[Q] Is it safe to flash another region version of my phone's stock firmware?

[Lemagex]

Before unlocking or flashing my XT1650-03 it was labelled as retapac and I haven't been able to find any retapac 7.0 images for fastboot but I've found other regions, are they safe to flash?

 

[GuestD0593]

Yes it's safe, I have done that (I have retmx and used a retbr) and it works exactly the same

 

[vok01]

Yes it's safe, I have done that (I have retmx and used a retbr) and it works exactly the same

How do you changed it? You unlocked the bootloader or something like that?, Im thinking about change my reteu stock rom by retbr too.

 

[GuestD0593]

How do you changed it? You unlocked the bootloader or something like that?, Im thinking about change my reteu stock rom by retbr too.

I use this steps:

0. Download files
1. install motorola device manager
2. install minimal adb&fastboot
3. extract files from zip and put them in the same directory as fastboot.exe
3. boot phone into fastboot mode
4. flash via fastboot:

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash bluetooth BTFM.bin
fastboot flash dsp adspso.bin
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.9
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.10
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.11
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.12
fastboot flash oem oem.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize
fastboot erase clogo

fastboot reboot

I don't know if you need to have unlocked bootloader, when I tried it, I already had it unlocked.

 

[PonteloDroid]

Variant xt1605-05

I have a doubt, I have a Chinese version xt1605-05, I do not want to use Chinese roms, can I flash an xt1605-03 retbr? deleting gpt.bin and bootloader? sorry my english is bad