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submitted 13 hours ago by ttt777@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

sorry for the long text :l

i was trying to install /e/ os on my moto g30, and i was doing it on my linux mint laptop. however, for some reason, everytime i tried to connect the phone to the laptop, it would display a message, something like "cannot connect to *** (think it was something like "MTG"?)", however even thougth that message was spamming, i was able to do basically everything: unlock bootload, take the code to be able to really unlock it with motorola itself, "install" the OS (it even went all the way to the /e/ os custom recovery mode screen), however, when installing the .img files for good, it gave me some message like "cannot identify signature"(??), but even with that, it still went all the way to 100% install. however when i reboot it, it went back to the motorola welcome screen. tried to look it up, and the "mtg" error was something with the usb port. tried switching and still nothing. tried to find a solution but didnt found. so i went to my pc wich is dual booted with windows. in there, i downloaded the adb and fastboot programs, and it was recognizing the device. however, it was late at night, so i went to bed and turned pc off. today, when i tried again, the adb and fastboot commands simply does not recognize the device anymore. and i cant do anything. now i only have a "secure mode"(or something like that, dont remember) /e/ os screen, qnd the normal motorola android bs. did i brick the phone? can i delete everything (both /e/ os and motorola android) and staet again from scratch? what would be the best solution for this problem?

i dont live in the USA, so buying a degoogled phone is basically not viable. and i dont have enought money to buy another phone. only have the g30 and my main one, a samsung galaxy s20fe. however i saw that basically there isnt a custom rom for the samsung, and am too afraid to do it and brick my phone (like with prob just happenned with my moto g30). any help/ advice? :l

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[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago

Fastboot command only works in one mode, and adb in another mode. And if adb doesn't do anything it could also be a temporary problem on the computer.

This is the /e/os page for your g30 : https://doc.e.foundation/devices/caprip/community Can you get into recovery mode ?

[-] ttt777@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

ik. tried both, none show anything. even when i'm on recovery mode, or on the moto welcome page and even after, on the home page from android. never shows anymore

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

Are you still in windows? Make sure the correct driver is loaded in device manager. Since it happened overnight it sounds like windows may have "updated" the driver to something not designed for it

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

So you need to get your phone to boot into fast boot mode, which is the one with the little Android guy with his chest open. It is highly unlikely that you have totally bricked your device. Or at least not a hardbrick. You might have very well made a softbrick, but those can be recovered. I have fucked up plenty of devices and never managed to actually hardbrick one where it was not restorable at all. If nothing else if the recovery screen will come up generally there will be a update from zip in there and if nothing else you should just be able to click the update from zip and then use the standard Moto firmware as the supplied file.

this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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