[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] pastorbennett:
It's done. After almost 2 hours, 3 factory resets, a great deal of anxiety, fears that I'd be stuck with a locked phone that I just upgraded to, and a general desire to repeatedly beat my head against the wall to make it all go away, I finally have my bootloader unlocked.

At first I tried Mofo, but the verify app said my phone was incompatible. I guess Mofo doesn't work with the latest OTA. Oh well, I guessed it saved me a bit of dough, though if I knew I was going to have so many problems with Kingroot, I wouldn't have been celebrating yet.

Kingroot. I just don't trust this app, but it's a necessary evil. Because Kingroot relies on an internet connection to work, a person has absolutely no way of knowing if sensitive data is being sent to lord-knows-where, especially considering the app is headquartered in China. I'm wondering if the "free" part of it isn't just bait. Since the app grants root privileges, there's no way of telling what it's doing in the background. The app is also a pain in the arse. At first it worked, or at least it said it did. Then I decided to to follow a guide I came across (I can't remember the exact guide, so don't ask) to replace Kingroot with SuperSU. This might have been where all my problems started, but I can't be sure. Suddenly, a barrage of FCs. Powered off, rebooted, same thing. Settings FC'ed so no way to uninstall except for the launcher, which was also FCing. The only way was to reboot and uninstall before Kingroot auto launched. Finally, back to square 1, or so I thought.

Just to cover my bases, I did a factory wipe, and started over. I didn't set up anything on the phone, just skipped everything in the wizard. Then I downloaded Kingroot and Sunshine. Installed Kingroot, it didn't work. Tried again several times, rebooted, tried again, no luck. Factory reset again. Repeat. Same results. I once managed to get it working, but by the time I tried to install Sunshine, I got a system error that there wasn't enough space. Strange, since I was coming from a factory wipe.

So it was time to start over. This time, however, the phone became so unstable after running Kingroot that the phone was absolutely unusable. I couldn't get into the settings to do a factory reset. I couldn't get into the launcher or the settings to uninstall Kingroot. I felt absolutely hopeless. I literally felt like I was going to vomit. I thought I had possibly bricked my new phone delivered less than 2 hours ago by FedEx. Then I remembered, "Hey, dumbass, you can do a factory reset through fastboot.

Just in case anyone is curious, the exact fastboot commands are:

./fastboot erase userdata

./fastboot erase cache

(Winblows users, omit the ./)

Powered up the phone, in the setup wizard I got a message that the phone had been reset, which didn't appear the previous 2 times I had factory reset the phone. Very interesting. Skipped through the rest of the steps, opened Chrome, downloaded Sunshine and Kingroot. Wouldn't you know it, the first time I ran Kingroot after that reset using fastboot, it worked! Fingers crossed, I ran Sunshine. Same thing!

My theory is that Kingroot must have preserved files in the cache, which leads me to believe that the app truly isn't trustworthy. Anyhow, now that I'm unlocked, TWRP is installed, and I've got a stock backup of the system partition, it's time to flash SuperSU.

The lesson learned: if you're having problems getting root with Kingroot in order to unlock via Sunshine, you might have to do a hard reset through fastboot. Additionally, I would recommend wiping the data and cache partitions after getting unlocked, just to be sure Kingroot isn't leaving any residual files lurking around and doing lord-knows-what on your phone.

Huge thanks to [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] for Sunshine, and feigned thanks to Kingroot, after all, I couldn't have done it without them. No thanks, however, for the 2 hour nightmare.