[FALCON][STOCK][FLASHABLE ZIP] Kernel | Radio | Recovery (All Variants / Regions)

What is Radio Firmware?
It is the software responsible for your mobile phone signal and on older devices may control wifi, bluetooth, and GPS (on most newer devices, these are handled by the kernel and ROM).

Flashing an alternative Radio / Modem firmware may improve (or diminish) battery performance, network signal strength, and roaming capability. Stock Kernels are provided here as a backup; the real performance gains are found in custom kernels.

Flashing Dual Sim radios onto a Single Sim device or vice-versa may result in a permanent brick. Likewise, CDMA radios are only for those devices. Be careful.

I've created this thread to collect flashable images of Stock Radios / Kernels for Moto G. All images are flashable with CWM / TWRP.

If you can help; please upload your dumped firmware images (compressed) and I will create a flashable zip. When posting, state: Model (XT10XX), Android version, Country, Baseband version and current Firmware (i.e Carrier or Retail) and in the case of kernels: version info.

Firmware Dumping Methods: *ROOT REQUIRED*

[XT1031] [[HIGHLIGHT]CDMA[/HIGHLIGHT]]
CDMA: 850/1900

[XT1032]
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900
UTMS: 850/900/1900/2100

[XT1033] [[HIGHLIGHT]Dual Sim[/HIGHLIGHT]]
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900
UMTS 850/900/1900/2100

[XT1034] [[HIGHLIGHT]AWS[/HIGHLIGHT]]
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900
UTMS: 850/1700(AWS)/1900


Miscellaneous:
Stock Kernel Modules:
<-----------------------> [GPE] - 4.4.4 | 5.0.1 | 5.1
<-----------------------> [XT1032] - 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | | 5.0.2 | 5.1 | 6.0
<-----------------------> [XT1033] (Dual-SIM) - 4.4.4 | 5.0.2 | 5.1 | 6.0
Stock Graphics Driver:
< ----------------------> [All Models] - 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | 5.0.2 | 5.1 | 5.1 (GPE)

How to flash:
1) Boot into Recovery Mode.
2) Wipe Dalvik Cache (CWM > Advanced)
3) Flash Radio or Kernel .zip (If Kernel, also flash 'Stock Kernel Modules')
4) After flashing has completed, reboot.

Tips:
(i) No Wifi after flashing Stock Kernel? Flash 'Stock Kernel Modules' above
(ii) How to restore missing Enable 'H' and 'H+' icons.
(iii) The Xposed Module Intelli3G has some useful options i.e Force 'WCDMA only' mode.
(iv) DS Battery Saver can dramatically improve battery-life. (Xposed module)
(v) How to flash Radio Firmware via Fastboot:



Contributors:
felipeap ..... Lucas Leopoldino ... a420pyro ... Finnish Flash ... akiratoriyama .............. amarc78
drfr ............ tazlooney89 .......... justjr ......... Sandivisi ........... dau999
S0bes ...... Alchedin ................ knizmi ........ kedar512 .......... VitaTaf
Faruko ...... vitokes .................. d4rk3 ......... hitesh1 ............. Ludoxda
robin0800 .. rr46000 ................. NWKENT ... alfick3 ............. Berties123
nickchk ..... izzy001 ................ kirmr .......... AgentChaos ...... karakanto
denzel09 ... creeve4 ................. sta1cs ...... mmxandy ..... shoobiedoobiiwhompwop

The intention is to create recovery flashable zips using a partition dump of actually installed firmware rather than created from stock firmware files (NON-HLOS.bin/fsg.mbn) which I have found do not work properly.

The zips would currently only contain a dumped .img of the modem partition. From my experience with previous phones flashing this partition was enough. FSG can be dumped also if necessary.

EDIT:

It turns out that the "fsg" and the "backup" partitions are meant to take copies of the modemst1 and modemst2 partitions - this can be done/forced by executing "reboot nvbackup" in terminal or with adb. So these partitions are meant to hold the backups of modemst1 and modemst2.

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felipeap said:

1032.355.66.00R... https://www.dropbox.com/s/qss41klt9fvssio/radio_firmware.img XT1032 Brazil GSM 4.4.2

Sent from my Moto G 16GB Dual SIM Colors Edition

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Just to clarify; your sig says Dual Sim, but the radio from XT1032 Single Sim? XT1033 is the Dual Sim model.

It would be helpful if you can state what Stock ROM image you used? Claro / Nextel / Vivo or Retail.

Faruko said:

Would love to give mine but... how do you use adb shell ? i get device not found (im in bootloader), where do i start the command ?

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You run the command when phone is in Android and with USB Debugging enabled under Settings > Developer options.

ADB instructions added to OP. If you need a full ADB guide. search XDA. Thanks for helping.

robin0800 said:

Two quick Questions
1. are radios carrier specific I would have thought Phone type and location only.
2. have gpe on my uk 1032 and flashed ( 340.63.00R - Vodafone UK) but to be honest can find no difference not quite what I expected.

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Yeah, that's the question. If we base things on version number, ignoring the end letter; I suspect the radio firmware will be identical regardless of source. However why not collect them all just to be thorough and to allow for the possibility of carrier specific changes.

drfr said:

XT1032 Kitkat 4.4.2 Germany retail 355.66.00R

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6.2mb larger than any other radio so far. I wonder what is different.

EDIT: Flashed fine to UK handset. Curiously, seems to fix a delay I was having when using "OK Google" hotword search. Signal strength also seems to have improved. Will report back if this is actually the case.

k-kuchen said:

Will it break compatibility with any custom ROM if I flash a new radio?

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In my experience there shouldn't be a problem. Also worth noting flashing custom ROMs generally does not change the radio; that's a separate partition.

tsimitsangaz said:

nice threat !!can you add also stock kernels cwm flashable?

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Well if someone wants to make a dump, here is the command: (Only Stock kernel please, Custom kernels already have threads)

drfr said:

Yesterday German retail got an OTA. It´s some 7,5MB only and fixes OTG USB storage and some other minor things. Don´t know if there´s something for the radio, but I doubt so.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2648590

Edit: actually it includes some modem parts.
Edit2: don´t know if it isn´t placebo but I agree "Ok, Google" seems to react faster now.

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They 'delay' I was referring to was between hotword activation and the point where 'listening' for a command would begin. It was very obvious and it has now gone.