[Moto X General] DogzOfWar:
** UPDATE 8: April 1st ** Looks like it's all over folks! No one has successfully unlocked in the past 5 days or so. I've received a number of private messages from folks getting refunds (and some were unprompted) with notes saying "the service is over".

** UPDATE 7: March 31 *** If you look at pages 60+, there are now reports of people having trouble doing the unlock process. Please wait until we see more successful unlocks that were initiated from March 30th onward before sending any money!!

** UPDATE 6: March 25 *** Lots of people continue to have great success unlocking their bootloaders. I've seen another method used by many, which is to send an paypal money order directly to an email address found on page 10 in this thread along with your IMEI number. A number of folks have had success in less than 24 hours getting their codes.

Also, a huge thanks to KidJoe on page 40 for this great of FAQ answers. If you have questions about what this will or won't do to your phone, etc, check out that Guide and drop him a "Thanks".

*** UPDATE 5: March 17th 5pm *** A big special thank to asuhoops8628 who provided these instructions on his successful unlocking which occurred over the last day or two.

These are the current best set of instructions:

1. USE GOOGLE CHROME. it is absolutely necessary for translations. When loading a page, ensure the page loads 100% before clicking Translate. If you do not wait, it will miss things.

2. Use the link to taobao.com found in this thread. The URL will look like item.taobao.com. I don't want to post it exactly, but it can be found on page 4 or 5 of this thread.

3. Translate the page and register for an account on Taobao. When registering, the orange buttons generally mean proceed throughout Taobao. You also want to use your real phone number, since they send you a text to verify your account. You do not need a real email address. Considering the state of security on the web today, use a unique disposable password that isn't used elsewhere.

4. Once you are registered, go to the main item listing, and click the untranslated orange button. It will popup in chinese for your user name and password. Enter them, click orange button

5. It will then add your item to your cart. You are going to have to enter your mailing address, I forget how exactly it prompted me, but its fairly easy to figure out with a combination of Translate and remembering the orange button means proceed.

6. Once the item is in your cart, just simply click the big orange button beneath the total price

THIS IS THE HARD PART, PAYMENT.

1. After the page is fully loaded, translate it. At the top next to the website logo, you will see a dropdown labeled "Chinese mainland version" Click this and change it to "other areas overseas edition"

2. enter your CC#, click orange button. (Consider using a pre-paid credit card, like one you can buy at the checkout counter at a drug store).

3. Let it load, finish adding your CC. Before you submit and finalize payment, it will give you the option to add a memo. In here, specify an email address and your IMEI number. After that click orange button to submit payment.

4. After it is complete, go back to the listing page, and send the seller a message. He always responded to me within a few minutes. Tell him you have paid, your TaoBao user name, and ensure he got the IMEI. He will tell you 24-48 hours. (I got my code less than 24 hours later).

5. Once you receive the code and unlock, go back to TaoBao, and click your username in upper right corner. You will see a section called "buy baby" and it should show the link to the listing. Click on that, and follow through on completing payment. Also make sure you scroll down, there is an area with 3 lines of 5 stars. I rated 5 stars for each because the great service that was provided. You do not need to enter a message. Click orange button to finalize.

6. Congrats, you are done! Enjoy your unlocked X/Maxx/Mini/Ultra

*** UPDATE 4 : March 17th: Lots of people are reporting success with purchasing unlocks after March 14th. Click to page 10, and you can read about people's success stories. Also, it appears there are 2 sellers, one of which is slightly cheaper and more responsive. However, there is no good set of instructions for using the second seller. If someone has a complete list of steps, URLs, email addresses, etc, please post a nice guide and shoot me a link. I'll give you a nice prominent "Thank You" and link. Happy unlocking!

*** UPDATE 3 : March 14 11am *** Sounds like the issues for Mr Middle-Man are financial, rather than technical. This would be good news (rather than his unlock methodology being shut down): See this post for more.

*** UPDATE 2: March 14 10am *** According to MattCropley, the dude in China said he might have more codes in a few days(?). Again, please post any successes you've had after March 13th or 14. The amount of disparate information floating around is crazy.

*** UPDATE 1 *** According to a few folks, the unlock codes for Verizon phones are no longer available.

What's a summary of this thread? A number of folks have been able to pay money to someone in China. In return they provide an unlock code that can unlock your Moto Maker X's bootloader (providing many of the same benefits of a Dev Edition device). This allows you to more easily attain root, flash a recovery, flash ROMs, install GravityBox or XPosed, etc.

**** ORIGINAL THREAD ****

I wanted to start this separate thread, as I've seen lots of information floating around on various threads. It seems like there is an unlock available (that you use with "fastboot oem unlock") that will effectively turn your Moto Maker X into a Dev Edition.

The process seems to involve sending approximately $45 to a Chinese middle-man via eBay and another website, along with your IMEI and cell phone number, and you will receive an unlock code.

The best instructions I've seen are in this post and this post . Some of these instructions were based on this earlier set of instructions.

These instructions below are from trimax84:

Once you get your code, you can execute "fastboot oem unlock <code from China>". This post has the complete instructions:

I've counted about 20 different posts that claim this has worked successfully. I haven't tried it myself just yet.

Some people are paying via an eBay middle at this link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/171131992860?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649. Here is one person's instructions on how they did this via eBay.

It seems like this is all one guy handling this process. Turnaround time seems to be 24-48 hours beginning to end. Some folks have had issues with their credit cards flagging these transactions as fraud, and have had to contact their credit card company to allow it.

Maybe others that have completed this can post their instructions and experiences with how well the process worked?

NOTE: Unlocking your bootloader will erase your data. Reboot your device and you should see "an ugly unlock icon" to confirm that your device is unlocked.