How to Unbrick a Hard Bricked Moto G4 Plus (Full Guide)

In this tutorial, we show you how to unbrick a hard bricked Moto G4 Plus, if your computer can detect your G4 Plus as QualcommLoader or something like that in device manager. If your PC can detect your device, then this guide may help you give rebirth to a non-booting Moto G4 Plus (bricked or if it stuck in a bootloop/welcome screen). Check out the step-by-step guide given below.

Your Moto G4 Plus can be bricked for various reasons. For example, rooting, installing custom recovery, installing custom ROM or custom kernel, etc. are some of the reasons. And this guide let you know how to install stock firmware on a bricked Moto G4 Plus (code named Athene).

The below tutorial assume that you have knowledge on ADB, Fastboot, and how to issue fastboot commands. If you have followed the guide carefully, you can unbrick, unroot and restore stock firmware on your Moto G4 Plus (code named Athene).

There are few prerequisites for installing stock firmware on a hard bricked Moto G4 Plus. First, download all files given below and then follow the below guide. All credits go to XDA member siddhesh9146.

Prerequisites:

– Motorola driver installed on the PC (download)

– ADB and Fastboot driver setup (guide)

– Latest BlankFlash zip file (download)

– Latest Bootloader and GPT files (for firmware version NPJS25.93-14-8) (download)

– Stock firmware with June 2017 security patches (ATHENE_NPJS25.93-14-10_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip) (download)

How to Unbrick a Bricked Moto G4 Plus

1. Install Motorola driver and connect your Moto G4 Plus to your PC. Under Device Manger, your device should be detected as QualcommLoader or something like that.

2. Unzip the BlankFlash zip file you have downloaded and save the content inside the ADB installation directory.

3. Run ‘Blank-Flash.bat’ file. A command window will be open and it will flash some files to your phone. After few seconds, your Phone will reboot to Fastboot mode (First sign of life!)

4. Now, unzip the Bootloader and GPT files you have saved and save the content inside the ADB installation directory.

5. Inside ADB folder, open a command window (Press Shift key, right click and select ‘open command window here’ menu) and issue below commands.

fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader

Note: Once done, you will see the Fastboot mode on your screen. You are now ready to flash stock firmware on it, but you just can’t flash older ROM (cannot downgrade), otherwise will brick your device again.

6. Unzip the downloaded factory image and save all the content inside the ADB installation folder.

7. Open a command window inside the ADB folder and issue below commands one-by-one.

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 system system.img_sparsechunk.5
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
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

That’s it. You have now successfully unbrcked your Moto G4 Plus. All credits go to XDA member siddhesh9146. Leave your views in the comment section below (Source – XDA)