After Flashing the Recovery Image to Edge 30 it does not respond anymore - I need help!

/e/OS Devices Motorola
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Hello everyone,
After unlocking the oem bootloader, I have flashed the dtbo and vendor boot images (from the recovery image zip) according to the /e/OS instructions for Edge 30. Everything was OK.
Then I flashed the recovery image - OK
After that, I turned the device off and restarted - it didn’t work!
On the Edge 30, I only see the capital “M” and “powered by Android” at the bottom. It won’t turn on anymore, and the (connected) device is no longer recognized even using the adb commands.

I don`t know how to proceed.
What can I do now?

Many thanks and regards
Wusel

P.S…:
Flash procedere from console of the windows PC:

(bootloader) Bootloader is unlocked!
OKAY [ 22.720s]
Finished. Total time: 22.787s

E:\adb\platform-tools>fastboot reboot
Rebooting OKAY [ 0.000s]
Finished. Total time: 0.002s

E:\adb\platform-tools>cd E:\Anleitung eOS für Edge 30\Recovery\recovery-IMG-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai

E:\Anleitung eOS für Edge 30\Recovery\recovery-IMG-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai>fastboot flash dtbo dtbo-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai.img
Sending ‘dtbo_a’ (24576 KB) OKAY [ 0.545s]
Writing ‘dtbo_a’ OKAY [ 0.241s]
Finished. Total time: 0.853s

E:\Anleitung eOS für Edge 30\Recovery\recovery-IMG-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai>fastboot flash vendor_boot vendor_boot-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai.img
Sending ‘vendor_boot_a’ (98304 KB) OKAY [ 2.152s]
Writing ‘vendor_boot_a’ OKAY [ 0.275s]
Finished. Total time: 2.440s

E:\Anleitung eOS für Edge 30\Recovery\recovery-IMG-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai>fastboot devices
ZY22HLTVGC fastboot

E:\Anleitung eOS für Edge 30\Recovery\recovery-IMG-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai>fastboot flash boot recovery-e-2.9-a14-20250322478432-community-dubai.img
Sending ‘boot_a’ (98304 KB) OKAY [ 2.154s]
Writing ‘boot_a’ OKAY [ 1.603s]
Finished. Total time: 3.768s

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If you recognise this as the M for Motorola it sounds a bit as if your new e-recovery got corrupted or overwritten as you tried to boot into it.

Please flash the recovery again and think how to avoid letting the phone do “as it would expect” a normal shutdown and reboot cycle; this will overwrite the new recovery!

The trick is often to kill Fastboot mode and as the screen goes black very quickly initiate the “boot to recover” procedure; often button presses. Sometimes there is a menu method, I don’t know the device.

Maybe might help to read a guide for a different device, Samsung Your first boot into the custom recovery.

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Hello,
thanks for your comment, but I have found the failure: I need to press more than 10 seconds the on/off switch. then I can switch off the unit and then I can restart it for following flashing steps.

So everything is fine now. After Flashing the Edge 30 works fine with /e/OS!

Regards
Wusel

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