Amazon Ads & Bloat Removed from the Motorola Moto G 4th gen
Hey Guys as soon as i heard that Amazon was offering a device with ads for a lower price to amazon prime member i was pumped and ready to remove those ads as soon as i got the device in hand.
well Amazon has made it really easy for us in many ways.
You can just flash one file that i have put together to remove the ads and all of the amazon apps in one shot.
Requirements
Moto G 4th gen tested on the XT1625 may work on other models i dont know.
Motorola Drivers installed
Motorola program RSDlite 6.2.4
The Files and remove-amazon-bloat.xml file i created HERE
Steps
1. Boot device into bootloader / fastboot mode by powering down then holding volume down and power until it boots
2. Open RSDlite 6.2.4 and select the remove-amazon-bloat.xml
3. press START and wait for device to reboot thats it once rebooted your amazon apps and lock screen ads are gone.
NOTE If you are having problems with RSDlite and windows 10 use this XT1625-Amazon-Bloat-Ads-Remover-Without-RSDLITE
Rootjunky out
NOTE The Bootloader can be unlocked through the Motorola bootloader unlock site which is awesome. BOOTLOADER UNLOCK VIDEO HERE
NOTE I put together a script that will install twrp and systemless too in one click if anyone wants it after they unlock there bootloader
If you want Amazon Underground apps back check HERE
Hi all,
Same thing happened to me. I tried to do some other options and now I have Soft-Bricked my phone.
When I go into recovery mode, there is a message at the bottom that says that I need to contact customer service. Please help!
Dear rootjunky,
First off, thanks for uploading the bloat ads remover xml file for us all. Super great job on that!
I used it on my Moto G4 and it works like a charm until today, when I accidentally updated it with the OTA upgrade that was pushed to my phone. Now I’m on 6.0.1 MPJ24.139-64. As expected, all the Amazon bloats and ads came back to life and so I decide to flash it again with the same xml file you’ve provided.
This time round, it failed and displayed a status “Failed flashing process. 3/5 partition “gpt.bin” -> Phone returned FAIL”. I’m not rooted and am a novice at such stuff. Please help, thanks in advanced.
Hi Dora, I also updated with the OTA upgrade yesterday and can no longer flash. I think we will need to unlock the bootloader first. I will try that soon and report back!
I guess it is due to incompatible versions. The files rootjunky provided is produced based on MPJ24.139-48, but you upgraded to MPJ24.139-64, the old gpt.bin file and its MD5 value won’t work on a phone that running MPJ24.139-64. Perhaps you can try to skip flashing gpt.bin by remove the: . If it doesn’t work, I’m afraid we have to wait for rootjunky’s newer release based on MPJ24.139-64.
… Perhaps you can try to skip flashing gpt.bin by remove the: step MD5=”e796e8e4d70ec25c411b2dc484215dd5″ filename=”gpt.bin” operation=”flash” partition=”partition” … This sentence was deleted when I post previous comment, perhaps because of the brackets.
Maybe you can try downloading MPJ24.139-64 stock ROM, extract gpt.bin and OEM.img files and use them instead. Also, md5 value should be updated in the XML file.
What do you think the chances are that we will ever be able to unlock the bootloader and get root access? Should I just pay $50 more for the non-Amazon version?
It will not brick the phone? If i have already removed amazon ads&bloat with the script?
Hi rootjunky, the job is so cool!
Now I have 2 questions:
1. You provide XT1625-Amazon-Bloat-Ads-Remover.zip and XT1625-Remove-oem-config-fully.zip, what is the different between them, and in what cases/destinations shall I use them respectively?
2.If I remove amazon bloat ADs with bootloader locked, how to receive OTA update in the future? By flashing the XT1625-Restore-Amazon-Bloat-Ads.zip?
Thanks in advance.
once you remove the ads you cant get ota updates back
OK I got it. If want OTA after ADs removed, I will need to flash back to the official firmware, I guess.
But I’m still confused: are XT1625-Amazon-Bloat-Ads-Remover.zip and XT1625-Remove-oem-config-fully.zip doing the same thing? And what will XT1625-Restore-Amazon-Bloat-Ads.zip do?
Thanks!
Hi, I’ve flashed my amazon prime exclusive xt1625 moto g4th with this and it seems that i can’t receive ota update from amazon.. i’m on MPJ24.139-48 and there is already an update MPJ24.139-69.
How can I do to get ota update back? It doesn’t matter if It means I should get back amazon ads
you can download the latest firmware from motorola and then flash the device with it
Soooo, to ask the unanswered question: does this work on the XT1607 G4 Play?
Hey. Bought the Moto g4 Amazon ad version couple days ago. Found your site and tried the rsd lite version didn’t read Moto g4. Then tried your servicefile batch method using cmd and it worked out well with locked bootloader. Thanks for the great work on that. Would be even better if I could get root and custom recovery to go with it. Thanks again!!
glad i could help out. I wish we were still able to unlock the bootloader but as this point motorola and amazon put a stop to that. maybe one day we will get root access .
Hey RJ,
Thanks for all your help… Will this work for moto G4 “play” edition (XT1607) ?
Does this work with Moto G4 Play Xt1607 models ?