Motorola has started rolling out the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the Moto E 2015 edition. users in India have been reporting that the update is now being seeded to users. This update brings several crucial features to the Moto E, like Doze and app Standby that improve battery life to a great extent.
The Moto E 2015 is the second generation of the highly popular entry-level smartphone from Motorola. It comes with a 4.5-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor, and 1 GB RAM. It also has a 5 MP cam on the back and a VGA cam on the front. The phone is powered by a 2,390 mAh battery. Motorola launched it with Android 5.0 Lollipop, so it is good to see the company releasing such a major update in a timely manner.
The Moto E is receiving the Marshmallow update in a phased rollout, so if you don’t see the update just yet, don’t worry. Our step by step guide will help you install the update easily. The full image is nearly 700 MB in size, compared to the OTA which is 454 MB.
Install Marshmallow OTA update on Moto E
Prerequisites
Moto E Android 6.0 Marshmallow update – download here or here.
Motorola motorists – download here.
Motorola Fastboot – download here.
Minimal ADB – download here.
Additionally, we recommend you to backup any and all data you have on your Moto E to your PC.
Installation
There are two techniques to installing the Marshmallow update. We are going to list them both, so choose any one of them to install the update.
Turn your Moto E off.
Now press and hold these two buttons – Power and volume down. keep holding them until the phone vibrates and boots into the bootloader.
Extract the minimal ADB zip downloaded above.
Extract the downloaded Marshmallow firmware to the same folder as minimal ADB.
Hold down shift and ideal click on empty space in this folder. select “Open Command Prompt”.
Now enter the following commands
mfastboot oem fb_mode_set
mfastboot flash partition gpt.bin
mfastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
mfastboot flash logo logo.bin
mfastboot flash boot boot.img
mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
mfastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
mfastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
mfastboot erase modemst1
mfastboot erase modemst2
mfastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
mfastboot erase cache
mfastboot erase userdata
mfastboot erase customize
mfastboot oem config carrier vzw
mfastboot oem fb_mode_clear
Alternately, you can use a .bat file to automate it. place the MotoEFlashAll.bat file in the same folder as the firmware and run it.
Once the process is completed, your Moto E will reboot automatically.