yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
For porting Twrp, dumps.tadiphone.dev/dumps/motorola/tonga/-/tree/tonga_g-user-11-RRQ31.Q3-68-16-2-e5877-release-keys/twrp-device-tree
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Also to force 90hz at all times, Setedit app...

Add these under system table

min_refresh_rate 90.0

peak_refresh_rate 90.0
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Quantumstate:
Well I have no idea where to go for alt distros.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Anticy:
How do I install this?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Android 12 update is rolling out now... As of 2 days ago
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Flashed a12 Retail over boost. Downloaded G22 system apps and changed the stupid stock CPU sets.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] mr_reaper:
Boost got the a12 update?

I haven't yet, I'm about to get a OnePlus 9 pro
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] samparhizkar88:
Anyone installed 13 gsi? (instructions are welcome for us newbies)
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] grumbleson:
I'm having the exact same problem you were. Everything works until I'm flashing the GSI and it fails at chunk four of 12. I tried to flash a different GSI and it failed at chunk four of 11.

Do you happen to remember how you solved it?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Flashing the gsi fails or flashing stock firmware? Doesn't the gsi just flash a system img? There shouldn't be any sparse Img chunks I thought? Are you in fastboot or fastbootD? Fastboot can flash everything except for the img chunks, you have to be in fastbootD to flash them. Only other thing in can think of is the Gsi is too large for the partition
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
Please delete
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] jumpup:
Dang, I didn't even think about a custom kernel for the tonga, too. Thanks for that idea!
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] UrWifesBoyfriend:
could u send it to me please? thnk u sotafied@gmail or just on here
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] fng learning:
I am trying to do this without a pc. I can't find twrp img. Any suggestions
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
No, there is no twrp. Just use magisk Delta with boot loop protection built in. If you flash a bad module, boot the phone into safe mode and then reboot it and all your modules will be automatically turned off so you can remove the bad module
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] madbat99:
Been away for a while. Think I'll start tinkering again. Got this phone on boost
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Viva La Android R.I.P.:
Good to see you on the forums again @madbat99. Question for you...you may have knowledge of this. I was going to write up a full rooting guide for the Tonga, but I don't want to duplicate somebody else's work. I searched and was unable to find a rooting thread for Tonga here on XDA. By chance, have you ran across any such threads? Thanks
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] madbat99:
Just what saw here.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Viva La Android R.I.P.:
Yeah same here.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Viva La Android R.I.P.:
Would any of you fine ladies and gentlemen happen to know how to force this device into BROM mode? Hardware key combinations are not working. I'm guessing I'll have to short test points but, as of now, I'm not finding any info specifying which test points need to be shorted.

Any input or feedback is welcome. Thanks

In a nutshell I'm hard bricked. Although the Tonga is included on the list of supported devices on the Moto Unbricking utility by XDA Senior Member @mark332 , I'm unable to initiate BROM mode for device recognition.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] XeonBionic:
Would the 13 GSI work with this phone?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] XeonBionic:
How did you set the swap? What app were you using at the top?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Confetti_Lemon:
from what I have.noticed it works until a certain security patch. i have no idea which though
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] dmtrippyhippy1333337:
Looking for any info on how to get twrp for my tonga and also if anyone knows how to flash lineage onto tonga please let me know! thanks!!
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] dmtrippyhippy1333337:
adb reboot brom sometimes works
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
I have a moto g power 2022 with stock android 12. rooted with Magisk. Can I install this over the stock android 12?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] davidbauer:
I'm having issues with routine on TracFone any suggestions rebuilt boot IMG from RSA Lenovo still no go.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Patch it on the actual device. You don't need to extract the boot image. Magisk will pull and patch the correct image from the entire rom.zip. just click patch in magisk and click on the entire firmware zip
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] davidbauer:
Did what you recommended when ADB flash boot had a "pre-flash validation failed" as usual. The unmodified boot image will flash though.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Got all the way through the install until this string was not recognized by fastboot:

fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

Had to revert to stock 12 as since I was unable to perform these comnads, the phone went into a boot loop. Would still like to try this but cant figure out the final sequece.

Thanks.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
Ahhh....****. Okay. That happened to me as well. I forget what the issue is, I know it was something stupid but I can't remember what exactly it was. It's literally something dumb... and I remember trying to look up this issue on XDA and I saw tons of references to older Motorola devices. Let me think on it and see if I can remember what the fix was. I think it might be DM Verity... In fact, I'm almost certain. Speaking of which, since I see it referenced in another post, the sequence is written incorrectly. I forget if it either needs to be rearranged or if there is a space where there shouldn't be. But let me look into it. I dealt with all of this when I flashed my Android 13 arrow OS on my Tonga and it was so annoying. I wanted to throw the computer through the wall but it ended up just being basic stuff that was referenced incorrectly in previous posts
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] davidbauer:
Very kind of you appreciate all your effort :-)
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] Yeedatoy:
fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

Should be correct as stated above. There's an issue with newer versions of platform tools. 2 releases are screwed up. Try only using 33.0.3
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] davidbauer:
When using "fastboot flash boot" had to use "boot_a" to make it work but still didn't make a difference for the modified bootloader image.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] davidbauer:
I will try that thank you so much!

I'll try that thank you so much :-)
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Did you try the 33.0.3 version? Did it work? Thanks.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] davidbauer:
Honestly with the holidays have been busy with the family I'm going to try it very soon though after I'll let you know. I have to figure out how to create that particular file I saw a couple video tutorials. Thanks for the check-in appreciate it man :-)
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
I have the 33.0.3 file. If you can't find it I can put it on Google Drive.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] vov4uk:
хороший день! Натрапив на лот такий апарат, хотів залишити, розблокував FRP, потім через сайт Moto розблокував завантажувач, але не можу розблокувати сімку від оператора T-mobile, шукав інформацію по рутуванню та перепрошивці телефону Moto G Power 2022 не зрозуміла тема з magisk, magisk delta, що їх можна прошити в програмі, у мене не вийшло, пробував прошити через пк з Програма прошивки mtk теж безрезультатна. допоможіть будь ласка привів телефон до нового стану дисплей чохол 100% відмінний і не хочу платити 190 баксів за код від оператора 🥲 телефон б/у дешевше!
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] indevelopment:
Achieving /system read / write ?

(XT2165-5) A12 latest stock.

I've wrote a bash script to save time and automatically flash both the patched version of magisk_boot.img & system_rw_super.img (thx to ro2rw).

Everything works as it should, although I'd like to move some of my own compiled binaries to the

/system/bin/ directory for system wide access.

After executing the following into su shell and termux I received:

# su

# mount -o remount,rw /system

`mount: '/system' not in /proc/mounts`

So, I delved into adb commands:

# adb root

`adbd cannot run as root in production builds`

# adb disable-verity

`disable-verity only works for userdebug builds`

`verity cannot be disabled/enabled - USER build.`

Okay.. understood...

So upon further inspection and research, I found that I would need to reboot into the bootloader and set the following flags to reflash the stock vbmeta.img if I'd like to disable the security checks at boot.

`fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_a vbmeta.img`

`fastboot reboot`

Waited for reboot and tried to remount rw /system... Although to no avail !

My question is:

Has anybody else managed to make the /system partition fully read / writable ? All other partitions remount perfectly fine except for system.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Finally got around to installing the Pixel Experience and am now on Android 13 and the performance is significantly better. Should expand the useful life of this phone for another two years.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Just installed phone works but does not work with Android Auto! This could be a deal breaker.

Found a change in the AA app on the phone and all is good.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
Re: flashing vbmeta.img -- I also has to flash vbmeta.img in regular fastboot (it would not flash in fastbootd).

Thanks to all who have contributed to this forum! I also "finally got around to.." installing PE13 on my xt2165-5, North American Retail version. Everything seems to work .. and It does perform better than the most recent stock firmware that I was running. I also experienced the necessity of having to reboot from fastbootd to regular fastboot after flashing the PE system image -- in order to flash "...vbmeta..." and complete the install.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
LTE signal keeps dropping. Going to wipe it and start over.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
While this might not be of much help -- Here's my recent experience: After initial installation, I had issues with wi-fi & LTE connections dropping -- but after completing routine setup -- all apps & other updates, and a couple of reboots later -- everything works fine and is stable.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Found a switch for LTE only, seems to work OK.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
'Glad that worked out for you!

'Good idea to check for "LTE only' (or similar) on any device that you rely on for wireless internet. (btw: I live in an isolated rural area and am depndent on wireless.)

If you own a Tonga - you probably already know that it has a lot of limitations, for example: re wireless network options, no eSim availability, and generally slow (but steady) processing power, forget TWRP, etc. But heh, I bought my unbranded (North American retail) version new, when it first came out -- directly from Motorola -- for $129 new .. what would I expect, after all!

That said, I am so far very pleased with the PixelExperience installation -- it's a definite improvement. And thanks again to all who have developed PE, and all who've contributed to this forum!
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
Thank you very much for this post.

I just installed PixelExperience 13+.

' already had an unlocked bootloader and the latest stock firmware (A12) on my rooted (w/ Magisk) xt2165-5 North America Retail version Tonga -- so I basically used your directions, starting with the lines that followed "Ready to flash Android 12 let's go!!!!", downloaded the "product_gsi" image, (already had vbmeta, boot, & other images) ..... and successfully installed PE ver. 13+.

As a couple of other folks have noted -- after flashing the PE system image -- I needed to reboot from fastbootd to regular fastboot in order to flash the "vbmeta..." image and finish the install.

In conclusion: Everything seems to work fine and I have yet to note any issues. It's definitely an improvement over the stock rom I was running!

Thanks again!
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Still struggling. If I select the GSM/WCDMA/LTE I can only get Edge network which is terribly slow. If I select LTE only I do get LTE network but no voice.

Back to the old phone until I figure this out.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Tried another ROM ~ Android 14. Same as before, the network is Edge if I want voice. Maybe my SIM card, but in my old Moto G Power (2020) I get LTE and voice.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
Regarding "no voice: --- I am not at all familiar with "Edge" (???) -- but in your "Network & Internet / SIMs /" settings you should have, if you scroll down, a "VoLTE" setting checked. This should get you voice. If you don't have this -- here's a quote (below) from a Feb 05, 2022 post by jhjhjhjhjhjh: You need to load and install the IMS app that's available in the PE " Phh Treble Settings " / IMS Features". (I had another phone that would not get voice until I changed the IMS setting. This, below, was written originally for installing PE 12 on a Tonga; I used it successfully on my PE 13+ install.):

quote>>>

LTE VOLTE FIX

PHH Treble settings

3 Go to "IMS Features" and check the last two boxes then hit "install ims for Mediatek.." then lastly hit "create ims apn"

4 once the ims apk downloads, manually install it from the notification drop down. (Don't reboot if it says to)

5. Open stock GSI ROM phone dialer and type

*#*#4636#*#* Three options will appear choose 'phone information"

6 Change data option using the little arrow drop down to (GSM WCDMA LTE (PRL) see full image.

7 Reboot phone,,,, Once rebooted go to mobile data settings and check the VOLTE options... ...Now test calls and text you should have VOLTE BLUETOOTH in call voice, MMS,SMS everything working like me...

8 Root if you want ,,same way just patch the boot image with magisk manager 23 or 24. And fastboot flash the magisk boot.img.

Profit... Now set up your phone to your liking. <<< unquote

btw: your phone may may show security warnings in regard to the IMS app; just install it if you need it.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
After much swearing and rebooting Android 13 is installed with LTE on both voice and data.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] wc4usa:
hooray!
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Why is Google complaining about the com.midiatek.ims.imsApp?

What is harmful about it?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Found an Android 14 ROM to try it comparing to the Pixel and it runs just as well. I will post a link for those who want to try it. Exact install as in the Pixel.

Download and Install Android 14 GSI ROM [Video]

In this comprehensive guide, we will show you the detailed steps to install the Android 14 GSI ROM onto your device.

droidwin.com
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] hamenthshrestha:
Please make my phone ios
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] XeonBionic:
The fact you 1. Think someone could just mAgIcAlLy do this, is quite showing of the fact that you probably have absolutely zero knowledge of how phones actually work, and should not be trusted around tools on this website that have the ability to turn a potentially VERY expensive phone into an over glorified paperweight, if used incorrectly or carelessly.

Also, stating the obvious, but we can't just reach into your IRL place and modify your phone.

Putting iOS on an Android phone is NOT possible for MANY reasons.

The most basic of which are that, Android Phones Are Not iPhones.

iOS is made specifically for iPhones. They are made for iPhone CPUs, GPUs, etc... and it would be VERY hard to modify a not-well-documented, closed source, OS's drivers, or add drivers, to support different hardware other than iPhone hardware. This is not going to happen. It *shouldn't* happen.

Furthermore. Seeing as you have posted on this specific phone forum, I presume this is your phone model.

The Moto G Power (2022) is not that popular of a phone. It would not be a priority for a theoretical (that means it doesn't actually exist) iOS-on-android-phones project. You would see actual *flagships* prioritized first. Google Pixels, Samsung Galaxies, et cetera. Every phone is different and will REQUIRE different code, drivers, etc, to work properly. This is why custom ROMs are specific to phone models, btw.

In short, this isn't possible.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] rodrxx:
brother, how did you manage to install android 13? I have tried to install another custom rom but it always stays in bootloop. sorry for the english, i'm using a translator.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] tomlogan1:
Follow the steps in post 7 of this thread. If you are already on Android 12 you can skip that part of the instructions.
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] rodrxx:
What is the Best gsi or rom can i use on this phone?
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] indevelopment:
Ive managed to build a working TWRP for this device, also included a patched version with Magisk Kitsune root.

Although the boot partition is too small to include data partition decryption...

Motorola G Power 2022 (tonga) [XT2165-5] Custom Recovery

Moto G Power (2022) (tonga) [XT2165-5] Device Specifications: - OS: Android 12 - Hardware SKU: XT2165-5 - Board Name: k65v1_64_bsp - Chipset: MediaTek Helio G37 - CPU: 4x ARM64 Cortex-A53 @ 2.3 GHz + 4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.8 GHz (MT6765H) - GPU...

xdaforums.com
[Moto G Power Guides, News, & Discussion] thejerker3420:
you made me nut and helped lottts thank u man everything work perfectlyy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pdadderr:
I have an issue with a custom application on an HTC Touch device where the application is really slow occasionally. About 10% of the time the application will run at 30-40% of normal speed. After launch, if the application is slow, then it will always be slow. If the application is fast then it will always be fast. Exiting the application (not minimizing) and trying again usually resolves the issue. Has anyone seen this type of behavior before?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
would be very very clever to tell us what application this is?

- what other apps are running ?

- how much free RAM do you have when starting this mysterious app ?

and much more questions;) Could be a memory Problem because the touch doesn`t have too much. ActiveSync also slows down the device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pdadderr:
The application is a custom app I wrote for work. The application doesn't exhibit and issues with memory leaks and such, and there is no significant difference in available memory when it is running slow or fast. I believe the application foot print is about 18MB, but I don't remember exactly. In any case there is plenty of memory free.

I have seen this behavior after a soft / or even a hard reset. So the initial conditions of the device are rather pristine. I noticed simple applications such as calibration.exe have some of the same tendencies. My intuition is this is not an application problem, but rather a more general windows mobile issue. However this isn't that easy to prove.

So please let me know if you have had any of the same experiences or can suggest any tests which may help me narrow down this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] bANONYMOUS:
Short story long, I was on U1 XAA 4BULE, and I've been having major issues with app crashes (specifically DJI GO 4 for my drone) and I was going to downgrade to 4AUIP (Android 11 One UI 3.1). I downloaded the firmware, patched Odin, flashed the downgrade, failed, phone won't boot.

Turns out, my phone auto updated on reboot (I forgot to disable that in Developer Options) so it automatically updated to 5BULH, and now that it's on the baseband 5, it can't be downgraded to any baseband 4 firmware. So, easy enough right?, just flash 5BULH? Well, as far as I know, that was ONLY released as a baseband PATCH in the form of an OTA, and there's no actual firmware as far as I can tell.

Which basically means my phone is bricked until Samsung releases an actual 5XXXX firmware to flash with Odin.

I've been looking for awhile, checked Frija, SamFW, GalaxyFirmware, SamFrew, SamMobile, SamFirms, FirmwareX, and Sfirmware all with no avail, every latest firmware that shows is 4BULE

Unless someone has a baseband 5 full firmware for Odin, because I couldn't find anything online, than I guess I'm screwed until *5CVAA comes out, which is rumored to be on February 9th during the S22 launch event.

So, anyone have that firmware? Or am I just going stone age until February 9th when the new build is suppose to be released?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] enigmaamit:
Bummer! That's a genuine horror story of I ever heard one!

Tried searching for said firmware, but couldn't locate one anywhere.

It's either stone age for you or just pop into a service center and have them flash the phone for you. From what I can see you only tried flashing stock firmware, phone should still be under warranty...
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] bANONYMOUS:
Wish it was that easy, population of 98k in a town that is roughly 750km (~470mi) away from the next major city means a service centre doesn't exist for me lol. Purchased through a Carrier also requires an additional $15 monthly charge for warranty outside of Samsung which I obviously didn't pay for lol. Plus with shipping times around here (Amazon Prime shipping takes a week minimum), just to send the phone to Samsung for repair, I would be looking at close to a month there and back. Looks like I'm just better off just waiting for estimated 10 days until the 5CVAx/5CVBx firmware to be released.

I dusted off the old Windows Phone, it'll do for now I suppose. Hopefully they release something before February 9th haha

Thanks for looking around for the firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] enigmaamit:
Wish you luck man! Hope the release comes soon. And condolences on being stuck with A12.

Do let us know once you get it up and running again!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] DaReDeViL:
Did you try samsung's smart switch recovery procedure ?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] bANONYMOUS:
The programme says it can't connect to a USB File Transfer device when in recovery, and when booted in Download Mode, it says to open the recovery procedure, which asks for a recovery code from a previous OS install. Which I don't have because I've never used this before. So, looks like it needs a previously working instance before it can be used for recovery.

Also, entirely unrelated, but I made a video of my friends car with that quote in your signature haha

EDIT:

It appears Youtube removed the audio for copyright reasons lol.. never mind