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Hey there XDA, I have a strange problem. Maybe you can help me out.

I just got my Moto G today and after unlocking the bootloader, the first thing I did was flash TWRP (fastboot flash recovery TWRP-2.7.0.0-falcon.img).
I did this with the normal fastboot from the Android SDK, not the Motorola version.

Now everytime I start the device, it always boots right into recovery. Always. Doesn't matter if there's TWRP, CWM or Stock installed.
I also flashed the device to GPE afterwards (using the Motorola fastboot) which should've erased everything, but it still does it.

The only way I can get into the actual system is by flashing the normal boot.img as recovery (fastboot flash recovery boot.img).

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Kenny
 
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twofive said:
Hey there XDA, I have a strange problem. Maybe you can help me out.

I just got my Moto G today and after unlocking the bootloader, the first thing I did was flash TWRP (fastboot flash recovery TWRP-2.7.0.0-falcon.img).
I did this with the normal fastboot from the Android SDK, not the Motorola version.

Now everytime I start the device, it always boots right into recovery. Always. Doesn't matter if there's TWRP, CWM or Stock installed.
I also flashed the device to GPE afterwards (using the Motorola fastboot) which should've erased everything, but it still does it.

The only way I can get into the actual system is by flashing the normal boot.img as recovery (fastboot flash recovery boot.img).

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Kenny
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on the custom recovery menu screen, when you press REBOOT then REBOOT SYSTEM, does it? Or does it just reboot back into recovery?
 
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Have you tried flashing through fastboot the update for your device ?
 
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twofive said:
Hey there XDA, I have a strange problem. Maybe you can help me out.

I just got my Moto G today and after unlocking the bootloader, the first thing I did was flash TWRP (fastboot flash recovery TWRP-2.7.0.0-falcon.img).
I did this with the normal fastboot from the Android SDK, not the Motorola version.

Now everytime I start the device, it always boots right into recovery. Always. Doesn't matter if there's TWRP, CWM or Stock installed.
I also flashed the device to GPE afterwards (using the Motorola fastboot) which should've erased everything, but it still does it.

The only way I can get into the actual system is by flashing the normal boot.img as recovery (fastboot flash recovery boot.img).

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Kenny
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You could try re flashing the stock firmware. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2542219 Good luck, it will delete everything on the phone.


Sent from my Moto G using XDA Free mobile app
 
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twofive said:
It boots right back into Recovery. It always does that, no matter if I do it from the OS, the bootloader, whatever.
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hmmm....something similar happened to me about 2 days ago when I DL the ota, then tried to install it, but it failed. the phone rebooted into the system and a minute later it roobooted itsself back into recovery and tried to install the update again. Of course, the ota's are DL to the /cache folder by default, but once install is attempted, it erases it from that folder, but phone kept rebooting and trying to install, it failed then rebooted again into recovery. It did this like 5x until I was able to stop this by restoring a prev backup. Not sure if this is your situation, but in posting this experience it might help someone

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Also, check in your recovery if there is something called 'DISABLE RECOVERY FLASH' and make sure it is checked before rebooting the first time after installing recovery. I maybe mistaking, but I thought it was a bug only found on some earlier CWM builds, not found on TWRP...but recovery flash would make the phone do what you are describing
 
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twofive said:
Hey there XDA, I have a strange problem. Maybe you can help me out.

I just got my Moto G today and after unlocking the bootloader, the first thing I did was flash TWRP (fastboot flash recovery TWRP-2.7.0.0-falcon.img).
I did this with the normal fastboot from the Android SDK, not the Motorola version.

Now everytime I start the device, it always boots right into recovery. Always. Doesn't matter if there's TWRP, CWM or Stock installed.
I also flashed the device to GPE afterwards (using the Motorola fastboot) which should've erased everything, but it still does it.

The only way I can get into the actual system is by flashing the normal boot.img as recovery (fastboot flash recovery boot.img).

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Kenny
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You shouldn't have that issue, but you might have to try the latest 2.6.x branch of TWRP. I've seen both but never know which one is really better.

Also, why use the GPE edition? The moto stuff in the moto g is better than the google equivalents, especially the camera app and moto assist, but to each his own.
 
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sprockkets said:
Also, why use the GPE edition? The moto stuff in the moto g is better than the google equivalents, especially the camera app and moto assist, but to each his own.
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I also own a Nexus 5, Xperia Z Ultra flashed to GPE, and a Nexus 7. I just like having the same Software on all of them.
 
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Booting to recovery (twrp&cmw) when rebooting to system

twofive said:
hey there xda, i have a strange problem. Maybe you can help me out.

I just got my moto g today and after unlocking the bootloader, the first thing i did was flash twrp (fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.7.0.0-falcon.img).
I did this with the normal fastboot from the android sdk, not the motorola version.

Now everytime i start the device, it always boots right into recovery. Always. Doesn't matter if there's twrp, cwm or stock installed.
I also flashed the device to gpe afterwards (using the motorola fastboot) which should've erased everything, but it still does it.

The only way i can get into the actual system is by flashing the normal boot.img as recovery (fastboot flash recovery boot.img).

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Kenny
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dear all,
pls help me.. I'm facing the same problem when i'm rebooting system from my recovery screen and it's rebooting to recovery . I cannot find any relevant solution for this anywhere. So please help me. I'm using moto g falcon (xt1033)
 
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therealduff1

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Ok I now have this problem also :(

Even flashing stock rom does not fix it.

Does anyone have any suggestions ??

The phone will say boot loader unlocked as usu then black screen then flashes stock recovery no command screen , then the device turns off. I can access boot loader mode !

That's about all I have :/

Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
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FatOldSun_

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I have the same problem, or similar. I installed CM13 but it didn't like me so much and when I wanted to reboot the phone to restore my previous backup I went to "Advanced reboot menu" and then just reboot recovery. And the phone never could boot again to system, I tried flashing 5.1 and various recoveries but nothing happended.

As nobody responses my trhead I was obliged to send my Moto G to an unofficial customer service, I have to go today to take up my phone, it should be ready, I hope.

Good luck, if they told me how they fixed it I'll post here.
 
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Ok I think I may have found the fix. Flash all of the stock files normally , then flash boot.img once more. Then the phone will boot normally but only for one time. Quickly run though setup , then in the setting app factory reset your device. Your device will reboot and reset once more. Then the device will always boot normal :D This actually seems to work. I spent all night yesterday trying to fix my device and I finally found the solution. ! ��
 
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therealduff1 said:
Ok I think I may have found the fix. Flash all of the stock files normally , then flash boot.img once more. Then the phone will boot normally but only for one time. Quickly run though setup , then in the setting app factory reset your device. Your device will reboot and reset once more. Then the device will always boot normal :D This actually seems to work. I spent all night yesterday trying to fix my device and I finally found the solution. ! ��
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Man, I did that but it didn't work for me. Now when I reboot from fastboot the device power up directly to fastboot mode and on the log it shows
Fastboot reason: UTAG "bootmode" configured as fastboot
Anyway if I powerup from fastboot mode the phone sucks on the bootloader screen.
 
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sujithshn

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I had the same problem and was searching from this noon. Just now, i downloaded and flashed with Cyanogen Recovery "cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K9-falcon-recovery" and my problem is over now. Tried a couple of power off and restarts and now my reboots and power on will not go to recovery any more.

File is available to download at cyanogenmod website

Please make sure about your model before download. I use a Moto G 2013 XT1033 Asia Retail edition with 8GB.
 
DanHidalgo

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I tried installing that recovery but I'm getting the exact same issue...
Any other solution? No one has solved it yet?
 
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cheppiroma

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I got the same problem here.. My Moto G default boot is to recovery. The way i could enter the rom is with Bootloader option "Normal powerup". I already try many ways, reflash custom recovery (TWRP, CWM, CM), reflash stock, and reflash custom rom, but they do nothing to this case. Is there any way to change it back to normal? I'm currently on CM 12.1 Unofficial and running TWRP 2.8.6.0. It is not panic attack, it just anoying. Thanks in advance..
 
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same here.. booting always into recovery by default..
tried different twrp versions (incl. 2.8.7), CWM and cyanogen recovery.. and also tried wiping the complete system.. reinstalling stock rom incl. bootloader, recovery, etc..
everytime the same boot into recovery by default

using "fastboot reboot" in bootloader mode also boots into recovery

in bootloadermode i'm able to boot my fresh installed CM12.1 by selecting "Normal Powerup"

maybe something happened with the bootloader configuration? where to edit it?

this also did not help:
mfastboot oem fb_mode_clear
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(as i understand.. this just clears the fb_mode_set value.. which directs to bootloader on boot

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# fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 411A
(bootloader) product: falcon
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) hwrev: 0x83C0
(bootloader) radio: 0x1
(bootloader) emmc: 16GB Toshiba REV=06 PRV=01 TYPE=17
(bootloader) ram: 1024MB Samsung S4 SDRAM DIE=4Gb
(bootloader) cpu: MSM8226 CS
(bootloader) serialno: xxxxxxxxxxxx
(bootloader) cid: 0x0007
(bootloader) channelid: 0x00
(bootloader) uid: 66FFC4020F000000000000000000
(bootloader) unlocked: yes
(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: yes
(bootloader) mot_sst: 3
(bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912
(bootloader) reason: Reboot mode set to fastboot
(bootloader) imei:
(bootloader) meid:
(bootloader) date:
(bootloader) sku:
(bootloader) iccid:
(bootloader) cust_md5:
(bootloader) max-sparse-size: 268435456
(bootloader) current-time: "Wed Aug 19 2:19:55 UTC 2015"
(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[0]: motorola/falcon_retde/falcon_umts:
(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[1]: 5.1/LPB23.13-56/56:user/release-ke
(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[2]: ys
(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[0]: Blur_Version.221.21.56.falcon_umt
(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[1]: s.Retail.en.DE
(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom[0]: AU_LINUX_ANDROID_LNX.LA.3.5.1_RB1
(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom[1]: .04.04.02.048.045
(bootloader) version-baseband:
(bootloader) kernel.version[0]: Linux version 3.4.42-g89906d6 (hudsoncm@
(bootloader) kernel.version[1]: ilclbld34) (gcc version 4.8 (GCC) ) #1 S
(bootloader) kernel.version[2]: MP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 19:06:25 CDT 2015
(bootloader) sdi.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.1A-0-gdc5aeaf
(bootloader) sbl1.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.1A-0-g199f3c5
(bootloader) rpm.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.1A-0-g8b7736e
(bootloader) tz.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.1A-0-g99c1a7c
(bootloader) aboot.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.1A-0-g80481ae
(bootloader) qe: qe 2/1
(bootloader) ro.carrier: unknown
all: listed above
finished. total time: 0.057s
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    demlak
    on #cyanogenmod channel on freenode user spudowiar helped me..
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    partition /misc is fault.. and twrp (for example) does not mount this partition to wipe it correctly..

    you can wipe it manualy by dd it..
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2049+0 records in
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    [SOLVED] Fix for device booting into recovery instead of system

    I know this is late but I just had this same problem and for anyone out there, well here you go

    First use TWRP or CWM and install the rom you want to use then once its done boot into Bootloader mode (NOT SYSTEM)

    In fastboot from your computer type

    fastboot oem fb_mode_clear

    Then Do a normal Powerup

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    twofive
    twofive
    Hey there XDA, I have a strange problem. Maybe you can help me out.

    I just got my Moto G today and after unlocking the bootloader, the first thing I did was flash TWRP (fastboot flash recovery TWRP-2.7.0.0-falcon.img).
    I did this with the normal fastboot from the Android SDK, not the Motorola version.

    Now everytime I start the device, it always boots right into recovery. Always. Doesn't matter if there's TWRP, CWM or Stock installed.
    I also flashed the device to GPE afterwards (using the Motorola fastboot) which should've erased everything, but it still does it.

    The only way I can get into the actual system is by flashing the normal boot.img as recovery (fastboot flash recovery boot.img).

    Can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'd be eternally grateful.

    Thanks in advance.
    Kenny
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