Motorola G5 Repair

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Screen Repair	£69.99
Battery Replacement	£34.99
Screen & Battery Replacement	£99.98

We also do other repairs such as…

Motorola G5 Screen Repair, Motorola G5 Battery Replacement, Water / Liquid Damage Repair, Full Diagnostic Service, Power Button Repair, Earpiece Repair, Microphone Repair, Loudspeaker Repair, Rear Camera Repair, Front Camera Repair, Headphone Jack Repair, Vibration Repair, Software Fixes, Data Recovery.

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If We Come To You

We know you are busy, so we offer a service where we come to you. We will arrive in a Red DrFixit Van at your home or work or wherever you want. Our vans are fully fitted with all the necessary tools to get your device working in no time. Did I mention our call out charge starts from only £15 to come to you? I am sure you agree… that level of convenience makes perfect sense. To find out more, please visit our page If We Come To You.

No Fix No Fee?

We would love to be able to fix every device and would love to be able to give you your device back working as it should be. Some devices are just beyond repair or need to be taken to a Micro-Soldering Specialist. Our expertise has taken years to acquire, so we charge £20 for any device which we are not able to repair. This by no means covers our costs, as we sometimes spend in excess of an hour or two working through different options to get your device working again. In the event that you have called us out to your location, we will only charge you the call out fee plus £10. If we are unable to repair your device, we may still be able to help get your device fixed and may even be able to get your data recovered. We have teamed up with a specialist “Micro-Soldering Board Level Repair Company” here in Bristol specifically to ensure we get your device fixed in almost all cases.

12 Month Warranty

We will not use cheap parts and will certainly not do a botch job either. You can rely on us. If you have any problems after the repair has been completed, just give us a call.

Motorola G5 Known Issues

Stuck in a boot loop after a system update

Here we have a Moto G5 that came in for repair after an over-the-air update — logo, reboot, logo, reboot. The instinct is to reflash it. Careful. Motorola does not publish signed factory images for this handset, so what circulates is leaked or modified, and firmware that does not match the build already on the board turns a boot loop into a dead phone. That is exactly what happened to one owner: a mismatched recovery, flashed to clear the loop, left a handset that would not start at all. Identify the variant and the build before anything is written.

Nothing but the notification LED when it is plugged in

Plug it into a computer and the only sign of life is the notification LED. No screen, no fastboot, no recovery. Look at what the computer sees and there it is — Qualcomm HS-USB 9008, the emergency download mode the Snapdragon falls back to when the bootloader itself has gone. Is it dead? No. The board is alive and listening. What it wants is a blankflash, and Motorola never released one for the G5, so the files in circulation are community rebuilds — and the one that revives an XT1676 has been reported failing outright on an XT1672. Same phone, different rescue.

No fastboot, no recovery, no way into the bootloader

Where a blankflash will not take, this handset has one other door: it will boot a bootloader image written to an SD card. We do not treat that as a formality. The image runs to roughly 31 GB, so a 32 GB card sits on the edge — short by a hundred megabytes and the phone ignores it, so 64 GB and up is the safer card. It must be written on a real Linux machine with dd. Windows imaging utilities and virtual machines have repeatedly produced cards this phone will not boot from. Check the image’s hash after writing.

No sound at all, and a restart on every call

Here is one that is not a software problem. A G5 with no microphone, no earpiece and no loudspeaker, that also restarts itself every time a call is made or answered. Every audio path failing at once points past the speakers to the part they all share: the codec, the chip that converts between analogue and digital. The owner who worked through this one reached the same conclusion. Replacing that chip is not a parts swap, it is board-level micro-soldering, and I have to be 100% upfront — on a phone this old that costs a great deal more than a screen or a battery.

Motorola G5 Repair