Is there any Android gods here?
I have a (what I think is) bricked Motorola Moto X Style (XT1572 EU) that I am not able to do anything with.

I am actually willing to post it to someone that is able to fix it :)

@Linux is it brick bricked or can you hold down the power and volume button to load into the bootloader?

Ice done loads of android phone flashes/unlocks etc, what are the symptons?

Can you access recovery or fastboot? Either one means you're fine. Otherwise, yeah, you need an Android God 😂

Depends on the situation really. If it's OEM unlocked and recovery/bootloader are accessible (or even the prebootloader for that matter, you can just flash over the entire system using a TTL kind of method from there.. helped me revive a couple of MediaTek devices) it's usually doable. If it's a hardbrick like that previous Nexus 6P of mine on the other hand.. bloody fucking paperweight it is... I still can't really get over having lost that thing to faulty hardware 😐

Just one more time @haxk20

I used to develop for Moto X Style. Never bricked mine but there's a thread in General section of XDA. Many people did recover from the hard brick. You will need a SD card though.

@lxmcf

it loads into it yes, but the data partition is gone

@antarikshc

I do have an SD-card :)

@Haxk20

Alright,

I can boot into the bootloader and I can access it via fastboot.

I can load recovery (TWRP), but I can't flash any image because "Internal Storage" is shown as 0MB. I think that it is corrupt or something.

In official firmware there's a partition table file called gpt.bin
Have you tried flashing that?
>> fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
If it's successful, erase all the data with:
>> fastboot erase cache
>> fastboot erase userdata
>> fastboot erase customize

If all went good. Then I have a guide on XDA for XT1572 to flash official firmware.

Thanks for taking the time :)

I went into "wipe > advanced wipe" and added Dalvik, System, Data, Internal Storage and Cache to the wipe list

But I got this:

"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer.

Failed to mount '/data' (invalid argument)"

I also tried to "Repair File System" for the /data partition. But got this:

"/sbin/fsck.f2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p48 process ended with ERROR: 255

Unable to repair Data."

As you can see I am kinda stuck, and being a phone-noob I dont know where to start even :P

@antarikshc

I have flashed gpt.bin earlier with a supposed "official stock ROM", but I could'nt load anything besides the bootloader.

@Haxk20 that's cool man! I never had any Sony devices, but I used to develop for Moto X Style, and few LG devices back in ICS and JB days xD
Am retired from ROM development. More into app development right now.

Holy shit, PROGRESS!

I actually managed to format the partitions now. Keeping you guys updated

@Linux what error it is throwing for gpt.bin?

@antarikshc

No error at all. When I followed the official procedures given by Motorola it just fails without any error during the flashing process.

@Linux I had made this guide for my own reference on flashing stock firmware.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...

Hopefully it's just that TWRP doesn't recognize the /system partition then, or the system somehow royally shat itself. When something on the motherboard fails (such as the flash storage, or the CPU as was the case with my N6P) it's usually either getting a new motherboard, or if you're lucky to have one around, replace the faulty chip with one from a donor board. It really annoys me actually that those individual chips aren't sold by their manufacturers to consumers or even repair shops.. donor boards could be unreliable after all. But I digress.

In hindsight, probably it's a partition issue though because otherwise the recovery and bootloader would be nuked too. So I guess it's fine, just a matter of reflashing the system.

@Haxk20 only €50 for someone who's been pouring cola into it?! That's such a pain to clean up, I probably would've charged €100 for that, especially when they've been so stupid to plug it in while the cola was probably shorting significant portions of the board out.. idiot tax essentially.

Come to think of it actually, perhaps that type of users are the reason why most high voltage electronics are completely shut tight with glue and ultrasonic welds these days? Or Apple's custom screw heads for that matter.. perhaps they're on to something 🤔

I found an error.

This package supports bootloader(s): 0xA01C, 0xA042, 0xA048, 0xA04A, 0xA04C, 0xA04D; this device has bootloader 0xA052

Updated process ended with ERROR: 7

Error installing zip file '/external_sd/lineage-14.1-20181010-nightly-clark-signed.zip

that must be the issue

@antarikshc

Thanks for the link!

I checked the https://firmware.center/firmware/ but there is no firmware for XT1572 EU present :(

@Linux hashbang173 (current LOS maintainer) had put an assertion to prevent flashing ROMs to other bootloaders. For now, you can try my NucleaROM, which doesn't have any assertion. Or go to the LOS thread where HB173 had mentioned about this assertion in comments.

@Linux oh, the link isn't working for me either. You might wanna search in XDA threads for XT1572 EU firmware.

@antarikshc

Oh, you have your own ROM? I'll check that one out! :D

@Linux this doesn't have 7.0 firmware but has 6.0.1 for EU
https://drive.google.com/drive/...

@Haxk20

Yeah I need to find an older bootloader or something. Still looking

XDA-developer's website is a huge mess. And all ROM's are hosted on slow and throttled servers.

@antarikshc

Your NucleaRom actually seems to work!!!!!

I fucking LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!

@antarikshc

And Fdroid works too, perfect!

I am really happy now!

@Linux haha glad I could be of help.

How to fix: Use an iPhone.

@nikolatesla
It is like saying:
How to fix depression - kill yourself

No pls

@Linux 😂😂😂

Saw this post out of nowhere and now I remember that I have a dead Nexus tablet with me 🤔