Absurditas Demens

Collection of personal tips, documentation, and more.

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Android

Prerequisites

• Enable “Developer Options” by going into “Settings”, “About this phone”, and then tap on the “Build Number” field seven times
• Enable “USB Debugging” in “Developer Options” on the phone
• Enable “Allow OEM Unlock” in “Developer Options” on the phone
• Download Android Platform Tools
• If on Windows, download the Motorola USB Driver for Windows
  • Also called Motorola Device Manager

Backing up Your Phone

• To backup your phone, run “adb backup -apk -shared -all -system”
• To restore your phone, run “adb restore backup.ab”

References:

• GUIDE: Full Phone Backup without Unlock or Root

Unlocking the Moto E2 LTE XT1527 (surnia)

• Run “adb reboot bootloader”
• When the phone finishes entering fastboot, run “fastboot devices” to verify that it’s properly connect
• Run “fastboot oem get_unlock_data”
• Go to the Motorola Support Device Unlocking page, and enter the unlock data, then click the button to request an unlock code.
• Run “fastboot oem unlock ", using the unique key e-mailed to you from Motorola Support

References:

• Install LineageOS on surnia
• Android Platform Tools - easy way to get adb without downloading the whole SDK
• Motorola USB Driver for Windows
• Motorola Support Device Unlocking

Install TWRP Custom Recovery

• Now that the phone has completely re-initialized, re-enable “USB Debugging”, as before
• Download the Moto E LTE (surnia) twrp image from the twrp website
• Run “adb reboot bootloader”
• Run “fastboot devices” to make sure it’s still being discovered properly
• Run “fastboot flash recovery twrp-x.x.x-x-surnia.img”
• Reboot into recovery to verify installation

References:

• Install LineageOS on surnia

Install ROM

• Download the ROM image for installation, e.g. LineageOS, Cyanogenmod.
• Download the Google Apps package, if desired
• Push each downloaded zip to the sdcard: “adb push filename.zip /sdcard/”
• In recovery mode, select “Wipe”, then “Advanced Wipe”
  • Select “Cache”, “System”, and “Data” partitions to be wiped
• Back on the main menu of recovery mode, select “Install”
• Select the ROM zip
• Follow the prompts to install it
  • DO NOT REBOOT after installing ROM if you intend to install Gapps
• Repeat for any additional zips pushed to the sdcard
• Reboot into System - I opted not to install twrp app

References:

• Install LineageOS on surnia
• Install Cyanogenmod on surnia

Modems and Basebands

• Extract the zip file and, while booted into fastboot, run “2.flash.bat”

References:

• Download firmware

Kernels

• Recent Squid kernels (r19+) require Android 6.0+ ROMs
  • May require a modem update (r12+), too
• Use adb to push the zip to the sdcard
• Use twrp to install it

References:

• Squid Kernel for Moto E LTE (2015)

Remove Bootloader Unlocked Warning

• Download alternate boot logo
• Extract it into folder with fastboot.exe
• Reboot into bootloader with “adb reboot bootloader”
• Flash the new logo “fastboot flash logo logo.bin”
• Reboot “fastboot reboot”

References:

• Remove bootloader unlocked warning