Unroot Moto G and Return to Box Fresh State (Guide)

January 22, 2014

Recently we published a guide on how to root your Motorola Moto G on any firmware. Root access on Moto G gives immense opportunities for tech-savvy users. They can add missing features, apply various tweaks and changes that the manufacturer sees to make, flash custom ROMs and more, however, if you run into problems with the rooted Moto G and want to unroot and return back to the stock firmware, here is how it is.

Unrooting Moto G and installing stock firmware will remove all tweaks and changes you have made on it and return it to box fresh state. Also, keep in mind that, the process will erase all data from your device, so be sure to back up your data (contacts, sms, apps, etc.) using apps like Titanium backup before proceeding.

Moto G

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide at your own risk. We can’t take responsibility for anything that goes wrong. This guide is intended for technically talented users only

Pre-requisites:

1. Motorola drivers installed on your PC (download Motorola Device Manager for driver from here)
2. Moto G stock firmware (download from here)
3. Fastboot file for Moto G (download from this link)
4. Minimal ADB and fastboot driver (download from this link)

Unrooting and Installing Stock firmware on Moto G

1. Install Motorola Device manager on your computer (for diver).

2. Install Minimal ADB and fastboot driver you have downloaded earlier on your PC (if adb not installed).

3. Extract the downloaded stock firmware and fastboot into a folder on your desktop (extract fastboot to the same folder)

4. Enable USB debugging mode on your phone from developer option. To do so, got to Settings -> About Phone and tap 7 times on the build number to get developer option.

5. Connect Moto G to your PC via original USB cable.

6. Run Minimal ADB and fastboot you downloaded earlier and type the below code:

adb reboot-bootloader

This will reboot your device into bootloader mode

7. Open the folder (where you extracted the firmware and fastboot file) and open a command prompt there. To do so, hold down shift key, then right click using mouse and select “Open command window here“.

8. Now, enter the following commands into the command prompt one by one:

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 flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1 mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2 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

Your Moto G will reboot after the process is completed. Now your device is unrooted and back to the stock firmware.