Well after tons of banging my head against the wall and after 3 days of reading forum postings I almost gave up.
But success. This morning I found a posting with an updated TWRP recovery image that actually works!
This was important to me because I had unlocked the bootloader by using the Motorola site to get my key and willingly void my warranty but I could not install a twrp recovery image in order to backup all the partitions to the virtual sdcard. I really wanted to do that before a possible boot loop or soft brick or whatever the experts would call it.
It seems this image was just created and posted in the past few days but I found it necessary because twrp-2.xx for the Moto Z would install but not run. Just got the tiny Android with a red triangle ! and "No command".
So get twrp-3.0.3-n1_griffin_shreps.img using your PC (in my case Windows) and then use the adb push command to copy it to your Moto Z.
Then follow the other threads which I will try to find again and post here in order to install this recovery image. Oh... here they are...
To get the twrp recovery image...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/development/recovery-twrp-3-0-3-n1-moto-z-t3547672
To borrow just the necessary steps from:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/development/android-nougat-moto-z-versions-t3506342
Do this...
But success. This morning I found a posting with an updated TWRP recovery image that actually works!
This was important to me because I had unlocked the bootloader by using the Motorola site to get my key and willingly void my warranty but I could not install a twrp recovery image in order to backup all the partitions to the virtual sdcard. I really wanted to do that before a possible boot loop or soft brick or whatever the experts would call it.
It seems this image was just created and posted in the past few days but I found it necessary because twrp-2.xx for the Moto Z would install but not run. Just got the tiny Android with a red triangle ! and "No command".
So get twrp-3.0.3-n1_griffin_shreps.img using your PC (in my case Windows) and then use the adb push command to copy it to your Moto Z.
Then follow the other threads which I will try to find again and post here in order to install this recovery image. Oh... here they are...
To get the twrp recovery image...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/development/recovery-twrp-3-0-3-n1-moto-z-t3547672
To borrow just the necessary steps from:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/development/android-nougat-moto-z-versions-t3506342
Do this...
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