[Moto G General] gt573:
Some tips

Stumbled my way through this last night. These tips are from my experience doing this on a windows 7 pc. A few things that were not clear to me:

DFS demo - There isn't a "demo" version. After you download it from http://cdmatool.com/download you register on the site to use DFS in demo mode. Once downloaded and registered you run DFS on your computer and login. After logging in close the login window and DFS will start (I closed it out of frustration of not figuring out what to do next, that's when DFS started).

Bp tools -When you put your phone in "fast boot" mode and select "bp tools" your phone will restart and appear to boot back to normal, but when you plug it in to the computer the computer will attempt to install other drivers (or if you look in device manager you will see it shows up as needing a bunch of different drivers). This was the only indicator I saw that it was in a different mode and it wasn't apparent to me not knowing what "bp tools" was. The guide at http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1826191-How-to-flash-Boost-Moto-G-to-Page-Plus has a link to youtube video that helped me install the driver for QC diag which you need for you phone to work with DFS. I had trouble getting adb to see my phone and thought it was a driver issue, after messing with drivers for a bit I had success changing the usb port my phone was plugged into.

Flashing verizon firmware - I followed the howard forums guide recommendation to update android while still on boost firmware which resulted in 4.4.4, which both of these guides predate. The consensus seems to be that you should flash to the same firmware version you have (or at least not go from 4.4.4 to 4.3). I had a hard time finding verizon 4.4.4 stock firmware. This http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=14 link wasn't working for me. The other link to international versions here http://www.filefactory.com/folder/c6cdedc45a775d27 is where I found 4.4.4 the file nam is "CFC-fastboot_falcon_verizon_user_4.4.4_KXB21.14-L1.41_42_release-keys.xml.zip . It has verizon in the title, but I wasn't sure if it was going to be the full stock firmware with everything I needed to flash it. It took two hours to download. Turned out to be worth it. It has a .bat file that does all the work, no command lines to type at all. Within the zip file there are folders for different operating systems. I needed to move the contents of the windows folder into the main folder with the .bat file and firmware before running the bat file. Then it flashed without a hitch.

Activating esn with Page Pluse and then programming phone ota with Verizon automated line - I activated using chat on pagepluscellular.com . Prior to chat I tried their tool which kept telling me my esn couldn't be activated, ignore that, seems like it just says that because it's not recognized as a verizon phone. After activating my esn with Page Plus I dialed *22801 and got the verizon automated activation line. I was a little thrown by it being a verizon line, makes sense now, but I almost hung up because I thought it should have been Page Plus. Just let it do it's thing and then you get a message telling you it's been activated.

Hopefully this info will be useful to someone else stumbling their way through this like I did.