I have the US Cellular version of the photon (electrify). I believe I upgraded to 2.3.5 but I don't fully remember, and proceeded to root. I however did not have my battery fully charged. As I was late to some print on the how-to-root page about keeping the battery at one hundred percent. So now my phone is stuck in Failed to Boot 1 when powered on. When power held with Vol up it goes to Fastboot and when held with Vol down it flashes then shuts back off. SO, my question is... do I need to unlock my bootloader or do I have to flash a stock sbf and all that jazz? Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated, including locations of any files or drivers I might need or just a simple point to a thread that will tell me everything I need to know.
I've just confirmed it is 2.3.5 locked bootloader stock everything but I did use the OTA update. Is that bad?
random_guy83 said:
I've just confirmed it is 2.3.5 locked bootloader stock everything but I did use the OTA update. Is that bad?
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Cant unlock bootlader
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Cant unlock bootlader
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Well I've brought the phone back to life using peetrs thread. Now does that mean I have to switch it to Sprint services like it says in his post In order to get it to run on prepaid? It works fine now but I cant get it into recovery or download mode. The screen gets stuck in fastboot protocol, so im assuming Ill have to flash his custom recovery and a sprint sbf radio in order to get Sprint prepaid?
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Well I've brought the phone back to life using peetrs thread. Now does that mean I have to switch it to Sprint services like it says in his post In order to get it to run on prepaid? It works fine now but I cant get it into recovery or download mode. The screen gets stuck in fastboot protocol, so im assuming Ill have to flash his custom recovery and a sprint sbf radio in order to get Sprint prepaid?
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You can just slip in an activated pre paid sim card and it should work. Sprint doesnt have prepaid, if you're trying to use sprint just flash the sprint radios. As far as not being able to get into recovery, what did you do prior?
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You can just slip in an activated pre paid sim card and it should work. Sprint doesnt have prepaid, if you're trying to use sprint just flash the sprint radios. As far as not being able to get into recovery, what did you do prior?
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I flashed the 1FF-Sunfire sbf for stock 2.3.5 and it rebooted the phone but peetr says that you have to add a bootstrap recovery and flash a sprint radio aswell as another rom but I dont need to do anything special to the phone I just had this one and decided to fix it. I thought sim card use was only for outside of the US? I know I can get it on a standard pre-paid plan but i'll have to find out monday if it will work, I mean when a dial a number into the phone it tell's me I need to purchase a pre-paid pin and it gives me different types of plans? My plan is just to go and get it on US cell pre-paid for 65 a month.
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I flashed the 1FF-Sunfire sbf for stock 2.3.5 and it rebooted the phone but peetr says that you have to add a bootstrap recovery and flash a sprint radio aswell as another rom but I dont need to do anything special to the phone I just had this one and decided to fix it. I thought sim card use was only for outside of the US? I know I can get it on a standard pre-paid plan but i'll have to find out monday if it will work, I mean when a dial a number into the phone it tell's me I need to purchase a pre-paid pin and it gives me different types of plans? My plan is just to go and get it on US cell pre-paid for 65 a month.
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Yeah the kddi radio allows the use of US prepaid. What number are you dialing
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Yeah the kddi radio allows the use of US prepaid. What number are you dialing
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I was just dialing random numbers.
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I'm about to purchase a carrier unlocked T-Mobile version of the hTC HD2 from eBay.com and I wanted to know if I happened to flash ROM with something different if it's going to somehow get rid of the "unlocked"ness.
I'm heading to South Korea next next weekend and I'll be using it there, so I just want to know if there were any problems with the phone and had to hard reset it; if the phone is going to return back to its original state where T-Mobile had it carrier locked.
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if it's going to somehow get rid of the "unlocked"ness.
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no, once unlocked, you cant lock it again, no matter what you flash.
Thanks. Is it possible to unlock the device myself?
no. only buy a code, or from original network.
I am trying to unroot my htc amaze from telus canada. I have followed the instructions using the all-in-one kit, and when I went to relock my bootloader, I got stuck in the fastboot screen, and when I tried to reboot, it kept getting me back to the same screen. I was able to unlock the bootloader again, and now when I try to access wi-fi, it says error under the wi-fi button in settings!
how do I fix this?
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I am trying to unroot my htc amaze from telus canada. I have followed the instructions using the all-in-one kit, and when I went to relock my bootloader, I got stuck in the fastboot screen, and when I tried to reboot, it kept getting me back to the same screen. I was able to unlock the bootloader again, and now when I try to access wi-fi, it says error under the wi-fi button in settings!
how do I fix this?
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If you have a back up, restore it, but your best call is to download the stock zip file, place it on your sd card root, rename it PH85IMG and boot into the bootloader, should ask you if you wanna update, just say yes and let it restore everything to stock, then relock the bootloader, though locking the bootloader isn't exactly necessary.
Ok, where do I find the stock rom? also, now when I slide the cirle to unlock my phone, a windows pops up saying sorry, HTC Sense has stopped unexpectedly, would you like to tell htc?
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Ok, where do I find the stock rom? also, now when I slide the cirle to unlock my phone, a windows pops up saying sorry, HTC Sense has stopped unexpectedly, would you like to tell htc?
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Here is the stock file: http://d-h.st/qah
After installing that, everything will be fine.
Thank you...will do after I nap. Just to make sure, what is the root dir?
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Thank you...will do after I nap. Just to make sure, what is the root dir?
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Just put it directly on the sd card, not in any folders, rename the file to PH85IMG.
Thanks for all the help. ok, so I have done that, and rebooted into bootloader. It shows a bar at the side that looks like it is installing somehing, or loading, then I reboot back to my phone, and I am still getting the same error.
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Thanks for all the help. ok, so I have done that, and rebooted into bootloader. It shows a bar at the side that looks like it is installing somehing, or loading, then I reboot back to my phone, and I am still getting the same error.
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After the bar loads it just goes back into the phone? No option to install update?
No, there is no option to install. It just goes back to the main fastboot screen. I changed it to a zip file, because it was an exe file, and it didn't see it. The reason I want to unroot is to update to ics!
*frustrated.
If Dark Nightmare gave you an RUU for T-Mobile then it won't work. Be sure its a Telus RUU. Otherwise you need to do a lot more leg work.
Edit...NVM he gave you the right link. Is you phone originally a Telus Phone?
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Lol I pay attention.
The question is, did you try the ICS leak by any chance?
Yes, it's a telus phone. I have not tried the ics yet, but that's what I want to install! Lol is there a link for the leaked ics?
Do you think it might be because I used Debloater and Debloater Remover? (was just following the instructions). no matter what I do, I keep getting that error.
Ok, so, I was able to fix that error that kept popping up!
Couple of quick questions before this one is locked up:
Do I need to re-root my phone, if I followed all those steps in the all in one tool kit?
And
Can someone post a link here on how I can install the latest version of ICS on my phone?
Thanks for all the help!
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Ok, so, I was able to fix that error that kept popping up!
Couple of quick questions before this one is locked up:
Do I need to re-root my phone, if I followed all those steps in the all in one tool kit?
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Can someone post a link here on how I can install the latest version of ICS on my phone?
Thanks for all the help!
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Unless you S-Off, there's no way you're upgrading to ICS until Telus release their version.
I am also a Telus Amaze user.
In this order, you need to:
1)Unlock your bootloader from HTCdev
2) Use Juopunutbear's S-off hack.
3) Flash the T-mobile RUU
4) Flash the ICS rom
5) Insert your SIM, connect to telus under mobile networks, and enter Telus' APN settings.
Be aware though, I can't seem to get MMS to send properly. Anyone have any ideas?
steamdnt said:
I am also a Telus Amaze user.
In this order, you need to:
1)Unlock your bootloader from HTCdev
2) Use Juopunutbear's S-off hack.
3) Flash the T-mobile RUU
4) Flash the ICS rom
5) Insert your SIM, connect to telus under mobile networks, and enter Telus' APN settings.
Be aware though, I can't seem to get MMS to send properly. Anyone have any ideas?
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Did you remember to supercid before flashing the tmobile rom? And check the apn settings thread for the apn settings just in case they were incorrect, though in my experience the carrier pushes the settings no matter what device you're using.
I did Super-Cid the device. At least, I wrote 11111111 to CID.
APN is also correct, I set it up manually and my data connection and texting work just fine.
Could this be at all related to Telus using HSPA, while the TMOUS rom only has options to select WCDMA or GSM?
Thanks for the info on installing ICS. I think I will do it once we find out how to get mms working.
Don't hold your breath on the T-mobile version. I'm waiting for the Telus OTA so I can rip it apart and figure out what is going on.
In addition, anyone know of any risks for the few of us Telus users that are running the TMOUS rom? It shouldn't detect Telus' OTA, right?
Tmo using HSPA+ as well, the network set ups are practically the same, Try checking your mms settings in the app itself.
I recently switched from AT&T to T-mobile. The phone however will not allow me to use t-mobile's sim card. The sim unlock code that ATT provided me does not work. I've called ATT and they can't figure it out.
Could the failure to unlock the sim have anything to do with these facts?
At one point I rooted the phone, but then an OTA update broke root
The Flixster app won't play anything because it sees an su binary which still exists but can't be used
Is there some sort of hack I can apply to SIM unlock my phone?
I've heard of considerable number of cases where the unlock code doesn't work because the phone was rooted, so that might very well be it.
I don't know what do you mean by "it broke root" because it seems at least some parts of are still present. If you have the "su" binary in the right directory and it has the right permissions, you can just install Superuser or SuperSU or any other superuser app from the market and you have a working root again. In which case you could also try unrooting (some SU apps support that) and try the unlock code again.
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I've heard of considerable number of cases where the unlock code doesn't work because the phone was rooted, so that might very well be it.
I don't know what do you mean by "it broke root" because it seems at least some parts of are still present. If you have the "su" binary in the right directory and it has the right permissions, you can just install Superuser or SuperSU or any other superuser app from the market and you have a working root again. In which case you could also try unrooting (some SU apps support that) and try the unlock code again.
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Thanks. Root checker says my phone is not rooted. Another checker app says everything is locked up, but the su binary does happen to still be around.
You are missing the point. Of course any tool out there will say it is not rooted. That is irrelevant.
I already suggested a course of action, you can either try it or not...
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You are missing the point. Of course any tool out there will say it is not rooted. That is irrelevant.
I already suggested a course of action, you can either try it or not...
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Yes, I am planning on trying it. I just haven't had time yet. I still wonder if there is a way to carrier-unlock the phone via hacking. I just don't know enough about it to even know what to google for. I will spend some more time searching the internet etc. I know rooting gives access to all files on the phone. I know rooting is different than bootloader unlocking, which allows you to put custom ROMs on. What I don't know, is if the carrier lock is something that is unlocked via bootloader unlock, or if it's something entirely different. Is carrier lock something that is actually outside the phone? Ie no matter how much phone hacking you do, you can't carrier unlock because the carrier lock is something that is actually on the network? Just trying to understand.
I see This a lot. It sounds like a crazy idea because we know entering in the wrong sim unlock code will lock up the phone. Recently I was unlocking a Nokia 920. Paid for the unlock got the code back tried entering it. Said it was wrong. Called blowfish unlocks(the company I use regularly) they told me to keep putting it in until it was supposed to lock up the phone. Believe me I didn't just jump up and do it. But in the end I said screw it. And kept entering it. In the end it unlocked. I'm not saying this is the case with your phone. Just that I've seen it happen.
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eddified, I had the same issue as you when I bought my Atrix off of eBay.
Took a while, but one option was flashing the Bell Canada radio and then unlocking. That worked. None of the ATT radios worked, but Bell did. This is the bell radio:
https://mega.co.nz/#!y1gljTbZ!SlCaNzO36Kh7SyQCB9SLEUHWgXcK8UXJYRh6Uxrykfo
If the unlock works, you can flash back to the ATT radio. You can find different versions all over these forums, but the bell one is a huge PITA to find, so enjoy the link and good luck!
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eddified, I had the same issue as you when I bought my Atrix off of eBay.
Took a while, but one option was flashing the Bell Canada radio and then unlocking. That worked. None of the ATT radios worked, but Bell did. This is the bell radio:
https://mega.co.nz/#!y1gljTbZ!SlCaNzO36Kh7SyQCB9SLEUHWgXcK8UXJYRh6Uxrykfo
If the unlock works, you can flash back to the ATT radio. You can find different versions all over these forums, but the bell one is a huge PITA to find, so enjoy the link and good luck!
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Thanks. Quick question, do I need to unlock the bootloader to flash a radio? I'm thinking no, but not sure.
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Thanks. Quick question, do I need to unlock the bootloader to flash a radio? I'm thinking no, but not sure.
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I honestly cannot recall. I want to say that I never did a thing to the phone until I had it unlocked, but I'm not sure. Best I can say is try it and you'll find out one way or another.
ah.. it's coming back to me now. I think I put a different radio on the phone awhile back. That's probably what's causing the unlock to not work.
hey tonglebeak, are you saying even though my phone is intended for the US, and the radio is for Bell Canada, I can use it to unlock even while in the US?
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hey tonglebeak, are you saying even though my phone is intended for the US, and the radio is for Bell Canada, I can use it to unlock even while in the US?
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Yes. I won't recommend staying on that radio, but that is what I had to do to get my ATT unlock code to work.
Bell Radio didn't work. Tried all kinds of radios. Nothing works.
Okay guys, here we go....
I bought a "unlocked" M8. I tried to update the HTC software immediately. However, it said I needed to revert to official HTC software. I went to HTC.com and support page. During the support chat, she got me to install an RUU that belong to ATT. My phone wasn't made for art, not did I have art service. Now, I cannot surf the web, watch YouTube, download apps or anything. I can't do any of those things with cellular data, as I was able to before this ATT RUU. I can only make calls with my m8. If I'm on Wi-Fi, then I can surf the web, download apps, etc.
So, my question is..... How do I get rid of this RUU ATT? I want start fresh where I didn't have att and all the bloatware. I was able to do stuff with my cellular data where I'm not able to now.... What's up guys?
I've been trying to learn, and I think I gotta start with ADB. and flash a recovery:? I dunno. Please help guys. I'ma call HTC at next available opportunity.
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Try factory reset
Yeah, I've tried that many times. I've erased the cache partition, done factory reset, etc. And I've rebooted to Fastboot USB MODE, hook it up to PC, and tried the other RUU. But it didn't work. I can't only make phone calls. I can't do anything else with the cellular service. What should I do? Start off by unlocking boot loader, right? With ADB. Or do I need to change ID numbers to match? Or should I use a custom recovery with adb?
Not enough info. Do a fastboot getvar all, and post the output. Be sure to delete IMEI and serial number, as these are personal info.
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tried the other RUU. But it didn't work.
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Meaning what? What RUU did you try (exact file name) and what was the result? Was there an error code, if so what did it say?
You need to be much more specific if you want proper help.
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Or do I need to change ID numbers to match?
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How can we know that, if you haven't told us the device's CID or MID in the first place, or the RUU (other than ATT) you tried to run?
If you installed an ATT RUU, and don't use ATT as your carrier, you will need to manually enter your carrier's APN info to get internet. That is probably your main problem as far as getting cell internet service.
I recently found a repository containing stock fastboot flashable firmware for pretty much every single Moto E variant out there (except Sprint XT1526, much to my dismay). I have a Sprint XT1526 which has its bootloader unlocked. I was reading about a US Cellular variant of the XT1526 and how it is network unlocked for domestic GSM/CDMA usage. Since the Sprint variant isn't unlocked domestically, and since both are the XT1526 model, I figured I'd try to flash US Cellular stock firmware through fastboot to see if it worked.
I tried both the 5.0.2 and 5.1 images from USC and both gave me the same results: everything flashed and booted fine, but the Baseband is still listed as being Sprint. The firmware packages include a modem for me to flash (called NON-HLOS.bin I believe), but even after flashing this US Cellular modem along with the rest of the files I just can't get the baseband to switch from Sprint to US Cellular.
Any help on how to get the Baseband switched from Sprint to US Cellular so I can use my T-Mobile SIM in this thing? There is a modem file in the stock firmware but there isn't a radio file. Is this the problem? I thought the modem was the same thing as the baseband, not the radio? But if I am missing a radio file is there any way I can get a US Cellular one?
P.S. I'm not sure if this is a bad sign like something broke after I tried to flash the wrong firmware or if it always did this, but now when I insert my T-Mobile SIM it isn't detected at all. It thinks I don't even have a SIM inserted when I actually do (yes, I checked to make sure it was inserted the right way)
EDIT: Did research on my own and it turns out I'm actually missing a radio file; just a modem isn't enough. Since there doesn't seem to be a place I can find a prepackaged radio, is there any way someone with a US Cellular variant could "extract" a radio image for me to flash?
EDIT2: Apparently the fsb and NON-HLOS images were all I needed all along, but flashing those like I did still didn't help. Looks like this just isn't going to work.
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I recently found a repository containing stock fastboot flashable firmware for pretty much every single Moto E variant out there (except Sprint XT1526, much to my dismay). I have a Sprint XT1526 which has its bootloader unlocked. I was reading about a US Cellular variant of the XT1526 and how it is network unlocked for domestic GSM/CDMA usage. Since the Sprint variant isn't unlocked domestically, and since both are the XT1526 model, I figured I'd try to flash US Cellular stock firmware through fastboot to see if it worked.
I tried both the 5.0.2 and 5.1 images from USC and both gave me the same results: everything flashed and booted fine, but the Baseband is still listed as being Sprint. The firmware packages include a modem for me to flash (called NON-HLOS.bin I believe), but even after flashing this US Cellular modem along with the rest of the files I just can't get the baseband to switch from Sprint to US Cellular.
Any help on how to get the Baseband switched from Sprint to US Cellular so I can use my T-Mobile SIM in this thing? There is a modem file in the stock firmware but there isn't a radio file. Is this the problem? I thought the modem was the same thing as the baseband, not the radio? But if I am missing a radio file is there any way I can get a US Cellular one?
P.S. I'm not sure if this is a bad sign like something broke after I tried to flash the wrong firmware or if it always did this, but now when I insert my T-Mobile SIM it isn't detected at all. It thinks I don't even have a SIM inserted when I actually do (yes, I checked to make sure it was inserted the right way)
EDIT: Did research on my own and it turns out I'm actually missing a radio file; just a modem isn't enough. Since there doesn't seem to be a place I can find a prepackaged radio, is there any way someone with a US Cellular variant could "extract" a radio image for me to flash?
EDIT2: Apparently the fsb and NON-HLOS images were all I needed all along, but flashing those like I did still didn't help. Looks like this just isn't going to work.
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This had been poked at quite a but in the past with no success...
Good luck
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This had been poked at quite a but in the past with no success...
Good luck
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I think I'm gonna throw in the towel now. I believe I know the problem: its not that I don't have the right files to change the radio/baseband, its that fastboot is still in secure mode (even though my bootloader is unlocked) which prevents me from flashing certain images like bootloaders, partition tables, and radios. If someone were to either leak an insecure bootloader firmware package or compile their own, then baseband switching would be as easy as flashing these files.
I now have an XT1526 with a dead SIM slot, but its not like I was using it anyway so I guess there's no loss
@jasonmerc your phone's SIM card slot isn't bricked... it's just still domestically locked, so it will show that error when trying to use a non-Sprint domestic sim...
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@jasonmerc your phone's SIM card slot isn't bricked... it's just still domestically locked, so it will show that error when trying to use a non-Sprint domestic sim...
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I guess each variant is different then. Back when I had my Verizon one (before I did the SIM unlock) if I put in my SIM it wouldn't say I was missing a SIM card, it just said the SIM was not recognized/not valid
@jasonmerc Did you ever try flashing to the USC bootloader before trying a modem flash? I was thinking maybe the bootloader is the key to all this... but it's the highest risk flash
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@jasonmerc Did you ever try flashing to the USC bootloader before trying a modem flash? I was thinking maybe the bootloader is the key to all this... but it's the highest risk flash
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Yeah I tried that but nothing happened. I was speaking with squid2 over PM about this, apparently on more modern phones a bootloader unlock doesn't guarantee you FULL access to every partition to change. The partition I'd need to alter to make it work, namely the ones that have to do with GPT, bootloader and modem, are part of this "restricted area" that you can't alter.
The only way we could alter the partitions needed to make this work is to obtain leaked engineering firmware for the XT1526, which when flashed gives you 100% full access to every partition. Leaked firmware is hard to come by, and I doubt Motorola would just hand it over if we asked them
EDIT: I notice in your signature you have something about a modified ROM intended for GSM usage on your Sprint Moto E. Does this ROM somehow enable GSM for domestic use or is that for non-USA GSM?
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EDIT: I notice in your signature you have something about a modified ROM intended for GSM usage on your Sprint Moto E. Does this ROM somehow enable GSM for domestic use or is that for non-USA GSM?
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I flashed an XT1527 6.0 stock system.img and boot.img directly on the Sprint XT1526, and made some modifications myself to make it work with Sprint (through build.prop mods) and have been using it that way since.
It will still only accept a Sprint SIM though...
That's too bad changing out the bootloader didn't help