Using Mfastboot.exe to Flash a Motorola device

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I followed the instructions to a T. Now I am met with the red boot light of death. The phone boots, gets past the moto logo, then does the "Drooooiiiidddd" boot sound and has the loading red eye. Then. . .gets stuck. I used a batch file containing the following

mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
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 system system.img_sparsechunk.4
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1
mfastboot erase modemst2
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase cache
mfastboot erase userdata
pause
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Is there anything I should try? I am on Windows 10, so the RSD method does not work for me. I am using the 1080 Verizon version. 16gb. When I originally flashed it gave me an error about gpt.bin.
 
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Zestypanda said:
I followed the instructions to a T. Now I am met with the red boot light of death. The phone boots, gets past the moto logo, then does the "Drooooiiiidddd" boot sound and has the loading red eye. Then. . .gets stuck. I used a batch file containing the following


Is there anything I should try? I am on Windows 10, so the RSD method does not work for me. I am using the 1080 Verizon version. 16gb. When I originally flashed it gave me an error about gpt.bin.
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Which firmware version are you flashing?

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Thank you for the reply. I am using CFC_obake_verizon-user-4.4.4-SU6-7.7-release-keys version I downloaded. I can boot into recovery/stock recovery but it still hangs. I have done wipe cache/system partition. I reflashed the rom, I go into recovery and it boots as if it is going to go to the first time setup wizard then gets stuck on the boot animation.
 
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Zestypanda said:
Thank you for the reply. I am using CFC_obake_verizon-user-4.4.4-SU6-7.7-release-keys version I downloaded. I can boot into recovery/stock recovery but it still hangs. I have done wipe cache/system partition. I reflashed the rom, I go into recovery and it boots as if it is going to go to the first time setup wizard then gets stuck on the boot animation.
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Is bootloader locked or unlocked?

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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 system system.img_sparsechunk.4

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Oh, I was doing that because I was running into this error
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magi
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 524509064 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
sending sparse 'system' (768973 KB)...
error: write_sparse_skip_chunk: don't care size 524509064 is not a multiple of the block size 4096
OKAY [ 49.390s]
writing 'system'...
(bootloader) Preflash validation failed
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 49.967s
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So I then used the method listed in the moto g thread because I thought that maybe the system.img was too big to be flashed as one single file. So I was flashing it as parts. There is only one system.img but I had it break it up into parts. Is it maybe writing the system image to the wrong part of the flash?
 
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Oh, I was doing that because I was running into this error
So I then used the method listed in the moto g thread because I thought that maybe the system.img was too big to be flashed as one single file. So I was flashing it as parts. There is only one system.img but I had it break it up into parts. Is it maybe writing the system image to the wrong part of the flash?
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mfastboot will break it up, but you must use the correct number, looks like there should be 11 sparse chunks
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
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.10
 
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Thank you for the continued help.

When I run this as my batch file
mfastboot getvar max-sparse-size
mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
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 system system.img_sparsechunk.4
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.10
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1
mfastboot erase modemst2
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase ddr
oem fb_mode_clear
echo press enter to reboot device...
pause
mfastboot reboot
exit


pause
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I get this as output

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot getvar max-sparse-size
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
getvar:max-sparse-size FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.207s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'partition' (32 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.220s]
writing 'partition'...
(bootloader) This may take a few seconds, if a
(bootloader) different partition table is being
(bootloader) flashed since we need to backup
(bootloader) and restore a few partitions
OKAY [ 0.433s]
finished. total time: 0.657s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'motoboot' (1604 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.349s]
writing 'motoboot'...
(bootloader) flashing tz ...
(bootloader) flashing rpm ...
(bootloader) flashing aboot ...
(bootloader) flashing sbl1 ...
(bootloader) flashing sbl2 ...
(bootloader) flashing sbl3 ...
OKAY [ 4.899s]
finished. total time: 5.250s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash boot boot.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'boot' (10240 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.906s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 2.141s]
finished. total time: 3.049s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'logo' (215 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.291s]
writing 'logo'...
OKAY [ 0.901s]
finished. total time: 1.195s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'recovery' (10240 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.905s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.731s]
finished. total time: 2.638s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.0': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.1': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.2': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.3': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.4': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.5': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.6': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.7': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.8': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.9': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.10
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
error: cannot load 'system.img_sparsechunk.10': No error


C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'modem' (54276 KB)...
OKAY [ 3.711s]
writing 'modem'...
OKAY [ 3.388s]
finished. total time: 7.101s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot erase modemst1
erasing 'modemst1'...
OKAY [ 0.486s]
finished. total time: 0.487s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot erase modemst2
erasing 'modemst2'...
OKAY [ 0.466s]
finished. total time: 0.468s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'fsg' (538 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.350s]
writing 'fsg'...
OKAY [ 0.852s]
finished. total time: 1.204s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>mfastboot erase ddr
erasing 'ddr'...
(bootloader) Invalid partition name ddr
FAILED (remote failure)
finished. total time: 0.103s

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>oem fb_mode_clear
'oem' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>echo press enter to reboot device...
press enter to reboot device...

C:\android\mfastboot-v2>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
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Ok, I finally got it running.

Here is what I ran

mfastboot getvar max-sparse-size
mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
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 system system.img_sparsechunk.4
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.10
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1
mfastboot erase modemst2
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase ddr
echo press enter to reboot device...
pause
mfastboot reboot
exit


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Cmd showing Waiting for device

My Zip File - XT1624-XT1643_ATHENE_NPJ25.93-11_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
My phone - Moto G4 Plus XT1643 bought with Stock Nougat
Problem - Not booting, light blinking while connect to charger or pc.

cmd is showing <waiting for device>
 
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My Zip File - XT1624-XT1643_ATHENE_NPJ25.93-11_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
My phone - Moto G4 Plus XT1643 bought with Stock Nougat
Problem - Not booting, light blinking while connect to charger or pc.

cmd is showing <waiting for device>
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If there is no sign of life, don't think you can fix it
 
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i think unbricking and flashing are two totally different things.... i think this guide is for flashing the device not for unbrick.....

---------- Post added at 05:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:43 AM ----------

the setup suggested there is a virus cant even run that program....
 
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    Mfastboot
    Although Mfastboot.exe works with most Motorola Devices, the exact files and flash commands may vary, best to see specific forum/threads for the device.
    I haven't updated this thread for a while.
    Mfastboot still works, but the flash commands have changed for newer devices.
    See Guide: Motorola Firmware


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    Verify Files
    • Compare File Size with file size form download site
    • Use Hash Checksums
      • mfastboot-v2.zip (1.36 MB) MD5 Sum: 83650a3589d2ecd7c8115ce860d45a23

    Install Moto Drivers
    • Extract files from zip
    • Run Motorola_End_User_Driver_Installation_....msi
    • Reboot PC

    Setup Mfastboot.exe
    • Extract mafastboot.zip to a local drive
    • Example - C:/Mfastboot
    • Open start menu and type CMD
    • Right click on CMD > select open file location
    • Find cmd.exe, right click and copy
    • Paste into Mfastboot folder

    Show known File Types
    • Open C:/Mfastboot folder
    • Select View>options>Change folder and Search options
    • In Folder Options Select Tab View
    • Uncheck Box: Hide Extensions for Known file Types
    • Select OK

    Short Version - Flashing System Only

    • In some cases only System.img is necessary
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot flash system system.img
      and
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot reboot
    • Press enter
      if Device does not boot try Long Version

    Long Version -Using Mfastboot to Flash Firmware

    • Note: The exact files needed will very by device model
    • Extract files from Firmware xml.zip
    • Copy
      Code: 
      NON-HLOS.bin
system.img
boot.img
recovery.img
      to Mfastboot folder
    • Boot Device to AP Fastboot Mode (Power Off, Hold Volume Down, Press power button for 2-3 secs then release)
    • Note Click here If you see Low Battery, Click here if you see Fastboot Reason: Sticky bit factory_fastboot
    • Run cmd.exe in Mfastboot folder
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
    • Press enter
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot erase modemst1
    • Press enter
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot erase modemst2
    • Press enter
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot flash system system.img
    • Press enter this may take several minutes to finish and be flashed in several segments.
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot flash boot boot.img
    • Press enter
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
    • Press enter
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      fastboot erase cache
    • Press enter
    • Optional Data Wipe: Type commands
      Code: 
      fastboot erase userdata
    • Press enter
    • Type commands
      Code: 
      mfastboot reboot
    • Press enter
    • Device should boot normally, If not see RSD Lite or House of Moto
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    Ah okay, will you send a link to me when you do?
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    Troubleshooting

    Q1: Error: Cannot load system.img: Not enough space.
    Solution: try flashing system.img in chunks with
    Code: 
    mfastboot flash system system.img -P
    - Thanks to @Merconium for the tip​

    Error: UTAG "bootmode" configured as fastboot
    Solution 1:
    Code: 
    fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot
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    Code: 
    fastboot erase motoboot
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
fastboot reboot
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