XT1034 Won't boot after re-flashing stock firmware

[tapman]

Ok guys I'm stumped on this one. I got the OTA notification for 5.1 yesterday on my XT1034 and so I decided to preempt any issues I might have and just flash everything back to stock 5.0.2 in order to install the update.

I was able to flash everything fine then went to reboot, got the unlocked bootloader screen and...... nothing. It just stayed on the unlocked bootloader screen. I figured I did something wrong so I reset back to fastboot mode, tried again and sure enough I missed sparsechunk 3. So I tried again, restarted, and.... same thing.

OK then, reset again and reboot into recovery mode. It booted to the Motorola splash screen, ok this is different..... nope still not loading. Reset again and try flashing a custom recovery.
CWM, flashed ok, reset again, Moto splash
TWRP, flashed ok, reset, Moto splash
Philz, flashed, reset, splash

OK.. so I'm clearly doing something wrong. Did some research and tried:
- formatting the cache and userdata partitions
> cache formatted fine, userdata refused to format, not supported for filesystem type 'raw'
- tried flashing again without erasing the partitions
> flashed fine, no change in booting
- tried flashing back to 4.4.4
> flashed fine, no change in booting
- tried flashing all the custom recoveries with 4.4.4, no change
- I found a thread where someone else had a somewhat similar issue, and apparently resolved by unlocking their bootloader
> mines already unlocked, but sure it can't hurt, tried again, but nothing since it's already unlocked

I looked for anyone that had a stock 5.1 image other than the OTA, but couldn't find anything. I gave up on trying stock and looked at some custom roms, but all of them just start with, unlock your bootloader, load a custom recovery and flash the update zip file.

Soooo I'm stumped. I've tried just about everything I can think of. I made backups of everything so I'm not worried about the data I just want a working phone again. I refuse to accept that it's borked at this point since I can still get to fastboot.

 

[tapman]

OK so, no clue what changed, but I was finally able to boot into recovery, Philz
I wiped and reformatted everything and tried flashing 5.0.2 again
rebooted and it still hung on the bootloader unlocked screen
I'll try flashing Philz again and updating through there

 

[tapman]

Captains log, startdate much too late oh clock

I reflashed Philz and wiped everything again, then sidloaded CM 12.

I'm just thankful to have a working phone again so I'll go with this for now.

 

[moralesnery]

Captains log, startdate much too late oh clock

I reflashed Philz and wiped everything again, then sidloaded CM 12.

I'm just thankful to have a working phone again so I'll go with this for now.

Have you tried installing the stock firmware again?
I'm having exactly the same problem, any recovery says it succeeded flashing but when i try to boot it, it goes to stock motorola recovery.

 

[moso11]

Sorry for being off-topic but what are requirements of receiving OTA?
Stock ROM, stock recovery and a locked or unlocked bootloader?

 

[tapman]

Sorry for being off-topic but what are requirements of receiving OTA?
Stock ROM, stock recovery and a locked or unlocked bootloader?

My experience is that you need to be unrooted, unmodified system partition and stock recovery

It's usually much easier to reflash a stock image and update than trying to unroot, uninstall, xposed tweaks, restore original build.prop settings, restore original hosts file, etc

 

[tapman]

Have you tried installing the stock firmware again?
I'm having exactly the same problem, any recovery says it succeeded flashing but when i try to boot it, it goes to stock motorola recovery.

I haven't tried reflashing the stock again over CM12, but I was able to find a link for stock 5.1 image, you can try going straight there skipping this whole pain.

Here's a link, you can also find it on the stock firmware sticky post that I can't seem to find anymore
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347819474

 

[moralesnery]

I haven't tried reflashing the stock again over CM12, but I was able to find a link for stock 5.1 image, you can try going straight there skipping this whole pain.

Here's a link, you can also find it on the stock firmware sticky post that I can't seem to find anymore
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347819474

Already tried to flash the full firmware again without luck, after rebooting the phone gets stuck at the Unlocked bootloader warning.
Thanks for the link.

 

[moso11]

My experience is that you need to be unrooted, unmodified system partition and stock recovery

It's usually much easier to reflash a stock image and update than trying to unroot, uninstall, xposed tweaks, restore original build.prop settings, restore original hosts file, etc

Yeah, I'll reflash stock firmware.
Just wanna confirm about bootloader.

 

[tapman]

Yeah, I'll reflash stock firmware.
Just wanna confirm about bootloader.

Yeah unlocking your bl doesn't affect ota's

 

[tapman]

Already tried to flash the full firmware again without luck, after rebooting the phone gets stuck at the Unlocked bootloader warning.
Thanks for the link.

I think at least in part what my issue was, was that the partition formatting got borked. If you can boot to a custom recovery you can wipe and reformat them. Then you should be able to reflash it normally.

I was just so tired of dealing with my phone at that point so I only tried once and gave up with stock, but I'm pretty sure that's what I need to do to fix it.