After upgrading my Moto G to Android 4.4 KitKat, I stopped getting recovery options after booting my handset into Recovery Mode. When I entered Recovery Mode, I would simply see the dead Android with a red exclamation mark, without any menu or options that you’re normally supposed to get. I always wondered if it was an issue with my own handset or if it was a deliberate change. But thanks to a particular Reddit post, I now know that it’s the latter.

So if you’ve upgraded your Moto G to Android 4.4 KitKat, and you need to boot into Recovery Mode, whether it’s to manually upgrade your handset to the latest 176.44.1 build or it’s to wipe your device’s cache partition clean, here’s how to do it: