[Recovery][TWRP][Root] TWRP and Root for Moto E5 Play (James)

[CodyF86]

Take a backup.

How-to root & disable encrypted /data:

1. (Fastboot) flash the no-verity kernel
2. (TWRP) adb shell mount -o,rw /dev/block/platform/soc/7824900.sdhci/by-name/vendor /vendor
3. (TWRP) adb push fstab.qcom /vendor/etc/fstab.qcom
4. (TWRP) format data
5. (TWRP) flash magisk beta

Wifi / Unlimited Tethering

1. (TWRP) adb shell mount -o,rw /dev/block/platform/soc/7824900.sdhci/by-name/vendor /vendor
2. (TWRP) adb pull /vendor/default.prop .
3. Add net.tethering.noprovisioning=true to default.prop
4. (TWRP) adb push default.prop /vendor/default.prop

TWRP 3.2.1 E5 Play
E5 Play DM-Verity Disabled Kernel
E5 Plus DM-Verity Disabled Kernel
fstab.qcom (no-encrypt)

 

[CodyF86]

BAM! ^

 

[Icyice]

I tried flashing it and got an "Image not signed or corrupt" error. How can I get around this?

Can you make a step by step guide, please?

 

[Thexmastermind]

Yo, digging your commitment to moto. I'm still on the E4, been waiting for this device to finally be released. I'm probably gonna wait for a little more development on it till I switch though. Do you like it though?

 

[CodyF86]

I tried flashing it and got an "Image not signed or corrupt" error. How can I get around this?

Can you make a step by step guide, please?

Nothing is wrong; recovery will boot fine if you try it.

 

[CodyF86]

Yo, digging your commitment to moto. I'm still on the E4, been waiting for this device to finally be released. I'm probably gonna wait for a little more development on it till I switch though. Do you like it though?

I like it; it's nice having a stock Oreo. Hopefully getting LTE to work won't be as much of a pain as the moto E4, although I figure it will be, but know how to fix it. Going to start compiling Lineage soon just getting the vendor repo setup and device trees etc.

 

[Thexmastermind]

I like it; it's nice having a stock Oreo. Hopefully getting LTE to work won't be as much of a pain as the moto E4, although I figure it will be, but know how to fix it. Going to start compiling Lineage soon just getting the vendor repo setup and device trees etc.

Yeah I was super bummed with the whole no LTE thing there for a while.

 

[Thexmastermind]

So you've got root, right?

 

[CodyF86]

So you've got root, right?

Nope Magisk messes up the boot.img atm, and PHH doesn't actually give root after flashing. I tried to root manually and believe it's getting reverted by DM-verity / verified boot. About to start building lineage to bypass that, but the E5 kernel has no fstab. DM-verity must be disabled in the kernels DTB. (Working on that too)

 

[Thexmastermind]

How's the bloatware out of the box? And depending on how bills are looking this week I might have one to test with.

 

[CodyF86]

How's the bloatware out of the box? And depending on how bills are looking this week I might have one to test with.

Almost non-existant / it lets you uninstall everything basically even on stock.

Also was able to patch DM-Verity out of the kernel DTB with help of a hex editor lol. Link in the OP here shortly.

Should be able to run /data unencrypted now.

 

[CodyF86]

Corection haha after I blew up /data on my phone. DM-verity is indeed disabled in the kernel now, but the stock rom still encrypts /data regardless, but should be able to root it without /system getting reverted now...time to reinstall everything haha. link in OP to DM-verity disabled kernel.

 

[CodyF86]

I have root. Will update OP. Basically flash the no-verity kernel then flash magisk beta onto the no-verity kernel and it boots.

 

[madbat99]

Shipping with Oreo, it should be treble compatible too.

 

[CodyF86]

I found the fstab...it's actually in /vendor/etc instead of in the kernel. I'll make a flashable zip, but for now to disable encryption manually just adb pull /vendor/etc/fstab.qcom and change forceencrypt= to encryptable= then push it back to /vendor/etc in recovery...then format data.

edit: Actually it's not quite that simple , have to mount /vendor manually in recovery. I'll write a zip soonish, but

adb shell mount -o,rw /dev/block/platform/soc/7824900.sdhci/by-name/vendor /vendor

 

[CodyF86]

OP updated with instruction on how to disable /data encryption.

 

[CurbThePain]

Cant wait to see custom rom's for this thing. If it don't happen soon I might have to jump in and give it a try. Just picked it up at walmart tonight and its pretty impressive for such a cheap phone. Good job getting root working.

 

[Starkiller2]

Holy crap it worked. You're awesome

 

[Gualo17]

Hi guys
It could be used in a Moto E5 Plus to do it root?
Has the following information:

Hardware : QUALCOMM
SNAPDRAGON 425
Model : E5 plus
Android v : 8.0
Kernel v : 3.18.71-perf-g2d07014

Thanks y regards.

 

[MotoJunkie01]

@CodyF86, awesome work on the repack TWRP. Development on this device seems to be in the very early stages indeed. Your TWRP and root method have definitely broke ground. I'm using a Python kitchen to compile an unmodified stock ROM as well as a deodexed, debloated version (both TWRP flashable). I'll have an OP up in a couple days for anybody interested and I will post updates here -- with @CodyF86's approval, of course. Thanks again for your great work in breaking ground on this device.