How To Guide [ROOT][GAPPS] Root and install GApps on stock Edge S/Chinese version

[sd_shadow]

I did so, maybe I explained not so well. SIM was inserted and then I did factory reset by starting it from settings. After restart it's still the same - switch / unlock slider greyed out.

Someone used kingroot, to get oem unlock to ungray.
See

"OEM unlocking" grayed out on Moto G Play 2021

I bought a Moto G Play 2021 unlocked from best buy yesterday. I can't enable "OEM unlocking" in Developer Settings. It is grayed out. I factory reset a few times. The phone CID is listed as a phone that can be unlocked on the Motorola site...

forum.xda-developers.com

 

[Electimon]

I do not recommend you do that

 

[kischde]

I remember that there was rumours about kingroot years ago that it did something you really wouldn't wanna be done to your belongings. I can't remember what it was but that there was something..
Additionally: if that attempt would fail and I brick it I can't return it. It's not a high end phone but I wouldn't like to burn 500 bucks just for having warmed hands for a minute
So I'll wait until weekend if that 'mystic timer' activates the switch or if moto will show up with another solution.

Thanks for trying to help me out to everyone of you

 

[CCivale]

So you got the Edge S and want GApps? Basically you unlock your bootloader, root with Magisk, then install MagiskGApps.

DISCLAIMER: UNLOCKING YOUR BOOTLOADER MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY, AND DOING ALL THESE THINGS IN THIS GUIDE MAY RESULT IN DAMAGE/BRICKING YOUR PHONE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

1. Unlock the bootloader: that should be doable with their global bootloader unlock website here.
2. Download Lenovo Motoroa Smart Assistant (Rescue and Smart Assistant), and follow its instructions to "rescue" your device. It will lead you to boot into bootloader mode and download the firmware. Find the firmware file via the LMSA's downloads (should have a "show folder" button). You'll need the boot.img file for Magisk.
3. Download Magisk, then follow its instructions. You'll have to copy the boot.img to your device, then use Magisk to patch the boot file, then copy the modified one to your PC.
4. You'll need fastboot. If you don't have it already, you can download the Android SDK platform tools here. Then go into the folder, Shift+Right Click the folder, then "Open Command Prompt" or "Open PowerShell," you should have something close to one of those two. Copy your Magisk modified .img file to that folder, then you'll want to input:
fastboot flash boot [modified .img file]
Once that completes, you should see in large text, "Start" on your phone next to the power button. Press the power button, and it should boot, and you should have root now.
5. Download MagiskGApps to your phone, open Magisk on your phone, click the button that looks like a puzzle piece at the bottom of the screen, "Modules." Click "Install from storage," locate the MagiskGApps file, and install it. After that it will ask you to restart your phone, do that, then you'll just have to be patient as it takes time once its restarted to load everything. You also may need to update some or all of the apps, then you should be able to use the notification to finish setting up the phone with Google Setup.

Thanks to Motorola for making it easy to unlock their bootloaders
Thanks to the whole Magisk team for making an easy, awesome root (and more!)
Thanks to Wacko1805 (and team?) for making MagiskGApps. This is really awesome.

So, I'm not exactly sure what I'm missing, but I can't seem to get GApps to work. I'm able to flash it, but immediately upon booting I get a crazy amount of alerts that I have to enable Google Play Services and when I do, there still is no change. I've tried both stock versions and the core version, but no luck. Did you run into any problems like this?

EDIT: Had some success with just installing the core. Now that I have Play Services stable, I think I'm in good shape.

 

[Timmons]

Got my chinese moto edge s today. Pretty nice. I'm looking to root it and put the gapps on it with this. If this is done; is there anything that would preclude me later on putting a rom on it instead with a proper twrp recovery once both are released?

 

[nfriedly]

I have a retcn Edge S/g100 that I got off of ebay. It came with the bootloader unlocked, but I cannot get Lenovo's RSA tool to work with it. Most of the time it just says

> Info
> Some key information cannot be read from the device, please unplug and reconnect your device with fastboot mode.

(This is with the device in fastboot mode)

However, one time I was able to get it to give me a different error message:

> Info
> RSA detected that your device model is:
> IMEI: [my imei from SIM slot 1]
> Model Name: XT2125-4
> The model associated with the IMEI for your device is currently not supported by Rescue and Smart Assistant

Any idea what's going on here? I'd like to stick with the stock firmware and just root it for now, but I'm not sure how to move forward from that.

I saw S1RN* firmwares on https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/nio_retcn/official/RETCN/ but not the S1RT32.41-20-16 that my phone is currently running, so I'm a little hesitant to touch that.

Do you have any advice for me?

 

[Beetle84]

I have a retcn Edge S/g100 that I got off of ebay. It came with the bootloader unlocked, but I cannot get Lenovo's RSA tool to work with it. Most of the time it just says

> Info
> Some key information cannot be read from the device, please unplug and reconnect your device with fastboot mode.

(This is with the device in fastboot mode)

However, one time I was able to get it to give me a different error message:

> Info
> RSA detected that your device model is:
> IMEI: [my imei from SIM slot 1]
> Model Name: XT2125-4
> The model associated with the IMEI for your device is currently not supported by Rescue and Smart Assistant

Any idea what's going on here? I'd like to stick with the stock firmware and just root it for now, but I'm not sure how to move forward from that.

I saw S1RN* firmwares on https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/nio_retcn/official/RETCN/ but not the S1RT32.41-20-16 that my phone is currently running, so I'm a little hesitant to touch that.

Do you have any advice for me?

If the bootloader is unlocked, you can flash the firmware from your region. I bought a edge s unlocked from eBay as well with ret_cn firmware, and changed it to retapac without issue.

lolinet mirrors - firmware, software, iso etc.

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mirrors.lolinet.com

I use tiny fastboot script to flash firmwares.
Unzip the firmware zip and TFS into the same folder, run flash.bat, select 1 for drivers (first time only), then select the option you want.

 

[Sh10N]

So you got the Edge S and want GApps? Basically you unlock your bootloader, root with Magisk, then install MagiskGApps.

DISCLAIMER: UNLOCKING YOUR BOOTLOADER MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY, AND DOING ALL THESE THINGS IN THIS GUIDE MAY RESULT IN DAMAGE/BRICKING YOUR PHONE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

1. Unlock the bootloader: that should be doable with their global bootloader unlock website here.
2. Download Lenovo Motoroa Smart Assistant (Rescue and Smart Assistant), and follow its instructions to "rescue" your device. It will lead you to boot into bootloader mode and download the firmware. Find the firmware file via the LMSA's downloads (should have a "show folder" button). You'll need the boot.img file for Magisk.
3. Download Magisk, then follow its instructions. You'll have to copy the boot.img to your device, then use Magisk to patch the boot file, then copy the modified one to your PC.
4. You'll need fastboot. If you don't have it already, you can download the Android SDK platform tools here. Then go into the folder, Shift+Right Click the folder, then "Open Command Prompt" or "Open PowerShell," you should have something close to one of those two. Copy your Magisk modified .img file to that folder, then you'll want to input:
fastboot flash boot [modified .img file]
Once that completes, you should see in large text, "Start" on your phone next to the power button. Press the power button, and it should boot, and you should have root now.
5. Download MagiskGApps to your phone, open Magisk on your phone, click the button that looks like a puzzle piece at the bottom of the screen, "Modules." Click "Install from storage," locate the MagiskGApps file, and install it. After that it will ask you to restart your phone, do that, then you'll just have to be patient as it takes time once its restarted to load everything. You also may need to update some or all of the apps, then you should be able to use the notification to finish setting up the phone with Google Setup.

Thanks to Motorola for making it easy to unlock their bootloaders
Thanks to the whole Magisk team for making an easy, awesome root (and more!)
Thanks to Wacko1805 (and team?) for making MagiskGApps. This is really mo

So you got the Edge S and want GApps? Basically you unlock your bootloader, root with Magisk, then install MagiskGApps.

DISCLAIMER: UNLOCKING YOUR BOOTLOADER MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY, AND DOING ALL THESE THINGS IN THIS GUIDE MAY RESULT IN DAMAGE/BRICKING YOUR PHONE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO TO YOUR PHONE. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

1. Unlock the bootloader: that should be doable with their global bootloader unlock website here.
2. Download Lenovo Motoroa Smart Assistant (Rescue and Smart Assistant), and follow its instructions to "rescue" your device. It will lead you to boot into bootloader mode and download the firmware. Find the firmware file via the LMSA's downloads (should have a "show folder" button). You'll need the boot.img file for Magisk.
3. Download Magisk, then follow its instructions. You'll have to copy the boot.img to your device, then use Magisk to patch the boot file, then copy the modified one to your PC.
4. You'll need fastboot. If you don't have it already, you can download the Android SDK platform tools here. Then go into the folder, Shift+Right Click the folder, then "Open Command Prompt" or "Open PowerShell," you should have something close to one of those two. Copy your Magisk modified .img file to that folder, then you'll want to input:
fastboot flash boot [modified .img file]
Once that completes, you should see in large text, "Start" on your phone next to the power button. Press the power button, and it should boot, and you should have root now.
5. Download MagiskGApps to your phone, open Magisk on your phone, click the button that looks like a puzzle piece at the bottom of the screen, "Modules." Click "Install from storage," locate the MagiskGApps file, and install it. After that it will ask you to restart your phone, do that, then you'll just have to be patient as it takes time once its restarted to load everything. You also may need to update some or all of the apps, then you should be able to use the notification to finish setting up the phone with Google Setup.

Thanks to Motorola for making it easy to unlock their bootloaders
Thanks to the whole Magisk team for making an easy, awesome root (and more!)
Thanks to Wacko1805 (and team?) for making MagiskGApps. This is really awesome.

Moto edge s android 12 its work ?

 

[moxtrom]

Moto edge s android 12 its work ?

Yes, it works.
Be careful, I actually bricked my phone trying the first version of the Android 12 firmware, had to use the nio_retcn blankflash to bring it back, luckily the blankflash is available now