How To Guide EDL test points and blank-flash boost mobile

[sosthenisRR]

Here are the edl (emergency download mode) test points for Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G XT2131.

 

[sosthenisRR]

*Update*

Thank you @vache and all at Motorola Blankflash (telegram) for everything


. . . . Only for this specific release


XT2131-1_DENVER_BOOST_11_RRES31.Q3-60-47-2-2-2_subsidy-BOOST_DISH_regulatory-DEFAULT_cid50_CFC

1. Decompress "blankflash_file".zip

2. Short the edl test points. while holding the "tweezers" on the 2 test points plug the device into PC.

3. After you see the device connected , or hear the connected sound , release the "tweezers" from the test points.

4. Run blank-flash.bat/.sh (choose which one depending on what os you have on your PC.)

!!WARNING!!
DO NOT turn off!! DO NOT unplug!!

5. Wait for device to reboot to fastboot mode. (if your Denver/Osaka does not reboot to the bootloader then you do not have the correct blank flash file)

6. Flash the stock firmware to your device (flash with lmsa, tiny-fastboot-script, platform-tools or cli. it's up to you)

Now your device should be working again. I HOPE this small bit of information helps you out as much as it helped me.

For the love of Moto!

Guide by @sosthenisRR aka sosRR (yeah like the flying kind )

 

[duffman452001]

This did work on my mine which I bricked a month ago. I was able to run the bat file on my windows PC so it said "Waiting for devices", short the pins, plug in my usb cable and then wait a minute or 2 for it to boot into fastboot. Then I ran the lenovo recovery tool and flash it back to life.

 

[Jimmy2133]

This did work on my mine which I bricked a month ago. I was able to run the bat file on my windows PC so it said "Waiting for devices", short the pins, plug in my usb cable and then wait a minute or 2 for it to boot into fastboot. Then I ran the lenovo recovery tool and flash it back to life.

Yeah it did work with me too he is the greatest.

 

[Jimmy2133]

Thank you so much it did work with me LOVE..

 

[csann]

Hmmm..
So I tried this method about a week ago BUT I didn't see this post then and I used a blanlflask from lolinet...it didn't turn out good. It began just fine, but it only flashed the first item, it seemed like it was flashing the partition scheme and it concluded, ending with
"Finished." then said rebooting to fastboot but the screen went black...and stayed black. I can only get a blink from charging led if I hold down power long enough....might this file be worth a shot? I can still get into EDL. Appreciate any advice?

 

[csann]

I have a terrible situation at hand thanks to Motorola really screwing me, hard, in regards to a Repair. Long story short, I went from having a moto One 5G Ace to being sent a VERY used, worn, older and completely different model device. Motorola has some balls, let me tell ya. Anyways, the device does not boot and it is not bootloader unlocked. I received it and immediately called Motorola Repair/Tech Support within about 20-30 minutes of it being delivered to me; they tell me to send it in for repair in it's original box. I won't mention how they kept the original box, claiming to have thrown it away because it had a hand-written note on a white sticker on the side that clearly indicated this was a "loaner" device...oh wait, I mentioned it. Anyways, I can't unlock the bootloader, because OEM Unlock was not open in Developer Settings. I also can't boot, flash, or load anything. LMSA recognizes the device as the XT2131-1 and downloads the appropriate firmware. It begins the rescue, but at 32% it fails, rebooting the phone to the "NO VALID OS FOUND" black/red screen and LMSA states something like "We're sorry, but it's unsafe to rescue this device at this time."
I've tried multiple Windows machines, Windows 8, 10 and Windows 11 hosts. I've tried MX Linux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc., but I can't get anything to flash/rescue. I then found this page and, at first, still couldn't reach blankflash. However, here we are two-three months later and with a friend's help I am able to get into EDL. I ran this blankflash, which is the ONLY blankflash that actually recognized the device, but it finishes and simply reboots back to the Bootloader screen. I'm afraid maybe I unplugged it too quickly. Is there any advice that anyone has about what I could be doing wrong? Or what I should try? Any opinions on the BEST Linux/Windows OS to use for things like this? Thanks, in advance, to everyone and anyone reading this, if you have any pointers, please do help me out. Motorola really screwed me but I've filed complaints appropriately about that-in the meantime though it'd be nice to have a phone again after almost 6 months of not having one at all...I keep refraining from buying a different device on principal...and things have been so tight for me, financially, this year. So any help I would greatly, greatly appreciate!

Thank you,
Clint

 

[maddog3030]

I have a terrible situation at hand thanks to Motorola really screwing me, hard, in regards to a Repair. Long story short, I went from having a moto One 5G Ace to being sent a VERY used, worn, older and completely different model device. Motorola has some balls, let me tell ya. Anyways, the device does not boot and it is not bootloader unlocked. I received it and immediately called Motorola Repair/Tech Support within about 20-30 minutes of it being delivered to me; they tell me to send it in for repair in it's original box. I won't mention how they kept the original box, claiming to have thrown it away because it had a hand-written note on a white sticker on the side that clearly indicated this was a "loaner" device...oh wait, I mentioned it. Anyways, I can't unlock the bootloader, because OEM Unlock was not open in Developer Settings. I also can't boot, flash, or load anything. LMSA recognizes the device as the XT2131-1 and downloads the appropriate firmware. It begins the rescue, but at 32% it fails, rebooting the phone to the "NO VALID OS FOUND" black/red screen and LMSA states something like "We're sorry, but it's unsafe to rescue this device at this time."
I've tried multiple Windows machines, Windows 8, 10 and Windows 11 hosts. I've tried MX Linux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc., but I can't get anything to flash/rescue. I then found this page and, at first, still couldn't reach blankflash. However, here we are two-three months later and with a friend's help I am able to get into EDL. I ran this blankflash, which is the ONLY blankflash that actually recognized the device, but it finishes and simply reboots back to the Bootloader screen. I'm afraid maybe I unplugged it too quickly. Is there any advice that anyone has about what I could be doing wrong? Or what I should try? Any opinions on the BEST Linux/Windows OS to use for things like this? Thanks, in advance, to everyone and anyone reading this, if you have any pointers, please do help me out. Motorola really screwed me but I've filed complaints appropriately about that-in the meantime though it'd be nice to have a phone again after almost 6 months of not having one at all...I keep refraining from buying a different device on principal...and things have been so tight for me, financially, this year. So any help I would greatly, greatly appreciate!

Thank you,
Clint

Motorola Blankflash

Request blankflash by giving device informations

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Start from scratch but remember need to use the last firmware that was on the phone when you choose a blankflash file

 

[cabinhead]

Hello. I have been able to get this tool to work with my own specific flash file for an XT2131-1 RETUS. When I boot the flash file, it still shows that the bootloader is locked. Is there any way too boot into fastboot with a blankflash file and make sure that it is unlocked?

 

[Kireej]

Please help I have model xt2163dl and can't find the test points. Please help

 

[Renate]

Please help I have model xt2163dl and can't find the test points.

You may have to find them yourself.
A voltmeter can help. You need one point that measures 1.8V (voltage source) and another that's close to 0V (GPIO).
If you have a resistor (maybe 470 ohms to 2.2k) you can connect things together without worrying too much about vaporizing anything.
That's a low enough resistrance for the GPIO for EDL boot.

 

[Kireej]

You may have to find them yourself.
A voltmeter can help. You need one point that measures 1.8V (voltage source) and another that's close to 0V (GPIO).
If you have a resistor (maybe 470 ohms to 2.2k) you can connect things together without worrying too much about vaporizing anything.
That's a low enough resistrance for the GPIO for EDL boot.

Not sure of what any of that means. I can't find anything on Google or anywhere else. Seems as if someone here has to have the same model as me. The waiting game begins lol.

 

[Kireej]

You may have to find them yourself.
A voltmeter can help. You need one point that measures 1.8V (voltage source) and another that's close to 0V (GPIO).
If you have a resistor (maybe 470 ohms to 2.2k) you can connect things together without worrying too much about vaporizing anything.
That's a low enough resistrance for the GPIO for EDL boot.

Ok I got a voltmeter but not sure how to use it. Here is the meter and the phone.

 

[Renate]

Oops, my apologies.
The original post was talking about the XT2131 (which is Qualcomm SDM480) and EDL.
The XT2163DL is a Mediatek Helio G25,
There are similarities, but also differences.

I can say with high confidence that Qualcomm EDL is (always?) using a 1.8V voltage source and a GPIO with a pull-down resistor.
I don't really know what Mediatek is doing. Assuredly no voltage is over 1.8V but I don't know if it's pull-up or pull-down,

In any case, I would still look for conspicuously adjacent test points where one measures 1.8V and one near zero.
I would still not want to connect random things together without checking and without a resistor.
The absolute worse would be hitting a test point for a backlight (which could be as high as 30+V).

Some Mediatek things show BROM and Preloader when they boot up anyway.
Are you sure that you're not seeing them?

Good luck

 

[Kireej]

Oops, my apologies.
The original post was talking about the XT2131 (which is Qualcomm SDM480) and EDL.
The XT2163DL is a Mediatek Helio G25,
There are similarities, but also differences.

I can say with high confidence that Qualcomm EDL is (always?) using a 1.8V voltage source and a GPIO with a pull-down resistor.
I don't really know what Mediatek is doing. Assuredly no voltage is over 1.8V but I don't know if it's pull-up or pull-down,

In any case, I would still look for conspicuously adjacent test points where one measures 1.8V and one near zero.
I would still not want to connect random things together without checking and without a resistor.
The absolute worse would be hitting a test point for a backlight (which could be as high as 30+V).

Some Mediatek things show BROM and Preloader when they boot up anyway.
Are you sure that you're not seeing them?

Good luck

Yes all I get when I plug the phone in is a whitesh blue led light blinking on the top right corner. If I hold vol+ or vol- and power it will stop blinking for a minute then start again. Computer will not recognize the device and I am completely unable to get into fastboot to flash stock firmware. This all started when I accidentally flash firmware from a different year.

 

[Renate]

If you're on Windows, you should count the "bongs" when your device boots.
My usblog.exe can be helpful in identifying things that pop up.
My enumusb.exe can show what has ever popped up on your Windows.
Both can be found here.

C:\>enumusb /l /v0e8d
0E8D:2000     7&279c4dc7&2&6      2023-02-08 04:14  MT65xx Preloader
0E8D:201C     1483GR123456789     2023-02-08 04:14  Port_#0006.Hub_#0005

0e8d is Mediatek

 

[Kireej]

Ok fount the points then I run the flash blank boot script then it says this after I let go of tweazers

 

[Kireej]

If you're on Windows, you should count the "bongs" when your device boots.
My usblog.exe can be helpful in identifying things that pop up.
My enu

musb.exe can show what has ever popped up on your Windows.
Both can be found here.

C:\>enumusb /l /v0e8d
0E8D:2000     7&279c4dc7&2&6      2023-02-08 04:14  MT65xx Preloader
0E8D:201C     1483GR123456789     2023-02-08 04:14  Port_#0006.Hub_#0005

0e8d is Mediatek

Thank you I got usblog to work but the other opens then closes. Also I'm not quite sure what to do with this information. It shows up as an unknown USB device and as soon as I take the tweazers off it disconnects from computer. The blank flash exe never detects the device.

 

[Renate]

0000/0002 is often a USB gadget under Linux that is not initialized at all.

 

[Kireej]

0000/0002 is often a USB gadget under Linux that is not initialized at all.

Any idea at all of how to get this thing unbricked? Test points is where I keep ending up but again as soon as I let go of tweazers it disconnects.