Radio & Bootloader zip - Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As the title says.
Does anybody have any updated Radio / bootloader zips that I can flash via TWRP ?
I have an old Moto E Condor and I can't get the phone to recognize the Sim so was wondering if updating the radio / bootloader would help ?
I'm running out of ideas.
I have tried Android 6 & 7 tried different Sims.
I'm not sure how I would find out if it's a hardware issue rather than software ?
Any ideas ?
Thanks

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Check this link for Radio file
https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=13877
I didn't got what bootloader you are talking about. But if you want latest twrp then check this link
https://dl.twrp.me/condor/twrp-3.1.0-0-condor.img.html

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Ankit_29 said:
Check this link for Radio file
https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=13877
I didn't got what bootloader you are talking about. But if you want latest twrp then check this link
https://dl.twrp.me/condor/twrp-3.1.0-0-condor.img.html
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Thanks mate.
I will give it a go

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I had the same problem with my condor ,but flashing the "radio files" didn't help the case ,it always failed in my case ,so the best advice I can give you is to not flash isolated radio files ,but to backup your data and flash stock ROM for your device,trust me it'll save you a lot of headache

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Akshay_92 said:
I had the same problem with my condor ,but flashing the "radio files" didn't help the case ,it always failed in my case ,so the best advice I can give you is to not flash isolated radio files ,but to backup your data and flash stock ROM for your device,trust me it'll save you a lot of headache
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Thanks for that info.
You say that you had the same problem? Have you sorted it out now ?
When you flashed the stock ROM
Did you have to do this via fastboot ??
Thanks again

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johnhux7 said:
Thanks for that info.
You say that you had the same problem? Have you sorted it out now ?
When you flashed the stock ROM
Did you have to do this via fastboot ??
Thanks again
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Yes,my device is good as new,I'm writing this message from it so haha...you can find the appropriate stock ROM to flash here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e/development/rom-stock-motorola-lollipop-rom-t3167111
If you don't know which ROM to download, got to your phones settings >about phone>build number
And download the specific ROM with that build number,now be absolutely sure to not flash a KitKat ROM on a device that was upgraded to lollipop earlier, its absolutely essential as it 100% will brick your device,
As for your question, yes you will need to be in fastboot to flash the ROM,and the program that you'll need to flash the ROM with is called mfastboot-v2 you can find it here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/rooting-roms/using-mfastboot-exe-to-unbrick-motorola-t3203518
Now after downloading both the ROM and mfastboot ,extract both of them into the same folder of your PC ,after doing that ,go into that folder and hold shift+right mouse key and select "open new command window here" from the dialogue box ,now assuming that you have downloaded the drivers for your phone , switch off your phone ,go into mfastboot mode by holding power key + volume down key for about 5-7seconds, now connect your phone to the PC with the help of USB cable and in the command window type "mfastboot devices" if everyw is done correctly it will show your device's name in an alphanumeric format under "list of devices" after that follow these commands in the ORDER! that they are written and you will be good to go :
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.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot.exe 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 reboot
NOTE:- number of sparsechunk files may be different for your version (check the files extracted from the ROM inside the same folder to see the order of numbers) so if the numbers are like 0,1,2,3,4 flash them in that order ,I have named it 1,2,3 in the command above for illustrations, good luck if you will do this correctly, you'll be back to a facotory version of your phone,with the imei problem fixed , another thing though, you'll lose your custom recovery so after you flash this stock ROM ,you'll have to flash the custom recovery again,
Cheers!!

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Akshay_92 said:
Yes,my device is good as new,I'm writing this message from it so haha...you can find the appropriate stock ROM to flash here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e/development/rom-stock-motorola-lollipop-rom-t3167111
If you don't know which ROM to download, got to your phones settings >about phone>build number
And download the specific ROM with that build number,now be absolutely sure to not flash a KitKat ROM on a device that was upgraded to lollipop earlier, its absolutely essential as it 100% will brick your device,
As for your question, yes you will need to be in fastboot to flash the ROM,and the program that you'll need to flash the ROM with is called mfastboot-v2 you can find it here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ge...ng-mfastboot-exe-to-unbrick-motorola-t3203518
Now after downloading both the ROM and mfastboot ,extract both of them into the same folder of your PC ,after doing that ,go into that folder and hold shift+right mouse key and select "open new command window here" from the dialogue box ,now assuming that you have downloaded the drivers for your phone , switch off your phone ,go into mfastboot mode by holding power key + volume down key for about 5-7seconds, now connect your phone to the PC with the help of USB cable and in the command window type "mfastboot devices" if everyw is done correctly it will show your device's name in an alphanumeric format under "list of devices" after that follow these commands in the ORDER! that they are written and you will be good to go :
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.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot.exe flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot.exe 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 reboot
NOTE:- number of sparsechunk files may be different for your version (check the files extracted from the ROM inside the same folder to see the order of numbers) so if the numbers are like 0,1,2,3,4 flash them in that order ,I have named it 1,2,3 in the command above for illustrations, good luck if you will do this correctly, you'll be back to a facotory version of your phone,with the imei problem fixed , another thing though, you'll lose your custom recovery so after you flash this stock ROM ,you'll have to flash the custom recovery again,
Cheers!!
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Thanks so much for taking the time to write this for me.
I'm new to using fastboot I got spoiled by using ODIN with Samsung whist I was learning.
Just one question.
Do you put in each of those commands and press enter after each one ?

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johnhux7 said:
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this for me.
I'm new to using fastboot I got spoiled by using ODIN with Samsung whist I was learning.
Just one question.
Do you put in each of those commands and press enter after each one ?
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Yes!!...And wait till it returns as [OKAY],then move ahead with the next one
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Yes!!...And wait till it returns as [OKAY],then move ahead with the next one ...It's alright man,we all are new to some stuff at one point,do let me know if you come into a hiccup
Cheers!
Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk
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Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

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Akshay_92 said:
Yes!!...And wait till it returns as [OKAY],then move ahead with the next one
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I though so.
Was just checking.
I'm going to have some fun doing this
Love learning some thing new
The Moto is my spare phone so I can practice on that before getting stuck into fastboot on my Honor 8

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johnhux7 said:
I though so.
Was just checking.
I'm going to have some fun doing this
Love learning some thing new
The Moto is my spare phone so I can practice on that before getting stuck into fastboot on my Honor 8
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[emoji1] yep absolutely,
Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

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Akshay_92 said:
[emoji1] yep absolutely,
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Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
It's what I love about this XDA community

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Few days ago, imei number on my brother's moto e xt1022 disappeared out of nowhere. Phone used to boot to working state but didn't accept any sim cards nor connect to WiFi. The bootloader was locked and phone was not rooted.
So I visited official motorala service centre. They "softwared" the phone (probably flashed stock firmware). After that, the imei no was replaced with new numbers. Bootloader was unlocked automatically. The phone booted once. But after I switched off to insert sim card and then tried to boot, its not getting past this screen. What should I do to restore the phone to its working condition? Please help.

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ramsut said:
Few days ago, imei number on my brother's moto e xt1022 disappeared out of nowhere. Phone used to boot to working state but didn't accept any sim cards nor connect to WiFi. The bootloader was locked and phone was not rooted.
So I visited official motorala service centre. They "softwared" the phone (probably flashed stock firmware). After that, the imei no was replaced with new numbers. Bootloader was unlocked automatically. The phone booted once. But after I switched off to insert sim card and then tried to boot, its not getting past this screen. What should I do to restore the phone to its working condition? Please help.
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Flash stock/custom ROM

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ramsut said:
Few days ago, imei number on my brother's moto e xt1022 disappeared out of nowhere. Phone used to boot to working state but didn't accept any sim cards nor connect to WiFi. The bootloader was locked and phone was not rooted.
So I visited official motorala service centre. They "softwared" the phone (probably flashed stock firmware). After that, the imei no was replaced with new numbers. Bootloader was unlocked automatically. The phone booted once. But after I switched off to insert sim card and then tried to boot, its not getting past this screen. What should I do to restore the phone to its working condition? Please help.
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Hmm....Well this is certainly not professional and quite unfortunate,on the part of the service center employees,but since I assume that it's no longer under warranty and they won't take back the Devi because it's unlocked now and also because they won't take responsibility for it ,the best you can do is flash stock ROM,I have explained that earlier in this thread ...
Cheers!! And let me know how it went
Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

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Akshay_92 said:
Hmm....Well this is certainly not professional and quite unfortunate,on the part of the service center employees,but since I assume that it's no longer under warranty and they won't take back the Devi because it's unlocked now and also because they won't take responsibility for it ,the best you can do is flash stock ROM,I have explained that earlier in this thread ...
Cheers!! And let me know how it went
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I got the SIM working.
Followed your instructions.
Got the phone back to stock
All good thanks for your help
John