Stock ROM/Firmware for Moto G4/G4 Plus: Step by Step Installation Guide

Have you bricked your Moto G4 or G4 plus? Are you reverting back to Stock ROM? Whatever the reason may be, Flashing a Stock ROM for Moto G4 Plus can solve many problems.

In this Post, You will find the Stock ROM/Firmware for Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus, All Necessary files you need and a Full Step by Step Guide to flash the Stock ROM.

Note: Flashing the Stock ROM on your Moto G4/G4 plus will Wipe everything on your Internal Storage and will remove the Root access. To Root again, Check out this Post.

You need:

• PC
• ADB and Fastboot Installed on PC
• Drivers for Moto G4 Plus
• Stock Firmware: Moto G4 and G4 Plus

How to flash Stock ROM for Moto G4/G4 Plus

Step 1: Install all drivers, Given in Download section

Step 2: Unlock the Bootloader (Only if you are downgrading, Upgrading the Firmware works on Locked devices)

Step 3: Flash the Stock ROM/Firmware using Fastboot

Here are the Steps in Detail

Step 1: Download and Install Drivers on your PC

Download ADB and Fastboot drivers and Install them.

Download Moto G4/G4 Plus drivers and install them.

Step 2: Unlock the bootloader

Enable USB Debugging and Allow OEM unlock by going into Developer options. Go to settings > About phone and then tap on “Build number” multiple times until you see “You are now a developer” popup

Open the Motorola Bootloader unlock website and click on “Next”. On the next screen, Sign in with your Google or Motorola account

Reboot to fastboot by turning off your phone and then pressing Volume Down and Power Key together

Connect the phone to your PC and open command window. Type this in cmd

fastboot oem get_unlock_data

It will give a code which you need to copy and paste it into the Data Scrub tool

Data scrub tool will give a new code, copy it and paste it in Motorola Unlock page which you just signed on to.

Click on “I agree” and then click on “Get unlock code”

You will receive an Unlock key

Now type the following code in the command window twice

fastboot oem unlock UNIQUE_KEY

Replace UNIQUE_KEY with the key you received on Motorola Unlock page. You will get a warning message on the first attempt just paste the same code again and it will unlock the bootloader of your device

Step 3: Flash the Stock ROM/Firmware using fastboot

Download the Stock ROM from Download section given above

Extract the zip file and Copy paste it into the adb folder which should be in C: drive

Open the command window in the adb and fastboot folder by Right click+Shift key and click on “Open command window”

Boot your phone into bootloader mode by typing adb reboot bootloader in the cmd/Powershell window

Copy and Paste this code into the command window

fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash dsp adspso.bin
fastboot flash oem oem.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize
fastboot erase clogo
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot

or use this script to automate the process.

That’s it, You have flashed the Stock ROM/Firmware for Moto G4 and G4 Plus

If you want to Re-lock the bootloader then use this code and then flash the ROM by the code given in above step

fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem lock
fastboot flash oem oem.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot oem lock

 

Source: XDA