB0",

[ 11.342] sahara.current_mode = "0",

[ 11.342] api.buffer = "0x7F1A18828010",

[ 11.342] cpu.serial = "1760558744",

[ 11.342] cpu.id = "204",

[ 11.342] cpu.sv_sbl = "0",

[ 11.342] cpu.name = "SDM636",

[ 11.342] storage.type = "eMMC",

[ 11.342] sahara.programmer = "programmer.elf",

[ 11.342] module.firehose = "0x21C70E0",

[ 11.342] api.firehose = "0x21D0190",

[ 11.342] cpu.ver = "256",

[ 11.342] cpu.vername = "1.0",

[ 11.342] fh.max_packet_sz = "1048576",

[ 11.342] fh.storage_inited = "1",

[ 11.342] }

[ 11.342]

I have also tried to find a "loader.img" file for the Moto Z3 Play to try an SD card recovery, but I have not been able to find one. What is the difference between a loader.img file and a bootloader.img file? I have Moto Z3 Play stock ROMs. Is it possible to generate a loader.img file?

Thanks in advance,

gwalborn