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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 allo