Amazon Ads & Bloat Removed from the Motorola Moto G 4th gen

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

Moto Z Wallpapers and Goodies
RSD Lite for Mac and Linux

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77 thoughts on “Amazon Ads & Bloat Removed from the Motorola Moto G 4th gen”

  1. Bricked moto g4 amazon prime XT1625

    I have a serious problem with my phone when trying to flash a rom on a free phone amazon prime. The rom you put the phone in these condiones is: ATHENE_MPJ24.139-64_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip

    I have tried putting on the rom that had previously it would: ATHENE_AMZ_MPJ24.139-64_65_cid50_amz.tgz

    But the error persists no longer find to do to bring it to life again.

    Please help me.

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  2. thanks for the post. I was able to follow the post and successfully remove the amazon stuff from the phone. once this was done, there was a system update and i updated it. After this i am getting to see the amazon adds again. I tired to follow the same procedure, but did not help. now the version shows athene_13 or something instead of athene. is there a way to undo the update and stay on athene so that i stay away from the amazon adds ?

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  3. Soft-Bricked moto g4 Prime Exclusive XT1625

    WE HAVE DETECTED AN ATTEMPT TO FLASH UNAUTHORIZED SW ON YOUR DEVICE.

    Help! Please

    He was installing the ROM ATHENE_MPJ24.139-64_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip

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  4. 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!

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  5. Hi RootJunky,

    First of all, thank you very much for detailed videos on how to remove Amazon bloatware and stuff and since unlocking bootloader is not possible anymore for Amazon versions, I did try with locked bootloader itself. I am now seeing that there is a new OTA update with MPJ24.139-64 available but I’m not able to update it because of the same reason you mentioned earlier I believe. Are you planning to add the latest version of firmware to your list so that we can flash that?

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  6. I have the same problem as Dora, I accidentally updated the OTA upgrade.
    I tried a data factory reset but still with the same results.

    Reply

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