I like to tinker with stuff and this is also a kind of semi-long, maybe even funny story.

I am asked quite often to help people with Android problems so I fool around with phones, usually theirs not mine. I did get to like Motorola enough to buy a Moto G and use it. A couple of months ago I was looking through ebay and saw an ad for an Unlocked Moto X and assuming they meant carrier unlocked, I ordered it.

When it arrived after the estimated delivery date, I charged it and inserted my sim and no joy, it was locked to Verizon. I opened a trouble ticket and tried to get the seller to provide me with an unlock code but they couldn't. I guess because there isn't one. Ebay has refunded me and I guess the seller settled with them for false advertising because I am now in possession of a semi-borked Moto XT1060. (Looking at CRdroid at this point)

I say semi-borked because after I rebooted without the sim, all sorts of gremlins showed up. Most especially what I believe is a Verizon "ghost" carrier induced BSOD. After a couple of intermittent hours of booting and fuzzing, I got enough of a screen to be able to navigate to settings, enable developer mode and force GPU rendering and disable HW overlays. Now I can actually use the thing on wifi. It still takes a lot of keypresses and screen taps to fuzz the thing on, but once I got the screen on, I was able to generate a bug report and mail it to myself.

It also sent me a screen-shot of the screen I couldn't see at the time. At first foray I was operating in the very narrow space at the top of the screen, which I kept alive by dragging my finger down from the top and pressing the power button repeatedly to force a redraw of the screen.

I now know, after getting the report, my phone thinks it is 10.24PM, Monday February 13th. Actually it looks like the bloatware deliberatly overheats the cpu and so far, as long as I keep the phone in the cold space between my windows, it seems to function almost normally, except it won't accept the sim card.

So it seems the boot loader is locked at NAND: 0x30BE. Has anyone on the list had success in flashing an open source boot loader to a Motorola device?

I've looked around a bit and the ghost rom is available but I can't seem to find a comparable stock motorola rom for this model.

Any advice is appreciated and here's a couple hundred lines of debug code for anyone who is interested.

Thanks in advance

Russell

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== dumpstate: 2017-02-13 22:24:05
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Build: LPAS23.12-39.7-1
Build fingerprint: 'motorola/ghost_verizon/ghost:5.1/LPAS23.12-39.7-1/1:user/release-keys'
Bootloader: 0x30BE
Radio: msm
Network: (unknown)
Kernel: Linux version 3.4.42-gf151976 (hudsoncm@ilclbld86) (gcc version 4.8 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 24 13:07:11 CDT 2016
Command line: console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 msm_rtb.filter=0x3F ehci-hcd.park=3 maxcpus=2 vmalloc=400M androidboot.emmc=true androidboot.serialno=T062808WJT androidboot.baseband=msm androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.bootloader=0x30BE androidboot.cid=0x2 androidboot.hwrev=0x8300 androidboot.radio=0x2 battery= mot_sst=1 androidboot.modelno="Moto X" androidboot.carrier=vzw product=ghost androidboot.device=ghost androidboot.secure_hardware=1 androidboot.write_protect=1 restart.download_mode=1

------ UPTIME (uptime) ------
up time: 05:22:57, idle time: 00:23:57, sleep time: 04:51:47
[uptime: 0.100s elapsed]

------ MMC PERF (/sys/block/mmcblk0/stat) ------
   28364     8048  2870460   156850    15886     4451   783348    94420        0    90690   251070

------ MEMORY INFO (/proc/meminfo) ------
MemTotal:        1836564 kB
MemFree:          332876 kB
Buffers:            6452 kB
Cached:           853692 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           870116 kB
Inactive:         468376 kB
Active(anon):     479560 kB
Inactive(anon):     1692 kB
Active(file):     390556 kB
Inactive(file):   466684 kB
Unevictable:        1092 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       1316860 kB
HighFree:         101020 kB
LowTotal:         519704 kB
LowFree:          231856 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:                76 kB
Writeback:            20 kB
AnonPages:        479596 kB
Mapped:           263488 kB
Shmem:              1772 kB
Slab:              41212 kB
SReclaimable:      14572 kB
SUnreclaim:        26640 kB
KernelStack:       10296 kB
PageTables:        24060 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:      918280 kB
Committed_AS:   36379564 kB
VmallocTotal:     401408 kB
VmallocUsed:       91272 kB
VmallocChunk:     150532 kB

------ CPU INFO (top -n 1 -d 1 -m 30 -t) ------



User 66%, System 26%, IOW 1%, IRQ 0%
User 115 + Nice 51 + Sys 66 + Idle 14 + IOW 4 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 0 = 250

  PID   TID PR CPU% S     VSS     RSS PCY UID      Thread          Proc
 3263  3526  1  21% R 962764K  59040K  fg u0_a46   MotoCareBgThrea com.motorola.motocare
12895 12895  0   8% R  19124K   1608K     shell    top             top
 1195  2116  1   8% S 1078640K 106124K  fg u0_a12   RenderThread    com.android.systemui
  282   282  1   6% S  86956K  11388K  fg system   surfaceflinger  /system/bin/surfaceflinger
 1195  1195  1   4% R 1078640K 106124K  fg u0_a12   ndroid.systemui com.android.systemui
  981  1011  1   2% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   PowerManagerSer system_server
  981   998  1   1% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   Binder_2        system_server
  981  1129  0   1% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   WifiStateMachin system_server
  981  1566  1   1% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   Binder_E        system_server
  981   981  1   1% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   system_server   system_server
  981  1363  1   0% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   Binder_5        system_server
  981  1008  1   0% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   android.display system_server
  282   607  1   0% S  86956K  11388K  fg system   EventThread     /system/bin/surfaceflinger
 3263  3525  1   0% S 962764K  59040K  fg u0_a46   MotoCareSvcThre com.motorola.motocare
   16    16  0   0% S      0K      0K     root     kworker/u:1    
 1452  1477  0   0% S 960692K  48180K  fg system   GCDaemon        com.motorola.process.system
 1352  1373  1   0% S 961936K  50780K  fg u0_a39   GCDaemon        com.motorola.motodisplay
 1579  1950  1   0% R 1009952K  66604K  fg u0_a58   RenderThread    com.android.launcher
 1352  3814  1   0% S 961936K  50780K  fg u0_a39   breathing drawe com.motorola.motodisplay
  282  1587  1   0% S  86956K  11388K  fg system   Binder_4        /system/bin/surfaceflinger
  282  2545  1   0% S  86956K  11388K  fg system   Binder_5        /system/bin/surfaceflinger
  149   149  0   0% S      0K      0K     root     mmcqd/0        
 1195  1615  1   0% S 1078640K 106124K  fg u0_a12   Binder_3        com.android.systemui
  981  1092  1   0% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   Binder_3        system_server
 1579  1579  1   0% R 1009952K  66604K  fg u0_a58   ndroid.launcher com.android.launcher
 1263  1284  1   0% S 945312K  34852K  fg u0_a61   Binder_1        com.motorola.slpc
 1195 12432  1   0% S 1078640K 106124K  fg u0_a12   hwuiTask1       com.android.systemui
  981  1465  1   0% S 1161192K 115372K  fg system   Binder_8        system_server
 2429  2602  1   0% R 1113684K 100784K  fg u0_a4    GoogleLocationS com.google.android.gms.persistent
 2429  2603  1   0% S 1113684K 100784K  fg u0_a4    Binder_5        com.google.android.gms.persistent
[top: 1.502s elapsed]

------ PROCRANK (procrank) ------
*** exec(procrank): Permission denied
*** procrank: Exit code 255
[procrank: 0.100s elapsed]

------ VIRTUAL MEMORY STATS (/proc/vmstat) ------
nr_free_pages 83681
nr_inactive_anon 424
nr_active_anon 119775
nr_inactive_file 116690
nr_active_file 97650
nr_unevictable 273
nr_mlock 0
nr_anon_pages 119749
nr_mapped 65894
nr_file_pages 215057
nr_dirty 30
nr_writeback 0
nr_slab_reclaimable 4067
nr_slab_unreclaimable 6700
nr_page_table_pages 6014
nr_kernel_stack 1290
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 0
nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 7
nr_writeback_temp 0
nr_isolated_anon 0
nr_isolated_file 0
nr_shmem 444
nr_dirtied 78103
nr_written 66652
nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 0
nr_free_cma 0
nr_dirty_threshold 15874
nr_dirty_background_threshold 3968
pgpgin 1435230
pgpgout 266750
pswpin 0
pswpout 0
pgalloc_normal 2409175
pgalloc_high 2727696
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pgfree 5348019
pgactivate 155050
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pgmajfault 9302
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pgsteal_direct_high 1393
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pgscan_kswapd_normal 31501
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kswapd_inodesteal 11
kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 74
kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 142
kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 3
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allocstall 31
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unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0