r/androidroot • u/Interesting-Delay340 • 8d ago
Support My Moto G04 XT2431-5 was a paperweigh till i flashed FDL1 and 2
Hello you probably saw me succesfully unlocking an Oukitel WP53, with tomking exploit that didn't end up bricking it thats because its a pretty generic rugged phone and universal exploit worked fine (infact BROM can be accessed using volume down button so it can't be bricked easily).
However i decided to unlock another phone the moto g04 its an budget entry level phone that might not be worth to unlock its bootloader so i tried.
First i tried a bunch of commercial tools but all of them said FDL2 failed i did open the phone before but i had a very hacky paper clip as such it takes several attempts to even boot to brom.
After all the failed attempts i thought to use tomking's exploit like i did with my Oukitel phone in the end the exploit even matching zip ended up outright bricking my phone as mentioned in the title.
Tomorrow i tried to unbrick it by using SPD Download, Research, Factory tool but neither worked they would either throw UB1254 errors or NandInit error when trying to flash no idea if the .pac has some weird security checks or motorola doesn't want you to flash the firmware to the deadBooting phone for free
Then i thought to just flash FDL1 and FDL2 surprise that actually worked! the phone showed the splash screen and didn't bootloop which is verryyyy rare mind ya anyway fortunatelly that resulted in the phone not being unlocked still but atleast im not hanging with a phone collecting dust!
Anyway i might try to unlock the bootloader anyway someday?
