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Hi guys,
I inadvertently bricked my 1st gen Moto G when retrying to reinstall a stock OS after using Cyanogen for a while.
Here's a summary of events:
I wanted to try to reinstall Cyanogen but I'm supposed to "adb push" the archive onto my phone, and adb doesn't seem to recognize the phone.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I inadvertently bricked my 1st gen Moto G when retrying to reinstall a stock OS after using Cyanogen for a while.
Here's a summary of events:
- Bought the phone new with stock Android 4
- Updated the phone to stock Android 5
- Rooted the phone
- Installed Cyanogen Android 5 (from a file named cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K9-falcon.zip)
- Everything was working great
- I wanted to sell the phone and decided to put back the original OS
- I tried to reinstall XT1032_FALCON-RETEU_5.0.2_LXB22.46-28.1_1_cid7_CFC_1FF.xml, following those instructions
- I had a problem with the follow command: "fastboot flash partition gpt.bin" (something about a "remote error"). Then I noticed the warning to not run this command in case of downgrade. I guess I didn't think I was downgrading but I might have had stock Android 5.1 and so effectively downgrading to Cynogen 5.0. I decided to keep going, just skipping the following command (fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img), as advised in case of downgrading
- Then getting to the command "fastboot erase userdata" I had another error. At this point I was quite uncertain about what to do but since it was the last command, I decided to reboot. The OS did not load but instead the phone went back to fastboot.
- I though everything had gone wrong because of trying to restore to a earlier version. I decided to try the same thing with stock Android 5.1, which wouldn't be a downgrade. This time, the "fastboot flash partition gpt.bin" command went through without an error, but the following one, "fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img", did not run. I have no bootloader.img file in the archive I downloaded (XT1032_FALCON_RETFR_5.1_LPBS23.13-56-2_cid7_CFC.xml.zip). There is a motoboot.img file so I tried to use that instead. I had an error. I decided to keep going and run all of the other commands successfully.
- However, the phone still doesn't boot to OS
I wanted to try to reinstall Cyanogen but I'm supposed to "adb push" the archive onto my phone, and adb doesn't seem to recognize the phone.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!