If you are a moto G LTE owner or have any relevant information, please reply! Let's get this discussion started, please!
The phone still needs TWRP and CWM to create custom recoveries that will work on it. The recoveries for the Moto G will not work. If anyone knows someone at either one of those groups, it would be greatly appreciated if you could mention to them that custom recoveries need to be created for the XT1045.
Ok so i looked into this all cuz someone pm'd me. Download these: http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/xt1032/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.1-xt1032.img http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU (put this on yourphone) Unlock your bootloader via moto site. fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.1-xt1032.img Once in recovery flash the supersu zip and youll be rooted. credits for this info came from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53313307 where it came from originally i dont know. This will give you root, but not recovery, chances are the dtb files are mismatched and prevents flashing, once you have root someone can dump recovery and then CWM/TWRP can be ported
Thank you! Another Xda member also got root using this method! :thumbup: [Q] Rooting Moto G LTE - Post #10 - XDA Here is a dump of the stock recovery. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53409014&postcount=1
Thanks for the info Shabby. I have not tried this yet but have heard from several people that have and it did work. I have been told that you must do this from a Windows or Linux PC. Mac's will not work. Just to clarify the instructions...... The "openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.1-xt1032.img" file should either be in the same directory that fastboot resides in on your PC or in another directory that is in the path. If you do not understand what I mean by a directory being in the path, just put it in the same directory that fastboot is in.
Just rooted my phone using the method Shabby listed above. It worked perfectly. Just keep in mind that this method simply installs the files needed for SU access and it does not replace the stock recovery. This should not be a big deal right now since there are not any custom ROM's for this phone yet and the ability to flash custom ROM's is what a custom recovery brings to the party. Having the phone rooted will give you many more options even if you can't flash a ROM yet. You can install the Xposed framework and then chose to do some really cool things with individual Xposed modules. You can install an app like Titanium Backup and sleep better at night knowing your phone is being backed up regularly. If you are an audio nut like me, you can install viper4android and once again your expensive earbuds will have a device that can serve up sound worthy of the price you paid for them (this alone is a "must root" reason). Remember to install Busybox from the Play Store as well. For those of you that want or need a little more command clarification, I am listing the commands I did from a command prompt on my Windows PC after I had attached my phone to the PC via it's USB cable (remember to have USB debugging checked in the developer options). The actual commands listed below that I entered at a command prompt are between the quotes " ". Do not include the quotes when you enter these commands on your computer. 1- "adb devices" (Use this command to ensure your phone is being properly recognized by the computer. It should return something like TA95000WAX device. If it says unauthorized instead of device, look at your phones screen. There should be a popup asking if you want to authorize that computer. 2- "adb reboot bootloader" (this command will reboot your phone into bootloader mode and you will see the stock recovery displayed on your phones screen) 3 - "fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.1-xt1032.img" (this command will load the TWRP recovery as if it is actually running on your phone and you will see TWRP's recovery displayed on your phones screen. Those are the commands you need to enter at your PC's command prompt. Once the TWRP recovery is displayed on your phones screen, you can then select install and browse to where you had copied Shabby's Update-SuperSU zip file on your phone and then flash that file. Once the file flashes successfully you can then select the reboot to system option from TWRP and disconnect your phone from your computer. That is it....you are now rooted. - Anthony
thats a bad copy, its not unpacking. adb shell su dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/recovery.img that will give me a recovery i should be able to work my magic with and get a basic cwm working and go from there. dhacker was the one pushing for all the moto devices but it seems he is busy on the nokia x and moto e. seems this device has fallen through the cracks
Shabby, I just pulled a copy of the stock recovery off of my phone and put it up in my Dropbox at the link below. See if you have better luck with this copy. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47843318/recovery.img
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So who is my victim... err i mean tester? https://mega.co.nz/#!wM5HAZIQ!R_B_rOviLiUwv_MJeTt5izQkxKwbaGoffsqTQEUtPWA
I'll guinea pig for ya seeing as I don't believe this phone will hardbrick or at least I haven't been able to hardbrick the non LTE model no matter how hard I tried
Thanks ill try twrp here in a few more tests, they have cwm working on the nonlte while twrp requires a lot more work and can have all sorts of issues clear out of teh blue. the last moto phone i had was a tegra 2 2.3 device so im not up to date on all how they work etc so it may take a bunch of tries obviously would be a lot faster if some of the dudes who had the original g and did the work, but for now all you got is me the good thing is with sdcard slot you guys can get a unbrick image and never really brick
https://mega.co.nz/#!wABBnILD!PorHT82k39D8KUDiCLDhaY5GfP4dSoW7GdQqETsgyVo test #2 lemme know how it goes, ill try out twrp tomorrow. tonight its GoT
https://mega.co.nz/#!4AgRERzL!sx56Gl4BkwrFVejSQHaC-fOfPyEpJC-e0Oo1dDrIYeg sorry apparently im stupid and cant read, kept editing teh wrong boardconfig so test 1/2 was exactly the same. hopefully this fixes that
so apparently mismatched size error is nothing more than saying that cwm is smaller than stock. try booting into recovery also, here is a test twrp build https://mega.co.nz/#!AIIzRbiR!VtltgcF8sBRdN8R9CuluSkg_WltNpdR6lb6HSo74sTo
