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Bricked (and unbricked) my Moto X 2nd Gen XT1095

I have recently been having issues with my Moto X receiving incoming calls.  Even though the same person that would call me could text me at the same time frame.  Fortunately I have a Nexus 6... unfortunately I travel weekly for work and can't deal my phone's bullshit right now.  So, I wipe my Nexus, re-image it with shamu, install all my apps, Google Authenticator, etc.. configure all logins and authentication.  Then I realize why I had been using my Moto X instead of my Nexus 6.  Advantages that the Moto X have: size, nuance functionality (karate chop flashlight, auto-silence off-hours, etc...).  Motorola does some cool stuff.

Anyhow.. .one not cool thing about Motorola is the guarded approach to distributing their Images.  (which, there may be a legitimate reason for that.... so, I will remain somewhat neutral about the subject).

I managed to find an image to use and made a few huge assumptions:
  • that an invalid image will not load
  • that a non-stock image will NOT allow Android Pay and/or Google Wallet to work

One big mistake I made (lesson I learned) the system image file does NOT (or should not) be a single file.  I first attempted to concatenate all the sparsechunk.x files to system.img and flashed that way.  No bueno!

mkdir -p ~/AndroidImages/MOTOX
cd $_
wget http://path.to.rom/
unzip VICTARA_TMO_XT1095_6.0_MPE24.49-18_cid9_CFC.xml.zip 


fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.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 system system.img_sparsechunk.5
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize
fastboot erase clogo
fastboot oem config carrier att
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear


NOTE:  I am not 100% positive that "att" is the correct carrier string.








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