Moto G LTE 4.4.4 [XT1039] OTA update 21.11.56

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bananas33

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It's definitely an XT1039.

I've asked them three times now but they have no idea. I'll wait a bit longer but the urge to flash (or return the phone as not fit for purpose) grows ever stronger.
 
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Mike_BLN said:
And......any new experiences? Will it fix the SD-Card problems generally??
All input will be welcome.....:cool:
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After updating to 21.11.56 I cant read files on my 32 GB. kingston sdcard. Before updating all was working just fine, so now I have to flash the original firmware to retrieve my sdcard.
But I think I will try cyanogen first. Crossing fingers ram bug won't affect me...

EDIT: Using the Moto G to reformat my sdcard seems to fix it. What a hassle this update gave me, troubleshooting, backup, reformat and restore backup :(
 
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O2 reflash

I finally gave up waiting for O2 to release the update, helped by my phone getting stuck in the "1 of 1 updating/systemui has crashed" loop: since I needed to clear user data I figured I might as well go for the retail f/w too. Almost immediately the OTA notification appeared and so far I've had no more problems with the SD dismounting, terrific.
 
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Just My O2, there were two others before. There's a couple of mentions in the versions still but otherwise it seems as clean as possible.
 
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I'm back and still here! Sorry I've not updated but I had some serious career problems, which are now resolved, so I can concentrate back on my phone. I've flashed the system. boot and recovery and I've upgraded with success! I'm now running 21.11.56! Thank you so much everyone who's help, this is a fantastic forum who is polite and helpful! Makes a change to some other forums!

I guess next will be to root this device again! :D

:)
 
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Can someone check if in EU region stock firmware Slovenian Language is available. I am in DE region and there is not included :(

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    vpnair
    vpnair
    Not_Technically_Minded! said:
    I'm a complete technical newbie, so I apologise for what might be stupid questions. I used to own a HTC Desire which had to be rooted to make it suit my requirements, and now I have a rooted Moto G LTE (4.4.4, 21.1.46 from Tesco) which I've had to root to suit most of my requirements.

    I'd like to install this update to (maybe) fix the SD card issue. I have "CWM recovery" installed which seems to break the installation of this update. I get a 'install zip' question in the recovery, I swipe yes and then swipe to install root again. At this point the phone boots normally, and immediately after boot it reboots into the CWM recovery screen again (and over). I rebooted into CWM recovery and paniced when I realised that the SD Card isn't there with my backup and so I wiped the cache. This fixed the reboot problem, but I'd still like to update, but don't want to risk breaking my phone.

    Can I use the zip 2 posts above me to update to the latest version? Will that be compatible with a Tesco version phone?
    How do I create a backup that is located somewhere the phone can see in CWM recovery mode?

    Apologies again if this is a silly question, stupid question or anything else. I'm not technically minded, but I'm forced into these corners to make my phone work how I'd like it to. :(

    Thanks! :)
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    If you want to see your backups, place them in your internal SD, as older recoverys cannot read the microSD. I have latest TWRP from 4G development thread and it reads microSD perfectly.

    It appears like you have modified the system partition and the OTA will fail (not custom recovery's fault AFAIK). First, try to uninstall anything that has modified the system partition (xposed, busybox, hosts file). Unroot as well if everything else doesn't fix it. Then try checking for updates and installing OTA. You can always 'fastboot erase cache' which will erase OTA and prevent looping (just means you have to check for updates and download it again).

    If nothing works. Go to this thread, and download the firmware for XT1039 (Great Britain). You can download either the Retail (if you want to be unbranded) or Tesco. Then inside the zip there will be system.img_sparsechunk files. Flash these using mfastboot (dont use fastboot) using the following codes in this order (they may be more or less system.img files, but just flash them in order starting from the lowest number).

    Code: 
    mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3

    This will refresh your system partition to how it was (you will lose root, and other modifications you made) - all your data remains untouched. Then reboot your phone and install OTA as per normal. Once complete, flash your custom recovery again and then flash the latest supersu.zip to get root. Done.
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    vpnair
    vpnair
    Don't know if anyone has posted the actual OTA for XT039 EU. But here it is.

    Motorola Moto G XT1039 (EU)
    Old Version: 21.1.46.en.EU
    Information: 21.11.56.en.EU
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    vpnair
    vpnair
    Not_Technically_Minded! said:
    Hi there,

    This seems to have put my system back to stock, exactly how you said, but the update still won't install. It states
    Code: 
    "EMMC: boot: ##lotsofnumbers##" has unexpected contents.
E: Error in /cache/Blur_version.21.1.46.peregrine_retgb.retgball.en.GB.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted"

    Should I try and flash the stock recovery? My phone has CMW-based Recovery V6.0.5.0. You didn't explicit say that I should, but it was suggested in your final paragraph. I've literally just flashed the recovery you said you had and it doesn't seem to have made any difference. Different error message regarding problem executing binary in zip. I'm sorry for somehow mucking this up. :/
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    Weird, not many people have modified boot since there is no custom kernel for the 4G variant (or is there?). As hacktrix has stated, take the boot.img and recovery.img out of the stock firmware you downloaded and flash those too. Like he said, keep Xposed uninstalled (under the Xposed Installer).

    Code: 
    mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot erase cache

    This should guarantee that boot and recovery is back to stock so OTA will work. I have had no problems flashing unmodified OTA on custom recovery, but no harm in flashing stock recovery anyway since you have to flash boot.img too. Good luck.

    PS. I really shouldve said to flash boot.img too in the post. I never modify it (only the system partition), so i never do it.

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    mici01 said:
    Hey,

    I also got this problem with my XT1039 on 21.1.46 en.DE.
    Sadly the fix from vpnair hasn't worked. Maybe because I used en.EU instead of the German en.DE? (I couldn't find en.DE anywhere, but It now shows as en.EU)
    CWM still aborts with Status 7 error message, but now reports that the recovery maybe replaced by stock. (But even when I say yes it aborts).
    I searched a bit and it says when CWM gives back Status 7 you may have to make a factory reset.
    Is there any other thing I could try without factory reset?
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    You have same issue, but you are changing regions (which is okay since it will work with EU too). You can do what is stated above (just the recovery and boot), but I would recommend a complete flash of the firmware for you (like factory reset - but not wiping your data). Backup everything just in case (onto your external SD).

    Here's the code (I've omitted the userdata flash so you keep your data):
    Code: 
    mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1
mfastboot erase modemst2
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase cache
mfastboot reboot
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    hkotaku
    en_gb ota update for anyone who still needs it.
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    hacktrix2006
    juliatan said:
    Perhaps anyone kwows solution, but my ota notifcation on my XT1039 is gone. And when checking for system updates via about phone it says for 5 days now (translation from dutch): 'cannot check for system update try later'. Last thing I did was a backup with Titanium as I always do before OTA on any device in case something goes wrong. Setting in Titanium is 'pause app while backup'. After that backup and a reboot OTA problem occured. Never happened before doing a Tita-Backup before system ota update. So might not have to do with that.

    I prefer to fix this immidiately for future system updates over the air before sideloading the Ota. But if only sideloading possible, the in this thread (post 11 & 18) offered OTA-file says 21.1.46.en.EU. This is a mistake and the ota is indeed 21.11.56?

    Thanks

    (PS.First time in a while using xda-website instead of Tapatalk. Awfully disordered it has become).
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    The 21.1.46.en.EU is the 21.1.52 OTA the file name just states it a OTA for that firmware version. So sideload if you want mate its as simple as booting into stock recovery pressing Up and Power to get the menu and then hitting the ADB Update menu item, then typing into cmd adb sideload <OTA filename> it will then flash without issues so long as everything is stock i.e recovery and boot. If you have xposed installed just uninstall it then install OTA, after re-install xposed as root doesn't get removed or causes issues with OTA updates.
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