Dear Sebastian,
Thank you very much for the comprehensive response!
My problem is that I can't make any OS (Ubuntu or Windows) to even
detect that I have plugged the phone on to USB.
I have found this video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3TmXtOA0IA)
that shows how to force a meta boot with a hardware mod using the
testpoint pin, however, it is not working for MX4. Actually I can
generate some kind of USB plug-in event but the OS is not able to
communicate with the phone at all, not even for getting its device
description. So it might be just some bogus voltage variation that
gets detected by the OS.