<div dir="ltr"><div>So tonight I learned a very expensive lesson. Never EVER do anything without extensively reading the documentation. And never mix up `fastboot erase` with `fastboot format`.</div><div><br></div><div>I was trying to format the system and userdata partitions on my Moto G from the command line (in preparation for the reflashing a custom ROM), and ended up deleting those partitions entirely. As a result, my phone only boots to recovery and bootloader modes, and I get memory errors when ever I try to send some data to the device (since there is no where to put it, I presume). Amateur mistake.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems that someone has managed to grab the stock firmware (with all the images for each partition) and has uploaded them to the internet on possibly the worst file host ever, with no mirrors. This file host selfishly limits the download speeds to people who don't pay their ridiculous $15 per month, and is preventing me from solving my problem in a timely manner. Hopefully I can use the firmware archive, if it ever downloads, to fix my phone, but I'm kind of guessing at this process since it doesn't seem to be well documented in many places on the internet.</div><div><br></div>I'm using this as a lesson to learn a bit more about the workings of Android though, since I have the intention to recover my phone back to a usable state. Has anyone gone through anything similar with corrupted memory on their devices, or dealt with restoring to stock firmware on non-Nexus devices? Any advice?<div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers,<div>Keefer</div></div></div>
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