Thursday, 8 October 2015

Moto G XT1040 - bricked?



I unlocked my Moto G XT1040 bootloader and tried to load stock Kit Kat (because my wife didn't like Lollipop) using ADB.exe, but something went wrong. Now it boots to the "bootloader unlocked" warning screen and won't continue to boot after that. I can't run ADB commands against it because it's saying that no device was found. I assume that's because I need to turn on USB debugging, but I can't boot into the OS to do that.

I heard you could restore stock firmware using Odin, but I can't seem to find the stock XT1040 tar files that are needed to do that, and I don't know if Odin will be able to communicate with the phone, since ADB isn't recognizing any connected devices (the phone does say "USB connected" and in device manager it's recognized properly as a Motorola android device). I even tried using a different computer, but still can't send any commands to the phone.

Is it bricked beyond repair? It's fine if we have to stay with Lollipop - I'd just like to get it operational again.

Cheers



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