Following the great success of the original Moto G, the best-seller for Motorola, the company has now released the 2nd generation of the phone. The Moto G is known for offering outstanding features and performance at an incredible price and this factor is the greatest reason behind its success.
The new Moto G brings exciting improvements over its predecessor and sports a 5.0-inch (720 x 1280) HD display, 1GB RAM, 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 Quad-core processor, microSD slot, 8MP primary and 2MP secondary camera and 2070 mAh battery. The phone comes with the latest Android 4.4.4 out of the box.
The Moto G 2014 is already available and if you have already got hold of it, bookmark this tutorial for future reference. Today, we’ll give a detailed guide about how you can restore Moto G 2014 to stock firmware and lock its bootloader in case you have already unlocked it. Suppose you have a rooted Moto G and you have also installed a custom recovery, you might get into a situation at some point of time when you’ll have to flash the official firmware to recover your phone. By installing the stock firmware, you can unroot your device and return to stock recovery.
Disclaimer
The method described below has been tested. However, we do not hold any responsibility for a happy ending in all cases. Just follow the guide carefully and at your own risk.
Getting Prepared
- Download the 2nd Gen. Moto G (XT1063 / XT1064 / XT1068 / XT1069) firmware from here.
- Download mini fastboot kit: mfastboot-v2.zip
- Download and install Motorola USB Drivers (alternate link) your computer.
- Enable USB Debugging on your Moto G 2014: go to Settings> About and tab Build version 7 times to unlock Developer options. The go to Settings> Developer options and enable USB Debugging.
- Backup your apps and data as flashing the firmware would wipe them all. Use these apps backup your data.
- Last but not the least, charge your phone to ensure at least 70% battery.
Restore Moto G 2014 to Stock
- Download the firmware file and extract it to a folder.
- Extract mfastboot-v2.zip and copy its content to the same folder where the extracted firmware files exist.
- Reboot your Moto G into the Bootloader Mode. You can do it using either of the methods given below:
- Turn off your phone and then press and hold the Volume Down + Power buttons simultaneously for a few seconds.
- Connect your Moto G to computer using the USB cable. Open the firmware folder where you have copied the mfastboot files. Launch a command window, type the following command and press the Enter key:
adb reboot-bootloader
- Now here is how to flash the stock firmware. Make sure the device is connected via USB cable and launch a command window from inside the firmware folder and type the following commands one by one:
mfastboot oem lock begin mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin mfastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img mfastboot flash logo logo.bin mfastboot flash boot boot.img mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3 mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin mfastboot erase modemst1 mfastboot erase modemst2 mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn mfastboot erase cache mfastboot erase userdata
- If you own the Indian Moto G 2014 XT1068, try the following command instead:
mfastboot.exe oem lock begin
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin mfastboot flash boot boot.img mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3 mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin mfastboot erase modemst1 mfastboot erase modemst2 mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn mfastboot erase cache mfastboot erase userdata
mfastboot oem lock
mfastboot reboot
- If you also want to lock your phone’s bootloader, type the following command and hit the Enter key:
mfastboot oem lock
- Finally, reboot your device by typing:
mfastboot reboot
- You Moto G will reboot now but if it is unable to pass the boot screen, try this: turn off the device, go to Bootloader mode, launch command window wipe cacahe and userdata by issuing these commands:
mfastboot erase cache mfastboot erase userdata
mfastboot reboot
- To relock the bootloader on your Moto G 2014, type the following command and hit the Enter key:
mfastboot oem lock
Wait till your phone boots up. Done! You have successfully restored your Moto G 2014 to stock!
So. what about locking the bootloader?
Use this command: mfastboot.exe oem lock
or “fastboot oem lock” if you are using Android SDK.
every time I type a command, the answer from the command promt is “fail”
then i rebooted and it was restored, but didn’t install the factory image…
can someone help me?
Do other adb and fastboot commands execute fine?
yes. booting, rebooting, unlocking bootloader… evertything works fine, except for flashing the images…
Have you downloaded the appropriate firmware file?
my bootloader was locked :/
I unlockeed it and everything worked. thanks for your help
🙂
please help me,,,after flashing the firmware my sim networks is disabled, what should I do now?
Flash it again. Can you see your phone’s IMEI by dialling *#06# ?
Also make sure to install the correct firmware.
Correction
When you download above firmware there are four ‘system.img_sparsechunk’
instead of 3. So continue as following and it will work otherwise one part is missed and you can’t go beyond boot logo
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
I have X1068 Moto G 2014 with unlocked bootloader.. I followed the above mentioned steps but got bootloop. I tried erasing cache and user data but when I reboot bootloader unlocked warning message comes but cannot boot into system. This goes as a loop continuously.. Please help
Correction
When you download above firmware there are four ‘system.img_sparsechunk’
instead of 3. So continue as following and it will work
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
yes but the bootloader will not lock
That need to be done from motorolla site.
No I mean that it will not relock the boot loader.
true
but you can change the boot logo. I did on my motorolla no more message about unlocked bootloader 😀
You can use ‘fastboot oem relock” for that.