[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Solust:
To start off everyone should know that messing with your phone can brick it!! You should not mess with your phone if you are unsure of what you are doing. You will get this (or a similar) warning while following the unlock instructions from Motorola as well. Following these instructions also voids your warranty!

I only use Motorola's official firmware for the moment and these instructions were originally performed on the ASA14 firmware. They should be useful for previous versions of the firmware but I will not be testing those. These instructions may not work for releases after ASA14.

While following this guide you need to be on a Windows PC with the administrator account or an account with administrative privileges. If you do not have these privileges you will likely run into issues. All instructions are written for a PC running Windows 7 as that is the only PC I have access to. If anyone has any instructions using a different version of Windows I will gladly add them in.

Windows commands:

dir - Lists all directories (folders) and files of the directory you are currently in.

cd {directory name} - Moves into the named directory. The directory names are case-sensitive.

cd.. - Moves to the directory before the one you are currently in. For instance if you are in C:\Users\Public and perform cd.. you will move to C:\Users

{Unlocking the Bootloader}​

I'm writing this pretty late and formatting takes forever so I'll update this section later with my own set of instructions. For now use this guide which I plan on using for inspiration since I can't really repeat the unlock process.

Below is my work in progress. This is incomplete and will be unhidden when it is completed.

Updated Unlock

1. Download the Android SDK

2. Unzip the file. If you don't have a program to unzip the file 7-zip is great.

3. Move the unzipped folder to a location that is easy to locate. For me I put this in "Documents".

4. Rename the folder to something shorter, that way it's easier to type in later. "ADT" is easy to use and remember.

5. Download the drivers for the phone.

6. Open "MotorolaDeviceManager_2.3.9.exe" and install the drivers.

7. Go here

8. Click "PROCEED ANYWAY"

9. Register an account with Motorola.

10. Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories

11. Open “Command Prompt”

12. Use the cd commands to navigate to your “platform-tools” folder.

13. Turn off your phone (power button + volume down if you can't select any options to turn off the phone)

14. Turn it back on using the power button + volume up + volume down combination

15. Select “Fastboot” (volume down cycles through, volume up selects the option)

16. Connect your phone to your PC.

17. Type "fastboot oem get_unlock_data" in Command Prompt.

{Installing a New Recovery}​

For the recovery we’re going to install the Photon Q Open Recovery. Every recovery has its advantages and disadvantages. This one is familiar to me and so I chose it for this guide.

1. Download the recovery image

2. Place the image in the Android SDK “platform-tools” folder which is in the "sdk" folder

3. Turn off your phone (power button + volume down if you can't select any options to turn off the phone)

4. Turn it back on using the power button + volume up + volume down combination

5. Select “Fastboot” (volume down cycles through, volume up selects the option)

6. Connect your phone to your PC

7. Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories

8. Right-click “Command Prompt”

9. Click “Run as administrator”

10. Use the cd commands to navigate to your “platform-tools” folder (Unfortunately I cannot tell you where this is as each computer will have it placed differently)

11. Type in “fasboot flash recovery open_recovery_206_05_06_2013.img”

{Getting Root}​

1. Download the zip file for rooting

2. Place the file in the root (ie. not within a folder) of your phone’s SD card

3. Turn your phone off

4. Turn it back on using the power button + volume up + volume down combination

5. Select “Recovery” (volume down cycles through, volume up selects the option)

6. Select “Apply Update” (In recovery the the controls change. Volume up and volume down move in the list, the camera button at the bottom right of the device selects.)

7. Select the file you placed on your SD card from step 2

8. Wait for the update to apply, it should say that it finished successfully

9. Select “Reboot Phone”

Credit for all of this goes to their respective creators. I will name them all by name at a later date, but the credit can also be found following the linked material. Hopefully that doesn't bother the creators, writers, or hosts.

The Open Recovery port was done by Skrilax_CZ.

SuperSU is hosted by shabbypenguin and developed by Chainfire.

Please don't re-post this how-to without crediting. I've had it happen before and it was a huge disincentive for updating and making new guides.