Moto recently released a September 1, 2017 security update for the XT1644. Unfortunately a logo.bin TWRP flash fix made a change to my system partition settings that won't allow me to safely take an OTA update. I'm looking for the OTA in a TWRP-friendly zip so that I can use the OEM Flash.bat script to update as I did with the June OTA. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks.
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I have TWRP, but I'm still on android 6.0, security patch November 1, 2015, system version 24.11.18.clark_retus and no xposed. I have systemless root, so does full remove root in SuperSU then flashing the right recovery.img work to take all the OTA's till now? The February TWRP flashable OTA thread no longer has a live link.
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I have TWRP, but I'm still on android 6.0, security patch November 1, 2015, system version 24.11.18.clark_retus and no xposed. I have systemless root, so does full remove root in SuperSU then flashing the right recovery.img work to take all the OTA's till now? The February TWRP flashable OTA thread no longer has a live link.
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This question is hard to answer... will it work? Maybe, we don't know. The problem is if you are rooted, you did it for a reason (or I would assume so) and you have made some changes to the /system partition over time. Doing a full unroot will not undo those changes. So if you do a full unroot, and fastboot the correct recovery image, then accept the OTA, the recovery is going start the OTA's installation script attempt to process it where it will start a checklist of items to verify, bootloader, boot image, system image, etc... the problem is we don't know what changes will cause the update to error out and which will allow it to apply.
To be honest, I don't think I have heard anyone say they have been able to successfully take this update without going back to pure stock, but ymmv.
The best thing to do would be to return to pure stock via the factory firmware images, we have a known good one of the May 2016 security update.
i want to update to the latest june ota ..but im on dec update still ...can someone post the link for twrp flashable ota.zip link of march update and june...im not able to sideload it or use apply update form sd card option on stock recovery ...please help and thanks
I have recently upgraded to Stock Nougat over Official OTA and decided to just dump the entire System before installing anything or modifying system partition.
So currently I have boot.img, recovery.img, system.img of the Latest Nougat (August 2017 Security Patch).
My question is, Is it of any use?
I also have modem.img from the modem partition. Attaching the partition details in the post.
@Hashbang173 & @acejavelin
Any reply would be appreciated.
so my phone is on march security update and i rooted it now i need the stock march img to unroot the phone but i cant find it
p.s. if is there a better way to unroot please tell me
You can download fastboot image from Xiaomi site and extract boot.img from the compressed file.
so today as of regular cleaning and restoring my g4 plus to stock...i restored and think i updated it to the the february security path xml zip via fastboot using (ATHENE_NPJS25.93-14-10_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml) file...the problem was that i was scared to hell when the security patch downgraded itself to september 2017 even on using feb'18 file and the stock recovery returned "no command" error on startup and "error" on updating so...
can please anyone tell me...
1.what's the current version of the bootloader on the latest april/feb'18 build?
2.can i flash apr'18 build over the the one flashed before with all the commands safely(im too worried about hard bricking it!!!!!)?
thank you so much in advance!
1)The NPJS25.93-14-10 firmware is the September 2017 security patch firmware, so flashing that would flash the Sept 2017 security patch to your device. You'd have likely received the December 2017 NPJS25.93-14-13 update then the NPJS25.93-14-15 Feb 2018 update. I'm not entirely sure which update you tried to flash then...
2)The NPJS25.93-14-18 firmware is currently the latest April 2018 security patch firmware, available from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/stock-rom-npjs25-93-14-4-march-1-t3608138 I've seen it flashed on Indian, Brazilian, EU and UK devices, not sure about other territories. Current bootloader version on the April 2018 firmware is B1:07.
3)You should be able to flash the April 2018 firmware over whatever you flashed, and as it's the latest firmware, it should not hard brick your device. Please avoid flashing older firmwares or if you do, be very careful with OTA updates.
4)The 'no command' screen is the normal screen for stock recovery. If I recall, if you're on that screen, hold down power then tap the volume up key, then release both to access the stock recovery.