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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Yes you can get the bootloader to change from "Modified" -> "Official" however the QE counter when unrooted will always show "QE 0/1" atleast for now.

Here is how to get the bootloader to change back to "Official"

- Backup your files as they will be wiped.

- Navigate to -> http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Droid Turbo&folder=Firmware download VRZ_XT1254_KDF21.128-15_15_CFC_SVC.xml.zip (This is the original firmware)

- Flash that stock firmware by putting the phone into bl mode and clicking the .bat file in the folder.

- Let that boot

- Take the first OTA when your system notifies you.

- Let that boot

- Navigate to -> http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Droid Turbo&folder=Firmware download VRZ_XT1254_SU2-12_12_CFC.xml.zip (This is the latest OTA update.

- Flash that firmware by putting the phone into bl mode and clicking the .bat file in the folder.

- Let that boot

- Let it sit a while

- Reboot into bootloader, shows "Official"

This has worked every time I have restored back to stock. Its kind of tedious and time consuming. But it is the only way I have gotten it to display "Official" again.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PittAussie:
Thank you. I will try that this afternoon. I had flashed the SU2-12 file, but not the 21.128-15 file.

I have a phone that I cracked the screen on a few days after I used MoFo on it, so want to get it replaced under warranty. Hopefully that will keep them happy.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PittAussie:
Looks like it worked. Thank you very much.

What is the QE counter? this is the first I have heard of anyone mentioning it, and a google search didn't find anything.

I see it is 0/1 like you said.

BTW, I didn't flash the final firmware from RootJunkie. It was already showing Official after the OTA, so that is all I needed for now.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Glad it worked for you!

Here is a brief explanation of the QE counter.

QE X/Y

X = Currently rooted

Y= Previously rooted

0 = False

1 = True

So a QE 0/1 would be a device that is not currently rooted but was rooted at one point

Right now we can not change the QE counter but in the future we may be able to.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
great info thanks
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx:
I just bought this phone a couple hours ago and I HATE locked bootloader, I am very disappointed about this and I think I will return the phone tomorrow and get an s5 or s6 instead.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] RichSPK:
Thank you for telling us. I hope you're happier with your next phone.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx:
i can't tell if you are a dimwit or an asswipe.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] lord dredd:
Thanks a bunch
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] wrecklesswun:
I just save a bunch of money by switching my car insurance...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
Updated OP with Lollipop video
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ntxct:
Thanks for the video Tom, just finished watching and that was exactly what I was looking for, ie: video showing the major differences

With exception of art/dalvik.. unless we find a way to root I think Ill stick with kit-kat....Edited hosts file, Xposed customizing (which has my turbo at least looking like lollipop MonsterUI ftw) .. seems hard to leave... but man I do miss art on my m8...

And much like your hatred of the white app drawer, I hate the white settings menu.. running the chance of never having the option to get rid of it.. kitkat until LP root is the way to go. (for me)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
glad you like the video i try to keep up to date
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] shadedurza:
Link to the "xt1254systemblur21-44-12quark-verizonroo*ted.img" on the youtube video is broken. Anyone have a working one? Tried using Computerfreek374 img and it fails the Root Checker app test.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ntxct:
Theres a few images that can be found on the first post of the MOFO thread: http://xdaforums.com/general/paid-software/mofo-root-turbo-t3064404
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
I just got a replacement Droid Turbo Ballistic . It has Android 4.4.4 on it and I really want to root it but I don't think it's possible. Is that correct? Also, would my odds be better at rooting it with the 4.4.4 or should I go ahead and let the damn thing update the os? Ive been out of the rooting game since my droid eris. Yep! Long time ago. I forget what my last rooted phone was exactly, but its been a while, so I am relearning things. Please excuse any ignorance to this matter. Love the forum though.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
watch my mofo root video
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
well poo...

First thing first...Thank you tons for your help. You have done a lot of amazing work.

Now for the nitty gritty...here's my issue: I followed all of the steps including paying for the Mofo Root. It said my device was good to go. I got to the part where I can flash, but my system version is not 21.44.12 quark...my system version is 21.44.8 quark, so I had to stop. If you could please let me know what my old ass can now do for the next step, that would be awesome. Links if available too.

Thanks a ton,

J
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 6Binford:
Find out whether 21.44.8 came before or after 21.44.12. I remember when Mofo first came out, some people did have to take an OTA to get to 21.44.12 to use mofo. If you're lucky that's all you'll need to do, then pick up where you left off with Mofo. I don't know if the OTA's automatically go up 1 revision at a time, in the order they came out, or if the OTA you're looking at will take you straight to the latest Lollipop, 23.11.44?

If you can get to 21.44.12 and then use Mofo, you'll be on kitkat. When you want to use mofo to go to Lollipop, there are a couple of additional steps you'll need to take before flashing a Lollipop image. Read the posts 1 and 2 in http://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/development/computerfreek274turbolollipop-t3147455.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
Thanks for your input...I will look into it.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mikelikesbikes:
Take the one OTA and you'll go to the correct version to use Mofo. 21.44.12. It goes one at a time. I had to do the same thing. As soon as you get a rooted image flashed be sure to disable or delete Motorola OTA so you're not accidentally bumped to Lollipop.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
Okay...so its been a while, how exactly do I delete the Motorola ota? Do I use a good explore and delete it? I'm so sorry for the retarded question, but I've been outta the loop fora minute. I appreciate you guys. Before too long, I'll be slinging around .apks here and .apks there. Well, if there are many for this phone. Lol
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mikelikesbikes:
I used titanium backup. With the free version you can delete it all together, or you can get the paid version and disable it. The paid version is a good purchase to make especially if you have some extra Google Opinion money laying around.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
Oh yeah! Good ole titanium backup. Stuff is starting to come back to me. Thanks for your help.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mikelikesbikes:
Glad to help.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
deleting with titanium shouldnt do anything.. we dont have write access to /system/
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
How do you prevent the phone from updating to 5.1? Also, I am about to pull out my hair bc I keep going through the steps but can't get rooted. I'm on 4.4.4 and on system version 21.44.12 . Whenever I open mofo and type in moforoot flash and try to drag root junkies xt1254.system21.44.12quark_Verizon.rooted.ext4.ing in the box, it won't allow me to drop it in. What am I missing? I'm using Windows vista 64. I'm unzipping things with winrar. The file extensions don't always so up in the name of files...like .bat but when I wave my pointer over ****, it will say .bat and have the correct file size. Any ideas of what could be going on?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mikelikesbikes:
Thank you for the correction. I wasn't thinking.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
read thru the first posts of computerfreeks turbopop thread and download his folder of files needed to be flashed.. there should be a readme in there. files should be flashed with command "fastboot flash" except for modded system image which shoild be "mofo flash" ... ota update is dosabled in computer freeks images otherwise you can freeze motorolaota with titanium
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 6Binford:
How do you prevent the phone from updating to 5.1? Also, I am about to pull out my hair bc I keep going through the steps but can't get rooted. I'm on 4.4.4 and on system version 21.44.12 . Whenever I open mofo and type in moforoot flash and try to drag root junkies xt1254.system21.44.12quark_Verizon.rooted.ext4.ing in the box, it won't allow me to drop it in. What am I missing? I'm using Windows vista 64. I'm unzipping things with winrar. The file extensions don't always so up in the name of files...like .bat but when I wave my pointer over ****, it will say .bat and have the correct file size. Any ideas of what could be going on?

J[/QUOTE]

Hang on, lets don't get confused on the difference between sing mofo to flash a KitKat vs flash a lollipop. If hookedonpcp is trying to flash a KitKat, he doesn't need the extra files to fastboot flash. He just needs to flash just like in the mood video, using whichever KitKat image he wants.

I think his problem is something like quotes around his file name that should or shouldn't be there, or the image he is trying to flash is not in the same folder as the mofo gui bat.

So, what image are you trying to flash. What exactly does your fastboot window have in it when you are ready to enter to start flashing?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
Thanks for all your guy's help with this. I'm trying to flash root junkies img and the window says everything that is in the one on the video. I just can't get the .img to drag and drop into the command window. Why? I have no fricken clue. I keep thinking that maybe I'm a little bit retarded, but my wife thinks I'm really smart. Lol
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] HoOkEdOnPcP:
Hang on, lets don't get confused on the difference between sing mofo to flash a KitKat vs flash a lollipop. If hookedonpcp is trying to flash a KitKat, he doesn't need the extra files to fastboot flash. He just needs to flash just like in the mood video, using whichever KitKat image he wants.

I think his problem is something like quotes around his file name that should or shouldn't be there, or the image he is trying to flash is not in the same folder as the mofo gui bat.

So, what image are you trying to flash. What exactly does your fastboot window have in it when you are ready to enter to start flashing?[/QUOTE]

THIS WAS THE ANSWER!!!!! The image he is trying to flash is not in the same folder as the mofo gui bat.

AMEN! A-Fricken-Men!

Thank you all for being so patient with me and so helpful. I finally got it! Geesh! Things finally clicked. Thank you guys so much.

I won't end here though...I'm sure I'll have plenty of new questions in the near future! :D

J
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] IamHandicapable:
Has anyone tried rooting the Turbo 2? does it work the same as the Turbo in the video on pg 1?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cadenmiller60:
Obviously doesn't work
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
New Video added to OP Droid Turbo Bootloader Unlocked
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mspt_99:
Help: 21.44.8

Hello, I read through this thread and cannot figure out how to get to 21.44.12 from 21.44.8. for my droid turbo running 4.4.4.

I used MOFO to upgrade my last phone and want to use it again but am scared to go into my phone and use the upgrade feature for fear of going all the way to 5.1

someone please point me in the right direction.

on Root junkies site he has: OTA: blur_version.21.44.12.quark_verizon.verison.en.us for dowload under Droid Turbo.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 6Binford:
Go ahead and take the ota. You have nothing to lose. Even if you go to 5.1 you can now unlock the boot loader, root and install twrp.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
OP updated with new video :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] NavyVetCvn65:
New to rooting Need guidance

I am new to rooting phones but the main reason why I want to do it is so I can mirror my phone to my pioneer avic 8000nex. I just got home from verizon turning in the note 5 because it can not be rooted. I now have the droid turbo 2. How do I go about rooting my phone so I can install appradio unchained?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Steve One:
No root available yet for turbo 2.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JIndrak1:
Edit: Nevermind, had to also install the Motorola device manager, as well as the drivers.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ostriches3064:
Use flashify indstead
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cognitivedissonance:
Hey there, I just followed two of the videos - 1st the one to use kingroot and sunshine. It worked with some weirdness from kingroot, but I eventually got it and sunshine unlock worked properly. Next I used the method to remove kingroot, however the issue is that once I rebooted and checked on SuperSU, it told me it needed to update the superuser binary. I tried to do it the normal way and it didn't work. After that I checked and Root Checker reported 'not rooted.'

Can anyone provide guidance?

EDIT: never mind, I force closed Kingroot, cleared its data, uninstalled it, booted to bootloader, re-ran the system image(s) flash per the video, reflashed SuperSU per the video, rebooted and things were fine.

1 more question:

How do I make sure that Verizon doesn't force any OTAs to my phone? I would hate to have them do that and somehow bork root and bootloader unlock...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rnwalker7:
Freeze the Motorola Update Services app (com.motorola.ccc.ota). Although I'm sure Big Red won't allow you to take an update if you're rooted...at least that's been my past experience.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
so should i do some more videos on this device like a custom rom install?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] koftheworld:
Videos never hurt.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] vegetaz:
Nice :good:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
He eventually added it to the op post. ;) Just in case you missed it, here's the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnfCtvYawVc
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] vegetaz:
Work for SU4TL-49 build???????????????????????????????????????????
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
No. SU4TL-49 specifically closes that exploit. It only works on SU4TL-44 which was available for several months. Sunshine bootloader unlock has been available since November 2015 for SU4TL-44.

Six months later in May 2016 Verizon pushed out SU4TL-49 to close that exploit.

It's strange that now that Verizon has finally closed the exploit, suddenly people are interested in unlocking their bootloaders? They had six months to do so with no restrictions whatsoever.

Plus, here on XDA there were several warnings NOT to take SU4TL-49 unless you unlocked your bootloader first.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] vegetaz:
Thanks
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] coolbobjoe:
any progress on this? didnt ever need to look into rooting until after the -49 update.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
If by this you mean rooting SU4TL-49, no, and as far as I know no one is working on it.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] coolbobjoe:
Dang. I cant find any info regarding reverting to what is it ?44? Is this possible or is there no turning back from blindly downloading the OTA -49 update?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
It's not possible. There is no turning back. Selling your phone and buying one with SU4TL-44 is your only option.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] coolbobjoe:
Dang, Motorola really closed the gates that well eh? Thats a shame...

---------- Post added at 10:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 PM ----------

Minus well just upgrade to the new turbo while im at it then?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
I'm not sure what the unlocking status of the Droid Turbo 2 is. If root is what you need, you won't get it by getting a newer locked down phone. The Moto Z Force Droid Edition (Droid Turbo 3, basically) launches tomorrow, so it's still locked.

Another option, while it is not a new phone, is to find a new Moto Maxx model XT1250 (identical to the droid turbo in every way except the name, except unlockable at will officially). You won't be able to get this one from Verizon though. You'll have to get it somewhere else and then re use your old SIM.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] coolbobjoe:
Thank you for all the info to get off to a good start
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Launchy21:
I'm on the AT&T D800 LG G2 on the stock ROM. Whenever I try to flash a new ROM it gives me that error. What do I do?

What I've done to get here:

Use my G2 for a good while (back in Q3 2013)

Install Mahdi 4.4 on it after taking a backup - everything's good.

Fast forward to today

Now I want to update it to 5.0+

After taking a backup I wiped the caches, data and system partitions while keeping the internal storage, where I keep the ROMs and backups.

Attempted to install Blisspop, CM12 or Resurrection Remix - Every one of those gave me that error. EXCEPT when I tried to update to a newer version of Mahdi. No problem at all. This leads me to think Mahdi has somehow managed to only allow Mahdi ROMs to be installed.

Found the old backup before I flashed Mahdi, restored that. Now I'm back on an ancient stock ROM. (D800 10d)

Attempting to flash a new 5.0+ ROM gives me the same error. What is going on?

I thought it was something Mahdi had changed in the build.prop file, so that's why I restored to this old version but it's still not working.

Made a duplicate thread by mistake - How do I delete this one?
[Huawei Ascend G6] kerpua:
dear my friends have g6-l11 ,I like this phone, it has no problem ,only lte option is missing in menu,what version have to flash and what can I do ? thanks advance
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] anarchyuk:
Hi, has anyone had a problem with the opera/web and walk browser, coming up with a unsigned application error, on the tmobile rom, if so or if not can you send me the rom version you are using!! muchos appreciatos :cool:
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] QAN:
Opera problem

Yes I have. Did you do a hard reset? I have seen this three times now after hard resetting my device. What I discovered was that half of the applications form the extended_rom were not installed including Opera. The shortcut is! This one is probably part of te rom.

To solve this install gsfinder or another explorer and go to \extended_rom\

Now open install all the cab files. Your problem is solved afterwards.

Gerald
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] imaginarynumber:
why not upgrade to the new (beta) version of opera.

http://get.opera.com/pub/opera/winmobile/865b/

the msi worked for me. i did do a sprite back up first though incase
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] imaginarynumber:
opps... just discovered that the beta expires july first. sorry ignore my previous post
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] mysticbluebmw:
Thats odd, my advantage already has v8.65 (obviously, not a beta either), what version does the Ameo have installed?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] wu5262:
DOPOD has the 8.65 installed already as well (not beta)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] QAN:
My Ameo has also v8.65 and no beta.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] imaginarynumber:
sorry

my stoooopid

my ameo has 8.65 (2211)- i just downloaded the beta with out checking first.

derrrrrrrr
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] jmdrizen:
i have a weird fault with opera on my ameo... it will launch fine the first time i load it. but then if i close and try and launch it again later i get the four colours spinning egg timer thin forever, only way to get it running again is soft reset..... anyone else got this

looked in running progs and killed everything there too..

possibily due to spb plus? or anyone got both running together fine
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] eaglesteve:
I also have a problem After two hard resets today, my opera vanishes from my device all together!

I'm not sure if it is the only missing software but is the only one i've noticed.

Any idea there I can get the cab to install it?

Imaginarynumber, you found only the beta? is it possible to get out of the provided cd?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] jmdrizen:
Sorry,

I've tried using gsfinder, run the application on my ameo, Tools/Direct Path then gone to \extended_rom\ it shows it there, but it's empty

Any ideas? It's set to show "hide" "system" "ROM" files but still nowt.....
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] imaginarynumber:
sorry eaglesteve

haven't had chance to check- not sure where i put cd
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] zboy2:
Can anyone tell me if the phones is region locked? Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] fletch33:
i am not sure what you are looking for but i do know that there is a thread on here where someone tried a Verizon SIM in a Tmob and ATT S6 and neither one worked on Verizon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] equake:
Generally Verizon phones are SIM unlocked so u can use them on Tom or att but don't expect to get lte coverage since the phones have different bands enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] geoff5093:
That's because those don't have CDMA radios, and at least the AT&T one is locked. Verizon phones come SIM-unlocked and work with other carriers. If you use a T-Mobile SIM you'll see an "unknown SIM" message, but it will work assuming the bands match. You should be able to get LTE with T-Mobile as most of their network uses band 4.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] sgtmedeiros:
He means region locked, like usa
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] abdel12345:
Anyway to get rid of this message? My g2 I had to root it to get rid of it. I hope I don't have to root the s6 just for that because it gets really anoying just having the icon showing unknown sim the whole time.
[Verizon LG G3] rinnycoop121:
I have been trying to install TWRP but i cant get it going,

I am rooted and on 23C Stock Lollipop.

any ideas please.

Thanks
[Verizon LG G3] RHChan84:
I believe you need to downgrade back to 10B to install TWRP.
[Verizon LG G3] tatootie67:
What's the error message your getting?
[Verizon LG G3] rinnycoop121:
After trying to install TWRP and reboot into recovery, i get the boot screen with some small white letters in the top left corner of the screen then screen just gos blank.

thats it.

nothing else.
[Verizon LG G3] Byonik:
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[Verizon LG G3] rinnycoop121:
That is exactly what happens
[Verizon LG G3] rinnycoop121:
bump
[Verizon LG G3] cjchevez:
Easiest way is to kdz back to 10b ,stump root add twrp

Using twrp manager app then flash SD or Jasmine Rom.

I just hard bricked doing it the adb way because I didn't have twrp at the time.
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
You have to downgrade the bootloader (aboot.img) to the one from 12B. You can get the file you need from the sticky .img repository (that sounds wrong) in the General section. I don't know the adb command off the top of my head to install it.
[Verizon LG G3] sd_N:
Link is down on that particular aboot.img
[Verizon LG G3] roirraW "edor" ehT:
It's also in the JasmineROM 6.0 zip.

Sent from my VK810 4G
[Verizon LG G3] sd_N:
Thank u

Got it! Worked like a charm. Appreciate your NFO.... :svetius:
[Verizon LG G3] marsxtc:
aboot

Am just supposed to downgrade the aboot? and then install TWRP right after?
[Verizon LG G3] Johneedoe:
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