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. Hi, I follow your instuctions but now everytime i turn on my Moto G 4th it aoutomatically enter in fastboot (note: I am not pressing the turn of and low buttom). I don’tm want this. How can I bypass the fastboot?
    Thanks

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  2. Hey. I’ve followed your instructions but the phone doesn’t appear to be connected (using the factory cable) when I open RSD Lite. Any tips?

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  3. Hi Root Junky do you have a fix to remove ads when the phone is on MPJ24.139-64 build ? Your script worked good on previous builds but new OTA came in and ads are now present?

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    • I too have the same issue. After the -64 build update, I’m stuck with ads once again. Hopefully an updated procedure is in the works for the -64 build.
      Thanks for all the effort.

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  4. Hey! Working on a friends phone I’m running into some issues: When running the program (In Linux) This is what the program gives me:

    max-sparse-size: 268435456
    finished. total time: 0.009s

    OKAY [ 0.004s]
    finished. total time: 0.005s
    target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
    sending ‘partition’ (32 KB)…
    OKAY [ 0.004s]
    writing ‘partition’…
    (bootloader) Security version downgrade

    (bootloader) Image primary_gpt failed validation

    (bootloader) Preflash validation failed
    FAILED (remote failure)
    finished. total time: 0.041s
    target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
    sending ‘oem’ (124713 KB)…
    OKAY [ 4.134s]
    writing ‘oem’…
    (bootloader) Security version downgrade

    (bootloader) Image o failed validation

    (bootloader) Invalid signed image
    (bootloader) Preflash validation failed
    FAILED (remote failure)
    finished. total time: 4.191s

    OKAY [ 0.004s]
    finished. total time: 0.004s

    rebooting…

    finished. total time: 0.005s

    Please don’t tell me that this requires an unlocked bootloader, because Amazon has locked all the bootloaders.

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  5. OK, so after all that’s been said, did anyone out there managed to improvise rootjunky’s “remove-amazon-bloat.xml” file accordingly to get rid of those bloats and ads on XT1625_ATHENE_AMAZON_MPJ24.139-64 update?

    Still hopeful that someone out there can be of help ; )

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  6. Bricked my moto g4 amazon prime XT1625 and rescued it. Here are what I learnt from recent days:
    1. Flashing any MPJ24.139-48 based oem.img file to amazon version moto g4 XT1625 running MPJ24.139-64 firmware will brick your phone.
    2. Flashing oem.img file extracted from non-amazon MPJ24.139-64 ROM to amazon version moto g4 XT1625 running MPJ24.139-64 firmware will also brick your phone. (oem.img file size: 127706332 Bytes, CRC32: CFE977F8, extracted from: XT1625-XT1644_ATHENE_RETUS_MPJ24.139-64_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip)
    3. Flashing oem.img_sparsechunk.0 and oem.img_sparsechunk.1 files extracted from amazon MPJ24.139-64 ROM to a bricked amazon version moto g4 XT1625 running MPJ24.139-64 firmware, will revive your bricked phone. (extracted from: XT1625_ATHENE_AMAZON_MPJ24.139-64_cid50_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip)
    4. To revive your phone, flashing only oem.img_sparsechunk.0 and oem.img_sparsechunk.1 files is enough, and you will not lose your data. If you flashed the wrong gpt.bin, you will also need to flash the correct one before flashing the oem image.

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