Hey all! First of all, I hope this is the right board.
A while ago I got a Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016), model SM-T858, the one with LTE, and yesterday I tried to charge it, but it didn't want to charge, at all, it looked like the charger was not working, so I left it alone and went to do other stuff, when I came back, the battery was at 30%, the screen was totally black (No battery indicator), and it let me turn it on. But it still said that it wasn't charging, tried connecting it to a few different PCs, nothing, recovery, nothing, it wasn't being detected, BUT it gets detected in ODIN/Download mode. Anyway, I tried using a "Adaptive fast charging" Samsung AC plug (Supposedly the one that came with the tablet), and it wouldn't charge.
After that I just left it like that, and went to Root it, I first installed TWRP from the official website, it worked. I rebooted into recovery, still not working, but in TWRP's file manager I can see a "charger" file in the root of the nand, not in /system/, not in /etc/, just laying there in the root. It seems to be a binary file, could this be the cause the tablet is not charging/being detected by computers.
Thanks. Th3F4ult.
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Hey all! First of all, I hope this is the right board.
A while ago I got a Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016), model SM-T858, the one with LTE, and yesterday I tried to charge it, but it didn't want to charge, at all, it looked like the charger was not working, so I left it alone and went to do other stuff, when I came back, the battery was at 30%, the screen was totally black (No battery indicator), and it let me turn it on. But it still said that it wasn't charging, tried connecting it to a few different PCs, nothing, recovery, nothing, it wasn't being detected, BUT it gets detected in ODIN/Download mode. Anyway, I tried using a "Adaptive fast charging" Samsung AC plug (Supposedly the one that came with the tablet), and it wouldn't charge.
After that I just left it like that, and went to Root it, I first installed TWRP from the official website, it worked. I rebooted into recovery, still not working, but in TWRP's file manager I can see a "charger" file in the root of the nand, not in /system/, not in /etc/, just laying there in the root. It seems to be a binary file, could this be the cause the tablet is not charging/being detected by computers.
Thanks. Th3F4ult.
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Flash the tablet with 4-file firmware. You will read the firmware version thanks to twrp, in the /system/build.prop file, after mounting the system partition.
ze7zez said:
Flash the tablet with 4-file firmware. You will read the firmware version thanks to twrp, in the /system/build.prop file, after mounting the system partition.
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I've already flashed it with the stock rom, the 4 files, BL, AP, CP and CSC (Tried both, CSC and HOME_CSC), tried the roms from a few different carrier.
Clean/blow the USB socket and try on other usb cables.
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Ok, I have the sgh-i337m, found a nifty lollipop rom and downloaded and flashed it, everything's good. On that rom in the settings>about section, it said the model number was the i9505g, and I just assumed they were basically the same phone. I decided I wanted to try MIUI again, and looked on their site. I couldn't find one for the i337m, so i downloaded the i9505 version. Flashed it and whatnot, and it gets stuck on the booting animation. I thought okay no big deal, and tried restoring my lollipop rom. The restore looked like everything went well (the lollipop boot animation was playing), but it never booted up. I left it for hours. I thought ok time to cut my losses and downloaded a stock sasktel i337m firmware and fired up odin and download mode, and it isnt showing up on odin now and i'm realizing im an idiot. Also, it says 'Write Protection: Enabled' while in download mode, if that means anything. Anyone had this issue? Please tell me my phone isn't dead just yet. If you have any other questions about it, just ask, I'll be sitting at home all day bashing my head on my phone until it boots up.
It's not dead. You just need Odin to recognize it. Try different usb cables and ports. Use the ports in the back of your pc. Also 2.0 not 3.0
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Hello friend, I followed your advice and I just kept trying random ports (unfortunately, I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer, only 3.0), and it eventually showed up in Odin, I don't know how I forgot to try different ports, but thank you. I flashed the firmware, but it still looks like it isnt booting. It's showing the stock samsung boot animation, and sitting there with the blue LED on, I know it should take a while on the first boot, but i've given her a good 5ish minutes. I'll post again if she doesnt boot after 10-15 minutes.
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It's not dead. You just need Odin to recognize it. Try different usb cables and ports. Use the ports in the back of your pc. Also 2.0 not 3.0
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Still doesn't seem to be working following the Odin flash. If it matters, I flashed the I337MVLUFNI2_I337MOYAFNI2_I337MVLUFNI2_HOME.tar.md5 file.
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Hello friend, I followed your advice and I just kept trying random ports (unfortunately, I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer, only 3.0), and it eventually showed up in Odin, I don't know how I forgot to try different ports, but thank you. I flashed the firmware, but it still looks like it isnt booting. It's showing the stock samsung boot animation, and sitting there with the blue LED on, I know it should take a while on the first boot, but i've given her a good 5ish minutes. I'll post again if she doesnt boot after 10-15 minutes.
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Boot into recovery and do a factory reset. That should get you past the bootloop
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Hi folks,
So, after little usage due to instability caused by the Lollipop upgrade I hadn't used the TN7 in a while. Yesterday I thought I'd have a go at reconditioning it.
Background: The bootloader has been unlocked, recovery was TWRP, I'd flashed and reflashed stock ROMs of KitKat and Lollipop several times previously. The main problem in Lollipop was that whilst the SD card files were showing up fine in FS Explorer, I couldn't see any of my files or folders when looking at local storage. Also, Google Play Services refused to update (or install using an APK).
Yesterday I grabbed the factory ROM from the nVidia site to do a full factory install and reset. I followed the instructions, flashing the recovery, boot, system, userdata, staging blob and dtb in that order. I then rebooted and...nothing. No power (or so it appears), no boot screen, no ability to get back into the bootloader, nada, zilch. When I read back through the flash commands I noticed that the final part of flashing the system image failed, which could well be the cause - I should have paid more attention.
I've searched all over and tried multiple options to get the TN7 to boot or show some signs of life. I don't even get an LED showing when plugged into a wall socket to charge.
The device doesn't show in fastboot or adb on the Mac. I did however get a small sign of life from Windows. If I hold down the power button for around 10 secs and let go, I can hear the Windows chime of a device connecting, immediately followed by a disconnect sound, the Device Manager updates but shows nothing new.
So my question is: have I completely screwed the pooch, or is there something that can be done to resurrect it?
Cheers for reading,
Gray
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Hi folks,
So, after little usage due to instability caused by the Lollipop upgrade I hadn't used the TN7 in a while. Yesterday I thought I'd have a go at reconditioning it.
Background: The bootloader has been unlocked, recovery was TWRP, I'd flashed and reflashed stock ROMs of KitKat and Lollipop several times previously. The main problem in Lollipop was that whilst the SD card files were showing up fine in FS Explorer, I couldn't see any of my files or folders when looking at local storage. Also, Google Play Services refused to update (or install using an APK).
Yesterday I grabbed the factory ROM from the nVidia site to do a full factory install and reset. I followed the instructions, flashing the recovery, boot, system, userdata, staging blob and dtb in that order. I then rebooted and...nothing. No power (or so it appears), no boot screen, no ability to get back into the bootloader, nada, zilch. When I read back through the flash commands I noticed that the final part of flashing the system image failed, which could well be the cause - I should have paid more attention.
I've searched all over and tried multiple options to get the TN7 to boot or show some signs of life. I don't even get an LED showing when plugged into a wall socket to charge.
The device doesn't show in fastboot or adb on the Mac. I did however get a small sign of life from Windows. If I hold down the power button for around 10 secs and let go, I can hear the Windows chime of a device connecting, immediately followed by a disconnect sound, the Device Manager updates but shows nothing new.
So my question is: have I completely screwed the pooch, or is there something that can be done to resurrect it?
Cheers for reading,
Gray
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Hi,
It can be fixed via apx mode.
Download drivers and switch to apx mode.
Follow instructions http://mobileviandroid.blogspot.in/2015/07/nvidia-tegra-note-7-apx-images.html?m=1
Remember to change your device serial number as mentioned in instructions.
I also faced the same problem as you are facing now. It fixed. If you need any help further just post. God bless. Hope it helps
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Hi,
It can be fixed via apx mode.
Download drivers and switch to apx mode.
Follow instructions http://mobileviandroid.blogspot.in/2015/07/nvidia-tegra-note-7-apx-images.html?m=1
Remember to change your device serial number as mentioned in instructions.
I also faced the same problem as you are facing now. It fixed. If you need any help further just post. God bless. Hope it helps
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Lol that site ripped my Tutorial! how nice of them, You should of linked the person to https://forum.xda-developers.com/nvidia-tegra-note-7/general/nvidia-tegra-note-7-apx-images-t3149839
Hi guys. So I managed to locate what looks like the only mod out there for a G360G. A CF-Auto-Root image!
I downloaded the root mod and used Odin to successfully flash the images to my phone. I pulled the USB cable out and let it be. It vibrated a few times and I heard the message sound a while later. I plugged it into the computer and confirmed it was all working.
I then used AirDroid to examine the internal file system. I searched for SuperSU but I saw no sign of it. Is it in a protected area where I can't see? I also tried to AirMirror and it said it wasn't rooted.
Since my screen is blank and unresponsive I can't see anything on screen. So although the system works I don't know if any messages popped up telling me it detected a mod and erased it.
Are there any other steps that should be followed after the flash? Software to install before or after? I didn't see anything that said recovery mode needs to be booted or the phone needs turning off after for this particular model.
Hi, I'm using a Galaxy Tab A 10.1 with Spen (SM-P580) (gtanotexlwifi)
I was using a custom rom (SamBones) with TRWP installed, and I was messing around in the developer options trying to get a usb device to work, and ended up toggling developer options and rebooting. I think the issue is that after I toggled developer options, I forgot to re-enable OEM Unlock. Once the device rebooted, I was met with something along the lines of "device blocked by frp lock" or something like that. I've been looking online trying to find a fix but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do. I was going to try flashing the stock recovery but I can't seem to find it anywhere for the SM-P580.
Any help would be appreciated...
I honestly don't know what to do at this point and the device is completely useless... I can't find the original firmware/system stuff to flash with odin... and I can't boot into twrp at all...
If someone could link me to the right original stock firmware I can flash with odin or something maybe that will work? I can get into download mode but I can't re-flash twrp or do anything other than stare at a bootloop or get into download mode. This is driving me crazy and I'm scared my device is gone for good!
It's so stupid that this can even happen in the first place. I've been using the rom and twrp without issue from the day I bought it a few weeks ago, and now because of one small mistake in settings, the entire device is completely soft bricked and I can't even find the right firmware to flash to it to fix it.... why samsung, why...
I was looking at the firmwares available on sammobile, but the US isn't listed for countries so I don't know which one I should download if any....
I've been freaking out in a panic for the last two hours or so. I'm fine with installing stock everything and then just redoing all of the custom recovery/system flashing afterwards, data loss isn't too big of a deal to me as I've had to wipe it a few times over the last week while fixing/doing stuff. I'm worried my nearly $300 device is going to just become a brick which is unthinkable. I love this tablet and use it for so much.
Please help
donwload tool (for faster firmware download)
download firmware https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-tab-a-with-s-pen/SM-P580/
and flash via odin.
(you can install any firmware no matter what country i think )
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(you can install any firmware no matter what country i think )
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Are you sure? It seems weird that they would have different versions for different countries if there wasn't a difference.... I'm just worried I'm going to break something if I don't install the right firmware...
Edit: I found the "USA" version on other sites but their download times are saying things like 16 hours. Though I think Cellular South (XAR) is the USA version on sammobile as the same firmware shows up as USA (XAR) on the other two sites. Going to download it and hope it works, but just putting this here in-case someone else is in the same boat...
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Are you sure? It seems weird that they would have different versions for different countries if there wasn't a difference.... I'm just worried I'm going to break something if I don't install the right firmware...
Edit: I found the "USA" version on other sites but their download times are saying things like 16 hours. Though I think Cellular South (XAR) is the USA version on sammobile as the same firmware shows up as USA (XAR) on the other two sites. Going to download it and hope it works, but just putting this here in-case someone else is in the same boat...
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you can use the tool i posted (samfirm) to get the download faster.
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you can use the tool i posted (samfirm) to get the download faster.
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I'll check it out, thanks. Also I don't see the link for it in your post, just says (download tool) so I wasn't sure what that meant lol.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647 im sorry
So one additional question... I'm waiting for the firmware to download, and the tablet is off, and has been off for the last 10 minutes or so.. and it seems to be overheating where it hurts to touch the screen in the top left corner... Is this normal? Is it trying to do something while it's off? Never had a device do either of these things... I swear if the battery explodes or something when the download completes I'm just going to scream qq
you can try to hold the vol - power and home button to force turn of the device. and try to turn of the light in the room. Maybe the phone is on but the screen is black then you can only see the backlight of the display when its dark
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you can try to hold the vol - power and home button to force turn of the device. and try to turn of the light in the room. Maybe the phone is on but the screen is black then you can only see the backlight of the display when its dark
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Maybe, firmware finished download. One last question before I try to flash this, there seems to be multiple tar.md5 files in the archive samfirm downloaded, which one should I flash or does it not matter?
Edit: Nevermind ignore me I feel dumb, I just realized they match up with Odin's options
in odin select the ap file in ap
the bl file in bl
and csc in csc ( the difference in these two files are that it is possible to keep your user data like pictures when you flash the home csc file instead of csc only)
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in odin select the ap file in ap
the bl file in bl
and csc in csc ( the difference in these two files are that it is possible to keep your user data like pictures when you flash the home csc file instead of csc only)
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Well... I flashed it and I think the device might be completely bricked now.... it installed everything, started up sortof and said installing system update, then when that was done it it showed the samsung logo and the backlight started turning on and off rapidly and it kept reconnecting and disconnecting from the laptop... now I don't think I can even turn it on....
Now when I boot into download mode, it stays on for a few seconds then starts flashing and turns off completely...
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Well... I flashed it and I think the device might be completely bricked now.... it installed everything, started up sortof and said installing system update, then when that was done it it showed the samsung logo and the backlight started turning on and off rapidly and it kept reconnecting and disconnecting from the laptop... now I don't think I can even turn it on....
Now when I boot into download mode, it stays on for a few seconds then starts flashing and turns off completely...
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you know how to enter the download mode, can you enter it ? vol - power and home button. you can also try samsung switch. its the official samsung tool.
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you know how to enter the download mode, can you enter it ? vol - power and home button. you can also try samsung switch. its the official samsung tool.
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When I enter download mode, it stays on for a few seconds, then the backlight flashes a little and the device turns off like it's losing power or something. Download mode was at least working before the flash....
It seems like it won't even turn on unless it's plugged in now. However, when I plugged it in after letting it sit for a minute, now it seems it's telling me it's charging and the battery is at 0%, but I know it should be at least at around 50% and was plugged into the laptop the entire time I was researching online so it shouldn't be dead. Maybe it's not reading the battery level correctly or something? It didn't do this till after it finished the "installing updates" screen. Also just noticed the flash turned itself on even though the device is "off"???
Also, I tried samsung switch but it said the device wasn't supported...
That's strange. I had the same issue like you today but I donwload the latest German firmware from sammobile and flashed it via Odin. It was working.
Maybe your battery was low? You said that it got hot. It won't charge when flashing via USB. Also it charge veeeery slow over USB .... You should try to charge it a bit and try to flash only the AP (firmware) files with Odin. Also use Odin the newest Odin version.
Btw. You should use a the NEWEST version of your country. It's possible that you flash an older one over your current system that could cause problems because of downgrade bootloader.
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When I enter download mode, it stays on for a few seconds, then the backlight flashes a little and the device turns off like it's losing power or something. Download mode was at least working before the flash....
It seems like it won't even turn on unless it's plugged in now. However, when I plugged it in after letting it sit for a minute, now it seems it's telling me it's charging and the battery is at 0%, but I know it should be at least at around 50% and was plugged into the laptop the entire time I was researching online so it shouldn't be dead. Maybe it's not reading the battery level correctly or something? It didn't do this till after it finished the "installing updates" screen. Also just noticed the flash turned itself on even though the device is "off"???
Also, I tried samsung switch but it said the device wasn't supported...
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Rawwrius01 said:
That's strange. I had the same issue like you today but I donwload the latest German firmware from sammobile and flashed it via Odin. It was working.
Maybe your battery was low? You said that it got hot. It won't charge when flashing via USB. Also it charge veeeery slow over USB .... You should try to charge it a bit and try to flash only the AP (firmware) files with Odin. Also use Odin the newest Odin version.
Btw. You should use a the NEWEST version of your country. It's possible that you flash an older one over your current system that could cause problems because of downgrade bootloader.
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Thanks for your help. Surprisingly samsung said they might be able to fix it as I had a moment where I just gave up an contacted them to see if there was anything that could be done. Sent it out to them, but if they can't do anything or don't do anything (because custom firmware should void the warranty and all that) I'll have to try just letting it charge longer. Only issue was that while it was charging, it turned on the flash and became very hot very fast so I would need to leave it in front of an airconditioner vent or something. Next time around I'm going to have to make sure I take a full backup of the stock recovery and system somehow...
Hello, i need help, when i flashed with odin my sm-p580 and started the tablet (with the files ap,bl and csc) i cant remove my google account, i dont remember what account had in the tablet, please help!
Hey,
So yesterday I decided to finally tinker with my phone. My main issue was that the Wifi kept disconnecting on it's own for no damn reason but no other device would do it. Found out it's a thing with the E4 and the option for disconnecting on a bad connection wasn't there.
At anyrate, I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP. Then things started to go sour. While trying to root the phone, I ended up with no ROM. Tried a couple of different ones. Lineage OS, Resurrection Remix but none could get past the boot animation. Eventually I found the correct (I think) ROM for my phone. I'm in Canada and on Freedom Mobile so I went with the Retail Perry OS from here: https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/perry/official/RETAIL/
I tried installing with TWRP but it said invalid ZIP file so I found another way. Using instructions from https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e4/help/rsd-lite-device-connecting-t3671647 I used the rsdlite motorola xml to batch script file thing mentioned. Phone finally worked again! Went about installing the bits and bobs. Was working for a few hours and then I decided to update. I had used an older version of the firmware when the zip file was coming up as invalid in TWRP. The first two or three updates went fine. Downloaded, installed, restarted, fine. Then during one it just... stopped. I think it was restarting last I saw but I didn't even see the "Updating" animation page. The battery was over 60% minimum.
I've tried holding down all the buttons for 4 minutes, I've tried booting into recovery, into bootloader. Nothing. The screen stays black. Not even an animation for charging.
About a half an hour ago I tried plugging it into my computer. Initially there was a response by the PC. A popup came up and said something about Qualcomm <name> being successfully installed or updated. It went so quickly I didn't get a chance to read it. I went looking through My PC trying to find the device and see if I could access the files on it but there was nothing. So I unplugged it. Now I don't even get the Qualcomm thing. Device manager says that it was unable to be identified and I just get a notification saying USB is unrecognized. I've tried uninstalling and updating drivers in Device Manager to no avail. I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts from anyone?
Edit: While having the phone plugged into my PC if I try to access the bootloader mode by holding down the buttons for a longer period of time, my computer responds with noises. Mostly it's just the USB removed noise, but occasionally one sounds off if a new USB device is plugged in.
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Hey,
So yesterday I decided to finally tinker with my phone. My main issue was that the Wifi kept disconnecting on it's own for no damn reason but no other device would do it. Found out it's a thing with the E4 and the option for disconnecting on a bad connection wasn't there.
At anyrate, I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP. Then things started to go sour. While trying to root the phone, I ended up with no ROM. Tried a couple of different ones. Lineage OS, Resurrection Remix but none could get past the boot animation. Eventually I found the correct (I think) ROM for my phone. I'm in Canada and on Freedom Mobile so I went with the Retail Perry OS from here: https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/perry/official/RETAIL/
I tried installing with TWRP but it said invalid ZIP file so I found another way. Using instructions from https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e4/help/rsd-lite-device-connecting-t3671647 I used the rsdlite motorola xml to batch script file thing mentioned. Phone finally worked again! Went about installing the bits and bobs. Was working for a few hours and then I decided to update. I had used an older version of the firmware when the zip file was coming up as invalid in TWRP. The first two or three updates went fine. Downloaded, installed, restarted, fine. Then during one it just... stopped. I think it was restarting last I saw but I didn't even see the "Updating" animation page. The battery was over 60% minimum.
I've tried holding down all the buttons for 4 minutes, I've tried booting into recovery, into bootloader. Nothing. The screen stays black. Not even an animation for charging.
About a half an hour ago I tried plugging it into my computer. Initially there was a response by the PC. A popup came up and said something about Qualcomm <name> being successfully installed or updated. It went so quickly I didn't get a chance to read it. I went looking through My PC trying to find the device and see if I could access the files on it but there was nothing. So I unplugged it. Now I don't even get the Qualcomm thing. Device manager says that it was unable to be identified and I just get a notification saying USB is unrecognized. I've tried uninstalling and updating drivers in Device Manager to no avail. I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts from anyone?
Edit: While having the phone plugged into my PC if I try to access the bootloader mode by holding down the buttons for a longer period of time, my computer responds with noises. Mostly it's just the USB removed noise, but occasionally one sounds off if a new USB device is plugged in.
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Sounds like you hard bricked it. I had the same thing happen with my E4 Plus. Not sure why this is happening with certain updates even without being rooted or trying to install ota's with stock recovery as you should do. I managed to get mine working again with this tutorial here but you need the right files for your specific device
https://www.google.com/amp/s/forum....-moto-g5-run-morning-post-image-t3776012/amp/
The correct img may be floating around these threads somewhere.