The only way I could get it to work (big shoutout to mastarifla from the XDA forums<\/a> for the tip) was downloading a factory image from a third-party website. Then the OTA update (from Motorola) liked it and installed the update successfully. Go figure.<\/p>\n Some of you all may be skeptical about downloading “factory images” frmo third-party websites, and that’s fine, but this was the only one that I could get an official OTA from Motorola to install on properly. Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n Before you begin, make sure you do the following:<\/p>\n \nI don’t use Windows, but I’ve heard that you can use RSD Lite<\/a> to restore the phone instead of running the commands below. Unfortunately, I can’t walk you through those steps. You can find details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nI’m basing these off of what I did on Mac OS X. There’s a terminal in Windows and one in Linux, too, so similar principles will apply, but the exact steps may be slightly different.<\/p>\n with a space at the end<\/li>\n It’s possible that erasing userdata<\/em> may not be necessary. More details in XT1053 222.27.5 Stagefright OTA Update Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some Background I did my first proper unroot of my Moto X 2013 recently, and I learned something interesting in the process. In the past, when I’ve rooted and unrooted my Moto X 2013, I’d request\/download the factory image straight from the Motorola website and restore that back. Recently, though, I tried to take an… Continue reading Unrooting (returning to stock) the Moto X 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[869,895,933,932,931],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moto-x","tag-moto-x-2013","tag-ota","tag-return-to-stock","tag-unroot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"unsuccessful\"](\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsuccessful.png\")
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Recently, though, I tried to take an OTA (over-the-air) update from Motorola, and it would download the update, try to install the update, and then error out. I’d then get a message about how the update was unsuccessful. I tried reflashing the recovery and the system. Reflashing everything, clearing the cache, clearing the user data. The OTA update (from Motorola<\/em>, mind you) did not like the factory image from Motorola’s website.<\/p>\nPrerequisites and Files to Download<\/h2>\n
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Note for Windows users<\/h2>\n
Actual Steps<\/h2>\n
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\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 erase userdata
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash partition gpt.bin
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash motoboot motoboot.img
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash logo logo.bin
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash motoboot motoboot.img
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash logo logo.bin
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash boot boot.img
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash recovery recovery.img
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash system system.img
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 erase modemst1
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 erase modemst2
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 flash fsg fsg.mbn
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 erase customize
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 erase clogo
\n.\/moto-fastboot-osx64 oem fb_mode_clear\n<\/div>\n<\/ol>\n<\/a>
After that, when you reboot your Moto X, it should be back to factory settings and<\/em> able to take OTA updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"