Root Ive got Fastboot... now what?

[knoober]

Hello all. Ive broken my phone again. Ive been using rooted/slim stock rom for a while now and decided Id like a change. I was doing a little house cleaning before installing a new rom (id picked out PA, but that is besides the point) and recieved a message that I had the wrong version bootloader when I tried to sideload it. No biggie right? Wrong. Im stuck at the Motorola screen. I get the green circle with an M in it that starts the boot animation, but then it hangs.

Ive got fastboot and have tried to get back into the recovery from there and havent had any luck with <fastboot reboot recovery> and <fastboot reboot-bootloader> tells me that the bootloader is directing to fastboot.

here's my info:
AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)
41.13(*) (sha-7dc8e78, 2014-16-16 16:33:29)
CPU: MSM8626 CS
emmC: 8GB Toshiba RV-06 PV-51 TY-17
DRAM: 1024MB Elipeda S4 SDRAM DIE-4Gb
Battery OK
Device is UNLOCKED. Status Code: 3


Im going to be combing the WWW to see what I can find, but I hope there might be a little love here Thanks in Advance

Edit: And I know I should have checked but my nandroid is gone also. Lost in the Great Format of All USB Sticks of A Few Months Ago

Edit More: I reflashed the PhilZ Touch recovery that I had been using and can get to the recovery now. All of the stock images I can find are not working though.

<failed to write 'protocol fault (status len) ' *>

 

[knoober]

So I got in touch with Textnow and they sent me a zip that had all the stock images. It was meant to work in Windows but my windows box is being a dummy and wouldn't see my device (problem for a different day) so I had to move it over to my linux box and extract all the stock images from the zip. 1x boot.img 1x system.img 1x recovery.img and a little <fastboot flash Filename.img> and I now have a working XT1031 again.

If I could host the zip locally I would but.... when I get dropbox setup I will throw the zip up here for anyone else who might be having the same issue.

End of story is : ALL FIXED!

Edit: Next stop Nandroid. And safer storage

 

[Seraph08]

I keep fastboot images hosted in my basketbuilds to fix issues like these. you could have fastboot flashed them. And they're PA too.

https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs?dev=Seraph08&dl=Seraph08/falcon/pa_falcon-20151231.zip

 

[Seraph08]

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata. userdata.img

now also reinstall your new recovery

fastboot flash recovery *recoveryfilename*.img

( i also keep fastboot imgs for this in the basketbuilds. Thank you to SuperR for providing them https://basketbuild.com/devs/Seraph08/falcon/Recovery built by SuperR/fastboot imgs)

reboot to your recovery

flash gapps then supersu

done.​

 

[knoober]

Oh man am I glad you stopped in. I tried the fastboot options that you had listed (obviously I did something wrong but I can't see what) and didn't get anywhere. I ran I to errors when I used anything but what I got from the carrier.

I'd really love to try PA and some of the others that you've got up. Here are the issues that I ran into (from memory)

1) even though I had the zips on the device (they were still there after all the troubles in fact) I couldn't see them in recovery

2) I moved to Sideload when I couldn't see the zips, but got an error about using the wrong bootloader version.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I'm a little savvy but not immune to beginner mistakes, so I'd sure appreciate any pointers.

Thanks in advance

 

[Seraph08]

there should no be any zips put onto this phone. the zip should be extracted from the img files.

download adb
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347803384

here you go

now while still in fastboot you'll need to install a recovery, I recommend SuperR's Philz it works very well
https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs...perR/fastboot imgs/PhilZ-Touch-6.59.0-LPK.img

you are done.​

 

[knoober]

Thank you for the detailed instructions. I guess I should have read closer in the instructions, as I did not realize that these were not your "regular" flashable zips. Live and learn I guess Hopefully my next post is from PA!

 

[Seraph08]

I guess I should have read closer in the instructions

yes